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- North Korea sanctions bring nuclear issue to 'critical phase', says China
- Heatwaves and airport queues make for holiday season from hell
- 'A good man, very pro-Israel': Trump defends McMaster from far-right snipers
- Bolt’s time finally runs out, but he departs as the greatest champion of all
- Venezuela chief prosecutor denounces 'siege' after troops surround her office
- Top journalist sues Time magazine for ‘sex and age discrimination’
- Chillaxed Vladimir Putin cultivates strongman persona with holiday adventures
- UK model kidnapped and held captive in Italy for six days
- Have Jacob Zuma’s political foes found the means to topple him?
- French woman awarded €1m payout after cream canister injury
- 'We're coming for you': NRA attacks New York Times in provocative video
- Chinese tourists arrested for making Hitler salutes outside Reichstag
- Fox News' Eric Bolling suspended over claim he sent lewd photos to colleagues
- Paul Kagame re-elected president with 99% of vote in Rwanda election
- US military plane crash: search for missing crew in Queensland turns to 'recovery effort'
- Aldi pulls Dutch eggs in Germany as insecticide scandal widens
- Migrant deaths at US-Mexico border increase 17% this year, UN figures show
- Why Trump still needs the love of the crowd: ‘This is like medicine to him’
- In 1967, they watched their city erupt. Fifty years on, how has Detroit changed?
- Spice ban ‘puts prisoners and homeless at risk’ as street drug goes underground
- Vince Cable hits out at hardline Brexit 'martyrs'
- The Observer view on the crisis in Venezuela | Observer editorial
- Life after the bomb: exploring the psychogeography of Hiroshima
- Sydney terrorism raids: man charged with possessing prohibited weapon
- 'I don't want tension': Indian boxer beats China rival then offers belt back to heal border rift
- French farmers demand action against wolves killing livestock
- India’s partition: ‘People in their final years are desperate to open up’
- Monopoli waits for Ivanka to seal Puglia’s celebrity status
- In Lahore, trauma of partition’s silent generation slowly comes to light
- Why Pakistan and India remain in denial 70 years on from partition
- New Zealand: thousands of bottles of allegedly fraudulent wine exported
- Pride: Brighton and Belfast parades – in pictures
- First same-sex wedding deepens Anglican divide
- Could political tension in Venezuela ignite a civil war?
- White House as crime scene: how Robert Mueller is closing in on Trump
- NRA tells New York Times: 'We're coming for you' – video
- Kenyan opposition says police raided offices – video
| North Korea sanctions bring nuclear issue to 'critical phase', says China Posted: 05 Aug 2017 10:46 PM PDT
The situation on the Korean peninsula is entering "a very critical phase", China has warned after new United Nations sanctions targeting Pyongyang were announced following its recent intercontinental ballistic missile test. Speaking in Manila before a regional security summit, China's foreign minister, Wang Yi, said the sanctions had been designed "to efficiently, or more efficiently, block North Korea's nuclear missile development". Continue reading... |
| Heatwaves and airport queues make for holiday season from hell Posted: 05 Aug 2017 02:45 PM PDT High temperatures claim lives and raise fears about water shortages across Europe August has seen holiday dreams turn into nightmares across much of Europe by a combination of a heatwave so bad it has been named after the devil, protests against tourists, and airports transformed into overcrowded traps. High temperatures have claimed lives in Italy and Romania, and across the continent there has been a rise in hospital admissions, concern about wildfires and a threat of water and power shortages. Continue reading... |
| 'A good man, very pro-Israel': Trump defends McMaster from far-right snipers Posted: 05 Aug 2017 08:32 AM PDT Terse statement follows attacks from bloggers and Breitbart and firings of three White House officials known to be allies of senior adviser Steve Bannon Donald Trump has come to the defense of his national security advisor, HR McMaster, in the face of a sustained attack on the army general from the far right. The president put out a short statement on Friday night which described McMaster as a "good man", and said they were "working very well together". But by Trump's standards it was a terse statement, unlikely to stem the flow of invective from the president's own hardline supporters or resolve the factional conflict inside the White House. Continue reading... |
