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- Saudi Arabia: new details of dissident princes' abductions emerge
- Charlottesville: CEOs quit Trump council over response to violence
- North Korea's Kim to assess 'foolish Yankees' before deciding on Guam missile attack
- Taylor Swift: jury rules in favor of pop singer in groping case
- Brazilian police question suspect over shooting of British tourist
- 'We stood helpless' - parents recall horror of Indian hospital where 64 died
- Girl dies after car ‘deliberately’ driven into pizzeria near Paris
- Leader of neo-Nazi group linked to Charlottesville attack was a US marine
- North Korea attack on Guam could 'quickly escalate into war' – James Mattis
- Hundreds feared dead in Sierra Leone mudslide
- Solomon Islands signs security deal with Australia to protect against unrest
- 'It's a miracle for me to be here': freed Canadian pastor speaks of ordeal in North Korean prison
- Three NGOs halt Mediterranean migrant rescues after Libyan hostility
- UK CPI inflation unexpectedly holds steady at 2.6% in July - business live
- Three British men to be caned for sexual assault of woman in Singapore
- UK may have to pay EU in temporary customs union, Davis suggests
- Coalition loses vote condemning government over climate – as it happened
- Thessaloniki in the spotlight: 100 years after a fire destroyed the city of refugees
- Sticky situation: Mexico City's sisyphean battle with chewing gum
- Grenfell fire public inquiry to consider cause and council response
- I am a civilian in Raqqa. Surviving the siege is becoming harder every day | Tim Ramadan
- New York protests against Trump after Charlottesville violence – video
- 'The help never lasts': why has Mexico's education revolution failed?
- Coalition elevates citizenship crisis into diplomatic incident with New Zealand
- US government demands details on all visitors to anti-Trump protest website
- Wildfires across southern European amid scorching heatwave – in pictures
- I’ll get my goat: Kazakhstan's ancient sport for modern times
- Guam radio stations accidentally air emergency alert amid North Korea threat
- Tuesday briefing: 'Free and frictionless' – the new Tory mantra
- Small crowd turns out as pitchfork-brandishing Dick Smith campaigns for small Australia
- India: the British Raj is dead - archive, 15 August 1947
- ‘They use money to promote Christianity’: Nepal's battle for souls
- Q&A: What are Trump and the White House's links to the far right?
- Confederate soldier statue toppled in North Carolina – video
- Donald Trump finally condemns racism in Charlottesville – video
- Gunmen attack restaurant in Burkina Faso – video report
| Saudi Arabia: new details of dissident princes' abductions emerge Posted: 14 Aug 2017 09:00 PM PDT Documentary broadcasting this week asserts three princes were victims of government scheme to kidnap defectors New details have emerged about the abductions of three dissident Saudi princes in what appears to be a systematic state-run Saudi government programme to kidnap defectors and dissidents. The three, all members of the Saudi regime before they became involved in peaceful political activities against the government in Riyadh, were kidnapped and taken against their will to Saudi Arabia between September 2015 and February 2016. Continue reading... |
| Charlottesville: CEOs quit Trump council over response to violence Posted: 15 Aug 2017 01:21 AM PDT Bosses from Intel, Merck and Under Armour distance themselves from administration after president's reluctance to denounce white nationalists Three executives have quit Donald Trump's business advisory panel, throwing it into chaos, in the wake of the president's failure to immediately denounce white supremacists over a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that left one dead and several others injured. The CEOs of pharmaceutical giant Merck, sportswear retailer Under Armour and computer company Intel have all resigned from Trump's American Manufacturing Council as pressure mounts for business leaders who aligned themselves with the president to abandon his administration. |
| North Korea's Kim to assess 'foolish Yankees' before deciding on Guam missile attack Posted: 14 Aug 2017 09:42 PM PDT Leader's comments come after US defence secretary warned North Korean missile attack 'could escalate into war very quickly' Kim Jong-un appeared on Tuesday to signal a pause in the escalating war of words with Donald Trump, saying he was prepared to watch US actions in the region "a little more" before ordering a planned launch of North Korean missiles aimed at the US territory of Guam. Related: Japan fears the once distant threat of North Korean missiles is becoming real | Justin McCurry Continue reading... |
