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- Donald Trump 'shared highly classified information with Russian officials'
- Emmanuel Macron picks centre-right Édouard Philippe as PM
- Pregnancy problems are leading global killer of females aged 15 to 19
- Iran changes course of road to Mediterranean coast to avoid US forces
- Iran presidential elections: everything you need to know
- Amsterdam mayor opens brothel run by prostitutes: 'It's a whole new model'
- UN's Syria envoy rejects Assad claim that Geneva peace talks are irrelevant
- Iran presidential elections: Tehran mayor drops out to back hardliner
- Alberta museum unveils world's best-preserved armoured dinosaur
- Ransomware attack 'like having a Tomahawk missile stolen', says Microsoft boss
- 38,000 people a year die early because of diesel emissions testing failures
- State of emergency in Yemen's capital as cholera kills 115 people
- Gubbio's Race of the Candles festival – in pictures
- 38m pieces of plastic found on uninhabited Henderson Island – video report
- Alleged Trump boast to Russians could wreck the trust of America's allies
- Qingdao in the spotlight: Hollywood descends on China's east coast city
- Ian Brady, Moors murderer, dies at 79
- Uneasy peace and simmering conflict: the Ethiopian town where three flags fly
- Crusading Mexican journalist Javier Valdez shot dead in Sinaloa
- Thailand: deadline for Facebook to remove 'illicit' content passes
- 'Little island of hope': NT youth programs worth every cent, report finds
- Tuesday briefing: Did I say that out loud? Trump accused of leaking to Russians
- UK downplayed killings in Zimbabwe to guard its interests, study claims
- Will Iran's next president care enough to put the environment first?
- Israel-Palestine: the real reason there’s still no peace
- Dozens of refugees have died in Malaysian detention centres, UN reveals
- US accuses Syria of carrying out mass killings of thousands of prisoners
- EU backs away from trade statement in blow to China's 'modern Silk Road' plan
- Talks due on US flight laptop ban amid EU travel chaos concerns
- Could North Korea trigger a nuclear war? – video
- Heavy gunfire in Ivory Coast as military tries to end mutiny
- They hate the US government, and they're multiplying: the terrifying rise of 'sovereign citizens'
- Trump expands policy that bans US aid for overseas abortion providers
- National security adviser denies Trump revealed classified information to Russians – video
- The Cajun Army: how a community fought the Louisiana floods – video
| Donald Trump 'shared highly classified information with Russian officials' Posted: 15 May 2017 11:50 PM PDT
Donald Trump allegedly revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minster Sergei Lavrov and Russian ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak during an Oval Office meeting last week. The Washington Post reported on Monday that Trump shared details of intelligence gathered about an Isis threat that had been closely guarded within the United States government and among close US allies. Continue reading... |
| Emmanuel Macron picks centre-right Édouard Philippe as PM Posted: 15 May 2017 10:40 AM PDT Le Havre mayor from Les Républicains party chosen to lead battle for majority in French parliamentary elections France's centrist president, Emmanuel Macron, has appointed a prime minister from the right to lead his bid for a parliamentary majority in June's elections and push through his plans to loosen strict labour laws. Édouard Philippe, 46, the mayor of the Normandy port town Le Havre, comes from Les Républicains, the party that was headed by Nicolas Sarkozy until last year and whose candidate, François Fillon, was knocked out in the first round of the presidential election. Continue reading... |
| Pregnancy problems are leading global killer of females aged 15 to 19 Posted: 15 May 2017 09:01 PM PDT More than 1.2 million adolescent girls and boys die annually – most from preventable causes - says World Health Organisation Pregnancy complications are the leading cause of death globally among females aged 15-19, with self-harm in second place, a global study has found. More than 1.2 million female and male adolescents die annually, the World Health Organisation (WHO) report said – the majority from preventable causes including mental health issues, poor nutrition, reproductive health problems and violence. Continue reading... |
