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- Donald Trump will make 'final decision' on Paris climate deal next week
- British Airways cancels all flights from Gatwick and Heathrow due to IT failure
- Mass Palestinian hunger strike in Israeli jails ends after visitation deal
- Egypt hits Libyan terror camps again after attack kills 29 Copts
- Brighter skies over eurozone as growth and employment pick up
- Malta accuses Russia of cyber-attacks in run-up to election
- Huntington’s disease: the pope steps in to help raise awareness
- How Manchester bomber Salman Abedi was radicalised by his links to Libya
- When algorithms are racist
- The Other Side of Hope review – wry refugee comedy
- Kiki review – gay ballroom scene strictly life-affirming
- Suspect in Portland double murder posted white supremacist material online
- US says Chinese jets 'unsafely' intercepted surveillance plane
- ‘Progress is painfully uneven’: Baltimore, 15 years after The Wire
- As a doctor in Sudan, let me tell you: foreign aid saves lives | Tom Catena
- Andrew Scheer: Canada's Conservatives choose their answer to Justin Trudeau
- Marawi: Isis rampage in Philippines continues with 19 civilians killed
- Labor open to boosting troop numbers: 'we can't afford to see Afghanistan lost'
- Baby elephant steps out for public debut at Sydney’s Taronga zoo – video
- Wild Amazon faces destruction as Brazil’s farmers and loggers target national park
- The guidebooks and selfie-sticks arrive as Rouhani’s Iran declares itself open to all
- British Airways travel chaos after major IT failure – video report
- Canada's 'us and them cities': data shows most homes are too small – or too big
- Help for girls across the world to end ‘shame of periods’
- Trump's big trip began well – but in Europe his flaws were painfully exposed
- Montana assault breeds 'frightening' talk of violence against journalists
- 'Violent words can lead to violent acts': Portland mayor blames bigotry after double murder – video
- Trump's tour highlights: orbs, swords and strange handshakes – in pictures
| Donald Trump will make 'final decision' on Paris climate deal next week Posted: 27 May 2017 09:01 AM PDT
Donald Trump has resisted pressure from Europe, Canada and Japan to declare his support for the UN's landmark climate change treaty signed in Paris in 2015, marking a defiant end to his first international trip as US president. The deadlock at the end of the G7 summit in Italy left other world leaders frustrated. The German chancellor Angela Merkel said the discussions "had been very difficult and not to say very unsatisfactory." Continue reading... |
| British Airways cancels all flights from Gatwick and Heathrow due to IT failure Posted: 27 May 2017 05:26 PM PDT Hundreds of flights at the two airports have been affected, with more around the world suffering major delays British Airways cancelled all flights from Heathrow and Gatwick on Saturday due to a major IT failure causing severe disruption to its global operations that is expected to run into Sunday. The airline said its terminals at Heathrow and Gatwick became "extremely congested" due to the computer problems. It decided to cancel all flights from both airports before 6pm UK time on Saturday, then extended this to include all the day's remaining flights from the UK's largest two airports. Continue reading... |
| Mass Palestinian hunger strike in Israeli jails ends after visitation deal Posted: 27 May 2017 03:52 AM PDT Prisoners led by Marwan Barghouti halt protest as Israel announces it will allow a second family visit each month A mass hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails has been called to an end after 41 days as Israel offered a compromise deal to meet some of the strikers' demands. The deal – on the eve of Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting – means approximately 800 prisoners, led by the prominent Palestinian prisoner Marwan Barghouti, will give up their protest in exchange for improved visitation rights. Continue reading... |
| Egypt hits Libyan terror camps again after attack kills 29 Copts Posted: 27 May 2017 01:26 PM PDT Fresh wave of airstrikes ordered in retaliation for killing of Coptic Christians south of Cairo Egypt launched a fresh wave of air strikes against Libyan terrorist bases on Saturday in response to the killing of 29 Coptic Christians south of Cairo, with a warning of further retaliation possible. The airstrikes follow six bombing raids in Libya that hit the north-eastern coastal town of Derna on Friday, with Cairo officials saying bombs struck terrorist training camps of the Shura Council, aligned with al-Qaida. Continue reading... |
