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- Trump: 'No politician in history has been treated more unfairly'
- 'Why must I live in fear?' Mexico shaken after yet another journalist murdered
- Enda Kenny announces resignation as Fine Gael leader
- Concern as Sudan leader wanted for war crimes plans Saudi trip alongside Trump
- US voices 'strongest possible' concern over violence during Erdoğan's visit
- Unmarried couple stoned to death in Mali for ‘violating Islamic law’
- Venezuelan government sends troops to border state to stop looting and violence
- British man charged after girlfriend run over in Thai road accident
- Dutch king admits he held part-time job as airline pilot
- Baylor football players raped women as 'bonding experience', lawsuit alleges
- France's Macron selects his government from left, right and centre
- Venezuela president says politicians are 'the new Jews that Hitler pursued'
- Chelsea Manning released from military prison
- Norwegian-British man freed from Congo prison in 'humanitarian deal'
- Chelsea Manning prepares for freedom: 'I want to breathe the warm spring air'
- Markets slide again on Trump fears, ahead of UK retail sales - business live
- Chris Cornell, former Soundgarden singer, dies aged 52
- Bangladeshi editor who faced 83 lawsuits says press freedom under threat
- The avocado police: how Tancitaro, Mexico took the law into its own hands
- EU insists trade deals must meet its labour and competition standards
- New types of coffee, parsnips and roses among 1,700 plants discovered last year
- America's geography of wealth: the shrinking urban middle class visualised
- Two men charged with manslaughter over death of girl in car crash
- Iran election: why next president could steer country's future for a generation
- Why Donald Trump can't fire his way out of 'Russia thing' this time
- 'Welcome to Lorengau': reality of detention camp on Manus belies holiday-style brochure
- State education ministers unite against Gonksi 2.0
- Thursday briefing: Trump now faces sweeping inquiry
- Brazil: explosive recordings implicate President Michel Temer in bribery
- Canada to apologise to LGBT people forced out of military and public service
- Netanyahu and Trump speak on phone amid growing row over Russia leak
- They smashed my face and demolished my home – all for the Rio Olympics | Maria da Penha Macena
- Traffickers and smugglers exploit record rise in unaccompanied child refugees
- Erdoğan outgunned at Trump meeting in face of US-Russian united front
- Trump decries media treatment in coast guard commencement speech – video
- Paul Ryan: We need the facts on Comey memo and Russia investigation – video
| Trump: 'No politician in history has been treated more unfairly' Posted: 17 May 2017 10:13 AM PDT
No politician in history has been treated as unfairly as Donald Trump, the president claimed as he struggled under the weight of a series of major controversies. "Look at the way I've been treated lately, especially by the media," Trump said on Wednesday during a speech to the Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut. "No politician in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly." Continue reading... |
| 'Why must I live in fear?' Mexico shaken after yet another journalist murdered Posted: 17 May 2017 11:48 AM PDT On Monday in Sinaloa, Javier Valdez was gunned down in broad daylight – the latest reporter to be caught up in Mexico's wave of drug-related violence Javier Valdez wrote his own epitaph. After the 23 March murder of Miroslava Breach, a reporter in the northern Mexican city of Chihuahua, Valdez tweeted: "Let them kill us all, if that is the death sentence for reporting this hell. No to silence." Valdez never stayed silent, reporting fearlessly on dynastic rivalries within the Sinaloa cartel – as well as the often forgotten victims of mafia violence. Continue reading... |
| Enda Kenny announces resignation as Fine Gael leader Posted: 17 May 2017 10:09 AM PDT Ireland's prime minister to step down at midnight on Wednesday, paving way for new head of government Ireland's prime minister, Enda Kenny, who helped steer the country out of recession following the global financial crash, has announced that he is stepping down. Kenny told his Fine Gael colleagues in Dublin that he was retiring as party leader at midnight on Wednesday, and that he would continue to serve as PM until a successor was appointed by 2 June. Kenny has been under growing internal party pressure over his failure to secure a majority government in the general election in 2016 and his handling of a series of crises in the Irish police. He stayed in his post after the election thanks to the support of a range of independent MPs and the tacit backing of Fine Gael's major rival opposition party, Fianna Fáil. |
