Evacuations from Homs' Al Waer district resume
Rebel fighters and their families leave for Idlib province under an agreement with government that began in March.
Scores of rebel fighters and their families have begun leaving the last opposition-held neighbourhood in the Syrian city of Homs, Syrian state TV and a monitor said, as part of an evacuation deal that began in March.
Hundreds boarded buses on Saturday that were headed from the Al Waer neighbourhood to the rebel-controlled areas of Idlib, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
Al Waer, once known as the epicentre of the 2011 uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, has been under a government siege since 2013, triggering shortages of medicine and food.
A coup has been carried out': Paraguay's congress set alight after vote to let president run again
One congress member, who had been participating in protests, underwent surgery after being hit by rubber bullets
Protesters stormed and set fire to Paraguay’s Congress on Friday after the senate secretly voted for a constitutional amendment that would allow President Horacio Cartes to run for re-election.
The country’s constitution has prohibited re-election since it was passed in 1992 after a brutal dictatorship fell in 1989.
“A coup has been carried out. We will resist and we invite the people to resist with us,” said Desiree Masi from the opposition Progressive Democratic Party.
Aung San Suu Kyi says she 'could step down' as Burma leader
Burmese State Counsellor criticises UN human rights probe as 'not suitable'
Aung San Suu Kyi has said she will step down as leader of Burma if the public decide she is not doing a good enough job.
The Burmese State Counsellor also rejected the United Nation's (UN) decision to launch a fact-finding operation to investigate alleged human rights abuses in the country.
Speaking on state-run television during her State of the Union address marking one year since she took office, Ms San Suu Kyi said she would resign if her “best effort is not enough”.
Hungary launches 'Stop Brussels' questionnaire campaign
BUDAPEST (AFP) -
Hungary launched Saturday an anti-EU campaign that asks households in a survey their advice on how to deal with Brussels policies that it says threaten Hungarians' independence.
Questionnaires titled "Let's stop Brussels!" are being posted to households nationwide, a senior government official, Bence Tuzson, told a press conference to launch the drive.
"Big decisions and struggles lie ahead of Hungary in the coming period, (Hungary) can only win those struggles if it feels the support of the country," said Tuzson.
The six questions on the survey mostly ask citizens "what Hungary should do" about EU policies on immigration and economic issues like tax-raising powers.
Why China is banning beards and veils in Xinjiang
Updated 0119 GMT (0919 HKT) April 1, 2017
No long beards. No veils in public places. No home-schooling.
China is intensifying its crackdown against what it deems religious extremism in the far-west province of Xinjiang, which is home to 10 million Muslims.
The latest measures -- outlined in a sweeping new anti-extremism legislation -- take effect Saturday and come on the heels of a series of steps to increase surveillance in the region that include the surrender of passports and mandatory GPS trackers in cars.
GOP Lawmakers Now Admit Years of Obamacare Repeal Votes Were a Sham
IT IS HARD to overestimate the role of the Affordable Care Act in the Republican resurgence.
Over the last seven years, the GOP has won successive elections by highlighting problems with Obamacare, airing more than $235 million in negative ads slamming the law, and staging more than 50 high-profile repeal votes. In 2016 every major Republican presidential candidate, including Donald Trump, campaigned on a pledge to quickly get rid of it.
Now in total control of Congress and the White House, some GOP legislators are saying that the political assault on Obamacare was an exercise in cynical politics, and that an outright repeal was never on the table.
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