| Taylor Swift: jury rules in favor of pop singer in groping case Posted: 15 Aug 2017 12:59 AM PDT Swift pledges donations to organisations helping sexual assault victims after jury finds David Mueller grabbed her before a 2013 concert Taylor Swift has won vindication after a jury decided in a civil trial that a radio host groped her during a pre-concert photo op four years ago. After a week-long trial over dueling lawsuits, jurors determined Monday that fired Denver DJ David Mueller assaulted the pop star by grabbing her backside during a backstage meet-and-greet. Continue reading... |
| Brazilian police question suspect over shooting of British tourist Posted: 14 Aug 2017 08:46 AM PDT One man arrested and two killed in police operation in Angra dos Reis, near where Eloise Dixon was shot in car a week ago Brazilian police have arrested a man suspected of involvement in the shooting of a British tourist, Eloise Dixon, during an operation in which two other men were killed. Dixon, 46, was shot twice on 6 August when her family's hire car failed to stop for drug gang members in Água Santa, a low-income community near the tourist port of Angra dos Reis, a three-hour drive from Rio de Janeiro. Continue reading... |
| 'We stood helpless' - parents recall horror of Indian hospital where 64 died Posted: 15 Aug 2017 01:03 AM PDT Hospital boss suspended as stories emerge of parents using hand pumps to try to save children, and others ejected from wards As oxygen supplies ran out at a hospital in northern India, desperate parents used manual pumps to force air into the lungs of their dying children. Others scoured the city for blood, syringes and other basic supplies that the facility lacked. They begged medical staff for help. Some said police hustled them from the wards after their children died. Indians have been reacting with horror as testimony emerges from inside the hospital in Gorakhpur in the state of Uttar Pradesh where at least 64 children, some newborns, are reported to have died over six-day period last week. Continue reading... |
| Girl dies after car ‘deliberately’ driven into pizzeria near Paris Posted: 14 Aug 2017 02:18 PM PDT Five other people critically injured after vehicle ploughs into terrace of restaurant in Sept-Sorts, 34 miles east of French capital A girl has been killed after a man crashed his car into a pizzeria on the outskirts of Paris. Thirteen other diners were injured according to the deputy public prosecutor, five of them critically – including a three-year-old boy who was in intensive care. The driver, who French police said appeared to have been acting deliberately, rammed into the terrace of the restaurant in a shopping area at Sept-Sorts, a small suburb 34 miles (55km) to the east of Paris. Continue reading... |
| Leader of neo-Nazi group linked to Charlottesville attack was a US marine Posted: 14 Aug 2017 01:51 PM PDT Dillon Hopper, the self-styled 'commander' of the Vanguard America group that attacker James Fields marched with, was a sergeant in the US marine corps The leader of the neo-Nazi group that James Fields marched with in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday before allegedly killing a protester with his car served in the US marine corps until earlier this year. Dillon Hopper, the self-styled "commander" of Vanguard America, is a recently retired marine staff sergeant and veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Members of his white supremacist group marched in Virginia last weekend. Continue reading... |
| North Korea attack on Guam could 'quickly escalate into war' – James Mattis Posted: 15 Aug 2017 12:02 AM PDT US defence secretary issues warning after Pyongyang threatens to launch missiles into the sea near US Pacific island territory
James Mattis, the US defence secretary, has warned that a North Korean missile attack aimed at US territory "could escalate into war very quickly", saying US forces would know "within moments" if one was heading towards Guam, home to military bases and 160,000 people. Continue reading... |
