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sarahbalick

Juncker proposes EU military headquarters - BBC News - 0 views

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military headquarters bbc

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  • Juncker proposes EU military headquarters
  • Jean-Claude Juncker said the lack of a "permanent structure" resulted in money being wasted on missions.
  • The Brexit vote has given added impetus to plans for greater defence co-operation, because the UK has always objected to the potential conflict of interest with Nato.
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  • But Mr Juncker said a common military force "should be in complement to Nato". "More defence in Europe doesn't mean less transatlantic solidarity."
  • He also insists that whatever the EU does it should not detract from Nato. But defence resources are finite. His critics will say nothing should be done that duplicates existing Nato activities, as that sends a signal of disarray in Western ranks to Moscow.
  • Prime Minister Theresa May distanced herself last week from remarks by Brexit minister David Davis, when he said remaining in the single market would be "very improbable" if it meant giving up control of British borders.
  • Public trust in the establishment is low - whether traditional politicians, bankers or EU bureaucrats - and Mr Juncker is an unelected president.
sarahbalick

Exclude Hungary from EU, says Luxembourg's Asselborn - BBC News - 0 views

www.bbc.com/...world-europe-37347352

hungary luxembourg

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  • Exclude Hungary from EU, says Luxembourg's Asselborn
  • Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn has called for Hungary to be suspended or even expelled from the European Union because of its "massive violation" of EU fundamental values.
  • "Hungary is not far away from issuing orders to open fire on refugees," he suggested.
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  • "becoming impatient, it is not my personal approach to show a member state the door".
  • "could not be taken seriously".
  • The EU could not tolerate "such inappropriate behaviour", he said, and any state that violated such basic values "should be excluded temporarily, or if necessary for ever, from the EU''. It was "the only possibility to protect the cohesion and values of the European Union,'' he said.
  • The head of Hungarian diplomacy described his Luxembourg counterpart as a "classic nihilist" who worked tirelessly to destroy Europe's security and culture. By way of contrast, Hungary was defending not only its own territory, but that of the EU as well, the foreign minister insisted.
  • "Only Hungarians have the right to decide who they wish to live with."
sarahbalick

India stabbing: Bystanders watch as Delhi woman killed - BBC News - 0 views

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india delhi killed

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  • India stabbing: Bystanders watch as Delhi woman killed
  • Indians have reacted with outrage after passers-by watched a woman being stabbed more than 20 times on a busy street in the capital, Delhi.
  • choolteacher Karuna, 22, who died in the attack.
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  • He is seen stabbing her repeatedly as people walk by, before hitting her on the head with a stone and kicking her.
  • Locals did eventually intervene when he tried to escape.
  • "She was attacked as she was walking with her cousin at around 9am. It seems that the assailant started liking her when they used to be neighbours earlier, but since he was married, she never paid attention," senior police official Esha Pandey told the BBC.
  • Earlier deputy commissioner of police, Madhur Verma, told reporters that "the family had lodged a complaint four-five months back and both the families had reached a compromise".
  • On Sunday evening, 28-year-old Laxmi was stabbed to death in front of her house in full view of her neighbours by a man who then killed himself, the Times of India newspaper reported .
malonema1

Donald Trump says UK 'doing great' after Brexit vote - BBC News - 0 views

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America Trump Britain

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  • Mr Trump promised a quick trade deal between the US and the UK after he takes office in five days' time.
  • He also criticised Nato and German Chancellor Angela Merkel's immigration policies
  • "Countries want their own identity and the UK wanted its own identity, but I do think if they hadn't been forced to take in all of the refugees than you wouldn't have a Brexit."
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  • Mr Trump described Mrs Merkel's immigration policy as a "big mistake", but said "people make mistakes".
  • Other topics Mr Trump discussed included his mother's "love" of the Queen."She was so proud of the Queen," he said. "She loved the ceremony and the beauty, because nobody does that like the English, and she had great respect for the Queen and liked her."Any time the Queen was on television, for an event, my mother would be watching."
draneka

