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- Baghdad state of emergency declared after protesters storm parliament
- ‘We’ve had massacres all week’: Aleppo on fire again as Assad consigns ceasefire to history
- Owners of collapsed Nairobi building 'had no occupancy permit'
- Duchess of Cambridge to be Vogue cover star
- Humanoid diving robot hunts for sunken treasure in French shipwreck
- 'Anyone could become a target’: wave of Islamist killings hits Bangladesh
- Mane event: 33 lions flown home after rescue from life in the circus
- Kenya burns largest ever ivory stockpile to highlight elephants' fate
- Zika virus: first American dies of complications linked to disease
- Texas police rescue children chained in yard and others left alone in home
- German police arrest 400 protesters outside far-right party meeting
- The human face of the refugee crisis
- Turkey: two fatal attacks hit Kurdish south-east
- Obama in surprise swipe at Hillary Clinton at final correspondents' dinner
- Stars, media and a dog at Obama's final correspondents' dinner – in pictures
- President Obama's final White House Correspondents' dinner – as it happened
- Daniel Berrigan, priest and anti-Vietnam war peace activist, dies
- ‘I've tried to find a way to enjoy this life’: Syrian refugees one year on
- We ban tobacco sponsorship of sport in the UK. Let’s stub it out in the arts, too | letters
- Raunchy French TV epic Versailles enlists British actors to usurp Wolf Hall’s crown
- Scores of refugees missing after boat sinks off Libya
- China's factories grow less than expected, raising recovery doubts
- George Brandis's response to legal services report labelled 'inadequate'
- I've never been in solitary. But my friend has – and I play her nightly onstage | Julia Steele Allen
- Kenya torches stockpile of ivory in bid to protect wild elephants
- Aleppo is a such a prize for both sides that its suffering just goes on
- Search for survivors continues after Nairobi apartments collapse
- Protesters storm Baghdad parliament building - video
- German riot police arrest protesters outside far-right party conference - video
- Eyewitness: California, US
- Rescue efforts under way after building collapse in Nairobi - video
- 'You're a sinner': how a Mormon university shames rape victims
- Spirit of 'Forty-Eighters': Germany eyes a special relationship with US
- 'It was life and death for us and it's the same today': Kindertransport children speak
- The experiments providing homes around the world
- Indiana is the only place that can save the GOP from a Trump takeover
- West Wing’s C.J. Cregg surprises journalists at White House briefing - video
- Obama speaks of father’s influence at White House jazz concert - video
| Baghdad state of emergency declared after protesters storm parliament Posted: 30 Apr 2016 07:42 AM PDT Hundreds storm green zone chanting 'the cowards ran way' after MPs fail to convene for vote on ministerial changes A state of emergency has reportedly been declared in Baghdad after supporters of the Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr stormed the Green Zone and entered the parliament building. Hundreds of people gathered in protest at the failure of Iraqi MPs to convene for a vote to approve new ministers. The unrest comes after weeks of political turmoil in Baghdad over efforts by the prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, to replace party-affiliated ministers with technocrats. MPs failed to reach a quorum to approve the measures on Saturday. Continue reading... |
| ‘We’ve had massacres all week’: Aleppo on fire again as Assad consigns ceasefire to history Posted: 30 Apr 2016 01:14 PM PDT Even those familiar with the worst of the Syrian conflict are shaken by the scale of the latest assault, as bombs and guns seek out civilian targets The president of Aleppo city council, Brita Haji Hasan, had a picture on his phone. It showed the corpse of Hasan Amory, 29, a father of two and council engineer who that morning had been killed by a Syrian air force missile as he headed into work in the opposition stronghold. "We have had massacres on a daily basis for six or seven days," Haji Hasan told the Observer, during an interview in the Turkish city of Gaziantep, 30 miles from the Syrian border. Continue reading... |
