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- Donald Trump denies White House in chaos at extraordinary press conference
- Adama Traoré's death in police custody casts long shadow over French society
- Pakistan launches crackdown after Isis attack kills 75 at shrine
- North Korea killing: Indonesian suspect 'moved to Malaysia to find work'
- Billionaires' bolthole: how New Zealand became an escapee's paradise
- DRC minister says country 'can't afford' to hold election this year
- Choi-gate: Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong formally arrested for corruption
- Mexican woman claims she was one of 30,000 babies stolen from Spain
- Irish trawler owners deny trafficking and employment offences
- Spanish woman gives birth to healthy twins at age of 64
- Venezuelan opposition leader's sentence upheld day after Trump calls for release
- New UN team to collect evidence for Syria war crime prosecutions
- White supremacist allegedly planned shooting 'in spirit of Dylann Roof'
- US ambassador to UN contradicts Trump's position on two-state solution
- Baghdad car bomb kills dozens in deadliest attack of 2017
- Parents of backpacker killed in India voice dismay at trial delays
- Court orders Front National MEPs to repay €600,000 for 'misuse of funds'
- Aid reaches Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh – in pictures
- Venezuelan vice-president just latest to be called drug trafficker
- Brut force: the winery in the middle of a war zone
- Justice pour Adama: la famille proteste contre la brutalité policière en France – video
- Immigrants flee US for Canada – in pictures
- Met chief: 'brutalised' Isis supporters soon to return to Britain
- The Guardian view on Trump and Israel: casual, careless and dangerous | Editorial
- Can crunchy caterpillars help tackle malnutrition in Burkina Faso?
- Bushfire destroys more than a dozen homes in Carwoola, say NSW firefighters
- Mexico call centers await ‘huge pool of talent’ if Trump keeps deportation pledge
- Make the fur fly: annual ferret racing in Yorkshire – in pictures
- Friday briefing: Blair switch project
- Refugee Loghman Sawari granted bail in Papua New Guinea after deportation from Fiji
- Zealandia – pieces finally falling together for continent we didn't know we had
- Australia to boycott global summit on treaty to ban nuclear weapons
- Horse genitals seized from luggage of women arriving in US
- Women of Nauru: seeing my sons in a school uniform is my only dream
- House vote paves the way for states to defund Planned Parenthood
- Church of England bishops seek to repair divisions over same-sex relationships
- Car bomb in Baghdad kills tens – video report
- Israel-Palestine: One state, two states – any advance on three? | Letters
- Suicide bomb kills dozens in Pakistan – video report
- The death of Kim Jong-nam: what we know
- Justin Trudeau: the whole world benefits from a strong EU – video
- Eyewitness: Pyongyang, North Korea
- Kim Jong-nam: jovial half-brother who lived with sword of Damocles over head
- Whole world benefits from a strong EU, Justin Trudeau tells MEPs
- 'Forest cities': the radical plan to save China from air pollution
- UK to host summit seeking extra funds for family planning
- Amazon rainforest's final frontier in Brazil under threat from oil and soya | John Vidal
- Donald Trump news conference: what was all that 'ranting and raving' about? | Kevin Rawlinson
- Out of the loop: Rex Tillerson finds state department sidelined by White House
- 'The leaks are real, the news is fake': key quotes from Trump's press conference – video
- Donald Trump attacks press and defends his administration – video
- American homelessness: 'No matter how we ended up here, we're still here' – video
| Donald Trump denies White House in chaos at extraordinary press conference Posted: 17 Feb 2017 12:36 AM PST President turns fire on media in erratic display as his labor secretary pulls out and replacement for disgraced national security adviser turns the job down Donald Trump dismissed reports of chaos and conspiracy in his administration and claimed his team is running like "a fine-tuned machine" during an extraordinary press conference at which he tried to reset his beleaguered presidency. In a boisterous and often bizarre session, he fired off numerous broadsides at the media as he skipped from topic to topic in what critics saw as an attempt to deflect attention from his alleged ties to Russia. Continue reading... |
