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Paris climate agreement: World reacts as Trump pulls out of global accord – as it happened

Posted: 01 Jun 2017 11:47 PM PDT

US president ditches current agreement: 'We're getting out, but we'll start to negotiate and we'll see if we can make a deal that's fair'

Trump framed his decision to pull the US from the landmark Paris climate agreement as "a reassertion of America's sovereignty", adding he was "elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris."

He said the US could try to re-enter the deal under more favourable terms or work to establish "an entirely new transaction" – but indicated that it would hardly be of high priority. "If we can, great. If we can't, that's fine," he said.

Speaking of full-page advertisements – one placed in the New York Times in December 2009 has been doing the rounds on Twitter today.

It was signed by business leaders and liberal commentators, lobbying then-president Barack Obama, bound for Copenhagen to forge a global climate pact, to "lead the world by example.

In 2009, the Trump family, including Donald, took out a @nytimes ad urging international action on climate change. #ThrowbackThursday #tbt pic.twitter.com/JOYGfI1OB6

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Super-rich evade on average nearly third of their due tax

Posted: 01 Jun 2017 10:20 AM PDT

Chance of assets being hidden rises very sharply with wealth, finds economists' study based on Panama Papers data

The richest 0.01% of households, involving those with more than £31m assets, evade paying 30% of their taxes on average, according to an academic study of tax evasion based on data revealed in the Panama Papers and the leaks concerning the HSBC Swiss private bank. Economists, who matched people named in the leaks with public wealth records, found that "the probability to hide assets rises very sharply with wealth".

Related: What are the Panama Papers? A guide to history's biggest data leak

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George Soros attacks Hungarian prime minister for building a 'mafia state'

Posted: 01 Jun 2017 04:24 AM PDT

Financier says his Central European University is still under threat folllowing Viktor Orbán's curbs on foreign ownership

George Soros has accused the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán of building a "mafia state", as he warned the fate of the Central European University he founded still hangs in the balance.

The Hungarian-born financier and philanthropist said he was confident the university's defence of its freedom would ultimately "bring the slow-moving wheels of justice into motion", but said it and other organisations he had backed were still at risk under the Orbán-led government.

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Philippines attack: dozens feared dead after Manila gunman sets fire to resort

Posted: 02 Jun 2017 12:47 AM PDT

Police say suspect set himself alight and motive for attack on Resorts World Manila is more likely robbery than terrorism

Dozens of people are feared dead in a fire that started after a gunman burst into a Manila casino and set gaming tables alight in what is thought to be a failed robbery attempt.

Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte's spokesman, Ernesto Abella, said at least 36 people had died, mostly due to suffocation following the blaze.

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France's longest-serving TV anchor sacked by state broadcaster

Posted: 01 Jun 2017 09:58 AM PDT

France Télévisions denies David Pujadas's departure is linked to election of new president Emmanuel Macron

France's longest-serving news anchor has been dismissed from his primetime role at France Télévisions, the French state-owned broadcaster.

For 16 years, David Pujadas has been the face of primetime news on France's public broadcaster, delivering the daily headlines, interviewing presidents and world leaders, hosting election debates and earning fans and critics in equal measure for his gentle, non-confrontational style.

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Canadian nurse pleads guilty to killing eight seniors in nursing homes

Posted: 01 Jun 2017 09:25 AM PDT

  • Elizabeth Wettlaufer says she injected eight people with insulin for no reason
  • Nurse pleads guilty to eight counts of murder and four of attempted murder

A former nurse has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the deaths of eight nursing home residents, in one of the worst serial killer cases in Canadian history.

Elizabeth Wettlaufer also pleaded guilty to four counts of attempted murder and two counts of aggravated assault.

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Game over? Málaga bishop takes on Space Invader guerrilla artist

Posted: 01 Jun 2017 05:27 AM PDT

Diocese seeks removal of mosaic by French 'urban acupuncturist' Invader after it appeared on episcopal palace wall without permission

Authorities in Málaga are looking into whether a prolific, video game-inspired artist may finally have invaded the wrong space, after one of his idiosyncratic mosaics appeared on the wall of the episcopal palace in the southern Spanish city.

The French artist, known as Invader, claims to have created almost 3,500 works in 71 cities around the world. According to his website, the Space Invader project, which began in 1998, is "about liberating art from its usual alienators that museums or institutions can be. But it is also about freeing the Space Invaders from their video games TV screens and to bring them in our physical world".

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Trump waives law requiring US to move embassy to Jerusalem

Posted: 01 Jun 2017 08:36 AM PDT

US president's move keeps embassy in Tel Aviv for now, despite campaign promise to move it to city Israel considers its capital

Donald Trump will not order the moving of the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in the near future, despite strong lobbying in recent days by senior Israeli officials.

