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- Iran crash: Ukraine Boeing with 176 onboard comes down near Tehran
- Economic impact of Australia's bushfires set to exceed $4.4bn cost of Black Saturday
- 'Extreme privilege': Ivanka Trump faces backlash over keynote speech at CES
- Brexit: UK-EU trade deal could be 'unprecedented in scope', says EU chief in upbeat speech - live news
- 'The fight will go on': woman involved in Cyprus rape case arrives home
- Carlos Ghosn to make first public appearance since Japan escape
- Violence escalates as Romania cracks down on illegal timber trade
- Silvio Horta, creator of hit TV series Ugly Betty, dies aged 45
- White Island volcano eruption: 13 victims still in hospital a month on
- Jersey’s defiance under Nazi occupation revealed in records
- From rubbish to rice: the cafe that gives food in exchange for plastic
- 'Everyone else was just a bit player': my night out with Elizabeth Wurtzel | Suzanne Moore
- Iran plane crash: footage appears to show burning wreckage – video
- Train in vain: South African rail passengers left stranded for a day
- 'Wrong then, wrong now': US clash with Iran echoes march to Iraq war
- Puerto Rico in state of emergency after most powerful quake in over 100 years
- Zali Steggall urges 'modern Liberals' to support her proposed climate change bill
- Water wars: early warning tool uses climate data to predict conflict hotspots
- The ‘ex-closeted gay jihadist' bringing meditation to Jakarta
- Sir Fazle Hasan Abed obituary
- Yemen heads list of countries facing worst humanitarian disasters in 2020
- Iran's assault on US bases in Iraq might satisfy both sides
- Australia's bushfires mean New Zealand has become the land of the long pink cloud | Jim Salinger
- Why is Pelosi waiting to send Trump articles of impeachment to the Senate?
- What legal challenges does UK teenager in Cyprus rape case face?
- Donald Trump says strike against 'monster' Suleimani was retaliation – video
- Mike Pompeo defends Suleimani killing: 'We got it right' – video
- Raab warns Isis would be only winner of war in Middle East – video
- Footage shows packed crowds during Suleimani burial procession – video
| Iran crash: Ukraine Boeing with 176 onboard comes down near Tehran Posted: 08 Jan 2020 02:45 AM PST Iranians, Canadians, Ukrainians, Swedes, Afghans, Germans and three Britons killed in crash, reports say A passenger plane bound for the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, has crashed a few minutes after taking off from Tehran's main international airport, killing 176 people. Iran's Red Crescent has said there was no chance of finding survivors, and Pir Hossein Kulivand, an Iranian emergency official, later told state TV all those on board were killed in the crash. Continue reading... |
| Economic impact of Australia's bushfires set to exceed $4.4bn cost of Black Saturday Posted: 07 Jan 2020 07:01 PM PST Fires will cripple consumer confidence and harm industries such as farming and tourism, Moody's says The economic damage from the bushfires devastating Australia's eastern seaboard is likely to exceed the record $4.4bn set by 2009's Black Saturday blazes, Moody's Analytics has said. The Moody's economist Katrina Ell said the fires would further cripple Australia's already anaemic consumer confidence, increasing the chances of a rate cut next month, as well as causing damage to the economy through increased air pollution and direct harm to industries such as farming and tourism. Continue reading... |
| 'Extreme privilege': Ivanka Trump faces backlash over keynote speech at CES Posted: 07 Jan 2020 04:51 PM PST Decision to have president's daughter deliver keynote invited scathing criticism, especially from women in the tech industry Ivanka Trump's appearance at a major technology conference in Las Vegas has been met with a backlash from industry figures, who denounced her "privilege" and lack of tech qualifications. Trump spoke in a keynote session on Tuesday afternoon at CES, a consumer electronics trade show, on "the path to the future of work". In an interview with Gary Shapiro, the CEO of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), which organizes the show, she addressed technology's role in creating and enabling the workforce of the future. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 08 Jan 2020 03:47 AM PST Rolling coverage of the day's political developments as they happen, including Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn at the first PMQs of 2020 and Johnson's meeting with the new European commission president, Ursula von der Leyen
