Australia confirms Manus Island immigration detention centre will close
Immigration minister Peter Dutton offers no details on plans for the 854 detainees, but says none will be resettled in Australia
Iranian authorities have announced that between Monday night and Tuesday morning, special forces killed four suspected jihadists and arrested six more. According to officials, these men were either fighters for the Islamic State group or fighters with links to the group.
This is not the first time that Iran has announced that it has arrested jihadists on its soil, but it is the first time that citizens have caught such operations on camera. Several photos and videos published on social media show the clashes between the alleged terrorists and the authorities, as well as the aftermath.
According to Asadoallah Razani, the governor of Kermanshah province (western Iran), “On Tuesday morning, special forces attacked members of a terrorist group in the city of Kermanshah; three people were killed. We found AK47s, cartridges, grenades, and a suicide belt.”
A SHIFT IN THOUGHT
Dominic Kane
Updated by Ezra Klein
Immigration minister Peter Dutton offers no details on plans for the 854 detainees, but says none will be resettled in Australia
Australia and Papua New Guinea have confirmed that the Manus Island detention centre will be closed, but offered no detail on the future of the 854 men held there – except that Australia remains adamant it would accept none of the detainees for resettlement.
PNG’s prime minister, Peter O’Neill, and Australia’s immigration minister, Peter Dutton, met in Port Moresby on Wednesday.
O’Neill released a statement following the meeting saying that officials from both countries were making progress on how to close the centre.
“Both Papua New Guinea and Australia are in agreement that the centre is to be closed,” O’Neill said, but offered no time frame on the closure, only stating that the process should not be rushed.
In pictures: Iran’s special forces ‘neutralize’ suspected jihadists
Iranian authorities have announced that between Monday night and Tuesday morning, special forces killed four suspected jihadists and arrested six more. According to officials, these men were either fighters for the Islamic State group or fighters with links to the group.
This is not the first time that Iran has announced that it has arrested jihadists on its soil, but it is the first time that citizens have caught such operations on camera. Several photos and videos published on social media show the clashes between the alleged terrorists and the authorities, as well as the aftermath.
According to Asadoallah Razani, the governor of Kermanshah province (western Iran), “On Tuesday morning, special forces attacked members of a terrorist group in the city of Kermanshah; three people were killed. We found AK47s, cartridges, grenades, and a suicide belt.”
Escaped Chibok girl: I miss my Boko Haram husband
Updated 0833 GMT (1633 HKT) August 17, 2016
Escaped Chibok girl Amina Ali Nkeki says she misses her Boko Haram fighter husband and is still thinking about him three months after escaping the militants' camp.
Amina Ali, who was held hostage by the terrorist group for more than two years, says she was married off a year into her ordeal and later had a baby girl, Safiya.
The couple and their daughter were found on the outskirts of Nigeria's Sambisa Forest in May. She says they fled the camp by themselves and were not rescued by the Nigerian military, contrary to reports.
Backlash: Viewers protest media coverage of female Olympians
A SHIFT IN THOUGHT
A number of journalists, commentators, and media outlets have come under fire for their coverage of female athletes in Rio. Experts say that while sexist Olympic coverage itself is nothing new, the heightened response from viewers is.
First, there was outrage when an NBC commentator referred to swimmer Katinka Hosszu's husband and coach as "the guy responsible" for her gold medal and new world record in the 400-meter individual medley last Saturday.
The next day, another NBC commentator said the US women's gymnastics team "might as well be standing in the middle of a mall," setting off a flurry of angry tweets.
Then, on Sunday, social media was quick to respond to the Greeley Tribune in Colorado when it headlined an Associated Press story with "Phelps ties for silver in 100 fly," followed by the subhead "Ledecky sets world record in women's 800 freestyle" after Katie Ledecky won gold in her event.
Germany: Child refugees receive therapy to fight trauma
An institute in Saarbruecken is providing intensive, short-term practical therapy sessions for young asylum seekers.
Dominic Kane
Saarbruecken, Germany - Like most who have fled conflict, Ali's path to asylum in Germany from Afghanistan has not been easy.
The 17-year-old orphan slept in public toilets for two years and has been working for a living since the age of five.
The trauma of war and the long journey to asylum still haunts the teenager. Evidence of his childhood ordeal is on display in the form of paintings on the walls of his room.
"My life has been marked by very negative events until now," Ali told Al Jazeera. "Nobody helped me in Iran or the other countries I was in.
The media vs. Donald Trump: why the press feels so free to criticize the Republican nominee
Updated by Ezra Klein
There is a case to be made that the media created Donald Trump. It was, reportedly, his anger at being dismissed by political pundits that led him to run for president in the first place. And it was, arguably, the media’s wall-to-wall coverage of his every utterance that powered his victory in the Republican primary.
But slowly, surely, the media has turned on Trump. He still gets wall-to-wall coverage, but that coverage is overwhelmingly negative. Increasingly, the press doesn’t even pretend to treat Trump like a normal candidate: CNN’s chyrons fact-check him in real time; the Washington Post reacted to being banned from Trump with a shrug; BuzzFeed Newspublished a memo telling reporters it was fine to call Trump "a mendacious racist" on social media; the New York Times published a viral video in which it simply quoted the most vile statements it heard from Trump’s supporters.
North Korean restaurant defectors released in South Korea
Authorities in Seoul have released a group of 13 North Korean restaurant workers who defected from China to South Korea earlier this year.
Officials said 12 women and one man had now begun the formal process of resettlement in South Korea.
The group defected in April from a North Korean state-run restaurant in the Chinese city of Ningbo.
At the time Seoul said the size of the defection was "unprecedented" and held them for further investigation.
Most North Korean defectors are first held at an interrogation facility to screen for potential spies and then put through a state resettlement programme for three months, the AFP news agency reports.
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