Israel's Iran documents show nuclear deal 'was built on lies'
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says a landmark nuclear deal with Iran was "built on lies", after Israel claimed to have proof of a secret Iranian nuclear weapons programme.
Mr Pompeo said documents revealed by Israel's prime minister were authentic.
Analysts say they show nothing new, highlighting that concerns over Iran's nuclear ambitions led to the deal.
US President Donald Trump, who opposes the accord, has until 12 May to decide whether to abandon it or not.
Other Western powers, including signatories Britain and France, say Iran has been abiding by the deal and it should be kept.
Nine months after Myanmar assaults, Rohingya camps ready for spate of births
Agencies braced for spike in unwanted children who were conceived as a result of sexual violence by Myanmar soldiers and militiamen
When hundreds of thousands of Rohingya flooded into south-east Bangladesh last year they told of systematic rape and other sexual violence by Myanmar soldiers and militiamen.
May will mark nine months since that exodus started. Aid agencies, especially those who work with women and children, have been bracing for the date. Over the next weeks, babies conceived as a result of sexual assaults committed during the crackdown will be born.
Save the Children says it is expecting the number of babies who are abandoned by their mothers to increase next month in line with the milestone. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), which runs hospitals in the sprawling Cox’s Bazar camps, is preparing to counsel affected mothers.Russian internet protests: Thousands take to the streets to show opposition to censorship
Telegram messenger shutdown is raising fears Kremlin could introduce even more restrictive policies
Thousands of Russians took to central Moscow on Monday in a rally against internet censorship and a government ban on the Telegram social media app.
Since a 13 April court decision outlawed the programme, authorities have taken a no-nonsense approach to blocking it. But their actions have also brought large parts of the web to a standstill – while Telegram continues to function. Many now fear the Kremlin will put in place even more restrictive information policies in an attempt to grasp control.
With banners such as “Big Moron Is Not Blocking You”, “Down with the Tsar” and “Things are so bad that even introverts have come here”, the mostly young crowd used every manner of protest to communicate their displeasure to the government. They threw paper aeroplanes in the air – a reference to the app’s logo. And they shouted angry slogans at President Vladimir Putin and his allies.
Syrian women tortured and humiliated in Assad regime prisons
Thousands of Syrian women are believed to be incarcerated in Assad regime prisons. Little is known about their fate, but those who manage to escape tell tales of horror. DW's Julia Hahn reports.
Muna Muhammad remembers every tiny detail. The stench in the cells, the pain, her torturers. "He pulled a black plastic bag over my head and then he hung me from the ceiling, head down," the 30-year-old says. The memory still haunts her. The guard said he was going to leave her hanging from the ceiling until all her "evil thoughts land in this bag," she remembers.
Muna was a music teacher before she was arrested in 2012 for participating in protests against President Bashar Assad in Deir ez-Zor. She was released, but re-arrested again and taken to Damascus' infamous Syrian Military Intelligence Branch 215 — inmates call it "branch of hell" because torture is a daily occurrence.
The caravan of Central Americans seeking asylum at the border, explained
The migrant caravan has finally arrived at the border. So has the crackdown.
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On April 29, a group of 50 people — most of them families from El Salvador — attempted to enter the United States at the port of entry in San Ysidro, across the US-Mexico border from Tijuana. They’re the first delegation from a “caravan” of about 300 Central Americans that has traveled through Mexico over the past few weeks on the way to the United States, organized by the humanitarian nonprofit Pueblos sin Fronteras.
The caravan members were prevented from entering the US because Customs and Border Protection agents told them they didn’t have the capacity to process them. They are currently waiting in Tijuana to be allowed through.
None of this is all that unusual. People, most of them Central Americans, present themselves for asylum to border agents every day. It’s perfectly legal for someone without papers to go to a US port of entry and seek asylum by showing they meet the legal definition: that they would be the victims of persecution based on their race, nationality, religion, political views, or membership in a targeted social group if returned to their home country.
Foreign trainees worked at Fukushima nuclear plant despite ban
Six people on a foreign trainee program in Japan engaged in construction work at the disaster-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant despite the plant operator's ban on program participants working at the complex, officials said Tuesday.
The case is the latest in a string of inappropriate practices involving foreign trainees under the government's Technical Intern Training Program, often criticized as a cover to import cheap labor.
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc (TEPCO) had said in February last year that it would not have foreign trainees work at the plant, which was crippled by the 2011 quake and tsunami disaster, even though workers in some parts of the plant are not required to wear protective gear or dosimeters.
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