Christchurch shootings: 49 dead in New Zealand mosque attacks
Forty-nine people have been killed and at least 20 wounded in shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison described the gunman, who had Australian citizenship, as an "extremist, right-wing" terrorist.
A man in his late twenties was charged with murder and will appear in court on Saturday morning, police said.
Two other men and one woman were detained in the area. Police have established that one was not involved.
Pakistan torn as women’s day march sparks wave of ‘masculine anxiety’
Public figures spoke of humiliation and rape threats surged online after rally posters hit too close to home for some men
One poster read: “Keep your dick pics to yourself.” Another had a drawing of a vagina and two ovaries and the words: “Grow a pair!” A third said, “If you like the headscarf so much, tie it around your eyes.”
The posters featured at women’s day marches across Pakistan last week, and were just a handful among hundreds that highlighted fundamental rights issues such as access to education and employment. They have since unleashed a social media storm. Thousands complained the marchers were “vulgar” opportunists who had infringed on conservative values in the Muslim-majority country and supplanted a legitimate fight for rights with a liberal, anti-Islamic agenda. Many called for a parallel men’s march.
New Zealand terror attack: Fury as Australian politician blames mosque mass killing on immigration
An Australian politician has sparked outrage after blaming immigration for a terror attack at two mosques in New Zealand.
While he said he was “utterly opposed to any form of violence”, independent Queensland senator Fraser Anning claimed “what it highlights is the growing fear within our community, both in Australia and New Zealand, of the increasing Muslim presence”.
He added in a statement: “As always, left-wing politicians and the media will rush to claim that the causes of today’s shootings lie with gun laws or those who hold nationalist views but this is all clichéd nonsense.
Circus turns to children to help find Mexico's missing
With a zip line, clowns and acrobats, the Missing Persons Search Brigade has turned this gray basketball court into a circus in Escuchapa, in the violent Mexican state of Guerrero.
It is a place where kids grow up trapped between the care-free play of childhood and the brutality of the world around them.
The village is on the long list of places in Mexico that have been devastated by the wave of violence engulfing the country since the government declared war on drug cartels in 2006 and sent the army into the streets. Since then, nearly 250,000 people have been murdered. Another 40,000 are missing.
JOC head Takeda likely to retire amid corruption probe
Japanese Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda is likely to retire without serving another term as French prosecutors are investigating him for suspected corruption in Japan's successful bid to host the 2020 Games, public broadcaster NHK reported.
The JOC is scheduled to elect its president in June in regular biennial voting, but senior officials on the committee and others close to the matter said his chances of another term amid the investigation were slim, NHK said.
Other sources said Takeda -- head of the committee since 2001 -- should decide by himself whether to step down, the broadcaster reported.
North Korea Threatens to Scuttle Talks With the U.S. and Resume Tests
North Korea threatened on Friday to suspend negotiations with the Trump administration over the North’s nuclear arms program and said its leader, Kim Jong-un, would soon decide whether to resume nuclear and missile tests.
Addressing diplomats and foreign correspondents at a news conference in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui said that personal relations between Mr. Kim and Mr. Trump were “still good and the chemistry is mysteriously wonderful.”
But she said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and John Bolton, Mr. Trump’s national security adviser, had created an “atmosphere of hostility and mistrust” that thwarted the top leaders’ negotiations in Hanoi last month.
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