Trump-Lewis row: Democrat inauguration boycott grows - BBC News - 0 views

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  • The number of Democratic members of Congress saying they will boycott Donald Trump's inauguration on Friday has increased to 26.
  • Mr Trump lashed out at Mr Lewis on Twitter on Friday after Mr Lewis said he was not a "legitimate president".
  • Mr Lewis was a prominent member of America's civil rights movement and is a hero to many Americans. He was among those beaten by police during the infamous Selma-Montgomery voting rights march of 1965.
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  • The president-elect's insults, made just days ahead of Martin Luther King Day, were the final straw for a number of Democrats who will break with tradition by missing the inauguration ceremony on Frida
  • "When you insult Rep. John Lewis, you insult America," said Yvette Clarke, one of five representatives for New York who will boycott the event. There are 535 members of Congress, across both houses.
  • California representative Ted Lieu said: "For me, the personal decision not to attend Inauguration is quite simple: Do I stand with Donald Trump, or do I stand with John Lewis? I am standing with John Lewis."
  • "I could not look my wife, my daughters, or my grandson in the eye if I sat there and attended, as if everything that the candidate said about the women, the Latinos, the blacks, the Muslims, or any of those other things he said in those speeches and tweets, and that all of that is okay or erased from our collective memory," Mr Gutierrez told the House.
  • Mr Lewis' announcement of his own boycott in an interview with NBC News, in which he said that Mr Trump was an illegitimate president, prompted the outburst from the president-elect.
  • "You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong," he told NBC News.
sarahbalick

Euro 2016 football tournament in France could be terror target, US warns - BBC News - 1 views

www.bbc.com/...world-europe-36416929

football tournament terror target

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  • Euro 2016 football tournament in France could be terror target, US warns
  • The US has warned that the Euro 2016 football championship being held in France next month could be a target of militant attacks.
  • "The large number of tourists visiting Europe in the summer months will present greater targets for terrorists," the State Department said.
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  • In March, 32 people died in neighbouring Belgium when suicide blasts hit Brussels airport and a metro station. So-called Islamic State said it was behind both the Paris and Brussels attacks.
  • The attacks could hit tourist sites, restaurants, commercial centres and transportation, it warns, with large events such as Euro 2016 singled out. @media only screen and (min-width: 1px) { .ns_datapic_stat--euro-2016-data .ns_outer_wrapper { background-image: none; } .ns_datapic_stat--euro-2016-data .ns_outer_wrapper .ns_inner_wrapper { max-width: 100%; padding: 0; } } @media only screen and (min-width: 480px) { .ns_datapic_stat--euro-2016-data .ns_outer_wrapper .ns_inner_wrapper { max-width: 40%; padding: 0.5em; } .ns_datapic_stat--euro-2016-data .ns_outer_wrapper { background-image: url(http://news.files.bbci.co.uk/vj/live/idt-images/data_pic-Euro_2016_data/marseille_r13sr.jpg); } } .ie8 .ns_datapic_stat--euro-2016-data .ns_outer_wrapper .ns_inner_wrapper { max-width: 40%; padding: 0.5em; } .ie8 .ns_datapic_stat--euro-2016-data .ns_outer_wrapper { background-image: url(http://news.files.bbci.co.uk/vj/live/idt-images/data_pic-Euro_2016_data/marseille_r13sr.jpg); }
  • An unnamed US official told the Reuters news agency they had no particular threat information that gave rise to the latest alert.
  • More than 90,000 police, soldiers and private security agents are being deployed as well.
sarahbalick

India hospital transfusions infect thousands with HIV - BBC News - 0 views

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india hospital hiv

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  • India hospital transfusions infect thousands with HIV
  • At least 2,234 Indians have contracted the deadly HIV virus while receiving
  • blood transfusions in hospitals in the past 17 months alone.
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  • India has around 2.09 million people living with HIV/Aids.The highest number of patients who had been infected with HIV as a result of contaminated blood in hospitals, were from the northern state of Uttar Pradesh with 361 cases, Mr Kothari's RTI (Right to Information) query revealed.
  • "This is the official data, provided by the government-run Naco. I believe the real numbers would be double or triple that," Mr Kothari told the BBC.
  • "But each such test costs 1,200 rupees ($18; £12) and most hospitals in India do not have the testing facilities. Even in a big city like Mumbai, only three private hospitals have HIV testing facilities. Even the largest government hospitals do not have the technology to screen blood for HIV," Mr Kothari said.
sarahbalick

