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- Catalan independence referendum: riot police move in on polling stations - live
- Engine breaks up on Air France Airbus A380, forcing emergency landing in Canada
- West’s rift with Russia ‘will last until Vladimir Putin goes’
- Stars join calls for ban on UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia
- Brussels investigates UK over deported EU citizens
- Marilyn Manson struck by falling stage scenery during New York concert
- Virtuoso sisters claim to have have solved Proust’s ‘little phrase’ mystery
- British courts may unlock secrets of how Trump campaign profiled US voters
- Colombians in search of beauty risk death from ‘cowboy’ surgery
- Tanzania gallery: the struggle for life without water at the Nyarugusu Dispensary
- Thousands march in Dublin calling for end to Ireland's abortion ban
- Labor labels John Howard 'yesterday's man' after marriage ads
- OJ Simpson freed from prison after nine years
- Canada father prepares lawsuit after province bars kids from riding bus alone
- One day in San Juan: Puerto Ricans search for normality amid the debris
- My brilliant and troubled friend Lou Reed
- Will bitcoin ever be a safe investment or always a gamble?
- Scotland calls for halt on universal credit
- The Observer view on the Kurdish referendum | Observer editorial
- British company made arms deal with South Sudan, Amnesty claims
- Beware the red peril: Indonesia still fighting ghosts of communism
- Brisbane teenager dies after being pinned under weightlifting equipment
- 70,000 Balinese volcano evacuees had no need to leave, Indonesia says
- All eyes on Catalonia as referendum day arrives
- Letter from Sadiq Khan to Ofcom’s Sharon White
- Barnardo’s black history in the words and pictures of long-forgotten children
- Driven by poverty, squatters occupied a derelict São Paulo hotel. Now they face eviction
- In Catalonia’s ‘red belt’ leftwing veterans distrust the separatists
- It's easy to take the simplest things for granted | Jessica Valenti
- Republican civil war looms as Steve Bannon takes aim at the establishment
- Puerto Rico: 'We are dying,' says San Juan's mayor - video
| Catalan independence referendum: riot police move in on polling stations - live Posted: 01 Oct 2017 01:46 AM PDT Millions of people in Catalonia are expected to vote in a referendum on independence in defiance of the Spanish government
The Spanish interior ministry has asked Catalan schools to collaborate with their operation to halt the referendum. A video of Spanish police confiscating urns in a sports hall in Sant Carles de la Rápita, Tarragona, was also posted on its Twitter page. Agentes de la @guardiacivil requisan las urnas instaladas en el pabellón deportivo de Sant Carles de la Rápita, Tarragona#EstamosporTI pic.twitter.com/AHMpbUSQAz
Despite several reports of polling stations being closed down by Spanish police across Catalonia, the Guardian's Sam Jones says hundreds of people are still queuing up to vote at Cervantes primary school and Escuela Mireia in Barcelona. People waiting in line to vote are cheering those who have already managed to do so. Continue reading... |
| Engine breaks up on Air France Airbus A380, forcing emergency landing in Canada Posted: 01 Oct 2017 01:37 AM PDT Airbus plane taking 520 people from Paris to Los Angeles was diverted to Goose Bay, Newfoundland, following 'serious damage' to engine An Air France A380 superjumbo jetliner taking more than 500 people from Paris to Los Angeles made an emergency landing in Canada on Saturday following "serious damage" to one of its four engines, the airline said. "Flight 066 landed without further damage at the Goose Bay military airport in Canada and all of the 520 people on board were evacuated with no injuries," an Air France spokesman in Paris said. Continue reading... |
| West’s rift with Russia ‘will last until Vladimir Putin goes’ Posted: 30 Sep 2017 12:45 PM PDT Outgoing EU envoy to Moscow says Brussels should help Ukraine by offering it a path to membership Relations between Russia and the EU are stuck in a "deep and acute" crisis and are unlikely to improve until President Vladimir Putin leaves office and the conflict in Ukraine is resolved – events that could be many years away, the outgoing EU ambassador to Moscow has said. Vygaudas Ušackas, who has been in the post since 2013, said the EU must offer Ukraine a path to membership of the bloc if it wants to resist Russian attempts to bring the former Soviet state more firmly back under Moscow's control. Continue reading... |
| Stars join calls for ban on UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia Posted: 30 Sep 2017 04:05 PM PDT Accusation of double standards as British-made bombs fall on Yemen Bill Nighy, Ian McEwan and Coldplay are among stars calling on Britainto suspend arms sales to Saudi Arabia which they say are responsible for "unspeakable suffering" in Yemen. At the start of the Conservative party conference, when the government is expected to push the case for free trade, the musicians, actors and authors have signed an open letter, co-ordinated by Oxfam, in which they claim that the government's "double standards" on Yemen have helped fuel the world's "worst humanitarian crisis". Continue reading... |
