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- Dominic Raab warns Iran of 'pariah' status after ambassador arrest
- Malta gets new PM after Muscat departs over Daphne Caruana Galizia murder
- Roger Federer responds to climate crisis criticism from Greta Thunberg
- Harry and Meghan: Queen calls senior royals to crisis summit
- Disinformation and lies are spreading faster than Australia's bushfires
- UK weather: warnings for gales and large waves as Storm Brendan sweeps in
- Italy’s Sardines movement calls mass demo to squeeze out Salvini
- George Pell reportedly moved to regional prison after drone flown over Melbourne CBD jail
- US to expel a dozen Saudi trainees in wake of Florida naval base shooting
- Britain must prepare to fight wars without US help, says defence secretary
- Raising the bar: Hashi Mohamed’s journey from child refugee to top lawyer
- Beyond Cambridge’s colleges, UK’s most unequal city battles poverty
- ‘Treated like trash’: the project trying to identify the bodies of migrants
- Puerto Rico: more power outages after magnitude 6.0 earthquake
- ‘I quit life as a BBC journalist to live as a jade carver in China’
- Scott Morrison looks for wriggle room on climate as he detects the whiff of backlash | Sarah Martin
- Trapped on Lesbos: the child refugees waiting to start a new life
- Why are virginity tests still legal across America in 2020?
- How strong is Iran's military?
- What we know about the Iran plane crash that killed 176 people – video report
| Dominic Raab warns Iran of 'pariah' status after ambassador arrest Posted: 12 Jan 2020 12:55 AM PST UK's representative in Tehran held during demonstrations for 'inciting' protesters The foreign secretary has condemned the arrest of Britain's ambassador in Iran during anti-government protests as a "flagrant violation of international law" and said the country was marching towards "pariah status". Dominic Raab's strongly worded statement came after the ambassador, Rob Macaire, was arrested on Saturday during demonstrations near Amirkabir University in Tehran for "inciting" the protesters. He was held for more than an hour on suspicion of organising, provoking and directing radical actions before he was released, the Iranian Tasnim news agency said. Continue reading... |
| Malta gets new PM after Muscat departs over Daphne Caruana Galizia murder Posted: 11 Jan 2020 08:00 PM PST Robert Abela elected as Labour leader after PM Joseph Muscat resigned amid controversy surrounding investigation of journalist's death Outsider Robert Abela is set to become Malta's new prime minister after the downfall of previous leader Joseph Muscat over the investigation into the murder of an investigative journalist. Abela, who is seen as representing continuity, was elected leader of the Labour party on Sunday, meaning he automatically takes the role of prime minister. Continue reading... |
| Roger Federer responds to climate crisis criticism from Greta Thunberg Posted: 11 Jan 2020 09:39 PM PST
Roger Federer has issued a cautiously worded response to mounting criticism, including from climate activist Greta Thunberg, over his sponsorship deal with Credit Suisse. A dozen Swiss activists appeared in court on Tuesday after refusing to pay a fine for playing tennis inside branches of Credit Suisse bank in November 2018, in a stunt intended to underscore Federer's relationship with the Swiss financial giant, which is closely linked with the fossil fuel industry. Continue reading... |
| Harry and Meghan: Queen calls senior royals to crisis summit Posted: 11 Jan 2020 01:00 PM PST The Queen, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cambridge and Duke of Sussex to meet at Sandringham on Monday The Queen has summoned senior royals to an emergency summit at her Sandringham estate in Norfolk on Monday to discuss the future of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. The meeting, to be attended by the Queen, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cambridge and Duke of Sussex, will be the first time the four have met since the Sussex crisis exploded on Wednesday. Continue reading... |
| Disinformation and lies are spreading faster than Australia's bushfires Posted: 11 Jan 2020 11:00 AM PST Social media claims of an arson epidemic and obstructive environmentalists have infected mainstream reporting of the bushfire crisis Lies have spread faster than grassfire during Australia's unprecedented national emergency. They've ranged from the exaggerated to the outrageous. Continue reading... |
