Shackled siblings found in Perris, California home
Two parents have been arrested in California after police found they allegedly kept their 13 children captive at home, some "shackled to their beds with chains and padlocks".
David Allen Turpin, 57, and Louise Anna Turpin, 49, were held on charges of torture and child endangerment.
The couple's children - aged two to 29 - lived in Perris, 59 miles (95km) south-east of Los Angeles.
Officers were alerted by one of the victims, a 17-year-old girl.
The girl - who appeared to be "only 10 years old and slightly emaciated" - on Sunday managed to escape and call the emergency number using a mobile phone found inside the house, the Riverside Sheriff's Department said in a statement.
Philippines revokes licence of leading news website Rappler
Ruling denounced by critics as an ‘alarming attempt to silence independent journalism’ and latest blow to free press in country
The Philippine government has revoked the operating licence of leading news website Rappler, officials said on Monday in a ruling denounced by President Rodrigo Duterte’s critics as the latest blow to press freedom.
Rappler, set up in 2012, is among a clutch of Philippine news organisations that have sparred with Duterte over their critical coverage of his brutal drugs war.
But the government rejected allegations that the ruling was an attack on press freedom, with Duterte’s spokesman saying Rappler and Rappler Holdings Corp had violated a provision in the country’s constitution restricting media ownership to Filipinos.
Pope Francis visits Chile as protesters raise spectre of church sex abuse scandal and accuse Vatican of cover-up
Demonstrators angered over pontiff's endorsement of Bishop Juan Barros, accused of shielding mentor Father Fernando Karadima after latter found guilty of molesting boys
Pope Francis has arrived in Chile on a visit intended to soothe relations as protesters remain angered by the legacy of a local child sex abuse scandal and the Vatican's alleged complicity in shielding its perpetrator.
Catholic demonstrators are still aggrieved over the pontiff's 2015 appointment of Bishop Juan Barros to head the small diocese of Osorno in the country's south.
Barros is accused of protecting his former mentor, Father Fernando Karadima, after a 2011 Vatican investigation found the latter guilty of abusing teenage boys over many years.
Denmark: Over 1,000 youths charged for sharing underage sex video
Danish police have charged hundreds of children and young men for sharing a video of two 15-year-olds having sex. Although 15 is the age of consent, the charges may constitute distribution of child pornography.
Police in the Danish region of North Zealand said on Monday they would charge 1,004 children and young people for distributing an underage sex video over Facebook's Messenger chat platform.
According to police, only a handful had distributed it several hundred times, whereas most of those charged had only shared it a few times. Most of the sharing took place last fall.
The investigation, codenamed Umbrella, involved several police departments from different Danish districts. Over 300 of those charged were from the Danish capital of Copenhagen and its western suburbs. Slightly fewer than 300 cases were recorded in the North Zealand district. One person was even charged in Greenland.
Bangladesh agrees with Myanmar to complete Rohingya return within two years
Bangladesh has agreed to complete the process of returning Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar within two years after repatriation begins, the south Asian nation said on Tuesday, following a meeting of the neighbours to implement a pact signed last year.
A statement by the Bangladesh foreign ministry did not say when the process would begin. But it said the return effort envisages “considering the family as a unit,” with Myanmar to provide temporary shelter for those returning before rebuilding houses for them.
The statement said Bangladesh would set up five transit camps which would send Rohingyas to two reception centres on the Myanmar side of the border.
“Myanmar has reiterated its commitment to stop outflow of Myanmar residents to Bangladesh,” it said.
Russia's hidden world of North Korean labor
Updated 0814 GMT (1614 HKT) January 16, 2018
In pre-fabricated buildings, down a muddy track on the outskirts of St. Petersburg lies a world of hidden North Korean labor in Russia.
On a construction site near their shabby living quarters, a group of laborers building apartment blocks told CNN they are from North Korea. Working in conditions the US State Department calls "slave-like" labor, they are among an estimated 50,000 workers in Russia from the isolated state.
US diplomats say up to 80% of their earnings are sent back to Pyongyang to help prop up the regime of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
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