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- Turkish activists decry attack on press freedom as journalists stand trial
- Two killed in shooting at Israeli embassy in Jordan
- Alexis Tsipras: 'The worst is clearly behind us'
- 'We found it rolled up in a tube': Alice Cooper discovers Warhol classic after 40 years
- Trump not convinced Russian meddling took place, communications chief says
- Lipstick Under My Burkha's release hailed as victory for Indian women
- UK approved £283m of arms sales to Saudis after airstrike on Yemen funeral
- 'Human-trafficking' tragedy: nine die in sweltering Texas truck
- Mammoth effort: Sri Lankan navy rescues two elephants washed out to sea
- Latest Republican health bill 'a porkfest, a monstrosity', Rand Paul says
- World Series of Poker: 25-year-old wins title and $8.1m in first appearance
- Bear chases 200 sheep over cliff edge to their deaths
- Cold spring leaves French grape harvest headed for historic low
- Florida county sued for detention of US citizen at behest of immigration officials
- Poland's president to veto controversial laws amid protests
- Don't make it easier to change gender, urge conservative activists
- ‘If you are old enough to carry a gun, you are old enough to be a soldier’
- Child treated for HIV at birth is healthy nine years on without further treatment
- Ben Needham: blood found on toy car and sandal
- The billion-dollar palaces of Apple, Facebook and Google
- Jared Kushner sealed Manhattan real estate deal with oligarch's firm cited in money-laundering case
- Vietnamese smallholders help end deforestation – photo essay
- Melbourne swingers' club shooting victims sue Victoria police for damages
- Monday briefing: alcohol deaths on a huge scale
- Afghanistan: dozens dead in Kabul bombing targeting government workers
- European and African ministers discuss plan to tackle flow of refugees
- Venice residents protest against excessive tourism – video
- Rome facing water rationing as Italy suffers driest spring for 60 years
- 'I just want to go home': German teenager who joined Isis speaks of regrets – reports
- Gay men to be allowed to give blood three months after sex
- UK’s visa ban raises spectre of apartheid | Letters
- Glasgow cathedral set to be a same-sex Gretna Green | Letters
- British man shot days before his wedding in Philippines
- How 1967 changed gay life in Britain: ‘I think for my generation, we’re still a little bit uneasy’
- Cocktail of drugs could prevent 10,000 HIV deaths a year, claim scientists
- Anthony Scaramucci: leakers will be punished – video
- San Antonio police confirm eight found dead in trailer – video
| Turkish activists decry attack on press freedom as journalists stand trial Posted: 23 Jul 2017 08:00 PM PDT Charges include claims that Cumhuriyet journalists helped the separatist Kurdistan Workers party and Gülen movement The trial of 17 reporters and executives from Cumhuriyet, one of Turkey's last standing opposition newspapers, is set to begin on Monday with rights activists decrying the continuing muzzling of free speech in one of the world's largest jailers of journalists. Rights activists say the trial is an assault on freedom of expression and the accusations are absurd, because Cumhuriyet, the country's newspaper of record that is committed to secularism, has long warned of the dangers of the Gülen movement, which itself has long been at odds with the PKK. Continue reading... |
| Two killed in shooting at Israeli embassy in Jordan Posted: 24 Jul 2017 12:21 AM PDT Israel refuses to allow Jordanian authorities to question embassy guard who killed two men at its Amman compound An Israeli embassy security guard shot dead a Jordanian man who attacked him with a screwdriver at Israel's embassy compound in Amman on Sunday night, police said. A second Jordanian man also died in the incident. Israel is refusing to allow Jordanian authorities to question the security guard under the Vienna convention, claiming diplomatic immunity, and all embassy employees are currently confined to the compound, according to Israeli media. Jordan is reportedly refusing to allow the guard to leave the country. Continue reading... |
| Alexis Tsipras: 'The worst is clearly behind us' Posted: 23 Jul 2017 09:00 PM PDT The longest-serving Greek prime minister since the economic crisis began says he is leading the country out of crisis Alexis Tsipras, the Greek prime minister, has promised to defy his critics by taking the country out of its longest-running crisis in modern times. "The worst is clearly behind us," he told the Guardian in an exclusive interview. "We can now say with certainty that the economy is on the up … Slowly, slowly, what nobody believed could happen, will happen. We will extract the country from the crisis … and in the end that will be judged." Continue reading... |
