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- Trump did not know Flynn would have to register as 'foreign agent', Spicer says
- Earth's oceans are warming 13% faster than thought, and accelerating | John Abraham
- 'Trump lies all the time': Bernie Sanders indicts president's assault on democracy
- Native Americans take Dakota Access pipeline protest to Washington
- Hard Brexit could cost Spain €1bn, leaked report says
- Turkish diaspora in Germany divided on powers for Erdoğan
- Russia's rare snow leopards find protection in camera traps
- Volkswagen pleads guilty to all criminal charges in emissions cheating scandal
- Thai authorities seek to defrock scandal-hit Buddhist abbot
- Defense secretary condemns nude photos on Marines Facebook page
- Two convicted of conspiracy in armed standoff at Oregon wildlife refuge
- ‘All my friends had some nightmare experience trying to get pregnant. My story took the cake’
- The 20 photographs of the week
- Writers unite! The return of the protest novel
- Can high-intensity interval training delay the ageing process?
- The 1930s were humanity's darkest, bloodiest hour. Are you paying attention?
- Germany's rightwing AfD wants to jettison postwar safeguards
- Care home resident admits trying to kill staff member
- Greek activists target sales of homes seized over bad debts
- World faces worst humanitarian crisis since 1945, says UN official
- One in 10 firms bidding for Trump's Mexico wall project are Hispanic-owned
- How foreign countries are grappling with the mad world of Trump 50 days in
- China: Xi Jinping wants ‘Great Wall of Steel’ in violence-hit Xinjiang
- Western Australian election: exit polls suggesting swing toward Labor
- Life after a sex cult: 'If I’m not a member of this religion any more, then who am I?'
- Boston St Patrick’s Day parade to allow gay veterans to march
- The Resistance Now: Bernie Sanders issues a rallying cry
- Polish PM ridicules François Hollande's 4% poll rating in Tusk row
- Bishops need to heed the teachings of Christ | Letters
- UK will rejoin European Union some day, says EU commission chief – video
- MPs to discuss reform of UK's Victorian-era abortion law
- UK will rejoin the EU one day, suggests Jean-Claude Juncker
- A key proposal for abortion law reform | Letters
- David Rubinger obituary
- Nigerian president says he needs more rest, fuelling health rumours
- South Koreans feel like chicken tonight after president's removal
- Drive to replace UK-EU trade links with closer ties to Commonwealth
- 'A gift to human traffickers': report warns of dangers of Trump immigration policy
- 'Where is the help?': black tea and dark despair as Somalia edges closer to famine
- Thousands march on Washington for Dakota Access pipeline protest – video
- Congressman raps Juicy lyrics in tribute to Notorious BIG – video
- Bernie Sanders on the resistance movement in Trump's America – video
| Trump did not know Flynn would have to register as 'foreign agent', Spicer says Posted: 10 Mar 2017 10:49 AM PST White House official says team told before inauguration that Flynn might need to register with justice department over lobbying linked to Turkish government Donald Trump did not know that his now-dismissed national security adviser Michael Flynn had lobbied on behalf of the Turkish government and potentially needed to register as a "foreign agent", Sean Spicer insisted on Friday. The White House press secretary told his daily media briefing that Flynn's decision to register with the justice department was a personal one and not something for Trump's lawyers to determine. Continue reading... |
| Earth's oceans are warming 13% faster than thought, and accelerating | John Abraham Posted: 10 Mar 2017 11:00 AM PST Our new study improves estimates of the rate of ocean warming - a critical component of climate change New research has convincingly quantified how much the Earth has warmed over the past 56 years. Human activities utilize fossil fuels for many beneficial purposes but have an undesirable side effect of adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere at ever-increasing rates. That increase - of over 40%, with most since 1980 - traps heat in the Earth's system, warming the entire planet. But how fast is the Earth warming and how much will it warm in the future? Those are the critical questions we need to answer if we are going to make smart decisions on how to handle this issue. |
| 'Trump lies all the time': Bernie Sanders indicts president's assault on democracy Posted: 10 Mar 2017 04:00 AM PST Exclusive: the former presidential candidate suggested that Donald Trump's false claims serve a purpose – to push the United States toward authoritarianism Bernie Sanders has launched a withering attack on Donald Trump, accusing him of being a pathological liar who is driving America towards authoritarianism. In an interview with the Guardian, the independent senator from Vermont, who waged a spirited campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, gave a bleak appraisal of the new White House and its intentions. Continue reading... |
