Analysis: China Emerges More Muscular After ASEAN Meetings
A mill around the neck of ASEAN — Southeast Asia's main grouping — is that it can issue statements only when there is consensus among all 10 members. China leveraged that by ensuring that Cambodia and Laos would not provide that consensus. Both countries receive massive aid from China, which recently announced a $600 million package to Cambodia."As an association, ASEAN loses power and relevance when it punts on the most important regional issues," said John Ciorciari, a Southeast Asia expert a..>> view originalNew Indonesia Cabinet Includes Reformer, Rights Abuser
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo announced a new Cabinet on Wednesday that puts a retired general linked to human rights abuses in charge of security and returns a popular reformist to the finance ministry.Sri Mulyani Indrawati, who was finance minister from 2005-2010, is returning to the role from her current position as managing director at the World Bank, Jokowi said. In her first stint as finance minister, she was praised for overhauling a corrupt taxation dep..>> view original'Abu Ghraib' for youths: Juvenile offenders abused for 6 years in Australian prison, report claims
An undated handout screen grab taken from Australian investigative journalism television program Four Corners on July 26, 2016, shows inmate strapped to a mechanical chair in the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre in Berrimah, Northern Territory, Australia. (EPA/FOUR CORNERS) Warning: This story includes disturbing images. Video obtained by an Australian investigative television program showing abuse and inhumane living conditions in juvenile prisons has sparked outrage and a parliamentary inv..>> view originalJapan police search home of suspect in stabbing spree
Police officers enter into the house of Satoshi Uematsu, the suspect in a mass stabbing attack, in Sagamihara, outside of Tokyo, Wednesday, July 27, 2016. The suspect was being transferred Wednesday from a local police station to the prosecutor’s office in Yokohama. (Shizuo Kambayashi/Associated Press) By Emily Wang and Mari Yamaguchi | AP July 27 at 2:14 AM SAGAMIHARA, Japan — Japanese police on Wednesday searched the home of the suspect in a mass stabbing spree that left 19 people dead..>> view originalU.N. warns South Sudan president over replacement of rival
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir embraces Taban Deng Gai after his swearing-in ceremony as First Vice President at the Presidential Palace in the capital of Juba Thomson Reuters By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations warned South Sudan's President Salva Kiir on Tuesday that any political appointments must be consistent with a peace deal that ended nearly two years of civil war after Kiir replaced his vice president and rival Riek Machar. ..>> view originalPrince George, 3, Accused of Being A F**king D**khead with White Privilege
An employee of a British government-supported organization took to Facebook to accuse the tot of embodying white privilege.Wow, Prince George’s third birthday turned out to be pretty rough.First came ‘Ice-Cream Gate’, in which Prince George shared some ice cream with family pet Lupo, leading to tweets for the young prince to be thrown in jail “for irresponsible animal cruelty”—and, from a British animal cruelty charity, a warning that ice cream for dogs should be made from pet-friendly ingredien..>> view originalHollande: Deadly church attack in France carried out in name of ISIS
Adel Kermiche, 19, was wearing an "electronic tag" during the deadly hostage incident at a Catholic church in the town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, prosecutor Francois Molins said. The monitoring apparatus was a condition of his house arrest after two attempts in 2015 to travel abroad -- at least once to Syria -- using a relative's identification, Molins said. Kermiche was identified via fingerprints after the attack, which French President Francois Hollande said was committed in the name of ISI..>> view originalOne of India's Most Prominent Activists Will End a 16-Year Hunger Strike
In late 2000, a woman named Irom Sharmila went on a hunger strike in the northeast Indian state of Manipur to protest the country’s Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), and what many claim is the virtual impunity it grants to security forces in parts of the country. She persisted with her call to repeal the act in her state, often outside the glare of media attention, for the next decade and a half (during which time she has been fed through a tube attached to her nose). Now, 16 years lat..>> view originalIsraeli military says it killed Palestinian man behind deadly ambush
JERUSALEM – Israeli forces tracked down a group of suspects behind the deadly ambush of a family car in the West Bank earlier this month and killed the man who pulled the trigger in that attack in a shootout early on Wednesday, the military said. The July 1 attack killed Miki Mark, a 48-year-old father of 10 children, and wounded his wife and two teenage children. The military subsequently sent hundreds of troops to the area of the attack to search for the perpetrators in what was the largest ..>> view originalFormer lawmaker was one of AU base suicide bombers in Somalia: al Shabaab
MOGADISHU A former Islamist lawmaker turned al Shabaab militant was one of the drivers in Tuesday's double car bomb attack on the African Union's main peacekeeping base in Somalia, al Shabaab said.The militants said in a radio broadcast that Salah Nur Ismail, who joined al Shabaab in 2010, was one of those to blow himself up in the attack which killed 13 people, mainly guards from a private security firm.In the broadcast aired late on Tuesday on the militants' radio al Andalus, Ismail, also kn..>> view original
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