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- Ram Rahim Singh: fatal clashes follow Indian guru's rape conviction
- Man, 30, shot dead in Brussels after knife attack on two soldiers
- Japan says no direct threat following North Korea’s short-range missile launch
- Botched surveillance job may have led to strange injuries at US embassy in Cuba
- I toke thee to be my wife: inside a cannabis wedding in California
- Macron keeps up appearances with €26,000 makeup bill since May
- US says 16 people were affected by unexplained health problems at Havana embassy
- 'I hope you’re ready to get married': in search of Vietnam's kidnapped brides
- Texas residents flee as Hurricane Harvey intensifies – in pictures
- Buckingham Palace knifeman being investigated by counter-terror police
- Nikki Haley says UN commander in Lebanon ‘blind’ to illegal arms trafficking
- South African farmers who forced black man into coffin convicted
- Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas - latest updates
- 'No pride in genocide': vandals deface Captain Cook statue in Sydney's Hyde park
- My great uncle was alienated in postwar France. Now Americans know how he felt
- Yingluck Shinawatra: former Thai PM fled to Dubai say senior party members
- Australia's emergency medicine college discriminating on race, review says
- Man shot dead after knife attack on soldiers in Brussels – video
- The week in patriarchy: it's easy to feel overwhelmed and paralyzed | Jessica Valenti
- Leonard Barden on Chess
- Merseyside police seize gun said to have been used in 19 shootings
- Music as a gateway to the divine | Letters
- Facebook removes posts made by people smugglers aiming to lure migrants
- US warned Mauritania’s ‘total failure’ on slavery should rule out trade benefits
- Trump's trade policy on China won't win its help on North Korea | Jeffrey Frankel
- Texas governor calls for people to evacuate in face of hurricane – video
- Ram Rahim Singh: fatal clashes follow Indian guru's rape conviction – video report
- Samsung lawyer criticises Lee Jae-yong verdict – video
| Ram Rahim Singh: fatal clashes follow Indian guru's rape conviction Posted: 25 Aug 2017 10:24 AM PDT At least 30 killed as violence erupts across two states after spiritual leader found guilty of assaulting two female sect members At least 30 people have died in riots and arson attacks that have broken out across two states in northern India after a flamboyant spiritual leader was convicted of raping two of his female followers. The Indian army was deployed in the city of Panchkula on Friday shortly after the court found Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh guilty of sexual assault. The self-styled "godman" and leader of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect has been taken into custody and will reportedly be flown by helicopter to a jail in Haryana state before sentencing on Monday. Continue reading... |
| Man, 30, shot dead in Brussels after knife attack on two soldiers Posted: 25 Aug 2017 02:04 PM PDT Man 'not known for terrorist activities' in critical condition after incident in the centre of Brussels on Friday evening where two soldiers were attacked A man who attacked two soldiers with a knife in Brussels has been shot dead by the army. Authorities said they were treating the attack as a terrorist act. "Incident in Brussels. Soldiers have neutralised an individual. Situation under control," Belgium's official crisis centre wrote on Twitter. Continue reading... |
| Japan says no direct threat following North Korea’s short-range missile launch Posted: 25 Aug 2017 07:51 PM PDT Launches, possibly in response to US-South Korea joint military exercises, appear to end in failure and did not pose a threat to Guam, says US Japan's top government spokesman says there is no direct threat to Japan following North Korea's latest test-launch of three short-range missiles. Yoshihide Suga told reporters the missiles early on Saturday did not fall into Japan's territorial waters or the coastal 200-mile economic zone. Japan has previously deployed missile interceptors after North Korea threatened to fire projectiles over Japan toward the US territory of Guam. Continue reading... |
| Botched surveillance job may have led to strange injuries at US embassy in Cuba Posted: 25 Aug 2017 09:54 AM PDT At first thought to be a deliberate attack, the outbreak of mysterious symptoms may be the result of shoddy espionage equipment, experts say An outbreak of hearing loss and other health problems affecting at least 16 employees at the US embassy in Havana could have been caused by an electronic surveillance operation that went wrong, former intelligence officials said on Friday. Related: US says 16 people were affected by unexplained health problems at Havana embassy Continue reading... |
