'Going to be a blast furnace': State of emergency again for NSW
By Nick Bonyhady and Alexandra Smith
Tens of thousands of people have fled from the state's fire-ravaged South Coast and more have been told to leave dozens of other towns after much of southern NSW was declared unsafe.
An area stretching hundreds of kilometres from Nowra to the Victorian border and west to Kosciuszko has been declared "leave zones" ahead of the extreme fire conditions forecast for Saturday.
"It is not safe, do not be in this area on Saturday," the Rural Fire Service (RFS) warnings say.
NSW is again in a state of emergency as it braces for a “very dangerous day” of searing temperatures and strong winds on Saturday, prompting fears that the worst is yet to come.
Carlos Ghosn prepares to speak as Japan comes to terms with saviour who fled
Wife dismisses reports husband escaped inside an instrument case as world awaits full explanation from fugitive
The world will have to wait until next week for what could be the only definitive account of how Carlos Ghosn managed to leave Japan months before he was due to stand trial for alleged financial misconduct.
The former Nissan chairman who fled the country to Lebanon while out on bail, will speak to the media in Beirut next Wednesday, media reports said, in a public appearance that could provide answers to myriad questions swirling around his daring escape.
Few countries will be monitoring Ghosn’s comments more closely than Japan, where his work to turn around Nissan earned him something of a saviour image. The official response in Japan has been a mixture of condemnation – including by his own lawyers – and disbelief that a high-profile suspect under strictly monitored house arrest could have fled overseas, apparently without a passport.
El Chapo had same powers as a president, Mexico's leader says
'We are purifying public life so there is moral authority', Mr Lopez Obrador says amid anti-corruption driveVincent Wood
Mexico’s leader has claimed notorious drug cartel kingpin Joaquin Guzman – better known as El Chapo – wielded the power of a president up until his most recent imprisonment.
In a New Year’s speech Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who took office in December last year on an anti-corruption platform, celebrated his administration’s efforts to root out those in high office who were found to have been under the thumb of El Chapo’s deadly Sinaloa cartel.
"There was a time when Guzman Loera was as powerful, or had the influence, that the president had at that time," he told an audience in the southern city of Palenque. "That made it hard to punish those who had committed crimes. That is now history."
China arrests pro-democracy activists in year-end crackdown
The latest crackdown against over a dozen lawyers and activists was reportedly linked to a gathering in the city of Xiamen, where participants discussed China's democratic transition. Rights groups slammed the arrests.
More than a dozen Chinese lawyers and activists are reportedly missing or were detained by authorities in the final days of 2019 as part of the Chinese government's year-end crackdown on pro-democracy campaigners.
Human rights groups said Thursday the latest crackdown was linked to a meeting in the eastern coast city of Xiamen in Fujian province, where participants discussed ways to transform China into a democratic country.
French citizen dies in custody of US immigration agents
A French citizen and native of Angola has died in the custody of US immigration agents, they said on Wednesday, the latest in a number of deaths during a US crackdown on illegal immigrants.
A statement from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) identified the person only as "a 40-year-old native of Angola and citizen of France."
They said the person died on Sunday at a hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
"An autopsy is pending to determine the official cause of death," ICE said, adding that French consular officials have been notified and "are attempting to locate the next of kin."
More than 100 Uyghur graveyards demolished by Chinese authorities, satellite images show
Updated 1226 GMT (2026 HKT) January 2, 2020
Uyghur poet Aziz Isa Elkun fled China's far western Xinjiang region nearly 30 years ago.
He's not welcome in the country. He can't even phone his mother. She said it was better if he didn't, because every time he did, police would show up at her door.
So, when Elkun's father died in 2017, there was no way he could go back to China for the burial. To be closer to his family, he would view his father's grave on Google Earth.
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