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- Emmerson Mnangagwa sworn in as Zimbabwe's president
- South African court doubles Oscar Pistorius's prison sentence
- 'Facing disaster': children starve in siege of Syria's former breadbasket
- Ireland faces possible snap election over police scandal
- Michael Flynn breaks ties with Trump's lawyers over Russia investigation – reports
- Argentina: grief and anger after 'explosion' near missing submarine
- Saudi Arabia still blocking aid to Yemen despite pledge to lift siege
- Road to ruin: how the Mugabes' time ran out
- Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards call for ban on Franco foundation
- Autocracies breed terror in Middle East, says Qatari foreign minister
- Slovenia PM facing impeachment over support for refugee
- Manus Island police use long metal poles to beat refugees and asylum seekers
- Uma Thurman breaks Harvey Weinstein silence, saying #metoo
- Myanmar signs pact with Bangladesh over Rohingya repatriation
- Judges admit this year's Bad sex award entries are 'quite good'
- Republican lawmaker on Roy Moore abuse allegations: 'I'd break his face'
- Experience: I am a kayaktivist
- Emmerson Mnangagwa: the 'Crocodile' taking power in Zimbabwe
- DUP leader accuses Irish government of hijacking Brexit talks
- The $3bn subway station – and other urban white elephants
- Bilbao on the prairie: why does tiny Saskatoon need an $85m art gallery?
- VAT fraud crackdown increases liability of website marketplaces
- Theresa May arrives in Brussels reiterating her Brexit divorce bill offer
- An innocent mother is in jail. We cannot forget Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe | Tulip Siddiq and Emma Thompson
- Singapore-on-Thames? This is no vision for post-Brexit Britain | Jeevan Vasagar
- Clive Palmer wins $200m in damages from former Chinese partners
- Briton arrested in Philippines with cache of guns and knives
- China horrified by allegations of child abuse at kindergarten
- Japanese politicians force colleague with baby to leave chamber
- Indian newspapers run blank pages to protest journalist killing
- Friday briefing: Day of the Crocodile
- Blood flows and rivers run dry as Honduras prepares to go to the polls – in pictures
- Canadian firm to face historic legal case over alleged labour abuses in Eritrea
- Donald Trump tells coast guard the 'invisible' F-35 wins every time – video
- 'Explosion' detected near Argentinian sub's final signal – video report
| Emmerson Mnangagwa sworn in as Zimbabwe's president Posted: 24 Nov 2017 02:19 AM PST Former vice-president becomes country's second leader since independence after resignation of Robert Mugabe on Tuesday Profile: who is the 'Crocodile' taking power in Zimbabwe? Emmerson Mnangagwa has been sworn in as president of Zimbabwe, becoming the country's second leader since independence from white minority rule in 1980. Mnangagwa took his oath of office in front of tens of thousands of jubilant Zimbabweans who had gathered at a stadium in Harare, after greeting the crowd with a raised fist. Continue reading... |
| South African court doubles Oscar Pistorius's prison sentence Posted: 24 Nov 2017 01:18 AM PST State argued athlete's original sentence of six years for murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp was 'shockingly lenient' A South African appeal court has more than doubled the former Paralympian Oscar Pistorius's prison sentence for murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. The supreme court of appeal (SCA) increased Pistorius's sentence from six years in prison to 13 years and five months. Continue reading... |
| 'Facing disaster': children starve in siege of Syria's former breadbasket Posted: 23 Nov 2017 09:00 PM PST With a political breakthrough unlikely at upcoming talks, people in eastern Ghouta face shortages of food, fuel and medicine The sight of a woman weeping as she drags her malnourished children into a clinic is not rare in eastern Ghouta, which is under siege by forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad. But when one mother told Abdel Hamid, a doctor, that she had fed her four starving children newspaper cutouts softened with water to stop them from screaming into the night, even he was stunned. Continue reading... |
| Ireland faces possible snap election over police scandal Posted: 24 Nov 2017 01:09 AM PST Fianna Fáil party says snap election will take place next month unless deputy prime minister Frances Fitzgerald, of Fine Gael, resigns Ireland is on the verge of a snap election after the party that props up the country's minority coalition government threatened to pull down the administration over a police whistleblower scandal. The prime minister, Leo Varadkar, faces the prospect of going to the polls next month in the middle of a crucial summit on the EU, Britain and Brexit at which the stakes are high for the Irish Republic. Continue reading... |
| Michael Flynn breaks ties with Trump's lawyers over Russia investigation – reports Posted: 23 Nov 2017 11:59 PM PST Move suggests former national security adviser could be seeking a deal with special counsel Robert Mueller over election interference A lawyer for former national security adviser Michael Flynn has told President Donald Trump's legal team that they are no longer communicating with them about the special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election interference. The decision could be a sign that Flynn is moving to cooperate with Mueller's investigation or to negotiate a deal for himself. Continue reading... |
