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Anti-Trump protests continue across US as 10,000 march in New York
Refugees held in Australian offshore detention to be resettled in US
Four Americans killed and 16 wounded in Afghanistan suicide blast
Colombia's government and Farc rebels agree new peace deal
Isis sends female supporters to serve as frontline suicide bombers
Isis claim responsibility for fatal Pakistan shrine explosion
Jo Cox to share peace prize with the Syrian group she championed
‘Hillary Clinton didn’t fail us. We failed her’
Nigel Farage discusses 'freedom and winning' in meeting with Trump
Surviving Bataclan: 'You have to live life to the full for the people who died'
Understanding Trumpspeak
Trump seeking quickest way to quit Paris climate agreement, says report
Will Trump honour pledge to 'stop sending aid to countries that hate us'?
Bataclan reopens with Eagles of Death Metal singer 'refused entry'
Donald Trump warned by Nato chief that 'going it alone is not an option'
Marine Le Pen, Beppe Grillo, Geert Wilders, Frauke Petry: has their big moment arrived?
‘The challenge is to provide for everyone’: the National Trust under fire
Petina Gappah: ‘I want to write about what makes us into an unkind society’
Labor calls for Australia to indefinitely delay on TPP unless US ratifies it
Bill Shorten says temporary overseas workers 'taking the jobs' of Australians
Refugees found in back of lorry near Channel tunnel
Eight dead in clashes between Myanmar army and militants in Rakhine
Isatu Touray: ‘Who is going to change Gambia, if not us?’
Vladimir Putin’s big problem: America is no longer the enemy
Pro-Russia presidential candidates tipped to win in Bulgaria and Moldova
Sting reopens the Bataclan in emotional gig a year after Paris terror attacks
TV drama aims to shed light on poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko
Indians flock to learn secrets of western dining and grooming
Magnificent men and women to race flying machines across Africa
Marine Le Pen: 'Not a hair's breadth' separates Front National and Ukip
As global axis of power shifts, a cold wind blows through the Baltic states
Former US ambassador to Moscow banned from entering Russia
Tens of thousands demand Park Geun-Hye resign in South Korea – video
Eyewitness: Al Ain City, United Arab Emirates
Five key global tests for the new president
Realising that hate still exists in America is the first way to fight it | Zach Stafford
Resistance and anger: progressives urge Democratic party to stand up and fight
Post-its on New York subway provide post-election therapy – in pictures
Anti-Trump protests continue across US cities – video

Anti-Trump protests continue across US as 10,000 march in New York

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 12:14 PM PST

Demonstrators march from Union Square to Trump Tower while 'million women' protest is planned for inauguration day in Washington DC

Clinton blames Comey letters for election defeat, report says

Protests against the election of Donald Trump continued across the US on Saturday.

Refugees held in Australian offshore detention to be resettled in US

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 04:12 PM PST

Malcolm Turnbull announces one-off agreement for refugees on Manus Island and Nauru to be resettled in US under auspices of the UNHCR
• It's hard for me to leave Manus Island without justice: Behrouz Boochani on the US refugee deal

The Australian government has announced a landmark "one-off" resettlement deal to the United States for some refugees held at Australia's remote offshore detention facilities on Nauru and Manus Island.

On Sunday the prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, and the immigration minister, Peter Dutton, announced a deal that would prioritise families, women and children for settlement with "the prospect" that some others of the 1,616 people found to be refugees so far in offshore detention would be resettled in the US.

Four Americans killed and 16 wounded in Afghanistan suicide blast

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 08:31 AM PST

Taliban claim responsibility for Afghanistan attack at Nato airfield
Polish service member also wounded as US promises investigation

Four Americans were killed and 17 people, 16 of them American, were wounded when a Taliban suicide bomber dressed as a labourer blew himself up at a Nato airbase in Afghanistan on Saturday.

Colombia's government and Farc rebels agree new peace deal

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 08:24 PM PST

Weeks after referendum defeat, both sides say they have drafted new agreement featuring amendments to original deal

Colombia's government and the Marxist Farc rebels said on Saturday they agreed on a revised peace deal to end a 52-year war, six weeks after the original was narrowly rejected in a referendum amid objections it was too favourable to the rebels.

The government and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, which have been holding talks in Havana for four years, said they had incorporated proposals from the opposition, religious leaders and others.

