Plane carrying 81, including soccer team, involved in accident in Colombia
Updated 0851 GMT (1651 HKT) November 29, 2016
A plane carrying 72 passengers -- including members of a Brazilian soccer team -- and nine crew members was involved in an accident near Rionegro, Colombia, according to the country's civil aviation department.
The accident happened in an area called Cerro El Gordo near Medellin, the department said.
The plane declared an emergency between the municipalities of La Ceja and La Union, according to a statement from Colombian aviation officials.
There could be six possible survivors, the statement said.
Putin brings China's Great Firewall to Russia in cybersecurity pact
The Kremlin has joined forces with Chinese authorities to bring the internet and its users under greater state control
Russia has been working on incorporating elements of China’s Great Firewall into the “Red Web”, the country’s system of internet filtering and control, after unprecedented cyber collaboration between the countries.
A decision earlier this month to block the networking site LinkedIn in Russia is the most visible in a series of measures to bring the internet under greater state control.
Legislation was announced this month that gives the Kremlin primacy over cyberspace – the exchange points, domain names and cross-border fibre-optic cables that make up the architecture of the internet.
In the summer, a measure known as Yarovaya’s law was introduced, which requires Russia’s telecoms and internet providers to store users’ data for six months and metadata for three years.
Turkey poised to send 3,000 refugees to Greece every day, intelligence officials warn
Thousands of dinghies and motorboats are reported to have amassed along the Turkish coast
The Turkish government has a secret plan to allow 3,000 refugees to sail to Greece every day, intelligence officials have claimed.
Greek analysts claim thousands of dinghies and motorboats have massed along the Turkish coast as the refugee deal agreed between Ankara and Brussels looks set to unravel.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to open the borders if the EU continued to block talks on the country’s accession to the union.
Bangladeshi schools at risk of floods go mobile
OBSERVERS
On the flood-prone river islands of Bangladesh, everything is portable. The islands, known as “chars” (pronounced chors), are formed of silt and sand carried down from the Himalayas by the Brahmaputra river. Global warming is accelerating the melting of glaciers, increasing the annual floods. To survive in this ever-shifting landscape, residents of the islands have learned how to be mobile, building houses – and schools – that can be moved at a moment’s notice.
The chars are constantly eroding and re-forming; they have an average lifespan of just 12 years. The average char-dweller will move 25-30 times in his lifetime, either because of erosion, or floods which in bad years can kill hundreds of people and threaten thousands more by destroying the crops they depend on.
It’s mid-November, four months after this year’s floods subsided, and Jamila Begum is still teaching her students in a shed behind her home. The site where her school once stood is now a 5-metre high cliff of sand that drops down into the waters of the Brahmaputra, the world’s 10th-biggest river. Fortunately, Jamila was able to move her school as the river was rising.
Brazilian opposition seeks President Michel Temer's impeachment
Anthony Boadle
Brasilia: Leftist opponents of Brazilian President Michel Temer are seeking to have him investigated and impeached for his alleged role in pressuring a former minister to approve a property development.
It is the latest corruption scandal to add political uncertainty delaying the recovery of Latin America's largest economy from its worst recession since the 1930s.
Brazil's public prosecutor is already studying whether to investigate the charge by the former minister, Marcelo Calero, that Temer had sided with another Cabinet member who lobbied him to override historic preservation rules for a luxury apartment building in Salvador, Brazil's former colonial capital.Cuba after Fidel: Economic reform? Sí. Political reform? No.
PATTERNS OF THOUGHT The passing of Fidel Castro paves the way for Cuba to open its economy
more. But several factors keep Cuban political reform at bay.
Fidel Castro spent much of his final decade planning for the survival of his 1959 Communist revolution once its towering psychological and ideological pillar – himself – passed on.
With Mr. Castro’s death Friday, 11 million Cubans, some 2 million Cuban-Americans, and the rest of the world are about to see how good a job he did.
Virtually no one foresees abrupt change for the Caribbean island nation, either politically or economically. But with the economy in crisis and failing to produce employment for vast numbers of Cubans, many regional analysts expect a scenario under which economic reform accelerates even as the one-party political system remains untouched.
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