Freed Chibok girls return home for joyful Christmas
Updated 0223 GMT (1023 HKT) December 27, 2016
It was a journey they had waited nearly three long years to take.
Ten weeks after being released by Boko Haram, 21 freed Chibok schoolgirls and a baby returned home this month to celebrate Christmas with their families for the first time since they were snatched by the terror group.
The April 2014 kidnapping of nearly 300 girls from a boarding school in Chibok sparked global outrage a #BringBackOurGirls campaign on social media
Hong Kong, where history has become a battleground for Beijing
Residents of the city are being encouraged to engage with their past – warts and all – and not allow it to be airbrushed
Stepping off the subway in his army uniform, Victor Yu prepared to face the onslaught ahead. Instead of charging into a crowd armed with rifles, he was met with smartphones, overwhelmed on a street in Hong Kong by pictures and selfies rather than enemy fire.
Yu is a member of Watershed, a local historical group working to raise awareness of what they feel is Hong Kong’s forgotten history. The performance comes at a time when instruction of the city’s history is becoming increasingly politicised, with recent government attempts to bury details that may be embarrassing for China.
Syrian man who filmed his daughters being sent on suicide mission is killed
Abu Nimr, also known as Abdurrahman Shadad, is shot by 'unknown militiamen'
A Jabhat Fatah al-Sham (JFS) operative has been killed in Damascus just weeks after he filmed his daughters talking to him about being part of a suicide bombing.
Abu Nimr, also known as Abdurrahman Shadad, was shot and fatally injured by “unknown militiamen”, thought to be members of JFS, according to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (SOHR).
In two videos, Nimr, a well-known member of JFS, the newly adopted name of al-Nusra, or al-Qaeda in Syria, filmed his wife saying goodbye to eight-year-old Fatimah and seven-year-old Islam.
First Istanbul trial to begin of Turkey coup suspects
ISTANBUL (AFP) -
Almost 30 Turkish police will go on trial in Istanbul on Tuesday charged with involvement in the July 15 coup bid, the city's first trial of alleged putschists.
With indictments prepared against over 1,200 people, and some 41,000 under arrest in total, the trials following the failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are set to be the most far-reaching legal process in Turkish history.
Five months after the coup, small-scale trials of suspects have already began in the provinces and on Monday 60 people went on trial in the southwestern city of Denizli.
Jakara: Court to proceed with Purnama blasphemy trial
Judges reject call to strike down case against Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, a Christian accused of insulting the Quran.
An Indonesian court will proceed with a controversial blasphemy case against Jakarta's Christian governor, who is accused of insulting the Quran, a judge said.
A panel of judges on Tuesday rejected a call by lawyers defending Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama to strike down the case because it had violated the ethnic Chinese politician's human rights and breached procedures.
"The exception by the defendant will be considered and decided by the court after examination of all evidence. The defendant's exception is not accepted," said Judge Abdul Rosyad.
Girls just wanna have guns
Chiaki Kodama blows her deer whistle and soon a male deer wanders into sight. She slowly takes aim and squeezes the trigger.
DECEMBER 27, 2016 12:14 PM
Chiaki Kodama blows her deer whistle and soon a male deer wanders into sight. She slowly takes aim and squeezes the trigger.
Moments later, Kodama and a friend on her first hunt are tracking the wounded animal through the forest.
“Look for the trail of blood,” advised Kodama as they set off on a mountainside in Japan’s Fukui prefecture.
The 28-year-old hairdresser and city councilor is among a small but growing number of Japanese women entering the male-dominated world of hunting, where it was once taboo for men to even speak to a woman before going on a hunt.
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