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- Fidel Castro: leader proves as divisive in death as he was in life
- Clinton camp splits from White House on Jill Stein recount push
- 190,000 ducks destroyed at six Dutch farms after bird flu outbreak
- Hundreds flee homes in occupied West Bank as wildfires continue
- ‘We want to live again’: Mosul’s defiant citizens refuse to leave home
- Southern Africa cries for help as El Niño and climate change savage maize harvest
- Family’s quest for truth reveals top insurer’s link to SS death camps
- Standing Rock protesters will not follow official directive to leave camps
- Seven dead after fishing boat capsizes near Auckland
- World trade hangs in the balance as Trump prepares plan of action
- Jewish leader urges open mind about Trump despite antisemitism concerns
- Russian art collection of Jewish couple who survived the Nazis goes on display
- Brazil's zeppelin gravesite offers last link with the bygone age of the airship
- 'I am the revolution': Fidel Castro’s tools of personality cult and propaganda
- Chesley Sullenberger: an old-fashioned kind of hero
- The Mothers by Brit Bennett review – a bold new voice in American fiction
- ‘A recipe for scandal’: Trump conflicts of interest point to constitutional crisis
- Lake District hotel devastated by Storm Desmond set to reopen
- First Brexit then Trump. Is Italy next for the west’s populist wave?
- Syrian army recaptures part of rebel-held east Aleppo
- China's property frenzy and surging debt raises red flag for economy
- Greens to target George Brandis over 'misconduct' in final sitting week
- Fidel Castro: Justin Trudeau ridiculed over praise of 'remarkable leader'
- Simon Callow: my life, lived gaily
- Castro claimed he tricked the New York Times – but we may be the real dupes
- Fidel Castro: mass rallies set for Havana and Santiago as ashes journey across Cuba
- French conservative primary: François Fillon expected to beat Alain Juppé
- Malaysian cartoonist arrested for criticism of prime minister Najib Razak
- Why do so many Muslim women find it hard to integrate in Britain?
- MPs demand Theresa May permits aid drops to Aleppo
- Fidel Castro: guerrilla leader, dictator – and an unrepentant revolutionary
- Welcome to skyr, the Viking ‘superfood’ waking up Britain
- Copenhagen sex ambulance is safe space for capital’s red-light workers
- Havana mourns Fidel Castro – in pictures
- Missing pilot of 1943 Piper Cub turns up again – in South Sudan
- Castro was ‘champion of social justice’ despite flaws, says Corbyn
- Trump unlikely to reinstate embargo after death of Fidel Castro, analysts say
- Havana in mourning: 'We Cubans are Fidelista even if we are not communist'
- World leaders pay tribute to Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro – video
- Trump and Obama offer divergent responses to death of Fidel Castro
- Mexico reels at nightmare vision of a Donald Trump White House
- Fidel Castro obituary: revolutionary icon finally defeated by infirmity of old age
- Developing world leaders pay respects to Castro, their champion during cold war
- Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif names new chief of army staff
- Fidel Castro’s brother announces death on Cuban state television – video
- ‘He led a humble life’: Fidel Castro’s biographer on the legacy of a revolutionary – video
- A revolutionary icon: Fidel Castro dies aged 90 – video obituary
| Fidel Castro: leader proves as divisive in death as he was in life Posted: 26 Nov 2016 02:00 PM PST Havana mourns as brother and successor president Raúl announces death of Cuba's revolutionary icon – but leader's enemies celebrate Fidel Castro proved as divisive in death as he was in life, with enemies and admirers agreed only on his place in the history books, as a towering figure who transformed a small Caribbean island into a major force in world affairs. Mourning and celebrations began together, soon after his brother and successor president Raúl announced that old age and illness had finally done what the CIA could not manage in hundreds of assassination attempts, and carried the Cuban leader away. Continue reading... |
| Clinton camp splits from White House on Jill Stein recount push Posted: 27 Nov 2016 12:29 AM PST
Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign said on Saturday it would help with efforts to secure recounts in several states, even as the White House defended the declared results as "the will of the American people". Related: Bernie Sanders meets Spike Lee: 'Where do we go? Where is the hope?' Continue reading... |
| 190,000 ducks destroyed at six Dutch farms after bird flu outbreak Posted: 26 Nov 2016 11:17 AM PST Officials check for avian flu at farms surrounding original site as outbreaks of disease reported in Denmark, Finland, Germany and Sweden Some 190,000 ducks were destroyed on Saturday at six farms in the Netherlands following an avian flu outbreak, the country's first cull in response to an epidemic sweeping northern Europe. Outbreaks of avian flu, primarily the highly pathogenic H5N8 strain, have been reported in Denmark, Finland, Germany and Sweden over the past week. Continue reading... |
