New Langya virus found in China could be 'tip of the iceberg' for undiscovered pathogens, researchers say
Updated 0755 GMT (1555 HKT) August 12, 2022
More surveillance is needed of a new virus detected in dozens of people in eastern China that may not cause the next pandemic but suggests just how easily viruses can travel unnoticed from animals to humans, scientists say.
Lost Banksy piece sprayed in Palestine reappears in Tel Aviv gallery
The removal of Slingshot Rat has sparked debate over the legality of taking cultural artefacts from occupied land
Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem and Associated Press
A lost Banksy piece originally spray painted to protest against Israel’s separation barrier in the West Bank has resurfaced in a Tel Aviv gallery, sparking debate over the role of public art and the legality of removing cultural artefacts from occupied land.
Slingshot Rat, a stencil painting, appeared on a concrete block at an abandoned Israeli army position in Bethlehem next to a section of the wall in 2007, one of several works in the Palestinian town created in secret. Some time later, the painting was obscured and graffitied with the words, “RIP Banksy Rat”, and eventually cut out and removed by unknown persons.
Banksy, known for his absurdist and dystopian street art, has worked in the West Bank and Gaza Strip since 2005, and has auctioned paintings to raise funds for Palestinian causes.
Serious drought hitting Europe, wider world — updates
Much of Europe and the Northern Hemisphere is battling either wildfires, low water levels, harvest warnings, water use restrictions or a mixture of all these. DW rounds up the situation.
Around much of the Northern Hemisphere, from Hungary to Hawaii, from the drying Rhine River to the now-recovering Rio Grande, or from Casablanca to California, summer droughts and high temperatures are having a serious impact on everything from agriculture to the freight industry.
Here's a rundown of some of the latest drought-related developments from around the world, plus a window to more bespoke coverage on DW. We will continue adding to this story after publication.
Author Salman Rushdie attacked on stage at event in New York
Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked Friday as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.
An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man storm the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and begin punching or stabbing Rushdie as he was being introduced. The author was taken or fell to the floor, and the man was restrained.
Rushdie’s book “The Satanic Verses” has been banned in Iran since 1988, as many Muslims consider it to be blasphemous. A year later, Iran’s late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie’s death.
Iran has also offered over $3 million in reward for anyone who kills Rushdie.
For younger Japanese, issues of war and peace more complex
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
August 12, 2022
For Japan’s postwar generations that had taken peace for granted, the conflict now raging in Ukraine has given many a new perspective on what it costs not to become embroiled in war, and the sacrifice it takes to fight back.
Kentoku Kojima perhaps is a classic example of that changing mindset as younger Japanese start looking at world events through a lens vastly different from that of their parents and grandparents.
Kojima, 27, grew up believing that war is no solution to the world’s ills. He majored in Russian in university, and saw a bright future ahead of him. For him, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was the equivalent of being hit with a stun gun.
A year after Taliban, Afghans who chose to stay fear grim future
A judge and a professor say they decided to stay back – despite threats and adverse conditions – to help other Afghans.
Mina Alimi never left Kabul – not during the wars she was born in, not during the first Taliban government when she was just a little girl, and not even last year when the Afghan government collapsed and the Taliban seized her hometown.
Even as her friends and colleagues fled fearing the new regime, Alimi, one of only 270 female judges in the country, chose to stay back despite the threats against her. Her name has been changed to protect her identity as she remains at risk.
“I had many opportunities to leave Afghanistan, but it meant leaving behind my elderly parents, in-laws and siblings who had supported me every step of the way. They were at just as much risk as I was because of my profession. How could I just leave them at the mercy of the Taliban and the criminals they released?” Alimi told Al Jazeera.
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