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Trial of far-right Golden Dawn leaders due to start in Greece
Al-Shabaab carries out bomb attack on UN workers in Somalia
Kharkiv's Derzhprom: Europe’s first skyscraper complex – a history of cities in 50 buildings, day 19
Hillary Clinton's campaign shows women they deserve the spotlight
EU ministers meet for crisis talks after hundreds of migrants drown in Mediterranean
Former Saddam Hussein spy masterminded the rise of Isis, says report
Europe’s worsening migrant crisis – the Guardian briefing
Whose duty is it to get an air passenger tax refund?
Malawians seek compensation for Nyasaland massacre during British rule
How tobacco firms tried to undermine Muslim countries' smoking ban
Burma's Myeik archipelago under threat from overfishing – in pictures
Six youths arrested in US for trying to travel to Syria to join Islamist militants
From the archive, 20 April 1956: Grace Kelly marries her prince
Iranian women and sport: every obstacle an opportunity
New Zealand ISPs may be sued for letting users bypass geoblocks
Honduran indigenous rights campaigner wins Goldman prize
'East African Erin Brockovich' wins prize for closing polluting lead smelter
Australia's Direct Action climate policy challenged by US, China and Brazil at the UN
China to unveil $46bn investment in Pakistan during visit by Xi Jingping
Refugees sent from Nauru to Cambodia may join others in lining up to leave

Trial of far-right Golden Dawn leaders due to start in Greece

Posted: 20 Apr 2015 01:12 AM PDT

Party chief Nikos Michaloliakos among 69 defendants accused of running criminal organisation that attacked immigrants and opponents

Al-Shabaab carries out bomb attack on UN workers in Somalia

Posted: 20 Apr 2015 12:50 AM PDT

At least nine people killed in blast targeting bus carrying workers to UN compound in north-eastern city of Garowe in Puntland region

Two Kenyans and seven Somali guards have been killed in a bomb attack on a vehicle carrying workers to the United Nations compound in Garowe in the Somali region of Puntland, police said.

Islamist al-Shabaab militants claimed responsibility for the bombing on Monday in the north-eastern city.

I condemn attack this morning on @UN in #Garowe. Shocked and appalled by loss of life. More details to follow. @UNSomalia #Somalia

Kharkiv's Derzhprom: Europe’s first skyscraper complex – a history of cities in 50 buildings, day 19

Posted: 19 Apr 2015 11:30 PM PDT

Opened in 1928, this underappreciated Soviet masterpiece was a precursor to brutalism – three decades before the term was coined

Hillary Clinton's campaign shows women they deserve the spotlight

Posted: 19 Apr 2015 11:30 PM PDT

US presidential candidate is challenging the pervasive myth that women who desire the same power as men are subversive and dangerous

EU ministers meet for crisis talks after hundreds of migrants drown in Mediterranean

Posted: 19 Apr 2015 11:21 PM PDT

Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi says EU action must be a priority as death toll of drownings this year now stands at 1,500 – 50 times more than at same point in 2014

Italy's prime minister called for an emergency European summit this week to deal with the deepening migrant crisis off its southern coast after as many as 950 men, women and children were feared to have drowned in a Mediterranean shipwreck.

With the crisis set to dominate a meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Luxembourg on Monday, Matteo Renzi said that concerted EU action had to be a priority after the latest tragedy 60 miles north of Libya in which a prodigiously overladen vessel capsized late on Saturday, leaving hundreds in the water.

How can it be that we daily are witnessing a tragedy?

They wanted to be rescued, they saw another ship. They were trying to make themselves known to it.

They are literally trying to find people alive among the dead floating in the water.

Former Saddam Hussein spy masterminded the rise of Isis, says report

Posted: 19 Apr 2015 11:18 PM PDT

Documents uncovered in Aleppo show that Haji Bakr drew up the 'blueprint for caliphate' after being jailed by the US authorities, according to Der Spiegel

One of Saddam Hussein's former intelligence officers masterminded Islamic State's takeover of northern Syria after becoming embittered by the US-led invasion of Iraq, according to a report by the German magazine Der Spiegel

Documents uncovered in Syria reveal meticulous planning for the group's structure and organisation, the report says, with the 31 pages of handwritten charts, lists and schedules amounting to a blueprint for the establishment of a caliphate in Syria.

