Hurricane Florence nears Category 5 strength as it moves toward the Southeast coast
Updated 0738 GMT (1538 HKT) September 11, 2018
The southern East Coast of the United States is bracing for the arrival of Hurricane Florence as the storm -- already packing winds of up to 140 mph -- neared Category 5 strength Tuesday.
More than 1 million people face mandatory evacuation orders in coastal areas of North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, where Florence could begin delivering tropical storm force winds late Wednesday.
One year after major storms ravaged the Gulf Coast and Puerto Rico, officials warned those in Florence's path not to underestimate the threat the storm poses.
'Repugnant, racist': News Corp cartoon on Serena Williams condemned
JK Rowling and daughter of Martin Luther King Jr criticise cartoonist Mark Knight’s caricature of tennis star
News Corp has come under global condemnation for publishing a racist, sexist cartoon depicting Serena Williams in its Melbourne paper.
The cartoon by Mark Knight, published in Rupert Murdoch’s Herald Sun tabloid on Tuesday, depicted the tennis star having a tantrum on the court at the US Open after she lost to Naomi Osaka on Saturday. The depiction of Osaka has also been criticised as making her appear as a “white woman”.
The way Knight drew Williams has been compared to the racist illustrations ubiquitous during the US Jim Crow era and Sambo cartoons.
Vostok 2018: Russia lets the war games with China begin
Russia's largest military training exercises since the Cold War are taking place in the country's far east. China is participating but what type of war is Moscow training for and who is playing the enemy?
Multiple Russian divisions, including the Pacific and northern fleets, are participating in the Vostok 2018 war games from September 11-17. The military training operation is set to eclipse the Soviet Union's largest-ever exercise held in 1981. About 300,000 troops, 1,000 aircraft, 36,000 combat vehicles, and as many as 80 ships will be involved, according to Russia's Defense Ministry.
The drills will take place across five training areas, as well as the Sea of Japan, the Bering Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk.
Escape from Xinjiang: Muslim Uighurs speak of China persecution
Testimonies by Muslim Uighurs who escaped Xinjiang confirm reports of 'systematic campaign of human rights violations'.
by Ted Regencia
In April 2017, Tarim, a 48-year-old businessman from Urumqi, the capital of China's Muslim Xinjiang region, received a phone call from the police summoning him to their offices in Aksu prefecture, 900km to the southwest.
Tarim knew at once that he was in trouble and devised a getaway, keeping the details to himself. He had just a few hours to carry out his plan.
Two days earlier, he was in Aksu for an attempt to rescue his sister Zohra, who was sent to a "re-education camp", after travelling to Turkey with him and their mother in 2016.
Study: giving out cash in Uganda helped after 4 years. After 9 years, not so much.
Nearly a decade on, the people who got cash weren’t earning more than people who didn’t.
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I write a lot about the benefits of fighting poverty by giving poor people cash, rather than, say, giving them chickens or food parcels or water pumps. Giving cash directly to the poor is relatively easy, it respects the decisions of poor people as to how to spend it, and it avoids the central planning challenges of some other anti-poverty policies. Moreover, there is, I think, pretty good evidence demonstrating its effectiveness.
But “pretty good evidence” doesn’t mean “all the evidence,” and “effective” doesn’t mean “a panacea.” A new paper from development economists Chris Blattman, Nathan Fiala, and Sebastian Martinez complicates our picture of cash transfer programs, and suggests that the best way to think of cash is as a way to speed up poor people’s escape from poverty, rather than as the key to helping them escape poverty in the first place.
AS ASSAD CLAIMS VICTORY IN SYRIAN CIVIL WAR, FAMILIES LEARN FATES OF DISAPPEARED LOVED ONES
TWO WEEKS BEFORE they were set to be married, Noura Ghazi’s fiancé disappeared the first time.
Bassel Khartabil, a Syrian-Palestinian software designer and peaceful activist, had been picked up by Syrian authorities in the al-Mezzeh district of Damascus. The arrest had come on March 15, 2012, exactly a year after Syrians began to rise up against the government of Bashar al-Assad. It would be months before Khartabil resurfaced: Ghazi finally received a short letter from him explaining that he was being held at a military detention facility. He had been charged with spying for an unspecified foreign state.
A few more months passed before Ghazi was able to see Khartabil. The couple had several brief visits in custody. During one of the face-to-face meetings, in early 2013, they got married. The occasional visits continued until October 2015, when Bassel once again disappeared.
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