| Bolt’s time finally runs out, but he departs as the greatest champion of all Posted: 05 Aug 2017 04:19 PM PDT Injury took its toll and perhaps his last 100m was one too many – a poignant end for a peerless competitor The roar was not the same. This time around the cacophony of Super Saturday had a sadder, even an angrier note. Five years on from securing his legend at the 2012 Olympics, Usain Bolt had hoped to bow out of the sport he has for so long electrified, with one last trademark burst of unanswerable speed and joy. In the event, his last act as a solo athlete was to take a bronze medal behind his long-time rival, the American Justin Gatlin. Few athletes know more about time than Bolt. Having chased it down and exploded it into unlikely tenths and hundredths for more than a decade, it finally caught up with him. His sweatshirt coming into the stadium before this final 100m race of a peerless career bore the motto"forever faster", but his eyes and his manner told a slightly different story. He went through the motions of his pre-race hype routine, striking the poses, but his heart wasn't quite in it. Continue reading... |
| Venezuela chief prosecutor denounces 'siege' after troops surround her office Posted: 05 Aug 2017 09:23 AM PDT Luisa Ortega, a fierce critic of president Nicolás Maduro, tweeted photos of security forces outside before a vote replaced her with a government loyalist Political turmoil gripping Venezuela deepened on Saturday as chief prosecutor Luisa Ortega, previously a loyalist but now a fierce critic of president Nicolás Maduro, was forcibly removed from office. Related: 'Here there is a chance': Venezuela crisis triggers exodus to Colombia Continue reading... |
| Top journalist sues Time magazine for ‘sex and age discrimination’ Posted: 05 Aug 2017 02:00 PM PDT Catherine Mayer says she was fired from US publication after being sidelined by senior staff The co-founder of the Women's Equality party, Catherine Mayer, is suing her former employer, Time magazine, for gender and age discrimination, making the weekly favoured by President Donald Trump the latest major media company to be embroiled in accusations of institutional sexism. The case comes soon after publication of BBC salaries provoked outrage at both gender and race gaps in pay, and a year after a series of high-profile sexual harassment cases plunged US TV giant Fox News into turmoil. Continue reading... |
| Chillaxed Vladimir Putin cultivates strongman persona with holiday adventures Posted: 05 Aug 2017 05:51 PM PDT Russia's president spear-fishes in camouflage wetsuit, pilot a powerboat and catches some rays on Siberian holiday Russia's President Vladimir Putin, who loves to cultivate a virile man-of-action image, was shown on Russian TV on Saturday spear-fishing in a camouflage wetsuit, piloting a powerboat and catching some rays while on a Siberian holiday. Putin's affinity for the tough guy pose has been documented with shots of him bare-chested on horseback, diving in a submarine in Lake Baikal – the world's deepest – and flipping a judo opponent. Continue reading... |
| UK model kidnapped and held captive in Italy for six days Posted: 05 Aug 2017 07:57 AM PDT Polish national, who reportedly planned to auction woman on dark web, held on suspicion of kidnap for extortion purposes A British model was kidnapped and held captive in Italy for six days, police have said, by a man who reportedly intended to auction her on the dark web. A Polish national with British residence has been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping for extortion purposes, according to reports, after the 20-year-old woman was returned to the British consulate in Milan. It is currently unclear why the kidnapping came to an end. Continue reading... |
| Have Jacob Zuma’s political foes found the means to topple him? Posted: 05 Aug 2017 02:29 PM PDT With a million South Africans demanding his removal, a secret ballot of no confidence could finally catch up with the ANC leader Jacob Zuma, the Houdini of South African politics, has wriggled free from numerous attempts to oust him since becoming president in 2009. But persistent allegations of corruption, nepotism and abuse of power may finally be catching up with him as his enemies in the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and the opposition parties prepare to mount a vote of no confidence in parliament on Tuesday. The showdown is especially dangerous for Zuma because it follows a court ruling in June allowing the speaker of the national assembly, Baleka Mbete, to hold a secret ballot. Mbete, a Zuma ally who survived an attempt in 2014 to sack her for alleged bias, has yet to indicate whether she will do so. But if the vote is held "in camera", at least 20 ANC MPs critical of Zuma's leadership are expected to back the motion. Continue reading... |
