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- Daca: Democrats say agreement reached with Trump to protect young immigrants
- Luxury landings: the migrants crossing the Mediterranean by yacht
- 'Farewell': Qiao Mu, dissenting academic, leaves China for US
- Paris’s poor neighbour hopes city makes good on Olympic promise
- Chocolate industry drives rainforest disaster in Ivory Coast
- European parliament calls for investigation into 'Azerbaijani Laundromat'
- Much ado about nothing: ancient Indian text contains earliest zero symbol
- Eight dead in Florida nursing home that lost power during Hurricane Irma
- Norway solution 'would put UK in single market but not under ECJ'
- Martin Shkreli headed to jail after bail revoked over Hillary Clinton post
- Canada chess officials protest after player condemned for wearing shorts
- French baby boy banned from having name containing tilde
- Tobacco company launches foundation to stub out smoking
- New season of South Park takes aim at white supremacy
- North Korea's secretive small arms exports under spotlight in global survey
- Five charged with murder of Briton Steven Weare in Barbados
- Egypt charges lawyer investigating Italian student's murder
- Badge, gun, holster, skateboard … meet Canada's first skateboarding cop
- India starts work on bullet train line with £12bn loan from Japan
- 'Quite backwards': Chinese tourists gawk at impoverished North Koreans
- Grenfell Tower fire inquiry opens – live
- Ringo Starr wants people of Britain to 'get on' with Brexit
- Support for Iranians on hunger strike | Letters
- Rare white giraffes spotted in Kenya conservation area
- Clive Palmer tells court he still controls billions of dollars
- Merkel rejects Schulz's plea for second TV election debate
- Anti-Trump campaigners launch Last Night in Sweden – in pictures
- North Korea threatens to sink Japan and turn US to 'ashes and darkness'
- Thursday briefing: Yard and Beeb put trolls and abusers on notice
- School fire kills 22 students in Kuala Lumpur
- Model fired by L'Oreal for remarks on racism will be face of rival campaign
- Missing aid millions deny Syrian kids education and fuel 'lost generation' fears
- Teachers face suspension over videos showing abuse of pupils in South Africa
- Jean-Claude Juncker's federalist vision for the EU is far from reality
- Sanders: Republican party has 'no credibility' on healthcare – video
| Daca: Democrats say agreement reached with Trump to protect young immigrants Posted: 13 Sep 2017 11:24 PM PDT Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi emerge from dinner with president claiming a plan to pair the Dream Act with border security measures, excluding the wall Senior Democrats stunned Washington on Wednesday by claiming that they had agreed with Donald Trump on a plan to protect so-called Dreamers, young immigrants who were brought illegally to the US as children. Related: Trump adviser suggests Mexico wall funding won't be linked to Daca legislation Continue reading... |
| Luxury landings: the migrants crossing the Mediterranean by yacht Posted: 13 Sep 2017 09:00 PM PDT Wealthier migrants and refugees – doctors, lawyers, professors – can pay for a level of safety and comfort that others can't afford Only the wealthiest migrants and refugees could afford to pay for a voyage on the beautiful 10-metre yacht that sailed under a Ukrainian flag. Today that sailboat is under police guard along with a dozen other luxury vessels impounded at the Sicilian port of Augusta. Its former skipper, Andrej, has recently been released from prison after serving a one-year sentence for aiding illegal immigration. Continue reading... |
| 'Farewell': Qiao Mu, dissenting academic, leaves China for US Posted: 13 Sep 2017 09:30 PM PDT Friends say Qiao's decision has come after his academic career was wrecked by refusal to fall into line Qiao Mu had always insisted he would not be forced to leave China. "We must change our nation, not our nationality," the outspoken academic told the Guardian over lunch in the summer of 2015. Last Friday morning, however, Qiao and his family set off for Beijing's international airport to catch a Boeing 777 bound for the United States. |
| Paris’s poor neighbour hopes city makes good on Olympic promise Posted: 13 Sep 2017 09:00 PM PDT Mayor of Saint-Denis, where aquatics centre and athletes' village will be built, says 2024 Games are chance to shake off town's bad image It was gamble that Paris couldn't afford to lose. After decades of humiliating failures in bids to host the Olympics – including tearfully losing to London in 2012 – the French capital has finally won the 2024 Games. The city is now under pressure to prove it can deliver its promised new style of organising the event: cheaper, greener, with no white-elephant building projects and able to change the fortunes of local communities. Continue reading... |
| Chocolate industry drives rainforest disaster in Ivory Coast Posted: 13 Sep 2017 05:30 AM PDT Exclusive: As global demand for chocolate booms, 'dirty' beans from deforested national parks have entered big business supply chains
