News of the World

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Storm Isaias and the US East Coast
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53645297
Isaias has killed a few people in North Carolina, New York and Maryland so far.

A Model working from... Prison!?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53650246
Reporters have found out how it's like to live in one of the anti-Uighur facilities China has been operating in the Xinjiang province.

The video of Mr Ghappar, along with a number of accompanying text messages also passed to the BBC, together provide a chilling and extremely rare first-hand account of China's highly secure and secretive detention system - sent directly from the inside.
Holding the camera with his right hand, he reveals his dirty clothes, his swollen ankles, and a set of handcuffs fixing his left wrist to the metal frame of the bed - the only piece of furniture in the room.

Spanish former king flees
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53647170
Well, if you got money and power and get accused of committing a few crimes... you still can runaway at anytime!

Israel strikes Syrian army bases after Golan Heights attack
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53645688
It seems Bashar al Assad wanted to strike Israel but his armies failed miserably. He knows he's no match for Israel right now after years of internal struggles but that doesn't seem to stop him at all.

Nile dam row: Egypt fumes as Ethiopia celebrates
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53573154
Things aren't as easy as we'd like to think according to Egypt. Besides Ethiopia Foreign Minister made a controversial statement concerning the Nile river...

The World Bank classifies water scarcity as when there is less than 1,000 cubic metres of fresh water per person a year. In Egypt, the figure is 550 cubic metre per person annually, according to the government.
Just take a look at the map, where 90% of its 100 million population are squeezed into the narrow Nile valley, 6% of the country's total area, beset by vast deserts on both sides.
A triumphalist tweet celebrating the first year's filling of the Gerd by Ethiopia Foreign Minister Gedu Andargachew - which read in part "the river became a lake... the Nile is ours" - particularly inflamed passions.