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- Saudi leaders hail Trump visit as ‘reset of regional order’
- Canada First Nations reserve bars outsiders amid opioid crisis
- Bernie Madoff photos offer rare glimpse of convicted fraudster in prison
- New York enclave with Nazi roots forced to end discriminating policies
- Arctic stronghold of world’s seeds flooded after permafrost melts
- Brexit and the coming food crisis: ‘If you can’t feed a country, you haven’t got a country’
- Vanessa Redgrave: ‘Democracy is at stake. That’s why I’m voting Labour’
- 'Trump has declared war': journalists denounce any attack on press freedom
- Australia leads fight to save Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact
- Ebay accused of failing its sellers as fraudulent buyers manipulate the system
- China 'dismantled' CIA spying operations and killed sources – report
- Did Dutch hordes kill off the early Britons who started Stonehenge?
- The six-day war: why Israel is still divided over its legacy 50 years on
- Tensions rise as Uganda refugee policy is pushed to breaking point
- Venezuela: 50th day of protests brings central Caracas to a standstill
- Bill Shorten warns Labor to expect election fight with 'not a shred of complacency'
- Passenger jet hits utility truck at Los Angeles airport, injuring eight
- How Nigeria’s Wizkid fashioned a new sound that won global appeal
- Uproar on chic Côte d’Amour as Brittany resort fears privatisation of golden sands
- Chibok schoolgirls are reunited with their families – in pictures
- Joy as 82 Chibok schoolgirls hug and kiss their families again
- 'Artisanal' miners in El Salvador face ruin as ban comes into force
- Audio at heart of bribery scandal was doctored, claims Brazil president
- Hassan Rouhani declared winner of Iranian election – video
- ‘At parliament they thought I was a cleaner': the young activists changing British politics
- ‘Jury still out’ on Callista Gingrich pick as US ambassador to the Holy See
- Reluctant traveler Trump takes off on trip fraught with diplomatic dangers
- US president begins first international tour - in pictures
- Clinton practices avoiding ‘unwanted Trump hug’ before TV debates – archive video tite
- Donald Trump arrives in Saudi Arabia on first foreign trip – video report
| Saudi leaders hail Trump visit as ‘reset of regional order’ Posted: 20 May 2017 08:52 AM PDT Saudi officials claim US president's visit, which was accompanied by military deals worth $110bn, eases tensions between two nations Donald Trump received a glittering welcome from leaders in Saudi Arabia on the first day of his first international tour, as the two countries agreed a series of military deals worth nearly $110bn (£85bn). The US president's decision to make the Saudi capital his first foreign call was seized on by senior Saudi officials as a symbol that Washington aimed to be once again a bedrock for the kingdom and its allies. Continue reading... |
| Canada First Nations reserve bars outsiders amid opioid crisis Posted: 20 May 2017 04:10 AM PDT Kanai First Nation, one of Canada's largest, takes action to keep out drugs such as fentanyl as community grapples with overdoses: 'This is about saving lives' One of Canada's largest First Nations communities has passed a bylaw forbidding non-members from entering the reserve without a permit, in hopes of gaining control over a street drug that has ravaged the community. The past few years have seen fentanyl – an opioid 50 times stronger than heroin – tighten its grip on the reserve, said Rick Tailfeathers, a spokesperson for the Kainai First Nation located in southern Alberta. "We've lost a lot of people in the past two years. And it's totally preventable." Continue reading... |
| Bernie Madoff photos offer rare glimpse of convicted fraudster in prison Posted: 20 May 2017 04:00 AM PDT The Guardian publishes two images of Madoff in prison garb that are believed to be the only photographic public records of the grand swindler behind bars Robert De Niro takes on the role of Bernie Madoff, the Wall Street legend who fleeced investors of billions of dollars in the largest financial fraud in US history, in a new original movie that airs on HBO on Saturday night. Related: Never-before-heard Bernie Madoff tapes reveal details of ruinous Ponzi scheme Continue reading... |
| New York enclave with Nazi roots forced to end discriminating policies Posted: 20 May 2017 07:55 AM PDT German American Settlement League settled anti-discrimination case that ended a policy limiting house ownership to people of German descent A New York state enclave where Nazi sympathizers once proudly marched, near streets named for Adolf Hitler and other Third Reich figures, is being forced to end policies that limited house ownership to people of German descent. The German American Settlement League, which in the 1930s welcomed tens of thousands to pro-Nazi marches at Camp Siegfried on eastern Long Island, has settled an anti-discrimination case brought by New York state. The settlement calls for a change in leadership and adherence to all state and federal housing laws. Continue reading... |