Here is some Twitter commentary on the speech from Peter Foster, the Daily Telegraph's Europe editor. Now @vonderleyen draws line in sand. The divorce deal is "done and dusted" she said. .@vonderleyen notes UK will share same "destiny" as the rest of the continent - share same values and challenges. (Which is to say the super-sovereigntist approach is misguided). #Brexit #LSEEurope Uh-oh. I think the clouds just came in. A note of steel now in @vonderleyen - the relationship cannot be same as before; choices and trade-offs. Without free movement, level playing field you cannot have same access #Brexit #LSEEurope pic.twitter.com/2QHRixnAR6 So .@vonderleyen says you can have a zero tariff deal, and broard partnership on other stuff....security etc. ...equally but we need to be realistic about the limitations that come with UK decision to #Brexit #LSEEurope pic.twitter.com/KMjyurK0Xo Softening alert! So @vonderleyen makes clear that ways will be found to integrate UK into security/geopolitical EU outlook....a much softer note than was struck in outset of divorce talks I think. #Brexit #LSEEurope pic.twitter.com/Hh4Eb1LgaB
.@vonderleyen appeals to the next generation now...to the students, who may feel differently than their parents and grandparents did. "Collaboration over isolation". Outch. #LSEEurope #Brexit pic.twitter.com/xA01xCFqaJ Continue reading... |
| 'The fight will go on': woman involved in Cyprus rape case arrives home Posted: 08 Jan 2020 01:53 AM PST Teenager convicted of lying about being gang-raped in Cyprus returns to UK and vows to clear her name A teenager convicted of lying about being gang-raped in Cyprus has returned to the UK, vowing that the "fight will go on" to clear her name. The 19-year-old woman flew into London Heathrow from Larnaca on Tuesday after spending a month in prison. Continue reading... |
| Carlos Ghosn to make first public appearance since Japan escape Posted: 08 Jan 2020 02:11 AM PST At press conference in Lebanon the former Nissan boss may reveal how he jumped bail Carlos Ghosn is to make his first public appearance since his extraordinary escape from Japan, where he faced charges of financial misconduct while chairman of Nissan. Ghosn became the world's most famous fugitive after he boarded a private jet from Japan – reportedly via a bullet train and inside a large case for audio equipment – to Turkey and on to Lebanon on 29 December. Continue reading... |
| Violence escalates as Romania cracks down on illegal timber trade Posted: 07 Jan 2020 09:00 PM PST Two rangers have been killed in three months and whistleblowers face intimidation and ostracism In the hamlet of Deia, nestled in the forested hills of Suceava county in northern Romania, Ilie Bucșă and his brother Dumitru have become pariahs. Recently an angry mob attacked the brothers, leaving Ilie with concussion and wounds all over his body. Old friends cross the road to avoid the brothers, having been warned to stay away or face losing their jobs. One night, someone even poured anti-freeze into the brothers' fish pond, killing half their fish. Their sin? They have been methodically filing complaints about illegal logging in the area. Continue reading... |
| Silvio Horta, creator of hit TV series Ugly Betty, dies aged 45 Posted: 08 Jan 2020 03:05 AM PST Tributes paid to the screenwriter and producer behind the comedy-drama starring America Ferrera Silvio Horta, the creator of hit TV show Ugly Betty, has died at the age of 45. The television producer and screenwriter, who was of Cuban-American decent, began his career with the satirical teen film Urban Legends starring Jared Leto, and created two sci-fi programmes, The Chronicle and Jake 2.0, which were broadcast in the early 2000s. Horta, who died by apparent suicide, went on to have mainstream success with the comedy-drama starring Vanessa Williams and America Ferrera, which became a worldwide smash following its cancellation in 2010. Ferrera, who played the show's titular character, an unlikely fashion intern, paid tribute to Horta on Instagram. The actor said she was "stunned and heartbroken to hear the devastating news", adding that Horta's "talent and creativity brought me and so many others such joy and light". Elsewhere, Williams, who played the role of fearsome editor Wilhelmina Slater, added that his "creativity and passion will be missed by so many of us that worked with him. May he Rest In Peace". Michael Urie, who played Slater's personal assistant Marc, commented that Horta had "[broken] barriers and saved lives. Losing him is hard … I hear from LGBTQ people all the time that the show helped them." Continue reading... |
| White Island volcano eruption: 13 victims still in hospital a month on Posted: 07 Jan 2020 06:48 PM PST Four remain in critical condition while two people still missing after 17 killed in New Zealand disaster More than a dozen people remain in New Zealand hospitals with life-threatening injuries a month on from the fatal eruption of Whakaari White Island. Seventeen people have been confirmed dead following the 9 December 2018 disaster, with a further two people missing presumed dead. Continue reading... |
