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- Trump admits for first time 'I am being investigated' over James Comey's firing
- French bullfighter locks horns with far right in legislative vote
- Helmut Kohl, Germany’s reunification chancellor, dies aged 87
- Seven missing after USS Fitzgerald collides with merchant ship off Japan
- Israeli police officer stabbed to death in Jerusalem attack
- Police officer who shot dead Philando Castile acquitted of all charges
- Trump keeps rolling back Obama legacy by tightening travel and trade with Cuba
- Amazon to buy Whole Foods Market in $13.7bn deal
- Revealed: Facebook exposed identities of moderators to suspected terrorists
- Revealed: the Romanian site where Louis Vuitton makes its Italian shoes
- The 8 best cycling innovations: from dockless bikes to solid tyres
- The 20 photographs of the week
- Helmut Kohl: leader who united Europe as well as Germany
- 'We do not trust them': UAE calls for western monitoring of Qatar
- Grenfell Tower fire: Queen responds to 'very sombre' national mood as PM pledges taskforce – live
- One meal a day: the Lake Chad crisis in pictures
- Former Brothers 4 Life gangsters begin decades-long sentences
- Relatives charged over murder mystery that has gripped France for three decades
- Helmut Kohl obituary
- More challenges to German citizenship rules | Letters
- The worst thing about shootings in the US is how normal they feel | Jessica Valenti
- Most of Northern Ireland strongly backs abortion law reform, survey finds
- Russia claims it may have killed Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
- Chalk Girl: the protester at the heart of Hong Kong’s democracy movement – video
- 'We will break every bone': Islamist leaders threaten Bangladeshi lawyer
- Melania Trump has moved into the White House. Should we send a rescue party?
- Trump trolled by Democrats after staff take turns praising the president – video
| Trump admits for first time 'I am being investigated' over James Comey's firing Posted: 16 Jun 2017 07:49 AM PDT President's tweet confirms reports of obstruction of justice investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller Donald Trump seemed to confirm for the first time that he was under federal investigation on Twitter on Friday morning. Related: What does Robert Mueller's team tell us about the Russia investigation? Continue reading... |
| French bullfighter locks horns with far right in legislative vote Posted: 16 Jun 2017 06:21 AM PDT Once a staple of celebrity magazines, Marie Sara hopes to unseat the Front National's Gilbert Collard in the second round Édouard Philippe, the French prime minister, was in a bakery tasting pastry with a well known female bullfighter as a crowd of onlookers pressed their faces up against the window. "Delicious," said Philippe. The shopkeeper set about wrapping up a large local cake for the PM, who put his hand in his pocket for cash and went to the till. "I don't bloody believe this, a politician actually paying for something instead of making off with a freebie," said one onlooker in shock. "You'd better win after all this," shouted one shopper to the bullfighter, Marie Sara, as she and Philippe wandered through the picturesque, medieval walled town of Aigues-Mortes in France's southern Gard department, shaking hands with locals and stopping in a bar for a Corona beer. "We're in this to win," Sara said. Continue reading... |
| Helmut Kohl, Germany’s reunification chancellor, dies aged 87 Posted: 16 Jun 2017 10:19 AM PDT Kohl led his country from 1982 to 1998, overseeing the reunification of East and West Germany in 1990 Helmut Kohl, the chancellor who presided over both German reunification and the creation of the eurozone, has died aged 87. Kohl was a towering figure of European politics in the second half of the 20th century, serving as Germany's chancellor for a record 16 years from from 1982 to 1998. Continue reading... |
| Seven missing after USS Fitzgerald collides with merchant ship off Japan Posted: 17 Jun 2017 01:01 AM PDT Rescuers search for crew as destroyer's captain airlifted to hospital after incident 62 miles off the coast Seven US navy sailors are missing and three others are being treated for injuries after their destroyer collided with a container ship off the east coast of Japan on Saturday morning. US and Japanese rescue teams were continuing their search for the missing crew members – who have not been named – more than 12 hours after the USS Fitzgerald collided with the ACX Crystal, a Philippine-registered container ship, about 62 miles (100km) south-west of the military port city of Yokosuka. Continue reading... |
