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Ethiopia: more than 200 Amhara people killed in attack blamed on rebels
Belgium to return Patrice Lumumba’s gold tooth in bid to atone for colonial crimes
MDMA trials under review in Canada over alleged abuse of study participants
Former guerrilla Gustavo Petro wins Colombian election to become first leftist president
Brazil police identify five more people linked to killings of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira
‘Let’s make history’: Colombia could elect first leftist president in runoff
Brazil police arrest third suspect in killings of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira
Four jailed in Colombia for honeymoon murder of prosecutor
Russia becomes China’s top oil supplier amid Ukraine war sanctions
US calls on Vietnam to release environmental activist Nguy Thi Khanh
China carries out anti-missile tests amid opposition to US systems in South Korea
Spirals of blue light in New Zealand night sky leave stargazers ‘kind of freaking out’
Vanuatu calls on Australia to back its UN bid to recognise climate change harm
Australia news live update: Albanese says he will ‘engage appropriately’ on Assange; Labor claims three WA Senate seats; 13 Covid deaths
Transgender swimming ban: Cate Campbell backs Fina restrictions in elite women’s competition
Circular Quay to get ‘high line’ walkway amid redevelopment of Sydney gateway
Craig Kelly staffer Frank Zumbo told alleged victim he was an ‘ultimate feminist’, court hears
Chris Dawson said wife was living in Blue Mountains commune two decades after disappearance, court hears
UAP wins Victorian Senate seat as Clive Palmer persists with claims of ‘electoral fraud’
Russia-Ukraine war: Zelenskiy sounds warning as EU decision nears; European ministers to meet on grain blockade – live news
Ex-Northern Ireland secretary accuses Boris Johnson of ‘Putinesque tactics’
Macron’s centrist grouping loses absolute majority in parliament
‘We’re tired of being scared’: Kyiv residents take steps towards normality
Zelenskiy warns Europe at risk of Russian hostilities over EU candidacy
Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 117 of the invasion
‘The land beyond the road is forbidden’: Israeli settler shepherds displacing Palestinians by stealth
Network of Syria conspiracy theorists identified
UN urged to impose travel ban on Taliban leadership over oppression of women
Sri Lankan troops open fire to contain unrest over fuel shortages
Thousands ransack railway station as protests intensify over India’s military hiring plan
Afghanistan: gunmen storm Sikh temple in Kabul
Pervez Musharraf’s wish to return to Pakistan reopens debate about his rule
EasyJet to cut more flights over summer holidays
Archie Battersbee: family seek to appeal against ruling boy is dead
Ofgem announces measures aimed at protecting money of energy customers
UK faces biggest rail strike in 30 years
Government retracts ‘unlawful’ pollution guidance for England’s farms
Black and Asian UK workers say they are held back at work by bias, survey finds
Republican states trying to ban abortion expand health benefits for new mothers
Film-maker Paul Haggis arrested over sexual assault allegations in Italy
Two actors from Netflix show The Chosen One die in Mexico crash
US travelers face new wave of chaos as flight cancellations continue
Yellowstone to partially reopen Wednesday after catastrophic flooding
Kinzinger: Trump’s actions surrounding January 6 amount to ‘seditious conspiracy’

Ethiopia: more than 200 Amhara people killed in attack blamed on rebels

Posted: 19 Jun 2022 11:38 AM PDT

People 'killed like chickens' as ethnic tensions continue in Africa's second most populous country

Witnesses in Ethiopia said on Sunday that more than 200 ethnic Amhara have been killed in an attack in the country's Oromia region and are blaming a rebel group, which denies it.

It is one of the deadliest such attacks in recent memory as ethnic tensions continue in Africa's second most populous country.

Belgium to return Patrice Lumumba’s gold tooth in bid to atone for colonial crimes

Posted: 18 Jun 2022 07:03 AM PDT

Relic of the murdered Republic of Congo leader will be returned to his family as Brussels confronts its bloody past in Africa

The Belgian government will return a tooth of Patrice Lumumba to his family this week, hoping to draw a line under one of the most brutal and shameful episodes in the country's bloody exploitation of central Africa.

