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Riot at Australian detention camp after refugee’s death
Doha, Qatar – A riot has erupted at a controversial offshore refugee-detention facility in Australia following the death of an asylum seeker.
Immigration officers and refugees confirmed on Monday a standoff between detainees and officers at the detention camp on Christmas Island, located more than 2,000km northwest of Perth in the Indian Ocean, after a Kurdish Iranian refugee died there.
Fazel Chegeni, in his 30s, was reportedly found at the bottom of a cliff.
“On Saturday morning [November 7] the department was advised of the escape of an illegal maritime arrival from Christmas Island Immigration Detention Centre [CI IDC] by service provider staff.
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HOW LAW ENFORCEMENT CAN USE GOOGLE TIMELINE TO TRACK YOUR EVERY MOVE
THE RECENT EXPANSION of Google’s Timeline feature can provide investigators unprecedented access to users’ location history data, allowing them in many cases to track a person’s every move over the course of years, according to a report recently circulated to law enforcement.
“The personal privacy implications are pretty clear but so are the law enforcement applications,” according to the document, titled “Google Timelines: Location Investigations Involving Android Devices,” which outlines the kind of information investigators can now obtain.
The Timeline allows users to look back at their daily movements on a map; that same information is also potentially of interest to law enforcement. “It is now possible to submit a legal demand to Google for location history greater than six months old,” the report says. “This could revitalize cold cases and potentially help solve active investigations.”
The report was written by a law enforcement trainer, Aaron Edens, and provides detailed guidance on the wealth of historic location information available through Google Timeline and how to request it. A copy of of the document was obtained by The Intercept.
The expansion of Google’s Timeline feature, launched in July 2015, allows investigators to request detailed information about where someone has been — down to the longitude and latitude — over the course of years. Previously, law enforcement could only yield recent location information.
The Intercept
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Earth’s climate entering new ‘permanent reality’ as CO2 hits new high
The Earth’s climate will enter a new “permanent reality” from next year when concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere are likely to pass a historic milestone, the head of the UN’s weather agency has warned.
The record concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere were up 43% since pre-industrial times, said the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), prompting its secretary general Michel Jarraud to say immediate action was needed to cut CO2 emissions.
The WMO’s latest greenhouse gas bulletin comes just three weeks before world leaders including Barack Obama, Xi Jinping and David Cameron meet in Paris in a bid to reach a new deal on cutting emissions.
The Guardian
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Report: Climate Change Could Force 100 Million into Poverty
The World Bank is warning climate change could force more than 100 million people into extreme poverty by 2030. The new report predicts upheaval from drought, extreme weather and the spread of diseases like malaria.
Democracy Now
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US naval ships invited to visit NZ
The invitation is to attend the Royal New Zealand Navy’s 75th anniversary commemorations in November next year.
Prime Minister John Key said the government had invited a range of countries to visit – including China and the US – and it was up to those governments to decide whether they would attend.
“If in the event that any country decides to send a ship, and the standard practice at the moment, whether it’s a military celebration like this or just because they’re in New Zealand, I’m required to sign a piece of paper which means that I believe that they have met the conditions of the New Zealand law.”
The US government announced in 1991 it would withdraw all tactical nuclear weapons from its surface ships and attack submarines.
That was reiterated by the US in 2004, “that all nuclear weapons have been removed from ground force and naval surface vessels – in the sum the army, marine corps and surface and air component of the navy have been denuclearised”.
Mr Key said New Zealand was not changing its law.
“So the only condition would be that they come to New Zealand – and I’m in the position to sign that certificate of verification – is that they’re neither nuclear-powered.
“It’s a standard process, it happens all the time, it’s just a bit more high profile because of a potential US ship.”
RNZ
