Colombia landslide death toll rises to more than 250 as massive rescue effort is launched
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos says disaster 'breaks his heart'
Flooding and mudslides in the Colombian city of Mocoa sent torrents of water and debris crashing onto houses in the early hours of Saturday morning, killing 254 people, injuring hundreds and sending terrified residents, some in their pajamas, scrambling to evacuate.
Heavy rains caused several rivers to overflow, pushing sediment and rocks onto buildings and roads in the capital of southwestern Putumayo province and immobilizing cars in several feet of mud.
"It was torrential rainstorm, it got really strong between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m.," said local resident Mario Usale, 42, who was looking for his father-in-law in the debris.
The football child abuse scandal just keeps on growing
As fresh cases of abuse continue to emerge, so do examples of official complacency, such as the obstruction and termination in 2003 of an FA review of child protection policies
After everything that has emerged about football’s sexual-abuse scandal – including some extraordinary new details that can be reported today about the lack of co-operation from a number of high-ranking Football Association officials – it can come as a jolt to realise that the problem is not just restricted to what used to be known as the good old days.
Until now, it has widely been thought of as the property of another age. Words such as “historical” or “non-recent” have been applied and the FA certainly seemed to think as much. When the governing body announced in early-December it had commissioned an inquiry into the scandal the terms of reference made it clear it had a cut-off point “up until around 2005”.
Global Spying NetworkTurkey's Worldwide Monitoring of Suspected Gülen Supporters
The Turkish government is spying on its own citizens around the world on a previously unreported scale, even in such far-flung corners as Ulaanbaatar and Dar Es Salaam. The espionage is detailed in newly obtained documents from Turkey's embassies.
By Hasnain Kazim
The Turkish Embassy in Tokyo took the easier route: In a secret report, it listed 15 schools believed to be associated with Muslim preacher Fethullah Gülen. The list included the schools' names, Japanese addresses, names of the school heads, email addresses, telephone numbers and the dates of their establishment. The list filled four pages. It provided no further comments, analysis or criticism.
The Tokyo staff was unusually perfunctory with its sparse list, at least compared to Turkish representatives in other parts of the world, which monitor fellow Turkish citizens by the hundreds, listing in secret documents rumors and family ties to alleged terrorist sympathizers.
How to stop a "deportation plane" from taking off
How do you stop a passenger plane from taking off? That was the challenge facing activists on Tuesday, March 28, as they tried to stop a "deportation flight" from leaving the UK carrying failed asylum seekers and other migrants. Seventeen activists split in to two groups, with one team locking themselves to the wheel of the plane and another put up a tripod by the jet's wing and locked themselves to the base - all to protest against the mass deportations.
Seventeen activists from three campaign organisations — Plane Stupid, End Deportations, and Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants — entered a secure area, erected a blockade and blockaded a runway at Stansted Airport in Essex at around 10pm on Tuesday night. The ‘deportation flight’ for Ghana and Nigeria ended up being cancelled, and commercial flights coming into Stansted – the third-busiest airport in London and fourth-busiest in the UK - were diverted to other airports.
ABANDONED AT SEA
Europe Keeps Its Rescue Ships Far From the Coast of Libya — Where Thousands of Refugees Have Drowned
On land in small towns near the Libyan coast, refugees from Africa and the Middle East are crowded into safe houses, waiting for good weather. When the sea quiets, the refugees pack onto rubber dinghies or large wooden fishing vessels and set off in the early morning toward Europe.
An average of 3,500 people have died each year while trying to make the journey to Italy from North Africa since 2014. Their vessels are overcrowded, unseaworthy, and have a near-nothing chance of making it to Europe. Most of the boats sink just 20 to 40 miles from the Libyan coast.
World heritage shrine in Kyoto vandalized with liquid
APR. 02, 2017 - 04:00PM JST
Shimogamo Shrine, designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site in Kyoto, was found to have been vandalized with a type of liquid Saturday, police said.
The police found more than a dozen stains on the floor and elsewhere at the shrine, they said, adding that in some places they found traces of liquid having been sprayed.
A security guard found liquid stains in some of the spots at the shrine around 10:30 a.m. during a regular patrol, according to the shrine. No abnormalities were found when it closed on Friday night. The shrine opened at 6 a.m.
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