Tentative Syria truce to begin after surge in killing
Ceasefire to come into force at sundown after more than 100 people killed in an upswing of violence over weekend.
A ceasefire in Syria brokered by Russia and the US is set to begin at sundown after a weekend of government raids killed scores of civilians, but there are concerns about whether it will hold.
The tentative truce , announced after marathon talks by the Russian and US foreign ministers last week, has cautiously reawakened hopes of ending a five-year civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people and forced millions from the country.
The Free Syrian Army group, a leading rebel alliance, said it would observe it from sundown on Monday as agreed but with major reservations.
US teens often forced to trade sex work for food, study finds
Teens in low-income communities, overlooked by childhood nutrition policies, do sex work, save school lunches, sell drugs and join gangs for food, report says
Teenagers in America are resorting to sex work because they cannot afford food, according to a study that suggests widespread hunger in the world’s wealthiest country.
Focus groups in all 10 communities analysed by the Urban Institute, a Washington-based think tank, described girls “selling their body” or “sex for money” as a strategy to make ends meet. Boys desperate for food were said to go to extremes such as shoplifting and selling drugs.
The findings raise questions over the legacy of Bill Clinton’s landmark welfare-reform legislation 20 years ago as well as the spending priorities of Congress and the impact of slow wage growth. Evidence of teenage girls turning to “transactional dating” with older men is likely to cause particular alarm.
Awá Amazon tribeswomen reject civilisation and escape to forest
'What is important for them is not television. What is important for them is to be in their home, in the forest, with plenty of hunting, with rivers, with the animals'
In December 2014, three "non-contacted" Amazon tribespeople -- a young man, his mother and an elder female relative -- were led out of the forest they had lived in their whole lives and taken to a village.
A year and a half later, in an extraordinary twist, the two women have escaped back to the forest -- taking just an ax, a machete and their pet birds. They left clothes they had been wearing strewn on a path -- and their escape left a very clear message.
We don't want your civilisation. Instead, we choose our ancient way of life.
Abe calls for Japan to prepare sanctions against North Korea
(Mainichi Japan)
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Sept. 11 that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had told him to prepare for Japan to impose its own sanctions on North Korea over the country's recent nuclear test.
"I received an order from Prime Minister Abe to firmly prepare for Japan to impose its own sanctions. The government and ruling coalition want to communicate soundly and set about doing this," Suga said during a talk in the Niigata Prefecture city of Sanjo.
Suga expressed the opinion that North Korea has advanced in nuclear and missile development, and added, "If they have the technology to load a nuclear warhead onto a missile, then it will be a serious issue for Japan."
Turkey replaces elected Kurdish officials with appointees, sparking protests
The move comes in the wake of July's coup attempt; Turkey has been under a state of emergency since.
Turkish police used water cannons and teargas to disperse protesters Sunday after Ankara announced it had replaced 28 elected municipal and district mayors in several predominantly Kurdish towns in Turkey's east and southeast.
The removed officials are suspected of colluding with groups the government considers terrorist organizations, the Interior Ministry announced Sunday, adding that the decision was in line with a governmental decree enacted in the wake of a failed military coup.
Turkey declared a state of emergency following the July 15 coup attempt that allows the government to rule by decree. It has since suspended tens of thousands of people from government jobs over suspected links to terrorist organizations.
How do you trace ancestors who were slaves?
Georgetown University says it will give preferential treatment to applicants descended from slaves who once had a connection with the institution. But how easy is it for Americans to find out about ancestors who were slaves?
In 1838, Jesuit priests sold 272 men, women and children who had been enslaved on plantations in Maryland. The sale, worth about $3.3 million (£2.5 million) today, helped the prominent Catholic university known as Georgetown College pay off massive debts and secure its survival.
Now the world-renowned Georgetown University wants to atone for the mistreatment of both those slaves and an unknown number of others forced to work for the school.
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