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- North Korea: ballistic missile launched over Japan – as it happened
- Moscow flaunts might against fading Isis as it alters balance of power in Syria
- Myanmar: footage reveals scorched-earth campaign against Rohingya
- Trump revives criticism of 'both sides' in Charlottesville
- Body of FT journalist presumed killed by crocodile found in Sri Lanka
- AfD co-founder says Germans should be proud of its second world war soldiers
- EU report on weedkiller safety copied text from Monsanto study
- Saudi crown prince tries to consolidate power with string of arrests
- Migrants stuck on endless ferry journey as countries refuse entry
- Isis claims responsibility for three Iraq suicide attacks
- Mystery of sonic weapon attacks at US embassy in Cuba deepens
- Trump meets Irma victims as Florida mayor calls for action not words
- UN report attacks austerity budgets for growing inequality
- Brazilian president Temer charged with obstruction of justice and racketeering
- Venezuelan president's plan to beat hunger: breed rabbits – and eat them
- Poor diet is a factor in one in five deaths, global disease study reveals
- US museum 'storing remains of Namibian genocide victims'
- These mothers saw the opioid epidemic before anyone else. No one listened
- South Korea tests missiles in response to North Korea's latest launch – video
- Anger as Tunisia grants amnesty to officials accused of corruption
- Want a more 'authentic' tourist experience? There's an app for that
- Connections, community and cute-ass cats: in praise of real-life bodegas
- Downward spiral: how Venezuela’s symbol of progress became political prisoners’ hell
- London tube explosion: video shows burning device as police launch terrorism inquiry – latest updates
- JD Wetherspoon boss: EU leaders should take a 'wise-up pill' on Brexit
- Harvard rescinds Chelsea Manning's visiting fellowship after CIA chief protests
- Medicare details sold on darknet not obtained by hacking but from ‘legitimate channel’
- 'I will eat my hat if Merkel doesn't win': readers on the German election
- 'Duck and cover': in Japan, North Korean missile alerts are becoming a fact of life
- Tillerson on North Korea: Russia and China must take 'direct action' over missile launch
- Friday briefing: 'No bright future' – warning to North Korea after missile launch
- More than 100 escaped British Virgin Islands prisoners rounded up
- Back to the first world war front line with Tommy – archive, 15 September 1993
- Portraits of South Sudanese refugees in Uganda – in pictures
- What is Daca and who are the Dreamers?
- North Korea fires another missile over Japan – video
| North Korea: ballistic missile launched over Japan – as it happened Posted: 14 Sep 2017 11:17 PM PDT
If North Korea continues to walk this road, there will be no bright future. We need to get North Korea to understand that. Related: Tillerson says Russia and China must take 'direct action' over North Korea missile launch
David Wright of the Union of Concerned Scientists said: "Like the August 28 test, this test appears to have been a Hwasong-12 missile launched from a site near the Pyongyang airport. "The missile followed a standard trajectory – rather than the highly lofted trajectories North Korea used earlier this year – and it flew over part of the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido." Continue reading... |
| Moscow flaunts might against fading Isis as it alters balance of power in Syria Posted: 14 Sep 2017 10:00 PM PDT Carefully orchestrated journalists tour reveals Russia's deep involvement in conflict – but few ordinary Russians appear keen on Syrian mission "I recommend you to look in that direction," said Maj Gen Igor Konashenkov with a smile, gesturing at the Mediterranean waters from aboard the Admiral Essen naval frigate. Moments later, two whooshes of noise and smoke heralded the launch of seven cruise missiles by two submarines from Russia's Black Sea fleet. Continue reading... |
| Myanmar: footage reveals scorched-earth campaign against Rohingya Posted: 14 Sep 2017 07:30 AM PDT Government accused of systematic strategy in Rakhine state as Rohingya claim soldiers torched their homes and fired on them after urging them to leave Satellite imagery has shown flames engulfing huge swaths of Myanmar's Rakhine state, prompting accusations that state forces are adopting a deliberate and systematic scorched-earth campaign to drive out the Rohingya Muslim minority. In addition to the satellite evidence, captured by Amnesty International, the Guardian has received video footage from Rohingya villagers fleeing their homes as they attempt to make their way to Bangladesh. The clips show fires burning in the distance and hundreds of people hiking up muddy jungle paths and crossing rivers with sacks and baskets crammed with their belongings. The Guardian has been shown at least two images of corpses. Continue reading... |
