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- Macron warns over Syrian chemical weapons in frank meeting with Putin
- 'Bomb violence with mercy': anti-terror ad goes viral in Middle East
- Sisters of Charity give up role in Dublin maternity hospital
- Close friend of Trump investigated over alleged €170m tax evasion
- Texas teachers disciplined over 'most likely to become a terrorist' award
- Moscow reports 13 deaths after freak winds
- Spanish climber scales Mount Everest 'twice in a week without oxygen'
- Multinationals fobbing us off with inferior food, says Bulgarian minister
- India army chief defends soldiers who tied man to vehicle and used him as a human shield
- Ecuador's journalists pin hope on new president after Correa's war on media
- Coral bleaching on Great Barrier Reef worse than expected, surveys show
- Manuel Noriega, former Panama dictator, dies at 83
- Wonder Woman review – glass ceiling intact as Gal Gadot reduced to weaponised Smurfette
- Isis car bomb explodes outside Baghdad ice-cream shop
- Bangladeshi girls being trained how to avoid online predators
- Painstaking detail of Brexit process revealed in EU documents
- 'Not the path of Lincoln'
- Police detain man after explosion in Malvern
- Theresa May accused of making UK a laughing stock in Europe
- US army veterans find peace in protecting rhinos from poaching
- Philippine army battles to contain Isis attacks from spreading to second city
- Indigenous boy lost his cultural identity after being taken from family, inquiry told
- Cambridgeshire zookeeper killed by tiger was a 'shining light'
- Rebel Canadian grocer Pirate Joe's prepares for Trader Joe's court battle
- Tuesday briefing: Corbyn, May and Paxman fight to a tie
- Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race
- Hamza bin Laden – a potent weapon in the rivalry between al-Qaida and Isis
- German foreign minister says Trump is on the wrong path – video
- Rosa King: Cambridgeshire zookeeper killed by tiger is named
- Trudeau asks Pope Francis to apologise to indigenous people for church's abuses
- Six-day war: Israeli paratrooper and Palestinian recall conflict 50 years on
- 'Risking lives of mothers and children': India condemned for cuts to benefits
- Teen targeted in Portland train attack thanks men who intervened – video
- John F Kennedy at 100 - in pictures
- John McCain: 'Putin is world’s most important threat' – video
| Macron warns over Syrian chemical weapons in frank meeting with Putin Posted: 29 May 2017 12:23 PM PDT French president tells the Russian leader that use of chemical weapons in the conflict would lead to immediate response, while urging cooperation over Isis Emmanuel Macron, the new French president, has warned that France would respond immediately to any use of chemical weapons in Syria, while urging a closer partnership with Russia in fighting Islamic State (Isis) in the country. "A very clear red line exists on our side – that is the use of chemical weapons by whomever," Macron said at a joint news conference after his first meeting with the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin. Continue reading... |
| 'Bomb violence with mercy': anti-terror ad goes viral in Middle East Posted: 29 May 2017 09:54 AM PDT Video by Kuwaiti telecoms firm Zain aired during Ramadan divides opinion with depiction of victims confronting a bomber A Ramadan TV ad by a Middle Eastern telecommunications company in which victims of terrorism confront a suicide bomber and urge society to "bomb violence with mercy" has provoked a heated debate in the region, with some praising its attempt to tackle extremism and others criticising it for using victims of bombings and a simplistic portrayal of terrorists. The three-minute video by Zain, a commercial mobile operator based in Kuwait, went viral over the weekend with some calling for it to be withdrawn, while others praised its tagline of "we will counter their attacks of hatred with songs of love, from now until happiness". Continue reading... |
| Sisters of Charity give up role in Dublin maternity hospital Posted: 29 May 2017 04:40 AM PDT Nuns from a Catholic order that presided over child abuse end their involvement in hospital after public outrage Nuns from a Catholic order that ran institutions in Ireland where women were enslaved and children abused for decades have given up any involvement in running the country's new national maternity hospital. After weeks of pressure and public outrage, the Sisters of Charity announced on Monday it was ending its role in St Vincent's Healthcare Group (SVHG), the trust set up to manage the new maternity facilities in Dublin. |
| Close friend of Trump investigated over alleged €170m tax evasion Posted: 29 May 2017 07:32 AM PDT Real estate mogul Thomas Barrack, under investigation in Italy, played a critical role in Trump's 2016 US presidential campaign A close friend and major fundraiser for Donald Trump is under investigation in Italy for allegedly evading €170m (£147m, $190m) in taxes after the sale of a luxury resort on Sardinia's Emerald Coast, the beach playground frequented by Gulf Arabs and Russian oligarchs. Thomas Barrack played a critical role in Trump's 2016 election campaign and inauguration and has been described as one of the president's key advisers outside the West Wing. Continue reading... |
