37 killed in fire at Miryang hospital
By Oh Young-jin, Park Si-soo
Thirty-seven people died in a fire at Sejong Hospital in Miryang, South Gyeongsang Province, Friday morning.
Most of the victims were believed to have been aged patients receiving long-term intensive care who couldn't move without help. Among the victims were a doctor and two nurses, fire officials said.
The death toll could rise as 18 people injured were in critical condition, they said. Victims were believed to have inhaled toxic smoke. At least 113 people suffered minor injuries.
"As of 3:30 p.m. , 37 were confirmed dead, 18 in critical condition and 113 with minor injuries," Choi Man-woo, chief of Miryang city's fire department, said. "The death toll could rise because some of the injured are in very critical condition."
The death toll was earlier said to be 41 but was corrected to 37.
‘He was just a kid’: the boy who became a symbol of Spain's migration crisis
Four-year-old Samuel Kabamba died a year ago trying to reach Europe with his mother
Among the immaculately tended, flower-bedecked graves of Barbate cemetery, one tomb stands out. Its occupant was not from the Andalusian town – he was not even Spanish – and his gravestone is decorated not with an image of Christ or the Virgin Mary but a picture of waves breaking on a sandy beach and a photograph of a little boy wrapped up in a scarf and coat.
“God has given and God has taken away,” reads the epitaph in French. “Blessed be God.”
Here, surrounded by the dead of a country he never knew, lies Samuel Kabamba, a four-year-old from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who died trying to reach Europe with his mother, Véronique Nzazi.
German city of Cottbus grapples with violence between locals and refugees
Knife attacks and violent assaults between refugees and locals have become a common occurrence in the eastern German city of Cottbus, where anti-migrant sentiment is reaching a boiling point. DW's Kate Brady reports.
It's market day in Cottbus, some 120 kilometers (75 miles) southeast of Berlin, and alongside the chalkboards advertising Thursday's fruit and vegetables stands a regional newspaper sandwich board reading "Yet more clashes in Cottbus."
In the new year, violent crime in Cottbus between locals and refugees has become a familiar occurrence, with perpetrators on both sides of the conflict.
'I don't feel safe here'
Last week, a German teen was left with facial injuries after reportedly being attacked by a Syrian teenager in a fight. In a separate incident on Saturday, an 18-year-old woman who allegedly shouted "Foreigners out!" was taken into police custody after an altercation with a Syrian man at a party - before attacking the officer who arrived at the scene.
'What would your future Brazil look like?': the TV campaign that backfired
Ahead of the 2018 presidential elections in Brazil, the private television channel Globo invited viewers to send short videos showing their vision of Brazil for the future. Unfortunately for the campaign’s organisers, quite a few people took to social media to post videos of what they don't want their country to look like.
Next October, Brazilians will go to the polls to elect their next president. To start off this election year, Brazil’s main television channel, TV Globo, asked citizens to make 15-second videos expressing their vision for the future of the country.
In a televised ad for the campaign, smiling Globo journalists invite viewers to become “spokespeople” for their towns and neighbourhoods. They ask viewers to film themselves standing in front of a symbolic monument or building in their town and to send the video to the channel.
Slavery in Libya: Life inside a container
by Fatma Naib
In recent months, it has been revealed that African migrants and refugees have been sold in open markets as slaves in Libya, and are held against their will in inhumane conditions in exchange for ransom money.
The revelations sent shock waves globally and sparked protests outside Libyan embassies across Africa and Europe.
Libya is a major transit destination for migrants and refugees hoping to reach Europe by sea.
Human trafficking networks have prospered amid lawlessness, created by the warring militias that have been fighting for control of territories since the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
Trump moved to fire Mueller in June, bringing White House counsel to the brink of leavingBy Rosalind S. Helderman and Josh Dawsey
President Trump sought the firing of Robert S. Mueller III last June, shortly after the special counsel took over the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, and he backed off only after White House Counsel Donald F. McGahn threatened to resign over the move.
The extraordinary showdown was confirmed by two people familiar with the episode, which was first reported by the New York Times.
McGahn did not deliver his resignation threat directly to Trump, but was serious about his threat to leave, according to a person familiar with the episode.
The president’s effort came in the weeks after Mueller’s appointment last May to lead the probe into whether Trump’s campaign coordinated with Russian attempts to tilt the election. Mueller was tapped for the role by Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein after Trump fired FBI Director James B. Comey.
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