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- Inside the CIA’s black site torture room
- Secret trials of thousands of Boko Haram suspects to start in Nigeria
- Bob Corker says White House is 'adult day care center' after Trump Twitter hit
- 'We have to raise our voices' – Catalans rally to the pro-unity cause
- Dutch politicians 'ready to form government' 208 days after election
- US suspends handling of visas in Turkey after arrest of consulate staffer
- Harvey Weinstein sacked in wake of sexual harassment scandal
- All-conquering Xi: China heralds its leader in ecstatic Beijing exhibition
- Asylum: up to 400 refugee children stuck in France, lawyers say
- High steaks: the Vladimir Putin birthday burger that never existed
- LGBT people in Egypt targeted in wave of arrests and violence
- Trump digital director says Facebook helped win the White House
- Pence follows Trump order and walks out of 49ers-Colts after players kneel
- Catalonia independence declaration would not be recognised, says France
- Frankfurt book fair: Atwood and Brown to star at politically charged event
- I am Catalan: ’Independence is not a final destination’ - video
- New Zealand police apologise for tweeting joke about road deaths
- Meet Kim Yo-jong, the sister who is the brains behind Kim Jong-un's image
- Urban exposure: the world's most striking city architecture photographs
- The trans experience in Colombia: 'This is where we work – and this is where we are killed'
- One in five stopped by immigration enforcement is a UK citizen, figures show
- Spain and Catalonia can find a way forward. Here’s what they must do | Gerry Adams
- 'We have no home to go back to': citizens of Mosul return to ruin – in pictures
- Alan Finkel defends clean energy target as Coalition turns its back
- Monday briefing: Hammond gets the P45 treatment
- Nobel economics prize due to be announced
- Irish tax break scheme 'will attract top talent from Britain after Brexit'
- Hurricane Nate lets Gulf coast off with flooding and some power outages
- 'A transition to joy and freedom': trans life in Colombia – in pictures
- Catalan leader faces dilemma as silent majority finds its voice
- Has Roy Moore given Democrats a shot at a Senate seat in deep-red Alabama?
- ‘I am both Spanish and Catalan’: Barcelona demonstrators oppose independence – video
- Sunday's top photos: cranberry harvests and conker championships
- Hurricane Nate makes landfall in US as category 1 storm – video report
- Natural gas explosion shakes Accra – video
| Inside the CIA’s black site torture room Posted: 08 Oct 2017 10:00 PM PDT Papers that the Pentagon and CIA were forced to declassify as part of a lawsuit brought by victims reveal the fullest picture ever of the secret 'enhanced interrogation' regime and the men who designed it There were twenty cells inside the prison, each a stand-alone concrete box. In sixteen, prisoners were shackled to a metal ring in the wall. In four, designed for sleep deprivation, they stood chained by the wrists to an overhead bar. Those in the regular cells had a plastic bucket; those in sleep deprivation wore diapers. When diapers weren't available, guards crafted substitutes with duct tape, or prisoners were chained naked in their cells. The cellblock was unheated, pitch black day and night, with music blaring around the clock. Continue reading... |
| Secret trials of thousands of Boko Haram suspects to start in Nigeria Posted: 08 Oct 2017 09:00 PM PDT Unprecedented series of mass trials of more than 2,300 suspected Islamist militants will take place in military facilities More than 2,300 suspected Islamist militants are expected to appear in court in Nigeria from Monday in an unprecedented series of mass trials that local authorities hope will be seen as evidence of progress in the fight against Boko Haram, one of Africa's most resilient insurgencies. All the defendants have been detained since Boko Haram, which means "no to western education", launched its campaign eight years ago. Continue reading... |
| Bob Corker says White House is 'adult day care center' after Trump Twitter hit Posted: 09 Oct 2017 02:38 AM PDT
Donald Trump's fractious relationship with the Republican establishment reached a bizarre new level on Sunday when Sen Bob Corker described the White House as an "adult day care center" and warned the president risked setting the US "on the path to world war three". An extraordinary exchange between Trump and the chair of the Senate foreign relations committee began when Trump accused Corker, who is retiring, of "not having the guts" to run for re-election. Continue reading... |
| 'We have to raise our voices' – Catalans rally to the pro-unity cause Posted: 08 Oct 2017 11:21 AM PDT The so-called silent majority in Catalonia who oppose independence from Spain make their feelings known in Barcelona Barcelona was a city accustomed to protests even before the independence referendum earlier this month that has provoked Spain's biggest political crisis in 40 years. Every 11 September for the past five years, hundreds of thousands of people have thronged its streets on Catalonia's national day – La Diada de Catalunya – to call loudly but peacefully for independence from Spain. Continue reading... |