| Native Americans take Dakota Access pipeline protest to Washington Posted: 10 Mar 2017 01:55 PM PST The Native Nations Rise march – the culmination of a four-day protest – brought thousands on to the streets in support of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe After more than a year of protests at the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota, thousands of Native Americans and activists brought the fight to the nation's capital to demand indigenous rights and raise awareness about issues affecting the communities. The event, the culmination of a four-day protest in the capital, was led by the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, which has been involved in a longstanding dispute with authorities over the construction of an oil pipeline in North Dakota, culminating in a two-mile march through Washington and rally in front of the White House. Continue reading... |
| Hard Brexit could cost Spain €1bn, leaked report says Posted: 10 Mar 2017 04:27 AM PST Spanish government paper suggests British exit from EU will have big impact on exports, migration, and footballers' careers A hard Brexit could cost the Spanish economy €1bn (£870m) in lost exports and have "innumerable repercussions" for the 800,000 Britons who live in Spain and the 300,000 Spaniards in the UK, according to a leaked Madrid report. Written for the Spanish government's Brexit commission and obtained by el País, the report says the UK's departure from the EU will leave Spain hugely exposed economically and will affect everything from fishing rights to the careers of Spanish footballers playing for British clubs. Continue reading... |
| Turkish diaspora in Germany divided on powers for Erdoğan Posted: 10 Mar 2017 07:32 AM PST Movie power pitch reinforces intention of Erdoğan's Turkish-German fans to vote yes, but representatives are campaigning for no Only 38 people turned up at screen 7 of Berlin's Alhambra cinema on Thursday night to watch a powerful Turkish president make a pitch for why he deserves even more power. But those who came were impressed. Reis (the Turkish word for chief), a biopic in which Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is played by soap opera star Reha Beyoğlu, premiered in Istanbul last month. It is now touring cinemas among Europe's Turkish diaspora communities in the run-up to the constitutional referendum on 16 April, a vote that could boost Erdoğan's powers and allow him to remain president until 2029. Continue reading... |
| Russia's rare snow leopards find protection in camera traps Posted: 10 Mar 2017 03:55 AM PST In the remote Altai mountains, cameras traps are shedding light on the secret lives of these elusive animals, enabling researchers to identify individual leopards in the first ever nationwide census The snow leopard is so rare and elusive that it's commonly known as the "ghost of the mountains". But researchers in the Altai mountains, where the borders of Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan and China converge, are increasingly coming face to face with this endangered animal through a growing network of camera traps. On a recent day in Sailyugem national park in Russia's Altai Republic, rangers in ski goggles and huge parkas were retrieving footage from a high-altitude camera trap – a black box holding a dozen AA batteries, a memory card and a motion-activated lens – nestled among a cluster of dark burgundy rocks covered with orange and green lichen. Such windswept ridges are where snow leopards typically travel in search of prey such as ibex and musk deer, sneaking down from above to break the victim's neck with one crunch of their powerful jaws. Continue reading... |
| Volkswagen pleads guilty to all criminal charges in emissions cheating scandal Posted: 10 Mar 2017 09:58 AM PST The German automaker admits scheme to skirt pollution rules justifies felony conspiracy and obstruction of justice, in what attorney calls 'calculated offense' Volkswagen pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiracy and obstruction of justice charges in a brazen scheme to get around US pollution rules on nearly 600,000 diesel vehicles by using software to suppress emissions of nitrogen oxide during tests. The German automaker has already agreed to pay $4.3bn in civil and criminal penalties – the largest ever levied by the US government against an automaker –although VW's total cost of the scandal has been pegged at about $21bn, including a pledge to repair or buy back vehicles. Continue reading... |
