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- Islamic State affiliate suspected of Catholic church massacre, Nigeria says
- 65,000 year-old ‘Swiss Army knife’ proves ancient humans shared knowledge, research says
- Home Office’s Rwanda deportation plans face high court challenge
- Fast-fashion giant Shein pledges $15m for textile waste workers in Ghana
- The Congolese student fighting with pro-Russia separatists in Ukraine
- South Africa seeking to extradite Gupta brothers after arrest in Dubai
- Dom Phillips: sister of missing journalist still hopeful he will be found
- Javari valley: the lawless primal wilderness where Dom Phillips went missing
- Dom Phillips: editors around world urge Bolsonaro to do more to find missing journalist
- Mexican megachurch leader jailed in US for more than 16 years for child sexual abuse
- Brazilian police say ‘no evidence of crime’ in search for missing journalist
- Pelé joins calls for Brazil to step up search for pair missing in Amazon
- Australia news live: Ardern to push Albanese to change deportation rule; chaos and delays at airports
- Scientists make ‘slightly sweaty’ robot finger with living skin
- Shanghai to lock down 2.7 million, a week after easing Covid restrictions
- Global supply chain crisis fuels push to local manufacturing as China’s appeal dims
- New Zealand-born woman abused in Australian state care wins appeal against ‘501’ deportation
- Watchdog won’t investigate AFP reliance on flawed technique to prosecute Indonesian boys
- Rebel Wilson reveals she is dating a woman in Instagram post tagged #loveislove
- Wallabies call on Japan-based trio for upcoming England Tests
- Refugees living in limbo hope Nadesalingam family’s release will grant them a future as well
- Group that helped unseat a federal Liberal MP sets their sights on NSW election
- ‘Heartbreaking choice’: families forced to give up dogs and cats as Australia’s rental crisis bites
- ‘Chaos’: Australian doctors call for renewed focus on Covid-19 as winter sets in
- Ukrainian troops plead for more artillery to offset Russia’s firepower in Sievierodonetsk – as it happened
- Putin compares himself to Peter the Great in quest to take back Russian lands
- Russian invasion is ‘Covid-22’ and arms are a vaccine, says Volodymyr Zelenskiy
- Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 106 of the invasion
- Britons sentenced to death after ‘show trial’ in Russian-occupied Ukraine
- Irish exorcist calls for extra help for people oppressed by evil spirits
- US Palestinian mission renamed and now reports directly to Washington
- Rape used ‘systematically’ during Lebanon’s civil war, report finds
- West to rebuke Iran over lack of cooperation with nuclear watchdog
- Israel’s coalition on brink of collapse after losing settler law vote
- Israeli coalition dealt a blow with loss of West Bank settler law vote
- Reliance Industries and Apollo Global Management in £5bn bid for Boots
- Al-Qaida in Indian subcontinent plans revenge attacks over prophet remarks
- David Lammy visits Afghanistan to highlight humanitarian crisis
- India: more countries join Muslim protests over Muhammad remarks
- Polio outbreak in Pakistan worsens as eighth child reported paralysed
- Rishi Sunak ‘wasted £11bn by paying too much interest’ on UK debt
- £4bn of NHS Covid PPE to be burned as it is unusable, says committee report
- UK healthcare staff call in sick to avoid using car as cost of fuel soars, union says
- Devon police recover two bodies after boat capsized on lake
- Home Office’s first Rwanda flight threatened by second injunction
- Reports of Calcot abuse prompt calls for reform of children’s social care in UK
- January 6 hearing live: Capitol attack was ‘culmination of an attempted coup’, says panel chair – live
- Britney Spears’ ex-husband crashes her wedding with Sam Asghari
- Capitol attack panel begins hearings to prove Trump was at heart of plot
- Nasa forms independent team to study unexplained UFO sightings
- How a documentary film-maker became the January 6 panel’s star witness
- Sriracha lovers burned as maker halts production due to pepper shortage
| Islamic State affiliate suspected of Catholic church massacre, Nigeria says Posted: 09 Jun 2022 09:48 AM PDT Interior ministry believes Iswap was behind attack in Ondo state on Sunday that killed 40 people Nigerian security officials suspect extremists from Islamic State's affiliate in west Africa were behind an attack on a Catholic church last weekend that killed dozens. Forty people are now thought to have died after gunmen stormed St Francis Catholic church in Owo, Ondo State, on Sunday, and 61 survivors are still being treated in hospital, according to local authorities. The total is double an earlier estimate. Continue reading... |
