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- Gambian president Yahya Jammeh rejects election result
- Russian state doped more than 1,000 athletes and corrupted London 2012
- Barack Obama orders 'full review' of possible Russian hacking in US election
- ECB refuses to help Italy's crisis-hit Monte dei Paschi bank
- Nana Akufo-Addo wins poll to become Ghana's president
- Seven penguins drown in latest deadly incident at Calgary zoo
- Jury hears Dylann Roof confession on third day of Charleston shooting trial
- Two female suicide bombers kill at least 30 at Nigerian market
- Geert Wilders found guilty of inciting discrimination
- From traitors to heroes: Sri Lanka pardons 19 who resisted British rule
- Romania set to go to polls as anti-graft party eyes kingmaker role
- Solomon Islands shaken by second earthquake in two days
- Aleppo bombing will continue until rebels leave, Russia says
- Mexican military not meant to serve in drug cartel crackdown, top general says
- CIA concludes Russia interfered to help Trump win election, say reports
- US to send 200 more troops to Syria ahead of Raqqa assault
- Cameroonian ranger killed by wildlife poachers
- 'My worries are not over': diary of a 16-year-old Afghan refugee
- Burmese military killed seven of my children, says Rohingya refugee
- Gambian president-elect vows to return country to Commonwealth
- Man dies after being shot on London street
- Athens' emblematic concert hall struggles to keep the music playing
- Canada sets its first national carbon price at C$10 a tonne
- Dreamworld nightmare overshadows theme park reopening
- Time for China to release writers, journalists and activists | Letters
- Who is toying with girls’ futures? | Letters
- Greece under fire over Christmas bonus for low-income pensioners
- Florida lifts last of Miami's 'Zika zones'
- Morocco judge acquits girls accused of homosexuality
- Colombia Zika outbreak: microcephaly cases four times higher this year
- Indigenous group in Peru vows to block oil drilling on Amazon ancestral land
- Dutch police arrest terror suspect and seize arsenal of weapons
- Brazil's austerity package decried by UN as attack on poor people
- Bung bungle: Italian mayor tells of brazen biscuit-tin bribe
- Are you voting in Romania's election?
- Ohio 'heartbeat' abortion bill could be test case for overturning Roe v Wade
- Syrian refugees in Canada lose support one year on: 'How are we going to live?'
- US government scrambles to respond to surge of migrants at Mexico border
- Eyewitness: Moscow
- South Korean president Park Geun-hye faces impeachment – video report
- Calls for action as 'honour' killings in Jordan show sharp increase
- Trump's cabinet looks increasingly conventional but far from moderate
- White House says Obama has ordered 'full review' of election hacking – video
| Gambian president Yahya Jammeh rejects election result Posted: 09 Dec 2016 10:08 PM PST Beaten president had conceded the result to Adama Barrow, but now claims 'fresh and transparent elections' need to be held The Gambia's president Yahya Jammeh has rejected the outcome of last week's election, which he lost to opposition leader Adama Barrow, and called for a fresh vote. The announcement made on state TV on Friday throws the future of the West African country into doubt after an unexpected election result that ended Jammeh's 22-year rule and was widely seen as a moment of democratic hope. Continue reading... |
| Russian state doped more than 1,000 athletes and corrupted London 2012 Posted: 09 Dec 2016 03:30 AM PST • Figure revealed in Professor Richard McLaren's second report into doping • 'London Games corrupted on an unprecedented scale,' says McLaren The London 2012 Olympics were "corrupted on an unprecedented scale" by Russia's government and sports authorities, who colluded to ensure its sports stars were able to take a cocktail of banned performance-enhancing drugs yet evade doping tests, it has been revealed. A 144-page report by the respected Canadian law professor Richard McLaren on behalf of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) also found that more than 1,000 Russians athletes across more than 30 sports – including football – were involved in or benefited from state-sponsored doping between 2011 and 2015. Continue reading... |
