Niger attack: US convoy separated during ambush, soldier says
Updated 0647 GMT (1447 HKT) October 27, 2017
The vehicles carrying the 12-member Green Beret-led team that was ambushed in Niger by ISIS militants earlier this month became separated during the firefight, US officials and a Nigerien soldier present told CNN Thursday.
The team was traveling with 30 Nigerien soldiers when they were attacked by approximately 50 ISIS affiliated fighters armed with rocket propelled grenades, mortars, and heavy machine guns, according to US military officials.
During the subsequent gun battle, which lasted for hours, four US soldiers were killed and two were wounded. Five Nigerien soldiers were also killed.
Bookseller Gui Minhai 'half free' after being detained in China for two years
Hong Kong-based publisher who specialised in books about China’s political elite vanished from Thailand in 2015
A Swedish bookseller who spent more than two years in custody after his suspected abduction by Chinese agents is now “half free”, a friend has claimed, amid suspicions he is still being held under guard by security officials in eastern China.
Gui Minhai, a Hong Kong-based publisher who specialised in books about China’s political elite, mysteriously vanished from his Thai holiday home in October 2015. He later reappeared in mainland China where he was imprisoned on charges relating to a deadly drunk-driving incident more than a decade earlier.
Gui’s disappearance – and that of four other booksellers, including one British citizen – was seen as part of a wider crackdown on Communist party opponents that has gripped China since Xi Jinping took power in 2012.
Climate change might be worse than thought after scientists find major mistake in water temperature readings
The sea was much colder than previously thought, the study suggests, indicating that climate change is advancing at an unprecedented rate
Global warming might be far worse than we thought, according to a new study.
The research challenges the ways that researchers have worked out sea temperatures until now, meaning that they may be increasing quicker than previously suggested.
The methodology widely used to understand sea temperatures in the scientific community may be based on a mistake, the new study suggests, and so our understanding of climate change might be fundamentally flawed.
Russian 'Novaya Gazeta' newspaper set to arm reporters after stabbing
Reporters working for Russian anti-regime newspaper Novaya Gazeta will be provided with less than lethal weapons, said editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov, after a man stabbed radio host Tatyana Felgenhauer in the neck.
Newspaper Novaya Gazeta will pay for the weapons and provide training to its journalists, editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov said on the independent radio Ekho Moskvy on Thursday. Both Ekho Moskvy and Muratov's Novaya Gazeta are among the top anti-regime media outlets in Russia.
"I will arm the newsroom," Muratov said on air. "We will also supply journalists with other security means that I don't want to talk about."
Muratov specifically referred to buying "traumatic weapons" which in Russian most commonly refers to gas-powered pistols firing rubber bullets.
In Indonesia, dogs face off wild boars in bloody, lucrative fights
Organising bloody fights between trained dogs and wild boars is a pastime for some farmers living in the Indonesian province of West Java. Activists like our Observer are fighting to stop this cruel practice.
In a video posted on Facebook on October 8 by the Indonesian animal rights organisation Scorpion Wildlife Trade Monitoring Group, a pitbull is released into a ring to fight a wild boar. The two animals throw themselves at one another and fight savagely until they are separated by a group of men wielding sticks. One of them grabs the dog’s tail to pull him away from the boar.
A second video posted by the organisation shows a man holding a dog on a leash and letting it threaten a wounded boar, whose injured hoof makes it difficult for him to walk.
'Racist' farmers sentenced to prison over coffin case
by Azad Essa
Middelburg, South Africa - A court in South Africa has sentenced two white farmers found guilty of kidnapping, assault and intent to do grievous bodily harm to more than 10 years in prison after they shoved a black man in a coffin and threatened to set him on fire.
Willem Oosthuizen and Theo Jackson were sentenced to 11 and 14 years in jail, respectively.
Sentencing proceedings, which had been postponed since Monday, were heard at the Middelburg Magistrate's Court on Friday.
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