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- Prince Charles's estate made big profit on stake in friend's offshore firm
- Virginia elects first transgender person to US state legislature
- 'He'll tweet whatever he wants': Trump to ignore China's strict censorship
- Cyclist who gave Trump the middle finger: 'He wasn't going to hear me through the glass'
- German Greens drop car and coal policies in coalition talks with Merkel
- Closure of Yemen's borders to aid deliveries is 'catastrophic', UN warns
- Arrests in Italy as 26 Nigerian women and girls found dead
- Mexican troops waging war on drug gangs not punished for rights abuses – report
- Syria signs Paris climate agreement and leaves US isolated
- Canada groups launch court challenge to Quebec's face-covering ban
- How a big Australian bank bought into Sheryl Crow's back catalogue
- Saudi Arabia accuses Iran of 'direct aggression' over Yemen missile
- Satirical article saying Spanish riot police took cocaine lands editor in court
- Harvey Weinstein hired ex-Mossad agents to suppress allegations, report claims
- Snake charmer: man held in Germany found with python in his pants
- Bids are in for Amazon's HQ2. Now the contest begins – but will it be worth it?
- The Guardian view on Saudi Arabia: a slow-motion coup | Editorial
- Carl Sargeant was not told detail of harassment allegations, say friends
- The ‘Jihadi Jack’ I went to school with must face justice in Britain | Michael Raff
- Rare victory for rainforests as nations vow to stop 'death by chocolate'
- Mexico baby death trial reveals growing persecution of women who miscarry
- Lynette Daley's family says DPP should resign over delay in justice
- Trump warns North Korea's Kim Jong-un: 'Don't try us'
- Wednesday briefing: May's cabinet of chaos
- Bolsheviks seize power in Petrograd - archive, 8 November 1917
- Donald Trump's South Korea speech: the key points
- Gabrielle Maina: funeral held in Kenya for murdered Australian teacher
- Venice cruise ship traffic restricted amid concerns over damage to buildings
- Six Russians locked into 'spacecraft' for 17 days in moon flight simulation
- 'Making war is easier than making peace': in conversation with Colombia's President Santos – podcast
- Mongolia's liver cancer crisis: 'No other country has a problem like this' | Hannah Griffin
- Stress is bad for your health. Today's political uncertainty makes it worse
- Donald Trump: gun control 'shouldn't be discussed right now' - video
- Delhi smog declared public health emergency – video
- One year on: reporting Trump's election night win – video
| Prince Charles's estate made big profit on stake in friend's offshore firm Posted: 07 Nov 2017 10:00 AM PST MPs urge transparency after Paradise Papers show prince's estate held stake in forestry firm as he campaigned on climate The Prince of Wales's private estate has invested millions of pounds in offshore funds and companies, including a Bermuda-registered business run by one of his best friends, according to documents in the Paradise Papers leak. The Duchy of Cornwall's decision to buy shares was regarded as highly sensitive and board members of the company, which invested in land to protect it from deforestation, were sworn to secrecy. Continue reading... |
| Virginia elects first transgender person to US state legislature Posted: 08 Nov 2017 01:55 AM PST Danica Roem, a former journalist and member of heavy metal band, beats Republican who sponsored bathroom bill A Virginia politician has become the first transgender person elected to a US state legislature, unseating one of Virginia's longest serving and most socially conservative lawmakers. The Democrat Danica Roem, a former journalist for the Gainesville Times, beat the Republican Bob Marshall, who sponsored a bill this year that would have required transgender people to use bathrooms corresponding with the sex on their birth certificate. Continue reading... |
| 'He'll tweet whatever he wants': Trump to ignore China's strict censorship Posted: 08 Nov 2017 02:10 AM PST White House official says US president will not avoid favourite communication source as he lands in Beijing to meet Xi Jinping Donald Trump has thumbed his nose at China's draconian censorship regime as he touched down in Beijing on the latest leg of his 12-day east Asian tour. China was last year labelled the world's worst abuser of internet freedom and Trump's favourite means of communication, Twitter, is blocked across the mainland along with other western social media outlets including Facebook, YouTube and Instagram. Continue reading... |
