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Trump believes Putin on Russia meddling, but then backs US agencies
'White Europe': 60,000 nationalists march on Poland's independence day
Trafficking laws ‘target refugee aid workers in EU’
Tension mounts in Lebanon as Saudi Arabia escalates power struggle with Iran
Barcelona protest calls for release of jailed Catalan independence leaders
Revealed: how Vodafone allowed elites to reap profits of Africa’s mobile boom
Chinese shoppers spend a record $25bn in Singles Day splurge
Rebel Wilson shares allegations of sexual harassment
Britain and US urged to release papers on Dag Hammarskjöld’s death
George Takei responds to accusation he sexually assaulted a young actor
The forgotten Muslim heroes who fought for Britain in the trenches
Radhika Jones to succeed Graydon Carter as Vanity Fair editor, sources say
Democrats salute week that saw emergence of an anti-Trump coalition
Trump says he'd never call Kim 'short and fat' in response to 'old' barb
My great-grandparents died in the Holocaust but now I want German citizenship
On the frontline of Europe’s forgotten war in Ukraine
Sack Boris Johnson for shaming our nation, Jeremy Corbyn tells PM
Rodrigo Duterte: the president warlord of the Philippines | Observer profile
'We're having a menstrual liberation': how periods got woke
Ex-Scotland Yard police chief 'knew of Damian Green porn claims'
Minefield: two sides of the Falklands war – on one stage
Labor vows to take Bennelong but warns of Liberal-One Nation deal
After tax fraud, sex scandals and heart surgery Silvio Berlusconi is back
It’s a dirty job, but studying fake faeces may be lifesaver
Denis Goldberg, hero of anti-apartheid struggle, tells of his last battle – for art
Tracking Trump: mood swings in Asia and election struggles at home
It's exhausting for women to consider: this is just the tip of the iceberg | Jessica Valenti
Steve Bannon heckled during Republican event in South Carolina – video
Trump and Putin chat at Apec summit - video

Trump believes Putin on Russia meddling, but then backs US agencies

Posted: 11 Nov 2017 10:32 PM PST

President: 'Democratic hit job' distracts from aims in Syria, Ukraine, Korea
CIA statement says agency stands by conclusion on 2016 election

Donald Trump said on Saturday he believes Vladmir Putin's denials of Russian involvement in the manipulation of the 2016 presidential election.

However, he appeared to contradict himself on Sunday when he said he was "with our agencies" on the question of Russian interference.

'White Europe': 60,000 nationalists march on Poland's independence day

Posted: 11 Nov 2017 10:20 PM PST

Xenophobic phrases, far-right symbols and religious slogans mark event also attended by families and branded 'a beautiful sight' by the interior minister

Tens of thousands of nationalists have marched through Warsaw to mark Poland's independence day, throwing red smoke bombs and carrying banners with such slogans as "white Europe of brotherly nations".

The march organised by far-right groups was one of many events marking Poland's rebirth as a nation in 1918, overshadowing official state observances and other patriotic events.

Trafficking laws ‘target refugee aid workers in EU’

Posted: 11 Nov 2017 12:52 PM PST

European Union warns that trafficking laws are being used to obstruct humanitarian work across the continent

Aid workers are being targeted throughout Europe as countries including the UK use laws aimed at traffickers and smugglers to discourage humanitarian activity, a study claims.

A six-month investigation by the London-based Institute of Race Relations documented the prosecutions of 45 individual "humanitarian actors" under anti-smuggling or immigration laws in 26 separate actions over the past two years. Examples include a 25-year-old British volunteer with a refugee support group, who last January sought to bring an Albanian mother and two children to the UK in the boot of her car so they could join their husband and father.

Tension mounts in Lebanon as Saudi Arabia escalates power struggle with Iran

Posted: 11 Nov 2017 08:28 AM PST

The resignation of prime minister Saad Hariri is the latest shot in a regional crisis

In Beirut's southern suburbs, where buildings scarred with wars of old blend with posters of the latest dead, talk of another conflict has taken hold. A fight on a scale not seen before may be brewing, say locals like Hussein Khaireddine, a barber who says he and his family in the Shia suburb of Dahiyeh have grown used to tensions over decades.

