Asia's meth boom
How a war on drugs went continent-wide
From the jungles of Myanmar to the streets of Hong Kong, police throughout Asia are fighting a war against methamphetamine.
By many indications, they're losing.
Demand for both crystal meth and yaba, tablets that typically contain a mixture of meth and caffeine, is skyrocketing. Production is increasing at an unprecedented clip, and so is the body count. Leaders in places like Bangladesh and the Philippines are waging deadly drug wars that have cost thousands of lives.
But this isn't "Breaking Bad" -- meth isn't just used by the poor and the downtrodden.
'Why did it fly?' Grief mixes with anger over crashed Lion Air flight
Families faces agonising wait, both for the bodies of their lost ones and answers as to why flight JT610 came down
“I heard the plane from Bali already had a problem, right. So why did it fly?” asks Fendy, 43, as he sits on the kerb outside the police hospital in East Jakarta, trying to make sense of things.
The last time Fendy saw his wife, Mawar Sariarti, was when he dropped her off at the airport on Monday morning, before she a boarded a flight that later plunged into the Java Sea 13 minutes after takeoff.
“The system is difficult in Indonesia. It’s as though they don’t care about people’s lives, it’s trivial to them,” he says quietly, “They shouldn’t try and excuse it by saying it was a new plane. They weren’t supposed to fly.”
Fury as China, Russia and Norway block landmark Antarctic ocean sanctuary plan
'This was a historic opportunity but serious proposals for urgent marine protection were derailed by interventions that barely engaged with the science'
Environmental campaigners have hit out at China, Norway and Russia for blocking moves to create a vast Antarctic ocean sanctuary to protect species including orcas, blue whales, seals and penguins.
The landmark proposal to set up the world’s largest protected marine zone had the backing of 22 out of 25 members of an international group poised to confirm it.
It would have banned all commercial fishing in an area roughly the size of Sudan – 1.8 million sq km – and given a chance for wildlife and fish species to recover from damage by humans, experts said.
Opinion: Donald Trump's firearms license
The campaign tone in the US midterm elections is turning ever more aggressive. But with his threat to use weapons against migrants, President Trump has overstepped the line, writes DW’s Dagmar Engel.
I had sworn to lay off publicly venting my anger over comments made by US President Donald Trump. Anger distorts the view on his administration's policies. And that is probably the overriding aim of many of his incendiary remarks in interviews, at campaign rallies and on Twitter.
It is time to break that particular oath.
Trump is planning to send 15,000 soldiers to the Mexican border to stop the so-called migrant caravanin its tracks. He claims to have told the military that troops should react to thrown rocks as they would to gunshots.
Not just fun and games: Saudi sport diplomacy under scrutiny after Khashoggi
The fallout of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul has spread even to sport, drawing rare scrutiny on a soft power tool that Gulf monarchies have brandished with zeal.
Sport has become a strategic pillar of the House of Saud’s global PR mission. So it was only a matter of time before the pressure would extend to Saudi investments in sport. Football, an immensely popular game in the oil-rich Gulf kingdom, was the first to experience the fallout of the Khashoggi scandal. Last weekend, Amnesty International called on two top Italian clubs, Juventus and AC Milan, to boycott the Italian Super Cup, set to take place in Saudi Arabia in January. The deal to allow the kingdom to host three of the next five editions of the star-studded Supercoppa was only agreed over the summer.
Half say Trump encourages violence by way he speaks, poll finds
GARY LANGER,ABC News
Half of registered voters think that President Donald Trump is encouraging politically motivated violence in the United States in the way he speaks, but essentially as many say the media are doing the same in the way they report the news, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll.
Just two in 10 say Trump is acting to discourage violence; 15 percent say the media are.
The national survey, which comes during a period of heightened tensions ahead of the midterms, also finds the Democratic Party leading the Republicans in trust to handle “reducing divisions between people and groups,” by a substantial 15-point margin, 46-31 percent. Seventeen percent volunteer that they don’t trust either party, a high level for this response.
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