| Thai authorities seek to defrock scandal-hit Buddhist abbot Posted: 10 Mar 2017 07:06 AM PST Ruling junta has kept Dhammakaya temple under siege for nearly three weeks in bid to find monk wanted for money laundering Thailand's highest religious body has begun a process that could defrock a Buddhist abbot wanted for money laundering, escalating a conflict between the military government and a hugely popular temple. The Dhammakaya complex in northern Bangkok has been under siege for nearly three weeks, with more than 4,000 police officers failing to find the sect's 72-year-old spiritual leader. Continue reading... |
| Defense secretary condemns nude photos on Marines Facebook page Posted: 10 Mar 2017 01:26 PM PST James Mattis says posting of photos of female colleagues is an 'egregious violation' as department opens investigation into secret Facebook page Service members alleged to have posted nude photos of their female colleagues on social media committed an "egregious violation" against the department's values, the defense secretary, James Mattis, said on Friday. Speaking at a Pentagon news conference, Mattis condemned what he called "unacceptable" behavior, as the department opened an investigation into the secret Facebook page Marines United, on which current and former marines shared images of their female colleagues, veterans and other women. Continue reading... |
| Two convicted of conspiracy in armed standoff at Oregon wildlife refuge Posted: 10 Mar 2017 02:36 PM PST Verdict handed prosecutors some redemption after they failed to convict Bundys in trial involving takeover of wildlife refuge in protest over control of federal land A jury on Friday convicted two men of conspiracy to impede federal officers during last year's high-profile armed occupation of a wildlife refuge in Oregon. The verdict handed prosecutors some measure of redemption after they failed to convict occupation leaders Ammon and Ryan Bundy and five other occupiers in a trial last fall involving the takeover of Malheur national wildlife refuge in a protest over control of federal lands. Continue reading... |
| ‘All my friends had some nightmare experience trying to get pregnant. My story took the cake’ Posted: 11 Mar 2017 02:00 AM PST At five months pregnant, Ariel Levy lost her baby. After another four years of IVF, had she left motherhood too late? I first met Ariel Levy in 2009, soon after moving from London to New York, but I had been a fan for more than a decade. Her frank articles about pop culture and sex, which she wrote in her first job at New York magazine from the late 1990s, provided the template of what I wanted to write one day. Her 2005 book, Female Chauvinist Pigs, a blistering look at how young women were being sold the lie that emulating pole dancers and Paris Hilton was empowering, became one of the defining feminist statements of that decade. At the New Yorker, where she has been a staff writer since 2008, she breaks up the magazine's occasional aridity with vivid articles about sexuality and gender. (She got her job when she told editor David Remnick that, "If aliens had only the New Yorker to go by, they would conclude that human beings didn't care that much about sex, which they actually do.") Heroes rarely live up to your fantasies, but Levy exceeded them. Usually we'd go out for drinks – cocktails that knocked me sideways, but barely seemed to touch her sides – and from the start she struck me as being just like her writing: laid-back, wise, curious, kind. Sometimes Levy's wife, Lucy, would join us. "Isn't she hilarious?" Levy would say after Lucy had said something that wasn't, actually, all that funny, but I envied them their mutual devotion after almost a decade together. I, by contrast, was lonely and, like generations of single women in their mid-30s before me, starting to panic. But like a lot of women of my particular generation, I felt ashamed of this. Panicking about not having a baby? How retrograde. So I never admitted any of it to Levy, who seemed more likely to eat her own hair than indulge in such uncool, unfeminist thoughts. Continue reading... |
| The 20 photographs of the week Posted: 11 Mar 2017 01:10 AM PST International Women's Day, conflict in the Middle East and stormy seas in Sydney – the news of the week captured by the world's best photojournalists Continue reading... |
