As the Indonesian fires rage on, a photograph of the moment an orangutan and her baby were saved from an attack by frightened villagers captures the world’s attention, illustrating the human-orangutan conflict in the region.
Monthly Archives: November 2015
Australia under fire at UN over asylum seeker policies
Australia’s stance on asylum seekers comes under fire during a three-hour session of the United Nations’ peak human rights body in Geneva, with countries including the US, Britain and Norway criticising offshore detention and the treatment of women and children.
Christmas Island detention centre: Peter Dutton blames riot on ‘core group of criminals’ as extra police sent to restore order – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) {Racism thinly disguised?}
“We have been very clear about the fact that the Government’s not going to cower in the face of the activities of some of these criminals,” he said.”The initial reports, early reports that I’ve received, [are] the officers were met with little resistance but nonetheless there’s still a core group of criminals who are causing disruption and the Australian Federal Police and the Serco guards no doubt will deal with that threat in due course.
Judge Deals a Blow to N.S.A. Data Collection Program
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Cuban Peers Dispute Ted Cruz’s Father’s Story of Fighting for Castro – The New York Times


Told that País had been executed the next year, in a different place, and that this had been amply documented, Rafael Cruz brushed off the mistake: “I don’t remember where País was killed,” he said.In his book “A Time for Truth,” published in June, Ted Cruz writes that the rebels who attacked the Santiago Police Headquarters met devastating resistance, and “All of the students were killed, as was their leader, Frank País.”But of the scores of rebels who participated in the attack, only a few actually were killed, according to eyewitness accounts and historical documents.Mr. Cruz did not defend his exaggeration of the number of rebels killed in the Nov. 30 uprising. “I mean, I left within a couple of days of that,” he said. “We left town.”Conflicting AccountsAll of the unrest in Santiago de Cuba led the Batista regime to close down the university there, and Mr. Cruz returned to Matanzas, on the north coast, where he says he began leading his old cell and running weapons. In Ted Cruz’s book, he graduated to saboteur, disrupting transportation and communications infrastructure throughout the province.“Yes, I know him,” said Liborio Vera Andreu, 79, a schoolmate and leader in the youth brigades in Matanzas. But he said Mr. Cruz’s involvement had been limited to participating “in strikes and in protests.”
Source: Cuban Peers Dispute Ted Cruz’s Father’s Story of Fighting for Castro – The New York Times
Dog killed by car in HK while out playing in the road, faithful friend doesn’t leave his side for 10 hours: Shanghaiist

With his companion’s lifeless body lying in the middle of road, Blackie stood in front and protected it from passing cars. According to a local resident surnamed Li who arrived at the scene around 7 p.m., a compassionate motorist eventually dragged the dog’s body to the sidewalk, to save Blackie from sharing his friend’s fate.
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VULNERABLE AND LOOKING FOR A HOME by UNHCR
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