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- Trump admits 'this Russia thing' part of reasoning for firing James Comey
- 'It's shameful for Franco's victims': Spanish MPs vote to exhume dictator
- Al-Qaida tempts Yemen recruits with quiz offering AK-47 as top prize
- Ex-bullfighter and maths genius among candidates standing for Macron
- Abortion pill group's Facebook page deleted over promoting 'drug use'
- US intelligence chiefs have doubts about cybersecurity firm over its Russian roots
- Somali government calls for end of arms embargo to defeat al-Shabaab
- Cannes film festival takes on Netflix with new rule
- LGBT activists detained in Moscow while petitioning against Chechen purge
- Finland voices concern over US and Russian climate change doubters
- Germany outpaces UK, US and France with 0.6% quarterly growth – business live
- Pope Francis to canonise Portuguese children who 'saw' Virgin Mary
- Isam and the chocolate factory: Syrian refugees relaunch family business in Canada
- Biennale Trump trolls discuss eating their Venice audience
- The life-changing flying eye hospital treating blindness across the globe
- 'Bedtime story' propaganda films push China's infrastructure dream - video
- Blowing in the wind: why do so many cities have poor east ends?
- 'The street is a stage': photographer David Gaberle's urban journey – in pictures
- Met police 'threatened to sack whistleblower who reported racism'
- Hassan Rouhani's attacks on rivals for president cross Iran's red lines
- Newcastle Anglican church may sell some assets to pay abuse victims
- At LA airport's new private terminal, the rich can watch normal people suffer
- Thailand threatens Facebook with legal action over anti-monarchy posts
- US hails China trade deal as sign relations are 'hitting a new high'
- Friday briefing: Labour manifesto goes from leak to splash
- Drone images provide new insights into lost Bolivian civilisation – video
- Lava Jato: accused claims Nicolas Maduro paid her $11m to fund Chávez re-election
- The $900bn question: What is the Belt and Road initiative?
- Child won't sleep? Try explaining Xi Jinping's infrastructure dream to them
- Robert Mugabe 'not sleeping, just resting his eyes'
- World's biggest building project aims to make China great again
- Wayne Swan urges Labor to avoid being 'trickle down-lite' on tax
- EU demands talks with US over possible airline laptop ban
- What happens when people fall through the cracks of the asylum system?
- Brexit will not jeopardise peace in Ireland, EU's chief negotiator says
- 'It's our way of life': Inuit designers are reclaiming the tarnished sealskin trade
- Is Mexico really the second-deadliest country in the world?
- Singing protest for Jakarta governor jailed for blasphemy – video
- Myanmar army allegedly left Rohingya refugees with bullet wounds and burns
- Syrian doctors forced to crowdfund safer underground hospitals due to aid rules
- Trump: it was my decision to fire ‘showboat’ Comey – video
- Acting FBI director rejects claims that staff lost faith in Comey – video
| Trump admits 'this Russia thing' part of reasoning for firing James Comey Posted: 12 May 2017 12:07 AM PDT President admits the allegations of collusion between his advisers and Russian officials played into sacking of FBI director Donald Trump has said he was thinking of "this Russia thing" when he decided James Comey's fate – contradicting the White House rationale that he fired the FBI director for mishandling the Clinton email investigation. Comey had been leading an investigation into possible collusion between Trump advisers and Russian officials when he was dismissed by the president. Defending that decision in an interview on NBC News on Thursday, Trump said: "And, in fact, when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said: 'You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made up story, it's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should've won.'" Continue reading... |
| 'It's shameful for Franco's victims': Spanish MPs vote to exhume dictator Posted: 11 May 2017 06:44 AM PDT Symbolic resolution approved to remove El Caudillo's remains from mausoleum, but for some it is more than a little late Deep in a mountainside 40 miles outside Madrid, past a gift shop, a pair of immense, sword-wielding angels, and a tapestry of the four horsemen of the apocalypse in full rampage, lie the remains of Francisco Franco. Fresh red and white carnations sit on top of the simple stone slab that marks the tomb of the fascist dictator. On the other side of the altar, similarly garlanded, lies José Antonio Primo de Rivera, the founder of the Falangist party. Continue reading... |
| Al-Qaida tempts Yemen recruits with quiz offering AK-47 as top prize Posted: 11 May 2017 12:38 PM PDT Militants are advertising a contest focused on Al-Qaida's extreme interpretation of Islam in the build-up to the holy month of Ramadan Al-Qaida is attempting to recruit new members in Yemen by holding a quiz, with an AK-47 assault rifle as top prize, according to local residents and media. Militants have been touring the south-west city of Taiz in the build-up to the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, putting up posters advertising the contest, residents reported. Continue reading... |
