Covid-19 pandemic: Italy to shut shops and schools amid infection spike
Shops, restaurants and schools will be closed across most of Italy on Monday, with PM Mario Draghi warning of a "new wave" of the coronavirus outbreak.
For three days over Easter, 3-5 April, there will be a total shutdown.
Italy, which one year ago imposed one of the first national lockdowns, is once again struggling to contain the rapid spread of infections.
The country has reported more than 100,000 Covid-related deaths, Europe's second-highest tally after the UK.
Russia detains scores of opposition figures at Moscow meeting
More than 150 people held as police accuse them of links to an ‘undesirable organisation’
Russian police detained about 150 people at a meeting of independent and opposition politicians in Moscow on Saturday, accusing them of links to an “undesirable organisation”, a monitoring group and a TV station said.
The detentions come amid a crackdown on anti-Kremlin sentiment, following the arrest and imprisonment of opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who returned to Russia in January after recovering from a nerve agent poisoning in Siberia.
The forum, scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, was a gathering of municipal deputies from all over the country, Andrei Pivovarov, the event’s organiser and executive director of Open Russia, a British-based group founded by exiled former oil tycoon and Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky, told radio station Echo Moskvy.
UK says China noncompliant with Hong Kong joint declaration
The UK has said it considers China's move to change the Hong Kong electoral system a major breach of the 1985 handover agreement.
The UK said Saturday it considers "Beijing to be in a state of ongoing non-compliance with the Sino-British Joint Declaration" over changes to Hong Kong's electoral system announced this week.
"Beijing's decision to impose radical changes to restrict participation in Hong Kong's electoral system constitutes a further clear breach of the legally binding Sino-British Joint Declaration," Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab was quoted as saying in a statement.
‘It was a normal day until the clock hit 2.46pm’
By Eryk Bagshaw
The schools that were saved were built on higher ground. When the 39-metre-high wave came, the students were spared. Many of their parents and siblings were not.
Orphaned in a wall of debris that swept Japan’s coast on March 11, 2011, the scores of students who lost their family members that day are now young adults rebuilding both their lives and their communities.
“It was a normal winter’s day. Everybody was doing what they normally did until the clock hit 2.46pm,” said Takuya Tokairin, a student living near Sendai, the capital of Japan’s Miyagi prefecture.
Sri Lanka to ban burqa, shut over 1,000 Islamic schools
Minister for public security says decision has been taken on ‘national security’ grounds; activists decry announcement.
Sri Lanka’s government says it will ban the wearing of the burqa and close more than 1,000 Islamic schools, the latest actions affecting the country’s minority Muslim population.
Separately, the government on Saturday announced using a controversial anti-terror law to deal with religious “extremism” and gave itself sweeping powers to detain suspects for up to two years for “deradicalisation”.
Inside the minds of Myanmar's bloodthirsty 'TikTok soldiers' gunning down their peers
The young soldiers in the video clip line the benches of their truck with machetes tucked under their arms. Some crowd over a single mobile phone, cigarette in hand. Others lean on their hoe. “We don’t hold a gun any more," a line of Burmese script reads underneath, in reference to the blunt farm tools littered on the bed of the vehicle.
The message is clear: we don't just shoot, we bury too.
In another video a young soldier reaches for a machine gun, pulls it towards his face and kisses it before fixing his gaze at his smartphone camera with a tender smile. Meanwhile, a separate clip shows a young soldier drawing his fingers across his throat menacingly for his social media followers.
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