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- Saudi crown prince's ascendancy gives hope of reform – but it may be premature
- Destroying Great Mosque of al-Nuri 'is Isis declaring defeat'
- Norwegian government backs down over memorial to Breivik victims
- Theresa May to set out proposals for EU citizens in UK at Brussels dinner
- Rift between Iran's ayatollah and re-elected president widens
- Trump says he doesn't want a 'poor person' in cabinet roles
- World population to hit 8bn in 2023, says new UN survey
- Marco Rubio's latest awkward moment: a failed hug with Ivanka Trump
- 'A useful punching bag': why Hungary's Viktor Orbán has turned on George Soros
- Failed Brussels attack could have caused widespread casualties – authorities
- Romania's government collapses as ruling party MPs oust prime minister
- Top global banks still lend billions to extract fossil fuels
- German teenagers who shot toy gun at Thai king spark diplomatic incident
- Islamophobic attacks in Manchester surge by 500% after arena attack
- Israeli airline can't make women move seats for religious reasons, court rules
- George Clooney sells his tequila company for up to $1bn
- Donald Trump does not want a 'poor person' in cabinet – video
- Greek debt: IMF and EU must seek a long-term solution
- One girl's mission: can Lakshmi find clean water in Bangalore? – video
- Exclusive: Macron pledges pragmatism and cooperation with post-Brexit Britain
- The world needs wildlife tourism. But that won't work without wildlife
- Google Maps adds indigenous lands in Canada after long omission
- New Zealand paper names and shames every drink-driver at tourist 'party town'
- ‘The dream of our ancestors’: Victorian bill gives Indigenous owners custodianship of Yarra
- Sexual Offences Act at 50: share your memories and experiences
- Ramadan on the Afghan frontline: after heavy fighting, hunger and boredom
- Thursday briefing: Bargaining chips all gone as May plays Brussels roulette
- Forget fidget spinners, it's the toothpick crossbow that is worrying parents
- Pinched my ride: supercars stolen by the dozen from UK turn up in Thailand
- As China tramples on Hong Kong's freedom, a feeble Britain avoids its glance | Angela Gui
- EU countries compete to host London-based agencies after Brexit
- Football club that ‘saved’ disconnected refugees needs fundraising win
- New Zealand's net migration hits record high
- Mexico's monthly murder rate reaches 20-year high
- Russia cancels talks after US imposes new sanctions over Ukraine conflict
- Bestiality: which animals are most at risk
- Bill Cosby's mistrial shows powerful men can still get away with anything | Jessica Valenti
- Scientists rescue ice from melting Bolivian glacier – before it disappears
- Trial begins over deaths of 71 migrants in refrigerated lorry
- 'Justice for Grenfell': day of rage protesters demonstrate in central London – video
- Miranda Kerr asked to relinquish jewels linked to Malaysian laundering case
- ‘I hope one day we'll see an end to abuse’: the woman striving to save Congo’s kids | Hannah Summers
- 'The refugees are like our brothers': Uganda's example to the world – in pictures
- Are Democrats really doomed by the GOP's win in Georgia?
