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- Iraq suspends Mosul offensive after coalition airstrike atrocity
- ‘Move fast and break things’: Trump’s Obamacare failure and the backlash ahead
- Riot police in Belarus attack protesters calling for end to ‘dictatorship’
- Brexit talks will fail without compromise: José Manuel Barroso
- Brexit vote is 'closed nationalism' that belongs in past, says Italian PM
- Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron face off for the soul of France
- Angie Thomas: the debut novelist who turned racism and police violence into a bestseller
- Laptop ban on planes came after plot to put explosives in iPad
- Labour to set out tough new conditions for backing Brexit
- Australian academic Chongyi Feng prevented from leaving China
- The showdown that exposed the rift between Republican ideology and reality
- Wirral explosion: Two people seriously injured in suspected gas blast
- Syrian asylum seekers in UK forced into poverty
- Congolese militia decapitates more than 40 policemen as violence grows
- Fights erupt at pro-Donald Trump rally on California beach
- Cyclone Debbie: Queensland braces for large scale disaster
- Hong Kong elections: Carrie Lam voted leader amid claims of China meddling
- Al-Qaida leader behind Islamabad hotel bomb 'killed by US drone'
- Death and glory: the first world war US general whose ambition did for his men
- Overseas aid is most effective when local communities can help | Letters
- Rise of Hindu ‘extremist’ spooks Muslim minority in India’s heartland
- The west condemned Russia’s bombs, but now coalition attacks on Mosul are killing innocents | Simon Tisdall
- ‘Who knows what we’ll find next?’ Journey to the heart of Mozambique’s hidden forest
- European leaders gather to mark 60th anniversary of Treaty of Rome
- EU leaders meet to celebrate 60 years of union ... without Theresa May – video
- Neil Gorsuch's confirmation hearing revealed his hidden similarity to Trump
- Noah: a man helping Flint, Michigan, rise from ashes – video
| Iraq suspends Mosul offensive after coalition airstrike atrocity Posted: 25 Mar 2017 03:31 PM PDT Move comes as international outrage grows over airstrikes that killed at least 150 people in Mosul Jadida neighbourhood Iraqi military leaders have halted their push to recapture west Mosul from Islamic State as international outrage grew over the civilian toll from airstrikes that killed at least 150 people in a single district of the city. The attack on the Mosul Jadida neighbourhood is thought to have been one of the deadliest bombing raids for civilians since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. Rescuers were still pulling bodies from the rubble on Saturday, more than a week after the bombs landed, when the US-led coalition confirmed that its aircraft had targeted Isis fighters in the area. Continue reading... |
| ‘Move fast and break things’: Trump’s Obamacare failure and the backlash ahead Posted: 25 Mar 2017 10:42 AM PDT Republicans suffered a devastating defeat on Obamacare. But the pulling of the American Health Care Act could be a 'blessing in disguise' for Trump The James S Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House was crammed as usual but there was an extra frisson of suspense. As the press secretary, Sean Spicer, walked to the lectern, a conversation was unfolding just 27 paces away in the Oval Office. It would invalidate almost everything he said. Related: Donald Trump blames Democrats for stunning failure to repeal Obamacare Continue reading... |
| Riot police in Belarus attack protesters calling for end to ‘dictatorship’ Posted: 25 Mar 2017 12:50 PM PDT Crackdown by President Lukashenko follows two months of demonstrations against his 23-year rule Armed riot police and water cannon were deployed in cities across Belarus and the internet was shut down across the country on a day of protest and human rights marches. People were on Saturday night reported to be still attempting to demonstrate in the capital, Minsk, as well as in Brest and Grodno, on what was the national Freedom Day. There were sporadic outbreaks of violence as masked police closed down key roads and charged at marchers to stop crowds forming. Witnesses claimed it was the most determined crackdown by President Alexander Lukashenko so far in what has been two months of protests and opposition to his 23-year rule. Continue reading... |
| Brexit talks will fail without compromise: José Manuel Barroso Posted: 25 Mar 2017 12:00 PM PDT Former European commission president says constructive negotiations between EU and UK leaders are needed to reach a deal Brexit negotiations are on course to fail unless both Britain and the European Union ditch their winner-takes-all approach to the coming talks, the former president of the European commission José Manuel Barroso has said. With just days to go before Theresa May formally notifies Brussels of the UK's intention to leave the EU, Jean-Claude Juncker's predecessor said the two sides were playing a dangerous game. Continue reading... |
| Brexit vote is 'closed nationalism' that belongs in past, says Italian PM Posted: 25 Mar 2017 03:09 AM PDT Paolo Gentiloni speaks at Rome summit to celebrate EU's 60th anniversary where leaders reaffirm commitment to unity Britain's decision to leave the EU has been described by the Italian prime minister as "closed nationalism" that belongs in the past during a summit in Rome to celebrate the bloc's 60th anniversary. In an address at the Orazi and Curiazi Hall of the Capitol in the Piazza del Campidoglio, where the EU was founded six decades ago, Paolo Gentiloni expressed his discomfort with the motives behind the referendum result. Continue reading... |
| Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron face off for the soul of France Posted: 26 Mar 2017 12:30 AM PDT The two frontrunners in the French presidential election are poles apart: one stands for identity and culture; the other for globalism and free movement "As Victor Hugo once proclaimed, we have not yet done with being French" Marine Le Pen, launching her presidential campaign in Lyon on 4 February Continue reading... |
| Angie Thomas: the debut novelist who turned racism and police violence into a bestseller Posted: 26 Mar 2017 12:00 AM PDT Angie Thomas grew up witnessing drug dealing and gun crime but dreamed of being a writer. Then police shot a young, unarmed black man and she found her subject. Afua Hirsch meets her If a spaceship landed in northern Texas and beamed every adolescent within a 50-mile radius into its desolate interior, the scene would look a lot like what now lies in front of me. It's difficult to believe there are any teenagers in north Texas not currently forming orderly queues at the Las Colinas conference centre – a formidably angular set of slabs in the Texan wasteland. Yet among the lines of young readers at the North Texas Teen Book Festival, their arms cradling impractical numbers of books, and the row of authors signing on an industrial scale, one woman stands out. Angie Thomas, one of the youngest writers in the place, is one black face in a sea of white. She's upbeat, her hair tied with a perky bow, and when a fan says she looks "so pretty" in a top that combines a hood with sheer lace panels, she laughs and says "thank you" in a Mississippi accent whose vowels are so many notes, it's a beguiling song. She fingers the garment. "My friend called it Thug Life with a feminine twist." Continue reading... |
| Laptop ban on planes came after plot to put explosives in iPad Posted: 26 Mar 2017 12:00 AM PDT Failed attacks using shoes and underwear led to new attempts with electronic devices, security source reveals The US-UK ban on selected electronic devices from the passenger cabins of flights from some countries in north Africa and the Middle East was partly prompted by a previously undisclosed plot involving explosives hidden in a fake iPad, according to a security source. The UK ban on tablets, laptops, games consoles and other devices larger than a mobile phone came into effect on Saturday. It applies to inbound flights from six countries – Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Turkey. Six UK airlines – British Airways, EasyJet, Jet2, Monarch, Thomas Cook and Thomson – and eight foreign carriers are affected. Continue reading... |
| Labour to set out tough new conditions for backing Brexit Posted: 25 Mar 2017 11:59 PM PDT Keir Starmer to say Labour will not back any deal without the 'exact same benefits' as single market brings Labour will refuse to vote in the House of Commons for any Brexit deal struck between Theresa May and the 27 remaining EU states unless the deal ensures precisely the same economic and trade benefits as Britain currently gains from full membership. In a major policy speech on Monday, Labour's Brexit spokesman, Keir Starmer, will set out six tests for May and EU leaders to meet, including a requirement that any agreement delivers the "exact same benefits" as the UK enjoys from being inside the single market and customs union. Continue reading... |
| Australian academic Chongyi Feng prevented from leaving China Posted: 25 Mar 2017 10:47 PM PDT Feng, a long-time associate professor at UTS, has not been detained within China but has been repeatedly questioned about his research, sources say An academic from the University of Technology Sydney has been prevented from leaving China, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has confirmed. Chongyi Feng, an associate professor in China studies, was stopped for the second time in two days on Saturday when trying to board a flight to Australia, the ABC reported. Continue reading... |
| The showdown that exposed the rift between Republican ideology and reality Posted: 25 Mar 2017 05:15 PM PDT Republicans calling for a return to the pro-business government of the 1920s never reflected political reality – and now the party can never be the same On Friday, not with a final stand but with an ignominious retreat, the modern Republican party died. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan had to pull the Republicans' repeal of America's Affordable Care Act before members of his own party killed it. That legislative defeat was the moment Republican ideology engaged in its first real battle with reality, and reality won. The Republican party can never again be the same. Since 1980, Republican leadership has embraced the draconian goal of dismantling the New Deal state. When Democrats under Franklin D Roosevelt put in place policies to regulate business and finance, protect workers, and provide a basic social safety net in the hope of preventing another Great Depression, a reactionary rump of pro-business Republicans howled. Continue reading... |