"This one's different," he said. "It could lead to every valley and mountain top. And if it starts, it may not stop."

Barcelona protest calls for release of jailed Catalan independence leaders

Posted: 11 Nov 2017 12:55 PM PST

Hundreds of thousands of independence supporters march through city after eight former Catalan government members jailed by Spanish high court

Hundreds of thousands of Catalan independence supporters lined one of Barcelona's main avenues on Saturday to demand the release of separatist leaders held in prison for their roles in the banned independence referendum.

Wearing yellow ribbons to signify support, they filled the length of the Carrer de la Marina, which runs from the beach to Barcelona's Sagrada Familia church, while the jailed leaders' families made speeches.

Revealed: how Vodafone allowed elites to reap profits of Africa’s mobile boom

Posted: 11 Nov 2017 04:05 PM PST

Investigation for the Observer shows how deals done by the UK telecoms giant benefited politically connected elites in eastern Africa

The spread of mobile phones across Africa has been one of the continent's success stories over the past two decades, transforming lives through better communication and simpler banking. It has also resulted in huge profits for powerful international companies – and for some of Africa's wealthiest and best-connected individuals.

But an investigation for the Observer into the African interests of UK mobile phone giant Vodafone, by the Finance Uncovered network, has raised serious questions about transparency and the processes by which western firms entered Africa's telecoms markets.

Chinese shoppers spend a record $25bn in Singles Day splurge

Posted: 11 Nov 2017 06:12 PM PST

The annual event for lonely hearts is now four times bigger than Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the biggest shopping day in the US calendar

Shoppers have spent more than $25bn (168.2bn yuan) during China's annual Singles Day, smashing previous records for the world's largest retail event.

Single's Day, promoted annually by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba and held on 11 November, was supposedly started by bachelor university students in the 1990s who bought themselves presents as a kind of anti-Valentine's day. The date 11/11 was chosen for its collection of lonely ones.

Rebel Wilson shares allegations of sexual harassment

Posted: 11 Nov 2017 10:17 AM PST

Australian actor, 37, tweets allegations involving men in 'positions of power', and pledges to speak out against sexually aggressive behaviour

Rebel Wilson is the latest star to come forward with allegations that she was sexually assaulted by powerful figures in the film industry.

The Pitch Perfect actor has claimed one "male star" who was in a "position of power" pushed her to go into a room alone with him.

Britain and US urged to release papers on Dag Hammarskjöld’s death

Posted: 11 Nov 2017 04:04 PM PST

Trustees of commission into the downing of UN secretary-general's plane in 1961 say details of the crash must be in the archives

Pressure is building on the British and American governments to respond to claims that they possess secret information that would shine light on the mysterious death of a former UN secretary general in Africa more than 50 years ago.

Last month a UN report into the death of Dag Hammarskjöld in a plane crash in 1961 found that there was a "significant amount of evidence" that the Albertina DC6 in which the Swedish diplomat was flying had been brought down in a forest near the city of Ndola in northern Rhodesia, now Zambia, by another aircraft.

George Takei responds to accusation he sexually assaulted a young actor

Posted: 11 Nov 2017 10:40 AM PST

Star Trek actor denies knowing man who accuses him of assault in 1981
Actor Richard Dreyfuss denies claim he exposed himself to a writer

The Star Trek actor and gay rights activist George Takei responded on Saturday to an accusation that he sexually assaulted a young actor nearly 40 years ago. The alleged event "simply did not occur", Takei said.

The forgotten Muslim heroes who fought for Britain in the trenches

Posted: 11 Nov 2017 04:04 PM PST

The stories of the 2.5 million Muslims who travelled to Europe to fight for the allies during the first world war are finally being told

A biting wind whips across the rolling countryside, cutting through the crowd gathered on a hillside overlooking Notre Dame de Lorette, France's national war cemetery. Huddled amid what remains of the 440 miles of trenches that made up the western front, they shudder out of shock and surprise rather than cold while listening about life for the men who endured the horrors of the first world war.

