Australia recognises West Jerusalem as Israeli capital
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed that his government will recognise West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
However, he said Australia's embassy would not move from Tel Aviv, until a peace settlement was achieved.
He added Australia also recognised the aspirations of the Palestinians to a state with a capital in East Jerusalem.
The status of Jerusalem is one of the most contested issues between Israel and the Palestinians.
US President Donald Trump drew international criticism last year when he reversed decades of American foreign policy by recognising the ancient city as Israel's capital. The US embassy was relocated from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in May.
UN urged to seek Australia-based Hakeem al-Araibi's freedom from Thai jail
Rights groups say refugee footballer’s extradition to Bahrain would constitute an ‘unlawful refoulement’
Supporters of the Australia-based refugee Hakeem al-Araibi have petitioned the United Nations to seek the young footballer’s freedom from a Thai jail cell, where he awaits extradition to Bahrain over a conviction he says is politically motivated.
Al-Araibi has been in detention for more than two weeks after he was arrested at Bangkok airport after arriving for a holiday with his wife. A Thai court has ordered further detention of 60 days while it processes an extradition request from Bahrain, despite strident appeals from the Australian government to return Al-Araibi.
The urgent appeal submission was compiled by rights groups including Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain and the BahrainInstitute for Rights and Democracy.
Palestinian teenager killed as violence spirals in West Bank during Israeli manhunt for shooter
Israel army said one of its soldiers was wounded on Friday, as raids intensify in West Bank and 40 people arrested
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A Palestinian teenager was killed yesterday and an Israeli soldier critically wounded in clashes that erupted across the occupied West Bank.
The violence came as Israeli security forces ratcheted up a manhunt for a Palestinian gunman who shot dead two soldiers the day before.
Plumes of black smoke rose up at a checkpoint near to the key city of Ramallah yesterday as dozens of Palestinian protesters burned tires and threw rocks at Israeli soldiers, who fired back with tear gas and bullets.
Nigerian army lifts ban of UNICEF after spy accusations
Nigeria's army has revoked a ban on UNICEF after claiming it had held workshops to train spies for Boko Haram. The group's Islamist insurgency has killed more than 27,000 people since 2009 and left 1.8 million homeless.
The Nigerian military on Friday lifted a ban on UNICEF operations in the country's northeast, after accusing the aid agency of training "spies" supporting Boko Haram jihadists.
Earlier on Friday the military said the United Nations children's agency had this week held workshops in the northeast city of Maiduguri, where it was training people for "clandestine" activities that were "sabotaging" counterterrorism efforts.
Somali-American Amazon workers demand better conditions
A group of Amazon workers in Minnesota who are Somali refugees resettled in the Midwestern US state demanded better working conditions Friday during a protest outside one of the retailer's warehouses.
Hundreds braved frigid temperatures to demonstrate outside of the Amazon warehouse in the Minneapolis suburb of Shakopee -- home to a sizable Somali immigrant population from which Amazon has heavily recruited.
The protest was the latest effort by the workers, who say East African immigrants make up a majority of the workforce at the massive warehouse but go unheard.
"We don't have rights in the company," worker Abdulkadir Ahmad, 30, told AFP.
Is Laos facing a dam disaster?
First came a boom, shortly followed by the sound of something bursting. Then, a giant wave — big enough to submerge an area the size of Paris in 15 feet of water — washed across southeastern Laos, ripping villages apart, swallowing homes, and dispersing thousands of people.
The failure of a billion-dollar dam in the Lao province of Attapeu in July this year left at least 35 dead and over 7,000 homeless, according to sate-run media.
In the wake of the tragedy, the Laotian government promised to review the safety of existing dams and suspend the approval of new ones. An international team of experts was called on to investigate the root cause of the incident.
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