The relic is all that remains of Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, under its earlier name Republic of Congo, and an icon of the struggle against colonialism in Africa, who was murdered by separatists and Belgian mercenaries in 1961. His killers dissolved his remains in acid, though some kept teeth as macabre mementoes.

MDMA trials under review in Canada over alleged abuse of study participants

Posted: 19 Jun 2022 11:00 PM PDT

Health Canada confirms reviews into trials following complaint of 'alleged investigator misconduct'

All clinical trials into the psychoactive drug MDMA are being reviewed by Canadian regulators after complaints about abuse of study participants by a trailblazing American psychedelic research organization.

The California-based Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (Maps) has led the way in conducting trials into the medicinal qualities of the drug. In May 2021, it released results from a phase-three trial in the journal Nature on the benefits of the drug – commonly sold illegally as a powder or within ecstasy tablets – as a breakthrough treatment for PTSD, for which there is currently no effective pharmaceutical treatment.

Former guerrilla Gustavo Petro wins Colombian election to become first leftist president

Posted: 19 Jun 2022 07:14 PM PDT

Former fighter in the M-19 militia beat populist business tycoon and fellow political outsider Rodolfo Hernández in runoff on Sunday

Colombia has elected a former guerrilla fighter Gustavo Petro as president, making him the South American country's first leftist head of state.

Petro beat Rodolfo Hernández, a gaff-prone former mayor of Bucaramanga and business mogul, with 50.47% of the vote in a runoff election on Sunday and will take office in July amid a host of challenges, not least of which is the deepening discontent over inequality and rising costs of living. Hernández had 47.27%, with almost all ballots counted, according to results released by election authorities.

Brazil police identify five more people linked to killings of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

Posted: 19 Jun 2022 11:29 AM PDT

Officers have already arrested three people, one of whom confessed to killing British journalist and indigenous advocate

Police investigating the murder of the British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous advocate Bruno Pereira have identified five more people connected with the killings, bringing to eight the number of suspects in a crime that has shocked Brazil.

Police had already arrested two brothers, one of whom confessed to the crime, and a third man handed himself in to authorities on Saturday.

‘Let’s make history’: Colombia could elect first leftist president in runoff

Posted: 19 Jun 2022 02:00 AM PDT

The election is being contested by mayor of Bogotá Gustavo Petro and populist business tycoon Rodolfo Hernández

Voters head to the polls in Colombia on Sunday in a historic presidential election that could see the left win for the first time in the conservative South American country.

Gustavo Petro, a former guerrilla and mayor of Bogotá, will face off against Rodolfo Hernández, a populist business tycoon and the former mayor of the city of Bucaramanga, in a contest where both candidates have cast themselves as political outsiders.

Brazil police arrest third suspect in killings of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

Posted: 18 Jun 2022 10:57 AM PDT

Jefferson da Silva Lima turned himself in to Amazon police as autopsy finds journalist and indigenous expert were shot

Brazil's federal police said Saturday that a third suspect in the deaths of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira has been arrested. The pair, whose remains were found after they went missing almost two weeks ago, were shot to death, according to an autopsy.

Phillips was shot in the chest and Pereira was shot in the head and the abdomen, police said in a statement. It said the autopsy indicated the use of a "firearm with typical hunting ammunition."

Four jailed in Colombia for honeymoon murder of prosecutor

Posted: 18 Jun 2022 04:32 AM PDT

Gang members given 23-year terms for shooting dead Paraguayan anti-corruption prosecutor Marcelo Pecci

Four people who confessed to taking part in the murder of a Paraguayan prosecutor who was on his honeymoon have each been sentenced to 23 years in jail.

Marcelo Pecci, 45, known for fighting organised crime, was shot dead on the Colombian island of Barú near the Caribbean city of Cartagena on 10 May.

Russia becomes China’s top oil supplier amid Ukraine war sanctions

Posted: 19 Jun 2022 10:52 PM PDT

Chinese refiners cash in on heavily discounted Russian oil supplies, boosting imports by 55%

Russia-Ukraine war: latest updates

China's crude oil imports from Russia soared by 55% from a year earlier to a record level in May, displacing Saudi Arabia as the top supplier, as refiners cashed in on discounted supplies amid sanctions on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine.

