Hurricane Maria to become major storm near Caribbean islands
Maria is expected to become a dangerous major hurricane as it nears the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean.
The category one hurricane will rapidly strengthen over the next 48 hours and will hit the islands late on Monday, the US National Hurricane Center says.
It is moving roughly along the same path as Irma, the hurricane that devastated the region this month.
Hurricane warnings have been issued for Guadeloupe, Dominica, St Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat and Martinique.
A hurricane watch is now in effect for the US and British Virgin Islands, St Martin, St Barts, Saba, St Eustatius and Anguilla.
Egypt guilty of kidnap, torture and abuse, says former detainee
Human rights lawyer Tarek Hussein tells of his experiences after being snatched and unlawfully incarcerated for five weeks
Egypt’s security apparatus is responsible for torturing prisoners and denying detainees basic legal rights, according to new testimony obtained by the Guardian.
Tarek “Tito” Hussein, a 24-year-old human rights lawyer recently kidnapped and unlawfully incarcerated by police for five weeks, has spoken about his experiences at the hands of the country’s interior ministry.
He accuses state officials of attempting to extract false confessions, denying prisoners access to legal counsel and practising violent interrogation methods including beatings and the use of electric shocks, all of which violate the Egyptian constitution and international law.
Stanislav Petrov dead: The Soviet officer who 'saved the world' by averting nuclear war dies aged 77
'I was literally just doing my job'
A Soviet officer who averted thermonuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union had died aged 77.
Soon after midnight on 26 September, 1983, duty officer Stanislav Petrov was in charge of an early warning radar system in a bunker near Moscow when computer readouts suggested several missiles had been launched from the US towards the USSR.
The protocol for the Soviet military would have been to launch a retaliatory nuclear attack, but Mr Petrov decided not to alert his superiors.
At least 10,000 Bangladesh hardliners rally for Rohingya
Bangladesh police braced Monday as more than 10,000 Islamist hardliners marched on the Myanmar embassy to protest against the violence driving the Rohingya Muslim minority out of the Buddhist-majority nation.
A huge crowd of demonstrators in white robes chanting "God is great" assembled outside Bangladesh's largest mosque ahead of the planned "siege" of the Myanmar embassy in the capital Dhaka.
Police ramped up security amid fears of violence after the hardline Hefazat-e-Islami group vowed to station hundreds of thousands of followers outside the diplomatic mission.
"So far, more than 10,000 people have joined the protest," local police chief Mahmudul Haq told AFP, adding extra officers had been deployed across the city.
THE REFUGEES HAVE JUST been pulled from the waters of the central Mediterranean when Italian coast guard investigators pick out a handful of them for questioning. As the rescue ship steams towards Sicily, the chosen refugees are taken aside and interviewed, returning after about an hour now labeled with a plastic wristband. Some say “witness,” others, “suspect.” Usually, two of them say “smuggler.”
When the refugees disembark at port in Sicily, those with wristbands are handed off to Italian police, who will interview them again and arrest the suspected smugglers, in an effort to break up the criminal networks that have brought over 85,000 people to Italy this year. Regardless of whether rescued by the coast guard or ships run by NGOs, every boatload of refugees that arrives in Sicily goes through a similar process.
PM Abe looking to his own convenience with snap election move
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's move to call a snap general election for October appears grounded solely in promoting the interests of his ruling coalition, still reeling favoritism scandals and with Cabinet approval ratings just starting to recover.
(to be convened on Sept. 28), there's nothing good for us," one government insider grouched in late August.
Opposition parties are eager to rake the Abe government over the coals for his cronyism scandals involving two school operators -- Osaka-based Moritomo Gakuen and Okayama-based Kake Educational Institution, the latter headed by a longtime confidant. The scandals had triggered a plunge in public support for the Abe Cabinet by the close of the regular Diet session in June, and the prime minister still appears far from vindicating himself.
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