Sudan coup: Teachers tear-gassed at protest in Khartoum
Sudanese security forces have fired tear gas at dozens of teachers who were taking part in pro-democracy protests in the capital, Khartoum.
There are reports that many teachers were detained by the security forces.
Overnight demonstrators set up barricades for the first of two days of planned civil disobedience to protest against last month's coup.
They are demanding the military government step back and allow a peaceful transition to civilian rule.
The demonstrations are happening as Arab League mediators arrive in Khartoum for talks to try to defuse the crisis.
Ortega poised to retain Nicaraguan presidency after crackdown on rivals
Nicaragua’s authoritarian leaders, Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, are poised to extend their rule over the crisis-hit Central America country with an election that opponents and much of the international community have denounced as a charade.
Ortega, the Sandinista rebel who led Nicaragua during the 1980s and has governed continuously since 2007, will seek an unprecedented fourth consecutive term in Sunday’s contest, which follows a ruthless six-month political crackdown on rivals.
Seven presidential contenders have been thrown in jail or placed under house arrest since May, while other leading critics have fled to Costa Rica, the US and Europe, and foreign journalists have been barred from the country.
Death threats and merchandise: How an infamous press conference changed Four Seasons Total Landscaping forever
On the one-year anniversary of the Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference, Richard Hall revisits the family-run company to hear how their lives were turned upside down
For most of America, it began with a tweet. As the fate of the nation rested in the balance, Donald Trump’s announcement of a press conference at a landscaping company in Philadelphia, where his team promised to reveal evidence of mass electoral fraud, set off a chain of events that culminated in a cinematic ending for his presidency in a parking lot next to an adult book store.
But for the staff at Four Seasons Total Landscaping, the saga began hours earlier with a phone call from someone on the Trump campaign.
Ethiopia: Thousands rally in support of government forces
Supporters of Ethiopia's government have taken to the streets of Addis Ababa, with many holding signs criticizing the US decision to remove Ethiopia from a trade pact earlier this week.
Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, on Sunday in a show of support for the Ethiopian government and armed forces.
The rally comes a few days after the government declared a state of emergency earlier this week amid gains claimed by Tigrayan forces advancing toward the capital.
Protesters also spoke out against trade sanctions imposed by the US in response to what Washington called "gross violations" of human rights in the spiraling conflict.
Mining the Planet to Death
The Dirty Truth About Clean Technologies
The poor South is being exploited so that the rich North can transition to environmental sustainability. Entire swaths of land are being destroyed to secure the resources needed to produce wind turbines and solar cells. Are there alternatives?
By Jens Glüsing, Simon Hage, Alexander Jung, Nils Klawitter und Stefan Schultz
There’s a dirty secret hidden in every wind turbine. They may convert moving air cleanly and efficiently into electricity, but few know much about what they are made of. Much of the material inside wind turbines are the product of brutal encroachments on our natural world.
Each unit requires cement, sand, steel, zinc and aluminum. And tons of copper: for the generator, for the gearbox, for the transformer station and for the endless strands of cable. Around 67 tons of copper can be found in a medium-sized offshore turbine. To extract this amount of copper, miners have to move almost 50,000 tons of earth and rock, around five times the weight of the Eiffel Tower. The ore is shredded, ground, watered and leached. The bottom line: a lot of nature destroyed for a little bit of green power.
Koalas are dying from chlamydia, and climate change is making it worse
Updated 0011 GMT (0811 HKT) November 7, 2021
A silent killer is spreading through Australia's koala population, posing a threat that wildlife experts say could wipe out the iconic marsupial across large parts of the country.
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