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- Corbyn could face string of resignations if he backs 'people's vote'
- ‘Example to the world': Sri Lanka president plans to copy Duterte's war on drugs
- Vote 'Dildo for Indonesia': rivals for president find young voters hard to please
- Victim-blaming outcry as Japan pop star says sorry after alleged assault by fans
- North Korean envoy may meet Trump to discuss second summit
- Australia heatwave: overnight minimum of 35.9C in Noona sets new record
- Trump intensifies feud with Pelosi by calling off her trip abroad
- Zambian villagers await outcome of UK mining firm's pollution case appeal
- Banksy rat? Tokyo takes a closer look at graffiti resembling artist's work
- Death on demand: has euthanasia gone too far?
- Britain experiences coldest night of winter so far
- Ryanair issues profit warning as winter fares fall
- Israel accuses Malaysia PM of 'rabid antisemitism' over Paralympics ban
- Trump stamp: how have his first two years marked five key policy areas?
- Car bomb kills at least 20 at police academy in Bogotá
- Another Murray cod dead at Menindee as locals brace for another kill
- Thousands flee north-east Nigeria after devastating Boko Haram attack
- 'Change in people's hearts': anti-Bashir protests put Sudan at a crossroads
- India's Kumbh Mela festival – in pictures
- Explosion on roof of Lyon university in France – video
- Bogotá car bomb kills at least nine people – video
| Corbyn could face string of resignations if he backs 'people's vote' Posted: 17 Jan 2019 12:00 PM PST A number of Labour frontbenchers say they would consider their positions if leader backed idea Jeremy Corbyn could face up to a dozen resignations from the Labour frontbench if the party backs a second referendum as a way out of the Brexit crisis. A string of junior shadow ministers have told the Guardian they are strongly opposed to the idea of a second referendum, which they fear would expose Labour to a vicious backlash in leave-voting constituencies. Continue reading... |
| ‘Example to the world': Sri Lanka president plans to copy Duterte's war on drugs Posted: 17 Jan 2019 09:05 PM PST President Maithripala Sirisena praises Philippines over policy that has led to thousands of extrajudicial killings Sri Lanka's president has praised his Philippines counterpart Rodrigo Duterte's brutal war on drugs, which has taken thousands of lives, calling it an "example to the world". In a speech during a visit to the Philippines this week, Maithripala Sirisena said he intended to replicate Duterte's ruthless approach to tackling illegal drug use. Continue reading... |
| Vote 'Dildo for Indonesia': rivals for president find young voters hard to please Posted: 17 Jan 2019 06:34 PM PST As elections loom, millennials tired of leaders who do not represent them find happiness in spoof social media personalities With their moustaches, traditional headwear and big campaign promises, Nurhadi and Aldo resemble almost any other politician. But, as Indonesia heads towards a presidential election, looks can be deceiving. The two presidential candidates are in fact fictional. Continue reading... |
| Victim-blaming outcry as Japan pop star says sorry after alleged assault by fans Posted: 17 Jan 2019 09:55 PM PST Band manager criticised for silence after Maho Yamaguchi, a singer with NGT48, said she was attacked at her home Japan's harsh treatment of its female celebrities has again come under scrutiny following outcry over the music industry's handling of an alleged assault on a member of a popular girl band. Social media users and TV commentators have joined the barrage of criticism targeting AKS, a music management agency, after Maho Yamaguchi, a singer with NGT48, went public this month with allegations she had been assaulted by two obsessive fans at the end of last year. Continue reading... |
| North Korean envoy may meet Trump to discuss second summit Posted: 18 Jan 2019 12:39 AM PST Kim Yong-chol visit could clear way for further denuclearisation talks North Korea's lead negotiator in nuclear diplomacy with the US is expected to hold talks with the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, and could also meet President Donald Trump on Friday during a visit aimed at clearing the way for a second US-North Korea summit. Kim Yong-chol arrived in Washington on Thursday evening for his first visit since he came last June ahead of a landmark meeting between Trump and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong un, in Singapore. Efforts made since then to get Pyongyang to denuclearise appear to have stalled. Continue reading... |
