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- US says it has 'spoken enough about North Korea' after new missile launch
- French presidential debate proves a marathon of egalité in action
- Amnesty warns any company taking over Manus and Nauru camps complicit in ‘abuse’
- Bangladesh accused of failing to act over murder of activist
- German president attacks 'irresponsible' Brexit campaign
- The end of coal: EU energy companies pledge no new plants from 2020
- Spring breakers in Mexico chanting 'build the wall'? Mind the fake news
- Mexican state's drop in crime seemed too good to be true – because it was
- Syria: No 10 rules out military action after suspected chemical attack
- Rape victims should marry their rapists, Malaysian MP tells parliament
- UK passports should include transgender title, says Stonewall
- Child in critical condition after being bitten by dog in Chatham
- Kidnapped, tortured and thown in jail: my 70 days in Sudan
- Ivanka Trump asked if she's 'complicit' in Trump White House – video
- Cambridge Analytica: Trump's data mining advisers to meet Australia's Liberal MPs
- 'I feel so guilty': Muslim women discuss removing their hijab at work – video
- Xi Jinping holds all the cards ahead of Mar-a-Lago meeting with Trump
- Donald Trump's response to Syria gas attack: blame Obama
- EU migration crisis: border agency accused of stirring controversy
- Wednesday briefing: a little room for EU movement
- Brexit could endanger rare species, say British zoos
- Bob Day's election invalid due to 'indirect pecuniary interest', high court rules
- 'Enemy property': India's answer to Trump wants to raze Pakistan founder's home
- Julian Assange warned to keep out of Ecuador's politics by new president
- Iceland to enshrine equal pay for women and men in law
- French election 2017: all candidates take part in live TV debate - as it happened
- Spanish police launch raids targeting Rifaat al-Assad’s assets
- How did we wind up back in the Mad Men era at work?
- Jehovah’s Witnesses congregation's efforts to block inquiry squashed
- Dozens die in suspected chemical attack in Syria – video report
- Foreign Office defends navy for ordering Spanish warship out of Gibraltar waters
- Gibraltar as viewed by lawyers, and by aliens | Letters
- No yolk: Cadbury and National Trust say Easter egg row is nonsense
- St Petersburg explosion: Russian media wrongly names man as attacker
- Karthy Nair obituary
- Trotskyist and Farage friend among 11 taking part in French election debate
- Central Asia link to St Petersburg bomb is worrying sign for Kremlin | Shaun Walker
- St Petersburg metro bomb survivor: 'My ears are still ringing' – video
- Is Vancouver lonelier than most cities or just better about addressing it?
- 'I refuse to be like them': why the man shot while protesting Milo Yiannopoulos doesn't want revenge
- Life after white supremacy: the former neo-fascist now working to fight hate
- The boy who survived a Boko Haram bomb, and saving Dagestan's slaves
- Neil Gorsuch, the filibuster and the nuclear option: what you need to know
- French presidential election: how the candidates compare
| US says it has 'spoken enough about North Korea' after new missile launch Posted: 04 Apr 2017 04:51 PM PDT Rex Tillerson's enigmatic statement comes after Trump warned US would act alone on Pyongyang provocation if China did not intervene Japan and South Korea have condemned North Korea after it launched another ballistic missile – but the US refused to be drawn in, with secretary of state Rex Tillerson saying the country "has spoken enough about North Korea". Related: Trump says US will act alone on North Korea if China fails to help Continue reading... |
| French presidential debate proves a marathon of egalité in action Posted: 04 Apr 2017 04:58 PM PDT Frontrunners Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen clash during four-hour debate giving equal TV airtime to all 11 candidates It was long – four hours of live prime-time television. It was historic – never before had 11 French presidential candidates assembled for a political debate. It was occasionally chaotic, ill-tempered, and rambling, but on the whole civilised and restrained. Most of all, France's second presidential debate was an example of democracy in action. Continue reading... |
| Amnesty warns any company taking over Manus and Nauru camps complicit in ‘abuse’ Posted: 04 Apr 2017 04:35 PM PDT Spanish infrastructure giant Ferrovial will not renew its lease at offshore detention centres after contract expires in October Amnesty International has issued a pre-emptive warning to any companies considering taking over Australia's offshore detention centres, that to assume the contract to run the camps would be to be complicit in "human rights abuses". Ferrovial, the Spanish infrastructure giant which owns camp management company Broadspectrum, has already told the Australian government it will not work on the island camps on Nauru and PNG's Manus Island beyond the expiration of its current contract in October 2017. Continue reading... |
