Today's World News
To Start off Australia
Treasurer introduces 'Netflix tax' for GST on digital products to Parliament.
If the legislation clears Parliament, overseas companies will have to collect and remit GST on products purchased by Australian consumers.
"It ensures Australian businesses selling digital products and services are not disadvantaged relative to overseas businesses that sell equivalent products in Australia," Mr Morrison told Parliament. Source
New App that Detects Morality Police is Instant Hit in Iran.
A smartphone application aimed at helping Iranian users avoid the country's morality police became a smash hit immediately after it was released today, with its servers being inundated by requests, according to one of its creators.
Iran's notorious morality police, a branch of the security forces co-directed by the Revolutionary Guards and Interior Ministry, routinely subject Iranian men and especially women to harassment and arrests for alleged inappropriate public behavior.
The Gershad app, which only works on Android devices, was mainly developed in response to the morality police's harsh and tireless efforts against its favorite target: Iranian women who do not observe strict hijab (female head covering and dress) in public.
Indeed, after four decades of conservative religious social and cultural dictates, near-obsessive focus on female dress codes, and the imposition of the Islamic Republic's "code of morality" on society, if given half a chance and a favorable wind from technology, the real "demand" in Iranian society today appears to be to live one's lifestyle without getting arrested for it. Source
Disbelief as Egyptian president rolls out four kilometre red carpet for austerity press conference.
CAIRO Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi is facing criticism after a massive red carpet was laid over public roads for his motorcade during a trip to open a social housing project in a Cairo suburb, where he preached austerity.
Mohammed Abdul Moaty / Associated PressEgyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi speaks at a ceremony marking the country's Police Day.
Amr Nabil / Associated PressA small number of supporters of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi wave posters and national flags.
On Monday, hundreds of soccer fans nevertheless held a rally inside a Cairo park to commemorate the deaths of 22 people killed in clashes last year between the police and fans of the Zamalek football club.
The rally came one week after a similar gathering by fans of Egypt's top football club, Al-Ahly, commemorating the 74 people killed in a soccer riot in 2012 in the Suez Canal city of Port Said. Source
Turkey detains 34 people with explosives, suicide vests at Syrian border - media.
The private Dogan news agency and other media outlets said the group, consisting of four men, 10 women and 20 children, was detained on Tuesday night in the Oguzeli district of southeastern Gaziantep province, across the border from an area controlled by Islamic State militants. Source
Indian Soldier Survives 5 Days Trapped Beneath 25-Foot Avalanche.
But on Monday, a search team pulled Lance Naik Hanamanthappa from an icy coffin deep in the snow, where he had been buried alive at an altitude of more than 19,000 feet, according to AFP.
Nine others stationed on the deadly Siachen glacier, which is near the border between India and Pakistan, are confirmed dead, according to the Indian army statement.
Hooda, the army general, estimated that the avalanche was about a half-square mile; he described it as "an entire mountain of rock-solid snow," according to the Telegraph.
With the help of rescue dogs, army and air force teams began a dangerous recovery effort that involved cutting through the snow with chain saws, according to the Associated Press.
And in 2012, an avalanche killed 129 soldiers in the Pakistan-controlled portion of the glacier, according to the AP. Source
There you have it our Top 5 News of the day.
That's all for today, Thank you.
To Start off Australia
Treasurer introduces 'Netflix tax' for GST on digital products to Parliament.
If the legislation clears Parliament, overseas companies will have to collect and remit GST on products purchased by Australian consumers.
"It ensures Australian businesses selling digital products and services are not disadvantaged relative to overseas businesses that sell equivalent products in Australia," Mr Morrison told Parliament. Source
New App that Detects Morality Police is Instant Hit in Iran.
A smartphone application aimed at helping Iranian users avoid the country's morality police became a smash hit immediately after it was released today, with its servers being inundated by requests, according to one of its creators.
Iran's notorious morality police, a branch of the security forces co-directed by the Revolutionary Guards and Interior Ministry, routinely subject Iranian men and especially women to harassment and arrests for alleged inappropriate public behavior.
The Gershad app, which only works on Android devices, was mainly developed in response to the morality police's harsh and tireless efforts against its favorite target: Iranian women who do not observe strict hijab (female head covering and dress) in public.
Indeed, after four decades of conservative religious social and cultural dictates, near-obsessive focus on female dress codes, and the imposition of the Islamic Republic's "code of morality" on society, if given half a chance and a favorable wind from technology, the real "demand" in Iranian society today appears to be to live one's lifestyle without getting arrested for it. Source
Disbelief as Egyptian president rolls out four kilometre red carpet for austerity press conference.
CAIRO Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi is facing criticism after a massive red carpet was laid over public roads for his motorcade during a trip to open a social housing project in a Cairo suburb, where he preached austerity.
Mohammed Abdul Moaty / Associated PressEgyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi speaks at a ceremony marking the country's Police Day.
Amr Nabil / Associated PressA small number of supporters of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi wave posters and national flags.
On Monday, hundreds of soccer fans nevertheless held a rally inside a Cairo park to commemorate the deaths of 22 people killed in clashes last year between the police and fans of the Zamalek football club.
The rally came one week after a similar gathering by fans of Egypt's top football club, Al-Ahly, commemorating the 74 people killed in a soccer riot in 2012 in the Suez Canal city of Port Said. Source
Turkey detains 34 people with explosives, suicide vests at Syrian border - media.
The private Dogan news agency and other media outlets said the group, consisting of four men, 10 women and 20 children, was detained on Tuesday night in the Oguzeli district of southeastern Gaziantep province, across the border from an area controlled by Islamic State militants. Source
Indian Soldier Survives 5 Days Trapped Beneath 25-Foot Avalanche.
But on Monday, a search team pulled Lance Naik Hanamanthappa from an icy coffin deep in the snow, where he had been buried alive at an altitude of more than 19,000 feet, according to AFP.
Nine others stationed on the deadly Siachen glacier, which is near the border between India and Pakistan, are confirmed dead, according to the Indian army statement.
Hooda, the army general, estimated that the avalanche was about a half-square mile; he described it as "an entire mountain of rock-solid snow," according to the Telegraph.
With the help of rescue dogs, army and air force teams began a dangerous recovery effort that involved cutting through the snow with chain saws, according to the Associated Press.
And in 2012, an avalanche killed 129 soldiers in the Pakistan-controlled portion of the glacier, according to the AP. Source
There you have it our Top 5 News of the day.
That's all for today, Thank you.
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