| 'We found it rolled up in a tube': Alice Cooper discovers Warhol classic after 40 years Posted: 23 Jul 2017 11:00 PM PDT
The rock star Alice Cooper has found an Andy Warhol masterpiece that could be worth millions "rolled up in a tube" in a storage locker, where it lay forgotten for more than 40 years. Related: Andy Warhol's Electric Chair, 1964: a dark mirror to pop art Continue reading... |
| Trump not convinced Russian meddling took place, communications chief says Posted: 23 Jul 2017 08:19 AM PDT
Donald Trump remains unconvinced that Russia interfered in last year's US election, his new communications chief said on Sunday, as the White House gave mixed signals about whether it would approve new sanctions against Moscow. Related: Pardon me? Legal experts doubt Trump could absolve himself in Russia inquiry Continue reading... |
| Lipstick Under My Burkha's release hailed as victory for Indian women Posted: 23 Jul 2017 03:37 AM PDT Film banned from cinemas for its 'contagious sex scenes', makes its debut after lengthy battle with censors An award-winning Hindi film initially banned from cinemas for being too "lady-oriented" has made its debut across India in what its director hailed as a major victory for women. Lipstick Under My Burkha, which depicts the secret world, including the sex lives, of four small-town Indian women, was released at the weekend after months of wrangling with the country's notoriously prudish censors. Continue reading... |
| UK approved £283m of arms sales to Saudis after airstrike on Yemen funeral Posted: 23 Jul 2017 08:27 AM PDT Campaigners say Britain should have halted weapons exports after attack that caused international outrage The British government approved £283m of arms sales to Saudi Arabia in the six months after a Saudi airstrike on a funeral that killed scores of people and was criticised by the UN, figures reveal. The airstrike, on 8 October 2016, hit a funeral hall in the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, killing 140 people and injuring hundreds more, in one of the bloodiest attacks in the two-year Saudi-led campaign in Yemen. Continue reading... |
| 'Human-trafficking' tragedy: nine die in sweltering Texas truck Posted: 23 Jul 2017 02:28 PM PDT
At least nine people died after being crammed into a sweltering tractor-trailer found parked outside a Walmart in the midsummer Texas heat, authorities said on Sunday as they described an immigrant-smuggling attempt gone wrong. The driver was arrested and nearly 20 others rescued from the rig were hospitalized in dire condition, many with extreme dehydration and heatstroke, officials said. Continue reading... |
| Mammoth effort: Sri Lankan navy rescues two elephants washed out to sea Posted: 23 Jul 2017 08:00 AM PDT Wild elephants brought ashore after rescue involving navy divers, ropes and flotilla of boats to tow them Two young elephants washed out to sea have been saved from drowning by the Sri Lankan navy in the second such incident off the island in as many weeks. The navy said the pair of wild elephants were brought ashore on Sunday after a mammoth effort involving navy divers, ropes and a flotilla of boats to tow them back to shallow waters. Continue reading... |
| Latest Republican health bill 'a porkfest, a monstrosity', Rand Paul says Posted: 23 Jul 2017 08:58 AM PDT
Rand Paul, one of the conservative senators who has helped to hold up Republican healthcare reform, on Sunday derided the current Senate bill as a "monstrosity" and a "porkfest" and said he would not vote for it to proceed to debate this week. Related: Republicans face two unpalatable options on replacement healthcare bill Continue reading... |
| World Series of Poker: 25-year-old wins title and $8.1m in first appearance Posted: 23 Jul 2017 05:39 AM PDT
A New Jersey man with a degree in accounting is this year's World Series of Poker champion. Scott Blumstein won the no-limit Texas Hold 'em main event early on Sunday in Las Vegas surrounded a crowd that included relatives and college friends. He is now $8.1m richer after eliminating Pennsylvania's Daniel Ott on the 246th hand of the final table, more than 60 hands with just the two of them with bricks of bills and a gold bracelet separating them. Continue reading... |
| Bear chases 200 sheep over cliff edge to their deaths Posted: 23 Jul 2017 04:10 AM PDT French farmers hit out at reintroduction programme of brown bears in Pyrenees after incident on Spanish border More than 200 sheep have plunged to their deaths in the Pyrenees while apparently trying to escape a brown bear. The bears have been reintroduced to the mountain region over the past three decades after being wiped out by hunters. The sheep, which belonged to a farmer in Couflens, south-west France, are thought to have taken fright when the bear appeared in the area last Sunday. Continue reading... |
