The Daily Populous

Tuesday August 29th, 2017 evening edition

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3/117 27 August 2017 A member of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) tells a Rohingya girl not to come on Bangladesh side.

Members of the Muslim Rohingya minority escaped to the border with Bangladesh but Bangladeshi border guards are turning them back.

14/117 18 August 2017 People gather around tributes laid on Las Ramblas near to the scene of yesterday's terrorist attack in Barcelona, Spain.

17/117 15 August 2017 South Korea protesters hold placards with an illustration of U.S. President Donald Trump during a during a 72nd Liberation Day rally in Seoul, South Korea.

Korea was liberated from Japan's 35-year colonial rule on August 15, 1945 at the end of World War II.

22/117 11 August 2017 A North Korean flag is seen on top of a tower at the propaganda village of Gijungdong in North Korea, as a South Korean flag flutters in the wind in this picture taken near the border area near the demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas in Paju, South Korea Reuters.

North Korea and the United States traded escalating threats, with Mr Trump threatening Pyongyang “with fire and fury like the world has never seen” AP. »

On Stones in Japan, Tsunami Warnings — Aneyoshi Journal

Authored by nytimes.com

Aneyoshi’s tsunami stone is the only one that specifically tells where to build houses.

More commonly, the stones and other warnings were disregarded as coastal towns grew in the boom years after World War II.

Even communities that had moved to high ground eventually relocated to the seaside to be nearer their boats and nets. »

Deadly Italian ski prank devastates family

Authored by telegraph.co.uk

Speaking at the family home in Ware, Herts, Mrs Monk said: "They were just having fun.

"The English tourists in particular like to throw themselves down the piste at night, without thinking about the dangers they face," he said.

"It's urgent that we intervene now to stop this absurd phenomenon before it claims other victims. »

DWP spends £39m defending decisions to strip benefits from sick and disabled people

Authored by independent.co.uk
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A DWP spokesperson responded to the new findings by highlighting the low number of overturns as a proportion of all decisions made since 2013.

They said just 3 per cent of PIP decisions and 4 per cent of ESA decisions made at initial assessment had been overturned in that period.

“In the majority of successful appeals, decisions are overturned because people have submitted more oral or written evidence,” they said. »