| Ex-bullfighter and maths genius among candidates standing for Macron Posted: 11 May 2017 10:27 AM PDT France's newly elected president announces 428 names to stand for his party in elections next month A former female bullfighter, a gifted mathematician and a high-profile anti-corruption magistrate are among the hundreds of candidates who will stand for Emmanuel Macron's party in France's general election next month. Macron, the country's recently elected president, has promised to renew French political life by aiming to fill the lower house of parliament, the Assemblée Nationale, with MPs who are completely new to the corridors of power. He needs an absolute majority in the house to push through tough reforms. Continue reading... |
| Abortion pill group's Facebook page deleted over promoting 'drug use' Posted: 11 May 2017 03:50 PM PDT Page for Women on Web, which connects doctors with women in places that restrict abortion access, deleted over 'promotion or encouragement of drug use' Facebook has censored the page of an organization that helps women obtain abortion pills, citing its policy against the "promotion or encouragement of drug use". Related: Civil rights groups: Facebook should protect, not censor, human rights issues Continue reading... |
| US intelligence chiefs have doubts about cybersecurity firm over its Russian roots Posted: 11 May 2017 02:51 PM PDT Top intelligence officials told a Senate hearing of their concerns over Kaspersky Labs' broad presence, without specifying a particular threat Top US intelligence chiefs have publicly expressed doubts about the global cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Labs because of its roots in Russia. Six leading intelligence officials told a Senate hearing on external threats to the United States of their concerns over the firm's broad presence, without specifying the particular threat they see. Continue reading... |
| Somali government calls for end of arms embargo to defeat al-Shabaab Posted: 11 May 2017 11:08 AM PDT Move would help army drive out Islamist group, says president as UN chief seeks extra $900m in aid for drought-hit country The Somalian government has pleaded for world leaders to lift an international arms embargo, as the head of the UN said Somalia needed a further $900m (£700m) in aid this year to combat its worst droughts in decades. Some of the hardest-hit areas are under the control of the Islamist group al-Shabaab. The Somali president, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, said heavy weaponry would allow his government to crush the insurgency and drive the group from the country. Continue reading... |
| Cannes film festival takes on Netflix with new rule Posted: 11 May 2017 01:34 PM PDT Organisers react after unrest about inclusion of Netflix films The Meyerowitz Stories and Okja in competition this year The Cannes film festival has waded into the war between Netflix and the global movie industry by banning films that are not released on the big screen from competing for its most prestigious prize, the Palme d'Or. Related: 'Netflix will have to suck it up': why the Cannes film festival is not so chill | Peter Bradshaw Continue reading... |
| LGBT activists detained in Moscow while petitioning against Chechen purge Posted: 11 May 2017 09:22 AM PDT Five people detained as they tried to submit a petition calling for an inquiry into a violent crackdown on gay people in the southern Russian republic Five LGBT activists were detained in Moscow on Thursday while trying to submit a petition signed by two million people calling for an investigation into the torture and persecution of gay men in Chechnya. A violent crackdown on gay people in the region was first reported in the newspaper Novaya Gazeta last month. It alleged more than 100 Chechen men suspected of being gay had been rounded up, and at least three killed. The Guardian independently spoke to gay Chechen men who gave accounts of beatings and torture in the ultra-conservative, predominantly Muslim southern Russian republic. Continue reading... |
| Finland voices concern over US and Russian climate change doubters Posted: 11 May 2017 08:52 AM PDT New chair of Arctic council calls for Paris treaty on global warming to be respected amid fears of commitment downgrade Finland, the new chair of the Arctic council, has appealed to climate change scientists to fight the threat of the US and Russia tearing up commitments to combat global warming. The Nordic country takes up the two-year chairmanship of the body, increasingly a forum where arguments about climate change play out, at a ministerial meeting on Thursday in Fairbanks, Alaska, where the US secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, will represent the Trump administration. Continue reading... |
| Germany outpaces UK, US and France with 0.6% quarterly growth – business live Posted: 12 May 2017 01:41 AM PDT All the day's economic and financial news, as Germany posts strong growth figures at the start of 2017