| Concern as Sudan leader wanted for war crimes plans Saudi trip alongside Trump Posted: 17 May 2017 02:44 PM PDT US protests attendance of Omar al-Bashir, a wanted fugitive of the International Criminal Court, at a meeting in Saudi Arabia where Trump will be The US has protested against plans by the Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC), to attend a summit in Riyadh this weekend alongside Donald Trump. "I can confirm President Bashir will go ... to Saudi Arabia," Sudan's foreign minister Ibrahim Ghandour told reporters in Geneva on Wednesday, according to Agence France Presse. "We look forward (to) normalisation of our relations with the US." Continue reading... |
| US voices 'strongest possible' concern over violence during Erdoğan's visit Posted: 17 May 2017 04:32 PM PDT State department 'communicating concern' to Turkish government after brawl between Turkish security personnel and protesters injured 11 The United States has said it was voicing its "strongest possible" concern to Turkey over a street brawl that erupted between protesters and Turkish security personnel during Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's visit to Washington. Police said the fighting outside the Turkish ambassador's residence on Tuesday injured 11 people, including a Washington police officer, and led to two arrests for assault. At least one of those arrested was a protester. Continue reading... |
| Unmarried couple stoned to death in Mali for ‘violating Islamic law’ Posted: 17 May 2017 12:02 PM PDT The man and woman were put in two holes dug by ringleaders before four people attacked them, local official says An unmarried couple have been stoned to death in public in north-east Mali, in the first such incident since jihadi groups were driven out of the region. Jihadis seized key northern cities in Mali in March 2012, and though they were driven out by a French-led military intervention in 2013, Islamist groups continue to make their presence felt with frequent attacks on domestic and foreign forces. Continue reading... |
| Venezuelan government sends troops to border state to stop looting and violence Posted: 17 May 2017 02:36 PM PDT
Venezuela's government has announced that it is sending 2,000 soldiers to a border state that is a hotspot of anti-government radicalism after a night of looting in which one 15-year-old died as political unrest rumbled on in the volatile nation. Most shops and businesses in San Cristóbal, capital of Táchira state on the Colombian border, were closed and guarded by soldiers on Wednesday, though looting continued in some poorer sectors, residents said. Continue reading... |
| British man charged after girlfriend run over in Thai road accident Posted: 17 May 2017 04:21 PM PDT Danny Glass accused of reckless driving after pregnant partner Sophie Anderson was thrown from his scooter in Phuket A British man has been charged over the death of his pregnant partner in Thailand, according to reports. According to UK and local media, Danny Glass, 29, who is from Margate in Kent, is accused of reckless driving after Sophie Emma Rose Anderson, 41, was killed in a road accident in the Thalang area of the holiday island Phuket earlier this month. Continue reading... |
| Dutch king admits he held part-time job as airline pilot Posted: 17 May 2017 03:22 PM PDT Willem-Alexander co-piloted commercial KLM flights twice a month, saying it had been a 'relaxing' hobby The Dutch king has revealed that for more than two decades he has, alongside his royal duties, held down a part-time second job. In a newspaper interview published on Wednesday, King Willem-Alexander said that he recently ended his role as a regular "guest pilot" after 21 years on KLM's fleet of Fokker 70 planes and before that on Dutch carrier Martinair. Continue reading... |
| Baylor football players raped women as 'bonding experience', lawsuit alleges Posted: 17 May 2017 03:01 PM PDT
The latest lawsuit against Baylor University alleges that its football players took part in gang rapes as a team-bonding experience for new recruits. The suit was filed in federal court in Waco by a plaintiff identified as Jane Doe, who was part of a campus sports team. Continue reading... |