| Dutch politicians 'ready to form government' 208 days after election Posted: 08 Oct 2017 09:00 PM PDT Coalition between four parties, some with widely differing views, is expected to be presented to MPs on Monday Nearly seven months after they voted in an election on 15 March, Dutch voters are to get a new government this week, local media have reported. The prime minister, Mark Rutte, is expected to present a rocky four-party coalition to parliament on Monday, 208 days after his liberal VVD party won the March polls. Continue reading... |
| US suspends handling of visas in Turkey after arrest of consulate staffer Posted: 08 Oct 2017 07:25 PM PDT Turkish member of mission team in Istanbul charged with espionage, raising questions about 'commitment to security of personnel' The United States has indefinitely suspended handling all regular visa applications in Turkey, escalating a row after a member of staff at the US consulate in Istanbul was arrested. The US embassy in the capital Ankara said in a statement that until further notice none of its missions in Turkey would issue non-immigrant visas. Continue reading... |
| Harvey Weinstein sacked in wake of sexual harassment scandal Posted: 08 Oct 2017 06:01 PM PDT Hollywood producer's ties with The Weinstein Company are severed after 'new information' emerged, directors say Harvey Weinstein has been fired from the Weinstein Company after new information emerged regarding his conduct, the company's board of directors has said. Weinstein – the Hollywood mogul who produced films including Pulp Fiction and Gangs of New York – was on a voluntarily leave of absence after a slew of sexual harassment allegations emerged last week in a New York Times exposé. The board on Friday endorsed that decision at the time but went further on Sunday, removing Weinstein from the company he co-founded. Continue reading... |
| All-conquering Xi: China heralds its leader in ecstatic Beijing exhibition Posted: 08 Oct 2017 05:34 PM PDT The Five Years On exhibit marks the end of Xi Jinping's first term in power but some wonder whether he will ever relinquish his leadership When Soviet architect Sergei Andreyev designed the Beijing Exhibition Centre more than six decades ago, it symbolised the awkward alliance between Chairman Mao's China and the USSR. In the autumn of 2017 it has become a monument to just one man. Continue reading... |
| Asylum: up to 400 refugee children stuck in France, lawyers say Posted: 08 Oct 2017 09:11 AM PDT Bar's human rights committee says the children's asylum applications have not had proper decisions and condemns government's limits on Dubs scheme Hundreds of unaccompanied children claiming to have relatives in Britain are stranded in France where their asylum cases are not being actively considered, senior human rights lawyers have said. A study by the human rights committee of the bar (BHRC), released a year after the demolition of the Calais refugee camp, warns that as many as 400 children are trapped in France and are still vulnerable to trafficking, abuse and disease. Continue reading... |
| High steaks: the Vladimir Putin birthday burger that never existed Posted: 08 Oct 2017 12:03 PM PDT Russian state media reports New York restaurant created special meal to honour president – but restaurant says otherwise A hamburger is not the sort of thing you would expect to spark an international disagreement. But the apparent creation of a special birthday burger for the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has dragged a New York restaurant into an argument over what critics say is fake news from the Kremlin. Continue reading... |
| LGBT people in Egypt targeted in wave of arrests and violence Posted: 08 Oct 2017 07:00 AM PDT Dozens of people are said to have been detained in crackdown after rainbow flags were waved at Cairo rock concert Members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in Egypt are living in fear following a wave of arrests and violence. Rights groups say dozens of people have been detained in the crackdown, which began after rainbow flags were waved at a rock concert on the outskirts of Cairo last month, prompting a furious reaction in the Egyptian media. Continue reading... |
| Trump digital director says Facebook helped win the White House Posted: 08 Oct 2017 05:10 PM PDT Brad Parscale tells CBS 'Twitter is how [Trump] talked to the people' but says staff members from other social media giant helped with targeted advertising The Trump presidential campaign spent most of its digital advertising budget on Facebook, testing more than 50,000 ad variations each day in an attempt to micro-target voters, Trump's digital director Brad Parscale told CBS' 60 Minutes in an interview scheduled to air on Sunday night. Related: Why Facebook is in a hole over data mining | John Naughton Continue reading... |