| Trump revives criticism of 'both sides' in Charlottesville Posted: 14 Sep 2017 02:17 PM PDT After talk with Tim Scott, Senate's only black Republican, president defends his earlier comments, citing 'pretty bad dudes' in Antifa movement Donald Trump on Thursday reverted to his controversial "both sides" rhetoric about white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, that led to the death of a woman last month. Related: 'No Fascist USA!': how hardcore punk fuels the Antifa movement Continue reading... |
| Body of FT journalist presumed killed by crocodile found in Sri Lanka Posted: 15 Sep 2017 12:47 AM PDT Paul McClean, 24, had been taking surfing lessons when he was pulled into a lagoon, say witnesses The body of a British journalist believed to have been killed by a crocodile has been found in Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan police said the body of 24-year-old Paul McClean, who worked for the Financial Times, had been recovered a day after he was seen being dragged into a lagoon by a crocodile. Continue reading... |
| AfD co-founder says Germans should be proud of its second world war soldiers Posted: 14 Sep 2017 12:25 PM PDT Alexander Gauland says Germans 'have the right' to be proud of the achievements of nation's soldiers in two world wars Germans should be proud of what their soldiers achieved during the first and second world wars, the top candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has said in the run-up to elections on 24 September at which the party is expected to enter parliament. Opinion polls show the anti-immigrant AfD iwinning up to 12% of the vote, meaning it could become the third largest party in Germany's lower house behind Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Social Democrats (SPD). Continue reading... |
| EU report on weedkiller safety copied text from Monsanto study Posted: 14 Sep 2017 04:01 PM PDT Exclusive: EU's food safety watchdog recommended that glyphosate was safe but pages of report were identical to application from pesticide maker The European food safety authority (Efsa) based a recommendation that a chemical linked to cancer was safe for public use on an EU report that copied and pasted analyses from a Monsanto study, the Guardian can reveal. Glyphosate is the core ingredient in Monsanto's $4.75bn (£3.5bn) a year RoundUp weedkiller brand and a battle over its relicensing has split EU countries, with a final decision on its authorisation expected in early November. Continue reading... |
| Saudi crown prince tries to consolidate power with string of arrests Posted: 14 Sep 2017 09:39 AM PDT Up to 10 popular clerics, some with large social media followings, are detained as Prince Mohammed cracks down on dissent Saudi Arabia's crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, has launched a broad crackdown on dissent, targeting clerics, public critics and political rivals, as he moves to consolidate his newfound power amid a standoff with Qatar. The campaign has led to the detention of up to 10 popular clerics – the biggest mass arrest of its kind in the kingdom's recent history. It follows a failed recent attempt to end the three-month feud between Riyadh and its tiny neighbour, which has defied calls to sever links with the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran, whom the oil-rich state and its allies in the Gulf view as subversive threats. |
| Migrants stuck on endless ferry journey as countries refuse entry Posted: 14 Sep 2017 11:59 AM PDT Men stowed away on Istanbul to Odessa ferry and are stuck at sea while both Turkey and Ukraine refuse to take them Twelve migrants, apparently from North Africa, have been sailing to and fro between Istanbul and Odessa on a Danish passenger ferry for the last seven weeks, locked in four cabins with no country willing to take them. According to the operator, DFDS, Turkey and Ukraine both refuse to accept the men. Continue reading... |
| Isis claims responsibility for three Iraq suicide attacks Posted: 14 Sep 2017 10:09 AM PDT At least 50 killed after militants use car bombs and suicide vests to target checkpoint and restaurants near Nassiriya Islamic State has claimed responsibility for three suicide attacks that killed at least 50 people in southern Iraq on Thursday and wounded more than 80. The attackers, wearing security force uniforms and driving stolen army vehicles, targeted a police checkpoint and two restaurants on a highway near the city of Nassiriya, using car bombs and suicide vests, police sources said. Continue reading... |
