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Swedish girl nominated for Nobel Prize
Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai in 2014 became the youngest victor of the prize, at the age of 17 . What started as separate acts of absolute refusal - Thunberg's 2018 one-person protest outside the Swedish parliament the most prominent - has become a global movement. [Full Article...]
China hits back at USA over human rights violations
China has hit back in unusually strong terms after the USA state department singled out Beijing's human rights record. China said they are vocational training centres aimed at de-radicalisation. In its summary, the State Department said China over the past year "significantly intensified" its campaign of mass detentions, with between 800,000 and 2 million members of Muslim minority groups in the ... [Full Article...]
Multiple fatalities in shootings at two New Zealand mosques, officials say
Police said there were multiple fatalities and one person was in custody, but no details were immediately available . It is reported 300 people were in the mosque at the time. He said the gunman was white and was wearing a helmet with some kind of device on top, giving him a military-type appearance. "The situation is still unfolding but our thoughts and prayers are with our Kiwi cousins"... [Full Article...]
Trump presented with Shamrock Bowl Irish Taoiseach
He was surprised how badly the Brexit talks had gone, adding: "I gave the prime minister [Mrs May] my ideas on how to negotiate. she didn't listen to that and that's fine". We're going to tariff a lot of their products coming in because the European Union treats us very, very unfairly". After the meeting, the prime minster said he appreciated the opportunity to lay out Ireland's position on Brex... [Full Article...]
Muslim ‘centres’ in China will go
Sam Brownback, US ambassador-at-large for global religious freedom, on Tuesday called for an independent investigation into the detentions and the release of those being held. The camps sprang up over the past two years at extraordinary speed and on a massive scale, as monitored by satellite imagery. Brownback appeared undeterred by Beijing's complaints over his earlier comments, describing Chin... [Full Article...]
All killed on Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed
The state-owned airline, thought by many to be the best-managed in Africa, said there had been no survivors of the flight that hit the ground at about 8.45am. It was on a regularly scheduled flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi , Kenya. Tragically, all 157 people on board Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 were killed on Sunday. [Full Article...]
"Deeply Anguished": PM After Mumbai Bridge Collapse, Opposition Attacks
An audit of the bridge's safety was carried out a year ago, said Maharashtra state Education Minister Vinod Tawde. Maharashtra Cabinet Minister Vinod Tawde said that the bridge wasn't 100 per cent hazardous and the municipal corporation had made some recommendations to fix the bridge. [Full Article...]
Pair cleared as woman was ‘too masculine’ to be raped
Protestors in the town of Ancona took to the streets on Monday after it emerged two men were acquitted of rape charges because the court ruled the alleged victim was too unattractive and "masculine" to be targeted. The case is set to be retried in a court in Perugia, which lies in a different province from Ancona , at an undetermined future date. The president of the court Alfredo Montalto (L... [Full Article...]