Afghan Taliban announce successor to Mullah Mansour - BBC News - 0 views

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taliban successor

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  • Afghan Taliban announce successor to Mullah Mansour
  • The Afghan Taliban have announced a new leader to replace Mullah Akhtar Mansour who was killed in a US drone strike.
  • Analysts say it is unlikely the group will change direction under hardline religious scholar Akhundzada.
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  • Last year the Taliban were plunged into turmoil when Mansour replaced the group's founder Mullah Mohammad Omar.
  • It doesn't look as if there will be a major shift in the Taliban's approach to peace talks under the new leadership. Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada was deputy to Mullah Mansour and held senior positions under the movement's founder Mullah Omar.
  • A Taliban statement said the new appointment had been unanimous, the same word the Taliban used when Mullah Mansour took over. Splits soon emerged after that - this time there could still be some disagreements, but probably not enough to challenge the new leader's authority.
  • Hibatullah Akhundzada has been appointed as the new leader of the Islamic Emirate (Taliban) after a unanimous agreement in the shura (supreme council), and all the members of shura pledged allegiance to him,"
  • "We invite Mula Hibatullah to peace. Political settlement is the only option for the Taliban or new leadership will face the fate of Mansour," Javid Faisal tweeted.
  • Separately on Wednesday, 10 people were killed and four injured in a suicide attack that hit a bus carrying court employees in Kabul, government officials told the BBC.
sarahbalick

Syria conflict: IS 'destroyed helicopters' at Russian base - BBC News - 0 views

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syria conflict helicopters

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  • Syria conflict: IS 'destroyed helicopters' at Russian base
  • New satellite imagery appears to reveal extensive damage to a strategically significant airbase in central Syria used by Russian forces after a reported attack by so-called Islamic State (IS).
  • Four helicopters and 20 lorries were destroyed in a series of fires inside the T4 base last week, the images from intelligence company Stratfor suggest
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  • he Russian military has denied reports that it had lost helicopters at the base as a result of an IS attack.
  • "Burning of four Russian attack helicopters and 20 trucks loaded with missiles inside T4 airport in eastern Homs [province] as a result of a nearby fire," it said in an urgent report, leading to speculation that it could have been accidental.
  • 'Not an accident'
  • "What the imagery tells us is that first of all this was not an accidental explosion, as some of the rumours kept saying,
  • "It shows very clearly that there are several different sources of explosions across the airport, and it shows that the Russians took a quite a bad hit.
  • "An entire combat helicopter unit was wiped out - four helicopters in total
  • Mr Tack described Amaq's account as "very accurate", and suggested the helicopters and depot were destroyed by IS attacks.
  • In this case, we haven't seen any of those materials come out yet. One possibility is that by making the statement they were intending to claim it while not necessarily phrasing it that way."
  • The province of Homs stretches out into the Syrian desert towards Raqqa, the capital of the "caliphate" proclaimed by IS in 2014, and Deir al-Zour, on the way to the border with Iraq, he notes.
  • A Kurdish-Arab alliance has announced the launch of a military campaign against IS north of Raqaa.
  • The assault will be supported by air strikes from the US-led coalition bombing IS in Iraq and Syria, it added.
  • "The regime and the Russians are facing notable challenges in trying to disconnect those two.
sarahbalick

Luxleaks whistleblowers trial begins in Luxembourg - BBC News - 0 views

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world trial luxembourg

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  • Luxleaks whistleblowers trial begins in Luxembourg
  • Three Frenchmen have gone on trial in Luxembourg accused of leaking thousands of confidential documents revealing corporate tax deals.
  • Two ex-employees of accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and a journalist are on trial. They could face up to 10 years in jail.
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  • Antoine Deltour, a former auditor at PwC, is accused of passing information on clients to French journalist Edouard Perrin, who first broke the story on French TV in 2012, in collaboration with the BBC's Panorama.
  • Raphael Halet, the other former PwC employee, is suspected of a separate leak and faces the same charges. Mr Perrin is accused of being an accomplice.
  • While Luxembourg has laws protecting whistleblowers, they are confined to exposing illegal practices. Civil rights groups have attacked the case.
  • "Deltour should be protected and commended, not prosecuted. The information he disclosed was in the public interest," said Cobus de Swardt, the Managing Director of Transparency International.
sarahbalick