| Hundreds flee homes in occupied West Bank as wildfires continue Posted: 26 Nov 2016 09:44 AM PST Israeli and Palestinian firefighters, assisted by foreign aircraft, battle dozens of bush blazes near Jewish settlements Wildfires near Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank have forced hundreds to flee their homes, after mass evacuations in Israel and more than a dozen arrests. Israeli and Palestinian firefighters, helped by foreign aircraft, have been battling dozens of bush blazes fed by drought and high winds that have seen tens of thousands of people evacuated. Continue reading... |
| ‘We want to live again’: Mosul’s defiant citizens refuse to leave home Posted: 26 Nov 2016 01:00 PM PST As the Iraqi army advances street by street, the expected exodus is not happening On a main road to central Mosul, just inside the city limits, crowds of people had gathered. Black-clad women stood next to children in vivid winter coats. Old men sat on benches in front of smudged white walls and a young boy on a donkey cart touted for passengers. Business had been brisk in the past few weeks as people left the city for the safety of refugee camps 30 miles east. But not any more. Continue reading... |
| Southern Africa cries for help as El Niño and climate change savage maize harvest Posted: 26 Nov 2016 04:05 PM PST Only half of $600m promised in aid has come Two-year-old Zeka screams as a health worker measures the circumference of her arm while another holds her legs and presses her flesh. The nurses agree: Zeka has clear signs of edema, a swelling condition caused by extreme hunger. "She will live, but she needs to go to hospital. The situation in this area is much worse than when we were here just a few weeks ago. Continue reading... |
| Family’s quest for truth reveals top insurer’s link to SS death camps Posted: 26 Nov 2016 02:00 PM PST Dina Gold researched her family's Berlin past – and uncovered a dark secret dating from the Nazi era When Dina Gold began searching for the Berlin property seized from her family by the Nazis in the 1930s, she had little idea she would unearth a dark secret – how the SS paid millions in premiums to insure a key part of Auschwitz and other death camps to what is still one of Germany's top insurance companies. Gold, a former BBC reporter now living in Washington, wrote earlier this year about her quest to find the massive Berlin building that had housed the headquarters of fur traders H Wolff, owned by her grandparents, which was taken over by the Nazis in 1937, four years after Adolf Hitler came to power. Continue reading... |
| Standing Rock protesters will not follow official directive to leave camps Posted: 26 Nov 2016 12:38 PM PST Dakota access pipeline protest organizers say they will remain at Oceti Sakowin camp: 'We are wardens of this land' Dakota Access oil pipeline protesters will not follow a government directive to leave the federal land where hundreds have camped for months, organizers said on Saturday, despite state officials encouraging them to do so. Related: US army orders eviction of Dakota pipeline protesters' camp, tribe says Continue reading... |
| Seven dead after fishing boat capsizes near Auckland Posted: 26 Nov 2016 07:29 PM PST Three people survived but one is still missing, presumed dead, after the Francie capsized in Kaipara harbour Seven people have died and another is missing, presumed dead, after a fishing boat capsized near Auckland in an incident that New Zealand police have described as a national tragedy. The Francie charter boat capsized mid-afternoon on Saturday in the Kaipara harbour, north-west of Auckland, with 11 people on board. |
| World trade hangs in the balance as Trump prepares plan of action Posted: 26 Nov 2016 08:00 AM PST The president-elect's protectionism has alarmed the WTO and been damned as 'destructive' in a major report. But was it just loud campaign bluster? Donald Trump's determination to stamp his mark on US trade policy "would be horribly destructive", according to the most exhaustive assessment of his pre-election tweets, speeches and declarations in Fox News interviews. Among the more consistent themes in his various pronouncements, the president-elect said he would tear up the Nafta agreement that gives Mexico tariff-free access to US markets on about half of its goods. Continue reading... |
