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- Anger in Asia over passenger forcibly removed from United Airlines flight
- Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey: return to Sierra Leone will give me closure
- Boris Johnson is a liability for Britain, says John McDonnell
- Donald Trump’s tax holiday 'would help top US companies save $300bn'
- Japanese warships to join US fleet near North Korea as tensions rise
- How the Dodger baseball stadium shaped LA – and revealed its divisions
- West African children rescued from slavery – in pictures
- United Airlines CEO offers softer apology following stock nosedives
- Footage shows wetlands blackened by Abbot Point coal dust, activists say
- That's harassment. David Schwimmer and Sigal Avin tackle sexual harassment – video
- Moment of reckoning in Turkey as alleged coup plotters go on trial
- Spectre of Russian influence looms large over French election
- Wednesday briefing: Did Putin interfere in Brexit?
- The money machine: how a high-profile corruption investigation fell apart
- Rex Tillerson faces tough task in Moscow as Syria tension rises
- A queer word to the wise – archive, 12 April 1995
- Taiwan bans dog and cat meat from table as attitudes change
- Honey trap: New Zealand devises manuka test to fight fakes
| Anger in Asia over passenger forcibly removed from United Airlines flight Posted: 12 Apr 2017 01:40 AM PDT Call for boycott of company in Vietnam while China's state-run media sees it as proof of the US's hypocrisy on human rights Outrage over the violent removal of a passenger from a United Airlines flight swept across Asia on Wednesday, with Vietnamese internet users calling for a boycott of the company and China's state-run media seizing on the episode as proof of the US' hypocrisy over human rights. The eviction of David Dao, a 69-year-old American doctor, from United Airlines Flight 3411 on Sunday night prompted a massive outpouring of indignation and criticism on social media in China after initial reports that he was Chinese. |
| Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey: return to Sierra Leone will give me closure Posted: 12 Apr 2017 01:28 AM PDT Scottish nurse who nearly died twice from Ebola plans to go back to west African state where she contracted virus Pauline Cafferkey, the Scottish nurse who nearly died twice from Ebola, has said she is seeking "closure" as she announced plans to return to Sierra Leone for the first time since contracting the disease there. She said the trip next month was to raise funds for children orphaned by the disease and would give her "closure in a positive way". Continue reading... |
| Boris Johnson is a liability for Britain, says John McDonnell Posted: 12 Apr 2017 01:23 AM PDT Shadow chancellor says foreign secretary's 'poor judgment' undermines UK credibility, adding that even cabinet has no confidence in him Labour has called Boris Johnson a liability for the UK who "undermines our credibility" after the foreign secretary failed to gain the backing of fellow G7 foreign ministers to penalise Russia and Syria over last week's chemical weapons attack. Downing Street had insisted Theresa May fully backs Johnson after the 30-page communique from the two-day G7 summit in Italy failed to make any mention of Johnson's proposal of imposing sanctions on key military personnel. Continue reading... |
| Donald Trump’s tax holiday 'would help top US companies save $300bn' Posted: 12 Apr 2017 12:58 AM PDT Oxfam says corporations, using offshore havens, cheat poor nations of $100bn a year yet have pushed for bigger US tax breaks Donald Trump's plan to encourage US companies to repatriate profits held offshore will allow the 50 biggest American corporations to save at least $300bn (£240bn), according to research by Oxfam. The US president has promised that he will get America's biggest companies to bring their vast offshore cash piles back to US soil by offering a one-off tax holiday. The plan is to tax repatriated money at 10% rather than at the statutory rate of 35%. Continue reading... |
| Japanese warships to join US fleet near North Korea as tensions rise Posted: 12 Apr 2017 12:36 AM PDT Navy destroyers will join USS Carl Vinson for military drills amid fears Pyongyang plans further nuclear and missile tests Japan is preparing to send several warships to join a US aircraft carrier strike group heading for the Korean peninsula, in a show of force designed to deter North Korea from conducting further missile and nuclear tests. Citing two well-placed sources who spoke on condition of anonymity, Reuters and the Kyodo news agency said several destroyers from Japan's maritime self-defence forces would join the USS Carl Vinson and its battle group as it enters the East China Sea. Continue reading... |
