Kim Jong-un apologises for killing of South Korean official - South
North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un has issued a rare personal apology for the killing of a South Korean official, Seoul says.
Mr Kim reportedly told South Korean leader Moon Jae-in that the "disgraceful affair" should not have happened.
South Korea has said the 47-year-old man was found by troops floating in the North's waters.
He was then shot dead and his body was set alight, according to Seoul.
Thousands of Xinjiang mosques destroyed or damaged, report finds
Chinese region has fewer mosques and shrines than at any time since Cultural Revolution, says thinktank
Thousands of mosques in Xinjiang have been damaged or destroyed in just three years, leaving fewer in the region than at any time since the Cultural Revolution, according to a report on Chinese oppression of Muslim minorities.
The revelations are contained in an expansive data project by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), which used satellite imagery and on-the-ground reporting to map the extensive and continuing construction of detention camps and destruction of cultural and religious sites in the north-western region.
Belarus detains opposition leader's lawyer amid protests
Authorities in Belarus detained a lawyer representing a top opposition activist who was jailed this month amid mass protests against the country’s authoritarian president, who won a sixth term in a disputed election
Authorities in Belarus detained a lawyer representing a top opposition activist who was jailed this month amid mass protests against the country s authoritarian president, who won a sixth term in a disputed election.
The lawyer Lyudmila Kazak, went missing Thursday, with police confirming later in the day that she had been detained. According to Kazak’s lawyers, she faces administrative charges of participating in an unauthorized rally and resisting a police officer.
Kazak was defending Maria Kolesnikova, a key member of a council Belarus' political opposition set up to push for a new presidential election. Kolesnikova is facing charges of undermining state security that could bring a five-year prison term, if she is convicted.
Fridays for Future: Climate strikers are back on the streets
School strikers across the world are demanding urgent action on climate change in the movement's first global action since the coronavirus pandemic struck.
Hamstrung by coronavirus lockdowns, frustrated school strikers have spent months staging digital protests against world leaders failing to act urgently on climate change.
Today they are taking to the streets once more.
The Fridays for Futures movement, which started with activist Greta Thunberg skipping school to sit alone outside the Swedish Parliament in 2018, has become a global youth force calling for climate justice. But a surge in support last year was hobbled after coronavirus lockdowns closed schools and kept children at home.
Can Japan balance controlling COVID-19 with rebooting the economy?
BY RYUSEI TAKAHASHI
STAFF WRITER
Japan is gradually shifting its focus from strictly containing the novel coronavirus pandemic to resuscitating the economy, with a series of campaigns to encourage domestic travel and recreation.
But, as Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike once likened pursuing the two simultaneously as “stepping on the gas and brakes at the same time,” it’s difficult to strike a balance. Experts say the mixed messages may be confusing for the public.
On Friday, the government said Tokyo will join the Go To Travel campaign on Thursday next week and that officials are moving forward with a plan to start the Go To Event campaign — which looks to revive the sports and entertainment industry by subsidizing admissions — as soon as mid-October.
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