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- Outcry as Azerbaijan police launch crackdown on LGBT community
- UK says 'unacceptable tragedy' of Rohingya crisis risks Myanmar progress
- Populist former ally aims to rip up Japanese PM's election plans
- UN sends warning letters to firms that trade in occupied Palestinian territories
- Do more to help poor nations cope with climate change, IMF tells rich countries
- Donald Trump unveils ambitious plan to overhaul US tax system
- Catalan leaders compare Spain to North Korea after referendum sites blocked
- Mark Zuckerberg: I regret ridiculing fears over Facebook's effect on election
- North Korea prisoner Otto Warmbier had no signs of torture – coroner
- Almost half of all abortions performed worldwide are unsafe, reveals WHO
- New gravitational wave detection shows shape of ripples from black hole collision
- Paul Horner, key distributor of fake news during 2016 election, dies at 38
- British film-maker killed by Isis militants in Syria
- OJ Simpson could be released on parole as soon as Monday, prison officials say
- Hurricane Maria pushes Puerto Rico's struggling hospitals to crisis point
- Russia and US will cooperate to build moon's first space station
- Lucy Treloar on writing about Indigenous Australians: 'I felt filled with conflict'
- Brexit talks could take months to progress to next phase, says Barnier
- Ryanair may face legal action over flight cancellations
- 'This is art, not a public disturbance': Turin's balcony concert is under threat
- Spin cities: a brief history of revolving restaurants – in pictures
- 'Revenge of the East'? How anger in the former GDR helped the AfD
- Ben Stokes apologises to ECB following arrest under suspicion of ABH
- Barnier: it may take months to get to phase two of Brexit talks – Politics live
- Kenya moves to curb the rise of rabies – in pictures
- Obamacare: four reasons why the Republican repeal plan isn't dead yet
- Why do politicians still force women through unwanted pregnancies? | Dame Billie Miller
- Former senator Rod Culleton throws glasses and shouts at magistrate
- Rudd extends ban to two National Action-related neo-Nazi groups
- Love without borders: a 3,000-mile struggle to reunite newlyweds
- Coroner: cause of Otto Warmbier’s fatal brain damage unclear – video report
- Love without borders: newlyweds' 3,000-mile struggle to reunite
- Thursday briefing: Council sacks group that ran Grenfell
- Volcano threat forces evacuation of thousands on Vanuatu island
- Sierra Leone arrests pastor who blamed Islam for 'every terrorist act in history'
- Tortured, abused, deported: Cameroon accused of driving out Nigerians
- Big winner under Trump's tax plan for 'everyday Americans': Donald J Trump
- Prison is an inevitable part of Hong Kong's exhausting path to democracy | Joshua Wong
- Saudi Arabia: Prince Mohammed plays his biggest card yet
- Roy Moore's Alabama Senate win may not be a sign of a rightwing uprising
- ‘I’m doing the right thing’: Donald Trump unveils sweeping tax plan – video
- Ugandan MPs fight in parliament – video
- The Catalan fight for independence explained – video
- Former Alabama judge Roy Moore pledges support for Donald Trump – video
| Outcry as Azerbaijan police launch crackdown on LGBT community Posted: 28 Sep 2017 01:00 AM PDT At least 60 people have been imprisoned or fined after a spate of raids in the capital, Baku Authorities in Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, have begun a vicious crackdown on the city's LGBT community, according to activists in the country. Reports suggest that over the past 10 days dozens of gay and trans people have been arrested. One person the Guardian contacted said he had been beaten in police custody. Homosexuality is legal in the oil-rich, post-Soviet country, but a survey released last year by a rights organisation ranked Azerbaijan as the worst of 49 European countries in which to be gay. |
| UK says 'unacceptable tragedy' of Rohingya crisis risks Myanmar progress Posted: 27 Sep 2017 10:40 PM PDT United Nations security council will meet on Thursday to discuss escalating tensions in Rakhine and fate of hundreds of thousands of Muslim refugees The UK has warned Myanmar that the Rohingya crisis is an "unacceptable tragedy" and Aung San Suu Kyi's government must end the violence and lift a blockade on humanitarian aid. "What we have seen in Rakhine in the past few weeks is an absolute and unacceptable tragedy," Mark Field, Britain's minister for Asia, said on Thursday after a visit to the country, where he met with Aung San Suu Kyi and visited western Rakhine state, the centre of the bloodshed. Continue reading... |