| Arctic stronghold of world’s seeds flooded after permafrost melts Posted: 19 May 2017 08:39 AM PDT No seeds were lost but the ability of the rock vault to provide failsafe protection against all disasters is now threatened by climate change It was designed as an impregnable deep-freeze to protect the world's most precious seeds from any global disaster and ensure humanity's food supply forever. But the Global Seed Vault, buried in a mountain deep inside the Arctic circle, has been breached after global warming produced extraordinary temperatures over the winter, sending meltwater gushing into the entrance tunnel. The vault is on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen and contains almost a million packets of seeds, each a variety of an important food crop. When it was opened in 2008, the deep permafrost through which the vault was sunk was expected to provide "failsafe" protection against "the challenge of natural or man-made disasters". Continue reading... |
| Brexit and the coming food crisis: ‘If you can’t feed a country, you haven’t got a country’ Posted: 21 May 2017 12:00 AM PDT Britain's food production depends on seasonal migrant labour from the EU. What will happen to those workers after Brexit? And how will it change the industry? On 24 June last year, the few hundred residents of a temporary village, hidden from view in the middle of a West Sussex soft fruit farm, received letters. They were signed by David Kay, the managing director of the Hall Hunter Partnership, a business that grows 10% of the UK's strawberries, 19% of its raspberries and a whacking 42% of its blueberries across thousands of acres, of both glasshouses and polytunnels. The recipients were his seasonal workforce, some of the 3,000 pickers from Bulgaria, Romania and elsewhere who come here each year to get the harvest in, and without whom the business would simply not exist. "I wanted them to know that in the face of the vote for Brexit we would hang together as a family," he says now, standing amid the mobile homes his workers live in during the summer months. The dwellings come dressed with satellite dishes pointed at news channels in Bulgaria, and pylons delivering high-speed wifi. Some have planted gardens. Tesco Direct delivers their groceries; coaches take them out on excursions."I'm responsible for both a fruit farm and 2,100 beds," Kay says. "That morning I met a lot of very sad and confused workers. For me, personally, it was a shock." Continue reading... |
| Vanessa Redgrave: ‘Democracy is at stake. That’s why I’m voting Labour’ Posted: 21 May 2017 12:00 AM PDT The actor and leftwing activist is at Cannes to talk about her directorial debut, a documentary attacking the handling of the refugee crisis – and it takes a little jousting for her to delve into her rich past… It's the 70th edition of the Cannes film festival; a birthday to celebrate, an excuse to look back. The list of past Palme d'Or winners scrolls across the screen ahead of the evening premiere. The whole town is studded with pictures from yesteryear. There's Brigitte Bardot posing on the beach; Godard and Truffaut rallying the masses; Blow Up-era Vanessa Redgrave in a striped mini-dress, the epitome of swinging 60s London. "Oh yeah, very glamorous," the actor recalls. "I came with Michelangelo Antonioni and Monica Vitti, so I felt I was really in with the cool crowd. Except that we didn't call it cool in those days. I'm not sure the word even existed back then." Fashions shift and time marches on. And Vanessa Redgrave turned 80 this year. She comes picking her way across the hotel garden like a waiter carrying a tray of precious china. Her eyes are bright behind her oval specs; her features as sculpted as those of some beautiful wood statue. I'm tempted to view her as a piece of living Cannes history but suspect the very idea would enrage her. She's arrived in town like a Fury; she's on urgent humanitarian business. So she orders an espresso and promptly sets down to work. Continue reading... |
| 'Trump has declared war': journalists denounce any attack on press freedom Posted: 21 May 2017 12:00 AM PDT President's apparent suggestion that the FBI should 'consider putting reporters in prison' prompts call to action from journalists increasingly under attack President Donald Trump's apparent suggestion that the FBI should "consider putting reporters in prison" has been decried as a dangerous new assault on press freedom and prompted a call to action by American journalists who have been jailed in the US for their work. Among those who criticised the reported comments are journalist Brian Karem, who spent two weeks in jail in Texas in 1990 for refusing to give up a source and who told the Guardian they were "deeply concerning". Continue reading... |