| Owners of collapsed Nairobi building 'had no occupancy permit' Posted: 30 Apr 2016 03:12 PM PDT At least 12 people confirmed dead and 134 injured, as building's owner is ordered by police to hand himself into authorities A building that collapsed amid heavy rains in Nairobi, killing at least 12 people and injuring at least 134, did not have an occupancy permit, officials said on Saturday as they ordered its owner to turn himself in. Details about the residential building emerged a day after its collapse on Friday, after which crowds of onlookers gathered to try to help victims escape from the rubble. Continue reading... |
| Duchess of Cambridge to be Vogue cover star Posted: 30 Apr 2016 03:14 PM PDT Pictures taken by British fashion photographer Josh Olins will hang in National Portrait Gallery as part of exhibition to mark magazine's centenary The Duchess of Cambridge is to appear on the front cover of the British edition of Vogue to mark the magazine's centenary. Several more pictures of the duchess will appear inside the magazine, and two of the photographs will go on public display in London on Sunday 1 May. Continue reading... |
| Humanoid diving robot hunts for sunken treasure in French shipwreck Posted: 30 Apr 2016 01:42 PM PDT 'Robo-mermaid' able to reach depths too dangerous for human divers retrieves vase from wreck of Louis XIV's flagship Robotics scientists at the US's Stanford University have achieved a remarkable first: they have successfully sent an automated avatar – which they describe as a robo-mermaid – down to an ancient shipwreck to retrieve a vase from the sunken vessel. La Lune, the flagship of Louis XIV of France, sank 20 miles off the south coast city of Toulon in 1664. Only a few dozen of the hundreds of men on board survived. The wreck, which lies at a depth of 100 metres, had never been disturbed until the OceanOne robot craft reached it two weeks ago and recovered the grapefruit-size vase. Continue reading... |
| 'Anyone could become a target’: wave of Islamist killings hits Bangladesh Posted: 30 Apr 2016 02:17 PM PDT Spate of attacks on country's prominent atheist and gay activists, bloggers and academics engulfs Dhaka There is an eerie feeling out on the streets of Bangladesh. To some of the city's academics, activists and gay community, Dhaka now feels more dangerous than a war zone, after a spate of machete attacks by Islamist groups, including the murder last week of the founder of Bangladesh's first magazine for the gay community. At least 16 people have died in such attacks in the past three years, among them six secular bloggers, two university professors, an Italian priest, two other foreigners working in the development sector, and a prominent gay activist. Continue reading... |
| Mane event: 33 lions flown home after rescue from life in the circus Posted: 30 Apr 2016 04:25 PM PDT Big cats arrive in South Africa, where sanctuary beckons, after having suffered cruel treatment in Colombia and Peru The roars of lions filled the cargo section of Johannesburg's main international airport on Saturday evening as 33 lions rescued from South American circuses landed in South Africa. The animals will now be released into a bush sanctuary for big cats. Continue reading... |
| Kenya burns largest ever ivory stockpile to highlight elephants' fate Posted: 30 Apr 2016 07:00 AM PDT Kenyan president lights pyres in move some fear will drive further poaching by taking 5% of global stock out of circulation More than 100 tonnes of ivory has been set ablaze in Kenya, the largest ever such fire, in an attempt to shock the world into protecting endangered elephants. Eleven giant pyres of tusks from around 6,000 elephants, a quantity seven times the size of any previous burn, were lit by the Kenyan president, Uhuru Kenyatta, at a ceremony in Nairobi national park on Saturday. Continue reading... |
| Zika virus: first American dies of complications linked to disease Posted: 30 Apr 2016 10:42 AM PDT CDC reports man San Juan man developed autoimmune disorder after recovering from Zika symptoms, including fever and rash The first American has died from complications related to the Zika virus, health officials with the Centers for Disease Control reported late Friday. A Puerto Rican man in his 70s died in February from "complications related to severe thrombocytopenia", the CDC reported in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Continue reading... |