| How the Dodger baseball stadium shaped LA – and revealed its divisions Posted: 11 Apr 2017 11:30 PM PDT When the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles 60 years ago, the construction of their stadium was meant to forge the city's rise to modernity. Instead it provoked a racially charged battle of eviction and protest that shaped LA for decades to come On 10 April 1962, amid ceremony and celebration, Dodger Stadium, major league baseball's modern showpiece, opened in Los Angeles. It was a day of pride and accomplishment for Walter O'Malley, the 58-year-old owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, who had moved his team from New York in 1957 in order to build the ballpark of his dreams, one with every possible amenity and convenience. Now here it stood in the former Chavez Ravine neighbourhood, a beautiful setting overlooking downtown Los Angeles to the south and the San Gabriel Mountains to the north. The city of Los Angeles also had reason to be proud. It had attracted the Brooklyn Dodgers, a storied and successful baseball franchise, with the promise of the finest stadium in America. Here it was, adorned in vibrant earth-to-sky colours, with unobstructed field views and the biggest and most technologically advanced scoreboard in the game. It was already being called the wonder of the baseball world, a grand civic monument befitting a world-class city. O'Malley, the Dodgers and Los Angeles had done it. Continue reading... |
| West African children rescued from slavery – in pictures Posted: 11 Apr 2017 11:00 PM PDT Thousands of young people on the west coast of Africa are sold by their families to human traffickers and promised a better life. This often turns out to be a life of slavery, in which they are exploited and abused. In Togo and Benin some children have been rescued, and are being helped to rebuild their lives All photographs by Ana Palacios Names have been changed to protect identities Continue reading... |
| United Airlines CEO offers softer apology following stock nosedives Posted: 12 Apr 2017 01:12 AM PDT Close to $1bn wiped off holding company's value before stock rallies, after a man was violently removed from a flight by aviation police The CEO of United Airlines has issued a second public apology about the man who was forcibly removed from a flight on Sunday, calling the incident "truly horrific". Related: United Airlines CEO calls dragged passenger 'disruptive and belligerent' Continue reading... |
| Footage shows wetlands blackened by Abbot Point coal dust, activists say Posted: 12 Apr 2017 12:15 AM PDT Adani says it released water into the Caley valley wetlands after Cyclone Debbie, but claims photos showing apparent contamination are 'misleading' New footage reveals the scale of coal dust contamination of nationally significant wetlands after Cyclone Debbie hit Adani's Queensland port, environmentalists claim. Helicopter and drone flyovers recorded footage showing a large part of the Caley Valley wetlands "smothered" by a "thick black sludge of coal", together with lumps of coal scattered on a nearby beach where turtles nest, the Australian Conservation Foundation and Australian Marine Conservation Foundation said. Continue reading... |
| That's harassment. David Schwimmer and Sigal Avin tackle sexual harassment – video Posted: 11 Apr 2017 11:33 PM PDT It could be her boss, co-worker or doctor that sexually harasses a woman. It could happen in her lawyer's office or on the set of her TV show. These common acts of sexual harassment are what #ThatsHarassment aims to capture in six short films based on true stories. Produced by and starring David Schwimmer, ThatsHarassment was created, written and directed by Sigal Avin Continue reading... |
| Moment of reckoning in Turkey as alleged coup plotters go on trial Posted: 11 Apr 2017 11:00 PM PDT Trials of hundreds of people will force country to come to terms with scale of upheaval after last year's failed putsch Turkish prosecutors are laying the groundwork for large-scale trials of hundreds of people accused of participating in a coup attempt last July, an undertaking that is already transforming society and will be a reckoning of sorts for a nation that has endured much upheaval in recent years. Authorities say the trials will shed light on alleged links between the accused and Fethullah Gülen, an exiled US-based preacher with a vast grassroots network. Continue reading... |
