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Archives for August 2015
Mugabe has no appetite to act on corruption
STAFF WRITER • 5 AUGUST 2015 • DAILY NEWS (ZIMBABWE) HARARE - President Robert Mugabe’s government, for long accused of corruption and out of depth in arresting the current economic slide, lacks the will to restore confidence among Zimbabweans and foreign investors. Mugabe, especially, has failed to act on numerous cases of corruption involving senior government … [Read more...] about Mugabe has no appetite to act on corruption
Five men arrested over deaths of over 200 migrants – video
Friday 7 August 2015, The Guardian (UK) The five men arrested on suspicion of multiple homicide and human trafficking in the presumed drowning of more than 200 people, disembark a ship in Palermo, Italy on Friday. Police say the accused men charged the migrants between $1,200 and $1,800 for the voyage depending on where they would be placed on the boat. The boat was believed … [Read more...] about Five men arrested over deaths of over 200 migrants – video
Trafficker gets 18 years in jail over Italian shipwreck that killed 366 migrants
Thursday 2 July 2015, The Guardian (UK) Khaled Bensalem, 36, has been convicted by a Sicilian court of causing the 2013 shipwreck and the deaths of mainly Eritrean passengers An Italian court on Wednesday found a man guilty of trafficking migrants and sentenced him to 18 years in jail for contributing to a 2013 shipwreck that killed 366 people, a judicial source … [Read more...] about Trafficker gets 18 years in jail over Italian shipwreck that killed 366 migrants
The Lady and the Tramp
Ira Trivedi, 7 August 2015, Foreign Affairs Why Young Graduates End Up in India's Sex Industry GB Road, New Delhi’s red-light district, is one of India’s largest, with an estimated 5,000 sex workers living in 96 brothels. It is also one of the nation’s oldest, having been established by the British in the 1930s.Today, GB Road also houses one of Asia’s largest hardware … [Read more...] about The Lady and the Tramp
President Sisi’s Canal Extravaganza
SARAH CARR, 7 AUGUST 2015, FOREIGN POLICY With spectacle and ceremony, Egypt's president unveiled an unnecessary infrastructure project in a country that is falling to pieces. CAIRO — How apt that Egypt’s latest “gift to the world,” the “New Suez Canal,” makes a two-lane freeway out of the conduit that connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean. Everything else in Egypt is … [Read more...] about President Sisi’s Canal Extravaganza
Rojava’s Witness: The Kurds and Ankara’s Real Strategic Nightmare
Micha'el Tanchum, 5 August 2015, Foreign Affairs As most observers predicted, Turkey’s campaign against the Islamic State (also called ISIS) has quickly become a cat’s-paw for a war against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Whereas Turkey’s July 23 assault on ISIS involved a single sortie against a small cluster of targets in Syria, from July 24 to July 26 the … [Read more...] about Rojava’s Witness: The Kurds and Ankara’s Real Strategic Nightmare
The Bureaucrats Who Singled Out Hiroshima for Destruction
PAUL HAM, 6 AUG 2015, THE ATLANTIC How committee meetings, memos, and largely arbitrary decisions ushered in the nuclear age On May 10, 1945, three days after Germany had surrendered to the Allied powers and ended World War II in Europe, a carefully selected group of scientists and military personnel met in an office in Los Alamos, New Mexico. With Germany out of the … [Read more...] about The Bureaucrats Who Singled Out Hiroshima for Destruction
Search and rescue boat plucks migrants from sea after packed boat capsizes in Mediterranean – exclusive video
Médecins Sans Frontières, Thursday 6 August 201, The Guardian (UK) Footage given exclusively to the Guardian shows Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF) search and rescue boat Dignity I assist in a rescue operation after a boat capsized on Wednesday 5 August in the waters north of Libya. MSF say there could have been up to 700 people on board at the time of the incident. MSF’s two … [Read more...] about Search and rescue boat plucks migrants from sea after packed boat capsizes in Mediterranean – exclusive video
Video: How the Suez Canal made history
2015-08-06, France24 More than a century after the Suez Canal was inaugurated, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi unveils a giant canal expansion. FRANCE 24 takes a look back at a waterway that has changed the course of history. The dream of cutting a canal that would connect the Red Sea to the Mediterranean had long gripped cartographers, engineers and dreamers … [Read more...] about Video: How the Suez Canal made history
The Dark Side of the Moon and the Light Side of the Earth, Seen Together in Full Light for the First Time Ever
Al Gore Chairman The Climate Reality Project, 08/05/2015, The Huffington Post Over the past several weeks we have received the first of the breath-taking images taken from the DSCOVR satellite positioned a million miles from Earth, at the Lagrangian 1, or "L1 point," where the gravitational pull of the Earth and the Sun cancel each other out. As a result, the satellite … [Read more...] about The Dark Side of the Moon and the Light Side of the Earth, Seen Together in Full Light for the First Time Ever