| Adama Traoré's death in police custody casts long shadow over French society Posted: 17 Feb 2017 01:06 AM PST Young man's death in custody has become one of France's most high-profile cases of alleged police brutality One July afternoon last year in Beaumont-sur-Oise, a small town north of Paris, Adama Traoré was out with his older brother, Bagui, planning how to celebrate his 24th birthday that evening when police drove by looking for Bagui in connection with a case. But Adama didn't have his ID on him and tried to run. Hours later, he was dead in police custody. The unexplained circumstances of Adama's death, the allegations of a state cover-up and his family's fight for justice has made this one of France's most high-profile cases of alleged police brutality. Continue reading... |
| Pakistan launches crackdown after Isis attack kills 75 at shrine Posted: 17 Feb 2017 01:33 AM PST Officials say dozens of militants killed and arrested after deadly bombing at shrine to Sufi saint in Sindh province Officials in Pakistan say they have killed at least 39 suspected militants in a sweeping security crackdown a day after a massive bombing claimed by Islamic State killed 75 people and injured about 150 at a crowded shrine. Overnight raids targeting militant hideouts also led to the arrest of 47 suspects, security officials said. Continue reading... |
| North Korea killing: Indonesian suspect 'moved to Malaysia to find work' Posted: 16 Feb 2017 11:12 PM PST Siti Aisyah left her son in Jakarta to find work in Malaysia, her father-in-law said, amid reports about how she became involved in the case The Indonesian woman arrested in connection with the assassination of Kim Jong-nam, the elder half-brother of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un, was a struggling mother looking for employment. Malaysian authorities arrested 25-year-old Siti Aisyah on Thursday, together with her boyfriend, Malaysian national Muhammad Farid Jalaluddin, 26. Continue reading... |
| Billionaires' bolthole: how New Zealand became an escapee's paradise Posted: 16 Feb 2017 07:31 PM PST Remote towns and beauty spots have attracted the attention of the mega-rich, including Trump cheerleader Peter Thiel, wanting a first-class hideaway When weary hikers stop for a thermos of tea and a sandwich on the sheltered beach at Damper Bay on the fringes of Lake Wanaka, many feel they've arrived in paradise. The hilly outcrop covered in golden tussock and native trees boasts uninterrupted views, across sometime placid waters, of New Zealand's snow-capped Southern Alps. |
| DRC minister says country 'can't afford' to hold election this year Posted: 16 Feb 2017 08:06 AM PST Budget minister's warning on poll funds comes after death of key opposition figure and amid fears over fragile political deal Repeatedly delayed elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo face another obstacle after the budget minister said he doubted whether the country could find the funds to hold a poll this year. Pierre Kangudia said government coffers were empty and it would be "difficult to gather" the necessary $1.8bn (£1.5bn). |
| Choi-gate: Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong formally arrested for corruption Posted: 16 Feb 2017 04:27 PM PST Vice-chairman of electronics divisions is alleged to have paid $40m to presidential crony Choi Soon-sil but company denies bribery The Samsung heir, Lee Jae-yong, has been formally arrested as part of a probe into the "Choi-gate" corruption and influence-peddling scandal that led to the impeachment of Park Geun-Hye as South Korea's president. "It is acknowledged that it is necessary to arrest [Lee] in light of a newly added criminal charge and new evidence," a court spokesman said. Continue reading... |
| Mexican woman claims she was one of 30,000 babies stolen from Spain Posted: 16 Feb 2017 03:36 PM PST Ligia Ceballos Franco says she was stolen from parents in Spain under General Franco and placed with a family in Mexico A woman has filed a complaint with prosecutors in Mexico, claiming that she was stolen as a baby in Spain during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco and handed over to a well-heeled Mexican family who raised her as their own. Ligia Ceballos Franco said on Thursday that she may be among an estimated 30,000 babies who were taken from their real parents under the Franco dictatorship from 1938 to 1975. Continue reading... |