| Jewish leader urges open mind about Trump despite antisemitism concerns Posted: 26 Nov 2016 04:00 AM PST The president-elect's chief strategist, Steve Bannon, has been accused of antisemitic views but a Jewish leader says Trump should be given a chance Donald Trump should be given the benefit of the doubt in appointing people associated with the far right, racism and alleged antisemitism, the leader of one of the US's leading Jewish organisations has said. Jack Rosen, president of the American Jewish Congress, told the Guardian: "I think the president has the right to choose his own people and we should take a look-and-see approach." |
| Russian art collection of Jewish couple who survived the Nazis goes on display Posted: 25 Nov 2016 08:42 AM PST Jacob and Kenda Bar-Gera collected works by non-conformist artists suppressed by the Soviet Union An important collection of underground Russian art collected by a Jewish couple who were liberated from the Nazis by the Red Army will appear at auction in London next week. The 62 works of non-conformist art are remarkable in their own right, coming from a period when abstract or conceptual artists were vigorously suppressed by the Soviet authorities. |
| Brazil's zeppelin gravesite offers last link with the bygone age of the airship Posted: 27 Nov 2016 02:00 AM PST The huge gas-filled aircraft were once a symbol of modernity used to burnish the image of the Nazis. Now a vast hangar near Rio de Janeiro is all that's left The last time a giant swastika flew above the Americas, it was on the zeppelins that pioneered commercial air travel across the Atlantic. The Nazi symbol was emblazoned two storeys tall on the tail of the mammoth dirigibles – which are still the biggest flying machines ever created – in an effort to impress upon the world the scale of fascist ambitions. Continue reading... |
| 'I am the revolution': Fidel Castro’s tools of personality cult and propaganda Posted: 27 Nov 2016 01:39 AM PST The Cuban revolution exercised a powerful hold on artists at home and around the world The front of the official newspaper of the central committee of the Communist party of Cuba was dominated by a shot of Fidel Castro Ruz in his cap, waving the national flag under the historic Cuban slogan: "Hasta la victoria siempre!" There is no raised fist, no customary fat Cuban cigar this time and no gun brandished to underline El Comandante's political fervour. That's because the newspaper, which is called Granma after the yacht used to bring Castro's revolutionary fighters from Mexico to Cuba in 1956, already shows Castro raising a rifle aloft in triumph on its masthead. For 57 years the imagery of Castro and his Cuban revolution has stood for socialist rebellion. Whether despised or admired, its posters and slogans have been adopted as a stylish global shorthand for working-class revolt, more widely recognisable today than Marianne, the fictional French revolutionary mascot, or even Soviet images of Lenin. Continue reading... |
| Chesley Sullenberger: an old-fashioned kind of hero Posted: 27 Nov 2016 01:30 AM PST Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger became a global hero when he landed an airliner on New York's Hudson river in 2009. Now played by Tom Hanks in a film by Clint Eastwood, he talks about how the experience changed him In a voice that is preternaturally calm, Captain Chesley B "Sully" Sullenberger III is talking to me about turbulence. Members of the public, he says, often tell him how much turbulence perturbs them, and though he doesn't remotely share their anxiety, he understands it perfectly. In the sky, after all, we cede control of our future to someone who is unknown to us. Most people, moreover, know very little about the construction of aircraft, much less the endlessly rehearsed systems that keep them above the clouds; we understand aerodynamics not at all. So when the long metal tube in which we are travelling begins to bob and buck, no wonder our hearts beat a little faster, our palms grow hot and sticky. We are human and we panic, even if some of us try very hard indeed not to show the extent of our fear to the man in the aisle seat who is reading Time magazine so nonchalantly. Across the coffee table – we are in a suite at Claridge's in west London, where the art deco furniture is a rather appropriate shade of air force blue – Sullenberger meets my eye and holds it. "Now," he says. "I have some specific advice about turbulence and how you might reframe your thinking about it." A brief pause. "Next time you're a passenger in an automobile, I want you to close your eyes and really concentrate on every bump and jolt in the road. I want you to catalogue them and then to imagine that you are also trying to read or to eat a meal." Another pause. "It would be difficult. The reality is that the average car trip is much rougher than almost any flight. But the difference is that the driver is known to us and it's familiar: we understand how cars work." His voice rises a notch, in the manner of a motivational speaker. "Airplanes are designed to handle the worst turbulence, plus a safety margin of 50%, and pilots are trained to avoid it when they can and to manage it by changing speed and altitude. They are going to take care of you. The airplane is not going to come apart. This is just a temporary inconvenience." Am I soothed? Yes. In this mode, he's mesmeric. But it's hard not to laugh, too. If only director Clint Eastwood had had the wit to call his new movie about Sullenberger This Is Just a Temporary Inconvenience. Continue reading... |
