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- Angela Merkel faces tough coalition talks after German election
- Trump travel ban extended to blocks on North Korea, Venezuela and Chad
- Iraqi Kurds polarised as region holds historic referendum on independence
- NFL players kneel for anthem in unprecedented defiance of Trump
- Pakistani MP who says Imran Khan harassed her faces wave of abuse
- Portuguese children to crowdfund European climate change case
- West courts Libyan general accused of human rights abuses
- Catalan campaigners hand out a million referendum ballots
- Ted Cruz joins Republicans ranged against Graham-Cassidy healthcare bill
- One dead and seven injured in church shooting stopped by 'hero' usher
- Nureyev ballet to open in Moscow, despite director's house arrest
- London's International Tattoo Festival – in pictures
- German elections 2017: full results
- HiPP to relaunch Croatian baby food item amid row over inferior products
- Bernie Sanders urges GetUp members to join global 'resistance'
- What would an entirely flood-proof city look like?
- Climate experts criticise Scotland's greenhouse emissions cuts strategy
- Cassie Sainsbury says she can't unlock phone to prove innocence
- New Zealand party leaders woo Winston Peters' support after election stalemate
- The Anzac skull that tells a shocking and tragic story of battlefield violence | Paul Daley
- From the archive: how the Guardian reported the Little Rock civil rights showdown in 1957
- Merkel’s poll win unlikely to make much difference to Brexit, analysts say
- Monday briefing: Merkel weakened by surge of far right
- Challenges Merkel faces as she starts fourth term as German chancellor
- Myanmar: bodies of 28 Hindu villagers found in Rakhine, army claims
- Angela Merkel holds on to power in German election – video
- 'Trump’s secret Yemen war': UK role in US counter-terrorism causes unease
- Exit polls offer Merkel fewer coalition choices
- Ri Yong-ho: the North Korean diplomat who could defuse the crisis
| Angela Merkel faces tough coalition talks after German election Posted: 25 Sep 2017 01:47 AM PDT Chancellor is expected to try to reach agreement with parties that between them denied her a majority in the Bundestag Angela Merkel faces tough negotiations in coming weeks as she attempts to engineer a governing coalition that can withstand pressure from the far right, which has swept into the German parliament for the first time in over five decades. The German chancellor's centre-right Christian Democrat-led alliance took 33% of the vote in Sunday's election – its worst result since 1949 but enough to remain the largest force in parliament. Continue reading... |
| Trump travel ban extended to blocks on North Korea, Venezuela and Chad Posted: 24 Sep 2017 11:09 PM PDT President's proclamation may throw major hurdle in front of ongoing court challenges to ban which blocked travel from six majority-Muslim countries Donald Trump has announced new travel restrictions on visitors to the United States that will expand his controversial travel ban to eight countries. The new proclamation, which will come into effect on 18 October, will continue to target travellers from Somalia, Yemen, Syria, Libya and Iran, but also adds North Korea, Chad and Venezuela to the list of targeted countries. Sudan has been dropped from the administration's list of nations and Iraqi citizens will be subjected to "additional scrutiny" but will not face any blanket bans. Continue reading... |
| Iraqi Kurds polarised as region holds historic referendum on independence Posted: 24 Sep 2017 09:00 PM PDT Excitement has been building in Erbil, where veteran Kurdish president Massoud Barzani is popular, but 150 miles to the east, in Sulaimaniya, it's business as usual Its streets bustled with Sunday shoppers. Its teahouses brimmed with men who preferred playing dominoes to talking politics. And on boulevards and in town squares, there was hardly a Kurdish flag to be seen. On the eve of a historic day in Kurdistan, the region's two biggest hubs were a tale of two cities. In Erbil, the centre of Monday's independence referendum, a festival feel that had built for the past week had taken over neighbourhoods. Flags fluttered from street poles, and car windows and shops were festooned with banners proclaiming the dawn of self-determination. Continue reading... |
| NFL players kneel for anthem in unprecedented defiance of Trump Posted: 24 Sep 2017 03:11 PM PDT
NFL players staged an unprecedented wave of protest on Sunday, beginning at Wembley Stadium in London, as Donald Trump maintained his attack on players who kneel in protest against the national anthem. Related: Memo to Trump after his NFL rant: sport is, and always has been, political Continue reading... |
| Pakistani MP who says Imran Khan harassed her faces wave of abuse Posted: 24 Sep 2017 10:00 PM PDT Ayesha Gulalai Wazir is denounced by her party, while some on social media say she should be whipped or attacked with acid When the Pakistani politician Ayesha Gulalai Wazir accused the cricket-star-turned-opposition-leader Imran Khan of sexual harassment, the vitriol unleashed against her was swift and vicious. First, leaders of Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e Insaf (PTI) party – which Gulalai also belongs to – publicly denounced her and demanded 30 million rupees (£218,000) in compensation for damage to his reputation and "mental torture". Continue reading... |