| France's Macron selects his government from left, right and centre Posted: 17 May 2017 09:38 AM PDT New president carried out his promise to appoint the same number of women as men – but just one gets a top role The new French president, Emmanuel Macron, has unveiled his first government – an unprecedented mix of figures from parties on the left, right and centre, including a right-wing economy minister who previously served under Nicolas Sarkozy. Macron's appointment this week of a prime minister, Edouard Philippe, from right-wing party Les Républicains, sparked other figures to join government from the right. Continue reading... |
| Venezuela president says politicians are 'the new Jews that Hitler pursued' Posted: 17 May 2017 10:49 AM PDT Maduro compares harassment of government officials amid economic chaos to what Jews faced, saying: 'We are going to defeat these 21st-century Nazis' The Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, has likened the harassment of government officials and their families outside of Venezuela to the treatment of Jews under the Nazis. Maduro also said in comments to a televised cabinet meeting late on Tuesday that planned opposition rallies in Caracas on Wednesday evening were reminiscent of rallies during the rise of Nazism and fascism in pre-second world war Europe. Continue reading... |
| Chelsea Manning released from military prison Posted: 17 May 2017 05:03 AM PDT American army private is free after serving seven years of 35-year sentence for leaking classified documents and videos downloaded to WikiLeaks Chelsea Manning, the army private who released a vast trove of US state secrets and was punished by the US military for months in penal conditions denounced by the UN as torture, has been released from a military prison in Kansas after serving seven years of a 35-year sentence. First steps of freedom!! https://t.co/kPPWV5epwa#ChelseaIsFree pic.twitter.com/0R5pXqA1VN Continue reading... |
| Norwegian-British man freed from Congo prison in 'humanitarian deal' Posted: 17 May 2017 11:27 AM PDT Joshua French, accused of killing his friend while already in prison for murder, is back in Norway and receiving medical treatment, prime minister says A man with dual Norwegian and British citizenship who had been sentenced to life in prison for murder in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been freed on humanitarian grounds and returned to the Scandinavian country, authorities said Wednesday. "I am very pleased to confirm that the Congolese authorities decided yesterday to transfer Joshua French to Norway," the Norwegian prime minister, Erna Solberg, told a news conference. "French came to Norway today and is now receiving necessary medical follow-up. I am relieved that he is now in Norway." Continue reading... |
| Chelsea Manning prepares for freedom: 'I want to breathe the warm spring air' Posted: 17 May 2017 03:01 AM PDT On Wednesday, after seven years, Chelsea Manning will walk out of military prison a free woman. Edward Snowden leads the tributes, and tells the Guardian how Manning 'left behind the safety of silence to speak a truth that saved lives' On Wednesday, some time after dawn, the security gates at the US disciplinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, will be thrown open and a slight 5ft 2in woman will walk out into the open air and freedom. For Chelsea Manning, release from military incarceration will mark a colossal turning point. Having been arrested seven years ago when she was an unknown, lowly and outwardly male soldier, she will emerge into an entirely new life as a civilian, a celebrity, and an openly transgender woman. Continue reading... |
| Markets slide again on Trump fears, ahead of UK retail sales - business live Posted: 18 May 2017 01:43 AM PDT UK retail sales surge 2.3% in April, while investigation into US president's actions over FBI director unnerve investors
Sterling could move even higher, according to David Cheetham, chief market analyst at online trader XTB: The pound is trading higher across the board this morning and the recovery seen in the currency since hitting a multi-decade low in January has been impressive and looks set to continue. The retail sales figure itself was the best since the start of 2016 and will go some way to allay the fears of a slowdown in consumer spending following last month's sharp drop in this widely viewed indicator. The release marks a 3rd consecutive day of GBP positive economic data, after both the CPI and unemployment figures surpassed estimates. With short positioning still at elevated levels in the pound there could be more legs to this rally, with little by the way of technical resistance seen until ¢1.32.