| I toke thee to be my wife: inside a cannabis wedding in California Posted: 25 Aug 2017 04:49 AM PDT From a pot sommelier to cannabis buds in the bouquets, Zak Walton and Dani Geen's ceremony was not Carmel's typical nuptials It was a picture postcard California beach wedding. The bride wore white. The Pacific Ocean lapped at the altar. The violinist played Elvis Presley's Can't Help Falling in Love. Then, upon being declared husband and wife, Zak Walton and Dani Geen inclined their heads, puckered their lips, closed their eyes and took long, deep puffs of potent cannabis. Continue reading... |
| Macron keeps up appearances with €26,000 makeup bill since May Posted: 25 Aug 2017 03:32 AM PDT Aides to French president acknowledge bill is high but say artist had been called in as 'matter of urgency' His wife Brigitte lamented her wrinkles compared with his "freshness" over the breakfast table, but Emmanuel Macron's youthful looks come at a price: €26,000 in three months. The French president returned to work this week after perhaps the shortest presidential holiday in modern French history to find himself under fire not only for his controversial plans to reform France's complicated labour law, but for spending a small fortune on makeup. Continue reading... |
| US says 16 people were affected by unexplained health problems at Havana embassy Posted: 25 Aug 2017 02:05 AM PDT Diplomats and spouses among those treated for symptoms, including hearing loss, that may have been caused by covert sonic device At least 16 US government employees associated with the US embassy in Havana have suffered unexplained health problems, including hearing loss, that officials believe could be caused by a covert sonic device. The US State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said on Thursday that reports of the "incidents" had started in autumn 2016 and ended in April this year. Continue reading... |
| 'I hope you’re ready to get married': in search of Vietnam's kidnapped brides Posted: 26 Aug 2017 01:00 AM PDT Phượng's daughter was abducted from her village in Vietnam and sold into marriage in China. Could she track her down – starting with Facebook? Early one morning last April, Phượng woke to find over 100 missed calls on her mobile phone, all of them from her eldest daughter, Lý. "Mum!" Lý screamed, when she called back. "Where have you been? Cẩm is missing!" Lý's voice cracked with panic over her little sister's disappearance. "She called me from the border and said she'd been tricked! She's been sold!" Phượng knew immediately what had happened. They were living in Sapa, an impoverished rural district in Vietnam's mountainous north-west, and many girls there had disappeared just like this: victims of bride trafficking, destined for China and a life of domestic servitude and sexual slavery. Phượng would have to act quickly if she wanted her daughter back. Traffickers moved at light speed, and 16-year-old Cẩm could very well be in the back of a car already, speeding towards rural China, her "buyer" waiting to introduce her to her new duties: labourer, domestic servant, wife, mother – possibly even sexual plaything for the other men in the family. Continue reading... |
| Texas residents flee as Hurricane Harvey intensifies – in pictures Posted: 25 Aug 2017 05:02 PM PDT With forecasters predicting the fiercest US hurricane for more than a decade, businesses batten down the hatches and residents bale out Continue reading... |
| Buckingham Palace knifeman being investigated by counter-terror police Posted: 25 Aug 2017 11:15 PM PDT Man re-arrested under Terrorism Act after struggle outside Queen's residence over large knife seen in suspect's car A man armed with a knife is being investigated by counter-terrorism police after being arrested outside Buckingham Palace on Friday night following a struggle with officers. Scotland Yard said two male officers suffered minor injuries. The incident occurred after the man, believed to be in his early 20s, stopped his car at traffic lights next to a police van. Officers inside the vehicle spotted a large knife displayed openly in the suspect's car. Continue reading... |
| Nikki Haley says UN commander in Lebanon ‘blind’ to illegal arms trafficking Posted: 25 Aug 2017 05:58 PM PDT Maj Gen Michael Beary says Unifil has found no evidence of weapons being illegally stockpiled in the area US ambassador Nikki Haley sharply criticised the UN peacekeeping commander in Lebanon on Friday, saying he is "blind" to the spread of illegal arms and reiterating a call for the force to do more about it. He says there is no evidence it is actually happening. With the peacekeeping mission up for renewal next week, the United States has been pressing to step up efforts to tackle what Haley describes as a "massive flow of illegal weapons" to Hezbollah-dominated southern Lebanon, where neighboring Israel has long complained the militant group operates with impunity. Continue reading... |