| The Mothers by Brit Bennett review – a bold new voice in American fiction Posted: 27 Nov 2016 01:30 AM PST This tale of absent mothers and the daughters they left behind is an impressive debut The Mothers starts with two traumatic endings: a death and an abortion. The novel's protagonist, 17-year-old Nadia, grief-stricken after her mother's suicide, takes up with the local pastor's son and gets pregnant. She decides to have a termination. The novel follows Nadia as she enters adulthood ("Like most girls, she'd already learned that pretty exposes you and pretty hides you") in an African American community in a Californian military town. Brit Bennett perceptively portrays the impact Nadia's choice has on her life and relationships, focusing on her friendship with another motherless girl, Aubrey. Her decision to put abortion front and centre in the story is in itself extraordinary, given how absent it is in cultural narratives about young women, but she doesn't linger on it, nor does she judge her characters. She is much more interested in what happens afterwards. Continue reading... |
| ‘A recipe for scandal’: Trump conflicts of interest point to constitutional crisis Posted: 27 Nov 2016 01:00 AM PST Experts say president-elect does not understand the law and must sell businesses to avoid electoral college disaster. He seems loath to do so Constitutional lawyers and White House ethics counsellors from Democratic and Republican administrations have warned Donald Trump his presidency might be blocked by the electoral college if he does not give up ownership of at least some of his business empire. "The brand is certainly a hotter brand than it was before," Donald Trump told the New York Times on Wednesday, and his election victory buzz does indeed seem to have been good for business. Continue reading... |
| Lake District hotel devastated by Storm Desmond set to reopen Posted: 26 Nov 2016 04:05 PM PST A year on, the Cumbrian village of Glenridding has come back to life, but fears of more flooding won't go away for the owner of one of its hotels The shallow stream that runs under the bridge in the village of Glenridding and out into Ullswater looks as gentle as the calm, reflective lake it tumbles into. Gazing out at the winter-blue sky and snow-crested hills, Liz Ali both loves and hates this dramatic landscape. "I dread the rain," she smiled. "I just want 5 December to come and go this year, then I can get through the winter. We have been in shock for a long time. I'm proud of what we've achieved but it's been so stressful, so much hard work." Continue reading... |
| First Brexit then Trump. Is Italy next for the west’s populist wave? Posted: 26 Nov 2016 11:00 PM PST Italians will soon vote in a referendum on constitutional reforms which could have dramatic results for all of Europe In the historic centre of Ferrara, an imposing statue of Girolamo Savonarola confronts passersby. Savonarola, a local boy, was a 15th-century preacher of fire and brimstone, making his name denouncing secular vanity, pagan idols and the corruption of clerical elites. The monument hails him as "the scourge of corrupt and slavish times, full of vice and tyrants". Savonarola was hanged for his troubles in 1498, but his brooding, disruptive presence in modern Ferrara seemed apt this month as the city, in northern Italy, hosted a group of modern iconoclasts with their own mission to "clean up" the country. Continue reading... |
| Syrian army recaptures part of rebel-held east Aleppo Posted: 26 Nov 2016 05:13 PM PST Bashar al-Assad's army claims it has taken full control over the Hanano housing district, which is on the northeast frontline of the city's eastern sector The Syrian army has claimed control of an important district in rebel-held eastern Aleppo after fierce fighting, with rebels blaming intense air strikes and lack of hospitals for their collapsing frontline. Government forces advanced with a ground and air assault on the edge of the besieged eastern half of the city, a move the rebels say is designed to split their most important urban stronghold in two. Continue reading... |
| China's property frenzy and surging debt raises red flag for economy Posted: 26 Nov 2016 10:52 PM PST Outstanding loans have risen sharply to 40% of GDP but analysts fear the end of the credit binge could trigger a crisis for the wider world Chinese household debt has risen at an "alarming" pace as property values have soared, analysts have said, raising the risk that a real estate downturn could wreak havoc on the world's second largest economy. Loose credit and changing habits have rapidly transformed the country's famously loan-averse consumers into enthusiastic borrowers. Continue reading... |