| Australia leads fight to save Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact Posted: 20 May 2017 11:06 PM PDT Talks in Hanoi are focused on salvaging the free trade deal agreed between 12 nations before Donald Trump pulled the US out Australia is leading the charge to save the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal thrown into doubt by Donald Trump's decision to pull America out of the pact. As fears rumble of a new global era of protectionism, Asia Pacific trade ministers gathered in Vietnam on Sunday with Australia, Japan and New Zealand at the forefront of efforts to save the deal. Continue reading... |
| Ebay accused of failing its sellers as fraudulent buyers manipulate the system Posted: 20 May 2017 10:59 PM PDT A website built on the premise that most people are honest is struggling. Now at last there is a promise of more protection, as Anna Tims reports Last November Clive Rose* sold two handmade Japanese swords on eBay, worth a total of £1,940. The buyer, once he had received them, demanded that the cost of the more expensive sword be slashed. Rose refused to haggle and asked for the items to be returned and a refund issued. Eventually a box arrived. "We couldn't open it until we had signed for it," says Rose. "On the label it said two items were inside. When we had signed and opened it up we found the cheaper £540 sword badly damaged because of poor packaging, and a brick. The other £1,400 sword, for which he had been trying to barter, was not there." Continue reading... |
| China 'dismantled' CIA spying operations and killed sources – report Posted: 20 May 2017 06:53 PM PDT Newspaper cites 10 current and former officials in report of serious intelligence breach caused either by a mole or hacking of covert communication system The Chinese government "systematically dismantled" CIA spying operations in the country starting in late 2010 and killed or imprisoned at least a dozen CIA sources over the next two years, it was reported on Saturday. Related: Saudi leaders hail Trump visit as 'reset of regional order' Continue reading... |
| Did Dutch hordes kill off the early Britons who started Stonehenge? Posted: 20 May 2017 04:05 PM PDT A gene study has shown that incomers could have ousted Stone Age Britons The men and women who built Stonehenge left an indelible mark on the British landscape. However, researchers have discovered that their impact on other aspects of the nation may have been less impressive. In particular, their input into Britain's gene pool appears to have fizzled out, having been terminated by light-skinned Bronze Age invaders who arrived just as Ancient Britons were midway through their great Stone Age project. In the end, these newcomers may have completely replaced the people who were building Stonehenge. This startling conclusion is the result of a huge gene study of humans in prehistoric Europe. It shows that around 2500BC – when the main sections of Stonehenge were under construction – a race of people known to archaeologists as the Beaker folk arrived in Britain. Their genetic profiles were similar to individuals who were living in the Netherlands at the time. In just a short period, all genetic traces of early Stone Age Britons were replaced by those from these continental newcomers, although work on Stonehenge continued. Continue reading... |
| The six-day war: why Israel is still divided over its legacy 50 years on Posted: 20 May 2017 04:04 PM PDT Some celebrate the 1967 conflict as a liberation, others believe it launched a disastrous occupation On Wednesday the Palestinian shopkeepers in the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem's Old City will pull closed their metal shutters under curfew. Residents will retreat behind the doors of their houses in the little streets and alleys around the Via Dolorosa and Al-Wad Street. Thousands of Israeli police will spread out through the cramped neighbourhoods and around the Old City's towering limestone walls and gates to prevent confrontation with the thousands of Israeli nationalists carrying blue-and-white flags and drums, some blowing shofar horns, who every year descend on Jerusalem Day to march through the streets. Continue reading... |
| Tensions rise as Uganda refugee policy is pushed to breaking point Posted: 20 May 2017 04:05 PM PDT Country has seen nearly a million incomers from South Sudan alone Dazed and exhausted, Joyce Mori sits on the floor cradling her sleeping daughter as they wait to have their fingerprints taken. One of 1,600 refugees who have arrived at the Imvepi reception centre in the West Nile region of northern Uganda, she has finally made it out of South Sudan's war but, like many others, is thinking about loved ones left behind. Leaving her village of Mukaya, she travelled to the town of Yei with her four children. From there it took eight days to walk to the border, pushing her three-year-old on a bicycle while the others followed on foot. Continue reading... |