| Populist former ally aims to rip up Japanese PM's election plans Posted: 28 Sep 2017 01:38 AM PDT Tokyo mayor Yuriko Koike's newly formed party could scupper Shinzō Abe's attempt to cement his position at the polls Japan's prime minister, Shinzō Abe, faces a serious challenge from an ally turned nemesis, as voters prepare to go to the polls next month in an election he has described as a verdict on his handling of the economy and North Korea. Abe dissolved the lower house of parliament on Thursday, with polls showing a new conservative party formed by the popular governor of Tokyo, Yuriko Koike, making ground on his ruling Liberal Democratic party (LDP). Continue reading... |
| UN sends warning letters to firms that trade in occupied Palestinian territories Posted: 28 Sep 2017 02:12 AM PDT Human rights chief tells 150 companies they may be added to database of firms linked to illegal Jewish settlements The UN human rights commissioner, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, has sent letters to an estimated 150 international and Israeli businesses warning them that they may be included in a UN database of companies involved with illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. The letters have been sent as part of the legal verification and clarification process to give businesses identified as working in settlements the right of reply before the database is published in December. Continue reading... |
| Do more to help poor nations cope with climate change, IMF tells rich countries Posted: 27 Sep 2017 10:49 PM PDT World faces disaster if those who contributed 'lion's share' to global warming don't aid low-income countries, IMF says The International Monetary Fund has told rich countries they must do more to help poor nations cope with climate change or suffer from the weaker global growth and higher migration flows that will inevitably result. In a chapter released ahead of the publication of next month's World Economic Outlook, the Washington-based IMF said low-income countries had contributed little to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations and could not afford to tackle the problem from their own meagre resources. Continue reading... |
| Donald Trump unveils ambitious plan to overhaul US tax system Posted: 27 Sep 2017 11:20 PM PDT The president proposes sweeping tax cuts for individuals and corporations, insisting the plan will not benefit the 'wealthy or well-connected' Donald Trump on Wednesday unveiled an ambitious tax plan, proposing sweeping tax cuts for individuals and corporations in what the president dubbed a "once-in-a-generation" opportunity to overhaul America's tax code. Speaking at an event in Indiana, Trump called the current tax system a "relic" while rolling out a proposal that seeks to simplify the tax code and nearly doubles the standard deduction to $12,000 for individuals and $24,000 for families. Continue reading... |
| Catalan leaders compare Spain to North Korea after referendum sites blocked Posted: 27 Sep 2017 01:38 PM PDT Regional government says online crackdown poses threat to free speech, while police express reservations over shutting down polling stations The Catalan regional government has accused the Spanish authorities of behaving like Turkey, China and North Korea by blocking websites designed to help people vote in Sunday's independence referendum. Over the past week the Spanish government has stepped up its efforts to stop the unilateral vote by deploying thousands of extra police officers to Catalonia and taking control of the region's finances. Continue reading... |
| Mark Zuckerberg: I regret ridiculing fears over Facebook's effect on election Posted: 27 Sep 2017 04:51 PM PDT Facebook founder, who called it 'crazy' to suggest misinformation on site affected voters, describes change of heart as company provides ad content to Congress Mark Zuckerberg said he regretted dismissing concerns about the Facebook's role in influencing the US presidential race, his latest acknowledgement that misinformation on the platform has affected elections. Shortly after Trump's surprise victory, the Facebook CEO had brushed aside charges that Facebook had had an impact on the race, calling it a "pretty crazy idea" and saying that voters "make decisions based on their lived experience". But in a post on Wednesday directly responding to Donald Trump's tweet labeling Facebook "anti-Trump", Zuckerberg expressed remorse for his earlier statements rejecting concerns about the dangers of propaganda and fake news on Facebook. Continue reading... |