| Brussels investigates UK over deported EU citizens Posted: 30 Sep 2017 12:14 PM PDT Home Office accused of 'riding roughshod' over rights of free movement despite Theresa May's promise to protect Europeans The European commission is examining the increased detention and deportation of EU citizens from Britain and has warned it will take "appropriate action" against Theresa May's government if it believes the rights of EU nationals are being compromised. Detentions and enforced removals of EU citizens from the UK have risen sharply since the Brexit vote, prompting critics to claim the Home Office is deliberately targeting EU nationals as part of the "hostile environment" May promised for those she believes should not be in the country. Continue reading... |
| Marilyn Manson struck by falling stage scenery during New York concert Posted: 01 Oct 2017 01:41 AM PDT Musician taken to hospital after two large prop guns held together with scaffolding fell on him an hour into show The rock star Marilyn Manson has been hospitalised after a stage prop fell on him while he performed in New York. The musician, 48, was hurt when two large prop guns held together with metal scaffolding toppled over during his show at the Hammerstein Ballroom on Saturday. Continue reading... |
| Virtuoso sisters claim to have have solved Proust’s ‘little phrase’ mystery Posted: 30 Sep 2017 04:04 PM PDT Melody that plays role in author's masterpiece may be work of little-known French composer A few musical notes drifting through the air at a party were all it took to enchant the socialite Charles Swann, a central character in Marcel Proust's French literary masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu. It was just a "little phrase" from a sonata for piano and violin in F sharp, but it triggered a tumult of emotion for Swann, and prompted a musical puzzle that has intrigued Proust's fans since the publication of his epic work in 1913. Continue reading... |
| British courts may unlock secrets of how Trump campaign profiled US voters Posted: 30 Sep 2017 04:05 PM PDT Legal mechanism may help academic expose how Big Data firms like Cambridge Analytica and Facebook get their information A US professor is trying to reclaim his personal data from the controversial analytics firm that helped Donald Trump to power. In what legal experts say may be a "watershed" case, a US citizen is using British laws to try to discover how he was profiled and potentially targeted by the Trump campaign. David Carroll, an associate professor at Parsons School of Design in New York, has discovered a transatlantic legal mechanism that he hopes will give him access to information being sought by both the FBI and the Senate intelligence committee. In recent weeks, investigators looking at how people acting on behalf of Russia targeted American voters have focused on Trump's data operation. But although the FBI obtained a court order against Facebook to make it disclose evidence, the exact way in which US citizens were profiled and targeted remains largely unknown. Continue reading... |
| Colombians in search of beauty risk death from ‘cowboy’ surgery Posted: 30 Sep 2017 04:04 PM PDT Campaigners demand government action on inadequate training and illegal 'garage clinics' "Mothers, wives, daughters, citizens. Your life is more important than beauty." That was the message last month from Dilian Francisca Toro, governor of southern Colombia's Valle del Cauca region, which includes the city of Cali. She made her plea in a televised statement following the death of a young woman after apparently routine plastic surgery. On 11 September, Gladys Gallego Obando, a 35-year-old beautician, was the ninth woman to die following surgery in the city this year, according to local newspaper El País Cali. Continue reading... |
| Tanzania gallery: the struggle for life without water at the Nyarugusu Dispensary Posted: 30 Sep 2017 09:28 AM PDT At Nyarugusu in the Geita district in north-west Tanzania, life is a constant struggle, one that is made infinitely harden by the absence of running water. Photographer Sameer Satchu travelled to the area and recorded these images of daily events at a medical facility, the Nyarugusu Dispensary, for Water Aid Continue reading... |
| Thousands march in Dublin calling for end to Ireland's abortion ban Posted: 30 Sep 2017 11:34 AM PDT Appetite for change stirred after announcement of 2018 referendum on Ireland's strict laws on terminations Thousands of people have protested in Dublin, calling for an end to Ireland's strict abortion laws. Campaigners took part in the March for Choice in the capital's city centre, chanting: "Hey, hey Leo, the eighth amendment has got to go" and carrying banners which read: "Keep your rosaries off my ovaries" and "Parent by choice for choice". Continue reading... |
