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- Hong Kong democracy campaigners jailed over anti-China protests
- Bonded by spilt blood, South Sudanese refugees in Uganda reach million mark
- Steve Bannon brands far right 'losers' and contradicts Trump in surprise interview
- Indians decry 'racist' Chinese video on Bhutan border standoff
- War crimes court orders Mali radical to pay €2.7m for Timbuktu rampage
- Saudi Arabia to open border with Qatar to let pilgrims attend hajj
- Human rights group slams Philippines president Duterte's threat to kill them
- Iran opposition leader begins hunger strike to demand public trial
- Kenyan opposition leader to challenge election result in court
- Mother of Charlottesville victim Heather Heyer: 'They tried to kill my child to shut her up'
- Pauline Hanson wears burqa in Australian Senate while calling for ban
- Emma Stone named 2017's highest-paid female actor with $26m
- Grace Mugabe: Zimbabwe asks for diplomatic immunity after alleged assault
- Why haven't politicians learned from the financial crisis? | Mohamed El-Erian
- South African police issue 'red alert' to stop Grace Mugabe from leaving
- Wildfires trap 2,000 people in village in central Portugal
- Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie told to pay €565,000 in chateau lighting wrangle
- Hong Kong jailings could lend democracy cause greater legitimacy
- These videos show pure traffic chaos – or do they?
- Buses in Seoul install 'comfort women' statues to honour former sex slaves
- Why is the US still fighting the civil war?
- Chloe Ayling kidnap suspect's brother to fight Italy extradition
- Spain lacks capacity to handle migration surge, says UN refugee agency
- Inside the top-secret Dugway proving ground – in pictures
- Thieves stealing Venezuela zoo animals to eat them, say police
- Nationals deputy leader Fiona Nash referred to high court over citizenship
- Kate Hamlyn obituary
- Brigitte Macron will have public role despite row over first lady status
- Schoolgirl campaigner Malala Yousafzai wins Oxford university place
- The Virgin of Trapani: tolerance and tradition go cheek by jowl in Tunis | Simon Speakman Cordall
- Endgame nears in Chile president's fight to temper draconian abortion ban
- Sierra Leone: fears of second mudslide as week of national mourning begins
- Republicans on Charlottesville: who's with Trump and who's against him?
- Why social capital could be the key to solving America’s overdose epidemic
- Hundreds gather in Charlottesville for vigil against violence – video
- Drone shows Sierra Leone mudslide aftermath – video
- Heather Heyer’s mother: 'If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention' – video
- Confederate-era monuments taken down in Baltimore – video
- The most contentious moments from Trump’s latest press conference – video
| Hong Kong democracy campaigners jailed over anti-China protests Posted: 17 Aug 2017 01:27 AM PDT Alex Chow, Nathan Law, and Joshua Wong given six to eight month sentences for roles in anti-government occupation known as the umbrella movement Hong Kong's democracy movement has suffered the latest setback in what has been a punishing year after three of its most influential young leaders were jailed for their roles in a protest at the start of a 79-day anti-government occupation known as the umbrella movement. Related: Hong Kong jailings could lend democracy cause greater legitimacy Continue reading... |
| Bonded by spilt blood, South Sudanese refugees in Uganda reach million mark Posted: 17 Aug 2017 05:25 AM PDT Jason Burke reports from the Imvepi camp, where strangers are forging family units to replace those splintered by war This, then, is a family. There is 23-year-old Gloria Keoji, the only adult, and six children. The oldest is 17, the youngest three months. There are five girls and a boy. The ties that bind them are made more of blood spilt than blood shared but, they insist, they are a family nonetheless. All have their tales of violence, told fast and quietly while looking at the red soil between naked and calloused feet, or staring into the vast blue sky above the bush. These memories are too fresh to confront face on. Continue reading... |
| Steve Bannon brands far right 'losers' and contradicts Trump in surprise interview Posted: 16 Aug 2017 07:14 PM PDT White House figure tells the American Prospect magazine there is no military solution to North Korea and warns of a China trade war White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has given an unusual interview in which he claimed there was no military solution for North Korea, the far right was a "collection of clowns" and the left's focus on racism would allow him to "crush the Democrats". Bannon, who has been called the mastermind behind Donald Trump's nationalist agenda, made the controversial and unsolicited remarks to Robert Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor of the American Prospect, a leftwing political magazine, in an interview published Wednesday. Continue reading... |