| Bangladesh accused of failing to act over murder of activist Posted: 04 Apr 2017 06:29 AM PDT Five years after an international outcry over the torture and killing of Aminul Islam, Bangladesh's government is under fire for failing to find those responsible A scathing report has accused the Bangladeshi authorities of "washing their hands" of any responsibility to find the people who tortured and murdered a prominent union activist. Despite pledging to investigate the abduction and killing of 39-year-old Aminul Islam, they have failed to make measurable progress or look into allegations of links to state officials, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday. On the fifth anniversary of Islam's disappearance, the organisation urged international donors and global brands working in the country to push the government on the need for accountability for Islam's murder. Continue reading... |
| German president attacks 'irresponsible' Brexit campaign Posted: 04 Apr 2017 07:55 AM PDT Frank-Walter Steinmeier says Vote Leave promise that exit from EU would allow UK to 'take back control' will come to nothing Germany's president has launched a scathing attack on the politicians leading the UK out of the European Union, quoting the former deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine's warning that Britain is facing its greatest ever loss of sovereignty. In an outspoken speech to the European parliament, his first as president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier told MEPs that the Brexiters would be unable to deliver on their promise to "take back control". Continue reading... |
| The end of coal: EU energy companies pledge no new plants from 2020 Posted: 05 Apr 2017 02:02 AM PDT Companies from every EU nation except Poland and Greece sign up to initiative in bid to meet Paris pledges and limit effects of climate change Europe's energy utilities have rung the death knell for coal, with a historic pledge that no new coal-fired plants will be built in the EU after 2020. The shock announcement was made at a press conference in Brussels on Wednesday, 442 years after the continent's first pit was sunk by Sir George Bruce of Carnock, in Scotland. Continue reading... |
| Spring breakers in Mexico chanting 'build the wall'? Mind the fake news Posted: 05 Apr 2017 02:00 AM PDT Last month a honeymooner's Facebook post became a viral sensation. But when Rory Carroll headed to Cancún, he found a story that didn't hold water It was an eye-popping story which lit up the internet: American college kids running wild in Mexico by braying "build the wall" to affronted Mexicans. The party hordes who filled Cancún's bars and beaches for spring break last month were apparently mixing tequila with Donald Trump Kool-Aid and insulting their hosts. Continue reading... |
| Mexican state's drop in crime seemed too good to be true – because it was Posted: 05 Apr 2017 02:00 AM PDT The reduction in drug violence in Mexico's Nayarit state was widely praised, until the 'hero' behind it was accused of working with organized crime Even as swathes of western Mexico descended into drug-fueled violence, the rugged sierra and pristine beaches of Mexico's Nayarit state appeared insulated from the bloodshed. While murder rates rose precipitously in the rest of the country, crime figures showed a miraculous drop in the state – an achievement lauded by president Enrique Peña Nieto when he visited the state in February and praised "a more than 50% reduction in the level of insecurity". |
| Syria: No 10 rules out military action after suspected chemical attack Posted: 05 Apr 2017 01:45 AM PDT Officials travelling with PM in Middle East say 'nobody is talking about that' as PM says UK will call for investigation Downing Street has downplayed any plans for military action in the aftermath of the deadly toxic gas attack in northern Syria, which the foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, said "bore the hallmarks" of an attack by the Bashar al-Assad regime. Asked about any prospect of military reprisals, Downing Street officials travelling with the prime minister in the Middle East said "nobody is talking about that", but said they were hopeful of support from all members of the UN security council at an emergency meeting called by the UK and France on Wednesday afternoon to condemn the Idlib attack. Russia is likely to veto any resolution against the Assad regime. |
| Rape victims should marry their rapists, Malaysian MP tells parliament Posted: 05 Apr 2017 01:33 AM PDT Former sharia judge draws outrage for suggesting marriage as a better way to ward off a 'bleak future' Rape victims can ward off a "bleak future" by marrying their rapists, an MP and former judge has suggested in the Malaysia parliament. Former sharia judge Datuk Shabudin Yahaya made the comments at the Houses of Parliament during a debate over a bill on sexual offences against children. Continue reading... |