| Barack Obama orders 'full review' of possible Russian hacking in US election Posted: 09 Dec 2016 09:26 AM PST President's decision to have US intelligence agencies look over evidence comes after unrelenting pressure from Democratic lawmakers to declassify information Barack Obama has ordered US intelligence to review evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election after coming under sustained pressure from congressional Democrats. The review will be one of Obama's final instructions to the intelligence agencies, which will soon report to Donald Trump, whom congressional Democrats consider the beneficiary of a hack targeting the Democratic National Committee. Continue reading... |
| ECB refuses to help Italy's crisis-hit Monte dei Paschi bank Posted: 09 Dec 2016 11:23 AM PST Italian government may have to prop up world's oldest bank as recapitalisation deal falters Fears that the Italian government will have to prop up Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) are mounting after the European Central Bank refused to give the world's oldest bank more time to find major investors to back a €5bn (£4.2bn) cash injection. Trading in the troubled bank's shares was repeatedly halted on the Italian stock exchange on Friday. The MPS share price closed 10% lower as the bank's board held a meeting that had already been scheduled before the reports that the ECB had rejected its calls for an extension to the deadline to bolster its financial position. Continue reading... |
| Nana Akufo-Addo wins poll to become Ghana's president Posted: 09 Dec 2016 01:16 PM PST Incumbent John Mahama concedes defeat after opponent wins 53.8% of vote Ghana's main opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo has won the presidency in his third run for the office. State broadcaster Ghana Television said on Friday that the president, John Mahama, had conceded defeat in a telephone call that Akufo-Addo confirmed soon after. Continue reading... |
| Seven penguins drown in latest deadly incident at Calgary zoo Posted: 09 Dec 2016 11:10 AM PST Officials believe penguins were sent into panic at zoo which has seen several other accidents including an otter who died after becoming entangled in trousers A Canadian zoo has launched an investigation into the deaths of seven penguins at the facility, which are believed to have drowned in a state of panic. "It was obviously something we did not expect to find," said Jamie Dorgan, the director of animal care for the Calgary Zoo. "It's a very odd situation, very odd circumstances and nothing we've ever encountered before." Continue reading... |
| Jury hears Dylann Roof confession on third day of Charleston shooting trial Posted: 09 Dec 2016 12:01 PM PST Video recording of Roof saying 'I killed them' while laughing is shown for the first time at death penalty trial for June 2015 murders of nine people Dylann Roof hesitated for about 20 seconds when an FBI agent asked him what he was doing on the night nine black church members were killed during Bible study in Charleston, South Carolina. "Uh, I did it," Roof said in a video recording played for the public for the first time on Friday at his death penalty trial. After he waived his rights and about a minute of small talk, the agents pressed Roof gently – asking him exactly what he did. He paused for another 30 seconds or so. Continue reading... |
| Two female suicide bombers kill at least 30 at Nigerian market Posted: 09 Dec 2016 08:10 AM PST Boko Haram blamed for blasts which struck at opposite ends of food market and left dozens dead and 67 people wounded Two women carried out suicide bombings at a bustling market in the north-east Nigerian town of Madagali on Friday morning, killing at least 30 people and wounding 67, the army said. The attack came as the Nigerian government claimed it was routing the Boko Haram extremists blamed for the blasts. Continue reading... |
| Geert Wilders found guilty of inciting discrimination Posted: 09 Dec 2016 03:59 AM PST Court declines to sentence Dutch far-right leader over comments that were 'demeaning towards Moroccan population' The Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders has been found guilty of inciting discrimination against Dutch Moroccans in a verdict that is expected to intensify the debate about migration in the Netherlands. A panel of three judges ruled that the Freedom party (PVV) leader's comments in a post-election speech in 2014 were "demeaning and thereby insulting towards the Moroccan population". Hendrik Steenhuis, chairman of the judges, said the remarks were clearly aimed at an ethnic population group and delivered in a televised speech for maximum effect. Continue reading... |
