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- Revealed: male rape used systematically in Libya as instrument of war
- The world's biggest grave robbery: Asia’s disappearing WWII shipwrecks
- Empty seats greet Ivanka Trump at women's empowerment speech in Tokyo
- Facebook allowed child abuse posts to stay online for more than a year, Indian court hears
- Russian Revolution's 'rock'n'roll star' Trotsky gets centenary TV series
- Rick Perry under fire for suggestion fossil fuels can reduce sexual assault
- Margaret Atwood and leading authors appeal to Xi Jinping to release Liu Xia
- United by blood: Afghan artists come together for Iran exhibition
- Argentinian man's love for great-aunt, 91, led to marriage – but no pension
- Iceland's president asks opposition Left-Greens to form coalition
- France announces overhaul of Légion d’Honneur
- Deir ez-Zor cleared of last Islamic State fighters , says monitoring group
- May lauds UK role in creation of Israel at Balfour centenary dinner
- Priti Patel held undisclosed meetings in Israel
- Colm Tóibín: ‘Why shouldn’t Catalonia be an independent state within Europe?’
- 'Exvangelicals': why more religious people are rejecting the evangelical label
- 'It's been an emotional journey': tide starts to turn in Nepal's battle with HIV | Kate Hodal
- 'Enjoy menstruation, even on the subway': Stockholm art sparks row
- From Miami to Shanghai: 3C of warming will leave world cities underwater
- Life between the lanes: inside Yorkshire's motorway farm
- American victims of New York attack had bright futures, those who knew them say
- Tiahleigh Palmer's foster mother gets six months' jail for 'dreadful' crimes
- Friday briefing: Offence and defence – May's hellish week
- Journalists set up Second Source group to tackle harassment
- US bombers fly Korea exercise amid hint Pyongyang could return to terror list
- 'Shameful': UK and US under fire over blocked funds for Haiti cholera victims
- The 'genocide' of Brazil's black youth gives Day of the Dead extra resonance | Cristina Fróes de Borja Reis
- Trump's Asia tour: what lies ahead for the president – and the countries he visits
- Will Belgium hand Carles Puigdemont over to Spain?
- Trump's 'largest tax cut ever' could fall apart over who foots the bill
- Hillary Clinton: 'Without the Comey letter I would have won'
- 'Together we reject hate': New Yorkers gather for candlelit vigil – video
- Officer who shot Manhattan attacker: I was just doing my job – video
- Never-before-seen footage of Osama bin Laden's son released by CIA – video
| Revealed: male rape used systematically in Libya as instrument of war Posted: 03 Nov 2017 01:12 AM PDT Videos and testimony expose brutal tactics used by several factions in fractured country
Male rape is being used systematically in Libya as an instrument of war and political domination by rival factions, according to multiple testimonies gathered by investigators. Years of work by a Tunis-based group and witnessed by a journalist from Le Monde have produced harrowing reports from victims, and video footage showing men being sodomised by various objects, including rockets and broom handles. Continue reading... |
| The world's biggest grave robbery: Asia’s disappearing WWII shipwrecks Posted: 02 Nov 2017 06:22 PM PDT Exclusive: the unmarked graves of thousands of sailors are threatened by illegal metal salvagers By Oliver Holmes, Monica Ulmanu and Simon Roberts Dozens of warships believed to contain the remains of thousands of British, American, Australian, Dutch and Japanese servicemen from the second world war have been illegally ripped apart by salvage divers, the Guardian can reveal. An analysis of ships discovered by wreck divers and naval historians has found that up to 40 second world war-era vessels have already been partially or completely destroyed. Their hulls might have contained the corpses of 4,500 crew. Continue reading... |
| Empty seats greet Ivanka Trump at women's empowerment speech in Tokyo Posted: 02 Nov 2017 09:56 PM PDT Unfilled rows brought to mind the large gaps in the crowd at her father's inauguration in January The US first family's visit to Asia has got off to an inauspicious start, after Ivanka Trump shared her views on sexual harassment and women's empowerment in front of a half-empty venue in Tokyo. Donald Trump's daughter – already a familiar face in Japan thanks to her modelling work and fashion empire – did not mention her father by name during her brief address to the World Assembly for Women on Friday, focusing instead on her work with the US administration to promote women's role in the economy. Continue reading... |
| Facebook allowed child abuse posts to stay online for more than a year, Indian court hears Posted: 02 Nov 2017 09:12 PM PDT Post advertising rape videos was also permitted to stay online despite being reported several times Facebook refused for more than a year to remove a page featuring images of children taken in public under which users posted graphic descriptions of sexual abuse, according to submissions made to India's supreme court. A Facebook post advertising rape videos was also permitted to stay online despite being reported several times, the court heard, while police in the western state of Kerala allege another page was being used to run a child-sex ring. Continue reading... |