| Israeli police officer stabbed to death in Jerusalem attack Posted: 16 Jun 2017 05:35 PM PDT Three Palestinians armed with knives and a homemade gun launched two attacks and were shot dead in attack claimed by Islamic State An Israeli police officer has been stabbed to death in what initial reports suggest was a coordinated attack by three Palestinians at two locations just outside Jerusalem's Old City. At one scene, two Palestinians were shot dead after opening fire at and trying to stab a group of Israeli police officers on Friday night, police said. At the other, a Palestinian fatally stabbed a border policewoman before being shot dead by police. |
| Police officer who shot dead Philando Castile acquitted of all charges Posted: 16 Jun 2017 01:11 PM PDT
A Minnesota police officer was acquitted of manslaughter on Friday in the shooting death of Philando Castile, a black motorist whose girlfriend streamed the aftermath live on Facebook. Outside the courthouse, Castile's mother said the officer got away with "murder". Related: Black Lives Matter: birth of a movement | Wesley Lowery Continue reading... |
| Trump keeps rolling back Obama legacy by tightening travel and trade with Cuba Posted: 16 Jun 2017 01:30 PM PDT The new rules will stop individual travel to Cuba and seek to restrict the flow of payments to the many Cuban companies owned by the regime's security forces Donald Trump has announced a partial rollback of his predecessor's rapprochement with Cuba, tightening travel and trade rules on the grounds of what he said was a worsening human rights situation on the island. The new rules will stop individual travel to Cuba and seek to restrict the flow of payments to the many Cuban companies owned by the regime's security forces. It will not fully reverse the steps taken by Barack Obama in 2015 to ease the half-century policy of isolating Cuba. Continue reading... |
| Amazon to buy Whole Foods Market in $13.7bn deal Posted: 16 Jun 2017 06:26 AM PDT Takeover of organic food specialist marks new push into grocery market after launch of Fresh delivery service Amazon, the world's most powerful online retailer, has taken a giant stride into traditional retailing, spending $13.7bn (£10.7bn) to take over organic food chain Whole Foods Market. The all-cash deal could be game-changing for the traditional supermarket business. Amazon has long had ambitions to move into the grocery business and launched its food delivery service, Fresh, in the US 10 years ago. It introduced the service in the UK last year after signing a wholesale deal with British supermarket Morrisons. |
| Revealed: Facebook exposed identities of moderators to suspected terrorists Posted: 16 Jun 2017 12:09 AM PDT A security lapse that affected more than 1,000 workers forced one moderator into hiding – and he still lives in constant fear for his safety Facebook put the safety of its content moderators at risk after inadvertently exposing their personal details to suspected terrorist users of the social network, the Guardian has learned. Related: Revealed: Facebook's internal rulebook on sex, terrorism and violence Continue reading... |
| Revealed: the Romanian site where Louis Vuitton makes its Italian shoes Posted: 17 Jun 2017 01:00 AM PDT All but the soles of the luxury brand's footwear are made in Transylvania before being 'finished' in Italy and France Louis Vuitton's Italian shoes are the very height of luxury. Its Venice workshop claims to embody "ancestral savoir-faire" in a region "revered for its fine shoe craftsmanship". It is an image burnished by one of the biggest advertising budgets in the world. The Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH) luxury group spent $4.4bn (£3.45bn) last year on marketing its portfolio of top labels, which range from Moet & Chandon champagne to Givenchy, TAG Heuer and Louis Vuitton shoes, adorned with the LV logo that is a global badge of wealth. Continue reading... |