| From traitors to heroes: Sri Lanka pardons 19 who resisted British rule Posted: 09 Dec 2016 07:27 AM PST President revokes colonial-era order and declares 19 leaders of 1818 uprising 'patriotic war heroes' who fought for freedom A group of Sri Lankans who rebelled against British colonial rule have been celebrated as war heroes, almost 200 years after they were condemned as traitors and executed. The group of 19 included one of the leaders of the 1818 rebellion, Keppetipola Disawe, who was beheaded. His unusually shaped skull was then brought back to the UK and placed in a medical museum in Edinburgh, and only returned after official requests in 1954. Continue reading... |
| Romania set to go to polls as anti-graft party eyes kingmaker role Posted: 09 Dec 2016 02:32 AM PST Centre-left PSD set to fall short of majority, with Save Romania Union poised to step in as junior partner in new coalition Romanians go to the polls on Sunday to elect a government, with the centre-left PSD party projected to win the most seats but fall short of a majority, leaving it vulnerable to a rival coalition involving a new anti-corruption party. After a year of cautious caretaker rule by technocrats since massive street protests over the deaths of 64 people in a Bucharest nightclub fire forced the former PSD regime from power, the dominant party of Romanian politics has topped all recent polls. Continue reading... |
| Solomon Islands shaken by second earthquake in two days Posted: 09 Dec 2016 09:36 PM PST 6.9 magnitude tremor – felt as far away as Australia – leads to temporary tsunami warning and reports of damage in remote areas The Solomon Islands were rattled by a 6.9 magnitude earthquake on Saturday, a day after hundreds of people along the coast fled into the hills following a 7.8 magnitude tremor. The latest quake initially triggered a fresh tsunami warning for the Solomons but that was lifted by authorities a short time later. No deaths were reported. Continue reading... |
| Aleppo bombing will continue until rebels leave, Russia says Posted: 09 Dec 2016 08:54 AM PST Statement comes one day after Moscow said Syrian military would pause its strikes to allow civilians to leave city The bombardment of Aleppo will continue as long as opposition fighters remain in the Syrian city, Russia's foreign minister has said a day after pledging to halt combat operations to allow civilians to leave. "After a humanitarian pause [the strikes] have resumed and will continue for as long as the bandits are still in Aleppo," Sergei Lavrov told journalists on Friday at a meeting of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Continue reading... |
| Mexican military not meant to serve in drug cartel crackdown, top general says Posted: 09 Dec 2016 11:34 AM PST Gen Salvador Cienfuegos encouraged soldiers to return to barracks a decade after being surrogates for police in conflict full of violence and human rights abuses A decade after Mexico sent its soldiers into the streets to combat drug cartels, the country's top general has said troops should head back to their barracks, arguing their role is ill-defined and counterproductive. Related: Mexico's war on drugs: what has it achieved and how is the US involved? Continue reading... |
| CIA concludes Russia interfered to help Trump win election, say reports Posted: 10 Dec 2016 01:29 AM PST Intelligence agency reportedly believes individuals acting for Moscow hacked Democratic party emails and gave them to WikiLeaks US intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia interfered in last month's presidential election to boost Donald Trump's bid for the White House, according to reports. A secret CIA assessment found that Russian operatives covertly interfered in the election campaign in an attempt to ensure the Republican candidate's victory, the Washington Post has reported, citing officials briefed on the matter. |
| US to send 200 more troops to Syria ahead of Raqqa assault Posted: 10 Dec 2016 01:07 AM PST Extra troops will include special operations forces and are in addition to the 300 US troops already working in region The US is to increase its troop presence in Syria by as many as 200 to help Kurdish and Arab fighters launch an assault on Islamic State's key stronghold of Raqqa, the country's defence secretary has confirmed. Ash Carter said extra troops would include special operations forces and are in addition to the 300 US troops already working in the region to recruit, organise, train and advise local Syrian forces to combat Isis. Continue reading... |