| Russian Revolution's 'rock'n'roll star' Trotsky gets centenary TV series Posted: 02 Nov 2017 10:00 PM PDT High-budget drama of once taboo leader to be shown on state TV, but Bolshevik uprising still a delicate subject in Russia Leon Trotsky, in a floor-length black leather jacket, paces back and forth in a carriage of his armoured train, pistol in hand. A heavily made-up woman smoking a cigarette is reading poetry, then suddenly disrobes, and the Bolshevik revolutionary grasps her in an embrace. Images of writhing flesh and the sound of crashing music accompany footage of the train hurtling across the snowy Russian landscape, spreading the spirit of revolution to the masses. This is how viewers will first see Trotsky, one of the most controversial figures of the Russian Revolution, in a new high-budget series that will premiere on Russian state television on Monday, the day before the centenary of the 1917 Bolshevik uprising. Continue reading... |
| Rick Perry under fire for suggestion fossil fuels can reduce sexual assault Posted: 02 Nov 2017 03:20 PM PDT US energy secretary faces criticism from Sierra Club after describing girl who told him about the importance of electricity in African village The US energy secretary, Rick Perry, has said he thinks using fossil fuels can help prevent sexual assault, sparking criticism from the Sierra Club, which accused Perry of exploiting the struggle of those most affected by climate change. Perry, who was at an energy conference in Africa last week, said on Thursday that fossil fuels used to power electricity could help developing regions in the continent. Continue reading... |
| Margaret Atwood and leading authors appeal to Xi Jinping to release Liu Xia Posted: 02 Nov 2017 10:36 PM PDT Philip Roth, Tom Stoppard and George Saunders write letter to China's president to show 'compassion' for the detained wife of Liu Xiaobo More than 50 prominent international authors have written a letter to Chinese president Xi Jinping urging him to free Liu Xia, the wife of deceased Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo. The letter, signed by Chimamanda Adichie, Philip Roth, Margaret Atwood, Tom Stoppard and George Saunders, appealed to Xi's "conscience" and "sense of compassion" to release Liu Xia, who has been under house arrest since 2010 despite never being accused of any crime. Continue reading... |
| United by blood: Afghan artists come together for Iran exhibition Posted: 02 Nov 2017 10:00 PM PDT Tehran show challenges attitudes in country where community is grappling with marginalisation after escaping war Elyas Alavi's performance piece at a Tehran exhibition showcasing contemporary Afghan artists invites participants to give blood. Samples are taken by a professional nurse and splashed on the wall next to each other. The idea came to Alavi's mind when his sister, one of at least 3 million Afghan refugees living in Iran, was blocked from getting a kidney transplant because she is a foreigner. Continue reading... |
| Argentinian man's love for great-aunt, 91, led to marriage – but no pension Posted: 03 Nov 2017 12:00 AM PDT Mauricio Ossola was 23 when he wed Yolanda Torres in 2015 but since her death the social security system says he is not entitled to a widower's pension He says they married for love but Argentina's social security system refuses to believe him. Mauricio Ossola was 23 when he tied the knot with his 91-year-old great-aunt Yolanda Torres, a retired schoolteacher, in a simple ceremony in the northern province of Salta in 2015. Continue reading... |
| Iceland's president asks opposition Left-Greens to form coalition Posted: 02 Nov 2017 01:56 PM PDT President takes unusual step of asking leader of second largest party to form coalition following Saturday's snap general election Iceland's president has asked the leader of the Left-Green Movement, Katrín Jakobsdóttir, to form a new government, although it came second in Saturday's snap general election. The mandate deals a blow to the prime minister, Bjarni Benediktsson of the Independence party – who called the election in September after less than a year in office as a scandal involving his father prompted a government ally to drop out of his ruling coalition. Continue reading... |
| France announces overhaul of Légion d’Honneur Posted: 02 Nov 2017 11:14 AM PDT Number awarded to be cut and recipients chosen on merit alone as part of Macron's efforts to raise standards in public life France has announced an overhaul of the 200-year-old Légion d'Honneur, drastically cutting the number awarded each year, as part of Emmanuel Macron's efforts to raise the standards of public life after a series of political scandals. The prizes have been in the spotlight since the French president announced last month that France would strip Harvey Weinstein of the award following multiple accusations of sexual assault and harassment against the Hollywood producer. Continue reading... |
