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- Chinese president speaks with Trump and urges calm over North Korea
- Oxford University worker appears in US court over fatal stabbing
- Uhuru Kenyatta confirmed as Kenyan president
- Egg contamination scandal widens as 15 EU states, Switzerland and Hong Kong affected
- Dozens killed as two trains collide in Egypt
- Refugee rescue ship sails to aid of anti-migrant activists stranded in Med
- Italian firefighter filmed starting blaze amid wildfires across country
- Taylor Swift bodyguard tells court he saw DJ reach under singer's skirt
- Rich and famous flee French Riviera over tax and fuel charges
- Amateur submarine inventor arrested on suspicion of murder
- Hong Kong activist says he was 'stapled' over Lionel Messi photo
- Put to the vote: German nursery where children make the decisions
- Drug dens v safe houses: the fight over Ciudad Juárez's abandoned houses
- Police investigate hate mail sent to UK and US mosques
- The Guardian view on nudity: grin and bare it | Editorial
- The 20 photographs of the week
- Kenyan protests against Kenyatta election victory turn deadly
- Tracking Trump: how the most tense week yet with North Korea unfolded
- Trump threatens 'military option' in Venezuela as crisis escalates
- Divide and rule? Gap grows between Sydney's haves and have-lesses
- Charlottesville: far-right crowd with torches encircles counter-protest group
- 'Don't talk about the goat wars': how a feral herd divided a Devon village
- So ... do we start building basement shelters yet? | Jessica Valenti
- Kenyan elections: Uhuru Kenyatta wins second term – video
- The nuclear folly of Donald Trump’s fire and fury | Letters
- Yemen: aid offers ‘only hope of survival’ in cholera epidemic, says Priti Patel
- The curse of blades and powders: FGM in Somaliland – in pictures
- Car falls seven storeys from parking garage – video
- While the president's away, the White House gets a facelift – in pictures
- Egyptian emergency services respond following train crash – video
| Chinese president speaks with Trump and urges calm over North Korea Posted: 11 Aug 2017 10:35 PM PDT
China's president, Xi Jinping, has told Donald Trump in a phone call that all sides should avoid rhetoric or action that would worsen tensions on the Korean peninsula, according to Chinese state media. Reports quoted Xi as saying: "At present, the relevant parties must maintain restraint and avoid words and deeds that would exacerbate the tension on the Korean peninsula." |
| Oxford University worker appears in US court over fatal stabbing Posted: 11 Aug 2017 11:19 AM PDT Andrew Warren handed himself in to police in California last week after being sought over death of hairdresser in Chicago An Oxford University employee who spent more than a week as a fugitive has appeared in court in the US accused of murdering a hairdresser whose body was found with more than 40 stab wounds. Andrew Warren, who worked as a senior treasury assistant at Somerville College, appeared before a judge in San Francisco where he confirmed his identity. The 56-year-old handed himself in to police in California last week. Continue reading... |
| Uhuru Kenyatta confirmed as Kenyan president Posted: 11 Aug 2017 02:22 PM PDT Shots heard in Nairobi as president calls for unity but opposition refuses to recognise result Uhuru Kenyatta has been re-elected as president in Kenya, with final official results giving the incumbent a substantial margin of victory over the veteran opposition politician Raila Odinga. After an acrimonious campaign, Kenyatta used his re-election speech to reach out to Odinga and supporters on Friday night, saying he wanted to work with them "in the service of Kenya". Continue reading... |
| Egg contamination scandal widens as 15 EU states, Switzerland and Hong Kong affected Posted: 11 Aug 2017 09:23 AM PDT Brussels spokeswoman says situation is evolving as two men remain arrested following raids in Belgium and the Netherlands Europe's latest food scandal has widened after the European commission announced that a total of 15 EU states, plus Switzerland and Hong Kong, are now known to have received egg products contaminated by an insecticide harmful to human health. A spokeswoman in Brussels said the situation was "evolving by the day", as criminal investigators continued to hold two men arrested on Thursday for fraud following a series of raids in Belgium and the Netherlands. Continue reading... |
| Dozens killed as two trains collide in Egypt Posted: 11 Aug 2017 10:18 AM PDT Death toll likely to rise as train from Cairo crashes into the back of another coming from Port Said At least 43 people were killed and more than 100 injured when two trains collided in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria on Friday in the country's deadliest rail accident in more than a decade. The crash occurred at a small station in the district of Khorshid, just east of Alexandria, when one train travelling from the capital, Cairo, hit the back of another, stationary train, travelling from Port Said. Continue reading... |