| UK passports should include transgender title, says Stonewall Posted: 05 Apr 2017 12:48 AM PDT LGBT rights group calls for inclusion of option 'X' for trans identity and proposes reforms for gender and equality legislations UK passports should allow people who do not identify as male or female to define themselves as X, an LGBT rights group has said. In its five-year-plan to create equality for transgender people in Britain, Stonewall said many people are afraid to travel abroad for fear of intrusive questioning or difficulties at passport control. |
| Child in critical condition after being bitten by dog in Chatham Posted: 05 Apr 2017 12:10 AM PDT Two people arrested and animal shot dead following incident in Kent town A child is fighting for life in hospital after being attacked by a dog in Chatham, Kent, as two people remain in police custody. Police shot the animal dead after it bit the child during the incident in the Jenkins Dale area on Tuesday evening. |
| Kidnapped, tortured and thown in jail: my 70 days in Sudan Posted: 04 Apr 2017 10:00 PM PDT Twelve years after reporting on the conflict in Darfur, film-maker Phil Cox returned. But this time, the Sudanese government put a price on his head In the early morning of 24 December 2016, my friend Daoud and I lay side by side on a blanket, our legs chained at the ankles, secured with heavy padlocks. The sun beat down on the desert. We pleaded with our captors to be moved to the shade, but they ignored us. It was not how I had imagined spending Christmas Eve. Sixteen days earlier, Daoud Hari, my local producer and translator, had crossed with me from Chad into Sudan. We had planned to make a film in the war-ravaged Darfur region, where no independent journalist had entered for years. We had come to investigate what was happening on the ground, and to follow up allegations that chemical weapons were being used by the Sudanese government against its own citizens. Instead we had been tracked by the Sudanese military and captured by a local militia. At this point, we had no idea what would happen to us. Continue reading... |
| Ivanka Trump asked if she's 'complicit' in Trump White House – video Posted: 05 Apr 2017 12:27 AM PDT In an interview with CBS's Gayle King, Ivanka Trump is asked whether she and her husband, Jared Kushner, were 'complicit' in the Trump White House. She replied: 'If being complicit is wanting ... to be a force for good and to make a positive impact, then I'm complicit ... I hope time will prove that I have done a good job, and, much more importantly, that my father's administration is the success that I know it will be.'
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| Cambridge Analytica: Trump's data mining advisers to meet Australia's Liberal MPs Posted: 05 Apr 2017 01:43 AM PDT Cambridge Analytica, which uses 'psychographic' methods to persuade voters, is looking to open Australia office The data-mining company Cambridge Analytica, one of the key backroom operatives of Donald Trump's campaign for the White House, will meet on Thursday night with representatives of the Liberal party, government staff and parliamentarians, including the veterans' affairs minister, Dan Tehan. The company, which uses controversial "psychographic" methods to identify which particular messages are most persuasive to voters, is looking to set up shop in Australia, and Thursday night's dinner has been organised by the Liberal party secretariat. Continue reading... |
| 'I feel so guilty': Muslim women discuss removing their hijab at work – video Posted: 05 Apr 2017 01:00 AM PDT Following the ruling by the European court of justice to allow employers to ban religious symbols in the workplace, three Muslim women in Spain, The Netherlands and the UK talk about their experiences of looking for work while wearing a hijab. They discuss the pressures they have felt, the changes some of them have had to make, be it a complete removal of the scarf or adapting their headgear, and reflect on the complexity of their decision Continue reading... |
| Xi Jinping holds all the cards ahead of Mar-a-Lago meeting with Trump Posted: 04 Apr 2017 11:55 PM PDT In stark contrast to the Chinese leader's unchallenged authority, Donald Trump is in a far weaker position At a secretive gathering of the Chinese Communist party's most senior officials, a room-full of middle aged men in dark suits convened under a gold hammer and sickle and raised their hands in unison to declare president Xi Jinping the country's "core" leader. The meeting last October elevated Xi to a level comparable with that of the country's revolutionary leader Mao Zedong – and demonstrated just how successful the president has been at consolidating his control of the world's most populous country. Continue reading... |
| Donald Trump's response to Syria gas attack: blame Obama Posted: 04 Apr 2017 11:08 PM PDT The White House was silent before condemning the Obama administration's 'weakness', as Trump struggles to define a policy vision The scale and horror of Tuesday's gas attack on civilians in Idlib highlighted the vacuum in the Trump administration's foreign policymaking: the incident was met first by silence, then by criticism of Barack Obama. Donald Trump described the attack, which killed scores of victims, including many children, as a direct "consequence" of his predecessor's Syria policy. Continue reading... |