| Jersey’s defiance under Nazi occupation revealed in records Posted: 08 Jan 2020 03:47 AM PST Register of political prisoners and their crimes made public 75 years after island's liberation Stories of defiance by residents of Jersey during the Nazi occupation of their island have emerged in records of political prisoners published 75 years after the liberation. More than 500 islanders as young as 14 were taken into custody for offences such as daubing V for victory signs around the island, spreading anti-German propaganda, listening to radios and breaking curfews. The prisoners ranged from labourers to lawyers. Continue reading... |
| From rubbish to rice: the cafe that gives food in exchange for plastic Posted: 24 Dec 2019 02:00 AM PST The Garbage Cafe in Ambikapur, India, is helping to tackle the country's plastic waste problem – and their novel idea is catching on On bad days, when his employer made some excuse for not paying him his paltry daily wage, Ram Yadav's main meal used to be dry chapatis, with salt and raw onion for flavour. Sometimes he just went hungry. For a ragpicker like him, one of the thousands of Indians who make a living bringing in plastic waste for recycling, eating in a cafe or restaurant was the stuff of fairytales. But last week, Yadav was sitting at a table at the Garbage Cafe in Ambikapur, in the state of Chhattisgarh, over a piping hot meal of dal, aloo gobi, poppadoms and rice. He earned the food in exchange for bringing in 1kg of plastic waste. "The hot meal I get here lasts me all day. And it feels good to sit at a table like everyone else," he said. Continue reading... |
| 'Everyone else was just a bit player': my night out with Elizabeth Wurtzel | Suzanne Moore Posted: 08 Jan 2020 03:28 AM PST The Prozac Nation author was irresistible and impossible, but her writing courageously opened up the conversation about mental health Sometimes when a woman says "I am impossible", it's just classic, sappy, feminine self-deprecation. It's like saying, "Oh, this old thing?" when someone compliments you on a frock you have spent a long time thinking about and even more time saving for. Sometimes, though, when a woman says "I am impossible," you should believe her. Elizabeth Wurtzel was impossible. I believed her. I briefly experienced her being so. She came to London to promote Prozac Nation, the memoir that would make her famous, the best book she wrote, which was about the "United States of Depression". She demanded to meet certain people: writers including Martin Amis, Julie Burchill and Will Self were on her list. She also wanted sex and drugs. She picked at her food in a restaurant in Soho that was somehow not good enough. A lot of things were not good enough for her. We ended up in the Groucho Club, where she draped herself over various men, magazine editors. Huge, kohled eyes; long blond hair; a tiny vest top. She already had an FTW (Fuck the World) tat. She was both irresistible and very annoying and she knew both these things about herself. Continue reading... |
| Iran plane crash: footage appears to show burning wreckage – video Posted: 08 Jan 2020 03:37 AM PST Footage released by Iran Press TV appears to show burning wreckage from moments after a Ukrainian passenger jet crashed near Tehran. |
| Train in vain: South African rail passengers left stranded for a day Posted: 07 Jan 2020 07:36 AM PST Railway operator apologises for delay of more than 24 hours to Johannesburg-Cape Town train South Africa's state-owned rail operator has apologised after passengers were left stranded for more than a day on a train from Johannesburg to Cape Town. Shosholoza Meyl said the train, which departed on Sunday, was scheduled to arrive in Cape Town on Monday evening. It is now expected to arrive late on Tuesday. Continue reading... |
| 'Wrong then, wrong now': US clash with Iran echoes march to Iraq war Posted: 08 Jan 2020 12:00 AM PST As a new Republican president seeks re-election, senior figures in Washington warn history may be repeating itself A Republican president facing a tough re-election campaign and widely viewed as hopelessly out of his depth. Bureaucrats itching to turn US military firepower on a Middle Eastern regime they claim without evidence is plotting an imminent attack. Compliant sections of the media that put flag-waving jingoism ahead of skeptical scrutiny. So it was in late 2002, when President George W Bush's administration built unstoppable momentum towards invading Iraq, promising to destroy weapons of mass destruction (WMD) that never existed. Nearly two decades later the potential target is not Iraq but Iran, with many of the same concerns over false pretexts and official lies. Continue reading... |