US election 2016: New York primaries crucial for Clinton and Trump - BBC News - 0 views

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election new york clinton trump

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  • US election 2016: New York primaries crucial for Clinton and Trump
  • New York is holding presidential primaries seen as key for both Republican and Democratic front-runners after their recent defeats.
  • Wins will put Mrs Clinton and Mr Trump closer to securing their nominations.
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  • As Mr Trump cast his votes at Central Synagogue in Manhattan on Tuesday morning, he said: "It's just an honour, and my whole reason for doing this is to make America great again."
  • Hillary Clinton was twice elected senator for New York, and a defeat there would be a devastating political blow.
  • The primaries are the state's most decisive in decades in selecting the candidates, and polls will be open until 21:00 (01:00 GMT Wednesday)
  • "We are not taking anything for granted,'' Mrs Clinton said. "Tell your friends and your family, everyone, to please vote tomorrow [Tuesday]."
  • The Democratic campaign has turned increasingly negative, with both candidates trading barbs about their qualifications.
  • For Mr Trump, a win in New York will reduce the chances of a contested nomination at the Republican party convention in July.The big question is whether he will make a clean sweep of all 95 Republican delegates at stake in New York by earning the majority of votes.
  • In a campaign event in Buffalo, Mr Trump told his supporters that "no New Yorker" could vote for Mr Cruz, who did "not represent what we need.''
  • "It's very close to my heart because I was down there, and I watched our police and our firemen down at 7/11, down at the World Trade Center right after it came down, and I saw the greatest people I've ever seen in action," Mr Trump said.
sarahbalick

Alberta wildfire: Emergency declared in Fort McMurray - BBC News - 0 views

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alberta wildfire emergency

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  • Alberta wildfire: Emergency declared in Fort McMurray
  • A state of emergency has been declared in the province of Alberta in Canada
  • Officials say the fast-moving blaze could destroy much of the city.
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  • after a wildfire forced all 88,000 residents of Fort McMurray to flee.
  • It was something you'd see in a movie probably. I was stuck between a concrete barrier and the fire and I thought 'You know what? I might not make it out'.
  • Several firms have shut down some pipelines
  • So far there have been no reports of deaths or injuries, but two women gave birth in one evacuation centre
  • gutted 1,600 buildings, including a new school.
  • "There's whole neighbourhoods that are gone. A hotel burned down, a gas station exploded. One lady that I met she actually was sheltered behind like an electrical box when it actually exploded and she felt a shockwave."
  • "You could hear the pop, pop, pop because of the propane tanks,"
  • Fort McMurray itself is sealed off to all but the emergency services, but it is reportedly a scene of devastation.One police officer who lives and patrols in the city told the BBC that, in his assessment, around half of it had been destroyed.
  • "It's well known that one of the consequences of climate change will be a greater prevalence of extreme weather events around the planet,"
  • he said.
  • "However, any time we try to make a political argument out of one particular disaster…that can sometimes not have the desired outcome."
  • Officials said the size of the blaze was now more than 10,000 hectares (39 square miles) and it was being tackled by 100 firefighters.
B Mannke