| EU migration crisis: border agency accused of stirring controversy Posted: 04 Apr 2017 11:00 PM PDT Aid agencies hit back after Frontex claims they are colluding with people-traffickers in Mediterranean A senior Italian minister has accused Frontex, the EU border agency, of creating a "misleading controversy" for political purposes after it accused aid groups such as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) of colluding with migrant-traffickers. Mario Giro, Italy's deputy foreign minister, said the recent allegation by Frontex – which suggested that aid groups were indirectly supporting criminal traffickers – showed a fundamental misunderstanding of so-called "push" and "pull" factors that are encouraging hundreds of thousands of people from Africa and the Middle East to leave their homes and make the treacherous journey across the Mediterranean to Europe. Continue reading... |
| Wednesday briefing: a little room for EU movement Posted: 04 Apr 2017 10:45 PM PDT Free movement might extend beyond Brexit … people urged to save the NHS by not using it … and Pepsi sugarcoats Black Lives Matter protests Good morning, and a happy Wednesday to you. Graham Russell here, bringing you today's news. Continue reading... |
| Brexit could endanger rare species, say British zoos Posted: 04 Apr 2017 10:00 PM PDT British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums fears UK zoos will be excluded from EU-wide breeding programmes British zoos fear Brexit could endanger rare species by ending the free movement of animals across Europe. If Britain severs ties with Brussels without a deal, UK zoos would effectively be thrown out of EU-wide breeding programmes and forced into protracted negotiations country by country, according to the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums (Biaza). Continue reading... |
| Bob Day's election invalid due to 'indirect pecuniary interest', high court rules Posted: 04 Apr 2017 09:39 PM PDT Ruling means vacancy will be filled via recount of election's votes, which will likely return second Family First candidate Bob Day was ineligible to be a senator because he had an "indirect pecuniary interest" in an agreement with the commonwealth, the high court unanimously ruled on Wednesday. The ruling means that Day's vacancy, created when he resigned in November over the liquidation of his building companies, will be filled by a recount of last election's votes. Continue reading... |
| 'Enemy property': India's answer to Trump wants to raze Pakistan founder's home Posted: 04 Apr 2017 08:31 PM PDT Property magnate and politician Mangal Prabhat Lodha, business partner of Donald Trump, reignites tensions over Mohammed Ali Jinnah's Mumbai house Donald Trump's Indian business partner is leading a campaign to raze a bungalow in Mumbai that was once the home of Pakistan's founding father, in a dispute threatening to provoke a diplomatic row between Delhi and Islamabad. The property was the primary residence of Mohammad Ali Jinnah before he moved to Karachi after partition. It has long been a bone of contention between the two nations. Continue reading... |
| Julian Assange warned to keep out of Ecuador's politics by new president Posted: 04 Apr 2017 06:55 PM PDT Lenín Moreno has agreed to honour WikiLeaks founder's asylum but Assange's 'cordial invitation' for election loser to leave the country tests relationship Ecuador's president-elect, Lenín Moreno, has warned Julian Assange not to meddle in the country's politics after the WikiLeaks founder taunted a rival candidate following his loss. Moreno's election victory on Sunday was a relief for Assange, who has been holed up in Ecuador's London embassy since 2012 to avoid arrest. Continue reading... |
| Iceland to enshrine equal pay for women and men in law Posted: 04 Apr 2017 06:26 PM PDT Legislation will be first in world to require private companies and government agencies to prove pay is fair or face fines Iceland's parliament has presented a bill that would require public and private businesses to prove they offer equal pay to employees, in what would be the first such requirement in the world. The bill entails that companies and institutions of a certain size, 25 or more employees, undertake a certification of their equal-pay programmes, Thorsteinn Viglundsson, minister of social affairs and equality, said. Continue reading... |
| French election 2017: all candidates take part in live TV debate - as it happened Posted: 04 Apr 2017 03:59 PM PDT Three-and-a-half hour presidential showdown focused on issues of how to create jobs, how to protect the French, and what social model the candidates seek
Although it did seem at one point that it might never end, after almost four hours the marathon second debate of the French presidential election 2017 has come to a close. There were some pretty intense clashes – Philippe Poutou certainly made François Fillon and Marine Le Pen feel his presence – but it was, in the main, civilised and orderly, despite the number of candidates and variety of arguments.