| South African farmers who forced black man into coffin convicted Posted: 25 Aug 2017 06:48 AM PDT Willem Oosthuizen and Theo Martins Jackson found guilty of attempted murder in case that triggered national outrage A South African judge has found two white farmers guilty of attempted murder after they filmed themselves forcing a black man into a coffin and threatening to burn him alive. Supporters of the victim celebrated in the courtroom after the judge, Segopotje Mphahlele, told the accused that "for attempted murder of Mr [Victor] Mlotshwa, I hereby find you both guilty." Continue reading... |
| Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas - latest updates Posted: 26 Aug 2017 01:52 AM PDT Most powerful storm to hit the US since 2005 hits the coast as a category 4 storm. Follow live updates here
Five hours after it made landfall, hurricane Harvey has been downgraded to a category 2 storm, with maximum sustained winds of 110 mph - down from 130 mph. #HurricaneHarvey is slowly weakening, now a Category 2. Rain bands inching closer to the Austin area. https://t.co/A8sAY5EeIw
Many people have pointed out on social media that Donald Trump's pardon of Joe Arpaio came as hurricane Harvey made landfall. Trump's Arpaio pardon comes in the middle of a Cat-4 hurricane making landfall on a Friday night: pic.twitter.com/rYNjRQ5iu1 Trump is tweeting about his pardon of Joe Arpaio as a Category 4 hurricane is set to make landfall in Texas. https://t.co/zM6reeZqSn Trump pardoning Arpaio at 8pm on a Friday as a massive hurricane hits the nation tells you everything about how thrilled the WH is with this Continue reading... |
| 'No pride in genocide': vandals deface Captain Cook statue in Sydney's Hyde park Posted: 26 Aug 2017 12:15 AM PDT Australian prime minister says graffiti is part of 'totalitarian campaign' to obliterate country's history • Which Australians should be given a statue? Have your say The Australian prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has likened the vandalism of statues of Captain Cook and Lachlan Macquarie to Stalinist purges, warning the acts were part of "a deeply disturbing" campaign to "obliterate" Australia's history. Australia has been engaged in intense debate this week over an inscription on a statue of explorer, Captain James Cook, in Sydney's Hyde Park. The statue's inscription claims Cook "discovered" Australia, prompting criticism that it ignored tens of thousands of years of Indigenous history. Continue reading... |
| My great uncle was alienated in postwar France. Now Americans know how he felt Posted: 26 Aug 2017 12:59 AM PDT These are strange times for liberal Jews who, like me, were born in America only because their grandparents ran there to escape fascism My great uncle, Alex Maguy, was a truly remarkable man. Born in 1905 in a Polish ghetto, so poor he forever associated hunger with his childhood, by the time he died in 1999, he was a highly successful gallery owner in France, who lived in a flat filled with paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Monet and Chagall. His brother was murdered in Auschwitz. When Alex himself was captured and sent to the camps, he literally clawed his way out of the train, walked back to France and joined the underground resistance. He also fought in various military campaigns and was decorated by the French, British and Norwegians. Although he stayed in France until the end of his life, he never entirely trusted the French government again; and when, in 1967, Charles de Gaulle described the Jews as "elite people, sure of themselves and domineering", Alex furiously returned his French military awards to the Élysée Palace. For all of these reasons and more, Alex saw Israel, he wrote in the 1990s in an unpublished memoir, "as the realisation of all of my dreams". Continue reading... |
| Yingluck Shinawatra: former Thai PM fled to Dubai say senior party members Posted: 25 Aug 2017 08:13 PM PDT Yingluck did not show up on Friday for a negligence ruling in which she faces up to 10 years in prison Former prime minister of Thailand Yingluck Shinawatra has fled to Dubai, senior members of her party said on Saturday, a day after she failed to show up for a negligence ruling in which she faced up to 10 years in prison. Sources in her Puea Thai party said she left Thailand last week and flew via Singapore to Dubai where her brother, former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who lives in self-imposed exile to avoid a 2008 jail sentence for corruption, has a home. Continue reading... |