| Texas police rescue children chained in yard and others left alone in home Posted: 30 Apr 2016 09:35 AM PDT Mother of six children charged as police search for parents of siblings tied to a door with dog leash and found with metal chain strapped to ankle A late-night phone call to police about a crying child led to the discovery of eight children unsupervised at a San Antonio home, including a two-year-old boy chained in the backyard and a three-year-old girl tied to a door with a dog leash, authorities said Friday. The mother of six children found inside, who returned after authorities arrived at the home, was charged with two felony counts. Prosecutors said officials were searching for the parents of the toddlers restrained outside, who authorities believe are siblings. Continue reading... |
| German police arrest 400 protesters outside far-right party meeting Posted: 30 Apr 2016 04:41 AM PDT Riot police use pepper spray to disperse activists blocking entrance to Alternative für Deutschland conference in Stuttgart Hundreds of protesters have been arrested outside a conference of the far-right German political party Alternative für Deutschland in Stuttgart after attempting to block the entrance to the event. Around 400 people were detained outside the venue where up to 2,000 AfD members are expected to pass an explicitly anti-Islam manifesto, according to Agence France-Presse. The party wants to ban the burqa and minarets in Germany. Continue reading... |
| The human face of the refugee crisis Posted: 01 May 2016 01:00 AM PDT What makes a person risk life and limb to reach Europe's shores? This extract from a new book telling the stories of five migrants recounts the events that led to one woman's harrowing journey from Eritrea to Greece Charlotte McDonald-Gibson's Cast Away: Stories of Survival from Europe's Refugee Crisis tells the story of the European Union's chaotic and mismanaged response to the crisis through the eyes of five people who have arrived on Europe's shores since 2011. They include Sina (not her real name), an Eritrean woman forced to flee with her husband Dani when she was heavily pregnant. This is her story. Continue reading... |
| Turkey: two fatal attacks hit Kurdish south-east Posted: 01 May 2016 12:15 AM PDT Militants suspected of killing three soldiers and one police officer in separate attacks on troops and police headquarters Three soldiers and one police officer have been killed in Turkey's south-east in suspected attacks by Kurdish militants. The soldiers were targeted in a rocket attack on Sunday morning in the southeastern town of Nusaybin, the Turkish army said in a statement. Fourteen others were wounded. Continue reading... |
| Obama in surprise swipe at Hillary Clinton at final correspondents' dinner Posted: 30 Apr 2016 10:12 PM PDT As expected, the president mocked Donald Trump but also made fun of his fellow Democrat's efforts to attract younger voters Barack Obama has taken satirical swipes at Donald Trump and, more surprisingly, Hillary Clinton and ended his final White House correspondents' dinner by literally dropping the mic and departing with the words: "Obama out." Related: Stars, media and a dog at Obama's final correspondents' dinner – in pictures Continue reading... |
| Stars, media and a dog at Obama's final correspondents' dinner – in pictures Posted: 30 Apr 2016 09:33 PM PDT Aretha Franklin, Helen Mirren, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump's son were among the guests treated to the president's annual stab at comedy Continue reading... |
| President Obama's final White House Correspondents' dinner – as it happened Posted: 30 Apr 2016 08:49 PM PDT
And with that, the final White House Correspondents' Dinner of the Obama administration came to an end with, if not raucous cheers, not exactly the hostile reception past comedians have received. You can't say that Larry Wilmore killed: his humor – as it normally is – was a bit more of the wait-did-he-really-say-that variety, which is definitely not in keeping with the typical WHCD crowd ... which tends to think that he perhaps ought not to have said it. And, Wilmore's jibes at CNN's Wolf Blitzer and Don Lemon, MSNBC's morning show juggernaut Morning Joe and the death of print journalism (all topics well-covered at the event in past years, but normally by the president) were pretty unpopular with the likely inebriated crowd, earning him a couple of loud boos from folks who probably ought to have known better.
