March for our Lives - latest updates: Florida shooting survivors to lead Washington protest as thousands natonwide call for gun control
Hundreds of events are happening across AmericaAlexandra Wilts, Clark Mindock, Mythili Sampathkumar, Chris Stevenson Washington DC and New York
Thirty-eight days after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, hundreds of thousands of students across the country will take to the streets later on Saturday in an anti-gun violence protest of unprecedented size for the issue.
The marches – which consist of a main event in Washington DC alongside sister protests in New York, Los Angeles and hundreds of communities across the country – is the culmination of weeks of planning by student survivors of the Parkland, Florida shooting in which 17 people were killed on Valentine's Day
The mass protests have been organised by a group of survivors who have forced the nation into a debate about gun control, even as the tragic cycle of gun violence has continued to repeat itself in communities across the country.
'He has fallen a hero': French siege gendarme who replaced hostage dies
Lt-Col Arnaud Beltrame was shot in throat after exchanging himself for one of the people held in supermarket by gunman Redouane Lakdim
The French gendarme who was shot after he swapped places with a hostage being held by a terrorist gunman has died.
The interior minister, Gérard Collomb, announced the death of Lt ColArnaud Beltrame shortly before 6am (French time) on Saturday.
“We will never forget his heroism, his bravery, his sacrifice. With a heavy heart, I send the support of the entire country to his family, friends and colleagues of the bendarmerie of the Aude,” Collomb tweeted.
North Korea agrees to talks with South ahead of leaders' summit
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in plan to meet at a summit in April. It would be only the third meeting between leaders from both Koreas since the end of the Korean War in 1953.
Officials from North and South Korea will meet on March 29 to lay the groundwork for an April summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, Seoul said on Saturday.
The Unification Ministry in Seoul said Minister Cho Myoung-gyon will lead the South's three-member delegation to the meeting in the village of Panmunjom on the North-South border.
UAE-backed forces accused of arbitrary arrests, torture in Yemen
Fighters backed by UAE accused of kidnapping young men, videos and documents sent to Al Jazeera show.
A Yemeni militia backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been accused of kidnapping several young "northerners" in the southern port city of Aden, with relatives alleging they have been wrongly detained, tortured and denied access to a fair trial.
In a series of videos and documents sent to Al Jazeera, the relatives said they had not heard from or seen their loved ones after they were picked up by the UAE-created Security Belt - a force set up in 2016 to police southern areas in the war-ravaged country.
The sister of Ahmed Abdullah Salam al-Meshwali, who was 19 when he went missing, said all she knew was that her brother was being held at Bir Ahmed, a military camp controlled by the Security Belt in Aden.
Here’s John Bolton Promising Regime Change in Iran by the End of 2018
AMONG THOSE MOST alarmed by President Donald Trump’s selection of John Bolton as his new national security adviser on Thursday were supporters of the Iran nuclear deal, the 2015 international agreement that curbed Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for a partial lifting of economic sanctions.
Rob Malley, who coordinated Middle East policy in the Obama administration, observed that Bolton’s appointment, along with the nomination of Iran deal critic Mike Pompeo as secretary of state, seemed to signal that the agreement would most likely be “dead and buried” within months. Trita Parsi, leader of the National Iranian American Council wrote on Twitter: “People, let this be very clear: The appointment of Bolton is essentially a declaration of war with Iran. With Pompeo and Bolton, Trump is assembling a WAR CABINET.”
U.N. reports forecast a lonelier planet with fewer plants and animals
Earth is losing plants, animals and clean water at a dramatic rate, according to four new United Nations scientific reports that provide the most comprehensive and localized look at the state of biodiversity.
Scientists meeting in Colombia issued four regional reports Friday on how well animal and plants are doing in the Americas, Europe and Central Asia, Africa and the Asia-Pacific area.
Their conclusion after three years of study: Nowhere is doing well.
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem was about more than just critters, said study team chairman Robert Watson. It is about keeping Earth livable for humans, because we rely on biodiversity for food, clean water and public health, the prominent British and U.S. scientist said.
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