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Prominent Rights Defenders Convicted in Azerbaijanby THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A court in Azerbaijan on Thursday convicted a prominent rights defender and her husband on fraud charges, which international rights groups have denounced as a sham.
Authorities raised the death toll from explosions in the city of Tianjin to at least 50 as they searched for the cause of twin blasts.
Turkey’s premier said talks to form a coalition government with the main opposition party have failed, paving the way for early elections within months.
President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry have warned that walking away from the Iran nuclear deal would create financial complications that would diminish the dollar’s elite global status.
The makeover of an artificial beach along the banks of the Seine river in tribute to Tel Aviv is turning a famed Paris summer relaxation spot into a flash point for debate over the Middle East conflict.
Fraud and tax evasion trial is part of wider clampdown on dissent
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Lawyer of Wikileaks founder accuses Swedish prosecutor of negligence after she dropped investigations into three out of the four accusations against him, accusing her of preventing his client from clearing his name
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Buildings at uranium mine and mill in Pyongsan have been given new roofs raising fears the regime is stepping up its nuclear weapons programme
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Country's internet regulator demands internet providers block post on website, making all of Reddit unavailable to many Russians
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Police seize control over Myanmar party headquarters
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Market truck bomb kills at least 60 in Baghdad's Sadr City: sources
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Welcome to the Jungle, Europe
TIME Subscriber content preview. or Sign In. A global migrant crisis finally strikes the continent. It was well into the night of July 30 when the mood shifted in Calais. Evening in the French port city had begun with familiar scuffles, pitting groups of ... AP Photos: Calais migrants endure misery of 'jungle' camps Cache Valley Daily There's no easy solution to the Calais migrants issuesBurton Mail France, Britain seek help with refugee crisisBulletin Leader BBC News-Telegraph.co.uk all 100 news articles » |
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The U.S. Embassy in Cuba will raise an American flag outside the building on Friday, marking the official resumption of embassy operations after 54 years. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will attend the ceremony in Havana. He will be the first top-ranking U.S. diplomat to visit the communist country since 1945. Zlatica Hoke reports many Cubans have expressed high hopes about re-establishing ties with the United States.
Kurdish Militants Attack Turkish Security Outposts, 7 Killedby webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)
Kurdish militants launched attacks on military outposts in eastern Turkey overnight and seven of their fighters were killed in ensuing clashes with security forces, the Turkish armed forces said on Thursday. The attacks are the latest in a recent surge of violence between Turkish security forces and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group which has undermined a near three-year-old peace process. In the southeastern town of Silopi, near the borders with Iraq and Syria, PKK...
Former PM Blair Warns of 'Annihilation' If Labor Veers Leftby webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)
Britain's opposition Labor Party faces "annihilation" if it makes left-wing lawmaker Jeremy Corbyn its next leader, former Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Thursday, warning party members they are "walking eyes shut, arms outstretched, over the cliff's edge." Voting begins on Friday in a month-long, four-way leadership contest triggered by Labor's defeat in a national election in May. Opinion polls show Corbyn, who wants to steer the party back toward its...
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Poll: Walker drops, Trump rises in Iowa
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ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape
New York Times QADIYA, Iraq — In the moments before he raped the 12-year-old girl, the Islamic State fighter took the time to explain that what he was about to do was not a sin. Because the preteen girl practiced a religion other than Islam, the Quran not only gave ... How ISIS Justifies Its Culture of Rape and Sex SlaveryTIME ISIS Makes Rape Part of Its TheologyNew York Magazine How ISIS Uses Rape and Sexual Slavery as a Recruiting Tool and a BusinessJezebel all 4 news articles » |
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The Chinese port city of Tianjin was rocked by two massive blasts Wednesday night, killing at least44 people, and injuring 520, 66 of them critically. Although the exact cause of the explosion is still unclear, there are strong indications that it was triggered by the accidental ignition of a shipping container filled with explosives.
Accidents of this nature are shockingly common in China, with inadequate safety standards and unstable infrastructure often to blame. Here are some of the country’s worst industrial disasters:
1. Dehui Poultry Factory Fire, 2013
At least 119 people died and 54 others were injured when a huge fire broke out at a poultry plant in the northeastern city of Dehui. The blaze was reported to have been caused by an ammonia leak, and the deaths were attributed to the fact that the factory’s supervisors routinely locked its doors from the outside during working hours to avoid laborers wandering around the plant — thereby cutting off any possible emergency escape routes.