| Cameroonian ranger killed by wildlife poachers Posted: 10 Dec 2016 12:18 AM PST Two to three rangers are being shot a week as poachers step up their predations on the world's wildlife Another day, another dead wildlife ranger. We must do more to help them A Cameroonian ranger was ambushed and killed by ivory poachers on Wednesday while patrolling to protect elephants and gorillas. During the last morning of a 10-day patrol in Lobéké National Park, Bruce Danny Ngongo was shot three times, once in the thigh and twice in the hip. "[Ngongo fell after] an ambush by a gang of poachers heavily armed with Kalachnikov [sic] who immediately opened fire on the surveillance staff," said Lobéké National Park director Achille Mengamenya Goue, in a letter sent on the evening of the incident to Cameroon's forestry and wildlife minister, Philip Ngole Ngwese. Continue reading... |
| 'My worries are not over': diary of a 16-year-old Afghan refugee Posted: 10 Dec 2016 12:00 AM PST Omran arrived in the UK from Afghanistan in April. Does it feel like home? I was 15 when I left Afghanistan. I still felt like a child, but I tried to act like an adult. The situation there was very difficult for me and my family; it's a long story, but I left home because of the civil war and a family dispute. It took two months to get to France: walking, in cars and lorries, on a boat. We walked 15 hours through the mountains to cross the Iranian border into Turkey. My 16th birthday came and went without me even realising. I was living in a tent in the refugee camp in Calais. I had a phone, but the connection was very bad and it was hard to charge it. On that day my family didn't call. I didn't celebrate my birthday much in Afghanistan, either: I'm one of seven children, and we faced problems from all sides; we didn't think much about birthdays. Continue reading... |
| Burmese military killed seven of my children, says Rohingya refugee Posted: 10 Dec 2016 12:00 AM PST Woman's account is one of a wave of reports of murder and rape by soldiers in Myanmar, amid claims of genocide Noor Ayesha held her last surviving daughter tight as their boat crossed into Bangladeshi waters. She left behind a firebombed home, a dead husband, seven slain children and the soldiers who raped her. "A group of about 20 of them appeared in front of my house," the 40-year-old Rohingya woman recalled of the morning in mid-October when her village was invaded by hundreds of Burmese government troops. "They ordered all of us to come out in the courtyard. They separated five of our children and forced them into one of our rooms and put on the latch from outside. Then they fired a 'gun-bomb' on that room and set it on fire. Continue reading... |
| Gambian president-elect vows to return country to Commonwealth Posted: 09 Dec 2016 11:00 PM PST In a wide-ranging interview, Adama Barrow says relations with Britain will improve and he aims to grow economy The Gambia will rejoin all of the international organisations from which its autocratic leader has withdrawn it, the country's president-elect has pledged. The small west African nation has left the Commonwealth, made moves to leave the international criminal court and been declared an Islamic republic under Yahya Jammeh, who has ruled the country for 22 years and had vowed to rule it for a "billion more". Continue reading... |
| Man dies after being shot on London street Posted: 09 Dec 2016 12:35 PM PST Scotland Yard say witnesses are already coming forward but no arrests have been made A 21-year-old man has died after being shot on a busy street in London, police said. The victim was shot by a lone gunman as he walked down the road in Kilburn, north-west London, on Thursday evening, Scotland Yard said on Friday. Continue reading... |
| Athens' emblematic concert hall struggles to keep the music playing Posted: 09 Dec 2016 11:00 PM PST Fate of Greek capital's Megaron highlights depths to which culture has been hit in country grappling with its worst financial crisis It was meant to be a paean to Sir Neville Marriner, the British conductor who for a while directed the Athens Concert Hall's resident orchestra, the Camerata. But, standing on the podium, an audience in frocks and suits before him, Nikos Tsouchlos, the hall's former artistic director, found it hard to hold back. With the comportment of an undertaker he cleared his throat. "If Marriner were alive today it would be very hard to persuasively explain to him why this same orchestra has spent the past 20 months without an administrative board," he said, listing the indignities that have befallen the ensemble in recent years. Even its musicians, he said, had "been brought to the edge of living decently". Continue reading... |
| Canada sets its first national carbon price at C$10 a tonne Posted: 09 Dec 2016 05:53 PM PST Eight of 10 provinces have signed deal to implement carbon tax or cap-and-trade markets, says Justin Trudeau The Canadian government has agreed a deal with eight of the country's 10 provinces to introduce its first national carbon price, Justin Trudeau has told reporters. The prime minister said the move would help Canada meet its international climate change obligations. Continue reading... |