| Mystery of sonic weapon attacks at US embassy in Cuba deepens Posted: 14 Sep 2017 07:46 AM PDT At least some of the incidents were confined to certain rooms with laser-like specificity, and some victims now have problems recalling specific words The blaring, grinding noise jolted the American diplomat from his bed in a Havana hotel. He moved just a few feet, and there was silence. He climbed back into bed. Inexplicably, the agonizing sound hit him again. It was as if he'd walked through some invisible wall cutting straight through his room. Related: Botched surveillance job may have led to strange injuries at US embassy in Cuba Continue reading... |
| Trump meets Irma victims as Florida mayor calls for action not words Posted: 14 Sep 2017 12:09 PM PDT Mayor of hard-hit Naples hopes president's visit will be backed by resources, with 90% of Florida Keys damaged and 25% of the state without power Donald Trump met victims of Hurricane Irma in a flying visit to south-west Florida on Thursday, handing out sandwiches and acknowledging "the very, very special problem" of the Florida Keys, where the monster storm caused massive destruction. The US president, accompanied by the first lady Melania Trump and vice-president Mike Pence, heaped praise on the military and federal, state and local leaders, whom he said had done "an incredible job" since the category 4 storm struck the state on Sunday. Continue reading... |
| UN report attacks austerity budgets for growing inequality Posted: 14 Sep 2017 11:00 AM PDT Study says spending cuts have encouraged rise of robots and AI and heightened job insecurity, particularly for women Austerity budgets adopted by governments across the world since the 2008 financial crash are to blame for undermining the job security of millions of workers and threatening the progress made by women in the workplace, according to a UN report. The threat to jobs from the growing use of robots and artificial intelligence has been exacerbated by a lack of government investment and lack of state support for skills training, the report also said. Continue reading... |
| Brazilian president Temer charged with obstruction of justice and racketeering Posted: 14 Sep 2017 03:30 PM PDT
Brazil's prosecutor general's office has filed charges of racketeering against President Michel Temer and six other leading politicians from his party, three of whom are already in jail. Temer and two other men are also accused of obstructing justice. "They practiced illicit acts in exchange for bribes by way of diverse public organs," prosecutors said. "Michel Temer is accused of having acted as the leader of the criminal organisation since May 2016." Continue reading... |
| Venezuelan president's plan to beat hunger: breed rabbits – and eat them Posted: 14 Sep 2017 11:34 AM PDT
Venezuela's government has urged citizens to see rabbits as more than "cute pets" as it defended a plan to breed and eat them – even as the opposition says this would do nothing to end chronic food shortages. The "rabbit plan" is an effort by the government of Nicolás Maduro to boost food availability. Authorities have also taught citizens to plant food on the roofs and balconies of their homes. Continue reading... |
| Poor diet is a factor in one in five deaths, global disease study reveals Posted: 14 Sep 2017 03:30 PM PDT Study compiling data from every country finds people are living longer but millions are eating wrong foods for their health Poor diet is a factor in one in five deaths around the world, according to the most comprehensive study ever carried out on the subject. Millions of people are eating the wrong sorts of food for good health. Eating a diet that is low in whole grains, fruit, nuts and seeds and fish oils and high in salt raises the risk of an early death, according to the huge and ongoing study Global Burden of Disease. Continue reading... |
| US museum 'storing remains of Namibian genocide victims' Posted: 14 Sep 2017 10:48 AM PDT American Museum of Natural History thought to be holding remains collected by German racialist scientist The remains of victims of concentration camps in Namibia which were gathered by a German racialist scientist for use in experiments have been found in the collection of a major US museum, campaigners claim. Representatives of the Herero and Namaqua peoples of Namibia say skulls and skeletons dating to the German occupation of south-west Africa in the decades before the first world war are being held by the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Continue reading... |
| These mothers saw the opioid epidemic before anyone else. No one listened Posted: 15 Sep 2017 02:00 AM PDT Opioids claim the lives of thousands of Americans each year – and yet people don't want to talk about it. Now a band of bereaved parents are fighting back Emily Walden was looking for answers even before the death of her son. Walden, from Louisville, Kentucky, first wanted to know what led TJ into the grasp of prescription opioid painkillers when he was still a teenager. But she soon latched on to another question. How was it that a powerful narcotic pulled from sale in the 1970s as too dangerous – oxymorphone – was back in pharmacies and TJ's pocket until it killed him at the age of 22? Continue reading... |