| Indians decry 'racist' Chinese video on Bhutan border standoff Posted: 17 Aug 2017 03:53 AM PDT Propaganda spoof mocking India's response to land dispute lambasted for depiction of Sikh soldier wobbling his head Indians have reacted with bemusement and outrage at a "racist" video posted online by Chinese state media, as a highly charged border dispute between the two countries enters its third month. The Chinese state broadcaster Xinhua published a video on Wednesday highlighting India's "seven sins" in relation to a standoff between the countries' armies at the Bhutan-China border. Continue reading... |
| War crimes court orders Mali radical to pay €2.7m for Timbuktu rampage Posted: 17 Aug 2017 03:13 AM PDT Judges order Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi to pay damages for destroying 10 mausoleums and religious sites in 2012 A former Islamist militant who was jailed for destroying holy sites in Timbuktu is liable for damages of €2.7m (£2.5m), judges at the international criminal court (ICC) have ruled. Related: 'I am sorry': Islamist apologises for destroying Timbuktu mausoleums Continue reading... |
| Saudi Arabia to open border with Qatar to let pilgrims attend hajj Posted: 17 Aug 2017 12:24 AM PDT Move by King Salman follows the hosting of an envoy from Doha – the first signs of a thaw in the region's diplomatic crisis Saudi Arabia's King Salman has ordered the reopening of the land border with Qatar to facilitate the annual hajj pilgrimage, according to state media, in one of the first signs of a thaw in the region's worst diplomatic crisis in years. The Salwa border crossing had been shut after Saudi Arabia, along with Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, severed diplomatic and trade ties with Qatar on 5 June, accusing the emirate of supporting Islamist extremist groups. Continue reading... |
| Human rights group slams Philippines president Duterte's threat to kill them Posted: 16 Aug 2017 11:15 PM PDT 'If they are obstructing justice, you shoot them,' Rodrigo Duterte tells police officers of activists opposed to his drugs war Human Rights Watch has denounced a call by Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte for police to shoot rights activists who get in the way of his bloody drug war. Related: Thousands dead: the Philippine president, the death squad allegations and a brutal drugs war Continue reading... |
| Iran opposition leader begins hunger strike to demand public trial Posted: 16 Aug 2017 09:00 PM PDT Ailing Mehdi Karroubi has demanded a public trial after being under house arrest for more than six years An ailing 79-year-old Iranian opposition leader who has been under house arrest since February 2011 has embarked on a hunger strike, demanding authorities try him in public. Mehdi Karroubi, a former presidential candidate, fell foul of the establishment following the disputed re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009, which led to months of unrest. Continue reading... |
| Kenyan opposition leader to challenge election result in court Posted: 16 Aug 2017 08:24 AM PDT Raila Odinga's decision will ease concerns about further violence after Uhuru Kenyatta declared winner by 1.4m votes The Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has said he will go to court over last week's presidential election results, ignoring calls by some election observers for him to concede defeat to President Uhuru Kenyatta. Twenty-four people have died in violence since the election on 8 August. Odinga's decision will ease concerns that he may call for demonstrations that could trigger further violence. Continue reading... |
| Mother of Charlottesville victim Heather Heyer: 'They tried to kill my child to shut her up' Posted: 16 Aug 2017 11:25 AM PDT Susan Bro, the mother of murdered anti-fascist protester Heather Heyer, struck a defiant note at an emotional memorial service in front of 1,200 mourners "They tried to kill my child to shut her up," said Susan Bro, dwarfed by the large stage and cinema screen at the Paramount Theater in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia. "But guess what? You just magnified her." The 1,200 mourners in the room rose to their feet and applauded as the mood ebbed between somber reflection, defiance and a celebration of 32-year-old Heather Heyer's life. Continue reading... |
