UK would not back US bombing of Iran cultural sites – No 10
Downing Street says such military action would break international treaties in implicit rebuke to Trump
Downing Street has said targeting cultural sites in Iran would breach international warfare conventions in an implicit rebuke to Donald Trump for threatening to bomb protected heritage sites.
Boris Johnson’s official spokesman refused to criticise Trump directly but made clear the UK government would not support such a course of action, after the US president said he could target 52 Iranian sites if Iran retaliated over the assassination of Qassem Suleimani – “some at a very high level and important to Iran and the Iranian culture”.
Violence in JNU was organised attack: JNUSU president Aishe Ghosh
The Hindu Net Desk
At least 28 people, including JNU Students’ Union president Aishe Ghosh, were injured as chaos reigned on the campus for nearly two hours on Sunday
A day after violence broke out at Jawaharlal Nehru University as masked men armed with sticks and rods attacked students and teachers and damaged property on the campus, the university saw heavy security in place.
As it happened: Masked goons strike terror in JNU, none arrested
At least 28 people, including JNU Students’ Union president Aishe Ghosh, were injured as chaos reigned on the campus for nearly two hours.
Charlie Hebdo trial opens in Paris with most suspects dead or presumed dead
As France prepares to mark the fifth anniversary of the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attacks, the trial into the deadly assaults, which killed 12 people including prominent French cartoonists, opened in Paris Monday.
Reporting from the courthouse, FRANCE 24’s Chris Moore explained that the trial is “a bit of a ghost trial” since most of the 24 suspects are dead or presumed dead in Iraq or Syria.
Of the 24, only five are expected to appear on the dock: 19 suspects fled to parts of Iraq and Syria once controlled by the Islamic State (IS) group and have since been killed or are believed to have been killed during the US-led coalition crackdown on the jihadist group.
PM's heckler posts graphic re-enactment of his bushfire survival
By Harriet Alexander
The Cobargo man who called Prime Minister Scott Morrison a "mutt" has published a Facebook video re-enacting in graphic detail how he survived the bushfire that swallowed his friend's home and appealing for the community to come together.
Mathew Rumble returned to the site where he took refuge during the New Year's Eve fires, now reduced to a roof standing on pillars and a few brick walls surrounded by rubble, to demonstrate how they were positioned as the house caught alight and what they did as it collapsed around them.
Aliens definitely exist and they could be living among us on Earth, says Britain's first astronaut
Updated 1212 GMT (2012 HKT) January 6, 2020
Aliens definitely exist, Britain's first astronaut has said -- and it's possible they're living among us on Earth but have gone undetected so far.
Helen Sharman, who visited the Soviet Mir space station in 1991, told the Observer newspaper on Sunday that "aliens exist, there's no two ways about it."
"There are so many billions of stars out there in the universe that there must be all sorts of different forms of life," she went on. "Will they be like you and me, made up of carbon and nitrogen? Maybe not."
Japan to strengthen border checks, review bail conditions after Ghosn's escape
By YURI KAGEYAMA
Japan's justice minister vowed Monday to strengthen border departure checks and review bail conditions after Nissan's former chairman, Carlos Ghosn, fled the country despite the stringent surveillance imposed as a condition of his release.
Masako Mori told reporters at a news conference the ministry has already acted to prevent a recurrence but declined to give details. Speaking a week after Ghosn showed up in Lebanon, due to the New Year holidays in Japan, she defended the judicial system that he fled, insisting he would not get a fair hearing.
She was asked about reports that Ghosn had hidden in a box and that baggage checks at a regional airport might have been insufficient.
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