The pick-up in German growth should reassure global investors, who've been throwing money into Europe in recent weeks. As this chart shows, investors have been buying European shares for several weeks now - with a record surge following the French presidential election: BAML: record inflows to European equities in the week following Macron's win #EuroBoom2017 pic.twitter.com/xFL8FvY2lu
Following a fresh warning on living standards from the Bank of England on Thursday, two leading economists have warned this morning that Britons will all be poorer over the next five years as Brexit delivers a blow to the economy. Andrew Lilico, executive director of Europe Economics, said that Britain will probably lose out on a year's worth of growth over the next few years, before expanding at a faster pace in the 2020s. Few things in life involving major changes come cost free so I think we should expect to lose a couple of percentage points of GDP growth - the equivalent of one year's growth over the period of 2019/2020. Then in the 2020s I expect it to grow a little bit faster and by 2030 everything will have come out in the wash." The real effect of Brexit won't happen until Brexit happens. I'm optimistic that Britain can secure a free trade agreement with Europe, but it will take at least 10 years. "If there are no smooth arrangements we're going to see a sharp decrease in investment and therefore a sharp decrease in jobs and that will mean a much more serious reduction in household incomes." Continue reading... |
| Pope Francis to canonise Portuguese children who 'saw' Virgin Mary Posted: 12 May 2017 01:18 AM PDT Pope hopes visions of illiterate shepherd children in Fátima, Portugal 100 years ago still resonate with Catholics Pilgrims from around the world are flocking to a Catholic shrine in a town in Portugal to honour two poor, illiterate shepherd children whose visions of the Virgin Mary 100 years ago marked one of the church's most important events of the 20th century. Pope Francis arrives on Friday to celebrate the centenary of the apparitions and canonise the children. He is hoping the message of peace that they reported 100 years ago, when Europe was in the throes of the first world war, will resonate today. Continue reading... |
| Isam and the chocolate factory: Syrian refugees relaunch family business in Canada Posted: 12 May 2017 01:00 AM PDT The Hadhads gave thousands of dollars to families affected by the Fort McMurray wildfires – a symbolic donation, the family said, to the country that has helped them rebuild their lives When wildfires devastated the Canadian city of Fort McMurray last year, TV images of the scorched ruins and terrified families evoked painful memories for the Hadhad family. Related: The Canadian who spent C$1.5m to rescue more than 200 Syrian refugees Continue reading... |
| Biennale Trump trolls discuss eating their Venice audience Posted: 12 May 2017 12:39 AM PDT Iceland's artist at the prestigious show has handed over his pavilion to two bad-tempered fictional companions Shapeshifting trolls born in the depths of Iceland's volcanoes who eat women and love coffee have curated a national pavilion at this year's Venice Biennale. Egill Sæbjörnsson, the artist chosen to represent Iceland at the art festival held across the city, made the decision that instead of putting on a exhibition himself, he would hand over the reins to two trolls, Ugh and Boogar, fictional entities who have been a part of his life for a decade. Continue reading... |
| The life-changing flying eye hospital treating blindness across the globe Posted: 12 May 2017 12:38 AM PDT Charity's bespoke aeroplane flies the world training local medics to treat the preventable causes of eye disease In Kitwe, the second largest city in Zambia, young mother Verah is carrying her one-year-old daughter, Racheal, into the consultation room at the eye annexe. The only dedicated paediatric eyecare centre in the country, the Kitwe annexe also attracts patients from neighbouring Angola and Congo. Racheal is here for surgery to remove the bilateral cataracts that prevent her from seeing. A few months after Racheal was born, Verah noticed that something didn't seem right with her vision. "I would move my hands in front of her face but she would not react. I would move things past her eyes but she would not follow them," she explains. |
| 'Bedtime story' propaganda films push China's infrastructure dream - video Posted: 12 May 2017 12:11 AM PDT The state-run newspaper China Daily has released a series of propaganda films ahead of a summit in Beijing where President Xi Jinping will welcome world leaders to discuss his infrastructure plans. The films feature a US journalist, Erik Nilsson, telling his daughter a bedtime story about Xi's belt and road initiative Continue reading... |
| Blowing in the wind: why do so many cities have poor east ends? Posted: 11 May 2017 11:15 PM PDT From London to Paris, New York to Helsinki, poverty tends to cluster in the east. A new study sheds light on this global pattern of poverty The question is so obvious that you could easily forget to ask it: why do cities so often have a poor east side? To be clear, the mystery is not why every city has its leafy and its grubby sections – it costs money to live in nice places and to avoid nasty ones, which tends to group people into them by wealth. The mystery is why the poor groups always end up in the east. Of course, the true picture is never neat nor simple, but by common consent a British-biased list of cities with poor eastern districts would include: London, Paris, New York, Toronto, Bristol, Manchester, Brighton and Hove, Oxford, Glasgow, Helsinki and Casablanca. No doubt there are some cities where poverty clusters in the west, but they seem harder to find; perhaps Delhi and Sydney? Continue reading... |