Wilmore ends by noting that, in his lifetime, we've gone from a country that couldn't accept a black quarterback on a footbalk team to one that elected a black president. "So Mr President, I'm going to keep it 100. Yo, Barry, you did it my n*****." Continue reading... |
| Daniel Berrigan, priest and anti-Vietnam war peace activist, dies Posted: 30 Apr 2016 07:48 PM PDT Berrigan and his younger brother, Philip Berrigan, emerged as leaders of the radical anti-war movement in the 1960s Daniel Berrigan, a Roman Catholic priest and peace activist who was imprisoned for burning draft files in a protest against the Vietnam war, has died aged 94. Berrigan died at Murray-Weigel Hall, a Jesuit health care community in New York City after a "long illness," according to Michael Benigno, a Jesuits spokesman. Continue reading... |
| ‘I've tried to find a way to enjoy this life’: Syrian refugees one year on Posted: 30 Apr 2016 03:00 AM PDT Last year, Patrick Kingsley travelled to 17 countries and talked to hundreds of refugees as they made the journey of their lives across Europe. What happened next? When Mohammad el-Haiba first spots his boyfriend Youssef outside the German train station, it takes him a few moments to work out whether to approach him. Staring back at him from the entrance, Youssef is just as confused. They stand there, several metres apart. Neither knows what to do next. It's not that they're not delighted to see each other. It's just that this encounter, on a cold October day in a quiet town in Bavaria, is unlike anything they're used to. Mohammad and Youssef last saw each other in mid-August in Damascus, the Syrian capital. Then Youssef left for Turkey, took a boat to Greece and made his way through the Balkans to Germany. A month later, Mohammad followed him. They knew they might never see each other again – and yet, six weeks on, they're together once more. They're in a peaceful country, where they don't speak the language, and where for the first time in their lives they can be open about who they are. And who they love. It's Mohammad who first tests the parameters of this strange new world. "Can I kiss you?" he asks. Continue reading... |
| We ban tobacco sponsorship of sport in the UK. Let’s stub it out in the arts, too | letters Posted: 30 Apr 2016 04:05 PM PDT Medical professionals call for a smoke-free approach to arts sponsorship Smoking is a leading preventable cause of ill health and premature death, and a major contributor to health inequality. Current estimates are that the tobacco industry will kill one billion people in the 21st century. Tobacco advertising has now been banned, along with sponsorship of sport. However, tobacco companies continue to use sponsorship of some high-profile arts organisations to promote the spurious idea that they are responsible corporate citizens. We suspect that most members of the Royal Academy in London will be appalled to learn that Japan Tobacco International (JTI) has been a premier sponsor for its exhibitions. British American Tobacco is also a sponsor, a position it shares with, among others, the Marie Curie cancer charity and Bloomberg. The latter is of note given Michael Bloomberg's passionate tobacco control stance while mayor of New York. Continue reading... |
| Raunchy French TV epic Versailles enlists British actors to usurp Wolf Hall’s crown Posted: 30 Apr 2016 04:04 PM PDT Young stars of Merlin and Vikings head the cast bringing Louis XIV's lavish court to life, as France's £20m ratings smash comes to BBC2 Welcome to the French Wolf Hall. Versailles, a historic court drama to rival the Hilary Mantel epic for sexual and political scheming, with lavish locations to dwarf Downton Abbey, is coming to BBC2 later this month. But amid the intrigue and affairs of the heart, the biggest surprise to viewers may be that this French production was made in English and stars two young actors from this side of the Channel. "At first we thought we were going to get our heads ripped off," said Alexander Vlahos, from Llantrisant, near Cardiff. "A pair of British actors daring to play these historic French characters. But it has gone down very well." Continue reading... |
| Scores of refugees missing after boat sinks off Libya Posted: 30 Apr 2016 06:41 PM PDT More than 100 people from west Africa were onboard a boat that began taking on water on Friday night Eighty-four refugees are still missing after an inflatable craft sank off the coast of Libya, according to survivors cited by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) on Saturday. Twenty-six people were rescued from the inflatable boat which sank on Friday, and were questioned overnight. Continue reading... |
| China's factories grow less than expected, raising recovery doubts Posted: 30 Apr 2016 11:37 PM PDT Economists had expected stronger growth in the manufacturing sector after recent stimulus measures by the Beijing regime China's manufacturing sector expanded less than expected in April, raising doubts about the sustainability of a recent pick-up in the world's second-largest economy. The official purchasing managers' index (PMI) was 50.1 in April, easing from March's 50.2 and barely above the 50-point mark that separates expansion in activity from contraction. Continue reading... |