| Pence follows Trump order and walks out of 49ers-Colts after players kneel Posted: 08 Oct 2017 02:46 PM PDT
Vice-president Mike Pence left the 49ers-Colts NFL game in Indianapolis on Sunday in a planned walkout, after about a dozen San Francisco players kneeled during the playing of the national anthem. Related: Bob Corker says White House is 'adult day care center' after Trump Twitter hit Continue reading... |
| Catalonia independence declaration would not be recognised, says France Posted: 09 Oct 2017 01:52 AM PDT French European affairs minister urges both sides to negotiate their way out of crisis triggered by last week's referendum France has said it will not recognise Catalonia if the regional government presses ahead with a unilateral declaration of independence from Spain, and urged both sides to negotiate their way out of the crisis triggered by last week's referendum. "If there were to be a declaration of independence, it would be unilateral, and it would not be recognised," France's European affairs minister, Nathalie Loiseau, said. Continue reading... |
| Frankfurt book fair: Atwood and Brown to star at politically charged event Posted: 09 Oct 2017 01:38 AM PDT World's largest publishing trade event focuses on star writers as authors including Margaret Atwood, Dan Brown and Nicholas Sparks to appear Margaret Atwood, Dan Brown and Nicholas Sparks are among the big name authors descending on Frankfurt this week as the world's oldest book fair glams up for the Instagram generation. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, is set to formally open the fair with the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, on Tuesday, accompanied by a who's who of the French literary scene, as part of the country's turn as the trade fair's annual guest of honour. Continue reading... |
| I am Catalan: ’Independence is not a final destination’ - video Posted: 09 Oct 2017 01:18 AM PDT Catalonian identity is about more than a yes or no vote. While the north-eastern Spanish region prepares for the potential declaration of independence, many of the 7 million-strong Catalonian population worry that mainstream media are not representing their voice. We went to Catalonia to ask a variety of people about their identity and what independence means for them. This is one of five opinions in our 'I am Catalan' series here this week. Continue reading... |
| New Zealand police apologise for tweeting joke about road deaths Posted: 09 Oct 2017 12:14 AM PDT After a weekend in which nine people died on New Zealand's road, police posted a meme featuring Steve Carrell New Zealand police have been forced to apologise for posting a tweet that appeared to make light of informing family members their relative had been killed in a car crash. On Monday the New Zealand police posted a gif image of comedian Steve Carell from the US version of The Office with a slight grin on his face. The text on the picture read: "This is the worst!" Continue reading... |
| Meet Kim Yo-jong, the sister who is the brains behind Kim Jong-un's image Posted: 08 Oct 2017 11:04 PM PDT North Korean leader's sibling is about 30, and a computing graduate turned propagandist who has helped her brother cement his grip on power Kim Yo-jong's promotion to the politburo of North Korea's workers' party is a sign that Kim Jong-un has absolute trust in his younger sister – rumoured to be the brains behind his carefully constructed public image – as he seeks to tighten his grip on power. Yo-jong, who is four years younger than her brother, was rarely seen in public until 2010, when she was photographed attending a Korean Workers' party conference. By the following year, she was a regular presence in her father Kim Jong-il's entourage, and was seen mourning alongside her brother after their father's death in December 2011. Continue reading... |
| Urban exposure: the world's most striking city architecture photographs Posted: 08 Oct 2017 11:00 PM PDT From a wavy waterfront chapel in Cape Town to a giant light-soaked gym in China … here are the highlights of the shortlist for Arcaid's 2017 architectural photograph of the year Continue reading... |
