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- Kenya elections: polls open in rerun boycotted by opposition leader
- Thailand grieves former king at lavish cremation ceremony
- Harvey Weinstein accused of rape by actor Natassia Malthe
- Catalan vice-president says independence is only remaining option
- Life in Lagos imitates art as squatters evicted for biennial exhibition
- NAACP warns black passengers of flying American Airlines after 'disturbing incidents'
- Italian prosecutors reject DNA test in mistaken identity case
- New Zealand to ban foreign buyers snapping up existing homes
- 'Science fiction': Cuban officials dismiss claims of sonic attack on US diplomats
- Russian revolutionaries' children 'read classic fiction, not Marx'
- US ambassador to UN evacuated from South Sudan camp amid demonstrations
- Raila Odinga calls for civil resistance on eve of rerun of Kenyan election
- Belfast man jailed in Germany for IRA Osnabrück mortar attack
- BBC appeals to UN over Iran’s crackdown on journalists
- Turkish judge bails eight human rights activists
- Croissants in crisis: could French bakers crumble amid butter shortage?
- Jacinda Ardern sworn in as New Zealand's prime minister - video
- The House of Saud is still in denial | Nesrine Malik
- Train passengers left without dining-car facilities due to strike – archive, 1959
- Qatar World Cup workers’ rights to improve with end of kafala system, claims union
- Writing wrongs: the pioneering New York prison program transforming lives – video
- US groups pour millions into anti-abortion campaign in Latin America and Caribbean
- Thursday was attack Michaelia Cash day – but Barnaby Joyce was preoccupied
- Thursday briefing: Chinese 'know Trump is a two-faced man'
- Michel Temer, Brazil's unpopular president, avoids corruption trial
- Golf's No 4 to take on Trump during Asia tour – but worries he's not good enough
- Jacinda Ardern sworn in as New Zealand PM, promising 'empathetic' government
- Man flies over South Africa in a chair tied to helium balloons – video
- North Korea ramps up threat to test hydrogen bomb over Pacific
- Firm restoring Puerto Rico's power threatened to quit, mayor says
- Fourteen-year-old boy held after man is shot dead in Lancashire
- Invasion of maize-eating caterpillars worsens hunger crisis in Africa
- The Guardian view on Republican attacks on Trump: where are the others?
- China's Communist party has come of age – the west should wake up | Richard McGregor
- Donald Trump: 'The press makes me more uncivil than I am' – video
- China celebrates the Communist party's national congress – in pictures
| Kenya elections: polls open in rerun boycotted by opposition leader Posted: 26 Oct 2017 01:21 AM PDT Early turnout low for contested election that is almost guaranteed to result in another win for president Uhuru Kenyatta Kenyans have begun voting in an election rerun that has polarised the country and is likely to be fiercely disputed in the absence of the opposition leader Raila Odinga, who is boycotting the poll. In stark contrast to the first election, which the supreme court annulled last month, many polling stations in Odinga strongholds saw only a trickle of voters. Continue reading... |
| Thailand grieves former king at lavish cremation ceremony Posted: 26 Oct 2017 01:19 AM PDT Funeral of King Bhumibol Adulyadej ends a year of mourning and sets the stage for King Maha Vajiralongkorn's era Thousands of Thais dressed in black prostrated themselves and wept as the funeral urn for their former king Bhumibol Adulyadej, a man revered as a demigod who became the world's longest-reigning monarch, was carried by chariot to his cremation pyre. Despite monsoon-season downpours punctuated with searing subtropical temperatures, many mourners have spent days in tents hoping to be close to the official send-off for the ninth head of the Chakri dynasty on Thursday. Continue reading... |
| Harvey Weinstein accused of rape by actor Natassia Malthe Posted: 25 Oct 2017 11:15 PM PDT
The actor Natassia Malthe has alleged that the Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein raped her in a London hotel room in 2008 and continued to harass her while she pursued her acting career. Malthe, who has appeared in several films, is the latest woman to accuse Weinstein of sexual assault. Continue reading... |
