Indonesia earthquake and tsunami: All the latest updates
Death toll in Indonesia's twin quake-tsunami disaster passes 1,400 as rescuers scramble to locate survivors.
The death toll in Indonesia's twin quake-tsunami disaster climbed to 1,424 on Thursday with time running out to rescue survivors six days after the disaster struck.
Authorities have set a tentative deadline of Friday to find anyone still trapped under rubble, at which point the chances of finding anyone alive will dwindle to almost zero.
Indonesia's disaster agency said thousands were injured and tens of thousands - possibly hundreds of thousands - displaced from their homes.
‘Terror being waged on wildlife', leaders warn
National and conservation leaders say the annihilation of nature is a dangerous ‘blight on humanity’, ahead of major summit
Humanity is waging a war of terror on wildlife across the globe, according to the head of a world-leading research institute who was previously a counter-terrorism expert for the UK government.
Dominic Jermey, director general of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), also spent years in Afghanistan supporting the fight against terror, until leaving his post of UK ambassador in 2017. “Coming to ZSL, I am in a front row seat on a different kind of war, this time on wildlife,” he said in an article for the Guardian. “[It is] a war with catastrophic impacts on people and animals.”
“While war and terror atrocities make daily headlines, the terror being waged on wildlife slides under the radar,” said Jermey, ahead of a global summit on tackling the illegal wildlife trade in London in October.
Russian spy agency GRU responsible for international cyberwar, UK government says
Agency accused of targeting Sergei Skripal also behind swathe of attacks across the globe
Kim SenguptaDefence Editor
The Russian military intelligence agency accused of the attempted assassination of former spy Sergei Skripal has carried out a swathe of attacks in the UK and abroad on political institutions, financial systems, transport networks and the media, according to the British government.
This secret international cyberwar has included the targeting of the US presidential elections which brought Donald Trump to power, according to a new report from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), as well the anti-doping watchdog in world sport.
The report follows the statement by Theresa May that Britain and allied countries will work together to expose the work of the GRU and the methods it uses.
Pakistan accounts for 13% of all global executions despite a shrinking death row population.
Since December 2014 the Supreme Court of Pakistan has overturned a whopping 85 percent of death sentences.
However, despite a significant drop in the death row population, Pakistan still accounts for 13 percent of all global executions since December 2014.
In their latest report named Counting the Condemned, Justice Project Pakistan (JPP), a non-governmental organisation working for prisoner's rights, analyses Pakistan's use of the death penalty and underscores the need for reforms.
Peruvian court orders arrest of ex-president Fujimori, overturning pardon
A Peruvian court on Wednesday annulled ex-president Alberto Fujimori's pardon for crimes against humanity and ordered the 80-year-old's immediate arrest, officials said.
The South American country's justice department said in a statement that the Supreme Court had "issued the arrest and detention orders against former president Fujimori so that he may be re-integrated into the prison establishment."
Fujimori was pardoned by presidential decree last December. He was 12 years into a 25-year jail sentence handed down for ordering two massacres by death squads between 1991 and 1992.
US Vice President Pence set to inflame China tensions: 'We will not be intimidated'
Updated 0847 GMT (1647 HKT) October 4, 2018
US Vice President Mike Pence is set to ramp-up Washington's criticism of Beijing in a speech Thursday, accusing China of aggressive moves against US military forces in the South China Sea, and trying to undermine President Donald Trump.
Pence's speech, to be delivered at the Hudson Institute think tank in Washington, is likely to inflame relations between the United States and China, already at their lowest point in years following a lengthy trade dispute and allegations of political interference.
"To put it bluntly, President Trump's leadership is working; China wants a different American President," Pence will say, according to excerpts of his speech seen by CNN.
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