Otto Warmbier: US student sent home from North Korea dies
The US student held in captivity for more than 15 months in North Korea has died a week after returning home.
Otto Warmbier, 22, was serving 15 years of hard labour for attempting to steal a propaganda sign from a hotel.
He was sent back to the US last Tuesday on humanitarian grounds - it emerged he had been in a coma for a year.
North Korea said he had contracted botulism but his family say North Korea subjected him to "awful torturous mistreatment" in detention.
A team of US doctors have also disputed North Korea's version of events.
Indian government: pregnant women should shun meat, eggs and lustful thoughts of sex
Mother and Child Care leaflet also recommends expectant mothers ‘detach themselves from desire, anger, attachment’
India’s government is advising pregnant women to avoid all meat, eggs and lustful thoughts.
Doctors say the advice is preposterous, and even dangerous, considering India’s already poor record with maternal health. Women are often the last to eat or receive health care in traditionally patriarchal Indian households.
Malnutrition and anaemia, or iron deficiency, are key factors behind India having one of the world’s highest rates of maternal mortality, with 174 of every 100,000 pregnancies resulting in the mother’s death in 2015. That’s better than five years earlier, when the maternal mortality rate was 205 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, but still far worse than China’s 27 per 100,000 or the United States’ 14 per 100,000, according to Unicef.Number of far-right extremists flagged to Government terror unit soars 30% in a year
Dramatic rise can be revealed after Muslim worshippers were mowed down outside north London mosque on Monday by suspected terrorist
The number of suspected far-right extremists referred to the Government’s key anti-terror programme soared by 30 per cent in the past year, The Independent has learnt.
The dramatic rise can be revealed after Muslim worshippers were mowed down outside a north London mosque in the early hours of Monday morning by a man driving a van in what police described as a terrorist attack.
The suspect has been named as 47-year-old Darren Osborne, a father-of-four from Cardiff, who was arrested on suspicion of terror offences and attempted murder and remains in custody.
New magazine and TV channel give Afghan women a cautious voice
KABUL (AFP) -
Afghan women are redrawing the media landscape in the deeply conservative country with the launch of a new magazine and a television channel, risking the anger of extremists by giving their gender a glamorous voice.
The teams behind the two privately-run projects have bold ambitions to use their mass media platforms to change attitudes and inform Afghans of their rights.
But they know full well the dangers of such trailblazing ventures in a war-torn nation where many still believe that a woman does not belong outside the home.
A huge part of Antarctica is melting and scientists say that's bad news
Updated 0230 GMT (1030 HKT) June 20, 2017
Antarctica is experiencing weird weather, and the changes have some scientists worried about the future.
There's an area on the west side of the icy continent called the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, and last January, scientists found a 300,000-square-mile portion of its perimeter was melting. That's an area roughly two times the size of California, covered in slush.
According to recent research published in Nature Communications, the melt was caused by an unusually strong El Niño event around January 2016.
South Korea pivots away from atomic energy
AP, AFP-JIJI, KYODO, STAFF REPORT
New South Korean President Moon Jae-in vowed Monday to scrap all plans to build new nuclear reactors, as he seeks to steer Asia’s fourth-largest economy clear of atomic power.
Moon, who swept to power with a landslide election win last month, campaigned on promises to phase out atomic energy and embrace what he says are safer and more environmentally friendly power sources, including solar and wind.
The triple meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant sparked by a powerful earthquake in March 2011 sparked widespread public concern in neighboring South Korea over its own aging atomic power stations.
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