| Dreamworld nightmare overshadows theme park reopening Posted: 10 Dec 2016 12:21 AM PST The politicians dutifully turned up but the crowds did not – the car park was less than half-full and queues were short for most rides The five-year-old girl had pestered her parents to take her to Dreamworld all year. With the dawning of school holidays and warm weather well and truly upon them, her parents' excuses for not taking her – the chill of winter, or what passes for it on the Gold Coast, then an unusual closure of the theme park – had finally run out. Continue reading... |
| Time for China to release writers, journalists and activists | Letters Posted: 09 Dec 2016 04:01 PM PST Today, on World Human Rights Day, our Pen International community of writers, readers, activists and publishers condemn the Chinese authorities' sustained and increasing attack on free expression and call for an immediate end to China's worsening crackdown on fundamental human rights. We cannot stand by as more and more of our friends and colleagues are silenced. Where is the voice of Ilham Tohti, the Uighur scholar and Pen member currently serving a life sentence, when his life's work has been about creating peace and dialogue in China? Where is the voice of veteran journalist Gao Yu, who spent close to two years in prison and is now under house arrest? Where is the voice of publisher Gui Minhai, who disappeared from his holiday home in Thailand and is now being held incommunicado? Where is the voice of Nobel peace laureate and former president of the Independent Chinese Pen Centre, Liu Xiaobo, serving an 11-year prison sentence and the voice of his wife, the poet Liu Xia, who has been under house arrest for over six years without even having been accused of a crime? Continue reading... |
| Who is toying with girls’ futures? | Letters Posted: 09 Dec 2016 11:09 AM PST I was interested to read about the Institution of Engineering and Technology (Report, 8 December) highlighting the problem of girls not being given toys that might lead to an interest in science and engineering. The report blames the marketing of toys. However, pressures exist elsewhere. As a male former scientist I have made attempts to encourage people to buy toys for girls that are gender neutral, educational and linked to practical exercises. In every case I have been thwarted by various female adults and told for example: "She is a 'girly' girl, she must have a pink toy, dress or something relating to cooking." It seems to be the practice in many cultures that the pressure for girls to behave or dress in a certain way or to become a mother comes not from men but from older women. It is they who need to change. • Join the debate – email guardian.letters@theguardian.com Continue reading... |
| Greece under fire over Christmas bonus for low-income pensioners Posted: 09 Dec 2016 10:52 AM PST International creditors pour scorn on prime minister Alexis Tsipras's one-off payment for retirees living on €800 or less a month A goodwill gesture to ease the plight of those hardest hit in Greece by tax increases and budget cuts has backfired spectacularly on the prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, with the country's international creditors making clear he has acted out of step. In the starkest case yet of how closely watched loan-reliant Athens is, lenders reacted with unusual alacrity on Friday after the leftist leader announced a one-off Christmas bonus for 1.6 million low-income pensioners. Continue reading... |
| Florida lifts last of Miami's 'Zika zones' Posted: 09 Dec 2016 09:13 AM PST Governor Rick Scott announces that there has been no active transmissions of the virus but cautions visitors and locals to remain vigilant Florida's governor lifted the last of Miami's "Zika zones" on Friday, ending a turbulent months-long health crisis that at one stage threatened to devastate the city's busy winter tourist season. During its summer peak, the mosquito-borne virus was infecting dozens of people a week in Miami Beach and the Wynwood arts district, which cover the largest areas of Miami-Dade County's four zones of active local transmission set up by health officials where outbreaks were most severe. Continue reading... |