| Iran changes course of road to Mediterranean coast to avoid US forces Posted: 15 May 2017 10:30 PM PDT New land corridor to move 140 miles south to avoid buildup of US forces assembled in north-east Syria to fight Isis Iran has changed the course of a land corridor that it aims to carve to the Mediterranean coast after officials in Iraq and Tehran feared a growing US military presence in north-eastern Syria had made its original path unviable. The new corridor has been moved 140 miles south to avoid a buildup of US forces that has been assembled to fight Islamic State (Isis). It will now use the Isis-occupied town of Mayadin as a hub in eastern Syria, avoiding the Kurdish north-east, which had earlier been mooted by Iranian leaders as a crucial access route. |
| Iran presidential elections: everything you need to know Posted: 15 May 2017 11:30 PM PDT As voters prepare to go to the polls this week, we look at the two frontrunners and examine what is at stake for the country Iran goes to the polls on 19 May in the country's first presidential elections since the landmark nuclear agreement in 2015, when Tehran agreed to roll back its nuclear programme in exchange for the removal of sanctions. The fate of that deal has been thrown in doubt since Donald Trump took the helm at the White House, but despite his increasingly belligerent rhetoric, the US president has so far not taken any serious steps to scrap the accord. |
| Amsterdam mayor opens brothel run by prostitutes: 'It's a whole new model' Posted: 15 May 2017 11:30 PM PDT The so-called 'municipal brothel' opening today isn't quite that – but rather a city council initiative to enable prostitutes to run their own brothel in a bid to improve work conditions In a bid to improve working conditions in the city's sex industry, a brothel run by prostitutes themselves will be opened today by the mayor of Amsterdam. An initiative of the city council, the new brothel occupies 14 "windows" across four buildings on the so-called Wallen, Amsterdam's red light district. About 40 sex workers will be able to operate out of the premises, which are being run by a foundation called My Red Light, in which prostitutes take an active part. Continue reading... |
| UN's Syria envoy rejects Assad claim that Geneva peace talks are irrelevant Posted: 15 May 2017 08:37 AM PDT Staffan de Mistura also denies that talks offer Syrian regime a smokescreen for continuing attacks on rebels The UN's Syria envoy has defended the peace process he is orchestrating in Geneva and denied that it offers the Assad regime a smokescreen for attacks on rebels, after the Syrian leader dismissed it as an irrelevance that was just for show. About four days of indirect talks between government and opposition envoys are expected to start on Tuesday, marking the sixth round of talks mediated by Staffan de Mistura since early last year. Continue reading... |
| Iran presidential elections: Tehran mayor drops out to back hardliner Posted: 15 May 2017 05:39 AM PDT Mohammad-Baghar Ghalibaf steps aside to boost campaign of Ebrahim Raisi against reformist incumbent Hassan Rouhani Tehran's mayor has dropped out of Iran's presidential election, allowing hardliners to a coalesce around a powerful conservative in the fight against the reformist-backed incumbent, Hassan Rouhani. Mohammad-Baghar Ghalibaf, who has twice before been defeated in presidential elections, issued a statement on Monday saying he was stepping aside to bolster the campaign of hardliner Ebrahim Raisi. |
| Alberta museum unveils world's best-preserved armoured dinosaur Posted: 15 May 2017 11:12 AM PDT Fossil of 18ft nodosaur found in 2011 in Alberta's tar sands goes on display after 7,000 hours of reconstruction work It has been compared to a dinosaur mummy, a lifelike sculpture and even a dragon from Game of Thrones. Now, 110 million years after it died, the 18ft-long nodosaur – hailed as the best-preserved armoured dinosaur in the world – has been unveiled at a Canadian museum. Continue reading... |
| Ransomware attack 'like having a Tomahawk missile stolen', says Microsoft boss Posted: 14 May 2017 05:10 PM PDT Brad Smith says 'WannaCry' virus attack that locked up to 200,000 computers in 150 countries is a 'wake-up call' amid fears more will be hit as week begins The massive ransomware attack that caused damage across the globe over the weekend should be a "wake-up call" for governments, the president of Microsoft has said. Related: What is 'WanaCrypt0r 2.0' ransomware and why is it attacking the NHS? Continue reading... |