| Refugee rescue ship sails to aid of anti-migrant activists stranded in Med Posted: 11 Aug 2017 08:22 AM PDT German NGO says its rescue vessel is sailing to help a group of far-right activists after their ship got into trouble off the coast of Libya An NGO vessel that has saved the lives of hundreds of migrants in the Mediterranean is sailing to the rescue of a group of far-right anti-immigration activists whose ship is in difficulties off the coast of Libya. The German NGO Sea Eye said one of its search and rescue boats was on its way to the C-Star, manned by members of the extremist Generation Identity group, which sent a distress signal after an engine failure left it unable to manoeuvre. Continue reading... |
| Italian firefighter filmed starting blaze amid wildfires across country Posted: 11 Aug 2017 09:00 AM PDT 28-year-old man arrested in Pavia, Lombardy, on suspicion of setting fire to hedges and rubbish bins A volunteer firefighter has been filmed starting a blaze in northern Italy at a time when the country is struggling to cope with a spate of wildfires. A 28-year-old man was arrested in Pavia, Lombardy, on suspicion of setting fire to hedges and rubbish bins before returning to his force's base, alerting colleagues and rushing with them to put out the blaze. Police said he was suspected of having started at least seven fires since 2014. Continue reading... |
| Taylor Swift bodyguard tells court he saw DJ reach under singer's skirt Posted: 11 Aug 2017 09:38 AM PDT
A former bodyguard for Taylor Swift has said he saw a DJ she accuses of groping her reach under the singer's skirt during a 2013 pre-concert meet-and-greet photo session. But Greg Dent testified on Friday he did not take any immediate action because he generally took his cues from Swift, and she gave him none. Continue reading... |
| Rich and famous flee French Riviera over tax and fuel charges Posted: 11 Aug 2017 05:21 AM PDT Local politicians write to Emmanuel Macron to complain about loss of business at resorts such as Antibes as luxury yachts head for Spain or Italy instead On billionaires' quay in Antibes, the sound of summer is the clink of champagne glasses from luxury yachts moored off the French Riviera. In August, the biggest, most expensive and most lavish boats in the world would normally congregate in Côte d'Azur, a playground for the rich and famous. Continue reading... |
| Amateur submarine inventor arrested on suspicion of murder Posted: 11 Aug 2017 02:00 PM PDT Man whose vessel sunk off coast of Denmark denies killing missing journalist and claims he dropped her off on an island An amateur submarine maker whose vessel sank off the Danish coast has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a Swedish journalist who joined him for the voyage was reported missing. Peter Madsen, 46, denies killing the missing woman, claiming he dropped her off on an island about three and a half hours into their trip on Thursday night, according to Copenhagen police. Continue reading... |
| Hong Kong activist says he was 'stapled' over Lionel Messi photo Posted: 11 Aug 2017 04:13 AM PDT Democratic party member Howard Lam claims he was tortured by Chinese agents over plan to send photo to dissident's widow A Hong Kong pro-democracy activist says he was beaten and had his legs stapled by Chinese agents because he was planning to send a signed photo of Lionel Messi to a dissident's widow. Howard Lam, a member of Hong Kong's Democratic party, said he was snatched on the street on Thursday, forced into a car and made to smell something that caused him to lose consciousness. Continue reading... |
| Put to the vote: German nursery where children make the decisions Posted: 11 Aug 2017 03:20 AM PDT Dolli Einstein Haus in Pinneberg is run on a democratic basis, with votes on everything from food to nappy changes At the Dolli Einstein Haus, constitutional crises are usually solved before breakfast. When one delegate's motion in favour of rice pudding with cherry compote was roundly defeated the delegates were left facing a hung vote over the choice of french toast or pancake with apple puree. Another council member then demanded sausages with spaghetti. But a second-round runoff broke the deadlock: 12:4 in favour of pancakes, an absolute majority that everyone could live with. At most nurseries, parents worry that their child will pick up nits, a runny nose or bad language. At the Dolli Einstein Haus in Pinneberg, however, parents hope that their offspring catch a different kind of habit: a taste for democracy. |
| Drug dens v safe houses: the fight over Ciudad Juárez's abandoned houses Posted: 11 Aug 2017 02:00 AM PDT In three years, 10,000 people were killed in Juárez – and a quarter of its houses abandoned to gangs. Can the city's young people reclaim those spaces for themselves? At the age of 14, Alan has already been given the nickname El Botellas (Bottles) by his friends. The teenager dropped out of school and now drinks heavily, spending much of his time at a dilapidated home on the outskirts of the Mexico border city of Ciudad Juárez. On a particularly hot Saturday afternoon, a former gang member turned community activist, Israel Ríos, appears at the house. "You are too young for this!" he scolds. Ríos promises to give the assembled kids English classes, despite El Botellas' insistence that he is not interested in learning. Continue reading... |
