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- Austrian populists expect to be kingmakers as politics takes turn to right
- Spanish government holds crisis meeting on Catalan independence
- 'We are on a tightrope': Trump poised to walk away from Iran nuclear deal
- 'Everything is going to plan' - Liberians vote in first election run without UN
- Sweeping powers for Jamaica police and military are 'ripe for abuse', activists say
- Harvey Weinstein: allegations mount as three women accuse him of rape
- Catalan government suspends declaration of independence
- Donald Trump to visit no-man's-land of Korean border – reports
- California fires: chaos as blaze rages out of control with more than 100 missing
- North Korea hacked South's secret joint US war plans – reports
- House-sized asteroid will pass by Earth at just above satellite altitude
- IMF tells rich nations that greater urgency needed on climate change
- Mexico man convicted of killing 11 young women gets 430-year sentence
- Only Leonardo da Vinci in private hands set to fetch £75m at auction
- Mexico warns that abandoning Nafta could end broader cooperation with US
- Shocking figures show there are now 124 million obese children worldwide
- British Conservative party activist barred from entering Hong Kong
- EU youth orchestra to quit UK for Italy over Brexit
- Sheriff’s deputy drives through raging blaze in California – video
- 'Braid chopping' claims in Kashmir spark mass panic and mob violence
- Every nation needs a capital: how Erbil turned itself Kurdish
- Fugitive in UK murder case was arrested and released in Prague
- Bill Shorten: Australia in danger of having growth without prosperity
- Wednesday briefing: The sins of Harvey Weinstein
- Erdoğan says Turkey to boycott US ambassador over visa row
- New Zealand to deport intellectually disabled man to Fiji without his family
- Heart of disaster: California wildfire evacuees return to a wasteland
- Queen calls for Modern Slavery Act to be replicated in Commonwealth nations
- Bribes for public services rife in Latin America and the Caribbean, survey finds
- Puigdemont speech gives no clarity on Catalan independence
- Data hints at the iceberg of sexual harassment still beneath the surface
- Donald Trump applies art of exaggeration to handling of US economy
- Drone footage shows devastation caused by California fire – video
- Son of California wildfire victims who died together: 'It's all gone' – video
- 'Unprecedented' California wildfires kill 10 people – video report
| Austrian populists expect to be kingmakers as politics takes turn to right Posted: 11 Oct 2017 01:09 AM PDT Freedom party dictates tone of Sunday's election, as Social Democrats tainted by 'dirty tricks' strategy Austrian politics is set to tip to the right less than a year after averting a far-right presidency by the populist Freedom party , with the party on course to emerge as coalition kingmaker in Sunday's national elections. Though currently fighting for second place behind 31-year-old Sebastian Kurz of the centre-right Austrian People's party (ÖVP), the Freedom party has managed to dictate the agenda of a campaign centred largely around immigration and fears of radical Islam, and will receive a last-stretch boost from a "dirty campaigning" row between the traditional centre parties. Continue reading... |
| Spanish government holds crisis meeting on Catalan independence Posted: 11 Oct 2017 12:42 AM PDT Prime minister chairs emergency cabinet meeting after Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont calls for dialogue with Madrid Spain's government is holding crisis talks after the Catalan leader signed a suspended declaration of independence and called for dialogue with Madrid. The Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, is chairing an emergency cabinet meeting in response to an address to parliament by the Catalan leader, Carles Puigdemont, on Tuesday evening. Continue reading... |
| 'We are on a tightrope': Trump poised to walk away from Iran nuclear deal Posted: 10 Oct 2017 11:01 PM PDT President unlikely to certify pact this week, triggering complex battle in Congress and Europe over ultimate fate of agreement If Donald Trump decides this week to withdraw his endorsement of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, its fate and the potential for a major conflict will be determined by a complex battle in Congress. No one is able to predict whether that struggle will lead to a reimposition of US sanctions, the collapse of the agreement and the rapid scaling-up of Iran's nuclear programme. It could result in a compromise that leaves the deal alive but opens the way for a more combative policy towards Tehran on other fronts. Continue reading... |
| 'Everything is going to plan' - Liberians vote in first election run without UN Posted: 11 Oct 2017 01:52 AM PDT Citizens go to the polls in first election the west African country is managing itself – but echoes of civil war reverberate Liberians have voted in large numbers in the first election run entirely by the country's institutions and security forces since the civil war. Police officers and election officials who had been preparing for months took their places at polling stations, listening sympathetically to complaints about impatient voters pushing in the queue and missing names on the rolls. |