| Irish trawler owners deny trafficking and employment offences Posted: 16 Feb 2017 04:01 PM PST Leonard Hyde and Pat O'Mahony deny knowingly facilitating illegal immigration of Filipino migrant fisherman and employing a non-EU national without a permit The trial of two Irish trawler owners charged with offences under the Irish Illegal Immigrants (Trafficking) Act and Employment Permits Act opened in Cork district court on Wednesday. Leonard Hyde, 62, of Crosshaven, County Cork and Pat O'Mahony, 51, of Kinsale, County Cork, both denied knowingly facilitating the illegal immigration of a Filipino migrant fisherman, Demie Omol, who worked on their vessel in 2015. They also denied employing a non-EU national without a permit. Continue reading... |
| Spanish woman gives birth to healthy twins at age of 64 Posted: 16 Feb 2017 12:37 PM PST Woman who became first-time mother at 58 conceived again after receiving IVF treatment in the US A 64-year-old woman has given birth to healthy twins after her second successful pregnancy at an advanced age, a doctor in northern Spain has said. Enrique Martin, medical director at Recoletas hospital, said on Thursday that the babies, delivered by caesarean section on Tuesday, were "perfectly healthy". The twins are a boy, born weighing 5.3 pounds (2.4kg), and a girl who weighed 4.9 pounds (2.2kg). Continue reading... |
| Venezuelan opposition leader's sentence upheld day after Trump calls for release Posted: 16 Feb 2017 03:37 PM PST Country's highest court hands down ruling on Leopoldo López's sentence following US president's meeting with his wife Venezuela's highest court has upheld a 14-year prison sentence for a prominent opposition leader, ruling a day after Donald Trump called for the release of Leopoldo López during a White House meeting with López's wife. Related: Venezuela opposition leader Leopoldo López jailed for nearly 14 years Continue reading... |
| New UN team to collect evidence for Syria war crime prosecutions Posted: 16 Feb 2017 07:47 AM PST Geneva-based team will investigate 'abuses that amount to international crimes' and prepare files for future prosecutions A new unit is being set up by the United Nations in Geneva to prepare prosecutions of war crimes committed in Syria, UN officials have said. The first major policy announcement under the newly inaugurated UN secretary-general, António Guterres, the unit will "analyse information, organise and prepare files on the worst abuses that amount to international crimes", a UN human rights official said. Continue reading... |
| White supremacist allegedly planned shooting 'in spirit of Dylann Roof' Posted: 16 Feb 2017 12:28 PM PST Benjamin McDowell, a man from South Carolina with prior convictions, bought gun from undercover FBI agent, inspired by deadly attack in Charleston A white supremacist with felony convictions in South Carolina bought a gun from an undercover FBI agent, telling the agent he planned an attack in "the spirit of Dylann Roof", authorities said Thursday. Benjamin McDowell, 28, was arrested in Myrtle Beach shortly after buying the .40-caliber Glock and ammunition for $109 from the agent who picked him up at his mother's house, then took him to his grandfather's house to get the money, FBI agent Grant Lowe wrote in an affidavit. Continue reading... |
| US ambassador to UN contradicts Trump's position on two-state solution Posted: 16 Feb 2017 11:35 AM PST Nikki Haley said US upholds longstanding policy on Israeli-Palestine conflict, as French foreign minister finds Rex Tillerson's proposal 'confusing and worrying' The US ambassador to the United Nations has insisted that Washington "absolutely" supported a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestine conflict, 24 hours after Donald Trump dropped US commitment to the policy. The conflicting messages coming out of the new US administration reflected policy chaos in a week when the national security adviser was forced to resign over his contacts with Russia, and factions inside the White House continue to vie for dominance. Continue reading... |
| Baghdad car bomb kills dozens in deadliest attack of 2017 Posted: 16 Feb 2017 07:35 AM PST Islamic State claims it carried out blast in south of city, the third to hit capital in three days A huge car bomb blast has ripped through a used-car market in southern Baghdad, killing at least 52 people, security and medical sources said, in the deadliest such attack in Iraq this year. Islamic State, which is on the defensive after losing control of eastern Mosul to a US-backed Iraqi military offensive, claimed responsibility for the bombing in an online statement. It was the third such attack to hit the Iraqi capital in three days. Continue reading... |