| 65,000 year-old ‘Swiss Army knife’ proves ancient humans shared knowledge, research says Posted: 09 Jun 2022 02:00 AM PDT The prehistoric artefacts, all made to a similar shape and template, are found in enormous numbers across southern Africa across vast distances A 65,000-year-old tool – a kind of ancient Swiss Army knife – found across southern Africa has provided scientists with proof that the ancestors of modern homo sapiens were communicating with each other. In a world first, a team of international scientists have found early humans across the continent made the stone tool in exactly the same shape, using the same template, showing that they shared knowledge with each other. Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading... |
| Home Office’s Rwanda deportation plans face high court challenge Posted: 08 Jun 2022 08:33 AM PDT About 30 asylum seekers expected to be sent to Rwanda on 14 June Priti Patel's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda as soon as next week is facing a legal challenge under emergency proceedings launched in the high court on Wednesday. An application for a judicial review claims that the home secretary's policy is unlawful. Claimants are also seeking an injunction that will attempt to stop the plane from taking off. Continue reading... |
| Fast-fashion giant Shein pledges $15m for textile waste workers in Ghana Posted: 07 Jun 2022 11:15 PM PDT Gesture announced at Copenhagen sustainability summit earns praise – and some cries of 'greenwashing' Chinese fashion behemoth Shein might be the organisation least expected to win applause at an international conference on fashion sustainability, but that's what happened at this week's global fashion summit in Copenhagen. The industry's largest forum for sustainable progress saw the ultra-fast fashion brand praised for making a donation of $15m (£12m) over three years to a charity working at Kantamanto in Accra, the world's largest secondhand clothing market. |
| The Congolese student fighting with pro-Russia separatists in Ukraine Posted: 07 Jun 2022 09:00 PM PDT Jean Claude Sangwa took up arms in Luhansk – and his pro-Moscow views are mainstream in much of Africa Fighting alongside pro-Russia separatists as part of Moscow's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine wasn't mentioned in the brochures of Luhansk University when Jean Claude Sangwa, a 27-year-old student from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, moved to the breakaway region last year to study economics. But when the head of the Kremlin-controlled, self-declared Luhansk People's Republic announced a full military mobilisation of the region on 19 February, Sangwa, together with two friends and fellow students from DRC and Central African Republic, decided to join the local militia and take up arms against Ukraine. Continue reading... |
| South Africa seeking to extradite Gupta brothers after arrest in Dubai Posted: 07 Jun 2022 02:59 AM PDT Police begin process to transport Indian-born pair wanted on criminal and money-laundering charges Police in Dubai are coordinating with their South African counterparts to secure the extradition of two wealthy Indian-born brothers wanted by South African authorities on criminal and money-laundering charges who were arrested in the emirate on Monday. Atul and Rajesh Gupta are accused of paying bribes in exchange for lucrative state contracts and influence over ministerial appointments during the chaotic nine-year presidency of Jacob Zuma, which ended amid allegations of systematic corruption in 2018. The brothers fled to Dubai shortly after Zuma's fall from power. Continue reading... |
| Dom Phillips: sister of missing journalist still hopeful he will be found Posted: 09 Jun 2022 08:51 AM PDT Sian Phillips joins London vigil for Briton and the Brazilian Bruno Araújo Pereira who have vanished in Amazon The sister of a British journalist missing in the Amazon has said she still has hope he will be found. Sian Phillips was joined by supporters at a vigil for her brother Dom Phillips, who has worked as a freelance correspondent for the Guardian, and the Brazilian Indigenous affairs official Bruno Araujo Pereira outside the Brazilian embassy in central London on Thursday. Continue reading... |
| Javari valley: the lawless primal wilderness where Dom Phillips went missing Posted: 09 Jun 2022 07:38 AM PDT The largest refuge for Indigenous tribes living in isolation is also a hotspot for poachers and illegal loggers and a major smuggling route for cocaine traffickers In Brazil's far west lies an immense swath of rainforest and rugged terrain reachable only by snaking brown rivers. Wedged alongside the border with Peru, the Javari valley is the largest refuge for Indigenous tribes living in isolation from the outside world. "The Javari is one of the last true bastions of primal wilderness in the Amazon – and in the world," said Scott Wallace, author of The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes. Continue reading... |
| Dom Phillips: editors around world urge Bolsonaro to do more to find missing journalist Posted: 09 Jun 2022 02:30 AM PDT Media organisations call on Brazil's president to step up efforts to find Phillips and Indigenous advocate Bruno Pereira Editors and journalists from some of the world's biggest news organisations have written to the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, to ask that he "urgently step up and fully resource the effort" to find missing British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous advocate Bruno Pereira. Led by the Guardian and the Washington Post, two newspapers for whom Phillips worked as a freelance correspondent, editors from at least 20 major media and press freedom organisations signed the open letter that was published on Thursday. Continue reading... |