| Writers unite! The return of the protest novel Posted: 11 Mar 2017 12:00 AM PST From Ali Smith's Brexit book to Howard Jacobson's Trump satire, writers are responding to the political moment. But can art bring real change? There are many reasons to miss the writer Gordon Burn, who died in 2009 at the age of only 61: his fearlessness in depicting the crimes of the Yorkshire Ripper, the Moors murderers and Fred and Rosemary West, and parsing their distorted, occult refraction of the English psyche; his wonderfully engaged, wry writing on sport, art, politics; his intuitive, loving understanding of the deep pathos and nostalgia of popular culture. But one of the talents that his death deprived us of becomes more noticeable by the minute. In 2008, Burn published Born Yesterday: The News as Novel, which he had written to a punishingly tight schedule during the course of 2007. Born Yesterday had only the slightest plot – a Burn-like character absorbs the world around him, noticing incidentals, making connections, drawing conclusions – because its real business was the news itself, its events and atmosphere gleaned from the newspapers and TV bulletins. Related: Gordon Burn | Obituary Continue reading... |
| Can high-intensity interval training delay the ageing process? Posted: 11 Mar 2017 12:00 AM PST Researchers have found that short-burst exercise might have rejuvenating effects – but there can be such a thing as too much intensity What's the story? What is HIIT? |
| The 1930s were humanity's darkest, bloodiest hour. Are you paying attention? Posted: 11 Mar 2017 12:00 AM PST A decade haunted by mass poverty, violent extremism and world war gives us one crucial advantage: the chance to learn the era's lessons and avoid its mistakes Even to mention the 1930s is to evoke the period when human civilisation entered its darkest, bloodiest chapter. No case needs to be argued; just to name the decade is enough. It is a byword for mass poverty, violent extremism and the gathering storm of world war. "The 1930s" is not so much a label for a period of time than it is rhetorical shorthand – a two-word warning from history. Witness the impact of an otherwise boilerplate broadcast by the Prince of Wales last December that made headlines: "Prince Charles warns of return to the 'dark days of the 1930s' in Thought for the Day message." Or consider the reflex response to reports that Donald Trump was to maintain his own private security force even once he had reached the White House. The Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman's tweet was typical: "That 1930s show returns." Continue reading... |
| Germany's rightwing AfD wants to jettison postwar safeguards Posted: 11 Mar 2017 12:00 AM PST Alternative für Deutschland wants to undo measures limiting executive's powers and strip 'criminal migrants' off citizenship Rightwing populist party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) would unpick several postwar safeguards put in place to constrain the power of Germany's national executive if it took power, the party's draft manifesto suggests. The campaign programme was presented by the AfD's co-leaders Frauke Petry and Jörg Meuthen at a press conference in Berlin. Continue reading... |
| Care home resident admits trying to kill staff member Posted: 11 Mar 2017 12:53 AM PST Fred Butcher, 79, pleads guilty to attempted murder after knife attack left worker with severe head and body injuries An elderly resident of a care home who repeatedly stabbed a member of staff has pleaded guilty to attempted murder. Fred Butcher, 79, was charged following the "unprovoked attack" with a knife at the residential home in Maidstone, Kent in late January. |
| Greek activists target sales of homes seized over bad debts Posted: 11 Mar 2017 12:00 AM PST Protests thwart plans to hold around 25,000 auctions as banks struggle to sell properties to settle shortfalls The cavernous halls of Athens' central civil court are usually silent and sombre. But every Wednesday, between 4pm and 5pm, they are anything but. For it is then that activists converge on the building, bent on stopping the auctions of properties seized by banks to settle bad debts. They do this with rowdy conviction, chanting "not a single home in the hands of a banker," unfurling banners deploring "vulture crows", and often physically preventing notaries and other court officials from sitting at the judge's presiding bench. Continue reading... |
| World faces worst humanitarian crisis since 1945, says UN official Posted: 10 Mar 2017 06:58 PM PST Twenty million people face starvation without an immediate injection of funds in Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and Nigeria, warns Stephen O'Brien The world faces the largest humanitarian crisis since the end of the second world war with more than 20 million people in four countries facing starvation and famine, a senior United Nations official has warned. Without collective and coordinated global efforts, "people will simply starve to death" and "many more will suffer and die from disease", Stephen O'Brien, the UN under secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, told the security council in New York on Friday. Continue reading... |