The world's chocolate industry is driving deforestation on a devastating scale in West Africa, the Guardian can reveal. Cocoa traders who sell to Mars, Nestlé, Mondelez and other big brands buy beans grown illegally inside protected areas in the Ivory Coast, where rainforest cover has been reduced by more than 80% since 1960. Continue reading... |
| European parliament calls for investigation into 'Azerbaijani Laundromat' Posted: 13 Sep 2017 10:53 AM PDT MEPs say Baku tried to 'influence European decision-makers through illicit means', as Council of Europe calls for legal action over defiance over ECHR The European parliament has called for an investigation into revelations by the Guardian and media partners that Azerbaijan ran a secret $2.9bn (£2.2bn) slush fund to pay influential Europeans to paint a positive image of the authoritarian regime. MEPs have demanded a "comprehensive" investigation into "attempts by Azerbaijan and other autocratic regimes ... to influence European decision-makers through illicit means", following a last-minute amendment to a report on corruption. Continue reading... |
| Much ado about nothing: ancient Indian text contains earliest zero symbol Posted: 13 Sep 2017 04:01 PM PDT Exclusive: one of the greatest conceptual breakthroughs in mathematics has been traced to the Bakhshali manuscript, dating from the 3rd or 4th century Nowt, nada, zilch: there is nothing new about nothingness. But the moment that the absence of stuff became zero, a number in its own right, is regarded as one of the greatest breakthroughs in the history of mathematics. Now scientists have traced the origins of this conceptual leap to an ancient Indian text, known as the Bakhshali manuscript – a text which has been housed in the UK since 1902. Continue reading... |
| Eight dead in Florida nursing home that lost power during Hurricane Irma Posted: 13 Sep 2017 07:29 AM PDT
Eight residents at a sweltering nursing home died after Hurricane Irma knocked out the air conditioning, raising fears on Wednesday about the safety of Florida's 4 million senior citizens amid widespread power outages that could go on for days. The Hollywood police chief, Tom Sanchez, said investigators believed the deaths at the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills were heat-related, and added: "The building has been sealed off and we are conducting a criminal investigation." He did not elaborate. Continue reading... |
| Norway solution 'would put UK in single market but not under ECJ' Posted: 13 Sep 2017 11:35 AM PDT UK wrong to play down independence of European Free Trade Association from EU's jurisdication, says head of Efta court A Norway-style arrangement would give post-Brexit Britain access to the single market and would not lead to fights with the European court of justice, the head of the court that oversees single market countries outside the EU has claimed. Carl Baudenbacher accused the British government of giving a distorted and inaccurate account of the extent to which his European Free Trade Association (Efta) court could act independently of the ECJ. Continue reading... |
| Martin Shkreli headed to jail after bail revoked over Hillary Clinton post Posted: 13 Sep 2017 03:28 PM PDT Government called for former pharmaceutical CEO's bail to be revoked after he offered to pay $5,000 for a Hillary Clinton hair with the follicle Martin Shkreli, the former pharmaceuticals company CEO who was once known as "the most hated man in America", has had his bail revoked after provocative online antics and is going to jail in New York while he awaits sentencing for securities fraud. A judge at a Wednesday hearing sided with a government demand to jail Shkreli, the so-called pharma bro, saying that Shkreli's offer to pay a $5,000 bounty for a Hillary Clinton hair with the follicle was "solicitation of an assault". Continue reading... |
| Canada chess officials protest after player condemned for wearing shorts Posted: 13 Sep 2017 01:30 PM PDT Anton Kovalyov, a Ukrainian-born Montrealer, says he was called a gypsy before forfeiting the tournament: 'The issue was not the shorts, but how I was treated' Canada's chess federation is preparing to lodge a formal complaint with the sport's world governing body after the country's top prospect was berated for wearing shorts and called a "gypsy" by an official at a recent World Cup. Anton Kovalyov, a Ukrainian-born Montrealer, travelled to Tbilisi, Georgia, earlier this month to take part in the international tournament. Minutes before one of the biggest matches of his career, an official asked the 25-year-old to change out of the plaid shorts he was wearing. Continue reading... |
| French baby boy banned from having name containing tilde Posted: 13 Sep 2017 12:28 PM PDT Brittany court rules name's spelling cannot feature non-French characters (ñ) even though region has its own language A French court has banned a couple from giving their baby a name containing a tilde, ruling that the character ñ was incompatible with national law. The couple from Brittany wanted to call their newborn boy Fañch, a traditional name in the northwestern region which has its own language. Continue reading... |
