Italy earthquake: Death toll reaches 247 amid rescue efforts
The death toll in the Italian earthquake has risen to at least 247 as thousands of rescuers continue efforts to find survivors.
Dozens are believed trapped in ruined Amatrice, Accumoli and Pescara del Tronto, in mountainous central Italy.
The search went on through the night, and there was a strong aftershock which rocked already damaged buildings.
More than 4,300 rescuers are using heavy lifting equipment and their bare hands.
Many of the victims were children, the health minister said, and there were warnings the toll could rise further.
'It took on a life of its own': how one rogue tweet led Syrians to Germany
One year ago, a tweet made Germany the promised land for refugees entering Europe – and changed the course of history
The tweet was sent by Germany’s ministry for migration and refugees a year ago today. “The #Dublin procedure for Syrian citizens is at this point in time effectively no longer being adhered to,” the message read. With 175 retweets and 165 likes, it doesn’t look like classic viral content. But in Germany it is being spoken of as the first post on social media to change the course of European history.
Referring to an EU law determined at a convention in Dublin in 1990, the tweet was widely interpreted as a de facto suspension of the rule that the country inEurope where a refugee first arrives is responsible for handling his or her asylum application.
By this point in 2015, more than 300,000 asylum seekers had reached Europe by boat – a figure that was already 50% higher than even the record-breaking number of arrivals in 2014.
Colombia signs peace deal with FARC rebels to end half-century of bloodshed
More than 220,000 people have been killed since the conflict began in 1964
Colombia's government and Marxist FARC rebels reached a final peace deal on Wednesday to end a five-decade war which once took the resource-rich country to the brink of collapse.
Under the historic agreement to end one of the world's longest conflicts, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) will lay down arms and reintegrate into civilian life.
More than 220,000 people were killed in the conflict, tens of thousands disappeared and millions fled their homes because of the violence.
India proposes to ban commercial surrogacy
Proposed bill to prohibit homosexuals, unmarried couples and foreigners from hiring Indian women to have a baby.
India's government has unveiled a draft law to ban commercial surrogacy, a move that would block homosexuals, single parents, live-in partners and foreign couples from hiring Indian women to have a baby.
Sushma Swaraj, India's foreign minister, said on Wednesday the new law would prohibit prospective gay parents as homosexuality went against the country's values.
"We do not recognise live-in and homosexual relationships ... this is against our ethos,"the Indian Express newspaper quoted Swaraj, a member of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, as saying.
Nigel Farage, Brexit's biggest booster, is speaking at a Trump rally in Mississippi
Updated by Libby Nelson
Donald Trump’s embrace of Brexit, the United Kingdom’s vote to leave the European Union, just reached new heights: His rally in Jackson, Mississippi, tonight will feature an appearance from Nigel Farage, the British politician and former UK Independence Party leader who boosted the pro-Brexit campaign.
A right-wing British politician with little name recognition in the US might seem an unusual guest at a campaign rally for the White House. But in the two months since Britain voted to leave the EU, Farage has become a hero to some Trump supporters within the conservative movement. Trump himself has hailed the vote as Britain taking “their country back.”
The Brexit campaign has become an analogy and a cautionary tale about Trump’s run for the White House.
French Police Create Propaganda for ISIS by Ticketing Muslim Women on Beaches
Photographs and video of French police officers issuing tickets to Muslim women — for violating new local ordinances that ban modest beachwear as an offense against “good morals and secularism” in more than a dozen towns along the Riviera — spread widely on social networks on Wednesday, prompting waves of outrage and mockery by opponents of the laws.
Just let this sink in. Men with guns forcing a women to undress, with the weight of the law behind them. pic.twitter.com/4BI16Bbss9
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