| Mexican megachurch leader jailed in US for more than 16 years for child sexual abuse Posted: 08 Jun 2022 09:38 PM PDT La Luz del Mundo 'apostle' Naasón Joaquín García sentenced after admitting three abuse charges in Californian court The leader of the Mexican megachurch La Luz del Mundo was sentenced on Wednesday to more than 16 years in a California prison for sexually abusing young female followers. Naasón Joaquín García, 53, pleaded guilty last week in Los Angeles superior court to three felonies on the eve of a long-awaited trial. Continue reading... |
| Brazilian police say ‘no evidence of crime’ in search for missing journalist Posted: 08 Jun 2022 03:47 PM PDT Police detain man on drugs and weapons charges but say too early to link arrest directly to disappearance in Amazon of Dom Phillips Authorities in the Amazon investigating the disappearance of a British journalist and an Indigenous advocate have yet to find any evidence of a crime three days after the men went missing in a remote corner of the rainforest. Police in the far west of Brazil said on Wednesday their inquiries into the disappearance of Dom Phillips, a longtime Guardian contributor, and Bruno Araújo Pereira, an advocate for Indigenous people, had led to the arrest of one man. Continue reading... |
| Pelé joins calls for Brazil to step up search for pair missing in Amazon Posted: 08 Jun 2022 10:50 AM PDT Three-time World Cup winner joined sports, culture and media figures in calling for action over Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira A host of Brazilian celebrities, led by the three-time World Cup winner Pelé, have joined calls for authorities to intensify their search for a British journalist and Brazilian Indigenous advocate missing in the Amazon rainforest. Pelé, now 81 and considered one of the greatest players of all time, retweeted a video made by Phillips's wife appealing for more urgency in the search for her husband and Bruno Pereira. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 09 Jun 2022 05:59 PM PDT NZ PM says she wants end to deportation of offenders with no connection to NZ; doctors call for renewed focus on Covid-19 as hospitals struggle. Follow all the day's developments
Jacinda Ardern will be raising Australia's controversial deportation policy in today's meeting. Asked if she has knowledge of whether the government is prepared to "water it down a little bit", she replies: Just to be clear, the issue we have is not with deportation. We deport as well. If a New Zealander comes to Australia and commits a crime, send them home ... but when someone comes here and essentially, hasn't even really had any connection with New Zealand at all ... have all their connections in Australia and are essentially Australian, sending them back to New Zealand, that's where we've had the grievance. I've heard the prime minister prior to winning the election speak to his acknowledgement that that is the part of the policy that we've taken issue with. Even that acknowledgement says to me he's hearing us, he knows it's a problem. It's been a bugbear for us for a long time so I would like to see movement on it. We talked about music on occasion but I'm not sure I would've picked necessarily the right music if I think I was given that task. Continue reading... |
| Scientists make ‘slightly sweaty’ robot finger with living skin Posted: 09 Jun 2022 08:02 AM PDT Japanese innovation thought to have potential to 'build a new relationship between humans and robots' Japanese scientists have developed a "slightly sweaty" robotic finger covered in living skin in an advance they say brings truly human-like robots a step closer. The finger, which was shown to be able to heal itself, is seen as an impressive technical feat that blurs the line between living flesh and machine. But scientists were divided on whether people would warm to its lifelike anatomy or find it creepy. Continue reading... |
| Shanghai to lock down 2.7 million, a week after easing Covid restrictions Posted: 08 Jun 2022 10:47 PM PDT District of Minhang to be closed on Saturday for mass testing, sparking fears the lockdown could be prolonged if cases found Shanghai will lock down a district of 2.7 million people on Saturday to conduct mass coronavirus testing, city authorities said, as the Chinese metropolis struggles to fully emerge from punishing curbs. The city eased many restrictions last week, after confining most of its 25 million residents to their homes since March as China battled its worst Covid outbreak in two years. Continue reading... |
