Is US President Donald Trump backing himself into a corner on North Korea?
Updated 0918 GMT (1718 HKT) April 25, 2017
US President Donald Trump has said the status quo with nuclear-armed North Korea is unacceptable, calling for new sanctions on the country and criticizing its young leader Kim Jong Un.
"This is a real threat to the world, whether we want to talk about it or not," Trump said Monday at a lunch for ambassadors of countries who sit on the Security Council.
"North Korea's a big world problem, and it's a problem we have to finally solve. People put blindfolds on for decades and now it's time to solve the problem."
'Mass murder' complaint filed against Philippines' President Duterte at ICC
Filipino lawyer Jude Sabio launches action over ‘terrifying, gruesome and disastrous’ drug war that has left more than 7,000 people dead
A Filipino lawyer has filed a complaint at the international criminal court (ICC) accusing president Rodrigo Duterte and 11 other Philippine officials of mass murder and crimes against humanity.
In the first publicly known filing to the Hague court against Duterte, Jude Sabio submitted the 77-page complaint that says the president has “repeatedly, unchangingly and continuously” committed extra-judicial executions or mass murders over three decades, amounting to crimes against humanity.
It says the killing of 9,400 people began in 1988 when Duterte was mayor of the southern city of Davao and has lasted throughout his 10 months so far as president, during which he has waged a virulent and bloody “war on drugs”.
North Korea capable of making nuclear bomb 'every six weeks'
Trump administration haste to deal with Pyongyang's posturing stems from new evidence Kim Jong-un accelerating pace of rogue state's weapons programme
Behind the Trump administration’s sudden urgency in dealing with the North Korean nuclear crisis lies a stark calculus: a growing body of expert studies and classified intelligence reports that conclude the country is capable of producing a nuclear bomb every six or seven weeks.
That acceleration in pace — impossible to verify until experts get beyond the limited access to North Korean facilities that ended years ago — explains why President Donald Trump and his aides fear they are running out of time. For years, American presidents decided that each incremental improvement in the North’s programme — another nuclear test, a new variant of a missile — was worrisome, but not worth a confrontation that could spill into open conflict.
Opinion: Germany must take anti-Semitism fear seriously
Jews in Germany are feeling threatened. Such fears should make government and society think, DW's Christoph Strack writes.
It is a request, an appeal, a warning. A group of experts appointed by the Bundestag has called for society to strongly confront anti-Semitism in Germany. This has been endorsed by many Jewish representatives.
The federally appointed experts published their report on Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day, which honors the 6 million Jews who were murdered by Nazi Germany. On Monday Sigmar Gabriel, on his first visit to Jerusalem as foreign minister, visited the Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, and wrote in the visitors' book: "Remember every day."
The necessity of such vigilance can be shown by the numerous police officers in front of Jewish institutions in Berlin and other German cities. It can be shown by reports such as the case of the schoolboy who was bullied out of his Berlin school for being Jewish. Germany can be proud of the fact that now, thanks in part to a burst of immigration from the Soviet Union about 20 years ago, there is a blossoming Jewish community in many places across the country, that synagogues are being newly built, that rabbis and cantors are studying and being ordained in the country of perpetrators.Faces of female candidates in Algeria's elections erased
Political parties in Algeria are gearing up for parliamentary elections on May 4. But on certain campaign posters, female candidates have been presented... without faces, unlike male candidates. The resulting outpouring of criticism has forced the election authority to demand that the offending political parties change their posters.
Several photos of the campaign posters have been circulating on social media. One of them shows the list of electoral candidates for the Islamist party "Parti de l’équité de la proclamation" [Fairness of Declaration party] in the province of Adrar, in the south west of the country. On the poster there is a person wearing a hijab, who works at the Department of Public Works – but the face has been rubbed out.
But this is not the only case. On the campaign poster for the Front des forces socialistes [Socialist forces front], an opposition party, three women are shown who all have their faces rubbed out. However, in this instance, it's not just that their faces have been erased – but that they've all been replaced by the same generic drawing of a woman in hijab.
Bangladesh's water crisis: A story of gender
Climate change is driving an acute water crisis in coastal Bangladesh in which women are bearing most of the strain.
Kochukhali, Bangladesh - When Khadija Rahman, then a newly married 14-year-old, moved to the Satkhira district on Bangladesh's southwest coast, she didn't realise just how much the scarcity of drinking water in the region would affect her.
Now, 10 years later, the cheerful young woman finds that the shortage plagues her daily life.
Her village, Kochukhali, lies near the Sundarbans, one of the largest mangrove forests in the world, at the edge of the Ganges delta, where water intrudes on the low-lying land and shallow ponds and rivulets proliferate across the landscape.
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