| Parents of backpacker killed in India voice dismay at trial delays Posted: 16 Feb 2017 09:27 AM PST Briton Sarah Groves, 24, was stabbed to death in 2013 but case has been adjourned again after suspect's 88th court hearing The family of a British backpacker killed in India have spoken of their struggle as a Dutchman accused of murdering her faced his 88th court hearing. Richard de Wit is accused of killing 24-year-old Sarah Groves, who was stabbed more than 40 times while she slept on a houseboat in Kashmir in April 2013. Continue reading... |
| Court orders Front National MEPs to repay €600,000 for 'misuse of funds' Posted: 16 Feb 2017 06:09 AM PST European court rejects bid by three French MEPs to stop European parliament docking their pay and expenses Three Front National MEPs, including the former leader of the party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, have been ordered by a European court to pay more than €600,000 (£510,000) in total to the European parliament over alleged misuse of funds. The MEPs had asked the general court of the EU to stop the European parliament docking their pay and expenses, after officials claimed last year that they had inappropriately been claiming salaries for assistants in Brussels. Continue reading... |
| Aid reaches Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh – in pictures Posted: 17 Feb 2017 02:00 AM PST Nautical Aliya, carrying aid workers and emergency supplies, docks at Chittagong port, about 90 miles (140km) from Cox's Bazar where thousands of Rohingya Muslims have taken refuge. About 70,000 Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar since October last year following the Burmese army's 'clearance operation' Continue reading... |
| Venezuelan vice-president just latest to be called drug trafficker Posted: 17 Feb 2017 02:00 AM PST Tareck El Aissami joins counter-narcotics generals and a consul in being tied to drug trade by US Treasury The allegations against Venezuela's vice president could not have been more serious. Announcing sanctions against Tareck El Aissami this week, the US Treasury Department described him as a "prominent drug trafficker" who had overseen and even partially owned narcotics shipments from Venezuela to the US. Related: US accuses Venezuelan vice-president of role in global drug trafficking Continue reading... |
| Brut force: the winery in the middle of a war zone Posted: 17 Feb 2017 01:49 AM PST The chaos of eastern Ukraine has taken a heavy toll on this Soviet-era winery, which once supplied more than half the country You would not know from Yuri's calm demeanour, as he describes the bubbles rising in his champagne flute, that that we are only a few miles from the frontlines in eastern Ukraine. Related: Violence flares in war-weary Ukraine as US dithers and Russia pounces Continue reading... |
| Justice pour Adama: la famille proteste contre la brutalité policière en France – video Posted: 17 Feb 2017 01:21 AM PST Adama Traoré est décédé en garde à vue l'année dernière. La lutte de sa famille pour la justice a mis la brutalité policière sous les feux de la rampe en France et sa sœur aînée Assa mène la bataille pour la vérité autour de la mort de son frère. Iman Amrani suit comment cette affaire a ouvert la voie aux émeutes récentes en France, suite au viol présumé d'un jeune homme appelé Theo par un policier Continue reading... |
| Immigrants flee US for Canada – in pictures Posted: 16 Feb 2017 12:19 PM PST Migrants are fleeing the US for Canada, making the journey through snow and ice to seek refugee status in the country. Reuters photographer Christinna Muschi documented some of them as they crossed the border from the US into Hemmingford in Quebec Continue reading... |
| Met chief: 'brutalised' Isis supporters soon to return to Britain Posted: 16 Feb 2017 11:43 AM PST Outgoing commissioner says terror threat will grow as Britons fighting alongside Islamic State in Syria and Iraq start to return Britain's top police officer has warned that battle-hardened jihadis who left Britain to fight with Islamic State may be on their way home to pose a heightened terrorist threat. Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, in his final days as commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said that Britons who had travelled to Iraq and Syria were expected to return as the terrorist group lost ground. Continue reading... |