| Pauline Hanson wears burqa in Australian Senate while calling for ban Posted: 16 Aug 2017 10:50 PM PDT Coalition and Labor Senate leaders sharply rebuke One Nation leader over her stunt and accuse her of ridiculing Muslims The leader of Australia's rightwing One Nation party has been rebuked by the Turnbull government for entering the Senate chamber wearing a black burqa. Pauline Hanson caused a commotion by arriving at the Senate chamber for the daily question time session dressed in a black burqa, which was designed to underscore a call she intended to make to ban the religious garment, citing national security concerns. Continue reading... |
| Emma Stone named 2017's highest-paid female actor with $26m Posted: 16 Aug 2017 10:49 AM PDT The Oscar-winning star of La La Land was placed ahead of Jennifer Aniston and Jennifer Lawrence on Forbes' annual list of Hollywood's top earners Emma Stone has been named Hollywood's best-paid female actor in Forbes' annual list of top earners. The 28-year-old made $26m in the last 12 months, the majority of which was earned from her Oscar-winning performance in the musical romance La La Land. The film made over $445m worldwide. Continue reading... |
| Grace Mugabe: Zimbabwe asks for diplomatic immunity after alleged assault Posted: 16 Aug 2017 09:15 AM PDT South Africa's police ministry says first lady is still in country after failing to turn herself in to face charges of assaulting a model Zimbabwe has requested diplomatic immunity for the first lady, Grace Mugabe, after she was accused of assaulting a model at a hotel in Johannesburg, according to a statement from South Africa's police ministry. The suspect's lawyers "and her government representatives made verbal representations ... that the suspect wished to invoke diplomatic immunity cover", it said. Continue reading... |
| Why haven't politicians learned from the financial crisis? | Mohamed El-Erian Posted: 17 Aug 2017 07:28 AM PDT Advanced economies responded with temporary measures when they needed broader, longer-term solutions Ten years ago this month, the French bank BNP Paribas decided to limit investors' access to the money they had deposited in three funds. It was the first loud signal of the financial stress that would, a year later, send the global economy into a tailspin. Yet the massive economic and financial dislocations that would come to a boil in late 2008 and continue through early 2009 – which brought the world to the brink of a devastating multi-year depression – took policymakers in advanced economies completely by surprise. They had clearly not paid enough attention to the lessons of crises in the emerging world. Anyone who has experienced or studied developing-country financial crises will be painfully aware of their defining features. For starters, as the late Rüdiger Dornbusch argued, financial crises can take a long time to develop, but once they erupt, they tend to spread rapidly, widely, violently and (seemingly) indiscriminately. Continue reading... |
| South African police issue 'red alert' to stop Grace Mugabe from leaving Posted: 17 Aug 2017 07:12 AM PDT Zimbabwe's first lady failed to appear at court to face accusation she assaulted 20-year-old woman at hotel in Johannesburg Police in South Africa have issued a red alert to stop Zimbabwe's first lady, Grace Mugabe, from leaving the country after she was accused of assaulting a model at a hotel in Johannesburg. The African News Agency (ANA) reported that South Africa's police minister, Fikile Mbalula, had ordered border staff to prevent Mugabe from leaving until the matter was resolved. Continue reading... |
| Wildfires trap 2,000 people in village in central Portugal Posted: 17 Aug 2017 06:58 AM PDT Flames and smoke surround Mação, making it impossible to enter or leave – the latest in country's deadliest year for fires Forest fires have cut off a village of 2,000 people in Portugal, as firefighters struggle to control two large blazes in the centre of the country. Related: Wildfires across southern Europe amid scorching heatwave – in pictures Continue reading... |
| Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie told to pay €565,000 in chateau lighting wrangle Posted: 17 Aug 2017 06:25 AM PDT French designer claims Hollywood stars failed to pay bills for multimillion-euro project at 17th-century Provence property A French interior designer is reportedly suing Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie for failing to credit her for work on their château in Provence. Odile Soudant also claims the superstar former couple drove her company towards financial ruin by failing to honour bills for a multimillion-euro project to illuminate the 17th-century property. Continue reading... |
