Hoda Muthana 'deeply regrets' joining Isis and wants to return home
Exclusive: Muthana is only American among 1,500 foreign women and children at a Syrian refugee camp
An American woman captured by Kurdish forces after fleeing the last pocket of land controlled by Islamic State says she “deeply regrets” travelling to Syria to join the terror group and has pleaded to be allowed to return to her family in Alabama.
Once one of Isis’s most prominent online agitators who took to social media to call for the blood of Americans to be spilled, Hoda Muthana, 24, claims to have made a “big mistake” when she left the US four years ago and says she was brainwashed into doing so online.
Speaking from al-Hawl refugee camp in northern Syria, while her 18-month-old son played at her feet, Muthana said she misunderstood her faith, and that friends she had at the time believed they were following Islamic tenets when they aligned themselves to Isis.
General Franco's family given two week ultimatum to decide where dictator's body should be buried
Government says it will choose new site if relatives do not reach agreement
The descendants of former military dictator General Francisco Franco have been given a two-week ultimatum to decide where his body should be reburied.
Franco, who ruled Spain from 1939 to his death in 1975, is due to be exhumed from a mausoleum at the Valley of the Fallen near Madrid next month.
However, Spanish authorities have so far failed to agree a new burial site with the late dictator’s relatives.
Saudi crown prince starts Asia tour — and stirs regional rivalry
Investment deals were to top the agenda during the Saudi crown prince's latest Asian tour. But with terror attacks and rivalries gripping the region, can the crown prince manoeuver geopolitical fault lines with his petrodollar diplomacy?
Pigeons, balloons, luxury hotel suits and high-end BMWs have been making headlines in Pakistan over the past few days as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman makes his first-ever visit to the financially strapped South Asian nation.
Bird markets were tapped to provide an unprecedented 3,500 pigeons to be released to mark the occasion. The Pakistani government has declared Monday a public holiday in the capital, Islamabad, and newspapers have been gushing about the 750 hotel rooms and luxury cars booked for the royal visit.
UK lawmakers: Facebook 'intentionally and knowingly' violated data privacy laws
Updated 0556 GMT (1356 HKT) February 18, 2019
UK lawmakers have accused Facebook of violating data privacy and competition laws in a report on social media disinformation that also says CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed "contempt" toward parliament by not appearing before them.
The UK Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee said in a report published Monday that a trove of internal Facebook emails it reviewed demonstrated that the social media platform had "intentionally and knowingly" violated both data privacy and competition laws.
The cache of documents reviewed by the committee, some of which include correspondence between Zuckerberg and company executives, stem from a lawsuit filed in California against Facebook (FB). The committee obtained the documents late last year from a small app company called Six4Three that is behind the suit.
Koike says 2020 Olympics can be springboard to transform Tokyo
By Jack Tarrant
The 2020 Olympics can "usher in a new Tokyo" and, along with this year's Rugby World Cup, leave behind a legacy similar to that of the 1964 Summer Games, the city's governor, Yuriko Koike, said on Monday.
"These two major events will serve as a springboard to transform our city," said Koike. "This year, 2019, will be key in making those Games a success and ushering in a new Tokyo. "But the metric for success will not be limited to just the competition itself; we want to lead Japan beyond 2020, change the way Tokyo thinks and transform our society."
The last time Tokyo hosted the Olympics in 1964, the Games provided the city with the opportunity for a rebranding, shaking off a war-ravaged reputation and showing a modern face to the world.
JAIR BOLSONARO PRAISED THE GENOCIDE OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE. NOW HE’S EMBOLDENING ATTACKERS OF BRAZIL’S AMAZONIAN COMMUNITIES.
“THE BRAZILIAN CAVALRY was very incompetent. Competent, yes, was the American cavalry that decimated its Indians in the past and nowadays does not have this problem in their country.” That’s the opinion of Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, expressed on the floor of Congress in 1998. His views appear to have changed little since then; in a video message to supporters 18 years later, he promised to revoke the protected status of an Indigenous reserve in 2019 and in the next breath added, “We’re going to give a rifle and a carry permit to every farmer.”
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