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Sydney flash floods turn roads into rivers
Tens of thousands told to evacuate following Sydney floods
SYDNEY — A man has died and thousands of people have been told to evacuate their homes amid torrential rain and flash flooding in Australia's largest city, Sydney.Roads have been cut off, with 18 evacuation orders in western Sydney alone and warnings of more to come."This is a life-threatening emergency situation," Stephanie Cooke, emergency services minister for the state of New South Wales, said.The area was hit by flash flooding in March, killing 20 people."We are now facing dangers on multiple fronts — flash flooding, riverine flooding and coastal erosion," Cooke told a media briefing.Her warning came as the Bureau of Meteorology said up to 350mm of rain had hit certain areas, risking flooding along the Nepean River.Sydney's main dam had also started to...
July 03, 2022

Tens of thousands told to evacuate following Sydney floods

Steve joined a gang after his school was shut down. — courtesy UNICEF/Joseph
Haitian children at mercy of armed gangs as schools close
PORT-AU-PRINCE — Rising gang crime in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince is limiting access to education and is preventing thousands of children from going to school. Since 2020, gang-related violence has led to school closures, and children have become easy prey for gang recruitment.Steve (not his real name) dreamed of becoming a schoolteacher when his life was turned upside down last year. Due to the upsurge in gang-related violence in his neighborhood, his school was closed, and the 15-year-old found himself roaming around on the streets, at the mercy of armed groups.“I joined the gang in February 2021. They saw me walking and called me and asked me to work for them. There were other children like me.”According to a report published by two local youth-focused organizations 13...
July 03, 2022

Haitian children at mercy of armed gangs as schools close

Seven-year-old Ayesha is the sole survivor of her family after a devastating earthquake struck the central region of Afghanistan and destroyed her home. — courtesy UNICEF/Ali Nazari
In Afghanistan, women take their lives out of desperation, HRC hears
GENEVA — The situation for women is so desperate in Afghanistan that they are committing suicide at a rate of one or two every day, the Human Rights Council has heard.It comes as the top UN rights forum in Geneva agreed to Member States’ request for a rare Urgent Debate on the issue this Friday.Addressing the Council, Fawzia Koofi, former deputy speaker of the Afghan Parliament, said lack of opportunity and ailing mental health, was taking a terrible toll: "Every day there is at least one or two women who commit suicide for the lack of opportunity, for the mental health, for the pressure they receive.“The fact that girls as young as nine years old are being sold, not only because of economic pressure, but because of the fact that there is no hope for them, for their family, it...
July 02, 2022

In Afghanistan, women take their lives out of desperation, HRC hears

Nupur Sharma
India's top court says Nupur Sharma’s ‘loose tongue’ set country on fire
NEW DELHI — India's top court has rebuked a former spokesperson of the ruling party for her controversial remarks on the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).The court told Nupur Sharma that "her loose tongue has set the entire country on fire".Her remarks in a TV debate sparked violence in some parts of the country and also led to several Islamic nations registering strong protests with India.The court also asked her to appear on a TV channel and apologize to the nation.The judge was hearing Sharma's petition seeking to club different investigations ongoing against her in several parts of the country.The court rejected the plea, saying "the petition smacks of her arrogance, that the magistrates of the country are too small for her".Her lawyer told the court that she had...
July 01, 2022

India's top court says Nupur Sharma’s ‘loose tongue’ set country on fire

Chinese President Xi Jinping walks with Hong Kong chief executive John Lee behind following his speech at a ceremony to inaugurate the city's new leader and government on Friday.
Xi Jinping defends Chinese rule at Hong Kong handover anniversary
HONG KONG — China's "one country two systems" model of ruling Hong Kong has worked in protecting the city and must continue long term, says Xi Jinping.The Chinese leader mounted a stern defence of the political system in a speech in Hong Kong, following recent international criticism.Hong Kong is marking 25 years since Britain returned the city to China.It is under tight security as it hosts Mr Xi, who is on his first trip outside of the mainland in two years.Under "one country two systems", Hong Kong is supposed to be governed in a way that gives it a high degree of autonomy and protects freedom of speech and assembly, and other rights not found in mainland China.But in recent years China has been criticised for increasing its control of Hong Kong and enacting...
July 01, 2022

