Exploding walkie-talkies injure more than 100 in new attacks across Lebanon
Locals urging us to put phones away
Hugo Bachega
Middle East correspondent, in Beirut
There are chaotic scenes here in Dahiya, Beirut’s southern suburb and a Hezbollah stronghold.
Amid unconfirmed reports of devices exploding for a second day across the country, everyone is suspicious of people using phones or other devices.
Several times, our team have been stopped by people urging us to put our phones down.
Communications seem to be disrupted, while ambulances try to access roads that had been blocked.
Floods in Poland and wildfires in Portugal show reality of climate breakdown, says EU
Emergency crews battle to reinforce defences around Wrocław in Poland amid devastating rainfall
Jon Henley Europe correspondentWed 18 Sep 2024 14.46 BST
Wed 18 Sep 2024 14.46 BST
Soldiers, emergency workers and volunteers battled through the night to reinforce defences around Wrocław, Poland’s third biggest city, as the EU said flooding in central Europe happening simultaneously alongside wildfires in Portugal showed climate breakdown in action.
More than five times the average rainfall for the whole of September has fallen in five days on swathes of Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia, triggering devastating flooding that has killed 22 people in four countries.
South Korea: How babies out of wedlock break tradition
Even with South Korea's birthrate hitting record lows, many older Koreans are still horrified at the idea of a single parent. Young people are more willing to follow their own ideas of family.
South Korea is in the midst of a population crisis, but there is one segment of society where there are now more babies than before — the children born to unmarried mothers.
The Asian country of some 51 million people saw its birth rate hit a record low in 2023. It is widely seen as a conservative and traditionally minded society, but analysts suggest that a gradual shift is taking place among the younger generations in modern Korea, with changing attitudes towards marriage, work and family.
At the same time, older Koreans cling to what they see as the appropriate standards.
Taiwan, Hungary deny making Hezbollah pagers
Taiwan and Hungary on Wednesday denied making pagers that exploded while being used by Hezbollah members in Lebanon, killing 12 people.
The New York Times, citing American and other anonymous officials, reported that Israel had inserted explosive material into a shipment of pagers from Taiwan's Gold Apollo.
Taiwanese prosecutors launched an investigation.
Gold Apollo denied producing the devices and instead pointed the finger at its Budapest-based partner BAC Consulting KFT.
Apple store clash leads to arrest of Chinese Dragon members
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
September 18, 2024 at 17:52 JST
Seven members of the quasi-gang “Chinese Dragon” were arrested on Sept. 17 on suspicion of obstructing a business by quarreling with a rival faction in front of an Apple store when iPhone 15s went on sale.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department arrested seven men and women including Kajiro Shirai, 50, who lives in Tokyo’s Kita Ward.
Police did not disclose whether the suspects admitted to or denied the charge.
Despite prison, torture, this Kashmiri politician won’t give up on India
For a month in 2020, 33-year-old Waheed-ur-Rehman Para was imprisoned in a dark, underground cell in the Indian capital, where he was beaten with rods, stripped naked, and hung upside down after the country’s premier investigation agency accused him of aiding anti-India rebels.
In the dim light, he would touch the names of other Kashmiris — scratched on the walls — who had been held in the New Delhi cell before him. At his lowest points, Para would close his eyes and recall the summer of 2018 when he stood in front of 3,000 people, next to Rajnath Singh, then India’s home minister, who hailed him as a youth icon of Indian democracy.
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