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- 'Leave Zimbabwe now': thousands of protesters call for Robert Mugabe to go
- Gerry Adams to announce retirement as Sinn Féin president
- EU compound allegedly at centre of Kabul alcohol-smuggling ring
- Bitcoin breaks $8,000 barrier amid speculation over spin-off
- Argentina's navy searches for missing submarine with 44 crew on board
- Norwegian heiress gets off lightly – with £23,000 drink-driving fine
- North Korean defector had 27cm parasitic worm in his stomach
- 'Robots are not taking over,' says head of UN body on autonomous weapons
- The 20 photographs of the week
- King's Cross fire victims honoured 30 years on
- Polluting UK coal plants export power to France as cold weather bites
- Richard Ratcliffe: ‘I have no space for rage. But our government has not been entirely honest'
- Trump's Panama tower used for money-laundering by condo owners, reports say
- Manus Island: AMA calls on Australia to let doctors help refugees
- Cory Bernardi attempts positive spin on lost campaign against same-sex marriage
- Easter Island candidate puts self-rule on ballot in Chile election
- Syria chemical attacks: Haley calls Russia 'shameful' after it vetoes UN inquiry
- How Totò Riina’s war on the Italian state almost destroyed Cosa Nostra
- Generation Mugabe: 'he has normalised the abnormal'
- 'More girls, fewer skinheads': Poland's far right wrestles with changing image
- Taylor Wessing prize: who is the man in the photograph?
- 'Unrivalled helmsman'? We read Chinese media's enormous ode to Xi so you don't have to
- Nato apologises to Turkey after Erdogan and Ataturk appear on 'enemy chart'
- Some Nauru staff flown out and more could follow, detention sources say
- Four dead as helicopter and plane collide in mid-air in Buckinghamshire
- Aid given in cash improves health and spurs school attendance, say researchers
- ‘We lost a great leader’: Berta Cáceres still inspires as murder case takes fresh twist | Liz Ford
- Tracking Trump: president tries his best to befriend Kim Jong-un
- The Guardian view on Yemen: a catastrophe that shames Britain | Editorial
- Congress must end its complicity with the gun lobby | Senator Richard Blumenthal
- My little pony and the world's hairiest car – Friday's best photos
| 'Leave Zimbabwe now': thousands of protesters call for Robert Mugabe to go Posted: 18 Nov 2017 12:18 AM PST Crowds fill streets of central Harare in attempt to force president to resign, four days after army seized power Tens of thousands of people have gathered in the centre of Harare to call for the resignation of Robert Mugabe, as moves to force the Zimbabwean president to stand down gather pace. Euphoric crowds filled streets in the capital on Saturday morning and cars honked their horns. "It's like Christmas," said one marcher, Fred Mubay. He said Zimbabweans had been suffering for a long time and were now, finally, happy. Continue reading... |
| Gerry Adams to announce retirement as Sinn Féin president Posted: 17 Nov 2017 09:47 AM PST Move means party will be led by generation without links to violence, but 69-year-old is still expected to wield influence Gerry Adams will announce his plans to retire after 34 years as president of Sinn Féin on Saturday, marking a generational shift that will break the leadership's last link with republican violence. Adams will take to the stage of Dublin's RDS conference hall to set out an exit that some analysts say will improve Sinn Féin's electoral chances in the Irish Republic. Continue reading... |
| EU compound allegedly at centre of Kabul alcohol-smuggling ring Posted: 17 Nov 2017 09:33 AM PST Exclusive: EU to investigate claims disused fridges and adapted gas canisters were used to sneak whisky out of Afghan compound EU investigators are examining claims that the organisation's compound in Kabul is at the centre of an alleged alcohol-smuggling ring in Afghanistan. Disused fridges and adapted gas canisters have been used to sneak bottles of alcohol brands such as Chivas Regal and Johnnie Walker out of the official EU-designated area, it is alleged. |
| Bitcoin breaks $8,000 barrier amid speculation over spin-off Posted: 17 Nov 2017 08:45 AM PST One unit of the cryptocurrency now valued at more than six times an ounce of gold, after tenfold rise since start of 2017 The price of the virtual currency bitcoin has broken the $8,000 barrier for the first time, prompting speculation that it could soar past $10,000 by the end of the year. The rise means one unit of the world's first major cryptocurrency is now valued at more than six times an ounce of gold, traditionally seen as a safe-haven investment in times of economic turmoil. Continue reading... |
