El Chapo trial: Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán found guilty
Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán has been found guilty on all 10 counts at his drug-trafficking trial at a federal court in New York.
Guzmán, 61, was convicted on numerous counts including the distribution of cocaine and heroin, illegal firearms possession and money laundering.
He has yet to be sentenced, but the verdict could mean life in jail.
Guzmán was arrested in January 2016 after escaping from a Mexican prison through a tunnel five months earlier.
He was extradited to the US in 2017.
Taiji dolphin hunt: activists to launch unprecedented legal challenge
Exclusive: lawsuit in Japan contends that dolphins are wrongly classified as fish and should be protected as mammals
Animal rights activists have launched an unprecedented legal challenge to the slaughter of dolphins in Japan, claiming that fishermen are routinely violating animal welfare laws and exceeding government-set quotas.
The London-based organisation Action for Dolphins and the Japanese NGO Life Investigation Agency on Wednesday submitted evidence they hope will halt the annual dolphin hunts in Taiji, a whaling town on Japan’s Pacific coast, the Guardian can reveal.
“Dolphins are mistakenly viewed as ‘fish’ in Japan, and therefore domestic laws protecting mammals from cruelty have not been applied to them,” claimed Sarah Lucas, chief executive of Action for Dolphins.
Princess Ubolratana: Thai royal 'sad' about election fallout that could see party disbanded
'I am sorry that my honest intentions to help work for the country and all Thais have resulted in a problem that should not arise in this day and age'Adam WithnallAsia editor
The Thai princess who made an ill-fated attempt to be nominated as a prime ministerial candidate has apologised for her actions, as the party that put her forward faced the prospect of being dissolved.
Princess Ubolratana’s brief foray into political life had threatened to turn the landscape of Thai politics on its head – until it was unceremoniously shot down by her brother, King Maha Vajiralongkorn.
Her candidacy was formally rejected by the election commission on Monday, but now that body is going one step further in recommending that her Thai Raksa Chart Party be dissolved because its prime minister candidate was “in conflict with the system of rule of democracy with king as head of state”.
'Time running out for Nicolas Maduro,' Venezuela's Juan Guaido tells DW
Is he a beacon of hope, a future president or just a US puppet? Venezuela's self-declared leader, Juan Guaido, has told DW he is confident he will prevail over Nicolas Maduro in his country's power struggle.
Juan Guaido, the self-declared interim president of of Venezuela, says he wants to "put an end to usurpation, form a transitional government and make free elections possible."
It is his job, Guaido told DW's Oscar Schlenker, to keep on pushing for this process. Asked whether he sees himself as Venezuela's next president, he responded: "We will see who will run in the free elections."
There is still a long way to go before free elections, however. The power struggle between the 35-year-old Guaido and President Nicolas Maduro may have reached a crucial stage. Many people fear the opposition will run out of steam, that it will not be able to keep up the pressure on the streets or that the international community will soon turn to another trouble spot if it sees no development in Venezuela. Nevertheless, Guaido is confident his side will prevail in the end.
Australia announces reopening of offshore detention centre
A controversial offshore migrant detention centre on Christmas Island is to reopen, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Wednesday, as he doubled down on hardline policies after a historic legislative defeat.
Morrison approved the reopening of the remote facility -- closed just months ago -- claiming new laws just passed by parliament would increase the number of people trying to arrive in Australia illegally.
On Tuesday and Wednesday parliament rebuffed government warnings and adopted legislation opening the door for some of the 1,000 refugees detained in existing offshore centres on Nauru and Papua New Guinea's Manus Island to travel to Australia for medical treatment if the transfers are requested by two or more doctors.
Kim Jong-un's cultural revolution: K-pop and fancy sneakers
Dancers in hot pants. Factories pumping out Air Jordan lookalikes. TV dramas that are actually fun to watch.
North Korean pop culture, long dismissed by critics as a kitschy throwback to the dark days of Stalinism, is getting a major upgrade under leader Kim Jong-un.
The changes are being seen in everything from television dramas and animation programs to the variety and packaging of consumer goods, which have improved significantly under Kim. Whether it's a defensive attempt to keep up with South Korea or an indication that Kim is willing to embrace aspects of Western consumer culture that his predecessors might have viewed as suspiciously bourgeois isn't clear.
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