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Indonesia says 5,000 now missing after quake and tsunami The number of people believed missing afterearthquakes and a tsunami hit Indonesiaʼs Sulawesi islandlate last month has risen dramatically to 5,000, the countryʼs disaster management agency said on Sunday. The agency said it had so far recovered 1,763 bodies as the death toll from the 7.5-magnitude earthquake continues to rise. Rescuers continued to search for victims on Sunday with little hope of finding survivors 10 days after the September 28 disaster, but authorities said efforts to retrieve bodies would end on October 11. Read more: Indonesia quake: ʼTsunami warning system needs improvementʼ
Rome warns Germany not to deport migrants back to Italy
German news agency DPA has learnt that authorities in the southern German state of Bavaria were planning to start deporting large groups of migrants back to Italy. According to the European Unionʼs Dublin Regulation, the cases of asylum-seekers must be processed at their point of entry into the 28-nation bloc. As a German border state, Bavaria is a point of entry into Germany from other European nations. DPA said it was unclear whether German authorities in Bavaria would go ahead with deportations amid rising tensions with Rome over the migrant issue. The flights would normally have to be accompanied by federal police officers, and would thus have to be coordinated with Berlin.
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Wife of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu goes on trial for fraud Both Netanyahus deny any wrongdoing
The wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Sara, is being tried on charges of misusing state funds for buying private meals.
Amazon raises US minimum hourly wage to $15, as German union calls strike The worldʼs second largest company said it would advocate for minimum wage increases in the US. Amazon has been under fire from workersʼ groups for its low pay and poor working conditions. Giving in to criticism over its low wages and poor working conditions, Amazon announced on Tuesday it would raise its minimum wage for US employees from $11 to $15 (€13) per hour from next month. Amazon had been under pressure from labor and political groups in the US to improve wages and conditions, as the companyʼs market value reached $1 trillion. "We listened to our critics, thought hard about what we wanted to do, and decided we want to lead," saidfounder
and CEO Jeff Bezos. Amazon said it would encourage other large US employers to follow its lead. Its lowest pay will now surpass that of its closest US rivals at Walmart Inc. and Target Corp, the latter having promised to raise its lowest wage to $15 by 2020. "We intend to advocate for a minimum wage increase that will have a profound impact on the lives of tens of millions of people and families across this country," Jay Carney, Amazonʼs head of global corporate affairs, said in the statement. US Senator Bernie Sanders, an Amazon foe who has led the campaign for higher wages in the US, celebrated the companyʼs decision, saying Bezos and Amazon were "now leading the way."
Brandenburg Gate crowns itself with street art installation As everywhere in the world where JR is active with his photomontages, he works with the glances of others. People mostly look from walls and fences. This time they look down from the Brandenburg Gate. In front of it, huge figures, recognizable as GDR border soldiers, are positioned at a certain distance. It looks like a 3D effect. The French street art artist JR is designing this oversized installation for the three-day festival on the occasion of German Unity Day in
Berlin. The artist used one of the legendary photos from the fall of the Berlin Wall night in November 1989 as a basis for his installation: celebrating Berliners sit and dance on the wall while border guards stand there looking at them. In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the 35-year-old artist already stuck oversized pairs of eyes on the Favela Morro da Providencia; he also installed huge portraits of Israelis and Palestinians on the border wall between Israel and Palestine.
Deadly earthquake hits Haiti At least 14 people have died after a 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck just off the northwest coast of Haiti late on Saturday. Authorities said more than 100 people were injured when several buildings collapsed. The quakeʼs epicenter was about 20 kilometers (12 miles) west-northwest of the coastal town of Port-de-Paix at a depth of 11.7 kilometers, according to the US Geological Survey. It was felt as far away as the capital, Port-auPrince. At least seven people were reported to have been killed in Port-dePaix, and another four in and around the town of Gros-Morne further to the south. President Jovenel Moise called on Haitians to "remain calm" amid reports of panic in several places in the north.
Eastern Europeans filling hundreds of thousands of new German jobs Every second job being created in Germany is being filled by a foreigner, according to Federal Employment Agency (BA) figures. The number of people registered as employed in July was 700,000 more than in the previous year, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung reported, using the BA figures. Of that number, Germans filled 330,000 positions and foreigners 370,000. Read more: Germanyʼs planned immigration law – what you need to know In total, there are currently about 1.5 million registered employees from Eastern Europe working in Germany, including 422,000 Poles and 349,000 Romanians.