| One in 10 firms bidding for Trump's Mexico wall project are Hispanic-owned Posted: 11 Mar 2017 02:00 AM PST More than 600 businesses have registered interest in the first phase of the $21bn project and while some see ethical dilemmas, for others work is work Ten percent of the companies interested in bidding for the first stage of the construction of Donald Trump's border wall with Mexico are Hispanic-owned businesses, as construction firms wrestle with the morality of profiting from the controversial infrastructure project. More than 600 businesses have formally registered interest since 24 February, when the Department of Homeland Security issued a presolicitation notice for contractors to perform the "design and build of several prototype wall structures" for the border. Continue reading... |
| How foreign countries are grappling with the mad world of Trump 50 days in Posted: 10 Mar 2017 10:42 AM PST Business networks have vied with national interests, the personal has become geopolitical and conflicts of interest are no longer scandal in the Trump era When the Mexican foreign minister came to Washington, he went straight to the White House. The Department of State did not even know he was in town until its spokesman was asked about the visit by a journalist. It was a typical story of foreign relations from the first 50 days of the Trump administration. The Mexican minister, Luis Videgaray, bypassed the state department and went straight to the centre of power and, as has become the norm, to a member of the Trump family, the president's son-in-law Jared Kushner. Continue reading... |
| China: Xi Jinping wants ‘Great Wall of Steel’ in violence-hit Xinjiang Posted: 10 Mar 2017 06:39 PM PST Authorities blame apparent increase in bloodletting on Islamic extremists and separatists Chinese president Xi Jinping has urged security forces to erect a "Great Wall of Steel" around the violence-hit western region of Xinjiang after an apparent spike in bloodletting that authorities blame on Islamic extremists and separatists. Xi issued the traditional military rallying call on Friday, during a session of the national people's congress, China's annual rubber-stamp parliament, in Beijing. |
| Western Australian election: exit polls suggesting swing toward Labor Posted: 11 Mar 2017 01:57 AM PST The ALP is reportedly on track to pick up more than 10 additional seats and win majority government after polls close at 6pm WA time
Here's a bit more on that Channel Nine/Galaxy exit poll. #Galaxy Exit Poll WA State Primary Votes: LIB 33 (-14.1 since 2013) NAT 5 (-1.1) ALP 41 (+7.9) GRN 8 (-0.4) ON 6 (+6) #wavotes #auspol
While we're waiting for the polls to close, which will happen in nine minutes' time, let's take a minute to appreciate how much better the federal opposition leader, Bill Shorten, has got at a vital election-day duty since the federal election last year. That was then. Bill Shorten eats his first sausage sanga on Election Day in Sydney #ausvotes #auspol #ElectionDay pic.twitter.com/7FHGAklI8u Continue reading... |
| Life after a sex cult: 'If I’m not a member of this religion any more, then who am I?' Posted: 11 Mar 2017 01:00 AM PST Michael Young grew up immersed in the Children of God church, which was labelled as a sect by the FBI and dogged by child abuse allegations Of his eight siblings, Michael Young was the most zealous street missionary. As a child growing up in Monterrey, Mexico, he preached up to 10 hours a day, three to four days each week. He spoke to strangers on the streets and often went door-to-door. He'd ask them, in broken Spanish, if they wished to go to heaven. If they said yes, he would pray for them. If they said no, he would ask for at least a donation to The Family International, a church formerly known as the sex cult The Children of God. Young's parents, devout American missionaries who moved to Mexico in 1998, told him that such work was his destiny and duty. The alternative was an afterlife spent in the slums of heaven, a place only slightly better than hell. Continue reading... |
| Boston St Patrick’s Day parade to allow gay veterans to march Posted: 10 Mar 2017 07:58 PM PST OutVets group had said no to marching without rainbow flag, a symbol of gay pride, which is on their banner and jackets Organizers of Boston's St Patrick's Day parade reversed course on Friday and said they would allow a group of gay veterans to march in this year's event. The South Boston Allied War Veterans Council announced on the parade's Twitter account that it had signed an "acceptance letter" that would clear the way for OutVets to participate. Continue reading... |
| The Resistance Now: Bernie Sanders issues a rallying cry Posted: 10 Mar 2017 01:07 PM PST Sanders says 'despair is not an option'; the ACLU plans to thwart Trump with 'Freedom Cities'; the Statue of Liberty dims – coincidentally? – on women's day • Bernie Sanders has warned that Donald Trump is aiming to move the US "towards authoritarianism", in an interview with the Guardian. Continue reading... |