| Argentina: grief and anger after 'explosion' near missing submarine Posted: 23 Nov 2017 11:08 AM PST Sound described as 'abnormal' was heard on day that contact was lost, navy spokesman confirms The families of the crew of a missing Argentinian navy submarine have reacted with grief and then anger to the possibility that an explosion hit the submarine around the time it sent its last signal on 15 November. An abnormal sound detected in the South Atlantic ocean was "consistent with an explosion", the navy spokesman Enrique Balbi said. The navy did not have enough information to say what the cause of the explosion could have been or whether the vessel – the ARA San Juan – might have been attacked, he said. Continue reading... |
| Saudi Arabia still blocking aid to Yemen despite pledge to lift siege Posted: 23 Nov 2017 11:21 PM PST Saudi-led coalition has failed to lift blockade on Yemen's ports, leaving tens of thousands without food and medicine Aid agencies said Saudi Arabia had not fulfilled its promise to reopen humanitarian aid corridors into northern Yemen on Thursday, leaving the main aid lifeline closed for tens of thousands of starving people. Following intense pressure from western governments, Saudi Arabia agreed on Wednesday to lift a fortnight-long blockade of the port of Hodeida from noon (9am GMT) on Thursday, but more than eight hours after the deadline, aid agencies said no permissions for humanitarian shipments had been given. Continue reading... |
| Road to ruin: how the Mugabes' time ran out Posted: 23 Nov 2017 10:59 AM PST Grace Mugabe was returning home when she spotted soldiers in the streets. Within hours the army had taken power As dusk turned to dark in Zimbabwe last Tuesday, a convoy of three vehicles drove fast towards Harare, the capital, entering the city from the north. Related: Grace Mugabe: the rags to riches rise and fall of 'Gucci Grace' Continue reading... |
| Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards call for ban on Franco foundation Posted: 23 Nov 2017 08:35 AM PST Petition filed in parliament says foundations glorifying Hitler or Mussolini would be unthinkable in Germany or Italy More than 200,000 Spaniards have signed a petition filed in parliament on Thursday asking the government to ban the National Francisco Franco Foundation (FNFF), which glorifies Spain's former dictator. "In Germany or in Italy, it would be unthinkable to have a Hitler foundation or a Mussolini foundation," read the petition, filed by a group that included descendants of victims of the Franco regime, in power from 1939 to 1975. Continue reading... |
| Autocracies breed terror in Middle East, says Qatari foreign minister Posted: 23 Nov 2017 08:15 AM PST Speech in London aims to present country as a more reliable ally in fight against terrorism than 'crisis-making' Saudi Arabia Qatar's foreign minister has claimed the root cause of Middle East terrorism lay in authoritarian rulers, and lack of human rights, presenting Qatar as a more reliable western ally in the fight against terror than "impulsive, crisis-making" Saudi Arabia. Speaking in front of British ministers at a Qatar-sponsored anti-terror conference in London, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani stressed his country's commitment to use political and economic policies, as well as security measures to attack extremism's "breeding ground of injustice and authoritarianism". Continue reading... |
| Slovenia PM facing impeachment over support for refugee Posted: 23 Nov 2017 09:00 AM PST Miro Cerar accused of seeking to interfere with judiciary after he voiced support for Syrian man, Ahmad Shamieh, who is facing deportation The prime minister of Slovenia, Miro Cerar, one of the few liberal leaders in central and eastern Europe, is facing impeachment over his support for a Syrian asylum seeker who is facing deportation. Should the country's rightwing opposition party be successful in their motion, Cerar, the leader of the centrist moderate party, could be dismissed from office by the Slovenian MPs, although government sources insist the prime minister has enough support in parliament to vote down the motion. |
| Manus Island police use long metal poles to beat refugees and asylum seekers Posted: 23 Nov 2017 03:17 PM PST Video shows officers hitting refugees with metal poles as they drag men out of decommissioned camp Papua New Guinean police have used batons to beat refugees and asylum seekers in the Manus Island detention centre, as they continue their operation to clear the decommissioned camp. Video shot within the centre on Friday morning showed officers from PNG's mobile squad threatening and hitting refugees with long metal poles as they dragged men out of the centre. Continue reading... |