Isis sends female supporters to serve as frontline suicide bombers

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 01:58 PM PST

As jihadis retreat from key Middle East territories, they have made a 'drastic U-turn' on deploying female recruits, posing a challenge for security organisations

Islamic State is using increasing numbers of women to evade security measures and spearhead a wave of attacks across Europe and the Islamic world as it loses territory in the Middle East.

Previously, female members of Isis have been confined to support roles and kept away from the battlefield. However, this policy appears to have been reversed in the summer, as military pressure on its main strongholds in Iraq, Syria and Libya intensified and substantial territory began to be lost. Researchers describe a "drastic U-turn".

Isis claim responsibility for fatal Pakistan shrine explosion

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 10:08 AM PST

Dozens killed and scores more wounded in blast at Shah Noorani Sufi shrine, north of Karachi

A bomb exploded at a shrine in Pakistan, killing dozens of people and injuring scores more, officials said. Islamic State later claimed responsibility for the attack.

Reports say 50 people were killed, with about 100 more wounded, although local media warned the death toll was likely to rise because of the large number of injured and the challenging nature of the rescue operation.

Jo Cox to share peace prize with the Syrian group she championed

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 04:46 AM PST

MP is honoured with the White Helmets on the eve of Thomas Mair's trial for her murder

The MP Jo Cox is to receive a posthumous peace prize jointly with the Syrian civil volunteer group known as the White Helmets, which she supported in the last years of her life.

The MP will be remembered next week at the Rising Global Peace Forum, launched in Coventry last year by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The recognition comes as the trial of Thomas Mair, the man accused of shooting Cox on 16 June near her constituency office in Birstall, West Yorkshire, begins tomorrow.

‘Hillary Clinton didn’t fail us. We failed her’

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 03:01 AM PST

Sarah Churchwell examines the myths, stories and misogyny surrounding American women and power

• 'We are witnessing the politics of humiliation' – Siri Hustvedt, Joyce Carol Oates and more on the US election

For 240 years, America has toyed with the idea of a woman becoming president. This year, for an all too brief moment, it looked as if the idea might become a reality. But the dream of a female president has remained just that, a disingenuous myth America occasionally serves up in fictions, but never permits to spill into its facts. Instead of witnessing the landmark moment of a woman moving into the Oval Office, we can now see the all-too-real misogyny that became a feature of the 2016 presidential campaign bedding down in the corridors of power. When Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton a "nasty woman" in the final debate, only a few days after a series of recordings revealed him admitting to a series of sexual aggressions and assaults, many people thought it was the end of his bid for the presidency. Instead, social media during election night revealed Trump supporters – male and female – voicing the diehard view that a woman is simply not capable of being president, too weak to stand up to foreign leaders and the military.

The sucker punch for those of us who believe that this particular woman was spectacularly more ready for the White House than her grossly underqualified and abusive opponent is that – as has historically been the case – once again, a female candidate did not carry even the female vote. A staggering 53% of white women voted against Clinton and for the man whose statements and attitudes brought misogyny, kicking and screaming, into the light.

Nigel Farage discusses 'freedom and winning' in meeting with Trump

Posted: 13 Nov 2016 12:25 AM PST

Ukip leader who played key role in Brexit vote meets president-elect
Says of Trump Tower meeting: 'He was relaxed and full of good ideas'
Trump, pragmatist? President-elect's stances seem to shift after win

A senior adviser to Donald Trump has confirmed that the president-elect met UK Independence party leader Nigel Farage, saying the two men discussed "freedom and winning". Farage later indicated he and Trump had discussed the placing of a bust of Sir Winston Churchill "back in [the] Oval Office".

Surviving Bataclan: 'You have to live life to the full for the people who died'

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 02:00 AM PST

A year after the attack on the Eagles of Death Metal concert, survivors are still feeling the mental and physical impact

As rock music played in her kitchen in a Paris suburb, Audrey, 24, was trying to stay positive as she prepared for surgery the following week – her 12th major operation since she was shot during the terrorist attack at the Bataclan concert hall last year.

"I'm really grateful to the doctors who've worked so hard to try to save my foot, but I've had to come to terms with the fact it might be amputated one day," she said, with crutches and painkillers nearby. "You just have to keep your spirits up and keep living life to the full, for the sake of all the people who died that night. You can't give up, you have to live for them, and I think about them all the time."