| Wirral explosion: Two people seriously injured in suspected gas blast Posted: 26 Mar 2017 01:36 AM PDT Another 30 people are in hospital being treated for minor injuries following the collapse of a building in Bebington Two people have been seriously injured and 30 others are in hospital after a building collapsed following a suspected gas explosion in Merseyside. Emergency services were called to Bebington in Wirral on Saturday night. |
| Syrian asylum seekers in UK forced into poverty Posted: 25 Mar 2017 05:05 PM PDT Exploited refugees in low-pay jobs live in squalor Hundreds of Syrian asylum seekers are struggling to survive in the UK, with some facing destitution and others forced into exploitative work because they are afraid of being detained and deported. The Observer has found Syrian asylum seekers working in warehouses, construction sites and garages for as little as £10 a day. Many had stopped signing in with the Home Office after being held in detention centres for months. Hundreds more are living in destitution, reliant on charities for food parcels and clothes. Continue reading... |
| Congolese militia decapitates more than 40 policemen as violence grows Posted: 25 Mar 2017 05:56 PM PDT The ambush took place in Kasai Central where the UN is searching for missing US and Swedish investigators A Congolese militia group has decapitated 42 policemen after ambushing them in an increasingly violent region where the United Nations is searching for missing American and Swedish investigators, according to a local official. Members of the Kamwina Nsapu militia staged the attack between the cities of Tshikapa and Kananga on Friday, according to the provincial assembly president Francois Kalamba. The militia members freed six policemen because they spoke the local Tshiluba language, he said. Continue reading... |
| Fights erupt at pro-Donald Trump rally on California beach Posted: 25 Mar 2017 06:56 PM PDT At least one demonstrator is doused with pepper spray as anti-Trump protesters clash with the US president's supporters Donald Trump supporters holding a rally on a popular southern Californian beach have clashed with counter-protesters, leading to the arrest of four people, law enforcement said. Multiple fights broke out and at least one Trump supporter was doused with pepper spray on Saturday when pro-Trump demonstrators marching along Bolsa Chica state beach encountered a small group opposed to the Republican president who had gathered to denounce the rally. Continue reading... |
| Cyclone Debbie: Queensland braces for large scale disaster Posted: 26 Mar 2017 01:32 AM PDT Authorities have grounded flights, cancelled school and are evacuating low-lying areas as the worst tropical cyclone since Yasi approaches Queensland is bracing for a large scale natural disaster ahead of the arrival of Cyclone Debbie, with authorities ordering evacuations, the closure of schools, ports and airports and thousands of military and emergency services personnel on alert. The Bureau of Meteorology predicts the "very destructive core" of Debbie will hit the mainland near the northern town of Ayr as a category four cyclone early Tuesday. Continue reading... |
| Hong Kong elections: Carrie Lam voted leader amid claims of China meddling Posted: 25 Mar 2017 09:49 PM PDT A pro-Beijing election committee elects its favoured candidate as pro-democracy MP Nathan Law dismisses the result as a 'nightmare' China's preferred candidate has won the heavily restricted election for a new leader of Hong Kong in a contest that pitted popular appeal against lobbying by Beijing. Carrie Lam, the former deputy to outgoing chief executive Leung Chun-ying, beat the former financial secretary John Tsang and former judge Woo Kwok-hing. Continue reading... |
| Al-Qaida leader behind Islamabad hotel bomb 'killed by US drone' Posted: 25 Mar 2017 07:51 PM PDT Qari Yasin is believed to be linked to the 2008 Marriott atrocity and the 2009 attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team bus An al-Qaida leader believed to be responsible for the 2008 Marriott hotel bombing in Islamabad and the deadly attack on a bus carrying Sri Lanka's cricket team in 2009 has been killed by a US air strike, the Pentagon claims. The drone attack on Qari Yasin, "a well-known terrorist leader" with ties to the Pakistan Taliban, took place on 19 March in Paktika province, the Pentagon said in a statement. Continue reading... |
| Death and glory: the first world war US general whose ambition did for his men Posted: 25 Mar 2017 05:05 PM PDT Historian bucks US tradition to show how lives were needlessly lost US military scholars have rarely been as willing as their British counterparts to find fault with leadership and execution – even when those failures cost thousands of allied servicemen's lives. But as commemorations of the first world war's centenary continue, US military scholars, as their European counterparts did decades earlier, are going back to the original records and looking more closely. Continue reading... |
| Overseas aid is most effective when local communities can help | Letters Posted: 25 Mar 2017 05:05 PM PDT Indigenous knowledge must be harnessed in drought-hit Kenya I am from Marsabit in northern Kenya and have seen how the drought has left pastoralist communities with no other choice but to rely on aid. It was heartening to read that the UK's development secretary, Priti Patel, has pledged more support to East Africa ("Patel to defend aid budget as famine crisis spreads", News). There is no doubt that this money will save lives, but for it to be as effective as possible the aid response must be locally led. There has been a growing realisation of the need to empower local organisations and communities, with international aid agencies working alongside. Continue reading... |