2. Shanxi Mine Collapse, 2008
A total of 281 people died after a mine collapsed following a September 2008 mudslide in Shanxi province. While authorities initially tried to blame the disaster on unusually heavy rain, it soon emerged that poor enforcement of mining safety standards was the primary cause.
3. Laobaidong Colliery Blasts, 1960
Many of China’s worst disasters have occurred in its notoriously unsafe mines. Of these, the second deadliest took place in the Laobaidong coal mine in May 1960, when an apparent methane explosion killed 684 people. Said to be the worst accident since the People’s Republic of China was formed in 1949, all news of the blast was suppressed by Chinese authorities until it finally emerged in 1992.
4. Benxihu Colliery Disaster, 1942
A mixture of gas and coal dust caused this massive explosion at the Honkeiko coal mine near Benxi in China’s Liaoning province, killing 1,549 people in an undoubtedly undesirable world record for “worst coal mining disaster” that stands to this day. The worst part? It isn’t even China’s worst industrial disaster.
5. Banqiao Dam Tragedy, 1975
On Aug. 8, 1975, the Banqiao dam — located about 750 km west of Shanghai — burst due to unusually heavy rains caused by a massive typhoon, in what remains the worst-ever disaster not just in China, but globally. Although reports of the exact number of people killed vary, most say at least 100,000 people perished from the immediate flooding, while fatalities from the resultant famines and diseases pushed the total death toll to more than 220,000.
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The death toll from Wednesday’s massive explosion in the Chinese city of Tianjin continues to rise, with at least 44 people dead and 520 others hospitalized, of which 66 are in critical condition, China’s Xinhua news agency reported Thursday afternoon.
Several of the dead are reportedly firefighters, and rescue operations have been temporarily suspended while chemical teams scan the area for harmful materials, Xinhua added.
The city in China’s northeast—located 150 km from the capital Beijing—was rocked by two massive explosions late Wednesday night, with videos released soon after the incident showing a massive fireball rising high into the air above a warehouse as well as a person killed by debris when the explosion shattered the glass wall he was approaching.
What appears to be video shot from a drone camera released Thursday morning showed the charred remains of hundreds of parked cars and several surrounding buildings, completely destroyed by the blasts. TIME was unable to independently verify the video’s original source.
Full video of drone footage showing destruction from #TianjinBlast –http://t.co/FPSRfkL5ea | Updates: @GrasswireNow pic.twitter.com/wy6wW2Wp17— Grasswire (@grasswire) August 13, 2015
Local police said the blast, at one of many warehouses in the city’s port district of Binhai, occurred at around 11.30 p.m. local time. It triggered another larger blast 30 minutes later that was the equivalent of 21 tons of TNT, the New York Times reported. The warehouse belonged to RuihaiInternational Logistics, a transportation company that, according to its website, is involved in “cargo declaration, cargo transportation and warehouse storage of dangerous cargo.”
A local resident with last name Xu, who lives in the Haigangcheng locality about a kilometer away from the blast site, told TIME he was watching TV at home when the explosion threw him to the ground in what he assumed at the time was an earthquake. Shortly after he and his family rushed out into the open and smelled the scorched air, he said, pieces of glass and other debris began raining from the sky.
Many people cut by the showers of glass went to the Taida Medical Center, the hospital closest to the site and the one to which most of the injured have been taken.
Police, meanwhile, have set up check points 3 kilometers away from the blast site and are not allowing anyone to enter. Local media reports say hundreds of soldiers are being flown in to assist with evacuation and containment efforts.
The major concern now remains the exact nature of the chemicals released in the explosion, which are yet to be ascertained.
“We are concerned that certain chemicals will continue to pose a risk to the residents of Tianjin,” Greenpeace Asia’s Beijing office said to TIME in an emailed statement. “According to the Tianjin Tanggu Environmental Monitoring Station, hazardous chemicals stored by the company concerned include sodium cyanide (NaCN), toluene diisocyanate (TDI) and calcium carbide (CaC2), all of which pose direct threats to human health on contact. NaCN in particular is highly toxic. Ca(C2) and TDI react violently with water and reactive chemicals, with risk of explosion. This will present a challenge for firefighting and, with rain forecast for tomorrow, is a major hazard.”