| Texas teachers disciplined over 'most likely to become a terrorist' award Posted: 29 May 2017 02:48 PM PDT Teachers gave 'insensitive and offensive mock awards' to a 13-year-old girl and other students at a Texas school, in what they say was meant to be a joke A Houston-area school district has disciplined several teachers after a student received a mock award that named her "most likely to become a terrorist". Certificates given to the 13-year-old girl and other students last week at Lance Cpl Anthony Aguirre Junior High School, near Houston, were supposed to be lighthearted. But the Channelview Independent School District issued a statement apologizing for the "insensitive and offensive fake mock awards". Continue reading... |
| Moscow reports 13 deaths after freak winds Posted: 29 May 2017 10:47 AM PDT Weather service warns of another storm as Russian capital deals with fallen trees and structures A violent storm has swept through Moscow, leaving 13 people dead and dozens injured as freak winds toppled hundreds of trees and brought down other structures. "Due to storm winds hitting Moscow, 50 people have asked for medical attention up to now," a spokesperson for the City Hall's health department told AFP. "Eleven were fatally injured." Continue reading... |
| Spanish climber scales Mount Everest 'twice in a week without oxygen' Posted: 29 May 2017 04:59 AM PDT Kilian Jornet claims to have raced up the world's highest mountain in 17 hours just five days after summiting in 26 hours A Spanish climber and long-distance runner claims to have raced up Mount Everest twice in one week without using supplemental oxygen or fixed ropes, opening up what he calls "a new realm of possibilities in alpinism". Kilian Jornet, a 29-year-old mountaineer from Catalonia, says he reached the 8,848-metre (29,029ft) summit of the world's highest mountain at 9pm local time on Saturday after a 17-hour ascent. Continue reading... |
| Multinationals fobbing us off with inferior food, says Bulgarian minister Posted: 29 May 2017 08:01 AM PDT Nation is latest in eastern Europe to claim food firms deliberately supply lower-quality food than they give western nations Bulgaria has become the latest eastern European state to accuse multinationals of selling food of a lower quality in their country than in the west, and has launched a pan-European taste-test to prove its case. The country's minister for agriculture, food and forestry, Rumen Porozhanov, said experts had been sent to buy well-known food and drink products in western supermarkets. Continue reading... |
| India army chief defends soldiers who tied man to vehicle and used him as a human shield Posted: 29 May 2017 04:05 AM PDT Gen Bipin Rawat says Kashmir is a 'dirty war' that requires 'innovations' after man tied to front of 4x4 and driven through town India's army chief has been accused of sanctioning the use of human shields after he defended soldiers in southern Kashmir who tied a civilian to their 4x4 to deter violent protests. Footage of Farooq Ahmad Dar, 26, bound to the army vehicle first circulated in April, leading to separate military and police investigations and condemnation from human rights groups. |
| Ecuador's journalists pin hope on new president after Correa's war on media Posted: 29 May 2017 03:00 AM PDT President Lenin Moreno, sworn in earlier this month, is said to be more tolerant of press freedom than his predecessor – and change cannot come soon enough After the inauguration this month of Ecuador's first new president in a decade, the country's beleaguered journalists will be looking to see if Lenin Moreno is any more tolerant of the press than his notoriously confrontational predecessor. Moreno has hinted that he will reform the communication law, which was introduced in 2013 by former president Rafael Correa as a means of exerting control over a largely critical private media. Continue reading... |
| Coral bleaching on Great Barrier Reef worse than expected, surveys show Posted: 28 May 2017 06:46 PM PDT Surveys taken throughout 2016 show escalating impact from north to south, with 70% of shallow water corals dead north of Port Douglas Coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef last year was even worse than expected, while the full impact of the most recent event is yet to be determined. Queensland government officials say aerial and in-water surveys taken throughout 2016 had confirmed an escalating impact from north to south. Continue reading... |
| Manuel Noriega, former Panama dictator, dies at 83 Posted: 30 May 2017 12:54 AM PDT Death of notorious leader announced by President Juan Carlos Varela on Twitter Manuel Noriega, Panama's former dictator, has died aged 83. His death was announced by the president of the central American country on Twitter. Continue reading... |