| Uma Thurman breaks Harvey Weinstein silence, saying #metoo Posted: 23 Nov 2017 11:57 PM PST Actor who worked on seven films with disgraced mogul says she is taking pleasure in his downfall Uma Thurman has broken her silence on Harvey Weinstein, saying of the ongoing stream of allegations against him: "I'm glad it's going slowly – you don't deserve a bullet." The actor, who worked on seven films with Weinstein including Pulp Fiction and the Kill Bill movies, posted a picture of herself as The Bride from Kill Bill. Continue reading... |
| Myanmar signs pact with Bangladesh over Rohingya repatriation Posted: 23 Nov 2017 05:12 AM PST Working group will be set up within three weeks but rights groups raise concerns about where returnees will be resettled Myanmar and Bangladesh have signed an initial deal for the possible repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled violence in Rakhine state. More than 620,000 Rohingya have crossed the border into Bangladesh since August, running from a military crackdown that Washington said this week clearly constituted ethnic cleansing. Continue reading... |
| Judges admit this year's Bad sex award entries are 'quite good' Posted: 23 Nov 2017 08:46 AM PST Judges nominate overheated passages from Wilbur Smith and Laurent Binet among others, but concede that 2017's sex scenes have been rather well done Pulsing waves, fumbling fingers, tortured tongues and firework metaphors are as abundant as ever on the shortlist for the Bad sex in fiction award, which is returning for its annual exhibition of atrocious erotic writing. But this year, even the sworn foes of feeble literary coupling who run the prize concede, the sex in books has actually got better. According to the Literary Review's Frank Brinkley, the magazine has noted an improvement in the sex scenes in this year's fiction. "There's plenty of sex around (such as in Patrick Ness) but a lot of it is quite good," he said. "Maybe we are having an effect – definitely literary fiction's changing and the 'Oh sod it, I'll put in a sex scene' attitude that prompted the creation of the award has pretty much fallen by the wayside. Maybe publishers aren't pushing for it in the way that 'sex sells' was used as a prompt 15 years ago, either. All to the good." Continue reading... |
| Republican lawmaker on Roy Moore abuse allegations: 'I'd break his face' Posted: 23 Nov 2017 12:36 PM PST Representative Scott Taylor of Virginia says if his daughter had been among Senate candidate's alleged victims, 'I'd break his fingers and worse' A Republican congressman has said he would have beaten up Roy Moore, the GOP nominee for a US Senate seat in Alabama, if any of the women who have made sexual misconduct allegations against the judge had been his daughter. Related: Trump hails 'invisible' plane in remarks to coast guard: 'The enemy cannot see it' Continue reading... |
| Experience: I am a kayaktivist Posted: 24 Nov 2017 02:00 AM PST It can be dangerous – we get close to moving supertankers. Then there's the worry about how private security will react My first political epiphany concerned the world trade protests in 1999. I was 17 and had a feeling globalisation was a good thing – until I realised it was about money and economics, not people and culture; so in the early 2000s I joined some anti-globalisation protests in Quebec. Several years later, I heard about kayaktivism. I'd kayaked before, and been an activist, but never married the two. My first kayak protest was in Quebec's Saint Lawrence estuary in 2014. TransCanada wanted to build a supertanker port in a beluga whale nursery. Our mission was to kayak to a boat doing seismic testing, unfurl a banner and take a picture. It wasn't about stopping the boat, but drawing attention to what was happening. Continue reading... |
| Emmerson Mnangagwa: the 'Crocodile' taking power in Zimbabwe Posted: 24 Nov 2017 01:54 AM PST Robert Mugabe's former righthand man is guaranteed support for now, but Zimbabweans have not forgotten his past News: Mnangagwa sworn in as president Zimbabwe's new president is not, at first glance, the obvious champion of the change his country hungers for. Emmerson Mnangagwa is 75, and for decades he was righthand man to Robert Mugabe, accused of the same human rights abuses and similar corruption. Continue reading... |
| DUP leader accuses Irish government of hijacking Brexit talks Posted: 24 Nov 2017 01:50 AM PST Arlene Foster says issues of trade are being derailed by government trying to use EU negotiations to promote united Ireland The DUP leader, Arlene Foster, has accused the Irish government of hijacking the Brexit negotiations to promote a united Ireland. Speaking before her party's annual conference, Foster expressed her alarm at comments from the Irish foreign minister, Simon Coveney, who told a parliamentary committee he wanted to see a united Ireland in his political lifetime. Continue reading... |
| The $3bn subway station – and other urban white elephants Posted: 23 Nov 2017 11:00 PM PST From Alaska's 'bridge to nowhere' to Pyongyang's Hotel of Doom, via a €1bn arts centre that leaks, here are the world's most high-profile wastes of capital How much should one subway station cost? The city of Toronto has an answer. The plan to extend transit in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough winds back at least a decade: at one time the plan was a seven-stop light-rail line; later a three-stop subway. Today, Scarborough is preparing to replace its six-stop automated train with just one single, solitary subway station, for a mere C$3bn (£1.8bn). Is that a wise investment? Time will tell, but in a recently unearthed 2013 assessment the transport agency Metrolinx calls it "not a worthwhile use of money". Many voters in Scarborough feel differently, and Toronto's mayor, John Tory, has no plans to change course. Continue reading... |
