Isis group claims responsibility for Istanbul nightclub attack
Turkish media say authorities believe gunman who killed 39 on New Year’s Eve is from central Asian nation
Turkish authorities suspect Islamic State is behind the attack on a popular Istanbul nightclub during new year’s celebrations, Turkish media reports say.
Meanwhile local reports said an Isis-affiliated group had claimed responsibility for the attack.
Authorities also believe that the gunman, who killed 39 people, most of them foreigners, comes from a central Asian nation, likely to be either Uzbekistan or Kyrgyzstan, the pro-government Karar and the mainstream Hürriyet newspapers reported, citing unnamed security sources.
Another crackdown on civil liberties won't steer Erdogan's troubled Turkey towards peace
Not since the fall of the Ottomans a century ago has the very unity and future of the nation been so precarious, and its power so obviously waning. That is bad news for the region, for Europe, and for the world
With the new year comes a bloody reminder that the destabilisation of the entire Middle East region continues, and may even accelerate during 2017. There may be a fragile ceasefire in the Syrian civil war – the peace of the graveyard – but the last few years have seen the fracturing and destruction of entire nations in a way that would have seemed unimaginable for much of recent history.
Like dominoes, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen have all suffered, and terribly, the human cost still being paid by the injured, bereaved and homeless. Egypt seems poised on the margins of meltdown. Now Turkey, a regional superpower, Nato member and long thought more a player than a victim in this pitiless saga, is being pulverised by violence.
Danish authorities arrest daughter of confidante to S. Korean president
South Korean authorities are planning to request the extradition of Chung Yoo-ra. She is wanted for questioning amid an ongoing graft probe that led to the impeachment of the country's president.
Chung Yoo-ra was apprehended in the northern city of Aalborg, Danish police confirmed on Monday. According to the South Korean news agency Yonhap, she was arrested for overstaying her visa.
Chung is the 20-year-old daughter of one of the central figures in a corruption scandal that led to the impeachment of South Korea's President Park Geun-hye. Her mother Choi Soon-sil, dubbed South Korea's "Rasputin," is accused of meddling in state affairs and gaining access to official documents with Park's help.
Israel urged to apologise for disappeared babies
Government has declassified some 200,000 documents on the disappearance of thousands of babies after Israel's founding.
by
Jonathan Cook
Nazareth - Some 200,000 documents concerning the mysterious disappearance of thousands of babies in Israel's early years were made public last week for the first time.
The Israeli government declassified the files, publishing them in an online archive, after decades of accusations that officials have been concealing evidence that many of the babies were stolen from their parents.
The families, most of them Jews from Arab countries recently arrived in Israel, fear the infants were handed over by hospitals and clinics to wealthy Jewish families in Israel and abroad.
As world closes doors to refugee surge, Aceh aid expert urges Japan to open up, play lead role
BY SHUSUKE MURAI
STAFF WRITER
The global refugee crisis is stoking anti-immigration sentiment in Europe and the United States, but Japan could take the initiative to become a leading voice to protect those who are displaced, an expert on assistance to such people in Asia has said.
“I’m not very confident that the West can play a lead in being that voice,” said Lilianne Fan, co-founder of Geutanyoe Foundation, a nongovernmental organization based in Aceh, Indonesia.
“I think we need actors from our regions — from Asia — and I think Japan is the best candidate to be the leading voice in trying to champion peace,” Fan said in a recent interview with The Japan Times. Fan was visiting to discuss refugee issues with Japanese stakeholders.
Despite political clout, Russian seniors find later life options limited
Fred Weir
STROGINO, RUSSIA—The "Third Age" home for the elderly is a clean, modern, privately-run facility for about 50 people in this hilly satellite town just outside Moscow.
It represents the high end in the range of options facing the growing numbers of Russian retirees: offering around-the-clock care, comfortable rooms done in Soviet-era decor to remind them of their youth, friendly and well-trained staff, and various stimulating forms of recreation.
"We take a personal approach to each resident. It's not just about eating and sleeping, but about maximizing possibilities, encouraging social interaction, and improving the quality of life for body and mind," says Irina Pokhotko, the home's medical supervisor. "Of course we offer far more than you will find in state facilities."
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