| Catalan vice-president says independence is only remaining option Posted: 26 Oct 2017 01:26 AM PDT Oriol Junqueras says Spanish decision to impose direct rule leaves region with little choice but to declare a sovereign state Catalonia's vice-president has warned Spain that its decision to impose direct rule has left separatists with little choice but to embark on the creation of a sovereign Catalan state, increasing speculation that a unilateral declaration of independence could be made within the next 48 hours. Oriol Junqueras said the central government's insistence on using the Spanish constitution to suspend regional autonomy had forced the hand of those who want to break away from Spain. Continue reading... |
| Life in Lagos imitates art as squatters evicted for biennial exhibition Posted: 26 Oct 2017 12:00 AM PDT Exhibition theme, Living on the Edge, takes on new meaning as artists and squatters at disused railway shed turfed out by state-owned railway company When the organisers of Nigeria's first biennial art exhibition called it Living on the Edge, they could not have known how painfully apt the theme would be. It was inspired by the squatters living in the carriages and buildings of a disused railway shed, and their counterparts across Lagos, where housing is in short supply, and vast wealth and abject poverty exist side by side. Artists were invited "to investigate the realities of the losers in societies around the world – the unseen majority who are pushed to the brink of their existence". |
| NAACP warns black passengers of flying American Airlines after 'disturbing incidents' Posted: 25 Oct 2017 10:39 AM PDT
The NAACP has issued a warning to black travelers about flying with American Airlines, following what the US's oldest and most well-known civil rights organization called a series of "disturbing incidents". Related: Inspired by Martin Luther King Jr, a new civil rights leader takes center stage Continue reading... |
| Italian prosecutors reject DNA test in mistaken identity case Posted: 25 Oct 2017 04:02 PM PDT Mother of alleged human trafficker travelled to Sicily from Eritrea to take test – which will not be accepted as evidence The mother of a man accused of being one of the world's most dangerous human traffickers travelled from Eritrea to Sicily to undergo a DNA test which would prove that her son is the victim of a mistaken identity. But her effort to free her son failed after Italian prosecutors refused to allow the test result to be submitted as evidence. |
| New Zealand to ban foreign buyers snapping up existing homes Posted: 25 Oct 2017 12:17 PM PDT Incoming prime minister Jacinda Ardern announces move to tackle housing crisis in country popular with overseas investors New Zealand is planning to ban foreign buyers from purchasing existing homes in an attempt to tackle a housing crisis by halting a trend among the world's wealthy to snap up property in the country. The restrictions announced by the prime minister-designate, Jacinda Ardern, are likely to be closely watched by other countries around the world also facing housing shortages and price rises driven by foreign investors. At 37, Ardern has become New Zealand's youngest leader for 150 years. Continue reading... |
| 'Science fiction': Cuban officials dismiss claims of sonic attack on US diplomats Posted: 25 Oct 2017 11:34 AM PDT Washington accused of 'slander' and refusing to cooperate with Cuban inquiry into mysterious incident that sickened American diplomats Cuban officials investigating US complaints of mysterious incidents that sickened American diplomats in Havana have described allegations of sonic attacks as "science fiction" and accused Washington of "slander" and refusing to cooperate fully with Cuba's inquiry. Donald Trump said last week he believed Havana was responsible for 24 diplomats being harmed. Washington expelled 15 Cuban diplomats and recalled more than half the US diplomatic personnel from Havana earlier in October. Continue reading... |
| Russian revolutionaries' children 'read classic fiction, not Marx' Posted: 25 Oct 2017 08:35 AM PDT Historian's research into a Moscow residence for the communist elite shows reading of key Bolshevik texts falling off among the young – sowing seeds of counterrevolution The Communist party elite and their families eschewed Soviet texts on their bedside tables for the works of western writers such as Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling and even Oscar Wilde, according to an in-depth study by the historian Yuri Slezkine. Researching Moscow's House of Government, a huge apartment block where hundreds of top communist officials lived with their families in the 1930s before Stalin's Great Purges, Slezkine conducted dozens of interviews, as well as delving through archive diaries and letters. He discovered that far from focusing on the writings of Marx and Engels for their reading, the Bolsheviks and their children preferred expressly anti-revolutionary works by western authors such as Dickens, Defoe, Shakespeare, Hugo, Balzac, Flaubert, Goethe, Kipling and Wilde. Continue reading... |