| Rise of Hindu ‘extremist’ spooks Muslim minority in India’s heartland Posted: 25 Mar 2017 05:02 PM PDT In Gorakhpur, the power base of a firebrand monk, religious tension grows with Uttar Pradesh's 40 million Muslims Pastor Ritesh Joshua had just called a tea break when he saw the men in the saffron scarves. More than a hundred, some wielding sticks, had massed outside his white stucco church on the outskirts of Gorakhpur, a temple town in eastern Uttar Pradesh. It was three days after Christmas. "They started shouting, 'You are converting people. We will not allow any conversions here'," he says. "They shoved people, turned over furniture, and told me, 'You are the main culprit'." Continue reading... |
| Posted: 25 Mar 2017 02:35 PM PDT The leaders who denounced Putin for deadly airstrikes in Syria are not speaking out over the siege of the Iraqi city America and the UK condemned Russian airstrikes that killed or injured hundreds of civilians during last autumn's siege of Aleppo, accusing Vladimir Putin of war crimes. The question now is whether the US, backed by British air power, is committing similar atrocities against civilians in Mosul. Addressing the UN security council in September, Matthew Rycroft, Britain's ambassador, said Russia had "unleashed a new hell" on Aleppo. "Russia is partnering with the Syrian regime to carry out war crimes," he said. The US accused Putin of "barbarism". Continue reading... |
| ‘Who knows what we’ll find next?’ Journey to the heart of Mozambique’s hidden forest Posted: 25 Mar 2017 02:00 PM PDT Since it was identified on Google Earth in 2005, the forest of Mount Mabu has amazed scientists with its unique wildlife. Jeffrey Barbee joins explorer Professor Julian Bayliss on the first trip to its green heart The soggy boots of the team slide backwards in the black mud as they struggle up towards the ridge line separating the forest edge from one of the last unexplored places on Earth. The rain is an incessant barrage of watery bullets firing down through the tree canopy. Thunder crashes. Tangles of vines and spider webs make for a Hollywood movie scene of truly impenetrable jungle. Continue reading... |
| European leaders gather to mark 60th anniversary of Treaty of Rome Posted: 25 Mar 2017 12:00 PM PDT The UK was merely a side-note as the 27 other member states descended on Italy to embrace bloc and call for greater unity Only once, and fleetingly, was the 28th member state of the European Union mentioned during the formalities of a distinctly sombre summit in Rome held to mark the 60th anniversary of the bloc. And it was not to celebrate what Boris Johnson has taken to describing as Britain's liberation. Lamenting the EU's failure to respond adequately enough to the economic crisis of 2008, the Italian prime minister Paolo Gentolini told leaders and dignitaries: "That [failure] triggered in part of public opinion – unfortunately the majority of public opinion in the United Kingdom – it triggered a crisis of rejection. It brought forward the nationalism that we thought had been closed down in the archives." Continue reading... |
| EU leaders meet to celebrate 60 years of union ... without Theresa May – video Posted: 25 Mar 2017 06:48 AM PDT The leaders of 27 EU member states meet in Rome on Saturday to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the bloc and to sign the Rome declaration, renewing their commitment to the European Union. British prime minister Theresa May was not invited to the event as she prepares to trigger the UK's exit from the EU Continue reading... |
| Neil Gorsuch's confirmation hearing revealed his hidden similarity to Trump Posted: 25 Mar 2017 04:00 AM PDT The two appear to be a study in contrasts – but both display a remarkable lack of compassion. Their likeness could serve to justify Democrats' opposition On the surface, they could hardly be more different. Neil Gorsuch is known for his intellectual firepower; Donald Trump speaks at the level of a 10-year-old. Gorsuch has literary panache; Trump once referred to the size of his genitalia on a presidential debate stage. Gorsuch is a textualist; Trump makes up his own facts. And at first, it seemed confirmation hearings for Gorsuch's nomination to be the next justice on the supreme court this week would only serve to heighten these contrasts. As Trump tweeted angry disinformation in response to the revelation of an FBI investigation into his administration, Gorsuch sat coolly before members of the Senate judiciary committee. He quoted Socrates and reminisced with Ted Cruz about playing ball on the supreme court's basketball court as young clerks. Continue reading... |
| Noah: a man helping Flint, Michigan, rise from ashes – video Posted: 25 Mar 2017 04:05 AM PDT Flint, Michigan is a city built on the American dream. With the disappearance of industry, it became impoverished and neglected, and so did its residents. The water crisis is just one more tragedy piled upon a mound of oppression. Noah Patton, a young man from Flint, was deeply affected after his mother committed suicide. But with the help of his pastor, he has turned his life around and is helping to positively shape the future of his community Continue reading... |
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