Malaysia Airlines flight MH370: underwater search called off
Wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 might never be found after suspension of underwater search
In May 2016, the members of the Egyptian comedy troupe “The Street Kids” were arrested because of their viral videos mocking Egyptian president Abdel Fatah al-Sisi. Charged with “inciting terrorism”, they were imprisoned for several months. And to everyone’s surprise, the comedians have just released a new video. But this one might just be their last.
The six young comedians who make up the "Atfal al-Shawarea" (or “Street Kids”) comedy troupe rose to prominence in Egypt in early 2016 with a series of hilarious videos. The comedians film themselves, selfie-style, singing reworked versions of Egyptian folk songs. Their new lyrics criticise the Egyptian regime and members of President al-Sisi’s party. The “Street Kids” videos quickly spread across Egyptian social media and it didn’t take long for them to catch the attention of Egyptian authorities, who were not laughing.
Wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 might never be found after suspension of underwater search
The underwater search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has come to an end, with passengers’ families informed that the effort to find the plane has been suspended.
Next of kin were told in an emailed statement on Tuesday that Australian authorities’ underwater search of 120,000 sq km in the southern Indian ocean had concluded without success after more than two years.
The MH370 Tripartite Joint Communiqué was co-signed by the transport ministers of Malaysia, China and Australia, representing the three countries involved in the search. It was made public at 2pm Malaysia time.
China scraps construction of 85 planned coal power plants
Move comes as Chinese government says it will invest 2.5 trillion yuan (£300 billion) into the renewable energy sector
China has suspended 85 planned coal power plants in a bid to meet a government coal capacity target laid out in its latest plan for social and economic development.
The National Energy Administration (NEA) announced the under-construction projects would no longer go ahead as part of measures outlined in its Five Year Plan, Greenpeace reports.
In the report's electricity chapter, Beijing committed to a coal capacity cap of 1,100GW, however the new builds would have taken that figure to 1250 GW, breaching the Government-set limit.
German student sheds light on mainstream sexual assault
A student from Jena has been harassed, groped and kissed against her will in nightclubs. In an open letter, she describes what many women are familiar with - and confronts the clubs and the public with her experiences.
"You walk through a club and all of a sudden there are hands on your body, your bottom and your breasts."
That is how 19-year-old Alina Sonnefeld describes a situation that she has often experienced since she started going out three years ago. One time, a man kept pressuring her even though she pushed him away many times. Suddenly, he kissed her. In an open letter, the young woman criticized the clubs in the eastern German city of Jena. "You don't make me feel safe at night," she wrote.
Sonnefeld "actually really likes" the alternative music clubs in her hometown. But there is one thing that goes too far for her: "After a certain hour, I am often groped, kissed and harassed against my will."
Egyptian comedy group's final middle finger to their president
OBSERVERS
In May 2016, the members of the Egyptian comedy troupe “The Street Kids” were arrested because of their viral videos mocking Egyptian president Abdel Fatah al-Sisi. Charged with “inciting terrorism”, they were imprisoned for several months. And to everyone’s surprise, the comedians have just released a new video. But this one might just be their last.
The six young comedians who make up the "Atfal al-Shawarea" (or “Street Kids”) comedy troupe rose to prominence in Egypt in early 2016 with a series of hilarious videos. The comedians film themselves, selfie-style, singing reworked versions of Egyptian folk songs. Their new lyrics criticise the Egyptian regime and members of President al-Sisi’s party. The “Street Kids” videos quickly spread across Egyptian social media and it didn’t take long for them to catch the attention of Egyptian authorities, who were not laughing.
Inside the cauldron of Indonesian-ISIS terror
Indonesian jihadis are caught up in offensives in both Iraq and Syria and responsible for orchestrated attacks on home soil
JAKARTA, JANUARY 17, 2017 1:12 PM
Terrorism specialists are beginning to change their tune over predictions that battle-hardened Indonesian jihadists returning from fighting for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) could present a major security threat in the future. The reason: many may never come home. Now cut off from the Turkish border, militants holed up in the besieged Iraq city of Mosul and in ISIS’s Syrian headquarters in Raqqa may well be forced to fight to the death to defend the ever-shrinking caliphate.
Sealing off the two enclaves also means the number of Indonesians heading for the Middle East has dropped dramatically. Whether that will lead to a further uptick in terrorist activity in Indonesia itself remains to be seen. There still appears to be no shortage of local recruits, but Sidney Jones, director of the Jakarta-based Institute of Policy Analysis for Conflict (IPAC), says it now seems unlikely that many overseas Indonesian jihadis will escape the current offensives in Iraq and Syria.
Dear Donald Trump: A letter from Palestine
'The US must start treating Palestinians as equals to Israelis.'
by
Issa Amro
My name is Issa Amro. I'm a 36-year-old Palestinian human rights defender from the city of Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where I work with an organisation called Youth Against Settlements.
While we live thousands of kilometres apart and have never met, my fate is more closely linked to the office you will hold, and the choices a US president makes, than many might think. The United States' military, economic and diplomatic support has allowed Israel to continue its occupation of Palestinian lands, upholding their racist, apartheid regime.
I have not spent my youth thinking about my career or travelling the world, the Israeli chokehold on our society limits my opportunities on both those fronts. Instead, I have been engaged in near-daily confrontations with hostile settlers and an occupying army, both of whom want me, my family and my friends to leave our land and never return.
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