| Argentina's navy searches for missing submarine with 44 crew on board Posted: 17 Nov 2017 06:35 PM PST The San Juan has been missing off the coast of Patagonia for more than two days, and the navy denies that communication was lost after a fire on board Argentina's navy has launched a huge search-and-rescue operation for a military submarine with 44 crew members that has been missing off the coast of Patagonia for more than two days. The last radio contact with the San Juan submarine was on Wednesday, when it was 430km off the coast of the southern province of Chubut, in the area of San Jorge bay, a naval spokesman said on Friday. Continue reading... |
| Norwegian heiress gets off lightly – with £23,000 drink-driving fine Posted: 17 Nov 2017 06:39 AM PST Court accepts plea from Katharina G Andresen, ranked world's second-youngest billionaire, that she had no fixed income Most students would feel a £20,000-plus fine for driving over the limit was a calamity, but Katharina G Andresen got off lightly. Andresen, 22, was handed a NOK250,000 (£23,000) fine by an Oslo court this week after she failed a roadside breathalyser test while on her way to the family chalet in the ski resort of Hafjell, three hours north of the capital, for the Easter weekend. Continue reading... |
| North Korean defector had 27cm parasitic worm in his stomach Posted: 17 Nov 2017 05:00 AM PST Dozens of parasites and corn kernels found in man shot as he fled to South Korea, hinting at extent of malnutrition in North Parasitic worms have been found in a North Korean soldier critically injured while defecting to South Korea, highlighting nutrition and hygiene problems that observers believe have plagued the isolated country for decades. Dozens of flesh-coloured parasites, one of which was 27cm (11 inches) long, were found in the man's digestive tract during life-saving operations, according to the lead surgeon, Lee Cook-jong. Continue reading... |
| 'Robots are not taking over,' says head of UN body on autonomous weapons Posted: 17 Nov 2017 09:03 AM PST
"Robots are not taking over the world," the diplomat leading the first official talks on autonomous weapons assured on Friday, seeking to head off criticism over slow progress towards restricting the use of so-called "killer robots". The United Nations was wrapping up an initial five days of discussions on weapons systems that can identify and destroy targets without human control, which experts say will soon be battle ready. Continue reading... |
| The 20 photographs of the week Posted: 18 Nov 2017 12:49 AM PST The coup in Zimbabwe, flooding in Greece, Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and Italy's elimination from the World Cup – the week's biggest news stories captured by the world's best photojournalists Continue reading... |
| King's Cross fire victims honoured 30 years on Posted: 18 Nov 2017 01:52 AM PST Memorial service at London Underground station for families, survivors and emergency services staff from 1987 blaze A memorial service is to be held on Saturday to mark the 30th anniversary of the King's Cross fire. Victims' families, survivors and emergency services personnel who responded to the blaze on 18 November 1987 will gather at the north London Underground station at 11am. Continue reading... |
| Polluting UK coal plants export power to France as cold weather bites Posted: 18 Nov 2017 12:39 AM PST UK's last eight coal stations are working to exploit falling temperatures and absence of offline reactors in France to export power across the Channel Polluting coal power stations in Britain have been profiting from the woes of the low-carbon French nuclear industry this month, according to analysis of energy generation data for the Guardian. Tricastin, one of France's biggest nuclear power stations, was closed by the French regulator in September so that works could be undertaken to address a flood risk. Continue reading... |
| Richard Ratcliffe: ‘I have no space for rage. But our government has not been entirely honest' Posted: 17 Nov 2017 11:00 PM PST Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, jailed in Iran for 18 months, had a chance to be home for Christmas before Boris Johnson's careless interference. Her husband says he is not angry but is finding it increasingly difficult to cope Famous people often swear that they never read their own reviews. Some are lying, but as the policy is manifestly wise, on the whole, I believe them. I cannot, however, recall anyone claiming to apply the same rule to their interviews – until now. Richard Ratcliffe will not read this, he tells me, because "I just don't expose myself to what I can't control". That the only interviewee indifferent to public image should be one for whom publicity is a literal matter of life or death is an obvious irony. But then, almost everything about Ratcliffe's story is a bitter or bewildering irony. We first met last year, after Iran's Revolutionary Guard had seized his wife Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe as she was about to board a flight home with the couple's then 19-month-old daughter, Gabriella. The Foreign Office had advised him to keep quiet, but after five weeks the mild-mannered accountant lost faith in the strategic silence that appeared to be getting him nowhere, and took the unilateral risk to go public. That this stunningly self-possessed and sympathetic character could be considered a diplomatic liability struck me then as absurd – and 19 months later his measured composure is even more remarkable, when the foreign secretary's own carelessness has put Ratcliffe's wife in danger of seeing her five-year sentence increased to 16 years. Continue reading... |