| UK weather: warnings for gales and large waves as Storm Brendan sweeps in Posted: 12 Jan 2020 12:32 AM PST Seafronts may take a battering and travel disruption is predicted, with winds reaching up to 80mph Strong gales of up to 80mph are set to sweep across parts of the UK on Monday. The Met Office has warned coastal routes and communities could be particularly affected by Storm Brendan as large waves batter seafronts. Continue reading... |
| Italy’s Sardines movement calls mass demo to squeeze out Salvini Posted: 12 Jan 2020 01:35 AM PST Thousands expected in Bologna in campaign against far-right League The Sardines, an Italian movement that has emerged in response to the far-right politics of Matteo Salvini and his allies, is gearing up for a major demonstration ahead of crucial elections in the leftwing stronghold of Emilia-Romagna in late January. The movement, founded in mid-November by a group of four friends from Bologna in response to Salvini's threat to "liberate" Emilia-Romagna from the left, has attracted a huge following, with thousands of supporters cramming into piazzas across the country in recent months. The next show of strength is planned for Bologna next Sunday, a week before a regional election that is seen as an important test for the stability of the national government coalition between the centre-left Democratic party (PD) and the Five Star Movement (M5S). The precarious alliance came together last summer after Salvini's League party was forced out of government following his failed attempt to force snap elections. Continue reading... |
| George Pell reportedly moved to regional prison after drone flown over Melbourne CBD jail Posted: 11 Jan 2020 04:18 PM PST Drone reportedly flown over visitors' garden where disgraced cardinal's job was to weed and water Disgraced Cardinal George Pell has reportedly been moved from his central Melbourne prison to a high security facility in regional Victoria after a drone was flown over the jail. "Corrections Victoria can confirm an incident involving a drone flying over the Melbourne assessment prison on Thursday," a justice department spokeswoman said on Sunday. Continue reading... |
| US to expel a dozen Saudi trainees in wake of Florida naval base shooting Posted: 11 Jan 2020 10:15 PM PST Trainees not involved in attack but reportedly accused of having extremist links or possessing child abuse images The US will expel at least a dozen Saudi military students accused of extremist links and possessing child sexual abuse images, after an investigation into a shooting rampage by a Saudi officer in Florida, according to media reports. In December Mohammed Alshamrani, who was in the US as part of a Saudi military training program, opened fire in a classroom at the Pensacola naval air station, killing three sailors and wounding eight other people before being shot dead by police. Continue reading... |
| Britain must prepare to fight wars without US help, says defence secretary Posted: 11 Jan 2020 06:09 PM PST Ben Wallace says US withdrawal from international leadership under Donald Trump 'keeps me awake at night' Britain must be prepared to fight future wars without the US as its principal ally, the defence secretary, Ben Wallace, has said. Wallace said the increasing withdrawal of America from international leadership under Donald Trump meant Britain needed to rethink the assumptions underpinning its defence planning for the past decade. Continue reading... |
| Raising the bar: Hashi Mohamed’s journey from child refugee to top lawyer Posted: 11 Jan 2020 11:00 PM PST He defied a life of poverty and hardship to reach Oxford and become a barrister. Now Hashi Mohamed has written a book which aims to rethink the stalled project of social mobility • Read an extract from Hashi Mohamed's People Like Us Hashi Mohamed is a 36-year-old barrister. He has the accent, a mentor once told of him, of someone who's "been to Eton" and the confidence of a natural orator. If you had to place him within the complex matrix of the British class system, you'd probably say he was the son of wealthy Africans who attended an independent school and Oxbridge. In fact, Mohamed is a Somali who was born in Kenya, where he lived in a rundown part of Nairobi with his four siblings (another having died), his mother (who also had six children from a previous marriage) and his travelling salesman father. When his father died in a car accident in 1993, Mohamed and three of his siblings were sent to England as refugees. Continue reading... |
| Beyond Cambridge’s colleges, UK’s most unequal city battles poverty Posted: 12 Jan 2020 01:07 AM PST Behind the tourist's view lie areas of deprivation. A new initiative aims to help poor families Term had not yet started for the students at Cambridge University. Outside the grand entrance to Trinity College, tourists were smiling and posing for photographs. So it was hard to believe that on a nearby street, the morning before Christmas Eve, a homeless woman lay down in the cold and gave birth to twins. In the winter sunshine, the ostentatious wealth of the university's richest college cast an inglorious shadow. Cambridge is officially the UK's most unequal city. The top 6% of earners who live there take home 19% of the total income generated, while the bottom 20% of the population account for just 2% of that total. Continue reading... |
