Saturday, November 30, 2019

Six In The Morning Saturday 30 November 2019

After another K-pop death, the spotlight returns to pressures of an industry built on perfection

By Jake Kwon, CNN
Updated 0024 GMT (0824 HKT) December 1, 2019


In an industry where stars face immense pressure to portray themselves as the immaculate image of happiness, K-pop duo Goo Hara and Sulli appeared to be different.
Toward the end of their lives, the close friends were honest about who they were. They didn't try to adopt a persona as a perfect lover or sister. They spoke their minds. They were fallible.
Goo's death on Sunday, six weeks after Sulli's apparent suicide, left many fans angry and confused -- and reignited conversations about the issues of cyberbullying, gender violence and especially the mental well-being of celebrities living in South Korea's intense K-pop bubble.


Iraq risks breakup as tribes take on Iran’s militias in ‘blood feud’

Unrest spreads after security forces fire on protesters and anger at Tehran’s influence increases



 
Iraq’s parliament will today begin the process of electing a new leader after the prime minister, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, resigned last week. His successor will have to cope with the severe unrest that is spreading across the country and which has pitched security forces against demonstrators for nearly two months. Fears are mounting that the country could unravel altogether.
Security forces killed at least 45 civilians who were protesting around the southern city of Nasiriyah on Thursday in one of the worst incidents in the recent outbreak of anti-government protests. The government’s actions were intended to be a show of brute force following the firebombing of the Iranian consulate in Najaf on Wednesday, an attack that was the strongest expression yet of the anti-Iranian sentiment by the Iraqi demonstrators.

Malta prosecutors charge businessman in 2017 murder of journalist

One of Malta’s wealthiest men, Yorgen Fenech, was charged in a Valletta court on Saturday with complicity to murder in the car bomb killing of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017.
Fenech pleaded not guilty to this charge and to other charges related to the case.
The probe into the murder of Caruana Galizia, a campaigning journalist who investigated and exposed corruption, has developed into a political crisis for the government of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat.
Official sources said Muscat was expected to make a statement announcing his resignation later on Saturday or on Sunday.
No official statement has been issued.

'I looked around and everyone was dead': life in hiding


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His bullet wound bulges on his right hip.
A coin of keloid skin with a purple halo.
He fumbles and interlocks his fingers, his knee pumping up and down rapidly. Ryan Cruz is not his real name.
He’s sitting on a plastic stool in a lino-floored attic of a church as he tells me what happened not far from the Manila mountains nearly three years ago.
Speckles of sweat form on his brow.




Protests in India over Telangana vet's suspected rape, murder

Four accused remanded in judicial custody for 14 days over suspected rape and killing of 27-year-old veterinarian.

Hundreds of protesters on Saturday gathered outside a police station on the outskirts of the Indian city of Hyderabad, demanding the four men accused of raping and murdering a 27-year-old woman be handed over to them.
Some protesters clashed with police, hurling slippers, after the charred body of the woman, a veterinarian, was found in the town of Shadnagar, about 50km (31 miles) from Hyderabad, on Thursday.
Police said medical evidence would be hard to obtain given the state of the body but that they were working on the assumption the victim had been raped.

London Bridge attack victim named as Jack Merritt


One of the people stabbed to death in Friday's attack at London Bridge has been named as 25-year-old University of Cambridge graduate Jack Merritt.
He was one of two people killed when 28-year-old Usman Khan launched the attack at a Cambridge University conference on prisoner rehabilitation.
Khan, who had been jailed over a terror plot, was shot dead by police after members of the public restrained him.
Mr Merritt was described by his father on Twitter as a "beautiful spirit".






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