| Portuguese children to crowdfund European climate change case Posted: 24 Sep 2017 04:01 PM PDT Group from region hit by deadly forest fires to sue 47 countries alleging failure to tackle climate change threatens their right to life Portuguese schoolchildren from the area struck by the country's worst forest fires are seeking crowdfunding to sue 47 European countries, alleging that the states' failure to tackle climate change threatens their right to life. The children, from the Leiria region of central Portugal, where fires this summer killed more than 60 people and left hundreds injured, are being represented by British barristers who are experts in environmental and climate change law. Continue reading... |
| West courts Libyan general accused of human rights abuses Posted: 24 Sep 2017 11:57 PM PDT Ex-CIA asset Khalifa Haftar, due to meet Italian officials in Rome, ordered soldiers to commit war crimes, according to legal experts European leaders are embracing a Libyan general who has ordered his soldiers to commit war crimes, according to new evidence that has been analysed by senior legal experts. The allegation of human rights abuses by Gen Khalifa Haftar, a former CIA asset who controls nearly half of Libya from his base in the east, comes as the general is due to arrive in Rome on Tuesday, where he will be received by Italian officials. The visit is a radical departure for Italy, who had previously shunned Haftar and seen him as a major obstacle to stability in the region because of his refusal to recognise the UN-backed government in the west. Continue reading... |
| Catalan campaigners hand out a million referendum ballots Posted: 24 Sep 2017 08:30 AM PDT Thousands gather across Catalonia to show support for 1 October independence vote that Madrid has vowed to stop Catalan independence campaigners have held rallies across the region, distributing 1m ballot papers a week before people are due to vote in a sovereignty referendum that the Spanish government has vowed to stop. Thousands of people congregated in town squares around Catalonia on Sunday to show their support for the vote as tensions between the pro-independence regional government and the Spanish state continued to rise. Continue reading... |
| Ted Cruz joins Republicans ranged against Graham-Cassidy healthcare bill Posted: 24 Sep 2017 12:39 PM PDT Effort to replace ACA appears doomed as Cruz indicates Lee will follow him and Collins says it is 'very difficult' for her to envision voting for the bill The Trump administration's latest efforts to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) appeared to be disintegrating over the weekend, as a growing number of Republican senators indicated they would vote against the so-called Graham-Cassidy bill. Related: Trump attacks McCain and other Republicans over healthcare failure Continue reading... |
| One dead and seven injured in church shooting stopped by 'hero' usher Posted: 24 Sep 2017 02:16 PM PDT
A masked gunman entered a church in Tennessee on Sunday and opened fire, killing one person and injuring seven others before shooting himself, an official said. Nashville mayor Megan Barry called the shooting "a terrible tragedy for our city". Metropolitan Nashville police spokesman Don Aaron said a church usher who confronted the gunman was pistol-whipped by the suspect, who then apparently shot himself during a struggle. The usher then went to his own car to retrieve his own gun, Aaron said, returned and stood over the suspect until police arrived. Continue reading... |
| Nureyev ballet to open in Moscow, despite director's house arrest Posted: 22 Sep 2017 09:10 AM PDT After last-minute cancellation in July, Bolshoi to bring life story of gay dancer who defected to stage in December A controversial ballet about the Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev will premiere on the stage of the Bolshoi theatre in December, despite being pulled from the schedule at the last minute in July, and its director placed under house arrest. Nureyev, which chronicles the life of the gay dancer who fled the Soviet Union for the west and achieved worldwide fame before dying of Aids-related illnesses in 1993, was due to open in July, but the theatre announced its cancellation just three days before opening night. Continue reading... |
| London's International Tattoo Festival – in pictures Posted: 25 Sep 2017 01:15 AM PDT The 13th annual International London Tattoo Convention, which showed off the best of eastern and western styles, took place at Tobacco Dock in the East End of London at the weekend Continue reading... |
| German elections 2017: full results Posted: 25 Sep 2017 01:03 AM PDT Angela Merkel has secured a fourth term as German chancellor after Sunday's election for a new Bundestag, the federal parliament. However, her authority has been diminished. Meanwhile, the radical rightwing AfD has entered parliament as the third-largest party. We analyse the official results. Continue reading... |
