Police Raid Churches in China’s Henan, Part of a Nationwide Crackdown on Christianity

RFA

2018-09-07

RFA Cartoonist Rebel Pepper channels Leonardo da Vinci for his latest work – a look at China’s ongoing repression of Christianity. Earlier this week, police raided four churches in the central Chinese province of Henan. Police cordoned off the area and began tearing crosses down from the walls

The Most Influential Images of All Time

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The Most Influential Images of All Time

The 2015 Global Innovation 1000: Innovation’s new world order

Remarks by the First Lady at the Democratic National Convention - Toàn văn phát biểu của bà Obama tại đại hội đảng Dân chủ

July 25, 2016
Remarks by the First Lady at the Democratic National Convention

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Toàn văn phát biểu của bà Obama tại đại hội đảng Dân chủ

Ngọc Minh | 28/07/2016 08:54

 

Tôi muốn một tổng thống có thể dạy cho con cái chúng ta rằng tất cả mọi người sống trong đất nước này đều quan trọng...

CHexit: Philippines' journey to victory

Trung Quốc thua! Chúc mừng Philippines!

 

Groups celebrate favorable arbitration ruling

CNN Philippines
By Camille Abadicio, CNN Philippines
Updated 01:23 AM PHT Wed, July 13, 2016

Metro Manila (CNN Philippines) — Community leaders and members of various civil society groups celebrate following the arbitration court's ruling in favor of the Philippines.

A Tripped Syrian Refugee Finds a Home in Spain

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ALAN TAYLOR - JUN 22, 2016 - 14 PHOTOS - IN FOCUS

Last September, photos and video of a Syrian refugee named Osama Abdul Mohsen and his young son being tripped by a Hungarian camerawoman as he tried to flee border police near Serbia went viral. While much outrage was focused on the actions of the journalist Petra Laszlo (who was fired shortly afterward), Mohsen’s story caught the attention of a soccer training school near Madrid, Spain. The school found Mohsen a job as a liason officer, and now he spends his time between Spanish language classes, his new job, and two of his sons in their new home in Getafe. His wife and two more children remain in Turkey, waiting for visas to enter Spain.

Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Abe of Japan at Hiroshima Peace Memorial

Eco-Cooler: The Zero Electricity Air Cooler

Solar Impulse 2 touches down in Arizona: Pioneering solar-powered plane completes the San Francisco to Phoenix leg of its round-the-world flight

• The experimental solar powered plane has successfully completed the 10th leg of its round-the-world journey
• Swiss pilot Andre Borschberg flew this leg of the journey, from San Francisco in California to Phoenix, Arizona
• Solar impulse was in the air for a total of 15 hours and 52 minutes, with the aircraft landing at 8.55 pm local time

By Ryan O'Hare for MailOnline
Published: 00:50 EST, 3 May 2016 | Updated: 06:38 EST, 3 May 2016

Syrian Government Forces Recapture Historic Palmyra From ISIS

The Atlantic - Photo
Alan Taylor
Mar 29, 2016 - 20 Photos - In Focus

After several weeks of fighting, Syrian government troops backed by Russian airstrikes were able to gain control of the ancient city of Palmyra this weekend, driving out ISIS militants who took the city last May. Archaeologists were rushing to the site to assess the damage, after earlier evidence of looting and destruction by the jihadist group. Officials have reported that demining experts have removed dozens of bombs planted by ISIS across the historic city. Following the pattern of other recent recaptures from ISIS, such as Kobani in Syria and Sinjar in Iraq, the occupation and battle to re-take Palmyra wreaked havoc on the city, leaving buildings and historic sites in ruins.

Myanmar có tổng thống dân sự đầu tiên trong nửa thế kỷ

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Thứ ba, 15/3/2016 | 15:13 GMT+7 

 

Quốc hội Myanmar hôm nay bầu trợ lý thân cận của bà Aung Sang Su Kyi làm tổng thống dân sự đầu tiên trong hơn 50 năm, một thời khắc lịch sử của đất nước từng do chính phủ quân sự điều hành.