| Greens to target George Brandis over 'misconduct' in final sitting week Posted: 26 Nov 2016 10:53 PM PST Party to refer allegations of sweetheart deal between Brandis and WA government to Senate legal committee on Monday Labor and the Greens will use the final sitting week of the year to ramp up pressure on the Turnbull government and attorney general George Brandis. After last week's revelations of an alleged sweetheart deal between Brandis and the West Australian government, which could have cost the commonwealth hundreds of millions of dollars, Labor leader Bill Shorten and Greens' leader Richard Di Natale want to keep the political focus squarely on the Brandis this week. Continue reading... |
| Fidel Castro: Justin Trudeau ridiculed over praise of 'remarkable leader' Posted: 27 Nov 2016 12:26 AM PST Canadian prime minister, whose father was close to the Cuban revolutionary, raised eyebrows with his eulogy to 'legendary' leader Justin Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister, has been mocked and criticised over his praise of the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Following the death of Castro, Trudeau, whose father had a close relationship with the revolutionary, released a statement mourning the loss of a "remarkable leader". Continue reading... |
| Simon Callow: my life, lived gaily Posted: 26 Nov 2016 11:30 PM PST From the Lavender Scare to equal marriage, British attitudes to homosexuality have been transformed, says actor Simon Callow "We that are young," says the Duke of Albany at the end of King Lear, "shall never see so much, nor live so long." But sometimes this sense that history is what happened to our predecessors disappears, and we are aware that we are in the living current of history, that vast developments are taking place, utterly changing our very sense of who we are. Such has been the transformation in attitudes to homosexuality in my lifetime. I was born in 1949, theoretically in the Dark Ages of homosexual experience. But under the threat of imminent extinction, and with many husbands absent for long periods of time during the Second World War, the strict compartmentalisation of sexual desires had broken down. People followed their impulses: who knew whether they'd be alive tomorrow? Peace brought an anxious reassertion of supposedly core values but, at subconscious levels, attitudes had fundamentally changed. Gay men and women who had popped their heads over the parapet ducked down again out of sight, but they were just biding their time. Continue reading... |
| Castro claimed he tricked the New York Times – but we may be the real dupes Posted: 26 Nov 2016 11:00 PM PST Some believed the late Cuban leader when he said he had misled a reporter about the size of his army, but the story of trickery may itself have been false In 1957, the New York Times published a series of glowing stories about a young Cuban rebel named Fidel Castro – coverage that elevated his profile, gave him credibility abroad and helped propel his rise to power. Related: Trump and Obama offer divergent responses to death of Fidel Castro Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Fidel Castro: mass rallies set for Havana and Santiago as ashes journey across Cuba Posted: 26 Nov 2016 10:11 PM PST The revolutionary will be buried alongside other famous Cubans as the country begins nine days of mourning Fidel Castro's ashes will be interred at the Santa Ifigenia cemetery in Santiago de Cuba on 4 December, the Cuban government has announced. As the country began nine days of mourning, huge rallies have been planned in the capital Havana and in the eastern city of Santiago to honor the revolutionary leader. Continue reading... |
| French conservative primary: François Fillon expected to beat Alain Juppé Posted: 26 Nov 2016 08:25 PM PST Millions of French voters will head to the polls on Sunday to select a presidential candidate for the centre-right Republicans party Millions of French voters head to the polls on Sunday to select a presidential candidate for the centre-right Republicans party, with ex-premier François Fillon tipped to emerge the winner and become the favourite for next year's election. The US-style primary contest, the first for the Republicans, is a battle between socially conservative and economic "radical" Fillon and the more moderate Alain Juppé, also a former prime minister who is nine years older at 71. Continue reading... |
