Rohingya Muslims flee Myanmar amid deadly attacks
At least 86 people have been killed and 30,000 displaced as violence continues unabated in Myanmar's Rakhine state.
Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar poured into neighbouring Bangladesh this week with some feared drowned after a boat sank in a river during a bid to flee escalating violence that has killed at least 86 people and displaced about 30,000.
Some Rohingya refugees have been missing since Tuesday after a group crossed the river Naaf that separates Myanmar and Bangladesh. Those who managed to enter Bangladesh sought shelter in refugee camps or people's homes.
"There was a group of people from our village who crossed the river by boat to come here, but suddenly the boat sank," said Humayun Kabir, the father of three children untraceable since the mishap.
China will defend trade rights in face of Trump tariff threats, official says
- US president-elect has pledged a 45% levy on Chinese goods
- Senior Beijing trade official says US must ‘honour WTO obligations’
China will defend its rights under World Trade Organisation tariff rules if US president-elect Donald Trump moves toward executing his campaign threats to levy punitive duties on goods made in China, a senior trade official has said.
Zhang Xiangchen, China’s deputy international trade representative, also told a news conference in Washington on Wednesday that a broad consensus of academics, business people and government officials have concluded that China is not manipulating its yuan currency to gain an unfair trade advantage, as Trump has charged.
“I think after Mr Trump takes office, he will be reminded that the United States should honour its obligations as a member of the World Trade Organisation,” Zhang said through an interpreter. “And as a member of the WTO, China also has the right to ensure its rights as a WTO member.”
Almost one in three Calais child refugees missing since Jungle camp demolition
A third of 179 children being tracked by the Refugee Youth Service last month disappear
Almost one in three children who moved from the so-called Calais Jungle refugee camp after it was demolished have already gone missing, according to a report by a youth organisation.
The Refugee Youth Service (RYS) monitored 179 children displaced by last month's evictions, of which 56 per cent are now living in France's children's homes, 8 per cent moved legally to the UK and 2 per cent were sleeping rough. Yet another 30 per cent could no longer be found.
Bulldozers rolled into the makeshift settlement in mid-October, which had been home to around 9,000 people and became a symbol of Europe’s inability to deal with an influx of refugees fleeing war and poverty.
Iraqi militias claim to have isolated IS-controlled Mosul
Mainly Shiite militia say they have reached Kurdish peshmerga positions west of the city of Mosul, sealing off the Islamic State stronghold from the rest of Iraq. Citizens have fled Mosul in their thousands.
Security officials said on Wednesday that Iraqi-led forces had succeeded in cutting off Mosul from its western supply lines, with the "Islamic State" (IS) now effectively under siege in and around the city.
The news was confirmed by peshmerga sources, who said that the largely Shiite and Arab Popular Mobilization militia had gained control of the road leading southwest from Tal Afar to the Syrian border.
Tal Afar, which lies some 60 kilometers (35 miles) to the east of the much larger city of Mosul, is on the last remaining route to Syria. The militia advance means IS forces are hemmed in between Mosul's eastern outskirts, where Iraqi troops are fighting their way into the city, and the Tel Afar area.
Mexican women lay bare the country's violent macho culture
Armed with skirts, social media, and a hidden camera, a group of women have taken to the streets of Mexico City to expose the misogyny inherent in Mexican society. 'Las Morras' (the young women) say Mexico's macho culture is making life unbearable for women across the country.
Earlier this year in May, four young Mexican women ventured through the streets of Mexico City with a hidden camera, determined to film the misogyny that women are forced to deal with every day. The insults caught on tape - from "Whores!", to "Hey, dolls!" - come thick and fast. Six months later, the footage is still being shared on social media networks, and has even become a regular feature at feminist conferences.
The video is entitled 'Las Morras confront their aggressors' and has already been watched more than one million times. It was filmed using a GoPro hidden in the backpack of an accomplice who keeps pace ahead of the women. It shows Las Morras wearing skirts and tight-fitting tops as they walk through the streets of the Mexican capital. The video begins with a short prelude, in which the women explain, "We are four young women who live in Mexico City. Like other women, we suffer harassment and abuse whenever we walk through the streets. We've decided to ask the aggressors whether they have anything to say."
Two children, one rich, one poor, gasping for air in Delhi's smog
Ellen Barry
In the dense smog that engulfed India's capital early this month, a baby named Vaishnavi gasped through the night.
Inside the concrete room that her father and mother rent for $US20 a month, they took turns staying up, laying a hand on her rib cage, feeling it move up and down. Her coughing fits became so violent that she vomited, milk mixed with ropes of sputum. Three times they thought she would not survive until morning.
Twenty miles away, inside an elegant, high-ceilinged house in an elite neighbourhood, a four-year-old boy named Mehtab was also struggling to fill his lungs with air.
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