North Korea summit: Trump contradicts Bolton on 'Libya model'
US President Donald Trump has contradicted his own national security adviser, saying the so-called "Libya model" for denuclearisation is not being pursued with North Korea.
The suggestion by John Bolton angered the North, which threatened to pull out of a summit with Mr Trump next month.
Mr Trump said he still thought a summit would happen.
In 2003, Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi agreed to give up his nuclear programme in exchange for a lifting of sanctions.
However, he was killed by Western-backed rebels years later - a comparison that appears to have alarmed North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
A suicide in Gaza
How the death of a talented young Palestinian writer brought to light a hidden suicide epidemic.
Fri 18 May 2018 06.00 BST
By Sarah Helm
When Mohanned Younis, a 22-year-old student, returned to his home in a relatively prosperous part of Gaza City one night last August, he was in an agitated state. He had been depressed, his mother, Asma, recalled. But she was not too worried when he locked himself in his room.
A talented writer whose short stories, many posted on his Facebook page, had won a wide audience, Mohanned was about to graduate in pharmacy, expecting excellent grades. In his writing, he gave voice to the grief and despair of his generation. Only books gave him some escape. He often shut himself away to read and write, or to work out with his punch bag.
Brazil arrests hundreds in massive crackdown on child porn
In just one day, Brazilian authorities went after 578 people on warrants for crimes of child pornography and sexual exploitation of minors. The massive raid is the largest ever in Brazil — and possibly in the world.
At least 132 individuals were arrested Thursday in what Brazilian authorities said was the world's largest crackdown on child pornography and sexual exploitation ever to take place in a single day. The operation was also the biggest to ever take place in Brazil.
Called "Light in Childhood 2," it followed up on a previous raid in October that led to 112 arrests.
Called "Light in Childhood 2," it followed up on a previous raid in October that led to 112 arrests.
Thousands of officers, hundreds of warrants
Brazilian newspaper O Globo put the number of those arrested Thursday as high as 170.
The operation saw some 2,600 civil police officers fan out over 24 of Brazil's 26 federal states, as well as the capital federal district of Brasilia, to serve 578 search and arrest warrants for crimes of sexual exploitation of children and adolescents.Over 90% of Japan’s child abuse and sexual crime victims didn’t receive compensation: survey
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More than 90 percent of child abuse and sexual crime victims and their families didn’t receive compensation from their assailants, nor public financial assistance, largely due to the lack of awareness on the consultation services available, police data showed Thursday.
The National Police Agency analyzed the answers of 917 respondents who said they were crime victims — as well as family members of victims — in an online survey conducted between Jan. 19 and 28 that focused on men and women aged 20 or older.
The survey, conducted with the aim of following up with past victims and incorporating their experiences into national policies, covered six types of crimes; violent crimes including murder and assault, sexual crimes, traffic incidents, domestic violence, stalking, and child abuse.
How a child rape revealed the problems facing modern India
Updated 0540 GMT (1340 HKT) May 18, 2018
There is little indication of the ugliness that unfolded within this small pink-walled temple to Ram, the Hindu deity, here at the center of a lush jungle clearing in the foothills of northern India.
Local police say in a formal charge sheet that an eight-year-old girl, who had been minding horses grazing nearby, was abducted and forcibly kept inside for several days in January this year.
The Muslim child, who cannot be identified under Indian law, was later found dead.
Gina Haspel, Trump’s controversial pick for CIA director, has just been confirmed
Despite Haspel’s role in a Bush-era torture program, the Senate voted 54 to 45 to confirm her.
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Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump’s controversial pick to be the next CIA director, has officially been confirmed by the Senate in a 54-45 vote.
Despite facing a tough confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee last week over her role in a Bush-era torture program, Haspel apparently convinced enough senators that she was the right woman for the job.
In fact, Haspel, 61, is the first woman ever to head the spy agency. She’s a 33-year veteran of the clandestine service — the branch of the CIA formally known as the Directorate of Operations that does all the secret undercover spy work most people picture when they think of the CIA.
Because most of her work was done undercover, the American public — and the senators who have to vote on her nomination — knew very little about her before Trump picked her to lead the agency after Mike Pompeo.
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