| French woman awarded €1m payout after cream canister injury Posted: 05 Aug 2017 01:20 PM PDT In a case echoing the death of fitness blogger Rebecca Burger, Emilie Lada suffered severe, life-changing injuries A French court has awarded a payout of more than €1mto a woman whose skull was cracked by an exploding whipped cream dispenser, in a case echoing the death of a fitness blogger in June. The woman's attorney, Emeline Petitgirard, said the sum was unusually large for France, where civil courts are "generally skittish" about big monetary awards "in the absence of death". Continue reading... |
| 'We're coming for you': NRA attacks New York Times in provocative video Posted: 05 Aug 2017 08:15 AM PDT National Rifle Association spokesperson Dana Loesch rejects claim that the video – 'the shot across your proverbial bow' – can be interpreted as a violent threat The largest gun lobby in the US has said in a video ad it is "coming for" the New York Times. National Rifle Association (NRA) spokesperson Dana Loesch, a prominent conservative media personality, attacked the newspaper in the video and called it an "untrustworthy, dishonest rag". Continue reading... |
| Chinese tourists arrested for making Hitler salutes outside Reichstag Posted: 05 Aug 2017 09:36 AM PDT Berlin police detain two men after they photographed each other striking Nazi-era poses outside German parliament German police have arrested two Chinese tourists for making illegal Hitler salutes in front of the Reichstag building that houses the German parliament. Berlin police officers say they detained two men, aged 36 and 49, after they were seen striking the Nazi-era pose and photographing each other with their mobile phones. Continue reading... |
| Fox News' Eric Bolling suspended over claim he sent lewd photos to colleagues Posted: 05 Aug 2017 05:56 PM PDT Network suspends star host 'pending an investigation', following allegations he sent unsolicited pictures of male genitalia to female colleagues Fox News has suspended star host Eric Bolling, following reports that he sent pictures of male genitalia to a number of female colleagues. In an emailed statement, a Fox News spokesperson said: "Eric Bolling has been suspended pending the results of an investigation, which is currently under way." Continue reading... |
| Paul Kagame re-elected president with 99% of vote in Rwanda election Posted: 05 Aug 2017 05:28 AM PDT Former guerrilla leader praised for bringing stability and growth after genocide but criticised as authoritarian wins third term Paul Kagame, the controversial president of Rwanda, has won a landslide victory in the small African state's election, securing a third term in office and extending his 17 years in power. The result will surprise no one, inside or outside Rwanda. Continue reading... |
| US military plane crash: search for missing crew in Queensland turns to 'recovery effort' Posted: 05 Aug 2017 07:11 PM PDT
Three marines lost after a US military aircraft crashed off the Queensland coast are not believed to have survived, and the mission to find them has become a salvage and recovery effort, the US Marine Corps says. The MV-22 Osprey aircraft was involved in a "mishap" at about 4pm Saturday while conducting exercises off Shoalwater Bay near Rockhampton, where the biennial Talisman Sabre joint US and Australian military training exercise is under way. Continue reading... |
| Aldi pulls Dutch eggs in Germany as insecticide scandal widens Posted: 04 Aug 2017 08:08 PM PDT Supermarket chain makes move 'purely as a precaution' but acknowledges it could lead to 'market shortages' for eggs Discount supermarket Aldi said on Friday it was pulling all Dutch eggs from its shelves in Germany over an insecticide scandal that has spread to food stores across Europe. Aldi said it was making the move "purely as a precaution" but acknowledged it could lead to "market shortages" for eggs in Europe's top economy. Continue reading... |
| Migrant deaths at US-Mexico border increase 17% this year, UN figures show Posted: 05 Aug 2017 04:00 AM PDT