| Hong Kong jailings could lend democracy cause greater legitimacy Posted: 17 Aug 2017 06:10 AM PDT Detention of protest leaders highlights how 'one country, two systems' framework is on a knife edge, activists say For Hong Kong's embattled democracy movement the 20th anniversary of the UK's handover to China has been nothing short of an annus horribilis. But on Thursday afternoon, just minutes after the former British colony's high court had transformed him into one of the city's first prisoners of conscience, Joshua Wong struck a decidedly an upbeat tone. |
| These videos show pure traffic chaos – or do they? Posted: 16 Aug 2017 11:00 PM PDT Some urban experts say stripping roads of lights and barriers, and encouraging 'shared space', could make them safer for all users Imagine an alternative world without traffic rules, where you approach a junction and there's no encouraging green light to get you on your way. Instead, all traffic is free, your movements aren't controlled and all vehicles – regardless of the number of wheels or legs – have to interact with each other by instinct. Utopian madness? Chaos, confusion and traffic-clogged streets? Maybe not. In a timelapse video of an intersection without any traffic signals in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, this apparent chaos has been captured in action. Continue reading... |
| Buses in Seoul install 'comfort women' statues to honour former sex slaves Posted: 16 Aug 2017 05:14 AM PDT Statues installed on five buses with the support of the Seoul mayor – although use of public space to highlight this wartime atrocity has angered Japan Buses serving several routes in central Seoul have acquired a new and highly controversial passenger: a barefoot "comfort woman", wearing a traditional hanbok dress with her hands resting on her knees. Appearing on the front seat of buses in the South Korean capital earlier this week, the statues were installed by the Dong-A Transit company as a potent reminder of an unresolved wartime atrocity whose roots lie in Japan's 1910-1945 occupation of the Korean peninsula. Continue reading... |
| Why is the US still fighting the civil war? Posted: 16 Aug 2017 04:36 AM PDT Confederate symbols have become a crucible of racial tension in the US. White nationalists claim they are important monuments – but are they just a way to rewrite an ugly history and revive the battles of the past? In St Paul's memorial church in Charlottesville, Virginia, last Friday, just up the street from where white supremacists were gathering for a torchlight rally, Cornel West explained why African Americans saw the removal of Confederate monuments as so important. On hearing that hundreds of white supremacists were gathered in a nearby park, the civil rights leader said, with a hint of weariness: "These are chickens coming home to roost. We should have eliminated these statues a long time ago. Continue reading... |
| Chloe Ayling kidnap suspect's brother to fight Italy extradition Posted: 17 Aug 2017 07:07 AM PDT Michal Herba, brother of Lukasz Herba, was apprehended on a European Arrest Warrant The brother of the chief suspect in the alleged kidnapping of British model Chloe Ayling is to fight extradition to Italy. Ayling, 20, was believed to have been snatched by a group calling itself Black Death after being lured to a fake modelling shoot in Milan last month. |
| Spain lacks capacity to handle migration surge, says UN refugee agency Posted: 17 Aug 2017 05:02 AM PDT UNHCR warning comes as Spanish coastguard intercepts nearly 600 people in a day trying to reach country from Morocco Spain lacks the resources and capacity to protect the rising number of refugees and migrants reaching it by sea, the UN refugee agency has said. The warning from UNHCR comes as the Spanish coastguard said it rescued 593 people in a day from 15 small paddle boats, including 35 children and a baby, after they attempted to cross the seven-mile Strait of Gibraltar. Continue reading... |
| Inside the top-secret Dugway proving ground – in pictures Posted: 17 Aug 2017 07:33 AM PDT The Dugway proving ground is run by the US military in the middle of the Utah desert. Inside the 800,000-acre facility, staff test some of the deadliest biological and chemical agents on Earth, developing procedures to counter their effects and train military units in simulated hostile environments Continue reading... |