• Fillon says France is in a serious situation in a dangerous world and in order to rediscover the "taste of happiness" a profound change is needed. He says he is the only candidate who can do it – bringing together the right and the centre. He tells voters if they don't want the chaos of extremists or a continuation of François Hollande they should choose him. He ends with a bold demand: "I ask [the French] to trust me." Je suis aujourd'hui le seul candidat qui propose l'alternance et qui peut la mettre en œuvre avec une vraie majorité. #LeGrandDébat Je veux porter un projet d'émancipation, un projet qui vous redonnera la fierté d'être Français. #Macron2017 #LeGrandDébat pic.twitter.com/MP8s6YZgVq "Français, usez de cette liberté pour me permettre de remettre la France en ordre, au votre nom : #AuNomDuPeuple !" #LeGrandDébat #LeGrandDébat : la conclusion de @JLMelenchon, candidat de La France Insoumise pic.twitter.com/qfb8pgL3LT Ils veulent vous désunir, je veux vous rassembler. |
| Spanish police launch raids targeting Rifaat al-Assad’s assets Posted: 04 Apr 2017 01:15 PM PDT Uncle of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad is investigated by authorities in France and Spain over suspected misuse of public funds and money laundering Police in southern Spain have staged raids targeting assets of the extended family of the Syrian leader, Bashar al-Assad, a judicial source said. The raids, in the Puerto Banús marina area of the plush resort of Marbella, are the result of a corruption investigation launched in France into Assad's uncle, Rifaat al-Assad. Continue reading... |
| How did we wind up back in the Mad Men era at work? Posted: 04 Apr 2017 12:48 PM PDT Social scientists say we are witnessing a backlash to the loss of male dominance in the workplace, a phenomenon that helped Donald Trump become president Bill O'Reilly is so far keeping his $18m-a-year gig at Fox, despite serial accusations of sexual harassment. The vice-president apparently won't dine alone with any woman other than his wife. And just about every week now, it seems, there's a photo released of another all-male group of legislators gathered around a table in Washington preparing to strip women of essential benefits – in what some believe is a calculated signal to the GOP base that the US Congress remains a boys' club. How did we suddenly wind up back in the Mad Men era when it comes to gender relations at work? Continue reading... |
| Jehovah’s Witnesses congregation's efforts to block inquiry squashed Posted: 04 Apr 2017 11:57 AM PDT Tribunal rejects claim investigation into charity's handling of sexual abuse allegations amounts to religious discrimination A Jehovah's Witnesses congregation in Manchester has lost a legal attempt to block an investigation into its handling of sexual abuse allegations, after failing to convince a judge that the inquiry amounted to religious discrimination. Organisations linked to the religion have fought legally to prevent the Charity Commission from launching two inquiries into allegations that survivors of sexual abuse were being forced to face their attackers in so-called judicial committees. The organisation's efforts have been described by the commission as unprecedented. Continue reading... |
| Dozens die in suspected chemical attack in Syria – video report Posted: 04 Apr 2017 11:22 AM PDT Dozens of people have died and several more injured in a suspected chemical attack in northern Syria. Doctors say the victims of air raids in the northern Idlib province have symptoms similar to those caused by exposure to sarin gas. Planes carrying weapons loaded with unidentified chemicals raided the area early on Tuesday Continue reading... |
| Foreign Office defends navy for ordering Spanish warship out of Gibraltar waters Posted: 04 Apr 2017 11:05 AM PDT Patrol boat Infanta Cristina strays into British territory amid row between UK and Spain over enclave's post-Brexit future The British Foreign Office defended the Royal Navy's decision to order a Spanish warship out of Gibraltar's disputed territorial waters, the latest spat in the row between the UK and Spain over the enclave's future after Brexit. An FCO spokesperson described the incident as an unlawful maritime incursion. |
