A North Korean soldier's bold attempt to defect by crossing the heavily guarded border with South Korea galvanized attention this week.
"In my 20 years as a surgeon, I have only seen something like this in a medical textbook," said Dr. Lee Cook-jong, a lead surgeon.
"We have found dozens of fully grown parasitic worms in his damaged intestines,' said Dr. Lee Cook-jong, a lead surgeon.
"It was a serious parasitic infection."
But more startling news came from the doctors who were working to clean and patch up his dietary tract, which was torn by bullets.
The soldier's condition was particularly noteworthy because North Korean soldiers, especially those deployed near the border with South Korea, receive priority in food rationing. Yet, in addition to the parasitic worms, doctors found kernels of corn in his stomach.
One of the detained migrants, a young man named Victory, says he was sold at a slave auction.
Tired of the rampant corruption in Nigeria's Edo state, the 21-year-old fled home and spent a year and four months -- and his life savings -- trying to reach Europe.
"Amina J. Mohammed, the U.N. deputy secretary-general, has ascended to the lofty pinnacle of global diplomacy on the back of her record as a champion of the environment and the poor. But in January, just weeks before assuming her current job, she spent her final days as Nigeria's environment minister doing something that has outraged activists. Despite a ban then in force on the export of rosewood, an endangered resource, she signed thousands of certificates authorizing the shipment of vast quantities of the wood.
The thousands of 'hand-signed permits violate both Nigeria's export ban' and provisions of the endangered species treaty, Alexander von Bismarck, the executive director of EIA, claimed in an interview with FP. 'More importantly, the laundering of Nigerian rosewood decimates millions of hectares of fragile forest and imperils the lives of millions of people.'..."