| Cold spring leaves French grape harvest headed for historic low Posted: 22 Jul 2017 09:38 PM PDT Agriculture ministry says wine production from Bordeaux to Alsace has dropped dramatically Knocked off course by a cold spring snap, French wine production from Bordeaux to Alsace has dropped dramatically this year and could hit "a historic low", according to the agriculture ministry. "At 37.6 million hectolitres the 2017 harvest is set to come in 17% lower than in 2016, and 16% below the average of the past five years," the ministry's statistics bureau Agreste said on Saturday. Continue reading... |
| Florida county sued for detention of US citizen at behest of immigration officials Posted: 23 Jul 2017 04:00 AM PDT Suit against Miami-Dade County claims Honduran-born Garland Creedle was illegally detained, as activists hope to restore Miami's 'sanctuary city' status
The Honduran-born teenager, however, now finds himself at the centre of a legal fight that immigration activists hope could ultimately restore Miami's status as a so-called sanctuary city – and end county mayor Carlos Gimenez's controversial cooperation with Donald Trump's aggressive anti-immigrant agenda. Continue reading... |
| Poland's president to veto controversial laws amid protests Posted: 24 Jul 2017 01:47 AM PDT Andrzej Duda says he will block proposed legislation that would have put supreme court under control of ruling party Poland's president says he will veto two contentious bills that are widely seen as attacks on the independence of the judicial system and are part of a planned legal overhaul by the ruling party that has sparked days of nationwide protests. In announcing his decision on Monday, Andrzej Duda broke openly for the first time with Jarosław Kaczyński, the leader of the ruling Law and Justice party. Duda is closely aligned with the party and has supported its agenda since taking office in 2015. Continue reading... |
| Don't make it easier to change gender, urge conservative activists Posted: 24 Jul 2017 01:36 AM PDT Grassroots Conservatives spokeswoman backs view that gender dysphoria is a mental illness People who want to change their gender are suffering from a mental illness and encouraging them to do so is akin to affirming the belief of someone suffering from anorexia that they are fat, a conservative campaign group has claimed. A spokesperson for Grassroots Conservatives, which is independent of the party but primarily draws its membership from its supporters, said activists were concerned about the government's plans to streamline the process of changing gender. Continue reading... |
| ‘If you are old enough to carry a gun, you are old enough to be a soldier’ Posted: 24 Jul 2017 01:16 AM PDT South Sudan has the largest number of child soldiers in Africa. Most are still fighting, but efforts are being made to disarm and reintegrate them into society David Zelu, not yet 16 years old, looks up, smiles, and stretches his arms to the sky where the sun is finally breaking through the clouds. The rain that has hammered on the wooden roof of the small hut he shares with four other teenagers has passed. Crows wheel overhead, and small thin children jump in puddles. Continue reading... |
| Child treated for HIV at birth is healthy nine years on without further treatment Posted: 24 Jul 2017 01:00 AM PDT Researchers say case of child infected at birth but no longer displaying symptoms may spare others long-term therapy A child who was infected with HIV at birth and given a short course of treatment has remained healthy for the last nine years without further drugs, according to scientists at a conference in Paris, in a case that could give hope to children born with the virus. Researchers say they hope to learn from the case of the child, born in South Africa, to save others from having to take powerful daily medication as they are growing up and for the rest of their lives. Continue reading... |
| Ben Needham: blood found on toy car and sandal Posted: 24 Jul 2017 12:45 AM PDT Police say discovery 'corroborates and strengthens' theory that boy died in accident 26 years ago on Greek island of Kos Signs of blood have been found on a toy car and sandal believed to have belonged to toddler Ben Needham, who disappeared on Kos 26 years ago. South Yorkshire police said the development "corroborates and strengthens" the theory Ben died in an accident at his grandparents' farmhouse where he had been staying. Continue reading... |
