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- Barcelona mourns as police step up hunt for driver of van
- At least 23 dead after Indian train derails in Uttar Pradesh
- ‘Las Ramblas cries but it is alive’: Barcelona recovers historic defiance
- Germany urges Spain not to extradite Erdoğan critic to Turkey
- Has the friendly rivalry between New Zealand and Australia been fatally injured?
- Angola on cusp of change after 40-year journey from Marxism to crony capitalism
- President Maduro strips Venezuela’s parliament of power
- Moroccan Isis terrorists ‘pose a threat on Europe’s doorstep’
- Eight people stabbed in Siberian city of Surgut
- La Soledad review – quietly insightful profile of present-day Venezuela
- Cambridge University Press censorship 'exposes Xi Jinping's authoritarian shift'
- Data-hucksters beware: online privacy is returning | John Naughton
- 'He's trying to save lives': the ex-addict judge on the frontline of the opiate crisis
- Missing in the US desert: finding migrants dying on the trail north
- Labor accuses Turnbull of 'giving in to extreme elements' on marriage equality
- Barcelona has a history of rebuilding itself. This attack will be no different Miquel Berga
- All Blacks rugby union legend Colin Meads dies aged 81
- Ice and fire: large blaze burns in Greenland for two weeks
- Period of change: the women fighting to break Hong Kong's menstruation taboo
- Counter-protesters block neo-Nazi march in Berlin
- What brought Italy’s ‘dying town’ back from the edge of extinction? A tourist toll
- Row over teaching Fanny Hill highlights threat to freedom of expression
- Ripoll, the quiet Pyrenean town that is an unlikely cradle of terror
- The UK is out there first in Sierra Leone | Priti Patel
- Farewell to the ECJ? We may end up obeying laws but having no say in them | Catherine Barnard
- Rightwing rally and counter-protest in Boston – in pictures
- Spanish police detain man and search Ripoll addresses in hunt for terror suspects – video
- Russian police arrest suspect in Surgut stabbing – video
- Father of Barcelona attack victim Jared Tucker: 'He was the happiest I've seen him' - video
| Barcelona mourns as police step up hunt for driver of van Posted: 19 Aug 2017 11:03 AM PDT Younes Abouyaaqoub, understood to be chief suspect in Las Ramblas attack, is thought to be key member of 12-strong jihadist cell Spanish police have intensified their hunt for a 22-year-old Moroccan man believed to be the driver of the van used in the Barcelona attack that killed at least 13 and injured more than 130 last Thursday. Younes Abouyaaqoub, understood to be the chief suspect in the attack on Las Ramblas, is thought to be a key member of a 12-strong jihadist cell responsible for the attacks in Barcelona and later in nearby Cambrils. Police say a man previously reported as a suspect – 17-year-old Moussa Oukabir – was killed in the Cambrils attack. Oukabir was among five men shot dead as they launched their assault on tourists and locals in the coastal town west of Barcelona. Continue reading... |
| At least 23 dead after Indian train derails in Uttar Pradesh Posted: 19 Aug 2017 10:58 PM PDT The tragic crash is the fourth major derailment incident on India's struggling rail network this year At least 23 people have been killed and more than 120 injured after a train came off the tracks in India on Saturday. Rescuers and local people in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh worked into the night searching for survivors in the overturned and mangled carriages. Officials have said they expect the death toll to rise. Continue reading... |
| ‘Las Ramblas cries but it is alive’: Barcelona recovers historic defiance Posted: 19 Aug 2017 09:26 AM PDT Spain's second city mourns the victims as the shock sinks in that the Catalan capital has joined the list of terrorism targets in Europe From the death, confusion and fear of Thursday's terrorist attack, the Barcelona boulevard of Las Ramblas has returned to its historic role as a centre of life, reflection and defiance. The paving stones on which the victims died have been cleaned of blood and transformed into a shrine that widens by the hour as mourners bring more tokens of sympathy – flickering candles, bunches of flowers, soft toys and messages of solidarity, love and defiance from around the world. Continue reading... |