| Spectre of Russian influence looms large over French election Posted: 11 Apr 2017 11:00 PM PDT Vladimir Putin has applauded far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen and officials are on alert for campaign meddling The golden domes of one of Vladimir Putin's foreign projects, the recently built Russian Holy Trinity cathedral in the heart of Paris, rise up not far from the Elysée palace, the seat of the French presidency. Dubbed "Putin's cathedral" or "Saint-Vladimir", it stands out as a symbol of the many connections the French elite has long nurtured with Russia, and which the Kremlin is actively seeking to capitalise on in the run-up to the French presidential election. |
| Wednesday briefing: Did Putin interfere in Brexit? Posted: 11 Apr 2017 10:41 PM PDT MPs 'deeply concerned' about possible sabotage of voter registration site … Tillerson in Moscow for crunch talks … and no more dog dinners in Taiwan Good morning. This is Martin Farrer with the top stories this morning. Continue reading... |
| The money machine: how a high-profile corruption investigation fell apart Posted: 11 Apr 2017 10:00 PM PDT After a revolution overthrew Ukraine's disgraced president, Theresa May promised to help the country's new leaders recover stolen assets. But the UK's first case collapsed within a year On 11 March 2014, a London branch of the French bank BNP Paribas received a request from a Ukrainian lawyer. He asked the bank to close accounts belonging to his client and transfer their balances to Cyprus. The accounts contained a mere $23m, and the transaction should have been routine. But although the amount was unremarkable by the standards of the City, the times were not. Ukraine had just overthrown its president, Viktor Yanukovich, and the world was on the lookout for money that Yanukovich and his associates had stashed abroad. Continue reading... |
| Rex Tillerson faces tough task in Moscow as Syria tension rises Posted: 11 Apr 2017 09:05 PM PDT The US secretary of state's visit to Russia promised a push for closer ties. But air strikes mean 'no one is acting like anyone owes anything' A huge red carpet was rolled out on the tarmac of the Moscow airport where Rex Tillerson's plane touched down, but it was unlikely Russia would similarly welcome his calls for it to stop backing Bashar al-Assad in Syria. While the US secretary of state's decision to skip a Nato summit and visit Moscow initially seemed to highlight the White House's desire for better relations with Russia, expectations shifted after Donald Trump launched cruise missile strikes on a Syrian airbase last week, a move condemned by the Kremlin. Continue reading... |
| A queer word to the wise – archive, 12 April 1995 Posted: 11 Apr 2017 09:00 PM PDT 12 April 1995: Francis Wheen looks at writer Paul Johnson's launch of a crusade to 'protect the English language' Paul Johnson, the splenetic socialist who became a splenetic Thatcherite, has been a busy boy recently, explaining to the world why he is now supporting Tony Blair. And yet, while whizzing along the road to Damascus in the fast lane, he has somehow found the time to launch a crusade to 'protect the English language'. Rather late in the day, he has suddenly noticed that 'gay' means homosexual. 'The theft of this word by Californian sodomites,' he complains in the Spectator, 'means that many fine old songs are now unperformable.' One such song is I Surrender, Dear, which includes the lines 'I may seem blithe, I may seem gay,/It's just a pose, I'm not that way...' Continue reading... |
| Taiwan bans dog and cat meat from table as attitudes change Posted: 11 Apr 2017 08:15 PM PDT Consumption attracts large fine and repeat offenders could be named and shamed under law that is first of its kind in Asia Taiwan is set to become the first country in Asia to ban the consumption of dog and cat meat, as increasing pet ownership across the continent has seen attitudes shift. The revised Animal Protection Act imposes a fine of up to 250,000 Taiwan dollars (£6,500) for eating dog or cat meat, while the penalties for animal cruelty or slaughter were raised to up to two years in prison and fines of up to 2m Taiwan dollars (£52,000). Continue reading... |
| Honey trap: New Zealand devises manuka test to fight fakes Posted: 11 Apr 2017 07:59 PM PDT Government has tested 800 samples from around the world to create a benchmark definition for the prized product The New Zealand government has tested 800 samples of honey from around the world to establish a scientific definition of genuine manuka honey and crackdown on alleged fakes. Jars purporting to be New Zealand manuka were pulled from UK shelves – including at Fortnum & Mason – earlier this year when it was discovered they were fake amid a craze for the product, which is highly valued for its medicinal properties. Continue reading... |
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