| Saudi crown prince's ascendancy gives hope of reform – but it may be premature Posted: 21 Jun 2017 09:50 PM PDT Talk of social change is in the air in Riyadh after King Salman announces Mohammed bin Salman as heir to Saudi throne On the streets of Riyadh, in its shopping malls and public spaces, Saudi Arabia's religious police had long been a foreboding presence. They could reach into private lives at will, with powers that few could challenge, enforcing an ultra-conservative brand of Islam as a dogma for society. For people who had lived in fear of the force, one late winter evening earlier this year came as a watershed. On the side of one of their headquarters in the city's suburbs, a 10-metre wide emblem of the country's reform programme – Vision 2030 – had been projected. And no one inside the building dared to block it. Continue reading... |
| Destroying Great Mosque of al-Nuri 'is Isis declaring defeat' Posted: 22 Jun 2017 12:14 AM PDT Iraqi PM denounces levelling of Mosul building where Islamic State leader declared a caliphate three years ago The Iraqi prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, has said the destruction of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul is an admission by the militants that they are losing the fight for the country's second-largest city. One of Islam's most venerated sites, the mosque has been destroyed by explosions as Iraqi forces battled Islamic State fighters who had holed up nearby. |
| Norwegian government backs down over memorial to Breivik victims Posted: 21 Jun 2017 10:10 AM PDT Locals on Utøya island where 77 people were massacred by Anders Breivik had started lawsuit to stop project going ahead Norway's government has said that a controversial memorial to the victims of Anders Behring Breivik's 2011 massacre would be rethought in order to avoid an embarrassing lawsuit by local residents who do not want it to go ahead. Related: Wounded landscape: how Norway is remembering its 2011 Utøya massacre Continue reading... |
| Theresa May to set out proposals for EU citizens in UK at Brussels dinner Posted: 21 Jun 2017 02:30 PM PDT Prime minister will meet EU leaders at summit one year on from Brexit referendum Theresa May will set out the principles of the government's negotiating position on the future rights of European Union citizens living in the UK at a dinner for EU leaders in Brussels on Thursday night – before leaving them to continue discussions over coffee without her. The status of the 3 million citizens from elsewhere in the EU who have already made their lives in the UK has been a contentious issue since the immediate aftermath of the referendum. Continue reading... |
| Rift between Iran's ayatollah and re-elected president widens Posted: 21 Jun 2017 10:00 PM PDT Hassan Rouhani questions political legitimacy of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after supreme leader embarrassed president at high-profile meeting Tensions are mounting between Iran's supreme leader and the country's president after the latter's landslide victory in last month's election. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 78, has sharpened his criticism of the reformist president, Hassan Rouhani, including humiliating him in a meeting of the country's most senior officials. Continue reading... |
| Trump says he doesn't want a 'poor person' in cabinet roles Posted: 21 Jun 2017 11:25 PM PDT President tells crowd during Iowa tour that economic adviser and commerce secretary had to give up a lot to work for him Donald Trump has said he doesn't want "a poor person" to hold economic roles in his administration as he used an Iowa rally to defend his decision to appoint the wealthy to his cabinet. The US president told a crowd on Wednesday night: "Somebody said why did you appoint a rich person to be in charge of the economy? No it's true. And Wilbur's [commerce secretary Wilbur Ross] a very rich person in charge of commerce. I said: 'Because that's the kind of thinking we want.'" Continue reading... |
| World population to hit 8bn in 2023, says new UN survey Posted: 21 Jun 2017 11:12 AM PDT New findings show more men than women and that there will be 1bn over-60s next year for the first time The world's population will break through the 8 billion mark in 2023, there are more men than women, and next year the number of over 60s will top 1 billion for the first time, according to the latest findings and forecasts from the United Nations annual population survey. More than half of the global population growth by 2050 will come from sub-Saharan Africa, where fertility rates will persist at levels far higher than in the rest of the world, the UN predictions released on Wednesday show. Continue reading... |
