Eight rescued after U.S. Navy aircraft carrying 11 crashes into sea 150 km off Okinawa
BY JESSE JOHNSON
STAFF WRITER
In the latest incident involving the American military in Okinawa, a U.S. Navy C-2 transport aircraft carrying 11 crew members and passengers crashed into the ocean 150 km northwest of Okinotorishima on Wednesday.
Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera told reporters that “eight of the 10 to 11” aboard the aircraft “had been rescued” and that the U.S. military had said the cause of the crash appeared to be engine trouble. Kyodo News, meanwhile, quoted Onodera as saying that “at least two” of those aboard were still missing.
The names of the crew and passengers were being withheld pending next of kin notification, the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet said in a statement.
Delhi police set up all-female motorbike squad to tackle crime against women
Five years after shocking gang rape, rapid response unit aims to combat assault and harassment in India’s crowded capital
Delhi’s police force has created an all-female motorcycle squad in an attempt to tackle rising crime against women, particularly in the city’s narrow alleyways.
The patrol, called Raftaar (Speed), will deploy specially trained female officers on 600 motorbikes from December. They will carry regular firearms, body cameras, pepper spray and stun guns and work in pairs patrolling crowded, cramped areas of the city.
It is hoped that their presence will deter offenders and reassure women, who led protests against sexual assault five years ago after a brutal gang rape in Delhi. Research released earlier this month found that women who report such crimes are still routinely harassed by police or bullied into silence.
The powerful artwork by Guantanamo prisoners America doesn't want the world to see
Exclusive: The US military has been accused of censorship
The US military has been accused of censoring art created by prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay – some of it showing torture and abuse carried out by the CIA and military personnel as part of the so-called “war on terror”.
Many of the 41 prisoners still being held at the prison camp located at the US naval base in Cuba, turn to art for relaxation and to pass the day. In recent months, officials at the jail had reportedly made it easier for prisoners to participate in drawing, painting and model-making.
While prison officials always censored art deemed too sensitive – for example, drawings related to torture or hunger strikes – many pieces made it to the outside world via the prisoners’ lawyers.
North Korea defection: Video shows soldier make daring border escape
The UN Command has released a video showing the dramatic scenes at the border as a North Korean soldier defected. As they tried to stop him, the soldier's colleagues may have violated the terms of the Korean War truce.
The North Korean army violated the terms of the 1953 UN Armistice Agreement when it tried to stop one of its soldiers defecting to the South, the United Nations Command said Wednesday.
Soldiers fired about 40 rounds across the military demarcation line that divides the two Koreas, with one soldier even crossing the line, Colonel Chad G. Carroll, a spokesman for the UN Command, told reporters.
The UNC has "requested a meeting (with North Korea) to discuss our investigation and measures to prevent future such violations," Carroll said.
Bosnia war victims on why Mladic's verdict means little
Ratko Mladic, known as the "Butcher of Bosnia", is accused of heading one of the worst massacres in recent history.
Between 100,000 and 200,000 people were killed in the Bosnian War between 1992 and 1995, and as many as 50,000 women were raped.
On Wednesday, a UN judge will hand down Mladic's verdict for genocide and crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), in the Netherlands.
Bashar al-Assad is taking a sickening victory lap through Russia
Putin helped keep Assad in power. The Syrian dictator went to Russia to say thanks.
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Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has spent the past six years fighting a brutal civil war that has killed at least 465,000 of his own people, leveled major Syrian cities like Aleppo, displaced millions of desperate civilians, and helped trigger the worst refugee crisis since World War II.
Now he’s in Russia for a victory lap of sorts that highlights a grim reality: Assad, with extensive help from Russia and Iran, is nearing a nearly complete defeat of the rebels who once seemed poised to oust him. Put in even blunter terms: he’s won.
The Syrian leader traveled to the Black Sea resort city of Sochi to publicly thank Russian President Vladimir Putin, his closest ally, and to jointly celebrate that the war seems to be winding down with Assad still in control.
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