A senior US official disclosed that Trump – like all his presidential predecessors – has signed the six-monthly presidential waiver to the 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Act, reneging on a key campaign promise, citing his desire to maximise the chances of "negotiating a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians".

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Explosions and gunfire at resort in Manila – video report

Posted: 02 Jun 2017 01:45 AM PDT

Gunfire and explosions have been reported at Resorts World in Manila, the capital of the Philippines. The resort is on lockdown and armed police have been sent in to contain the situation, which began at 2am local time

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FTSE 100 and 250 hit new highs as UK construction figures beats expections- business live

Posted: 02 Jun 2017 01:42 AM PDT

UK construction #PMI hit an impressive 56 in May. But there's still the problem that the @ONS data hasn't agreed with the PMIs of late. pic.twitter.com/wGw206vp5L

Tim Moore, senior economist at IHS Markit, said:

May's survey data reveals that the UK construction sector has started to recover strongly from its slow start to 2017.

House building was the key growth driver, with work on residential projects rising at the fastest pace since December 2015. A sustained rebound in residential building provides an encouraging sign that the recent a soft patch for property values has not deterred new housing supply. Instead, strong labour market conditions, resilient demand and ultra-low mortgage rates appear to have helped boost work on residential development projects in May.

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Paris agreement: Europe vows to keep fighting global warming after US withdrawal

Posted: 02 Jun 2017 01:27 AM PDT

Emmanuel Macron says world's duty is to 'make our planet great again' as leaders react to Trump pulling out of Paris accord

European leaders have pledged to keep fighting against global warming as widespread condemnation met Donald Trump's announcement he was pulling the US out of the Paris climate accord.

The leaders of France, Germany and Italy said in a joint statement that they regretted the US decision to withdraw from the accord, but affirmed "our strongest commitment" to implement its measures and encouraged "all our partners to speed up their action to combat climate change".

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Elon Musk and Disney boss quit Trump's business panel over Paris pullout

Posted: 02 Jun 2017 01:15 AM PDT

High-profile departures from business advisory role shine light on other panel members and their beliefs

Donald Trump may think tackling climate change is bad for business. But business? Not so much.

Two of the US's biggest business leaders, Tesla founder Elon Musk and Disney's Robert Iger, have quit Trump's high-powered business advisory panel after the president pressed ahead with plans to pull out of the Paris climate accord.

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City halls and landmarks turn green in support of Paris climate deal

Posted: 02 Jun 2017 12:54 AM PDT

Local government buildings in New York, Boston, Washington DC, Montreal and Paris lit up after US withdrawal from accord

Landmarks in cities across the world have been lit up green in support of the Paris climate accord after Donald Trump's announcement on Thursday that the US would withdraw from the agreement.

In New York, the spire of the One World Trade Centre was illuminated. The New York state governor, Andrew Cuomo, tweeted:

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Chantilly in the spotlight: inside the secretive Bilderberg's 'home from home'

Posted: 01 Jun 2017 04:00 AM PDT

Today marks the fourth time that a little-known city in Virginia will host the controversial Bilderberg meeting of world leaders and power brokers. Why here?

Named after an obscure association with the French town, chateau and dessert topping, this "census-designated place" of 25,000 people in Fairfax County on the fringes of Washington DC is about to welcome a more controversial kind of cream: the secretive annual meeting of world leaders, CEOs, financiers and power brokers known as the Bilderberg Group.

In fact, Chantilly's Westfields Marriott hotel, hosting this year's meeting from 1-4 June, has become the Bilderberg's home from home in recent times, having also served as the conference's venue in 2002, 2008 and 2012. Sure to be in attendance are the scrum of protesters, alt-media, conspiracy theorists, Illuminati watchers and anyone else keen to see the world elite turn into lizards after supping blood out of the Holy Grail at midnight..

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Counter-terror police arrest three in Sheffield and Huddersfield

Posted: 02 Jun 2017 01:02 AM PDT

Two men, aged 24 and 29, arrested on suspicion of terror offences while a third, 23, was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender

Counter-terror police have arrested three men in Sheffield and Huddersfield following raids across Yorkshire.

Two men, aged 24 and 29, were arrested on Thursday on suspicion of terrorism offences. The raids were not linked to the investigation into the Manchester Arena bombing.

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Beauty amid the chaos: a snapshot of Syrian cities through Instagram

Posted: 01 Jun 2017 11:00 PM PDT

Photographers from Damascus to Aleppo are showing another side to their war-torn cities through Instagram. We speak to six Syrians about why some focus on destruction, and others on hope

The reality of living in Syria's protracted civil war depends on which city you are in.

