Japan mourns lost souls 10 years after earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis
BY DONICAN LAM
KYODO
Tears, prayers and resolve to pass on lessons learned swept Japan on Thursday as the country marked 10 years since a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated its northeastern coast, with services to mourn the more than 15,000 lives lost held in the hardest-hit areas and Tokyo.
Residents in the severely affected prefectures of Fukushima, Iwate and Miyagi observed a moment of silence at 2:46 p.m., exactly a decade after the huge quake shook eastern and northeastern Japan, triggering a tsunami and the world’s worst nuclear disaster since the 1986 Chernobyl crisis.
Places for people to lay flowers were set up from the morning at various venues in the region, while some residents stood near the sea and other sites to clasp their hands together in prayer.
Daphne Caruana Galizia: killer lays out murder plot in court
Vincent Muscat describes spying on the journalist and discussions about how she would be killed
The self-confessed killer of Daphne Caruana Galizia told a court on Thursday that he and two other men used binoculars and a telescope to follow the movements of the investigative journalist for days, before planting and triggering the car bomb that killed her in 2017.
Speaking in the presence of journalists and Caruana Galizia’s relatives in hall 22 of the law courts in Malta’s capital, Valletta, Vincent Muscat gave the fullest account yet of the plot to murder the journalist.
Caruana Galizia’s death in October 2017 was met with outrage across Europe, and embroiled Malta’s ruling Labour party in a political scandal that led to the resignation of the prime minister in 2019.
Myanmar junta accuses Aung San Suu Kyi of illegally accepting $600,000 and gold
The allegations are the strongest yet made by the military against the former leader
Myanmar‘s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi illegally accepted $600,000 (£430,000) plus gold while in government, a junta spokesman said.
Brigadier General Zaw Min Tun also claimed President Win Myint, plus several cabinet ministers engaged in corruption and had pressured the country’s election commission not to act on the military’s reports of irregularities.
He said the claims had been verified and many people were being questioned, though no evidence was provided.
Refugees at US-Mexican border: 'We can't save them all'
The Biden administration wants to abandon the previous government's hard-line stance on asylum. Many refugees now hope they can start a new life in the US. DW reports from Matamoros, Mexico.
Cesar Moncada, his wife and two children have settled down on an abandoned porch. Three other Honduran familiesare hunkered down beside them in sleeping bags. They seem exhausted. It has taken them months to reach Mexico on foot.
"We were told refugees like us would be able to cross over to the other side from Matamoros," Cesar tells DW. A bridge spanning the Rio Grande connects Matamoros with Brownsville, a small town in the US state of Texas.
Syrian family sifts through old ammunition for a living
In a scrapyard in northwest Syria, nine-year-old Malik lifts and drops neutralised mortar shells into a neat pile to help his family eke out a living after fleeing war.
Metres away, a younger child walks unsteadily, an empty missile in his arms, on his way to throw it on a heap of scrap metal.
On a break, Malik and two other children rest inside a rusty old truck, clutching empty mortar shells in their hands.
Malik's father Hassan Jneid, 37, runs the scrapyard in Syria's last major rebel bastion of Idlib with his brothers.
Famine has arrived in pockets of Yemen. Saudi ships blocking fuel aren't helping
Updated 1242 GMT (2042 HKT) March 11, 2021
When 10-month-old Hassan Ali arrived at the hospital, doctors were hopeful they could save him. So many children in northern Yemen, after all, don't even get this far, starved not only of food but also the fuel needed just to reach medical help.
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