Imports of Russian oil, including supplies pumped via the east Siberia Pacific pipeline and seaborne shipments, totalled nearly 8.42m tonnes, according to data on Monday from the Chinese general administration of customs.

US calls on Vietnam to release environmental activist Nguy Thi Khanh

Posted: 19 Jun 2022 08:44 PM PDT

Award-winning founder of green development centre was arrested on tax evasion charges in February

The US government has said it is "deeply concerned" by the sentencing of the Vietnamese environmental advocate and activist Nguy Thi Khanh and called on Vietnam to release her.

Khanh, Vietnam's first recipient of the prestigious Goldman environmental prize, was reported in February to have been arrested on tax evasion charges. The founder of the Green Innovation and Development Centre was detained in January.

China carries out anti-missile tests amid opposition to US systems in South Korea

Posted: 19 Jun 2022 07:33 PM PDT

Beijing says test was not aimed aimed at any country, though it has objected to US THAAD system positioned in South Korea

China carried out a test of "ground-based midcourse anti-missile intercept technology" that "achieved its expected purpose", the defence ministry in Beijing has said, describing it as defensive and not aimed at any country.

Beijing has tested missile interceptors before; the most recent previous public announcement of a test was in February 2021, and before that in 2018. State media has said China has conducted anti-missile system tests since at least 2010.

Spirals of blue light in New Zealand night sky leave stargazers ‘kind of freaking out’

Posted: 19 Jun 2022 06:38 PM PDT

Social media abuzz with pictures and theories about formations thought to be from exhaust plume of SpaceX rocket

New Zealand stargazers were left puzzled and awed by strange, spiralling light formations in the night sky on Sunday night.

Around 7.25pm Alasdair Burns, a stargazing guide on Stewart Island/Rakiura, received a text from a friend: go outside and look at the sky. "As soon as we actually went outside, it was very obvious what it was he was referring to," Burns said.

Vanuatu calls on Australia to back its UN bid to recognise climate change harm

Posted: 19 Jun 2022 01:00 PM PDT

Pacific islands urge new Labor government to support push for international court of justice to issue climate advisory opinion

From Vanuatu law school to the Hague: the fight to recognise climate harm in international law

Australia's new Labor government has been called on to prove its commitment to climate action and support for Pacific countries by backing a campaign led by Vanuatu to see international law changed to recognise climate change harm.

In a letter to the prime minister sent by leading Pacific and Australian NGOs, shared exclusively with Guardian Australia, the groups urged Anthony Albanese to support Vanuatu's campaign for the international court of justice to issue an advisory opinion on the question of climate change.

Australia news live update: Albanese says he will ‘engage appropriately’ on Assange; Labor claims three WA Senate seats; 13 Covid deaths

Posted: 20 Jun 2022 12:59 AM PDT

Anthony Albanese says government will improve energy security 'in the shortest time possible'; UAP takes sixth Victorian Senate spot as Labor wins three in WA; nation records 13 Covid deaths. Follow all the day's news

Julian Assange's wife and human rights lawyer, Stella Moris, says she is "extremely worried" about what will happen to Assange next, while noting there has been a "shift" in sentiment towards the WikiLeaks founder.

Moris was on RN Breakfast earlier, and says she has also welcomed reports Australia are in discussion with the United States on Assange, and that she intends to appeal against Britain's decision to approve his extradition to the US to face criminal charges:

I'm feeling definitely there's a shift.

It feels like we've been running a marathon for a long time. And you know, that's hard – mentally, physically. But now it feels like we have many people running alongside us, and we might see the finish line.

Transgender swimming ban: Cate Campbell backs Fina restrictions in elite women’s competition

Posted: 19 Jun 2022 11:49 PM PDT

Australian 'wrestled long and hard with myself' before airing views
Maddie Groves and trans advocacy groups criticise ruling

Australian Olympic champion Cate Campbell has supported Fina's vote to restrict transgender women from taking part in elite female swimming competitions, saying she had "wrestled long and hard" with her views on the polarising issue before concluding that fairness is a "cornerstone" of professional sport.

