North Korea fires test missile toward Sea of Japan
North Korea has test fired a missile toward the Sea of Japan - the first since Donald Trump became US president. The launch came as the Japanese premier was on an official visit to the US.
The projectile was launched at 7:55am local time Sunday (2255 UTC on February 11) from Banghyon air base in the western North Pyongan Province - just days before the North is to mark the birthday of leader Kim Jong Un's late father, Kim Jong Il.
South Korea's Defense Ministry in Seoul said that the object flew east towards the Sea of Japan. The missile is believed to have dropped into the sea between the Korean Peninsula and Japan. Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the missile did not reach Japanese territorial seas.
South Korea's Office of Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that the South Korean and the US militaries were conducting a close-up analysis of the object, which reportedly managed to travel a distance of about 500 kilometers (300 miles).
Women and children ‘endure rape, beatings and abuse’ inside Dunkirk’s refugee camp
The fate of those stranded by the UK’s decision to limit taking child refugees from France
Children and women are being raped by traffickers inside a refugee camp in northern France, according to detailed testimony gathered ahead of fresh legal action against the UK government’s approach to the welfare of unaccompanied minors.
Corroborating accounts from volunteers, medics, refugees and other officials reveal that sexual abuse is common within the large camp at Dunkirk and that children and women are forced to have sex by traffickers in return for blankets or food or the offer of passage to the UK.
Legal proceedings will be issued by London-based Bindmans against the Home Office, which is accused of acting unfairly and irrationally by electing to settle only minors from the vast Calais camp that closed last October, ignoring the child refugees gathered in Dunkirk, 40 miles away along the coast.
Prison guards "turn guns on prisoners" in Chile
Violence broke out between prisoners and guards in the Colina II prison in the north of Chile's capital Santiago on February 1. Dozens of people were wounded. But was it really an uprising on the part of prisoners? Human rights groups say that it wasn't — and that guards mounted a "violent operation" against the detainees, as some videos appear to show.
On February 1, videos filmed by the prisoners were published on Facebook.
In the above video, several guards in the prison's courtyard can be seen apparently kicking and beating prisoners with batons.
The new ISIS threat: its soldiers are going home
For nearly three years, the 25-year-old has fought in Syria alongside the Al Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al Nusra, then the Islamic State (IS, or ISIS). After months on the frontlines, Mohammed has a new plan: return home to Jordan.
“There are many of us who have become disillusioned with ISIS, who are injured, who are tired,” Mohammed, who is currently on the Syrian-Jordanian border awaiting entry, said through an encrypted messaging service.
“Soon, the state will have to accept us.”
As coalition and allied forces push through Mosul, Iraq, and close in on the Islamic State's capital of Raqqa, Syria, Arab states are bracing what some are calling a “disaster”: waves of ISIS fighters returning back home.
Refugees cross to Canada to escape Donald Trump
Recently, hundreds of refugees have crossed the US border into Manitoba, braving snow and cold at great peril.
Dorian Geiger is a Canadian journalist, award-winning filmmaker, and a social video producer at Al Jazeera English.
For five hours, Somalis Farhan Ahmed and Mohamed Mualim trekked through the barren and frigid snow-swept fields dividing North Dakota from the Canadian prairies. The snow was knee-deep and it was nearly -20 degrees Celsius.
Then, out of the darkness, a highway appeared. They had arrived in Canada. One of them pulled out their mobile phone to call 911.
"Wow, it was very, very cold," Ahmed, 36, recalled. "You could not walk about the ice. It was too much. Sometimes, it reached our knees. We didn't feel sometimes our hands, sometimes our feet."
Manga legend Jiro Taniguchi, a bridge between Japanese, French cartoon art, dies aged 69
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Jiro Taniguchi, a legend in Japan’s manga world, died in Tokyo on Saturday at the age of 69, leaving behind an international following for his exquisite line drawing of scenes from everyday life.
Casterman, the artist’s French publisher, announced his death on its website, adding that he had been seriously ill, as it expressed its deep condolences to his family.
Taniguchi first shot to fame in Japan at the end of the 1980s with the first volume of “The Times of Botchan,” which centered around Natsume Soseki, one of Japan’s greatest writers.
Just over a decade later, he hit the international manga scene with “A Distant Neighborhood,” about a Japanese salaryman who travels back to his childhood — widely seen to this day as his masterpiece.
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