Mount Agung: Bali volcano alert raised to highest level
Around 100,000 people near Bali's Mount Agung have been ordered to evacuate as officials fear a major eruption.
Indonesian authorities have raised the state of alert to its highest level, and expanded the exclusion zone around the rumbling volcano.
The island's airport has now closed, leaving thousands stranded in the tourist hotspot.
Authorities say dark smoke and ash have been billowing up to 3,400m (11,150ft) above the mountain's summit.
Officials have warned residents to stay away from rock and debris flows known as lahars, which have been spotted flowing down from the mountain.
North Korea fortifies part of border where defector escaped
Soldiers dig a deep trench and erect gates on a bridge used by the defector in his daring escape from the regime
North Korea has fortified its border with the South at what appears to be the location where one of its soldiers made a dramatic bid for freedom earlier this month.
A photograph posted on Twitter by the acting US ambassador to South Korea, Marc Knapper, showed a small group of civilian workers, watched by North Korean soldiers, digging a deep trench at the point the defector abandoned his vehicle and ran across the demarcation line separating the two countries on 13 November.
Security camera footage released by the UN command last week shows the soldier, who is known only by his surname Oh, get out of the vehicle after getting it stuck in a shallow ditch.
How Grace Mugabe seized farmers' land for opulent 'Graceland' mansion while they slept hungry under trees
'Gucci Grace' exploited her position as Zimbabwe's First Lady
Mazowe was a very attractive place to work and live and that was the reason Grace Mugabe was determined to get her hands on it.
Robert Mugabe’s wife normally got what she wanted: here, a lush and picturesque vista, rolling hills, rich and fertile soil watered by a deep dam, the greenery pitted with seams of gold being mined, all within striking distance of the markets of the capital Harare.
Zimbabwe’s First Lady focused on turning this piece of Mashonaland into her very own domain. Pope faces tightrope act in Myanmar amid Rohingya crisis
Pope Francis has arrived in Myanmar as the country grapples with the Rohingya crisis. While some stress the pontiff should refrain from using the contentious term "Rohingya," others disagree vehemently.
Pope Francis' trip to Myanmar and Bangladesh on Monday comes as the region confronts turbulent times, not least because of the festering Rohingya crisis. The violence and consequent displacement facing Rohingya Muslims based in Myanmar's western state of Rakhine have come under close scrutiny worldwide.
In August this year, violence flared up once again after the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) raided several police posts and killed 12 people, according to government figures. The ARSA claims it is acting to secure the rights of the Rohingya.
India: Amnesty for first-time stone-throwers in Kashmir
by Rifat Fareed
The Indian government has offered amnesty to first-time stone-throwers in Indian-administered Kashmir, a move legal experts dismissed as meaningless, as most of the accused were "framed" in multiple cases.
Lawyers of the pro-independence protesters in Kashmir say it will provide little relief to those who are facing jail for mostly minor offences committed in a period that started after the first wave of unrest spread in 2008.
"This announcement of amnesty is a drama," Shafaqat Hussain, a lawyer who has been fighting human rights cases in Kashmir for two decades, told Al Jazeera.
How Delhi became the most polluted city on Earth
Breathing in the Indian capital this month was like smoking 50 cigarettes a day.
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Delhi has earned the unenviable distinction of becoming the most polluted city on Earth this month, as air quality has reached epically bad proportions.
On November 8, pollution surged so high that some monitoring stations reported an Air Quality Index of 999, way above the upper limit of the worst category, Hazardous. (An extra-sensitive air quality instrument at the US embassy got a reading of 1,010, as you can see in the chart below.)
United Airlines canceled its flights to India’s capital because of poor air quality. Visibility was so bad that cars crashed in pileups on highways and trains had to be delayed and canceled.
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