Syria and Russia accuse Israel of missile attack on Assad airbase
Russian military says Israeli F-15 war planes carried out strikes from Lebanese airspace
Israeli war planes have bombed a Syrian regime airbase east of the city of Homs, the Russian and Syrian militaries have said.
The Russian military said that two Israeli F-15 jets carried out the strikes from Lebanese airspace, and that Syrian air defence systems shot down five of eight missiles fired. Asked about the Russian statement, an Israeli military spokesman said he had no immediate comment.
Syrian state TV reported loud explosions near the T-4 airfield in the desert east of Homs in the early hours of Monday. It initially reported that the attack was “most likely” American, a claim the Pentagon has denied.
German police thwart 'crime' during Berlin Half Marathon
Police have detained six men in Berlin who reportedly have links to the 2016 Berlin Christmas market attack. The lead suspect was planning to attack spectators at the race with knives, according to a newspaper report.
Police have arrested six people suspected of planning a "crime" during the Berlin Half Marathon on Sunday.
"There were separate indications that those arrested, aged between 18 and 21 years, were participating in the preparation of a crime in connection with this event," prosecutors and police wrote in a joint
statement. Berlin police wrote separately on Twitter that six people had been arrested.
statement. Berlin police wrote separately on Twitter that six people had been arrested.
Somalia seizes $9.6m from UAE plane in Mogadishu
Somalia's government says it has seized several bags of money worth almost $10m from a plane that arrived at Mogadishu airport from the United Arab Emirates capital Abu Dhabi.
The money was found in three unmarked bags on a Royal Jet plane, the Somali interior ministry said, and its seizure resulted in an hours-long standoff between airport officials and UAE embassy staff in Mogadishu.
Royal Jet is an airline based in Abu Dhabi, aimed at the luxury market between the UAE and Europe.
Japanese 'marines' launched, but much work needs to be done
The Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force has marked a historic milestone through the launch of its first dedicated amphibious fighting unit, long deemed to be too offensive to possess under the country's postwar defensive security policy.
"Our goal is to become the world's top-class amphibious operation unit," Maj Gen Shinichi Aoki, who leads the brigade, boasted at a press conference on Saturday following a ceremony to mark the launch of the new unit based in the southwestern port city of Sasebo in Nagasaki Prefecture.
But the Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade, modeled after the U.S. Marine Corps, still seems to be a fledgling force facing challenges to enhance its readiness to defend Japan's remote islands in the southwest in the face of an increasingly assertive China.
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Viktor Orban: Hungary PM re-elected for third term
Hungary's right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban has claimed a landslide victory in Sunday's general election.
The 54-year-old will serve a third consecutive term in office, with his party Fidesz projected to keep its key two-thirds majority in parliament.
Fidesz won almost half of the vote, with 93% of ballots counted, Hungary's National Election Office said.
Mr Orban is a strong Eurosceptic who campaigned on an anti-immigration platform.
In a speech to supporters on Sunday night, Mr Orban said his victory gave Hungarians "the opportunity to defend themselves and to defend Hungary".
Leaders of the second and third-placed parties have resigned in light of the result.
Zuckerberg: Facebook has systems to stop hate speech. Myanmar groups: No, it doesn’t.
The social network has fueled ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook’s systems detected and stopped violent messages from being sent on the social network in Myanmar. Civil society groups working in the country are pushing back and saying that isn’t the case.
Close to 700,000 Rohingya, a minority Muslim group, have fled Myanmar in the wake of a coordinated campaign of ethnic cleansing. Facebook has helped fuel the violence, becoming a platform for hate and violent speech against the minority group. The popularity and accessibility of the social network has exploded in recent years and become a vital source of information — something bad actors are trying to exploit.
Zuckerberg, in an interview with Vox’s Ezra Klein this week, addressed this dilemma. He said Facebook is taking these issues “really seriously.”
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