| The 8 best cycling innovations: from dockless bikes to solid tyres Posted: 17 Jun 2017 12:00 AM PDT Smart traffic lights, bike paths in high-rises and paying people to cycle are among the trends that stood out at the recent Velo-City 2017 conference Bike-sharing has come a long way in the last few years, and we are moving fast into the so-called fifth generation of these systems. Soon we'll probably see a worldwide explosion of the "dockless" bike-shares that have already taken over in Chinese cities such as Shanghai and Guangzhou. The idea is that you don't have to return the bike to a set place, but can leave it anywhere – and the city is saturated enough with these bikes that they're always easy to find. Everything is controlled through GPS sensors in the bikes and an app in the rider's phone. Cities from Portland to Krakow are introducing these on a small scale, but it's the arrival of the Chinese giants that will likely change the game. Mobike launched with 1,000 bikes in Manchester on Monday, and Ofo has started a small trial with 20 bikes in Cambridge. Continue reading... |
| The 20 photographs of the week Posted: 16 Jun 2017 11:22 PM PDT The Grenfell Tower fire, protests in Caracas and Moscow, the under-20 World Cup and Rafael Nadal at the French Open – the news of the week captured by the world's best photojournalists Continue reading... |
| Helmut Kohl: leader who united Europe as well as Germany Posted: 16 Jun 2017 10:05 PM PDT When East Germany collapsed, the West German chancellor rose to the occasion and helped heal the cold war's bitter divisions Helmut Kohl, who died on Friday aged 87, was one of a trio of dominant western conservative politicians – along with Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher – whose determined ideological and practical opposition to the Soviet Union helped lead in the closing months of 1989 to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent end of the cold war that had gripped Europe since 1945. But despite his reputation as a hardliner and his achievement as Germany's longest-serving chancellor since Bismarck, Kohl in person was a shambling bear of a man (he was 193cm or 6'4" tall) who often did not take himself too seriously. Rather than claim a perspicacity he did not possess, Kohl freely admitted later that he did not foresee the sudden Soviet implosion and was as surprised as anyone when it happened. Continue reading... |
| 'We do not trust them': UAE calls for western monitoring of Qatar Posted: 16 Jun 2017 10:00 PM PDT UEA foreign minister Anwar Gargash calls on 'our western friends' to establish monitoring system over Qatar's alleged support of terrorism The United Arab Emirates has said a western monitoring mechanism will be needed to force Qatar to abide by any agreement to end its alleged support for terrorism, in the first suggestion from any of the countries blockading the tiny Gulf state that outside intervention may be needed to end the crisis. Anwar Gargash, the UAE foreign minister, said its allies in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Bahrain did not trust Qatar as he spoke in London on a visit intended to rally diplomatic support for the embargo. Continue reading... |
| Grenfell Tower fire: Queen responds to 'very sombre' national mood as PM pledges taskforce – live Posted: 17 Jun 2017 01:36 AM PDT Follow the latest updates from London as the Queen notes national sadness in wake of fire and terrorist attacks
A GP whose surgery is less than 800m from Grenfell Tower has written a blog post for the British Medical Journal about his experiences on Wednesday. Ahmed Kazmi said several of his patients were residents of the tower. He wrote: Wednesday was a tragic day for many and a very atypical day in our surgery. We spent it trying to compile a list of our patients who had been dispossessed. We made comfort calls to those affected (especially the vulnerable ones), offered walk-in appointments for those who found themselves without medication, and tried to offer some comfort. It is difficult though; what do you say to someone who has just lost their home and every possession they own? "I am so sorry for what has happened to you, here is your insulin prescription." I sat down on the floor and played with some children. I didn't use my stethoscope those hours I was at the centre, but I still feel I was a doctor. I think that sometimes empathy and witnessing someone's grief are as important a part of our role as procedures or prescribing.
