NEW VIDEO SHOWS MORE ATROCITIES BY CAMEROON, A KEY U.S. ALLY IN DRONE WARFARE
GUNSHOTS RING OUT as the troops advance down a dirt road. One of them, in full combat gear — helmet, camouflage uniform, automatic weapon — clowns for the camera and sticks out his tongue. A sergeant next to him says, in French, “This is a kamikaze mission!”
It quickly becomes clear exactly what type of mission this actually is. It’s of the same type that soldiers carried out at El Mozote, El Salvador, in 1981, at My Lai, South Vietnam, in 1968, and at Oradour-sur-Glane, France, in 1944. It is a massacre. And it is filmed. This particular mass killing takes place in Cameroon, a key U.S. ally and staging ground for America’s drone operations in Africa. While the number of victims is likely smaller than other notorious mass killings, it’s the second atrocity video involving Cameroon’s armed forces to be made public this summer.
Saudi Arabia may dig canal to turn Qatar into an island
Plan takes shape amid bitter dispute that led the Saudis, UAE, Bahrain and Egypt to cut ties with small peninsula nation
A Saudi official hinted on Friday the kingdom was moving forward with a plan to dig a canal that would turn the neighbouring Qatari peninsula into an island, amid a diplomatic feud between the Gulf nations.
“I am impatiently waiting for details on the implementation of the Salwa island project, a great, historic project that will change the geography of the region,” Saud al-Qahtani, a senior adviser to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, said on Twitter.
The plan, which would physically separate the Qatari peninsula from the Saudi mainland, is the latest stress point in a fractious 14-month long dispute between the two states.
Pro-Russian rebel leader Alexander Zakharchenko killed in explosion
Several separatist commanders in eastern Ukraine have met their end in suspicious circumstances
The eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk went into lockdown on Friday night following the apparent assassination of separatist leader Alexander Zakharchenko in a blast that ripped though a cafe.
After announcing a state of emergency, authorities closed all checkpoints leading into the war-torn city and postponed the start of the school year.
According to early reports, Mr Zakharchenko was killed by an explosive device hidden in the cafe on Pushkin Boulevard in central Donetsk.
Top electoral court bans Lula from Brazil presidential race
Brazil’s top electoral court on Friday barred jailed former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from running in this year’s presidential because of his corruption conviction.
The widely expected decision removes a cloud hanging over Brazil’s most uncertain election in decades - though Lula’s lawyers have said they would appeal an adverse decision to the Supreme Court.
“What is at stake here today is the equality of all citizens before the law and the Constitution,” Judge Og Fernandes told the court in his vote to declare Lula ineligible.
Judge Admar Gonzaga, who as a lawyer worked for Lula’s handpick
The backbreaking work of Spain's exploited hotel cleaners
The lives of tens of thousands of chambermaids have been made harder with the rise of outsourcing cleaning companies.
Maria* cleans rooms at a large Spanish hotel.
She arrives before 8am, changes into her uniform and heads to the housekeeper's office to get her cleaning schedule.
"It really depends on the hotel's occupation, but we usually get 16 to 18 rooms," says Maria, who is using a pseudonym to protect her identity.
"First you open the windows to ventilate the room, and take out the rubbish. Then you make the beds and change the linen. Dust. Restock the mini-bar. Three sodas. Two beers. Water. Two chocolate bars. Then comes the bathroom. Shower. Sink. Toilet. Bidet. After that, you vacuum and wash the floor."
Defense Ministry requests record budget of ¥5.3 trillion
By Mari Yamaguchi
Japan's Defense Ministry is seeking to more than double spending on missile defense, including purchases of costly American arsenals, to defend against North Korean threats.
The record-high 5.3 trillion yen ($47 billion) request for fiscal 2019, approved Friday by the ministry, is up 2.1 percent from last year. The military spending has risen seven consecutive years under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
The request related to missile defense rises to 424 billion yen ($3.8 billion) from about 180 billion yen last year. The overall government budget plan is to be submitted for cabinet and parliamentary approval later this year.
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