More than 1.5 billion artillery shells fell in this part of northern France, close to the town of Arras, prompting soldiers to nickname the farmland in which they fought "the hell of the north", or poignantly, "the cemetery". It is the experiences of some of their Muslim comrades, however, that particularly capture the crowd's imagination, drawing looks of disbelief at a history that has never been fully told.

Radhika Jones to succeed Graydon Carter as Vanity Fair editor, sources say

Posted: 11 Nov 2017 02:33 PM PST

New York Times reports appointment of own employee to Conde Nast title
Sources tell Guardian Hollywood Reporter's Janice Min among candidates

Radhika Jones, editorial director of the books department at the New York Times, will succeed Graydon Carter as editor of Vanity Fair, sources with knowledge of the selection process said on Saturday.

Democrats salute week that saw emergence of an anti-Trump coalition

Posted: 11 Nov 2017 06:56 AM PST

'Energy and anger' shifting from Republicans amid high turnout, analysts say, as Republican pollster acknowledges challenges ahead for party

Democratic victories in elections across the US this week showed the first concrete evidence of an emerging anti-Donald Trump coalition, analysts said.

Trump says he'd never call Kim 'short and fat' in response to 'old' barb

Posted: 12 Nov 2017 01:35 AM PST

US president tweets he tries 'so hard to be his friend' in a year spent trading escalating threats with the North Korean leader

The US president, Donald Trump, said in a tweet on Sunday that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un had insulted him by calling him "old" and said he would never call Kim "short and fat".

My great-grandparents died in the Holocaust but now I want German citizenship

Posted: 12 Nov 2017 12:30 AM PST

After the Brexit referendum, British writer Natasha Walter was urged by her mother to apply for German citizenship. In revisiting the wartime experiences of her family, the fragile state of present-day Britain became painfully clear

After the 2016 referendum, something new popped on to my to-do list, usually appearing somewhere after Take back library books and before Book dentist appointment: Apply for German citizenship.

My mother had been the first to bring up the idea. Because of the referendum, she felt our family should take up the right that Germany granted in 1949 to those, mainly Jews, who had been stripped of their citizenship under the Third Reich. "You should get yours and the children's," she said. At first, I was dismissive. I work every day with refugees in London and their yearning to remain has made me vividly aware of the luck I already have in having British citizenship.

On the frontline of Europe’s forgotten war in Ukraine

Posted: 11 Nov 2017 10:00 PM PST

Four years since Russia incited an uprising, Europe's focus has moved on to Brexit, Isis and migration

Last June, in the intense heat of a Ukrainian summer, four of Ludmila Brozhyk's neighbours were sitting chatting in the sunshine. The children had stayed indoors, in the relative cool, to watch cartoons. When the mortar bomb dropped it came out of a clear blue sky.

"All the adults were killed instantly," says Brozhyk. "Then one of the children came running and shouting down the street to us. Her mother had been decapitated."

Sack Boris Johnson for shaming our nation, Jeremy Corbyn tells PM

Posted: 11 Nov 2017 04:23 PM PST

The Labour leader has accused the foreign secretary of 'undermining our country'

Jeremy Corbyn has fired an extraordinary broadside against Boris Johnson, calling for him to be sacked immediately as foreign secretary for "undermining our country" and "putting our citizens at risk".

The blistering attack – and demand that Theresa May fire him – was delivered exclusively in a statement to the Observer on Saturday night, as pressure mounted on Johnson over his diplomatic blunder in the case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British mother imprisoned in Iran.

Rodrigo Duterte: the president warlord of the Philippines | Observer profile

Posted: 11 Nov 2017 04:05 PM PST

Thousands have been killed in his domestic anti-drug campaign. Now, as he hosts Trump at a summit in Manila, new brutal revelations put him back in the headlines

The litany of horrific comments that have catapulted the Philippine leader, Rodrigo Duterte, to international notoriety is so exhaustive that it is hard to choose his most transgressive lines. Nothing, it seems, is out of bounds.