| Wonder Woman review – glass ceiling intact as Gal Gadot reduced to weaponised Smurfette Posted: 29 May 2017 11:48 PM PDT Hopes for DC's plan to deliver a shot of oestrogen to the superhero movie are disappointed in a silly plot that enlists Diana of Themyscira to help win the first world war Those hoping a shot of oestrogen would generate a new kind of comic-book movie – and revive DC's faltering movie universe – might need to lower their expectations. Like many people out there, I had no shortage of excitement and goodwill towards this female-led superhero project, but in the event it's plagued by the same problems that dragged down previous visits to the DC movie world: over-earnestness, bludgeoning special effects, and a messy, often wildly implausible plot. What promised to be a glass-ceiling-smashing blockbuster actually looks more like a future camp classic. Things begin well enough, as our heroine, Diana (nobody ever calls her Wonder Woman), casts her mind back to her childhood on Themyscira, the hidden island of the Amazons. This tribe of athletic, leather-clad female warriors live in a bubble of classical antiquity, oblivious to the opposite sex and the first world war that rages outside. Diana's mother, Hippolyta (Connie Nielsen), explains the mythology to her with the aid of a sort of ancient Greek iPad: how the Amazons were created by Zeus to resist Ares, the god of war (who is still at large), and how she sculpted Diana from clay – which you can believe when she grows up to be statuesque Israeli actor Gal Gadot. Confusingly, Diana later explains that "men are essential for procreation but when it comes to pleasure, unnecessary". Continue reading... |
| Isis car bomb explodes outside Baghdad ice-cream shop Posted: 29 May 2017 11:45 PM PDT Thirteen killed and dozens wounded by blast in centre of capital as families break fast during Ramadan A car bomb has exploded outside an ice-cream shop in central Baghdad, killing 15 people and wounding 24, hospital and police officials said. The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility for the attack on Monday night, which Iraqi officials said appeared to involve remotely detonated explosives inside a parked car. Continue reading... |
| Bangladeshi girls being trained how to avoid online predators Posted: 29 May 2017 11:43 PM PDT With an alarming rise in cybercrimes, often including blackmail, police offer workshops for thousands of teenagers What their attackers bet on is shame: in a conservative society, the horror of an intimate photo leaking, or rumours being spread, is enough to buy a teenage girl's silence. "We didn't even know anyone could harm us through the internet," said Sharifa Oishee, a schoolgirl in Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital. Continue reading... |
| Painstaking detail of Brexit process revealed in EU documents Posted: 29 May 2017 11:00 PM PDT Policy papers released without fanfare elaborate bloc's stance and make clearer its demands for protection of citizens' rights Just 10 days before the general election, the EU published two documents that will affect every person living in Britain for years to come. Despite being dropped into the maelstrom of an election caused by Brexit, there was hardly a murmur. The documents were the most detailed positions yet from the EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, on the upcoming divorce talks with the UK. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 29 May 2017 11:00 PM PDT Discussing his new book, Wrestling With His Angel, the Clinton adviser and historian considers the 16th president and his most unlikely successor "In the beginning, it's a life," says Sidney Blumenthal. "And times." Related: Trump considers White House shake-up as reports link Kushner to Russia Continue reading... |
| Police detain man after explosion in Malvern Posted: 30 May 2017 01:36 AM PDT Detectives in Worcestershire questioning 20-year-old suspected of having explosive say case is not being linked to terrorism A 20-year-old man is being questioned by police after an explosion in a Worcestershire town led to homes being evacuated. Police said on Tuesday that the blast was not being linked to terrorism but was a suspected case of "misadventure, albeit with a criminal element". Nobody was hurt and no damage caused. Continue reading... |
| Theresa May accused of making UK a laughing stock in Europe Posted: 30 May 2017 01:13 AM PDT Prime minister's use of threatening language has put prospects of Brexit deal at risk, says Labour's Angela Rayner The UK has become an "ogre" that is "a laughing stock" across Europe, a senior Labour politician has said, accusing Theresa May of risking the country's prospects of a Brexit deal by using threatening language. "She says no deal is better than a bad deal, but no deal is a bad deal," the shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. |
