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- Briton found guilty over Ayia Napa false rape claim
- Taiwan's citizens battle pro-China fake news campaigns as election nears
- One firefighter killed as Australian bushfires rip through four states
- New York's Jewish community on edge after string of Hanukah attacks
- Hong Kong recession to continue as protests hit economy - business live
- Labour leadership contest: Corbyn should have kept fighting for remain, says Clive Lewis - live news
- Romanian man jailed in Italy over human trafficking ring
- He Jiankui, Chinese scientist who edited babies' genes, jailed for three years
- Zac Efron falls ill while filming reality show Killing Zac Efron
- Greta Thunberg: climate activism has made her 'very happy', says father
- Armando Iannucci: ‘I personally am not a sweary, angry man’
- 'I ordered one saveloy not three': Met reveals time-wasting 999 calls
- The child refugees risking the Channel by boat – one year on
- Protests, climate crisis and Ebola: a tumultuous 2019 – in pictures
- California's groundbreaking privacy law takes effect in January. What does it do?
- Are Mexican avocados the world's new conflict commodity?
- China jails underground pastor Wang Yi for nine years for inciting subversion
- Australia fires: NSW firefighter dies as emergency warnings in place for Tasmania, Victoria bushfires – as it happened
- US isolationism leaves Middle East on edge as new decade dawns
- 2019: the year in US protests – in pictures
- From firestorms to dinner with Trump: Guardian Australia's best news photos of the year
- Tonnes of fake snow brought to Moscow after warmest December in 140 years - video
- 'A terrible tragedy': five stabbed at rabbi's home during Hanukah celebration – video report
| Briton found guilty over Ayia Napa false rape claim Posted: 30 Dec 2019 01:37 AM PST Nineteen-year-old accused 12 Israeli men of gang-raping her while on holiday in Cyprus A British woman has been found guilty of falsely accusing 12 Israeli men of gang-raping her while she was on holiday in Cyprus. The 19-year-old has been held on the island since July, first in a prison in Nicosia then in safe houses. She was forced to surrender her passport after she withdrew an accusation that the Israeli tourists raped her in her hotel room in the resort of Ayia Napa in July. Continue reading... |
| Taiwan's citizens battle pro-China fake news campaigns as election nears Posted: 29 Dec 2019 09:00 PM PST Contest is in effect a referendum on the future of the self-governed island's relationship with China Citizen groups in Taiwan are fighting a Russian-style influence and misinformation campaign that is believed to originate across the strait in mainland China with just weeks to go before it votes for its next president, Taiwan goes to the polls on 11 January to decide between two main candidates, incumbent president Tsai-Ing-Wen of the Democratic People's party (DPP) under whom ties with Beijing have become fraught, and Han Kuo-Yu of the Kuomintang party (KMT), which advocates closer engagement with China. Continue reading... |
| One firefighter killed as Australian bushfires rip through four states Posted: 30 Dec 2019 01:07 AM PST There are fears that many houses may have been lost on a horrific day in Victoria and Tasmania, with more extreme weather forecast for New Year's Eve One firefighter has died and multiple properties are feared lost after terrifying bushfires driven by extreme weather conditions swept across four Australian states on Monday. The volunteer firefighter from the New South Wales Rural Fire Service died when a truck rolled near Jingellic, about 70km east of Albury, on the border with Victoria. The RFS said two trucks, including the one in which the firefighter died, had been overturned by high winds. Two others suffered burns in the crash. Continue reading... |
| New York's Jewish community on edge after string of Hanukah attacks Posted: 29 Dec 2019 11:35 PM PST Stabbings in Monsey, Rockland county, are latest antisemitic incident in region Jewish groups and political leaders have issued calls for increased protection in New York after a string of attacks during Hanukah left members of the region's Jewish community on edge. On Saturday night, an attacker stabbed five people during Hanukah festivities at a rabbi's home in Monsey, Rockland county, about 30 miles north of New York City, in what Governor Andrew Cuomo called "an act of domestic terrorism". The attack was the latest in a string of antisemitic incidents in the region. Continue reading... |
| Hong Kong recession to continue as protests hit economy - business live Posted: 30 Dec 2019 01:42 AM PST Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news
Despite these recession warnings, Hong Kong's stock market has closed at a five-month high today. The Hang Seng index gained 93 points, or 0.33%, to 28,319.
Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in Hong Kong in recent days, as the pro-democracy action enter their seventh month. It was clear even in November, when protesters set a Christmas tree on fire in the busy Festival Walk mall, that this season was going to be brutal for Hong Kong retailers — the mall will be closed until some time in the first quarter next year, according to its owner Mapletree North Asia Commercial Trust. Since protests first started in April, visitor numbers have collapsed. In October, the most recent month for which data is available, arrivals to Hong Kong were down 43.7 per cent on a year earlier, depriving the city's businesses of more than 2.5m tourists, the overwhelming majority of them from mainland China. Continue reading... |
| Labour leadership contest: Corbyn should have kept fighting for remain, says Clive Lewis - live news Posted: 30 Dec 2019 02:00 AM PST Rolling coverage of the day's political developments as they happen
Here are some more lines from what Clive Lewis, the shadow Treasury minister and Labour leadership contender, said in his Today programme interview this morning. (See 9.11am.) It is also about the fact that for the last 40 years in this country there has been a decline in those votes in those areas where we collapsed in the general election. And this is something that has been going on for 40 years, and that includes over the period of 1997 to 2010. So to understand what actually went wrong with this vote, you need to look back further than just 2015, or 2010. It is like trying to work out the causes of the second world war by going back no further than 1938. You have to go back to 1914, and possibly beyond. We have to work out why were we not able to connect to people in these heartlands, in the north, in the east Midlands? Why couldn't we get our message across to them?
In his London Playbook briefing for Politico Europe Jack Blanchard has a good single-paragraph analysis of Rebecca Long-Bailey's article for the Guardian setting out her pitch for the leadership. He says: Beck's appeal: Somewhat ironically, Long Bailey's 850-word op-ed rails against New Labour "triangulation," yet itself reads rather like a carefully calibrated pitch to the different power bases within the party. It also seems to borrow heavily from several of the leadership bids we've already heard. So there's the essential nod to Labour's trade union backers ("they are our roots in every workplace); the Clive Lewis-style hint of more power for party members ("our promise to democratise society will ring hollow if we can't even democratise our own party"); and the Keir Starmer-ish pledge to left-wingers that Corbyn's policy agenda will not be abandoned ("we cannot return to the politics of the past.") Then there's the establishment of working-class credentials ("I grew up watching my father's friends lose their jobs"); and the Lisa Nandy-style vow to return power and patriotic pride to communities ("we must revive this progressive patriotism.") If none of that sounds terribly original, well, that's because it isn't. But that doesn't mean it won't be enough to win. Continue reading... |
| Romanian man jailed in Italy over human trafficking ring Posted: 30 Dec 2019 12:00 AM PST Guardian investigation in 2017 revealed Romanian women were being exploited on farms An Italian court has sentenced a Romanian man to 20 years in prison for human trafficking after a Guardian investigation revealed that thousands of women from Romania were being raped and used as forced labour on farms in Sicily. In what investigators claim is Italy's first conviction for labour trafficking of European citizens, Lucian Milea, 41, was convicted last week of running a trafficking ring that recruited dozens of women in Romania who were then forced into exploitation and prostitution on farms in Ragusa, Sicily. Continue reading... |
| He Jiankui, Chinese scientist who edited babies' genes, jailed for three years Posted: 29 Dec 2019 10:27 PM PST The biophysicist was guilty of illegal practice in trying to alter the genetic makeup of twins Lula and Nana The scientist who created the world's first "gene-edited" babies has been sentenced to to three years in prison by a court in China. He Jiankui said in November 2018 that he had used gene-editing technology known as Crispr-Cas9 to change the genes of twin girls, causing a backlash in China and globally about the ethics of his research and work. Continue reading... |
| Zac Efron falls ill while filming reality show Killing Zac Efron Posted: 30 Dec 2019 01:51 AM PST US actor hit by suspected typhoid while filming 'dangerous' survival TV series in Papua New Guinea American actor Zac Efron confirmed on Monday that he recently fell ill while filming a survival reality TV show in Papua New Guinea. Australian media had reported that 32-year-old Efron was flown by helicopter for treatment in Australia after contracting a bacterial infection, possibly typhoid, while shooting the Killing Zac Efron series. Continue reading... |