| North Korea prisoner Otto Warmbier had no signs of torture – coroner Posted: 28 Sep 2017 06:02 AM PDT Parents and Donald Trump have said American student, who died days after release, was disfigured and had teeth 'rearranged' in detention A medical examiner has said that the body of Otto Warmbier, the American student who died days after being released from North Korea in a coma, displayed no obvious signs of torture, despite claims by his parents and President Donald Trump that he was physically abused following his arrest last year. Lakshmi Sammarco, a coroner in Warmbier's home state of Ohio, said the 22-year-old, who had been sentenced to 15 years' hard labour while visiting North Korea, had died from a lack of oxygen and blood to the brain but could not explain what caused his neurological condition. Continue reading... |
| Almost half of all abortions performed worldwide are unsafe, reveals WHO Posted: 27 Sep 2017 03:30 PM PDT World Health Organisation figures show 25.1 million procedures every year are not safe, with abortion-related deaths highest in west and central Africa There are nearly 56 million abortions every year in the world and almost half of them are unsafe, according to a major piece of research from the World Health Organisation. Continue reading... |
| New gravitational wave detection shows shape of ripples from black hole collision Posted: 27 Sep 2017 09:30 AM PDT For the first time, astronomers have detail on the 3D pattern of warping that occurs when black holes with masses of 31 and 25 times that of the sun collide Astronomers have made a new detection of gravitational waves and for the first time have been able to trace the shape of ripples sent through spacetime when black holes collide. The announcement, made at a meeting of the G7 science ministers in Turin, marks the fourth cataclysmic black-hole merger that astronomers have spotted using Ligo, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. The latest detection is the first to have also been picked up by the Virgo detector, located near Pisa, Italy, providing a new layer of detail on the three dimensional pattern of warping that occurs during some of the most violent and energetic events in the universe. Continue reading... |
| Paul Horner, key distributor of fake news during 2016 election, dies at 38 Posted: 27 Sep 2017 10:59 AM PDT Authorities report evidence of accidental overdose in death of Horner, who said he believed his actions had won Trump the White House A leading purveyor of fake news in the 2016 presidential election has died outside Phoenix at the age of 38. A Maricopa County sheriff's office spokesman, Mark Casey, said on Tuesday authorities had discovered Paul Horner dead in his bed on 18 September. Continue reading... |
| British film-maker killed by Isis militants in Syria Posted: 27 Sep 2017 09:39 AM PDT Mehmet Aksoy, from London, was working as a press officer for Kurdish forces in Raqqa when military base was attacked A British film-maker has been killed while working alongside Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State in Syria, his friends and Kurdish activists have said. Mehmet Aksoy, 32, from London, was not fighting but working as a press officer for the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) when the military base in which he was stationed was hit by a surprise attack on Tuesday morning. |
| OJ Simpson could be released on parole as soon as Monday, prison officials say Posted: 27 Sep 2017 02:58 PM PDT Former football star, acquitted in 1995 murder trial of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, has served nine years for 2008 robbery and kidnapping OJ Simpson could be released on parole as soon as Monday in Las Vegas under a plan being finalized by Nevada officials, a prison spokeswoman said on Wednesday. The process culminating in freedom for the former football player, actor and TV pitchman is in motion, but must be approved and documents must be signed, a state department of corrections spokeswoman, Brooke Keast, said. Continue reading... |
| Hurricane Maria pushes Puerto Rico's struggling hospitals to crisis point Posted: 27 Sep 2017 10:22 AM PDT The health infrastructure was already in crisis before Hurricane Maria – now a majority of the island's 69 hospitals are without electricity or fuel for generators Since Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico a week ago, Isabello Aponte's life has been confined to the four concrete walls of his modest home. The storm tore holes in the roof, but there was little inside for it to damage. Related: Trump warned: send help or risk making Puerto Rico crisis 'your Katrina' Continue reading... |
