235/2018 • 13 OCTOBER, 2018 WEEKEND ISSUE
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Turkish court lifts travel ban on US pastor Andrew Brunson A Turkish court sentenced US pastor Andrew Brunson to over three years in jail on a "terror" charge, but said that he would not spend any more time behind bars due to the time he had already spent in custody. More importantly, the court lifted Brunsonʼs house arrest and travel ban, allowing him to leave Turkey. The charge of espionage was dropped. The 50-year-old US national appeared before court in the western Turkish town of Aliaga on Friday, in the culmination of a widely publicized case that causeda diplomatic row between Washington and Ankara.
Amnesty accuses Turkey of ʼturning blind eyeʼ to abuses in Afrin Human rights organization Amnesty International accused Turkey on Thursday of allowing Syrian armed groups to commit a wide range of violations against civilians in Afrin. Turkish forces aided by allied rebelscaptured the northern Syrian townin March from the US-backed Kurdish Peopleʼs Protection Units (YPG), which Ankara considers a terrorist group.According to Amnestyʼs research, scores of displaced residents have since returned to their homes, only to be subjected to rights abuses. Read more:Turkeyʼs military offensive against Kurdishheld Afrin: What you need to know Amnesty interviewed 32 people, both current and former Afrin residents, between May and July 2018, who said: Residents in Afrin are enduring "arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances, confiscation of property and looting."Most of the abuses were "at the hands of Syrian groups that have been equipped and armed by Turkey."Some of the rebel groups and Turkish armed forces had "taken over schools, disrupting the education for thousands of children."
Facebook: Hackers accessed data of 29 million users Facebook originally thought more than 50 million accounts had been affected
Hackers accessed data from 29 million Facebook accounts as part of the security breach the social media giant disclosed two weeks ago.
US cardinal resigns amid accusations of church sex abuse cover-up Cardinal Donald Wuerl became the most prominent leader in the US Catholic Church to resign amid an ongoing scandal concerning sexual abuse by clergyand a massive coverup by church leaders. Pope Francisaccepted the Wuerlʼs request to step down from his post as the archbishop of Washington DC, the Vatican announced on Friday. As no replacement has yet been named, Wuerl will remain in his post in a temporary capacity until a new archbishop is found. He will reportedly retain his title as cardinal.
Outcry in Uganda over compulsory HIV Germany extends test border controls 19-year-old Methia Nalukwago, a stuconducted by the Ugandan AIDS dent at Makerere University in the Commission show lack of sufficient with Austria and capital Kampala, is excited by the information among the youth is conDenmark proposal to have all students undergo tributing to an increase of HIV. Jane compulsory HIV/AIDS testing. Some students, she says, have been living in denial. "Our friends, we study with them but you look at someone and you are like, ʼare you sure you are not sick or something like that?ʼ Of course you never come out to tell them but you feel it deep down inside you, this person must be sick because of the symptoms that show," Nalukwago told DW. "Compulsory testing for HIV will help us know our HIV status and where we stand." Studies
Were, the head teacher of Forest Hill College in Mukono district located 21 kilometers (13 miles) east of Kampala, said they are grappling with HIV in schools. She said the situation has been made worse by parents who mislead their children on what they are actually suffering from. "We have situations where parents lie to students about these [anti-retroviral] drugs. There are parents who tell children they have other ailments other than HIV," Were said.
Cycling Wada: Anti-doping campaigner Beckie Scott says officials tried ʼto bullyʼ her The chair of the World AntiDoping Agencyʼs (Wada) Athlete Committee says some of the organisationʼs most senior officials tried to "bully" her over her opposition to Russian reinstatement. Beckie Scott told the BBC she was "treated with disrespect" at a recent meeting and faced "inappropriate" comments and gestures from some members of Wadaʼs executive committee. The Canadian former Olympic cross-country skiing champion resigned from a Wada panel last month in
protest at its highly controversial recommendation to end the suspension of Russia from international competition after a state-sponsored doping scandal. In her first interview since stepping down, Scott said the treatment she faced was "indicative of a general attitude of dismissal and belittling of the athlete voice". In a statement, Wada admitted "tensions were running high" at last monthʼs meeting, and that the strong views on both sides of the debate "do affect the tone and atmosphere" but "the athletesʼ voice was clearly heard".
Germanyʼs Interior Ministry announced on Friday that it will extend migration controls at borders with Austria and Denmark, which were reintroduced in several parts of the normally passport-free Schengen area after the European migrant crisis of 2015. The extension is set to begin on November 12, one day after they were set to expire, and apply for six months. German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer based the new measure on the argument that illegal secondary migration was still too high and that border protection of the European Unionʼs external borders was still lacking.
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