| Deir ez-Zor cleared of last Islamic State fighters , says monitoring group Posted: 02 Nov 2017 03:01 PM PDT Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says government forces have removed final militants from the city after three-year siege was broken in September Syrian government forces have expelled the last Islamic State group fighters from the eastern city of Deir ez-Zor in a two-month-long campaign backed by Russian air power, according to a monitoring group. Syrian regime and allied fighters broke a three-yearIsis siege of a regime enclave in the city in early September. Continue reading... |
| May lauds UK role in creation of Israel at Balfour centenary dinner Posted: 02 Nov 2017 03:46 PM PDT PM reiterates commitment to two-state solution at event commemorating letter pledging British backing for a Jewish nation in Palestine Theresa May has said that Britain is "proud of our pioneering role in the creation of the state of Israel" at a gala dinner in London to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Balfour declaration. The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and a host of dignitaries attended a dinner on Thursday evening to celebrate the Balfour declaration of 1917, a statement that offered Britain's support for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people". It was seen as the first international recognition of the need for a homeland for the Jews and went on to form the basis of Britain's mandate for Palestine in the 1920s. Continue reading... |
| Priti Patel held undisclosed meetings in Israel Posted: 03 Nov 2017 01:53 AM PDT UK development secretary had series of talks in August while accompanied by lobbyist without informing Foreign Office The international development secretary, Priti Patel, held undisclosed meetings in Israel without telling the Foreign Office while accompanied by an influential pro-Israeli Conservative lobbyist, it has been reported. Patel met Yair Lapid, the leader of one of Israel's main political parties, and made visits to several organisations where official departmental business was reportedly discussed, the BBC said. Continue reading... |
| Colm Tóibín: ‘Why shouldn’t Catalonia be an independent state within Europe?’ Posted: 03 Nov 2017 01:00 AM PDT The author, who has observed Catalan politics for 40 years, calls for Madrid to soften its stance Late on Friday 27 October Carles Puigdemont, president of the Catalan government, having declared Catalan independence, made his way from the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, the seat of power, to the city of Girona, close to where he was born, where he served as mayor for five years. The next afternoon, he was seen eating in a restaurant and seemed very relaxed. Sometime that night or the next day, with seven members of his cabinet, he travelled by car to Marseille and from there by plane to Brussels where, at the time of writing, he remains, even though a number of his colleagues have returned to Barcelona. In his absence, the Spanish authorities are preparing a case against him for rebellion, sedition and embezzlement of funds. If found guilty, he could be sentenced to up to 30 years in jail. Continue reading... |
| 'Exvangelicals': why more religious people are rejecting the evangelical label Posted: 03 Nov 2017 12:01 AM PDT Concerned about the rightwing stereotypes linked to the term, many say they no longer identify with it – especially after the 2016 election "I don't identify myself with that term any more," Boz Tchividjian said recently. He was talking about being "evangelical", the movement his grandfather, the Rev Billy Graham, helped popularize in America. "Words matter," Tchividjian said, "and 'evangelical' isn't like Baptist or Episcopalian, which can be clearly defined. The minute you use that term to someone,, "you're defined by how they interpret it." Tchividjian is among a growing number of religious people and groups in America who have stopped identifying as evangelicals in order to distance themselves from the more extreme elements of Christian society, while remaining true to their principles. Continue reading... |
| 'It's been an emotional journey': tide starts to turn in Nepal's battle with HIV | Kate Hodal Posted: 03 Nov 2017 12:00 AM PDT Like many men from Nepal's Accham district, Sarpa migrated to India for work only to return with HIV. Thankfully, a lessening of stigma – and a greater emphasis on treatment and testing – are making such stories less commonplace Adarsh and Numa are the only two HIV-positive kids at their school, and everyone knows it. In this mud-and-brick village, so high up Nepal's far-western hills that it takes two days by 4x4 to reach the nearest town, no secrets stay secret for long. Like nearly every other man of working age here in Achham – a remote, mountainous district where many women are still banished to cowsheds when they menstruate – Adarsh and Numa's father migrated to India for work. And like many other migrants seeking wealth and opportunity beyond Nepal's borders, he returned home with a very different legacy to the one he anticipated: a life-threatening virus. Continue reading... |
