World news:12.35pm India Buddhist monks and devotees near Bodh Gaya in India Indian brothers arrested over alleged kidnap and rape of Japanese student Tour guides Sajid and Jawed Khan accused of confining and repeatedly raping woman near Buddhist site of Bodh Gaya 11.29am North Korea Obama and Kim North Korea responds with fury to US sanctions over Sony hack Pyongyang denies involvement in Sony Pictures hack and accuses US of stirring up hostility 8.49am Pakistan Peshawar school tributes Pakistani air strikes and suspected US drone attack ‘kill dozens of militants’ Army says would-be suicide bombers are among dead in attacks on Khyber region 8.00am Russia Marina and Anatoly Litvinenko in Regents park, London A son seeking justice for Litvinenko Ahead of an inquiry into the 2006 poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, the Russian agent’s son Anatoly talks to Peter Marshall about family life with his father and the long struggle to emerge from the shadow of his murder 12.05am Germany A Pegida march in Dresden, eastern Germany, last month. Why Dresden, my home city, sees itself as a victim of history The city’s traditional conservatism has helped to give rise to the far right Pegida protests, writes Michael Bittner 12.04am Internet Google Beijing Who’s the true enemy of internet freedom - China, Russia, or the US? Evgeny Morozov: Beijing and Moscow are rightly chastised for restricting their citizens’ online access – but it’s the US that is now even more aggressive in asserting its digital sovereignty
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 14:07:11 +0000