| Malaysian cartoonist arrested for criticism of prime minister Najib Razak Posted: 26 Nov 2016 06:03 PM PST Critics say levels of repression are reaching 'dangerous levels' after police detained Zunar at a literary festival and charged him with sedition A Malaysian cartoonist known for lampooning the scandal-plagued prime minister and his family has been arrested for sedition, a move denounced as the latest sign of pressure on government critics. Zulkifli Anwar Ulhaque – who goes by the pen name Zunar – was arrested in Penang state where he was participating in a literary festival. Continue reading... |
| Why do so many Muslim women find it hard to integrate in Britain? Posted: 26 Nov 2016 04:05 PM PST Ahead of a crucial report, we report on the battle faced by Britain's most excluded demographic As gender politics go, it was unquestionably a modest step, but in Bradford's Carlisle business centre the development felt seismic. For five years Haniya had been striving to secure a job in digital marketing. It seemed not to matter that the 28-year-old had the qualifications, the aptitude, the ambition. Friends watched her confidence drain away. Haniya considered removing her hijab, the Islamic headscarf. Burying the fact she was a Muslim became the final option. Continue reading... |
| MPs demand Theresa May permits aid drops to Aleppo Posted: 26 Nov 2016 04:05 PM PST Group calls on PM to allow the RAF to fly food to the besieged city More than 120 MPs – including former Tory cabinet ministers Michael Gove and Andrew Mitchell – today call on Theresa May to authorise immediate airdrops of food and medicine to ease the desperate plight of adults and children trapped in besieged areas of Syria. In a letter to the prime minister, the cross-party group says "the time for excuses is over" and that it is unacceptable that "nearly 100,000 children are facing the slowest, cruellest death because we cannot reach them with food and medical supplies". Continue reading... |
| Fidel Castro: guerrilla leader, dictator – and an unrepentant revolutionary Posted: 26 Nov 2016 04:05 PM PST Fidel Castro was one of the key players in the confrontation between the west and the communist bloc As with Che Guevara, his one-time comrade-in-arms, Fidel Castro was the man who made revolutions sexy. With his wild beard, olive-green military fatigues, darkly petulant good looks and trademark cigars, El Comandante became the anachronistically glamorous face of leftwing totalitarianism. He was Marxism-Leninism's poster boy, a revolutionary enfant terrible and, in a cold war firmament of red stars, the most brilliant, shining – and long-lived – exemplar of recklessly unrepentant revolutionary zeal. But behind the photogenic image, there was deadly serious intent. During the cynical, paranoid years of the post-war era, Castro brought the passion of a true believer to the ideological contest between east and west. He defied the all-powerful United States and encouraged Soviet dreams of world domination. He became a symbol of resistance and an inspirational figure to leftwing insurgents across Africa and Latin America, aiding and abetting their anti-colonial independence movements. Isolated, abused and furiously plotted against, he played the part of political underdog to perfection, an eternal martyr to the cause of global liberation. Continue reading... |
| Welcome to skyr, the Viking ‘superfood’ waking up Britain Posted: 26 Nov 2016 04:04 PM PST One of Iceland's top exports, worth £6.4bn a year globally, is now made in Yorkshire One of Iceland's top dairy experts will arrive in Britain this week to help an adventurous Yorkshire farmer increase production of skyr, a Viking food that was barely known beyond the north Atlantic for a thousand years but is now being marketed as a "superfood". Ten years ago skyr – prounced skeer with a trill on the r – barely registered in the world's yoghurt market. Now, according to global business consultants Future Market Insights, the market for skyr is worth nearly $8bn (£6.4bn) a year and growing fast. Continue reading... |
| Copenhagen sex ambulance is safe space for capital’s red-light workers Posted: 26 Nov 2016 04:04 PM PST A converted vehicle has been designed to act as a sanctuary for Danish sex workers at risk of violence and exploitation Michael Lodberg Olsen rests his buttocks on the board that serves as a bed in Sexelance, his mobile sanctuary for street sex workers, and begins rocking back and forth, his eyes twinkling with amusement. "We thought of putting in something to stop this," he says, as the converted ambulance jumps up and down on its suspension. "But then we thought people might quite like it." Related: Cuts to NHS services for sex workers 'disastrous' say experts Continue reading... |
| Havana mourns Fidel Castro – in pictures Posted: 26 Nov 2016 02:34 PM PST Citizens of the Cuban capital react to the passing of their revolutionary leader Continue reading... |