| Germany urges Spain not to extradite Erdoğan critic to Turkey Posted: 19 Aug 2017 03:03 PM PDT Writer Doğan Akhanlı is being held in Spain on a Turkish warrant, but the charges remain unclear Germany's foreign minister has urged Spain not to extradite a German writer to Turkey after he was arrested on a Turkish warrant. Sigmar Gabriel called his Spanish counterpart over the arrest of Doğan Akhanlı while in Granada on holiday. Continue reading... |
| Has the friendly rivalry between New Zealand and Australia been fatally injured? Posted: 19 Aug 2017 04:04 PM PDT A row over the dual citizenship of Barnaby Joyce, Australia's deputy prime minister, has brought simmering tensions to the surface When Australia and New Zealand fight, rarely does it go beyond the gravity of two siblings scrapping. Conflict between the neighbours, separated by 1,300 miles across the Tasman Sea, typically takes the form of cheap jibes based on cultural stereotypes, or competing claims to the provenance of a racehorse, pop band or meringue-based dessert. Its only violent theatre is sporting clashes, such as yesterday's first Bledisloe Cup Test. But that, for the most part, is as far is it goes. Over the last week, however, relations took an uncommon turn. The Australian prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, denounced a "conspiracy" between his domestic opponents and their New Zealand allies. A tirade from Australian foreign minister Julie Bishop against the New Zealand Labour party prompted one newspaper headline to wonder, "Has Australia's foreign minister accidentally declared war on New Zealand?" Continue reading... |
| Angola on cusp of change after 40-year journey from Marxism to crony capitalism Posted: 19 Aug 2017 04:04 PM PDT José Eduardo dos Santos steps down after elections this week. But an oil price crash and high inflation have loosened his MPLA party's grip on power It is a contest that will be familiar to many – not just in Angola but in every country across Africa where anyone remembers the cold war. It pits the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), the political party that has ruled the southern African country for more than four decades, against the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita), which has been battling to gain control for more than 50 years. Continue reading... |
| President Maduro strips Venezuela’s parliament of power Posted: 19 Aug 2017 12:40 PM PDT Legislative powers taken from opposition-led parliament, as country's fugitive attorney general alleges Maduro corruption links Venezuela's political crisis has deepened after a new pro-government "superbody" stripped the opposition-held parliament of its legislative powers and the fugitive attorney general accused President Nicolás Maduro of links to a corruption scandal. Related: Thieves stealing Venezuela zoo animals to eat them, say police Continue reading... |
| Moroccan Isis terrorists ‘pose a threat on Europe’s doorstep’ Posted: 19 Aug 2017 04:04 PM PDT Hundreds of Islamic State fighters have sneaked back into north Africa – and could use it as a base for further attacks As the hunt intensifies for members of a Moroccan-led cell thought to be responsible for the terror attacks in Spain, attention has turned to the hundreds of returned jihadists across the Strait of Gibraltar who intelligence officials fear pose a large, residual threat on Europe's doorstep. Up to 1,000 jihadists are thought to have been smuggled back to Morocco and Tunisia from the battlefields of Islamic State's now crumbling caliphate. About 300 are thought to have returned to Morocco, from where six of the 12 terrorists who carried out the attacks in Catalonia are believed to have hailed. Continue reading... |
| Eight people stabbed in Siberian city of Surgut Posted: 19 Aug 2017 03:57 AM PDT Attacker who injured passersby, two seriously, was shot dead by police Eight people have been injured in a knife attack in the Siberian city of Surgut, according to Russian news agency reports. "A man was running along the main streets stabbing people," Tass reported, citing the spokesman for the local office of the Russian law enforcement committee. The suspect was shot dead by police. Continue reading... |