| The trans experience in Colombia: 'This is where we work – and this is where we are killed' Posted: 08 Oct 2017 08:00 AM PDT Three quarters of all murders of trans people take place in South and Central America. In Colombia, fear and prejudice force many into sex work. Will the end of the country's civil war finally bring acceptance? Daniela Maldonado Salamanca was standing on the street in the Santa Fe district of Bogotá, Colombia in 2010 when five men set upon her. They beat and stabbed her so brutally that she almost died. It took three months for the bruises to heal. Police took Salamanca to a hospital, but never investigated the crime, even though it happened on a busy street. Not that Salamanca thinks the witnesses would have helped. "There were taxis lined up near where the attack happened, urging the attackers on," she says. "What happened to me can't keep happening. It's outrageous that they attack us just for being who we are." South America's macho culture, combined with the strong influence of the Catholic church, means it is a particularly difficult place to be a transgender woman like Salamanca. In the past eight years, 74% of all reported murders of trans people were in Central and South America, according to a 2016 report from Transgender Europe (TGEU). Due to violence, poverty and the risk of HIV, the life expectancy for trans women in Latin America is estimated at between 35 and 41 years. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| One in five stopped by immigration enforcement is a UK citizen, figures show Posted: 08 Oct 2017 01:00 PM PDT Home Office data from 11 UK cities obtained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the Bristol Cable casts doubt on 'intelligence' behind stops One in five people stopped by immigration enforcement teams in Britain's biggest cities is a UK national, according to newly revealed figures that critics say cast doubt on official claims that such stops are "intelligence-led". The figures, obtained through freedom of information requests, show that out of 102,552 stopped in the past five years, 19,096 – 18.6% – were British citizens. Lawyers say they lend credence to suspicions of unlawful racial profiling. Continue reading... |
| Spain and Catalonia can find a way forward. Here’s what they must do | Gerry Adams Posted: 09 Oct 2017 02:01 AM PDT Europe is facing its biggest crisis since the Balkan wars. But no conflict is intractable, and the broad principles for resolving it are the same as they were in Ireland The crisis in the relationship between Catalonia and the Spanish state is deteriorating. Apart from Brexit, this is Europe's greatest challenge since the wars in the Balkans in the 90s. The campaign for independence by the people of Catalonia from the Spanish state goes back many generations. It has always been peaceful. It has always been non-violent. Or it was until Sunday 1 October. The images of heavily armoured, riot-clad Spanish national police – Guardia Civil – batoning voters young and old and violently seizing ballot boxes, were deeply shocking. The result is that more people took to the streets in support of Catalan independence, and a general strike was held across Catalonia. Continue reading... |
| 'We have no home to go back to': citizens of Mosul return to ruin – in pictures Posted: 08 Oct 2017 11:00 PM PDT With Islamic State expelled from Mosul after a prolonged siege, residents who joined the million-strong exodus from Iraq's second largest city are slowly starting to return. For most, however, the process is fraught with difficulty. Amid the chaos and carnage, homes were destroyed, children became separated from parents and ID papers were lost. With food and other staples in short supply, and aid agencies stretched to the limit, the future looks bleak Photographs by Kate Holt/War Child Continue reading... |
| Alan Finkel defends clean energy target as Coalition turns its back Posted: 09 Oct 2017 01:54 AM PDT Chief scientist once again endorses proposed mechanism as fastest, most flexible way to transform market The chief scientist says changes the Turnbull government is contemplating to the national electricity market would take five years to take effect, whereas his proposal for a clean energy target would achieve transformation more quickly, with "enormous flexibility" for the market. Alan Finkel's last ditch attempt to defend his mechanism followed another public signal by the energy minister, Josh Frydenberg, on Monday that the government will not proceed with the clean energy target modelled in Finkel's review of the national electricity market earlier this year. Continue reading... |
| Monday briefing: Hammond gets the P45 treatment Posted: 08 Oct 2017 10:30 PM PDT Treasury accused of being 'blind to facts' on Brexit … Harvey Weinstein is sacked … Dove turns black woman white Good Monday morning to you, Graham Russell here with the latest news. Continue reading... |
| Nobel economics prize due to be announced Posted: 08 Oct 2017 10:00 PM PDT Academics who could be in running for prestigious award include those working on price bubbles, productivity and corporate finance The former governor of the Reserve Bank of India and a string of American academics are among potential candidates for the Nobel prize for economics, due to be announced on Monday in Stockholm. The 9m Swedish kronor (£848,091) prize is not among the Nobel Foundation's official awards for literature, peace, medicine, physics and chemistry but was established separately by Sweden's central bank, Sveriges Riksbank, in memory of the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. Continue reading... |
