London attack: Police have arrested seven people in connection with Westminster terror incident
Attack assumed to be linked to Islamic terrorism, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon says
Police have arrested seven people in connection with the terror attack that brought bloodshed to the heart of London.
The Metropolitan Police's top anti-terror officer confirmed police had searched six addresses and made seven arrests.
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has said the working assumption is the attack is linked to Islamic terrorism.
The black-clad assailant, armed with two knives, mounted the pavement on Westminster Bridge and mowed his car through a crowd of people, including schoolchildren. Revealed: the terror and torment of Turkey's jailed journalists
Prisoners tell of solitary confinement and maltreatment after being caught up in ‘Kafkaesque’ media purge
Scores of imprisoned Turkish journalists face a Kafkaesque nightmare of legal limbo, farcical charge sheets, maltreatment and even solitary confinement in the country that locks up more reporters than any other in the world.
A series of Guardian interviews and written exchanges with several of those jailed as a result of a sweeping media crackdown found a huge mental burden on the incarcerated, as well as tough social and intellectual restrictions.
“I have been broken and twisted in more ways than I can imagine,” says the recently released novelist Aslı Erdoğan (no relation to the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan), who spent five days in solitary confinement at the start of four months of pretrial detention.
The US restaurant with political cuisine
The best way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, as the adage goes, and one Pittsburgh restaurant is attempting to open hearts and minds with Iranian khoresht, Cuban empanadas and Palestinian baqlawa. What do these dishes have in common? They all come from countries that are or have been in conflict with the United States, and have all featured on the eclectic and changing menu of Conflict Kitchen.
The restaurant opened in 2010 and since then has served up dishes from North Korea, Afghanistan, and Venezuela, amongst others.
The restaurant opened in 2010 and since then has served up dishes from North Korea, Afghanistan, and Venezuela, amongst others.
Dawn Weleski, together with co-founder Jon Rubin, founded Conflict Kitchen as a response to another food-cum-art project in the city, The Waffle Shop, a restaurant that engaged with customers through a live-streamed talk show. They began to discuss other ways of starting up cultural and political dialogue with Pittsburgh audiences through food. And so Conflict Kitchen was born as a non-profit project, and has gone from strength to strength. The restaurant almost quadrupled the number of customers it was serving when they moved to their new location, and they continue to grow sales year on year.
Sewol disaster: South Korea raises sunken ferry
More than 300 people, most schoolchildren, were killed when the vessel capsized and sunk almost three years ago.
Salvage workers are pulling up a South Korean ferry that sunk nearly three years ago killing more than 300 people, in one of the country's worst-ever maritime disasters.
The vessel, the Sewol, was structurally unsound, overloaded and travelling too fast on a turn when it capsized and sank during a routine voyage off the southwest coast on April 16, 2014.
Almost all the 304 dead were schoolchildren and it is thought that nine bodies still unaccounted for may be trapped inside the sunken ship. Raising the Sewol intact has been a key demand of the families of the victims.
Fukushima News: Deadly Nuclear Radiation Levels Detected
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Extremely high radiation levels were detected using cameras and robots in tainted water inside a reactor containment vessel at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, Japan Times reported Tuesday, citing Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. (Tepco).
The latest readings, taken six years after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, showed 11 sieverts per hour, according to Japan Times. It is the highest radiation level detected in water inside the containment vessel and is extremely dangerous. Sievert is a unit measurement for a dose of radiation. One sievert is enough to cause illness if absorbed all at once, and 8 sieverts will result in death despite treatment, according to PBS who relied on data from multiple sources including United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission and MIT’s Nuclear Science and Engineering department.
Australia moves to weaken hate speech laws
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s attempt to water down language in discrimination law sparks debate on freedom versus tolerance
MELBOURNE, MARCH 23, 2017 2:09 PM
A push by the Australian government to water down controversial hate speech laws has highlighted tensions between freedom of speech and racial harmony in one of the Asia-Pacific’s most multicultural nations.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who leads the centre-right Liberal Party, this week unveiled plans to reform Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, which makes it unlawful to “offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate” a person on the basis of race or ethnic origin.
Turnbull, a former journalist, lawyer and investment banker, proposes replacing “offend,” “insult,” and “humiliate” with the stronger term “harass” in a reform he argues will better protect free expression while continuing to limit hate speech. His changes would also oblige the body handling complaints under the act to apply a “reasonable person” test to cases and give it leeway to knock back trivial claims.
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