| George Brandis's response to legal services report labelled 'inadequate' Posted: 01 May 2016 01:00 AM PDT Federation of Community Legal Centres says long-awaited response to Productivity Commission report suggests new funding, which is not true The long-awaited federal government response to the Productivity Commission's report on legal assistance services is "inadequate and misleading" because it suggests new funding for the sector, the Federation of Community Legal Centres says. On Friday the attorney general, George Brandis, issued a statement in response to the commission's report which was handed to government in September 2014. The report called for a $200m boost to the sector every year to meet demand, and recommended that 60% of this come from the federal government. Continue reading... |
| I've never been in solitary. But my friend has – and I play her nightly onstage | Julia Steele Allen Posted: 01 May 2016 12:00 AM PDT After audiences see our play Mariposa and the Saint, they no longer wonder what she did to deserve solitary confinement – they know that nobody does When I used to tell people I was writing a play with a friend in solitary confinement, the first question they'd ask me was: what did she do? They wanted to know if she deserved it. But after audiences see our play, they don't wonder if she deserves it. They conclude that no one does. Mariposa & the Saint: From Solitary Confinement, A Play Through Letters was written over two and a half years, while Sara (Mariposa) Fonseca was held in the Security Housing Unit (Shu) of a California women's prison. The text is derived entirely from her letters. Continue reading... |
| Kenya torches stockpile of ivory in bid to protect wild elephants Posted: 30 Apr 2016 04:05 PM PDT President Uhuru Kenyatta orders destruction of more than 100 tonnes of tusks in 11 pyres The Kenyan president set fire to a huge stockpile of ivory on Saturday in an effort to show his country's commitment to saving Africa's elephants. Uhuru Kenyatta ordered the destruction of more than 100 tonnes of tusks from around 6,700 elephants, stacked in 11 pyres at a ceremony in Nairobi national park. The fires, destroying a quantity seven times bigger than ever before, are expected to burn for several days. Continue reading... |
| Aleppo is a such a prize for both sides that its suffering just goes on Posted: 30 Apr 2016 11:37 AM PDT The west's lack of appetite for military intervention has left Syria's rebels feeling they have nothing left to lose Aleppo's fate has always been at the heart of Syria's war. The northern city was the biggest in the country, and its commercial hub, before fighting pounded whole neighbourhoods to rubble, and its streets and mosques are rich with historical and religious significance. Rebel fighters infiltrated the eastern suburbs that are still a main stronghold nearly four years ago, and they have been battling the forces of President Bashar al-Assad for control ever since. Continue reading... |
| Search for survivors continues after Nairobi apartments collapse Posted: 30 Apr 2016 08:58 AM PDT Rescue and security workers search rubble of building in Kenyan capital as 10 people are confirmed dead Rescue workers are continuing to search for residents feared trapped in the rubble of a six-storey building that collapsed in Nairobi after days of heavy rain, killing at least 10 people. The building on the Huruma residential estate collapsed late on Friday. Kenyan television stations showed rescue and security workers working through rubble and slabs of concrete. It is not known how many people were in the building at the time of its collapse. Continue reading... |
| Protesters storm Baghdad parliament building - video Posted: 30 Apr 2016 08:08 AM PDT Hundreds of supporters of the Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr tear down Baghdad's Green Zone barrier to force their way into parliament. Supporters of Sadr, whose fighters once controlled swaths of Baghdad and helped defend the capital from Islamic State, have been demonstrating for weeks to pressure the government to reform Continue reading... |
| German riot police arrest protesters outside far-right party conference - video Posted: 30 Apr 2016 08:04 AM PDT At least 400 people protesting outside a meeting held by far-right German political party Alternative für Deutschland are arrested by riot police. Demonstrators attempt to block the entrance to the event on Saturday, where up to 2,000 AfD members are expected to pass an anti-Islam manifesto. AfD made substantial gains in German regional elections last month, entering state parliaments for the first time in three regions Continue reading... |
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| Rescue efforts under way after building collapse in Nairobi - video Posted: 30 Apr 2016 04:37 AM PDT Emergency services and security workers continue their search for survivors after a six-storey building collapsed in Nairobi, Kenya. The residential estate collapsed on Friday following several days of heavy rain in the region and has now raised concerns for other blocks in the area. Officials say seven people have been killed, with 121 people injured, but fears remain that many are trapped under the rubble Continue reading... |