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Kurdish families caught between Iran and the US "We are very much afraid it will happen again. There is no war going on here, and we did not deserve this. Weʼd like to go somewhere else, especially as I lost my husband. What kind of life is this?" In her black mourning dress, Iran Rasulzadeh, 45, sits on the floor of her living room in the family camp of the Iranian Kurdish resistance group KDPI (Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran). Apart from the carpet, the room in the small single-story house is empty. Rasulzadeh is mourning her husband, Mam Shawkawt, who was killed recently when Iranian missiles struck the groupʼs headquarters while he was on guard duty. One morning in early September, seven 3.5 ton ballistic missiles flew over 70 kilometers (44 miles) from their launch site in Iran and hit a training field and a concrete fort just outside the sleepy Iraqi Kurdish town of Koya, killing 16 people and wounding 40. Both are used by the KDPI. The target was its central committee, which was holding a plenary meeting in the fort.
Higuain has scored six goals for AC Milan since joining from Juventus in the summer Gonzalo Higuain scored twice as AC Milan beat Chievo to extend their Serie A unbeaten run to six games. Gennaro Gattusoʼs side have picked up three wins and three draws since losing to Napoli in their opening game. But the 18-time top-flight champions remain in 10th place, 12 points behind unbeaten league leaders Juventus. Argentina striker Higuain netted both his goals in the first half, Giacomo Bonaventura added the third with Sergio Pellissier converting a consolation.
US-China trade row: Americans feel the T-Mobile pinch reports
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Despite their repeated attempts, US retailers have so far been unable to veer President Trump away from imposing tariffs on imports from China. His latest tariffs, however, have the potential to hit American consumers. Bulla says she didnʼt notice any difference in consumer prices in the US so far. Ana, though, is sure that prices have gone up, particularly on food items and electronics. Both Bulla and Ana just finished shopping at Walmart, the American retail behemoth. What they were describing could be one of the first effects US President Donald Trumpʼs contentious trade policies were having on American consumers. Prices of
some consumer goods have already risen over the past several months. For instance, since Trump imposed tariffs on washing machines in January, their prices have increased by up to 20 percent, according to the National Retail Federation. Although the price increases havenʼt so far affected US consumers on a daily basis, it could change in the coming months, with the coming into effect of the latest round of tariffs.
One year of #MeToo: A timeline of events Hereʼs a look back at the aftermath of the scandal that first rocked show business and launched a worldwide movement. On October 5, 2017, The New York Times published the article "Harvey Weinstein Paid Off Sexual Harassment Accusers for Decades." Several female actors claimed that Hollywoodʼs most powerful movie mogul had sexually abused and coerced them. Many actorsʼ careers were only made possible by being in the good graces of the powerful producer. Everyone in the industry seemed to know about what was going on, but it was deliberately overlooked. October 15, 2017: Ten days later, Actress Alyssa Milano tweeted
this sentence: And tens of thousands took up her call. Far beyond Hollywoodʼs glimmering lights, all over the world, women who had experienced similar violence made their voices heard under #MeToo. Men as well. The hashtag was used some 200,000 times on Twitter in just the first day. By day two, that number had risen to more than half a million. Women and men briefly described what had happened to them. Milano received answers to her post that were shocking, even despite — or perhaps because of — their brevity: "I was nine…" Women wrote about grandfathers, stepfathers, bosses, and neighbors. And pain — pain that would not go away even as the years went by.
World Press Photo exhibition now open in Budapest A heartwarming hug, exploited sex workers and all of the chaos and calamity caused by an increasing terrorist attacks and conflict. The annual World Press Photo travelling exhibition once again portrays milestones from the past year through the best works of photojournalism. The exhibition is on view until October 23rd at the Hungarian National Museum.
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T-Mobile US and its unit Metro PCS told customers that cybersecurity staff found and shut down unauthorized access to certain information on August 20 and immediately reported the matter to authorities. The company added that no financial data, social security numbers or passwords were compromised during the attackon its networks, admitting, though, that other personal information like names, email IDs, phone numbers as well as account numbers or account types (postpaid or prepaid) may have been exposed. T-Mobile said that about 3 percent of its 77 million customers could have been affected (roughly 2 million people potentially affected).
Nauru orders Doctors Without Borders to stop work with asylum-seekers Nauruʼs government has ordered Doctors without Borders, also known as Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), to cease its work on the island, the medical aid group said in a statement on Saturday. MSF was providing medical treatment to the asylum-seekers and locals suffering from mental health problems on the tiny Pacific island. More than a thousand asylum-seekers, including children, are housed in Australianfunded refugee detention camps on Nauru under the countyʼs controversial deal with Canberra to prevent people from reaching Australia. "The Nauruan government informed Medecins Sans Frontieres that our services were ʼno longer requiredʼ and requested that our activities cease within 24 hours," an MSF spokesman told AFP news agency. According to the MSF website, the aid group has been providing psychological and psychiatric help on Nauru since late last year. "The lack of mentalhealth support available affects both the Nauruan population and the asylum-seekers and refugees living on the island as part of the Australian governmentʼs policy of offshore processing," the organization said.