Calais camp will be completely dismantled, says French president
During a visit to the northern city on Monday, Hollande said France will carry out a "full and final" dismantlement of the camp, where thousands of displaced people live in squalid conditions."From now on our objectives are clear -- to guarantee the security of the people of Calais, maintain public order and ensure for the migrants and refugees conditions are dignified," Hollande said.He said he was in Calais to tell the "desperate immigrants" that they will not remain in the camp because "their..>> view originalPowerful quake rattles Japan's southern island of Okinawa
TOKYO – An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.7 has rattled Okinawa and other southern Japanese islands, but there was no danger of a tsunami. Japan Meteorological Agency said the quake occurred at 2:20 p.m. (0520 GMT) Monday off the coast of Okinawa, at the depth of 40 kilometers below the sea surface. The quake in the south came just minutes after another relatively strong temblor hit the north. A magnitude 5.5 quake occurred just off the southern coast of Hokkaido, Japan's norther..>> view originalSocialist Party Sees Deep Losses in Spain Elections
Photo Inigo Urkullu, a Basque Nationalist Party candidate, after wining a regional vote on Sunday that has national implications. Credit Ander Gillenea/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain — Spain’s main opposition Socialist Party suffered significant defeats in two regional elections on Sunday, increasing pressure on the party leader, Pedro Sánchez, to negotiate an end to the nine-month deadlock in Spain’s national politics.Sunday’s regiona..>> view originalMexico missing students: Unanswered questions two years on
Image caption Maricarmen Mendoza still hopes her son, Jorge Anibal Cruz Mendoza, is alive Two years have passed since 43 students went missing on their way to a protest in the Mexican town of Iguala. The violence that night also left three dead and two injured. At the time, their disappearance caused outrage. Protests in Mexico City turned violent. But while many are still angry, the events on the night of 26 September and the early morning of 27 Sept..>> view originalWriter Charged With Insulting Islam Is Killed as Extremism Boils Over in Jordan
Jordan, an important American ally surviving in part on billions of dollars of aid from Washington, has sought to find ways to keep its Islamist forces in check. The Muslim Brotherhood, outlawed in Egypt, was allowed, through its political wing, to take part in Jordan’s parliamentary elections last week. The wing, along with other Islamists, won 15 of 130 seats, while women won 20, a record for the nation. By happenstance, Jordan’s government resigned on Sunday, part of the normal process after..>> view originalChina investigating North Korean bank, report says
By Associated Press September 26 at 4:19 AM BEIJING — Chinese authorities are investigating a North Korean bank suspected of financing its government’s imports of goods that might be used by the North’s nuclear weapons program, a South Korean newspaper reported Monday. Kwangson Banking Corp. was ordered closed under U.N. sanctions imposed in March in response to the North’s nuclear tests but kept operating in secret in the border city of Dandong, Joongang Daily reported, citing unidentified ..>> view originalSyria airstrikes kill 85 people in Aleppo amid diplomatic row
"Everyone in Aleppo is depressed," an activist on the ground told CNN. "They don't know what they have done to become targets for warplanes. Fear is clear in the eyes of anyone you see walking the streets of Aleppo. Yesterday I saw a woman walking on the street and crying , no clear reason, just crying."Hundreds of airstrikes have pummeled the city, home to more than 250,000 people, since the Syrian government, backed by Russia, announced a renewed, "comprehensive" offensive Thursday following t..>> view originalEast China Sea: Japan scrambles jets as China flies fleet near disputed islands
He added that the planes didn't "trespass" into Japan's territorial airspace, although he said it was the first time that Chinese military aircraft had been seen in the Miyako Strait. "We will continue to keep close eyes on the Chinese military activities which have been expanding and become more frequent," he said. The fleet, which included H-6K bombers, Su-30 fighters and air tankers, simulated reconnaissance and early warning attacks on sea-surface targets. It also conducted in-flight refueli..>> view originalBoko Haram leader mocks Nigerian army, parents of missing girls
Story highlightsAbubakar Shekau also taunted the parents of kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls"I'm not dead," he says in response to army reports he was fatally wounded"To the despot Nigerian government: Die with envy. I'm not dead," Shekau says in the video.An ISIS flag is visible in the background. That terrorist organization has said it is supporting Shekau's rival, Abu Musab al-Barnawi, as the legitimate leader of the Nigerian ISIS-affiliated terrorist movement.The video was a response to the Nige..>> view original
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