| 'Enjoy menstruation, even on the subway': Stockholm art sparks row Posted: 02 Nov 2017 05:29 AM PDT The Stockholm metro is sometimes called the longest art gallery in the world – but a new exhibit by Liv Strömquist is not to all commuters' liking The Swedish capital's metro, or tunnelbana, has been described as the world's longest gallery, with art permanently on display at 90 of the 100 stations along the 68-mile tunnel system. The decades-old permanent works grapple with issues from women's rights to inclusivity and deforestation. But a provocative new exhibit has proved particularly controversial among commuters, sparking debate about the role of public art – and whether the wait for the train is the right time for breaking taboos. Continue reading... |
| From Miami to Shanghai: 3C of warming will leave world cities underwater Posted: 02 Nov 2017 11:48 PM PDT An elevated level of climate change would lock in irreversible sea-level rises affecting hundreds of millions of people, Guardian data analysis shows Hundreds of millions of urban dwellers around the world face their cities being inundated by rising seawaters if latest UN warnings that the world is on course for 3C of global warming come true, according to a Guardian data analysis. Related: The three-degree world: the cities that will be drowned by global warming Continue reading... |
| Life between the lanes: inside Yorkshire's motorway farm Posted: 03 Nov 2017 12:00 AM PDT Stott Hall, sandwiched by M62 motorway, becomes part of Yorkshire Water regional scheme for improving farm sustainability and carbon storage of peatland It was seen for half a century as a proud testament to Yorkshire bloody mindedness: the farm in the middle of the M62, the house the planners had to build around when the owner refused to move. The myth was somewhat debunked last year when a recently unearthed documentary revealed that a geological fault, rather than an awkward farmer, was the real reason for Stott Hall, which lies west of Huddersfield, in West Yorkshire, being left in that peculiar location. Continue reading... |
| American victims of New York attack had bright futures, those who knew them say Posted: 02 Nov 2017 10:00 PM PDT Nicholas Cleves, 23, and Darren Drake, 32, who both worked in New York, were recalled as thriving young men and praised for their kindness The two young Americans who died alongside six tourists in the terrorist attack in New York on Tuesday have been praised as smart, promising young men who were clearly thriving and in the prime of their lives. The native New Yorker Nicholas Cleves was just 23 and a talented software engineer who was remembered as a "sweetheart" by a local shopkeeper. Darren Drake was 32, a project manager for the credit ratings agency Moody's who commuted into the city daily from New Jersey and was described by his father as "most innocent". Continue reading... |
| Tiahleigh Palmer's foster mother gets six months' jail for 'dreadful' crimes Posted: 03 Nov 2017 12:01 AM PDT Julene Thorburn pleads guilty to one count each of perjury and attempting to pervert the course of justice The foster mother of Queensland schoolgirl Tiahleigh Palmer has been ordered to spend six months behind bars for her "dreadful" crimes relating to the 12-year-old's death. Julene Thorburn faced Beenleigh district court on Friday, where she pleaded guilty to one count each of perjury and attempting to pervert the course of justice. Continue reading... |
| Friday briefing: Offence and defence – May's hellish week Posted: 02 Nov 2017 11:34 PM PDT Tory uproar over Fallon replacement … Moors murderer Ian Brady's ashes dumped at sea … departing Twitter worker takes down @realDonaldTrump Hello, it's Warren Murray with your TGIF briefing. Continue reading... |
| Journalists set up Second Source group to tackle harassment Posted: 02 Nov 2017 04:01 PM PDT UK women's network gains cross-party political support for mission to encourage change across media industry Leading female journalists have set up a network to tackle sexual harassment in the media industry. The Second Source is aimed at promoting awareness of abuse in journalism, and hopes to work with organisations to encourage change across the industry. Continue reading... |
| US bombers fly Korea exercise amid hint Pyongyang could return to terror list Posted: 02 Nov 2017 03:38 PM PDT
Two American B-1B bombers flew through South Korean airspace and over the country's Pilsung Range on the latest exercise there, the US air force said on Thursday. North Korea's official KCNA news agency claimed that the planes carried out bombing drills simulating attacks on major targets in the country. Although the bombers are no longer part of the US nuclear force, they can be loaded with large numbers of conventional weapons. |