| Australia's emergency medicine college discriminating on race, review says Posted: 25 Aug 2017 03:01 PM PDT Chances of students passing final clinical exam largely depends on the country they did their initial training in, report finds Australia's training college for emergency doctors is marred by "systemic racial discrimination", a review has found, as new data reveals the prospects of non-white doctors have fallen dramatically. The Australian College for Emergency Medicine has allowed an "unintentional" and "unconscious" bias to creep into its clinical testing regime since 2015, the interim report of a racial discrimination investigation found. Continue reading... |
| Man shot dead after knife attack on soldiers in Brussels – video Posted: 25 Aug 2017 02:44 PM PDT A man has been shot dead after attacking two soldiers with a knife in a terror-related incident in Brussels, Belgium. The man, said to be aged 30, was taken to hospital after the attack, which took place at about 8.20pm local time, but later died Continue reading... |
| The week in patriarchy: it's easy to feel overwhelmed and paralyzed | Jessica Valenti Posted: 25 Aug 2017 01:54 PM PDT In moments when I don't know what do - when I'm too tired to think about what comes next - I reach out to those who are doing what I wish I could I've been thinking a lot about how we can find time to rest when it feels like there's no space or opportunity for anything but constant outrage and careful attention to what's happening in politics. If we log off for a few hours, another national emergency crops up. When we sleep, the president of the United States tweets something out that could send us into a political tailspin. How do we get the work done needed to stop this administration when there is never any time to stop working and take stock of what to do next? Continue reading... |
| Posted: 25 Aug 2017 12:17 PM PDT The 54-year-old Kasparov took time to get going but his appearance at St Louis still overhadowed Aronian's three-point margin of victory at the tournament Winning a top tournament by a three-point margin normally captures the headlines but Levon Aronian's impressive result at the St Louis speed event last week was sweepingly upstaged by Garry Kasparov's return to competitive play after a 12-year absence. This one-off comeback by the 54-year-old, whom many regard as the all-time No1 ahead of Bobby Fischer and Magnus Carlsen, sparked a tidal wave of interest, with six-figure internet audiences reportedly watching the live video. It was gripping stuff, too, as Kasparov showed his old skills with deep strategic plans yet for most of the event simply could not or would not handle his clock time sensibly. He took 22 minutes to his opponent's four in a 25-minute rapid game, and spent two of his five minutes for blitz on a single move. He was often down to a few seconds at the end of his games. Continue reading... |
| Merseyside police seize gun said to have been used in 19 shootings Posted: 25 Aug 2017 11:07 AM PDT Lawyers say pistol found by officers after shooting in Kirkby has been used in 19 incidents in the past seven years A semi-automatic pistol seized by police after a shooting in Merseyside is believed to have been used in 19 firearms incidents in the past seven years, an extraordinary history which has emerged after a rise in gun crime in the region. Officers found the Beretta 9000S while investigating an incident in Kirkby, north-east of Liverpool, in which a gunman fired at a vehicle in a suspected targeted attack. |
| Music as a gateway to the divine | Letters Posted: 25 Aug 2017 11:05 AM PDT Dr Clorinda Goodman, Clive Wilkinson and Rev David Muir respond to the announcement by the National Musicians' Church, St Sepulchre-without-Newgate in London, that amateur and professional musicians will no longer be permitted to hire the church for rehearsals and concerts Your report (Musicians protest at ban on 'non-religious' concerts, 24 August) describes the attack on traditional church music by the recent decision to exclude musicians from St Sepulchre's, where my own father is commemorated. We have a similar local example in St Albans. Here the evangelical congregation has persuaded the vicar of St Paul's church to apply to remove the church organ completely, on the grounds they need more space and it is "not tuned to concert pitch". Apart from his very ill-informed stance, surely ripping the heart out of one's parish church goes completely against the incumbent's duty to preserve the fabric of both building and worship? It is all very well these Holy Trinity Brompton evangelicals enjoying their current popularity, but such attacks on church music and musicians deprive the rest of the community permanently of any chance to enjoy more traditional forms of both worship and music-making. Removing an organ just when choral evensong is enjoying a well deserved resurgence in popularity is amazingly shortsighted and deplorable. HTB and others getting on this particular bandwagon should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves. I hope many more musicians will oppose such action. |