Analysts had been expecting a recovery in retail sales after the slide in March, partly because of the timing of Easter. But the bigger than expected, and the Office of National Statistics said the fine weather last month had also helped boost high street spending. Continue reading... |
| Chris Cornell, former Soundgarden singer, dies aged 52 Posted: 18 May 2017 12:46 AM PDT Singer's representative said his death was sudden and unexpected Chris Cornell, who gained fame as the lead singer of Soundgarden and later Audioslave, has died aged 52. Related: Temple of the Dog: Chris Cornell on the return of the 90s grunge supergroup Continue reading... |
| Bangladeshi editor who faced 83 lawsuits says press freedom under threat Posted: 18 May 2017 12:12 AM PDT The Awami League-controlled government has charged and jailed journalists using vague new laws Mahfuz Anam still laughs at the size of the damages claims he was landed with last year. "It amounted to about US $8bn [£6.2bn]," the editor of Bangladesh's Daily Star newspaper said. "I'm in the realm of Bill Gates." Continue reading... |
| The avocado police: how Tancitaro, Mexico took the law into its own hands Posted: 17 May 2017 11:30 PM PDT When Mexican drug cartels threatened the country's $1.5bn avocado export industry with extortion and murder, local farmers decided to fight back Javier is finally starting to feel safe. A gruff 46-year-old avocado grower with a laugh like an idling Harley Davidson, Javier still remembers the gruesome reports of cartel gunmen kidnapping and killing a neighbour's daughter, torching a local avocado packaging facility and murdering a pregnant schoolteacher. But the memories are starting to fade. Tancitaro, the world capital of avocado production, has finally achieved a semblance of stability. It has been over two years since the last pitched battles between vigilante fighters and cartel gunmen on the outskirts. Families whose orchards were seized by cartel gunmen are now running their farms again. "The government doesn't rule here. But it's under control. You can relax," he says. Continue reading... |
| EU insists trade deals must meet its labour and competition standards Posted: 17 May 2017 11:21 PM PDT Competition commissioner sees agreement with Canada as model but says deal with Brexit UK would be different Countries seeking a trade deal with the EU should meet European standards on labour law and fair competition, one of the bloc's most senior officials has said in remarks that reinforce Brexit red lines. Margrethe Vestager, the EU competition commissioner, described the trade agreement with Canada as a model for the future because it enshrined recognition of labour standards, human rights and animal welfare. |
| New types of coffee, parsnips and roses among 1,700 plants discovered last year Posted: 17 May 2017 10:01 PM PDT From a new variety of Turkish parsnip to Madagascar coffee beans, the discoveries offer the prospect of better crops, medicinal uses and new garden displays From new parsnips and herbs to begonias and roses, the world's plant hunters discovered more than 1,700 new species last year, offering the prospect of better crops and new colours and scents in the garden. The State of the World's Plants report, led by scientists at the Royal Botanical Garden Kew in the UK and published on Thursday, reveals a cornucopia of new plants and assesses the risk to the plant world from pests and invasive species. Continue reading... |
| America's geography of wealth: the shrinking urban middle class visualised Posted: 17 May 2017 03:52 AM PDT The economic fates of diverse cities such as San Francisco, New York and Detroit would seem to be vastly different – but they share a common thread Over the last half-century, the story of America's cities is a tale of booms and busts. New York and tech hubs like San Francisco – once cities in financial distress – have transformed into economic powerhouses. At the other extreme, one-time prosperous manufacturing cities like Detroit now find themselves in economic turmoil. Viewed in isolation, the economic fates of these cities would seem to bear little resemblance to each other. However, they all share a common thread: since 1970 these cities, like nearly every other major American city, have experienced a "hollowing out" of the middle class. Continue reading... |
| Two men charged with manslaughter over death of girl in car crash Posted: 18 May 2017 12:39 AM PDT Jason Burder, 28, and Adam King, 27, charged with gross negligence manslaughter of Leicester teenager Megan Bannister Two men have been charged with manslaughter following the death of a teenager whose body was found in the back of a car following a crash. Jason Burder, 28, and 27-year-old Adam King are due before magistrates in Leicester on Thursday. Continue reading... |