| Hundreds feared dead in Sierra Leone mudslide Posted: 14 Aug 2017 11:00 AM PDT More than 2,000 people estimated to be homeless as mudslide near Freetown submerges houses and turns streets into churning rivers Hundreds of people have been killed in a mudslide near Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown. A hillside in Regent, a mountainous town 15 miles east of Freetown, collapsed in the early hours of Monday morning after heavy rains, leaving hundreds of people trapped. Morgues in the capital have been overwhelmed with bodies, while relatives have been left to dig through the mud in search of remains. Continue reading... |
| Solomon Islands signs security deal with Australia to protect against unrest Posted: 14 Aug 2017 03:12 PM PDT Australia to send in forces, if needed, but Solomons PM Manasseh Sogavare says he hopes agreement will never be used Australia and the Solomon Islands have signed a new security treaty – one the Solomons' prime minister hopes will "collect dust" and never be used. In Australia for a week-long visit, the Solomon Islands prime minister, Manasseh Sogavare, said the bilateral security agreement he signed on Monday with the Australian prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, would provide for the rapid deployment of Australian security forces in the case of civil and ethnic unrest of the kind witnessed in the Solomons in the early 2000s. Continue reading... |
| 'It's a miracle for me to be here': freed Canadian pastor speaks of ordeal in North Korean prison Posted: 14 Aug 2017 09:22 AM PDT Hyeon Soo Lim spent two years and seven months in custody, sentenced to hard labour for allegedly attempting to overthrow the country's regime Days after being released from a North Korean prison, a Canadian pastor who spent more than two years in custody has spoken about his ordeal, detailing the hard labour he was forced to carry out and his ongoing battle against overwhelming loneliness. "From the first day of my detainment until the day I was released, I ate 2,757 meals in isolation," Hyeon Soo Lim said in a prepared statement handed out before his first public appearance at a church near Toronto on Sunday. "It was difficult to see when and how the entire ordeal would end." Continue reading... |
| Three NGOs halt Mediterranean migrant rescues after Libyan hostility Posted: 14 Aug 2017 06:47 AM PDT MSF, Save the Children and Germany's Sea Eye suspend operations after repeated clashes with Libyan coastguard vessels Three NGOs have suspended migrant rescues in the Mediterranean because of the increasingly hostile stance of the Libyan authorities and coastguard. Save the Children and Germany's Sea Eye have joined Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) in halting operations because they feel their crews can no longer work safely in what Sea Eye called a "changed security situation in the western Mediterranean". Continue reading... |
| UK CPI inflation unexpectedly holds steady at 2.6% in July - business live Posted: 15 Aug 2017 02:11 AM PDT Consumer price index stays at 2.6% despite forecasts of a rise to 2.7% in July, while US retail sales also awaited
Both measures of inflation have been rising steadily since a year ago:
Here's our news story on how the rise in the retail price index will lead to higher rail fares: Related: Commuters brace for steepest fare rise in five years as UK inflation rises to 3.6% Continue reading... |
| Three British men to be caned for sexual assault of woman in Singapore Posted: 15 Aug 2017 01:54 AM PDT Men given five to eight strokes of rattan cane and up to six and a half years in prison for 'reprehensible' attack at stag party Three British men have been sentenced to jail and caning for sexually assaulting a Malaysian woman during a stag party in Singapore. The defendants – Khong Tam Thanh, 22, Michael Le, 24, and Vu Thai Son, 24 – were originally accused of taking turns to rape the woman in a hotel room. The three pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of aggravated outrage of modesty. Continue reading... |
| UK may have to pay EU in temporary customs union, Davis suggests Posted: 15 Aug 2017 01:32 AM PDT Brexit secretary says position paper will propose deal allowing goods transit across borders to carry on in interim period Britain may have to pay the EU to participate in a temporary customs union after leaving the bloc, the Brexit secretary has suggested. In a round of broadcast interviews, David Davis confirmed the government would use a position paper published on Tuesday to propose for a "shortish" period a deal allowing the transit of goods across borders to continue under a temporary customs union. Continue reading... |