| Greta Thunberg: climate activism has made her 'very happy', says father Posted: 29 Dec 2019 11:50 PM PST Svante Thunberg says he was concerned about his daughter's school strike but that her campaigning had helped her beat depression Greta Thunberg's father has opened up about how activism helped his daughter out of depression but still worries about how she will deal with the impact of her international fame. Speaking to the BBC to mark his daughter's guest-editing slot on the Today programme, Svante Thunberg revealed he thought it was a "bad idea" for Greta to stage the school strike that catapulted her into the public eye. Continue reading... |
| Armando Iannucci: ‘I personally am not a sweary, angry man’ Posted: 30 Dec 2019 12:00 AM PST He's famous for the expletive-packed political satire The Thick of It, but now the comedy guru is tackling Dickens Armando Iannucci is not someone you'd describe as having a commanding presence. He doesn't want to consume all the oxygen in the room or, with a show of bored impatience, imply that it's your good fortune to share his company. He may be well known, but there's nothing of the celebrity about him. Short, balding and understated in manner, he could pass for a provincial loss adjuster come to assess your insurance claim. But he is arguably the most influential figure in British comedy of the past three decades, not to mention an accomplished film director. When I meet him at a London hotel, he is busy promoting his third feature film, The Personal History of David Copperfield, an adaptation of Charles Dickens's eighth and most autobiographical novel. His first film, In the Loop, grew out of his seminal satirical TV comedy The Thick of It. The second, the highly acclaimed The Death of Stalin, was a darkly comic but historically accurate account of the Soviet dictator's end and its farcical aftermath. Continue reading... |
| 'I ordered one saveloy not three': Met reveals time-wasting 999 calls Posted: 30 Dec 2019 02:04 AM PST Metropolitan police identify more than 22,000 hoax calls in 2019 and warn of risk to lives A mistake with a chip-shop order and an out-of-date packet of biscuits were among more than 22,000 time-wasting calls to the UK's largest police force this year. Call handlers identified 22,491 hoax 999 calls to the Metropolitan police in the first 11 months of 2019, the force said. There were also 2,912 hoax calls to the non-emergency 101 police number. Continue reading... |
| The child refugees risking the Channel by boat – one year on Posted: 30 Dec 2019 12:00 AM PST Kent youth asylum seeker charity has seen a 50% rise in demand for its services since December 2018 Bridget Chapman, who swims regularly in the Channel, wasn't surprised when desperate asylum seekers began travelling to the UK on small dinghy boats last year. On a clear day she can see France's coastline from where she lives in Folkestone, Kent. "If you're stuck in Calais and you can see the British coast quite clearly, it must be really tempting to think: I'll just get a boat," she said. It has been a year since the then home secretary, Sajid Javid, declared the increasing number of migrants attempting to cross the Channel a "major incident", but boat arrivals are still a regular occurrence. On Boxing Day this year, more than 60 migrants were picked up while attempting to cross in small boats. Continue reading... |
| Protests, climate crisis and Ebola: a tumultuous 2019 – in pictures Posted: 29 Dec 2019 11:00 PM PST Around the world people took to the streets in pro-democracy protests, while extreme weather, disease and violence wreaked havoc in some of the most vulnerable communities. But amid disaster, new grassroots leaders came to the fore, women fought to claim their rights and radical treatments for diseases were trialled Continue reading... |
| California's groundbreaking privacy law takes effect in January. What does it do? Posted: 30 Dec 2019 12:00 AM PST Landmark law, the 'most comprehensive' in the US, gives Californians an arsenal of tools to protect their data online Last year, California passed a landmark privacy law that gives consumers more control over their data. The legislation gives residents unprecedented rights to control what information companies collect on them and how it is used. The California Consumer Privacy Act will go into action 1 January 2020, giving residents of the state a whole new arsenal of tools to protect their data and personal information online – and saddling businesses with a lot more responsibility. Continue reading... |