| 'The street is a stage': photographer David Gaberle's urban journey – in pictures Posted: 11 May 2017 04:53 AM PDT David Gaberle travelled the world for eight months in 2015 capturing street life and the way people interact in cities, from Tokyo to London, Batumi to New York
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| Met police 'threatened to sack whistleblower who reported racism' Posted: 12 May 2017 12:55 AM PDT Officer who reported incident where monkey soft toy was placed on desk of black colleague was accused of making it up, BBC says A police officer was allegedly threatened with the sack after complaining about the racist treatment of a black colleague, according to reports. BBC Radio 4's Today programme said the Metropolitan police officer, who has not been named, spoke out after seeing a monkey soft toy in a police uniform placed on the colleague's desk in their central London office. Continue reading... |
| Hassan Rouhani's attacks on rivals for president cross Iran's red lines Posted: 11 May 2017 09:45 PM PDT Moderate's presidential campaign includes jabs at Revolutionary Guard and conservative challenger The Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, has taken a combative tone in campaigning as conservative rivals pull out all the stops to prevent him from being re-elected. The favourite among reformists of the six candidates running for president on 19 May, Rouhani has crossed red lines in Iranian politics with attacks on the elite Revolutionary Guards and the characterisation of one of his main challengers as someone whose only talent was execution and imprisonment. |
| Newcastle Anglican church may sell some assets to pay abuse victims Posted: 12 May 2017 01:41 AM PDT Bishop Peter Stuart says they fully support the establishment of a best practice commonwealth redress scheme The Anglican church of Newcastle has told its members it may sell some of its assets to meet redress payments for victims and survivors of child sexual abuse. In a background briefing document sent to the church's members before a Synod meeting on 27 May, the bishop Peter Stuart said the Synod must renew its commitment to facing abuse within the church. Continue reading... |
| At LA airport's new private terminal, the rich can watch normal people suffer Posted: 12 May 2017 12:00 AM PDT LAX's mega-exclusive terminal has beds, massages, and an iPad to watch people slog through the main airport. But the manager denies it's about inequality The guiltiest pleasure at Los Angeles international airport's (LAX) new private terminal for the mega-rich is not the plush, hushed privacy, or the beds with comforters, or the massages, or the coriander-scented soap, or the Willie Wonka-style array of chocolates and jelly beans, or the Napa Valley cabernet. It is the iPad that sits on a counter at the entrance, with a typed little note: "Here is a glimpse of what you're missing over at the main terminal right now." Continue reading... |
| Thailand threatens Facebook with legal action over anti-monarchy posts Posted: 11 May 2017 10:50 PM PDT Junta, which has led a focused crackdown since it took power in a 2014 coup, gives the site until Tuesday morning to remove 131 'illicit' posts Thailand has threatened Facebook with legal action unless it removes 131 pages it considers illegal, including posts critical of the monarchy, within four days. "If even a single illicit page remains, we will immediately discuss what legal steps to take against Facebook Thailand," Takorn Tantasith, secretary-general of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission, told reporters. Continue reading... |
| US hails China trade deal as sign relations are 'hitting a new high' Posted: 11 May 2017 10:24 PM PDT Commerce secretary unveils trade agreement in which China will allow US beef imports and the US will allow the import of cooked poultry from China Relations between the world's two largest economies have hit "a new high", Donald Trump's commerce secretary has claimed, announcing a "herculean" trade deal between Washington and Beijing in the latest sign of warming ties. Trump frequently lashed out at China on the campaign trail, describing Beijing as an "enemy" of the United States. |
| Friday briefing: Labour manifesto goes from leak to splash Posted: 11 May 2017 09:55 PM PDT 'Nobody's ignored, nobody's forgotten,' vows Corbyn … London court delivers £453m divorce … and 40 years later, Star Wars is still keeping it in the family Good morning, it's Warren Murray again. Here is what's going on … Continue reading... |
| Drone images provide new insights into lost Bolivian civilisation – video Posted: 11 May 2017 09:37 PM PDT A collaboration between Unesco and archaeological experts in Bolivia has provided new insights into the ancient Tiwanaku archaeological site in the country, helping to preserve the site that experts say could date as far back as 1500 BCE Continue reading... |