| Bilbao on the prairie: why does tiny Saskatoon need an $85m art gallery? Posted: 23 Nov 2017 09:00 AM PST Saskatoon's awe-inspiring new Remai gallery has vast ambitions. But does the overspend and hype about indigenous art justify all the bluster? 'This isn't just a gallery, it's an act of making a city," says Bruce Kuwabara, founding partner of KPMB Architects, at the opening of the Remai Modern, a vast glass-and-steel art museum in Saskatoon. The C$84.6m (£51m) project would be a major event for any city, let alone a small university town of 250,000 in the wheat-filled Canadian prairies. Saskatoon is on the cusp of something. It's the third fastest growing city in Canada, has one of the country's youngest demographics and its economy is growing (though not as fast as it was). The latter fact is thanks in great part to an oil and gas industry that, controversially, is charged some of the lowest tax rates in the world and has helped create more than 8,000 millionaires in the province of Saskatchewan. The Remai Modern – four horizontal cantilevered volumes in a raised position by the South Saskatchewan river – is also the recipient of one of the biggest philanthropic arts donations in Canadian history. Continue reading... |
| VAT fraud crackdown increases liability of website marketplaces Posted: 24 Nov 2017 12:42 AM PST Chancellor acts to stem £1.2bn yearly tax loss by making sites like eBay and Amazon jointly liable with sellers for due payments Online marketplaces such as Amazon and eBay will be forced to police their own websites to prevent billions of pounds of VAT fraud, under a renewed government crackdown on the scam. The move represents the second effort in as many years to close down an estimated £1.2bn-a-year tax fraud and follows a Guardian investigation as well as criticism of HM Revenue & Customs for being slow to act. Continue reading... |
| Theresa May arrives in Brussels reiterating her Brexit divorce bill offer Posted: 24 Nov 2017 02:13 AM PST With no sign of negotiations moving on to trade, PM prepares for EU summit and meeting with European council president Theresa May has reiterated she is willing to lay down further money to meet the EU's €60bn divorce bill demands only if the bloc's leaders can guarantee the widening of talks to trade and the terms of a transition period. The prime minister, speaking as she arrived at an EU summit in Brussels on Friday, will meet the president of the European council, Donald Tusk at the end of the meeting. She told reporters: "These negotiations are continuing but what I am clear about is that we must step forward together. This is for both the UK and the European Union to move on to the next stage." Continue reading... |
| Posted: 24 Nov 2017 01:00 AM PST We know what it's like to be separated from your child. Nazanin is being held in Iran on spurious charges, and Britain must step up and protect its citizen Our children may be 15 years apart in age, but any mother will tell you that anxiety and paranoia about your child never stop. Even in the middle of filming a Hollywood movie or questioning the prime minister, in the back of our heads we're wondering whether our daughters have worn their gloves on this cold day, or whether they have eaten a full meal at school. That is one reason why the case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe – a British citizen who is imprisoned in Iran – resonates so strongly with us. It's not just that she's been imprisoned for 19 months on spurious charges, held in solitary confinement and denied medical access and legal advice. It's also that she's been separated from her three-year-old daughter, Gabriella, for more than a year and a half. That's more than half of that little girl's life. Continue reading... |
| Singapore-on-Thames? This is no vision for post-Brexit Britain | Jeevan Vasagar Posted: 24 Nov 2017 01:44 AM PST Emulating the wealthy city state comes with many pitfalls. For one, as Singaporeans know, going it alone means being more vulnerable From the glittering office towers clustered by the waterfront, to the spotless malls crowded with perfectly coiffed shoppers, it's hard not to feel transported into the future when you arrive in Singapore – a hi-tech, consumer-oriented kind of future of designer heels stepping into driverless cars. From its humble beginnings as a mosquito-ridden tropical port, Singapore has transformed itself into one of the world's richest countries. The south-east Asian city-state also has some of the world's lowest taxes; its corporate rate is 17%, with temporary rates as low as 5% for companies willing to set up a regional headquarters there. Continue reading... |