| HiPP to relaunch Croatian baby food item amid row over inferior products Posted: 25 Sep 2017 01:00 AM PDT Exclusive: test finds Croatian product contains fewer vegetables than same jar in Germany as brands accused of 'cheating' eastern European shoppers A leading baby food brand is to relaunch one of its products after jars sold in eastern Europe were found to contain a lower proportion of vegetables and an omega-3 source compared with the identically branded product sold in the west. The new study, supervised by the Croatian Food Agency, reports finding a "significant difference" in the composition between the jar of HiPP baby food on sale in Croatia and in Germany. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Bernie Sanders urges GetUp members to join global 'resistance' Posted: 25 Sep 2017 12:44 AM PDT Former US Democratic presidential candidate addresses GetUp's first national conference, encouraging it to work with like-minded groups globally Bernie Sanders, the former US Democratic presidential hopeful, has called on members of the activist group GetUp to join a global "resistance movement" to fight the rise of intolerant political movements in the US, Europe and Australia. In a prerecorded video message, played at GetUp's first national conference at the weekend in Sydney, Sanders encouraged the group to start working globally with like-minded activists, saying its progressive values were similar to his own. Continue reading... |
| What would an entirely flood-proof city look like? Posted: 24 Sep 2017 11:30 PM PDT The wetter the better. From sponge cities in China to 'berms with benefits' in New Jersey and floating container classrooms in the slums of Dhaka, we look at a range of projects that treat storm water as a resource rather than a hazard They call it "pave, pipe, and pump": the mentality that has dominated urban development for over a century. Along with the explosion of the motorcar in the early 20th century came paved surfaces. Rainwater – instead of being sucked up by plants, evaporating, or filtering through the ground back to rivers and lakes – was suddenly forced to slide over pavements and roads into drains, pipes and sewers. Continue reading... |
| Climate experts criticise Scotland's greenhouse emissions cuts strategy Posted: 25 Sep 2017 12:23 AM PDT Committee on Climate Change says policies needed to reach 2050 goal of 90% reduction are too weak and ill thought out Climate experts have warned the Scottish government its ambitious plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions lack credibility and risk stalling unless its strategies improve dramatically. The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) said the devolved government had so far led the UK in its efforts to cut emissions, reducing its actual CO2 emissions by 38% by 2015 compared with 35% at UK level. Scotland is now on the brink of meeting its 2020 target to cut emissions by 42% several years early. Continue reading... |
| Cassie Sainsbury says she can't unlock phone to prove innocence Posted: 24 Sep 2017 06:21 PM PDT Accused Australian drug smuggler in Colombian jail says she has evidence of death threats but cannot access messages An accused Australian drug smuggler, Cassie Sainsbury, insists she has evidence of threats to kill her family – but she cannot remember how to unlock her mobile phone to access them. The 22-year-old Adelaide woman, nicknamed "Cocaine Cassie", was arrested at Bogota's international airport in April, allegedly trying to smuggle 5.8kg of cocaine inside packages of headphones. Continue reading... |
| New Zealand party leaders woo Winston Peters' support after election stalemate Posted: 24 Sep 2017 11:08 PM PDT Both National and Labour need New Zealand First's nine seats to form government, in negotiations expected to take weeks New Zealand's major political parties are scrambling to woo the support of the smaller New Zealand First party to form a government after Saturday's stalemate election. Neither the incumbent National party, led by a revitalised Bill English, nor the opposition Labour party, led by Jacinda Ardern, are in a position to take office, with 15% of the vote still to be counted. Continue reading... |
| The Anzac skull that tells a shocking and tragic story of battlefield violence | Paul Daley Posted: 24 Sep 2017 11:27 PM PDT The skull of an Australian soldier who was killed 100 years ago this week is on display in an American museum. But who is he, and why is he there? Australia likes to refer to its battlefield dead, especially in the first and second world wars, as "the fallen" whose bodies, if found, were "laid to rest" in picturesque, peaceful cemeteries of blonde statuary and Rosemary bush. Our politicians invest significantly in commemorating them (some $600m-plus alone for first world war centenary events), and into finding, identifying and reburying those whose bodies the mud may surrender many decades later. Continue reading... |
| From the archive: how the Guardian reported the Little Rock civil rights showdown in 1957 Posted: 25 Sep 2017 01:22 AM PDT Sixty years ago, US federal troops were called in to Little Rock, Arkansas, to protect nine black students who were attempting to attend a previously all-white high school Testing a landmark 1954 US Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional, nine black students attempted to enrol at the Little Rock High School in Arkansas on 4 September 1957. Despite the Little Rock school board voting to integrate pupils, Governor Orval Fabus deployed the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the nine from entering the premises. Related: The day nine young students shattered racial segregation in US schools Continue reading... |