More people have died crossing the border from Mexico to the US in the first seven months of 2017 compared to the year before, even though significantly fewer people seem to be attempting the journey, according to the United Nation's migration agency. The number of migrant deaths tallied at the border jumped 17% from 204 in the first seven months of 2016 to 232 migrant fatalities in 2017, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said. Continue reading... |
| Why Trump still needs the love of the crowd: ‘This is like medicine to him’ Posted: 06 Aug 2017 12:14 AM PDT As storm clouds gathered over the White House, the president retreated to his safe space: a stadium rally to rile his base and celebrate Trump the showman Country roads, take me home The crowd erupted as John Denver's 1971 song filled the arena. Behind a black curtain, beneath a blue "Make America great again!" sign, Donald Trump was preparing to make his grand entrance. Continue reading... |
| In 1967, they watched their city erupt. Fifty years on, how has Detroit changed? Posted: 05 Aug 2017 11:00 PM PDT Detroit's riots were some of the most violent in US history. As Kathryn Bigelow's new dramatization of the unrest hits screens, Detroiters who lived through it reflect on how far their city has come In 1967, when Marsha Music was 13, her father owned a record store and studio that recorded some of the most famous American blues and gospel of the 20th century. Artists who had graced the building included John Lee Hooker, Sonny Boy Williamson, and the very first gospel song recorded by the queen of soul, Aretha Franklin. But the family was forced to move their store when a freeway was built in the neighborhood. The new store was located on 12th Street in Detroit – just blocks away from the epicenter of where the civil unrest of 1967 would become one of the most violent and destructive disturbances in the US since the American civil war. Continue reading... |
| Spice ban ‘puts prisoners and homeless at risk’ as street drug goes underground Posted: 05 Aug 2017 10:01 PM PDT Public health services 'overwhelmed' by callouts to victims of the drug as fears grow that more dangerous compounds are becoming available The ban on new psychoactive substances, including the "zombie drug", spice, has served to drive the trade underground as more potent and unpredictable strains enter the market, pushed by street dealers. "Personally, I think the situation has got worse," said Arfon Jones, the police and crime commissioner for North Wales, which includes the town of Wrexham, whose problems with spice have been highlighted by local residents on social media. Continue reading... |
| Vince Cable hits out at hardline Brexit 'martyrs' Posted: 05 Aug 2017 11:00 PM PDT Lib Dem leader claims older voters with views coloured by nostalgia for an imperial past have 'shafted' younger pro-EU generation Sir Vince Cable has lashed out at hardline Brexit "martyrs" who view economic pain as a price worth paying to break away from Brussels. The Liberal Democrat leader accused them of "masochism" and claimed older Brexit voters with views "coloured by nostalgia from an imperial past" had imposed their will on a younger generation more comfortable with the European Union. Continue reading... |
| The Observer view on the crisis in Venezuela | Observer editorial Posted: 05 Aug 2017 04:04 PM PDT The troubled country needs help from western governments whose sanctimonious stance is helping no one Venezuela is a place where romance meets reality. For some on the European left, the self-styled "Bolivarian socialist revolution", led by the late Hugo Chávez, became a powerful exemplar of the way things could be in a better-ordered world: bottom-up, inclusive democratic governance led by peasants, workers, trade unionists, indigenous peoples and enlightened intellectuals, guided and inspired by a benign and charismatic comandante. Continue reading... |
| Life after the bomb: exploring the psychogeography of Hiroshima Posted: 06 Aug 2017 12:00 AM PDT On the anniversary of Hiroshima's nuclear destruction, a walk through the city's memorial park reveals a complex mix of devastation and rehabilitation Hiroshima is flourishing. It has a population surpassing 1.19 million, a burgeoning gourmet scene, towering luxury shopping centres, and a trendy night life. It is a city of vibrant green boulevards and open spaces, entangled by the braided tributaries of the Ōta River. However it is also a city of memorialisation. Over 75 monuments, large and small, sprout like delicate mushrooms in parks and on sidewalks, scattered across the city as if by the wind. Whilst the city grows and evolves, the memory remains of Hiroshima as first place on Earth where nuclear weapons were used in warfare, on 6 August 1945. The number of fatalities is not known, due wartime population transience and the destruction of records in the blast. Estimates are in the region of 135,000 people, roughly equivalent to the population of Oxford. It is therefore unsurprising that many locals have Hibakusha veterans in their families. The Hibakusha community maintain a living collective memory of the bomb, sharing their atomic folktales similarly to the Kataribe storytellers, as a cautionary modern mythology against nuclear war. Continue reading... |