| US ambassador to UN evacuated from South Sudan camp amid demonstrations Posted: 25 Oct 2017 11:14 AM PDT Nikki Haley left a United Nations camp for displaced people as crowd of more than 100 residents demonstrated against the country's president, Salva Kiir The US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, was evacuated from a UN camp for displaced people in South Sudan on Wednesday because of a volatile demonstration against the country's president, Salva Kiir, witnesses said. Shortly after Haley left the camp, UN security guards fired teargas to disperse the crowd of more than 100 residents who looted and destroyed the office of a charity operating there, an aid worker at the camp said. The aid worker spoke on condition of anonymity out of safety fears. Continue reading... |
| Raila Odinga calls for civil resistance on eve of rerun of Kenyan election Posted: 25 Oct 2017 01:41 PM PDT Veteran opposition leader describes presidential poll as a 'sham' but stops short of calling for protests amid fears of violence The leader of Kenya's main opposition party has called for a campaign of civil disobedience and resistance on the eve of a controversial rerun presidential poll. Raila Odinga told a crowd of several thousand supporters in the centre of Nairobi that the polls scheduled for Thursday were a "sham" and amounted to a "coup d'etat" by Uhuru Kenyatta, the incumbent president, and told them not to vote. Continue reading... |
| Belfast man jailed in Germany for IRA Osnabrück mortar attack Posted: 25 Oct 2017 10:18 AM PDT James Anthony Oliver Corry sentenced to four years for part in bombing of British army barracks in 1996 A Northern Irish man has begun a four-year prison sentence in Germany for his part in a Provisional IRA mortar bomb attack on a British army base in the country more than two decades ago. James Anthony Oliver Corry was convicted on Wednesday of attempted murder in relation to bombing of Quebec barracks near Osnabrück in June 1996. |
| BBC appeals to UN over Iran’s crackdown on journalists Posted: 25 Oct 2017 08:02 AM PDT Corporation complains of 'sustained campaign of harassment' after assets of BBC Persian staff are frozen The BBC's director general has accused Iran of "unprecedented collective punishment" as the corporation appealed to the UN over crackdowns on Iranian employees of its London-based Persian service. Iranian authorities have imposed an asset freeze on at least 152 BBC Persian journalists and former contributors, preventing them from conducting financial transactions or selling properties in their homeland because of their affiliation with the British broadcaster. Continue reading... |
| Turkish judge bails eight human rights activists Posted: 25 Oct 2017 02:48 PM PDT Group including senior Amnesty International figure were standing trial on terrorism-related charges A Turkish judge has ordered the release on bail of eight human rights activists including a senior official from Amnesty International, who were standing trial on terrorism-related charges. Related: Senior Amnesty figures among 11 on trial in Turkey on terror charges Continue reading... |
| Croissants in crisis: could French bakers crumble amid butter shortage? Posted: 25 Oct 2017 09:32 AM PDT Pastry makers in France fear they can't go on for much longer, as consumers face empty butter fridges in supermarkets Supermarket stocks are running low, people online are jokingly offering to sell a half-eaten pack for €250, and a film shot in the dairy-loving region of Brittany features deprived addicts roaming the streets like zombies. For months, bakers, biscuit-makers, farmers and food producers have sounded the alarm over a dearth of butter in France. But this week, with French newspapers warning of the worst shortage since the second world war, the crisis has turned political as the government seeks to reassure consumers. Continue reading... |