| Sweeping powers for Jamaica police and military are 'ripe for abuse', activists say Posted: 11 Oct 2017 12:00 AM PDT
Human rights activists have condemned sweeping new anti-crime legislation in Jamaica which grants police and troops the power to stop, search and detain citizens without a warrant in designated areas. Until the end of October, citizens in the community of Mount Salem in Montego Bay will be liable to random searches or detention without a warrant, and will be obliged to present ID in order to leave or enter the area after it was named a Zone of Special Operations (Zoso) last month. Continue reading... |
| Harvey Weinstein: allegations mount as three women accuse him of rape Posted: 11 Oct 2017 12:54 AM PDT Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie join group of women accusing the producer of sexual harassment, which he 'unequivocally denied' via spokeswoman The sexual harassment scandal surrounding Harvey Weinstein deepened on Tuesday when three women accused the Hollywood producer of rape in an article in the New Yorker, allegations he "unequivocally denied" through a spokeswoman. The accusations come just days after nearly a dozen women recounted sexual harassment by Weinstein – producer of the Oscar-winning films Shakespeare in Love, The Artist and The English Patient, and patron to Quentin Tarantino and Steven Soderbergh – to the New York Times and other publications, causing the Weinstein production company to fire its once formidable co-founder. Continue reading... |
| Catalan government suspends declaration of independence Posted: 10 Oct 2017 11:10 AM PDT President Carles Puigdemont says he will pursue negotiations with Spanish government in hope of resolving conflict The Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, has pulled the region back from the brink of an unprecedented showdown with the Spanish government by proposing the suspension of a declaration of independence to allow for negotiations to resolve Spain's worst political crisis for 40 years. Addressing the Catalan parliament on Tuesday evening, Puigdemont said that, while the referendum earlier this month had given his government a mandate to create a sovereign republic, he would not immediately push ahead with independence from Spain. Continue reading... |
| Donald Trump to visit no-man's-land of Korean border – reports Posted: 10 Oct 2017 11:21 PM PDT News of the US president's possible stop off at the DMZ comes as two B-1B bombers flew over the Korean peninsula in a show of US military might Donald Trump could soon find himself confronting North Korean soldiers on the world's most heavily armed border, amid reports that the president is considering a visit to the demilitarised zone (DMZ) during his forthcoming trip to South Korea. South Korea's Yonhap news agency said the DMZ, which has separated the two Koreas since the end of their 1950-53 war, was among the candidate sites for Trump's tour of Asia. He will also visit Japan, China, Vietnam and the Philippines. Continue reading... |
| California fires: chaos as blaze rages out of control with more than 100 missing Posted: 10 Oct 2017 03:01 PM PDT Residents reckon with rising death toll and catastrophic devastation, as one of state's deadliest wildfires burns through wine country north of San Francisco Northern California wildfires continued to blaze mostly unabated on Tuesday as local residents reckoned with a growing death toll, catastrophic losses and their fears for those still missing. As of Tuesday night at least 17 people had died in 17 major fires across California, according to Cal Fire, the agency responsible for fire protection, as the state notched one of the deadliest fire days in its history. More than 2,000 structures have been destroyed, and the Sonoma County sheriff has received 240 missing-person reports, though 57 people have since been located. Continue reading... |
| North Korea hacked South's secret joint US war plans – reports Posted: 10 Oct 2017 03:09 PM PDT
North Korean hackers have stolen hundreds of classified military documents from South Korea, including detailed wartime operational plans involving its US ally, according to a local media report. Rhee Cheol-hee, a lawmaker for the ruling Democratic party, said the hackers broke into the South's military network in September last year and gained access to 235 gigabytes of sensitive data, the Chosun Ilbo daily reported. Continue reading... |
| House-sized asteroid will pass by Earth at just above satellite altitude Posted: 10 Oct 2017 09:51 AM PDT Nasa says there will be 'no danger' when the asteroid 2012 TC4 shaves past Earth at just above the altitude at which most satellites operate on Thursday A house-size asteroid will give Earth a near-miss on Thursday, giving experts a rare chance to rehearse for a real-life strike threat as it passes inside the moon's orbit. Dubbed 2012 TC4, the space rock will shave past at an altitude of less than 44,000km (27,300 miles) – just above the 36,000km plane at which hundreds of geosynchronous satellites orbit the Earth. Continue reading... |