| South Korea tests missiles in response to North Korea's latest launch – video Posted: 15 Sep 2017 01:18 AM PDT South Korea's military said it conducted a missile test into the sea on Friday in response to North Korea's latest launch. The latter, thought to be of an intermediate-range missile, flew further than any tested by the regime, triggering emergency sirens and text alerts minutes before it passed over the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido on Friday morning • Tillerson on North Korea: Russia and China must take 'direct action' over missile launch Continue reading... |
| Anger as Tunisia grants amnesty to officials accused of corruption Posted: 15 Sep 2017 01:04 AM PDT Law granting amnesty to officials of former dictator Ben Ali criticised as 'huge symbolic victory for impunity' Opposition groups in Tunisia have raised the alarm after parliament passed an amnesty law for officials accused of corruption under toppled dictator Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. The law passed on Wednesday evening after a rowdy debate in parliament. In a recent cabinet reshuffle Ben Ali-era officials were appointed as ministers of finance and education. Continue reading... |
| Want a more 'authentic' tourist experience? There's an app for that Posted: 14 Sep 2017 11:30 PM PDT For many people the best kind of holiday is one based on local knowledge, but how do you know where the locals go – especially when they may prefer not to tell you? By mining their publicly available Instagram data No one wants to be a tourist – not even tourists. It has connotations of uncritical consumption, of high prices and low quality, of being mindlessly funnelled amid a mass of humanity towards the sorts of joints that real New Yorkers or Londoners or Parisians wouldn't be caught dead in. The success of any experience of an unfamiliar city is measured by how much it overlaps with a local's, and that's never been truer than now. As cheap flights flood Europe with visitors, measures against tourists' obstructive, destructive impact have been taken in Venice, Barcelona, Rome and most recently Amsterdam. Continue reading... |
| Connections, community and cute-ass cats: in praise of real-life bodegas Posted: 14 Sep 2017 10:36 AM PDT As the inventors of Bodega learned yesterday, real corner shops actually matter to cities in a way supermarket chains and automated cabinets never can The Saturday before Christmas 1971, my grandparents worked like crazy making enough corned starch for hundreds of friends in East Oakland. Together they'd invented a secret cornmeal masa recipe to sell at their corner store, El Progreso, in order to make the tastiest tortillas and tamales in the region. Dozens lined up when the store opened, some coming from way out of town, and the whole weekend was a lively scene of people from the community buying, commiserating, gossiping, and laughing. My mother, Irma, remembers families even bringing them food. By late evening on Sunday, she had to announce to friends still waiting that they were out of masa. Though sad she couldn't give them what they were looking for, she and my grandmother Isabel were amazed at their good fortune, sweating from a full day of honest work as my grandfather Anastasio drank beer in the back room to celebrate with his bakers. Continue reading... |
| Downward spiral: how Venezuela’s symbol of progress became political prisoners’ hell Posted: 14 Sep 2017 11:00 PM PDT The dizzying spiral structure in central Caracas was conceived in the 1950s as a monument to a nation's confidence – but now its crumbling shell houses a notorious political prison. Is El Helicoide a metaphor for modern Venezuela? Spiralling up a hill in the heart of Caracas is a playful, ambitious building that once embodied Venezuela's dreams of modernity, power and influence, and was fêted by Salvador Dalí and Pablo Neruda. Today, its crumbling concrete shell houses the headquarters of Venezuela's intelligence services and the country's most notorious political prison. It has become a symbol of national decay, bankrupt dreams and faltering democracy. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 15 Sep 2017 02:22 AM PDT Follow live updates after explosion at Parsons Green underground station in which several people were injured
Police closed off the southern end of Kelvedon Road with tapes. Gautham Krishna was waiting at the tape to collect his daughter from Kensington Prep School which is behind the security cordon. "There's a report of something else possibly in there,'" he said. "The girls and my wife are in there. They are doing great a security sweep."