Understanding Trumpspeak

Posted: 13 Nov 2016 02:00 AM PST

With Obama, we often got poetry. With Trump, we will be getting ad-speak. But rest assured: it will be big, bold and daring

The US was established with perhaps the most brilliant advertisement ever written, the Declaration of Independence, and president-elect Donald Trump is first and foremost a classic American salesman, in a tradition that includes Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt, Eugene O'Neill's Hickey in The Iceman Cometh and, of course, Arthur Miller's Willy Loman. Trump is always selling something, and he's always pitching to get our attention with the "very special – so special" things he's offering.

Trump seeking quickest way to quit Paris climate agreement, says report

Posted: 13 Nov 2016 01:02 AM PST

The president-elect wants to bypass the theoretical four-year procedure to exit the accord, according to a Reuters source

Donald Trump is looking at quick ways of withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement in defiance of widening international backing for the plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions, Reuters has reported.

Since the US president-elect was chosen, governments ranging from China to small island states have reaffirmed support for the 2015 Paris agreement at 200-nation climate talks running until 18 November in Marrakesh, Morocco.

Will Trump honour pledge to 'stop sending aid to countries that hate us'?

Posted: 13 Nov 2016 01:00 AM PST

Campaigners fear Trump's presidency could spell the beginning of the end for USAID, with development funding redirected on to home soil

Concerns that Donald Trump will dramatically cut US aid spending and oversee a withdrawal from global development have sent shockwaves through NGOs and others who fear what the impact of his presidency will be on the world's largest donor of international humanitarian and development funding.

Following a campaign in which he said little about the issue, those searching for clues are pouring over a handful of tweets and other brief references, such as his pledge to "stop sending foreign aid to countries that hate us and use that money to rebuild our tunnels, roads, bridges and schools".

Bataclan reopens with Eagles of Death Metal singer 'refused entry'

Posted: 13 Nov 2016 12:56 AM PST

Theatre manager says Jesse Hughes was not welcome at Sting concert to reopen venue where 89 died last year in massacre

Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse Hughes was turned away from Sting's concert at the Bataclan in Paris, according to the venue's management, who said he was "not welcome".

The American rock band were performing in the theatre on 13 November last year when it was attacked by Islamic extremist suicide bombers, who killed 89 people.

Donald Trump warned by Nato chief that 'going it alone is not an option'

Posted: 13 Nov 2016 12:17 AM PST

Exclusive: West facing its 'greatest challenge to security in a generation' says Jens Stoltenberg as he speaks of his fears for alliance between Europe and US

Nato's secretary-general has issued a dramatic warning to the US president-elect Donald Trump: "Going it alone is not an option, either for Europe or for the United States."

Writing exclusively in the Observer, the leader of the western military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, claims the west faces its greatest security challenge in a generation.

Marine Le Pen, Beppe Grillo, Geert Wilders, Frauke Petry: has their big moment arrived?

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 01:16 PM PST

With elections due across Europe and a referendum in Italy, the establishment fears political tremors

Dogged by the migration crisis and the traumatic business of Brexit – to name just two current, existential challenges to their project – those who run the European Union felt they had enough on their plates before Donald Trump seized the White House.

News of his triumph broke on Europe, as had that of the British vote to leave the European Union on 23 June, in defiance of opinion pollsters and the assumptions of political elites that maintained that the world's most advanced democracy could never deliver such a blow to the established order. Then it did.

‘The challenge is to provide for everyone’: the National Trust under fire

Posted: 13 Nov 2016 12:30 AM PST

The conservation organisation is increasingly focused on reaching a wider range of people. But recent controversies highlight deep divisions over its purpose

The Vyne in Hampshire, in the care of the National Trust since 1956, has something of a split personality, comprising as it does the remains of a Tudor mansion, built for Henry VIII's Lord Chamberlain, Lord Sandys, and an 18th century country pile, once the home of the vividly named Chaloner Chute, speaker of the House of Commons in the last Commonwealth parliament. Henry VIII visited it three times, twice with Catherine of Aragon – in its panelled Oak Gallery you can still see the pomegranates that were carved in her honour – and once with Anne Boleyn, whom Sandys, ever the diplomat, would later escort to her imprisonment in the Tower. Chute, meanwhile, commissioned John Webb, Inigo Jones's most talented pupil, to provide the new building with a classical portico, the first of its kind to adorn an English country house; and his great-grandson, John, a friend of Horace Walpole, designed its Palladian staircase, an ambitious addition whose luxuriant appearance belies its relatively diminutive size.