| Jacinda Ardern sworn in as New Zealand's prime minister - video Posted: 26 Oct 2017 01:35 AM PDT A crowd of about 1,000 people gathered on the lawn of Parliament House in Wellington to greet Jacinda Ardern as she was sworn in as New Zealand's new prime minister. She is the third woman to lead the country and the youngest PM in 150 years. In her first comments as prime minister, she promised to form an 'active' government that would be 'focused, empathetic and strong'. Ardern was elected leader of the Labour party less than three months ago, after her predecessor Andrew Little tanked in the polls. She was picked as the only hope for the beleaguered party to enter government Jacinda Ardern sworn in as New Zealand PM, promising 'empathetic' government Continue reading... |
| The House of Saud is still in denial | Nesrine Malik Posted: 25 Oct 2017 11:27 AM PDT Despite crown prince Mohammed's pledge of reform there is no honest acknowledgement yet of what lies behind Saudi Arabia's malaise Something is definitely afoot in Saudi Arabia this time. For decades, the Saud ruling family has followed a policy of promise but never deliver. They make the right noises in an attempt to polish the country's much-tarnished global image – and yet when it comes down to it, they rarely come up with the goods. Related: I will return Saudi Arabia to moderate Islam, says crown prince Continue reading... |
| Train passengers left without dining-car facilities due to strike – archive, 1959 Posted: 25 Oct 2017 09:00 PM PDT 26 October 1959 Rail staff are unhappy that the Pullman Car Company instead of the British Transport Commission will provide catering on some trains An unofficial strike by 130 dining car attendants in Manchester, due to start at midnight last night, is likely to deprive travellers between Manchester and London of their dining-car facilities to-day. The Manchester strikers have asked more than four hundred of their colleagues at Euston and King's Cross to support them. Related: Glory days of British Rail's full English breakfast | Letters Continue reading... |
| Qatar World Cup workers’ rights to improve with end of kafala system, claims union Posted: 25 Oct 2017 12:04 PM PDT • System described as modern slavery by trade union body • News greeted cautiously by expert on migrant workers' issues in the Gulf The International Trade Union Confederation claims to have secured the agreement of the government in Qatar to significantly improve the physical and employment situation of two million migrant workers, including ending the kafala system, which the ITUC has described as modern slavery. Human rights abuses such as kafala, by which workers are tied to a single employer, low pay, poor accommodation, labouring in dangerous heat and hundreds of unexplained deaths, have been subjected to intense global scrutiny and criticism since 2010 when Fifa voted for Qatar to host the 2022 World Cup. Continue reading... |
| Writing wrongs: the pioneering New York prison program transforming lives – video Posted: 26 Oct 2017 12:23 AM PDT In the Bronx, the Prison Writes program provides therapeutic writing workshops for people trying to get back on their feet after incarceration. Humberto, 16, is trying to get back into school after a period in Rikers Island prison. Across the city, Justin is using writing to move on from his history as a gang member, and his own experiences in the criminal justice system. But can they leave their past mistakes behind? Continue reading... |
| US groups pour millions into anti-abortion campaign in Latin America and Caribbean Posted: 25 Oct 2017 11:00 PM PDT Guardian investigation reveals anti-choice groups using sophisticated methods to combat potential easing of draconian abortion laws in the region US anti-choice groups are coordinating and financing a campaign to restrict access to abortion across Latin America and the Caribbean. A Guardian investigation has found that organisations have poured millions of dollars into the region, which has some of the most draconian abortion laws, to combat efforts to decriminalise the termination of pregnancies and to obstruct access to clinics providing services. Continue reading... |