| The Guardian view on Trump and Israel: casual, careless and dangerous | Editorial Posted: 16 Feb 2017 11:44 AM PST The US president's ditching of the commitment to a two-state solution may not be part of a calculated strategy. That is all the more alarming Perhaps the most alarming aspect of Donald Trump's press conference with Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday was not, as it would have been with any other US president, his abandoned commitment to a two-state solution, but the casualness and carelessness with which he dropped it: his jocular tone, fumbling words and evident ignorance of the issue. "I'm looking at two-state and one-state and I like the one that both parties like," he said, brushing aside the trifling matter of how Israelis and Palestinians might come to an agreement in this intractable conflict . Whether his remarks formed part of a considered strategy is doubtful. Whether his ditching of the commitment was even intentional is unclear. His ambassador to the United Nations has now said the US "absolutely" supports the two-state solution, yet is "thinking out of the box as well". His administration has sent fluctuating messages on settlements and relocating the US embassy, seemingly moved by whoever spoke to him last. Some seize on the inconsisstencies as cause for optimism. They are not clutching at straws, but dynamite. Continue reading... |
| Can crunchy caterpillars help tackle malnutrition in Burkina Faso? Posted: 16 Feb 2017 11:00 PM PST With acute malnutrition affecting more than 10% of people in Burkina Faso, an innovative startup is mass-producing dried shea caterpillars high in protein Small black cylinders simmer in two pots, emitting a pungent and smoky smell. This is not someone's kitchen, however. It is the offices of agrifood company FasoPro, which double as a caterpillar laboratory. Continue reading... |
| Bushfire destroys more than a dozen homes in Carwoola, say NSW firefighters Posted: 16 Feb 2017 11:48 PM PST Hot and windy conditions return, sparking fresh emergency warnings on ACT border and in state's central west A bushfire has destroyed at least 15 homes near the New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory border with police warning that figure will continue to rise. The New South Wales Rural Fire Service (NSW RFS) confirmed the losses near Carwoola on Friday evening and said the fire was still burning out of control. Continue reading... |
| Mexico call centers await ‘huge pool of talent’ if Trump keeps deportation pledge Posted: 17 Feb 2017 01:00 AM PST Employing native English speakers who understand US culture would give call centers an edge over rivals in India and the Philippines in billion-dollar industry If Donald Trump deports millions of people, Mexico's call centers will have one word for him – and it won't be gracias; it'll be thanks. The booming industry needs English speakers to service US customers, and the US president seems set to oblige with a deportation force that could banish record numbers of Americanized Mexicans south of the border. Continue reading... |
| Make the fur fly: annual ferret racing in Yorkshire – in pictures Posted: 16 Feb 2017 11:00 PM PST Photographer Matthew Lloyd dropped into the Craven Arms in Applestreewick to watch the annual ferret racing competition, held in the old cruck barn at the back of the Yorkshire Dales pub Continue reading... |
| Friday briefing: Blair switch project Posted: 16 Feb 2017 10:57 PM PST Tony Blair wants Britain to abandon Brexit … Trump's discordant definition of 'fine-tuned' … and how celebrities have sidelined our politicians Remainers must "rise up in defence of our beliefs" and resist separating from the EU, Tony Blair will declare in a speech today. Continue reading... |
| Refugee Loghman Sawari granted bail in Papua New Guinea after deportation from Fiji Posted: 16 Feb 2017 08:35 PM PST Iranian fled Manus Island after being wrongly detained, but was then returned to PNG and accused of giving false information on a passport application The Iranian refugee Loghman Sawari, who was deported from Fiji after he tried to claim asylum there, has been granted bail by a magistrate in Papua New Guinea. Sawari, now 21, was a 17-year-old child when he was erroneously sent by the Australian government to the adult men-only Manus Island detention centre. He fled to Fiji on false documents, claiming he faced persecution in PNG. Continue reading... |
| Zealandia – pieces finally falling together for continent we didn't know we had Posted: 16 Feb 2017 07:44 PM PST The landmass – about two-thirds the size of Australia – of which 94% is under water, is a step closer to being recognised, scientists say Zealandia – a new continent submerged in the southwest Pacific – is a step closer to being recognised, the authors of a new scientific paper claim. A paper published in GSA Today, the journal of the Geological Society of America, contends that the vast, continuous expanse of continental crust, which centres on New Zealand, is distinct enough to constitute a separate continent. Continue reading... |
