Trump lays out hike in military spending
US President Donald Trump is seeking to boost defence spending by 10% in his proposed budget plan for 2018.
The blueprint will increase defence spending by $54bn (£43bn) but seeks to recoup that sum through deep cuts elsewhere, including to foreign aid.
Mr Trump's plan leaves large welfare programmes untouched, despite Republican calls for reform.
The president has consulted government agencies about his plans and will present his budget to Congress in May.
Between now and then, he needs to identify where the agencies can make savings and work out what he does with tax reform.
'Please forgive me': Letters home from abandoned Isis facility offer insights into recruits' lives and motivations
‘His mind was fragile and they took advantage of that, promising him virgins and lecturing him about being a good Muslim. If someone had tempted him with drugs and alcohol, he probably would have done that instead’
“My dear family, please forgive me,” reads the handwritten letter discarded in the dusty halls of an Isis training compound in eastern Mosul.
“Don't be sad and don't wear the black clothes [of mourning]. I asked to get married and you did not marry me off. So, by God, I will marry the 72 virgins in paradise.”
They were schoolboy Alaa Abd al-Akeedi’s parting words before he set off from the compound to end his life in a suicide bomb attack against Iraqi security forces last year.
Cafés empowering survivors of acid attacks in India
Every year, there are hundreds of cases of a very specific type of violence against girls and women in India: acid attacks. In most instances, a man seeking to punish a woman or girl for whatever reason throws acid at her, causing pain, scarring, and disfigurement. Even worse, survivors of these attack are often treated as outcasts. The Chhanv Foundation works to help survivors realise that their lives are not over — by employing them in their three cafés.
The Chhanv Foundation was started in 2014, a year after the launch of the nationwide campaign “Stop Acid Attacks”. The foundation opened its first café for victims of the attacks in December 2014, in the city of Agra. Two other cafés opened on March 8 and September 19, 2016, in Lucknow (in the state of Uttar Pradesh) and Udaipur (in Rajasthan). Currently, 20 women between the ages of 17 and 35 work in these establishments.
“My husband attacked me because I had only given birth to daughters”
The Destruction of UnderstandingTrump, Erdogan and the Assault on the Free Press
Donald Trump and Recep Tayyip Erdogan demand reverence rather than enlightenment and both are mounting dangerous attacks on the free press. The threat is real and the media must hold its ground.A DER SPIEGEL Editorial By Klaus Brinkbäumer
"The immediate causes of the unrest in Berlin are directly related to the latest developments in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The enemies of the GDR in West Germany understand that the practical implementation of the new course for our party and government -- the course of raising the living standards for the broadest possible masses and the strengthening of legal certainty -- will represent a serious setback for them and, out of necessity, will lead to disaster for them. They even admitted that themselves."
That was the beginning of an editorial in the June 18, 1953, issue of Neues Deutschland, the official organ of the East German communist party, addressing the popular revolt in the GDR at the time. The paper claimed that the West was causing the resistance in the East because the West couldn't stand the East's success. And, yes, journalists can be capable of twisting their words to that degree -- if the aim is for facts to be bent to mean the opposite, if words are meant to manipulate, denounce and create instability rather than enlighten people and if there is no longer freedom of the press.
Kim Jong Un 'ordered' half brother's killing, South Korean intelligence says
Updated 0155 GMT (0955 HKT) February 28, 2017
Two North Korean ministries orchestrated the plot to kill Kim Jong Nam on the orders of his half-brother, North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, South Korea's spy agency has said.
Lawmakers in Seoul, who were briefed by the country's intelligence officials, said the North's foreign ministry and ministry of national security had recruited the two female suspects in Kim's murder.
"The assassination of Kim Jong Nam was an act of systematic terror ordered by Kim Jong Un," South Korean lawmaker Kim Byung-kee said in a televised address. "The operation was conducted with two assassination groups and one supporting group."
TARGETING A SANCTUARY
After ICE Stakes Out a Church Homeless Shelter, Charities Worry Immigrants Will Fear Getting Help
TWO DOZEN HOMELESS men and women filed out of Rising Hope United Methodist Church, where they had found sanctuary the night before from the wind and brutal cold.
Each winter for more than 15 years, the church has acted as an overnight homeless shelter along the decaying Route 1 corridor in Alexandria, Virginia. Volunteers serve the visitors a hot meal and unroll sleeping bags for them on the church floor. The visitors have to leave the next morning by 7, when the church starts its daytime operations.
That morning in early February, as the men and women gathered in the church parking lot, a few of them noticed three unmarked cars parked across the street. Then a group of seven or eight Latino men split off from the group and headed for the shopping center across the street.
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