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A crane-operated digital camera was used to strike local weather activists who interrupted a celeb dance competitors finale in Sweden on Friday. The...

The central patch of Sudan and Chad's 869-mile border is a dried river mattress of moist gentle sand and huge puddles of water.Large boulders and desert hills mark the Chadian aspect of the valley. Under lots of its thorn timber are new Sudanese refugees, fleeing the brutal ongoing violence of their border city.The crowds sit there and watch.Just throughout the river is the plush greenery of Darfur's western borderlands and behind a hill, smoke billows and gunfire echo out. Image: Many individuals from Masterai are farmers who've now been compelled to cede their land to tribal Arab militias I ask a crowd of largely teenage women standing and staring in that path what the sound is."These are th...

China’s fast large-scale buildup of nuclear missiles, submarines, bombers, together with an orbiting nuclear strike weapon, is rising the hazard of nuclear conflict, based on a brand new research from a high U.S. laboratory. ...

A Chinese-registered vessel has been detained in Malaysia, on suspicion of looting the wreckage of Second World War-era British warships within the South China Sea.Malaysia's maritime company mentioned a cannon shell had been discovered on-board the service ship. Local media reported unlawful salvage operators are believed to have focused the HMS Repulse and the HMS Prince of Wales - each of which have been sunk in 1941 by Japanese torpedoes.More than 840 sailors died within the assaults, with the shipwrecks designated as conflict graves.The authorities have been alerted final month, when fishermen and divers noticed a international vessel within the space, and detained the ship, which is registered in Fuzhou, China, on Sunday, for anchoring with no allow. According to the Ma...

A authorities official in India has been suspended after he had a dam reservoir drained so he may retrieve the cellphone he dropped whereas taking a selfie. ...

New anti-gay laws that might imply the dying penalty in some circumstances has been signed into legislation in Uganda, amid outcry by LGBT charities.The model of the invoice signed by President Yoweri Museveni does not criminalise those that determine as LGBTQ, which had been a key concern for campaigners who condemned an earlier draft of the laws as an egregious assault on human rights. But the brand new legislation nonetheless prescribes the dying penalty for "aggravated homosexuality," which is outlined as circumstances of sexual relations involving individuals contaminated with HIV in addition to with minors and different classes of susceptible individuals.A suspect convicted of "attempted aggravated homosexuality" could be imprisoned for as much as 14 years, in accordanc...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine officers started evacuating 1000's of villagers, shut down faculties and workplaces and imposed a no-sail ban Monday as Typhoon Mawar approached the nation’s northern provinces per week after battering the U.S. territory of Guam. ...

BEIJING (AP) — China plans to land astronauts on the moon earlier than 2030, in what could be one other advance in what’s more and more seen as a brand new house race pitting the Asian autocracy in opposition to the United States and its democratic allies. ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish President Andrzej Duda stated Monday he'll signal a invoice that creates a robust fee, ostensibly meant to analyze Russian affect in Poland however which critics view as a software to take away from political life the political opponents of the ruling celebration, principally notably opposition chief Donald Tusk. ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The assaults come at night time, when most in Kyiv are sleeping. The sirens wail throughout the Ukrainian capital, rousing bleary-eyed residents, who, after 15 months of warfare, have personalized particular person routines to deal with Russia’s newest air marketing campaign. ...