| Global supply chain crisis fuels push to local manufacturing as China’s appeal dims Posted: 08 Jun 2022 07:26 PM PDT Analysis: US to examine with fresh urgency easing reliance on China as pandemic disruptions expose global economic vulnerabilities Everyone has a story to tell about the supply chain problems that have affected the global economy, from the beginning of the pandemic through to the disruption caused by the war in Ukraine. From shortages of Ikea furniture and Christmas turkeys, to the dearth of computer chips that sent the cost of secondhand cars soaring, the dislocation of a once smooth-running system has caused havoc in the global economy. But while predictions about the easing of bottlenecks have come and gone without any improvement, it has become clear the disruptions of the past two years or more are spurring fundamental changes to the world economy that could have yet more profound impacts on our lives. Continue reading... |
| New Zealand-born woman abused in Australian state care wins appeal against ‘501’ deportation Posted: 08 Jun 2022 06:30 PM PDT Tribunal finds her offending was 'directly related' to factors including sexual abuse when she was in the care of Australian authorities A New Zealand-born woman has successfully appealed being deported from Australia under its controversial "501" migration law after a tribunal found her offending was directly related to being abused in Australian state care as a child. The woman, whose name is withheld, arrived in Australia when she was seven years old with her mother and two siblings, and has lived there for several decades. Continue reading... |
| Watchdog won’t investigate AFP reliance on flawed technique to prosecute Indonesian boys Posted: 08 Jun 2022 10:30 AM PDT Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity says complaint about federal police not about corruption so does not fall within its remit Australia's law enforcement integrity watchdog refused to investigate Australian federal police who relied on a deeply flawed technique to use false dates of birth on sworn legal documents to prosecute Indonesian children as adult people smugglers. Earlier this year, the Guardian used a trove of internal documents to show how police relied on deeply flawed evidence to alter the dates of birth given to them by Indonesian children found crewing asylum boats in 2009 and 2010. Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading... |
| Rebel Wilson reveals she is dating a woman in Instagram post tagged #loveislove Posted: 09 Jun 2022 04:05 PM PDT 'Maybe what I really needed all this time was a Disney Princess,' actor writes, sharing a photo with fashion designer Ramona Agruma Rebel Wilson has revealed that she is dating a woman, using social media to announce her relationship with a fashion designer, Ramona Agruma. "I thought I was searching for a Disney Prince … but maybe what I really needed all this time was a Disney Princess," the 42-year-old Australian actor wrote on Instagram on Thursday, sharing a picture of herself with Agruma. Continue reading... |
| Wallabies call on Japan-based trio for upcoming England Tests Posted: 09 Jun 2022 01:13 PM PDT
England are set to face an Australia side boosted by the reinforcements of Samu Kerevi, Marika Koroibete and Quade Cooper after the Wallabies head coach, Dave Rennie, revealed his three overseas picks for the series next month. The Japan-based trio were all absent from the November clash when England ran out 32-15 winners but return to bolster Rennie's ranks as the Wallabies seek to end an eight-match losing streak against Eddie Jones's side. Continue reading... |
| Refugees living in limbo hope Nadesalingam family’s release will grant them a future as well Posted: 09 Jun 2022 10:30 AM PDT After a decade in detention, an Iranian refugee family dares to dream of the possibility of resettlement Nine months after his release from immigration detention, refugee Abbas Maghames struggles to imagine his future. A decade of indefinite detention has left him with no room for wishful thinking. But when pressed, he lists a few simple hopes. A job. A partner. A permanent place to call home. Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading... |
| Group that helped unseat a federal Liberal MP sets their sights on NSW election Posted: 09 Jun 2022 10:30 AM PDT North Sydney's Independent identifies Lane Cove, North Shore, and Willoughby as potential targets
The group that helped launch the successful bid for the formerly safe Liberal party seat of North Sydney are now turning their attention to the looming New South Wales state election, identifying three key Coalition electorates as targets. Members of North Sydney's Independent have identified the state seats of Lane Cove, North Shore, and Gladys Berejiklian's former seat of Willoughby as potential targets for the March election. Continue reading... |
| ‘Heartbreaking choice’: families forced to give up dogs and cats as Australia’s rental crisis bites Posted: 09 Jun 2022 10:30 AM PDT Renters in some states are having to sacrifice their pets to secure a place to live Families are being forced to give up hundreds of dogs, cats and other pets as Australia's rental crisis bites. In states where landlords are free to always refuse pets, "people are turning up with broken hearts", said the RSPCA South Australia spokesperson, Carolyn Jones. "They are saying to us that this is the hardest decision they've ever had to make." Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading... |