| Are Mexican avocados the world's new conflict commodity? Posted: 30 Dec 2019 01:00 AM PST The fruit's global surge in popularity has fuelled exports and attracted violent cartels to the trade in 'green gold' The 19 mutilated bodies, nine hanging semi-naked from a bridge in the Mexican city of Uruapan, were initially thought to be the result of a clash between rival drug gangs. But the Jalisco New Generation cartel, which claimed the murders in August, is believed to be fighting for more than drugs. It wants dominance over the local avocado trade. Mexico is the world's biggest producer of avocados. Exports of the "green gold" from the state of Michoacán, which produces most of Mexico's avocados, were worth $2.4bn last year. Continue reading... |
| China jails underground pastor Wang Yi for nine years for inciting subversion Posted: 29 Dec 2019 11:04 PM PST Leader of Early Rain Covenant, which is not sanctioned by Communist party, swept up in crackdown on religion under Xi Jinping A Chinese court has sentenced the pastor Wang Yi to nine years in prison on charges of inciting subversion of state power and illegally operating a business. Wang was among dozens of churchgoers and leaders of the Early Rain Covenant church detained by police in December 2018. Most were subsequently released. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 30 Dec 2019 01:40 AM PST Firey killed and three others taken to hospital after two vehicles roll over in extreme winds. This blog has now closed • One firefighter killed as Australian bushfires rip through four states • How big are the fires burning in eastern Australia? Interactive map
We will be closing this blog now. You can read a wrap of today's events here until we restart our coverage. Related: One firefighter killed as Australian bushfires rip through four states
A south-westerly change is expected around midnight in the East Gippsland region and will likely drive fires in a north-easterly direction. Fires are threatening homes and lives and in many places it is too late to leave. Check with the CFA website and local emergency information providers for more details. Continue reading... |
| US isolationism leaves Middle East on edge as new decade dawns Posted: 28 Dec 2019 11:00 PM PST With Trump deciding against protecting allies, old rivalries are converging across the region Throughout the Middle East's modern history, a constant remained – the US held a prominent stake and would throw its weight around to protect its interests and allies. The maxim held true as ideologies rose and fell, Gulf monarchies, Israel, and Arab nationalist police states took root – and war and insurrection periodically raged. But it ended during Donald Trump's third year, a time when an isolationist, unworldly president began to see regional interests through a much narrower lens. The effect has been profound and 2020 will continue the process of recalibration by traditional friends of the US without a country whose clout they used to defer to and whose agenda they could more or less understand. Continue reading... |
| 2019: the year in US protests – in pictures Posted: 29 Dec 2019 12:00 PM PST Tens of thousands of teachers walked off the job in Los Angeles, American women gathered for their third annual march in Washington, Iowans protested abortion bans, Texans declared Donald Trump 'not welcome' in El Paso and students in New York City rallied around Greta Thunberg in calling for action on climate change Continue reading... |
| From firestorms to dinner with Trump: Guardian Australia's best news photos of the year Posted: 29 Dec 2019 11:00 AM PST Labor lost the election, Australia was hit by a punishing drought and the nation mourned Bob Hawke Continue reading... |
| Tonnes of fake snow brought to Moscow after warmest December in 140 years - video Posted: 29 Dec 2019 09:09 AM PST Tonnes of snow have been brought by truck to the centre of Moscow in an attempt to boost holiday spirit in what has so far been an almost snow-free December. The snow started appearing at the capital's Zaryadye Park and central Tverskaya Street on Friday. Alexei Nemeryuk, the head of Moscow's trade and services department, told the Govorit Moskva radio station that the snow had been brought in from the city's ice rinks and will be used to create snowboarding slopes as part of the Journey to Christmas festival. According to meteorologists, the unseasonable warmth has been brought by an atmospheric front from the Atlantic Ocean. Rain – not snow – is forecast for the New Year holiday, Russia's main festive celebration. Continue reading... |
| 'A terrible tragedy': five stabbed at rabbi's home during Hanukah celebration – video report Posted: 29 Dec 2019 07:20 AM PST An attacker stabbed five people at a rabbi's home in New York state late on Saturday. The Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council said the attacker fled after stabbing the victims with a large knife or machete at a house in Monsey, Rockland county. A suspect was later arrested Continue reading... |
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