| Trump's Panama tower used for money-laundering by condo owners, reports say Posted: 17 Nov 2017 11:00 PM PST Trump Ocean Club drew people accused of corruption and future president benefited from laundered funds, reports say The Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower soars over Panama City bay, a 70-storey skyscraper shaped like a sail. Donald Trump's first international hotel venture, it opened in 2011, a mix of condominiums, hotel rooms and a casino. As one of the tallest structures in Latin America, it was a bold and lucrative expression of the Trump brand, earning him as much as $13.9m in management fees and royalties in the last three years. Continue reading... |
| Manus Island: AMA calls on Australia to let doctors help refugees Posted: 17 Nov 2017 10:08 PM PST Australian Medical Association votes unanimously to lobby for access to hundreds in detention centre standoff The Australian Medical Association called on Saturday for the government to allow independent doctors and other health experts to help more than 400 asylum seekers and refugees languishing inside a recently closed detention centre in Papua New Guinea. The asylum seekers have shut themselves inside the Australian-run Manus Island centre for the past 18 days, defying attempts by Australia and Papua New Guinea to close it in a standoff the United Nations describes as a "looming humanitarian crisis". Continue reading... |
| Cory Bernardi attempts positive spin on lost campaign against same-sex marriage Posted: 17 Nov 2017 11:30 PM PST Senator tells delegates at Australian Christian Lobby conference that campaign was an 'extraordinary success' despite 61.6% voting in favour of marriage equality The campaign against same-sex marriage in Australia was an "extraordinary success" despite losing the national postal survey, the crossbench senator Cory Bernardi has said. The leader of the Australian Conservatives said the campaign convinced about 40% of participants to vote no despite competing with a "ten-year campaign" by marriage equality supporters who enjoyed "tens of millions of dollars" in funding. Continue reading... |
| Easter Island candidate puts self-rule on ballot in Chile election Posted: 17 Nov 2017 11:00 PM PST The tiny island in the Pacific has been ruled by Chile since 1888 but Annette Rapu Zamora hopes a seat in parliament will be a step towards revising the relationship On the tiny Pacific outpost of Easter Island, the giant stone heads representing ancient ancestors face inland towards the island's rolling green hills and volcanoes. And ahead of general elections in Chile – which has ruled the island since 1888 – this unique place is once again looking inwards as it tries to wrest back power from the mainland. Continue reading... |
| Syria chemical attacks: Haley calls Russia 'shameful' after it vetoes UN inquiry Posted: 17 Nov 2017 10:31 PM PST US ambassador Nikki Haley describes Moscow's use of veto that will let existing inquiry lapse as a 'shameful' move Russia cast a second veto in as many days at the United Nations security council on Friday to block the renewal of an investigation to identify those behind chemical weapons attacks in Syria. A draft resolution put forward by Japan would have extended the UN-led joint investigative mechanism (JIM) for 30 days to allow time for negotiations on a wider compromise. Continue reading... |
| How Totò Riina’s war on the Italian state almost destroyed Cosa Nostra Posted: 17 Nov 2017 09:00 PM PST After a crackdown by law enforcement, mafia clans have turned from violence and intimidation to corruption and collusion "Riina was still the boss of Cosa Nostra when he died. No one had taken his place after his arrest. It is unprecedented for the position not to be filled when the boss is arrested," said Roberto Saviano, the author of Gomorrah. That Totò Riina held on to his position as "boss of bosses" while in isolation in prison for the last 24 years of his life is remarkable. But in mafia culture, symbolism is important, and Riina, who died on Friday, was able to make his views known via signals, messages and intermediaries. From prison, he issued threats against the anti-mafia prosecutor Nino Di Matteo, who now lives under armed protection. Riina's sons, one of whom has been convicted of four murders, have allegedly found ways to communicate on behalf of their father. Continue reading... |
