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- North Korea: Pyongyang preparing for nuclear test, satellite images suggest
- 'Great chemistry': Trump abandons China criticism as Russia ties suffer
- 'I've let the president down': Sean Spicer apology tour continues
- Borussia Dortmund's 'yellow wall' stands tall in face of attack on team
- United Airlines to refund tickets for all passengers on infamous flight
- Hungary investigated by EU over law threatening top university
- French election shaken by surge in support for far-left candidate
- US senator presses Deutsche Bank for details of Trump loans
- Duterte cancels visit to disputed South China Sea island after warning from Beijing
- Mexico: body of man 'thrown from plane' found on hospital roof
- Marine Le Pen campaign HQ targeted in arson attempt
- Crossing boundaries: crabs, asylum seekers and therapy on Christmas Island – video
- United States' first female Muslim judge, Sheila Abdus-Salaam, found dead in New York
- Donald Trump says relations with Russia 'may be at all-time low'
- Cyclone Cook: New Zealand braces for the 'worst storm in decades'
- Is Turkey on the road to autocracy? – video explainer
- Hundreds of children's playgrounds in England close due to cuts
- Fury over arrest of academic who called Uganda's president a pair of buttocks
- Ron Medich murder trial: jury discharged after failing to reach a verdict
- Thursday briefing: Trump founders on foreign policy
- 'Phoney': official Hong Kong song marking 1997 British handover panned
- Spain bans flights near to Gibraltar - archive 1967
- A DNA test showed I'm 100% Māori. Many thought there were none of us left | Oriini Kaipara
- Coalition says China responsible for stopping North Korean nuclear weapons reaching Australia
- 'No longer obsolete': Trump backtracks on Nato with Russia tensions rising
- Riot police stop refugees returning to Dunkirk camp destroyed by fire
- EU takes aim at Hungary as it lays out plan to protect child refugees
- Iran's Ahmadinejad to run for president despite Khamenei warning
- Anger and ridicule in Israel over Sean Spicer's Hitler comments
- University of Sydney investigates tutor’s online attack on a News Corp reporter
- Three years after Chibok, Boko Haram deploys children as suicide bombers
- US-Russia relations ‘may be at an all-time low' says Trump – video
- Tillerson: there is a ‘low level of trust’ with Russia – video
- Sean Spicer’s gaffes: a brief history – video report
- 'I screwed up' says Sean Spicer on Hitler comments – video
| North Korea: Pyongyang preparing for nuclear test, satellite images suggest Posted: 13 Apr 2017 12:49 AM PDT North's Punggye-ri site appears to be ready for what would be the country's sixth nuclear test since 2006 North Korea appears to be preparing to conduct a nuclear test in a show of defiance towards Donald Trump, who has not ruled out military action to pressure the regime into abandoning its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes. The US-based monitoring group 38 North said on Thursday that the satellite images from the North's Punggye-ri site showed it was "primed and ready" for what would be the country's sixth nuclear test since 2006. |
| 'Great chemistry': Trump abandons China criticism as Russia ties suffer Posted: 12 Apr 2017 09:31 PM PDT Ties between two largest economies appear to warm as Donald Trump speaks of 'very good relationship' with Xi Jinping Less than two months after branding China the "grand champion" of currency manipulation, Donald Trump has performed a breathtaking pirouette away from those allegations, declaring: "They're not currency manipulators". Trump's verdict, delivered in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, was the latest hint that ties between the world's two largest economies were warming after the billionaire's shock election ushered in a period of intense uncertainty that stirred fears of a trade war or even military confrontation. Continue reading... |
| 'I've let the president down': Sean Spicer apology tour continues Posted: 12 Apr 2017 09:12 AM PDT Press secretary gave no indication he would resign after stating Hitler, who used gas chambers to kill Jews in the Holocaust, did not deploy chemical weapons White House spokesman Sean Spicer said on Wednesday that he had let down the US president but gave no hint he would quit over his false claim that Adolf Hitler "didn't even sink to using chemical weapons" against his own people. The press secretary drew criticism from Israel and Germany, and demands from Democrats that he should be fired, after comparing the atrocities of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad unfavourably with those of Hitler, who gassed millions of Jews at extermination camps during the Holocaust. Continue reading... |