| Australia to boycott global summit on treaty to ban nuclear weapons Posted: 16 Feb 2017 04:50 PM PST Anti-nuclear campaigners accuse Australia of turning its back on the UN and 'taking orders from the Trump administration' Australia will boycott global negotiations on a treaty to ban nuclear weapons at the United Nations next month. The global summit, to be held in New York on 27 March, will go ahead with Australia out of the room. Continue reading... |
| Horse genitals seized from luggage of women arriving in US Posted: 16 Feb 2017 04:34 PM PST Pair had a total of 19kg of horse meat hidden in juice boxes on a flight from Mongolia to Dulles airport, Virginia Customs agents seized 5.9kg (13lbs) of horse genitals among 19kg of horse meat from two women arriving from Mongolia at Dulles international airport in Virginia. The horse meat was hidden in juice boxes, Customs and Border Protection said. One of the women said the horse genitals were for medicinal purposes. Continue reading... |
| Women of Nauru: seeing my sons in a school uniform is my only dream Posted: 16 Feb 2017 03:21 PM PST As confusion spread about whether Australia's refugee deal with the US would go ahead, Saba Vasefi spoke to four Iranian refugee women who have been detained in an Australian immigration centre on Nauru for four years When refugees and asylum seekers were first told of a deal that Australia had struck to relocate them to the United States, some were sceptical but others allowed themselves to hope. Last week, as confusion spread about whether the deal would be honoured by President Donald Trump, I interviewed 10 Iranian women about how they were feeling. They had rejected the subjugation of women's lives in Iran by escaping – but in Australian immigration detention, they found another form of oppression. Continue reading... |
| House vote paves the way for states to defund Planned Parenthood Posted: 16 Feb 2017 01:51 PM PST Approved resolution will let states withhold federal family-planning funds from the healthcare provider, as Republicans push forward an anti-abortion agenda The House on Thursday approved a resolution that would permit states to withhold federal family-planning funds from affiliates of Planned Parenthood and other healthcare providers that offer abortions. Abortion foes immediately hailed the measure, which is expected to pass the Senate, as a critical victory, while public health advocates worried that the cuts would blow a hole in the nation's fragile family planning safety net. The measure would overturn a rule, issued by Obama's department of Health and Human Services, prohibiting states from withholding federal family-planning dollars from groups that provide abortions. States can only withhold those funds for reasons related to a provider's ability to deliver family planning services, the rule says. |
| Church of England bishops seek to repair divisions over same-sex relationships Posted: 16 Feb 2017 11:22 AM PST Archbishops suggest another debate at the next meeting of the synod and plan to press ahead with 'teaching document' on marriage and sexuality Church of England bishops have been told to meet with synod members in their dioceses in an effort to repair bitter divisions over the issue of same-sex relationships and marriage following this week's vote to reject a controversial "road map". The archbishops of Canterbury and York – the two most senior figures in the C of E – sent a letter to all members of the synod on Thursday setting out "the way forward in the next few months". Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Car bomb in Baghdad kills tens – video report Posted: 16 Feb 2017 10:28 AM PST A large car bomb has killed tens of people and injured many more in Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday. The bomb detonated in the busy Bayaa neighbourhood, a Shia area, of the Iraqi capital around 4.15pm local time (7.15GMT). Islamic State claimed the attack, which is the third such attack to hit the Iraqi capital in three days Continue reading... |