From where I'm standing, you can see both parts of the building with a single half-turn of the head, though not their contents, for I am high up, perched on the leadwork between its two roofs. If I lean over, I can touch the tiles, attached to ancient beams with only one pin, that have, on the Tudor side, lately been causing the Vyne's custodians so much trouble (in 2014, the roof leaked so badly, the tapestries below had to be removed for safekeeping), while straight ahead is a brick chimney, standing at a drunken angle that is almost, but not quite, comical. It's an amazing vantage point, the mottled engineering of the structures around me reinforcing the house's extraordinary history better than any oil painting or marble bust ever could. But I can't be too smug. This view is a privilege that will soon be extended to every person who visits the Vyne. When, early next year, a £5.4m project begins to replace the roof and straighten the chimneys, the Trust will not close the property, as it might once have done. Rather, it will incorporate a roof-height walkway in the scaffolding, around which members of the public, vertigo allowing, will be invited to walk at their leisure. There will also, for those without the mobility to climb stairs, be a lift.

Petina Gappah: ‘I want to write about what makes us into an unkind society’

Posted: 13 Nov 2016 02:00 AM PST

The prizewinning Zimbabwean author on tackling everyone from Mugabe to aid workers – and her homeland's sense of humour

Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean writer. Her debut short story collection, Elegy for Easterly, won the Guardian First Book award, and she has published one novel, The Book of Memory. Her new collection of short stories, Rotten Row, is published by Faber.

These short stories are linked by the theme of crime and justice. Why did you choose that as your focus?
In 2010, I read two collections of short stories, Crime and Guilt, by Ferdinand von Schirach, who is a lawyer in Germany and has represented many criminals. I thought it was such a brilliant idea, and then I completely forgot about it. But when I moved back to Zimbabwe in 2011 after years living in Geneva, I was amazed by the amount of space all the newspapers devoted to reporting crimes – both serious crimes and more opportunistic ones. It struck me that the criminal justice system links everyone together, from the top politicians to the street vendors – it cuts across the boundaries of race and class. So it was a theme that allowed me to build up a whole panorama of Zimbabwean society.

Labor calls for Australia to indefinitely delay on TPP unless US ratifies it

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 09:17 PM PST

Opposition releases letter calling on government to put off further consideration of Trans-Pacific Partnership following Donald Trump's election

Labor has asked the government to indefinitely delay consideration of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, arguing it is doomed now due to US president-elect Donald Trump's opposition.

On Sunday Labor released a letter the deputy chairman of Australian parliament's joint standing committee on treaties (Jscot), Michael Danby, wrote to the chairman, Stuart Robert, on Thursday proposing the committee not report on the TPP unless Congress planned to consider it.

Bill Shorten says temporary overseas workers 'taking the jobs' of Australians

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 10:34 PM PST

Opposition leader denies shift to anti-globalisation message but says Australia must learn from Donald Trump's victory

More than 1m people come to Australia with temporary work visas that leave them vulnerable to exploitation and take jobs that could be filled by Australians, Bill Shorten has argued.

Shorten made the comment at a press conference on Sunday after a speech to the Victorian Labor state conference in which he said Labor needed to redouble its effort to appeal to the political centre after the US presidential election.

Refugees found in back of lorry near Channel tunnel

Posted: 13 Nov 2016 01:40 AM PST

Police called to Gillingham Business Park in Kent after reports of people stowed away in HGV

Nine refugees have been found hidden in the back of a lorry at a business park near the Channel tunnel.

Police were called to Gillingham Business Park in Kent at 1.20pm on Friday after reports of people stowed away in a HGV. The nine were taken to Dover and handed to Home Office immigration officials, Kent police said.

Eight dead in clashes between Myanmar army and militants in Rakhine

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 11:32 PM PST

Skirmishes between soldiers and minority Rohingya Muslims in the west of the country mark the largest escalation of the month-old conflict

Eight people died and 36 were arrested in clashes between the Myanmar army and what the government believes are Rohingya Muslim militants in northern Rakhine State, state media said on Sunday, in the largest escalation of the month-old conflict yet.

Skirmishes took place throughout Saturday in villages in the north of Rakhine, leaving one officer and one soldier dead. Six bodies of attackers were recovered in the aftermath, while 36 other people believed to be involved were arrested.

Isatu Touray: ‘Who is going to change Gambia, if not us?’