| Borussia Dortmund's 'yellow wall' stands tall in face of attack on team Posted: 12 Apr 2017 01:56 PM PDT European football's largest standing terrace felt vulnerable after terror attack – until one of club's famed fan choreographies The "yellow wall", the 25,000 capacity southern terrace of Borussia Dortmund's home stadium, is also a face that charts the club's emotional well-being. European football's largest standing terrace wails in frustration when strikers fresh-air the ball inside the box, screams with red-hot anger when the referee overlooks a stone-cold penalty, and goes soppier than the most loved-up teenager when the team scores, breaking out into the club's dewy-eyed hymn Echte Liebe, meaning True Love. Continue reading... |
| United Airlines to refund tickets for all passengers on infamous flight Posted: 12 Apr 2017 11:07 PM PDT When airline asked for volunteers to deplane, they offered $800 to relinquish a seat before dragging a man off. Now they'll pay the full price of every ticket Seeking to quell the uproar over a man being dragged off a plane, United Airlines announced on Tuesday that it would refund the tickets for all customers who were on the flight when the man was removed and that it would no longer ask police to remove passengers from full flights. The airline said that passengers on United Express Flight 3411 on Sunday would be compensated equal to the cost of their tickets and could take the compensation in cash, travel credits or miles. Continue reading... |
| Hungary investigated by EU over law threatening top university Posted: 12 Apr 2017 06:57 AM PDT European commission says Central European University should be free to operate, patience with PM Viktor Orbán wears thin A Hungarian law that threatens a leading university with closure is being investigated by the EU executive, as fears grow that Hungary's prime minister, Viktor Orbán, is eroding democracy. Frans Timmermans, the first vice-president of the European commission, said the new law had caused widespread concern and was perceived by many as an attempt to close down the Central European University, which was founded by the Hungarian-American financier and philanthropist George Soros after the fall of communism in Hungary. |
| French election shaken by surge in support for far-left candidate Posted: 12 Apr 2017 09:27 AM PDT Jean-Luc Mélenchon's rise turns presidential campaign into four-horse race watched by voters in 'destructive mood' A dramatic seven-point surge by the wildcard leftwing veteran Jean-Luc Mélenchon appears to be holding, unexpectedly turning France's roller-coaster presidential race into a possible four-way contest. Barely 10 days from the first round of voting on 23 April, the independent centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen, both with 23-24% of the vote, are still favourites to go through to the run-off round. Continue reading... |
| US senator presses Deutsche Bank for details of Trump loans Posted: 12 Apr 2017 09:29 AM PDT Chris Van Hollen asks Germany's biggest bank for assurances it will not use the US president's loans as 'leverage' Germany's biggest bank is coming under pressure from a US senator to give further details of its lending to Donald Trump and meetings it has had with the administration. Chris Van Hollen has written to Deutsche Bank asking for assurances that it will not use the president's outstanding multimillion-dollar loans as "leverage". The Democratic senator is also demanding to know whether the bank has restructured Trump's debt or sold it to "foreign entities". |
| Duterte cancels visit to disputed South China Sea island after warning from Beijing Posted: 12 Apr 2017 07:51 PM PDT Philippines' president backs down on vow to plant flag on Thitu island, citing 'our friendship with China' The Philippines' president, Rodrigo Duterte, has cancelled a planned visit to an island the Philippines claims in the disputed South China Sea, after Beijing warned him against the visit. The brash Philippine leader last week announced his plan to raise the Philippine flag in the island of Thitu, in the Spratlys chain, and fortify it with barracks, setting off alarm bells. Continue reading... |
| Mexico: body of man 'thrown from plane' found on hospital roof Posted: 12 Apr 2017 07:03 PM PDT Witnesses report plane flying low and person thrown out over Eldorado in Sinaloa, a region home to drug traffickers The body of a man, who witnesses said was tossed from a plane, landed on a hospital roof in Mexico's northern Sinaloa state on Wednesday, according to a public health service official in the region which is home to notorious drug traffickers. The body landed on the roof of an IMSS hospital in the town of Eldorado, around 7:30am local time, said the official, who was not authorised to give his name. Continue reading... |
| Marine Le Pen campaign HQ targeted in arson attempt Posted: 13 Apr 2017 01:36 AM PDT Fire on ground floor of building that houses presidential candidate's headquarters causes little damage A building housing the far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen's campaign headquarters has been hit by an arson attempt. Only minor damage was caused. Firefighters were called at 2.40am on Thursday to the ground-floor offices on the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore, in central Paris. Continue reading... |