| IMF tells rich nations that greater urgency needed on climate change Posted: 10 Oct 2017 12:32 PM PDT Fund's latest World Economic Outlook also cautions global economic recovery may stall because of poor wages growth The International Monetary Fund has warned the world's richest nations to have a greater sense of urgency about climate change, a day after the former Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott, delivered a bizarre speech to a London-based thinktank claiming climate change was "probably doing good". The IMF's latest World Economic Outlook (WEO), released overnight, has dedicated an entire chapter to the impact of weather shocks and climate change on global economic activity. Continue reading... |
| Mexico man convicted of killing 11 young women gets 430-year sentence Posted: 10 Oct 2017 12:03 PM PDT Prosecutors say Pedro Payán Gloria drugged women, forced them into prostitution and killed them near Ciudad Juárez, an area known for femicides Mexican prosecutors have won a 430-year prison sentence against a man convicted of killing 11 young women near Ciudad Juárez, an area that has become notorious for femicides. The prosecutors' office said Monday that Pedro Payán Gloria drugged the women, forced them to prostitute themselves and sell drugs and then killed them when they were no longer of use. Their skeletal remains were found in early 2012 in fields in the Juarez Valley, a largely agricultural region east of the city. Continue reading... |
| Only Leonardo da Vinci in private hands set to fetch £75m at auction Posted: 10 Oct 2017 12:06 PM PDT Salvator Mundi was confirmed as an authentic old master just six years ago, having sold for £45 at auction in 1958 The only Leonardo da Vinci painting in private hands, which fetched just £45 at a sale in 1958, is to be sold at auction with an estimate of $100m (£75m). Salvator Mundi, one of the 15 or so known to be by the artist, was lost for centuries before its authenticity was confirmed in 2011. |
| Mexico warns that abandoning Nafta could end broader cooperation with US Posted: 10 Oct 2017 04:15 PM PDT
Mexico's foreign minister has warned that terminating Nafta could bring relations with the US to a breaking point, raising the prospect that bilateral cooperation against drug trafficking and illegal migration could be adversely affected by Donald Trump's bellicose trade rhetoric. The threat from the foreign minister, Luis Videgaray, came as Donald Trump once again threatened to tear up the three-country trade treaty between the US, Canada and Mexico ahead of a fourth round of Nafta negotiations. Continue reading... |
| Shocking figures show there are now 124 million obese children worldwide Posted: 10 Oct 2017 03:30 PM PDT Experts call for action over unhealthy food as data shows more than tenfold rise in number of obese children over the past four decades Childhood obesity is soaring across the world, increasing more than tenfold over the past four decades, putting many millions at risk of poor health and an early death, according to the biggest ever analysis of the data. Alongside the report, and also Monday's story in the Guardian revealing that the global cost of obesity will be $1.2tn by 2025, the World Health Organisation is calling for every country to act, taking on Big Food to avoid the mounting human and economic costs of obesity-related ill-health in years to come. Continue reading... |
| British Conservative party activist barred from entering Hong Kong Posted: 11 Oct 2017 02:50 AM PDT Benedict Rogers, the deputy chair of the Conservative party's human rights commission, escorted on to flight out of former British colony A leading British human rights activist who has been a vocal critic of China's erosion of Hong Kong's political freedoms has been barred from entering the former colony on the eve of a key political summit in Beijing. Benedict Rogers, the deputy chair of the Conservatives' human rights commission, flew into Hong Kong on Wednesday morning on a Thai Airways flight from Bangkok but said he was stopped at immigration and refused entry. Continue reading... |
| EU youth orchestra to quit UK for Italy over Brexit Posted: 11 Oct 2017 02:49 AM PDT 'You can't ask for EU funding and then not be in the EU,' says chief executive of orchestra established in London in 1976 Brexit has forced the departure of the European Union Youth Orchestra from its UK headquarters to Italy, it was announced on Wednesday. The orchestra was established in London in 1976 but the British vote to leave meant it had to come up with a plan for a future outside the UK. Continue reading... |
| Sheriff’s deputy drives through raging blaze in California – video Posted: 11 Oct 2017 02:42 AM PDT Sonoma County sheriff's office has released this video of one of its deputies driving past flames to help rescue people trapped by a wildfire. The video was posted on Facebook to show the conditions the deputies and fire personnel faced at the onset of the blaze. Wildfires in California have destroyed 2,000 structures and devastated large swaths of wine country • Heart of disaster: California wildfire evacuees return to a wasteland Continue reading... |
