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- Turkey declares day of mourning after bombing kills 38 and wounds 166
- Russian bombardment 'forces Islamic State out of Palmyra'
- Rex Tillerson of Exxon Mobil set to be Trump secretary of state pick – reports
- Nigerian church collapse kills at least 60 worshippers – reports
- Mogadishu bombing: deadly blast at port of Somali capital
- Edward Snowden backers beam calls for pardon on Washington news museum
- Several killed as Bulgarian freight train derails and explodes
- Bob Dylan Nobel prize speech: this is 'truly beyond words'
- Diplomats urge Russia and Assad to show grace in Aleppo victory
- Patti Smith struggles through Stockholm tribute to absent Bob Dylan
- Has Africa had its fill of ‘strongmen’?
- Egypt: bomb blast at Cairo Coptic cathedral
- ‘Nervous’ Patti Smith sings for Bob Dylan at Nobel prize ceremony – video
- Cleaning up charcoal's dirty image in Kenya – in pictures
- Orgreave files 'to be made public next year'
- Australian chosen by Trump once called president-elect a 'marketer of fantasy'
- Venezuela seizes 4m toys to distribute to poor children as Christmas gifts
- Could Trump's chest-thumping over China trigger a trade war?
- Labor attacks Coalition for saying domestic violence leave an impost on economy
- At least 29 killed and 166 injured in dual Istanbul blasts – video
- Chemical tanker burns in Kenya highway crash, killing dozens
- Israeli settlers angry as government prepares to evict outpost
- ‘Who buys fish with a credit card here?’ Traders scoff at Goa’s bid to ditch cash
- Le Canard enchaîné celebrates 100 years of mischief-making
- Aleppo’s terrified residents flee rebel districts, death and hunger
- Far-right party still leading in Dutch polls, despite leader’s criminal guilt
- Atomic agency leader warns of disaster if Trump tears up Iran deal
- Freight train carrying flammable gas explodes in Bulgaria – video
- Bolivia jails second suspect implicated in Colombia plane crash
- Colombian president says Nobel peace prize win helped end civil war
- Eyewitness: Sao Paulo, Brazil
- French MPs to vote on extending emergency powers beyond election
- Gambian president rejects election result in television address to the nation – video
- The Gambia: troops deployed to streets as president rejects election defeat
- Russian involvement in US vote raises fears for European elections
- Strengthening Democratic party may mean cooperating with Donald Trump
- Donald Trump's talk of 'draining the swamp' rings hollow
| Turkey declares day of mourning after bombing kills 38 and wounds 166 Posted: 11 Dec 2016 12:54 AM PST Deputy prime minister says outlawed Kurdistan Workers party may be behind attack outside Istanbul football stadium A twin bomb attack outside a football stadium in the Turkish city of Istanbul killed 38 people, mostly police officers, and injured more than 160 others, the country's interior minister, Süleyman Soylu, has said. The explosions, triggered by a car and suicide bomb less than one minute apart, struck outside Beskitas's stadium less than two hours after a match had finished on Saturday evening. Continue reading... |
| Russian bombardment 'forces Islamic State out of Palmyra' Posted: 11 Dec 2016 02:11 AM PST Jihadi fighters pull out following Russian offensive only hours after re-entering ancient Syrian city, says monitor Russian airstrikes have forced Islamic State fighters from the centre of the Unesco world heritage city of Palmyra in Syria, hours after they had attempted to retake it. The Russian attack forced the militants to retreat to the outskirts, a local monitoring group said. The Russian defence ministry said the strikes had killed more than 300 Isis fighters and destroyed 11 tanks and vehicles. Continue reading... |
| Rex Tillerson of Exxon Mobil set to be Trump secretary of state pick – reports Posted: 10 Dec 2016 01:55 PM PST
Oil executive Rex Tillerson is likely to be nominated by Donald Trump for secretary of state, lifting the Exxon Mobil chief executive who has ties to Russian president Vladimir Putin into consideration for the most senior US diplomat. Related: Russian involvement in US vote raises fears for European elections Continue reading... |
| Nigerian church collapse kills at least 60 worshippers – reports Posted: 10 Dec 2016 05:12 PM PST Structural failure follows similar tragedy in 2014 in a country where construction standards are compromised by corruption The roof of a crowded church has collapsed onto worshippers in southern Nigeria on Saturday, killing at least 60 people, witnesses and an official said. The Reigners Bible Church International in Uyo, capital of Akwa Ibom state, was still under construction and workers had been rushing to finish it in time for a ceremony on Saturday to ordain founder Akan Weeks as a bishop, congregants said. Continue reading... |
