Typhoon Mangkhut: Philippines counts cost of deadly typhoon
The Philippines is counting the human and economic cost of Typhoon Mangkhut, which ripped through its main island with deadly consequences on Saturday.
At least 25 people are known to have died but blocked roads and downed communications lines mean the true impact on rural areas is not yet clear.
Extensive crop damage is feared in the agricultural province of Cagayan.
The storm, which packs a 900km (550 mile) rain band and strong winds, is heading towards southern China.
It poses a "severe threat" to Hong Kong, the territory's observatory said, urging residents to stay on high alert.
‘My father’s murder in Algeria shaped my life. That’s why Macron’s apology is so important’
The president has admitted to French brutality during the Algerian war of independence. Michèle Audin speaks of the fight for justice
Michèle Audin was three years old and fast asleep with her two younger siblings when French paratroopers burst into her family’s flat on the third floor of an apartment block in Algiers and dragged her father away. She never saw him again.
Following his late-night arrest, on 11 July 1957, Maurice Audin, 25, a mathematician, was tortured and killed by French soldiers operating under special orders to do whatever it took to crush Algeria’s struggle for independence. His body was never found. His assassins were never identified, never officially investigated and never punished.
Last week, after a relentless 61-year campaign by Audin’s widow Josette, now 87, President Emmanuel Macron admitted the state was responsible for his death and acknowledged for the first time that France had used systematic torture during the Algerian war.
Kenyan girls forced into sex in exchange for sanitary products
Girls in Kenya are forced to have in sex in exchange for sanitary products due to the prevalence of period poverty and the shame, stigma and public health misinformation which surrounds menstruation.
New exclusive research by Unicef found 65 per cent of females in the Kibera slum – an area of the capital of Nairobi which is the largest urban slum in Africa – had traded sex for sanitary pads.
The humanitarian charity found 10 per cent of young adolescent girls admitted to having transactional sex for pads in western Kenya.
Orwellian NightmareA German Couple Winds Up on U.S. No-Fly List
When Europeans land on the U.S. No-Fly List, they have almost no chance to challenge it, as a German couple from Stuttgart recently found out the hard way. Their case casts light on an Orwellian lack of transparency in the war on terror.
Karina Marnissi and her husband Isam had been looking forward to their vacation in Cuba. Relaxing under the palm trees of the Caribbean and enjoying the charms of Havana seemed just the thing. On July 20, they traveled from Stuttgart to the Munich Airport with tickets and visas in their pockets. They had already checked in. All they had to do was check their luggage for the Eurowings flight to Varadero. But they would never make it onto the plane.
When they arrived at the counter, Isam Marnissi explains, a note was lying next to the keyboard of the Eurowings employee. A German national with Tunisian roots, Marnissi says both of their names had been handwritten on it. "Uh oh, we thought, something must to be wrong." They handed over their passports and the woman at the counter called someone and passed along their details.
What we know about the death toll in Puerto Rico
(Hint: Trump is wrong.)
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President Trump late Friday tossed off two tweets again rejecting Puerto Rico’s official Hurricane Maria death toll, following assertions he made Thursday that the official count of 2,975 deaths was a plot by Democrats to make him look bad.
Attention shifts to flood risks as heavy rains increase in Japan
Japanese have long been conditioned to prepare for earthquakes, but recent powerful typhoons and sudden, heavy rains have brought to the forefront another kind of disaster: flooding.
Experts warn that thousands could die and as many as 5 million people would need to be evacuated if massive dikes and levees in low-lying eastern Tokyo are overwhelmed by surging floodwaters.
The cities of Osaka and Nagoya also face flood risks, experts say, amid an increase in sudden heavy rainfall across the country in recent years, a symptom linked to global warming.
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