| Tobacco company launches foundation to stub out smoking Posted: 13 Sep 2017 09:12 AM PDT Philip Morris International say their Foundation for a Smoke-Free World aims to accelerate the end of smoking, but anti-tobacco campaigners are sceptical One of the world's biggest tobacco companies has launched the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World, claiming that it wants to see a future in which people will stop smoking its cigarettes. Continue reading... |
| New season of South Park takes aim at white supremacy Posted: 13 Sep 2017 11:10 AM PDT Comedy Central animated series, which has never shied from biting political commentary, will use its season 21 premiere to lampoon last month's deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville South Park returns on Wednesday night for its 21st season, and the celebrated Comedy Central series, which has long skewered the politics of those on both the left and the right, will take on white supremacists in its season premiere. Related: South Park creators to back off Trump jokes: 'Satire has become reality' Continue reading... |
| North Korea's secretive small arms exports under spotlight in global survey Posted: 13 Sep 2017 05:00 AM PDT Saudi Arabia and Iran also highlighted in report revealing that small arms trade is still a murky industry in which weapons can reach wrong hands North Korea has been singled out alongside Saudi Arabia and Iran as one of the world's most secretive major exporters of small arms, including Kalashnikovs, rockets and machine guns, in a report by experts in Geneva. Despite increased transparency among the 55% of nations who trade in small arms, the $6bn (£4.5bn) market remains a murky industry in which weapons find their way into the hands of terrorists or are used by states to carry out human rights abuses, according to the Small Arms Survey Trade Update 2017. Continue reading... |
| Five charged with murder of Briton Steven Weare in Barbados Posted: 13 Sep 2017 07:45 AM PDT Police hold men from Caribbean island after body of Lancashire car salesman found Five men have been charged with the murder of a British car salesman who disappeared in Barbados. Steven Weare, 49, was working on the Caribbean island when he went missing 21 days ago. His body was found last Friday in a remote part of the parish of St George, seven miles east of the capital Bridgetown, police said. Continue reading... |
| Egypt charges lawyer investigating Italian student's murder Posted: 13 Sep 2017 06:43 AM PDT Ibrahim Metwally Hegazy, who was looking into forced disappearance of Giulio Regeni in 2016, secretly arrested in Cairo A lawyer investigating the murder of an Italian student in Egypt is facing prosecution and up to five years in prison after being forcibly disappeared at Cairo airport. Ebrahim Metwally Hegazy disappeared on Sunday while travelling to a session of the UN working group on enforced or involuntary disappearances in Geneva. Continue reading... |
| Badge, gun, holster, skateboard … meet Canada's first skateboarding cop Posted: 14 Sep 2017 02:00 AM PDT Thierry Hinse-Fillion, a police officer in Longueil, near Montreal, is combining policing with his love of skateboarding to try to improve community relations When Thierry Hinse-Fillion arrived at a skatepark on the outskirts of Montreal for his first day in his new position, he was greeted with stares. Some – taking note of his uniform and patrol car – wondered if he was there to arrest someone. Others watched as the 32-year-old police officer opened the boot of his car and pulled out a skateboard. Related: Canada judge suspended for wearing Trump hat in court Continue reading... |
| India starts work on bullet train line with £12bn loan from Japan Posted: 14 Sep 2017 01:39 AM PDT Gujarat to Mumbai 217mph train will cut journey time from eight hours to three and is funded with low-interest Japanese loan India's creaking, colonial-era railway system is preparing to take a giant leap forward as the Indian prime minister breaks ground on the country's first bullet train project. Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the high-speed line on Thursday during a visit by his Japanese counterpart, Shinzō Abe, to the western state of Gujarat. |
| 'Quite backwards': Chinese tourists gawk at impoverished North Koreans Posted: 13 Sep 2017 06:48 PM PDT Thousands of tourists flock to a stretch of the country's 880-mile border with North Korea each month to point binoculars at their poor neighbours "This is a must-see," tour guide Yu Quanqing tells his passengers as he whisks them towards a riverside gateway to the hidden kingdom of Kim Jong-un. Related: How can the world respond to North Korea, short of military action? Continue reading... |
| Grenfell Tower fire inquiry opens – live Posted: 14 Sep 2017 02:02 AM PDT Follow the latest updates from the public inquiry into the London tower block in which 80 people are thought to have died