| Mogadishu bombing: deadly blast at port of Somali capital Posted: 10 Dec 2016 11:56 PM PST Varying reports of toll after suicide attack claimed by al-Shabaab militant group At least 16 people died early on Sunday in a suicide truck bombing outside the busy sea port of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, the director of the ambulance service said. "We assisted 48 wounded people and carried 16 others who were killed in the blast," said Abdikadir Abdirahman Adem, director of Mogadishu's AMIN ambulance service. Continue reading... |
| Edward Snowden backers beam calls for pardon on Washington news museum Posted: 10 Dec 2016 04:39 PM PST Activists display almost 4,000 notes from backers on the side of the Newseum, an institution celebrating free speech near the White House Edward Snowden has been the subject of several high-profile appeals this year, calling on Barack Obama to pardon the National Security Agency whistleblower and allow him to return home to the US. Writers, intelligence experts, film stars and tech tycoons have all joined the chorus. Related: Intelligence experts urge Obama to end Edward Snowden's 'untenable exile' Continue reading... |
| Several killed as Bulgarian freight train derails and explodes Posted: 10 Dec 2016 06:31 AM PST At least five people dead and three more in critical condition after train carrying propylene explodes after derailment At least five people have been killed and 29 injured as a freight train derailed and exploded in north-east Bulgaria, destroying about 50 houses and public buildings. At least three people were in critical condition in hospital after the incident on Saturday morning, health authorities said. Continue reading... |
| Bob Dylan Nobel prize speech: this is 'truly beyond words' Posted: 10 Dec 2016 04:20 PM PST Songwriter sends a speech and Patti Smith to the Nobel awards dinner in Sweden rather than attending in person Bob Dylan admitted he was stunned and surprised when he was told he had won a Nobel prize because he had never stopped to consider whether his songs were literature. Dylan, whose speech was read out by the US ambassador to Sweden at the annual awards dinner, said the prize was "something I never could have imagined or seen coming". Continue reading... |
| Diplomats urge Russia and Assad to show grace in Aleppo victory Posted: 10 Dec 2016 08:42 AM PST Leaders resigned to fall of Syrian city plead for safe passage for civilians and mercy for rebel fighters World diplomats have pleaded for safe passage for Aleppo's civilians and for respect to be shown to Syria's disintegrating rebel forces as Bashar al-Assad's army moves ever closer to victory in the devastated city. A meeting of US, European and Arab foreign ministers as well as Syrian opposition leaders in Paris on Saturday appeared resigned to what the UN called the "last steps" in the fall of Aleppo, seen as the biggest defeat for anti-Assad forces since the conflict broke out in 2011. Continue reading... |
| Patti Smith struggles through Stockholm tribute to absent Bob Dylan Posted: 10 Dec 2016 10:10 AM PST Representing the Nobel laureate at the prize-giving, the US singer admitted nerves in performance at Swedish academy A very nervous Patti Smith initially stumbled through A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall in Stockholm on Saturday in a performance given to mark Bob Dylan's Nobel prize for literature. Making the award, Horace Engdahl, a Swedish literary historian and critic and member of the Swedish academy that awards the prize, responded to international criticism of the choice of a popular lyricist as recipient. Continue reading... |
| Has Africa had its fill of ‘strongmen’? Posted: 10 Dec 2016 04:04 PM PST After 38 years during which his family has hoarded wealth and power, Angola's leader José Eduardo dos Santos is quitting. Is this more evidence of a continent in the process of transition? Under the blistering heat of the southern African sun, the dignitaries did not linger. The ceremony was short. The road running 60km around the scruffy outskirts of the Angolan capital Luanda was declared open and a plaque unveiled revealing its new name: "The Commander-in-Chief of the Cuban Revolution Fidel de Castro Motorway." That a major piece of new infrastructure anywhere in Africa might be named after Castro, who supported both freedom struggles and dictators on the continent, is little surprise. That a road in Angola commemorates the dictator still less so. It was the Cuban leader's military intervention that preserved the new nation's independence – and enabled its president, José Eduardo dos Santos, to hold on to power through decades of war and upheaval. Continue reading... |
| Egypt: bomb blast at Cairo Coptic cathedral Posted: 11 Dec 2016 02:16 AM PST Egyptian state TV says 22 people have died and 10 left injured in second explosion to hit capital in two days A bombing at Egypt's main Coptic Christian cathedral has killed 22 people and wounded 35, according to state television, in the second deadly attack to hit the capital in two days. Egypt's official Mena news agency said an assailant threw a bomb into a chapel close to the outer wall of St Mark's Cathedral, seat of Egypt's Orthodox Christian church and home to the office of its spiritual leader, Pope Tawadros II. Continue reading... |
