Thai cave rescue: authorities say three- to four-day window to free 12 boys
Rainfall is forecast to grow more intense in coming days as levels of carbon dioxide pose additional danger
Thai authorities believe they have a three- to four-day window to free 12 boys stranded inside a northern Thailand cave and will focus on reducing the dangers of the rescue operation as much as possible until rain or increasingly toxic air inside the chamber forces them to act.
Narongsak Osatanakorn, the governor of Chiang Rai province, said on Saturday the operation to drain water along the 3.2km path to where the boys have been sheltering for the past fortnight has been “very successful” and withstood patches of rain.
Why India's new citizenship law has sparked hunger strikes and effigy burning
Changes to India’s citizenship law will alter the character of a country with an already abysmal track record in protecting its minorities... and not for the better
Citizens of India’s northeastern states have been protesting vigorously against a proposed new citizenship regime that they claim will “destroy their culture” in the region. The protests have been diverse and dramatic – petitions, hunger strikes, effigy-burning, a rebel militant group threatening to end talks with the Indian state.
The source of their anger is the Citizenship Amendment Bill, first tabled in the lower house of the Indian parliament in 2016. It is set to change the Citizenship Act of 1955, which has formed the basis of India’s citizenship regime since it gained independence from the British Empire in 1947.
The amendment seeks to allow select “persecuted minorities” (Hindus, Christians, Parsis, Sikhs, Buddhist and Jains) from the neighbouring countries of Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistancitizenship status in India after six years of residency. Other groups must wait 11 years to become naturalised citizens.
EU's Frontex warns of new migrant route to Spain
Frontex chief Fabrice Leggeri has warned that Spain could see a significant increase in migrant arrivals. The news comes ahead of the European Commission's new proposal to strengthen EU external borders with more guards.
Frontex chief Fabrice Leggeri said Friday that some 6,000 migrants had entered the European Union in June by crossing into Spain from Morocco, the so-called western Mediterranean route.
Speaking to German weekly Die Welt am Sonntag, Leggeri warned that the route could overtake others as the most important path into Europe, including the central Mediterranean route to Italy or the eastern Mediterranean route from Turkey into the Balkans.
In Australia, a moment of #MeToo in reverse
Updated 0250 GMT (1050 HKT) July 7, 2018
It began as a "he said, she said" fracas between two Australian politicians that has devolved into a national argument about political correctness and historical misogyny in Australian politics.
It was June 28, and on one side of the Senate chamber was Sarah Hanson-Young, a senator from the environmentally and socially-conscious Greens Party.
On the other side, her ideological opposite, libertarian senator David Leyonhjelm.
At least 27 dead, over 50 missing as heavy rain hits southwestern Japan
Today 05:00 pm JST
Heavy rain continued to lash a wide area of western Japan on Saturday, leaving 27 dead and more than 50 missing in landslides and flooding that smashed homes and swept away cars.
Evacuation orders or advisories were issued for 4.72 million people at one point due to continued downpours. Around 48,000 members of the Self-Defense Forces, police and firefighting service were mobilized to search for trapped, wounded or dead people.
Ten people were confirmed dead in Hiroshima Prefecture, local authorities said, with the rest killed in Osaka, Shiga, Hyogo, Okayama and Ehime prefectures.
In Seiyo, Ehime Prefecture, five people were confirmed dead in connection with the torrential rain.
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