| 'Braid chopping' claims in Kashmir spark mass panic and mob violence Posted: 11 Oct 2017 02:18 AM PDT Briton and Australians among several people briefly detained by vigilantes in unrest over alleged attacks on women's hair A British woman and three Australians have been briefly detained by vigilantes amid mass panic in Indian-administered Kashmir over a spate of alleged "braid choppings". Police in the Himalayan region say they have received reports of at least 40 instances of women's hair being forcibly cut by unidentified assailants. Continue reading... |
| Every nation needs a capital: how Erbil turned itself Kurdish Posted: 10 Oct 2017 11:30 PM PDT From flags to statues to street names, the city of Erbil has deliberately embraced Kurdish culture to such an extent that it almost seems a Disneyfied spectacle for tourists – except the intended audience is the Kurds themselves The citadel in Erbil can lay claim to being one of the oldest continuously inhabited place on Earth. But towering over the old mud-brick structures, one recent addition on the hilltop stands out: a brand new gate. The gate was built to replace another thrown up by Saddam Hussein, just one in a long line of different rulers – from the Assyrians to the Mongols to the Ottomans – who have incorporated Erbil into their empires. But since Saddam's fall in 2003, a clear identity has come to dominate the city's public spaces: Kurdish. Continue reading... |
| Fugitive in UK murder case was arrested and released in Prague Posted: 11 Oct 2017 12:38 AM PDT Shane O'Brien, who is on most wanted list over stabbing of Josh Hanson in 2015, gave false name and had altered his appearance One of Britain's most wanted fugitives, suspected of a murder at a west London nightclub, was arrested eight months ago in Prague, it has emerged, where he had been using Italian aliases and had dramatically changed his appearance. Shane O'Brien left the UK on a privately chartered flight after the fatal stabbing of 21-year-old Josh Hanson at the RE bar in Eastcote in the early hours of 11 October 2015 in what police say was an unprovoked attack. Continue reading... |
| Bill Shorten: Australia in danger of having growth without prosperity Posted: 11 Oct 2017 01:00 AM PDT Labor leader says in past 10 years real labour productivity grew by 20% while real wages grew by 6% The Labor leader Bill Shorten says Australia is in danger of having growth without prosperity and that workers need a pay increase for the sake of the economy. Shorten used a speech to the John Curtin Research Centre in Melbourne on Wednesday night to argue there was a "creeping Americanisation of the labour market, where increases in workplace productivity and efficiency aren't being shared with the workers who make them possible." Continue reading... |
| Wednesday briefing: The sins of Harvey Weinstein Posted: 10 Oct 2017 10:28 PM PDT Producer's wife walks out as sex claims pile up … May struggles on radio when pressed about Brexit … and why it's OK to eat raw eggs again Hello, Warren Murray bringing you the briefing – it's small but perfectly informed. Continue reading... |
| Erdoğan says Turkey to boycott US ambassador over visa row Posted: 10 Oct 2017 10:23 PM PDT President says Turkey no longer regards outgoing envoy John Bass as the US representative after American missions in the country stopped issuing visas President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has vowed that Turkish officials will boycott the US ambassador, deepening one of the worst rifts in decades between the Nato allies. Erdoğan said he no longer regarded outgoing envoy John Bass as the US representative to Turkey after American missions in the country stopped issuing visas. Continue reading... |
| New Zealand to deport intellectually disabled man to Fiji without his family Posted: 10 Oct 2017 09:30 PM PDT Sagar Narayan, 20, is to be separated from his parents and siblings because he is considered a burden on the health system An intellectually disabled Fijian man who requires full-time care from his family is due to be deported from New Zealand because the government says the cost of caring for him is too expensive. Sagar Narayan, 20, has severe intellectual disabilities and requires help with washing, getting dressed and eating his meals. Continue reading... |
| Heart of disaster: California wildfire evacuees return to a wasteland Posted: 10 Oct 2017 09:30 PM PDT Residents of Santa Rosa can only sift through the ashes of their former homes – some of the nearly 2,000 structures levelled by a devastating inferno The residents of Journey's End mobile home park didn't have much before the fire. Now they had even less. On Tuesday, Jan Davis climbed through the charred rubble that used to be her home in Santa Rosa, California, calling for her missing cat. "Annie, Annie, Annie," she called. Her friend, Diane Hart, thought she heard a meow, but then all went silent. Continue reading... |