| The billion-dollar palaces of Apple, Facebook and Google Posted: 23 Jul 2017 01:00 AM PDT From California to London, the tech giants are employing top architects to build spectacular symbols of their immense global power. But they have their critics… We know by now that the internet is a giant playpen, a landscape of toys, distractions and instant gratification, of chirps and squeaks and bright, shiny things – plus, to be sure, ugly, horrid beasties lurking in all the softness – apparently without horizon. Graphics – rounded corners, lower case, Google's primary colours, Twitter's birdie, Facebook's shades of blue – enhance the innocence and infantilism. It is a world, as Jonathan Franzen once said, "so responsive to our wishes as to be, effectively, a mere extension of the self". Until we chance on the bars of the playpen and find that there are places we can't go and that it is in the gift of the grown-ups on the other side to set or move the limits to our freedom. We're talking here of virtual space. But those grown-ups, the tech giants, Apple, Facebook, Google and the rest, are also in the business of building physical billion-dollar enclaves for their thousands of employees. Here too they create calibrated lands of fun, wherein staff offer their lives, body and soul, day and night, in return for gyms, Olympic-sized swimming pools, climbing walls, basketball courts, running tracks and hiking trails, indoor football pitches, massage rooms and hanging gardens, performance venues, amiable art and lovable graphics. They have been doing this for a while – what is changing is the sheer scale and extravagance of these places. Continue reading... |
| Jared Kushner sealed Manhattan real estate deal with oligarch's firm cited in money-laundering case Posted: 23 Jul 2017 11:00 PM PDT Donald Trump's son-in-law bought part of old New York Times building from Soviet-born tycoon, Guardian investigation into Russian money in NYC property market finds Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of Donald Trump, who acts as his senior White House adviser, secured a multimillion-dollar Manhattan real estate deal with a Soviet-born oligarch whose company was cited in a major New York money laundering case now being probed by members of Congress. Related: Trump not convinced Russian meddling took place, communications chief says Continue reading... |
| Vietnamese smallholders help end deforestation – photo essay Posted: 24 Jul 2017 12:00 AM PDT In the foothills of Vietnam's Annamite mountains, hundreds of small forest owners are joining forces to produce sustainable acacia used in furniture around the world. With much of the country's plantations owned by individuals, expanding the approach may be the best chance for saving forests in the Greater Mekong All photographs: James Morgan/WWF "It all starts with the seedlings!" says Le Thi Thuy Nga (left), the manager of Tien Phong forestry company in central Vietnam's Thừa Thiên-Huế province. "All of ours are propagated from the 'mother tree' kept by the Academy of Forest Sciences in Hanoi. With a 99% survival rate, they effectively double overall plantation productivity." Continue reading... |
| Melbourne swingers' club shooting victims sue Victoria police for damages Posted: 24 Jul 2017 12:49 AM PDT Lawyers say police were repeatedly told by Inflation staff that Dale Ewins's gun was a toy before he and Zita Sukys were shot Two costume-clad swingers shot during a Melbourne nightclub raid are suing Victoria police for damages while the venue has flagged possible legal action over traumatised staff. Dale Ewins and Zita Sukys were in a "compromising position" when they were shot by heavily armed police inside the nightclub Inflation on 8 July. Continue reading... |
| Monday briefing: alcohol deaths on a huge scale Posted: 23 Jul 2017 10:32 PM PDT Heavy drinking will kill nearly 63,000 people in next five years … football sexual abuse victims urged to come forward … goodbye, Snooty the manatee Good morning to you, Graham Russell here with the news to start your week. Continue reading... |
| Afghanistan: dozens dead in Kabul bombing targeting government workers Posted: 23 Jul 2017 09:59 PM PDT The attack mainly killed employees of the Afghan ministry of mines and petroleum, according to Kabul police The Taliban have killed at least 38 people and wounded dozens more in a suicide bomb attack against a bus carrying government employees in the Afghan capital, Kabul, according to officials. The attack happened in the western part of the city during rush hour, and mainly killed employees of the Afghan ministry of mines and petroleum, according to Kabul police. Continue reading... |