| Gibraltar as viewed by lawyers, and by aliens | Letters Posted: 04 Apr 2017 11:03 AM PDT Neil Addison (Letters, 4 April) is wrong to suggest that the reference to an effective Spanish veto over Gibraltar in the European council's draft negotiating guidelines is illegal under the treaties. The requirement, in article 50 (2) of the TEU, of a qualified majority in the council relates specifically to the withdrawal agreement, which must merely "take account" of the "framework" for the future relationship between the UK and the EU. It does not cover the future relationship agreement, which cannot be begun until the UK has withdrawn. In the draft guidelines, specific mention is made of Gibraltar after Brexit, when the UK will be what the EU refers to as a "third country", and when article 50 will have served its purpose and no longer be applicable. Moreover, even if the EU27 chose to give Spain such a veto over the withdrawal agreement itself, as long as this choice had the support of a qualified majority in the council (and a simple majority in the European parliament), it would be perfectly legal. Continue reading... |
| No yolk: Cadbury and National Trust say Easter egg row is nonsense Posted: 04 Apr 2017 10:15 AM PDT Chocolatier and charity say there are many references to Easter in their egg hunt marketing after Theresa May weighs in to row For many, it was a storm in an egg cup. But the supposed removal by Cadbury and the National Trust of references to Easter from material promoting egg hunts across the country was enough to divert the prime minister's attention from international diplomacy and trade to garishly-wrapped confectionery. It was "absolutely ridiculous", Theresa May said in Amman, en route for Saudi Arabia, that the National Trust had – as a Church of England spokesman put it – "airbrushed faith from Easter". And the prime minister laid out her credentials on the subject: "I'm not just a vicar's daughter, I'm a member of the National Trust as well," she said. "I don't know what they are thinking about, frankly." Continue reading... |
| St Petersburg explosion: Russian media wrongly names man as attacker Posted: 04 Apr 2017 09:05 AM PDT Ilyas Nikitin goes to police station to clear name after his photograph appears on TV and online hours after metro attack In the hours after Monday's bomb attack on the St Petersburg metro, Russian media ran photographs of the man believed to be responsible. Captured on closed circuit television, the man wore all black, what looked like an Islamic prayer cap and had a long dark beard. The photographs were circulated widely, both on social media and by television and online media. But the man in the photograph, later named as Ilyas Nikitin, was shocked to see his photograph online and swiftly made his way to a police station, where he told officers he had nothing to do with the attack. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 04 Apr 2017 08:25 AM PDT My mother, Karthy Nair, who has died aged 90, was one of the founder members in 1954 of the People's Action party of Singapore, which after independence from British rule became and remains the governing party. Karthy was fiercely critical of the party leader and future prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, whom she regarded as a British placeman, and she left Singapore in 1956 to settle in the UK. Karthy's brother, Devan Nair, became a union leader and eventually president of Singapore, later falling from favour and suffering exile in Canada. Continue reading... |
| Trotskyist and Farage friend among 11 taking part in French election debate Posted: 04 Apr 2017 05:57 AM PDT Three-and-a-half-hour TV showdown on Tuesday evening will be first to feature also-rans as well as favourites
All 11 French presidential candidates will take part in a live debate scheduled to run over three and a half hours of primetime television. It will be the first time so many leadership hopefuls have taken part in such a programme and will be limited to three themes: how to create jobs, how to protect the French, and what social model do the candidates seek. Continue reading... |
| Central Asia link to St Petersburg bomb is worrying sign for Kremlin | Shaun Walker Posted: 04 Apr 2017 05:51 AM PDT Repressive policies of Kyrgyzstan and other former-Soviet central Asian republics have led to radicalisation of some Muslims there If Russian and Kyrgyz authorities are correct about the identity of the bomber in Monday's St Petersburg metro attack, it would be the first major terror attack carried out in Russia by someone from the central Asian republics, and will be a worrying sign for Russian authorities. The bomber has been named as Akbarzhon Jalilov, a 22-year-old native of Osh, a city in the south of Kyrgyzstan, who reportedly moved to Russia six years ago and obtained Russian citizenship. Continue reading... |
| St Petersburg metro bomb survivor: 'My ears are still ringing' – video Posted: 04 Apr 2017 04:58 AM PDT A passenger on the metro train targeted by a bomb describes the moment of the blast. Speaking on Tuesday, Eldar Bagirov, who was travelling with two friends, describes a 'flash somewhere to my left' and a loud noise that left a ringing in his ears. He said he told his friends to lie on the floor and cover their heads, in fear that there would be a second explosion |