| Polish PM ridicules François Hollande's 4% poll rating in Tusk row Posted: 10 Mar 2017 10:40 AM PST Beata Szydło takes aim at French president as Poland continues to voice anger at European council leader's re-election The Polish prime minister has mocked François Hollande's low poll ratings on the second day of a bitter row over the re-election of Donald Tusk as European council president, which Poland tried to block. Speaking at an ill-tempered EU summit in Brussels, Beata Szydło took aim at Hollande after the French president appeared to suggest that Poland – as one of the biggest recipients of EU structural funds – should toe the line on Tusk's re-election. Continue reading... |
| Bishops need to heed the teachings of Christ | Letters Posted: 10 Mar 2017 10:14 AM PST The decision of Philip North, bishop of Burnley, not to accept the invitation to be the next bishop of Sheffield is to be welcomed by all who wish to end the embedded discrimination against women in the Church of England. Bishop North, archbishop Sentamu and virtually the whole hierarchy continue to argue that the church must learn to live with theological difference over the validity of women's orders, as if this were a minor matter compared to "transforming a nation in the name of Christ", to quote North. Does North not see that the Christ of the gospels refused to discriminate between Jew and gentile, embraced the ministry of women and broke through the institutional barriers of the religion of his day through the radical inclusion of loving acceptance? • Join the debate – email guardian.letters@theguardian.com Continue reading... |
| UK will rejoin European Union some day, says EU commission chief – video Posted: 10 Mar 2017 09:43 AM PST The president of the European commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, speaks to the media at the end of a summit to discuss the future of the bloc and expresses the opinion that the UK will choose to re-enter the EU someday. Saying that he doesn't like Brexit because he wants to be "in the same boat as the British", Juncker says he hopes the day will come when the UK "re-enters the boat" Continue reading... |
| MPs to discuss reform of UK's Victorian-era abortion law Posted: 10 Mar 2017 07:02 AM PST Under an act passed in 1861, women using pills at home to terminate an unplanned pregnancy can still be jailed for life in much of the UK In years to come, it may be regarded as one of the last battles for women's autonomy. Under an obscure Victorian law, passed when women did not even have the vote, the decision to terminate an unplanned pregnancy using pills in the privacy of a home is punishable by life in prison – for the woman and any doctor who helps her. Related: A key proposal for abortion law reform | Letters Continue reading... |
| UK will rejoin the EU one day, suggests Jean-Claude Juncker Posted: 10 Mar 2017 07:01 AM PST European commission president says he regrets Brexit but hopes Britain will return in the future Britain will one day rejoin the EU, the president of the European commission has suggested at the end of a summit to discuss the future of the bloc. Jean-Claude Juncker told reporters on Friday that he regretted Britain's decision to leave but held out hope that it would return in the future. "I don't like Brexit," he said. "I would like to be in the same boat as the British. The day will come when the British re-enter the boat. I hope." Continue reading... |
| A key proposal for abortion law reform | Letters Posted: 10 Mar 2017 05:51 AM PST As experts in law, we write to commend Diana Johnson MP for her 10-minute rule bill. The bill, which is due to be heard on 13 March, offers an important first step towards taking pre-viability abortion out of the criminal law. Abortion is currently an offence in English law by virtue of an archaic and punitive statute passed at the midpoint of the reign of Queen Victoria. Under its terms, any woman who ends her own pregnancy at any stage of gestation is potentially liable for life imprisonment. This is the harshest penalty for abortion imposed anywhere in Europe. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 10 Mar 2017 05:48 AM PST Photojournalist who chronicled the turbulent history of Israel The long and creative life of the photojournalist David Rubinger, who has died aged 92, reflects in many ways the fascinating but frequently turbulent history of Israel, the land he emigrated to as a youth, and which throughout his lifetime he chronicled so meticulously with his camera. The image with which he is most identified is one he took of three paratroopers at the Western Wall in Jerusalem during the 1967 six-day war. This picture gained him international recognition, even though he was to lose his rights to it. Continue reading... |