| Lava Jato: accused claims Nicolas Maduro paid her $11m to fund Chávez re-election Posted: 11 May 2017 07:41 PM PDT Brazilian Monica Moura, who ran Chávez campaign, makes claim in plea bargain testimony that is part of Brazil's probe into huge bribery scheme A political consultant has accused Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro of paying her $11m in cash to cover the costs of the 2012 re-election campaign of his predecessor and mentor, the late Hugo Chávez, using money that she says was illegally provided by Brazilian companies. Monica Moura, a Brazilian who ran the Chávez campaign with her husband, made the accusation in plea bargain testimony that is part of Brazil's probe into a huge bribery scheme at the state oil company Petrobras. She alleged most of the cash given to her by Maduro came from the big Brazilian construction companies Odebrecht and Andrade Gutierrez. Continue reading... |
| The $900bn question: What is the Belt and Road initiative? Posted: 11 May 2017 06:02 PM PDT It's a confusing title but it could turn out to be the largest ever infrastructure project with close to a trillion dollars being invested across the globe On Sunday Chinese President Xi Jinping will welcome world leaders including Russia's Vladimir Putin, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi to Beijing for what is billed as China's most important diplomatic event of the year: a two-day forum celebrating Xi's so-called 'Belt and Road initiative'. The Belt and what initiative? Continue reading... |
| Child won't sleep? Try explaining Xi Jinping's infrastructure dream to them Posted: 11 May 2017 05:43 PM PDT Video pushing China's transport initiative features journalist wowing young daughter with bedtime tales of trains, planes and global cooperation It is advice new parents are unlikely to hear from childcare gurus. If you can't get your children to go to sleep, just talk to them about the policies of the Chinese president, Xi Jinping. But that is the message the China Daily, a state-run broadsheet, is pushing this week as Xi prepares to welcome world leaders to Beijing for a two-day summit celebrating a Chinese infrastructure drive some call the biggest development plan in history. Continue reading... |
| Robert Mugabe 'not sleeping, just resting his eyes' Posted: 11 May 2017 05:41 PM PDT Zimbabwe's 93-year-old president has been photographed seemingly nodding off at several conferences, but his spokesman says it's an optical affliction Robert Mugabe is not sleeping in meetings – as a series of images would suggest. In fact, his PR man has said, he is simply resting his eyes. The state-run Herald newspaper on Thursday quoted spokesman George Charamba as saying the 93-year-old Zimbabwean president has a medical condition that means his eyes can't handle bright lights. Continue reading... |
| World's biggest building project aims to make China great again Posted: 11 May 2017 05:25 PM PDT The 'Belt and Road initiative' could see hundreds of billions spent from Mongolia to Malaysia, Thailand to Turkmenistan and Indonesia to Iran When the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, unveiled what some call the most ambitious development plan in history, Zhou Jun decided almost immediately he should head for the hills. The 45-year-old entrepreneur packed his bags and set off for one of his country's most staggeringly beautiful corners: a sleepy, high-altitude border outpost called Tashkurgan that - at almost 5,000km (3,100 miles) from Beijing - is the most westerly settlement in China. Continue reading... |
| Wayne Swan urges Labor to avoid being 'trickle down-lite' on tax Posted: 11 May 2017 02:21 PM PDT Former treasurer says party must pursue a robustly progressive approach – and keep a 'Buffett rule' on the table The former Labor treasurer Wayne Swan says the ALP has to avoid being "trickle down-lite", or offering voters "a sickening Davos third way approach" at the next election – and needs to countenance all measures to strengthen progressive taxation, including a "Buffett rule". In a direct rebuke to the current shadow treasurer, Chris Bowen, Swan says Labor needs to reserve all its options to make the tax system more progressive, and must not "appease the main drivers of inequality", which he nominates as high-wealth individuals and multinational corporations. Continue reading... |
| EU demands talks with US over possible airline laptop ban Posted: 11 May 2017 09:15 AM PDT As Trump administration considers broadening existing measure to affect some European countries, EU officials call for sharing of information The European Union has demanded urgent talks with the United States over a possible extension of a ban on passengers taking laptops into the cabins of commercial aircraft to include some European countries, saying any threats faced are common. Related: US considers cabin laptop ban on flights from UK airports Continue reading... |