| Cyclist who gave Trump the middle finger: 'He wasn't going to hear me through the glass' Posted: 07 Nov 2017 11:00 PM PST Juli Briskman has been hailed as a hero – and fired from her job – for a spur-of-the moment demonstration that quickly spread around the world Juli Briskman found flowers on her doorstep on Monday night. "Juli: I don't know you and yet I am so proud of you," an accompanying note said. "You're my hero. Truly. Thank you for standing up to this admin. We need more like you. Continue to resist. We're with you all the way. Sally M." Briskman does not know who Sally M is, but she knows what motivated the message. In the past week, she has received media calls from as far away as Colombia and Sweden as well as her share of hate mail. One told her: "I hope you get used to saying, 'Do you want fries with that?'" Continue reading... |
| German Greens drop car and coal policies in coalition talks with Merkel Posted: 08 Nov 2017 01:23 AM PST Decision to drop key issues welcomed by other negotiating parties but criticised by some supporters Germany's Green party has agreed to compromise on key environmental issues in talks between parties hoping to form a coalition government by the end of the year. The party's decision to back down on its insistence over a ban on combustion engines and the closing down of coal-fired power plants was welcomed by the other negotiating parties as paving the way for official negotiations to begin. Continue reading... |
| Closure of Yemen's borders to aid deliveries is 'catastrophic', UN warns Posted: 07 Nov 2017 09:22 AM PST After Saudi-led coalition seals stricken country's borders, aid agencies caution that deliveries of food and medicine are critical for population's survival Humanitarian groups and the UN have urged the Saudi-led coalition to reopen aid channels into Yemen, after a decision to seal the stricken country's air, sea and land borders. The UN described the closure of aid channels as "catastrophic". Food, medicine and other essential supplies are "critical for the survival" of the country's 27 million population, weakened by war, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) added. Yemen is in the grip of the world's worst cholera outbreak and 7 million people are already on the brink of famine. |
| Arrests in Italy as 26 Nigerian women and girls found dead Posted: 07 Nov 2017 08:57 AM PST Two men charged with people trafficking and police investigate suspected murder after bodies recovered from shipwrecks Two men have been arrested and charged in Italy as investigators look into the deaths of 26 Nigerian women and girls, who are suspected to have been murdered while attempting to cross the Mediterranean. The bodies of the women were brought to the southern Italian port of Salerno by the Spanish ship Cantabria on Sunday, and prosecutors opened an investigation over suspicions that the women, some as young as 14, may have been abused and killed. Continue reading... |
| Mexican troops waging war on drug gangs not punished for rights abuses – report Posted: 07 Nov 2017 12:22 PM PST Research shows most abuses go unsolved and unpunished despite reforms letting civilian authorities investigate and prosecute such crimes The vast majority of human rights abuses allegedly committed by soldiers waging Mexico's war on drug gangs go unsolved and unpunished despite reforms letting civilian authorities investigate and prosecute such crimes, a report said Tuesday. The Washington Office on Latin America study, described as the first comprehensive analysis of military abuse investigations handled by the Attorney General's Office, found there were just 16 convictions of soldiers in the civilian judicial system out of 505 criminal investigations from 2012 through 2016, a prosecutorial success rate of 3.2%. Continue reading... |
| Syria signs Paris climate agreement and leaves US isolated Posted: 07 Nov 2017 10:06 AM PST Syria's decision means America will be the only country outside the landmark deal if it follows through with Donald Trump's vow to leave Syria has decided to sign the Paris agreement on climate change, the world's final functioning state to do so. The surprise decision, taken amid a brutal civil war in the country, will leave the US as the only country outside the agreement if it follows through on President Donald Trump's vow to leave. Syria's decision brings to 197 the number of nations signed up to the landmark 2015 pact on global warming, the first in more than 20 years of UN negotiations to bind both developed and developing countries to a clear limit on temperature rises. Continue reading... |