| Brighter skies over eurozone as growth and employment pick up Posted: 27 May 2017 09:29 AM PDT We take the temperature of five of Europe's key economies now that political threats appear to have diminished What a difference a few months make. As 2017 opened, eurozone politicians still raw from the shock of the Brexit vote and Donald Trump's presidential triumph were nervously awaiting elections in the Netherlands and France. They feared that discontent would propel the populist wave into the heart of Europe and usher in far-right, anti-euro leaders. In the event, the predicted surge for Dutch populist Geert Wilders failed to materialise and in France, Front National candidate Marine Le Pen was decisively beaten by pro-EU centrist Emmanuel Macron. Continue reading... |
| Malta accuses Russia of cyber-attacks in run-up to election Posted: 27 May 2017 12:16 PM PDT IT systems 'hit' after prime minister took on central European role The embattled Maltese government has claimed that it has come under attack from a Russian-backed campaign to undermine it, amid worsening relations with the Kremlin. Malta assumed the presidency of Europe's Council of Ministers in January, an important position under which it chairs high-level meetings in Brussels and sets Europe's political agenda. Since then, the Maltese government's IT systems have seen a rise in attacks, according to a source working within its information technology agency, a government body. He claimed the attacks, which have increased ahead of next month's general election, are designed to damage the government. "In the last two quarters of last year and the first part of this year, attacks on our servers have increased," the source said. Continue reading... |
| Huntington’s disease: the pope steps in to help raise awareness Posted: 27 May 2017 11:00 AM PDT A papal audience for families affected by the inherited brain disease could end centuries of stigma – and open vital doors in the search for a cure It was with the pomp and intrigue of a Dan Brown novel that earlier this month Pope Francis made his way into the Aula Paolo VI audience hall, a room the size of an aeroplane hangar in Vatican City. Flanked by the flamboyant Swiss Guard and dark-suited men muttering into earpieces, he headed for an oversized chair on a stage in front of nearly 2,000 people. Many applauded, most gawped in disbelief. The pope was there to do something no other world leader has done before. He was meeting people with Huntington's disease, a rare and incurable neurological disorder that has long been shrouded in shame and discrimination. It's a genetic disease that runs in families. It causes involuntary jerky movements and can make people depressed or aggressive, symptoms that can leave them socially isolated, thanks in part to a historic misunderstanding. Continue reading... |
| How Manchester bomber Salman Abedi was radicalised by his links to Libya Posted: 28 May 2017 01:00 AM PDT The 22-year-old was influenced in part by the people who formed the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, a little-known al-Qaida affiliate outlawed in 2004 "Whoever played with his mind, as he saw the kids coming out [of the arena] – all the happy faces – he should have changed his mind." Those were the words late last week of Hisham Ben Ghalbon, a proud Manchester resident, a Libyan and a man, like so many others, wondering how what happened at the Manchester Arena ever came to pass. Tragically, 22-year-old Salman Abedi didn't change his mind. But what had formed and shaped its deadly rage? The search for an answer leads into the labyrinth of Libyan extremist politics of 20 years ago. A thread of resentment, violence and hardline theology that can be traced through Afghanistan and Gaddafi's Libya, all the way to that country's "second capital", as Ghalbon puts it: Manchester. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 28 May 2017 12:30 AM PDT When Joy Buolamwini found that a robot recognised her face better when she wore a white mask, she knew a problem needed fixing Joy Buolamwini is a graduate researcher at the MIT Media Lab and founder of the Algorithmic Justice League – an organisation that aims to challenge the biases in decision-making software. She grew up in Mississippi, gained a Rhodes scholarship, and she is also a Fulbright fellow, an Astronaut scholar and a Google Anita Borg scholar. Earlier this year she won a $50,000 scholarship funded by the makers of the film Hidden Figures for her work fighting coded discrimination. A lot of your work concerns facial recognition technology. How did you become interested in that area? |