| Missing pilot of 1943 Piper Cub turns up again – in South Sudan Posted: 26 Nov 2016 02:25 PM PST Maverick 72-year-old Briton Maurice Kirk flying in air rally has been found after disappearing for a second time A maverick 72-year-old British pilot taking part in a vintage air rally turned up in South Sudan on Saturday after going missing for a second time when the event arrived in Kenya. Maurice Kirk is one of about a dozen pilots flying vintage biplanes across Africa, but has repeatedly fallen foul of organisers for failing to stick to rules and regulations. Continue reading... |
| Castro was ‘champion of social justice’ despite flaws, says Corbyn Posted: 26 Nov 2016 02:00 PM PST Labour's Peter Hain and others on the British left temper praise of Cuban leader with criticism Fidel Castro's stubborn defiance of the US struck a chord with many oppressed people in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, who saw parallels between Cuba's struggle and their own. But he also inspired many on the left of British politics, for what he achieved both domestically and abroad, notably in the struggle to overthrow South Africa's apartheid regime. On Saturday at the annual Latin America conference, which took place at the TUC's Congress House, a minute's silence was observed. The former Respect MP George Galloway spoke of Castro's legacy after tweeting a picture of himself with the late Cuban leader and declaring: "You were the greatest man I ever met Comandante Fidel. You were the man of the century. Hasta la Victoria Siempre. Orden. RIP." Continue reading... |
| Trump unlikely to reinstate embargo after death of Fidel Castro, analysts say Posted: 26 Nov 2016 01:25 PM PST President-elect plans a bonfire of Obama policies but fierce Republican opposition to Cuba regime is countered by appetite for business opportunities With the death of Fidel Castro, one bitter sceptic of the US-Cuban thaw has left the scene just as another, Donald Trump, is about to take office. The fate of the policy is left hanging in the balance. During the fight for presidential votes in Florida, home to the Cuban exile community, Trump and running mate Mike Pence promised to reverse the executive orders that relaxed the half-century US embargo on the island. Continue reading... |
| Havana in mourning: 'We Cubans are Fidelista even if we are not communist' Posted: 26 Nov 2016 12:54 PM PST Despite months of veiled goodbyes, the passing of Fidel Castro is still a shock to Cubans, many of whom express dismay at uncertainty to come Havana mourns Castro – in pictures "Revolution … is sacrifice," echoed the trembling voice of an elderly Fidel Castro around the streets of Old Havana at dawn on Saturday, as Cuban state radio began replaying his speeches, the day after his death. Dani, 37, who takes tourists around the cobbled streets on his bicitaxi, had woken to be told the momentous news by a neighbour. "I didn't believe it," he said. Like many Cubans of his generation he had begun to assume that Castro would be around for ever. El Comandante's 80th birthday, a decade ago, had been celebrated with posters declaring "80 more years". Continue reading... |
| World leaders pay tribute to Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro – video Posted: 26 Nov 2016 09:02 AM PST Presidents and prime ministers across the world have begun to publicly pay tribute to Cuba's revolutionary leader, Fidel Castro, who died on Friday at 90 years of age. Castro was a controversial leader who set up communist rule in the country, but heads of state including Canada's Justin Trudeau and Bolivia's Evo Morales extend their condolences to the Castro family and the Cuban people Continue reading... |
| Trump and Obama offer divergent responses to death of Fidel Castro Posted: 26 Nov 2016 08:33 AM PST President offers careful statement extending 'hand of friendship' to Cubans, while his successor launches attack on 'brutal dictator' The first reactions of the US president and president-elect to Fidel Castro's death were entirely neutral, though each in their own distinctive way. Related: Cuba's revolutionary leader, Fidel Castro, dies aged 90 Continue reading... |
| Mexico reels at nightmare vision of a Donald Trump White House Posted: 26 Nov 2016 07:52 AM PST If Donald Trump were to enact his threats to build a border wall, rip up Nafta and block remittances, the effect on the country's economy would be devastating According to Donald Trump, Mexico's leaders are smart, sharp and cunning. His election gives them a chance to prove it. The Republican is not yet in the White House and already a sense of crisis envelopes Mexico. If Trump follows through on campaign promises he could shred Mexico's economy, stability and dignity. Will its leaders rise to the challenge? Continue reading... |
