'I watched my son drown': Rohingya boat survivor
Survivors of boat tragedy that left more than 60 dead recount the horrors of losing their loved ones.
by
Zaheena Rasheed
Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh - The Rohingya refugee boat was metres away from safety in Bangladesh when a huge wave upended it, throwing Nur Fatima and her nine-month-old son into the choppy surf.
She grabbed the edge of the boat with one hand and held her son with the other.
"We went under four times and I saw the bubbles coming out of his mouth as he died," she told Al Jazeera on Saturday, her face impassive as she recounted the September 28 disaster that reportedly killed more than 60 refugees.
Most of those feared dead were women and children.
Kim Jong-nam poisoning trial: accused women plead not guilty
Siti Aisyah and Doan Thi Huong are accused of smearing face of North Korean leader’s estranged half-brother with VX nerve agent
Two women accused of killing the estranged half-brother of North Korea’s leader with a banned nerve agent have pleaded not guilty at the start of their trial in Malaysia’s high court, nearly eight months after the assassination.
Indonesian Siti Aisyah, 25, and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, 28, are suspected of rubbing VX agent in Kim Jong-nam’s face and eyes on 13 February at an airport terminal in Kuala Lumpur, killing him within about 20 minutes. The women allege they were duped into believing they were playing a harmless prank for a hidden-camera show.
South Korea’s spy agency said the brazen killing was part of a five-year plot by North Korea’s ruler, Kim Jong-un, to assassinate a brother he may have never met.
Why doesn't Donald Trump care about Puerto Ricans? Because they can't vote for him
If one thing has become painfully clear over the past eight months, from his inaugural speech to his comments following Charlottesville, Trump intends to be President only for those who voted for him
President Donald Trump’s response to Hurricane Maria, which ravaged Puerto Rico last month and has left most of the island without electricity or drinking water, has been slow and disinterested – at best.
As the island suffered and begged for help (literally: Carmen Yulín Cruz, the Mayor of San Juan, went on national TV to beg for assistance while wearing a shirt that read: “Help us, we are dying”), Trump picked a fight with the NFL over the national anthem and held a campaign rally in Alabama.
To understand why Trump, and the rest of America, seem uninterested (at best) in the welfare of the island, one must first understand Puerto Rico’s unique political status and the President’s raging prejudice.
Erdogan: Turkey no longer needs EU membership but will not abandon talks
In his first speech to parliament after the summer break, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan targeted the European Union. It had failed to help Turkey in the fight against terrorism, he said.
Speaking to parliament on Sunday, President Tayyip Erdogan had some strong words for the European Union and Turkey's 12-year accession talks, which have ground to a halt.
"We will not be the side which gives up. To tell the truth, we don't need EU membership any more," Erdogan said.
Relations between the EU and Turkey have deteriorated in the year since the failed coup of July 2016 and the subsequent government crackdown on opponents and the media.
Over the year since the coup attempt, some 50,000 people, including teachers and journalists, have been remanded in custody, and 170,000 suspects investigated for alleged links to US-based cleric Fetullah Gulen. Erdogan's government accuses Gulen of having masterminded the coup.
CAMIÓN DE LA MUERTE
They Helped Prosecutors After Escaping Death in a Smuggler’s Truck. Now They’re Being Deported.
Ryan Devereaux
IT WAS A typical Saturday night at the Border Patrol checkpoint outside Laredo, Texas: cars and commercial trucks lined up and waiting to pass the last line of agents and cameras on the northbound highway. Every day there are thousands of them, an endless river of people and things moving between the U.S. and Mexico. Among the vehicles that night was a blue and white Peterbilt semi-truck with a glistening, stainless steel bumper. James Matthew Bradley, the 60-year-old long-haul driver behind the wheel, purchased the vehicle just a few months earlier, paying $50,000 with plans of financing the remaining $40,000. It was Bradley’s first job since his leg was amputated in May, making the July 22 trip a sort of maiden voyage in the new rig. Bradley didn’t have a license to operate the vehicle, but that didn’t stop him from accepting a contract with his former employer, the Iowa-based company Pyle Transportation, for work in Texas. With the slogan “Keepin’ it Cool Since 1950,” Pyle advertised itself as a pro in long-distance, refrigerated meat and produce delivery.
Koike party in striking distance of LDP: survey
KYODO
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party has a 9 percentage point lead over the upstart Kibo no To (Party of Hope) led by Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, a Kyodo News survey showed Sunday, three weeks ahead of the Oct. 22 general election.
In the two-day telephone survey conducted from Saturday, 24.1 percent of respondents said they would back the LDP while 14.8 percent said they planned to vote for Kibo no To in the proportional representation section of the Lower House poll.
The fledgling party reached a deal last week with the Democratic Party to have some of its members run on the Kibo no To ticket in a bid to unify voters in a showdown with the ruling bloc.
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