Deadly explosion hits Ethiopia PM rally
Ethiopia's new PM Abiy Ahmed says several people have been killed in an explosion that hit a rally he was speaking at earlier on Saturday.
He described it as an "unsuccessful attempt by forces who do not want to see Ethiopia united".
Mr Abiy was whisked away immediately after the blast, thought to be from a grenade thrown amid thousands of people in the capital's Meskel Square.
Ethiopia has been riven by years of sometimes violent protests.
Mr Abiy only became prime minister after his predecessor Hailemariam Desalegn unexpectedly resigned in February.
How Europe's populists are following the Steve Bannon playbook
Updated 0414 GMT (1214 HKT) June 23, 2018
Ever since he left the White House, Steve Bannon has been scouring the world for new opportunities to promote his brand of populism: a revolt against liberal elites, migration and multiculturalism -- and the revival of the nation state.
Bannon, once Donald Trump's ideological sidekick, has found the perfect partner in Matteo Salvini, Italy's Interior Minister and leader of the League, one of two parties in the new coalition government in Rome.
Salvini is an admirer of Vladimir Putin, prefers social media to mainstream media, trumpets economic nationalism and makes controversial remarks about foreigners and migrants. He's ripped more than a few pages out of Trump's playbook. Even his election slogan was "Italians first."
Just election in Turkey not possible, says imprisoned Kurdish candidate
From prison cell in Edirne, Selahattin Demirtaş urges citizens to vote against one-man rule by Erdoğan
Dressed in a suit and burgundy tie, Selahattin Demirtaş addressed his supporters through Turkey’s state-run TV. He urged citizens to vote against one-man rule by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his ruling party, the AKP, whom he described as bullies.
But there was one difference between all the other presidential candidates and Demirtaş, once dubbed the Kurdish Obama and leader of a persecuted leftwing party focused on Kurdish and minority rights.
He was addressing his supporters from his cell at a maximum-security prison in Edirne, where he is standing trial over alleged terrorism offences.
Italy's far-right government turns away rescue ship with 224 refugees: ‘They will only see Italy on a postcard’
Interior minister's comments come days after he called for census of country's Roma population
Italy has turned away a rescue boat carrying 224 refugees with the country’s new far-right interior minister saying those on board will only see the country “on a postcard”.
Matteo Salvini‘s latest move came just a week after the Aquarius, a ship containing 630 refugees, was also turned away and forced to reroute to Spain.
Mr Salvini said the latest ship, operated by German aid group Mission Lifeline, had loaded the migrants in Libyan waters against the instructions of Italy’s coast guard – a claim the group denied, saying the passengers were rescued in international waters.
Lindt siege: 'There was no answer on the number negotiators gave us'
When Man Haron Monis took 18 hostages in the 2014 Sydney Lindt Cafe siege, police sealed off Martin Place and began negotiating. A new book scrutinises their tactics as the situation worsened.
By Deborah Snow
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At 9.40am on December 15, 2014, Man Haron Monis took 10 customers and eight employees of Sydney's Lindt Cafe in Martin Place hostage, declaring Australia under attack by Islamic State. The 50-year-old had entered the cafe with a blue sports bag containing a sawn-off pump-action shotgun one hour earlier.
By 8.40 pm, the cafe was in shutdown, with the lights off and Monis blocking any further calls to police negotiators. Between then and midnight, there would be no engagement at all between the 13 remaining hostages and police. The only exceptions were the calls made by hostage Marcia Mikhael asking for the Christmas lights to be turned off, and another at 8.42pm telling police to pull back from the windows. "He can see you," the 43-year-old mother of three warned, alluding to the indistinct reflections of some of the tactical officers in the polished stone of the Reserve Bank of Australia building opposite.
Trump renews sanctions on N Korea citing 'extraordinary threat'
Extension of punitive measures comes despite Trump previously saying Pyongyang no longer posed a 'nuclear threat'.
US President Donald Trump extended sanctions against North Korea for one year, saying the country still posed an "extraordinary threat" despite insisting just days earlier that Pyongyang was no longer a nuclear danger to the US.
The sanctions, which were renewed on Friday, were originally introduced under an executive order originally put in place in 2008.
After his talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore on June 12, Trump had said that sanctions would not be lifted on Pyongyang until further progress was made on its denuclearisation.
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