In September 2016, for example, he glowingly made reference to the Holocaust as an analogy for his brutal war on drugs. "Hitler massacred three million Jews," he said. "Now, there are three million drug addicts. I'd be happy to slaughter them."

'We're having a menstrual liberation': how periods got woke

Posted: 11 Nov 2017 02:00 AM PST

Periods happen to half the population – so why are they still treated as something to hide? Meet the activists seeing red

I am sitting in a hotel meeting room with 12 women, all of us squeezing menstrual cups against our cheeks. The blinds are down, the wine has been flowing for the past hour, and after a few people have taken selfies, Mandu Reid, an expert in "cupography", explains how to use our menstrual cups.

"Do you feel that gentle suction?" she asks. "That's one of the most important features. It is one of the reasons why, if you're good at using it, it's more reliable than a tampon." She goes on to demonstrate some of the best positions for inserting a cup – sitting on the edge of a toilet seat "manspreading", standing with one leg up on the toilet seat (her own favourite), or lying down with your legs in the air, a pose she holds while we take pictures for social media. "The most important thing is for you to be relaxed. Put on some jazz, light some candles," she jokes.

Ex-Scotland Yard police chief 'knew of Damian Green porn claims'

Posted: 12 Nov 2017 01:01 AM PST

Sir Paul Stephenson said alleged discovery of pornography on computer during 2008 investigation 'wasn't relevant' to inquiry

A former Metropolitan police commissioner was aware of allegations that pornography had been found on Damian Green's office computer during a police inquiry, he has said.

Sir Paul Stephenson, Britain's most senior police officer between 2009 and 2011, said he was briefed about the claims but regarded them as a "side issue" and regretted that they were in the public domain.

Minefield: two sides of the Falklands war – on one stage

Posted: 12 Nov 2017 12:00 AM PST

Thirty-five years after a conflict that cost hundreds of British and Argentinian lives, veterans appear in a documentary play to explore its impact on them

Lou Armour is a special needs teacher, an introspective man with a walking stick. If you passed him on the street you probably wouldn't notice anything about him beyond his limp. But 35 years ago he yomped across the Falkland Islands and ran through a minefield under artillery fire on Mount Harriet. His section killed several Argentinians in a bloody battle and Armour found himself attending to a fatally wounded Argentinian soldier who spoke to him in English about visiting Oxford. He watched as the young man died.

Gabriel Sagastume is a grey-haired lawyer with sleepy eyes and an easy smile. He was an Argentinian conscript during the Falklands war and was positioned on Wireless Ridge. His unit was short of food and so several of them waded across a river to a nearby house to raid its kitchen. When they came back they were blown up by a mine, planted by the Argentinian army. It was Sagastume's job to collect the body parts and put them in his blanket.

Labor vows to take Bennelong but warns of Liberal-One Nation deal

Posted: 11 Nov 2017 10:25 PM PST

Shadow citizenship minister Tony Burke says his party is strongly represented in seat formerly held by John Alexander, who resigned on Saturday

Labor says it is "strongly represented" in Bennelong and can win back the safe Liberal seat, despite needing a significant swing away from John Alexander.

Alexander became the latest to fall to the growing citizenship scandal on Saturday when he stood down from parliamentafter days of speculation about his citizenship, triggering a byelection.

After tax fraud, sex scandals and heart surgery Silvio Berlusconi is back

Posted: 11 Nov 2017 04:05 PM PST

Disgraced ex-PM forges victorious coalition in Sicily as centre-left falls into further disarray

Silvio Berlusconi resorted to a familiar tactic to appeal to the crowd during a recent political comeback speech on the enchanting Italian island of Ischia: a joke laced with sexual innuendo.

Addressing the topic of immigration, the 81-year-old proudly recounted the time his good friend Muammar Gaddafi took him on a tour of a migrant centre, during which Berlusconi noted the absence of bidets in the lavatories. When the late Libyan dictator asked what a bidet was used for, Berlusconi emphasised the importance of washing before oral sex. The billionaire's punchline – "I taught the Africans about foreplay" – had its desired effect, drawing laughter and applause.