| La Soledad review – quietly insightful profile of present-day Venezuela Posted: 20 Aug 2017 12:00 AM PDT The country's economic crisis gives an edge to this hybrid documentary This Venezuelan debut is the kind of production you often hear disparagingly described as a "small film", but a restricted canvas can make for maximum intimacy. It is a quietly compelling item that appears to be part documentary, part realist fiction, with a faint edge of dream-like ghostliness. La Soledad, meaning "solitude", is the name of a rambling house in Caracas – once magnificent, now dilapidated – formerly lived in by the family of director Jorge Thielen Armand. It is now inhabited by a working-class family – tenacious José, his wife, young daughter and infirm grandmother – but they may soon have to leave because the owners intend to sell the place. Everyone, poor and relatively wealthy, is affected by Venezuela's economic crisis, which shows its effects in food queues, empty supermarket shelves and an atmosphere of danger; one of José's friends advises him to turn his hand to kidnapping as the only occupation that pays. Continue reading... |
| Cambridge University Press censorship 'exposes Xi Jinping's authoritarian shift' Posted: 19 Aug 2017 09:22 PM PDT Editor of censored journal says China's president is far less pragmatic about dissenting views than his predecessors, as some academics vow to boycott CUP The censorship row involving the world's oldest publishing house and its most powerful one-party state has exposed the increasingly authoritarian turn China has taken under Xi Jinping, the editor of the journal at the centre of the controversy has said. Criticism of Cambridge University Press intensified on Sunday over its controversial decision to comply with a Chinese request to block access to more than 300 articles from the China Quarterly, a leading China studies journal, so as to avoid having other publications targeted by Beijing's censors. Continue reading... |
| Data-hucksters beware: online privacy is returning | John Naughton Posted: 19 Aug 2017 10:59 PM PDT Next May, an EU regulation will enshrine the protection of personal data into law and not even Brexit is going to stop it Next year, 25 May looks like being a significant date. That's because it's the day that the European Union's general data protection regulation (GDPR) comes into force. This may not seem like a big deal to you, but it's a date that is already keeping many corporate executives awake at night. And for those who are still sleeping soundly, perhaps it would be worth checking that their organisations are ready for what's coming down the line. Related: UK citizens to get more rights over personal data under new laws Continue reading... |
| 'He's trying to save lives': the ex-addict judge on the frontline of the opiate crisis Posted: 19 Aug 2017 09:01 PM PDT Everyone in Judge Craig Hannah's opiate-specific court is offered a deal: complete addiction treatment and the charges against them may be reduced
Hannah, a pioneering jurist who oversees the nation's first Opiate Crisis Intervention Court in northern New York, is speaking to a man who has flunked out of rehab a second time. A bed in a third facility may not be so easy to find. The addict – a "participant" in the parlance of the court – looks doubtful, and Hannah continues his pitch: "If you get on the bus, I'm going to take off my robe and come down there and shake you by the hand. Continue reading... |
| Missing in the US desert: finding migrants dying on the trail north Posted: 20 Aug 2017 01:00 AM PDT Last year, 322 deaths were recorded along the US border with Mexico. The real number could be a lot higher. Alex Hannaford joins volunteers searching for the lost It's relatively easy to spot bones in the desert. Bleached by the sun and set against the brown, sandy soil that's peppered with sagebrush and mesquite, they almost glow white. Once you start looking it seems they're everywhere. Mostly it'll be a rabbit's skull or the hip bone of a small mammal. Sometimes, though, they'll belong to a human. On 22 April, there were ribs, a shoulder blade, a clavicle, a piece of vertebrae and a jawbone. There was also a pair of dark-coloured trousers, size 9 Adidas trainers and a yellow wallet with a Tasmanian Devil cartoon on the flap. Inside was a photocopy of an ID card which read: Republica De Honduras. Filadelfo Martinez Gomez. Date of birth: 8 August, 1992. Continue reading... |
| Labor accuses Turnbull of 'giving in to extreme elements' on marriage equality Posted: 20 Aug 2017 12:21 AM PDT Daniel Andrews and Bill Shorten address rally in Melbourne telling people there should not be a postal survey on same-sex marriage, but to vote yes The Victorian premier has accused Malcolm Turnbull of giving in to "extreme elements within his government" by holding a postal survey on marriage equality. "There's no need for us to be having this postal plebiscite, this postal survey, but the prime minister in his weakness has given into some extreme elements within his government," Daniel Andrews said on Sunday. Continue reading... |