| Irish tax break scheme 'will attract top talent from Britain after Brexit' Posted: 08 Oct 2017 09:00 PM PDT Investment agency defends decision to extend programme to 2020 after Social Democrats call for it to be scrapped As Ireland prepares for an expected tax cutting budget this week, the body credited with attracting multinationals has defended a controversial scheme for high earners, which critics have labelled a bribe for foreign bankers and investors. Ahead of the budget on Tuesday, Ireland's Social Democrats have called for the scrapping of the Special Assignee Relief Programme (Sarp), which cuts the tax of those earning between €75,000 and €500,000 a year. Continue reading... |
| Hurricane Nate lets Gulf coast off with flooding and some power outages Posted: 08 Oct 2017 12:45 PM PDT No deaths or injuries and minimal structural damage reported on US mainland from storm that killed at least 22 in Central America Hurricane Nate brought a burst of flooding and power outages to the US Gulf coast before weakening rapidly on Sunday, sparing the region the kind of catastrophic damage left by hurricanes that hit the southern US and Caribbean in recent weeks. Related: Nate heralds latest US destruction as 2017 poised for record clean-up bill Continue reading... |
| 'A transition to joy and freedom': trans life in Colombia – in pictures Posted: 08 Oct 2017 08:00 AM PDT On the streets of the Santa Fe barrio in Bogotá, the transgender community have their home. Surrounded by families, friendships and work, they campaign for their protection and rights Continue reading... |
| Catalan leader faces dilemma as silent majority finds its voice Posted: 08 Oct 2017 10:00 AM PDT Barcelona demonstrators give their own verdict on independence question, but have they left it too late? Sunday was the day "Silent Catalonia" finally found its voice. After months of looking on as separatist forces dominated public debate, scorned the other side as fascists and claimed to have won the argument in last week's disputed referendum, the majority of Catalans who oppose independence from Spain took back the streets of Barcelona. "Esta es la mayoría silenciosa!" (here is the silent majority), "Enough is enough" and "Time for common sense", they shouted. Early estimates put the number of anti-independence demonstrators at almost a million, although the Catalan police's figure was much lower. It was as if Barcelona's citizens had decided to hold their own spontaneous, grassroots referendum. Their verdict: an overwhelming no. Continue reading... |
| Has Roy Moore given Democrats a shot at a Senate seat in deep-red Alabama? Posted: 08 Oct 2017 04:00 AM PDT The Republican candidate's record is peppered with controversy, and he has run a barebones campaign. But Democrat Doug Jones still has his work cut out In one of the strangest political developments of a strange political year, Democrats may have a shot at winning a Senate seat in Alabama, one of the most conservative states in the country. Related: Too poor to vote: how Alabama's 'new poll tax' bars thousands of people from voting Continue reading... |
| ‘I am both Spanish and Catalan’: Barcelona demonstrators oppose independence – video Posted: 08 Oct 2017 07:32 AM PDT Hundreds of thousands of people joined a rally in the regional capital, Barcelona, on Sunday calling for Catalonia to remain part of Spain. Meanwhile, the Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, said he would not rule out using constitutional powers to remove Catalonia's autonomous status if necessary to stop a declaration of independence • Catalonia: Spanish PM vows to use any means to stop independence Continue reading... |
| Sunday's top photos: cranberry harvests and conker championships Posted: 08 Oct 2017 07:25 AM PDT The Guardian's picture editors bring you a selection of photo highlights from around the world, including a cranberry harvest in Belarus, solar car races in Australia and the World Conker Championships in England Continue reading... |
| Hurricane Nate makes landfall in US as category 1 storm – video report Posted: 08 Oct 2017 05:01 AM PDT Hurricane Nate hit the Mississippi coast on Sunday as a fast-moving category 1 storm, with destructive winds and torrential rains flooding streets and highways throughout the region. Nate has been downgraded from a hurricane to a storm • Hurricane Nate makes landfall in Mississippi as category 1 storm Continue reading... |
| Natural gas explosion shakes Accra – video Posted: 08 Oct 2017 04:28 AM PDT A natural gas station in Ghana's capital, Accra, exploded on Saturday evening, killing several people and injuring scores, according to the government. The explosion at about 7.30pm began at a state-owned GOIL liquefied natural gas station and spread to a Total petrol station across the street at the city's Atomic Junction Continue reading... |
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