| Labor labels John Howard 'yesterday's man' after marriage ads Posted: 30 Sep 2017 03:10 PM PDT Terri Butler says former Liberal prime minister's advertisements opposing marriage equality are 'a bit rich' The Labor frontbencher Terri Butler has hit out at the former Australian prime minister John Howard for taking out ads in major newspapers calling for people to vote no in the postal survey on same-sex marriage. In the ads, Howard claimed there was less "generosity of spirit" on the yes side of the debate, because Labor and the Greens have refused to accept a no vote and would move to introduce same-sex marriage even if the majority of people vote no. Continue reading... |
| OJ Simpson freed from prison after nine years Posted: 01 Oct 2017 01:03 AM PDT Former American football legend released from Nevada prison after serving nine years for armed robbery OJ Simpson, the former American football legend and Hollywood star, has been released from a Nevada prison in Lovelock after serving nine years for armed robbery. Unlike when he walked free after his murder trial in 1995, Simpson faces parole supervision for another five years. Continue reading... |
| Canada father prepares lawsuit after province bars kids from riding bus alone Posted: 01 Oct 2017 12:00 AM PDT Adrian Crook has criticised British Columbia for weighing in on a 'parenting decision' after he tried to teach his oldest children to take public transportation A Canadian father is preparing to take child safety officials to court after his four children – who range in age from seven to 11 – were ordered to stop riding the city bus by themselves, in a case that has sparked a nationwide debate on the expectations around parental supervision. Continue reading... |
| One day in San Juan: Puerto Ricans search for normality amid the debris Posted: 30 Sep 2017 11:00 PM PDT Puerto Ricans struggle to carry on with no school, little electricity and few indications of when the island will overcome the effects of Hurricane Maria Related: Trump attacks Puerto Rico mayor: 'They want everything done for them' Life is still far from normal, but people in Puerto Rico's capital, San Juan, are trying to piece together their lives, some 10 days after Hurricane Maria hit. Continue reading... |
| My brilliant and troubled friend Lou Reed Posted: 30 Sep 2017 11:00 PM PDT In an extract from his new biography, rock writer Anthony DeCurtis reflects on the icon he knew personally and delves into the making of his 1973 solo album Berlin and his encounter with Czech president – and fan – Václav Havel "People always say to me, 'Why don't you get along with critics?'" Lou Reed told me one night in 2012. "I tell them, 'I get along fine with Anthony DeCurtis.' Shuts them right up." We were sitting in the dining room of the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania, where I teach creative writing. I'd brought Lou down to do an interview with me in front of 50 or so invited guests and to have dinner with a dozen students, faculty members, musicians, and local media luminaries. As with so many things with Lou, it was touch and go until the very end. I always felt that one of the reasons Lou and I got along well was that we met socially before we ever met as artist and critic. In June of 1995, I got stuck at the airport in Cleveland, where I had gone to cover the concert celebrating the opening of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. My flight back to New York was delayed for hours, and I was settling in for the wait when I ran into a record company friend, who introduced me to Lou and Laurie [Anderson, musician and Reed's partner]. There's nothing like an interminable flight delay to grease the gears of socialisation. Continue reading... |
| Will bitcoin ever be a safe investment or always a gamble? Posted: 30 Sep 2017 11:00 PM PDT Demand is increasing, alongside criticism, so if you want to get involved in the cryptocurrency then awareness is key. Shane Hickey reports The boss of JP Morgan was unequivocal about bitcoin at a recent conference in New York: the digital currency was only fit for drug dealers and would eventually blow up. "[It] isn't going to work," said Jamie Dimon. "You can't have a business where people can invent a currency out of thin air and think that the people who are buying it are really smart." A few days after Dimon's comments, the value of bitcoin plunged when the Chinese authorities announced a crackdown on it. It has been an eventful month, even in the context of a currency that is less than a decade old. Since the start of the year the value of a single bitcoin has gone from $1,000 (£750) to almost $5,000. Continue reading... |
