Australia police 'foil terror plot to bring down plane'
Counter-terrorism police in Australia have stopped a suspected plot to bring down an aeroplane, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said.
He was speaking after four people were arrested in raids across Sydney.
Investigators said they had seized materials in the raids that could have been used to make an improvised explosive device.
Mr Turnbull said the raids had been a "major joint counter-terrorism operation".
He said extra security was in place at domestic and international airports.
The raids took place in the Sydney suburbs of Surry Hills, Lakemba, Wiley Park and Punchbowl, Australian broadcaster ABC reported.
Australia's national terror threat level remains at "probable".
Xi Jinping orders army to ‘unswervingly follow Communist party leadership’
China’s president dons camouflage fatigues for hour-long parade marking 90th anniversary of People’s Liberation Army
Chinese president, Xi Jinping, has presided over a spectacular display of military and political might, ordering members of his 2.3 million-strong armed forces to “unswervingly follow the absolute leadership of the Communist party of China”.
Xi donned camouflage fatigues for the hour-long Sunday morning parade, which marked the 90th anniversary of the creation of China’s People’s Liberation Army, on 1 August 1927.
The procession took place at a sand-swept, 1,000 sq kilometre camp that state media described as China’s answer to the United States’ Fort Irwin national training centre in the Mojave desert.
The UK must step up to its responsibilities in helping to tackle the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean
The Independent makes no apology for continuing to report the terrible drownings on Europe's southern coasts and our demand for more effective action to avoid themWe report today the damning words of Axel Grafmanns of the German charity Sea-Watch: “The EU is wilfully letting people drown in the Mediterranean by refusing to create a legal means of safe passage and failing to even provide adequate resources for maritime rescue.”
So far this year, 2,400 men, women and children have lost their lives in the central Mediterranean, including 13 people found deadat the bottom of an overcrowded dinghy this week.
This ought to be intolerable, and yet the governments of Europe tolerate it, because they appear to lack the political will to deal with it. Mr Grafmanns was speaking about a disagreement over new rules to be presented by the Italian government on Monday that charities say will restrict their capacity to rescue refugees during the peak crossing season.
'Little Russia'Pro-Russian Separatists Harden Split from Ukraine
After nationalizing businesses, pro-Russian separatists have proclaimed their own state in eastern Ukraine, calling it "Little Russia." Tens of thousands of residents in the region are now jobless.
By Christian Neef
The city of Yenakiieve, northeast of Donetsk, was founded more than a century ago around a steel mill. Some 10,000 people work at the steel mill, and the company that owns it operates the most modern rolling mill in Ukraine. But as of March, the mill became a thing of the past.
On the morning of March 1, armed men arrived at the plant, demanding that management submit to the regime of the "Donetsk People's Republic." If they refused, the men said, "legal and physical measures" would be taken against management and employees. What seemed like a farce at first would prove to be a major political move. In doing so, the pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Ukrainian People's Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk have divided the country even further.
Police kill Reynaldo Parojinog and wife in drug raid
Ozamiz city mayor was among list of officials publicly shamed last year by President Duterte of being linked to drugs.
Philippine police have killed a city mayor, his wife and 10 others during a series of pre-dawn anti-drug raids in the south, officials said.
Reynaldo Parojinog, mayor of Ozamiz city, is the latest official to be killed since President Rodrigo Duterte launched a drug war.
Officers were to serve warrants for the arrest of Parojinog, his daughter, and four other officials of Ozamiz city when they allegedly opened fire on Sunday.
The officers were "met with volleys of fire from [the mayor's] security, prompting the Philippine National Police personnel to retaliate," Chief Superintendent Timoteo Pacleb said in a statement.TRUMP INTEL CHIEF: NORTH KOREA LEARNED FROM LIBYA WAR TO “NEVER” GIVE UP NUKES
Jon Schwarz
THE MEDIA IS NOW filled with headlines about North Korea’s missile teston Friday, which demonstrated that its ICBMs may be able to reach the continental U.S. What isn’t mentioned in any of these stories is how we got to this point — in particular, what Dan Coats, President Donald Trump’s Director of National Intelligence, explained last week at the Aspen Security Forum.
North Korea’s 33-year-old dictator Kim Jong-un is not crazy, said Coats. In fact, he has “some rationale backing his actions” regarding the country’s nuclear weapons. That rationale is the way the U.S. has demonstrated that North Korea must keep them to ensure “survival for his regime, survival for his country.”
Kim, according to Coats, “has watched, I think, what has happened around the world relative to nations that possess nuclear capabilities and the leverage they have and seen that having the nuclear card in your pocket results in a lot of deterrence capability.” In particular, “The lessons that we learned out of Libya giving up its nukes … is, unfortunately: If you had nukes, never give them up. If you don’t have them, get them.”
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