| Australia heatwave: overnight minimum of 35.9C in Noona sets new record Posted: 17 Jan 2019 05:42 PM PST On fifth day of record-breaking extreme weather, temperatures in parts of Victoria, ACT and NSW forecast to soar above 40C, including in Sydney's west Extreme temperatures are persisting – and even peaking – in Victoria and New South Wales on the fifth day of Australia's extraordinary, record-breaking heatwave with Noona in western NSW recording a minimum temperature of 35.9C, a new Australian heat record. On Friday, parts of NSW and the ACT were again forecast to soar above 40C – for the fifth day in a row. Continue reading... |
| Trump intensifies feud with Pelosi by calling off her trip abroad Posted: 17 Jan 2019 06:20 PM PST President denied speaker the use of a military aircraft to visit US troops day after she suggested he postpone State of the Union Donald Trump has dramatically escalated his feud with House speaker Nancy Pelosi amid the US government shutdown by canceling her previously undisclosed trip abroad and denying her the use of a military aircraft to visit American troops in Afghanistan. Related: Rudy Giuliani: 'I never said there was no collusion' by Trump campaign Continue reading... |
| Zambian villagers await outcome of UK mining firm's pollution case appeal Posted: 17 Jan 2019 11:00 PM PST Vedanta Resources in fresh appeal to have water contamination claim brought by 1,800 people heard in Zambia A British mining company has appealed to the supreme court to prevent 1,800 Zambian villagers bringing a pollution case involving its subsidiary from being tried in the UK. Lawyers for Vedanta Resources told Britain's highest court that the case – brought by villagers who allege that their land and livelihoods were destroyed by water contamination from Vedanta-owned Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) – should be heard in Zambia instead. Continue reading... |
| Banksy rat? Tokyo takes a closer look at graffiti resembling artist's work Posted: 17 Jan 2019 09:48 PM PST City's governor asks if image of 'cute rat' is a gift from the elusive street artist
Tokyo's metropolitan government was alerted to a drawing of a rat holding an umbrella – one of Banksy's best-known works – on a door near a Hinode monorail station in the city centre. Continue reading... |
| Death on demand: has euthanasia gone too far? Posted: 17 Jan 2019 10:00 PM PST Countries around the world are making it easier to choose the time and manner of your death. But doctors in the world's euthanasia capital are starting to worry about the consequences Last year a Dutch doctor called Bert Keizer was summoned to the house of a man dying of lung cancer, in order to end his life. When Keizer and the nurse who was to assist him arrived, they found around 35 people gathered around the dying man's bed. "They were drinking and guffawing and crying," Keizer told me when I met him in Amsterdam recently. "It was boisterous. And I thought: 'How am I going to cleave the waters?' But the man knew exactly what to do. Suddenly he said, 'OK, guys!' and everyone understood. Everyone fell silent. The very small children were taken out of the room and I gave him his injection. I could have kissed him, because I wouldn't have known how to break up the party." Keizer is one of around 60 physicians on the books of the Levenseindekliniek, or End of Life Clinic, which matches doctors willing to perform euthanasia with patients seeking an end to their lives, and which was responsible for the euthanasia of some 750 people in 2017. For Keizer, who was a philosopher before studying medicine, the advent of widespread access to euthanasia represents a new era. "For the first time in history," he told me, "we have developed a space where people move towards death while we are touching them and they are in our midst. That's completely different from killing yourself when your wife's out shopping and the kids are at school and you hang yourself in the library – which is the most horrible way of doing it, because the wound never heals. The fact that you are a person means that you are linked to other people. And we have found a bearable way of severing that link, not by a natural death, but by a self-willed ending. It's a very special thing." Continue reading... |
| Britain experiences coldest night of winter so far Posted: 18 Jan 2019 12:49 AM PST Yellow warnings for snow and ice in place after temperature plunges as low as -10.7C Thursday night was the coldest of the winter so far as temperatures plunged to as low as -10.7C (12.7F). The low was recorded by the Met Office at Aboyne in Aberdeenshire, beating the previous mark of -10.5C (13.1F) recorded on 3 January in Braemar. Continue reading... |
| Ryanair issues profit warning as winter fares fall Posted: 18 Jan 2019 12:21 AM PST Lower-fare environment will shake out more loss-making rivals, says Michael O'Leary Ryanair has issued its second profit warning in four months, blaming intense competition over the winter that prompted the Irish budget airline to cut fares. Profits for the year ending 31 March will be €100m (£88m) lower than previous expectations, at between €1bn to €1.1bn, the company said in a statement to the stock market. That was down from the €1.1bn to €1.2bn range previously expected. Continue reading... |