| Queen calls for Modern Slavery Act to be replicated in Commonwealth nations Posted: 10 Oct 2017 11:00 PM PDT Commonwealth secretary general confirms monarch keen to see similar legislation promoted across the 52 countries to tackle trafficking and exploitation The Queen personally intervened to ask lawmakers to replicate the Modern Slavery Act throughout the countries of the Commonwealth, the Guardian can reveal. Patricia Scotland, the Commonwealth secretary general, confirmed that the Queen expressly stated she would like to see legislation similar to the 2015 act promoted in the 52 Commonwealth nations. Continue reading... |
| Bribes for public services rife in Latin America and the Caribbean, survey finds Posted: 10 Oct 2017 05:05 AM PDT One in three people across the region paid a bribe in the past year to police, health services or schools, says Transparency International One in three people using public services in Latin America and the Caribbean report having to pay a bribe over the last year, according to a survey. A report by Transparency International found Mexico has the highest bribery rate in the region, with one of every two people reporting paying bribes, followed by the Dominican Republic and Peru. Continue reading... |
| Puigdemont speech gives no clarity on Catalan independence Posted: 10 Oct 2017 01:58 PM PDT Catalonia's president has called to 'suspend effects of independence declaration' – potentially upsetting both sides of debate The long-awaited speech in which Catalonia's president declared independence – only to immediately suspend it – was so wrapped in conditionalities and ambiguity that it is likely to be interpreted in a thousand different ways. Some will say that Carles Puigdemont was trying to blackmail the Spanish state, others that he was holding out an olive branch. Continue reading... |
| Data hints at the iceberg of sexual harassment still beneath the surface Posted: 10 Oct 2017 12:54 PM PDT Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby and Roger Ailes give a face to the phenomenon but most sexual harassers remain invisible because cases are never reported Although you may have heard the name Harvey Weinstein (the Hollywood producer who denies sexual harassment accusations by roughly a dozen women) as well as Bill Cosby or Roger Ailes, there are countless names of alleged sexual harassers you haven't heard, and will never hear. Those visible men are just the tip of the iceberg, because most cases of sexual harassment never get reported. Only 27% of people who experience sexual harassment report it, according to a survey of 1,000 adults that was conducted by YouGov in 2013, 70% said they didn't report it and 4% of respondents "prefer not to say" (those figures don't add up to 100 because of rounding). Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Donald Trump applies art of exaggeration to handling of US economy Posted: 10 Oct 2017 10:36 AM PDT The president boasted of using inflated figures in his business dealings and seems bent on using similar tactics to justify protectionism despite IMF warnings In his interview with Forbes, published on Tuesday, Donald Trump showed how his self-confessed tactics of exaggeration when negotiating business deals are now being applied to the US economy. He also called for protectionist measures, directly clashing with recommendations contained in a key International Monetary Fund (IMF) report released the same day. Related: Trump challenges Tillerson to 'compare IQ tests' after reported 'moron' dig Continue reading... |
| Drone footage shows devastation caused by California fire – video Posted: 11 Oct 2017 12:47 AM PDT Video footage shows the charred ruins of hundreds of homes in Coffey Park, Santa Rosa, after one of the deadliest fire days in California's history. Several people have died in fires across the state, 20,000 people have been evacuated from their homes and more than 2,000 structures have been destroyed, officials have said. Investigators are trying to determine the cause of the fires • California fires: chaos as blaze rages out of control with more than 100 missing Continue reading... |
| Son of California wildfire victims who died together: 'It's all gone' – video Posted: 10 Oct 2017 10:14 PM PDT An elderly couple who died in a Northern California fire were together since grade school and celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary last year. Their son, Mike Rippey says his parents were unable to get out before the blaze destroyed their home. His brother found their bodies on Monday. The California wildfires have killed at least 15 people and destroyed more than 2,000 homes and businesses. Some 100 people are missing. Continue reading... |
| 'Unprecedented' California wildfires kill 10 people – video report Posted: 10 Oct 2017 04:12 AM PDT US authorities say at least 10 people have died after more than a dozen wildfires swept through California wine country, destroying at least 1,500 homes and businesses. More than 10,000 people have been evacuated and thousands of properties remain at risk. A state of emergency has been declared in eight counties Continue reading... |
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