Miami building collapse: 159 missing, officials say
The number of people listed as missing after the collapse of a 12-storey building in the US city of Miami has risen to 159, officials say.
Four people are known to have died.
The mayor of Miami-Dade says they "still have hope" of finding survivors. Search teams working around the clock have reported hearing people banging beneath the debris.
What caused the 40-year-old building to collapse early on Thursday morning remains unclear.
‘The pressure is unbearable’: final days of Hong Kong’s Apple Daily
On Wednesday morning, the Apple Daily reporter Angel Kwan was at a government press conference for the Hong Kong census when her phone started buzzing with notifications. Six days earlier, hundreds of police had raided her workplace, arrested her bosses and seized dozens of computers. On Monday, the company board had said it would have to shut the paper unless authorities unfroze its finances.
As she stood holding her microphone towards the government official, Kwan did not dare look at her phone and the news it heralded: Apple Daily was shutting down. Today.
“I had the mic and I said, ‘This is a question from Apple Daily’. And then I stopped for a second or two, just thinking: this is my last time saying this.”
Lukashenko releases Roman Protasevich and Sofia Sapega to house arrest in wake of EU sanctions
The pair were taken from a Ryanair flight in May
Belarus has released dissident journalist Roman Protasevich and his girlfriend, Sofia Sapega, from jail and moved them to house arrest, in a possible sign that the country’s self-proclaimed president, Alexander Lukashenko, is looking to negotiate his way out of new sanctions.
Mr Protasevich and Ms Sapega have been detained by the erratic authoritarian since they were hauled off a Ryanair flight on 23 May in a hijacking operation. They have been held in dubious conditions since, with evidence of physical and psychological torture.
The news of the couple’s release to house arrest comes a day after the European Union announced a new round of sanctions on Belarus, targeting finance, communications, dual-use military technology, and key exports.
Several German soldiers injured in Mali attack
The German military has said several of its soldiers are the among 15 UN peacekeepers who have been injured in an incident involving a "vehicle bomb attack."
A number of German soldiers were among UN peacekeepers injured in a vehicle bomb attack on a camp in northern Mali on Friday, Germany's military said.
The Belgian Defense Ministry said one of its soldiers was also among those injured.
What we know about the attack so far
'Dragon Man': Scientists say new human species is our closest ancestor
Scientists announced Friday that a skull discovered in northeast China represents a newly discovered human species they have named Homo longi, or "Dragon Man" -- and they say the lineage should replace Neanderthals as our closest relatives.
The Harbin cranium was discovered in the 1930s in the city of the same name in Heilongjiang province, but was reportedly hidden in a well for 85 years to protect it from the Japanese army.
It was later dug up and handed to Ji Qiang, a professor at Hebei GEO University, in 2018.
Suga insists emperor not worried about Olympics
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Friday dismissed claims that the country's emperor is "concerned" the Tokyo Olympics could spread the coronavirus, saying the comments were the opinions of an imperial household representative.
On Thursday, Yasuhiko Nishimura, the head of the Imperial Household Agency that manages royal affairs, told reporters that Emperor Naruhito is "very worried about the current infection situation of COVID-19", Japanese media reported.
Nishimura said he believed the emperor "is concerned that while there are voices of anxiety among the public, the holding of the Olympics and Paralympics... may lead to a rise in infections".
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