'They will kill us': The Rohingya refugees fleeing torture and rape in Myanmar
Updated 0223 GMT (1023 HKT) November 25, 2016
They come by the thousands.
Rohingya refugees from Myanmar's northwestern Rakhine state are flooding across the border into Bangladesh.
They're fleeing violence that has plagued the state for weeks. Some refugees told CNN they suffered rape, torture, or saw their homes burned down and family members executed.
"If (the military) finds any boys aged above 10 years old, they kill them. Men are also being picked up by the military," said Lalu Begum.
"When the military came, we fled from our home. I don't know if my husband is dead or alive.
Strikes in China over foreign employers selling out to local companies
Coca-Cola and Sony hit by walkouts as workers fear they will lose jobs or have pay and conditions cut when Chinese firms take over factories
Coca-Cola workers in three Chinese cities have gone on strike after the US soft drinks company announced it was selling its bottling interests in the country.
Strikes and other labour protests have surged in recent years in China, where growth is slowing and parts of the economy are moribund.
The company has announced it is selling all its bottling assets in mainland Chinato Hong Kong conglomerate Swire Pacific and Cofco Corporation, one of China’s state-owned food giants.
First US soldier killed in Syria by Isis IED blast as American special forces assist rebels
The Special Forces member has not been named by American officials
The first member of the US military has been killed in Syria by an improvised explosive device (IED) laid by retreating Isis fighters.
US Central Command said the blast occurred near the former militant stronghold of Ayn Issa, but gave no other details, adding it would release more information "as appropriate".
The unnamed man died of his wounds on Thursday. Ash Carter, the outgoing US Defence Secretary, called the death a “painful reminder of the dangers our men and women in uniform face around the world to keep us safe".
India's abrupt demonetization 'seems completely silly'
The Indian government's recent surprise decision to ban all high-value currency notes in circulation has affected almost everyone in the country. Economist Rajiv Biswas talks to DW about the effectiveness of the move.
Weeks after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a drastic move to withdraw all 500- and 1,000-rupee notes from circulation, the monetary situation in Asia's third-largest economy has yet to normalize and most people across the country continue to face problems accessing cash for their daily needs.
The government has said the move will bring billions of unaccounted money into the formal banking system and clean India's economy of "black money," a term used in the country to refer to unaccounted, untaxed wealth.
But since the announcement, serpentine queues have lined up outside banks and ATMs of people replacing their rupee notes or making small withdrawals. And Modi's administration has faced sharp criticism over the slow pace of introducing the new notes, with banks running out of cash and ATMs having to be recalibrated to cope with the different sized bills - a process that is still incomplete.
The self-taught electronics whiz lighting up a town
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A self-taught electronics and IT engineer in Bukavu, a town on the eastern border of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been building homemade appliances since he was a teenager using scrap electronic components found in rubbish dumps – and now he’s sharing what he’s learned.
Brackley Cassinga was only 11 years old when he started to tinker with things around the house. His father was often away working in a town in southern DRC, Lubumbashi, and Cassinga felt like he had to take over some of his dad’s chores around the house, like fixing appliances when they broke.
I wish there had been someone to teach me, but I never knew anyone with a background in electronics. I was just learning everything by myself, just taking stuff apart and experimenting with different things to see what would happen.
He finds all of the components for what he builds in rubbish dumps in Bukavu. He started off by making battery-powered lamps.
China orders Xinjiang residents to surrender passports to police
Updated 0425 GMT (1225 HKT) November 25, 2016
Millions of residents in China's northwestern Xinjiang region have been ordered to surrender their passports to local police, in a move rights groups say is an attack on personal freedom.
The order came from the Shihezi Public Security Bureau Immigration Office in Xinjiang on October 19, which said that passports would be held by police after an "annual check."
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