Canada weather: Dozens dead as heatwave shatters records
Dozens of people have died in Canada amid an unprecedented heatwave that has smashed temperature records.
Police in the Vancouver area have responded to more than 130 sudden deaths since Friday. Most were elderly or had underlying health conditions, with heat often a contributing factor.
Canada broke its temperature record for a third straight day on Tuesday - 49.6C (121.3F) in Lytton, British Columbia.
The US north-west has also seen record highs - and a number of fatalities.
‘Making China great again’: pomp and propaganda as CCP marks centenary
In the summer of 1921, 13 young men severely disillusioned by China’s post-imperial development gathered in Shanghai to form a communist party. On 23 July, they convened in Shanghai’s French Concession and held the first “national congress”.
None of them would have thought that in 30 years’ time the organisation they had founded would rule the nation, or that in 100 years’ time it would be the world’s largest political party, with nearly 92 million members – today also an enigma to many outsiders.
Samia must bring Tanzania to post-Magufuli era
President Samia Suluhu Hassan has charted her own course since the death of John Magufuli. But Tanzania still operates under her predecessor's directives. Tanzanians are eager for a new path, DW's Sylvia Mwehozi writes.
One of Samia Suluhu Hassan's first directives after taking office as Tanzania's president following the death of John Magufuli in March was to lift bans on press outlets imposed by her predecessor, who never hid his disdain for independent journalism. "We should not ban the media by force," Samia, who recently completed her first 100 days as president, said as she issued the order to reopen press outlets.
It was a demonstrative declaration by the first woman to be president in East Africa. However, the formerly banned newspapers and other online outlets are still shut. Samia's government must review Tanzania's repressive media laws and address the grievances from journalists, who need to be able to carry out their duties without being threatened or censored.
Two Milosevic aides convicted of war crimes for supporting Serb militias
U.N. judges on Wednesday convicted two men of war crimes for their role in financing and equipping Serb militias during the break-up of the former Yugoslavia, in the final case before the court dating from the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
In a summary of the judgment provided by the court, judges convicted the former head of Serbia’s state security service, Jovica Stanisic, and his subordinate Franko “Frenki” Simatovic and handed them 12 year sentences.
“The trial chamber is satisfied that the accused provided practical assistance which had a substantial effect on the commission of the crimes of murder, forcible displacement and persecution committed in Bosanski Samac”, in Bosnia, it said.
North Korea’s Kim fumes about ‘grave lapses’ in pandemic defences
Several senior officials replaced for ‘incompetence and irresponsibility’ in their efforts to stop the spread of COVID.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un chastised top governing party officials for failures in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic that led to an unspecified “grave incident” and put the safety of the country and people at risk, state media reported on Wednesday.
The report by state news agency KCNA did not elaborate on what happened, or how it put people at risk, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said.
Covid-19 is killing Brazilian children at alarming rates. Many may be going undiagnosed
Updated 1427 GMT (2227 HKT) June 30, 2021
"Who's mommy's little girl?" 22-year-old Brazilian Sameque Gois asks as she plays with her baby's tiny hand, in one of the several videos she showed CNN. In the footage, little Sarah responds to her mother with an ear-to-ear smile.
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