BBC News - Ukraine president warns Kiev protesters amid clashes - 0 views

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  • Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has warned that the country's stability is threatened by continuing clashes between police and anti-government protesters in the capital Kiev.
  • The authorities say police have the right to use firearms in self-defence.
  • Former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko, who was injured in clashes earlier this month, is among four representatives of the opposition who will be taking part in the talks with the authorities, according to the website for Ukraine's Fatherland Party.
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  • At least 30 people have been arrested in the clashes, and about 100 injured, including dozens of police officers.
  • "now, when peaceful actions are turning into mass unrest, accompanied by riots and arson attacks, the use of violence, I am convinced that such phenomena are a threat not only to Kiev but to the whole of Ukraine".
  • The police have been firing plastic bullets, tear gas canisters and stun grenades, and even throwing back the cobblestones, he reports. EU foreign ministers also released a statement on Monday expressing "deep concern" about the new legislation, which they said was passed under "doubtful procedural circumstances".
  • A ban on the unauthorised installation of tents, stages or amplifiers in public places Provision to arrest protesters wearing masks or helmets A ban on protests involving more than five vehicles in convoy Hefty fines or jail for breaches of law
  • The group is not thought to support the idea of Ukraine joining the EU, but is against the government and sees the current unrest as an opportunity "to destroy the state skeleton", according to the BBC's Ukrainian Service.
B Mannke

BBC News - Syria crisis: UN withdraws Iran invitation to Geneva talks - 0 views

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  • e Syrian regime, angered the US and the Western-backed Syrian oppositi
  • The invitation to Iran, a key ally of the Syrian regime, angered the US and the Western-backed Syrian opposition.
  • The peace conference, due to begin on Wednesday, is the biggest diplomatic effort to end the three-year conflict. More than 100,000 people have been killed and millions more displaced in the war.
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  • Withdrawing the invitation was "the right thing to do", Monzer Akbik, the National Coalition's chief of staff, told the BBC.
  • Meanwhile, CNN and UK newspaper the Guardian are reporting claims that the Syrian regime tortured and killed thousands of detainees.
  • But Iran issued several statements on Monday rejecting any attempt to place conditions on its attendance at the conference
  • "understood and supported the basis and goal of the conference".
  • It is unclear whether Iran will be able to join the talks two days later, when they move to Geneva.
  • it shows a chilling systematic documentation of the bodies, each of which was photographed several times and given a number.
  • Some 55,000 photographs showing roughly 11,000 dead detainees were smuggled out of Syria by a defector who served as a military police photographer
  • In May last year, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry agreed to try to bring both sides together.
  • However, the National Coalition appears resolute that any transitional government will not involve President Bashar al-Assad.
Javier E

Britain entering first world war was 'biggest error in modern history' | World news | T... - 0 views

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  • Britain could have lived with a German victory in the first world war, and should have stayed out of the conflict in 1914, according to the historian Niall Ferguson, who described the intervention as "the biggest error in modern history".
  • Britain could indeed have lived with a German victory. What's more, it would have been in Britain's interests to stay out in 1914,
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  • "Even if Germany had defeated France and Russia, it would have had a pretty massive challenge on its hands trying to run the new German-dominated Europe and would have remained significantly weaker than the British empire in naval and financial terms. Given the resources that Britain had available in 1914, a better strategy would have been to wait and deal with the German challenge later when Britain could respond on its own terms, taking advantage of its much greater naval and financial capability."
  • "Creating an army more or less from scratch and then sending it into combat against the Germans was a recipe for disastrous losses. And if one asks whether this was the best way for Britain to deal with the challenge posed by imperial Germany, my answer is no.
  • He continued: "The cost, let me emphasise, of the first world war to Britain was catastrophic, and it left the British empire at the end of it all in a much weakened state … It had accumulated a vast debt, the cost of which really limited Britain's military capability throughout the interwar period. Then there was the manpower loss – not just all those aristocratic officers, but the many, many, many skilled workers who died or were permanently incapacitated in the war.
  • He concedes that if Britain had stood back in 1914, it would have reneged on commitments to uphold Belgian neutrality. "But guess what? Realism in foreign policy has a long and distinguished tradition, not least in Britain – otherwise the French would never complain about 'perfidious Albion'. For Britain it would ultimately have been far better to have thought in terms of the national interest rather than in terms of a dated treaty."
julia rhodes

BBC News - US urges North Korea to release veteran Merrill Newman - 0 views

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veteran bbc news north korea release US politics History crisis