| 38,000 people a year die early because of diesel emissions testing failures Posted: 15 May 2017 08:00 AM PDT Global inventory of nitrogen oxide emissions shows highly polluting diesel cars are 'urgent public health issue' The global human health impact of the diesel emissions scandal has been revealed by new research showing a minimum of 38,000 people a year die early due to the failure of diesel vehicles to meet official limits in real driving conditions. Researchers have created the first global inventory of the emissions pumped out by cars and trucks on the road, over and above the legal limits which are monitored by lab-based tests. Virtually all diesel cars produce far more toxic nitrogen oxides (NOx) than regulations intend and these excess emissions amounted to 4.6m tonnes in 2015, the team found. Continue reading... |
| State of emergency in Yemen's capital as cholera kills 115 people Posted: 15 May 2017 07:10 AM PDT Health ministry in Sana'a calls on aid donors to help prevent an 'unprecedented disaster', as two-thirds of the population lack safe drinking water Cholera has killed at least 115 people in the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, the local Saba news agency said, after authorities on Sunday declared a state of emergency over the outbreak and called for international help to avert disaster. Sana'a is controlled by the armed Houthi movement, which is aligned with Iran and fighting a western-backed, Saudi-led coalition. More than 10,000 people have been killed and millions displaced in more than two years of war, which has also destroyed much of the country's infrastructure. Continue reading... |
| Gubbio's Race of the Candles festival – in pictures Posted: 16 May 2017 01:15 AM PDT The Race of the Candles festival in Gubbio, Italy, dates back to the 12th century when it celebrated victory in war. People charge through town bearing three huge wooden structures topped with statues of saints as crowds roar them on. The ceraioli who support the heavy ceri (candles) wear coloured shirts to represent their respective saint – yellow for St Ubaldo, blue for St Giorgio and black for St Anthony Continue reading... |
| 38m pieces of plastic found on uninhabited Henderson Island – video report Posted: 16 May 2017 01:03 AM PDT Henderson Island in the South Pacific Ocean is believed to be one of the world's worst polluted places. Australian scientists say they found its beaches littered with about 38m pieces of plastic during an investigation in 2015. The island is in the path of the South Pacific Gyre, an ocean current known for its accumulation of plastic debris Continue reading... |
| Alleged Trump boast to Russians could wreck the trust of America's allies Posted: 15 May 2017 11:54 PM PDT The country's vital intelligence-sharing alliances could see permanent damage if it proves true that Trump shared highly classified information at a recent meeting Donald Trump's Oval Office boasting to the Russians, if confirmed, could wreak its deepest and most enduring damage on vital intelligence-sharing by US allies. A similar erosion of trust in the president's loyalties and competence appeared to have accelerated among Trump's political allies in Washington. As the White House fought back hard against the Washington Post report, which was confirmed on Tuesday night by several other US news organisations, it was unclear how far his support from the Republican establishment – essential to his survival as president – had been weakened. Continue reading... |
| Qingdao in the spotlight: Hollywood descends on China's east coast city Posted: 15 May 2017 04:20 AM PDT The coastal home of Tsingtao beer is building the world's largest movie production facility, with the latest Pacific Rim film blockbuster now wrapping up shooting. Is one of China's most liveable cities about to become less so? There's a little piece of Qingdao in most Chinese restaurants around the world. Under the romanised name of Tsingtao, those emerald bottles are usually the native beer option on the menu – a legacy of the brief German occupation of this coastal city lying halfway between Shanghai and Beijing. Now home to around 9 million people, making it 20th on China's jostling roster of urban centres, its quirky architecture and relative lack of crowding supposedly make it one of the country's most "liveable" cities. Make no mistake, though, Qingdao is growing. It's one of the biggest ports in China, and is one of the top 10 busiest in the world. Now the focus is on the construction of the Qingdao Movie Metropolis in Huangdao district: a massive film-production facility and theme park that is hoped will make the city, in the words of the giant hànzi on the overlooking hill, "Movie Metropolis of the East". Continue reading... |
