Fwd: World News - Wed 14th Oct
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Date: 14 October 2015 at 11:56
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Police told to treat anti-Muslim hate crimes in same way as antisemitic attacks
Government’s commitment to record anti-Muslim offences as hate crime is designed to reassure Muslim communities that strategy is balanced
David Cameron talking to young Muslim women at Jamia Masjid mosque in Manchester in 2013. Cameron has invited key
Muslim figures to join a new community engagement forum. Shutterstock
The government is to press ahead with requiring police forces in England and Wales to record anti-Muslim hate crimes and to treat them as seriously as antisemitic attacks,
David Cameron is to confirm.The commitment to record anti-Muslim offences as a separate category of hate crime was first made in the Conservative party manifesto
and is designed to reassure Muslim communities that the government’s strategy will be balanced, and not just focus on clamping down on potential sources of Muslim extremism, such as its announcement that
madrasas will be subject to Ofsted inspection.
The prime minister will make the announcement at the first meeting of his new community engagement forum, convened to discuss the government’s counter-extremism strategy, due to be published later this month. He will also announce extra funding to boost security
at faith establishments including mosques.
David Cameron vows to fight sickening hate crimes against British Muslims
The Prime Minister vows to take action after a Birmingham study exposes attacks against British Muslims.
David Cameron has vowed to crack down on attacks
against Muslims, as he launched new plans to fight extremism in Britain.
It comes after a Birmingham study revealed details of sickening hate crimes, including an incident when passengers on a train watched on as a Muslim woman was showered in alcohol in a violent assault. For the first time, police will keep a record of the number
of attacks or incidents of abuse aimed specifically at Muslims. It will reveal the true scale of the problem and allow police and local councils to allocate resources where they are needed, Mr Cameron said. And he also pledged to providing funding for security
at faith buildings including mosques.
Veteran journalist Koru: I was grossly mistaken about President Erdoğan
Veteran journalist and Habertürk columnist Fehmi Koru said during an interview he was mistaken about President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan since Erdoğan has demonstrated during the course of his presidency that he doesn't believe the Constitution places any limits on his powers.
During an interview with Nokta magazine, published on Monday, Koru underlined that Erdoğan's one-year tenure as president has clearly shown he believes a president elected by
the people should behave differently from previous presidents. “Like me, many others were also mistaken about him. He doesn't consider the Constitution as it limits his powers. So, I was mistaken about him,” he said.
Erdoğan had said during the rallies before the presidential election in August 2014 that he would not act similarly to his predecessors because he would be elected by the people and would use all the powers afforded to him by the Constitution. During a rally
in the Black Sea town of Çayeli this August, Erdoğan said: "I am saying this clearly and precisely: They [critics] may be engaged in speculation about me. They should know I am not a president who was appointed to this post. I came here through the votes of
my nation. And I will use the authorities granted to me by the nation to the end. I also know my limits very well."
Palestine: Reaching a boiling point
As Palestinian protests against Israeli occupation enter third week there is little evidence that Premier Benjamin Netanyahu is aware of the political and security costs of the cycle of violence that he deliberately unleashed through his
brash and poorly conceived policies in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Whether this is indeed a third Intifada or not will become clear in the coming days. The ramifications of Israel’s “iron fist” policy will be dire and answering peaceful protests with live ammunition will prove reckless and short-sighted.
Hamas and some Palestinian officials have dubbed Palestinian protests, which have spread to Israel proper and Gaza Strip in addition to Jerusalem and the West Bank, as an Intifada. Pundits say that what differentiates this from the last two uprisings is that
the current Intifada is leaderless; it is spontaneous and reflects the level of anger and frustration that tens of thousands of Palestinian youth feel two decades after the signing of the Oslo accords and the birth of the Palestinian Authority (PA).
Kerry to visit Mideast in bid to calm Palestinian-Israeli tensions
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday he plans to travel to the Middle East to try to calm violence between Palestinians and Israelis and move the situation "away from this precipice."
The trip would mark Kerry's most direct efforts to broker peace between the two sides since talks led by the United States failed last year. Israel and the Palestinian territories are experiencing their worst unrest in years.
"I will go there soon, at some point appropriately, and try to work to reengage and see if we can't move that away from this precipice," Kerry told an audience at an event sponsored by Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
At least seven Israelis and 29 Palestinians, including 10 alleged attackers, have died in the violence. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened an emergency meeting of his security cabinet, and officials said Israel was considering whether to seal off Palestinian districts in East Jerusalem, home of many of the assailants of the past two weeks, from the rest of the city.
VOLKSWAGEN IN CRISIS
German police raided the headquarters of Volkswagen on Thursday as part of an investigation into the automaker's diesel emissions scandal. Michael Horn, Volkswagen's U.S. boss, blamed unnamed engineers at the company for the deceptive software that cheated emissions testing. He denied that anyone in senior management made a decision to break the law.
State prosecutors and police searched Volkswagen (VLKAY)'s offices in Wolfsburg in a bid to secure documents and databases that could shed light on which employees were responsible for cheating pollution tests. The EPA and California regulators are looking into a second piece of software that Volkswagen used to control emissions and did not disclose as required, according to an EPA official. The EPA is studying what the software does, how it may affect vehicle performance, and whether it may have been used to manipulate emissions. Volkswagen said it has withdrawn its EPA application for 2016 diesels.
