Philippines typhoon survivors attend church services
17 November 2013 Last updated at 06:10 GMT
The BBC
Thousands of grieving survivors have attended church services in areas of the Philippines devastated by Typhoon Haiyan nine days ago.
In many places, including the mostly flattened city of Tacloban in Leyte province, Masses were held in half-destroyed and flooded churches.
The international aid effort is starting to have a major impact, with Britain’s HMS Daring warship joining the huge relief operation.
Haiyan killed more than 3,600 people.
The typhoon – which had some of the strongest winds ever recorded on land – also left about 500,000 people homeless.
Deaths in assault on China police station
Nine axe-wielding attackers and two policemen are killed as tension grows in northwestern region.
Last updated: 17 Nov 2013 05:55
An assault on a police station in the northwestern region of Xinjiang has left eleven dead, according to the local government, in the latest of a series of attacks pointing to growing unrest in the area.
Two auxiliary police officers and nine attackers were killed in the incident on Saturday afternoon, the Xinjiang regional government said in a statement posted on its microblog on Sunday.
It said the assailants used axes and knives in the attack in Bachu county’s Serikbuya township, near the historic city of Kashgar, adding that two police officers were injured in the clash.
Camila Vallejo, student leader, gets ready for a seat in Chilean congress
In 2011 she was the face of an uprising. Today, with Chile in a ‘new era’, she and fellow activists are poised to become MPs
Jonathan Franklin in Santiago
The Observer, Sunday 17 November 2013If someone had told Camila Vallejo during the student uprisings in 2011 that she and her fellow student leaders would end up as elected members of congress, she would have emphatically disagreed. “I would have said you are crazy!” she told the Observer last week.
But polls show that three former student activists are poised to win congressional seats on Sunday, as Chileans head to vote in presidential and congressional elections.
The former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet, a socialist paediatrician and former political prisoner who was tortured during the Pinochet dictatorship, heads the New Majority coalition and is expected to easily win the presidential race.
France’s flood of anti-left hoaxes: These stories are gripping the nation, but you won’t find them in the papers…
The justice minister whose son is in prison for murder and President Hollande’s hidden daughter by the Socialist candidate for mayor of Paris are just two examples of internet rumours that lack the tiniest grain of truth
JOHN LICHFIELD Author Biography PARIS Sunday 17 November 2013
None of these stories have the tiniest grain of truth. All are hoaxes, inventions or malicious rumours, often far right or racist in tone or vocabulary.
For several months, such stories have been spreading through France by word of mouth, text, or email. Despite rebuttals, they constantly resurface on the chat lines of populist websites that claim to reveal the truth that the mainstream media hides. Some, such as the allegation that Ms Taubira is a multimillionaire, pop up on more respectable “question and answer” sites online. The rumours surf on the fractious, insurrectionary mood into which France has plunged in recent weeks. They also help to deepen it.
Muslim Brotherhood up for talks to end post-Morsi crisis
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood wants to bring an end to the bloodshed which has plagued the country since the overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi.
16 NOV 2013 14:20SAPA, AFP
An Islamist coalition led by the Muslim Brotherhood on Saturday offered negotiations to end the deadly tumult since Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi’s overthrow, without explicitly insisting on his reinstatement.
The coalition “calls on all revolutionary forces and political parties and patriotic figures to enter a deep dialogue on exiting the current crisis,” it said in a statement.
The coalition, which has organised weekly protests despite a harsh police crackdown, insisted on keeping up “peaceful opposition” but said it wanted a “consensus for the public good of the country.”
Special Report: Indonesia’s graftbusters battle the establishment
By Kanupriya Kapoor and Randy Fabi | Reuters
Indonesia’s Inspector General of Police had just withstood eight hours of interrogation on the night of October 5, last year at the Jakarta headquarters of Indonesia’s anti-corruption agency when a commotion erupted outside.
Investigators from the Corruption Eradication Commission, known by its Indonesian initials KPK, had accused Djoko Susilo of amassing land, cars, mansions and stacks of cash. His arrest was an unprecedented strike against a police force with a long-held reputation for graft in a country routinely ranked as among the most corrupt in the world. The counter punch came swiftly. At about 9 p.m. that night, dozens of policemen descended upon the KPK headquarters with one demand: hand over Novel Baswedan, 36, the celebrated investigator who had led the interrogation of Susilo.
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