| ‘Chaos’: Australian doctors call for renewed focus on Covid-19 as winter sets in Posted: 09 Jun 2022 10:30 AM PDT Labor urged to revive national pandemic strategy while medical bodies warn of 'looming disaster' from flu, Covid and staff burnouts Australia's peak medical body is calling for Anthony Albanese to revive national cabinet's focus on the Covid-19 pandemic, warning that this winter will be "the worst it has ever been" for the country's overburdened health network. Facing a deadly flu season along with the ongoing spread of Covid, the Australian Medical Association says that the country's hospital system is already struggling to cope with surging demand as a result of workforce shortages. Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading... |
| Posted: 09 Jun 2022 05:41 PM PDT This live blog is now closed, you can find our latest coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war here Former Danish prime minister and former secretary general of Nato, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, has been speaking on Sky News in the UK. He is currently running the Copenhagen Democracy Summit, which tomorrow will focus on the situation in Ukraine. He said: The Ukrainian people are actually fighting on behalf of all of us, and we must stop Putin otherwise he will not stop. He will continue to conquer peaceful neighbours if he isn't stopped in Ukraine. Silence in Sievierodonetsk lasts only when guns are reloaded. Street fights continue in the regional centre. Russians adhere to their primitive tactics: heavy artillery fire, then - attempts to break through. The same thing happened in the already destroyed Rubizhne and Popasna. Continue reading... |
| Putin compares himself to Peter the Great in quest to take back Russian lands Posted: 09 Jun 2022 05:09 PM PDT President draws parallel with tsar who waged war on Sweden and says campaign in Ukraine stems from Russia's 'basic values' Russian president Vladimir Putin has paid tribute to tsar Peter the Great on the 350th anniversary of his birth, drawing a parallel between what he portrayed as their twin historic quests to win back Russian lands. "Peter the Great waged the great northern war for 21 years. It would seem that he was at war with Sweden, he took something from them. He did not take anything from them, he returned [what was Russia's]," Putin said on Thursday after a visiting an exhibition dedicated to the tsar. Continue reading... |
| Russian invasion is ‘Covid-22’ and arms are a vaccine, says Volodymyr Zelenskiy Posted: 09 Jun 2022 10:31 AM PDT Ukrainian president pleads for more outside help in speech at gala to honour Time's most influential people Volodymyr Zelenskiy has compared Russia's invasion to Covid and described weapons and sanctions as a vaccine, as Ukraine's military position in Donbas worsens. The Ukrainian president, speaking via video link at a gala to celebrate Time magazine's 100 most influential people of the year, lobbied again for more outside help because "the Ukrainian military are dying on the battlefield". Continue reading... |
| Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 106 of the invasion Posted: 09 Jun 2022 09:36 AM PDT Two Britons and a Moroccan national sentenced to death in Russian-occupied territory as Zelenskiy describes Sievierodonetsk fighting as probably most difficult of war so far Continue reading... |
| Britons sentenced to death after ‘show trial’ in Russian-occupied Ukraine Posted: 09 Jun 2022 08:58 AM PDT Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner were captured while fighting in Ukrainian army Two British men and a Moroccan national captured while fighting in the Ukrainian army in Mariupol have been sentenced to death by pro-Russia officials after a days-long process described as a "disgusting Soviet-era show trial". A court in Russian-controlled east Ukraine convicted 28-year-old Aiden Aslin, from Newark, 48-year-old Shaun Pinner, from Watford, and Saaudun Brahim on charges of "terrorism". Observers said the process was intended to imitate the war crimes trials of Russian soldiers taking place in Kyiv. Continue reading... |
| Irish exorcist calls for extra help for people oppressed by evil spirits Posted: 09 Jun 2022 08:16 AM PDT Fr Pat Collins says there is urgent need for 'deliverance ministry' amid 'crisis of meaning' in Ireland The appeal for help sounds like it was channelled from the TV show Stranger Things. "Exorcist: trained teams needed in parishes to fight evil spirits." It is, however, the splash headline in this week's Irish Catholic, Ireland's biggest-selling religious newspaper. Continue reading... |
