World entering era of global food insecurity with malnutrition and obesity side by side within countries, says leading food expert
Exclusive: A British team is to examine how factors such as climate change will distort global diets and health
STEVE CONNOR SCIENCE EDITOR Sunday 12 July 2015
The world is entering an era of global food insecurity which is already leading to the “double burden” of both obesity and malnutrition occurring side by side within countries and even within the same families, a leading food expert has warned.It will become increasingly common to see obese parents in some developing countries raising underweight and stunted children because high-calorie food is cheaper and more readily available than the nutritious food needed for healthy growth, said Alan Dangour of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Uighurs sent back from Thailand were on way to join jihad, says China
Rights groups say the Turkic-speaking group could face persecution in their home country as China steps up propaganda against alleged terrorists
Sunday 12 July 2015 06.51 BST
More than 100 ethnic Uighurs deported from Thailand to China had been on their way to Turkey, Syria or Iraq to wage holy war, China’s official news agency has claimed.On Thursday, Thai authorities sent back the 109 Uighurs, who had been in Thailand for over a year and claimed to be Turkish. The repatriations were criticised by the UN refugee agency as “a flagrant violation of international law.”
Rights groups expressed fears that they could face torture. In Turkey’s capital, Istanbul, protesters ransacked the Thai consulate to denounce the decision.
South Africa’s short memory
The migrants so recently attacked in South Africa almost all came from neighbouring countries that paid a high price in death and ruin for supporting anti-apartheid struggles.
by Jeremy Harding
A body lies by the wheel of a truck in Mozambique. Three figures stand with their faces away from the camera, gazing down at the dead man. Such scenes were common in Mozambique when this photograph was taken in 1983. The photographer is unknown: the negative was found in the archives of the Mozambican News Agency. A print is now on show at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory in Johannesburg, as part of an exhibition of photographs from southern African states during the last years of apartheid, from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s.On the Frontline records what happened in newly independent states like Mozambique when they offered support to apartheid’s enemies – above all, the African National Congress – and leaves no doubt about the strength of South Africa’s reaction or the high price they paid.
Crusading Phuketwan website shut down as journalists face Thai court
July 12, 2015 – 2:48PM
Lindsay Murdoch
South-East Asia correspondent for Fairfax Media
Australian journalist Alan Morison has been forced to shut down his crusading news website in Thailand as he and a Thai colleague face trial on serious criminal charges on Tuesday.The award-winning Phuketwan site has led reporting on the plight of Rohingyas in Myanmar, who have been described by the United Nations as among the world’s most persecuted people.
Morison, 67, has announced that Phuketwan will close this week and may never resume because of uncertainty over unprecedented criminal defamation charges brought against himself and colleague Chutima Sidasathian by the Royal Thai Navy.
Dozens of Russian troops ‘flee unit, fearing Ukraine deployment’
Moscow (AFP)
Dozens of Russian soldiers are facing trial for fleeing their unit, fearing deployment to Ukraine, a news site and a lawyer for five of the men said Saturday.The popular Gazeta.ru website said several dozen soldiers would be prosecuted after fleeing a training ground in southern Russia where they were under pressure to “volunteer” to fight in Ukraine.
The troops had freely enlisted for the army and are not draftees, it said.
It is the latest report to allege Russian soldiers are being sent to eastern Ukraine despite Moscow’s insistence that only “volunteers” are fighting alongside the pro-Russian separatists.
New Horizons: Last view of Pluto’s spots
By Jonathan Amos
BBC Science Correspondent, Laurel, Maryland
Take a good look at the latest picture of Pluto because it shows the face of the dwarf planet that will not be seen during next week’s historic flyby.
The US space agency’s New Horizons probe was less than 2.5 million km from the diminutive world on Saturday and closing in fast.
Come Tuesday, it will be grabbing shots from an altitude of just 12,500km.
But the newly published image, showing Pluto’s “spots”, is of the hemisphere that will soon rotate out of view.
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