| Canada groups launch court challenge to Quebec's face-covering ban Posted: 07 Nov 2017 12:08 PM PST Muslim and civil rights organizations say measure discriminates against Muslim women and violates provincial and national constitutions Two Canadian groups have asked a court to overturn a new Quebec law that bans observant Muslim women from wearing a full-face veil when providing or receiving government services. The National Council for Canadian Muslims, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and Quebec Muslim resident Marie-Michelle Lacoste asked a provincial court to declare the law invalid, arguing that it discriminates against Muslim women and violates equality and freedom of religion protections in the Canadian and Quebec constitutions. Continue reading... |
| How a big Australian bank bought into Sheryl Crow's back catalogue Posted: 07 Nov 2017 10:00 AM PST Paradise Papers reveal that leading banks are parties to schemes that use tax havens to minimise tax for their wealthy clients Some of Australia's leading banks have been revealed as parties to schemes that use tax havens to minimise tax in Australia and other jurisdictions for their wealthy clients, while offering investments in assets such as back catalogues of rock songs. The Paradise Papers reveal that the Commonwealth Bank's investment banking arm Colonial First State invested US$31m in the FS Media Fund, which was run through an offshore tax haven in Jersey in the English Channel. Continue reading... |
| Saudi Arabia accuses Iran of 'direct aggression' over Yemen missile Posted: 07 Nov 2017 06:51 AM PST Crown prince links Tehran to missile fired from Yemen towards Riyadh airport, as stakes raised between regional rivals Saudi Arabia's crown prince has accused Iran of "direct military aggression" by supplying missiles to Houthi rebels in Yemen, raising the stakes in an already tense standoff between the two regional rivals. Mohammed bin Salman linked Tehran to the launch of a ballistic missile fired from Yemen towards the international airport in the Saudi capital of Riyadh on Saturday. The missile was intercepted and destroyed. Continue reading... |
| Satirical article saying Spanish riot police took cocaine lands editor in court Posted: 07 Nov 2017 06:44 AM PST Police unions complain over story published by El Jueves magazine shortly after Catalonia referendum violence The editor of a satirical magazine is due to appear in court in Spain over a tongue-in-cheek article that suggested the riot police deployed to stop the Catalan independence vote had snorted the region's entire supply of cocaine. On 5 October, four days after the Catalan government's unilateral independence referendum was marred by police violence, El Jueves published a story entitled: "The continuing presence of riot police exhausts Catalonia's cocaine reserves – Colombian cartels have warned they can't keep up with such high demand." Continue reading... |
| Harvey Weinstein hired ex-Mossad agents to suppress allegations, report claims Posted: 07 Nov 2017 07:39 AM PST Harvey Weinstein calls New Yorker report 'fiction', as magazine alleges producer used an 'army of spies' to stop accusers from going public Harvey Weinstein allegedly hired an "army of spies", including former Mossad agents, in an attempt to stop accusers from going public with sexual misconduct claims against him, according to a report in the New Yorker. Among the private security agencies hired by Weinstein starting around autumn 2016, the magazine claims, was Black Cube, which is largely run by former officers of Israeli intelligence agencies, including Mossad. Another was corporate intelligence giant Kroll. Continue reading... |
| Snake charmer: man held in Germany found with python in his pants Posted: 08 Nov 2017 02:36 AM PST Darmstadt police detained 19-year-old after a drunken row with another man and said they saw 'significant bulge in his trousers' A man detained by police during a drunken argument in Germany may have violated animal welfare laws after being found to be carrying a baby python in his pants. Police in Darmstadt, in the west of the country, said he was held on Tuesday night after a loud row with another man disturbed residents. They said he was searched and officers noticed "a significant bulge in his trousers". Continue reading... |
| Bids are in for Amazon's HQ2. Now the contest begins – but will it be worth it? Posted: 07 Nov 2017 11:30 PM PST US cities from Tucson to Atlanta have been vying to host the e-tailing giant's new mega-complex. Few seem to have considered what they will get in return The deadline has passed, but the competition has just begun. Since early September, US cities have been promoting their attributes, beautifying their reputations and putting on elaborate displays of civic seduction – all in an effort to convince Jeff Bezos and his team at Amazon to select them as the site of the e-tailing behemoth's second headquarters. Tucson sent a 21ft cactus. New York lit up the Empire State Building in the brand's shade of orange. The mayor of the Atlanta suburb of Stonecrest said his city would use 345 acres of industrial land to create an entirely new city called Amazon. Continue reading... |