| Israel-Palestine: One state, two states – any advance on three? | Letters Posted: 16 Feb 2017 10:22 AM PST It has taken time – and has happened for the wrong reasons – for the US to abandon support for the two-state "solution" of the Israel-Palestine conflict (Trump rips up decades of US policy on Israel, 16 February). Now it's time for the British government to do the same. The only reason for Israel and the US in the past to support the idea of two states has been to maintain the Jewish exclusivity of Israel at the expense both of the Palestinians who live in it and of those Jewish Israelis, perhaps 50%, who are secular and chafe under the rule of the rabbis. Whichever "one state" Trump is willing to accept, it will surely be a step in the right direction. If it is a single state between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, with equal rights for all its inhabitants, it will effectively revive the original state of Palestine, albeit with a larger proportion of Jews than lived there before 1948. Those Jews who wish to adhere to the Jewish religion will be free to do so, those who don't will be relieved of the control of a religiously dominated government and constitution, and the Palestinians will finally be living in a land from which they have been excluded for nearly 70 years. And, miraculously, the problem of the settlers will disappear because they will be able to stay where they are as citizens of the new state, although without the privileged access and security they have today. Continue reading... |
| Suicide bomb kills dozens in Pakistan – video report Posted: 16 Feb 2017 09:11 AM PST A suicide bomber targeted crowds at the Lal Shahbaz Qalandar shrine in Sehwan province, Pakistan on Thursday, killing dozens of people and injuring over 250. Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack at the busy shrine. This latest bomb comes on the back of an attack in Lahore and a bomb in Quetta in recent days Continue reading... |
| The death of Kim Jong-nam: what we know Posted: 16 Feb 2017 08:42 AM PST Half-brother of North Korean leader died within minutes of being attacked with an unidentified poison at Malaysian airport Kim Jong-nam, the estranged half-brother of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, was murdered at Malaysia's main airport this week in a broad-daylight hit that could have come straight from a Hollywood screenplay. He collapsed and died within minutes after assassins used an unidentified but extremely potent poison. Police have rounded up three suspects as they work to unravel the details of the killing, although South Korean and US officials are in little doubt that it was ordered in North Korea. Continue reading... |
| Justin Trudeau: the whole world benefits from a strong EU – video Posted: 16 Feb 2017 07:16 AM PST Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau says on Thursday that the whole world benefits from a strong European Union. The first Canadian head of state to address the European Parliament, Trudeau says the EU is an unprecedented model for peaceful cooperation, in a speech that appears to distance him from the United States under Donald Trump Continue reading... |
| Eyewitness: Pyongyang, North Korea Posted: 16 Feb 2017 07:09 AM PST Photographs from the Eyewitness series Continue reading... |
| Kim Jong-nam: jovial half-brother who lived with sword of Damocles over head Posted: 16 Feb 2017 06:57 AM PST Assassinated North Korean heir to 'great leader' title was bon viveur with no interest in power who lived in fear for his life On the surface, Kim Jong-nam appeared to friends and acquaintances to be a quiet and jovial man who lived openly with his wife and two children in the gambling hub of Macau. But a source close to Kim has revealed that the estranged half-brother of the secretive North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, felt he had a "sword of Damocles" hanging over him, and lived in fear of being targeted by the regime. Continue reading... |
| Whole world benefits from a strong EU, Justin Trudeau tells MEPs Posted: 16 Feb 2017 05:01 AM PST Canadian prime minister gives rousing speech at European parliament a day after MEPs pass Ceta trade deal Canada's prime minister, Justin Trudeau, has told MEPs the European Union is vital to the world's peace and prosperity, in a rousing speech that appeared to distance him from the United States under Donald Trump. Speaking in both English and French, Trudeau told the European parliament that the EU was an unprecedented model for cooperation and that an effective European voice on the global stage was not just preferable but essential. Continue reading... |
| 'Forest cities': the radical plan to save China from air pollution Posted: 16 Feb 2017 11:00 PM PST Stefano Boeri, the architect famous for his plant-covered skyscrapers, has designs to create entire new green settlements in a nation plagued by dirty air When Stefano Boeri imagines the future of urban China he sees green, and lots of it. Office blocks, homes and hotels decked from top to toe in a verdant blaze of shrubbery and plant life; a breath of fresh air for metropolises that are choking on a toxic diet of fumes and dust. Last week, the Italian architect, famed for his tree-clad Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest) skyscraper complex in Milan, unveiled plans for a similar project in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing. Continue reading... |
