Venezuela searches for rebels after deadly clash at army base
A search is under way in Venezuela for 10 men who escaped with weapons after an attack on a military base, President Nicolás Maduro says.
The assault in the north-western city of Valencia was carried out by 20 people, he said. Two were killed, one was injured and seven were arrested.
Earlier, a video posted on social media showed uniformed men saying they were rising against a "murderous tyranny".
Despite the incident, the situation appears to be calm in the country.
On state television, Mr Maduro congratulated the army for its "immediate reaction" in putting down the attack in the early hours of Sunday, saying they had earned his "admiration."
He called the incident a "terrorist attack" carried out by "mercenaries", and said the security forces were actively searching for those who had escaped. "We'll get them," he vowed.
Life after the bomb: exploring the psychogeography of Hiroshima
On the anniversary of Hiroshima’s nuclear destruction, a walk through the city’s memorial park reveals a complex mix of devastation and rehabilitationBecky Alexis-Martin
Hiroshima is flourishing. It has a population surpassing 1.19 million, a burgeoning gourmet scene, towering luxury shopping centres, and a trendy night life. It is a city of vibrant green boulevards and open spaces, entangled by the braided tributaries of the Ōta River. However it is also a city of memorialisation. Over 75 monuments, large and small, sprout like delicate mushrooms in parks and on sidewalks, scattered across the city as if by the wind. Whilst the city grows and evolves, the memory remains of Hiroshima as first place on Earth where nuclear weapons were used in warfare, on 6 August 1945.
The number of fatalities is not known, due wartime population transience and the destruction of records in the blast. Estimates are in the region of 135,000 people, roughly equivalent to the population of Oxford. It is therefore unsurprising that many locals have Hibakusha veterans in their families. The Hibakushacommunity maintain a living collective memory of the bomb, sharing their atomic folktales similarly to the Kataribe storytellers, as a cautionary modern mythology against nuclear war.
South Korean prosecutors seek 12 year prison term for Samsung chief
Prosecutors in South Korea have recommended a 12 year jail sentence for a billionaire Samsung heir over his role in a national corruption scandal. He is accused of embezzlement and bribing ex-President Park Guen-hye.
At the final hearing in the trial of Samsung Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong on Monday, prosecutors recommended a 12-year jail term for his alleged role in a scandal that brought down the country's last president.
Prosecutors called him the "ultimate beneficiary" of crimes that were committed in the scandal.
The 49-year-old Samsung heir has been in detention since February and was indicted on charges that include bribery and embezzlement.
Along with four other executives, he is accused of offering $38 million (32.2 million euros) in bribes to a close friend of then-President Park Guen-hye.
The bribes were part of a move to win presidential favors and to secure government help in a merger that bolstered Lee's control over Samsung.
Tunisia holds the world’s first race with boats made out of recycled materials
A group of about thirty young Tunisians from the northeastern city of Maâmoura built six boats, as well as other innovative objects, from plastic bottles that had been discarded in their seaside resort town. They have been racing their boats in an event meant to raise awareness of the environment.
Several organisations, including the Association for the Protection of the Maâmoura Coastline, joined forces to lead a series of workshops for young people from the Nabeul governorate. Under the tutelage of an instructor from Poland, the students learned to turn one man’s trash into another man’s treasure during a workshop held between July 6 and July 16, 2017. The original “Bottle Race” project began in Poland.
"With 3,000 bottles, we built six boats"
Here, heroin spares no one, not even the sheriff's wife
Updated 0736 GMT (1536 HKT) August 7, 2017
Robert Leahy was sitting on his couch, watching TV, when his wife, Gretchen, walked through the front door.
It was about 10 p.m. She'd left for the grocery store hours earlier. Now, she "bumbled" about the room, Leahy says, incoherent and vacant. He'd seen her like this before.
"What the f**k are you doing?" he asked. "You're high."
After the initial shock wore off, Leahy was angry and embarrassed. He worried about his reputation and what his colleagues at the Clermont County Sheriff's Office would think. He'd been a law enforcement officer for more than a decade, and now he was married to a heroin addict.
Kenyan elections: The ethnicity factor
Voters from Kenya's various tribes say they will vote for candidate of their own ethnic group because they 'trust' him.
A convoy of pick-up trucks wrapped in shiny touched-up photos of candidates and mounted with huge speakers drive slowly in front of Anne Wanjiru Kamau's food stall in Nairobi's Pangani area, blasting campaign speeches by politicians from Kenya's opposition coalition. On August 8, Kamau and millions of Kenyan voters will cast their ballots in the country's general election, but today, Kamau is not paying much attention to the campaign slogans passing by, nor are her customers.
"I will vote for Kenyatta. He is our son. They are wasting their time," Kamau tells Al Jazeera as she weighs a kilo of red beans for a customer.
Kamau, like President Uhuru Kenyatta, comes from the Kikuyu tribe - the country's biggest ethnic group.
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