• Đảng của bà Suu Kyi có hai ứng viên tổng thống Myanmar / Tổng thống sắp mãn nhiệm Myanmar cam kết hỗ trợ chính phủ mới

Ông Htin Kyaw, người được quốc hội Myanmar hôm nay bầu làm tổng thống nước này. Ảnh: Reuters

Kurdish Residents Return to Their Devastated City in Southeast Turkey

 The Atlantic PHOTO

Alan Taylor - Mar 3, 2016 - 19 Photos - In Focus

Late last year, Turkish authorities fighting militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) imposed a 24-hour curfew on several predominantly Kurdish cities in southeastern Turkey, then sent in troops and airstrikes. The Turkish government has now declared their operation a success, and has relaxed the curfew in some cities. One such city, Cizre, is home to about 130,000 residents, many of whom were allowed back home for the first time in months, discovering widespread destruction resulting from the military operation. Turkish armed forces have been battling PKK rebels in the area for decades, but have stepped up their actions in recent months—while at the same time, bombing other Kurdish groups and ISIS militants in nearby Syria. Currently, Turkey, ISIS, and the PKK are all fighting each other in a hostile triangle at the meeting of the borders of Turkey, Syria, and Iraq. 

  A man looks out at ruined houses after returning to Cizre, Turkey, on March 2, 2016. #
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Prayers in the Jungle: Muslim migrants hoping to reach Britain hold Friday religious service by makeshift structures in Calais camp as demolition continues

• Hundreds of migrants held a traditional Islamic prayer service surrounded by the makeshift tents they call home
• It comes amid the systematic demolition of the southern half of the illegal camp which is home to 3,800 migrants
• Council workers have been trying to convince migrants to move out of destruction zone, but many have refused
• For a third day straight, a dozen Iranian migrants sewed their mouths shut as a protest to the camp's demolition

By Jay Akbar For Mailonline
Published: 13:38 EST, 4 March 2016 | Updated: 14:52 EST, 4 March 2016

No it's not Glastonbury, it's a refugee camp in Greece: Staggering aerial photos show huge tent city on Macedonian border - where desperate migrants hold babies to razor wire in bid to get across

• These aerial photographs show scores of tents covering muddy fields in the northern Greek village of Idomeni
• Scene looks like the remnants of music festival but actually shows a makeshift migrant camp on Macedonian border
• At least 10,000 men, women and children have been camped for days in the squalid conditions, with more arriving
• Macedonian authorities have set up a 19-mile barbed wire boundary, with 8ft fencing keeping out desperate refugees

By Emma Glanfield for MailOnline
Published: 23:24 GMT, 3 March 2016 | Updated: 09:30 GMT, 4 March 2016

Survey: 1.3 million industrial robots to enter service by 2018

International Federation of Robotics

 IFR press release

Survey: 1.3 million industrial robots to enter service by 2018 

The United States of Air-merica: Stunning aerial photographs show the full glory of the US in a way you have never seen before

• These aerial photographs show the U.S.'s stunning array of scenery as well as housing estates and parking lots
• They were taken by pilot Jassen Todorov, from San Francisco, who was flying in a 1976 Piper Warrior plane
• He travelled for three weeks, flying for four hours a day, across states that included Florida, Arizona and Texas

By Corey Charlton for MailOnline

Published: 06:09 EST, 24 January 2016 | Updated: 21:59 EST, 24 January 2016 

Germany recruits 8,500 teachers to teach German to 196,000 child refugees

The Guardian 

Agence France-Presse

Monday 28 December 2015 01.22 GMT

‘Special classes’ have been created to help children who have fled war and poverty to catch up with their new peers

Refugee mothers and children look through games and books in another initiative by the German education ministry, the reading start for refugee children. Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Key migration flows to Europe - animation