Fina's historic decision has also elicited criticism; the policy shift has been slammed by transgender advocacy groups and swimmer Maddie Groves described it as "discriminatory and unscientific".

Circular Quay to get ‘high line’ walkway amid redevelopment of Sydney gateway

Posted: 19 Jun 2022 10:53 PM PDT

NSW government allocates $216m for further design work, but Labor suggests announcement is just another 'grandiose promise'

Sydney's Circular Quay will get a dramatic new look, with a New York-style "high line" walkway featuring in a long-term plan to overhaul the iconic harbourside gate to the city.

The design includes a public green space, new ferry wharves and a high line walkway along the Cahill Expressway overlooking Sydney Harbour under the NSW government's vision.

Craig Kelly staffer Frank Zumbo told alleged victim he was an ‘ultimate feminist’, court hears

Posted: 19 Jun 2022 10:04 PM PDT

Francesco 'Frank' Zumbo, 55, has pleaded not guilty to 20 charges including sexual touching and indecent assault

Former federal MP Craig Kelly's office manager told a young female employee she was "very selfish" and "self-centred" for refusing to give him a "little thank you kiss", a Sydney court has heard.

The trial of Francesco "Frank" Zumbo, 55, also heard covert recordings where he repeatedly referred to himself as an "ultimate feminist".

Chris Dawson said wife was living in Blue Mountains commune two decades after disappearance, court hears

Posted: 19 Jun 2022 10:02 PM PDT

Witness says she thought Dawson twins' behaviour was 'creepy' at living wake in 2007 because of the way they sat so close together

At a living wake for a family friend, Christopher Michael Dawson said his wife was living in a commune west of Sydney more than 25 years after she disappeared, a judge has been told.

Giving evidence at Dawson's murder trial on Monday, a woman said she bumped into twin brothers Chris and Paul Dawson at a wake for Phillip Day who was sick with cancer and died in 2007.

UAP wins Victorian Senate seat as Clive Palmer persists with claims of ‘electoral fraud’

Posted: 19 Jun 2022 09:59 PM PDT

Real estate agent Ralph Babet takes seat for United Australia party after it spent an estimated $180m in past two elections

Real estate agent Ralph Babet has won the sixth Senate position in Victoria for the United Australia party, billionaire mining magnate Clive Palmer's party finally claiming a federal seat after spending an estimated $180m in the past two elections.

Despite the breakthrough result, Palmer has continued with allegations of "electoral fraud" in the May poll, without providing specific claims or evidence.

Russia-Ukraine war: Zelenskiy sounds warning as EU decision nears; European ministers to meet on grain blockade – live news

Posted: 20 Jun 2022 12:14 AM PDT

Volodymyr Zelenskiy tells European partners to prepare for an increase in Russian hostilities; EU hopes to resume Ukraine's sea exports in return for facilitating Russian food and fertiliser exports

In the weeks after the Russian invasion, the Guardian spoke to five Ukrainian families who had fled the country. Nearly four months on from the invasion, the families talk about the realities of their new lives.

Back in March, Liudmyla Abdo was fresh out of a war zone. Fatigued, dazed and suffering from acute stress, she sat in Paris's Buttes-Chaumont park and recounted her experience of fleeing Kyiv in the dead of night.

Russian ground and tactical air operations have remained focussed on the central Donbas sector over the weekend.

In the conflict to date, Russia's air force has underperformed. Its failure to consistently deliver air power is likely one of the most important factors behind Russia's very limited campaign success.

It cannot gain full air superiority and has operated in a risk-adverse style, rarely penetrating deep behind Ukrainian lines. Some of the underlying causes of its difficulties echo those of Russian ground forces.

Ex-Northern Ireland secretary accuses Boris Johnson of ‘Putinesque tactics’

Posted: 20 Jun 2022 12:00 AM PDT

Labour peer Peter Hain says PM is using Northern Ireland protocol bill to provoke populist row with EU

Boris Johnson is engaging in "Putinesque" tactics by using the Northern Ireland protocol bill to cause a populist row with Brussels when the EU is willing to compromise, Peter Hain, a former Northern Ireland secretary, said on Sunday.

