60 killed in twin suicide attacks as terrorists storm police training college in Quetta
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Heavily-armed militants wearing suicide vests stormed a police academy in Quetta, killing at least 60 people and wounding dozens more, Balochistan Home Minister Mir Sarfaraz Bugti said Tuesday, in one of the deadliest militant attacks this year.
Three gunmen burst into the sprawling academy, targeting sleeping quarters home to some 700 recruits, and sent terrified young men aged between 15 and 25 fleeing.
Communication intercepts showed the attack was carried out by Al-Alimi faction of the Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LJ) militant group, IG Frontier Corps (FC) Major General Sher Afgan said.
'It was like being in a boys' club': female aid workers on sexual harassment at work
Organisers believe new survey provides snapshot of hidden scale of abuse in male-dominated humanitarian sector and call for more in-depth investigations
Women in the international aid industry have recounted their experiences of sexual harassment and abuse in a new survey of more than 1,000 female workers in the humanitarian sector.
The results of the self-report survey, published on Tuesday by the Humanitarian Women’s Network, revealed that 55% of those questioned said they had suffered sexual advances from a male colleague at least once.
The research is the first of its kind and suggests that sexual harassment and abuse within the industry could be widespread, according to the organisers of the study.
Kenya commutes sentences of all death row inmates
President Uhuru Kenyatta spared the lives of 2,655 male and 92 female inmates
Kenya's President has commuted the sentences of all the country's death row inmates to life imprisonment.
Thousands of prisoners condemned to death have been spared their lives although Kenya very rarely carries the sentences out - the last execution taking place in 1987.
At the stroke of a pen, President Uhuru Kenyatta commuted the sentences of 2,655 male and 92 female death row inmates.
In 2009, then President Mwai Kibaki commuted the sentence of 4,000 prisoners then residing on death row.Report: Detainees tortured under Turkish state of emergency
NGO Human Rights Watch says that Turkish officials are violating human rights under the country's state of emergency. According to a report released on Tuesday, detainees have to suffer physical and sexual violence.
After a failed military coup against the government shook Turkey in July, contentious President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has cracked down on any and all dissenters and those he perceives to be a danger to his power. Now Human Rights Watch (HRW) is saying that Turkey has not only seen the incarceration and firing of critical citizens, but that the country's police force has also tortured individuals in their custody.
Erdogan declared a state of emergency after the attempted coup. The decrees that were passed down in this context have removed important human rights safeguards, according to the report "A Blank Check: Turkey's Post-Coup Suspension of Safeguards Against Torture."
HRW researchers have documented that the decrees negatively affected the rights of detainees. In the report, they detail 13 cases of alleged abuse, including sleep deprivation, severe beatings, sexual abuse, and rape threats.
Did Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro stage a coup?
In a rowdy session of Venezuela's legislature, lawmakers declared Sunday that, by blocking a recall effort, President Nicolas Maduro had staged a coup.
Venezuelan lawmakers declared Sunday that President Nicolas Maduro had staged a coup by blocking an effort to remove the unpopular leader from office, a decision that came during a heated legislative session that was briefly interrupted by dozens of demonstrators.
The vote came days after a court suspended opposition lawmakers' campaign to collect signatures to hold a referendum to recall President Maduro, escalating political tensions in Venezuela and resulting in a vow by lawmakers to put the president on trial.
The session on Sunday turned even more raucous when roughly 100 pro-Maduro protesters wearing red shirts burst onto the floor, chanting, "Congress will fall!" After the protesters had left the building, opposition lawmakers said the situation directly reflected their complaints about the state of democracy in Venezuela.
Japan wary over Philippine leader's policy, manners in front of emperor
By Mari Yamaguchi
POLITICS
Japanese officials are wary ahead of the arrival of outspoken Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. It’s not just his foreign policy toward the U.S., but also his informal style: Will he chew gum in front of the emperor?
Duterte arrives in Tokyo later Tuesday for a three-day visit, his first as Philippine leader.
For diplomats and political leaders, the main issue is Duterte’s foreign policy toward Washington and how Japan can help mend those ties.
Tokyo is a major ally of the United States, and has watched as Duterte increasingly attacked the U.S. and said he would scale back America’s military engagement with his country. And he has worried Japan and the United States by reaching out to China.
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