| Merkel’s poll win unlikely to make much difference to Brexit, analysts say Posted: 24 Sep 2017 11:35 PM PDT Brexiters' hopes that re-elected German chancellor would back favourable deal for UK at a cost to the single market may be misplaced Germany's federal elections, whatever coalition Angela Merkel forms after the victory of her CDU party, are unlikely to make much difference to Brexit – but may well make euro reform more difficult. Analysts and commentators say Brexit campaigners' hopes that with the vote behind her, Merkel – especially if, as seems likely, her government includes the pro-business Free Democratic party (FDP) – would back a favourable deal for the UK were always misplaced. Continue reading... |
| Monday briefing: Merkel weakened by surge of far right Posted: 24 Sep 2017 10:33 PM PDT Election win marred by 13% vote for anti-immigrant AfD … Trump issues revised version of travel ban … Labour to begin conference with debt pledge Good morning and welcome to the Guardian's daily briefing. I'm Martin Farrer and these are the top stories this Monday morning. Continue reading... |
| Challenges Merkel faces as she starts fourth term as German chancellor Posted: 24 Sep 2017 09:00 PM PDT Troublesome issues for leader include ailing steel industry, diesel engines crisis, digitalisation lag and low birth rates In what will be her fourth and likely final term in office as German chancellor, Angela Merkel is unlikely to get complacent about the tasks ahead. She has told confidantes she would like to step off the treadmill of power at a time of her choosing, but it would not be in her nature to leave mid-term – unless, she has herself said, her health became an issue. Neither would it be characteristic of her to leave any major loose ends undone. But the challenges she faces are considerable and weighty. While Germany is enjoying something of a golden age in economic terms, there are plenty of signs of trouble ahead, from challenges in the ailing steel industry, which employs thousands of workers, to the diesel crisis and calls for the abolition of the combustion engine, which needs her leadership to ensure it doesn't do lasting damage to the German car industry on which around 800,000 jobs are dependent. Merkel is also aware that Germany needs to make huge strides in improving its digitalisation performance, with many indications that it is lagging behind other international players. |
| Myanmar: bodies of 28 Hindu villagers found in Rakhine, army claims Posted: 24 Sep 2017 08:33 PM PDT Government says victims were killed by Muslim insurgents at start of violent clashes that led to 430,000 Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh Myanmar government forces found the bodies of 28 Hindu villagers on Sunday, who authorities suspect were killed by Muslim insurgents last month, at the beginning of a violent clashes that sent 430,000 Muslim Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh. The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army group denied killing the Hindus saying it did not attack civilians. Continue reading... |
| Angela Merkel holds on to power in German election – video Posted: 24 Sep 2017 06:50 PM PDT The German chancellor won a fourth term in office but Europe's most powerful leader will have to govern with a far less stable coalition after her conservatives lost support to the far-right
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| 'Trump’s secret Yemen war': UK role in US counter-terrorism causes unease Posted: 24 Sep 2017 11:00 PM PDT As new figures point to doubling of covert US airstrikes in Yemen, MPs and human rights groups voice concerns over British involvement Donald Trump has more than doubled the number of covert US airstrikes in Yemen compared with the final year of Barack Obama's presidency, new estimates show. The rise, combined with Trump's rollback of Obama-era safeguards, has sparked renewed concern from MPs and human rights groups over the UK's role in US counter-terrorism operations, in Yemen and other countries with which Britain is not at war. Continue reading... |
| Exit polls offer Merkel fewer coalition choices Posted: 24 Sep 2017 09:13 AM PDT Polling stations have closed across Germany in today's Bundestag or federal parliament election. Usually reliable exit polls suggest that Angela Merkel will stay on as chancellor, but possibly in a new coalition. Continue reading... |
| Ri Yong-ho: the North Korean diplomat who could defuse the crisis Posted: 24 Sep 2017 06:02 AM PDT Kim Jong-un's mouthpiece has made headlines with his fiery rhetoric and flashes of humour in New York Over the past few days, one man has emerged as the international face of the North Korean regime: Ri Yong-ho. As the brickbats continued to fly between Washington and Pyongyang at the weekend, the North Korean foreign minister threatened to upstage his country's leader, Kim Jong-un, with a mixture of trademark rhetoric and humour at the UN general assembly in New York. Continue reading... |
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