| Facebook removes posts made by people smugglers aiming to lure migrants Posted: 25 Aug 2017 09:00 AM PDT Social media content painting a positive picture of risky Mediterranean sea crossings is removed after Guardian highlights nature of material Facebook has removed several posts made by people smugglers openly advertising to attract migrants seeking passage to Europe. Written in Arabic, many of the posts were accompanied by videos and testimonials of what the smugglers claim are successful trips across the Mediterranean from Turkey to Greece, and from Egypt to Italy. All were written in recent months, a time of year when many people attempt the journey. Continue reading... |
| US warned Mauritania’s ‘total failure’ on slavery should rule out trade benefits Posted: 25 Aug 2017 02:00 AM PDT US labour unions cite Mauritania's unwillingness to act on slavery as Trump administration is urged to deny country duty-free exports The routine abuse of thousands of enslaved Mauritanians, including rape, beatings and unpaid labour, should prevent the African republic from receiving US trade benefits, American labour unions have said. Mauritania, which has one of the highest rates of modern-day slavery in the world and has been roundly criticised for its poor human rights record, is currently on a list of countries that benefit from the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa). The act, designed to promote the economic development of countries that can show they uphold human rights and meet labour standards, enables African countries to export goods duty-free to US markets. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Trump's trade policy on China won't win its help on North Korea | Jeffrey Frankel Posted: 25 Aug 2017 06:30 AM PDT The president is threatening to erect new trade barriers against China just when he needs its aid to rein in the Kim regime For years, Americans have misunderstood the nuclear threat from North Korea, misjudging how to address it. They have also misunderstood the bilateral trade deficits with China, overestimating their importance. Today, as President Donald Trump threatens new trade barriers against China, on which the United States must depend to help rein in an increasingly dangerous North Korea, these two issues have become closely connected. Yet US officials seem no closer to figuring them out. The stakes obviously are much higher regarding North Korea, with US-South Korean joint military exercises this week aggravating already-high tensions. If the US and North Korea do get into a military confrontation, there is a real risk that nuclear weapons will be used. Even a conventional war would likely be catastrophic. Continue reading... |
| Texas governor calls for people to evacuate in face of hurricane – video Posted: 25 Aug 2017 03:39 PM PDT Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, calls for residents in areas likely to be affected by the incoming Hurricane Harvey to "strongly consider evacuating". The category 3 hurricane is expected to be the strongest to hit the Texan coast since 2008 and is likely to cause significant flooding Continue reading... |
| Ram Rahim Singh: fatal clashes follow Indian guru's rape conviction – video report Posted: 25 Aug 2017 07:47 AM PDT Violent protests have broken out in northern India, leaving several people dead, after a court convicted a self-styled 'godman' of raping two women, angering thousands of his supporters who say he is innocent, police and officials say. Ram Rahim Singh was found guilty of assaulting two followers in a case dating to 2002 at the headquarters of his Dera Sacha Sauda group Continue reading... |
| Samsung lawyer criticises Lee Jae-yong verdict – video Posted: 25 Aug 2017 02:16 AM PDT A lawyer for billionaire Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong, Song Woo-cheol, says on Friday his team will appeal a five-year sentence handed to the 49-year-old Samsung heir after he was found guilty of offering bribes to the country's former president and other crimes Continue reading... |
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