| US Palestinian mission renamed and now reports directly to Washington Posted: 09 Jun 2022 06:08 AM PDT Move comes after former president Donald Trump outraged Palestinians by closing consulate in 2018 The US diplomatic mission to the Palestinians in Jerusalem has been redesignated and will report directly to Washington "on substantive matters", indicating an upgrade in ties before a planned visit by the US president, Joe Biden. What had been called the Palestinian Affairs Unit (PAU) was renamed the US Office of Palestinian Affairs (OPA) under the move. Before becoming the PAU, it had been the US consulate in Jerusalem and a focus of Palestinian statehood goals in the city. Continue reading... |
| Rape used ‘systematically’ during Lebanon’s civil war, report finds Posted: 09 Jun 2022 04:20 AM PDT Levels of torture and sexual violence used by combatants against women and girls during the 15-year conflict shocked investigators The full scale of the rape, torture and killing of women and girls during Lebanon's civil war has been revealed after survivors were interviewed about their experiences for the first time in over 30 years. Testimonies gathered by the human rights organisation Legal Action Worldwide (LAW), documented in a new report, provide evidence of systematic violence against Lebanese and Palestinian women and girls by government forces and militias during the 15-year war, which began in 1975. The conflict saw more than 100,000 people killed and 1 million displaced. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| West to rebuke Iran over lack of cooperation with nuclear watchdog Posted: 08 Jun 2022 08:44 AM PDT Move at IAEA board meeting may deepen impasse over talks to bring US back into 2015 nuclear deal Europe and the US will rebuke Iran this week for failing to cooperate with the UN nuclear inspectorate, a move that has angered Iran's leadership and may deepen the impasse over talks to bring the US back into the 2015 nuclear agreement, and the lifting of sanctions on Tehran. The rebuke, in the form of a motion to be voted on at a board meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, will not lead to Iran's non-compliance being referred to the UN security council, nor to an extension of sanctions on Iran. Continue reading... |
| Israel’s coalition on brink of collapse after losing settler law vote Posted: 07 Jun 2022 09:19 AM PDT Nationalist party New Hope threatens to exit arrangement after vote on West Bank settlers Israel's coalition government is teetering on the brink of collapse after a dramatic Knesset showdown over legislation to extend legal protections for settlers in the occupied West Bank. In what was variously described by Israeli media as "one of the most surreal votes in Israeli history" and "political suicide", the first reading of a bill renewing civilian legal rights for Jewish settlers in the West Bank failed to pass on Monday night. Continue reading... |
| Israeli coalition dealt a blow with loss of West Bank settler law vote Posted: 06 Jun 2022 05:22 PM PDT Two members of government vote against extending emergency regulations, which give 475,000 Jewish settlers the same rights as citizens in Israel Israel's government suffered a defeat at the hands of the opposition on Monday when it voted down a push to uphold Israeli law in settlements on the occupied West Bank, posing a challenge for the ruling coalition. In force since Israel's 1967 occupation of the West Bank, the law, giving settlers there the same rights as citizens in Israel, is automatically ratified by parliament every five years. But two members of the broad coalition, a member of the Arab Ra'am party and a member of the leftist Meretz party, voted at first reading against the bill. Continue reading... |
| Reliance Industries and Apollo Global Management in £5bn bid for Boots Posted: 09 Jun 2022 05:21 AM PDT Mukesh Ambani teams up with US private equity fund, with Walgreens expected to retain minority stake The Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries has teamed up with the US private equity fund Apollo Global Management to make a £5bn bid for the UK's Boots chain. The US group Walgreens, which has controlled the pharmacy and beauty retailer since 2012, is expected to keep a minority stake under the deal. Continue reading... |
| Al-Qaida in Indian subcontinent plans revenge attacks over prophet remarks Posted: 08 Jun 2022 09:11 AM PDT Suicide bombings threatened after 'slandering' comments made by Hindu Bharatiya Janata party Al-Qaida in the Indian subcontinent has said it plans to carry out suicide bombings in revenge for the "insulting and slandering" remarks made by leaders of the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata party about the prophet Muhammad and his wife, Aisha. The Indian news agency ANI has reported that in a letter dated 6 June, AQIS – the regional branch of al-Qaida – warned that Hindu nationalist "terrorists should now await their end in Delhi and Bombay and in Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat". Continue reading... |
| David Lammy visits Afghanistan to highlight humanitarian crisis Posted: 08 Jun 2022 01:00 AM PDT Shadow foreign secretary says UK government ignoring catastrophe as millions of Afghans go hungry The shadow foreign secretary, David Lammy, has flown to Kabul to see at first-hand the scale of the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover. Lammy is the first senior British politician to visit the country since the west's chaotic pullout last August. He is being accompanied on his visit by Preet Gill, the shadow minister for international development. Continue reading... |