| Barcelona has a history of rebuilding itself. This attack will be no different Miquel Berga Posted: 19 Aug 2017 10:00 PM PDT Terrorists chose to attack one of the great glocal cities this week. But Barcelona's past has made it resilient Last June, Barcelona commemorated the 30th anniversary of the last major terrorist attack the city had suffered. A bomb placed in the basement of a popular superstore, Hipercor, by Eta, the Basque terrorist group, killed 21 and left scores of other shoppers wounded. Eta terrorism was seen as a Spanish affair and the victims were all Spaniards. Last Thursday, 30 years later, the city centre was hit by terror again. A similar number of casualties have been caused by the criminal act, only this time the victims were from 35 nationalities. These days Eta is mercifully inactive, terrorism is a global affair and Barcelona is one of the most cosmopolitan cities in Europe. No one was surprised at the number of foreign victims. Continue reading... |
| All Blacks rugby union legend Colin Meads dies aged 81 Posted: 19 Aug 2017 07:56 PM PDT Meads, who has died of pancreatic cancer, played 133 games for the All Blacks, including 55 tests, from 1957 to 1971. Colin Meads, the famously tough All Blacks captain hailed as New Zealand's greatest rugby player of the 20th century, has died after suffering from cancer. He was 81. Meads played 55 tests among 133 games for New Zealand between 1957 and 1971 – a prodigious number in an era in which the All Blacks seldom played more than four tests a year. Continue reading... |
| Ice and fire: large blaze burns in Greenland for two weeks Posted: 19 Aug 2017 06:56 PM PDT Scientists perplexed by wildfire that has been burning since July in grassland just 40 miles from the ice sheet A large wildfire has been burning in Greenland for at least two weeks. The wildfire was first spotted by satellites on 31 July and last photographed on 16 August when it was still growing. It was burning about 40 miles from the Greenland ice sheet and about 90 miles northeast of the city of Sisimiut. Continue reading... |
| Period of change: the women fighting to break Hong Kong's menstruation taboo Posted: 19 Aug 2017 06:17 PM PDT Discussion of the issue is rare in Hong Kong but a small group of women is using workshops and Facebook to break the silence In a sex-toy shop nestled in the hustle and bustle of Hong Kong's Causeway Bay, a quiet revolution is taking place. Amid the usual paraphernalia you might expect on the shelves of Sally's Toys is a stack of menstrual cups, a clue to the outlet's second life. Once a week, the shop hosts education sessions for women on a taboo subject: periods. Continue reading... |
| Counter-protesters block neo-Nazi march in Berlin Posted: 19 Aug 2017 04:56 PM PDT More than 500 far-right extremists attempted to march to the site of the prison where Nazi officer Rudolf Hess died Leftwing groups and Berlin residents have prevented more than 500 neo-Nazis from marching to the place where Rudolf Hess died 30 years ago. Police in riot gear kept the far-right extremists and an estimated 1,000 counter-protesters apart on Saturday as the two sides staged competing rallies in the German capital's western district of Spandau. Continue reading... |
| What brought Italy’s ‘dying town’ back from the edge of extinction? A tourist toll Posted: 19 Aug 2017 04:05 PM PDT By charging visitors to enter its crumbling walls, the medieval town of Civita di Bagnoregio has turned the threat of destruction to its advantage As leaders of some of Europe's most popular holiday destinations ponder recent anti-tourism protests, they should perhaps take inspiration from the mayor of Civita di Bagnoregio, a hamlet perched on a plateau of volcanic rock surrounded by steep ravines in Italy's Lazio region. Francesco Bigiotti, who also manages the main town of Bagnoregio, has rushed in where other mayors fear to tread – anyone wanting to cross the footbridge to visit his medieval village must pay. Continue reading... |