| Morocco judge acquits girls accused of homosexuality Posted: 09 Dec 2016 08:52 AM PST Court drops charges against two teenagers arrested for allegedly kissing and hugging A judge in Morocco has acquitted two teenage girls on trial for alleged homosexuality after they were reportedly caught kissing, one of their three lawyers said. The 16-year-old and 17-year-old were arrested in October and detained for a week on charges of taking part in a "licentious or unnatural acts with an individual of the same sex". Continue reading... |
| Colombia Zika outbreak: microcephaly cases four times higher this year Posted: 09 Dec 2016 08:43 AM PST Report shows sharp increase in rates of the rare birth defect over last year in Colombia, where Zika infected 20,000 pregnant women since October 2015 Cases of microcephaly in Colombia were four times higher this year than last, an increase that coincides with a widespread outbreak of the Zika virus in the country, according to a report released on Friday. At its peak in July, microcephaly cases in Colombia were nine times higher than in the same month in 2015, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's weekly report on death and disease. Continue reading... |
| Indigenous group in Peru vows to block oil drilling on Amazon ancestral land Posted: 09 Dec 2016 08:36 AM PST The chiefs of 45 Achuar communities opposed government plan, spokesman said, and would physically prevent GeoPark and Petroperu from encroaching An indigenous federation opposed to a recently approved plan for oil drilling in the Peruvian Amazon has said that native communities will physically block any attempt by oil companies to operate on their lands. Last week the Peruvian government gave the green light for Santiago-based GeoPark Ltd to produce oil in Block 64 with state-owned energy company Petroperu as its junior partner. The move is part of President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's bid to "untangle" stalled investments from red tape. Continue reading... |
| Dutch police arrest terror suspect and seize arsenal of weapons Posted: 09 Dec 2016 08:25 AM PST Detectives find AK-47, illegal fireworks and Isis flag during search of 30-year-old suspect's apartment in Rotterdam Police acting on a tipoff from the Dutch intelligence agency have arrested a 30-year-old terrorist suspect and seized an arsenal of weapons in the port city of Rotterdam, prosecutors say. Detectives found an AK-47 rifle, four boxes of illegal highly explosive fireworks, a large depiction of the Islamic State flag, several mobile phones and €1,600 in cash when they searched the suspect's apartment on Friday afternoon. Continue reading... |
| Brazil's austerity package decried by UN as attack on poor people Posted: 09 Dec 2016 08:04 AM PST Senior official says proposed budget cuts, which have been protested in violent street clashes, are 'lacking in all nuance and compassion' Brazil is poised to implement the most socially regressive austerity package in the world, a senior United Nations official has warned. Despite violent street protests against budget cuts, President Michel Temer – who came to power after engineering the impeachment of his former running mate, Dilma Rousseff – is pushing through a 20-year social spending freeze that will be locked into the constitution. Continue reading... |
| Bung bungle: Italian mayor tells of brazen biscuit-tin bribe Posted: 09 Dec 2016 05:06 AM PST Franco Metta says executive strolled into his office in Puglia and handed over tins containing €20,000 and a Christmas card Even by the standards of a country wearily accustomed to bribery and corruption, it was a somewhat flagrant breach of legitimate business practice: two biscuit tins, offered to the local mayor as a Christmas gift, filled with €20,000 in banknotes. The attempted bribery of Franco Metta, the mayor of a small town in Puglia, southern Italy, occurred this week when a waste management executive strode into Metta's office claiming to have a meeting scheduled and proffering the package with a Christmas card. Continue reading... |
| Are you voting in Romania's election? Posted: 09 Dec 2016 04:33 AM PST If you're taking part in Romania's election on Sunday we'd like to hear from you The centre-left PSD party in Romania is set to win the most seats in Sunday's election as people go to the polls to elect a new government. However, they're expected to fall short of a majority leaving it open to a coalition with a rival party. Despite the dominant party of Romanian politics topping recent polls, the Union Save Romania, a new party, founded barely six months ago to fight the corruption, cronyism and inefficiency in the country, could spoil the celebrations. Continue reading... |
