Hong Kong election: Beijing-backed Lam vows to heal divide
The first woman elected to lead Hong Kong has vowed to heal divisions amid demands for more democracy and protests at Beijing's growing influence.
Carrie Lam, 59, had the backing of the Chinese government in Beijing and was widely expected to win.
The chief executive is not chosen by public vote but by a 1,200-strong committee dominated by pro-Beijing electors.
Hong Kong is part of China but has a degree of autonomy from Beijing.
In her acceptance speech, she said: "Hong Kong, our home, is suffering from quite a serious divisiveness and has accumulated a lot of frustrations. My priority will be to heal the divide."
Coalition says it hit Mosul site where civilians died
Coalition says it struck area in west Mosul where officials say scores of civilians were killed by aerial bombardment.
The US-led coalition bombing ISIL positions in Iraq has admitted that it carried out air raids last week at a location in west Mosul where officials and residents say scores of civilians were killed.
The acknowledgement on Saturday came hours after the United Nations said it was "stunned" by the reported deaths of civilians in suspected coalition air raids in Mosul's ISIL-held al-Jadida district on March 17.
"An initial review of strike data ... indicates that the coalition struck [ISIL] fighters and equipment, March 17, in west Mosul at the location corresponding to allegations of civilian casualties," the US military's Combined Joint Task Force said in a statement on Saturday.
Australian academic Chongyi Feng prevented from leaving China
Feng, a long-time associate professor at UTS, has not been detained within China but has been repeatedly questioned about his research, sources say
An academic from the University of Technology Sydney has been prevented from leaving China, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has confirmed.
Chongyi Feng, an associate professor in China studies, was stopped for the second time in two days on Saturday when trying to board a flight to Australia, the ABC reported.
Sources have told Reuters he had been repeatedly interrogated over his links to liberal intellectuals in mainland China.
A Week with the White House Press CorpsInside Trump's War on the Traditional Media
Since his declaration that the media is the "enemy of the people," White House correspondents have been battling to maintain their position in the new America. Trump is giving them competition by filling the press corps with trolls and a new wave of right-wing media.
Only a few feet separate those in power and the people who are part of their checks and balances. Fifteen steps. Perhaps 20. They lead across a beige spotted carpet in the White House that has seen better days. A blue sliding door leads from the head of the Briefing Room where Donald Trump's spokesman, Sean Spicer, seeks each day to harmonize the president's world with reality, to the small kingdom of his support staff. With the push of a button, a further sliding door opens on the left to the West Wing, the heart of American power.The Rose Garden is to the left and on the right is a heavily armed Secret Service man behind a desk. If you leave him and his skeptical gaze behind, you arrive at the door to the Cabinet Room and, beyond it, the Oval Office, where the president spent this afternoon in the week before last negotiating the health care reform bill.
Illegal bird hunting is big business in Cyprus
A video posted online last week shows the illegal capture and killing of thousands of birds in Cyprus. But this was not an isolated incident. Each year, hundreds of thousands of birds are killed on this Mediterranean island, often in the two British-controlled regions. Hunters then sell the birds to restaurants in a widespread, black market, trade.
The footage was shot near Larnaca, a city in the south of the island. Since 1974, Cyprus has been divided between the Greek Republic of Cyprus, located on the southern half of the island, and the Turkish Republic of Cyprus, in the north. But there are also two sovereign military bases on the island (Akrotiri and Dhekelia), run by the British. Many farmers work in these areas controlled by the island’s former colonial power.
The video was filmed by a member of the British animal rights charity, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).
What’s behind Pakistan’s failure in tackling terror
The chances of the latest operation being successful are low. For a start, it’s not even clear that either the military or the civilian government are serious about reining in militants
PESHAWAR, MARCH 26, 2017 6:00 AM
Since February 22, when Operation Radd-Ul-Fasaad (“elimination of discord”) was launched, the Pakistani army has killed 50 terrorists. The cost, according to updates from the Inter Service Public Relations (ISPR) unit, has been the deaths of 10 officers from the Army, Frontier Corps and Frontier Constabulary.
The operation was kicked off following a string of suicide attacks in Pakistan starting from the turn of the year. In one six-week spell spanning January and February, over 174 fatalities and several hundred injuries were reported from 25 incidents of suicide attacks across the country. Those figures take the number killed in extremist attacks in the last 15 months alone to over 550.
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