| European and African ministers discuss plan to tackle flow of refugees Posted: 23 Jul 2017 09:00 PM PDT Meeting in Tunis follows pressure from UN refugee agency, which says EU efforts to train Libyan coastguard are not enough European and African ministers are to meet in Tunis on Monday to discuss a plan to try to regularise the flow of refugees from Africa to Europe to about 20,000, coupled with a much tougher strategy to deport illegal migrants from Italy and break up smuggling rings. The plan to regularise the migrant flow is being pushed by the UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, which warns that EU efforts to train the Libyan coastguard along with Italy's intention to impose a new code of conduct on NGO rescue ships operating in the Mediterranean do not match the scale of the problem, or recognise the extent to which the flow of refugees and migrants is likely to become permanent. Continue reading... |
| Venice residents protest against excessive tourism – video Posted: 23 Jul 2017 07:45 PM PDT Earlier this month an estimated 2,000 Venetians marched against a tourism industry they argue has eroded their quality of life, that is damaging the environment and driving residents away. Venice's population has fallen from about 175,000 in the post-second world war years to 55,000 today. Continue reading... |
| Rome facing water rationing as Italy suffers driest spring for 60 years Posted: 23 Jul 2017 07:06 PM PDT Rainfalls 80% below normal have affected farming across the country and could result in the capital's famous fountains being turned off Scarce rain and chronically leaky aqueducts have combined to put Romans at risk of drastic water rationing as soon as this week. Sky TG24 TV meteorologists noted on Sunday that Italy had experienced one of its driest springs in some 60 years and that some parts of the country had seen rainfall totals 80% below normal. Among the hardest-hit regions was Sardinia, which is seeking natural disaster status. Continue reading... |
| 'I just want to go home': German teenager who joined Isis speaks of regrets – reports Posted: 23 Jul 2017 06:55 PM PDT Linda Wenzel, 16, who is being held in an Iraqi prison after joining the jihadist group, says she wants to get away from the war A German teenager who joined Islamic State is now being held in detention in Iraq and says she regrets joining the jihadist group and just wants to come home to her family, media reported. Der Spiegel magazine reported that four German women who joined Isis in recent years, including a 16-year-old girl from the small town of Pulsnitz near Dresden, were being held in an Iraqi prison and receiving consular assistance. Continue reading... |
| Gay men to be allowed to give blood three months after sex Posted: 23 Jul 2017 12:37 PM PDT Medical advances mean time limit will be reduced from 12 months under plans for NHS in England Blood donation restrictions for gay men and sex workers are to be relaxed in England and Scotland under a series of equalities reforms announced by the government. Gay men will be allowed to donate blood three months after sexual intercourse instead of a year. Sex workers, who were previously banned from donating, will be subject to the same three-month rule. Advances in testing for blood-borne viruses, including hepatitis B and C and HIV, prompted the advisory committee on the safety of blood, tissues and organs to recommend the reforms to the government, which ministers accepted. Continue reading... |
| UK’s visa ban raises spectre of apartheid | Letters Posted: 23 Jul 2017 08:54 AM PDT Author Beverley Naidoo condemns the UK's decision to deny an Iranian artist a visa to attend the Edinburgh festival The UK government's denial of a visa to Ehsan Abdollahi (Iranian artist barred from Edinburgh festival after 'Kafkaesque' visa refusal, 21 July) suggests a game of snakes without ladders in a hall of mirrors. Being divorced, he was told that "no one is dependent on you" ie a bad mark for not having a pull factor to go back to Iran. Last year, however, the artist Marjan Vafaian was refused a visa despite her husband intending to stay in Tehran when she'd be travelling. Her bad mark was apparently for being too young. Making pots of money as an artist in the UK would be a pull factor to keep her here while, in Abdollahi's case, his work as an illustrator and teacher in Tehran was insufficient explanation for the funds in his bank. This is the third year that the brave little indie children's book publisher Tiny Owl has had artists' visas turned down. I have a personal interest as Marjan Vafaian is illustrating my text of Cinderella on the Nile and I have been hoping that we can do some events together after our book is published next year. Apartheid South Africa banned people and books in order to stop dialogue and communication of ideas. These visa denials ban UK audiences, particularly young people, from engaging with these Iranian artists. Why? |