| Iran election: why next president could steer country's future for a generation Posted: 17 May 2017 09:00 PM PDT Iranians will go to the polls on Friday with the economy, diplomacy and inequality on their minds. They may also be laying the groundwork for who succeeds Ayatollah Khamenei as supreme leader As Tehran's notorious traffic slowed, the waiting campaigners pounced, pushing posters with the smiling face of Iran's president, Hassan Rouhani, through the open windows of trapped cars, pleading for votes and shouting slogans as drivers edged away. They were determined to make every minute count in the last days of a campaign in which Rouhani began as favourite, but has ended locked in a bitter and close-run fight with a conservative rival. Continue reading... |
| Why Donald Trump can't fire his way out of 'Russia thing' this time Posted: 18 May 2017 01:40 AM PDT Appointment of Robert Mueller to investigate Kremlin collusion bypasses president and demonstrates seriousness of the allegations against his circle With the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel, the future of Donald Trump's presidency has become significantly more precarious. Since coming to office Trump has acted as if the post was an elected monarchy – and up to now, he has been cosseted in that illusion by a largely servile Republican party. But what differentiates the US presidency from a monarchy, even under these conditions, are the permanent institutions, made up of civil servants, prosecutors and lawyers. Trump derided them as "the swamp", in which everyone was for sale. Now "the swamp" has struck back. Continue reading... |
| 'Welcome to Lorengau': reality of detention camp on Manus belies holiday-style brochure Posted: 17 May 2017 07:49 PM PDT Guide for refugees moved to Australian-run transit centre lists sights to see – and where to go for 'fishing and snorkelling trips' "Welcome to Lorengau," the brochure says, beneath a cliched picture of a sunset idyll, palm trees curving over the sands of a deserted tropical beach. But no holiday brochure is this: it is the Lorengau guide written by Transfield (now Broadspectrum) for refugees moved from immigration detention to the East Lorengau refugee transit centre, "your temporary accommodation" according to the brochure, though some men have been there for more than a year. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| State education ministers unite against Gonksi 2.0 Posted: 18 May 2017 01:39 AM PDT States say Turnbull's new schools package 'not good enough to achieve a good education for our children' State education ministers have claimed they are united against the Turnbull government's new school funding model and will keep their fight up in schools and in the Senate. At a press conference after the meeting in Adelaide on Thursday, the South Australian education minister, Susan Close, said there was "unity among the states" that the federal plan was "not good enough to achieve a good education for our children". Continue reading... |
| Thursday briefing: Trump now faces sweeping inquiry Posted: 17 May 2017 10:12 PM PDT Robert Mueller to investigate Trump-Russia as special counsel … fund your own aged care under Tories … and landlord who wanted 'no coloured people' Good morning, it's Warren Murray delivering your early news today. Continue reading... |
| Brazil: explosive recordings implicate President Michel Temer in bribery Posted: 17 May 2017 08:23 PM PDT Street protests and calls for impeachment as prosecutors are handed tapes of discussions about hush-money payments to jailed powerbroker Eduardo Cunha Angry crowds and outraged members of Brazil's congress have demanded the impeachment of President Michel Temer following reports he was secretly recorded discussing hush money pay-offs to a jailed associate. The tapes were presented to prosecutors as part of a plea bargain by Joesley and Wesley Batista, brothers who run the country's biggest meat-packing firm JBS, according to O Globo newspaper. Continue reading... |
| Canada to apologise to LGBT people forced out of military and public service Posted: 17 May 2017 05:26 PM PDT Consultations under way to capture full picture of wrongs inflicted over three decades as government faces class action Canada's government has said it will formally apologise to the thousands of Canadians who suffered injustices during a decades-long campaign to root out homosexuality from the military and public service, bringing it in line with a longstanding demand by advocates. The apology is expected to take place in early autumn. Public consultations are under way – led by the MP Randy Boissonnault, the prime minister's special adviser on LGBT issues – in an attempt to capture a full picture of the wrongs inflicted by the federal government during a period of some three decades. |