Hain, who sits on a Lords subcommittee on the protocol, said Brussels appeared willing to compromise, but Johnson was more keen on engaging in a "parallel universe blame game".

Macron’s centrist grouping loses absolute majority in parliament

Posted: 19 Jun 2022 11:59 PM PDT

Gains by new French left alliance and historic surge by far right cast uncertainty over Macron's second term

Emmanuel Macron's centrist grouping has lost its absolute majority in parliament, amid gains by a new left alliance and a historic surge by the far right in legislative elections.

After five years of undisputed control of parliament, the recently re-elected Macron, known for his top-down approach to power, now enters his second term facing uncertainty over how he will deliver domestic policies such as raising the retirement age and overhauling state benefits. His centrists will need to strike compromises and expand alliances in parliament to be able to push forward his proposals to cut taxes and shake up the welfare system.

‘We’re tired of being scared’: Kyiv residents take steps towards normality

Posted: 19 Jun 2022 09:00 PM PDT

Restaurants are filling up again as clubs welcome daytime revellers, but the city remains under a cloud of war

Walking around a small outdoor street market in a pretty Kyiv courtyard, one could be forgiven for forgetting for a brief moment that Ukraine is in the midst of a brutal war that not long ago saw some of its bloodiest fighting just a few miles from the capital.

A DJ is playing techno tunes, so beloved in a city that has been proudly calling itself the new Berlin, as locals sell vintage clothes.

Zelenskiy warns Europe at risk of Russian hostilities over EU candidacy

Posted: 19 Jun 2022 08:16 PM PDT

'We are ready. We warn partners,' says Ukraine president, ahead of decision on membership application

See all our Ukraine coverage

Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has predicted Russia will intensify its attacks this week, warning European partners that they too should be prepared for an increase in hostilities as Kyiv awaits a decision on its bid to join the EU.

The caution follows a European Commission recommendation to grant Kyiv candidate status to join – a diplomatic blow to Moscow.

Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 117 of the invasion

Posted: 19 Jun 2022 05:13 PM PDT

Zelenskiy says he expects Russia will intensify attacks on Ukraine and possibly strike other European countries this week

See all our Ukraine coverage

Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he expected Russia would intensify attacks on Ukraine and possibly hit other European countries after the European Commission proposed it as a candidate for EU membership. "Obviously, this week we should expect from Russia an intensification of its hostile activities," he said in a nightly video address. "And not only against Ukraine, but also against other European countries. We are preparing. We are ready. We warn partners."

Ukraine's forces remain on the defensive in the eastern Donbas region, where fighting continues in Sievierodonestsk. Serhiy Haidai, the governor of the Luhansk region, said Russia was massing forces in an attempt to take full control of the city after weeks of fighting but maintained that "all Russian claims that they control the town are a lie". "They control the main part of the town but not the whole town," he told Ukrainian television.

EU foreign ministers will discuss ways to free millions of tonnes of grain stuck in Ukraine at a meeting in Luxembourg on Monday. It is hoped a deal can be struck to resume Ukraine's sea exports in return for facilitating Russian food and fertiliser exports but remains unclear if the EU would get involved in militarily securing such a deal. "Whether there will be a need in the future for escorting these commercial ships, that's a question mark and I don't think we are there yet," an EU official said.

The war in Ukraine could last for years and will require long-term military support, according to Nato and other western leaders. "We must prepare for the fact that it could take years," Nato's secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, said in an interview with the German newspaper Bild on Sunday. The British prime minister, Boris Johnson, added: "I am afraid that we need to steel ourselves for a long war."

Ukraine's parliament voted through two laws on Sunday that will place severe restrictions on Russian books and music. Proposed laws will forbid the printing of books by Russian citizens, banning the commercial import of books printed in Russia and prohibiting the playing of music by post-1991 Russian citizens on media and on public transport in the latest attempt to break cultural ties between the two countries.