| Coalition loses vote condemning government over climate – as it happened Posted: 15 Aug 2017 01:24 AM PDT Labor amendment to a Great Barrier Reef bill noting the Coalition is failing to protect the reef by not addressing climate change passes lower house on a chaotic day
It's time to shuffle off so let me tell you what happened in reverse order. A staff member in my office had informal discussions with New Zealand friends about domestic political issues, including the section 44 debate. At no point did he make any request to raise the issue of dual citizenship in parliament, a fact confirmed today by Mr Hipkins and the New Zealand Labor leader. As Mr Hipkins has said "the question was not asked on behalf of Australian Labor". In fact, neither I, nor my staff member had any knowledge the question had even been asked until after the story broke. New Zealand minister Peter Dunne has since confirmed it was questions by Fairfax journalists, and not the question on notice, which led to the outing of My Joyce as a New Zealand citizen. For the Turnbull government to then turn this into a diplomatic incident to try to distract attention from the failings of the deputy prime minister is both reckless, and damaging. Tuesday in govt:
So due to the government numbers, the Coalition manage to overturn the Labor amendment on the reef. Labor has moved a suspension of standing orders to debate the reef but it was lost. Continue reading... |
| Thessaloniki in the spotlight: 100 years after a fire destroyed the city of refugees Posted: 14 Aug 2017 05:08 AM PDT The Great Fire destroyed much of a city home to thousands of refugees, but once again Thessaloniki has become a place of multicultural amnesty It was a spark from a homemade stove falling on a pile of straw at a refugees' hovel that's said to have instigated a new phase in the history of Thessaloniki, Greece's second city. A century ago, on 18 August 1917, the fire grew into an inferno that destroyed 9,500 houses, left 1 sq km of the city in cinders and 70,000 homeless. As the centre of operations for allied forces in the Balkans during the first world war, Thessaloniki had no fire service and its water supply was requisitioned by foreign soldiers – which, along with the Vadaris wind, is why the Great Fire attained historic proportions. Continue reading... |
| Sticky situation: Mexico City's sisyphean battle with chewing gum Posted: 14 Aug 2017 03:40 AM PDT Streets across the world are littered with gum, and although many cities have tried and failed to eradicate these sticky circles, Mexico City continues to wage this seemingly unwinnable war Each night dozens of trucks carrying 15 people depart from Mexico City's downtown to Francisco I Madero Avenue, the most famous pedestrian street in the capital. Armed with 90C vapour guns called Terminators, the group begins the laborious task of combing the street looking for small, black circles fastened to the ground. It takes them three days, working in eight-hour shifts, to go through the 9,000 sq metre avenue. By the end, they have removed a total of 11,000 pieces of chewing gum. Continue reading... |
| Grenfell fire public inquiry to consider cause and council response Posted: 15 Aug 2017 02:29 AM PDT Scope of inquiry announced, with PM saying it will not cover broader social questions but insisting they will not be left unanswered The Grenfell Tower public inquiry will examine issues including the cause of the fire and the actions of authorities before the blaze, the government has announced. The prime minister said broader social questions raised by the fire, in which at least 80 people died, will not form part of the inquiry but she was determined they would not be left unanswered. Continue reading... |
| I am a civilian in Raqqa. Surviving the siege is becoming harder every day | Tim Ramadan Posted: 15 Aug 2017 12:00 AM PDT As well as the airstrikes and lack of food, those of us left here endure the severe mental strain of hiding our true personalities from Isis and the religious police Islamic State closed the doors of Raqqa, its de facto capital in Syria, to civilians and blocked their escape from the city more than a year ago. Then some of their fighters began taking money from civilians in return for allowing them to leave – up to $800 per person. Many residents do not have that kind of money, having lost their savings because of the war, and so found themselves stuck and in need of a means of survival. Related: The battle for Raqqa – in pictures Continue reading... |
