Russia Kemerovo fire: Putin cites 'criminal negligence'
The fire which killed 64 people, 41 of them children, at a leisure complex was caused by "criminal negligence", President Vladimir Putin has said.
Visiting the scene in Kemerovo, Siberia, Mr Putin berated "sloppiness".
Investigators say the fire alarm was switched off and exits were blocked when the fire started on Sunday.
Interfax news agency reported that some 300 people gathered outside the local government headquarters demanding the dismissal of authorities.
The cause of the fire is not yet known, but Russia's Investigative Committee has spoken of "serious violations" at the Winter Cherry mall.
Kim Jong-un and the mystery of the 'special green train'
Distinctive olive green train looks similar to one used by the North Korean leader’s father, Kim Jong-il, when he visited China in 2011
A certain green and yellow train has set off a firestorm of speculation over whether North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is in China on his first trip abroad. The trip, which would be Kim’s first to China since taking power in 2011, comes before historic meetings with his counterparts in South Korea and the United States.
According to footage captured by Japan’s Nippon TV, the distinctive olive green train with yellow stripes looks similar to one used by Kim’s father, Kim Jong-il, when he visited China in 2011, shortly before his death.
Japan’s Kyodo News earlier reported that a “special train” carrying a high-level Korean official, possibly Kim, had been spotted in the north-eastern Chinese border city of Dandong. Nippon TV showed footage of the train arriving in Beijing on Monday.Trump and European leaders expel more than 100 Russian diplomats in response to spy poisoning
The United States takes this action in conjunction with our Nato allies'
More than 100 Russian diplomats have been hit by a wave of expulsions across Europe and North America in response to the poisoning of a former spy in Salisbury.
The Trump administration was among 24 Western governments to order the removal of staff on Monday, with 60 Russian diplomats asked to leave the US alongside the closure of Russia’s consulate in Seattle.
Sixteen EU countries including Germany, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland also expelled envoys, alongside Canada, Ukraine, Norway and Albania.
Japan: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe not involved in land sale cover-up, says official
A former official has told Japanese lawmakers the prime minister and his wife did not tamper with Finance Ministry documents. But one opposition lawmaker said the testimony had "deepened" doubts.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife did not order officials at the Finance Ministry to falsify documents involved in a scandal-laden land sale, a former Ministry official said on Tuesday.
Nobuhisa Sagawa, the ex-head of the Finance Ministry office in charge of the documents, said in a highly anticipated parliamentary testimony his office "never reported [the falsifications] outside the finance bureau … not to mention the prime minister's office." He added that Abe's Cabinet secretary and finance minister were also unaware of the alterations.
Linda Brown, woman at center of Brown v. Board case, dies
Updated 0233 GMT (1033 HKT) March 27, 2018
Linda Brown, who as a little girl was at the center of the Brown v. Board of Education case that ended segregation in American schools, has died, a funeral home spokesman said.
Brown, 75, died Sunday afternoon in Topeka, Kansas, the spokesman said.
Brown was 9 years old in 1951 when her father, Oliver Brown, tried to enroll her at Sumner Elementary School, then an all-white school near her Topeka home. When the school blocked her enrollment her father sued the Topeka Board of Education. Four similar cases were combined with Brown's complaint and presented to the Supreme Court as Oliver L. Brown et al v. Board of Education of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, et al.
Erdogan: Turkey to do 'what is necessary' if Iraq fails in Sinjar
Turkish leader says intelligence chief will meet an Iraqi official over presence of Kurdish fighters in Sinjar region.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said his country's intelligence chief is set to meet an Iraqi official to discuss an Iraqi military operation in the northern Sinjar region, where Ankara says Kurdish fighters have established a base.
Erdogan said on Monday that he was told by the Turkish intelligence that Iraq's central government were involved with a military operation in Sinjar, a region situated on the Turkish-Iraqi border.
He affirmed the reports that Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) members, seen by Ankara as 'terrorists', were withdrawing from Sinjar and Iraqi troops were being deployed to the region.
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