The Metropolitan Police have declared it a terrorist incident while investigations continue. The Met's Counter Terrorism Command are investigating after the incident at #ParsonsGreen tube station is declared a terrorist incident Continue reading... |
| JD Wetherspoon boss: EU leaders should take a 'wise-up pill' on Brexit Posted: 15 Sep 2017 12:00 AM PDT Tim Martin hits out at 'unelected oligarchs' and says pub chain could be forced to switch to suppliers outside the EU The chairman of JD Wetherspoon has warned that the pub chain could be forced to switch to suppliers from outside the EU as a result of Brexit and that the strong start to its new financial year could not be sustained. Urging EU leaders to take a "wise-up pill", Tim Martin said any move to switch suppliers would not have adverse effects on the UK but be "highly damaging to the economy of the EU". Continue reading... |
| Harvard rescinds Chelsea Manning's visiting fellowship after CIA chief protests Posted: 14 Sep 2017 10:20 PM PDT University withdraws honorary title, but still invites whistleblower to 'spend a day' speaking on campus, after CIA director cancels event over 'traitor' Harvard University has rescinded an offer to make Chelsea Manning a visiting fellow after the director of the CIA, Mike Pompeo, cancelled an appearance at the university. Continue reading... |
| Medicare details sold on darknet not obtained by hacking but from ‘legitimate channel’ Posted: 15 Sep 2017 12:58 AM PDT Details from Medicare offered on auction site came from a 'bad person doing a bad thing', Senate inquiry hears Medicare details sold on the darknet were not obtained through hacking but by a "bad person doing a bad thing from a legitimate channel," a Senate inquiry has heard. Guardian Australia revealed in July that Medicare card details were offered for sale on a darknet auction site and that the vendor, provided with a journalist's name and date of birth, was able to produce the requested Medicare number for a fee of 0.0089 bitcoin, or US$22. Continue reading... |
| 'I will eat my hat if Merkel doesn't win': readers on the German election Posted: 14 Sep 2017 11:30 PM PDT Guardian readers in Germany weigh up their votes in a general election seen as Angela Merkel's to lose German voters are hoping for business as usual after September's general election, according to readers who responded to a Guardian callout. Angela Merkel's party, the Christian Democratic Union, is widely expected to win, and we found support for a CDU-FDP-Green "Jamaica" coalition. Strikingly, even those planning to vote for alternative parties paid tribute to Merkel as a reassuring, safe pairs of hands as chancellor. |
| 'Duck and cover': in Japan, North Korean missile alerts are becoming a fact of life Posted: 14 Sep 2017 11:26 PM PDT North Korea's launch of a fourth rocket over Japanese territory brings its neighbour a mixture of evacuation drills and uncertainty For the second time in just over a fortnight, millions of people in northern Japan were jolted awake by an alert warning them a North Korean missile was heading in their direction. "Missile launch! Missile launch!" read the first of two messages, as the wail of sirens pierced the early-morning calm in a dozen prefectures, including the northern island of Hokkaido. Continue reading... |
| Tillerson on North Korea: Russia and China must take 'direct action' over missile launch Posted: 14 Sep 2017 11:13 PM PDT Japanese PM says Pyongyang has 'no bright future' and calls for UN security council meeting after projectile flew over island of Hokkaido Japan has warned North Korea it has "no bright future" and called for an emergency meeting of the UN security council after Pyongyang launched a ballistic missile over Japanese territory for the second time in just over a fortnight. The missile, thought to be intermediate-range, flew further than any missile tested by the regime, triggering emergency sirens and text alerts minutes before it passed over the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido on Friday morning. Continue reading... |