| Russia and US will cooperate to build moon's first space station Posted: 27 Sep 2017 08:32 AM PDT Part of a long-term project to send humans to Mars, the Nasa-led programme will see the two countries working to create a crewed spaceport in lunar orbit Russia and the United States have agreed to cooperate on a Nasa-led programme to build the first lunar space station, part of a long-term project to send humans to Mars. The US space agency said earlier this year that it was exploring a programme called the Deep Space Gateway, a multi-stage project to push further into the solar system. Continue reading... |
| Lucy Treloar on writing about Indigenous Australians: 'I felt filled with conflict' Posted: 28 Sep 2017 06:00 AM PDT In telling the story of her settler ancestors, the Salt Creek author knew she was on controversial ground. Two years and much praise later, she still feels torn "Dearest Minnie, I have had such a time. Let me tell you …" When Lucy Treloar came across the only surviving letter written by her distant relation Emily Hack, it was as if her ancestor was "grabbing [her] by the shoulders and saying: 'You will not believe what has happened to me.'" The story of her relatives' ill-starred attempt to set up a farm in South Australia's Coorong region had always been family legend, but Treloar says her great-great-great-aunt's 1858 account of her miserable journey down from Adelaide – the wind, sand and flies compounding her despair at finding herself on a remote farm – was electrifying: "I found the voice of that letter incredibly compelling." Continue reading... |
| Brexit talks could take months to progress to next phase, says Barnier Posted: 28 Sep 2017 05:40 AM PDT EU's chief negotiator says UK must agree to honour financial commitments before talks on future relations can proceed The Brexit negotiations could be in a stalemate for months unless the UK agrees to honour all its financial commitments, the EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, has suggested at the end of the latest round of talks. A "new dynamic" had been created by Theresa May's speech in Florence last week, Barnier said during a press conference in Brussels, where both parties said progress had been made, especially on the issue of citizens' rights. Continue reading... |
| Ryanair may face legal action over flight cancellations Posted: 28 Sep 2017 05:27 AM PDT Civil Aviation Authority says it 'persistently misleads passengers' about rights as more flights scrapped, affecting 400,000 people Ryanair could face enforcement action from the Civil Aviation Authority for "persistently misleading passengers" about their rights, piling more woe on the airline as it announced a second wave of flight cancellations affecting 400,000 people. In a letter to the Dublin-based carrier, the CAA said Ryanair's chief executive, Michael O'Leary, was wrong to tell passengers last week that it did not have to arrange new flights for them, after an initial batch of cancellations was announced. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 'This is art, not a public disturbance': Turin's balcony concert is under threat Posted: 27 Sep 2017 11:29 PM PDT A Turin couple have organised free concerts from their balcony since 2011 but, despite their popularity – and Turin's cultural reputation as 'little Berlin' – some people just want to reduce the noise It's hard to tell what's louder: the electric guitar, the opera singer or the hundreds of hands clapping. In the courtyard of a building in the historic centre of Turin, in northern Italy, Maksim Cristan and Daria Spada are on stage – standing on their balcony with a guitar modified to look like a sword, and a microphone. Since 2011 the couple have organised concerts on their balcony every Sunday afternoon. At first it was a way to get to know their neighbours, says Spada, 36, who is originally from Puglia, in southern Italy. Now it's "a regular event for residents, tourists and passersby", and "a gift to the city". Continue reading... |
| Spin cities: a brief history of revolving restaurants – in pictures Posted: 27 Sep 2017 04:42 AM PDT From Seattle's Space Needle to London's old Post Office Tower, via Liverpool, Dallas and Jaipur, restaurants have rotated at the top of spaceship-like buildings since the 1960s Continue reading... |
