Christian Atsu found dead after Turkey earthquake
Footballer Christian Atsu has been found dead under the rubble of his home almost two weeks after the Turkey earthquake, his agent has confirmed.
The Ghana international, 31, had spells with Premier League sides Everton, Chelsea and Newcastle.
Atsu had been missing since the 6 February quake that caused the collapse of his apartment in Antakya, Hatay.
"There are no words to describe our sadness," tweeted his Turkish top-flight club Hatayspor.
"We will not forget you, Atsu. Peace be upon you, beautiful person."
US reaction to balloon ‘absurd and hysterical’, says top Chinese diplomat
Wang Yi also says China is preparing to outline position on Russian war against Ukraine
Patrick Wintour in Munich
China’s most senior diplomat has described the shooting down of a balloon by the US as “absurd and hysterical”, as well as an abuse of the use of force.
Speaking on stage at the Munich security conference on Saturday, Wang Yi said: “It does not show the US is strong; on the contrary it shows it is weak”. The foreign affairs director said he believed the shooting down was part of an attempt to divert attention from the domestic problems of the Biden administration.
He asked the US: “There are many balloons in the sky. Do you want to down each and every one of them?”
China has insisted the balloon was a civilian non-military instrument that had been blown off course.
Turkey-Syria quakes: Survivors rescued after 12 days
Rescuers have pulled earthquake survivors from a building in Antakya, southern Turkey. Meanwhile, ex-English Premier League footballer Christian Atsu's body has been found. DW has the latest.
Three people, including a child, were rescued alive from the rubble of a building in the Antakya district in southern Turkey on Saturday, 296 hours after the recent earthquakes, state news agency Anadolu reported.
Footage showed teams carrying a man and a woman out on a stretcher to a waiting ambulance.
Next to them, medics were seen treating a child. Reuters news agency later reported that the child died of injuries sustained during the quake.
The rescues came nearly two weeks after the disaster struck Turkey and Syria.
Iranian TV channel halts London broadcasts after threats
The private network Iran International TV said Saturday that it had been forced on UK police advice to shut down its London studios, blaming a surge in threats from the protest-hit regime in Iran.
The station has been giving extensive coverage to anti-regime demonstrations that erupted in Iran five months ago, and says two of its senior journalists received death threats in response to their reporting.
London's Metropolitan police force said that working with the MI5 spy agency, since the start of 2022, it had foiled 15 plots "to either kidnap or even kill" people seen as "enemies of the (Iranian) regime".
Tokyo to demolish historic baseball stadium despite outcry
By Andrew McKIRDY
Tokyo's government approved Friday a redevelopment which will see a historic baseball stadium demolished and trees donated to honor Japan's Emperor Meiji torn out, a move opponents called "shameful".
The project, which environmentalists say also threatens a boulevard of gingko trees, had sparked a citizen fightback including petitions with tens of thousands of signatures.
However, Tokyo's government said the plan would proceed, with Meiji Jingu Stadium and neighboring sports venues, including the home of Japanese rugby, to be bulldozed and rebuilt as part of a new high-rise complex.
Revealed: the US adviser who tried to swing Nigeria’s 2015 election
Sam Patten, an American consultant later mired in controversy, exploited emails obtained by Tal Hanan’s team
Carole Cadwalladr and Stephanie Kirchgaessner
In late December 2014, a team from Cambridge Analytica flew to Madrid for meetings with a handful of old and new contacts. A member of the former Libyan royal family referred to as “His Royal Highness” was there. So, too, was the son of a US billionaire, a Nigerian businessman and a private Israeli intelligence operative.
For Alexander Nix, the Etonian chief executive of Cambridge Analytica, and his new employee Brittany Kaiser, who networked like most other people breathed, there may have been nothing unusual about such a gathering.
But, by any other measure, it was an unlikely ensemble, not least because last week the identity of the intelligence operative was revealed to be Tal Hanan: an Israeli “black ops” mercenary who, it is now known, claims to have manipulated elections around the world.
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