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Prince Harry and Meghan to 'step back' from royal family

Posted: 08 Jan 2020 10:49 AM PST

Duke and Duchess of Sussex say they intend to 'work to become financially independent'

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are to step back from senior roles in the royal family and work towards financial self-sufficiency after a period marked by open warfare with the media over claimed intrusion and bullying.

It is understood that no other royal was consulted before the decision was announced on Wednesday evening, and Buckingham Palace was disappointed by the news.

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Iran plane crash: burning Boeing was trying to turn back, say Tehran investigators

Posted: 08 Jan 2020 10:47 PM PST

Initial inquiry says crew did not call for help after technical problem and that some black box data has been lost

The crew of the Ukrainian plane that crashed, killing all 176 people on board, never made a radio call for help and were trying to turn back to the airport when the plane went down, Iranian investigators have said.

The three-year-old jet, which had its last scheduled maintenance on Monday, encountered a technical problem shortly after take-off, said a report issued on Thursday.

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Trump backs away from further military confrontation with Iran

Posted: 08 Jan 2020 07:25 PM PST

'Iran appears to be standing down,' Trump said, in an uncharacteristically sober speech following rising tensions between US and Iran

Donald Trump backed away from further military confrontation with Iran on Wednesday after days of escalating tensions, saying Tehran appeared to be standing down following missile attacks on two Iraqi bases hosting US and coalition troops.

Flanked by the vice-president, Mike Pence, the defense secretary, Mark Esper, and other high ranking military officials in uniform, Trump delivered remarks in the Grand Foyer of the White House, hours after Iran declared the attack to be retaliation for the US drone strike last week that killed the senior Iranian Gen Qassem Suleimani.

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Australian fires: Victorians urged to leave amid fears 'heat spike' will cause bushfires to merge

Posted: 09 Jan 2020 02:49 AM PST

East Gippsland and Victoria's north-east told to evacuate as NSW braces for heatwave and firefighters battle Kangaroo Island blaze

Residents in large areas of Victoria have again been advised to leave their homes before a day of "extreme" fire conditions throughout south-eastern Australia that could see the merging of at least two major fires.

At least 5% of Victoria has already burned. Authorities sent a text message to East Gippsland and the north-east region on Thursday advising people within the at-risk area, which extends from the New South Wales border to the coast, to evacuate before "heat spike" conditions on Friday.

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France strikes: nurses, teachers and lawyers join pension protests

Posted: 09 Jan 2020 01:19 AM PST

Dozens of school close and rail services severely hit as demonstration enters 36th day

Trade unions led street demonstrations in cities across France on Thursday as teachers, district nurses and lawyers joined strike action over pension changes, as the country's longest transport stoppages in decades entered their 36th day.

By morning rush-hour, there were more than 124 miles (200km) of traffic jams in the greater Paris area as public transport was badly disrupted, leaving millions of commuters struggling to get to work.

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China pneumonia outbreak may be caused by Sars-type virus: WHO

Posted: 08 Jan 2020 04:27 PM PST

World Health Organization says a new coronavirus, the family linked to Sars and Mers, may be behind Wuhan cases

A cluster of more than 50 pneumonia cases in the central Chinese city of Wuhan may be due to a newly emerging member of the family of viruses that caused the deadly Sars and Mers outbreaks, according to the World Health Organization.

While the UN health agency said it needed more comprehensive information to confirm precisely the type of pathogen causing the infections, it said a new coronavirus was a possibility.

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Polish president pulls out of Holocaust event in Israel over snub

Posted: 08 Jan 2020 09:00 PM PST

Event hit by controversy as presidents of Russia, Germany and France – but not Poland – invited to speak

Poland's president has pulled out of an event in Israel to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz after being told he would not be allowed to speak at the event, but Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, would.

The move comes amid anger in Poland over Putin's recent comments accusing Poland of complicity in the start of the second world war. It is one of a number of disputes that is threatening to overshadow the anniversary events later this month.

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Child stowaway found dead in plane's undercarriage in Paris

Posted: 08 Jan 2020 05:35 PM PST

Child, aged about 10, may have frozen to death or asphyxiated on the flight from Ivory Coast

A child stowaway has been found dead in the undercarriage of a plane at a Paris airport, officials said, having probably frozen to death or asphyxiated on the flight from Ivory Coast.

The child, aged about 10, had clambered into the underbelly of the Air France Boeing 777 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. It took off on Tuesday evening and landed at Charles de Gaulle airport, north of the capital, early on Wednesday morning.

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Irregular migration to EU at lowest level since 2013 – border agency

Posted: 08 Jan 2020 09:30 PM PST

Decline comes despite significant rise in arrivals of irregular migrants into Greece

Irregular migration into the European Union has fallen to its lowest annual level since 2013, the European border and coast guard agency has said, despite a significant increase in the number of arrivals to Greece.

Frontex said that according to preliminary figures for 2019, irregular crossings detected on the bloc's external borders fell by 6% to just over 139,000 – about 92% down on the record number set during the 2015 European migration crisis.