| 'Revenge of the East'? How anger in the former GDR helped the AfD Posted: 28 Sep 2017 06:04 AM PDT In eastern Germany, voters who chose the far-right party hark back to an era when locals were better off and there were no refugees Two days after a historic vote saw an overtly nationalist party enter the German parliament for the first time in more than five decades, a group of over-60s vent their grievances over lunchtime beers and cigarettes in the smoky back room of a dry petrol station on the border between the German state of Saxony and the Czech Republic. The German government is throwing cash at refugees "while native pensioners can't afford to buy a new pair of glasses", they complain. Putin is Europe's "only guarantor of peace", they argue, and Germany is still "under occupation" by America. Continue reading... |
| Ben Stokes apologises to ECB following arrest under suspicion of ABH Posted: 28 Sep 2017 04:28 AM PDT • Board holds teleconference in which it reviewed footage obtained by Sun • Doubts over England all-rounder's Ashes participation remain Ben Stokes has apologised to the England and Wales Cricket Board following the incident in Bristol in the early hours of Monday morning that led to his arrest under suspicion of actual bodily harm and left his Ashes future in doubt. A senior souce at the ECB has confirmed it held a telephone conference on Thursday morning in which it reviewed footage obtained by the Sun that purports to show the incident outside the Mbargo nightclub. The Sun are reported to have handed the video to the police. Continue reading... |
| Barnier: it may take months to get to phase two of Brexit talks – Politics live Posted: 28 Sep 2017 06:02 AM PDT Rolling coverage of the day's political developments as they happen, with David Davis holding a press conference with the EU's Michel Barnier and Theresa May discussing the free market
Campaigners for EU citizens' rights said there were some "really positive" agreements in the 4th round of talks. In particular, it welcomes the EU agreement to Theresa May's proposal that they could have their right to retain their rights written into the withdrawal agreement.
Downing Street has announced that two business figures are being given peerages and made unpaid government ministers. Rona Fairhead, the former Financial Times chief executive and former chair of the BBC Trust, is being made a minister of state for international trade. Continue reading... |
| Kenya moves to curb the rise of rabies – in pictures Posted: 27 Sep 2017 11:00 PM PDT Neglected, infectious, and almost always fatal after the onset of symptoms, rabies is responsible for 160 deaths a day. It is transmitted mainly by dogs – both feral and pets – with children all too often the victims. Rabies is present on every continent bar Antarctica, but 95% of deaths are in Africa and Asia. Vaccinating people is expensive – a cheaper bet is to vaccinate animals where possible. Almost 90% of the dogs in Makueni county, Kenya, where rabies is endemic, test positive, but a Kenyan government initiative is now vaccinating affected dogs Photographs: Guilhem Alandry/Doculab/HealthforAnimals Continue reading... |
| Obamacare: four reasons why the Republican repeal plan isn't dead yet Posted: 28 Sep 2017 03:00 AM PDT The bill to replace Obamacare is deeply unpopular with the American public and the medical establishment – but here's why we haven't seen the last of it The Republicans' health bill seems to keep coming back from the dead. Many thought we'd seen the last of it when it failed the first time around this spring. It has been revived multiple times since – just to die again this Tuesday. The bill is deeply unpopular with the American public, reviled by the medical establishment and a magnet for high-profile disaster. So, have we seen the last of this bill? I doubt it. Continue reading... |
| Why do politicians still force women through unwanted pregnancies? | Dame Billie Miller Posted: 28 Sep 2017 04:15 AM PDT I helped Barbados legalise abortion and the number of women dying from unsafe terminations plunged. Countless lives depend on more countries following suit When I entered parliament in 1976 as the only female member, I took a stand and managed to do what many countries have failed to do, or are threatening to undo: decriminalise abortion. Recently, President Michelle Bachelet of Chile succeeded in advancing legislation that made abortion legal under certain circumstances. Chile's new law is only a first step in providing full access to safe abortion care, but it is a momentous change that required the vision of a strong, outspoken, female leader who took a stand on saving women's lives. Continue reading... |