| Generation Mugabe: 'he has normalised the abnormal' Posted: 17 Nov 2017 09:00 PM PST Zimbabweans in their 20s have borne the brunt of years of economic mismanagement When Sandra Musakasa visits her hometown, Zimbabwe's second city, there are no childhood or college friends left for her to catch up with. They have all fled in search of jobs, an elusive pursuit in a country where up to 90% of young people are unemployed. "If I go to Bulawayo, I can't even find one friend I grew up beside or went to school with. Most people are going out to South Africa," she says with a shrug. Being young and employed in Zimbabwe makes her a member of a tiny elite. |
| 'More girls, fewer skinheads': Poland's far right wrestles with changing image Posted: 17 Nov 2017 09:00 PM PST March for Independence may signal not a surge in support for far right but the seeping of its ideas into the mainstream The presence of Islamophobic, homophobic, antisemitic and white supremacist chants and banners at last weekend's March of Independence in Warsaw raised fears about the rise of the far right in Poland. But interviews with nationalist and far-right leaders and their opponents reveal a more nuanced picture of a relatively marginal movement wrestling with its public image while hoping to seize the opportunities afforded to it by the success of the ruling rightwing Law and Justice party (PiS) and popular opposition to immigration from Muslim-majority countries. |
| Taylor Wessing prize: who is the man in the photograph? Posted: 17 Nov 2017 09:00 PM PST Amadou Sumaila gives permission to share letter in which he explains how and why he left Mali and arrived in Sicily Amadou Sumaila was one of 118 people rescued from an inflatable boat drifting 20 miles off the Libyan coast on a clear, calm morning in August last year. The kind of day for which people smugglers hope and their passengers pray. The young Malian and more than 363,000 other migrants and refugees crossed the Mediterranean to reach Europe in 2016. Like many of them, Sumaila had never seen the sea, never imagined that so many people could be crammed into a small boat and never thought it would be so hard to breathe. Continue reading... |
| 'Unrivalled helmsman'? We read Chinese media's enormous ode to Xi so you don't have to Posted: 17 Nov 2017 08:10 PM PST Xinhua has issued a lengthy hagiography of president Xi Jinping. Here are the essentials so you can pass the pub test China's official news agency, Xinhua, has released a titanic and oleaginous 8,000-word profile of the country's leader, Xi Jinping. Pushed for time? Here's a quick Xi-nopsis Name: Xi Jinping. Continue reading... |
| Nato apologises to Turkey after Erdogan and Ataturk appear on 'enemy chart' Posted: 17 Nov 2017 07:22 PM PST Turkey withdraws 40 soldiers from Nato drill at joint warfare centre in Norway, in protest at incident Nato's secretary general has apologised to Turkey over military exercises in Norway during which Turkey's founding leader, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, and its president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, were reportedly depicted as "enemies". Erdoğan said Turkey withdrew 40 soldiers participating in the drills at Nato's joint warfare centre in Stavanger, Norway, in protest at the incident and criticised the alliance. "There can be no such unity, no such alliance," he said in an address to his ruling party's provincial leaders. Continue reading... |
| Some Nauru staff flown out and more could follow, detention sources say Posted: 17 Nov 2017 02:54 PM PST There have been reports that some case managers, sport and recreation staff, and teachers were flown out on Friday with little explanation Staff at the Nauru detention centre have been flown off the island in a confusing and sudden apparent end to their employment, detention sources have said. Sources on Nauru told the Guardian dozens of staff had already been deported, with more expected to leave the island on Saturday. The reason for the departure was not clear. Continue reading... |
| Four dead as helicopter and plane collide in mid-air in Buckinghamshire Posted: 17 Nov 2017 11:42 AM PST Police say two occupants of helicopter have died and two people in two-seater plane after crash near village of Waddesdon Four people have died after a helicopter and a two-seater plane crashed in mid-air over Buckinghamshire. Police said it was "too early to tell" what might have caused the collision, and were focusing on identifying the victims and informing their next of kin. Two people were killed in each aircraft. Continue reading... |