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Two new David Bowie records to be released in 2020

Posted: 08 Jan 2020 11:00 PM PST

Posthumous albums grow in popularity as labels seek to bring music to new audience

Two new David Bowie records will be released this year, with a digital EP featuring unheard versions of songs being released weekly and a live session, which will be out on Record Store Day in April.

The first track from the David Bowie Is It Any Wonder? EP, The Man Who Sold The World, was released on Wednesday to mark what would have been the singer's 73rd birthday, with a new song released each week digitally.

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Viking runestone may allude to extreme winter, study says

Posted: 08 Jan 2020 11:23 AM PST

Ninth-century Rök stone may deal with fear of cold climate crisis in Scandinavia

One of the world's most famous runestones is now believed to have been erected by Vikings fearing a repeat of a previous cold climate crisis in Scandinavia, a study has concluded.

The Rök stone, raised in the ninth century near Lake Vättern in south central Sweden, bears the longest runic inscription in the world, with more than 700 runes covering its five sides.

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Lose 220kg, beat back pain, love yourself: personal trainers on lessons that changed their lives

Posted: 08 Jan 2020 10:00 PM PST

Fitness coaches don't all start out as slim and healthy twentysomethings. Here's how three overcame obesity and illness – and their advice for the rest of us

'Don't go on a diet." That's one tip from personal trainer Graham Waugh, 50, and may be surprising given that he once weighed three times as much as he does now. A few years ago, he was 330kg (52st) and stuck at home, feeling as if he was waiting to die. Exercise had never been a part of his life, but after bariatric surgery, he began visiting the gym. When his weight reached 111kg (17.5st), the gym owner suggested he become a personal trainer. "I said: 'You're joking, aren't you? I'm too fat and old.'" But then Waugh realised he could specialise in training people who had had similar problems with their weight and health. "I'd seen a lady in the waiting room at the obesity clinic and she looked plump, at worst. I thought to myself: 'If she had a gym she felt comfortable in, maybe she wouldn't need surgery.'"

Waugh isn't the only personal trainer with a powerful life story. For many trainers, it is the enormous change to their health and happiness that they experience at the gym that leads them into their chosen field – whether they have lost weight, gained strength or tackled physical or mental health issues. A prominent recent example is the former deputy Labour leader Tom Watson, 52. When he announced he was stepping down from politics in November, he also revealed he was retraining as a gym instructor. Watson has been on what he describes as a "health journey", losing 51kg (8st), and reversing his type 2 diabetes diagnosis through diet and exercise.

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Meghan and Harry: a timeline of their highs, lows and media woes

Posted: 08 Jan 2020 10:04 PM PST

In three short years, they met, married, started a family, fought a war with Britain's tabloids ... and stepped away from the royals

Harry and Meghan have become renowned for their swift progress through life's milestones. It is only three years since the prince was set up on a blind date with the American TV actor. Now, married with child, the pair have set out on a fresh path together, announcing a degree of separation from the royal family and their intention to make their own way as a financially independent family.

We look back at the milestones – happy and otherwise – that led up to Wednesday's shock announcement.

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The problem with complaining that ‘everyone’s an Iran expert now’ | Tom Whyman

Posted: 09 Jan 2020 02:27 AM PST

Sure, Twitter has a lot of ill-informed blowhards. But don't dismiss on-the-ground voices and those who hold powerful pundits to account

On Friday, I woke up to the news that the third world war had started. In the Middle East, a man named Qassem Suleimani, the commander of Iran's al-Quds force, had been killed in a US drone strike. What followed was one of those strange, fevered days in which the whole of existence seems on the brink of collapse, in which the victory of the stupidest and worst people alive becomes horribly, undeniably apparent, in which it becomes impossible to stop refreshing social media as you attempt to track the disaster in real time.

Related: Iran launches missiles at Iraq airbases hosting US and coalition troops

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The blackest city in the US is facing an environmental justice nightmare

Posted: 09 Jan 2020 02:00 AM PST

Detroit's most vulnerable residents face inequalities like toxic air, lead poisoning, and water shutoffs. Now they're fighting back

Growing up in southwest Detroit, Vince Martin thought it was normal for the sky to be orange.

When he was three years old, his family moved from Cuba to one of the black areas of town. At the time, discriminatory housing practices segregated the city. His Afro-Cuban family settled in the 48217 district, now Michigan's most polluted zip code, where 71% of the population is black and air pollution makes the sky look like it's on fire.

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Aid workers toil amid crisis and corruption to give Venezuelans the drugs they need

Posted: 09 Jan 2020 02:30 AM PST

In Venezuela, hospitals lack the basics and medicine shortages are common, forcing humanitarian groups to pick up the slack

Feliciano Reyna masterminds a drug running network that spans Venezuela. His organisation moves substances through ports, trucks them across the country, and deliver them into customers' hands. But he is not on any DEA watchlist.

"I am the biggest dealer in Venezuela," says Reyna – though he is quick to qualify the remark – "If we're talking about legal drugs."