| Marco Rubio's latest awkward moment: a failed hug with Ivanka Trump Posted: 21 Jun 2017 10:18 AM PDT Republican senator tries to embrace president's daughter at meeting on paid family leave, leading to viral image and Twitter mockery Ivanka Trump's ramrod posture and the ungainly movements of a Republican senator were all it took to distract the public from a government meeting on Wednesday about paid family leave. The Florida senator Marco Rubio appeared to fail in an attempt to hug the president's daughter before the meeting, creating an awkward image that adds to Rubio's enduring collection of physical gaffes. He has also accidentally hit a child with a football and clumsily drunk water in a live speech broadcast to the nation. Continue reading... |
| 'A useful punching bag': why Hungary's Viktor Orbán has turned on George Soros Posted: 21 Jun 2017 10:00 PM PDT There are fears that the far right could be emboldened by a campaign against the Hungarian-born American billionaire. Shaun Walker reports from Budapest In 1989 the American-Hungarian financier George Soros paid for Viktor Orbán to study in Britain. Two decades later, he donated $1m to Orbán's government to help the cleanup after the "red sludge" environmental disaster. Over the years, the billionaire has spent hundreds of millions of dollars financing education and civil society projects in Hungary, the country of his birth, through his Open Society Foundations (OSF). Continue reading... |
| Failed Brussels attack could have caused widespread casualties – authorities Posted: 21 Jun 2017 10:13 AM PDT Morroccan national with possible Isis sympathies was shot dead after trying to explode suitcase bomb in Central station A man who tried to inflict a mass casualty attack on Brussels' busy Central station was a Moroccan national with possible Islamic State sympathies from the Molenbeek area of the Belgian capital, prosecutors have said. Belgium's security services are frantically seeking to piece together the last movements of the man, who was shot dead by a soldier on Tuesday evening after a suitcase bomb that he had detonated failed to explode properly. Continue reading... |
| Romania's government collapses as ruling party MPs oust prime minister Posted: 21 Jun 2017 07:27 AM PDT Sorin Grindeanu loses power in 241-7 no-confidence vote brought by members of his leftwing Social Democratic party Romania's prime minister has been toppled after the parliament passed a vote of no confidence tabled by his party. Barely six months after winning elections, Sorin Grindeanu was ousted by almost all the MPs in his leftwing Social Democratic party (PSD) with the backing of their junior coalition partners, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE). Continue reading... |
| Top global banks still lend billions to extract fossil fuels Posted: 21 Jun 2017 09:00 AM PDT Analysis of world's lenders reveals many claim green credentials while still financing fuels like tar sands, oil and coal Some of the world's top banks are continuing to lend tens of billions for extracting the most carbon-intensive fossil fuels, according to a report of top lenders. Finance provided for these fossil fuels – tar sands and other unconventional oil and gas, as well as coal and liquefied natural gas – amounted to $87bn for the top 37 banks in 2016. That represented a slump of more than a fifth compared with the $111bn raised the previous year, and was also down on 2014's total of $92bn. Continue reading... |
| German teenagers who shot toy gun at Thai king spark diplomatic incident Posted: 21 Jun 2017 11:24 AM PDT A 14-year-old boy is being investigated for attempted criminal assault after shooting at king's entourage with non-lethal weapon The assassins ambushed the king at nightfall and fired their shots as the royal's entourage passed in front of their lair. As the shooters were 13 and 14 years old, and their weapon of choice an airsoft gun loaded with plastic pellets, the incident that took place in a suburb of Munich on 10 June is unlikely to have consequences as historic as the ambush of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Continue reading... |
| Islamophobic attacks in Manchester surge by 500% after arena attack Posted: 22 Jun 2017 02:16 AM PDT Police vow to take tough action to curb hate crime and warn true number of incidents could be even higher Islamophobic attacks soared more than 500% in Greater Manchester after the suicide bombing at an Ariana Grande concert last month, police have said. There were 224 reports of anti-Muslim hate crimes in the month after the attack compared with 37 in the same period in 2016, official figures show. |