| Sydney terrorism raids: man charged with possessing prohibited weapon Posted: 06 Aug 2017 12:26 AM PDT The 39-year-old man is the third suspect to be charged and has been released a week after police raids uncovered an alleged plot to bring down a plane A 39-year-old man detained over an alleged terror plot last week has been charged with possessing a prohibited weapon and released, police said on Sunday. Khaled Merhi was one of four men arrested by New South Wales joint counter-terrorism police on 29 July and he has been bailed to appear at Downing centre local Court on 24 August. Continue reading... |
| 'I don't want tension': Indian boxer beats China rival then offers belt back to heal border rift Posted: 05 Aug 2017 06:49 PM PDT Vijender Singh makes gesture of peace to Zulpikar Maimaitiali amid increasingly tense stand-off in Himalayas An Indian boxer won a title fight against a Chinese opponent before offering to hand back the prize as a gesture of peace between the two nations which are locked in a territorial dispute in the Himalayas. Vijender Singh beat Zulpikar Maimaitiali on points on Saturday to retain his WBO Asia Pacific super middleweight title and take his opponent's WBO Oriental super middleweight belt. Continue reading... |
| French farmers demand action against wolves killing livestock Posted: 05 Aug 2017 06:36 PM PDT Protesters gather 3,000 sheep, 100 cattle and a few horses in field to represent number of animals killed by wolves in recent months Hundreds of farmers, shepherds and politicians rallied in Aveyron, southern France, on Saturday calling for action to halt the slaughter of livestock by packs of wolves. The demonstrators gathered more than 3,000 sheep, about a hundred cattle and a few horses in a field to represent the number of animals killed by wolves in France in recent months. Continue reading... |
| India’s partition: ‘People in their final years are desperate to open up’ Posted: 05 Aug 2017 04:05 PM PDT Long-hidden drawings and letters recalling a dark and fearful period are coming to light at last in India Sardari Lal Parasher recorded what he witnessed during partition in hundreds of feverish sketches. Then he buried the images in a trunk for the rest of his life. The artist, from western Punjab, was a survivor of the blunt, bloody cleaving of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. As the train that would carry him from Lahore to Indian territory pulled in, an attendant pulled bodies off it and hosed it down, staining the platform red. Continue reading... |
| Monopoli waits for Ivanka to seal Puglia’s celebrity status Posted: 05 Aug 2017 04:05 PM PDT Donald Trump's daughter is the latest big name to have discovered the charms of Italy's remote south-east In Monopoli, a sleepy fishing village in Puglia founded by the ancient tribes of southern Italy, the excitement is palpable. The strong rumour is that Ivanka Trump, the daughter of Donald Trump, is coming to town. "All we need now is to hear that her dad is coming too," joked the town's mayor, Emilio Romani. And if the chattering in the Italian press is to be believed, that prospect may be likelier than he imagines. Continue reading... |
| In Lahore, trauma of partition’s silent generation slowly comes to light Posted: 05 Aug 2017 04:05 PM PDT In the cultural capital of Pakistan, close to the Indian border, survivors of 1947 are being encouraged to share the memories of what they lived through Samina Akram was 12 when the trains began arriving in Lahore: some with people spilling out of doors and windows, others full of dead bodies. On the roads outside the city, families were arriving on foot or by truck. "There were children who had been left by their mothers," Akram remembers. "Children with masses of flies on their faces. I've never seen so many vultures just waiting to swoop." Continue reading... |