| Israel accuses Malaysia PM of 'rabid antisemitism' over Paralympics ban Posted: 17 Jan 2019 10:40 PM PST Mahathir Mohamad refuses visas to Israeli athletes due to compete in a qualifying event for Tokyo 2020 Israel has accused the Malaysian prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, of "rabid antisemitism" after he banned Israeli athletes from competing in a qualifying event for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Malaysia has refused to grant visas to Israeli athletes scheduled to participate in the event to be held in the state of Sarawak in July, a move designed to demonstrate the country's solidarity with Palestine. Continue reading... |
| Trump stamp: how have his first two years marked five key policy areas? Posted: 17 Jan 2019 10:00 PM PST The president has brought his distinctive approach to foreign policy, the economy, the judiciary, the environment and immigration If there has been one defining trait in the foreign policy of the Trump era, it is confusion – not only in the frequent gaps between the paths taken by the president and his own administration, but also in the morass of contradictions and U-turns in his own impulses. Continue reading... |
| Car bomb kills at least 20 at police academy in Bogotá Posted: 17 Jan 2019 08:46 PM PST Blast also injured more than 50 people, but authorities have yet to suggest who was behind the attack At least 20 people have been killed and more than 50 others injured in a car bombing at a Colombian police academy in Bogotá, recalling the high-profile attacks associated with the bloodiest chapters of the country's guerrilla and drug conflicts. The scene outside the General Santander police academy was chaotic after the mid-morning explosion, with ambulances and helicopters rushing to the normally tightly controlled facility. Continue reading... |
| Another Murray cod dead at Menindee as locals brace for another kill Posted: 17 Jan 2019 11:38 PM PST Murray-Darling commissioner offer to include Menindee fish kill in inquiry rejected by South Australia attorney general Another 80cm Murray cod has died in the Lower Darling River on Friday afternoon, raising fears among Menindee locals that the predicted drop in temperature overnight will trigger another fish kill incident. The Guardian saw the large cod, estimated to be about 30 to 40 years old, floating about 1km downstream from where another large cod died on Thursday. Continue reading... |
| Thousands flee north-east Nigeria after devastating Boko Haram attack Posted: 17 Jan 2019 05:53 AM PST More than 8,000 refugees cross border into Cameroon after Nigerian town of Rann is burned to the ground Thousands of people have fled into Cameroon from north-east Nigeria following violent attacks by a faction of the militant group Boko Haram, which looted and destroyed large parts of a major town. More than 8,000 refugees have crossed the border into Bodo after the attacks on the Nigerian town of Rann on Monday, in which at least 10 people are thought to have been killed. Homes and humanitarian organisations' buildings were burned down. Continue reading... |
| 'Change in people's hearts': anti-Bashir protests put Sudan at a crossroads Posted: 17 Jan 2019 04:58 AM PST With the country in crisis and public discontent mounting, is the endgame nearing for Omar al-Bashir? Surrounded by brown hills close to the Ethiopian border, the town of El-Gadarif is an unremarkable place. A centre for the trade in sorghum and sesame, it is dominated by its huge Russian-built grain silos. Four weeks ago, however, the eastern Sudanese town was thrust into the spotlight when it became a centre for protests against the regime of President Omar al-Bashir. Continue reading... |
| India's Kumbh Mela festival – in pictures Posted: 17 Jan 2019 11:00 PM PST Thought to be the world's largest human gathering, more than 20 million Hindu pilgrims ritually bathed on the opening day of the festival Continue reading... |
| Explosion on roof of Lyon university in France – video Posted: 17 Jan 2019 01:35 PM PST Video footage captured the moment an explosion took place on the top of a university in the French city of Lyon. Police say the accident was caused by a gas bottle that exploded, causing a fire. Continue reading... |
| Bogotá car bomb kills at least nine people – video Posted: 17 Jan 2019 09:55 AM PST A car bomb has been detonated at a police academy in Bogotá, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 20, according to the country's defence ministry. The scene outside the General Santander police academy was chaotic, with ambulances and helicopters rushing to the normally tightly controlled facility Continue reading... |
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