| Israeli airline can't make women move seats for religious reasons, court rules Posted: 22 Jun 2017 02:15 AM PDT El Al loses discrimination case brought by Holocaust survivor asked to move after ultra-orthodox man refused to sit next to her Flight stewards working for Israel's national carrier El Al cannot request female passengers to move seats to accommodate ultra-orthodox men who do not want to sit next to them, a court has ruled. The landmark case was brought by 82-year old Holocaust survivor Renee Rabinowitz, who sued the airline for discrimination after being asked to move seats to accommodate an ultra-orthodox male passenger in 2015. When she challenged the practice, she was told by staff that the policy had been approved at board level. Continue reading... |
| George Clooney sells his tequila company for up to $1bn Posted: 22 Jun 2017 01:35 AM PDT Casamigos, which star founded with Rande Gerber and Mike Meldman, bought by Smirnoff and Johnnie Walker owner Diageo A tequila company co-founded by George Clooney has been sold to UK drinks firm Diageo for up to $1bn (£790m). The company behind Smirnoff, Johnnie Walker and Baileys announced it would buy Casamigos, created four years ago by the American actor, together with Cindy Crawford's husband Rande Gerber and property developer Mike Meldman. Diageo said it was the fastest-growing super-premium tequila brand in the US. Continue reading... |
| Donald Trump does not want a 'poor person' in cabinet – video Posted: 22 Jun 2017 01:34 AM PDT The US president says he does not want poor people managing the economy. Trump told a rally of his supporters in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Wednesday, he feels a 'very rich person', such as former Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohn, was better qualified to be in charge of commerce Continue reading... |
| Greek debt: IMF and EU must seek a long-term solution Posted: 22 Jun 2017 01:29 AM PDT Last week's bailout is only a temporary fix – the two creditors must work together to reduce the enormous debt overhang The International Monetary Fund has resurrected an old technique – commonly used in the 1980s during the Latin American debt crisis – that would allow Greece to avoid a payment default next month on debt owed to European creditors. The reprieve also gives the IMF and its European partners time to sort out their technical differences on the struggling country's growth and budget outlook. But the fund's elegant compromise still leaves Greece under the shadow of an enormous debt overhang; reducing it requires that Europe find a way to set aside national politics and act on the basis of economic logic and necessity. Europe and the IMF have been unable to reconcile two views of Greece's debt sustainability, with the two sides' differences spilling over into the public domain. Guided mainly by a cash-flow analysis, European authorities argue that low interest rates and long maturities have made the nation's debt sustainable. But the fund notes that, at almost 200% of GDP, Greece's stock of debt deters investment and capital inflows. For the IMF, meaningful debt reduction is critical for generating the confidence and credibility needed to break Greece out of a prolonged period of impoverishment. Continue reading... |
| One girl's mission: can Lakshmi find clean water in Bangalore? – video Posted: 21 Jun 2017 03:00 AM PDT Once known as the City of Lakes, urban sprawl has destroyed 85% of Bangalore's fresh water and pollution has ruined much of the rest. Can Lakshmi and her mother find clean water today?
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| Exclusive: Macron pledges pragmatism and cooperation with post-Brexit Britain Posted: 21 Jun 2017 11:08 AM PDT In his first interview since he was elected as French president, Emmanuel Macron sets out his international agenda on Syria, Trump, and European integration Emmanuel Macron has promised that France will have a strong and pragmatic relationship with a post-Brexit Britain, working together on defence and counter-terrorism because of the two countries' "linked destinies". In his first interview since he was elected as French president last month, Macron told the Guardian and seven other European papers: "Pragmatism will determine our new relationship" with Britain. |
| The world needs wildlife tourism. But that won't work without wildlife Posted: 22 Jun 2017 12:00 AM PDT Habitat loss, pollution, climate change, over-exploitation and poaching are all threatening a lifeline for local communities Wildlife-based tourism is growing rapidly worldwide as the number of tourists continues to grow and as we, as travellers, seek out new and more enriching personal experiences with local cultures and wildlife. This is what inspired me to take six months unpaid leave from the grind of legal practice many years ago and backpack around South America with my little sister. Experiencing the natural beauty of places like the Amazon rainforest, Iguazú Falls and Machu Picchu and the local people fighting to protect them was life-changing. The UN World Tourism Organisation estimates that 7% of world tourism relates to wildlife tourism, growing annually at about 3%, and much higher in some places, like our Unesco world heritage sites. A WWF report shows that 93% of all natural heritage sites support recreation and tourism and 91% of them provide jobs. In Belize, more than 50% of the population are said to be supported by income generated through reef-related tourism and fisheries. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Google Maps adds indigenous lands in Canada after long omission Posted: 21 Jun 2017 01:52 PM PDT Addition follows seven-year collaboration between company and indigenous communities, following what a cartographer called an 'insulting' exclusion More than 3,000 parcels of land belonging to indigenous peoples in Canada have been added to Google Maps and Google Earth, in an initiative that seeks to remedy what one First Nations cartographer described as a historical exclusion. The project – which follows similar efforts by Google in the US and Brazil – was the fruit of seven years of collaboration between the company, indigenous communities in Canada and Natural Resources Canada, said the cartographer Steven DeRoy. A member of Manitoba's Ebb and Flow First Nation, he was among Google's partners on the initiative. Continue reading... |
| New Zealand paper names and shames every drink-driver at tourist 'party town' Posted: 21 Jun 2017 10:08 PM PDT Queenstown paper puts names of 100 people on front page amid concern the town, which attracts 2 million tourists a year, is bucking drink-drive trend A newspaper in New Zealand has taken a stance against drunk drivers by printing their names on its front page, in response to what it calls an "epidemic" of the crime. The Mountain Scene is a weekly newspaper for the small but booming South Island town of Queenstown, which has about 30,000 permanent residents and up to two million tourists every year. Continue reading... |
| ‘The dream of our ancestors’: Victorian bill gives Indigenous owners custodianship of Yarra Posted: 22 Jun 2017 02:13 AM PDT First legislation to go before state's parliament with a dual Indigenous language title designed to give Wurundjeri people a voice in decisions around the river Wrapped in a possum-skin shawl, Wurundjeri elder Alice Kolasa stood at the dispatch box on the floor of the Victorian parliament and read the name of a new piece of legislation designed to protect the health of the Yarra river, known in Woiwurrung language as the Birrarung. Wilip-gin Birrarung murron: keep the Birrarung alive. Kolasa is the first Wurundjeri person to speak from the floor of the parliament in their role as a traditional owner of land on which Parliament House is built. Continue reading... |
| Sexual Offences Act at 50: share your memories and experiences Posted: 22 Jun 2017 12:18 AM PDT Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act 1967 we want to hear from readers about what it meant then – and now In July 1967 the Sexual Offences Act received royal ascent, a moment often described as the "legalisation of homosexuality". It was in fact only in England and Wales that sex between two men over 21 "in private" was partially decriminalised – further changes took time. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Ramadan on the Afghan frontline: after heavy fighting, hunger and boredom Posted: 21 Jun 2017 11:00 PM PDT Kunduz fell to the Taliban, but in recent months coalition forces have won ground. Now, four months into Ramadan, fasting in 40C heat has taken its toll For most of his adult life Juma Khan, a husky Afghan policeman, enjoyed breaking the Ramadan fast with his family after returning home from duty. The evening Ramadan dinner, called iftar, is a moment shared not just by families, but by the entire country: at sunset, people gather over meals, always made with extra care, no matter how poor the family. Continue reading... |
| Thursday briefing: Bargaining chips all gone as May plays Brussels roulette Posted: 21 Jun 2017 10:31 PM PDT PM, mauled by Corbyn, now faces EU leaders … 16 inspections missed Grenfell's flammable cladding … and low marks for top universities in new rankings Good morning, it's Warren Murray getting you started this morning. Continue reading... |
| Forget fidget spinners, it's the toothpick crossbow that is worrying parents Posted: 21 Jun 2017 10:04 PM PDT New toy taking China by storm can fire needles and nails as well as toothpicks, leading to concerns over safety Handheld mini-crossbows that can fire needles and nails are the latest must-have toy in China but anxious parents want them banned before a young child gets blinded or worse. Selling online and in shops for as little as seven yuan ($1), so-called toothpick crossbows were originally designed to shoot out just that – toothpicks. Continue reading... |