| The Guardian view on Saudi Arabia: a slow-motion coup | Editorial Posted: 07 Nov 2017 11:18 AM PST There are legitimate questions about whether you can sweep out the Augean stables if you don't have clean hands The slow-motion coup in Saudi Arabia is changing nothing – and everything – in the desert kingdom. An unprecedented series of arrests this weekend has put princes, former ministers and tycoons behind the gilded bars of a five star hotel. By precipitating the resignation of the Lebanese prime minister, a new front against long-time rival Iran was opened up just as an old one became inflamed by rocket fire. Yet the ruler of the repressive desert state remains the aged and ailing King Salman. His legitimacy derives from his lineage: he is a son of the nation's founder, and traditionally the post of king passes from brother to brother in order of age. In an absolute monarchy, the king's word is final. Yet it is by deed that power is known. By that measure, there's only one person running Saudi Arabia: crown prince Mohammed bin Salman. If he ascends to the throne, the 33-year-old will have broken the grip of the older Sauds over the state the family's patriarch founded. The crown prince, known as MbS, is a young, inexperienced, and belligerent man. His misguided foreign policy, which has backfired spectacularly in Yemen, Syria and Qatar, is testament to hasty and rash decision-making. He now seeks to disturb the delicate balance of forces in Lebanon. MbS's enemies, as with Abu Dhabi's Mohammed Bin Zayed, are the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran. His best friend internationally appears to be US president Donald Trump, who took time out of his tour of Asia to tweet approvingly of MbS's actions and, in passing, lobby to secure a US listing of Saudi Arabia's national oil company. But MbS has proved cunning and ruthless – moving to silence those who disagree with him in the clergy and in the sliver of space afforded to Saudi civil society. At the same time as depriving citizens of civil rights, MbS afforded female drivers the right to drive. The crown prince gives a little, but takes a lot. Continue reading... |
| Carl Sargeant was not told detail of harassment allegations, say friends Posted: 08 Nov 2017 02:01 AM PST Questions raised over handling of claims against Welsh politician who was found dead after being sacked as minister Pressure is growing on the Labour government in Wales over the death of senior politician Carl Sargeant, who was found dead after being sacked as a minister amid allegations of harassment. Sargeant was devastated to lose his job and to be suspended from the Labour party, but friends have said he had not been told the detail of the claims by the time he apparently took his own life on Tuesday. Continue reading... |
| The ‘Jihadi Jack’ I went to school with must face justice in Britain | Michael Raff Posted: 08 Nov 2017 01:30 AM PST Jack Letts denies being a terrorist. To leave him to rot in Syria rather than be questioned at home would betray the values that separate us from Isis Until 2014, Jack Letts had a normal life. He grew up in a middle-class family in Oxford, attended a good state school and was surrounded by a close-knit group of friends. I know this first-hand, as for many years we were classmates. However, the last three years have been anything but ordinary for Jack. In 2014, having converted to Islam, he travelled to Syria. He has remained there since, along the way being dubbed Jihadi Jack by the British media, after an image surfaced of him making a hand gesture widely used by Islamic State. In May, the 21-year-old was captured by the Kurdish People's Protection Units after leaving territory that had been controlled by Isis. He has since been charged with being a member of Isis. Continue reading... |
| Rare victory for rainforests as nations vow to stop 'death by chocolate' Posted: 07 Nov 2017 09:00 PM PST Plans by the governments of Ghana and Ivory Coast drawn up after Guardian investigation revealed links between the cocoa industry and rainforest loss The governments of Ghana and the Ivory Coast are formulating plans to immediately put a stop to all new deforestation after a Guardian investigation found that the cocoa industry was destroying their rainforests. The west African neighbours have been drafting new measures to rescue their remaining forests and replant degraded ones. Continue reading... |