Xi Jinping defends Chinese rule at Hong Kong handover anniversary

Ajmer and other Rajasthan cities are also on alert.
Indian state on edge after Udaipur beheading
NEW DELHI — India's Rajasthan state continues to be on alert following the beheading of a Hindu man by two Muslims.Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has appealed for calm and promised to take strict action against the attackers.The victim, a tailor named Kanhaiya Lal, was killed in Udaipur district in north India on Tuesday by the men, who filmed the act and posted it online.They said the act was in response to his support for a politician's derogatory remarks about the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).The National Investigative Agency, India's top anti-terrorism agency, is carrying out a probe. A senior police officer told reporters that the police had found early evidence that one of the accused men had links with a group in Pakistan.Islamabad, however, has denied such reports, calling...
June 30, 2022

Indian state on edge after Udaipur beheading

Chinese President Xi Jinping
China's President Xi arrives Hong Kong for handover anniversary
HONG KONG — Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in Hong Kong to mark 25 years since the former British colony returned to Beijing's rule.It is his first visit outside mainland China since the start of the pandemic nearly two-and-a-half years ago.He said Hong Kong had "risen from the ashes" after a series of challenges.China took control over the territory after pro-democracy protests in 2019-20 and has been accused by critics of crushing Hong Kong's freedoms.Xi, who traveled by high-speed train, was greeted at the station by pupils waving flags of China and Hong Kong.Security is tight around the convention center hosting events, with roads closed and a no-fly zone overhead.Hong Kong's outgoing chief executive Carrie Lam is spending her last day in office under...
June 30, 2022

China's President Xi arrives Hong Kong for handover anniversary

Sue and Lloyd Clarke have advocated national change after their daughter's death.
Murders spark calls for landmark police trial in Australia
BRISBANE — A landmark trial of a specialist domestic violence police station has been recommended by a coroner after two murders that shocked Australia.Hannah Clarke, and her children, and Doreen Langham were burned to death by their ex-partners in Queensland.Magistrate Jane Bentley this week found authorities missed or ignored signs that both women would be killed.The trial was among several recommendations she made to improve responses to domestic violence.Magistrate Bentley said the new model police station should have specialist police officers, support workers, a child safety officer and a lawyer to provide legal advice to police and victims.Such police stations in countries like Brazil and India have reduced the female homicide rate, she noted, citing expert evidence given at one...
June 30, 2022

Murders spark calls for landmark police trial in Australia

Ferdinand Marcos Junior will be sworn in as the new Philippines president on Thursday
Marcos Jr sworn in as Philippines president
MANILA — Ferdinand Marcos Jr has been sworn in as the Philippine president in a ceremony in Manila, succeeding the outgoing leader Rodrigo Duterte.His inauguration marks a stunning comeback for the Marcos political dynasty, which was ousted after a popular revolt in 1986.Marcos Jr - nicknamed Bong Bong - won an election landslide last month.Sara Duterte, the daughter of the outgoing president, is being sworn in as vice-president.Marcos Jr took his oath of office at midday local time (0400GMT) in a colorful ceremony at the National Museum.Earlier he was received by President Duterte - who wore a traditional formal white shirt unbuttoned at the collar and with its sleeves rolled up - at the Malacanang presidential palace.Some 15,000 security personnel have been deployed across the...
June 30, 2022

Marcos Jr sworn in as Philippines president

A child looks after his younger sibling in Myanmar. — courtesy World Bank/Tom Cheatham
Shocking toll on children in Myanmar must be spur to action, says UN rights expert
YANGON — Myanmar’s military junta is responsible for shocking violence against children caught up in the bloody aftermath of last February’s coup, a top independent Human Rights Council-appointed investigator said on Wednesday.Three months since his last update to the UN rights forum in Geneva, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Thomas Andrews, said that he’d met youngsters who’d fled the country after suffering “irreparable harm”.Empty seat Myanmar — whose seat was empty in the Council — “passed several grim milestones since March”, he continued: “more than 2,500 civilians have now been killed in the junta’s bloody campaign against its opponents; over one million people are now internally displaced.”The number of arbitrarily...
June 29, 2022

Shocking toll on children in Myanmar must be spur to action, says UN rights expert

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