The New York Times identified more than 2,000 munitions used by Russian forces in Ukraine, "a vast majority of which were unguided". According to the newspaper, over 210 weapons that were identified were types that have been widely banned under a variety of international treaties.

Austria's government announced it will reopen a mothballed coal power station because of power shortages arising from reduced deliveries of gas from Russia. The authorities would work with the Verbund group, the country's main electricity supplier, to get the station in the southern city of Mellach back in action, the chancellery said on Sunday.

Morocco's national human rights body has urged Russian authorities to guarantee a "fair trial" for a young national appealing a death sentence imposed by a pro-Russian court in Ukraine. Amina Bouayach, president of the National Council of Human Rights, has contacted the high commissioner for human rights in the Russian Federation and urged the Russian body to take "the necessary steps to ensure Brahim Saadoun receives a fair trial during his appeal".

‘The land beyond the road is forbidden’: Israeli settler shepherds displacing Palestinians by stealth

Posted: 19 Jun 2022 09:00 PM PDT

There are 77 Israeli farms and shepherding outposts across the West Bank, part of an explosion in settlement growth in recent years

On stretches of Route 90, the Israeli-built road running down the length of the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank, the west side of the highway is full of straw-like grass despite the summer heat. To the east of the road, what can be eaten by sheep and goats is gone.

The difference is the only perceptible sign of the biggest strategic shift in the battle for control of Area C, the 60% of the West Bank under full Israeli control, in recent years: the emergence of Israeli settlers using shepherding as a tool for seizing the most land, with the least effort.

Network of Syria conspiracy theorists identified

Posted: 19 Jun 2022 04:10 AM PDT

Campaign disseminating disinformation sent thousands of tweets, often targeting the White Helmets

A network of more than two dozen conspiracy theorists, frequently backed by a coordinated Russian campaign, sent thousands of disinformation tweets to distort the reality of the Syrian conflict and deter intervention by the international community, new analysis reveals.

Data gathered by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) identified a network of social media accounts, individuals, outlets and organisations who disseminated disinformation about the conflict, with 1.8 million people following their every word. The three principal false narratives promoted by the network of conspiracy theorists involved misrepresenting the White Helmets, the volunteer organisation working to evacuate people in Syria. They also focused on the denial or distortion of facts about the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons and on attacking the findings of the world's foremost chemical weapons watchdog.

UN urged to impose travel ban on Taliban leadership over oppression of women

Posted: 19 Jun 2022 08:07 AM PDT

Campaigners say curtailing of women's rights in Afghanistan means Trump-era waiver must be removed

Human rights groups are urging the UN to end a Trump-era waiver that allows Taliban members most responsible for the oppression of women in Afghanistan to travel abroad.

In a test for the international community's willingness to isolate the Taliban, critics argue that those Taliban members curtailing women's right to leave their homes within Afghanistan should at minimum be banned from leaving their country.

Sri Lankan troops open fire to contain unrest over fuel shortages

Posted: 18 Jun 2022 11:28 PM PDT

Seven wounded after motorists protest petrol shortage as government declares two-week school shutdown to conserve fuel

Sri Lanka's military have opened fire to quell rioting at a fuel station, officials say, as unprecedented queues for petrol and diesel were seen across the bankrupt country.

Troops fired in Visuvamadu, 365km (228 miles) north of Colombo on Saturday night as their guard point was pelted with stones, army spokesperson Nilantha Premaratne said.

Thousands ransack railway station as protests intensify over India’s military hiring plan

Posted: 18 Jun 2022 07:48 PM PDT

Government announces concessions to scheme as police arrest at least 260 people and hundreds of train services cancelled due to unrest

Protesters in India's eastern state of Bihar have damaged public property and ransacked offices in a railway station, expressing outrage at a new military recruitment plan and demanding the government reverse course.

The government of the prime minister, Narendra Modi, has introduced a scheme called Agnipath, or "path of fire", designed to bring more people into the military on four-year contracts to lower the average age of India's 1.38 million-strong armed forces.