| Crossing boundaries: crabs, asylum seekers and therapy on Christmas Island – video Posted: 13 Apr 2017 01:00 AM PDT Christmas Island, off the coast of Australia: as 50 million crabs make their slow and ancient migration from the jungle to the ocean's edge, thousands of people seeking asylum are indefinitely held in a high security detention facility. Poh Lin, a trauma counsellor living on the island, bears witness to the dramatic stories and decline of those being detained |
| United States' first female Muslim judge, Sheila Abdus-Salaam, found dead in New York Posted: 13 Apr 2017 12:57 AM PDT The body of the 65-year-old associate judge of New York's highest court was found in the waters off Harlem A groundbreaking black jurist who became the first Muslim woman to serve as a US judge has been found dead in New York's Hudson river. The body of Sheila Abdus-Salaam, a 65-year-old associate judge of New York's highest court, was found floating off Harlem about 1.45pm local time, a police spokesman said. Continue reading... |
| Donald Trump says relations with Russia 'may be at all-time low' Posted: 13 Apr 2017 12:30 AM PDT President also says Nato is 'no longer obsolete' following his secretary of state's visit to Moscow Donald Trump has said that US relations with Russia may be at "an all-time low" and declared a new-found faith in Nato, suggesting the alliance was "no longer obsolete". The US president's remarks at the White House followed a two-hour meeting in Moscow between his secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, and Vladimir Putin, which failed to resolve any of the deep differences between the two nations on Syria, Ukraine, or Moscow's interference in the 2016 US election. Continue reading... |
| Cyclone Cook: New Zealand braces for the 'worst storm in decades' Posted: 13 Apr 2017 12:28 AM PDT Auckland residents told to cancel Easter plans as the cyclone heads directly for the flood-stricken Bay of Plenty region Cyclone Cook is bearing down on New Zealand and is expected to make landfall on Thursday evening, heading directly for the flood-stricken Bay of Plenty region devastated by last week's Cyclone Debbie. Two states of emergency have been declared in the North Island east coast districts of Bay of Plenty and Thames-Coromandel, with more districts expected to make that call mid-afternoon when the ferocity of the storm becomes clear. Continue reading... |
| Is Turkey on the road to autocracy? – video explainer Posted: 12 Apr 2017 11:30 PM PDT President Erdoğan is set to benefit from sweeping new powers over parliament and the judiciary if Turkish voters support his constitutional reforms in this Sunday's referendum. But with a heavy crackdown on opponents and the press, many of his critics fear the country is on a path to autocracy Continue reading... |
| Hundreds of children's playgrounds in England close due to cuts Posted: 12 Apr 2017 04:00 PM PDT Councils shut 214 playgrounds in financial years 2014-16 blaming 'unprecedented budget constraints', FOI requests show Hundreds of children's playgrounds have been closed or are being closed by cost-cutting local authorities across England, with councils blaming "unprecedented budget constraints" for the decision to get rid of parks and sports facilities. A series of freedom of information requests to local authorities found that 112 playgrounds were closed in the 2014-15 financial year, and a further 102 in 2015-16. Continue reading... |
| Fury over arrest of academic who called Uganda's president a pair of buttocks Posted: 12 Apr 2017 11:00 PM PDT Human rights groups denounce charge of cyber harassment against Stella Nyanzi for posting Facebook criticism of Yoweri Museveni and first lady Janet The detention of a prominent feminist academic for criticising the Ugandan president on Facebook has been widely condemned by human rights groups. Stella Nyanzi, one of Uganda's most controversial academics and activists, called president Yoweri Museveni "a pair of buttocks" and his wife, Janet, who is education minister, "empty-brained" in posts on her Facebook page. Continue reading... |
| Ron Medich murder trial: jury discharged after failing to reach a verdict Posted: 12 Apr 2017 11:50 PM PDT Medich had denied claims he financed the killing of Michael McGurk and directed Lucky Gattellari to organise the shooting After more than two weeks of deliberations, a jury could not decide whether or not Sydney millionaire property developer Ron Medich had murdered his business foe. The 69-year-old had denied claims he financed the contract killing of Michael McGurk and directed his former friend Lucky Gattellari to organise the September 2009 shooting. Continue reading... |
| Thursday briefing: Trump founders on foreign policy Posted: 12 Apr 2017 10:28 PM PDT Trump embraces Nato and China as Russia ties suffer … grammar schools to help 'ordinary working-class families' … and the ant that cared Good morning to you, Graham Russell here with a selection of what's moving today. Continue reading... |
