Trump appeal against Seattle judge's travel ban ruling
The US justice department has filed a court motion against the suspension of President Trump's travel ban on people from seven mainly Muslim nations.
The move seeks to reverse Friday's ruling by a federal judge in Washington state.
Visa holders from the affected nations have been scrambling to get flights to the US, fearing they have a slim window to enter America.
Mr Trump's ban last week led to mass protests and confusion at US airports.
There were further demonstrations on Saturday in Washington, Miami and other US cities as well as in a number of European capitals.
Isis paying smugglers’ fees in recruitment drive among child refugees
Jihadi groups offer money and food in bid to radicalise youngsters, thinktank reports
Islamic State is paying the smugglers’ fees of child refugees in a desperate attempt to attract new recruits, according to a report highlighting the potential vulnerability of unaccompanied minors to radicalisation.
The report, from counter-extremism thinktank Quilliam, also says that an estimated 88,300 unaccompanied children – identified by the European Union’s police agency Europol as having gone missing – were at risk of being radicalised.
Citing failures in the approach of Europe, particularly the UK, towards protecting child refugees travelling alone, the report, published on Monday, warns that jihadi groups, including Isis and Boko Haram, have attempted to recruit within refugee camps using financial incentives, as well as working with the people smugglers.
Romanian government scraps controversial corruption decree after thousands join days of mass protest
Thousands joined days of huge demonstrations across the country against lawAlison Mutler Bucharest
After mass protests that have rocked the country for days, Romania's government has announced that it will repeal a highly controversial emergency decree that decriminalises official misconduct.
Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu said the government would hold an emergency meeting on Sunday to withdraw the decree, which has sparked the biggest protests in Romania since the end of communism in 1989.
“I don't want to divide Romania... Romania in this moment seems broken in two,” Mr Grindeanu told reporters.
Neighbors Across the Divide
They are the same age and both have families and the same goals in life. But Francis Mwangi lives in a corrugated metal shack while Johan Kiharu owns a mansion with a swimming pool. A look at the lives of two men symbolizing a deeply unhealthy society.
A Multimedia Story from Nairobi by Christoph Titz (Text) and Johnny Miller (360-Degree Photos and Drone Videos)
One Gate, Two Worlds
When Francis Mwangi heads off to work, his first step has to be a big one to clear the garbage and sewage flowing through a gutter in front of his door. Once outside, the air smells of burning coal as his neighbors are preparing their morning tea. The sun bathes the cool morning air of the slum in a glittering light.
Wearing his black security-guard uniform, Mwangi snaps shut the padlock on the wooden-plank door and walks up a narrow alley between the walls of corrugated sheet metal. To the boom gate where he works.
Seeking solace
After their husbands die, many Indian widows, some young and others old, are tossed aside like garbage
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There are around 40 million widows in India at this time. In the classical, brahmanical view, they are physically alive but socially dead. They were expected to die before their husbands or along with them, otherwise they would remain in the in-law’s houses, often barred from chances to remarry.
The death of the husband marks the transition from a wife to a widow and thereby the loss of the widow’s social and religious identity.
Their status puts them on the fringe of society. Most of them experience deprivation and discrimination on a daily basis, not least of which include suffering from severe depression because of isolation, and the absence of emotional and social support.
The end of air conditioning? Asia architects use green solutions to cool buildings
By Kate Springer, CNN
Spend five minutes in humid Ho Chi Minh City and you'll probably be running for cover into the nearest air-conditioned refuge.
In the Vietnamese city -- and many developing subtropical countries across Asia, such as Indonesia and the Philippines -- air conditioning (AC) is increasingly being considered a necessity.
But one architecture firm is advocating a different way to keep cool.
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