| Thursday was attack Michaelia Cash day – but Barnaby Joyce was preoccupied Posted: 26 Oct 2017 01:33 AM PDT It was his last day in no man's land, along with the Coalition's one-seat majority, before the high court rules on citizenship Amid the clutter and contention of Thursday, the besieged federal employment minister, the outrage echoing around the parliament – sat Barnaby Joyce in question time, a small island unto himself. As Labor built a case that Michaelia Cash must resign if Westminster conventions were to have any meaning, Joyce worked his way through folders of paper, ticking and flicking. When he wasn't doing that, the deputy prime minister checked his phone, swiping and scrolling. Continue reading... |
| Thursday briefing: Chinese 'know Trump is a two-faced man' Posted: 25 Oct 2017 10:28 PM PDT President's fawning to Beijing is unlikely to impress … last unseen JFK files due for release today … and how 'cult of Harvey' allowed Weinstein's abuses Hello – it's Warren Murray separating the wheat from the chaff for you today. Continue reading... |
| Michel Temer, Brazil's unpopular president, avoids corruption trial Posted: 25 Oct 2017 09:44 PM PDT Temer gathers enough votes to avoid being charged with leading scheme that sold favours, votes and plum appointments to big business Brazilian president Michel Temer survived a key vote Wednesday night on whether he should be tried on corruption charges, mustering support in the lower house of Congress despite abysmal approval ratings. To avoid being suspended and put on trial for charges of obstruction of justice and leading a criminal organisation, the president needed the support of at least a third of the 513 deputies in the Chamber of Deputies. Continue reading... |
| Golf's No 4 to take on Trump during Asia tour – but worries he's not good enough Posted: 25 Oct 2017 09:03 PM PDT Hideki Matsuyama paused before accepting 'once-in-a-lifetime opportunity' and says he will do his best not to lose The Japanese golfer Hideki Matsuyama has accepted an invitation to play a round with Donald Trump at the start of the president's 11-country tour of Asia next week, but claimed he had initially hesitated, fearing – somewhat implausibly – that he "wasn't good enough". The world No 4 will join Trump and the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, at Kasumigaseki country club, the venue for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic tournament, as the two leaders resume their golf diplomacy amid fears of more North Korean missile launches. Continue reading... |
| Jacinda Ardern sworn in as New Zealand PM, promising 'empathetic' government Posted: 25 Oct 2017 07:55 PM PDT Ardern says she will lead an 'active' administration that addresses climate change and looks after the vulnerable Jacinda Ardern has officially been sworn in as the prime minister of New Zealand promising to tackle climate change, eradicate child poverty and improve the lives of the country's most vulnerable people. Ardern received a round of applause from her cabinet, friends and family who had gathered at government house on Thursday morning for the event. Continue reading... |
| Man flies over South Africa in a chair tied to helium balloons – video Posted: 25 Oct 2017 07:18 PM PDT A British adventurer has flown over the countryside north of Johannesburg by sitting in a chair attached to 100 helium balloons. Tom Morgan, part of a group called The Adventurists, said: 'It was a fairly indescribable feeling, wafting across Africa on a cheap camping chair dangling from a load of balloons'. He flew 15 miles (24km) in two hours, reaching an altitude of 8,300 feet (2,530 metres) Continue reading... |
| North Korea ramps up threat to test hydrogen bomb over Pacific Posted: 25 Oct 2017 06:51 PM PDT Foreign minister's suggestion about airborne nuclear test should be taken 'literally', says diplomat The North Korean foreign minister's recent warning of a possible atmospheric nuclear test over the Pacific ocean should be heeded, a senior Pyongyang official has told CNN. "The foreign minister is very well aware of the intentions of our supreme leader, so I think you should take his words literally," Ri Yong Pil, a senior diplomat in North Korea's Foreign Ministry, said in an interview aired on Wednesday. Continue reading... |
| Firm restoring Puerto Rico's power threatened to quit, mayor says Posted: 25 Oct 2017 05:26 PM PDT After San Juan's mayor, Carmen Yulín Cruz, questioned the deal that brought Whitefish Energy to the island, the company tweeted to ask if it should leave The mayor of San Juan on Wednesday accused the company restoring power to Puerto Rico of threatening to withdraw its services after she drew attention to its controversial contract. Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz had demanded greater transparency over the $300m deal secured by Whitefish Energy, a tiny two-year-old firm based in the Montana home town of the US interior secretary, Ryan Zinke. Continue reading... |