| Puerto Rico in state of emergency after most powerful quake in over 100 years Posted: 07 Jan 2020 02:39 PM PST Island rocked by hundreds of earthquakes in recent weeks, killing at least one person and prompting power and water outages Puerto Rico's governor, Wanda Vázquez, declared a state of emergency and activated the national guard on Tuesday after a series of earthquakes including one of magnitude 6.4 that was the most powerful to strike the Caribbean island in 102 years. The quakes killed at least one person, provoked a protective power outage across the entire island and cut off drinking water to 300,000 customers, Vázquez told a news conference. Continue reading... |
| Zali Steggall urges 'modern Liberals' to support her proposed climate change bill Posted: 08 Jan 2020 02:10 AM PST Exclusive: independent MP plans a 'people-powered' public campaign for a conscience vote similar to the one for same-sex marriage The independent MP Zali Steggall is calling on self-styled "modern Liberals" to support legislation to establish a new climate change framework, warning them to ignore the views of their constituents "at their peril". Steggall, who toppled Tony Abbott in the Sydney seat of Warringah at the May 2019 election, largely on a platform of climate change action, is finalising draft legislation for a "national climate change framework" that sets out a roadmap for Australia to transition to a decarbonised economy. Continue reading... |
| Water wars: early warning tool uses climate data to predict conflict hotspots Posted: 07 Jan 2020 11:00 PM PST Tension over water scarcity is increasing across the globe. A new system flags up where this threatens to erupt into violence Researchers from six organisations have developed an early warning system to help predict potential water conflicts as violence associated with water surges globally. The Dutch government-funded Water, Peace and Security (WPS) global early warning tool, which was presented to the UN security council before it was launched formally last month, combines environmental variables such as rainfall and crop failures with political, economic and social factors to predict the risk of violent water-related conflicts up to a year in advance. Continue reading... |
| The ‘ex-closeted gay jihadist' bringing meditation to Jakarta Posted: 07 Jan 2020 10:00 PM PST Once a campus fundamentalist who hid his sexuality, today Bagia Arif Saputra helps others find harmony in Indonesia's capital When Bagia Arif Saputra was growing up in a university town near Jakarta, becoming a jihadist seemed a natural choice for young men like him, who were steeped in the teachings of Islamic fundamentalism. Less easy was reconciling this identity with his sexuality. "I was living a double life," says Saputra. "I would go to the campus mosque, try to focus on my prayers … and find myself checking out a guy and thinking, 'Nice ass'. And then immediately, 'Astaghfirullah [God forgive me]!' So then I would have to redo my prayers. It was a vicious cycle." Continue reading... |
| Posted: 07 Jan 2020 09:47 AM PST Founder of Brac, one of the world's largest non-profit development organisations, which began its work in Bangladesh When Fazle Hasan Abed set out to lower death rates among poor children in rural Bangladesh, by teaching mothers how to treat dehydration, he was careful not to pay his field workers per household reached, but on how well their subjects, often illiterate or semi-literate mothers, could answer questions afterwards. His approach, to reward high-quality instruction and rigorously monitor results of a door-to-door pilot scheme in the 1980s, fed lessons from the field back to research labs in Dhaka, and has been credited with saving countless lives from being lost to diarrhoea, a major source of child mortality in the country. It also propelled Brac, which Abed founded in 1972 as the Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee to help refugees returning to their homeland after the liberation war of 1971, to become one of the largest non-profit development organisations in the world. Continue reading... |
| Yemen heads list of countries facing worst humanitarian disasters in 2020 Posted: 07 Jan 2020 06:28 AM PST Venezuela also in top five as IRC's David Miliband warns of devastating impact from war, floods, droughts and disease Yemen has topped an annual watchlist of countries most likely to face humanitarian catastrophe in 2020, for the second year running. Continued fighting, economic collapse and weak governance mean that more than 24 million Yemenis – about 80% of the population – will be in need of humanitarian assistance this year, according to analysis by the International Rescue Committee (IRC), which found that another five years of conflict could cost $29bn (£22bn). Continue reading... |
