To experts, North Korea dismantling nuclear site is like destroying evidence
Updated 0637 GMT (1437 HKT) May 22, 2018
Cheryl Rofer is a chemist who spent 35 years working on environmental cleanups everywhere from Estonia to Kazakhstan, disassembling and decommissioning nuclear weapons, and overseeing the destruction of chemical weapons.
But unlike international journalists, she is not on the list of people invited this week to witness the destruction of North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test site.
"I was hoping you were going and I could talk you into bringing me along," she said to CNN.
Japan sexual harassment survey reveals 150 allegations by women in media
A third of cases involved inappropriate behaviour by government officials, police officers and MPsDozens of women working for Japanese newspapers and TV networks have been sexually harassed – many repeatedly – with government officials, police officers and MPs cited as the perpetrators in about a third of the cases, according to a new survey.
The poll, which uncovered 150 cases of alleged sexual harassment targeting 35 women, was carried out soon after the most senior bureaucrat in the finance ministry resigned over claims that he had made sexually inappropriate comments towards a female journalist.
Professor Mayumi Taniguchi, a gender studies expert at Osaka International University, said 40% of the incidents occurred at the women’s workplaces, while the rest involved news sources and other individuals.
Opinion: EU panic over Italian populism only exacerbates tension
Italy's populist government did not just fall from the sky — it was elected. And the incoming leaders could prove to be an explosive force for the European Union. DW's Bernd Riegert asks: What's next?
Italians fundamentally distrust their politicians, to whom many disparagingly refer as "the caste." It's a familiar story: Italy's politicians rarely fulfill the promises they make during election campaigns. Once they are in power, it's often about what's doing best for themselves. Those have long been the iron laws of political life in Italy. Now, populists from the left and far right are set to take power.
They are promising historic change, a revolution, to address the concerns of their citizens. Are Italy's iron laws of politics about to be rewritten? Or will this new, inexperienced, but deeply self-confident coalition soon forget the ambitious and somewhat dangerous goals of their governing agreement and instead focus on preserving their own power?
Australian archbishop Philip Wilson guilty of concealing child sex abuses
An Australian court has found a Catholic archbishop guilty of concealing child sexual abuse in the 1970s.
Philip Wilson, the archbishop of Adelaide, becomes the most senior Catholic in the world to be charged and convicted of the offence.
He was found to have covered up the abuse of altar boys by a paedophile priest colleague in New South Wales.
During his trial he denied being told about the abuse by some of the victims.
In a statement issued by the church on Wednesday, Wilson said he was "obviously disappointed" with the verdict and would consider his legal options.
'They deserve no mercy': Iraq deals briskly with accused 'women of Isis'
A Baghdad court has sentenced more than 40 foreign women to death after 10-minute hearings
In a small holding room in a Baghdad court, French citizen Djamila Boutoutao cradled her two-year-old daughter and begged for help.
Boutoutao, 29, is accused of being a member of Islamic State. Whispering in her native tongue within earshot of other accused Isis members – all foreigners like her – she said life had become unbearable.
“I’m going mad here,” said Boutoutao, a small bespectacled woman with a deadpan stare. “I’m facing a death sentence or life in prison. No one tells me anything, not the ambassador, not people in prison.”
American football player says coach ordered him to injure opposing quarterback
Nihon University American football player Taisuke Miyagawa said Tuesday he was instructed by his coach to intentionally injure an opposing quarterback in an incident that has sent Japanese sport into a tailspin.
Miyagawa said in a press conference that the incident in the game against Kwansei Gakuin University on May 6 was the result of an order from Masato Uchida, the now-resigned coach of the team from the exclusive private college.
"He told me I'd get game time if I crush the opposing quarterback in my first play," said the 20-year-old Miyagawa, who was ejected from the game after putting on three questionable hits.
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