| Fidel Castro obituary: revolutionary icon finally defeated by infirmity of old age Posted: 26 Nov 2016 07:04 AM PST Charismatic leader of the revolution and president of Cuba who bestrode the world stage for half a century •Fidel Castro: Cuba declares nine days of national mourning – live updates Fidel Castro, who has died at the age of 90, was one of the more extraordinary political figures of the 20th century. After leading a successful revolution on a Caribbean island in 1959, he became a player on the global stage, dealing on equal terms with successive leaders of the two nuclear superpowers during the cold war. A charismatic figure from the developing world, his influence was felt far beyond the shores of Cuba. Known as Fidel to friends and enemies alike, his life story is inevitably that of his people and their revolution. Even in old age, he still exercised a magnetic attraction wherever he went, his audience as fascinated by the dinosaur from history as they had once been by the revolutionary firebrand of earlier times. The Russians were beguiled by him (Nikita Khrushchev and Anastas Mikoyan in particular), European intellectuals took him to their hearts (notably Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir), African revolutionaries welcomed his assistance and advice, and the leaders of Latin American peasant movements were inspired by his revolution. In the 21st century, he acquired fresh relevance as the mentor of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela and Evo Morales in Bolivia, the leaders of two unusual revolutions that threatened the hegemony of the US. Only the US itself, which viewed Castro as public enemy No 1 (until they found an "axis of evil" further afield), and the Chinese in the Mao era, who found his political behaviour essentially irresponsible, refused to fall for his charm. It took until Barack Obama's presidency for US restrictions to be eased – but by then intestinal illness had compelled Castro's resignation as president in favour of his brother Raúl, who saw in the historic normalising of relations between the two countries. Nonetheless, Fidel maintained his antagonism until the end, declaring in a letter on his 90th birthday this year that "we don't need the empire to give us anything". Continue reading... |
| Developing world leaders pay respects to Castro, their champion during cold war Posted: 26 Nov 2016 06:46 AM PST From China to South Africa, Algeria to Venezuela, leftwing and anticolonial figures praise man who did not hesitate to send in Cuban troops and medics The death of Fidel Castro has prompted tributes and reflections from current and former leaders across the world and of all political stripes. The Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, urged revolutionaries everywhere to "continue his legacy and carry his flag of independence, of socialism, of homeland", while the Ecuadorian president, Rafael Correa, tweeted: "A great man has gone. Fidel is dead. Long live Cuba! Long live Latin America!" |
| Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif names new chief of army staff Posted: 26 Nov 2016 06:46 AM PST Qamar Javed Bajwa expected to be more amenable to Sharif than predecessor and take a tougher line against militant groups Pakistan's prime minister has named his choice for the next head of the country's army after weeks of uncertainty, and just days before the position falls vacant. A spokesman for Nawaz Sharif said the new chief of army staff would be Qamar Javed Bajwa, a lieutenant general currently in charge of military training. Continue reading... |
| Fidel Castro’s brother announces death on Cuban state television – video Posted: 26 Nov 2016 05:02 AM PST Raúl Castro, the brother and successor of revolutionary icon Fidel Castro, announces the unexpected news that Cuba's former leader has died at the age of 90. Fidel Castro spearheaded a communist revolution in the country over five decades ago, and was the target of numerous CIA-backed assassination attempts over the years. Reading a prepared statement on Cuban state television, Raúl urges the country's people to move "onwards to victory!" Continue reading... |
| ‘He led a humble life’: Fidel Castro’s biographer on the legacy of a revolutionary – video Posted: 26 Nov 2016 02:44 AM PST Ignacio Ramonet reflects on Fidel Castro, the revolutionary leader of Cuba who has died at age 90. Castro was an "excessively respectful" intellectual who succeeded in bringing Latin America onto the international stage, says Ramonet, who co-wrote the leader's autobiography, 'My Life', based on over 100 hours of interviews with the man who many consider an icon
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| A revolutionary icon: Fidel Castro dies aged 90 – video obituary Posted: 26 Nov 2016 02:36 AM PST Cuban leader Fidel Castro has died at the age of 90, state television in the country has announced. Castro was known as one of the most iconic revolutionary leaders in recent history after he led a communist guerrilla army to replace Fulgencio Batista's corrupt dictatorship, and went on to survive countless CIA-backed attempts on his life Continue reading... |
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