We have been attempting to memorialise all of the victims named so far. You can read that piece here: Related: All the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire named so far
Labour has warned the government the inquiry should not be reason to delay improvement measures to tower blocks. In a letter to communities secretary Sajid Javid, the shadow housing minister John Healey said: Thirteen weeks after the terrible fire at Grenfell Tower, it is astonishing that ministers still cannot tell tenants and the public how many of the country's 4,000 high-rise tower blocks are not safe, that promises of financial support for urgent work have not been honoured, and that the support for Grenfell survivors is still hopelessly inadequate. I do feel there's a gap between the terms of the inquiry and the criminal investigation and that's not going to be dealt with. And those are a lot of the questions that people want to hear. Are we going to find out who is accountable? They'll be picking through the 60 different sub contractors who worked on the tower, and all of those other issues, all the technical aspects of what was done and who chose what and whether or not the installation was done correctly and who gave those instructions. Continue reading... |
| Ringo Starr wants people of Britain to 'get on' with Brexit Posted: 14 Sep 2017 01:31 AM PDT The Beatles drummer has explained why he believes leaving the EU is a 'great move' … 'but don't tell Bob Geldof' Ringo Starr has described his impatience for Britain to "get on with" Brexit, declaring that "to be in control of your country is a good move". The Beatles drummer has previously stated his allegiance to the Brexit cause, claiming "we're all stuck with people who want to make arrangements for their own country and don't think for the other countries". Continue reading... |
| Support for Iranians on hunger strike | Letters Posted: 13 Sep 2017 10:10 AM PDT Reza Shahabi and other labour activists should be freed from prison at once, say Morad Shirin, Ronnie Draper and four MPs We are calling for Reza Shahabi and other hunger-striking labour activists, teachers and labour movement prisoners in Iranian jails to be released. Reza, a bus driver trade unionist, and a group of about 50 others have now been on hunger strike for almost a month in protest about the legality of their imprisonment and prison conditions. Their lives are in danger. Reza Shahabi's comrade Shahrokh Zamani died in the same prison in September 2015. We express our solidarity with the comrades on hunger strike and demand the Iranian government releases them, and all jailed labour movement activists in Iran. • Join the debate – email guardian.letters@theguardian.com Continue reading... |
| Rare white giraffes spotted in Kenya conservation area Posted: 13 Sep 2017 08:09 PM PDT A pair of giraffes with leucism, a condition that inhibits pigmentation in skin cells, have been filmed by conservationists for the first time A pair of rare white giraffes have been spotted in Kenya, to the delight of local residents and conservationists. The reticulated giraffes, a mother and child, suffer from a genetic condition called leucism, which inhibits pigmentation in skin cells. Unlike albinism, animals with leucism continue to produce dark pigment in their soft tissue, which explains the white giraffes' dark eyes and other colouring. Continue reading... |
| Clive Palmer tells court he still controls billions of dollars Posted: 14 Sep 2017 01:58 AM PDT Former MP fighting bid by to freeze $200m of his fortune as part of efforts to claw back money from collapse of Queensland Nickel Clive Palmer has claimed he still controls billions of dollars, while fighting a legal bid by government appointed liquidators to freeze $200m of his fortune as part of efforts to claw back money from the collapse of Queensland Nickel. Palmer also received a backhanded compliment in the supreme court over a "very clever arrangement" days before QN fell into voluntary administration that allowed his own companies to leapfrog others, including almost 800 employees, in claims for money owed. Continue reading... |
| Merkel rejects Schulz's plea for second TV election debate Posted: 14 Sep 2017 01:16 AM PDT Rival's request viewed as late bid to rally support with German chancellor widely expected to secure fourth term Angela Merkel has flatly rejected an appeal by her Social Democrat rival, Martin Schulz, for a second prime-time TV debate just days before Germans go to the polls. With Merkel widely expected to secure a fourth term in office on 24 September, Schulz's plea to the German chancellor is being viewed as little more than a last-minute bid to claw back support. Continue reading... |
| Anti-Trump campaigners launch Last Night in Sweden – in pictures Posted: 14 Sep 2017 12:00 AM PDT Conceived as a rebuttal to Donald Trump's false claims about terror attacks in Sweden in February this year, Last Night in Sweden features leading Swedish photographers depicting the country as it really is, warts and all. Published by Max Ström, the first copy will be presented to President Trump and it will then be sent to all members of the US Congress and European parliament Continue reading... |
