Protest rally marks one year since start of seawall work for U.S. base
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Protesters against the planned transfer of a U.S. air base within Okinawa Prefecture staged a rally at the relocation site on Monday, nearly one year after the start of construction on seawalls there.
In late April last year, the central government began building seawalls in preparation for the controversial transfer of the functions of the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to the new site adjacent to the Marines' Camp Schwab, both within Okinawa.
In Monday's sit-in protest outside the gates of Camp Schwab in Henoko, over 300 people including lawmakers took part. The protest will last for six straight days through Saturday.
'I love tech boys': Chinese job ads mirror sexist attitudes to women, study finds
Both private and public sector employers in China frequently specified ‘men only’ or ‘men preferred’ in job ads
Recruitment ads for Chinese internet giant Alibaba advertise a key perk: the company’s beautiful women.
A post first published in 2013 and still available on the company’s official Weibo account as of January, featured photos of female Alibaba employees in suggestive poses. “They want to be your coworkers. Do you want that too?” the ad said. A 2012 recruitment video showed a female employee pole dancing, and a montage of female employees saying, “I love tech boys.”
These are some of more than 36,000 job postings reviewed by Human Rights Watch (HRW) between March 2017 and January this year that demonstrate the predominance of sexist attitudes towards women in the Chinese workplace.Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam jailed for 20 years for attempted murder in Brussels shootout
Isis supporter awaits separate trial for alleged involvement in November 2015 attacks
Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam has been jailed for 20 years over a shoot-out with police in Belgium.
The 27-year-old was convicted of attempted murder with a terrorist connection alongside an accomplice over the gun battle.
He is allegedly among the only surviving members of an Isis cell that murdered 130 victims in Paris in 2015, fleeing to his hometown of Brussels.
Four months later, police investigating a terrorist safe house in the city were met with a hail of gunfire and killed one militant, before finding Abdeslam’s fingerprints and other clues that led them to a hideout nearby.
Ignored, humiliated: How Japan is accused of failing survivors of sexual abuse
Updated 0344 GMT (1144 HKT) April 23, 2018
At first, it had seemed to Shiori Ito like a dream opportunity.
As an aspiring young reporter, she says a prominent journalist had taken an interest in her career, and invited her out to dinner.
The invitation was made while they were both in the US, but it wasn't until they had both returned to Tokyo that the meeting took place. According to Ito, they went for sushi, and at some point in the evening she went to the bathroom. It would be the last thing she remembered from the restaurant.
"The last thing I remember is being in the bathroom. I woke up with this intense pain and he was on top of me," she recounted to CNN.
7 things we’ve learned about Earth since the last Earth Day
Our understanding of Earth — and how we’re changing it — just keeps expanding.
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Earth Day turns 48 today, April 22, and Google is celebrating it with a Google Doodle of conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall, who nudges us in a video a “do our part for this beautiful planet.”
When Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-Wisc.) founded Earth Day in 1970, his hope was to make the environment a political issue in an era where US rivers caught on fire and thick smog choked cities.
In many ways, it worked. Since then, major environmental laws have helped clean up much of the vivid toxic detritus in the soil, air, and water in the US. But our challenges today are no less daunting. The accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the loss of wilderness and species, and the acidification and pollution of the oceans have all become more acute — and more destabilizing.
WE HEAR AHMED ABDULRAHMAN before we see him. He is preceded by the sounds of hammers clacking and concrete being moved around. We make our way from the street, through a narrow entryway scattered with bits of broken stones, shattered glass and wiring. The entrance is damaged and its walls lean precariously. A sheen of white dust covers every surface. We emerge into an inner courtyard where Abdulrahman is working cheerfully in a knitted blue and grey sweater that wouldn’t look out of place on a Norwegian grandfather. Goggles perched atop his head, he is a beaming, bearded steampunk repair man.
He lives in the Old City of Mosul. Most houses are mutilated, empty frames, but the neighborhood bears the signs of life. With a small toolbox in hand, he goes from house to house cheerfully greeting people, helping them with small repairs, finding work or medicine. If there is a problem in the neighborhood — Abdulrahman is the first person to turn to.
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