| 'Phoney': official Hong Kong song marking 1997 British handover panned Posted: 12 Apr 2017 09:53 PM PDT One-minute tune titled Hong Kong Our Home has been criticised by pro-democracy activists as 'hypocritical' If the mandarins in the Hong Kong government are to be believed, the city is "shining ever brighter… up on the world stage" and they are "astounding the world as we always have". But the overly sunny picture painted in a new song released by the government has been panned by critics, who say the authorities are whitewashing over deep societal problems as the city prepares to mark 20 years since the UK handed Hong Kong back to China in 1997. Continue reading... |
| Spain bans flights near to Gibraltar - archive 1967 Posted: 12 Apr 2017 09:00 PM PDT 13 April 1967: All types of foreign aircraft to be prohibited from flying in a zone stretching 18 miles on either side of the Rock The Spanish Government has announced its intention of declaring the "Algeciras zone" prohibited to all types of foreign aircraft. It is notifying the International Civil Aviation Organisation of this decision, which it intends to put into effect from May 12. The announcement was made in Spain's official State bulletin yesterday. It pointed out that the ICAO had been notified of flight restrictions and prohibitions in January, 1963. These were now being extended, and were in accordance with the Chicago Convention and within Spain's competence to impose. Continue reading... |
| A DNA test showed I'm 100% Māori. Many thought there were none of us left | Oriini Kaipara Posted: 12 Apr 2017 05:08 PM PDT Critics often used this argument to counter the push for indigenous rights but now it's clear I am a full-blooded Māori. And there will be others "Mum! You didn't tell me you're 100% Māori!" My daughter Te Aomihia stormed my room this morning brimming with pride, "I just read it on the internet!" Yes. I kept the results quiet – even from my four children, two of whom are teenagers with social media circles that surpass my own. I stayed mum on what I was told would be "a huge deal". I never thought of my results in that way, I still don't. Continue reading... |
| Coalition says China responsible for stopping North Korean nuclear weapons reaching Australia Posted: 12 Apr 2017 04:14 PM PDT Christopher Pyne says Kim Jong-un developing capability to reach Australia with nuclear weapons within two years North Korea is developing missile capability to reach Australia and the United States with nuclear weapons within two years and China has primary responsibility to stop it, Christopher Pyne has said. The defence industry minister delivered the warning on Radio National on Thursday but sounded an optimistic note that experts believe North Korea will "step away from the brink". Continue reading... |
| 'No longer obsolete': Trump backtracks on Nato with Russia tensions rising Posted: 12 Apr 2017 02:55 PM PDT Hosting Nato's secretary general, the US president abandoned his position of lambasting the military alliance, following last week's missile attack on Syria Donald Trump has declared the Nato military alliance "no longer obsolete" in an embrace that marks a significant change of direction from his campaign rhetoric and comes against a backdrop of rising tensions with Russia. Hosting Nato's secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, at the White House, Trump abandoned his position of lambasting the transatlantic alliance, criticism that had alarmed and confused US allies in Europe. Continue reading... |
| Riot police stop refugees returning to Dunkirk camp destroyed by fire Posted: 12 Apr 2017 10:56 AM PDT Homeless families prepare for night on streets, refusing to sleep in cramped sports halls they say are unsuitable for children Several hundred refugees travelling with young children were involved in a protracted standoff with French riot police as chaos reigned in the aftermath of a devastating fire at the Dunkirk camp where they were living. On Wednesday evening families were preparing to sleep on the road outside the ruined camp, spreading blankets at the feet of armed riot police who were barring the entrance to the Grande-Synthe camp, which was almost entirely destroyed in the fire on Monday night. Continue reading... |
| EU takes aim at Hungary as it lays out plan to protect child refugees Posted: 12 Apr 2017 05:00 AM PDT European commission says detaining children should be 'last resort' in what will seen as a rebuke for member state Detention of child refugees should be "a last resort", the European commission has said, in remarks that will be seen as a rebuke to Hungary where asylum seekers, including minors, are being held in barbed-wire fenced camps. The statement from Brussels is part of a long awaited plan to protect child refugees in Europe. About 386,300 children made an asylum claim in the EU in 2016, a six-fold increase since 2010 that has left some countries struggling to cope. |