In the absence of more information about the exact cause of the blast, the main priority should be to evacuate people from the area due to the likelihood of toxic particles in the air, says Ravi Naidu, Director of the Global Centre for Environmental Remediation at the University of Newcastle Australia.
“With a blast like this, normally you would expect the transport [of particulate matter] to be along the wind gradient or contours, but a blast this big must push it beyond that in the opposite direction,” he told TIME in an interview on Thursday afternoon. “Not just people but animals and other organisms would be exposed to certain chemicals,” he added.
Naidu says that the explosions’ long term effects will also have to be monitored closely, particularly with regards to the soil in the area and the nearby buildings getting infused with toxic chemicals.
“Such explosions not only affect the environment but also the minds of people, psychologically quite a lot of people will be impacted and this is something that has to be taken into consideration,” he said.
With reporting from Gu Yongqiang/Tianjin
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(BAGHDAD) — A massive truck bomb ripped through a popular Baghdad food market in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood in the early morning hours on Thursday, killing at least 58 people, police officials said.
The truck detonated in the Jameela market in the Iraqi capital’s crowded Sadr City neighborhood shortly after dawn, according to two local police officers. They also said that at least 89 people were wounded in the attack.
Residents of the Shiite community rushed to help the victims, carrying corpses in garbage bags and sending the wounded to local hospitals in ambulances or in personal cars. The blast incinerated much of the market, leaving charred wooden market stalls and scattering fruits and vegetables far around it.
Fire trucks and ambulances rushed to the scene and fire men were dousing the still-smoldering complex with water long after the explosion.
“On Thursdays the market is especially crowded because people come from the other provinces to stock up on food for the weekend,” one of the officers said.
He said the truck that set off the explosion was a refrigeration truck, so it was impossible to distinguish it from other trucks delivering produce to the market.
Four hospital officials confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the media.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but Islamic State militants commonly target military checkpoints or predominantly Shiite neighborhoods such as Sadr City, with the goal of sending a message to the Shiite-dominated government in Baghdad.
While near-daily attacks are common in the capital, death tolls have rarely reached this level for a single attack since the height of the country’s brutal sectarian bloodletting in 2006 and 2007.
The Sunni militant group currently holds territory in about a third of Iraq. They view Shiite Muslims, as well as other religious minorities, as apostates.
When they launched their major onslaught across northern Iraq last year, they vowed to continue on to Baghdad. But a mobilization of volunteer Shiite fighters deterred any significant attacks on the capital.
Last month, the militant group targeted a popular market in the eastern province of Diyala, killing more than 115 people in one of the worst-single attacks to tear through the country in a decade.
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Europe’s New Border Crisis by Megan Gibson
It was well into the night of July 30 when the mood shifted in Calais. Evening in the French port city had begun with familiar scuffles, pitting groups of illegal migrants against French police officers who blocked their access to the Channel Tunnel and its tantalizing gateway to England. But this was something different. Some 50 migrants—mainly Syrians—simply sat down and turned their backs on the gendarmerie in a peaceful demonstration.
“Let us cross,” a voice in the crowd cried. “We are Syrians. We have a war in our country. Why all of this police just for us? We are just trying to cross for a safe place.”
The voice belonged to a 27-year-old Syrian who gave …
Donald Trump is no stranger to big promises and bigger disputes. But more than seven years ago, it was the people of Scotland, rather than the members of the Republican Party that were subject to his charm, flattery—and hard-nosed business tactics.
Trump, whose mother was born in Scotland, bought the Menie Estate in northeast Scotland in 2006 to build a golf course and luxury resort. He promised to invest $2.3 billion and create 6,000 jobs. There was just one catch: he needed to persuade some of his new neighbors to sell their property to him.
Susan Munro, now 62, whose home was encircled by Trump’s property, refused to sell. Trump tried to force her but when he failed she says his security guards routinely harassed her by stopping her car and asking for identification as she approached her home of more than 30 years. “It was horrible,” she recalls. “It happened on my own drive. I wasn’t even on his land.”
Munro never sold, but eventually Trump built a berm that surrounded her house and blocked off a large part of the scenery she had known for decades. “When I heard he was running for President, I just laughed,” she says. “But he’s a dangerous man.” George Sorial, executive vice president at The Trump Organization, says he hadn’t heard of Munro’s complaints. “With a handful of exceptions, and I am talking about two or three people, we don’t have any issues with people who live in properties adjacent to ours,” he says.
