Japanese women face a future of poverty, as confluence of factors conspire against them
BY MARIKA KATANUMA
BLOOMBERG
At first glance, things seem to be getting better for Japanese women.
In an economy that’s historically lagged other developed nations when it comes to female workforce participation, a record 71 percent are now employed, an 11 point leap over a decade ago.
The government boasts one of the most generous parental leave laws in the world and recently created a “limited full-time worker” category aimed primarily at mothers looking to balance job and family. And one of the most important needs for working families — child day care — is slowly being expanded.
Putin opponents ask how his PM choice owns million dollar properties
Russian president’s supporters praise Mikhail Mishustin as technocrat and self-made man
Russian opposition figures have raised questions about how Vladimir Putin’s surprise choice for new prime minister has acquired properties worth millions of dollars.
Meanwhile the Russian president’s allies rushed on Thursday to support Mikhail Mishustin, the former head of Russia’s tax service, who claimed to have been stunned and “not [to have] slept all night” after Putin named him the replacement for Dmitry Medvedev.
Supporters have praised Mishustin’s credentials as a technocrat and a “self-made man”. Mishustin, when confirmed by Russia’s parliament on Thursday, will be the country’s first new prime minister since 2012.
Turkey's Erdogan says country sending troops to Libya
Turkey is beginning to send troops into Libya in support of the internationally recognised government in Tripoli, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday, days before a summit in Berlin which will address the Libyan conflict.
Last week, Turkey and Russia urged Libya’s warring parties to declare a ceasefire. However, despite talks in Moscow aimed at halting Khalifa Haftar’s months-long campaign to seize the Libyan capital, the two sides were unable to reach an agreement when Haftar failed to sign a binding truce on Monday.
Turkey, which backs Fayez al-Serraj’s Government of National Accord (GNA), has previously said that it sent a training and cooperation team which is now active in Libya.
A blob of hot water in the Pacific Ocean killed a million seabirds, scientists say
Updated 0906 GMT (1706 HKT) January 16, 2020
As many as one million seabirds died at sea in less than 12 months in one of the largest mass die-offs in recorded history -- and researchers say warm ocean waters are to blame.
The birds, a fish-eating species called the common murre, were severely emaciated and appeared to have died of starvation between the summer of 2015 and the spring of 2016, washing up along North America's west coast, from California to Alaska.
Now, scientists say they know what caused it: a huge section of warm ocean water in the northeast Pacific Ocean dubbed "the Blob."
Exclusive: Meghan Markle Targeted By Hundreds Of Racist And Sexist Tweets Amid Plan To Step Back
Phrases included “self-loathing race traitor”, “trailer trash” and “meghan the queen, of monkey island”.
Hundreds of tweets containing sexist and racist abuse aimed at Meghan Markle were posted following the announcement that she and Prince Harry were quitting royal duties.
A study for HuffPost UK carried out by digital journalism analysts at the University of Sunderland captured the offensive posts mentioning the Duchess of Sussex.
Some 400 tweets were captured in the the most severe category of abuse, containing sexist and racist insults.
Trump shows that impeachment will not moderate him
Updated 1234 GMT (2034 HKT) January 16, 2020
President Donald Trump is not waiting to be acquitted of impeachable crimes to show that no one can stop him doing what he wants to do.
No Constitution, Democratic House, code of accepted presidential behavior, foreign Islamic Republic, common notion of proportionate force, media fact checker or legal precedent is going to rein him in.
On a day that was an apt leitmotif for his administration, Trump was formally accused of abusing power and obstructing Congress when Democrats finally transmitted articles of impeachment to the Senate. Lev Parnas, an associate of Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, publicly implicated the President in the Ukraine scandal and, disputing previous administration claims that the effort was to root out corruption, told CNN the aim was "all about 2020."
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