| Venezuela: 50th day of protests brings central Caracas to a standstill Posted: 20 May 2017 03:20 PM PDT Venezuelans take to the streets, furious about shortages, rocketing inflation and human rights crackdowns, demanding President Maduro hold elections Masses of protesters with white shirts, homemade gas masks and flags draped around their shoulders shut down a main road in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, in a continuation of near-daily street protests. Soldiers closed access to the centre of the city and officials closed at least 10 metro stations in anticipation of Saturday's protest, which was part of demonstrations across the country by hundreds of thousands of people. The protests marked 50 days of protests against the government of President Nicolás Maduro, with unrest gaining momentum despite a rising death toll and chaotic scenes of night-time looting. Continue reading... |
| Bill Shorten warns Labor to expect election fight with 'not a shred of complacency' Posted: 21 May 2017 12:03 AM PDT Party leader tells state conference he is focused on winning as Coalition attempts to stoke divisions with Albanese Bill Shorten has told the party faithful at the Victorian state Labor conference that he remains fully focused on winning the next federal election, and declared "there is not a shred of complacency in me". The Labor leader's address to the party conference on Sunday, which warned colleagues there was a "tough fight" ahead at the next election, comes at the Turnbull government has leapt on divisions between Shorten and prominent leftwing frontbencher Anthony Albanese. Continue reading... |
| Passenger jet hits utility truck at Los Angeles airport, injuring eight Posted: 20 May 2017 05:37 PM PDT
Eight people were injured Saturday after an Aeromexico flight clipped an airport utility truck, flipping it over, shortly after landing at Los Angeles International Airport, authorities said. The Los Angeles fire department said the commercial passenger jet collided with the truck around 2.30pm, causing the truck to overturn. Continue reading... |
| How Nigeria’s Wizkid fashioned a new sound that won global appeal Posted: 20 May 2017 04:05 PM PDT He has a staggering seven nominations at the Billboard Music Awards and will come to the UK to headline festivals this summer During the summer of 2012, one of the biggest UK chart hits was Oliver Twist, the feelgood pop and Afrobeat mashup that mirrored the lascivious desires of D'Banj, the energetic Nigerian singer then on the roster of Good Music, whose frontman Kanye West had a cameo appearance in the video. This summer, it's another Nigerian singer, Wizkid, whose name is a fixture all over the charts. Continue reading... |
| Uproar on chic Côte d’Amour as Brittany resort fears privatisation of golden sands Posted: 20 May 2017 04:03 PM PDT Beach businesses in La Baule, celebrated by F Scott Fitzgerald, say 'absurd' rules threaten its future In the chic French seaside town of La Baule, the tourist season has not yet started. The Côte d'Amour resort known for its long beach, Anglo-Norman villas and palatial hotels is preparing for the invasion of French and foreign holidaymakers that will swell the 16,000 local population almost a hundredfold. In his 1922 collection of short stories, Tales of the Jazz Age, F Scott Fitzgerald described La Baule, on France's Atlantic coast in southern Brittany, as a haven of good taste and refinement. "At the Palace in La Baule we felt raucous amidst so much chic restraint. Children bronzed on the bare blue-white beach while the tide went out so far as to leave them crabs and starfish to dig for in the sands," he wrote. Continue reading... |
| Chibok schoolgirls are reunited with their families – in pictures Posted: 20 May 2017 03:26 PM PDT Eighty-two of the Nigerian schoolgirls captured three years ago by Boko Haram have been reunited with their families in Abuja Continue reading... |
| Joy as 82 Chibok schoolgirls hug and kiss their families again Posted: 20 May 2017 02:46 PM PDT Nigeria's president vows to continue negotiations over freeing remaining Boko Haram captives The 82 Nigerian schoolgirls recently released after more than three years in Boko Haram captivity were finally reunited with their families on Saturday in a public display of emotion. Images from the scene showed brightly dressed families rushing through the crowd to hug the girls. One small group sank to their knees, with a woman raising her hands to the heavens as if in church. A beaming father picked his daughter up and swung her around in the air. Some danced. Others wept tears of joy. Continue reading... |
| 'Artisanal' miners in El Salvador face ruin as ban comes into force Posted: 20 May 2017 01:13 PM PDT Severe water pollution has led to metal mining being outlawed in the central American country but small-scale gold miners are defiant
For the 52-year-old miner this is routine. He rejoins the group of young and middle-aged Salvadorans taking a break in the shadow of the cashew trees from which they pick up some snacks. Continue reading... |