| Thieves stealing Venezuela zoo animals to eat them, say police Posted: 16 Aug 2017 06:24 PM PDT Zoo head says a wave of thefts in recent weeks had affected 10 species including a buffalo, which he said was cut up and sold Venezuela authorities are investigating the theft of animals from a zoo in western state of Zulia that were likely snatched to be eaten, a further sign of hunger in a country struggling with chronic food shortages. A police official said two collared peccaries, which are similar in appearance to boars, were stolen over the weekend from the Zulia Metropolitan Zoological Park in the sweltering city of Maracaibo near the Colombian border. Continue reading... |
| Nationals deputy leader Fiona Nash referred to high court over citizenship Posted: 17 Aug 2017 02:43 AM PDT Nash, like Barnaby Joyce, will remain in cabinet but wait on high court ruling following her discovery she is a British citizen by descent The Turnbull government's political crisis over dual citizenships has intensified, with the deputy leader of the National party, Fiona Nash, joining Barnaby Joyce in referring herself to the high court – in her case, on the basis she has British citizenship by descent. Nash made a short, unheralded statement to the Senate on Thursday evening just before the adjournment confirming the likelihood of her dual citizenship. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 17 Aug 2017 06:09 AM PDT My wife, Kate Hamlyn, who has died of cancer aged 60, was impossible to categorise. As an overqualified secretary, she rose to become a merchant banker, then threw it in to pursue a literary career. She was a founder member and chair of the Thanet branch of Stand Up to Ukip (Sutu), which aimed to prevent the Ukip leader Nigel Farage's election as MP for South Thanet in the 2015 election. As a community volunteer and activist, she was in the vanguard of the renaissance of our adoptive home town, Ramsgate. Kate was born in London, daughter of Anne (nee Carroll) and Peter Hamlyn, both teachers. The family moved to Slough, where she attended St Bernard's Convent school before returning to London to study classics at University College. Continue reading... |
| Brigitte Macron will have public role despite row over first lady status Posted: 17 Aug 2017 04:18 AM PDT French president's wife tells Elle magazine her position 'will be determined not by law but by transparency charter' Brigitte Macron has said she will have a clear role at the Élysée Palace despite public opposition to her taking the official title of France's first lady. In her first interview since her husband Emmanuel was elected president in May, she also said she could not understand the fuss over their relationship and the 25-year age gap. Continue reading... |
| Schoolgirl campaigner Malala Yousafzai wins Oxford university place Posted: 17 Aug 2017 04:09 AM PDT Nobel laureate shot in head at age of 15 after pushing for Pakistani girls to be educated confirms she will study PPE Five years ago, the Taliban shot Malala Yousafzai in the head for advocating the right of girls to be educated. Now she has won a place at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, to study philosophy, politics and economics, or PPE. The 20-year-old Nobel peace prize winner tweeted a screenshot of the confirmation and said: "So excited to go to Oxford!! Well done to all A-level students – the hardest year. Best wishes for life ahead!" Continue reading... |
| The Virgin of Trapani: tolerance and tradition go cheek by jowl in Tunis | Simon Speakman Cordall Posted: 16 Aug 2017 08:10 AM PDT A port city in the Tunisian capital might seem an innocuous setting for the celebration of a Christian tradition, yet the rekindling of the procession of the Assumption speaks of a culture that defies sectarianism About 150 people are crowded into the 19th-century church of Saint Augustin and Saint Fidèle in the Tunis suburb of La Goulette. More are gathered outside in the summer heat, behind the iron railings lining the narrow streets of Little Sicily, the neighbourhood where the fishing town's Italian migrants once settled and established themselves. The crowds have come to see the first procession of the Assumption to be staged in the city since the tradition died out in the early 60s. In its heyday, the flower-decked statue of the Virgin of Trapani would be carried through the packed streets of La Goulette to the harbour where, alongside the area's Muslim and Jewish population, priests would bless the fishing boats and their crews. Continue reading... |
| Endgame nears in Chile president's fight to temper draconian abortion ban Posted: 16 Aug 2017 05:46 AM PDT After tortuous passage through congress, Michelle Bachelet's bill legalising abortion in some circumstances will go before constitutional tribunal Chile is on the cusp of finalising a landmark ruling to legalise abortion under certain circumstances in a move that would signal a major victory for President Michelle Bachelet. Related: Chile to reconsider abortion ban Continue reading... |
