Some 28 million children around the globe have been driven from their homes by violent conflict, with nearly as many abandoning their homes in search of a better life, UNICEF said in a report from Geneva. The Philippine Supreme Court on Wednesday extended its temporary ban on the burial of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos at a heroes’ cemetery in Metro Manila after a hearing at which some justices questioned whether President Rodrigo Duterte abused his executive power and violated laws by allowing the entombment, which is opposed by the Marcos regime’s human rights victims. Burying a dictator accused of massive rights violations and corruption at the Heroes’ Cemetery has long been an emotional and divisive issue in the Philippines, where Marcos was ousted by a “people power” revolt in 1986. Britain hopes a 13-foot-high concrete wall will succeed where security guards and barbed wire have failed, and stop refugees reaching the United Kingdom from the northern French port of Calais. Home Office Minister Robert Goodwill announced this week that a 0.6-mile-long barrier will be built as part of a $23 million security package agreed to by Britain and France. Floods caused by heavy overnight rain hit parts of southern and northern Greece on Wednesday, leaving four people dead and another one missing, authorities said Wednesday. The fire service said two women, ages 80 and 63, were found dead in their flooded basement homes in the city of Kalamata and its outskirts. Denmark will buy leaked data from a Panamanian law firm that helped customers open offshore companies to avoid paying taxes, the Scandinavian country’s taxation minister said Wednesday.
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