Hundreds crowd beach, await rescue after massive quake hits resort islands of Bali and Lombok
Updated 0851 GMT (1651 HKT) August 6, 2018
First responders are racing to evacuate hundreds of people affected by a deadly earthquake that rocked some of Indonesia's most idyllic islands late Sunday night.
At least 91 people, all Indonesian nationals, were killed when the 6.9-magnitude quake struck the popular tourist island of Lombok, Indonesian authorities said Monday. Authorities reported more than 200 were injured.
The number of victims is expected to rise as rescue efforts continue. The majority of those killed in the quake were hit by falling debris from collapsed buildings, said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, the head of Indonesia's disaster management department. Authorities reported more than 200 were injured.
Famed Bangladeshi photographer held over road protest comments
Shahidul Alam, 63, arrested over ‘provocative’ al-Jazeera interview
Police in Bangladesh have arrested a prize-winning photographer for “provocative comments” made in an al-Jazeera interview about protests that have convulsed the country for over a week.
More than 100 people were injured at the weekend during a protest over road safety as police fired teargas and rubber bullets and mobs attacked demonstrators, photographers and the US ambassador’s car.
At least 20 plainclothes officers picked up Shahidul Alam, 63, at his home in Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital, late on Sunday, hours after his comments were broadcast by the Qatar-based TV station, his colleague Abir Abdullah told AFP.
Japanese students produce virtual reality experience of Hiroshima
By transporting users back in time to moment when city was turned into wasteland, group hopes to ensure something similar never happens again
It’s a sunny summer morning in the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Cicadas chirp in the trees. A lone plane flies high overhead. Then a flash of light, followed by a loud blast. Buildings are flattened and smoke rises from crackling fires under a darkened sky.
Over two years, a group of Japanese high school students has been painstakingly producing a five-minute virtual reality experience that recreates the sights and sounds of Hiroshima before, during and after the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city 73 years ago today.
Saudi Arabia expels Canadian ambassador over criticism of arrests
Riyadh also recalls its envoy and suspends trade deals after Canada's foreign ministry denounced jailing of activists.
Saudi Arabia expelled Canada's ambassador over alleged interference in the kingdom's domestic affairs after Ottawa's foreign ministry rebuked Riyadh for jailing human rights activists.
Canadian Ambassador Dennis Horak was given 24 hours to leave the country, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on Monday.
The announcement came days after Canada called for the immediate release of rights campaigners detained during a recent wave of arrests in Saudi Arabia, including relatives of naturalised Canadian citizens.
BRAZIL’S MEDIA, legal, judicial and corporate factions have spent the last three years righteously insisting that systemic political corruption is the nation’s gravest problem. They were so terribly upset about corruption that, in 2016, they united, with almost no dissent permitted, in support of the most drastic step a democracy can take: removal of the elected President, Dilma Rousseff, before her term expired.
That indignation over corruption and criminality was their pretext for impeachment, not the actual motive, was painfully obvious from the start. By removing Dilma, they knowingly empowered actual criminals and gangsters, people whose thieving and mobster behavior make Dilma’s budgetary tricks look like jaywalking. In the pantheon of organized criminality that rules post-impeachment Brasília, “pedaladas” – the pedestrian budgetary maneuver used to justify Dilma’s removal – sounds so quaint that it’s hard to believe Globo stars and pro-impeachment centrist functionaries kept a straight face when pretending that it infuriated them.
CBS says it takes the Les Moonves allegations seriously. Its actions don’t inspire confidence.
CBS Entertainment head Kelly Kahl trusts the company’s processes. But should he?
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“This has been a tough week at CBS,” began Kelly Kahl, the president of the company’s entertainment division (a.k.a. the guy who makes the big calls for the TV network of the same name), during his press conference at the 2018 Television Critics Association summer press tour. And “tough week” almost seemed like an understatement.
The company is embroiled in controversy in the wake of Ronan Farrow’s New Yorker report on Leslie Moonves, the chairman and CEO of the CBS Corporation, who is accused of sexual harassment and stunting the careers of women who turned down his advances.
What’s more, the New Yorker story lays out how a whole culture of abuse and harassment trickled down from the top, particularly in the company’s news division. It’s an incisive portrayal of how harassment and abuse by powerful men, even when not strictly illegal, continues to propagate itself throughout massive corporations.
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