| Sierra Leone: fears of second mudslide as week of national mourning begins Posted: 16 Aug 2017 03:51 AM PDT Hundreds gather at Freetown mortuary to search for loved ones as UN evaluates risk of further landslides, after disaster that has so far claimed 400 lives Hundreds have queued outside a mortuary in Freetown to search for their loved ones, following a mudslide on Monday that has claimed at least 400 lives. A further 600 people are still unaccounted for, according to the Red Cross, which has continued to search for bodies buried in the debris. Recovery efforts have been hampered by the country's dangerous terrain, a lack of equipment and the sheer scale of the tragedy. Continue reading... |
| Republicans on Charlottesville: who's with Trump and who's against him? Posted: 16 Aug 2017 05:01 PM PDT The Republican party was left reeling after the president defended those who took part in a white supremacist rally. Here's a look at who said what The Republican party is reeling after Donald Trump defended people who took part in a far-right rally with white supremacists and neo-Nazis. The president insisted there was "blame on both sides" as he appeared to assert a moral equivalence between activists protesting racism and neo-Nazis carrying signs with swastikas and racial slurs during the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. Continue reading... |
| Why social capital could be the key to solving America’s overdose epidemic Posted: 16 Aug 2017 03:00 AM PDT Researchers are exploring how community, connection and trust could help protect society's most vulnerable
In 2016, Louise Vincent lost both her teenage daughter and her right leg. The leg had been injured in a car accident; after doctors failed to treat her pain effectively, she ultimately relapsed into opioid addiction and an infection festered. Her daughter, Selena – who, like her mother, had diagnoses of both addiction and bipolar disorder – died at 19 of an opioid overdose while in rehab. Her mother had sent her away to try to protect her. But the program turned out to be so negligent that it had no overdose protocol or antidote on hand. Continue reading... |
| Hundreds gather in Charlottesville for vigil against violence – video Posted: 16 Aug 2017 11:09 PM PDT Hundreds of people gather at the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville on Wednesday evening for a candlelit vigil against hate and violence. Marchers assembled peacefully in the same place where hundreds of torch-carrying white nationalists marched on Friday, when several fights broke out. There were chaotic scenes at the weekend during another rally in which a counter-protester was killed. Continue reading... |
| Drone shows Sierra Leone mudslide aftermath – video Posted: 16 Aug 2017 01:07 PM PDT Drone footage taken on Wednesday silently shows the devastation wrought by the mudslides in Freetown, once-bustling capital of Sierra Leone. Rescuers are still searching for hundreds of missing people after the devastating mudslide and floods engulfed the capital and the surrounding areas on Monday Continue reading... |
| Heather Heyer’s mother: 'If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention' – video Posted: 16 Aug 2017 10:48 AM PDT Susan Bro, the mother of Heather Heyer, who was killed while participating in anti-fascist protests, urges mourners gathered inside the Paramount Theater on Wednesday not to let her daughter's death be in vain. Bro says those responsible for Heyer's death in Charlottesville have only served to magnify her cause Continue reading... |
| Confederate-era monuments taken down in Baltimore – video Posted: 16 Aug 2017 07:10 AM PDT Baltimore removes its Confederate statues following a motion from the city council on Monday. The statues were removed on Tuesday night, prompted by the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, in which a civil rights activist was killed while demonstrating against a far-right demonstration that wanted to retain a statue of Robert E Lee Continue reading... |
| The most contentious moments from Trump’s latest press conference – video Posted: 16 Aug 2017 03:04 AM PDT In a heated exchange with journalists on Tuesday, Donald Trump defended far-right protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia. He insisted that 'not all of those people were neo-Nazis, not all of those people were white supremacists', pointing the finger also at what he called 'the alt-left' Continue reading... |
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