Sri Lanka imposes state of emergency over communal violence
Nation-wide state of emergency imposed to take 'stern action' following violence between Buddhist and Muslim groups.
Sri Lanka's government has imposed a nation-wide state of emergency to "take stern action" against people instigating communal violence, a government spokesman has said.
The meassure comes after a local curfew was imposed on Monday in the central city Kandy, after days of unrest between religious communities with a Buddhist man killed and Muslim businesses set ablaze.
'Plastic, plastic, plastic': British diver films sea of rubbish off Bali
Video posted on YouTube shows water densely strewn with food wrappers, cups and sachets as tropical fish dart in and out
A British diver has captured shocking images of himself swimming through a sea of plastic rubbish off the coast of the Indonesian tourist resort of Bali.
A short video posted by diver Rich Horner on his social media account and on YouTube shows the water densely strewn with plastic waste and yellowing food wrappers, the occasional tropical fish darting through the deluge.
The footage was shot at a dive site called Manta Point, a cleaning station for the large rays on the island of Nusa Penida, about 20km from the popular Indonesian holiday island of Bali.Eastern Ghouta: Assad forces strip trauma kits and surgical supplies from aid convoy meant for desperate civilians
Regime ground offensive captures one-third of besieged enclave in manoeuvre to cut it in half
An aid convoy intended to bring food and basic medicines to desperate Syrian civilians in Eastern Ghouta was stripped of vital medical supplies as it entered the besieged rebel-held suburbs.
Syrian government authorities removed most medical supplies from the trucks, preventing trauma kits, surgical supplies, insulin and dialysis equipment from reaching the battered enclave of 400,000 people, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said.
Eastern Ghouta has been under siege by government forces since 2013 and the United Nations feared people inside were running out of food and medicine even before a major assault began two weeks ago.
Uighur journalist Gulchehra Hoja: 'I have my own sad story to tell'
DW spoke to Uighur journalist Gulchehra Hoja who, along with some of her colleagues, accuses the Chinese authorities of arresting her family members as retribution for her reports about the plight of the Uighurs.
Radio Free Asia (RFA), a US government-funded broadcaster, last week accused the Chinese government of trying to silence and intimidate its Uighur service journalists, following reports that security forces had detained several of their close relatives.
According to RFA, the Chinese government's broad campaign against the families of its staff came in retaliation to the broadcaster's coverage of Beijing's crackdown against the ethnic Uighur people in the northwestern Xinjiang province.
The cost of Ivory Coast's fake medicine industry
In Ivory Coast, fake medicine is sold widely in the streets, markets and bus stations. Though the police carry out frequent operations targeting vendors of the unregulated medicine, it is difficult to disband the networks behind it. Moreover, awareness campaigns rarely reach the public. Our Observers are worried about the long-term effects of this trade on health and are calling on the government to do something about it.
In the streets of Ivory Coast, you can easily buy vaccines, antibiotics or counterfeit malaria medicine. In May 2017, Ivorian authorities incinerated close to 40 tonnes of fake medicine seized in Adjamé, a neighbourhood in Abidjan, which has the largest market for “street medicine” in West Africa. Purchases made in this neighbourhood represent 30% of all medicine sales in the Ivory Coast. But despite the mass police operation, there is no sign that this illegal trade will dry up anytime soon.
As the Trial of Omar Mateen’s Wife Begins, New Evidence Undermines Beliefs About the Pulse Massacre, Including Motive
NEWLY RELEASED EVIDENCE today calls into serious doubt many of the most widespread beliefs about the 2016 shooting by Omar Mateen at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, which killed 49 people along with Mateen himself. Because the attack occurred on the club’s “Latin night,” the overwhelming majority of the victims were Latinos, primarily Puerto Ricans.
In particular, Mateen went to Pulse only after having scouted other venues that night that were wholly unrelated to the LGBT community, only to find that they were too defended by armed guards and police, and ultimately chose Pulse only after a generic Google search for “Orlando nightclubs” – not “gay clubs” – produced Pulse as the first search result.
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