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Henri Cartier-Bresson: China breaking free of its past – in pictures

Posted: 08 Jan 2020 11:00 PM PST

In November 1948, the great photographer went to shoot 'the last days of Beijing'. He returned to China in 1958 to capture the results of the Maoist revolution. Images from both visits are brought together for the first time in an exhibition in Paris

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'They don't help': refugees condemn UN over failures that drove them to sea

Posted: 09 Jan 2020 01:00 AM PST

Pregnant women and children among dozens forced into perilous Mediterranean crossing to escape overcrowded centre in Libya

Dozens of people who were put under pressure to leave a failing EU-funded UN refugee agency centre in Tripoli have used smugglers to cross the sea to Italy in the last month, according to refugees and aid workers.

One Somali man who spoke to the Guardian said he was among a group of more than 50 who left Libya in November and December and were rescued by ships including the Ocean Viking, the Médecins Sans Frontières and SOS Méditerranée ship, in the Mediterranean. He is now in Italy.

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Hague and Jolie's sexual violence scheme 'letting survivors down'

Posted: 08 Jan 2020 11:00 PM PST

MPs blame failure to sustain momentum following William Hague's departure from Foreign Office for project falling 'far short'

A high-profile UK government programme to tackle sexual violence in conflict zones – launched by former foreign secretary Lord William Hague and Hollywood actor Angelina Jolie – has been criticised for falling far short of its ambitions and letting survivors down.

A review, published on Thursday by the aid watchdog, found that waning ministerial interest, severe funding cuts and a lack of senior leadership meant the scheme "never had a strategic vision" and as a result "nothing [was] done to translate … pledges into practical action".

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Trump pulls back for now but game of chicken with Tehran far from over

Posted: 08 Jan 2020 03:09 PM PST

Neither Tehran nor Washington want a war but the campaign of maximum pressure and the impulse for revenge mean they remain on collision course

The safety net that prevented a new Middle East catastrophe overnight has always been there. Neither the US nor Iran wants to go to war with each other. But it is a failsafe that has been tested too fecklessly too many times – and there is no reason to assume it will continue to hold indefinitely.

The fact there have been no confirmed reports of casualties from Iran's missile strikes on military bases in Iraq may be due to early warning systems or the fact that Iraq's government was tipped off so Americans and Iraqis had enough time to take cover. But the intention seems to have been to keep the strike limited and proportional.

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The optics of Trump's announcement: America stands ready to strike

Posted: 08 Jan 2020 12:55 PM PST

President flanked by cabinet members and backed by eight military officers sent a clear message

As concern swelled about a potential military confrontation with Iran, Donald Trump appeared at the White House on Wednesday to deliver a notably non-provocative message, emphasizing that no Americans had been killed in Iranian missile strikes the night before.

But the choreography of the announcement, with Trump flanked by cabinet members and backed by eight military officers, communicated a clear subtext: America stood ready to strike.

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Dialled down: Iran's phoned-in attack just enough to ease tensions

Posted: 08 Jan 2020 10:28 AM PST

Despite first direct military action against US in 40 years, Iran's action results in toned down rhetoric on both sides

The call had been expected any time since Friday. And when it finally came, the acting Iraqi prime minister knew what to expect. Just before 2am in Baghdad, Adel Abdul Mahdi listened to a message from Tehran informing him that Iranian rockets were airborne and heading his country's way.

Related: Trump backs away from further military confrontation with Iran

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Iran crisis: Donald Trump receives praise and calls for caution after missile strike – video report

Posted: 08 Jan 2020 02:03 PM PST

The US president announced on Wednesday that Iran appeared to be 'standing down' after it launched more than a dozen missiles at Iraqi bases hosting US and coalition troops.

While Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, showed his support for the US president, other world leaders struck a more cautious note. European commission president Ursula von der Leyen called for dialogue to replace the use of weapons. 

In Washington, the US Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer said Americans now feared for their safety.

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Puerto Rico counts cost of worst earthquake in a century – in pictures

Posted: 08 Jan 2020 11:08 AM PST

Homes collapsed, power was knocked out and at least one person died after Tuesday's 6.4-magnitude quake and powerful aftershocks. The south of the island was worst hit

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'We eliminated the world’s top terrorist,' Trump says as he imposes fresh sanctions on Iran – video

Posted: 08 Jan 2020 09:52 AM PST

Donald Trump described the missile assassination of the Iranian general Qassem Suleimani as 'decisive action to stop a ruthless terrorist', before adding: 'Last week we eliminated the world's top terrorist.'

Additional economic sanctions on Iran were announced during the White House conference as Trump called for Europe to break away from the 'foolish' nuclear deal

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What we know about the Ukrainian passenger plane crash in Iran – video report

Posted: 08 Jan 2020 06:14 AM PST

A passenger plane bound for Kyiv has crashed close to Tehran's main international airport, killing 176 people. Video circulated by Iranian news agencies appears to show the Boeing 737-800 bursting into flame minutes after takeoff and plummeting to earth. There was no early indication the crash was linked to Iran's Wednesday morning missile strikes on bases in Iraq hosting US and coalition troops

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