| New York protests against Trump after Charlottesville violence – video Posted: 15 Aug 2017 01:23 AM PDT Protesters chanting 'lock him up' and 'not my president' marched to Trump Tower in New York on Monday before the arrival of the US president's motorcade on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. Some people held up signs blaming Trump for the violence in Charlottesville, with some quoting civil rights activist Heather Heyer, who was killed on Saturday in a car attack. President's first Trump Tower homecoming met with mass protest Continue reading... |
| 'The help never lasts': why has Mexico's education revolution failed? Posted: 14 Aug 2017 11:00 PM PDT Education was meant to be president Enrique Peña Nieto's flagship policy. Yet salaries are still being paid to 'ghost teachers' who never enter a classroom, while children lack the tools – and even the food – they need to learn It's almost four in the afternoon, and a quarter of the fifth-grade pupils at Ángel Albino Corzo primary school in Buena Vista haven't eaten all day. The children are fidgety and distracted as their teacher explains decimals on the white board. They are counting down the minutes until break time, when they will be given a small portion of beans with tortillas – for some, the only meal they will eat today (Mexico's schooling is split into two distinct shifts; these children study from 1.30-6pm). Continue reading... |
| Coalition elevates citizenship crisis into diplomatic incident with New Zealand Posted: 15 Aug 2017 02:17 AM PDT Chaotic day in federal parliament ends with procedural embarrassment for Turnbull following spat with New Zealand opposition The Turnbull government lost a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives as the culmination of a chaotic and bitterly contested day where it elevated its dual citizenship crisis into a full blown trans-Tasman diplomatic incident. The lost vote in the House late on Tuesday meant Labor amended environmental legislation to include a criticism that the Coalition was failing to protect the Great Barrier Reef – a procedural embarrassment that followed a day of rolling controversy about the deputy prime minister's dual citizenship of New Zealand. Continue reading... |
| US government demands details on all visitors to anti-Trump protest website Posted: 15 Aug 2017 01:21 AM PDT Privacy advocates call warrant for IP addresses of 1.3 million people who visited inauguration protest website an unconstitutional 'fishing expedition' The US government is seeking to unmask every person who visited an anti-Trump website in what privacy advocates say is an unconstitutional "fishing expedition" for political dissidents. The warrant appears to be an escalation of the department of justice's campaign against anti-Trump activities, including the harsh prosecution of inauguration day protesters. Continue reading... |
| Wildfires across southern European amid scorching heatwave – in pictures Posted: 15 Aug 2017 12:05 AM PDT Extreme weather across southern Europe has spawned and fanned numerous wildfires, including at the beach resort of Kalamos near Athens and in central Portugal Continue reading... |
| I’ll get my goat: Kazakhstan's ancient sport for modern times Posted: 14 Aug 2017 11:45 PM PDT The sport of kokpar is like blood-drenched polo, with a headless goat as the ball. And even as Kazakhstan tries to forge a modern, high-tech identity for itself, this age-old game is being pushed as a defining part of its culture. By Will Boast The most decorated athlete in all of Kazakhstan is a five-year-old Mongolian horse named Lazer. Born wild on the steppe, he lacks the lean grace of a thoroughbred or an Arabian. Except for his large head and broad front haunches, he is small enough to be mistaken for a pony. His coat is a dusty black, tinged with rust, and his unkempt mane hangs punkishly over his eyes. Short-legged, small-eared, with aloof, walnut eyes, he might be any one of the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of horses ranging over the grasslands of this enormous, wide-open country. In the ancient nomadic game known as kokpar (roughly, "goat-grabbing"), Lazer is a champion many times over, with eight Kazakh National Games and two Central Asian Games titles to his name. Kokpar's premise is simple: two teams take to a chalked-out 200-metre field to compete over a headless, freshly slaughtered goat, wrestling control back and forth in an attempt to score by flinging it into the opponent's goal. Lazer has been trained for the game from an early age, learning to evade or dig in against much larger defensive horses. In fierce face-offs and chaotic scrums, it's often a wonder that Lazer's rider – a thickset, windbeaten man named Abdijaparov Abugali – can even hold on, let alone swing his body down Lazer's flank in a headfirst lunge for the trampled goat carcass around which the horses stamp and circle. Continue reading... |
