North Korea preparing for nuclear test, satellite images suggest
North’s Punggye-ri site appears to be ready for what would be the country’s sixth nuclear test since 2006
North Korea appears to be preparing to conduct a nuclear test in a show of defiance towards Donald Trump, who has not ruled out military action to pressure the regime into abandoning its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes.
The US-based monitoring group 38 North said on Thursday that the satellite images from the North’s Punggye-ri site showed it was “primed and ready” for what would be the country’s sixth nuclear test since 2006.
“Commercial satellite imagery of North Korea’s Punggye-ri nuclear test site from April 12 shows continued activity around the North Portal, new activity in the main administrative area, and a few personnel around the site’s Command Center,” 38 North said on its website.
Beslan school siege: European court condemns Russia for role in 2004 massacre
Judges find there were 'serious shortcomings' at almost every stage of Russia's official response, after 30 terrorists took over a school in North Ossetia
The European Court of Human Rights has condemned Russia over its failure to protect the hundreds of people who died when Chechen militants took over a school in Beslan in 2004.
The court ruled that serious failings by the Russian authorities meant that the victims' right to life was violated, and ordered Russia to pay €3 million in reparations and €88,000 in legal costs.
The Beslan school siege began when 30 separatist gunmen took more than 1,100 hostages in School Number 1 in September 2004. Russian special forces stormed the building in a blaze of gunfire after 52 hours, and the hail of bullets, explosions and fire that followed killed 334 people, including more than 180 children.
The Algerian slam poets denouncing violence against women
Five slam poets — three women and two men — came together to found Awal, a slam poetry collective, in January 2017. The collective is based in Oran, the second-largest city in Algeria. These young poets, whose popularity has been on the rise thanks to their riveting YouTube videos, write and recite verses about tough topics, including violence against women.
Awal’s first video tackled street harassment in public places, which has been a long-standing problem in Algeria. On March 5, 2017, a new law came into effect that makes it punishable by two to six months in prison.
In the video, two women from the collective, Zoulikha Tahar, alias Toute Fine, and Samia Manel, alias Sam MB — the former choosing to wear a headscarf, and the latter who doesn’t — act out what it is like for them to move through the streets of Oran on a daily basis. They describe what is essentially an obstacle course when they go out in public, as they try to avoid insistent stares, inappropriate comments and even being touched up.
China would guarantee security if North Korea gave up nuclear weapons: state media
Kirsty Needham
With the clock ticking, and North Asia on edge, the United States and China appear to be deploying carrot and stick diplomacy in attempt to dissuade North Korea from a nuclear test or missile launch.
A day after berating Pyongyang with the threat of tougher sanctions, a prominent Chinese state-owned newspaper has told the rogue state its best chance of survival is giving up nuclear weapons and accepting Chinese protection.
The Global Times, in its Chinese-language editorial, warned there is increasing consensus between the US and China on the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula, with one difference being that the US may be prepared to use force.Erdogan and opposition play last cards before vote
The proposed constitutional amendments seek to transform Turkey's political system into an executive presidential one.
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Umut Uras
Istanbul, Turkey - Vehicles of rival campaigns wander the streets of Istanbul as they blast their propaganda songs calling on Turkey's citizens to vote on their side in the upcoming referendum on April 16.
Only days left to the key vote, "Yes" and "No" camps campaign at full speed in the 15 million megalopolis in a last ditch effort to convince Turks before they vote to accept or reject the proposed constitutional changes that might deeply change how Turkey is governed.
The proposed constitutional amendments seek to transform Turkey's political system into an executive presidential one, significantly empowering the top office, while abolishing the prime ministry, which holds the main executive power in the current system as the head of the cabinet.
David Dao dragged off United flight files court papers
Lawyers for a passenger forcibly removed from a United Airlines flight have filed an emergency court request for the airline to preserve evidence.
David Dao was filmed being dragged off the overbooked flight at Chicago O'Hare airport, bloodied and screaming, in a video watched millions of times online.
United Airlines said it would refund the ticket costs of all passengers on Sunday's flight.
The airline's chief executive, Oscar Munoz, is insisting he will not resign.
As of Tuesday, Dr Dao was still recovering in a Chicago hospital, his lawyer said, but a family member is expected to give a news conference on Thursday.
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