| UK to host summit seeking extra funds for family planning Posted: 16 Feb 2017 08:51 AM PST Priti Patel sets date for event that was planned before Trump administration reintroduced so-called 'global gag rule' Britain will lead efforts to secure extra funding for family planning at an international summit in London, ministers have said, amid concern about Donald Trump's decision to ban US financial support for organisations involved in abortion services overseas. Priti Patel, the international development secretary, said the summit would take place in July, and the UK was aiming for a "step-change on family planning". Continue reading... |
| Amazon rainforest's final frontier in Brazil under threat from oil and soya | John Vidal Posted: 16 Feb 2017 02:30 AM PST In Brazil's least developed state, Amapá, locals fear that government plans to increase soya and oil production will destroy the area – and their livelihoods Celso Carlos has made a modest living for 10 years growing manioc and coconuts and rearing poultry on a few hectares of lowland in Brazil's northern Amazon. But three years ago, out of the blue, Carlos was told by an Amapá state judge that he had to move because his land had been bought by a businessman living more than 1,500 miles away in São Paulo. Within months, fences had been put up, and Carlos and other assentados, or settlers, had been forced off their land. |
| Donald Trump news conference: what was all that 'ranting and raving' about? | Kevin Rawlinson Posted: 16 Feb 2017 03:23 PM PST Here's a breakdown of the issues Trump meandered through in his exchange with reporters Thursday on Russia, race politics and, of course, the media Donald Trump's press conference on Thursday was billed as the announcement of the latest member of his administration, but it turned into one of the most compelling political spectacles in recent years as the US president attacked his critics and defended his record. He veered from topic to topic, demanding to know whether questions would be friendly and describing media reports about his links to Russia as both fake and the result of leaks. Here are the highlights. Continue reading... |
| Out of the loop: Rex Tillerson finds state department sidelined by White House Posted: 16 Feb 2017 08:45 AM PST America's top diplomat is operating with senior staff positions left vacant, his deputy vetoed and foreign policy made by an ideological clique around Trump Rex Tillerson began his first foreign outing as US secretary of state on Thursday, meeting counterparts from G20 countries in Bonn, but he has left behind in Washington a department that is severely weakened and cut out of key policy decisions. Since starting the job two weeks ago, Tillerson, a former ExxonMobil executive, has soothed nerves at the state department by consulting widely with regional and country experts, but it has been hard to disguise the gap between the department headquarters at Washington's Foggy Bottom and the White House where far-reaching foreign policy decisions are being made. Continue reading... |
| 'The leaks are real, the news is fake': key quotes from Trump's press conference – video Posted: 16 Feb 2017 10:44 PM PST 'They will say, Donald Trump rants and raves,' the US president told reporters in a blistering 77-minute question-and-answer session that covered Russia, intelligence leaks, the firing of Michael Flynn – and uncomfortable encounters with reporters on the issues of antisemitism and race.
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| Donald Trump attacks press and defends his administration – video Posted: 16 Feb 2017 02:10 PM PST Donald Trump held his first solo press conference as president at the White House on Thursday, which he initially used to announce the appointment of Alexander Acosta as his new pick for labor secretary. But the conference turned into a bitter critique of the media
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| American homelessness: 'No matter how we ended up here, we're still here' – video Posted: 16 Feb 2017 05:00 AM PST Of the 10 states with the highest rates of homelessness, seven are in the western half of the country. In a new project by the Guardian, Outside in America will explore the homelessness crisis in the western United States, and we'll offer ways you can help solve the problem Continue reading... |
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