Afghanistan: gunmen storm Sikh temple in Kabul

Posted: 18 Jun 2022 06:21 PM PDT

At least two people killed and seven wounded, officials say after attack in capital claimed by Islamic State

Gunmen have stormed a Sikh temple in the Afghan capital, killing at least two people and wounding seven more, officials say.

The interior ministry said the attacker used at least one grenade during the attack on Saturday, setting off a blaze in the complex. Minutes later, a car bomb was detonated in the area but caused no casualties, it added.

Pervez Musharraf’s wish to return to Pakistan reopens debate about his rule

Posted: 18 Jun 2022 05:00 PM PDT

The exile who once led a military dictatorship is in hospital and a spokesperson has said his wish to come home should be granted

The possible return to Pakistan of its former president Pervez Musharraf for the first time since he left the country in 2016 has reopened a bitter debate about the military dictatorship he led for more than a decade.

Musharraf came to power in a coup in 1999 that toppled Nawaz Sharif's government, and went on to hold the presidency from 2001 to 2008, when he resigned to avoid impeachment. Since then he has spent most of his time in self-imposed exile in the UK and the Middle East.

EasyJet to cut more flights over summer holidays

Posted: 20 Jun 2022 12:25 AM PDT

Airline says it is reducing services after London Gatwick and Amsterdam announced caps on flights

EasyJet is cutting more flights over the summer months, after government orders designed to avoid further travel chaos at airports across the country.

The Department for Transport and Civil Aviation Authority told airlines last week to review their schedules and ensure flights were deliverable, following post-lockdown staff shortages that have left airlines and airports unable to keep up with a surge in travel as Covid restrictions lifted.

Archie Battersbee: family seek to appeal against ruling boy is dead

Posted: 20 Jun 2022 12:24 AM PDT

Parents of injured 12-year-old hope to challenge ruling Archie is 'brain-stem dead' and treatment can be stopped

The family of a 12-year-old boy at the centre of a life-support treatment dispute are preparing to mount an appeal after a high court judge ruled that the youngster is dead and that his treatment can be stopped.

Mrs Justice Arbuthnot recently ruled that doctors could lawfully stop providing treatment to Archie Battersbee after considering evidence at a trial in the family division of the high court in London.

Ofgem announces measures aimed at protecting money of energy customers

Posted: 19 Jun 2022 11:22 PM PDT

Regulator says shake-up is designed to cut risk of suppliers going bust and will change rules on credit balances in event of collapses

New measures to better protect customers' money and stop energy suppliers using some of their cash "like an interest-free company credit card" are to be announced on Monday by the industry regulator.

Ofgem said its package of "tough" measures was aimed at reducing the risk of more energy suppliers going bust, and would also include changes designed to stop firms raising customers' direct debit payments by more than necessary.

UK faces biggest rail strike in 30 years

Posted: 19 Jun 2022 11:09 PM PDT

Disruption to start on Monday evening before RMT walkouts stop trains in much of northern and south-west England, Wales and Scotland

Which trains will be running where and when?

The biggest rail strikes in three decades are due to start on Monday night, with trains cancelled across Great Britain for much of the week.

The first of three 24-hour walkouts by 40,000 RMT members, including signallers, maintenance and train staff, will start just after midnight on Tuesday morning, with only one in five trains running on strike days and halting services altogether in much of northern and south-west England, Wales and Scotland.

Government retracts ‘unlawful’ pollution guidance for England’s farms

Posted: 19 Jun 2022 11:00 PM PDT

Advice that allowed farmers to spread manures in a way that risked polluting waters has been changed by Defra

Guidance that would have allowed farmers to spread manures and slurry on land in a way that would overload it with nutrients and risk pollution of rivers, lakes and coastal waters has been changed by Defra, after a challenge over its lawfulness.

Manures, which include sewage sludge, abattoir waste and slurries, are a leading source of water pollution. Their application is strictly controlled under what are known as the Farming Rules for Water. But Defra's guidance had directed the Environment Agency not to enforce a breach of the rules if a farmer produced its own manures or used imported manures that could lead to nutrient overload.