| US army veterans find peace in protecting rhinos from poaching Posted: 29 May 2017 10:00 PM PDT In northern South Africa, former soldiers are fighting both the illegal wildlife trade and the twin scourges of unemployment and PTSD The sun has set over the scrubby savannah. The moon is full. It is time for Ryan Tate and his men to go to work. In camouflage fatigues, they check their weapons and head to the vehicles. Somewhere beyond the ring of light cast by the campfire, out in the vast dark expanse of thornbushes, baobab trees, rocks and grass, are the rhinos. Somewhere, too, may be the poachers who will kill them to get their precious horns. Continue reading... |
| Philippine army battles to contain Isis attacks from spreading to second city Posted: 29 May 2017 10:15 PM PDT Curfews and heavy military presence in Iligan, a city of 350,000, amid fears Islamist militants may seek to expand conflict Police and security services have imposed a night-time curfew and increased their presence in a second Philippine city following reports that Islamist militants fighting fierce battles in Marawi might pose as civilians to sneak out and open a new front. More than 90% of Marawi's 200,000 population have fled a week of street clashes and aerial strikes. Many have relocated to Iligan City, 38km (24 miles) to the north, where authorities have implemented a 10pm to 4am curfew. Continue reading... |
| Indigenous boy lost his cultural identity after being taken from family, inquiry told Posted: 30 May 2017 01:12 AM PDT Royal commission into child protection in Northern Territory told boy removed by welfare workers at age seven struggled to reconnect when he returned at 18 A Northern Territory boy who had a traditional upbringing in a remote Indigenous community lost his cultural identity after he was taken away by welfare workers, an inquiry has heard. His grandfather, known as CO, told the territory's child protection royal commission the boy was removed into care by the NT government at age seven because his mother was "drinking too much". Continue reading... |
| Cambridgeshire zookeeper killed by tiger was a 'shining light' Posted: 30 May 2017 12:15 AM PDT Rosa King is reunited with her beloved cheetahs, says local photographer, as Hamerton Zoo Park remains closed A zookeeper killed by a tiger on Monday has been described as the "shining light" of the Cambridgeshire zoo where she worked. Rosa King, 33, died at Hamerton Zoo Park near Huntingdon after a tiger entered the enclosure where she was working. A friend said she was a "lovely lady" who was passionate about animals. Continue reading... |
| Rebel Canadian grocer Pirate Joe's prepares for Trader Joe's court battle Posted: 30 May 2017 12:00 AM PDT One of the most popular grocery stores in the US will attempt to prove that its unsanctioned Canadian cousin has affected its commerce and trademark rights To your average person, a 6oz bag of dried pineapple is a non-threatening treat. To the cherished grocery store chain Trader Joe's, that and other products including black bean quinoa chips and dark chocolate-covered edamame are worth a five-year legal battle. Related: Meet Pirate Joe, the man who (legally) smuggles Trader Joe's goods into Canada Continue reading... |
| Tuesday briefing: Corbyn, May and Paxman fight to a tie Posted: 29 May 2017 10:03 PM PDT No clear winner in the debate that wasn't … zoo closed after tiger kills attendant in 'freak' accident … and first review of Wonder Woman Good morning – it's Warren Murray welcoming you back to the Briefing after the bank holiday. Continue reading... |
| Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race Posted: 29 May 2017 09:30 PM PDT For years, racism has been defined by the violence of far-right extremists, but a more insidious kind of prejudice can be found where many least expect it – at the heart of respectable society On 22 February 2014, I published a post on my blog. I titled it "Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race". It read: "I'm no longer engaging with white people on the topic of race. Not all white people, just the vast majority who refuse to accept the existence of structural racism and its symptoms. I can no longer engage with the gulf of an emotional disconnect that white people display when a person of colour articulates their experience. You can see their eyes shut down and harden. It's like treacle is poured into their ears, blocking up their ear canals. It's like they can no longer hear us. "This emotional disconnect is the conclusion of living a life oblivious to the fact that their skin colour is the norm and all others deviate from it. Continue reading... |