| What happens when people fall through the cracks of the asylum system? Posted: 11 May 2017 08:57 AM PDT In the latest instalment of The New Arrivals, we report on those who can't return home but aren't allowed to stay – and the Brits taking them into their homes Hello, Paradzai Nkomo emailed the Guardian after reading our first articles in the New Arrivals series. She wanted to share her story, which is a shocking one. She is from Zimbabwe and has been in the UK for 15 years. She claimed asylum, saying that as a gay woman it was not safe for her to live in her home country, however, her claim was rejected, as were her appeals. Stuck in limbo, unable to work, unable to claim benefits, she eventually requested to be deported home, but due to a bureaucratic technicality, this request was also refused. Continue reading... |
| Brexit will not jeopardise peace in Ireland, EU's chief negotiator says Posted: 11 May 2017 06:19 AM PDT Michel Barnier tells Irish parliament 'nothing should put peace at risk' but warns of consequences for customs controls The EU's chief Brexit negotiator has offered reassurances to the people of Ireland that nothing will put peace at risk in the upcoming negotiations with the UK. In a speech to Ireland's parliament, Michel Barnier said the EU was committed to mitigating the impact of Brexit on Ireland, noting that the country had already seen the value of its exports to the UK suffer because of weakened sterling. Continue reading... |
| 'It's our way of life': Inuit designers are reclaiming the tarnished sealskin trade Posted: 11 May 2017 03:00 AM PDT Seal hunting is widely misunderstood, says a new wave of fashion designers, who are challenging perceptions with a blend of modern and traditional work
The result is a fashion line that marries modern design with tradition – captured in a first collection that includes four sealskin winter coats – and which has established Kakuktinniq's place among the cadre of designers and seamstresses in Canada's north working to reclaim sealskin's place in haute couture. Continue reading... |
| Is Mexico really the second-deadliest country in the world? Posted: 11 May 2017 02:00 AM PDT A 'shoddy' study endorsed by Trump has caused an angry reaction in Mexico, which has been trying to improve its international image The headlines were as stark as they were shocking: Mexico is the second-deadliest country in the world. According to an annual survey by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), Mexico in 2016 was more violent than war zones such as Afghanistan or Yemen, with a death toll surpassed only by that of Syria. Continue reading... |
| Singing protest for Jakarta governor jailed for blasphemy – video Posted: 11 May 2017 01:49 AM PDT Hundreds of people belt out traditional Indonesian songs in support of Jakarta's Christian governor, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, who has been jailed for two years on charges of blasphemy. The ruling has sparked outrage from his supporters and international human rights organisations Continue reading... |
| Myanmar army allegedly left Rohingya refugees with bullet wounds and burns Posted: 11 May 2017 11:00 PM PDT Shocking photographic evidence showing children among the injured adds weight to claims that military committed atrocities against Rohingya people Photographs have emerged that show Rohingya refugees, some of them children, bearing bullet wounds and burn scars apparently sustained during a Myanmar army crackdown. The new evidence, documented by humanitarian agencies and rights organisations, adds credence to claims that Myanmar's military committed atrocities against ethnic Rohingya communities during a counterinsurgency campaign that ended this year. Continue reading... |
| Syrian doctors forced to crowdfund safer underground hospitals due to aid rules Posted: 11 May 2017 05:10 AM PDT Donors urged to relax strict guidelines on use of aid that have prevented funding for makeshift facilities, forcing medics to adapt to circumstance Doctors in Syria have turned to crowdfunding in a desperate attempt to keep makeshift hospitals running in caves and underground. Rules governing how aid budgets are spent have tied up funding, forcing medics to seek alternative means of building and reinforcing the facilities, according to a report by the Syria Campaign, an advocacy group. Continue reading... |
| Trump: it was my decision to fire ‘showboat’ Comey – video Posted: 11 May 2017 01:39 PM PDT The US president called fired FBI director James Comey a 'showboat' and a 'grandstander' in an NBC News interview on Thursday, and contradicted White House accounts by saying he would have dismissed Comey even without the recommendation from the justice department. Trump also admitted asking Comey if he was under investigation into his ties with Russia |
| Acting FBI director rejects claims that staff lost faith in Comey – video Posted: 11 May 2017 11:25 AM PDT Acting FBI head Andrew McCabe said ousted director James Comey had 'broad support' among agency staff, rejecting White House claims that those in the FBI had lost faith in him. Testifying before the Senate intelligence committee on Thursday, McCabe also stated that Comey's abrupt dismissal would not impede the agency's work Continue reading... |
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