| Former senator Rod Culleton throws glasses and shouts at magistrate Posted: 28 Sep 2017 03:00 AM PDT Former One Nation senator for Western Australia, who is standing trial on stealing charge, later apologised for 'venting' The former One Nation senator Rodney Culleton has been bundled out of a Perth court by a policeman after he threw his eyeglasses in the magistrate's direction but was allowed back in and later apologised. Culleton has been on trial in Perth magistrates court this week, charged with stealing, and represented himself. Continue reading... |
| Rudd extends ban to two National Action-related neo-Nazi groups Posted: 28 Sep 2017 05:22 AM PDT Parliamentary order proscribing Scottish Dawn and NS131 will make it a criminal offence to belong to either group The home secretary has extended her ban on the neo-Nazi group National Action to two further alias organisations under which it has continued to operate. A parliamentary order proscribing Scottish Dawn and NS131 – also known as National Socialist Anti-Capitalist Action – will come into effect from Friday, making it a criminal offence to belong to or invite support for either group. Conviction will carry a prison sentence of up to 10 years. Continue reading... |
| Love without borders: a 3,000-mile struggle to reunite newlyweds Posted: 28 Sep 2017 02:49 AM PDT Our series shifts its attention to a happier story of love, asylum, separation – and reunification Hello, One of the challenges of the New Arrivals project is that while we are focusing on a few individual cases we know there is no one refugee story. Continue reading... |
| Coroner: cause of Otto Warmbier’s fatal brain damage unclear – video report Posted: 28 Sep 2017 02:33 AM PDT Ohio coroner Dr Lakshmi Sammarco says her team found no conclusive evidence of what caused the brain damage that killed American student Otto Warmbier, 22. Warmbier was arrested and detained in North Korea for over a year and was only repatriated on medical grounds. He later died in Cincinnati. His father, Fred Warmbier, described the DPRK as terrorists for the treatment of his son Continue reading... |
| Love without borders: newlyweds' 3,000-mile struggle to reunite Posted: 28 Sep 2017 12:00 AM PDT Mobin and Sepide had only been married a year when he was forced to flee Iran. Now he has successfully secured asylum in the UK. But will he be allowed to bring his wife into the country to join him? |
| Thursday briefing: Council sacks group that ran Grenfell Posted: 27 Sep 2017 10:21 PM PDT Tenant Management Organisation 'no longer has trust of residents' … Playboy founder Hugh Hefner dies aged 91 … and can you live on raw food? Hello – it's Warren Murray bringing you this morning's news, digested. Continue reading... |
| Volcano threat forces evacuation of thousands on Vanuatu island Posted: 27 Sep 2017 10:19 PM PDT Manaro on Ambae island is threatening to blow, causing the government to order all 11,000 residents to leave Thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate an island in Vanuatu where a rumbling volcano is threatening to blow. Ministers in the Pacific archipelago decided they could not risk people's lives and so ordered the compulsory evacuation of Ambae island, which is home to about 11,000 people. Continue reading... |
| Sierra Leone arrests pastor who blamed Islam for 'every terrorist act in history' Posted: 27 Sep 2017 09:59 AM PDT Popular Christian preacher Victor Ajisafe detained after anti-Muslim diatribe goes viral on social media, triggering countrywide condemnation A Nigerian pastor has been arrested in Sierra Leone after recordings of a sermon targeting Muslims went viral on social media, sparking widespread outrage. In an address to his congregation on Saturday, Victor Ajisafe, founder and leader of one of the country's largest churches, called Islam a "violent religion of lies and deceit" and said Muslims have been responsible for "every terrorist act in the history of the world". Sierra Leone's population is roughly 78% Muslim, according to a 2015 Pew Research Center estimate. Continue reading... |