| Scotland calls for halt on universal credit Posted: 30 Sep 2017 04:05 PM PDT Northern Ireland also expresses concerns, putting launch of flagship welfare reform in doubt Ministers were under mounting pressure last night to slam the brakes on their radical welfare reform after the Scottish government called for a pause and their Northern Irish partners in parliament raised serious concerns. With senior Conservative MPs privately voicing unease about the universal credit system, it emerged that the Scottish government and Scottish local councils have written to David Gauke, the work and pensions secretary, demanding a halt to the rollout of the project in Scotland. Continue reading... |
| The Observer view on the Kurdish referendum | Observer editorial Posted: 30 Sep 2017 04:05 PM PDT The Kurds' hunger for self-rule must not be denied by dark forces imposing their will on the region It can be argued that Kurdistan's regional government (KRG) was ill advised to hold a referendum last week on creating an independent state. It may be the case that Masoud Barzani, veteran leader of the Kurdish enclave in northern Iraq, is a foolish dreamer whose desire to bequeath a personal legacy has trumped common sense. It is conceivable that, had Barzani backed down, the government in Baghdad would have abandoned decades of hostility to Kurdish aspirations and entered into good-faith negotiations. This is the Middle East, after all. Anything is possible. But the indisputable reality on the ground in Kurdistan is that the Kurdish people's age-old yearning for unconstrained self-rule, free from interference by foreign powers, is unceasing and not to be denied. Dispassionate geopolitical calculations, blatant economic self-interest and justifiable concerns about international security fed the instinctive wish of the great powers to uphold the status quo. All the same, their instincts are wrong. Like any people conjoined by ethnic identity, land, language and culture, the Kurds have an inalienable right to determine their future path, in one direction or another. Last week's successful democratic milestone should be celebrated, not decried. Continue reading... |
| British company made arms deal with South Sudan, Amnesty claims Posted: 30 Sep 2017 10:00 AM PDT Trade department investigating whether deal allegedly brokered by S-Profit Ltd breaches arms export controls Weapons exported to South Sudan in a deal allegedly brokered by a British company could be used against UK troops who have been deployed to the war-torn country as part of a UN mission, Amnesty International has warned. The Department for International Trade is investigating whether the deal, which has been brought to light by Amnesty International, constitutes a breach of British arms export controls. Continue reading... |
| Beware the red peril: Indonesia still fighting ghosts of communism Posted: 30 Sep 2017 06:30 PM PDT National paranoia resurfaces for anniversary of failed 1965 coup, with anti-communist film revived and mobs rallying against invisible threat Beware the evil communists, warn fearful hoax messages spreading on WhatsApp. Should people come to your village offering free blood tests, they are really trying to infect you with HIV. In some circles in Indonesia it is like the cold war never ended. Even the military is on board with a paranoid campaign against the old red peril. Continue reading... |
| Brisbane teenager dies after being pinned under weightlifting equipment Posted: 01 Oct 2017 01:28 AM PDT Ben Shaw, 15, reportedly had his neck crushed under a 98kg bar at Pine Rivers PCYC club last Tuesday A 15-year-old boy who was critically injured when he was pinned by weightlifting equipment while working out at a Brisbane gym has died. Ben Shaw's neck was reportedly crushed under a 98kg bar for at least half an hour last Tuesday at the Pine Rivers PCYC. Continue reading... |
| 70,000 Balinese volcano evacuees had no need to leave, Indonesia says Posted: 30 Sep 2017 09:37 PM PDT Unnerved by daily tremors, and uncertain about the exact danger zone, more than half of those who fled could have stayed More than half the 140,000 Balinese who have fled to shelters from a rumbling volcano had no need to evacuate and should return home, Indonesian authorities have said. Unnerved by daily tremors, and uncertain about the exact border of the danger zone – between 9-12km from the summit of Mt Agung – tens of thousands more than necessary have fled. |
| All eyes on Catalonia as referendum day arrives Posted: 30 Sep 2017 04:48 PM PDT Spain braced for unprecedented challenge to territorial unity from 'illegal' vote on issue of independence Spain is bracing itself for an unprecedented challenge to its territorial unity as the Catalan regional government stages an independence referendum that has been suspended by the country's constitutional court and dealt a series of devastating blows by the central government in Madrid. The pro-sovereignty administration of Catalan president Carles Puigdemont says that as many as 5.3 million people are eligible to vote in the unilateral poll and has vowed to declare independence within 48 hours of a victory for the yes campaign. But the Spanish authorities, which have ruled Sunday's referendum illegal and unconstitutional, insist that the vote will not take place. Continue reading... |