| Iran's Ahmadinejad to run for president despite Khamenei warning Posted: 12 Apr 2017 03:51 AM PDT Former hardline leader registers candidacy for election next month, defying 'advice' of supreme leader Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has registered to run in the presidential race next month, defying an edict from the country's supreme leader not to do so. Reporters with the Associated Press news agency described watching as stunned election officials processed the hardliner's paperwork on Wednesday. Continue reading... |
| Anger and ridicule in Israel over Sean Spicer's Hitler comments Posted: 12 Apr 2017 03:49 AM PDT White House press secretary had suggested that unlike Assad in Syria, Nazi leader never used poison gas on his own people Israeli politicians and commentators have reacted with fury and incredulity to comments made by Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, in which he suggested Hitler had not used poison gas on his own people and called Nazi extermination camps "Holocaust centres". During a White House press briefing on Tuesday, Spicer tried to suggest that even Adolf Hitler, in contrast to the Syrian leader, Bashar al-Assad, had not used poison gas on his own people, ignoring the Nazi extermination of German Jews and non-Jews using gas chambers and trucks. Continue reading... |
| University of Sydney investigates tutor’s online attack on a News Corp reporter Posted: 12 Apr 2017 01:41 AM PDT Jay Tharappel was defending his mentor, pro-Assad lecturer Tim Anderson, by attacking journalist Kylar Loussikian on social media The University of Sydney is investigating a casual tutor, Jay Tharappel, who is accused of launching a racial attack on a News Corp reporter to defend his mentor, pro-Assad lecturer Tim Anderson. Anderson is a routine defender of the Bashar al-Assad government, and has dismissed any suggestion it was responsible for the recent chemical attack on civilians in rebel-held territory. The academic said allegations the Syrian government was responsible were a "hoax", and that Assad has been framed by the west. Continue reading... |
| Three years after Chibok, Boko Haram deploys children as suicide bombers Posted: 12 Apr 2017 11:03 AM PDT Unicef highlights sharp increase in number of children used to carry out attacks as violent insurgency casts fresh shadow over children in north-east Nigeria Three years after more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls were kidnapped from their dormitory by the terrorist group Boko Haram, another sinister threat to the region's children is growing dramatically – they are being made to kill themselves and others with bombs. A total of 27 children have died so far this year after detonating bombs strapped to their bodies that they were ordered to carry into markets, checkpoints and other public places. The number is almost the same as the total who died over the whole of last year, according to a new report by Unicef. Continue reading... |
| US-Russia relations ‘may be at an all-time low' says Trump – video Posted: 12 Apr 2017 11:50 PM PDT President Donald Trump says it would be 'wonderful' if Nato and the US could get along with Russia, during a news conference with Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg in Washington on Wednesday. Trump also reverses on one of his campaign stances and declares Nato is not 'obsolete' Continue reading... |
| Tillerson: there is a ‘low level of trust’ with Russia – video Posted: 12 Apr 2017 12:28 PM PDT The US secretary of state Rex Tillerson speaks after his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin. The meeting lasted for almost two hours following fraught discussions with foreign minister Sergey Lavrov. At the news conference after Wednesday's meeting Tillerson said that "the current state of US-Russia relations is at a low point, and there is a low level of trust between our two countries" Continue reading... |
| Sean Spicer’s gaffes: a brief history – video report Posted: 12 Apr 2017 08:44 AM PDT Sean Spicer, the White House's press secretary, has apologised for saying on Tuesday that unlike Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, Adolf Hitler did not use chemical weapons. But Tuesday night's slip-up was not the first of Spicer's gaffes. Other topics have included Trump's travel ban, Holocaust Memorial Day and the size of Trump's inauguration crowd Continue reading... |
| 'I screwed up' says Sean Spicer on Hitler comments – video Posted: 12 Apr 2017 07:52 AM PDT White House press secretary Sean Spicer says on Wednesday that he 'made a mistake' on Tuesday when he said that unlike Bashar al-Assad in Syria, Adolf Hitler never used poison gas on his own people. The comments drew instant rebuke from Jewish groups and critics, who said Spicer had ignored the Nazi extermination of German Jews and non-Jews using gas chambers and trucks. 'To make a gaffe and a mistake like this is inexcusable and reprehensible,' Spicer said during an event at the Newseum in Washington DC Continue reading... |
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