US warns Syria over 'potential' plan for chemical attack
The US says it has identified "potential preparations" for another chemical attack in Syria, and issued a stark warning to the Syrian government.
The White House said the activities were similar to those made before a suspected chemical attack in April.
Dozens died in the attack which prompted President Trump to order a strike against a Syrian air base.
The US statement warned President Bashar al-Assad of "a heavy price" if another strike occurred.
It said "another chemical weapons attack by the Assad regime" was likely to result "in the mass murder of civilians".
World food supplies at risk as climate change threatens international trade, warn experts
Chatham House report 'chokepoints' in the supply of food, such as the Suez Canal, the US rail network and the Turkish Straits, could become 'epicentres of systemic disruption'
The world’s food supplies are in danger as climate change and the increasing reliance on global trade threaten to create shortages and sudden, dramatic increases in prices, according to a new report by the leading think tank Chatham House.
The report’s authors warned of a “growing risk … to human security” with the potential for “systemic disruption” and so-called Black Swan events – major unexpected changes.
They called for an international “emergency response mechanism” to be created to help deal with crises as they arise and an increase in emergency food stocks.
Hong Kongers look for an exit 20 years after handover to China
Updated 0025 GMT (0825 HKT) June 27, 2017
Terence Tam's dad fled to Hong Kong from China during the political chaos of the Cultural Revolution to make a better life for himself and his family.
Then a British colony, the city became home to a huge number of refugees fleeing Communism in the 1960s and 1970s.
Now 39, Tam says he's ready to make another escape, 20 years after the UK handed sovereignty over the city to China.
While Hong Kong is one of the most affluent cities in the world, he says it's now in the throes of its own political upheaval.
Whither Japan's Democracy
To some observers, protester Hiroji Yamashiro, 65, has become a symbol of modern Japan’s uneasy attitude towards dissent.
The retired civil servant, a long-standing campaigner against the US military presence in the southern prefecture of Okinawa, was detained for five months from October last year before he was released on bail in March.
Yamashiro admitted cutting a barbed wire fence, but pleaded not guilty to subsequent charges of injuring a defense official and obstructing relocation work by placing blocks in front of a gate.
According to his supporters, Yamashiro is a tireless peace advocate whose continued detention was disproportionate to his alleged behavior.
Colombia's coca growers left behind in FARC peace deal
Colombia is set to succeed in its fight against drug trafficking, following the FARC peace deal. But coca-growing farmers worry they will be left without any means of support. Mira Galanova reports.
Lucia is on edge every time she carries her crop of coca leaves to buyers in Colombia's Putumayo department. "I pray to God that nobody stops me. We don't mean any harm."
The police presence has grown since the left-wing FARC rebels left the dense jungle along the borders with Ecuador following the peace agreement with the government last November.
Lucia, who declined to give her real name, cultivates the raw material for cocaine. "The risk is great, but our needs are greater. If we don't do this, we would have to go stealing," she told DW.
Should cows get more respect than women? Indian women say 'No!'
Sujatro Ghosh
Indian photographer Sujatro Ghosh started a photo series on Instagram on June 11, featuring women photographed in different places in public around New Delhi. The one thing out of the ordinary? They’re all wearing a grotesquely huge rubber cow’s head.Cows are considered sacred animals in Hinduism, which is the primary religion across India. As a result, in some regions the slaughter of cows has been banned, and “cow vigilante” groups have sprung up, exacting revenge on suspected beef-traders. One famous case in 2015 was the Dadri mob lynching, when a Muslim man Mohammad Akhlaq was accused of eating cow meat by a crowd of local villagers. The mob beat him to death at his home, with his family watching. Earlier this year, the western state of Maharashtra banned cow slaughter and the selling and possession of beef – punishable by up to five years of prison.
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