| Aid given in cash improves health and spurs school attendance, say researchers Posted: 17 Nov 2017 07:09 AM PST Cash handouts bring major benefits to world's poorest people, allowing them to live with greater dignity, claims international study Foreign aid in the form of cash transfers with no strings attached can improve health and increase school attendance, a study has found. Earlier this year, Downing Street was forced to defend the use of controversial cash transfers when press reports claimed £300m had been spent on a poverty reduction scheme in Pakistan dogged by claims of corruption. Continue reading... |
| ‘We lost a great leader’: Berta Cáceres still inspires as murder case takes fresh twist | Liz Ford Posted: 17 Nov 2017 06:00 AM PST As friends and followers of the late Honduran activist continue her battle for indigenous land rights, their cause has been boosted by a damning legal report María Santos Domínguez heard about the death of her good friend Berta Cáceres on the radio. She had just given birth to her youngest daughter, so she wasn't with Cáceres the week she was murdered. "It was a double blow because we were very close, we worked together in the communities," said Santos Domínguez, a coordinator for the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organisations of Honduras (Copinh), the organisation Cáceres co-founded 24 years ago to stop the state selling off the country's ancestral lands to multinational companies. Continue reading... |
| Tracking Trump: president tries his best to befriend Kim Jong-un Posted: 17 Nov 2017 10:00 PM PST Trump bemoans his inability to buddy up to the North Korean leader, as his son and son-in-law face more trouble in the Russia inquiry
Do you remember coming home from school to tell your mother or father another kid had been nasty to you in the playground? And all you wanted was to be his friend? Continue reading... |
| The Guardian view on Yemen: a catastrophe that shames Britain | Editorial Posted: 17 Nov 2017 11:13 AM PST The world's worst humanitarian crisis is deteriorating as a Saudi blockade prevents desperately needed food, fuel and medicine from entering the country. London's unstinting support for Riyadh makes the UK complicit Twenty years ago, Tony Blair acknowledged the British government's responsibility for the Irish famine that killed one million people: a healing gesture needed because, even after a century and a half, pain and anger endured and the responsibility of "those who governed in London" remained glaring. Now we are on the brink of another famine – perhaps the worst for decades, says a UN aid chief – and Britain must again bear blame. The UN called Yemen the world's worst humanitarian crisis even before Saudi Arabia decided to blockade the country a week and a half ago, shutting out food and medicine. Now the heads of three key agencies have warned that millions are on the brink of starvation. Unicef fears that 150,000 children could die by the end of the year. A cholera outbreak that has already affected 900,000 is expected to flare up again, as the lack of fuel shuts off water and sewage systems. Twenty million people, more than two-thirds of the population, are in urgent need of humanitarian supplies. An impoverished country has been destroyed by what is both a civil and a proxy war. Houthi rebels, allied to Iran, drove out the internationally recognised president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, allying with his predecessor who had been ousted in the Arab spring. Since then, 10,000 lives have been lost, many to heavy bombing by the Saudi Arabian-led coalition, with arms and military support from the US, UK and others. The blockade has taken this terrible, futile conflict to a new depth. It seeks to starve a population into submission – a crime against humanity horrifically familiar from its ongoing use in Syria as well as elsewhere. Britain's staunch support for Riyadh makes it complicit. Continue reading... |
| Congress must end its complicity with the gun lobby | Senator Richard Blumenthal Posted: 15 Nov 2017 05:26 AM PST Communities across the US want action to prevent yet more senseless deaths. The commonsense legislation I have proposed would do just that The Sunday before last, a convicted domestic abuser used an illegally obtained AR-15 semi-automatic rifle to murder 25 parishioners worshipping at the First Baptist church of Sutherland Springs, Texas. The Sutherland Springs shooter was far from the first killer to have a history of domestic violence. According to a July report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than half of female homicide victims are murdered by their intimate partners. Women are five times more likely to die as a result of domestic violence when there is a gun in the home. Continue reading... |
| My little pony and the world's hairiest car – Friday's best photos Posted: 17 Nov 2017 06:44 AM PST The Guardian's picture editors bring you a selection of photo highlights from around the world, including a miniature Shetland and a hair-raising Fiat Continue reading... |
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