| Ian Brady, Moors murderer, dies at 79 Posted: 15 May 2017 11:52 PM PDT Brady had been receiving palliative care at Ashworth psychiatric hospital on Merseyside Ian Brady, the "Moors murderer", has died in high-security hospital aged 79, an NHS spokesman has said. Brady, who revealed he had a lung and chest condition in December, had been receiving palliative care from cancer nurses at Ashworth psychiatric hospital on Merseyside. |
| Uneasy peace and simmering conflict: the Ethiopian town where three flags fly Posted: 15 May 2017 11:00 PM PDT Fresh tension in a disputed area has reopened old wounds between the Oromia and Somali states, as ethnic federalism fails to contain violence Three different flags flutter in the breeze along the road that runs through Moyale in southern Ethiopia. The first is green, yellow and red: the colours of the Ethiopian federal state. Then, on the side of the road: red, black and white, with a tree in the centre, the colours of the Oromo. And a third: the green, white and red, with a camel in one corner, of Somali state. Moyale, deep in Ethiopia's dusty south-eastern drylands and straddling the border with Kenya, is split sharply down the middle. The fresh tarmac of the road that divides it marks the long-contested frontier between Oromia and Somali regional states. |
| Crusading Mexican journalist Javier Valdez shot dead in Sinaloa Posted: 15 May 2017 05:27 PM PDT Valdez founded and edited the weekly newspaper Ríodoce in Culiacán, the capital of the western state of Sinaloa and long a den of drug-cartel activities A prominent, award-winning Mexican journalist famed for fearlessly covering drug cartels has been murdered, adding to the already long list of reporters killed this year in what is the most dangerous country in the world for members of the media.. Javier Valdez, who founded and edited the weekly newspaper Ríodoce in Culiacán, capital of the western state of Sinaloa and long a den of drug cartel activities, was driving when he was pulled from his car and shot dead around noon on Monday by a lone gunman, according to early press reports. Continue reading... |
| Thailand: deadline for Facebook to remove 'illicit' content passes Posted: 15 May 2017 09:00 PM PDT The government threatened Facebook last week with legal action unless it removed 131 'illicit' pages by 10am local time on Tuesday morning Thai internet providers say they are under pressure to immediately shut down access to Facebook as a deadline lapsed for the social media giant to remove content, including posts critical of the monarchy. The government threatened Facebook last week with legal action unless it removed 131 "illicit" pages by 10am local time on Tuesday morning. Continue reading... |
| 'Little island of hope': NT youth programs worth every cent, report finds Posted: 16 May 2017 12:11 AM PDT Social value derived from programs far outweighs funding put in but experts warn there are still huge gaps in resourcing Well-funded and consistent youth programs deliver a social return of more than $4.50 to every dollar of investment, a report on Northern Territory services has found. The study, on the impact of youth programs in remote central Australia, found that, with enough support and effort, youth programs provided significant support to children, their families and communities, as well as the broader health, education and justice systems. Continue reading... |
| Tuesday briefing: Did I say that out loud? Trump accused of leaking to Russians Posted: 15 May 2017 10:07 PM PDT President 'passed secrets to Kremlin officials' … Ian Brady, the Moors murderer, dies in hospital … and Labour's tax on fat cat pay Good morning, it's Warren Murray waking you up to the news this morning. Continue reading... |
| UK downplayed killings in Zimbabwe to guard its interests, study claims Posted: 15 May 2017 10:05 PM PDT Officials in London accused of being 'wilfully blind' to massacre of thousands of dissidents by Robert Mugabe in 1980s British officials repeatedly downplayed the massacre of thousands of dissidents by Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe in the 1980s to protect the UK's interests in southern Africa and their relationship with the former colony's new ruler, new research has claimed. According to thousands of documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by Dr Hazel Cameron, a lecturer in international relations at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, British officials in London and Zimbabwe were "intimately aware" of the atrocities but consistently minimised their scale. Continue reading... |