| Police investigate hate mail sent to UK and US mosques Posted: 12 Aug 2017 01:20 AM PDT Counter-terror inquiry into letters and suspicious packages sent from location near Sheffield over past 12 months Counter-terrorism police are investigating an apparent transatlantic anti-Muslim campaign after hate mail and suspicious packages were sent from a location near Sheffield to mosques in London, South Yorkshire and the US. Handwritten notes were received by three mosques and other addresses across London in July. They all bore a Sheffield postmark, as did hate mail received by at least four US mosques earlier this year, and by three UK mosques in July last year. Continue reading... |
| The Guardian view on nudity: grin and bare it | Editorial Posted: 11 Aug 2017 11:19 AM PDT The German tradition of nudist beaches shows us the flawed glory of the human body. It should not be sexualised The veteran German leftist politician Gregor Gysi wants his compatriots to take off more of their clothes. He is angry that the long German tradition of therapeutic nudity in the open air is being undermined. Only this summer the nudist portion of one of the beaches in Berlin was brutally shortened by the authorities, and the mostly elderly users are furious. They are right. Mr Gysi argues that public nudity can be much less erotic than a bikini and that the beaches he remembers his mother taking him to in his East German youth were places where women of all shapes and ages could enjoy their bodies for their own sake. It was, he says, the "pornographic gaze" of westerners after reunification that destroyed the pleasure of nude bathing, which had always been more widespread in East Germany and – he claims – something promoted more by women than by men. Of course the east was then a tyranny in which there was little frivolity or choice on offer. For all but the most confidently young and gorgeous it is more fun to choose a bathing costume than to make do with what nature has provided, so in a consumer culture this is now what people do. Continue reading... |
| The 20 photographs of the week Posted: 12 Aug 2017 12:49 AM PDT Protests in Nairobi, wildfires in Europe, the World Athletics Championships and airstrikes in Syria – the news of the week captured by the world's best photojournalists Continue reading... |
| Kenyan protests against Kenyatta election victory turn deadly Posted: 12 Aug 2017 01:52 AM PDT At least two shot dead during overnight protests by opposition supporters who claim presidential vote was rigged At least two people have been shot dead in Kenya during protests by opposition supporters against the re-election of President Uhuru Kenyatta, officials said. "We have one person killed and four others admitted in hospital with gunshot injuries," said Dr Ojwang Lusi, the regional health chief in western Kisumu county. Continue reading... |
| Tracking Trump: how the most tense week yet with North Korea unfolded Posted: 11 Aug 2017 11:00 PM PDT Domestic issues took a backseat this week as the US president ratcheted up the fiery rhetoric with North Korea over its nuclear arsenal
It was a week in which Donald Trump's relationship with Russia and domestic issues such as healthcare took a back seat, and probably the most intractable problem in the president's foreign policy in-tray came to the fore, as Trump and North Korea competed to ratchet up the rhetoric over Pyongyang's nuclear arsenal. Continue reading... |
| Trump threatens 'military option' in Venezuela as crisis escalates Posted: 11 Aug 2017 08:15 PM PDT In a surprise intervention, Donald Trump said he would not rule out using military force as the country descends further into civil unrest Donald Trump threatened a US military intervention in Venezuela on Friday, a dramatic escalation in his administration's stance toward the Latin American country which is descending into political chaos. Trump made the remarks in response to questions from reporters at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. Continue reading... |
| Divide and rule? Gap grows between Sydney's haves and have-lesses Posted: 11 Aug 2017 09:16 PM PDT From council mergers to the sale of public assets, shades of of ideology or reactive populism are being seen in the NSW government's approach When the New South Wales premier, Gladys Berejiklian, announced new laws to drive the rough sleepers out of Martin Place this week, the homelessness sector let out a collective sigh of exasperation. It wasn't just the lack of compassion – more that the move-on powers ran contrary to the evidenced-based policies the sector had been screaming out for. Continue reading... |
| Charlottesville: far-right crowd with torches encircles counter-protest group Posted: 12 Aug 2017 12:11 AM PDT People gathering to oppose Unite the Right demonstration say they were hit with pepper spray and lighter fluid in clash on University of Virginia campus Hundreds of far-right demonstrators wielded torches as they marched on to the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville on Friday night and reportedly attacked a much smaller group of counter-protesters who had linked arms around a statue of Thomas Jefferson. Starting at a municipal park less than a mile away, "alt-right" protesters who have gathered for the weekend Unite the Right rally marched in a long column over the short distance to the campus, chanting slogans like "You will not replace us" and "Blood and soil". Continue reading... |