Black and Asian UK workers say they are held back at work by bias, survey finds

Posted: 19 Jun 2022 10:00 PM PDT

Hairstyles and not drinking among reasons most minority ethnic respondents believe they have been treated in a prejudiced way

Large majorities of black and Asian workers believe they have been overlooked for employment opportunities, including promotion, because of their identity, according to research, with some citing their hairstyles and not drinking alcohol as key factors.

Seventy-one per cent of employees from a black background reported feeling overlooked for opportunities owing to their identity; 66% from Asian backgrounds and 65% of those who identified as LGBTQ+ also had the same experience.

Republican states trying to ban abortion expand health benefits for new mothers

Posted: 19 Jun 2022 11:00 PM PDT

Bills with benefits for low-income mothers don't counteract bans that would lead to higher risks for maternal mortality, say experts

A number of Republican-led states that are moving to ban abortion are, at the same time, extending health insurance benefits to new mothers, professing to support "women in crisis".

As the US supreme court prepares to rule on national abortion rights, many Republican states are seeking severe abortion bans that would force many women to carry pregnancies to term, likely worsening the US maternal mortality crisis.

Film-maker Paul Haggis arrested over sexual assault allegations in Italy

Posted: 19 Jun 2022 12:57 PM PDT

Prosecutors say allegations involve 'young foreign woman' who was forced to have 'non-consensual' sexual relations over two days

Authorities detained Oscar-winning film director Paul Haggis on Sunday in connection with allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman in southern Italy, Italian news media said, quoting local prosecutors.

The Canadian-born Haggis, 69, has been in Italy for a film festival that begins on Tuesday in Ostuni, a tourist town in Puglia, the region that forms the "heel" of the Italian peninsula.

Two actors from Netflix show The Chosen One die in Mexico crash

Posted: 19 Jun 2022 11:56 AM PDT

Raymundo Garduno and Juan Francisco Aguilar, as well as six other people who were injured, were in van that flipped in desert

A traffic crash in Mexico last week killed two actors from an upcoming original series by Netflix and injured six other people, according to officials and media reports.

The killed actors, Raymundo Garduno and Juan Francisco Aguilar, were in a van that accidentally flipped Thursday in a patch of desert near the community of Mulege on the Baja California Sur peninsula. Other cast and crew members were hurt during the wreck, which reportedly occurred offset but during filming of the show The Chosen One.

US travelers face new wave of chaos as flight cancellations continue

Posted: 19 Jun 2022 09:45 AM PDT

1,000 flights cancelled Sunday after approximately 14,000 flights were cancelled or delayed on Friday and Saturday

Travelers were subjected to a new wave of flight chaos across the US on Sunday, with about 1,000 flights cancelled. The toll added to about 14,000 flights within, out of, or into the US that were cancelled or delayed on Friday and Saturday.

Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta was one of the worst hit airports – the facility saw passengers stranded over the weekend as Delta cancelled or changed dozens of scheduled flights.

Yellowstone to partially reopen Wednesday after catastrophic flooding

Posted: 19 Jun 2022 08:15 AM PDT

Visitors will be allowed on southern loop under system designed to manage crowds after flooding destroyed bridges and roads

After catastrophic flooding destroyed bridges and roads and drove out thousands of tourists, Yellowstone national park will partially reopen at 8am Wednesday.

The National Park Service announced this weekend that visitors will once again be allowed on Yellowstone's southern loop under a temporary license plate system designed to manage the crowds.

Kinzinger: Trump’s actions surrounding January 6 amount to ‘seditious conspiracy’

Posted: 19 Jun 2022 07:47 AM PDT

Republican member of the Capitol attack panel also says Trump's actions surrounding the deadly riot had 'criminal involvement'

A Republican member of the congressional committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol said on Sunday that he believes Donald Trump's actions surrounding the deadly riots amount to "seditious conspiracy" and "criminal involvement by a president".

Illinois congressman Adam Kinzinger's remarks on ABC's This Week came after three hearings held by the House January 6 committee presented searing testimony and mounting evidence about Trump's central role in a complex plot to overturn his defeat at the hands of Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.

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