Theresa May's most senior minister has defended the way she had handled the tragedy as he promised a new government-led taskforce would be deployed to the scene today. First secretary of state Damian Green, appointed in the reshuffle after the Tories' disastrous election result, said some criticisms of May had been "terribly unfair". Continue reading... |
| One meal a day: the Lake Chad crisis in pictures Posted: 16 Jun 2017 07:27 AM PDT The extreme north of Cameroon is suffering a food shortage exacerbated by climate change and conflict with Boko Haram. Fighting has spread across the borders from Nigeria into the countries of the Lake Chad region creating a refugee and famine crisis. It was once a tourist destination, but now people fleeing violence are housed in unnamed camps where they are lucky to get a meal each day
Ramata Modou, 58, holds a photograph of herself. Ramata is community leader at an internal displacement camp for women and children in Mémé When armed men entered Ramata's village her husband suffered a heart attack and died. Her 17-year-old daughter was kidnapped, her three-month-old daughter strapped to her back. When she first fled to Mémé she slept under trees for two months with her six children. Continue reading... |
| Former Brothers 4 Life gangsters begin decades-long sentences Posted: 16 Jun 2017 09:08 PM PDT Farhad Qaumi will spend a minimum of 43 years behind bars; his two brothers face jail time of least 36 and 21 years respectively Three notorious Sydney gangland brothers have spent the first night of their decades long prison sentences behind bars. Farhad Qaumi, 34, and his two brothers Mumtaz, 32, and Jamil, 25, received lengthy prison terms on Friday for their role in a fatal and "violent underworld rampage". Continue reading... |
| Relatives charged over murder mystery that has gripped France for three decades Posted: 16 Jun 2017 07:23 PM PDT Four-year-old Gregory Villemin was found drowned with his hands and feet bound in the Vologne river in 1984 The great aunt and uncle of a four-year-old boy murdered 32 years ago in France have been charged with his kidnapping, raising hopes that a case that has gripped the country could finally be solved. Gregory Villemin was found drowned with his hands and feet bound in the Vologne river in the Vosges mountains of eastern France on 16 October 1984. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 16 Jun 2017 11:18 AM PDT Dour and imperturbable German chancellor for 16 years who was the main architect of the country's reunification Helmut Kohl, who has died aged 87, will be remembered for his pivotal role in two extraordinary events: the fall of the Berlin wall and the rise of the euro. He devoted his entire adult life to Christian Democratic Union (CDU) politics and was Germany's longest-serving chancellor of the 20th century. Superficially, sheer physical bulk apart, Kohl bore unlikely comparisons with Otto von Bismarck. The aristocrat who unified a proliferation of states in 1871 and made Germany mainland Europe's most important power was a Prussian Protestant of overwhelming intellect and resources who treated Europe like his personal box of building bricks. Kohl was a Roman Catholic Rhinelander, devoted as much to unifying Europe as to placing a united Germany at its head and heart. Continue reading... |
| More challenges to German citizenship rules | Letters Posted: 16 Jun 2017 11:13 AM PDT American Katherine Scott also has a problem establishing her right to be a German citizen I am in the same situation as Barbara Hanley (Letters, 13 June). I have German grandparents on my mother's side. My mother was born and grew up in Berlin. She was forcibly expatriated by the Nazi regime in 1937. She was able to get to the US and married an American. Now the German government baldly claims that she left of her own accord, voluntarily made herself stateless (she was still stateless when I was born). Since according to Reich law, nationality flows through the father, I have no claim to German citizenship. It is disgraceful. I lived in Germany for some years and am fluent in German. It is frustrating to see hundreds of people who actually have no apparent connection to their German identity or past getting recognised as German citizens on purely technical grounds. I, by an accident of timing and gender (yes, mother was wrong gender!), am not recognised by the German government. I agree that some kind of group should form, but I don't know how that could occur, since there is no central point of communication. • It was the same all over Europe until the mid 1960s. My Dutch mother married her wartime English fighter pilot sweetheart in 1946. The law in the Netherlands at the time decreed that women marrying foreigners automatically lost their own nationality and were made to take that of their husbands. It would have been nice if when this injustice was corrected, countries had given women retrospective rights and allowed them to keep their own nationalities. |