In 2009, Trump’s representatives asked the local council to use its legal powers to buy the property of Munro and her neighbors without their consent. The council declined but Trump’s staff reportedly continued to harass residents,trespass and damage property and cut utilities. Trump later fell out with the Scottish government over plans to build a small offshore wind farm, which he said would ruin the view from his course.
The resort in Scotland—Trump International Golf Links—is a much smaller enterprise than the businessman first promised because the majority of the investment has not yet materialized. “This is a long term project, we have a lot of work left” said Sorial, who has worked on Trump holdings in Scotland for nine years. “I have no doubt that the project will grow and eventually realize the numbers we initially projected.”
Trump’s battle with his neighbors was followed by filmmaker Anthony Baxter in his 2011 film, You’ve Been Trumped, who says that Trump made few friends in Scotland. “He talks about being the ‘jobs president’, about putting people into work in the U.S. All I can do is look at what I have seen over five years of filming his real actions based against the promises he made to Scotland,” he says. “He made the lives of those local residents a complete and utter misery, bullying them at every opportunity.”
While Trump’s tough-minded business style seemed unusual to Scots and other Europeans, his political style is familiar. Trump has called Mexican migrants “criminals” and “rapists,” sentiments similar to those endorsed by the populist leader of the U.K. Independence Party, Nigel Farage, who this year said that migrants with HIV should be banned from entering the country.
What unites Farage and Trump is their audience, who are “down at luck, working class white men who feel overlooked, forgotten or left behind,” says Alex Massie, the Scotland editor of the conservative current affairs magazine The Spectator. “They look at Westminster and Washington and see it’s dominated by these slick youngish men in sharp suits… a self-perpetuating political elite, who are out-of-touch from their experiences and they feel excluded from that.”
Trump and Farage have other similarities. They share a singular fashion sense and rarely seem to worry about the consequences of their comments, which helps them dominate the media. “Trump is great value for the media in the same way Farage was during the British election, being pictured with a pint in one hand and a cigarette in the other” says Baxter.
Mark Leonard, the director of European Council on Foreign Relations, says Trump, Farage and a host of other leaders in Europe are capitalizing on the inability of established political parties to effectively answer the anxieties of many sections of society. “They don’t feel that their viewpoint is represented by the mainstream parties by the left and right,”says Leonard, “and that’s what creates a space for populist politicians.”
Trump has capitalized on the same sentiments in America. “Whatever your issue, your cause, the festering problem you hoped would be resolved, the political class has failed you… and that’s what Donald Trump taps into,” said GOP candidate Carly Fiorina during last week’s Republican nomination debate.
What this means for policy is not yet clear. “Farage has a particular platform: withdrawal from the European Union, stricter curbs on immigration. Whatever anyone thinks about it, at least it’s an idea that’s just more than the personality of Nigel Farage,” says Massie. “Trump’s campaign, if you can call it a campaign, is a piece of performance art”—though the billionaire’s campaign has said that Trump will begin releasing policy papers.
Ivan Krastev, chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Bulgaria, believes Trump exemplifies a unique kind of populism. “He doesn’t have any great ideas,” says Krastev. “There are no clear policies, it’s all about him. He is not coming from the left or the right, he is coming from behind. It is a very strange sort of populism, which is strongly rooted in the nature of popular culture today. Extreme individualism, mistrust, being eccentric also plays a part.”
For Krastev, Trump has less in common with Farage than he does with Silvio Berlusconi, the flamboyant media tycoon who dominated Italian politics for almost 20 years. “Trump has the type of entertaining, cynical populism, which was typical of Berlusconi, who basically said ‘I’m going to take my mistresses and put them in parliament,’” says Krastev.
In 1994, when Italy was in the throes of a political corruption scandal, Berlusconi used the television channels he owned to announce the creation of his political party Forza Italia (Forward Italy). The Italian tycoon’s message was simple: he was a self-made media magnate who was going to fight for the common man. “The interesting story is you have a billionaire who said: ‘I’m revolting against the elites,’” says Krastev.
The $2.3 billion and 6,000 jobs Trump promised to put into Scotland turned out to be $150 million and a couple of hundred jobs, according to Baxter. “Trump isn’t the man of the people,” says Baxter. “He is the man of billionaires, who takes great delight in making exclusive, super-rich developments at the expense of ordinary people.”
Berlusconi was Italian prime minister three times for nine years in total while Farage failed to be elected to the House of Commons earlier this year. It remains to be seen which result Trump earns.