| Netanyahu and Trump speak on phone amid growing row over Russia leak Posted: 17 May 2017 05:20 AM PDT Israeli PM's office says call was solely about US president's upcoming visit, not his decision to share sensitive intelligence with Russia Donald Trump and the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, have spoken by telephone amid an escalating row over the US president's sharing of highly sensitive intelligence with Russia, reportedly supplied by Israel. The intelligence breach is the latest drama to affect Trump's visit to Israel and the Middle East next week, although a spokesman for Netanyahu insisted the 20-minute call – initially not publicised – concerned only details of Trump's trip. Continue reading... |
| They smashed my face and demolished my home – all for the Rio Olympics | Maria da Penha Macena Posted: 17 May 2017 11:00 PM PDT When Maria da Penha Macena defended her home from developers before the Rio Olympics, she was left battered and bloodied. She believes her community was betrayed and the host city cheated All that remains of our old community is one house, a Catholic church, and a handful of trees that we fought to protect. The rest has been completely demolished. The area where most of our homes once stood is now a large concrete car park that is usually empty and insufferably hot. It is sad. There used to be 650 families here. Today, there are 20. Keeping even those was a hard-fought battle. We made history. We set an example as the first families to resist the Olympics. Though there are not many of us and our old homes were demolished and replaced, it was a big victory. We overcame powerful interests to defend our right to remain in our neighbourhood. Continue reading... |
| Traffickers and smugglers exploit record rise in unaccompanied child refugees Posted: 17 May 2017 02:01 PM PDT Slavery and prostitution among horrors faced by child refugees and migrants after fivefold increase in number of lone minors crossing borders since 2010-11 A record increase in the number of refugee and migrant children travelling alone has left many exposed to sexual abuse and exploitation at the hands of traffickers and opportunists. At least 300,000 unaccompanied and separated children were recorded in 80 countries in 2015-16, a rise of almost 500% on the 66,000 documented in 2010-2011, according to a Unicef report published on Wednesday. Continue reading... |
| Erdoğan outgunned at Trump meeting in face of US-Russian united front Posted: 17 May 2017 04:39 AM PDT Rebuff on Syrian-Kurdish issue is part of a pattern of alignment between Washington and Moscow on perceived threats Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, put on a brave face after his White House meeting with Donald Trump, but there was no concealing that he had come away empty-handed. For this disappointing result Erdoğan can blame, among others, Vladimir Putin. Turkish officials had billed Tuesday's meeting as a pivotal moment for the two countries' troubled relationship, and Trump, sticking to his script, made the expected noises in public. He commended Erdoğan as an important ally in fighting terrorism and singled out the Kurdistan Workers' party (PKK), which both powers regard as a terrorist faction, as a particular threat. Continue reading... |
| Trump decries media treatment in coast guard commencement speech – video Posted: 17 May 2017 10:31 AM PDT Donald Trump said he had been treated more unfairly by the media than any politician in history. The president made the comments in a speech at the coast guard commencement and after a week of scandals at the White House following his firing of the FBI director, James Comey, and increasing calls for an independent investigation of possible collusion between his 2016 campaign and Russia Continue reading... |
| Paul Ryan: We need the facts on Comey memo and Russia investigation – video Posted: 17 May 2017 08:37 AM PDT Speaking on Wednesday, the House speaker, Paul Ryan, says he will follow the facts wherever they may lead when it comes to the Comey memo and the Russia investigation. According to a source who has seen a memo written by James Comey, Donald Trump asked the then FBI director to end the agency's investigation into ties between the former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn and Russia
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