| The worst thing about shootings in the US is how normal they feel | Jessica Valenti Posted: 16 Jun 2017 10:30 AM PDT In a time when shootings are commonplace, this week didn't necessarily feel remarkable. It felt normal and that makes me fear for my daughter My daughter is in first grade, but she's been doing "lockdown drills" since she was two years old – her pre-school started them a few weeks after the massacre of 20 children at Sandy Hook. She knows how to keep quiet when her teachers shut the lights, and that she's hiding from "robbers" or "bad guys"; she's not quite old enough to understand the full implications of what the drill means. This week we mourned the one-year anniversary of the shooting at Pulse in Orlando that left 49 people dead, protested against Megyn Kelly's interview with a man who believes the Sandy Hook shooting was faked, and tried to make sense of two mass shootings – one that left House majority whip Steve Scalise injured. And yet, in a time when shootings are commonplace, this week didn't necessarily feel remarkable. It felt normal. Continue reading... |
| Most of Northern Ireland strongly backs abortion law reform, survey finds Posted: 16 Jun 2017 06:27 AM PDT Three in four people back legal abortions for women pregnant through rape or incest and in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities A large majority of Northern Ireland's population are in favour of reforming the region's strict anti-abortion laws and back legal terminations for women made pregnant through sexual violence, a new survey has found. Nearly 80% of the public in the region believe abortion should be legal when a woman has become pregnant as a result of rape or incest, according to the latest Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey. Continue reading... |
| Russia claims it may have killed Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Posted: 16 Jun 2017 04:13 AM PDT Russian foreign minister cannot give '100% confirmation' after Moscow says airstrike in Syria may have killed Baghdadi The Russian military has said it may have killed the leader of Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in an airstrike in Syria in late May. Though acknowledging it was still checking its own claim, Moscow said it had information that Baghdadi was among a gathering of up to 30 Isis leaders in the north-eastern city of Raqqa that was struck by its fighter jets just after midnight on 28 May. Continue reading... |
| Chalk Girl: the protester at the heart of Hong Kong’s democracy movement – video Posted: 16 Jun 2017 04:00 AM PDT Two years after becoming an accidental hero of Hong Kong's umbrella pro-democracy movement when she was arrested, the 16-year-old is torn between wanting to respect her family's fears about the risks of her activism and standing up to Chinese interference, rejoining the battle alongside the localists fighting to save their city Continue reading... |
| 'We will break every bone': Islamist leaders threaten Bangladeshi lawyer Posted: 16 Jun 2017 06:13 AM PDT Sultana Kamal, chair of Transparency International Bangladesh, angered hardline Islamists by defending installation of statue outside Dhaka's supreme court Human rights groups have warned about the safety of a prominent Bangladeshi lawyer after Islamist leaders threatened to "break every bone" in her body for defending the installation of a Lady Justice statue outside the country's supreme court. Sultana Kamal's remarks on a television talk show last month have earned her death threats from Muslim hardliners in Bangladesh, where religious fanatics are suspected to have killed 30 activists and writers among others in the past four years. |
| Melania Trump has moved into the White House. Should we send a rescue party? Posted: 17 Jun 2017 12:59 AM PDT Recent appearances have fed a #savemelania movement. But the idea that the first lady is Trump's most defiant rebel is magical thinking of the highest order While King of the Snowflakes Donald Trump has always worn his heart on his sleeve, with his phallically long ties and neurotically overstyled hair, his third wife, Melania, gives away as much as the blankest of fashion models – which, of course, is what she was when they met. And what a love story it has been for the woman born Melanija Knavs since then! You know, just the classic tale: boy picks up girl when he is on a date with another girl with the unforgettable name of Celina Midelfart; boy starts dating new girl and gets her to boast about his virility on live radio with Howard Stern; boy was married twice before, with his first ex-wife saying in a sworn deposition that the boy allegedly raped her after surgery to reduce a bald spot was more painful than he expected (though she later said she didn't mean rape in a "literal or criminal sense", even if "as a woman I felt violated"); girl and boy get married in front of 350 close friends, including Simon Cowell and Rudy Giuliani; boy runs for president and gets girl to give a speech which turns out to be plagiarised so girl is internationally humiliated; boy is then revealed to be fond of grabbing pussies that belong to other girls, meaning girl is further humiliated; boy becomes president and girl has never looked more miserable – and that is, by now, a high bar. Someone book Kate Hudson: we got a timeless romcom here. Continue reading... |
| Trump trolled by Democrats after staff take turns praising the president – video Posted: 12 Jun 2017 05:55 PM PDT A video of US president Donald Trump listening to each member of his cabinet heaping praise on him and saying they are 'blessed to serve your agenda' has been swiftly mocked by the Senate's top Democrat, Chuck Schumer, who posted his own video to Twitter of his staff showering him in compliments about his hair and television appearances Continue reading... |
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