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Myanmar’s top generals must be prosecuted for genocide over the treatment of the Rohingya, according to a UN report. Six generals should be tried over orchestrated gross human rights violations and abuses in Kachin, Rakhine and Shan states, an independent fact-finding mission found.Hundreds of thousands of minority Rohingya Muslims fled across the border from Myanmar to Bangladesh after what many NGOs have described as ethnic cleansing.Amnesty International said security forces carried out a “targeted campaign of widespread and systematic murder, rape and burning”.:: Explained – The Rohingya refugee crisis 5:49 Video: Full special report: Rohingya refugee crisis 4:22 Video: Starving…

Uber is planning to shift its focus from cars to electric bicycles and scooters for shorter journeys, the taxi app’s chief executive has revealed. Dara Khosrowshahi said individual modes of transport were better suited to inner-city travel, despite taking revenues away from Uber’s drivers.He admitted the move would result in more short-term financial losses for the company, which lost $4.5bn (£3.5bn) last year and is planning to go public in 2019.Mr Khosrowshahi told the Financial Times: “During rush hour, it is very inefficient for a one-ton hulk of metal to take one person 10 blocks.”Short term financially, maybe it’s not…

A manhunt is under way after a mother and daughter were stabbed to death in the early hours of the morning in a Solihull street. The two women, aged 22 and 49, were found suffering from serious stab wounds in Northdown Road just after 12.30am on Monday. Image: Forensic tents outside a house in Northdown Road, Solihull Despite being treated by emergency services, both were confirmed dead at the scene.Officers are now making urgent attempts to arrest a male suspect, who they say is known to the victims.They have appealed for the man to hand himself in “as a matter…

Several brands of vanilla ice cream have been found to contain no vanilla, no cream and no fresh milk, an investigation has found. The key ingredients were absent from a number of supermarket and branded vanilla ice creams.One in five of the vanilla ice creams examined by Which? contained none of the three ingredients consumers might reasonably expect to find in them.Just half of the 24 ice creams in the survey contained all three ingredients – with the remaining 12 containing either some or none.Of the five products not containing any vanilla, cream or fresh milk, four were supermarket own…

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe made an emotional last-ditch appeal to spend more time with her daughter before being taken back to her jail cell in Iran, her husband has said. The British-Iranian mother was allowed out of her cell this week and was able to spend time with young Gabriella, who is staying with family in Tehran.Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested in April 2016 for plotting to overthrow the Iranian regime and was convicted last year despite her denials, with her family – from Hampstead, north London – campaigning to have her released permanently. 1:27 Video: Jailed British mother released for three days…

Chinese ride-hailing firm DiDi Chuxing has suspended its carpool service after the arrest of a driver who allegedly raped and killed a female passenger. Authorities said the 20-year-old woman hailed a car on Friday in the eastern city of Wenzhou.The driver admitted to raping and killing the woman and was arrested, police said.The woman had sent a text message to her friends calling for help after getting into the vehicle in the afternoon.It comes just three months after another DiDi driver allegedly killed a flight attendant.The Beijing-based company has apologised, stating it has “inescapable responsibility” for the incident. Image: DiDi…

Wonga, the payday lender which was once one of Britain’s fastest-growing consumer finance companies, is on the brink of collapse this weekend following a deluge of customer compensation claims. Sky News has learnt that the company has lined up Grant Thornton, the professional services firm, to act as administrator if its board decides in the coming weeks that it is unable to avoid becoming insolvent.Sources close to Wonga said that it could appoint Grant Thornton as soon as this week.The fall into administration would underscore Wonga’s remarkable decline just five years after it harboured ambitions of pursuing a New York…

Italy has allowed the migrants stranded aboard a ship in Sicily to disembark, 10 days after they were rescued in the Mediterranean Sea. It follows the reported investigation of Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini over his refusal to allow the passengers in the old port of Catania to come ashore.Some 137 migrants left the Diciotti coastguard boat early on Sunday, stepping onto the dock where police photographed them for ID checks – a requirement of asylum seekers.Seven women and six men were earlier let off the vessel at the orders of a doctor after almost a week of being stuck…

Thomas Cook’s chief executive has vowed to “get to the bottom” of what caused the deaths of a British couple at a hotel in Egypt. John and Susan Cooper, from Burnley, Lancashire, died on Tuesday morning while on holiday at the Steigenberger Aqua Magic Hotel in Hurghada with their daughter and her three children.An inspection of the couple’s hotel room revealed there were no toxic or harmful gas emissions or leaks, prosecutor Nabil Sadeq said.The deaths of the couple, aged 69 and 63, prompted tour operator Thomas Cook to evacuate 301 of its customers from the hotel as a “precautionary…

Veteran US senator and former presidential candidate John McCain has died at the age of 81. Mr McCain was with his wife and their family when he died at 4.28pm local time on Saturday, his office said.His death comes after his family said he had chosen to end his medical treatment for brain cancer. The former presidential candidate, who ran against Barack Obama in 2008, revealed he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of the disease last year.In a statement on Friday, Mr McCain’s family said he had “surpassed expectations for his survival”, but the progress of the cancer…