| The Other Side of Hope review – wry refugee comedy Posted: 28 May 2017 12:00 AM PDT A Syrian asylum seeker finds friendship with a hapless Finnish restaurateur in part two of Aki Kaurismäki's migrant trilogy The latest from Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki follows Syrian asylum seeker Khaled (Sherwan Haji) as he attempts to make a new life for himself in Helsinki. Emerging from a coal freighter covered in soot, Khaled maintains that crossing the border was easy, because "nobody wants to see me". The second in a loose trilogy that began with his 2011 film Le Havre, Kaurismäki's wry comedy is a timely critique of an intolerant Europe, and a winking cheer to those who offer a handshake of solidarity to their new neighbours. One such individual is the cranky but generous Wikström (Sakari Kuosmanen), who wins a poker game and buys a decrepit restaurant (the delightfully rubbish Golden Pint, a single painting of Jimi Hendrix adorning its otherwise bare walls) with his prize money. "I've always been interested in restaurants, theoretically speaking," he admits. Continue reading... |
| Kiki review – gay ballroom scene strictly life-affirming Posted: 28 May 2017 12:00 AM PDT An eye-opening documentary about New York's underground LGBT ball culture Sara Jordenö's vivid documentary about New York's underground ballroom scene glows with the heat of radical empathy. Jordenö casts her subjects – gay black and brown teens who find freedom in dance and drag – in warm reds and oranges, giving each individual their moment by fixing on their faces as they make direct eye contact with her camera. The elephant in the room is Jennie Livingston's 1990 vogueing documentary, Paris Is Burning, which casts a long shadow over the film. There are two main differences here: firstly, Kiki comes from the community it depicts (Twiggy Pucci Garçon, one of the film's stars, has a co-writer credit). Secondly, while Paris Is Burning was mostly set against the backdrop of the Reagan era, Kiki takes place in Obama's America. Inevitably, the dramatic stakes feel different; the urgency of the Aids crisis is not quite as close, though it's noted that even today more than 50% of those making up the city's ballroom scene are HIV positive. As one of the film's main subjects, trans activist Gia Marie Love, explains, this community remains "on intimate terms with death". Continue reading... |
| Suspect in Portland double murder posted white supremacist material online Posted: 27 May 2017 11:50 PM PDT Jeremy Joseph Christian, 35, reportedly slit the throats of two passengers who intervened to stop him hurling anti-Muslim slurs at two young women Police in Portland, Oregon, have charged a white supremacist with a double murder and hate crimes, after he allegedly cut the throats of two passengers and stabbed another on a commuter train late on Friday afternoon. Related: Man shouting 'anti-Muslim slurs' fatally stabs two men in Portland Continue reading... |
| US says Chinese jets 'unsafely' intercepted surveillance plane Posted: 27 May 2017 09:54 PM PDT Pentagon says P-3 Orion was buzzed over South China Sea, but defence ministry in Beijing says its fighters flew safely Two Chinese fighter jets buzzed a US navy surveillance plane over the South China Sea on Wednesday, with one coming within 180 metres (200 yards) of the American aircraft, according to US officials. The officials said initial reports showed that the US P-3 Orion surveillance plane was 150 miles (240km) south-east of Hong Kong in international airspace when the Chinese aircraft carried out the "unsafe" intercept. One Chinese aircraft flew in front of the American plane, restricting its ability to manoeuvre. Continue reading... |
| ‘Progress is painfully uneven’: Baltimore, 15 years after The Wire Posted: 27 May 2017 11:00 AM PDT From its first episode in 2002, the HBO TV drama documented the poverty, politics and policing of a city. We visit its memorable locations and talk to the people trying to rebuild scarred communities In black jacket, checked shirt and white trainers, eight-year-old D'Angelo Preston is riding his bike while his sister, Alicia, 11, gives chase. They are playing outside the Baltimore Montessori public charter school, where they would be pupils if they had the chance. "Their teachers don't yell at them," says Alicia matter-of-factly. "Their teachers let them do whatever they want." Alicia aims to be a maths teacher when she grows up; D'Angelo wants to be a professional football player. They live barely a minute's walk from the Montessori school but, having lost an enrolment lottery, instead take a daily bus to Dallas F Nicholas elementary school, which has fewer resources. The siblings' father, Shawn Preston, 38, a mechanic, says: "It has a good reputation and I wish more local kids could go. I tried to send Alicia but they told me it was all filled up. I was disappointed. I thought they could have got her in there somehow: we're in the neighbourhood." Continue reading... |
