Almost a decade after fleeing China, more than 50 Uyghurs are languishing in Thai detention facilities, living in constant fear of being sent back.. "The situation is terrible," he told AFP. "They live with the fear that if they are ever sent back to China, they would suffer persecution there."
North Korea has fired an "unspecified ballistic missile", the South's military said Friday, the latest in a blitz of launches by Pyongyang, as Seoul warns Kim Jong Un may be close to conducting another nuclear test.. Seoul and Washington have repeatedly warned that Pyongyang could be close to testing an atomic bomb for the first time since 2017, after a flurry of ballistic missile launches.
Elon Musk took control of Twitter and fired its top executives late Thursday in a deal that puts one of the leading platforms for global discourse in the hands of the world's richest man.. Twitter did not immediately reply to a request for comment on the departure of its top executives, but the platform's co-founder Biz Stone thanked the three men in a tweet for their "collective contribution to Twitter."
The European Union on Thursday struck an agreement on legislation to phase out new CO2-emitting vehicles by 2035, negotiators announced.. Currently around 12 percent of new cars sold in the European Union are electric vehicles, with its consumers shifting away from CO2-emitting models as energy costs and greener traffic regulations bite.
Felipe Guimaraes leaps on and off a surfboard on the sand as he shows tourists the basics of surfing.. "I dunno man, it's so far away, but it's obvious it is important and good to take care of" the Amazon, says bare-chested surf instructor Guimaraes, 27, adding there are more "visible issues" than the rainforest.
After a bitterly divisive campaign and inconclusive first-round vote, Brazil will elect its next president Sunday in a cliffhanger runoff between far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and veteran leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.. "We were for Lula then, we're for Lula now," 25-year-old ranch hand Ana Gabriele dos Santos, whose family has long voted for the veteran leftist, told AFP in the harsh, semi-arid Sertao region in Brazil's impoverished northeast, a huge bastion of Lula support.
China's "sharp and uncharacteristic" economic slowdown is expected to drag on growth across Asia through the end of next year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned Friday, darkening an already gloomy global outlook.. China's "broad-based" slowdown "is estimated to have important spillovers to the rest of Asia through trade and financial links", according to the IMF. It noted that the region may also face other "persistent" headwinds in the form of tighter global monetary policy and Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, which has caused commodities prices to spike.
Scientists who study Mars on Thursday revealed the remarkable Christmas gift they received from the planet last year.. - 'Useful' ice presence - The valuable information gathered in studying the crash will contribute to deeper knowledge of Mars' interior and the history of how the planet was created, scientists said.
Leftist challenger Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's lead over far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro has widened slightly three days from Brazil's polarizing presidential runoff election, according to a poll published Thursday.. Lula, who turned 77 Thursday, leads among women (52 percent), the poor and working-class (61 percent), and Catholics (55 percent), according to Datafolha.
Bosnian Serb political leader Milorad Dodik was on Thursday declared the president of Bosnia's Serb entity, election officials announced, following a recount after the opposition cried foul.. The recount "confirmed that the candidate Milorad Dodik representing the Serb people and who was in the lead... and remained so with the greatest number of votes won," said Suad Arnautovic, chairman of Bosnia's central election commission.