| Will Iran's next president care enough to put the environment first? Posted: 15 May 2017 10:00 PM PDT Water shortages and air pollution concern voters, but candidates fear weakening their campaign if they don't focus on the economy Four years ago one of the candidates in Iran's presidential election made himself popular by promising to save Lake Urmia, one of the world's largest saltwater lakes that was on the cusp of disappearing. Now, President Hassan Rouhani proudly recounts that promise, citing Urmia's current state as an environmental success story made possible by prudent decision-making. Recent intense rainfalls and subsequent floods have come to Rouhani's help, earning Urmia a spot on the catalogue of the accomplishments of his administration. But this is not the full story. |
| Israel-Palestine: the real reason there’s still no peace Posted: 15 May 2017 09:30 PM PDT The possibility of a lasting deal seems as far away as ever – and the history of failed negotiations suggests it's largely because Israel prefers the status quo Scattered over the land between the Jordan river and the Mediterranean Sea lie the remnants of failed peace plans, international summits, secret negotiations, UN resolutions and state-building programmes, most of them designed to partition this long-contested territory into two independent states, Israel and Palestine. The collapse of these initiatives has been as predictable as the confidence with which US presidents have launched new ones, and the current administration is no exception. In the quarter century since Israelis and Palestinians first started negotiating under US auspices in 1991, there has been no shortage of explanations for why each particular round of talks failed. The rationalisations appear and reappear in the speeches of presidents, the reports of thinktanks and the memoirs of former officials and negotiators: bad timing; artificial deadlines; insufficient preparation; scant attention from the US president; want of support from regional states; inadequate confidence-building measures; coalition politics; or leaders devoid of courage. Continue reading... |
| Dozens of refugees have died in Malaysian detention centres, UN reveals Posted: 15 May 2017 07:08 PM PDT Most of those who died in the past two years were Myanmar nationals who contracted diseases, but some were physically abused At least two dozen refugees and asylum seekers have died in Malaysia immigration detention centres since 2015, the United Nations refugee agency has told the Guardian. Living in fetid, overcrowded cells, inmates are so severely deprived of basic necessities such as food, water, and medical care that the Malaysian national human rights commission described conditions as "torture-like". Continue reading... |
| US accuses Syria of carrying out mass killings of thousands of prisoners Posted: 15 May 2017 10:07 AM PDT State department says it believes 50 detainees a day are being hanged at Saydnaya military prison, with many bodies burned in a crematorium The US has accused the Syrian regime of building a crematorium to cover up the mass killings of detainees in a military prison outside Damascus. The Department of State distributed photos on Monday of a large building it said had been adapted for the large-scale burning of bodies at Saydnaya military prison, 45 minutes' drive from the Syrian capital, where it said that up to 50 detainees are hanged in mass executions on a daily basis. Continue reading... |
| EU backs away from trade statement in blow to China's 'modern Silk Road' plan Posted: 15 May 2017 07:58 AM PDT Member states wary of Xi Jinping's Belt and Road initiative without guarantees on transparency, sustainability and tendering process The EU has dealt a blow to Chinese president Xi Jinping's bid to lead a global infrastructure revolution, after its members refused to endorse part of the multibillion-dollar plan because it did not include commitments to social and environmental sustainability and transparency. Xi made his latest bid for global leadership on Monday, telling leaders including Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that the world should reject protectionism, embrace globalisation and pull together like a skein of geese. Continue reading... |