In the capital, Damascus, which remains under government control, life has returned to some semblance of normality after six years of bloodshed, with reports suggesting that in parts of the city it's hard to tell there is a war going on at all.

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China's ivory ban sparks dramatic drop in prices across Asia

Posted: 01 Jun 2017 11:59 PM PDT

Prices of raw ivory in Vietnam have fallen, which traders are linking to China's announcement of its domestic ivory ban, according to new research

The price of raw ivory in Asia has fallen dramatically since the Chinese government announced plans to ban its domestic legal ivory trade, according to new research seen by the Guardian. Poaching, however, is not dropping in parallel.

Undercover investigators from the Wildlife Justice Commission (WJC) have been visiting traders in Hanoi over the last three years. In 2015 they were being offered raw ivory for an average of US$1322/kg in 2015, but by October 2016 that price had dropped to $750/kg, and by February this year prices were as much as 50% lower overall, at $660/kg.

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'Yes or no?' White House won't say if Trump is a climate change denier

Posted: 01 Jun 2017 10:35 PM PDT

Officials say they don't know president's personal views or what changes to the Paris agreement he is looking for

The White House has declined to say whether Donald Trump believes human activity contributes to climate change as the president pulled America out of the Paris agreement.

Related: President's Paris climate speech annotated: Trump's claims analysed

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Climate Change Authority tells government to adopt emissions intensity trading scheme

Posted: 02 Jun 2017 12:01 AM PDT

Advice from CCA and Energy Market Commission says policy uncertainty leaves wholesale electricity overpriced by up to $40 per megawatt hour

The government has been told wholesale electricity prices are above long-run costs by around $27 to $40 per megawatt hour because of policy uncertainty triggered by years of destructive political in-fighting about carbon pricing.

The advice comes in a new report by the Climate Change Authority and the Australian Energy Market Commission, released on Friday, before next week's Finkel review of the national electricity market.

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China sees an opportunity to lead as Trump withdraws from Paris. But will it?

Posted: 02 Jun 2017 12:45 AM PDT

Chinese leaders are eager for more influence on the international stage and the US has created a void it could fill

As Donald Trump walked off the stage in the Rose Garden after announcing the US would withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, one could practically hear the champagne corks popping in Beijing.

Chinese leaders are eager for more influence on the international stage, and Trump's move opened up another opportunity for China to fill a void left by the US.

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Manila attack: bodies found in Philippines casino resort – as it happened

Posted: 01 Jun 2017 11:51 PM PDT

  • Police sent to entertainment resort in Philippines capital after reports of gunfire
  • Resorts World Manila on lockdown after incident just after 2am – full report

Agencies have been filing some dramatic and concerning eye witness accounts of the attack and the subsequent panic.

AFP reports:

People inside the casino recounted a terrifying ordeal when the shooting broke out.

"I was about to return to the second floor from my break when I saw people running. Some hotel guests said someone yelled 'ISIS'," Maricel Navaro, an employee of Resorts World, told DZMM radio.

Related: Philippines attack: dozens feared dead after Manila gunman sets fire to resort

The billionaire owner of the Resorts World casino has spoken to Reuters about the tragedy.

"With an incident like this, especially at Resorts World Manila, we certainly would ratchet that (security) up even more ... certainly an issue we will buckle down on," Lawrence Ho, 40, who owns casinos in Manila and Macau, told Reuters in Hong Kong.

Ho declined to say how he would increase security but said his casinos already make use of surveillance and counter intelligence measures, metal detectors and security guards.

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Sports body won't say if name change for Margaret Court arena is on the cards

Posted: 01 Jun 2017 11:17 PM PDT

But Melbourne and Olympic Parks, which is responsible for naming arenas in Victoria, 'does not support' former tennis great's homophobic comments

One of the bodies responsible for naming sporting arenas in Victoria, Melbourne and Olympic Parks, has said it does not support homophobic comments made by former Australian tennis great Margaret Court.

But the organisation declined to respond to questions about a push to rename Margaret Court arena, or to confirm whether discussions had been held with the other organisation responsible for arena naming rights, Tennis Australia.

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Friday briefing: Trump turns America's back to global warming

Posted: 01 Jun 2017 10:04 PM PDT

US president pulls out of Paris agreement on carbon reduction … Bernie Sanders arrives in UK with praise for Corbyn … and world's biggest plane rolls out

Good morning – Warren Murray here to take you through things.