| Guam radio stations accidentally air emergency alert amid North Korea threat Posted: 14 Aug 2017 11:44 PM PDT Civil danger warning was human error, says homeland security office, as Kim Jong-un keeps up pressure with maps showing missile route to Pacific island After a week of threats from North Korea aimed at Guam, residents on Tuesday thought the worst when two radio stations accidentally broadcast an emergency civil danger warning. Related: Life at 'the tip of the spear': defiant Guam refuses to cower to Kim Continue reading... |
| Tuesday briefing: 'Free and frictionless' – the new Tory mantra Posted: 14 Aug 2017 10:37 PM PDT Government lays out post-Brexit trade aims … Taylor Swift wins DJ groping case … and Saudi Arabia alleged to have disappeared three dissident princes Good morning – it's Warren Murray with the news at breakfast time. Continue reading... |
| Small crowd turns out as pitchfork-brandishing Dick Smith campaigns for small Australia Posted: 14 Aug 2017 10:20 PM PDT Millionaire rails against inequality while launching $1m advertising blitz that blames immigration and population growth for country's woes In a large room of the Sydney Hilton hotel, Dick Smith addressed a small crowd holding a red plastic pitchfork. "Hopefully I'm going to be attacked by people over this," he said in front of his newest doom-laden public service ad, featuring the narrator of the infamous Grim Reaper Aids awareness ads of the 1980s. Continue reading... |
| India: the British Raj is dead - archive, 15 August 1947 Posted: 14 Aug 2017 09:00 PM PDT 15 August 1947: The wheel has come full circle and the British who went to India to trade are now once more in India only as traders Editorial Related: Mr Jinnah, founding father of independent Pakistan: from the archive, 12 August 1947 Continue reading... |
| ‘They use money to promote Christianity’: Nepal's battle for souls Posted: 14 Aug 2017 11:00 PM PDT Critics allege that it is not just caste discrimination leading many Dalits in Nepal to turn away from Hindu beliefs and become Christians Ram Maya Sunar had two miscarriages. Then she had a daughter, who died of pneumonia when she was one. "My second child died from tuberculosis at just six months. I'm still haunted by it," Sunar says, sitting outside her concrete block hut in the village of Thakaldanda, in southern Nepal's Makwanpur district. Continue reading... |
| Q&A: What are Trump and the White House's links to the far right? Posted: 14 Aug 2017 10:44 AM PDT We break down how the White House, Breitbart News, Steve Bannon and Trump's cabinet are all connected to recent events in Charlottesville Activists say so. A group of civil rights and faith leaders called on Donald Trump to directly disavow the white supremacists marching in Charlottesville on Saturday and fire White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, deputy assistant Sebastian Gorka and senior adviser Stephen Miller, whom they say "have stoked hate and division". Continue reading... |
| Confederate soldier statue toppled in North Carolina – video Posted: 15 Aug 2017 12:25 AM PDT Anti-racism protesters in Durham, North Carolina, used a rope to topple a century-old statue of a Confederate soldier outside local government offices on Monday evening. Seconds after it fell, the demonstrators – some white, some black – kicked the crumpled bronze monument as dozens cheered and chanted Continue reading... |
| Donald Trump finally condemns racism in Charlottesville – video Posted: 14 Aug 2017 11:33 AM PDT US president speaks out against violence in Virginia city following widespread criticism over initial response to white nationalists, days after one person was killed and 30 injured in clashes Continue reading... |
| Gunmen attack restaurant in Burkina Faso – video report Posted: 14 Aug 2017 04:56 AM PDT At least 17 people were killed and several wounded in Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou, after gunmen stormed the Aziz Istanbul restaurant on Sunday night. Security forces were deployed and exchanged heavy gunfire with the militants Continue reading... |
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