| India: more countries join Muslim protests over Muhammad remarks Posted: 07 Jun 2022 04:26 AM PDT Disciplinary action against members of BJP fails to quell growing anger in Muslim world over comments insulting the prophet Six more countries have joined diplomatic protests across the Muslim world over derogatory remarks insulting the prophet Muhammad made by spokespeople for the party of Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi. Indonesia, the UAE, the Maldives, Jordan, Bahrain and Libya have joined Qatar, Kuwait, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Afghanistan in lodging official complaints over comments from representatives of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata party. Meanwhile hardline party members have reacted angrily to disciplinary action against the pair after their comments went viral in the Middle East. Continue reading... |
| Polio outbreak in Pakistan worsens as eighth child reported paralysed Posted: 06 Jun 2022 10:00 PM PDT Investigation launched as first cases in a year blamed on vaccine refusal fuelled by clerics and falsification of records by parents Pakistan's polio eradication campaign is in disarray after an alarming jump in cases last week. Eight polio cases have now been reported in children over the past month in North Waziristan district, bordering Afghanistan. They are the first cases in more than a year. This new outbreak, officials believe, is due to parents falsely marking themselves and their children as vaccinated, and the government has launched an investigation into the outbreak. Continue reading... |
| Rishi Sunak ‘wasted £11bn by paying too much interest’ on UK debt Posted: 09 Jun 2022 04:03 PM PDT Labour accuse chancellor of wastefulness for failing to insure against interest rate rises Rishi Sunak has been accused of wasting £11bn of taxpayers' money by paying too much in interest servicing the government's debt. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) said the losses were the result of the chancellor's failure to insure against interest rate rises on £900bn of reserves created through the quantitative easing (QE) programme. Continue reading... |
| £4bn of NHS Covid PPE to be burned as it is unusable, says committee report Posted: 09 Jun 2022 04:01 PM PDT Opposition parties say the findings show the Conservatives are 'burning taxpayers money by the billion' Protective clothing worth £4bn bought early in the pandemic to stop NHS staff being infected with Covid is to be burned because it is unusable, a report has revealed. The imminent destruction of so many items and waste of public money is disclosed in a report by the Commons public accounts committee (PAC) that is scathing of the DHSC's strategy when the Covid pandemic struck in 2020. Continue reading... |
| UK healthcare staff call in sick to avoid using car as cost of fuel soars, union says Posted: 09 Jun 2022 02:00 PM PDT Low-paid health and care workers cannot afford to fill tanks, head of Unison warns Low-paid health and care workers are calling in sick because they cannot afford to fill their cars with petrol to travel to work, the head of the UK's largest trade union has warned. Boris Johnson said on Thursday that the UK economy was "steering into the wind" but cautioned against a "wage-price spiral", as the cost of a tank of fuel hit a record £100. Continue reading... |
| Devon police recover two bodies after boat capsized on lake Posted: 09 Jun 2022 12:31 PM PDT Recovery follows rescue of four people from Roadford Lake in Okehampton on Wednesday Police searching for two people missing after a boat capsized on a lake in south Devon have recovered two bodies. Devon and Cornwall police said the families have been informed of the development and are being supported by specially trained officers. Formal identification has yet to take place. Earlier, the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) said on its website that the two people who were unaccounted for were disabled. Continue reading... |
| Home Office’s first Rwanda flight threatened by second injunction Posted: 09 Jun 2022 11:21 AM PDT Asylum Aid makes legal application to stop flights in challenge to Priti Patel's offshoring policy The Home Office's first flight to Rwanda under the home secretary's offshoring plan is facing a second injunction which aims to stop it from taking off. A refugee charity, Asylum Aid, has applied for an urgent interim injunction preventing any flights from leaving, including the first one, scheduled on Tuesday, until after its application for a judicial review can be heard. Continue reading... |