JPMorgan Chase Reports Decline in Revenue but a Surge in New Mortgages
Turmoil in the global markets took a toll on JPMorgan Chase’s businesses in the third quarter.
The bank, the nation’s largest by assets, said on Tuesday that revenue fell in all its major business lines in the quarter from both the previous quarter and the quarter a year earlier. That left overall revenue down 6 percent, to $23.5 billion, from a year ago — a sharper decline than analysts had expected.
The results, which, unusually, came after the market close, kicked off the earnings season for the Wall Street banks. Shares of JPMorgan slipped in after-hours trading.
MH17 report brings some solace for families but unanswered questions remain
The families of those on board Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 when it was shot down have spoken of their hopes that suggestions following the report into the crash are accurate, and their loved ones did not suffer prolonged and agonising deaths.
Tjibbe Joustra, chairman of the Dutch safety board, said on Tuesday that those on board the flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur were likely to have been killed instantly – or have been unconscious within seconds – after a Buk missile hit the plane as it flew over eastern Ukraine in July 2014, killing all 298 people on board. Barry Sweeney, whose son, Liam, was one of 10 victims from the UK, said he had to believe his son had died quickly or it would “hurt forever”.
“Basically [we were told] that the plane was hit by a Buk missile,” said Sweeney, whose son had been en route to New Zealand for “the trip of a lifetime” to watch Newcastle United and visit the set of Lord of the Rings. “The cockpit then broke off, probably creating confusion in the rest of the plane. Hopefully most people were unconscious by the time this happened – and that’s probably a comfort to 298 sets of relatives.” Sweeney said Liam was a fervent Newcastle fan and would probably have been having a drink when the missile struck.
Islamic State urges jihad against Russians, Americans: audio
Militant Islamist fighters hold the flag of Islamic State (IS) while taking part in a military parade along the streets of northern Raqqa province in this June 30, 2014 file photo.
REUTERS
Islamic State called on Muslims to launch a "holy war" against Russians and Americans over what it called their "crusaders' war" in the Middle East, an audio message distributed by supporters of the ultra hardline group said on Tuesday.
"Islamic youth everywhere, ignite jihad against the Russians and the Americans in their crusaders' war against Muslims," the speech by Islamic State spokesman Abu Mohammad al-Adnani said.
The United States and Russia are carrying separate airstrike campaigns in Syria, which they say are targeting Islamic State.
Washington says Moscow's campaign has mainly targeted other insurgent groups including those that have fought Islamic State, a charge Russia denies.
The United States is also carrying out airstrikes in Iraq, where Russia has also become separately involved. A senior Iraqi parliamentarian said on Tuesday that Russian officials were part of a new Iraq-based intelligence center with staff from Iran and Syria.
The audio message also confirmed the death of Abu Mutaz Qurashi, which the SITE monitoring service said was a reference to a senior Islamic State official killed in an airstrike in Iraq in August and referred to then as Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali.
The White House said at the time that a U.S. air strike in Iraq had killed Hayali, whom it described as the second-in-command of the group which has seized swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq.
The audio made no specific mention of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, whose health and whereabouts became a subject of speculation earlier this week when an Islamic State convoy was hit in Iraq.
Eight senior figures from Islamic State were killed in the Iraqi air strike while meeting in an Iraqi town on Sunday, but Baghdadi did not appear to be among them, residents of the town and hospital sources said.
(Reporting by Ahmed Tolba and Sylvia Westall; Editing by Richard Balmforth)
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Food chain collapse predicted in world's oceans
AFP / William West
This photo taken on September 22, 2014, shows fish swimming through the coral on Australia's Great Barrier Reef
The world's oceans are teeming with life, but rising carbon dioxide emissions could cause a collapse in the marine food chain from the top down, researchers in Australia said Monday.
The first-of-its-kind global analysis of marine responses to climate change forecasts a grim future for fish.
Marine ecologists from the University of Adelaide reviewed more than 600 published studies on coral reefs, kelp forests, open oceans, and tropical and arctic waters.
Their meta-analysis, published in the October 12 edition of the US peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showed that ocean acidification and warming will cut down on the diversity and numbers of various key species.
"This 'simplification' of our oceans will have profound consequences for our current way of life, particularly for coastal populations and those that rely on oceans for food and trade," said associate professor and co-author Ivan Nagelkerken.
Very few organisms are expected to be able to adjust to warmer waters and acidification, with the exception of microorganisms, which are expected to increase in number and diversity.
But the increase in the smallest plankton is not expected to translate into more zooplankton and small fish, meaning bigger fish will struggle to find enough food to eat.
"With higher metabolic rates in the warmer water, and therefore a greater demand for food, there is a mismatch with less food available for carnivores -- the bigger fish that fisheries industries are based around," said Nagelkerken.
"There will be a species collapse from the top of the food chain down."
Oysters, mussels and corals are also expected to take a hit from global warming, which will further harm the environment for reef fish.
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