| As a doctor in Sudan, let me tell you: foreign aid saves lives | Tom Catena Posted: 27 May 2017 04:05 PM PDT Countries that should be at the forefront of trying to prevent catastrophes are turning a blind eye My heart sank last week when President Trump announced proposed cuts in the diplomatic and foreign aid budget. The budget suggests cuts in aid to international organisations by 44%, humanitarian assistance funding would drop by 31% and global health programmes would be cut by 25%. While many people think the budget has little chance of passing in Congress, it does, however, provide an alarming sense of the Trump administration's priorities. But its not just a US concern. Earlier this month, the Australian government announced it will cut $303m from the foreign aid budget over two years. In the UK, Theresa May's pledge to continue meeting the UN's 0.7% aid target was a great relief, although this good news has since been tarnished by the claim that poverty reduction in the world's poorest countries risks being diluted by the UK government devoting a bigger share of its aid budget to pursuing the national interest. Continue reading... |
| Andrew Scheer: Canada's Conservatives choose their answer to Justin Trudeau Posted: 27 May 2017 08:03 PM PDT Little-known former House of Commons speaker, 38, edges out former foreign minister Maxime Bernier in fierce contest to become party leader Canada's official opposition Conservatives on Saturday chose a little-known, 38-year-old leader to fight a 2019 election against Justin Trudeau, the Liberal prime minister, but only after a fierce contest that revealed internal divisions. On the 13th and final round of balloting, many more than political observers predicted, former House of Commons speaker Andrew Scheer edged out ex-foreign minister and favourite Maxime Bernier by 51%t to 49%. Continue reading... |
| Marawi: Isis rampage in Philippines continues with 19 civilians killed Posted: 27 May 2017 10:20 PM PDT Official death toll from week of fighting rises to at least 85 as militants clash with security forces in Muslim-majority city Islamist militants locked in street-to-street battles with security forces in a southern Philippine city have killed 19 civilians, the military said Sunday, bringing the official death toll from nearly a week of fighting to at least 85. The violence prompted the president, Rodrigo Duterte, to declare martial law on Tuesday across the southern third of the Philippines to quell what he said was a fast-growing threat of militants linked to the Islamic State group. Continue reading... |
| Labor open to boosting troop numbers: 'we can't afford to see Afghanistan lost' Posted: 28 May 2017 12:39 AM PDT Shadow defence minister responds to report the US has joined Nato's request for more Australian personnel to combat Isis and al-Quaida The shadow defence minister, Richard Marles, has signalled Labor would be open to increasing defence force numbers in Afghanistan if needed, as conditions on the ground deteriorate. He says al-Qaida is increasing its presence in Afghanistan, Islamic State is playing a role, the country is experiencing an insurgency, and "we can't afford to see Afghanistan lost". Continue reading... |
| Baby elephant steps out for public debut at Sydney’s Taronga zoo – video Posted: 27 May 2017 07:21 PM PDT Taronga zoo trumpets its newest delivery, a Asian elephant calf, who has made his public debut under the watchful eye of his mother Pak Boon and fellow elephants. The 130kg calf was born Friday morning following his mother's 22-month pregnancy, and is the first arrival of his kind in nearly seven years Continue reading... |
| Wild Amazon faces destruction as Brazil’s farmers and loggers target national park Posted: 27 May 2017 04:05 PM PDT The Sierra Ricardo Franco park was meant to be a conservation area protecting rare wildlife To understand why the Brazilian government is deliberately losing the battle against deforestation, you need only retrace the bootmarks of the Edwardian explorer Percy Fawcett along the Amazonian border with Bolivia. During a failed attempt to cross a spectacular tabletop plateau here in 1906, the adventurer nearly died on the first of his many trips to South America. Back then, the area was so far from human habitation, the foliage so dense and the terrain so steep that Fawcett and his party came close to starvation. Continue reading... |
| The guidebooks and selfie-sticks arrive as Rouhani’s Iran declares itself open to all Posted: 27 May 2017 04:04 PM PDT With visitor numbers rising and hotel chains circling, Iran is reinventing itself – but the change is too fast for some Standing in the blue-tiled shadows of one of Iran's greatest mosques, armed with a dish of sesame caramel snacks, Mohammed Reza Zamani is a cleric on a mission to repair the country's image in the west, one tourist at a time. "Free Friendly Talks" a billboard announces in English, at the entrance to a historic religious seminary-turned-museum, in the central city of Isfahan, a former imperial capital so beautiful that even today Iranians describe the city as "half the world". Continue reading... |