| Audio at heart of bribery scandal was doctored, claims Brazil president Posted: 20 May 2017 01:11 PM PDT Michel Temer rejects calls for resignation and says purported recording of him was manipulated, as Socialist party announces its break from his coalition The Brazilian president, Michel Temer, has said that an incriminating audio recording of him was doctored, as he fought to save his job amid a growing corruption scandal. "That clandestine recording was manipulated and doctored with [bad] intentions," Temer said at a news conference in the capital, Brasilia, on Saturday. Continue reading... |
| Hassan Rouhani declared winner of Iranian election – video Posted: 20 May 2017 04:11 AM PDT Iran's interior minister on Saturday declares incumbent President Hassan Rouhani as the winner of the country's election. At a news conference in Tehran, Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli told journalists that 99.7% of the votes have been counted and Rouhani had won a 57% majority of those votes. The result is giving the 68-year-old cleric a second four-year term to see out his agenda calling for greater freedoms and outreach to the wider world |
| ‘At parliament they thought I was a cleaner': the young activists changing British politics Posted: 20 May 2017 02:00 AM PDT Young people today: apathetic and disengaged? Not a bit. Meet the millennials signing up for political bootcamps Darren Keenan first experienced prejudice when he was six. He was living with his mum and her partner, who both used drugs, and he'd often be out on the streets alone until after midnight. "The local community centre was where I would spend most of my days," he says. "There was a gang there, but I didn't know it was a gang. Every now and again, they used to give me £2 to go and get chicken and chips." On one occasion, while in the shop, he was confronted by a group of white people in their 20s who mocked him and called him a "chav fuck". "They didn't know my circumstances," Keenan says, softly spoken and with the build of a rugby player. "I was still trying to go to school by myself. It annoyed me that they stereotyped me a certain way." That Keenan, now 20, has had a tough time is an understatement. He has been in care, suffered depression and anxiety, and now lives with his grandmother in Brixton. He is also passionately political and determined to fight inequality. Last July, he gave a speech in parliament about opportunities for working-class people. Continue reading... |
| ‘Jury still out’ on Callista Gingrich pick as US ambassador to the Holy See Posted: 20 May 2017 09:36 AM PDT Nomination, announced days before Trump meets Pope Francis in Rome, marks the promotion of the wife of one of the president's most vociferous defenders Donald Trump announced on Friday his intent to nominate Callista Gingrich, a choir singer and film producer married to former Republican House speaker Newt Gingrich, to serve as ambassador to the Holy See. Related: Reluctant traveler Trump takes off on trip fraught with diplomatic dangers Continue reading... |
| Reluctant traveler Trump takes off on trip fraught with diplomatic dangers Posted: 20 May 2017 07:25 AM PDT The president touched down in Riyadh with burgeoning scandal at home and US and foreign aides on the alert for potential controversy, pitfalls and pratfalls No presidential overseas trip in modern history has been such a high-wire act with such a threadbare safety net as Donald Trump's tour of the Middle East and Europe. Related: Trump kicks off first international trip after a rollercoaster week of revelations Continue reading... |
| US president begins first international tour - in pictures Posted: 20 May 2017 07:00 AM PDT Donald Trump, his wife Melania, daughter Ivanka and son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner arrive in Saudi Arabia on the first leg of his first foreign trip as president Continue reading... |
| Clinton practices avoiding ‘unwanted Trump hug’ before TV debates – archive video tite Posted: 20 May 2017 06:42 AM PDT Philippe Reines, one of Hillary Clinton's senior advisors, posted a video on social media on Friday showing Hillary Clinton practicing avoiding an unwanted hug from Donald Trump during preparations for the TV debates in September 2016. Reines played the part of Trump in the clip who chases after Clinton who runs from the embrace |
| Donald Trump arrives in Saudi Arabia on first foreign trip – video report Posted: 20 May 2017 03:08 AM PDT President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrive in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Saturday on their first international trip since entering the White House. They were greeted by the Saudi King Salman and taken for a coffee ceremony. A royal banquet is planned for later before private talks Continue reading... |
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