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  • Merrill Newman, a Korean War veteran, was taken off a plane by uniformed officers at the end of a guided tour in North Korea last month, his son said.
  • The guided tour was arranged with a travel agent "approved by the North Korean government for travel of foreigners", he added
  • The veteran appeared to have discussed his experience in the Korean War with North Korean officials the day before his detention, his son added.
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  • "They have other people, too... These are all very, very disturbing choices by the North Koreans."
  • The US State Department revised its travel guidance for North Korea this week, saying: "US citizens crossing into North Korea, even accidentally, have been subject to arbitrary arrest and long-term detention." However, a small number of tourists do enter North Korea every year.
  • US troops backed South Korea in the 1950-1953 Korean War, which killed at least two million people.
B Mannke

BBC News - India top court reinstates gay sex ban - 0 views

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  • "The Supreme Court has upheld the century-old traditions of India, the court is not suppressing any citizen, instead it is understanding the beliefs and values of the large majority of the country," Zafaryab Jilani, member of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, told BBC Hindi.
  • The Supreme Court ruling reverses a landmark 2009 Delhi High Court order which had decriminalised homosexual acts.
grayton downing

BBC News - American University of London sells study-free MBA - 0 views

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  • A so-called university sold an MBA degree for thousands of pounds with no academic work required, a BBC Newsnight investigation has revealed.
  • The American University of London (AUOL) awarded a fictitious person created by the programme a Master's in Business in exchange for a £4,500 fee.
  • "not a bogus university" and defended the robustness of the qualifications it offers.
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  • Its website claims that that all of their courses "have been designed to the most exacting standards, in accordance with the most stringent criteria, in order to provide outstanding education at an affordable price".
  • 15 years of made-up work experience and a fictitious undergraduate degree from a UK university.
  • Newsnight sent "Pete's" CV to AUOL, along with a completed application for the Master's in Business (MBA) and £50 application fee.
  • "No, no, apparently the APEL [Accreditation of Previous Experiential Learning] board awarded him the full degree immediately based on his qualification and his professional experience, so he doesn't have to do any courses."
  • awarding an MBA on what essentially amounts to the evidence that is on a piece of paper.
  • the university's academic staff are highly qualified and experienced". But when we contacted five Western academics on its list, all said they had never worked there and never agreed for their name to be used.
  • "It doesn't have authority to award degrees. They are not degrees. They are pieces of paper and I'm guessing they are not able to sell very many degrees into countries where English is the first language."
  • The university has claimed to be recognised by three different American institutions, but these institutions are themselves unofficial and unrecognised.
  • The university is listed as "bogus" by the agency that values degrees for the Italian government and it has been blacklisted in five US states, including Texas where it is illegal to use any of its qualifications to get a job.
  • "We are not a bogus university… and have always been upfront about our status.
Emilio Ergueta

Narendra Modi to become first Indian PM to visit Israel - BBC News - 0 views

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  • Narendra Modi is to become the first Indian prime minister to visit Israel, India's foreign minister has said.
  • The two countries have shared 23 years of diplomatic relations and are working together on counter-terrorism, defence, agriculture and the water and energy sectors.But no Indian prime minister or president has ever visited Israel.
  • The two countries have shared 23 years of diplomatic relations and are working tog
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  • "High level visits between both countries... are a natural ingredient of tightening relationship between Israel and India," Mr Carmon was quoted as saying by The Hindu newspaper.
  • Emilio Ergueta on 01 Jun 15
     
    Indian president plans to visit Israel
redavistinnell

Migrant crisis: EU ministers attempt to resolve quota row - BBC News - 0 views

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  • Migrant crisis: EU ministers attempt to resolve quota row
  • European Union ministers are meeting to try to resolve a dispute over how to relocate 120,000 asylum seekers who have recently arrived in Europe.
  • Who are the 120,000?
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  • Refugees and migrants have been walking over the border from Hungary. The young men come first, waving and asking: "Is this Austria?"
  • The UK, under an opt-out, would not be part of the relocation scheme but has already agreed to take 20,000 migrants directly from countries bordering Syria over the next five years.The Irish Republic and Denmark, with similar opt-outs, have agreed to take part in the EU scheme.
  • The relocation scheme would prioritise migrants recognised as "in need of international protection" - those from Syria, Eritrea and Iraq, according to EU data.
  • Some apply for asylum in Austria but most say they want to go on to Germany.
  • "A relocation programme alone, at this stage in the crisis, will not be enough to stabilise the situation," spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said.
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