| Pinched my ride: supercars stolen by the dozen from UK turn up in Thailand Posted: 21 Jun 2017 09:12 PM PDT Lamborghinis, Porsches and BMWs among automotive exotica spirited from streets of Britain to Bangkok via elaborate criminal scams Dozens of supercars including Lamborghinis, Porsches and BMWs have been stolen from the streets of Britain and shipped to Thailand in a complex scam that police from both countries are rushing to dismantle. After a British request to retrieve the vehicles, detectives in Bangkok have launched a series of raids against dealers in recent weeks. Continue reading... |
| As China tramples on Hong Kong's freedom, a feeble Britain avoids its glance | Angela Gui Posted: 21 Jun 2017 09:03 PM PDT Theresa May emphasises the importance of British values. But Britain's limpness over Hong Kong demonstrates how easily they are compromised I am too young to remember the handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997 and its promise for the new world I would live in. But I have lived to see that promise trampled. The Sino-British Joint Declaration, signed to pave the way for the handover, was supposed to protect the people of Hong Kong from Chinese interference in their society and markets until 2047. Yet as the handover's 20th anniversary approaches, China muscles in where it promised to tread lightly while Britain avoids eye contact. Continue reading... |
| EU countries compete to host London-based agencies after Brexit Posted: 21 Jun 2017 09:00 PM PDT European Medicines Agency and European Banking Authority need new homes, sparking beauty contest and test of unity European leaders are set to tussle over the future of EU agencies located in London in the first test of the bloc's post-Brexit unity. At a summit in Brussels on Thursday the EU's 27 leaders – minus Theresa May – are expected to take the next crucial step in moving two EU agencies out of the British capital. Continue reading... |
| Football club that ‘saved’ disconnected refugees needs fundraising win Posted: 21 Jun 2017 06:13 PM PDT After Zakarya Shojaie made it to Australia, he established the Afghan Victory Football Club to give fellow refugees a place to come together When Zakarya Shojaie was released from immigration detention in 2012, he went straight to Dandenong. "I had a friend in the detention centre, he said he heard about Afghanis, they live in Dandenong in Melbourne," Shojaie said. Continue reading... |
| New Zealand's net migration hits record high Posted: 21 Jun 2017 06:03 PM PDT Those arriving outstrip those leaving by 73,000 in past year, with Chinese as biggest group of migrants, followed by UK and Australia New Zealand annual net migration hit another record in May driven by foreign immigrants, with most coming from China, the UK and Australia. Annual net migration reached 72,000 in the year to 31 May versus 68,400 in the same period a year earlier, Statistics New Zealand said. Continue reading... |
| Mexico's monthly murder rate reaches 20-year high Posted: 21 Jun 2017 01:44 PM PDT
Mexico marked another murderous milestone in its conflict with organised crime as the monthly homicide rate hit its highest level in 20 years. Government statistics showed that 2,186 murders were committed in May, surpassing the previous monthly high of 2,131 in May 2011, according to a review of records that date back to 1997. Continue reading... |
| Russia cancels talks after US imposes new sanctions over Ukraine conflict Posted: 21 Jun 2017 01:13 PM PDT State department spokeswoman offers blunt response to cancellation amid rising tensions, as planes see another close encounter over Baltic Sea Russia has canceled a planned round of talks with the US in protest at new sanctions imposed this week over Moscow's military intervention in Ukraine. Related: US broadens Russia sanctions as Ukraine president visits Trump Continue reading... |
| Bestiality: which animals are most at risk Posted: 21 Jun 2017 12:57 PM PDT No reliable statistics exist on how many people engage in bestiality, but recent examples from academia and the news give us some clues On Tuesday, a co-worker sent me a link to an article on the Cairns Times (which turned about to be a fake news site) about an Australian man feared dead after attempting to have sex with a crocodile. A study last year – which used Foucault to make sense of the issue – looked at hundreds of members of the online zoosexual community, many of whom feelthey are treated unfairly by the mainstream. One individual commented: "I sincerely hope that one day genuine zoophiles can turn the tide. However, bearing in the mind the current attitudes in society this won't be easy." Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Bill Cosby's mistrial shows powerful men can still get away with anything | Jessica Valenti Posted: 21 Jun 2017 11:10 AM PDT It should not surprise us that despite being caught or admitting to assaulting women, men are still given the benefit of the doubt "When you're a star, they let you do it." Trump's infamous brag about how he treats women was the first thing that came to mind when I heard that the sexual assault case against Bill Cosby had ended in a mistrial. The second thought I had was: they will never believe us. To date, nearly 60 women have accused the former television star of sexual assault. Imagine what 60 women gathered in a room look like. That's dozens of women, enough to fill several classrooms or form a few sports teams. But it seems there is no number of women telling their stories – not one, not 10, not dozens – that will convince Americans that rape and assault happen with impunity in this country. Continue reading... |
| Scientists rescue ice from melting Bolivian glacier – before it disappears Posted: 21 Jun 2017 09:04 AM PDT
A team of international scientists are transporting samples of ice from a melting glacier in Bolivia to Antarctica, for study and preservation before the glacier disappears. The international "Ice Memory" expedition of 15 scientists took samples from the glacier on Illimani mountain in the Andes and will store them in Antarctica at the French-Italian base of Concordia. Continue reading... |
| Trial begins over deaths of 71 migrants in refrigerated lorry Posted: 21 Jun 2017 08:46 AM PDT Men face charges including torture and 'homicide with particular cruelty' after horrific discovery by Austrian motorway Eleven men have gone on trial over the deaths of 71 migrants found in an abandoned truck in Austria nearly two years ago, in one of the most disturbing cases marking Europe's migration crisis. The gruesome discovery of 59 men, eight women and four children crammed inside a refrigerated lorry near the Hungarian border in August 2015 sparked international revulsion. Continue reading... |
| 'Justice for Grenfell': day of rage protesters demonstrate in central London – video Posted: 21 Jun 2017 08:30 AM PDT Protesters stage a 'day of rage', marching from west London to Downing Street in central London on Wednesday, coinciding with the state opening of parliament. Demonstrators chanted 'justice for Grenfell' following the Grenfell Tower fire that saw dozens of people killed Continue reading... |
| Miranda Kerr asked to relinquish jewels linked to Malaysian laundering case Posted: 21 Jun 2017 07:01 AM PDT Australian model finds herself caught up in a multibillion-dollar 1MDB corruption scandal alongside actor Leonardo DiCaprio Australian model Miranda Kerr should hand over millions of dollars in gifted jewels that were allegedly purchased using money stolen from a fund established by Malaysia's prime minister, a Malaysian NGO has said. US prosecutors say the jewellery — including a $3.8m (£3m) 8.88 carat diamond pendant from New York-based designer Lorraine Schwartz — was gifted to Kerr by Jho Low, a financier at the heart of the corruption scandal that has engulfed the Malaysian government. Continue reading... |
| ‘I hope one day we'll see an end to abuse’: the woman striving to save Congo’s kids | Hannah Summers Posted: 21 Jun 2017 11:00 PM PDT In a country where abuse and sexual violence are rife, a local police chief is on a mission to safeguard children and women from harm When Honorine Munyole visits a group of local women in the city of Bukavu, the police officer gets a welcome fit for a hero. But the celebrations turn to cries of despair and even anger when she makes her announcement – she is to be redeployed to another location. Continue reading... |
| 'The refugees are like our brothers': Uganda's example to the world – in pictures Posted: 21 Jun 2017 06:44 AM PDT With a refugee population of 1.25 million – and more new arrivals each day than any other country – Uganda has earned a reputation as a haven for those fleeing violence. In Refugee Week, few countries merit greater recognition Continue reading... |
| Are Democrats really doomed by the GOP's win in Georgia? Posted: 21 Jun 2017 01:37 PM PDT Karen Handel's narrow win puts Republicans one step closer to repealing Obamacare, while its effects on the Democratic party's psyche could be profound The result of the special election in Georgia on Tuesday did not guarantee re-election for Donald Trump, nor did it ensure continued Republican congressional majorities after the midterms. It was, however, a devastating defeat for Democrats. Although Jon Ossoff was running in a traditionally red district where country-club Republicans had consistently delivered overwhelming majorities to conservative candidates for decades, it was one that proved deeply skeptical of Trump. Continue reading... |
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