| Ohio 'heartbeat' abortion bill could be test case for overturning Roe v Wade Posted: 09 Dec 2016 04:30 AM PST Just-passed bill stops short of banning abortion from the time a fetus's heartbeat is detectable and may test the limits of constitutional protections of abortion The Ohio state legislature threw down the gauntlet this week to the supreme court, passing a new anti-abortion "heartbeat" bill that would ban terminations from as early as six weeks, the most severe restrictions in the country. Ohio politicians say they were motivated to push through the bill by Donald Trump's win, believing they might find a more friendly US supreme court that would uphold the law. Continue reading... |
| Syrian refugees in Canada lose support one year on: 'How are we going to live?' Posted: 09 Dec 2016 03:45 AM PST Families must find work or enroll in social assistance programs when monthly allowance ends, as Canada responds to transition: 'We can't abandon them' Minutes after her 25-hour flight touched down in Toronto, Shoruk Alsakni burst into tears. Some four years earlier, she – along with her husband, mother-in-law and six children – had fled the growing violence and terror of Aleppo, ending up in Turkey. Now the family was again starting over – this time in a country she knew almost nothing about. Continue reading... |
| US government scrambles to respond to surge of migrants at Mexico border Posted: 09 Dec 2016 03:30 AM PST Influx stems in part from fear that Trump will mandate a wall, but is mainly a consequence of continuing violence and economic distress in Central America In another context you might guess the giant marquees are being set up for a grand wedding. But this is the Texas border with Mexico, and the white tents are rising as the federal government's latest response to a sharp rise in migrant numbers that is drawing parallels with the influx of 2014. Supply trucks arrived every few minutes as workers set up the Border Patrol holding facility in a field next to the Donna International Bridge, a few hundred metres from a rust-coloured metal border fence. Continue reading... |
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| South Korean president Park Geun-hye faces impeachment – video report Posted: 09 Dec 2016 01:52 AM PST South Korean protesters celebrate after politicians voted on Friday to impeach President Park Geun-hye, the country's first female president. South Korean national assembly speaker Chung Sye-kyun says the bill was passed by a vote of 234 to 56, surpassing the necessary two-thirds support in the 300-seat assembly Continue reading... |
| Calls for action as 'honour' killings in Jordan show sharp increase Posted: 09 Dec 2016 05:31 AM PST As part of 16-day campaign against gender violence, activists demand stronger penalties for 'honour' crimes and an end to imprisonment of at-risk women On 8 October, an 18-year-old man from the Jordanian city of Madaba was charged with killing his sister as she slept after allegedly finding her with a mobile phone the family didn't know about. Five days later, two brothers were charged with murdering their sisters aged 27 and 34 at a farm on the outskirts of Jordan's capital, Amman. The victims were among five women killed during one week in Jordan for reasons related to family "honour". Thirty-eight women have been victims of "honour" killings this year. The country typically reports between 15 and 20 such crimes a year, according to Human Rights Watch. Continue reading... |
| Trump's cabinet looks increasingly conventional but far from moderate Posted: 09 Dec 2016 11:53 AM PST Donald Trump's personnel picks have stayed within the Republican mainstream – few are Trump cronies, and some were even opponents of the president-elect Donald Trump ran an outsider campaign that seemingly violated every convention of American politics, but the team he is assembling for government looks increasingly like a conventional Republican cabinet. Few of these picks could be considered moderate. "From the point of view of liberals, most of the appointments are abhorrent," Whit Ayres, a top Republican political consultant and pollster, told the Guardian, "but they would have been with any Republican president." Continue reading... |
| White House says Obama has ordered 'full review' of election hacking – video Posted: 09 Dec 2016 12:42 PM PST White House spokesman Eric Shultz says on Friday that Barack Obama has ordered US intelligence to review evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election before he leaves office. Schultz denies the review is 'an effort to challenge the outcome of the election' Continue reading... |
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