| Row over teaching Fanny Hill highlights threat to freedom of expression Posted: 19 Aug 2017 04:05 PM PDT Alleged ban on 1748 erotic novel seen as pandering to the sensibilities of a generation of 'snowflake' students On Monday, Vogue's website, unusually straying into academia, reported: "Eyebrows were raised when the first erotic novel in the English language, Fanny Hill, was dropped from an 18th-century literature course 'for fear of offending students'." This followed a headline in the Mail on Sunday: "Erotic novel first banned 270 years ago for describing a young girl's sexual exploits is censored AGAIN – in case it upsets students." Both assertions were incorrect, neatly illustrating how freedom of speech so easily slides into the murky realms of Trumpian "post-truth". John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, popularly known as Fanny Hill (a play on mons veneris – the mount of Venus) was published in 1748. He began it as a young man working in the East India Company in Bombay in response to a challenge to write what became the first English pornographic novel without using coarse language. He completed it in his 30s, in debtor's prison, writing to pay for his freedom. He returned to jail soon after, convicted on obscenity charges. Continue reading... |
| Ripoll, the quiet Pyrenean town that is an unlikely cradle of terror Posted: 19 Aug 2017 04:03 PM PDT Local people shocked to discover Barcelona killers lived among them Residents of the small Catalan town of Ripoll are still in a state of shock, after it emerged that it was home to most of the suspected terrorists involved in the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils that left 14 dead and over 100 injured. "There are only about 11,000 of us and only 9% are immigrants," said Jordi Munell, the town's mayor, who has appealed for calm. "We practically all know each other." Continue reading... |
| The UK is out there first in Sierra Leone | Priti Patel Posted: 19 Aug 2017 09:01 AM PDT In this piece by the international development secretary, she says in giving £5m to the flood response, Britain is at the forefront of helping a nation in need Sierra Leone is a country once more in need of urgent humanitarian assistance following the devastating floods that have taken hundreds of lives, and destroyed many more. It is unfair to say that the UK government has had little to say on the devastating loss of life, as claimed in the Guardian on Thursday. Related: A visão das favelas: 'Temos que lutar pela vida ao conviver com a violência' | Thaís Cavalcante Continue reading... |
| Farewell to the ECJ? We may end up obeying laws but having no say in them | Catherine Barnard Posted: 19 Aug 2017 01:38 PM PDT The UK has punched above its weight in court decisions. Such influence will be surrendered as Brexit becomes a reality Why exactly is the European court of justice (ECJ) the subject of such unrelenting vilification by the Brexiters? To lawyers familiar with the court's judgments, this has always been something of a mystery. This is, after all, the court that ruled that the European Central Bank was wrong to insist that euro clearing houses should be based in the eurozone. A triumph for the City of London. Continue reading... |
| Rightwing rally and counter-protest in Boston – in pictures Posted: 19 Aug 2017 04:37 PM PDT A Boston rally to mark one week since the Charlottesville far-right event at which an anti-fascist protester was killed drew thousands of counter-protesters decrying hate speech Continue reading... |
| Spanish police detain man and search Ripoll addresses in hunt for terror suspects – video Posted: 19 Aug 2017 09:43 AM PDT Police searched two addresses in the town of Ripoll, 60 miles (100km) north of Barcelona, in their hunt for terror suspects involved in Thursday's attack Continue reading... |
| Russian police arrest suspect in Surgut stabbing – video Posted: 19 Aug 2017 07:12 AM PDT A video has emerged appearing to show Russian police pinning down a man they suspect of wounding eight people in a knife attack in the Siberian city of Surgut. Russian authorities are 'investigating attempted murder', according to a spokesperson, but it is not clear whether the incident was terrorism-related Continue reading... |
| Father of Barcelona attack victim Jared Tucker: 'He was the happiest I've seen him' - video Posted: 19 Aug 2017 04:59 AM PDT Jared Tucker, from California, was in Barcelona with his wife to celebrate their first wedding anniversary. The couple were on a tour of Europe and had been enjoying drinks on a pavement cafe when the attackers struck
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