Thai cave rescue mission: operation underway to free last four boys and coach – live
An international team of rescuers has gone back into the northern Thailand cave to bring out the remaining four boys and their coach, who have been trapped for 18 days
Ninth Boy Has Been Rescued
We’re still waiting for the news of the latest rescue attempt. There has been speculation that as yesterday’s operation went more quickly than Sunday’s another boy could emerge soon. But overnight rain could have made conditions much tougher in the cave, with higher water levels and stronger currents.
The tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has posted a new video of conditions in the cave.
He was politely told that a small submarine he offered rescue workers was surplus to requirements.
“Although his technology is good and sophisticated it’s not practical for this mission,” Narongsak Osatanakorn, the head of the joint command centre coordinating the operation, told reporters.
Musk tweeted that he had brought the mini submarine - “made of rocket parts and named Wild Boar after kids’ soccer team” - to the cave site, leaving it there in case it was useful in the future.
Syria conflict: After series of calamitous defeats, is Isis about to lose its last town?
Iraq after Isis: In the third part of his latest series, and on the anniversary of losing Mosul, Patrick Cockburn looks at life in the group’s last major stronghold
Several hundred suicide bombers and 4,000 fighters belonging to Isis are preparing to defend Hajin in eastern Syria close to the border with Iraq.
The town is the last stronghold of the Islamic State, the militarised Islamic cult that three years ago controlled territory the size of Great Britain.
The struggle for Hajin comes exactly a year after Isis suffered a decisive defeat with the capture of Mosul on 10 July 2017 by Iraqi forces backed by a US-led coalition.
Liu Xia, wife of late Nobel Peace Prize winner, leaves China
Friends of Liu Xia report she has boarded a flight to Germany after years of house arrest. Her husband, Nobel Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, died in detention last July.
Her friends said she left China on board a Finnair flight bound for Germany on Tuesday. Her brother, Liu Hui, was not on the plane, they said. Some other friends told DW that Liu Xia is headed to Berlin.
Liu Hui also confirmed his sister's departure on a social media site.
"Sister has already left Beijing for Europe at noon to start her new life. Thanks to everyone who has helped and cared for her these few years. I hope from now on her life is peaceful and happy," he wrote.
Long-term foes Ethiopia and Eritrea promise peace, ports and friendship
By Aaron Maasho
Ethiopia and Eritrea agreed to resume flights, open embassies and develop ports together on Monday, the most concrete signs of a rapprochement that has swept away two decades of hostility in a matter of weeks.
The announcements came a day after Ethiopia's new reformist Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, flew to neighbouring Eritrea, and embraced its veteran President Isaias Afwerki on the runway. Both said they would focus on love and peace.
Is France's ethnically diverse team a symbol of multiculturalism?
As players of African and Arab origin prepare to fight for the final, 1998 win hailed as diversity feat is remembered.
"They can be black, Arab, white, Muslim … as long as they play good football," said Tim, as he watched France play Peru in Russia, from a shisha lounge in the gentrified 20th district of Paris.
Tim, a 28-year-old of Ivorian descent, and most of the people watching the game in late June in this cafe were immigrants, or the children of immigrants.
"It's a good team," said Mane, 36, who is of Gambian origin. "But the chemistry is lacking, the coordination isn't as good as the '98 generation. But they've already improved a lot."
Japan floods: 141 killed after torrential rain and landslides
At least 141 people are now known to have died in floods and landslides triggered by torrential rain in western Japan, says the government.
It is the highest death toll caused by rainfall that Japan has seen in more than three decades.
Rescuers are now digging through mud and rubble in a race to find survivors, as dozens are still missing.
About two million people have been evacuated from the region after rivers burst their banks.
Authorities have opened up school halls and gymnasiums to those who have been displaced by the rainfall.
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