| Friday briefing: 'No bright future' – warning to North Korea after missile launch Posted: 14 Sep 2017 10:31 PM PDT Fury as regime lobs intermediate-range Hwasong-12 over Japan … one night in a 'micro-home' … and why old men have big ears Hello – it's Warren Murray, beginning our round-up with North Korea raising tensions once again. Continue reading... |
| More than 100 escaped British Virgin Islands prisoners rounded up Posted: 14 Sep 2017 10:23 PM PDT Local police joined by Royal Marines in operation to restore law and order to island in wake of Hurricane Irma More than 100 prisoners have been captured after escaping from a jail on the British Virgin Islands during the chaos of Hurricane Irma. The governor of the islands said the prisoners of Balsam Ghut prison, in Tortola, were captured on Thursday. It followed an operation by British Virgin Island and Cayman Island police officers, alongside British Royal Marines and police. Continue reading... |
| Back to the first world war front line with Tommy – archive, 15 September 1993 Posted: 14 Sep 2017 09:30 PM PDT 15 September 1993 Sebastian Faulks visits the killing fields of Flanders, the backdrop to his new and acclaimed novel, Birdsong In 1988 I was sent by a newspaper to report on the 70th anniversary of the Armistice. I went with a party of veterans organised by the historian Lyn Macdonald who, in the 1970s, had seen the danger that most of these old men were dying without ever having told their stories. We stayed in Bethune, in the flatlands of north-eastern France, and I remember being amazed at the passion for tea evinced by these old men. In the morning we drove to the battlefields of Neuve Chapelle and Aubers Ridge, where in 1915 the British launched their first attacks of the war. The old man sitting next to me on the bus took my hand as he explained how it felt to be wheeled on a general service wagon over rutted ground with the two parts of your shattered leg rubbing together. When we stopped and got off, he showed me where the fire trench had been; he pointed to the German line about 90 yards distant, still marked by the indestructible concrete pillboxes. Continue reading... |
| Portraits of South Sudanese refugees in Uganda – in pictures Posted: 14 Sep 2017 11:00 PM PDT Of the 2 million people who have fled violence in South Sudan since civil war broke out in 2013, more than half are in Uganda. About a quarter of a million are at Bidi Bidi in Uganda's north, which has become the world's largest refugee settlement. A series of stunning portraits by photojournalist Peter Caton shows people who walked for days, often without food, to escape South Sudan All photographs by Peter Caton Continue reading... |
| What is Daca and who are the Dreamers? Posted: 14 Sep 2017 08:30 AM PDT Here is everything you need to know about the program that gives temporary protection to undocumented migrants who arrived in the US as children The Trump administration announced last week that it planned to scrap Daca, the program that gives temporary protection to undocumented migrants who arrived in the US as children. Attorney general Jeff Sessions said the US would end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) in March 2018, throwing almost 800,000 people into turmoil and fear. Congress was given up to six months to find a legislative alternative, after Sessions announced that new applications would no longer be accepted. Continue reading... |
| North Korea fires another missile over Japan – video Posted: 14 Sep 2017 08:04 PM PDT North Korea has fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile over northern Japan in an apparent show of defiance days after the UN security council approved a new round of sanctions against the regime. Continue reading... |
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