| Is Vancouver lonelier than most cities or just better about addressing it? Posted: 04 Apr 2017 04:00 AM PDT The city has launched a series of initiatives to combat social isolation amid polls suggesting one in four residents have grappled with the problem It has long been rated as one of the world's most liveable cities. But beyond its dazzling skyline and ocean views, Vancouver has for years struggled with an issue that's rarely featured in any global ranking: loneliness. Amid polls suggesting one in four Vancouver residents have grappled with social isolation, the city has launched a range of initiatives aimed to combat the problem. Continue reading... |
| 'I refuse to be like them': why the man shot while protesting Milo Yiannopoulos doesn't want revenge Posted: 04 Apr 2017 03:00 AM PDT On inauguration night, Josh Dukes was shot during a speech by the rightwing provocateur at the University of Washington. But now he's seeking reconciliation "I was the first protester shot under the Trump administration," said Josh Dukes, a 34-year old computer security engineer, on a recent afternoon in a Seattle coffee shop. "Hopefully I'm the last." Tall and lanky, with a nose ring, black leather jacket, tattoos, and combat boots that offer a clue to his political philosophy – anarchism – Dukes, who also goes by the handle "Hex", is conscious of his role as the embodiment of the violent political polarization that has marked the onset of the Trump era. Continue reading... |
| Life after white supremacy: the former neo-fascist now working to fight hate Posted: 04 Apr 2017 03:00 AM PDT Once deeply involved in the White Aryan Resistance, Tony McAleer is at the forefront of a group reaching out to turn fascists around Tony McAleer has a word for people who have left violent extremist movements. He calls them "formers". McAleer is a former himself. In the 1980s, he was deeply involved in the neo-Nazi group White Aryan Resistance and was involved in anti-immigrant activism, Holocaust denial and street violence. In the 1990s, he attracted increasing notoriety through a series of publicity stunts and by running a white supremacist phone line. Continue reading... |
| The boy who survived a Boko Haram bomb, and saving Dagestan's slaves Posted: 04 Apr 2017 06:36 AM PDT Jonathan Gambo shares his story of recovery after being injured by discarded munitions in Nigeria, and we follow the activists rescuing enslaved brick workers If you are reading this on the web and would prefer to get it in your inbox every two weeks, register for the email edition While collecting firewood in his village in Nigeria, Jonathan Gambo, then 12, was injured by a bomb discarded by Boko Haram, which has killed thousands of people since launching its insurgency in 2009. Temitope Kalejaiye and Hannah Summers report on the long road to recovery for the young boy, and our video reveals his resolve not to let anything get in the way of his education, as he pursues his dream of becoming a lawyer. In Russia, thousands of vulnerable men and women go missing each year, plucked from cities and towns and driven hundreds of miles to be forced into slavery in brick factories and farms in the remote republic of Dagestan. We follow two activists who set out to free enslaved workers, and Kate Hodal reports on the huge risks they face in mounting their rescue missions. Continue reading... |
| Neil Gorsuch, the filibuster and the nuclear option: what you need to know Posted: 04 Apr 2017 09:03 AM PDT Donald Trump's supreme court nominee faces a battle on the floor of the Senate that threatens to stretch the institution's arcane procedures to the limit The US Senate is facing a political crisis, the result of a standoff over Donald Trump's supreme court nominee, Neil Gorsuch. Senate Democrats have pledged to filibuster the nomination and if they do, the majority leader, Mitch McConnell, has said he will alter Senate rules to ensure Gorsuch is confirmed. Related: Neil Gorsuch confirmation hearing: what you need to know Continue reading... |
| French presidential election: how the candidates compare Posted: 04 Apr 2017 03:00 AM PDT The top five candidates in the first round on 23 April range from far right to hard left. See what that means for their policies Voters cast their ballots in the first round of the French presidential election on 23 April, with candidates ranging from far right to hard left vying to reach a second round run-off and, from there, the Elysée Palace. The policies of the top five contenders – François Fillon, Marine Le Pen, Benoît Hamon, Emmanuel Macron and Jean-Luc Mélenchon - on state spending, immigration, the environment and the economy reveal their different positions. Continue reading... |
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