| British Airways travel chaos after major IT failure – video report Posted: 27 May 2017 08:00 AM PDT A major IT outage has caused severe disruption to British Airways flights from UK airports on Saturday. Flights were cancelled or delayed, and some travellers missed flights due to not being able to check in online. The cause of the issue remains unclear
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| Canada's 'us and them cities': data shows most homes are too small – or too big Posted: 27 May 2017 03:30 AM PDT A new report explores the dichotomy between the millions of empty bedrooms across the country and the many families struggling to live in cramped spaces In their bid to temper Canada's overheated housing markets – some of which rank among the world's least affordable – authorities in the country have slapped taxes on some foreign buyers and taken aim at vacant homes. Now one group of analysts is recasting the crisis in a new light; exploring the dichotomy between the millions of empty bedrooms across the country and the many families struggling to live in cramped accommodation. Continue reading... |
| Help for girls across the world to end ‘shame of periods’ Posted: 27 May 2017 04:05 PM PDT By buying certain tampons, western women can send menstrual products to poorer countries Menstruation is getting its moment: there have been tampon selfies, tampon tax campaigns around the world, and even a day dedicated to menstrual hygiene. Now, a growing crop of companies is promising consumers they can help bring sanitary products to women who cannot afford them. Buy a pack of pads and a supply will be donated to a woman in a developing country. It's a bit like Toms shoes, the original one-for-one social enterprise, but for tampons. In the US, such companies have grown rapidly in popularity. Among them is L., founded by Talia Frenkel, a photojournalist who worked for the Red Cross and UN. It now sells its products in stores across the US, and distributes sanitary products and condoms through a network of more than 3,000 "female entrepreneurs" in poorer countries, including Uganda, Sierra Leone, Liberia and India. The company says it will donate more than 28 million health products this year. Continue reading... |
| Trump's big trip began well – but in Europe his flaws were painfully exposed Posted: 27 May 2017 10:24 AM PDT Once he reached Brussels, Trump seemed to abandon Obama's foreign policy rule of 'don't do stupid shit', and his inability to work by consensus was stark Over the past nine days, as the Trump White House went on the road around the Middle East and Europe, the rest of the world learned first hand what America already knows: this is a presidency unlike any other in history. Trump left the US under the shadow of a wide-ranging investigation into contacts between his aides and Russia before and after the November presidential election. In his absence from Washington, that shadow has only grown longer and darker. Continue reading... |
| Montana assault breeds 'frightening' talk of violence against journalists Posted: 27 May 2017 03:00 AM PDT In the wake of a Guardian reporter being body-slammed by Greg Gianforte, some people have been emboldened to condone the attack – as emails show The Guardian has received a steady stream of correspondence from across the US in the wake of this week's news of a Guardian reporter being body-slammed by Greg Gianforte, the Republican candidate who then went on to win the state's only House seat. Some of the emails expressed horror and shame over the assault on Ben Jacobs in which he was thrown to the ground and punched. But the digital mailbag to our opinion section also contained comments of a very different nature. Continue reading... |
| 'Violent words can lead to violent acts': Portland mayor blames bigotry after double murder – video Posted: 27 May 2017 07:34 PM PDT Ted Wheeler says the city stands with and supports its immigrant community after the fatal stabbing of two men who tried to intervene during the racial abuse of Muslim girls on a train. Wheeler goes on to say "there is too much hate in the world right now and far too much violence" and blames the current political climate for spreading bigotry Continue reading... |
| Trump's tour highlights: orbs, swords and strange handshakes – in pictures Posted: 27 May 2017 10:41 AM PDT The president jetted back to the US on Saturday after a whirlwind tour of the Middle East and Europe. We look back at some of the most memorable images from Trump's week away from the White House Continue reading... |
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