Paris agreement: Europe vows to keep fighting global warming after US withdrawal
Emmanuel Macron says world’s duty is to ‘make our planet great again’ as leaders react to Trump pulling out of Paris accord
European leaders have pledged to keep fighting against global warming after Donald Trump announced he was pulling the US out of the Paris climate accord.
The leaders of France, Germany and Italy said in a joint statement that they regretted the US decision to withdraw from the accord, but affirmed “our strongest commitment” to implement its measures and encouraged “all our partners to speed up their action to combat climate change”.
While Trump said the US would be willing to rejoin the accord if it could obtain more favourable terms, the three European leaders said the agreement could not be renegotiated “since it is a vital instrument for our planet, societies and economics”.
On the front line of Iran's shadow war in Syria
Exclusive: A fighter who was critically injured in an explosion in the Syrian town of Khan Touman explains the reasons for him joining the Iranian effort in Syria – one of thousands to have been deployed across Syria and Iraq
The Isis attack came as Abdullah Zare and his comrades were preparing for the defence of Khan Touman. Round after round of mortar fire pounded the town. People screamed as they fled, some fell injured, some dead. As the Basij fighter shot back at the enemy through the smoke and dust, a shattering explosion sent Zare flying through the air.
He had been hit by spraying shrapnel, leaving him deafened and covered in blood. He crawled using his left arm, the only part of his body he could move, for a hundred long metres until his fellow Iranians rushed forward and pulled him behind the safety of a wall.
“I could hear bullets in the air as I was crawling, some were landing near me, I could only go very slowly, I don’t know why I didn’t get hit,” he reflects. “Maybe I was very lucky, maybe Allah protected me. I am very glad I am alive.”
With stones – and phones – Kashmiri youth show deepening resolve against India
Talk to the young protesters in Indian-administered Kashmir today, and you will find more than the familiar slogans against India.
Young people are at the forefront of every protest, gathering in the hundreds and thousands to shout against Indian rule and throw stones at the soldiers. Streets are dotted with anti-Indian graffiti, much of it then defaced by soldiers. When news of a gunfight between soldiers and rebels breaks out, the young protesters race to the scene, hoping diversions will let the militants slip away – and that the videos they'll later post online can garner wider attention for Kashmir. Many assert they have no fear of death, if that's what it comes to.
It’s a gloomy illustration of many civilians’ increasing support for insurgents – an increasing challenge for India, whose harsh attempts to quell unrest seem to only feed more anger and protests. But for soldiers, protesters, and bystanders alike, the cycles of unrest and repression can erase any semblance of normalcy, amid school closures, internet blackouts, and curfews.
20 million starving to death: inside the worst famine since World War
II
A report from South Sudan.
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When war came to 15-year-old Rebecca Riak Chol’s small town in rural South Sudan in early April, she and 27 other villagers fled into nearby marshlands to hide. They spent two grueling weeks slowly making their way to the relative safety of a region controlled by rebels from her same tribe. They were constantly hungry, constantly thirsty, and constantly in danger of being killed by the troops trying to hunt them down. Chol’s sister died along the way, but it wasn’t because she was found and shot. Instead, she — like growing numbers of South Sudanese — died from starvation.
“We didn’t have anything to dig with to bury her, so we just put grass on the body and left it there,” Chol told me during a conversation in the schoolyard of her new home in the small town of Thoahnom Payam. Two school buildings with mud walls and tin roofs flanked the dry dirt yard. In the center was an unused volleyball net.
DP: New doc shows bureaucrats shared email on Cabinet Office pressure over vet dept.
(Mainichi Japan)
The Democratic Party (DP) has obtained a document showing that education ministry bureaucrats shared an email indicating the Cabinet Office pressured the ministry to swiftly approve a plan by a school corporation run by a close friend of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to open a veterinary school, DP sources said.
According to the sources of the largest opposition party, the document, which has been sent to a DP legislator, quotes a Cabinet Office official as saying, "This is what the top level of the prime minister's office is saying."
The DP is poised to disclose the document as early as June 2. It was earlier reported that a similar document mentioning "what the highest level of the prime minister's office is saying" is believed to exist.
Resorts World Manila: At least 36 bodies found at casino complex
At least 36 bodies have been recovered from a casino and hotel complex in the Philippine capital, Manila, where a lone gunman opened fire overnight.
Most of the dead suffocated in thick toxic smoke after the man set fire to casino tables, officials told the BBC.
The gunman, whose nationality is not yet known, began shooting in the casino in Resorts World Manila in the early hours of Friday morning.
Police said he later killed himself by setting himself on fire.
The incident sparked a security lockdown. Authorities initially said there were no casualties, but appear to have only found the bodies while sweeping the complex after the gunman's body was recovered.
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