Six In The Morning Thursday 23 September 2021

 

A London teacher was killed on a walk to the pub, police say. Another tragedy in the UK's gender violence epidemic

By Kara Fox, CNN

Updated 1504 GMT (2304 HKT) September 23, 2021

Sabina Nessa, a 28-year-old teacher from south London, is believed to have been murdered on the five-minute walk from her house to a pub, police say, sparking renewed outcry about the UK's epidemic of violence against women and girls.

London's Metropolitan Police said in a Thursday statement that Nessa had left her home in the borough of Greenwich just before 8:30 p.m. on Friday September 17. Detectives believe that she was walking through Cator Park towards a bar in Pegler Square, where she had planned to meet a friend.

She is thought to have been murdered on her journey through the park, the Met statement said, with her body found the following afternoon, close to a nearby community center.

Experts say China’s low-level cyberwar is becoming severe threat

Activity more overt and reckless despite US, British and other political efforts to bring it to a halt

Dan Sabbagh Defence and security editor

Thu 23 Sep 2021 13.58 BST

Chinese state-sponsored hacking is at record levels, western experts say, accusing Beijing of engaging in a form of low-level warfare that is escalating despite US, British and other political efforts to bring it to a halt.

There are accusations too that the clandestine activity, which has a focus on stealing intellectual property, has become more overt and more reckless, although Beijing consistently denies sponsoring hacking and accuses critics of hypocrisy.

Jamie Collier, a consultant with Mandiant, a cybersecurity firm whose work is often cited by intelligence agencies, said the level of hacking emerging from China in 2021 was “a more kind of severe threat than we previously anticipated”.

German shooting linked to Covid-19 conspiracy theories and far right

German election frontrunner says country should ‘resolutely stand up to hatred’

Rory Sullivan

A man suspected of shooting a petrol station cashier dead in Germany has been connected with coronavirus conspiracy groups and the far right.

The 49-year-old man was arrested on Sunday, a day after a 20-year-old clerk was shot in the head with a revolver in Idar-Oberstein, a town in the west of the country.

Researchers found he had openly supported the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party on social media. They also believe he is a coronavirus denier.

UN warns of 'human rights catastrophe' in Myanmar

UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet has called for urgent action to curb the "terrible and tragic" consequences of the conflict. She also cited an economic and political crisis made worse by the coronavirus pandemic.

The report said Myanmar was facing a "human rights catastrophe that shows no sign of abating."

"The national consequences are terrible and tragic —the regional consequences could also be profound," Bachelet said in a statement. "The international community must redouble its efforts to restore democracy and prevent wider conflict before it is too late."

The UN scorned the use of lethal force and mass arrests of protesters since the military coup on February 1.

Mexican police deploy at Haitian migrant camp

Tensions mounted Thursday among Haitian migrants camped out in a park near Mexico's border with the United States following the arrival of dozens of police officers at the site.

The operation came after Mexican migration authorities said the foreigners should return to wherever in the country they submitted their asylum applications to finish the process.

Those papers allow migrants to remain legally in Mexico and avoid deportation while waiting to cross over to the United States.

Around 50 police vehicles carrying dozens of officers arrived early Thursday in the vicinity of a park in Ciudad Acuna where migrants have been staying for about a week, AFP reporters observed.

Tigray mothers share shocking accounts of dire famine conditions

Testimonies from parents of severely malnourished children, medics, IDPs and residents who beg for food suggest dramatic worsening of situation in Ethiopia’s war-hit region.

By Lucy Kassa

23 Sep 2021

Eighteen-month-old Haftom Hailay is too weak to cry. All the boy, weighing three kilogrammes, can do is sigh in pain. His mother, malnourished herself, has no milk to breastfeed him.

Where they came from in Aragure, a village east of Mekelle, the capital Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region, the need for food is desperate.

“One month ago, everything ran out,” Haftom’s mother, Girmanesh Meles, 30 told Al Jazeera.

More than 10 months into the conflict, the famine-like conditions, which up until early July were limited to rural areas of Tigray, have now reached the outskirts of Mekelle.