Indonesia tsunami: 43 dead and 'many missing' after Anak Krakatoa erupts – latest updates
Volcanic activity believed to have sent a wave crashing into villages and hotels in a popular tourist area on the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra. Follow all the developments here
Number of victims 'will increase'
Endan Permana, head of the agency in Pandeglang, told Metro TV that police were helping victims in Tanjung Lesung in Banten province.
“Many are missing,” Permana said adding that with information from many areas still to be compiled, there was a “possibility that data on the victims and damage will increase”.
Fergus FallsThe Relotius Scandal Reaches a Small Town in America
Claas Relotius, the DER SPIEGEL journalist outed this week for churning out fraudulent stories, wrote for the magazine about the U.S. town of Fergus Falls. Two locals fact-checked his reporting, and their verdict is devastating -- a perfect example of how DER SPIEGEL's editorial safeguards failed.
In March 2017, DER SPIEGEL published the story "In a Small Town." It was set in Fergus Falls, a town in Minnesota that was supposedly typical of the rural America that made Donald Trump president. The story was written by DER SPIEGEL editor Claas Relotius, who allegedly spent a month reporting in the town.
Two residents of Fergus Falls, Michele Anderson and Jake Krohn, read the story a week after it was published -- as they later described in an article they published online after the scandal broke.
US share buybacks at records despite congressional griping
New York (AFP)
US corporate share repurchases keep setting new records, a trend some experts expect to persist despite bipartisan unease on Capitol Hill and a weaker economic outlook that could crimp profits.
Fueled with windfalls from the 2017 tax cut and cheap debt, companies in the S&P 500 spent $203.8 billion buying back their own stock in the third quarter, the third consecutive new record, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices.
Stock buybacks boost share prices and make profits look bigger by increasing earnings per share, a key Wall Street benchmark.
Boeing shares rose nearly four percent on Tuesday after it announced it was boosting its share repurchase plan to $20 billion from $18 billion and increasing its dividend.
Six years after Delhi bus attack, India rape crisis shows no sign of slowing
Updated 0102 GMT (0902 HKT) December 23, 2018
Years after the gang rape of a student on a New Delhi bus shocked the world, women in India remain haunted by the case.
The fate of Jyoti Singh Pandey -- known commonly as Nirbhaya, meaning "Fearless" in Hindi -- attracted global outrage and seemed for a time to be the catalyst that would force change on an issue that has long plagued India.
But that effort has faltered.
Ladies & the Law: The murder that resulted in Japan’s anti-stalking act
Savvy Tokyo's series "Ladies and the Law" digs back in time tracing the catalysts for change in Japanese laws that directly or indirectly affect women and their families. If you have a topic you would like us to cover through a real court case, contact us at editorial@gplusmedia.com
At a little before 1 p.m. on the afternoon of October 26, 1999, Shiori Ino, a 21-year-old university student, was stabbed in the chest while entering JR Okegawa station in Saitama. She bled to death while being rushed to a nearby hospital. Ino’s assailant was a local heavy who had been hired by Kazuhito Komatsu, a 26-year-old man Ino had briefly dated earlier in the year after meeting him at a neighborhood game center.
When they met, Komatsu had given Ino a false name and lied about his age. After just a few dates, he began to simultaneously lavish her with expensive gifts and emotionally abuse her. Ino tried to break up with him, but Komatsu would not accept that she no longer wanted to see him and became even more abusive. He began to phone her home and make threats to both her and her family.
A SECOND CHANCE
A Somali Immigrant Was Deported, Then Returned. His Georgia Community Is Still Reeling from the ICE Raid That Ensnared Him.
Maryam Saleh
IBRAHIM MUSA LIVED a quiet life in Duluth, a small Georgia town about 27 miles northeast of Atlanta. The Somali immigrant worked as a technician at a local Nissan dealership, and he spent most of his free time with his wife and their four children. He watched his daughter Iqran, now 20, grow into a young woman; he played basketball with his sons Khalid, 17, and Khadar, 14; and he played with Abdirhman, the 10-year-old baby of the family. “The joyfulness, being around them, being the provider, being a dad, and now raising my kids,” he told me. “That was more important to me than my [immigration] papers, you know?”
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