Europe’s worsening migrant crisis – the Guardian briefing

Posted: 19 Apr 2015 11:17 PM PDT

The news that as many as 700 would-be illegal migrants have died after their boat capsized off Libya has brought the issue of migration into Europe to a head. But what can be done about it?

Whose duty is it to get an air passenger tax refund?

Posted: 19 Apr 2015 11:00 PM PDT

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Malawians seek compensation for Nyasaland massacre during British rule

Posted: 19 Apr 2015 11:00 PM PDT

Families of 33 pro-independence protesters killed in 1950s say decision to sue is inspired by success of legal action by Kenyan victims of Mau Mau crackdown

How tobacco firms tried to undermine Muslim countries' smoking ban

Posted: 19 Apr 2015 11:00 PM PDT

Attempts to tackle sales threat by framing criticism of smoking as fundamentalist fanaticism are outlined in cache of documents from 1970s until late 1990s

Burma's Myeik archipelago under threat from overfishing – in pictures

Posted: 19 Apr 2015 11:00 PM PDT

For the Burman, Karen and Moken residents of the island chain off southern Burma, prosperity and livelihoods hinge on the health of their seas

Six youths arrested in US for trying to travel to Syria to join Islamist militants

Posted: 19 Apr 2015 09:58 PM PDT

Six were arrested in Minneapolis and San Diego
More details expected at news conference on Monday

From the archive, 20 April 1956: Grace Kelly marries her prince

Posted: 19 Apr 2015 09:30 PM PDT

The Hollywood star becomes a fairy tale princess of the tiny principality of Monaco

Iranian women and sport: every obstacle an opportunity

Posted: 19 Apr 2015 09:00 PM PDT

Women have not been sitting idle while waiting to be allowed into the stadium. Athletics no longer just a form of leisure, but increasingly competitive among them

New Zealand ISPs may be sued for letting users bypass geoblocks

Posted: 19 Apr 2015 08:42 PM PDT

Copyright holders prepare legal action against internet service providers which offer 'global mode' to avoid restricted sites

New Zealand internet service providers that give users the ability to bypass geoblocks to access overseas digital content have been threatened with legal action by four of the country's major media broadcasters.

Television New Zealand (TVNZ), the country's government-owned national broadcaster, and pay-television operator Sky, Lightbox and MediaWorks, have confirmed they are preparing legal action against Call Plus and Bypass Network Services on the basis of breach of copyright.

Honduran indigenous rights campaigner wins Goldman prize

Posted: 19 Apr 2015 08:01 PM PDT

Berta Cáceres has won the world's leading environmental award for her campaigning against the construction of the Agua Zarca dams

The odds of survival, let alone success, could hardly be more stacked against Berta Cáceres, the Honduran indigenous rights campaigner who has been declared the winner of this year's Goldman Environmental Prize.

Working in the most murderous country in the world for environmental activists, the mother of four is facing down one of Central America's biggest hydropower projects, powerful landowners, a US-funded police force, and a mercenary army of private security guards.

'East African Erin Brockovich' wins prize for closing polluting lead smelter

Posted: 19 Apr 2015 08:01 PM PDT

Phyllis Omido awarded Goldman Prize environmental award after battling to close a plant in a Kenyan slum that was poisoning its inhabitants and her baby

Australia's Direct Action climate policy challenged by US, China and Brazil at the UN

Posted: 19 Apr 2015 07:14 PM PDT

Large emitters join other countries in challenging Australia on its emissions reduction target and commitment to renewables

Australia has been been asked to defend the credibility of its Direct Action climate change policy at the UN after several countries submitted questions to the Abbott government querying how the policy would reduce carbon emissions.

The US, China and Brazil – all large emitters – have joined other countries in challenging Australia on its emissions reduction target and commitment to renewables.

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China to unveil $46bn investment in Pakistan during visit by Xi Jingping

Posted: 19 Apr 2015 06:55 PM PDT

Chinese president's rare visit and huge investment is part of plan to expand Beijing's trade and transport footprint across Central and South Asia

The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, was due to make a rare visit to Pakistan on Monday where he is to unveil a $46bn investment plan which it is hoped will end the country's chronic energy crisis and "transform" it into a regional economic hub.

With the plan, known as the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (Cpec), Beijing hopes to ramp up investments in Pakistan as part of its ambitions to expand its trade and transport footprint across Central and South Asia, while countering US and Indian influence.