| Talks due on US flight laptop ban amid EU travel chaos concerns Posted: 15 May 2017 07:50 AM PDT High-level meeting to discuss proposed Trump ban as industry says measure will lead to delays and confusion across Europe A proposed Trump administration ban on passengers from Europe taking laptops and tablets into cabins on US-bound flights will be discussed at a "high-level" meeting in Brussels on Wednesday, amid concerns about a summer of travel chaos. The US authorities are considering extending the cabin restriction, which is already applicable to flights originating from 10 airports including in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, because of alleged concerns that bombs could be hidden in the devices. Continue reading... |
| Could North Korea trigger a nuclear war? – video Posted: 15 May 2017 07:11 AM PDT After successfully test-firing a rocket at the weekend, North Korea now claims to have a missile with a warhead that could reach the US. Most experts are critical of the claim, and analysts say flight data suggests the rocket could fly 2,800 miles – not even half the way to the US. We take a look back at North Korea's nuclear dynasty and ask: could the country trigger a nuclear war? Continue reading... |
| Heavy gunfire in Ivory Coast as military tries to end mutiny Posted: 15 May 2017 03:15 AM PDT Shooting heard in Bouaké and Abidjan as revolt by soldiers over delayed bonus payments enters fourth day Heavy gunfire has been heard in Ivory Coast's two largest cities as the military attempts to quash a four-day army mutiny over bonus payments. Loyalist troops began advancing towards Bouaké, the epicentre of the revolt, on Sunday; sporadic gunfire was heard overnight there and at military camps in the capital, Abidjan, witnesses said. Shooting in both cities intensified before dawn. Continue reading... |
| They hate the US government, and they're multiplying: the terrifying rise of 'sovereign citizens' Posted: 15 May 2017 03:00 AM PDT While US counter-terrorism efforts remain locked on Islamist extremism, the growing threat from homegrown, rightwing extremists is even more pressing On 20 May 2010, a police officer pulled over a white Ohio minivan on Interstate 40, near West Memphis, Arkansas. Unbeknown to officer Bill Evans, the occupants of the car, Jerry Kane Jr, and his teenage son, Joseph Kane, were self-described "sovereign citizens": members of a growing domestic extremist movement whose adherents reject the authority of federal, state and local law. Kane, who traveled the country giving instructional seminars on debt evasion, had been posing as a pastor. Religious literature was laid out conspicuously for anyone who might peer into the van, and, when Evans ran the van's plates, they came back registered to the House of God's Prayer, an Ohio church. Also in the van, though Evans did not know it, were weapons Kane had bought at a Nevada gun show days earlier. Continue reading... |
| Trump expands policy that bans US aid for overseas abortion providers Posted: 15 May 2017 10:28 AM PDT
The Trump administration on Monday significantly expanded a Reagan-era policy banning foreign aid to international healthcare providers who discuss abortion or advocate for abortion rights. Related: Trump set to hand key family planning role to anti-contraception advocate Continue reading... |
| National security adviser denies Trump revealed classified information to Russians – video Posted: 15 May 2017 05:13 PM PDT Donald Trump's national security adviser is denying a report that claims Trump shared highly classified intelligence with a top Russian diplomat. HR McMaster told reporters in a brief statement that the Washington Post report published Monday 'is false' and 'at no time' were intelligence sources or methods discussed during Trump's meeting with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak. 'I was in the room, it didn't happen,' he said. McMaster did not take questions. Continue reading... |
| The Cajun Army: how a community fought the Louisiana floods – video Posted: 15 May 2017 02:31 AM PDT Torrential downpours in Louisiana led to catastrophic flooding in August 2016, submerging entire communities and displacing thousands of residents. Volunteers did whatever they could to help – rescuing stranded people, organising food and shelter and providing security. In their own words, members of the self-styled 'Cajun army' tell the inspirational story of how a natural disaster made their community stronger Continue reading... |
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