| Fourteen-year-old boy held after man is shot dead in Lancashire Posted: 25 Oct 2017 05:01 PM PDT Teenager arrested on suspicion of murder and police believe shooting in Oswaldtwistle was isolated incident A 14-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 32-year-old man was fatally shot in Accrington. Lancashire police said officers were called to Oswaldtwistle on Wednesday evening following reports that a man had been shot in the chest. The victim was taken to Royal Blackburn hospital where he died a short time later, while the boy, from Accrington, was taken into custody. Continue reading... |
| Invasion of maize-eating caterpillars worsens hunger crisis in Africa Posted: 25 Oct 2017 04:59 AM PDT Crops that feed 200 million people at risk from destructive march of fall armyworm, as agriculture experts call for urgent action The crops that 200 million people rely on in Africa are under threat from a caterpillar that is spreading throughout the continent, agriculture experts have warned. Urgent action needs to be taken to stop the fall armyworm's destructive march across the continent. Continue reading... |
| The Guardian view on Republican attacks on Trump: where are the others? Posted: 25 Oct 2017 11:21 AM PDT Longstanding opponents of the US president have welcomed outspoken denunciations by senators from his party. But most are still complicit For all those horrified by Donald Trump's presidency – the multitudes both in the US and around the world – there is much to savour in the outspoken attacks made by two Republican senators. Jeff Flake and Bob Corker, liberated by impending retirement, launched a powerful dual attack on Tuesday: Mr Flake denounced Mr Trump's "reckless, outrageous" behaviour, while Mr Corker, chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee, warned that the president is debasing the US with "constant non-truth-telling". No president in recent history has been spoken about so scathingly by legislators from his own party. Yet the headlines should not mislead us. Mr Flake and Mr Corker once supported Mr Trump (Mr Corker was even considered a potential vice-president) and have moved from outright opposition to full-throttle attack. They represent a span of opinion: Mr Flake is an arch-conservative, no hero for progressives, while Mr Corker is considered a moderate Republican. Their words have extra resonance following last week's interventions by George W Bush, who condemned white supremacy, conspiracy theories and lies, and John McCain, who laid into "half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems". Continue reading... |
| China's Communist party has come of age – the west should wake up | Richard McGregor Posted: 25 Oct 2017 04:22 AM PDT Under Xi Jinping, China has become more powerful and confident than it perhaps has been for two centuries The Chinese Communist party congress displayed all the qualities beloved by Leninist institutions over the ages, of deep secrecy mixed with stern pageantry, leveraged in the service of reinforcing their leaders' inviolate right to rule. Its closure on Wednesday in Beijing's Great Hall of the People also highlighted a familiar ritual, the unveiling of the membership and the ranking of the new leadership team, known as the politburo standing committee. |
| Donald Trump: 'The press makes me more uncivil than I am' – video Posted: 25 Oct 2017 09:27 PM PDT The US president blames the news media for his image and boasts about his intelligence. 'People don't understand,' he says. 'I went to an Ivy League college. I was a nice student. I did very well. I'm a very intelligent person ... I think the press creates a different image of Donald Trump.' Continue reading... |
| China celebrates the Communist party's national congress – in pictures Posted: 25 Oct 2017 03:45 AM PDT Beijing has just hosted the 19th national congress of the Communist party of China. The four-day gathering, which takes place every five years, reaffirmed Xi Jinping's role as president, elevating him to a level of significance similar to that of Mao Zedong Continue reading... |
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