Ethiopian Airlines crash: Boeing reduces 737 production
Boeing is temporarily cutting production of its best-selling 737 airliner in the continuing fall-out from crashes in Ethiopia and Indonesia.
Production will drop from 52 planes a month to 42 from mid-April, Boeing has said in a statement.
The decision is a response to a halt in deliveries of the 737 Max - the model involved in the two accidents.
The plane is currently grounded as preliminary findings suggest its anti-stall system was at fault.
An Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crashed only minutes after take-off from Addis Ababa in March, killing all 157 people on board.
Revealed: five Australian children trapped in China amid Uighur crackdown
Children, aged between one and six, are all Australian citizens and are separated from at least one of their parents
At least five Australian children are trapped in China, unable to return home because of the Chinese government’s crackdown on Uighur Muslims, the Guardian can reveal.
The children, who range in age from one to six, are all Australian citizens and come from three different families. They have been stuck in China for up to two years, and are all separated from at least one of their parents.
In one case, the parents say Chinese authorities threatened that the child would be taken into a state-run orphanage and given up for adoption to a Han Chinese family, and the Chinese parent would be sent to a detention centre.
UN Security Council calls on eastern Libya forces to halt offensive on Tripoli
The UN Security Council has called for a halt to military movements in Tripoli following an offensive by eastern forces on the capital.
The UN Security Council on Friday called on forces under the command of Khalifa Haftar to halt an offensive against Tripoli amid concern a battle for Libya's capital could unleash greater instability.
Haftar's self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) on Thursday launched an assault on Tripoli, held by the UN-backed government and multiple armed militias.
The offensive by the LNA, which is aligned with a parallel administration in the east of the country, threatens to escalate a civil war that has split the country following the ouster of Muammar Gadhafi in 2011.Peace activist or atomic spy? The curious case of a Cold War nuclear scientist
Updated 0014 GMT (0814 HKT) April 6, 2019
The two police officers trailed the university professor as he left his home in the southwest London suburbs and walked to the local railway station.
His name was Eric Burhop. An Australian immigrant who had become one of the United Kingdom's leading nuclear and theoretical physicists, he was also a former member of the team that built the first atomic bomb, a prominent peace campaigner, and the subject of surveillance by security services on at least three continents in the 1950s.
Tall and well built, with thinning hair and a ruddy complexion, Burhop walked "with a slight stoop and takes noticeably short strides," a later report noted. "He usually carries a small brown attache case and raincoat. Wears herring-bone tweed sports coats and grey flannels, brown shoes."
Thousands rally in Mali to protest against ethnic violence
Demonstrators take to streets of Bamako nearly two weeks after the massacre of at least 153 people in Fulani village.
Thousands of people have rallied in Mali's capital, Bamako, to protest against President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita's failure to stem a surge of intercommunal violence in the centre of the country.
The demonstration on Friday was called for by Muslim religious leaders, opposition parties and civil society groups, including organisations representing the mainly Muslim Fulani herding community.
Organisers said 15,000 people were part of the march and a mass prayer ceremony, which came nearly two weeks after last month's massacre of at least 153 people in the Fulani village of Ogossagou, near the town of Mopti in central Mali.
America is finally being exposed to the devastating reality of prison violence
Recent reports show how overcrowding, understaffing, and limited resources are contributing to violence in prisons.
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In some US prisons, inmates are subjected to violence and inhumane conditions on a daily basis. This week, a new report and a lawsuit brought renewed attention to that fact.
On Wednesday, the Department of Justice released a damning report on prisons in Alabama, showing that a combination of understaffing, overcrowding, and poor management led to the state’s prison system having the highest number of homicides in the country. The conditions are so severe that they effectively deny Alabama inmates their constitutional rights to be protected from “cruel and unusual punishment,” the report says.
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