| ‘Treated like trash’: the project trying to identify the bodies of migrants Posted: 12 Jan 2020 12:15 AM PST In the past decade hundreds of bodies have been buried haphazardly on the US southern border – and Operation Identification hopes to repatriate the remains Soil is carefully dug and then brushed away and the bags removed from the ground. Inside are bones but also small items that give a touch of humanity and threads of stories where flesh – and names – are missing. A little note. A half-drunk bottle of water. Prayer beads, a soft toy. These are the items that university experts and students from the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State have found when painstakingly exhuming the bodies of migrants who died on their journeys to the United States and ended up in graves at remote county cemeteries on the US-Mexico border. Continue reading... |
| Puerto Rico: more power outages after magnitude 6.0 earthquake Posted: 11 Jan 2020 07:33 AM PST
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake shook Puerto Rico on Saturday, causing further damage on the island's southern coast, where recent quakes have toppled homes and schools. The US Geological Survey said the 8.54am quake hit eight miles south of Indios at a shallow depth of six miles. Continue reading... |
| ‘I quit life as a BBC journalist to live as a jade carver in China’ Posted: 11 Jan 2020 03:00 AM PST Andrew Shaw, 63, on how he switched to a new career and life in another continent Name: Andrew Shaw I took early retirement from my job as a BBC reporter 13 years ago to travel to China to pursue my dream to learn to carve jade. At one time I loved reporting live from major events such as 9/11. It was as if I was witnessing history rather than covering the news. But the death of my mother made me rethink my life. Continue reading... |
| Scott Morrison looks for wriggle room on climate as he detects the whiff of backlash | Sarah Martin Posted: 11 Jan 2020 10:27 PM PST The prime minister is clearly under pressure as the bushfire crisis lays bare the consequences of a warmer planet It's too early to say whether the prime minister, Scott Morrison, is speaking with a forked tongue when he says the government will "evolve" its climate change policy. What appeared on Sunday to be a shift in rhetoric on the government's emission reduction targets may be meaningful – or it may yet prove to be deliberately duplicitous. Continue reading... |
| Trapped on Lesbos: the child refugees waiting to start a new life Posted: 11 Jan 2020 01:24 PM PST Thousands of children are living in appalling conditions on the Greek island. At the Moria camp, one Syrian teenager tells of trying to join his family in the UK Outside the Moria refugee camp in Lesbos, a shanty town made of tarpaulin strung between olive trees is getting bigger every week. There are now 18,000 people living in this second camp, designed for just over 2,000. Ahmed (not his real name), 17, and his friend Musa wind their way up muddy tracks towards their tent, swerving to avoid groups of children running in flip-flops through the dirt. Continue reading... |
| Why are virginity tests still legal across America in 2020? Posted: 11 Jan 2020 06:00 AM PST Reminder: the state of your hymen is not an indicator of whether you've had sex. Yet there are no laws banning exams Sign up for The week in patriarchy, a newsletter on feminism and sexism sent every Saturday. Continue reading... |
| How strong is Iran's military? Posted: 11 Jan 2020 12:00 AM PST Country has shaped an 'axis of resistance' with proxy forces and influence in Middle East
But there is little expectation that this will be the end of Iran's response to such a significant loss. The country has spent years honing its assets and expertise in asymmetric warfare, to strike against better armed, better funded opponents. Continue reading... |
| What we know about the Iran plane crash that killed 176 people – video report Posted: 11 Jan 2020 03:56 AM PST Iran has admitted that its military unintentionally shot down the passenger jet that crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran on Wednesday. Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 went down minutes into its flight, killing all 176 people onboard. Continue reading... |
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