| North Korea threatens to sink Japan and turn US to 'ashes and darkness' Posted: 13 Sep 2017 11:58 PM PDT Tokyo condemns 'absolutely unacceptable' provocation, as Pyongyang reacts to imposition of new UN sanctions following missile tests North Korea has threatened to sink Japan and said the US should be "beaten to death like a rabid dog" after the two countries spearheaded fresh UN security council sanctions in response to the regime's recent nuclear test. The Korea Asia-Pacific peace committee, which oversees North Korea's relations with the outside world, described the UN security council, which passed a new round of sanctions on Monday, as a "tool of evil" in the pay of Washington, and called for it to be broken up. Continue reading... |
| Thursday briefing: Yard and Beeb put trolls and abusers on notice Posted: 13 Sep 2017 10:30 PM PDT Met lists crimes against MPs as BBC chair blasts attacks on journalists … Trump treasury boss sought military jet for honeymoon … and the failure to end all war Good morning – it's Warren Murray with your daily news crib sheet. Continue reading... |
| School fire kills 22 students in Kuala Lumpur Posted: 13 Sep 2017 08:14 PM PDT Two adult teachers also among the dead after blaze ripped through religious academy in Malaysian capital Twenty-five students and two wardens died when a blaze tore through a Malaysian religious school in what officials described as one of the country's worst fire disasters for years. The blaze broke out before dawn on Thursday in the two-storey building of the Darul Quran Ittifaqiyah school, located in the centre of the capital, Kuala Lumpur. Continue reading... |
| Model fired by L'Oreal for remarks on racism will be face of rival campaign Posted: 13 Sep 2017 05:02 PM PDT Illamasqua hires Munroe Bergdorf, sacked by French firm after urging white people to be aware of unconscious racism A transgender model fired by L'Oreal for making comments about systemic racism on social media has been chosen as the face of a new campaign by a rival beauty brand. Munroe Bergdorf was sacked by the French company last month after making the comments on Facebook in the wake of events in Charlottesville. On Wednesday the British firm Illamasqua announced she was fronting its new campaign based around gender fluidity. Continue reading... |
| Missing aid millions deny Syrian kids education and fuel 'lost generation' fears Posted: 13 Sep 2017 09:01 PM PDT Research reveals funds pledged at London conference to get Syrian children into school have failed to materialise, arrived too late or proved untraceable Millions of dollars pledged by world leaders to get more Syrian children into school failed to reach them, arrived too late or could not be traced due to poor reporting, researchers have claimed. After tracking pledges made at last year's London conference for Syria, Human Rights Watch said there were "large discrepancies" between the funding donors said was given to education and the amount that reached the intended target. Continue reading... |
| Teachers face suspension over videos showing abuse of pupils in South Africa Posted: 13 Sep 2017 08:14 AM PDT Teaching staff in KwaZulu-Natal province under investigation as mobile phone footage implicating them in savage attacks on students circulates online Seven teachers face suspension in South Africa after a series of videos emerged showing staff abusing students. Elijah Mhlanga, spokesperson for the Department of Basic Education, said he was "shocked and disgusted" by the films, which are taken in KwaZulu-Natal, a coastal South African province. Continue reading... |
| Jean-Claude Juncker's federalist vision for the EU is far from reality Posted: 13 Sep 2017 08:25 AM PDT Despite the European commission chief's ambitions, opposing national interests may mean some policies will remain slogans Never mind the Brexit. If Jean-Claude Juncker had a message for the UK in his state of the union speech on Wednesday, this was it. "[Brexit] is not the be all and end all," the European commission president said, devoting around two minutes to the trauma of Britain's EU exit in an address that ran for one hour and spanned a range of topics from geopolitics to fishfingers. "The wind is back in Europe's sails," he declared. And it appears the EU is sailing in a more federalist direction. Continue reading... |
| Sanders: Republican party has 'no credibility' on healthcare – video Posted: 13 Sep 2017 01:22 PM PDT The Democratic senator Bernie Sanders slammed Republicans on Wednesday as he unveiled legislation that would expand the Medicare health insurance program for the elderly to all Americans. 'To my Republican colleagues, please don't lecture us on healthcare,' Sanders said at an event on Capitol Hill. 'You, the Republican Party, have no credibility on the issue of healthcare' Continue reading... |
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