| 'Shameful': UK and US under fire over blocked funds for Haiti cholera victims Posted: 02 Nov 2017 07:17 AM PDT China, France and Russia also among major UN donors resisting appeal to spend $40m of UN money on victims of cholera epidemic, claim lawyers Human rights lawyers have accused the UK and other large donors of blocking the release of a multimillion-dollar UN fund to provide relief to victims of a cholera epidemic that has killed 10,000 people in Haiti. The outbreak, which affected hundreds of thousands of Haitians, was caused when infected UN peacekeepers from Nepal brought the disease to the country in 2010. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 02 Nov 2017 06:30 AM PDT The release of new figures showing that 2016 was Brazil's most murderous year lends additional poignancy to the country's All Souls Day festivities On All Souls Day, Brazilians visit the graves of loved ones to celebrate their lives and grieve their loss. This year, there is a special poignancy for those who care to see it. The Day of the Dead dawned hours after the release of figures revealing that 2016 was the most murderous year in Brazil's history. One person was killed every seven minutes in the country last year, a total of almost 62,000 lives lost to violence. This "genocide" of Brazilian people – especially her young, black people – overshadows this year's festivities. Between 2005 and 2015, the average homicide rate rose from 26 to 29.9 murders per 100,000 people. Most were young, and in 2015 seven out of 10 were black. Black people are more vulnerable in virtually every state in the country, regardless of socioeconomic status. Continue reading... |
| Trump's Asia tour: what lies ahead for the president – and the countries he visits Posted: 02 Nov 2017 04:59 PM PDT The US leader will visit five nations in 11 days and on his agenda are some of thorniest of issues It is being seen as one of the trickiest diplomatic tours in decades in which Donald Trump will must grapple with the thorny issues of North Korea's nuclear ambitions as well as trade wars in Asia. Continue reading... |
| Will Belgium hand Carles Puigdemont over to Spain? Posted: 02 Nov 2017 10:56 AM PDT Extradition of the Catalan leader could take years, in a case that might test the limits of the trust between the EU partners The ousted Catalan president Carles Puigdemont's decision to defy a Spanish court summons and remain in Brussels will trigger an extradition dispute that could run for months, if not years. The state prosecutor's request for Puigdemont to be detained under the European arrest warrant (EAW) will initiate a procedure designed to speed up the handover of criminal suspects between EU states. Continue reading... |
| Trump's 'largest tax cut ever' could fall apart over who foots the bill Posted: 02 Nov 2017 10:16 AM PDT The Republican tax plan is battling perceptions that it is a handout for the rich but now homeowners are following pension holders' lead in challenging its basis "We are going to have the largest tax cut ever," Donald Trump claimed earlier this month – the latest in a series of promises of tax reform from the US president. But as the plan finally emerged on Thursday it may be the president himself who is the biggest threat to the bill getting passed. The long-awaited $1.51tn plan to cut taxes for corporations, reduce them for some middle-class families and streamline the tax code looked more costly, more vulnerable and smaller than originally planned. Continue reading... |
| Hillary Clinton: 'Without the Comey letter I would have won' Posted: 02 Nov 2017 09:44 PM PDT At the Woman's National Democratic Club in Washington, the former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton offers her analysis of what led to her electoral loss last November, saying a letter written by former FBI director James Comey was the main cause. 'It was totally unmerited,' she said Continue reading... |
| 'Together we reject hate': New Yorkers gather for candlelit vigil – video Posted: 02 Nov 2017 07:23 AM PDT A candlelit vigil took place in New York on Wednesday night for the eight people killed when a man drove a rented truck on to a cycle path in lower Manhattan. New Yorkers described the city as a cultural melting pot whose residents needed to stand together in the aftermath of the attack Continue reading... |
| Officer who shot Manhattan attacker: I was just doing my job – video Posted: 02 Nov 2017 04:15 AM PDT New York City police officer Ryan Nash, who confronted the Manhattan truck attacker on Tuesday, tells reporters on Wednesday that he and his colleagues were just doing their jobs and thanked his family and friends for their support Continue reading... |
| Never-before-seen footage of Osama bin Laden's son released by CIA – video Posted: 02 Nov 2017 03:54 AM PDT The CIA has released previously unseen video of Osama bin Laden's son and potential successor in a trove of material recovered during the May 2011 raid that killed the al-Qaida leader at his compound in Pakistan. The video offers the first public look at Hamza bin Laden as an adult. Until now, only childhood pictures of him have been seen Continue reading... |
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