| Nigerian president says he needs more rest, fuelling health rumours Posted: 10 Mar 2017 05:19 AM PST Muhammadu Buhari returns from nearly two months of medical leave in UK but says deputy leader will remain in charge Nigeria's president, Muhammadu Buhari, has said he needs more rest and health tests after returning home from nearly two months of medical leave in Britain, during which time his deputy has run the country. Shortly after arriving from London, the 74-year-old former general told officials he was feeling much better but wanted to rest over the weekend, raising questions about his ability to run Africa's biggest economy and most populous nation. Continue reading... |
| South Koreans feel like chicken tonight after president's removal Posted: 10 Mar 2017 03:01 AM PST In a nod to a derogatory nickname for Park Geun-hye, restaurants offer discount chicken as 'party noodles' trends online South Koreans have been eating chicken to celebrate the removal of Park Geun-hye, in a satirical nod to a derogatory nickname for the former president. South Korea's constitutional court forced Park from office on Friday over an influence-peddling scandal involving one of her close friends and the country's powerful chaebol conglomerates. Continue reading... |
| Drive to replace UK-EU trade links with closer ties to Commonwealth Posted: 10 Mar 2017 10:21 AM PST In move dubbed Empire 2.0 by critics, trade ministers draw up integration plans as departure from single market looms Britain would harmonise regulations with its former colonies rather than the European Union under new proposals for trade integration that critics have dubbed Empire 2.0. At a meeting in London given fresh impetus by Brexit, Commonwealth trade ministers agreed to deepen economic ties on Friday by seeking some of the same standardisation that once frustrated eurosceptics in Brussels. Continue reading... |
| 'A gift to human traffickers': report warns of dangers of Trump immigration policy Posted: 10 Mar 2017 06:04 AM PST Study claims hardened stance on immigration leaves undocumented migrant workers at greater risk of modern slavery and human rights abuses Donald Trump's hardline approach to immigration has been branded a "gift to human traffickers" amid concerns that stricter deportation and border regulations will push undocumented migrant workers underground, putting them at greater risk of slavery and human rights abuses. The new administration's immigration policy – which hinges on the construction of a US-Mexico border wall and immediate repatriation of illegal immigrants – will force criminal networks to use more costly and potentially more dangerous trafficking routes by air and sea, say global risk analysts Verisk Maplecroft. Continue reading... |
| 'Where is the help?': black tea and dark despair as Somalia edges closer to famine Posted: 10 Mar 2017 05:24 AM PST With nothing to eat and no sign of respite, people in the Somali town of Caynabo are fighting to stave off malnutrition and disease as they survive off scraps On a rock-hard dust bowl of barren land outside the Somali town of Caynabo, more than a thousand people have pitched up makeshift shelters as they figure out how to survive. Searing drought has all but destroyed their pastoral lifestyle and now it threatens to kill them. They are among 6 million people here in Somalia in need of urgent food assistance to prevent a repeat of the 2011 famine that claimed a quarter of a million lives. Continue reading... |
| Thousands march on Washington for Dakota Access pipeline protest – video Posted: 10 Mar 2017 02:19 PM PST Thousands of Native Americans marched through Washington DC on Friday to protest against the construction of an oil pipeline in North Dakota that opponents say threatens the local water supply and crosses scared Native American lands. Demonstrators erected a tipi outside Trump International Hotel in the city before the march culminated in a rally in Lafayette Square, close to the White House Continue reading... |
| Congressman raps Juicy lyrics in tribute to Notorious BIG – video Posted: 10 Mar 2017 01:19 PM PST A Democratic congressman rapped the first few verses of the Notorious BIG's song Juicy on the floor of the House of Representatives on Friday in honour of the 20th anniversary of the star's death. Hakeem Jefferies, who represents New York's eighth congressional district where the Notorious BIG was raised, said the rapper's life story was the 'classic embodiment of the American dream' Continue reading... |
| Bernie Sanders on the resistance movement in Trump's America – video Posted: 10 Mar 2017 04:00 AM PST Bernie Sanders talks exclusively with the Guardian about the resistance movement under a Donald Trump presidency. Sanders discusses historical movements from the past century and lessons that young progressives can take from them Continue reading... |
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