| Letter from Sadiq Khan to Ofcom’s Sharon White Posted: 30 Sep 2017 04:05 PM PDT Mayor of London regrets 'woeful progress' on BAME diversity in broadcasting and calls on media regulator to act Extracts from Sadiq Khan's letter to Sharon White, chief executive of Ofcom Dear Sharon, Continue reading... |
| Barnardo’s black history in the words and pictures of long-forgotten children Posted: 30 Sep 2017 04:05 PM PDT To celebrate the start of Black History Month, the charity is sharing its archive of photographs and poignant testimonials with the Observer, at last giving a voice to the orphans it welcomed into its homes 120 years ago A hidden store of remarkable personal testimonies, told by a selection of black children and teenagers given shelter by the Barnardo's organisation up to 120 years ago, has been shared with the Observer this weekend, along with a series of original admission photographs. These unseen stories, released by the charity to mark the start of Black History Month, stand out not just because of their moving content, but because of the valuable glimpses they offer of some forgotten corners of history. Continue reading... |
| Driven by poverty, squatters occupied a derelict São Paulo hotel. Now they face eviction Posted: 30 Sep 2017 01:51 PM PDT Anger is growing over the threatened expulsion of around 1,000 people from an abandoned building in Brazil's biggest city The São Paulo police are not known for their softly-softly approach when it comes to mass evictions. They go in hard. Rubber bullets. Teargas. Percussion grenades. Pepper spray. This is what about 1,000 people who have been squatting in an abandoned hotel in the city centre for a decade are facing on 22 October, barring a last-minute reprieve. But they are not afraid, they say, nor do they intend to budge. Continue reading... |
| In Catalonia’s ‘red belt’ leftwing veterans distrust the separatists Posted: 30 Sep 2017 01:00 PM PDT Nationalism is not the answer to Spain's problems, say an older generation who fought against General Franco In the war of words in the run-up to Catalan referendum, the language has grown increasingly intemperate, amid talk of dictatorship and "occupation" forces. The Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, has even compared Spain to Turkey. But for some Catalans who lived through the dictatorship and were beaten and jailed for demanding basic rights, such talk seems overblown. Continue reading... |
| It's easy to take the simplest things for granted | Jessica Valenti Posted: 30 Sep 2017 06:22 AM PDT I was reminded of this as communities in Puerto Rico, Mexico and beyond struggle with devastation Today is the seventh anniversary of the day my daughter first breathed without medical assistance. It was six weeks after she was first born, and to be able to see her face – without tubes, without fear that she would stop breathing and turn blue – was one of the best moments of my life as a mother. I've been thinking about this day a lot these last few weeks, as the latest Republican attempt to repeal Obamacare failed, and as communities in Puerto Rico, Mexico and beyond pulled together to try to help each other in the aftermath of devastation. |
| Republican civil war looms as Steve Bannon takes aim at the establishment Posted: 30 Sep 2017 04:00 AM PDT Since exiting the White House, the Breitbart chief has led the charge against Mitch McConnell and his allies in a bid to dramatically overhaul the GOP Looking out over a packed Alabama barn, Steve Bannon paced the stage and declared: "I come to you unshaven, unkempt, in this old bomber jacket, just like I was on the campaign." What happened 24 hours later left some asking, or perhaps dreading: could this be the new face of the Republican party? Bannon delivered invective about Mitch McConnell, deriding the Senate majority leader as part of a political class that is "the most corrupt and incompetent group of individuals in the country", and rallied the crowd at an election eve rally for Roy Moore's insurgent campaign. |
| Puerto Rico: 'We are dying,' says San Juan's mayor - video Posted: 30 Sep 2017 07:06 AM PDT Carmen Yulín Cruz, the mayor of San Juan, lashed out at the Trump administration, criticising its relief effort in the wake of two hurricanes. She said: 'What we are going to see is something close to a genocide.' But Donald Trump used Twitter to say: 'Such poor leadership ability by the mayor of San Juan and others in Puerto Rico, who are not able to get their workers to help. They want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort. 10,000 federal workers now on Island doing a fantastic job.' The situation in Puerto Rico remains dire as residents face shortages of food, water and fuel. The electric grid was badly damaged by the two storms, leaving many without power Trump attacks Puerto Rico mayor: 'They want everything done for them' |
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