| 'You're a sinner': how a Mormon university shames rape victims Posted: 30 Apr 2016 04:00 AM PDT Rape survivors at Brigham Young University, considered the 'Mormon Harvard', face penalties under its strict honor code. Now they're fighting back Madi Barney sat sobbing in the Provo, Utah, police department. It had been four days since the Brigham Young University sophomore had been raped in her off-campus apartment. She was scared – terrified – that the officials at her strict, Mormon university would find out and punish her. Continue reading... |
| Spirit of 'Forty-Eighters': Germany eyes a special relationship with US Posted: 30 Apr 2016 01:00 AM PDT If the UK votes for a Brexit, many in Germany are eager to strengthen their bonds with America German revolutionary Carl Schurz was an all-American hero. A teacher who climbed the barricades during the failed uprising against an autocratic Prussian state in 1848, he exported his democratic fervour to America four years later: Schutz fought for the unionist cause in the civil war, served as US secretary of the interior and introduced to his adopted homeland the concept of the kindergarten. Yet most Americans, and even more Germans, would struggle to put a face to the name of the man whose memorial in Wisconsin identifies him as America's "greatest German American". The UK and the US may quarrel over of the precise location of Winston Churchill's bust inside the White House, but at least they know who they are talking about. Continue reading... |
| 'It was life and death for us and it's the same today': Kindertransport children speak Posted: 30 Apr 2016 01:00 AM PDT With the government refusing to let 3,000 child refugees enter the UK, Guardian readers tell how they escaped the Holocaust – and why Britain must step up again At a time when many people were trying to flee Hitler's regime and the world was on the brink of war, the Kindertransport scheme saved thousands of children who otherwise would have been sent to death camps. Jewish and Quaker groups appealed to the then prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, and a bill was passed to temporarily waive the immigration requirements for unaccompanied children to enter Britain. Ten thousand children travelled to the UK. Today the government is under pressure to allow 3,000 refugee children displaced by conflict in the Middle East to travel to Britain. After a proposal was refused by a small margin in the House of Commons on Monday, peers passed an amendment calling for an unspecified number of children to be accepted. The measure will return to the Commons for consideration next week. Continue reading... |
| The experiments providing homes around the world Posted: 30 Apr 2016 04:04 PM PDT From co-ops to micro-building to self-builds, a variety of schemes are being used to tackle the housing crisis, both here and overseas Crisis is often the spur to social innovation, so surely there must be some evidence of it in housing? Innovation and big, bold ideas are required as much now as in the postwar years in Britain, when conditions across the country for too many were shockingly poor, even if their homes had not become rubble. In response, high-quality house building was delivered on an impressive scale. While housing is a national crisis, the most pressing concerns differ from area to area. The lack of affordable homes being built every year is a huge issue, especially in London. But in the north, and elsewhere in the UK, there are empty houses in some areas with too few resources to bring them back to life. As professor Charles Egbu, dean of the School of Architecture at London South Bank University, said at a recent conference, the current crisis isn't just about a lack of political will to invest in social housing. Continue reading... |
| Indiana is the only place that can save the GOP from a Trump takeover Posted: 30 Apr 2016 12:06 PM PDT Republicans have questioned Trump's conservative beliefs to little avail, but Cruz is hoping that Indiana is conservative enough to make the strategy work The only thing that can save the Republican party from a Donald Trump takeover is Indiana. On the heels of Trump's resounding win in five states on Tuesday night, anti-Trump Republicans need Ted Cruz to take the Hoosier State to stop the frontrunner from accumulating the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the nomination and avoid a contested convention this summer. Continue reading... |
| West Wing’s C.J. Cregg surprises journalists at White House briefing - video Posted: 30 Apr 2016 07:34 AM PDT Allison Janney, who played C.J. Cregg in the wildly popular West Wing, make a surprise appearance at the White House press briefing on Friday. Janney claims Josh Earnest, President Barack Obama's official spokesman, was having a root canal - referencing a West Wing in-joke. The actor later reveals that she in fact dropped by to talk about opioid addiction Continue reading... |
| Obama speaks of father’s influence at White House jazz concert - video Posted: 30 Apr 2016 02:17 AM PDT US president Barack Obama speaks of his father's musical influence on him during a jazz concert at the White House. The president recalls the time his father, who he says he 'barely knew', introduced him to jazz by taking him to his first concert in Hawaii in 1971. The White House jazz concert on Friday featured guest artists such as Aretha Franklin Continue reading... |
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