| ‘Nervous’ Patti Smith sings for Bob Dylan at Nobel prize ceremony – video Posted: 11 Dec 2016 01:59 AM PST A nervous Patti Smith sings 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall' in Stockholm on Saturday, in a performance given to mark Bob Dylan's Nobel prize for literature. Dylan, whose speech was read out by US ambassador to Sweden Azita Raji, says the prize was 'something I never could have imagined or seen coming' Continue reading... |
| Cleaning up charcoal's dirty image in Kenya – in pictures Posted: 10 Dec 2016 11:00 PM PST Demand for charcoal in sub-Saharan Africa is surging. While foreign investors focus on renewables, domestic companies are findings ways to make it cleaner and more efficient. Photographs and words by Nathan Siegal |
| Orgreave files 'to be made public next year' Posted: 11 Dec 2016 12:53 AM PST Home secretary Amber Rudd plans to release documents relating to 1984 clashes between police and miners
The home secretary, Amber Rudd, told the home affairs select committee the documents would be among 30 files planned to be released to the National Archives. Continue reading... |
| Australian chosen by Trump once called president-elect a 'marketer of fantasy' Posted: 10 Dec 2016 08:58 PM PST Dow Chemical chairman and CEO Andrew Liveris appointed head of American Manufacturing Council at Michigan rally The Australian businessman Donald Trump has chosen to head the American Manufacturing Council previously likened the US presidential campaign to reality television and described Trump as "an incredible marketer of the fantasy of what could be". The Dow Chemical chairman and chief executive, Andrew Liveris, was appointed to head the council during Trump's Friday night rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Continue reading... |
| Venezuela seizes 4m toys to distribute to poor children as Christmas gifts Posted: 10 Dec 2016 11:14 AM PST Government authorities detained two executives from Kreisel, the country's largest toy distributor, on suspicion of hoarding and price gouging The Venezuelan government has seized nearly 4m toys from a private company and says it will hand them out as Christmas gifts for poor children. The country's fair pricing authority seized the toys on Friday from three warehouses run by Kreisel, Venezuela's largest toy distributor. Two company executives were detained on suspicion of promoting price speculation. Continue reading... |
| Could Trump's chest-thumping over China trigger a trade war? Posted: 10 Dec 2016 02:00 AM PST Between the US president-elect's campaign promises of tariffs to his phone call with Taiwan, Trump has frequently rattled Beijing. But is it bluster, or a sign of a seismic global economic shake-up? Donald Trump has sent some mixed signals on China. One minute they are "raping" America, the next they are his best clients. Even the way he says the word – and he says it a lot – seeds confusion. Sometimes the president-elect spits it out like poison, sometimes he exclaims the word as if greeting a favoured child. Whatever his real attitude, those that study the world's second-largest economy believe US-China relations are in for a rocky time when Trump reaches the White House – and the global consequences could be dire. Trump excoriated China's trade policies during his election campaign and succeeded in needling Beijing into threats of retaliation after pledging to whack a 45% tariff on Chinese imports. |
| Labor attacks Coalition for saying domestic violence leave an impost on economy Posted: 10 Dec 2016 08:21 PM PST Terri Butler says Mathias Cormann 'confused' and domestic violence itself is what harms the economy A senior Turnbull government minister is under fire for "callous and clueless" comments about the economic impact of paid leave for domestic violence victims. Queensland earlier this month became the first jurisdiction to legislate paid domestic and family violence for public-sector workers but the Coag meeting of leaders put off until next year a decision on a national scheme. Continue reading... |
| At least 29 killed and 166 injured in dual Istanbul blasts – video Posted: 10 Dec 2016 09:40 PM PST A car bomb followed by a suicide bombing less than a minute later has killed at least 29 people and wounded 166 outside a football stadium in Istanbul. The Turkish deputy prime minister Numan Kurtulmus said the suicide bomb went off 45 seconds after the car bomb. The interior minister Suleyman Soylu said all but two of those killed in the blasts were police officers and that 10 people had been detained Continue reading... |
| Chemical tanker burns in Kenya highway crash, killing dozens Posted: 10 Dec 2016 07:02 PM PST Truck burst into flames after colliding with other vehicles on road from Nairobi, leaving more than 30 people dead and 10 injured A tanker truck carrying chemical gas slammed into other vehicles and burst into flames on a major road in Kenya, killing more than 30 people and injuring 10, officials said. The vehicle went out of control while going downhill on the road from the capital of Nairobi to Naivasha late on Saturday, said Mwachi Pius Mwachi, the deputy director and communications officer for the National Disaster Management Unit. Continue reading... |