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Gender bias still rife in legal profession despite rhetoric, says Kate Jenkins

Posted: 01 Jun 2017 08:02 PM PDT

Sex discrimination commissioner says 'We get these women all the way to the top, we prove that we are fantastic, and then we plummet'

When the sex discrimination commissioner, Kate Jenkins, was a junior lawyer in the early 1990s, she noticed slightly older women disappearing from the office.

They had left to have children and never returned, and the legal profession was happy to see them go. Anyone who could not make a blind commitment to the 24/7 hours and fast pace demanded by top-tier law firms had no place in the company. And anyway, everyone knew women were happier at home with the children.

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Coffin of Polish president killed in plane crash contains remains of other victims

Posted: 01 Jun 2017 12:32 PM PDT

Polish authorities say body parts of other people killed alongside Lech Kaczyński in 2010 ended up in his casket

Polish authorities have found the remains of two other people in the coffin of former president Lech Kaczyński while investigating the plane crash in Russia that killed him and 95 others in2010.

The caskets of 11 further victims also contained body parts of others, prosecutors said after examining 24 coffins from the crash.

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Trump campaign operative rewards rightwing activist bloodied at Berkeley protests

Posted: 01 Jun 2017 10:59 AM PDT

Image is further proof of links between GOP officials in Pacific north-west and far right activists who regularly seek out confrontations with anti-fascist protesters

A member of a rightwing militant group that has violently clashed with anti-Trump protesters has been given a commemorative portrait of Donald Trump by a Republican political operative who worked on the president's election campaign.

John Beavers, a self-described "free speech warrior", was presented with a framed replica of a Trump portrait following the violent clashes in Berkeley, California, in April.

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Putin says Russian role in election hacking 'theoretically possible'

Posted: 01 Jun 2017 09:05 AM PDT

President denies government involvement but acknowledges possibility 'patriotic' hackers might have interfered

Vladimir Putin has given his broadest hint yet that Russia may have played a role in the hacking of western elections but emphatically denied that his government was involved.

Speaking at the St Petersburg economic forum, the Russian president acknowledged that it was "theoretically possible" that "patriotic" Moscow hackers might have interfered in foreign polls.

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British Library explores changing attitudes to gay love in exhibition

Posted: 01 Jun 2017 07:58 AM PDT

Manuscripts, posters and objects tell story of society's transformation in show to mark 50th anniversary of decriminalisation

The history of gay culture in the UK, from its repression to its celebration in the past 100 years, is to be displayed for the first time in a major exhibition at the British Library to mark the 50th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality.

Original literary manuscripts and rare prints of newspapers and novels are to go on show at the London venue to mark the "transformation in society's attitudes towards gay love and expression", curators at the library said.

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The Rev Alan Gawith obituary

Posted: 01 Jun 2017 07:41 AM PDT

My father, Alan Gawith, who has died aged 92, was an Anglican priest and a lifelong advocate for social justice and equality. His charm and quick wit won him both friends and debates.

From 1974 until his retirement in 1989, Alan was chair of the Church of England Board for Social Responsibility in Manchester, a charitable organisation that managed a specialist adoption agency and employed community workers to improve inner-city lives through training initiatives and support groups. He embraced liberation theology and challenged thinking on sexuality. Alan became the bishop of Manchester's adviser on HIV and Aids, and was made a canon of the city's cathedral in 1982. He was a supporter of gay clergy, a proponent of women priests, and was especially proud when his daughter Laurie was ordained in 2015.

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Police arrest woman over alleged torture during Liberia civil war

Posted: 01 Jun 2017 07:32 AM PDT

Arrest by Met's war crimes unit in London relates to atrocities of 89-93 war

A woman has been arrested by a police war crimes team on suspicion of torture. The 51-year-old was held in custody over allegations relating to atrocities during the Liberian civil war which stretched from 1989 to 1993.

Metropolitan police arrested the woman at an address in east London just after 7am on Thursday. Police said searches were being carried out at two addresses in east and central London.

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China firm that makes shoes for Ivanka Trump denies missing activists' claims

Posted: 01 Jun 2017 07:32 AM PDT

  • Activists alleged excessive overtime and low wages at the Huajian Group
  • One has been detained, while two others are missing

A Chinese company that makes shoes for Ivanka Trump and other brands denied allegations on Thursday of excessive overtime and low wages – accusations made by three activists who have been arrested or disappeared.

The Associated Press reported on Tuesday that Hua Haifeng, an investigator for China Labor Watch, a New York-based not-for-profit group, had been arrested on a charge of illegal surveillance while his two colleagues – Li Zhao and Su Heng – are missing and rights groups fear they have been detained. They were investigating Huajian Group factories in the southern Chinese cities of Ganzhou and Dongguan.