| Tortured, abused, deported: Cameroon accused of driving out Nigerians Posted: 27 Sep 2017 04:35 AM PDT Nigerian refugees claim they have been arbitrarily punished by soldiers for Boko Haram attacks in Cameroon as study alleges 100,000 have been forced out Refugees who fled the Islamist militant group Boko Haram are being driven out of Cameroon and back to Nigeria, where they face violence and destitution, human rights organisations have said. The Cameroonian military has forced 100,000 refugees to return to north-east Nigeria since 2015, in many cases after torturing, assaulting and sexually abusing them, according to a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW). |
| Big winner under Trump's tax plan for 'everyday Americans': Donald J Trump Posted: 28 Sep 2017 03:00 AM PDT The president has claimed he won't benefit from the White House plan to cut taxes for 'hardworking Americans'. Here's what's wrong with that assertion Donald Trump has outlined plans for the biggest overhaul of the US tax system since the Ronald Reagan era. The cuts were aimed at "everyday hardworking Americans", Trump told the crowd in Indiana on Wednesday. But even a cursory look at the still developing plan shows the biggest beneficiary is likely to be ... Donald Trump. Here's why. Continue reading... |
| Prison is an inevitable part of Hong Kong's exhausting path to democracy | Joshua Wong Posted: 27 Sep 2017 06:59 PM PDT In the first of a series of columns for the Guardian from his cell, the political activist says his detention is shining a light on China's authoritarianism Life at the correctional facility is dull and dry; to be disconnected from the family and friends I have fought alongside is also tremendously painful. Related: Hong Kong democracy campaigners jailed over anti-China protests Continue reading... |
| Saudi Arabia: Prince Mohammed plays his biggest card yet Posted: 27 Sep 2017 10:21 AM PDT Change in the kingdom usually happens at a stately pace but lifting of driving ban for women was shock to the system A rumbling war in Yemen, a festering standoff with Qatar, and a turbulent time at home: things haven't being going well for Saudi Arabia lately. Tuesday's announcement that the kingdom would finally grant women the right to drive cars put a stop – for a while at least – to the cycle of bad news. In doing so, it gave women in the conservative country a jolt of empowerment that many had long demanded – and believed might never arrive. Continue reading... |
| Roy Moore's Alabama Senate win may not be a sign of a rightwing uprising Posted: 27 Sep 2017 09:28 AM PDT Moore's victory may give fellow outsider candidates inspiration for next year's midterms, but they'll have to fight their campaigns on far different terrain Roy Moore's victory over Luther Strange on Tuesday in Alabama's Republican primary for US Senate may have been the biggest election of 2017. But it might not mean a thing in 2018. Related: Roy Moore beats Trump-backed 'Big Luther' in Alabama Republican Senate primary Continue reading... |
| ‘I’m doing the right thing’: Donald Trump unveils sweeping tax plan – video Posted: 28 Sep 2017 12:01 AM PDT The US president has outlined his new tax plan, promising to protect low- and middle-income households. He said he was not making the changes to benefit himself, but because it was the right thing to do. Speaking at an event in Indianapolis on Wednesday, Trump said his tax proposal would eliminate loopholes that benefited the wealthy and ensure that 'everything takes off like a rocket ship' Donald Trump unveils ambitious plan to overhaul US tax system Continue reading... |
| Ugandan MPs fight in parliament – video Posted: 27 Sep 2017 11:42 AM PDT MPs scuffle for a second day over a proposal to change the constitution to let the long-serving president, Yoweri Museveni, run for re-election after the age of 75. Museveni, now 73, has been in power since 1986 and has been accused of authoritarianism and failure to curb corruption. The next polls are due in 2021 Continue reading... |
| The Catalan fight for independence explained – video Posted: 27 Sep 2017 05:30 AM PDT What is going on in Catalonia? Why do some Catalans want independence? How did we even get here? All of your questions answered on the referendum being held in Catalonia on Sunday |
| Former Alabama judge Roy Moore pledges support for Donald Trump – video Posted: 27 Sep 2017 02:43 AM PDT Roy Moore speaks to his followers after winning the Alabama Republican primary for the Senate, defeating an appointed incumbent backed by Donald Trump. The former chief justice of the state's supreme court used his victory speech to give his backing to the US president and express his faith that despite the divisions in American society, 'God can still bring us back' Continue reading... |
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