| 'Don't talk about the goat wars': how a feral herd divided a Devon village Posted: 12 Aug 2017 12:00 AM PDT A herd of feral goats living in a beauty spot outside Lynton have sparked hate mail, death threats, even a murder inquiry. William Atkins reports In the Crown Hotel in Lynton, they tell a gruesome tale about the Valley of Rocks. One June night in 1995, a chef, raging drunk, snatched up a meat cleaver and, announcing he was going to kill someone, vanished into the night. Early next morning, on the clifftop path that leads from the north Devon village to the valley, a dog-walker came upon a 300-yard trail of blood. A murder inquiry was launched, the scene was taped off, forensics tents erected and samples sent away for analysis. The Valley of Rocks is one of those incongruous corners of rural England that seem immune to time's passage. This is partly down to its sheer seclusion, pressed between the expanse of Exmoor to the south and the Bristol Channel to the north. Half a mile east is Lynton and, on the coast 500ft below, the village of Lynmouth, with its memorial museum to the devastating flood of 1952. Continue reading... |
| So ... do we start building basement shelters yet? | Jessica Valenti Posted: 11 Aug 2017 03:50 PM PDT When it feels like the country is in a constant state of political upheaval and controversy, it's difficult to know if and when to panic • Get this newsletter via email – sign up If you're like me, you just might be in a constant state of anxiety thanks to the president threatening military action ... on Twitter. No one can say we weren't warned. What I'm struggling with is just how afraid we should be. When it feels like the country is in a constant state of political upheaval and controversy, it's difficult to know if and when to panic. (Does "always" count?) I'm sticking with my low-level anxiety as a baseline for now, but I'd love some expert guidance on when to start building that basement shelter. Continue reading... |
| Kenyan elections: Uhuru Kenyatta wins second term – video Posted: 11 Aug 2017 01:16 PM PDT Uhuru Kenyatta is declared the winner of the Kenyan presidential race on Friday night in the capital, Nairobi. Kenyatta won 54% of the vote. In his victory speech he reached out to opposition parties, calling for unity for the challenges ahead. The opposing Orange Democratic Movement walked out of the ceremony Continue reading... |
| The nuclear folly of Donald Trump’s fire and fury | Letters Posted: 11 Aug 2017 11:16 AM PDT Readers respond to the escalating brinkmanship and rhetoric between the US president and North Korea's Kim Jong-un You report (10 August) that the US has warned North Korea that it risks the destruction of its people. However, the US is risking the destruction of all people. Of eight Trident submarines stationed at Bangor, Washington state, at least two are probably on patrol in the western Pacific. Each is believed to carry 108 nuclear warheads, equivalent to more than 1,400 Hiroshima-sized detonations. The US is supported by the UK, which has four Trident subs at Faslane in Scotland, and holds to Nato's policy of first use on nuclear arms. Rather than sign the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons – agreed by 122 states at the UN – the US and UK pursue a "Do as I say, not as I do" policy. More balanced voices in the foreign policies of both governments are urgently needed. |
| Yemen: aid offers ‘only hope of survival’ in cholera epidemic, says Priti Patel Posted: 11 Aug 2017 08:39 AM PDT Development secretary says 'catastrophic disaster' is looming unless foreign donors follow UK lead to tackle disease that has infected half a million Yemenis Humanitarian aid is "the only hope Yemeni people have to survive", said the UK development minister, Priti Patel. She warned Yemen is "on the brink of catastrophic disaster" unless the international community follows Britain's lead to stem the cholera epidemic. Heavy rains, stagnant water and overflowing rubbish bins have stoked a second wave of the outbreak, which has so far swept across 90% of the country, infecting almost half a million people and killing 1,900 since it began in 2015. Continue reading... |
| The curse of blades and powders: FGM in Somaliland – in pictures Posted: 11 Aug 2017 03:04 AM PDT Almost all women aged 15 to 49 in the east African state of Somaliland have suffered female genital mutilation. But a campaign to highlight the physical and psychological damage caused by the practice is starting to have an impact Photographs: Georgina Goodwin/UNFPA Continue reading... |
| Car falls seven storeys from parking garage – video Posted: 11 Aug 2017 09:54 AM PDT Police in Austin, Texas, have released surveillance video showing a car plunging seven storeys from a parking garage and striking another vehicle as it lands in an alley. The video released on Thursday shows the car landing on an SUV before rolling upside down on to the ground. The driver of the car survived the crash but is in hospital Continue reading... |
| While the president's away, the White House gets a facelift – in pictures Posted: 11 Aug 2017 09:20 AM PDT Donald Trump is on vacation in Bedminster, New Jersey, so the builders are in to make some much-needed repairs to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Continue reading... |
| Egyptian emergency services respond following train crash – video Posted: 11 Aug 2017 09:10 AM PDT Egyptian civilians and emergency services attend the site of a train crash near Khorshid station between Alexandria and Cairo on Friday. Dozens of people have died and many more have been injured in the incident Continue reading... |
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