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 11:00 PM PST

Isatu Touray will run in elections against Yahya Jammeh, whose rule has fuelled the refugee crisis

Dr Isatou Touray is on the campaign trail. Over the coming 15 days, the 61-year-old women's rights activist and academic will cover hundreds of miles, bouncing over rutted rural roads and through narrow lanes in crowded cities, addressing rally after rally.

Most will be small affairs on scrubby soccer pitches in villages or supporters' yards. A few will be joyous, as political meetings in Africa often are. But most will be restrained, with fear of the present as powerful as any hope for change in the future.

Vladimir Putin’s big problem: America is no longer the enemy

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 11:00 PM PST

The Kremlin may struggle to adjust now there is a fellow neoconservative in the White House

Two days before the US election, state TV channel Russia 24 launched a countdown timer of the hours and minutes left until polls opened – a level of hype and anticipation far exceeding that witnessed during Russia's own recent parliamentary elections.

But for all the professions of mutual admiration between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, the mood in the country post-vote should be described as confusion not euphoria. The response from some officials was joyous – members of the state duma gave a round of applause; Viktor Nazarov, the governor of the Omsk region, announced that Putin's party, United Russia, had triumphed in America; and Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of Russia Today TV, tweeted that she wanted to drive around Moscow with an American flag flying from the window.

Pro-Russia presidential candidates tipped to win in Bulgaria and Moldova

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 10:21 PM PST

Elections in the former Soviet bloc countries pose a test for the EU against an increasingly expansionist Russia

Voters in Bulgaria and Moldova could extend Moscow's influence in eastern Europe on Sunday in potential fresh blows to the European Union.

Bulgarians are expected to elect a Russia-friendly former air force commander as president in a runoff election, setting the stage for months of political uncertainty for the EU member country.

Sting reopens the Bataclan in emotional gig a year after Paris terror attacks

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 04:50 PM PST

Former Police frontman performed in front of many grieving parents and survivors of attack in which 90 people were killed by jihadis

Legendary Paris rock venue, the Bataclan, has reopened with an emotional gig by the British singer Sting, a year after jihadi gunmen burst in and killed 90 people during a series of terrorist attacks in the French capital.

The former Police frontman, 65, appeared on stage to cheers as hundreds of concert-goers including families of the victims and survivors, crowded together struggling to comprehend how gunmen could have burst into the venue – now completely refurbished to cover up its lasting scars, including a new stage and red velvet curtains – and opened fire on music fans in one of the most brutal attacks on French soil since the second world war.

TV drama aims to shed light on poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 04:05 PM PST

A decade on, the chilling story of the Russian spy's murder is to be screened by a major network

International espionage, poisoned teapots, mysterious radiation traces, political assassination: there is no question the facts surrounding the murder of Alexander Litvinenko have plenty of dramatic potential. But, 10 years on, they also still have powerful diplomatic implications.

Indians flock to learn secrets of western dining and grooming

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 04:05 PM PST

Mumbai image consultants are charging up to £1,000 a day to teach etiquette

When Akshay Shah watches his hero – the suave, quick-witted corporate lawyer Harvey Specter in the US television series Suits – he says to himself, "Akshay, you should be like him."

Aged 24, Shah already runs a successful real estate firm in the Indian financial capital, Mumbai, but something about the character's behaviour inspires him. "It is just the way he's suited up, the way he speaks, it's everything," he says. "I want to be like him, I want that same confidence."

Magnificent men and women to race flying machines across Africa

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 04:05 PM PST

Vintage Air Rally will challenge entrants to fly from Cairo to the Cape in 35 days

Sam Rutherford wouldn't necessarily call himself a daredevil but he admits he is about to embark on an act of derring-do. Whether that act is brave or foolhardy he will soon find out. So, too, will the 40 men and women – husband-and-wife teams, fathers and daughters, even entire families – who have decided to fly more than 8,000 miles across Africa in aircraft that were designed to do little more than short-distance hauls in perfect conditions.

"It would be fair to call them antiques," says Rutherford of the 15 single-engine biplanes participating in the race. "They were built to go no further than 400 miles. The pressure is going to be unrelenting, a bit like a Formula One driver pushing himself to do one race after another over 35 days."

Marine Le Pen: 'Not a hair's breadth' separates Front National and Ukip

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 04:00 PM PST

French far-right leader tells The Andrew Marr Show that the two parties share the same anti-EU and immigration stance

The leader of France's far-right Front National has said not a "hair's breadth" separates her party from Nigel Farage's Ukip.