| Hamza bin Laden – a potent weapon in the rivalry between al-Qaida and Isis Posted: 29 May 2017 08:00 PM PDT Son of Osama bin Laden called for strikes against 'Jews' and 'Crusaders' 10 days before Manchester suicide bombing His name alone is enough to guarantee headlines and the attention of the world's security services. Though only about 25 years old, his words are urgently picked over by analysts and officials seeking to understand the new threat posed to the west by Islamist militancy. He is Hamza bin Laden, the son and "heir apparent" of his father, Osama, the late founder and leader of al-Qaida. Ten days before the bombing in Manchester last week, Hamza's voice was heard on a new audio tape issued by al-Qaida calling for strikes by followers against "Jews" and "Crusaders". Continue reading... |
| German foreign minister says Trump is on the wrong path – video Posted: 29 May 2017 07:54 PM PDT Sigmar Gabriel has offered a lengthy critique of the Trump administration's approach to various policies on Monday, declaring that the West was getting 'a bit smaller' under Trump. He also criticised the US president's visit to Saudi Arabia to ink an arms deal. "If there is too much of one thing in the region," he said, "it is certainly weapons." Continue reading... |
| Rosa King: Cambridgeshire zookeeper killed by tiger is named Posted: 29 May 2017 07:06 PM PDT Hamerton Zoo Park says investigation under way and stresses that at no point did any animals escape their enclosures The zookeeper killed by a tiger at a Cambridgeshire animal park has been named as Rosa King, aged 33. Officers said they attended a serious incident at Hamerton Zoo Park in Cambridgeshire on Monday morning and that the female zookeeper died at the scene. The tiger entered the enclosure King was working in, with zoo management describing it as a "freak accident". |
| Trudeau asks Pope Francis to apologise to indigenous people for church's abuses Posted: 29 May 2017 04:56 PM PDT Canadian PM invites pontiff to travel to Canada to say sorry to thousands placed in residential Catholic schools where they were abused Justin Trudeau has urged Pope Francis to visit Canada to apologise to indigenous peoples for the Catholic church's treatment of aboriginal children in schools it ran there. Starting in the late 19th century, about 30% of children of Canada's native peoples, or about 150,000 children, were placed in what were known as "residential schools" in a government attempt to strip them of their traditional cultures and ancestral languages. Continue reading... |
| Six-day war: Israeli paratrooper and Palestinian recall conflict 50 years on Posted: 29 May 2017 05:17 AM PDT Yitzhak Yifat, who features in David Rubinger Western Wall photograph, and ex-soldier look back: 'He said, "Please stop." And then he took the famous picture' Dr Yitzhak Yifat, an Israeli paratrooper in 1967, was the central figure in David Rubinger's famous photograph of three Israeli soldiers celebrating the capture of the Western Wall. I was 23 then and a corporal. When Gamal Abdel Nasser [the Egyptian president] blockaded the Suez canal, Israelis were being called up. I wasn't called up at first – I was a teacher then – but on 23 May I was back home in Tel Aviv when I heard the doorbell ring. I opened it. I saw a boy and girl, both soldiers. They had my call-up order and in a few minutes I had prepared a backpack. Continue reading... |
| 'Risking lives of mothers and children': India condemned for cuts to benefits Posted: 29 May 2017 09:00 PM PDT Campaigners warn of damaging effect of scaling back a maternal payment scheme introduced to stem high death rates among infants and mothers Campaigners have warned that the lives of mothers and children are at risk after an Indian government scheme that pays women to receive maternal healthcare throughout their pregnancy was amended to apply only to first-borns. The programme was introduced in 2010 to help stem India's high rates of infant and maternal mortality. An estimated 38 children die for every 1,000 live births, and 55,000 women die of preventable pregnancy-related causes each year. Continue reading... |
| Teen targeted in Portland train attack thanks men who intervened – video Posted: 29 May 2017 12:40 PM PDT Destinee Mangum, one of the teenagers subjected to racial abuse on a Portland train, thanks the three strangers who intervened after a man hurled anti-Muslim slurs at her and her Muslim friend. Jeremy Christian fatally stabbed Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche and Rick Best, and seriously injured another man after they tried to stop him from harassing the teenagers Continue reading... |
| John F Kennedy at 100 - in pictures Posted: 29 May 2017 09:15 AM PDT Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of America's most glamorous president, John F Kennedy, who was assassinated at the age of 46 in 1963 Continue reading... |
| John McCain: 'Putin is world’s most important threat' – video Posted: 29 May 2017 07:08 AM PDT Russian president Vladimir Putin is a bigger threat than Isis, Republican senator John McCain tells ABC News in Australia. When asked about the state of international security with Donald Trump as US president, McCain also says he is 'nervous from time to time' Continue reading... |
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