| Why Pakistan and India remain in denial 70 years on from partition Posted: 05 Aug 2017 04:04 PM PDT The division of British India was poorly planned and brutally carried out, as fear and revenge attacks led to a bloody sectarian 'cleansing' On 3 June 1947, only six weeks before British India was carved up, a group of eight men sat around a table in New Delhi and agreed to partition the south Asian subcontinent. Photographs taken at that moment reveal the haunted and nervous faces of Jawaharlal Nehru, the Indian National Congress leader soon to become independent India's first prime minister, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, head of the Muslim League and Pakistan's first governor-general and Louis Mountbatten,the last British viceroy. Continue reading... |
| New Zealand: thousands of bottles of allegedly fraudulent wine exported Posted: 05 Aug 2017 03:59 PM PDT Ministry of Primary Industries brings landmark case against Southern Boundary Wines under 2003 wine act Thousands of bottles of allegedly fraudulent New Zealand sauvignon blanc and pinot noir have been exported overseas in what the government believes is the country's first significant case of wine fraud. The Ministry of Primary Industries has brought a landmark case against Southern Boundary Wines – the first ever to be prosecuted under the 2003 Wine Act. Continue reading... |
| Pride: Brighton and Belfast parades – in pictures Posted: 05 Aug 2017 03:32 PM PDT A look at Brighton and Hove's Pride festival, the UK's largest, and Belfast's Pride festival, the city's biggest cross-community parade Continue reading... |
| First same-sex wedding deepens Anglican divide Posted: 05 Aug 2017 02:40 PM PDT Problem still 'intractable', says Justin Welby, after Scottish ceremony The first gay Anglican wedding in Britain took place last week, just a day after the archbishop of Canterbury said the continuing row in the Anglican Communion over same-sex relationships was an "intractable problem". The couple, known as "Mark and Rick", got married on Tuesday at a Eucharist service where the Rev Markus Dunzkofer, of the Scottish Episcopal church, officiated. Dunzkofer, rector of St John's, in Princes Street, Edinburgh, said "history was made" at the wedding, held in the chapel of a Dalhousie hotel. Continue reading... |
| Could political tension in Venezuela ignite a civil war? Posted: 05 Aug 2017 12:58 PM PDT The government's determination to uproot democratic institutions is sure to increase violence – but the prospect of a coup, or worse, remains uncertain The Venezuelan government's determination to uproot the country's democratic institutions looks almost certain to raise the already serious level of violence in the country. Is it less clear whether that violence will ignite a civil war, trigger a coup, or simply drive Venezuela further down the road towards an impoverished failed state and chaos. The abrupt removal of the independently minded chief prosecutor Luisa Ortega, whose office was surrounded by soldiers on Saturday as a precursor to her replacement by a more compliant official, is the latest in a series of steps taken by president Nicolás Maduro to get rid of checks on his government's power. Continue reading... |
| White House as crime scene: how Robert Mueller is closing in on Trump Posted: 05 Aug 2017 05:45 AM PDT There is a grand jury in Washington DC. The special counsel's team is full of experts in financial crime. On Russia, the president can feel the net closing The legal net around Donald Trump's beleaguered presidency tightened dramatically this week with news that a grand jury has been established a few hundred yards from the White House, to pursue evidence of collusion with the Kremlin. It is a troubling development for the president, for several reasons. In the US legal system, a grand jury has broad powers to issue subpoenas, and ultimately indictments, at the request of prosecutors. Continue reading... |
| NRA tells New York Times: 'We're coming for you' – video Posted: 05 Aug 2017 08:04 AM PDT NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch appears in a provocative video intended to be a 'shot across the bow' of the New York Times. Loesch accuses the Times of being 'pretentious' and creating fake news. The clip was posted to the NRA's social media account on Thursday Continue reading... |
| Kenyan opposition says police raided offices – video Posted: 05 Aug 2017 08:00 AM PDT James Orengo, the senator for Siaya county, says police broke into an |
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