China's Xi reveals new leadership team but no obvious successor
Updated 0919 GMT (1719 HKT) October 25, 2017
China's President Xi Jinping is here to stay.
The new lineup for the Chinese Communist Party's all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC) was unveiled Wednesday, without an heir apparent to Xi, who analysts predict will continue to dominate the country's politics for decades to come.
Of the five new faces in the seven-member committee, the youngest will be 65 in 2022 -- when Xi finishes his second term as leader -- just three years off the informal retirement age for top officials.
Rohingya girls under 10 raped while fleeing Myanmar, charity says
Médecins Sans Frontières says more than half the girls it has treated after sexual assaults are under 18
Rohingya children, some of them under 10 years old, are receiving treatment for rape in camps on the Bangladesh border, according to medics who say that young refugees account for half of those sexually assaulted while fleeing violence in Myanmar.
Médecins Sans Frontières says dozens of Rohingya girls have been given medical and psychological support at its Kutupalong health facility’s sexual and reproductive health unit – a specialist clinic for survivors of sexual assault based in the largest refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar.
Of those fleeing Rakhine state who come to the clinic for treatment relating to rape, “about 50% are aged 18 or under, including one girl who was nine years old and several others under the age of 10”, an MSF spokesperson said.UK-supported Libyan forces 'taking bribes to free detained migrants' after pushing boats back to shore
Exclusive: Migrants crossing Mediterranean Sea on second attempt after being pushed back and then released for payment
The UK-backed Libyan coastguard is running a racket in the Mediterranean Sea by turning its legitimate power to stop migrant crossings into a cash cow, according to victims’ accounts.
Guards allegedly stop smuggler vessels offshore and detain those onboard, before taking bribes to later release them. Migrants say they are then able to attempt another crossing to Europe.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has collected numerous testimonies from migrants intercepted at sea who subsequently bribed their way out of Libyan detention centres. HRW says the accounts are tantamount to evidence EU funding could be exacerbating the refugee crisis it aims to fix.
Human rights activists, Amnesty heads go on trial in Turkey
German campaigner Peter Steudtner is among the 11 human rights activists on trial in Turkey, accused of belonging to and aiding terror groups. Critics say the charges are politically motivated.
The trial of the 11 activists was set to begin on Wednesday, with the defendants facing up to 15 years in jail on terrorism related charges.
Those on trial include the local heads of rights group Amnesty International, Idil Eser and Taner Kilic, as well as German national Peter Steudtner and Ali Gharavi from Sweden.
The charges against them have been criticized by the United States and European Union, with Germany calling the allegations politically motivated and "absurd."
Ten of the defendants were detained at a human rights workshop on July 5 on the island of Buyukada, near Istanbul. Amnesty Chair Kilic was arrested weeks earlier and his case later folded into the Buyukada case.
Marawi uprising funded by $1.9 million from Islamic State
The Philippine military has discovered Islamic State sent more than $US1.5 million ($1.9 million) to finance the siege of the southern Philippine town of Marawi which experts say was a propaganda windfall for the Middle East-based terror group.
Early in the 154-day blockade there were reports bundles of money had been found in buildings around town, but Philippine military chief Eduardo Ano on Tuesday did not elaborate.
In an interview he said as well as receiving money from IS, the Marawi militant local leaders used the 2014 seizure of the Iraqi city of Mosul as a blueprint for takeover.
"Every day they watched videos of IS in Mosul," said General Ano of the siege leaders, including Isnilon Hapilon, one of the US's most-wanted terrorists who was killed last week.
Palestinian minors arrested by Israel 'suffer abuse'
Mohammed, 14, was with his friends riding horses in a park in Jerusalem's Old City when the Yassam, a special patrol unit of the Israeli police, arrived at the scene.
Sound grenades were fired at the teenagers. One landed near Mohammed's feet. He picked up a rock and threw it in the direction of the notorious riot police, whose excessive force against Palestinians has been well-documented.
Unbeknownst to Mohammed, Yassam had been surveilling him and had also taken photos. Later, on his way back home, the boy was arrested by Israeli security forces on Saladin Street. He was handcuffed, taken to an interrogation centre, and was questioned without the presence of a lawyer or his parents.
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