Turkey Gaziantep: Kurdish wedding massacre blamed on IS
So-called Islamic State is likely to have carried out a deadly bomb attack on a wedding in Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said.
The death toll in the attack in the southern city of Gaziantep has now risen to 50, the local governor's office said, with almost 100 wounded.
A suspected suicide bomber targeted guests at a Kurdish wedding as they danced in the street.
Gaziantep, near the Syrian border, is known to have several IS cells.
The BBC's Seref Isler, who is from Gaziantep, says the city of 1.5 million was already on edge because of events in Syria, where IS has been battling Syrian Kurdish forces.
A suicide bomber believed to have links to IS killed two policemen in Gaziantepin May.
Extremist prisoners to be isolated in ‘sealed units’
Justice secretary Elizabeth Truss prepares to announce crackdown against radicalisation of inmates
Convicted extremists who promote terror and violence are to be isolated from the general prison population and placed in new “specialist units” under plans to be announced by the government on Monday.
The creation of sealed-off units – “prisons within prisons” – aims to prevent extremists from spreading their ideologies to others while behind bars and follows lengthy investigations by experts into how to stop them.
The plans form part of a government response to a review of Islamist extremism in prisons to be unveiled in full by new justice secretary, Elizabeth Truss. Appointed last month by Theresa May to succeed Michael Gove, Truss said the move was part of a wider crackdown on extremism that was urgently needed. “The rise of Islamist extremism poses an existential threat to our society,” she said.
Trump's speech to African American voters wasn't fooling anyone
The Republican Presidential candidate’s exhortation to black people while campaigning in an all-white working class town is the US equivalent of standing in the middle of Anfield trying reach out to Manchester United supporters
“You're living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs! Fifty-eight percent of your youth is unemployed! Give me a chance. What the hell do you have to lose?” Donald Trump yells to a largely all-white crowd urging African-Americans to vote for him.
When a TV anchor gently enquires with Trump's advisor as to why the Republican presidential candidate isn’t speaking to black audiences about black issues, the reply is: “Ok, maybe it would have been nice if he went and had a backdrop with a burning car.”
By all of the metrics most professionals use to determine possible voter turn-out Trump rates something like 0-1 per cent among likely African-American voters. This phenomenal rating has not been achieved since 1948 and needs some kind of Hall Of Fame all to itself.
Duterte threatens to pull Philippines out of UN
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President Rodrigo Duterte threatened on Sunday to withdraw the Philippines from the United Nations, as he launched another profanity-laced tirade against the organisation for criticising his bloody war on crime.
More than 1,500 people have been killed since Duterte took office and immediately began his law-and-order crackdown, according to police statistics, triggering fierce criticism from the UN and rights groups.
Duterte, a lawyer famous for an acid tongue who has repeatedly told the UN not to interfere, on Sunday stepped up his rhetoric.
"Maybe we'll just have to decide to separate from the United Nations. If you are that disrespectful, son of a whore, then I will just leave you," Duterte said in a press conference in his home city of Davao that started about 1:00 am.
Amnesty row sparks debate on use and abuse of sedition law in India
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Amnesty International India’s offices are temporarily closed and the group faces sedition charges after an event it organized in Bengaluru city to discuss alleged rights abuses by Indian forces in restive Kashmir saw some of the participants raising anti-India slogans calling for the region’s independence. While the group says the sedition charges against them are based on a colonial-era rule created by British to suppress India’s calls for independence, others say the organizers can’t escape the responsibility by saying none of its employees shouted slogans. But a 1995 Supreme Court ruling clearly mentions that disaffection toward the government, however strongly worded, does not constitute sedition unless there is incitement to violence.
Police in the southern Indian city of Bangalore have slapped sedition charges on Amnesty International India, following a complaint by a right-wing students’ group that anti-India slogans were raised at a meeting organized by the global human rights advocacy group.
“We have booked a case of sedition and rioting under various sections of the Indian Penal Code against Amnesty,” City Deputy Police Commissioner TR Suresh told India Abroad News Service on Tuesday.
Ethiopia pledges probe into killing of protesters
The Ethiopian government says it will investigate allegations that security forces killed hundreds of protesters.
Ethiopian government has said it will launch an independent investigation about the killing of protesters by security forces during anti-government demonstrations but denied that the police violence in the country is "systematic."
"I have to reiterate once again this is not systemic," government spokesperson Getachew Reda told Al Jazeera.
"There are cases of off-grid police officers who sometimes take the law into their own hands," he said.
"The government takes such allegations very seriously."
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