Christchurch mosque shootings: New Zealand to ban military style weapons
New Zealand will ban all types of semi-automatic weapons and assault rifles following the Christchurch attacks, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said.
The announcement comes less than a week after 50 people were killed at two mosques, allegedly by a lone gunman.
Ms Ardern said she expected new legislation to be in place by 11 April, saying: "Our history changed forever. Now, our laws will too."
All of the dead have now been formally identified, police have confirmed.
Arrests over hotel spycam porn ring that filmed 1,600 guests across South Korea
Cameras were set up in hair dryer holders and wall sockets in 10 cities, say prosecutors
Police in South Korea have arrested two men for secretly filming 1,600 hotel guests and streaming the footage live online, in the latest voyeurism scandalto hit the country.
The suspects, who have not been named, set up secret cameras in 42 rooms at 30 hotels in 10 South Korean cities between November last year and the start of this month, media reports said.
The arrests come a week after singer and TV celebrity Jung Joon-young admitted he had secretly filmed himself having sex with women and sharing the footage online without their consent.
Cyclone Idai: ‘Death all over’ as floods wipe out ‘evidence houses were ever here’
Survivors in Malawi ‘camping in schools, churches and any public buildings that they can find’, UN tells The Independent
Cyclone Idai has spread “death all over” in Mozambique, survivors have said, with hundreds killed across southern Africa.
In neighbouring Malawi, UN workers said that in some areas all evidence of human settlement had been washed away by the storm and subsequent floods.
With the death toll reaching at least 360 – but expected to rise – world governments have said they will increase their efforts to help. In Mozambique, 202 deaths have been reported. Some 102 people have died in Zimbabwe and 56 in Malawi.
Old foes, millennials stand in way of Thai junta polls victory
Thailand holds it first election in eight years on Sunday under rules concocted by a junta to keep it in power, but with the appeal of both old foes and the new millennial vote posing an unpredictable challenge.
The junta seized power in 2014, vowing to rescue the country from a treadmill of coups, short-lived civilian governments, and protests. But the kingdom goes to the polls on March 24 as divided as ever.
The arch-royalist army has no intention of leaving politics and has scripted a constitution that gifts it a foothold in power for a generation.
Standing in its way are supporters of its nemesis, ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra, who has dominated Thai politics since his first election win in 2001.
Anatomy of a 'caliphate': The rise and fall of ISIL
Despite the near-end of ISIL's territorial rule, the armed group is likely to remain a force in the region, experts say.
by Farah Najjar
Samer recalls the gruesome shock of seeing his friend's headless corpse strung up above Raqqa's main square.
It's this memory, from a hot summer day in 2015, that defines his time living under ISIL's rule in Syria.
"No one was allowed to touch it, nor bring it down for a proper burial," Samer says of the body of his friend, an English literature graduate in his mid-20s who was killed for his "activism".
Vietnamese workers, streaming to Japan, face risks as labor system opens up
By Linda Sieg and Ami Miyazaki
When a young Vietnamese woman found out late last year that she was pregnant after arriving in Japan on a "technical trainee" visa, she was given a stark choice: "Have an abortion or go back to Vietnam."
But returning home would leave her unable to pay back the $10,000 she borrowed to pay recruiters there.
"She needs to stay to pay back her debts," said Shiro Sasaki, secretary general of the Zentoitsu (All United) Workers Union, who has advocated on her behalf and said such threats were common.
Buoyed by hopes of higher wages but burdened by loans, Vietnamese youth - the fastest-growing group of foreign workers in Japan - will be among those most affected by a new scheme to let in more blue-collar workers that kicks off in April.
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