| Clive Palmer wins $200m in damages from former Chinese partners Posted: 24 Nov 2017 12:19 AM PST Court rules that CITIC must pay the former MP's Mineralogy company to settle their dispute over an iron ore joint venture Clive Palmer has won nearly A$200m in damages in his long-running legal battle against his estranged Chinese joint-venture partner in Western Australia. Palmer's company, Mineralogy, had disputed calculations for royalty payments from the multi-billion dollar Sino Iron project, which Chinese firm CITIC built and operates, drawing ore from Mineralogy-owned land. Continue reading... |
| Briton arrested in Philippines with cache of guns and knives Posted: 24 Nov 2017 12:34 AM PST Police also find 14 knives, five brass knuckles and a slingshot after Matthew George Marney, 38, is arrested in Pasig A British man has been arrested in the Philippines after police said they had found five handguns, live ammunition and other weapons including combat knives and a stun gun in his possession. Matthew George Marney was photographed in custody wearing an orange T-shirt bearing the acronym for the criminal investigation and detection group (CIDG), the primary investigation arm of the Philippine police force. |
| China horrified by allegations of child abuse at kindergarten Posted: 24 Nov 2017 12:28 AM PST Authorities promise swift response after parents claims toddlers have been molested, spiked with needles and drugged with mysterious white pills Chinese authorities are promising swift and decisive action after horrific allegations of child abuse surfaced at an upmarket nursery just a few miles east of the Communist party's leadership compound in Beijing. Since Wednesday, Chinese media outlets have reported claims from outraged parents that toddlers at the nursery in Beijing's Chaoyang district were molested, spiked with needles and drugged with mysterious white pills. |
| Japanese politicians force colleague with baby to leave chamber Posted: 23 Nov 2017 10:52 PM PST Yuka Ogata took seven-month-old son to work to highlight difficulties parents have amid acute shortage of childcare places Weeks after Ivanka Trump lauded Japan's progress on women's participation in the workforce, a female politician was forced to leave the chamber after her colleagues objected to the presence of her seven-month-old child. Yuka Ogata had taken her son to a session of the Kumamoto municipal assembly on Wednesday to highlight the difficulties many Japanese parents – particularly women – face juggling their careers with raising children, amid an acute shortage of nursery places. Continue reading... |
| Indian newspapers run blank pages to protest journalist killing Posted: 23 Nov 2017 10:29 PM PST Papers take step after Suddip Datta Bhowmick was allegedly shot dead on orders of an army official, the third reporter to have been murdered this year Newspapers in the north-eastern Indian state of Tripura have run blank editorial pages to protest the murder of a journalist this week, the third prominent killing of a media worker in India since September. Suddip Datta Bhaumik, a crime reporter, was allegedly shot dead on the orders of an army official on Tuesday while investigating a story on a paramilitary base. Continue reading... |
| Friday briefing: Day of the Crocodile Posted: 23 Nov 2017 10:29 PM PST Post-Mugabe era begins as new Zimbabwean president takes office … safety warning about 'smart' toys … and 'womanspreading' reclaims lateral legroom Good morning, it's Warren Murray getting you started on this Black Friday. Here's where to find some of the best bargains. But don't go just yet, because we've got a great deal of news right here … Continue reading... |
| Blood flows and rivers run dry as Honduras prepares to go to the polls – in pictures Posted: 23 Nov 2017 11:00 PM PST With the country poised for Sunday's elections, the murder of environmentalists in Honduras is being directly linked with water and food shortages, violence and migration. Photographer Sean Hawkey visited what has become a frontline of climate change conflict Continue reading... |
| Canadian firm to face historic legal case over alleged labour abuses in Eritrea Posted: 23 Nov 2017 05:52 AM PST Appeals court rules against mining company Nevsun Resources, clearing way for workers to have claims of human rights violations heard in Canadian court A Canadian mining company has lost its bid to block a lawsuit accusing it of human rights abuses against miners in Eritrea after a ruling by an appeals court in British Columbia. The decision, against Nevsun Resources, paves the way for a groundbreaking legal challenge that links the Vancouver company to allegations of modern slavery. Continue reading... |
| Donald Trump tells coast guard the 'invisible' F-35 wins every time – video Posted: 23 Nov 2017 05:09 PM PST In a Thanksgiving speech to the US coast guard, President Donald Trump hails the F-35 fighter jet, calling it an "invisible" plane that they "enemy cannot see". Continue reading... |
| 'Explosion' detected near Argentinian sub's final signal – video report Posted: 23 Nov 2017 11:16 AM PST An abnormal sound detected in the South Atlantic ocean hours after an Argentinian navy submarine sent its last signal last week was 'consistent with an explosion', a navy spokesman said on Thursday Continue reading... |
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