Read next: The Truth About Donald Trump’s Narcissism
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Rape has become a central part of the religious beliefs of members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) extremist group, according to a chilling new report in the New York Times.
The report found that men in ISIS believe sexually violating women and girls of the Yazidi religious minority is sanctioned, and even encouraged by the Quran. “He told me that according to Islam he is allowed to rape an unbeliever. He said that by raping me, he is drawing closer to God,” a 12-year-old rape victim told the Times.
These incidents of rape are bound in a larger, formal institution of sex slavery within the group, which can be used as a recruiting tool for young men.
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The failure of Turkey’s two largest political parties to form a coalition after June elections sets the stage for a new vote and threatens further instability.
Azerbaijan criticised for jailing activist coupleby Agence France-Presse
Leyla Yunus was given an eight-and-a-half year sentence while her husband, Arif, was jailed for seven years on charges denounced as politically motivated
A court in Azerbaijan has sentenced a prominent rights activist couple to hefty jail terms on charges denounced as politically motivated.
Continue reading...Fidel Castro celebrates 89th birthday by calling on US to pay embargo damages by Associated Press in Havana
Brief newspaper column says US owes Cuba ‘numerous millions of dollars’ and comes a day before John Kerry will raise flag over American embassy in Havana
Fidel Castro has marked his 89th birthday with a newspaper column repeating assertions that the US owes socialist Cuba “numerous millions of dollars” for damages caused by its decades-long embargo.
The brief essay came a day before an historic moment in US-Cuba relations: US secretary of state John Kerry is to raise the Stars and Stripes over a restored American embassy in Havana, though the economic embargo legally remains in effect.
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As more and more Mexican cartel leaders are arrested and killed by police, self-styled vigilante groups are beginning to spring up and grow in numbers. Report by Claire Lomas.
So does number of injured in huge explosions in warehouse district in Tianjin that sent huge fireballs into night sky; officials of company involved detained
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Three more women have alleged they were assaulted by Bill Cosby, including one who said the former US comedy icon forced her to perform oral sex.
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Cubans celebrate former leader Fidel Castro's 89th birthday at the Rumba Palace in Havana with freed Cuban Five member Rene Gonzalez who turned 59 on the same day as the Comandante.
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A freshly-dug anti-tank ditch running along a short stretch of metal fence topped with barbed wire marks the start of a new border defence dubbed "The Wall" that Ukraine hopes will protect it from Russia.
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Police make no arrests during second night of peaceful protests in Ferguson
The ceiling of a Minnesota nightclub seen in the 1984 movie ???Purple Rain??? partially collapsed Wednesday, injuring three people.
Poland's new President Andrzej Duda attends change of command of upgraded NATO corps
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U.S. Convicts Uzbek Refugee On Terrorism-Related Chargesby support@pangea-cms.com (RFE/RL)
A U.S. jury has convicted an Uzbek man on terrorism-related charges for gathering explosive materials at his Idaho apartment and seeking to support the banned Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU).
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DENVER (AP) -- A suburban Denver baker who wouldn't make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple cannot cite his religious beliefs in refusing them service because it would lead to discrimination, the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled Thursday....
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Three years after Connecticut abolished the death penalty for any future crimes, the state's highest court on Thursday spared the lives of all 11 men who were already on death row when the law took effect, saying it would be unconstitutional to execute them....
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry expressed "gave concern" on Thursday to his Russian counterpart about a sharp increase in separatist attacks in eastern Ukraine and urged an immediate cease-fire, the State Department said.
CARACAS (Reuters) - A Venezuelan military court granted parole to former general Raul Baduel, who was key in the rescue of Hugo Chavez from a coup in 2002 but later broke ranks with the late leader's socialist government, his lawyer said.
KOS, Greece (Reuters) - Michel Allatuain waited beneath the 14th century fortress at the port of this Greek island on Thursday, desperate for a ferry ticket to the European mainland and a better life.
TIANJIN, China (AP) — Huge explosions in a warehouse district sent up massive fireballs that turned the night sky into day, killing at least 44 people and injuring hundreds in the Chinese port city of Tianjin, officials and witnesses said Thursday.
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BAGHDAD (AP) — A massive truck bomb ripped through a popular Baghdad food market in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood early Thursday morning, killing at least 62 people, police officials said.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the blast, saying it targeted a gathering place of Shiites and vowed more ...
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