World News Briefs For Sunday, 2 October 2016
Hello Australia!! - Syria bombs out the only hospital in a beseiged city - Time is running out for the children of "The Jungle" refugee shatytown in France - Where does a popular Pope get a cold shoulder? - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:
Congratulations to the Western Bulldogs for breaking the 64-year drought on the AFL Premiership!!
An air raid struck a hospital in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, killing two patients and injuring - or more likely, re-injuring - at least 15 people. It's the second time on four days that the hospital has been targeted. That fact that barrel bombs were the prime explosives points to the Syrian government as the guilty party. Hospital M10 is the areas only major trauma center, and had only recovered from the previous attack on Friday - now it's out of commission again. Elsewhere in eastern Aleppo, Syrian an Russian bobms and missiles focused on major supply lines into rebel-held areas and the historic old section of Aleppo.
UNICEF is urging the UK government to keep its promise and speed up the relocation of unaccompanied children from "The Jungle" refugee camp, as French officials vow to shut the teeming shantytown by the end of this year. "A few months ago they bulldozed half the camp, we know children just scattered, we lost them, they went missing, they were trafficked," Lily Caprani, UNICEF UK's deputy executive director. Refugees in the camp at the mouth of the Channel Tunnel to England clashed with French riot cops on Saturday.
The sons of "El Chapo" are suspected in a deadly attack on a Mexican military convoy that killed five soldiers. As many as 60 gunmen descended on the two-car convoy, capturing and beating soldiers, and releasing a drug cartel gunman being taken to hospital. It happened in the northern state of Sinaloa, the former stronghold of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman - who famously escaped from a Mexican prison via a tunnel drug through to his cell before being recaptured.
Mexico's Colima volcano erupted, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate. Hurricane Matthew is heading towards Jamaica in the Caribbean Sea, packing winds strong enough to topple fragile homes and other structures.
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has the lowest approval ratings of the democratic years since Franco, and yet it's Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez losing his job? Mr. Sanchez stepped down as leader of the opposition Socialists after party's federal committee rejected his opposition to allowing the conservative, austerity-loving Rajoy to form a minority government. Spain's Parliament has been in limbo since December, with no party able to break the deadlock. Now, the Socialist faction that wants to cut a deal appears to have won out. Two likely winners of the fallout: The despised Rajoy will likely get another term to preside over Spain's worse than 20 percent unemployment (40 percent youth unemployment) and wafer-thin growth rate; the Left Wing Podemos party might pick up some new members after the bourgeois takeover of the Socialists.
An Italian court on Saturday charged Deutsche Bank with conspiring with the local Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA to fudge the numbers of Italian lender's accounts in 2008. It comes as Deutsche Bank is trying to reassure investors and clients that it can withstand mounting legal problems, especially in America where the US Justice Department asked it to pay US$14 Billion to settle a case tied to mortgage-backed securities rattled confidence and drove its shares to record lows. Deutsche Bank shares have slumped 49 percent in Frankfurt this year; Monte Paschi, the world's oldest bank, shed 84 percent of its trading value.
India's tax amnesty plan prompted thousands of people to declare more than AU$12.4 Billion in previously-hidden assets. All were offered immunity from prosecution in return for paying tax, a surcharge and a penalty. The amnesty could eventually bring in just south of AU$5.9 Billion to the Indian government.
Thousands protested in Warsaw against the RWNJ Polish government's plan to outlaw virtually all abortions.
Pope Francis preached to a largely empty stadium in Tbilisi, Georgia on Saturday, a rare snubbing in the pontiff's international travels. The majority Orthodox church warned people to stay away from even listening to the Pope because of "dogmatic differences". Although there was a large police presence outside, there was no trouble.