| Israeli settlers angry as government prepares to evict outpost Posted: 10 Dec 2016 04:20 PM PST Residents of the illegal West Bank outpost Amona are preparing to resist measures to demolish their homes Hadassah Spitz is sitting on a swing outside her house in the illegal Jewish West Bank outpost of Amona, her six-year-old daughter, Miriam, in her lap. With the rest of her family, she is waiting. Within the next fortnight – by 25 December at the latest if things go to schedule – Amona will be evacuated and demolished under an order issued by the Israeli high court two years ago. The settlement was built illegally on private Palestinian land, without the state's direct support, and the court is insisting that it and its 300 residents have to go. Continue reading... |
| ‘Who buys fish with a credit card here?’ Traders scoff at Goa’s bid to ditch cash Posted: 10 Dec 2016 04:05 PM PST With the state about to be a test bed for India's drive to digital payments, alarm bells are ringing in the city of Panjim It's 11 o'clock, and Laxman Chauhan still hasn't sold any fish. His stall in the central market in the west Indian city of Panjim has been open for three hours, but none of his usual clients have come today. He checks his watch, and then takes a walk to see if other vendors have had any customers. "Sold anything yet?" he asks Ramila Pujjar, who has set her stall up with a glistening display of the morning's catch. She hasn't either. "I'm losing 2,000-3,000 rupees (£23-£35) a day," says Chauhan. "I'm throwing fish away every day." Continue reading... |
| Le Canard enchaîné celebrates 100 years of mischief-making Posted: 10 Dec 2016 01:35 PM PST The French satirical newspaper holds public figures to account – but doesn't touch their private lives Since it was founded 100 years ago as an antidote to French government propaganda during the first world war, Le Canard enchaîné has remained a thorn in the side of France's great but not-so-good. Related: Bad hair days for François Hollande over €10,000 coiffeur bill Continue reading... |
| Aleppo’s terrified residents flee rebel districts, death and hunger Posted: 10 Dec 2016 12:56 PM PST Syrians at a way station describe the attacks that swept them from their homes Two-year-old Yasser, his woolly hat pulled down to his eyes, stared, silent and unsmiling, in his pram. His 20-day-old sister, Sana, slept beside him, unaware that the entirety of her short life has been spent amid the worst fighting her neighbourhood in east Aleppo has ever seen. Related: Syria: Assad loyalists take Aleppo's Old City as rebels plead for ceasefire Continue reading... |
| Far-right party still leading in Dutch polls, despite leader’s criminal guilt Posted: 10 Dec 2016 12:41 PM PST Geert Wilders has held on to his supporters in the Netherlands, despite a discrimination conviction Volendam is a village of clogs, canals, cheese – and anger. A former fishing village-turned-tourist-haven north-east of Amsterdam on the Merkemeer lake, it offered one of the country's strongest turnouts for far-right populist Geert Wilders the last time the country went to the polls. , Wilders was found guilty of inciting discrimination at a rally where he called for "fewer Moroccans". His supporters in this overwhelmingly white, conservative town see the trial and verdict as political persecution of a maverick anti-establishment champion. Continue reading... |
| Atomic agency leader warns of disaster if Trump tears up Iran deal Posted: 10 Dec 2016 11:45 AM PST Hans Blix of the International Atomic Energy Agency says UK is unlikely to be able to sway Trump on nuclear deal Hans Blix, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has claimed it would be disastrous for the world if the US tore up the Iran nuclear agreement, but warned that the president-elect, Donald Trump, would be unlikely to heed advice from the British government on the benefits of the deal. In the wake of Theresa May's insistence last week that the agreement "neutralising" the risk of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons was vital, Blix said that while "many Brits would like to think" they could sway Trump, he could not see "anyone who would be influential in talking to him". Continue reading... |
| Freight train carrying flammable gas explodes in Bulgaria – video Posted: 10 Dec 2016 07:28 AM PST A freight train carrying highly flammable gas has derailed and exploded in north–eastern Bulgaria. The explosion, which occurred on Saturday, demolished surrounding buildings and has so far claimed the lives of five people, with local authorities saying the numbers are likely to rise Continue reading... |