Marine Le Pen said it was "ridiculous" for Farage and his colleagues to pretend otherwise. Pressed on the BBC's The Andrew Marr Show about why Ukip refused to associate itself with the FN, Le Pen said: "Sorry, but objectively there is – on the topic of immigration and the European Union – not a hair's breadth of difference between what Ukip thinks and what the National Front thinks, let's be truthful.

As global axis of power shifts, a cold wind blows through the Baltic states

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 12:44 PM PST

After 25 years of independence, Lithuania worries that Nato splits and US isolationism might open the door to Russian aggression

Donald Trump appeared overnight on a wall in the Lithuanian capital this spring – larger than lifesize and locked in a kiss with Russian president Vladimir Putin.

The mural was meant as satire, a nod to the unexpected mutual appreciation between two macho demagogues on opposite sides of the world, and a wink at the long shadow of Soviet history that still hangs over the region.

Former US ambassador to Moscow banned from entering Russia

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 06:29 AM PST

Michael McFaul applied for visa to help Hillary Clinton prepare for office
Russian source says ambassador was banned in 2014

Russia has banned Michael McFaul, a former US ambassador to Moscow under Barack Obama, from entering the country, McFaul and Russian foreign ministry sources said.

Tens of thousands demand Park Geun-Hye resign in South Korea – video

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 05:12 AM PST

An estimated 170,000 protesters marched through the streets of the South Korean capital Seoul on Saturday, calling for President Park Geun-Hye
to resign. In the third peaceful mass protest against the Park government saw people express their unhappiness over a growing corruption scandal surrounding the president. Park is accused of allowing Choi Soon-sil. a close friend, to exerting undue influence of the South Korea government

Tens of thousands march demanding South Korean president Park Geun-Hye resign

Eyewitness: Al Ain City, United Arab Emirates

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 04:33 AM PST

Photographs from the Eyewitness series

Five key global tests for the new president

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 10:00 PM PST

The 45th commander-in-chief is fresh to public office and has never served in the armed forces. Will he keep a cool head?

Picture the scene. A US Air Force F-16 Falcon has come down over Syria. The pilot is being held by Islamic State which threatens to behead him. Video shows the pilot being tortured in a cage, while the terrorists taunt new US president, Donald Trump. The pilot's family plead for the White House to save him. The drama is dominating the 24-hour TV news networks. It's a media storm. What will Trump do?

Answer: nobody has a clue. Trump lacks military experience. He has never served in the armed forces. Nor does he have any background in diplomacy. What Trump does have, by all accounts, is a short fuse – a tendency to shoot first and ask questions later. His predecessors would have played for time, appealed to local allies, or pursued deniable, back-door talks while examining options for a rescue.

Realising that hate still exists in America is the first way to fight it | Zach Stafford

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 04:05 PM PST

Ignoring the Republican's language was a mistake that minority groups in America need to learn from

The first time I was in the same room as Donald Trump was in the summer of 2015, right after he'd begun focusing his rhetoric on how Mexicans were rapists to aid his argument that we needed a wall between the US and Mexico.

Back then no one actually imagined that the man we all knew from his hotels or reality show could be a serious candidate for president, let alone the actual president. This was made evident as I sat in the Chicago ballroom. Colleagues sitting close by were seemingly not bothered by anything he said. One reporter was even flipping through a magazine as she let her recorder run.

Resistance and anger: progressives urge Democratic party to stand up and fight

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 09:00 AM PST

Keith Ellison emerges as a top contender to lead the DNC in the fight against Trump, while Howard Dean and Martin O'Malley say they are considering bids

The morning after election day was supposed to be one of reckoning for Republicans battered by internal strife over their unpopular nominee, Donald Trump.

Instead, it was the Democrats who awoke to a harrowing new world. Hillary Clinton's stunning defeat on Tuesday left the party leaderless and opened a struggle for control.

Post-its on New York subway provide post-election therapy – in pictures

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 07:58 AM PST

An art installation has been set up on the walls of a 14th Street subway stop, encouraging people to put their thoughts on Post-it notes to protest Trump's election win. The idea was created by the artist Levee, and hundreds of people have participated

Anti-Trump protests continue across US cities – video

Posted: 12 Nov 2016 03:42 AM PST

Thousands of people take to the streets of American cities for another night of demonstrations against the election of Republican Donald Trump. In Portland police used teargas against crowds again, while police closely escorted people in Philadelphia and Miami

Anti-Trump protesters gear up for weekend demonstrations across the US