| Reports of Calcot abuse prompt calls for reform of children’s social care in UK Posted: 09 Jun 2022 11:04 AM PDT BBC investigation alleges assault and grooming incidents at homes, schools and housing run by firm Ministers are facing calls for urgent reform of the children's residential care system in the wake of shocking reports of vulnerable youngsters being abused and sexually assaulted at homes run by a private firm making huge profits. A BBC investigation revealed a series of alleged safeguarding incidents in which youngsters were put at risk in homes, schools and supported housing run by Calcot Services for Children, including assault, grooming and child-on-child sexual abuse. A 28-year-old Calcot head office staff member was jailed after abusing his position by grooming and having sex with a 17-year-old while redeployed as a support worker at a supported living accommodation. A girl at a Calcot home with significant learning difficulties who was known to be at risk of absconding, repeatedly fled, once with a boy, and twice attempted to take her own life, in one instance being rescued from the side of a nearby river bridge. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 09 Jun 2022 05:56 PM PDT
The US Department of Justice has announced a federal civil rights investigation into the Louisiana State Police following a raft of brutality cases and the fatal beating of a Black motorist, Ronald Greene, in 2019. Greene, an unarmed 49-year-old, was arrested by six white officers with body camera footage of the incident, obtained years later by the Associated Press, revealing he had been punched, tasered and placed in a chokehold and later dragged face down in handcuffs and left prone for over nine minutes. Continue reading... |
| Britney Spears’ ex-husband crashes her wedding with Sam Asghari Posted: 09 Jun 2022 05:55 PM PDT Jason Alexander was livestreaming his approach to the venue on Instagram and was arrested by California authorities Britney Spears' former husband crashed her wedding site in southern California, authorities say. Ventura county sheriff's Captain Cameron Henderson said officers responded to a trespassing call after 2pm Thursday. He says the pop singer's first husband, Jason Alexander, was detained at the site of the ceremony. Continue reading... |
| Capitol attack panel begins hearings to prove Trump was at heart of plot Posted: 09 Jun 2022 05:46 PM PDT Primetime broadcast will feature eyewitness testimony and interview excerpts of ex-president's aides and family members The House select committee investigating the deadly January 6 assault on the US Capitol in 2021 opened an extraordinary series of public hearings on Thursday night, showing previously unseen video footage and promising a trove of evidence, in an attempt to show that Donald Trump was at the heart of a coordinated plot to overturn Joe Biden's election victory. Thursday's TV primetime hearing will present eyewitness testimony from Nick Quested, a British documentary film-maker who was embedded with the extremist Proud Boys group that began the storming of the Capitol, and Caroline Edwards, the first US Capitol police officer injured when the mob descended on the building. Continue reading... |
| Nasa forms independent team to study unexplained UFO sightings Posted: 09 Jun 2022 05:43 PM PDT The space agency's mission chief acknowledges scientific community may see it as 'selling out' with study expected to begin this fall Nasa is launching a study of UFOs as part of a new push toward high-risk, high-impact science. The space agency announced on Thursday that it was setting up an independent team to see how much information is publicly available on the matter and how much more is needed to understand the unexplained sightings. The experts will also consider how best to use all this information in the future. Continue reading... |
| How a documentary film-maker became the January 6 panel’s star witness Posted: 09 Jun 2022 05:13 PM PDT Nick Quested, who was embedded with the Proud Boys after the 2020 election, will supply first-hand knowledge of the riots When the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack on Thursday gets to the witness testimony at its inaugural hearing, it will hear from an individual with first-hand knowledge about how the far-right Proud Boys group came to storm the Capitol. The panel's star witness, Nick Quested, is an Emmy award-winning British documentary film-maker who founded the indie film company Goldcrest and embedded with the Proud Boys in the weeks after Donald Trump lost the 2020 election as part of a project about division in America. Continue reading... |
| Sriracha lovers burned as maker halts production due to pepper shortage Posted: 09 Jun 2022 03:38 PM PDT California-based Huy Fong Inc says the shortage is due to drought affecting its peppers – will it lead to battles in condiment aisles? A looming Sriracha shortage has hot sauce lovers feeling fiery, after the maker of the popular condiment said it was suspending sales over the summer due to a shortage of chili peppers. Southern California-based Huy Fong Inc confirmed that its beloved products, including Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce, Chili Garlic and Sambal Oelek, would be affected, according to Bloomberg. Continue reading... |
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