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Ramadan around the world – in pictures

Posted: 01 Jun 2017 06:50 AM PDT

Muslims from around the world pray, study and fast during the first week of the holy month of Ramadan

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India's slowing growth blamed on 'big mistake' of demonetisation

Posted: 01 Jun 2017 06:31 AM PDT

Prime minister Narendra Modi's policy of stopping issue of higher value banknotes has weakened economy, say experts

India has posted its slowest growth rate in two years, ceding its status as the world's fastest-growing major economy to China, with economists blaming the downturn partly on last year's shock decision to recall the country's two highest-value bank notes.

Related: India withdraws 500 and 1,000 rupee notes in effort to fight corruption

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Spain's top anti-corruption prosecutor quits over Panama link

Posted: 01 Jun 2017 06:21 AM PDT

Manuel Moix's resignation comes after claims he interfered in corruption investigations involving the ruling People's party

Spain's top anti-corruption prosecutor has resigned following weeks of pressure that culminated in an admission that he holds a stake in an offshore company in Panama.

Manuel Moix stepped down "for personal reasons" on Thursday, shortly after it emerged that he has a quarter-share in a company in the Central American tax haven that was apparently set up as part of an inheritance from his parents.

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Best photos of the day: an election ghost train and diving elephants

Posted: 01 Jun 2017 05:04 AM PDT

A selection of photo highlights from around the world, including the Poll-tergeist Ghost Train at Thorpe Park

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LGBT activists urge pride events to stop booking blackface acts

Posted: 01 Jun 2017 04:18 AM PDT

Open letter says such acts perpetuate racist stereotypes, after Durham Pride apologises for booking Beyoncé impersonator

Pride festival organisers have been urged not to promote acts who "perpetuate racist stereotypes", after an LGBT event in Durham booked a white artist who darkened her skin to impersonate Beyoncé.

A letter signed by LGBT activists including Jack Monroe and Peter Tatchell expresses concern that similar artists are being promoted at other events.

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The Philippine ‘Suicide Squad’ saving civilians trapped on Isis frontline

Posted: 01 Jun 2017 03:08 AM PDT

Team of 30 volunteers brave sniper fire and rocket strikes to rescue children and families trapped in Marawi

They go by the name "Suicide Squad", and the reason why becomes abundantly clear amid the smoke and carnage of the besieged Philippine city of Marawi.

This was once a busy urban landscape with a population of nearly 200,000, but in just a week it has been torn apart by Islamic State-linked rebels, who now occupy large areas.

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Drought takes centre stage in Kenya's election campaign as food prices rise

Posted: 01 Jun 2017 11:00 PM PDT

Food shortages, spiralling prices and rampant corruption cast a long shadow over Uhuru Kenyatta's government ahead of elections in August

The severe drought affecting Kenya, which has driven up the cost of food and fuelled inflation, has become a key issue on the election campaign trail.

Food security has deteriorated since the end of 2016 and conditions remain dire in half of the country's 47 counties. The situation has been exacerbated by the impact of climate change, and it is anticipated that some regions could reach emergency levels of need by September.

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A life removed: Central African Republic refugees in Cameroon – in pictures

Posted: 01 Jun 2017 04:12 AM PDT

Violence in Central African Republic has driven 274,000 people into neighbouring Cameroon, seeking shelter in camps like Mbilé. Yet funding for the crisis is drying up, leaving refugees struggling to find enough to eat

All photographs by Dominique Catton/Echo/EU

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The Republicans who urged Trump to pull out of Paris deal are big oil darlings

Posted: 01 Jun 2017 03:00 AM PDT

Twenty-two senators wrote a letter to the president when he was said to be on the fence about backing out. They received more than $10m from oil, gas and coal companies the past three election cycles

A withdrawal by Donald Trump from the Paris climate accord would go down as a hallmark of his presidency. It would be unilateral, reckless and splashy – trademark Trump. The president has said he will announce his decision at 3pm ET (8pm BST) on Thursday.

But while Trump has often stood on a range of issues as a maverick outlier from mainstream Republican politics, on climate change he is at the centre of the party's orthodoxy. Trump's disbelief in climate change and imminent decision on whether to support the Paris agreement reflects an area of unusual agreement between the president and elected Republicans, whose track record of climate change denialism is plain and long.

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US will withdraw from Paris agreement, Trump announces – video

Posted: 01 Jun 2017 01:32 PM PDT

Donald Trump announces US will be withdrawing from the Paris climate accord 'to protect America and its citizens' and seek a new deal 'on terms that are fair to the United States... but if we can't, that's fine'

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