| Iran's assault on US bases in Iraq might satisfy both sides Posted: 07 Jan 2020 08:55 PM PST Tehran can show it has retaliated over the assassination of Qassem Suleimani, while US may shrug off limited nature of strike The "severe revenge" Iran promised for the death of Qassem Suleimani was heralded on Wednesday morning by at least two waves of short-range missile attacks on bases in Iraq hosting US and coalition personnel. The attacks will provide an opportunity for hawks inside the Donald Trump administration to ratchet up the conflict with Iran – but also potentially a pathway out of the crisis. Continue reading... |
| Australia's bushfires mean New Zealand has become the land of the long pink cloud | Jim Salinger Posted: 07 Jan 2020 03:55 PM PST The impact of smoke on New Zealand's environment, health and tourism raises the legal issue of trans-boundary air pollution Kiwis have been shocked in recent weeks to discover their pristine glaciers turning pink, with apocalyptic orange skies covering New Zealand's biggest city, Auckland. So much so that police have been deluged with emergency calls asking what is going on, as the land of the long white cloud is turning pink (kikorangi māwhero). The catastrophic bushfires in Australia have also affected New Zealand. Because of the impact of trans-boundary air pollution (and its effects on other countries), there are legal implications to be considered. Continue reading... |
| Why is Pelosi waiting to send Trump articles of impeachment to the Senate? Posted: 07 Jan 2020 12:01 PM PST Speculation and political parlor-gaming about Nancy Pelosi's strategy have filled the informational vacuum What is Nancy Pelosi thinking? Related: Trump ex-adviser Michael Flynn should face up to six months in prison, say prosecutors – live Continue reading... |
| What legal challenges does UK teenager in Cyprus rape case face? Posted: 07 Jan 2020 07:26 AM PST Woman convicted of lying about rape has many obstacles to overcome to overturn the court's ruling The legal challenge facing the 19-year-old British woman who wants to clear her name after being convicted of lying about being gang-raped in Cyprus is formidable. Continue reading... |
| Donald Trump says strike against 'monster' Suleimani was retaliation – video Posted: 07 Jan 2020 12:45 PM PST Donald Trump has claimed the US strike that killed Iranian general Qassem Suleimani was 'retaliation'. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office alongside the Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the US president called Suleimani 'a monster' and said 'he was planning a very big attack and a very bad attack for us and other people and we stopped him'. Senior US officials have previously said the strike was meant to prevent an 'imminent' attack on Americans, but have refused to provide further details on the threat Continue reading... |
| Mike Pompeo defends Suleimani killing: 'We got it right' – video Posted: 07 Jan 2020 09:34 AM PST The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, staunchly defended the targeted killing last week of Iran's top general Qassem Suleimani, telling reporters: 'We got it right.' Pompeo, who has said the US acted because of an imminent threat from Iran, did not elaborate on what that potential threat was, saying only that all the risks were weighed and that the president was provided intelligence in broad detail Continue reading... |
| Raab warns Isis would be only winner of war in Middle East – video Posted: 07 Jan 2020 05:31 AM PST The foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, called for a diplomatic solution to the crisis in the Middle East as he headed to Brussels for talks with his German and French counterparts. Britain, Germany and France have called for a de-escalation of tension in the region following the assassination of the top Iranian military commander Qassem Suleimani in a US drone strike last week |
| Footage shows packed crowds during Suleimani burial procession – video Posted: 07 Jan 2020 03:06 AM PST Dozens of people have been killed in a crush in the south-eastern Iranian city of Kerman, where hundreds of thousands of mourners have gathered for the burial of the military commander Qassem Suleimani, according to state media. The vast crowds in Suleimani's home town matched the huge turnouts in Baghdad, Tehran, Qom, Mashhad and Ahvaz in recent days to say farewell to the commander of the Revolutionary Guards external operations force, who was killed by a US drone strike in Iraq on Friday Continue reading... |
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