Boy in the ambulance: shocking image emerges of Syrian child pulled from Aleppo rubble
Boy shown covered head to toe with dust is reported to be one of five children injured on Wednesday in military strike
Warning: this article contains images that readers may find distressing
A photograph of a boy sitting dazed and bloodied in the back of an ambulance after surviving a regime airstrike in Aleppo has highlighted the desperation of the Syrian civil war and the struggle for control of the city.
The child is reported to be five-year-old Omran Daqneesh, one of five children injured late on Wednesday by a military strike on the city, scene of the most decisive battle in the war.
The image shows him covered head to toe with dust and so disoriented that he seems barely aware of an open wound on his forehead. Sources on the ground said his condition is now stable.
US swimmers Gunnar Bentz and Jack Conger stopped at Rio airport
The Brazilian authorities have stopped US swimmers Gunnar Bentz and Jack Conger from boarding a flight at Rio de Janeiro airport, the US Olympic Committee has confirmed.
The two men were taken off a plane, bound for the US, for questioning late on Wednesday and released hours later.
Two teammates - Ryan Lochte and James Feigen - were barred from leaving the country, but Lochte had already left.
Police have queried their accounts of a robbery they reported in Rio on Sunday.
The four swimmers said they had been robbed at gunpoint in a taxi in Rio.
But police say their account of when they arrived at the Olympic village does not square with CCTV recordings.
Donald Trump aide Michael Cohen says there is an 'African American problem’ in the US
The adviser had been invited to talk about why the Trump campaign has undergone a major shake-up with just three months until election day
Donald Trump's aide Michael Cohen said that the Republican nominee knows about the “African American problem” in the US.
The interview blunder came shortly after the news broke that Mr Trump’s campaign staff had undergone a major shake-up to win back favour in the polls.
"It is certainly an issue - the African American problem in this country," Mr Cohen said on CNN, referring to Mr Trump’s law and order speech in Milwaukee following the killing of black man 23-year-old Sylville Smith and ensuing riots.
Amnesty report damns Syrian government on prison abuse
Over 17,000 detainees have died in Syrian government custody in the past five years from torture and disease, according to Amnesty International. Forced disappearances and horrific prisoner abuse are also widespread.
The "It breaks the human" report released by the human rights group Amnesty International highlights new statistics from the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, or HRDAG, an organization that uses scientific approaches to analyze human rights violations.
The report charts abuses dating back to the start of the Syrian uprising against President Bashar Assad in March 2011. It indicates that 17,723 people died in custody across Syria between then and the end of 2015.
The government's crackdown on dissent and rise of armed opposition groups ignited a civil war that has killed more than 250,000 people, displaced half the country's population and generated more than 4.8 million refugees, although Amnesty believes that with tens of thousands of people forcibly disappeared in detention facilities across Syria the real figure is likely to be even higher.
Why Vietnam objected to the Long Tan commemoration
Lindsay Murdoch
Vietnamese officials say the country's communist rulers decided to cancel the 50th anniversary ceremony of the Long Tan battle because of the large numbers of Australians who have travelled to Vietnam for the event.
Over decades Vietnam has insisted that groups of only 30 to 40 people attend commemorations and visits to the Long Tan Cross site.
But up to 3000 visitors have arrived this week in the nearby town of Vung Tau for a series of events, including a gala dinner Thursday evening at the five-star Pullman Hotel, according to Australian businessmen in the town. A cooperative in Mexico takes on food system challenges – with chocolate
SEARCH FOR SOLUTIONS
Three friends formed the cooperative C.A.C.A.O. in their efforts to return to locally produced foods and to address problems such as food insecurity.
SAN ANDRÉS HUAYAPAM, MEXICO — The warm, plummy smell of chocolate swirls through the open-air kitchen as raw cacao seeds crackle over the wood-fired comal. Deftly scooping the seeds into a palm-woven mitt, Edgardo Garcia turns to his audience, a group of seven tourists. “You’ll know the seeds are well toasted by three things: their aroma, that crackling sound, and how easily their skins slip off,” he says.
Mr. Garcia, his wife, Areli Nolasco, and their friend Elvia Velasco make upC.A.C.A.O., a chocolate cooperative in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, a region world-famous for the popular treat. The trio uses entirely traditional methods of making chocolate, following a basic recipe that is more than 2,000 years old. For visitors interested in learning how indigenous societies like the Maya and Aztecs made this delicacy, C.A.C.A.O’s hands-on workshops are an irresistible way to spend an afternoon.
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