NY police arrest around 300 in campus raids
'Police response was rough' - student
Phil McCausland
Reporting outside Columbia University
Meghnad Bose, a 31-year-old journalism graduate student at Columbia University, reported on the New York Police Department's (NYPD) raid on campus as a student journalist last night.
He says police forced him and other journalists to the edge of campus while the arrests were underway.
Bose says the officers were pretty “rough and aggressive” with the protesters.
He says he knew one protester who was released from police custody at 07:00 local time (12:00 BST).
The student protesters have been largely peaceful, Bose adds, saying he didn’t believe that police’s behaviour was necessary.
Number of writers jailed in China exceeds 100 for first time, says report
Freedom to Write index says there are 107 people in prison for published content in China, with many accused of ‘picking quarrels’
The number of writers jailed in China has surpassed 100, with nearly half imprisoned for online expression.
The grim milestone is revealed in the 2023 Freedom to Write index, a report compiled by Pen America, published on Wednesday.
With the total number of people imprisoned globally for exercising their freedom of expression estimated to be at least 339, China accounts for nearly one-third of the world’s jailed writers. There are 107 people behind bars because of their published statements in China, more than any other country on the index.
Ireland: Police dismantle migrant camp in Dublin
Amid a diplomatic row with neighboring Britain over the repatriation of migrants, Irish authorities have cleared a Dublin tent camp housing hundreds of asylum-seekers.
Police began dismantling about 200 tents housing asylum-seekers in Ireland's capital, Dublin, early Wednesday.
The government said police and other authorities were removing the migrants from the tents on Mount Street in the center of the capital and moving them to shelters. Buses were on standby to take the people away.
People will not be allowed to return to the camp once it is cleared, Prime Minister Simon Harrishad said on Tuesday.
The ‘massive phenomenon’ of work-related deaths in France
As May Day celebrations fill the streets with festive marches and labour union protests across French cities today, a darker truth boils below the surface. In a country often applauded for its strong labour protections, two workers die each day due to job-related accidents, according to the latest national health insurance figures. Many worried observers say the numbers don’t even come close to capturing the full extent of these fatal mishaps.
Although Matthieu Lépine is a history and geography teacher at a high school outside of Paris, his X feed does not reflect his daytime job. At least not this one. His posts almost always highlight incidents of work-related deaths.
There is the 31-year-old bicycle delivery driver who died after being run over by a car. There is the father of three who fell to his death on his first day working at a construction site. There is the worker who was buried under rubble while digging a trench.
“These are not isolated incidents,” says Lépine, who is also the author of the 2023 book “L’hécatombe invisible – enquête sur la mort au travail” (“Invisible Massacre: An Investigation into Death in the Workplace"). “It is a massive phenomenon,” he insists.
Weak yen boosts tourist wallets in Japan
By Mathias CENA and Hiroshi HIYAMA
Foreign tourists are flocking to Japan in record numbers and thanks to a sliding yen many are living like kings, splashing out on everything from kimonos to knives and slap-up meals.
"I bought three pairs of shoes, which is something I would never normally do," French tourist Katia Lelievre, 36, said with a laugh in the bustling Asakusa area of Tokyo famous for its Buddhist temple and souvenir shops.
The brands available in Japan are the same as in Europe -- Converse, Nike and Adidas -- but because of the exchange rate "it was really worth it" to buy, she told AFP.
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