Eastern Ukraine: the DIY referendum
In Donetsk, eager crowds vote on independence from Kiev. The clear plastic ballot boxes make it easy to see which way most people are going.
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In a week which saw a backlash against “hashtag activism” over the #Bringbackourgirls campaign, Change.org’s UK director defends online campaigning – two years on from the website’s launch.
Heavy rain and flooding, thought to be the worst in 120 years, have hit Serbia, killing four people and leaving several towns and villages isolated.
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In Donetsk, eager crowds vote on independence from Kiev. The clear plastic ballot boxes make it easy to see which way most people are going.
The world is ranged against it. It has achieved the hitherto impossible feat of uniting Kiev and Moscow in agreement. But the Donetsk referendum is going ahead.
A 38-year-old woman is arrested at Heathrow on her return to the UK from Sierra Leone, for conspiracy to commit female genital mutilation.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan says a group of kidnapped schoolgirls will be found, and their rescue will be a turning point in his country’s battle against the terrorist group Boko Haram.
The kidnapping of 270 schoolgirls shines a global spotlight on Boko Haram’s brutal campaign in Nigeria a four-year rampage of murder, kidnap and attacks on schools.
David Cameron says the kidnapping of nearly 300 girls in Nigeria three weeks ago was an “act of pure evil”, as the Nigerian police offer a $300,000 reward for information leading to their rescue.
Confusion and a lack of information have dominated the Nigerian schoolgirl kidnapping crisis something that one expert says plays into militant group Boko Haram’s plans.
The jihadis who kidnapped more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls two weeks ago say they are “willing to consider” the release of those who have not already been trafficked abroad and sold into marriage.
To me, as an Englishman who has scoured his family tree in search of Celtic blood and sadly found none, Scottish independence would feel like an amputation, an impoverishment of who we are.
How should we – parents, pupils, teachers and government ministers – respond to such an awful act of violence?
Funding for mental health services aimed at young people have been cut since 2010, according to a leading charity, and official estimates of the scale of the problem are out of date.