| Bolivia jails second suspect implicated in Colombia plane crash Posted: 10 Dec 2016 07:23 AM PST Former aviation official Gustavo Vargas Villegas accused of misusing influence to authorise plane's operating licence, as his father faces manslaughter charges Related: Colombia plane crash: airline chief arrested over Chapecoense disaster Bolivian authorities have jailed a second suspect accused of wrongdoing in the air crash that wiped out Brazil's Chapacoense soccer team last month, prosecutors said on Saturday. Continue reading... |
| Colombian president says Nobel peace prize win helped end civil war Posted: 10 Dec 2016 06:49 AM PST Juan Manuel Santos called the award, which was still given to him after historic peace deal was initially rejected, 'a gift from heaven' in acceptance speech Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos on Saturday accepted the Nobel Peace prize, saying it helped make possible the "impossible dream" of ending his country's half-century-long civil war. In his acceptance speech in Oslo, Norway, Santos described the award as a "gift from heaven" and dedicated it to all Colombians, particularly the 220,000 killed and 8 million displaced in the longest-running conflict in the western hemisphere. Continue reading... |
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| French MPs to vote on extending emergency powers beyond election Posted: 10 Dec 2016 05:25 AM PST Prime minister Bernard Cazeneuve says 17 attacks have been thwarted this year and extension is 'absolutely necessary' The French government is seeking to extend the country's state of emergency laws until after the presidential election, the prime minister has said, as he revealed 17 attacks had been thwarted in the country so far this year. Bernard Cazeneuve said after a cabinet meeting on Saturday that parliament would vote next week on a bill to extend the powers into 2017. Continue reading... |
| Gambian president rejects election result in television address to the nation – video Posted: 10 Dec 2016 02:22 AM PST Gambian president Yahya Jammeh announces on state TV his rejection of last week's election outcome, in which he lost to opposition leader Adama Barrow. Speaking in the Gambia's capital city of Banjul on Friday, Jammeh called for a fresh round of voting, despite perviously conceding to Barrow Continue reading... |
| The Gambia: troops deployed to streets as president rejects election defeat Posted: 10 Dec 2016 02:15 AM PST Yahya Jammeh had conceded result to Adama Barrow but now claims 'fresh and transparent elections' are needed Troops have been deployed to the streets of Banjul, the capital of the Gambia, after the autocratic president, Yahya Jammeh, unexpectedly rejected his defeat in an election last week and called for a fresh vote. Jammeh had initially accepted the result, ceding power after 22 years, to a coalition led by the opposition leader, Adama Barrow. But few observers expected Jammeh to give up control of the small west African country. Continue reading... |
| Russian involvement in US vote raises fears for European elections Posted: 10 Dec 2016 05:35 AM PST CIA investigation may have implications for upcoming French and German polls, even raising doubts over integrity of Brexit vote The CIA's conclusion that Russia covertly intervened to swing last month's presidential election in favour of Donald Trump but its actions did not place the overall credibility of the result in doubt will be hard to swallow for some. The classified CIA investigation, which has not been published, may also have implications for the integrity of Britain's Brexit referendum last June, and how upcoming elections in France and Germany could be vulnerable to Russian manipulation. The latest revelations are not entirely new. What is fresh is the bald assertion that Moscow was working for Trump. Continue reading... |
| Strengthening Democratic party may mean cooperating with Donald Trump Posted: 10 Dec 2016 05:00 AM PST To reclaim support from working class voters, become united and make progress on issues, Democrats may need to cooperate with candidate they decried Democrats spent 17 months branding Donald Trump as fundamentally unqualified to be president, a candidate whose campaign was rooted in racism, xenophobia and misogyny. Now they are preparing to work with him in the aftermath of a demoralizing election loss that plunged the Democratic party into an uncertain future. Related: Barack Obama orders 'full review' of possible Russian hacking in US election Continue reading... |
| Donald Trump's talk of 'draining the swamp' rings hollow Posted: 10 Dec 2016 05:00 AM PST A selection of Goldman Sachs brass past and present as well as some unqualified (and wealthy) nominees leaves one to wonder how long his honeymoon with his working-class constituency will last On the campaign trail, Donald Trump pledged that he would be an agent of change. He was going to "drain the swamp", booting from power the entitled elites who got rich while ordinary Americans struggled. So, just how is that working out? Not very well. By the look of his appointments so far, voters who were hoping the president-elect's cabinet would be handpicked to make the US a better place for ordinary Americans is likely to be sorely disappointed. Continue reading... |
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