It’s a dirty job, but studying fake faeces may be lifesaver

Posted: 11 Nov 2017 12:39 PM PST

Bath University scientists hope research into fake excrement could tackle waste-related illness in countries that lack efficient sanitation

It's not a project for those of a delicate sensibility. Scientists at the University of Bath are developing fake human excrement to help them understand the drying process of faecal sludge.

Made from a concoction of ingredients including yeast, hemp fibre, shredded tissue, peanut oil, calcium phosphate and water, the lab-created sludge is designed to replicate the chemical and physical properties of faeces as closely as possible.

Denis Goldberg, hero of anti-apartheid struggle, tells of his last battle – for art

Posted: 11 Nov 2017 04:05 PM PST

The ANC politician who spent 22 years in a cell after being jailed with Nelson Mandela is now 84

Denis Goldberg has faced down death before. Half a century ago he sat in the dock with Nelson Mandela at the Rivonia trial, the court case that shaped modern South Africa. Both were expecting to be executed for their fight against apartheid. When the judge handed down a sentence of life imprisonment instead, he called out in joy to his anxious mother: "It's life, and life is wonderful." He confesses to being a born optimist.

Now 84, and facing in lung cancer an enemy even more implacable than the apartheid state, he is hoping to defy death for another short spell while he throws himself into one last campaign, to build a centre for the arts – to be called House of Hope – in his home town of Hout Bay.

Tracking Trump: mood swings in Asia and election struggles at home

Posted: 11 Nov 2017 07:00 AM PST

The US president's comments wavered from aggressive to conciliatory as he visited Japan, South Korea and China – and finally made a stop in Vietnam

Each week, Trump seems to make more news than most presidents do in a lifetime. The Guardian is keeping track of it all in this series, every Saturday

Donald Trump spent the week bouncing around Asia, his mood swinging wildly from deferential and complimentary to, well, fiery and furious. After dropping in on Hawaii – "See you in Pearl Harbor!" he had told the press cheerfully on Friday – he quickly picked up the theme of the North Korean nuclear menace, telling dictators at a US base near Tokyo not to "underestimate American resolve" but also suggesting he would be happy to sit down with Kim Jong-un at some point. Trump made sure he got in a round of golf with one of his best friends on the world stage, the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, along with the five-time PGA Tour winner Hideki Matsuyama, who elicited a rare show of self-awareness and perhaps even modesty from Trump: "If I come back and say I was longer than him, don't believe it."

It's exhausting for women to consider: this is just the tip of the iceberg | Jessica Valenti

Posted: 11 Nov 2017 03:00 AM PST

We have so much more work to do writes Jessica Valenti in The Week in Patriarchy newsletter

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What's difficult about being a feminist writer in this moment - when so many men are being outed as abusers, so many women coming forward with their stories - is that we know this is just the tip of the iceberg.

For every story that gets published, there are 10 or 20 more that will never see the light of day. All of us who do this work are hearing from women, a lot of women.

Steve Bannon heckled during Republican event in South Carolina – video

Posted: 11 Nov 2017 09:36 AM PST

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon faced off with a heckler at the Citadel Republican Society in Charleston, South Carolina on Friday evening. Bannon was discussing Hillary Clinton's approach to a rape case when she was a lawyer when a woman stood up and shouted something. As the woman was dragged out by security guards, Bannon joked that it was as if 'one of my ex-wives' had showed up, before saying: 'You're a good girl, you got the right for free speech – outside.'

Trump and Putin chat at Apec summit - video

Posted: 11 Nov 2017 03:54 AM PST

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin chatted and stood side by side for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit's official photo. The US and Russian presidents had already had an exchange at the start of a leaders' meeting at the summit in Da Nang, Vietnam. As the talks were going on, Putin and Trump issued a joint statement on Syria, agreeing to continue joint efforts on fighting Islamic State until it is defeated. The two leaders also confirmed their commitment to Syria's sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity and called on all parties to the Syrian conflict to take an active part in the Geneva political process. The statement on Syria was coordinated by the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, and US secretary of state, Rex Tillerson

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