| Glasgow cathedral set to be a same-sex Gretna Green | Letters Posted: 23 Jul 2017 08:54 AM PDT Same-sex marriages | Civil partnerships for heterosexuals | Dick Van Dyke's cockney accent | Boots | Must-watch TV Perhaps Glasgow's Episcopal cathedral of St Mary will become the new Gretna Green for English same-sex couples as yet unable to marry one another in Anglican churches south of the border (Glasgow to host first Anglican same-sex marriages in UK, 21 July)? A mock-up carpenter's shop, as opposed to Gretna's Old Mill Forge (currently offering an "exclusive use package" for a mere £3,795), could prove to be a nice little earner. • Deborah Dickinson complains (Letters, 20 July) that there is still a legal difference between gay and heterosexual people in that heterosexual couples cannot enter into a civil partnership. Civil partnerships were a public endorsement of the view that gay couples' relationships are inferior and would taint the institution of marriage. Mixed-sex couples seeking civil partnerships are like gentiles applying to wear a yellow star. |
| British man shot days before his wedding in Philippines Posted: 23 Jul 2017 08:28 AM PDT Tarek Naggar from East Dunbartonshire reportedly on life support after shooting during robbery in Cebu City A British man in the Philippines has been shot two days before his wedding. Tarek Naggar, 44, was reported to be critically injured and in intensive care after being attacked during a robbery on the island of Cebu. Continue reading... |
| How 1967 changed gay life in Britain: ‘I think for my generation, we’re still a little bit uneasy’ Posted: 23 Jul 2017 07:00 AM PDT The passing of the Sexual Offences Act 1967 was pivotal, although its effects were mixed and slow to be noticed. Simon Callow, Maureen Duffy and others remember the times before, and after, homosexuality was decriminalised It's 11.30pm on 14 June 1967. On BBC2, Late Night Line-Up is starting. A saxophone plays as the camera zooms in on a sober-looking panel of experts – a doctor, a social psychologist, a Conservative MP and a writer. They are there to discuss one of the burning issues of the day – homosexuality – and respond to a groundbreaking documentary shown earlier in the evening. That documentary, explains presenter Michael Dean, "made no judgments and passed no opinions. It let homosexuals speak for themselves about their common condition." Related: Sexual Offences Act at 50: share your memories and experiences Continue reading... |
| Cocktail of drugs could prevent 10,000 HIV deaths a year, claim scientists Posted: 23 Jul 2017 11:00 PM PDT As experts converge on Paris for major summit on HIV science, study highlights potential benefits of deploying low-cost drug combination in sub-Saharan Africa A package of low-cost drugs designed to prevent deadly infections among people who are starting HIV treatment late could save 10,000 lives a year across sub-Saharan Africa, scientists believe. About one in five people who start HIV treatment in poorer countries are doing so later than advisable, which means they have a low number of CD4 cells, a key component of the immune system. This leaves them far more vulnerable to developing serious illnesses. Roughly one in 10 such people die within the first few weeks of treatment because their immune systems cannot recover fast enough. Continue reading... |
| Anthony Scaramucci: leakers will be punished – video Posted: 23 Jul 2017 08:42 PM PDT White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci calls leaks coming from the White House 'un-American' and 'an injustice to the institution of the American presidency' and said those leakers will be fired. Scaramucci added that Donald Trump has 'no reason to pardon anybody' and 'did nothing wrong'. He was referring to Trump's tweet on Saturday saying he had 'complete power to pardon' amid ongoing investigations of possible ties between his 2016 campaign and Russia. Continue reading... |
| San Antonio police confirm eight found dead in trailer – video Posted: 23 Jul 2017 09:12 AM PDT Eight people have been found dead inside a sweltering tractor-trailer found parked behind a Walmart in San Antonio, says police chief William McManus. San Antonio fire chief Charles Hood says 20 other people were found in the trailer who are in extremely critical or serious condition Continue reading... |
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