Trump travel ban: Hawaii judge places indefinite hold
A US federal judge in Hawaii has indefinitely extended the suspension of President Trump's new travel ban.
Judge Derrick Watson's ruling means Mr Trump will be barred from enforcing the ban on six mostly Muslim nations while it is contested in court.
In a lawsuit, the US state says the ban would harm tourism and the ability to recruit foreign students and workers.
President Trump says his revised travel ban seeks to prevent terrorists from entering the United States.
Judge Watson made the ruling late on Wednesday after hearing arguments from attorneys for the state of Hawaii and the US Department of Justice.
'They're going to kill me next': Yemen family fears drone strikes under Trump
Before Trump took office, the US drones that killed several members of the Tuaiman family used to come about once a week. Now they come every day
Every day, as they hear the whine of the drones overhead, the Tuaiman family waits for Donald Trump to finish killing them.
The drones used to hover about once a week over al-Rawdah, the Yemeni village where the family lives, sending children running for cover.
Now, according to Meqdad Tuaiman, the drones come every day – sometimes three or four times. Usually they arrive in the afternoon. Other times they come after sundown and linger until sunrise.
The drones have not fired their weapons in four months, but their patrols have intensified since late January, when Trump took office. Meqdad, a 24-year-old used-car salesman and occasional pipeline guard, considers it no coincidence.
Air pollution from globalisation linked to premature deaths of more than 750,000 people a year
'If the cost of imported products is lower because of less stringent air pollution controls in the regions where they are produced, then the consumer savings may come at the expense of lives lost elsewhere'
Globalisation has become, in the eyes of some, the epitome of everything that’s wrong with the world – allowing multinational corporations to drive down wages, run roughshod over workers’ rights and even challenge democracy itself.
But an international team of scientists has now laid another alleged crime at its door – the premature deaths of more than 750,000 people.
They found that 411,100 people died in 2007 after breathing in fine particles of air pollution, known as PM2.5, which were carried on the wind from one region of the world to another.
El Salvador becomes first country to ban metals mining
El Salvador has banned all metals mining, saying it poses "a threat to the development and well-being of families." It becomes the first country to implement a blanket metals mining ban.
El Salvador's congress on Wednesday approved a law banning all metals mining in order to protect the environment.
Some countries have banned strip mining and open-pit techniques, but the bill passed in El Salvador prohibits all underground, above-ground or artisanal mining for metals.
Supporters of the bill say the ban is necessary to protect water resources and reduce social tensions.
"Mining is not an appropriate way to reduce poverty and inequality in this country. It would only exacerbate the social conflict and level of water contamination we already have," the charity Oxfam's El Salvador Country Director Ivan Morales said.
China will use 'other options' to return fugitives as extradition treaty falters
Chinese authorities would use "other options", such as persuading fugitives to return by pressuring family members, if an extradition treaty with Australia is not ratified, analysts said.
The director of Peking University's anti-corruption study centre, Zhuang Deshui, said the extradition treaty was only one way for China to return fugitives and recover stolen funds as part of its anti-corruption drive.
"If the treaty can't be signed in the near future, there are other options, like return by persuasion, illegal immigration and other judicial cooperation ... When this gate is not open, we can try the window, and if windows are not open, we can try digging holes," he said.African students hospitalized in roving mob attacks in India
Updated 0642 GMT (1442 HKT) March 30, 2017
Africans living in northern India are locking themselves indoors in terror after a spate of mob attacks left several hospitalized.
Multiple attacks on Kenyan and Nigerian students have been reported this week in Greater Noida, 18 miles southeast of the capital New Delhi.
Nine Nigerians were attacked, including five who were wounded and two who were hospitalized with undisclosed injuries, said Abike Dabiri, Nigeria's special assistant on foreign affairs and diaspora.
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