| Mexico baby death trial reveals growing persecution of women who miscarry Posted: 08 Nov 2017 12:00 AM PST Dafne McPherson was convicted of murder after her baby died during childbirth – part of a growing trend to criminalise women in conservative parts of the country The day that Dafne McPherson's life came apart began like any other: she dropped her seven-year-old daughter Lia at school, then started her shift in the children's clothing section of the Liverpool department store in the central Mexican city of San Juan del Río. At around 5pm, she felt a sharp abdominal cramp and spoke to the store nurse, who told her nothing was amiss. But shortly afterwards, in the second-floor bathroom, McPherson went into labour. She says she hadn't even realized that she was pregnant. |
| Lynette Daley's family says DPP should resign over delay in justice Posted: 08 Nov 2017 12:49 AM PST Relatives describe years of 'trauma and grief' as victim statements read at sentencing hearing Lynette Daley's family has called on New South Wales director of public prosecutions to resign for initially deciding not to prosecute her attackers. In a victim impact statement read in the NSW supreme court in Coffs Harbour on Wednesday, Daley's mother, Thelma Davis, said she had suffered "years of struggle, heartaches, stress and emotion" since her daughter was killed in January 2011. Continue reading... |
| Trump warns North Korea's Kim Jong-un: 'Don't try us' Posted: 08 Nov 2017 01:20 AM PST In a speech in South Korea, US president tells Pyongyang it will face disaster unless leader abandons his nuclear ambitions Donald Trump has delivered a stark personal message to Kim Jong-un, saying North Korea will face disaster unless he gives up his nuclear ambitions. Speaking in front of lawmakers at South Korea's national assembly, the US president offered a "brighter path" if Pyongyang abandoned its weapons programme, leaving the door open to diplomacy, but also warned that the US was prepared to use military means if necessary. Continue reading... |
| Wednesday briefing: May's cabinet of chaos Posted: 07 Nov 2017 10:30 PM PST Priti Patel under pressure over Israel meetings … 'Don't try us,' Trump warns Kim Jong-un … and pros and cons of 'internet outrage' Hello – it's Warren Murray putting you out in front this morning. Continue reading... |
| Bolsheviks seize power in Petrograd - archive, 8 November 1917 Posted: 07 Nov 2017 09:30 PM PST 8 November 1917 The Maximalists have occupied the Central Telegraph Office, State Bank and Marie Palace Maximalist rising in Petrograd - Parliament building seized Petrograd, Wednesday Noon |
| Donald Trump's South Korea speech: the key points Posted: 07 Nov 2017 08:55 PM PST US president's national assembly speech was uncompromising and dark, but it also offered a 'brighter path' to Kim Jong-un as well as slipping in a plug for his golf course The key passages from Donald Trump's speech to the South Korean assembly. Continue reading... |
| Gabrielle Maina: funeral held in Kenya for murdered Australian teacher Posted: 07 Nov 2017 07:14 PM PST Police investigating stolen mobile phone syndicate operating from the Kawangware slum in Nairobi in relation to Maina's death A funeral has been held in Kenya for the slain Australian woman Gabrielle Maina as local police investigate whether she may have died as the result of an armed robbery. Maina, a 40-year-old schoolteacher, was shot dead by armed men riding a motorbike while walking near her home in the suburb of Karen on 19 October. Continue reading... |
| Venice cruise ship traffic restricted amid concerns over damage to buildings Posted: 07 Nov 2017 05:28 PM PST Vessels weighing 100,000 tonnes or more will take a less glamorous route to the industrial port of Marghera, far from the Grand Canal Gondolas and water taxis will never again have to vie with big cruise ships for space in front of Venice's iconic St Mark's Square, an Italian governmental committee has decided. Venetians and environmentalists have long voiced concerns about floating pleasure palaces sailing close to the fragile city, dwarfing its Gothic and Byzantine churches. Continue reading... |
| Six Russians locked into 'spacecraft' for 17 days in moon flight simulation Posted: 07 Nov 2017 05:05 PM PST The three men and three women are the first group in a programme which will see teams spend up to a year in isolation Three men and three women were sealed in an artificial spacecraft unit in Moscow on Tuesday in a simulation of a 17-day flight to the moon, a preparation for long-term missions. The experiment is the first of several in the Sirius (Scientific International Research In a Unique terrestrial Station) programme, which over the course of five years will gradually increase the isolation experiment to 365 days. Continue reading... |
| 'Making war is easier than making peace': in conversation with Colombia's President Santos – podcast Posted: 07 Nov 2017 11:00 PM PST With six months left in office, Juan Manuel Santos talks to Lucy Lamble about whether his acclaimed yet controversial peace deal can survive the transition A year on from the historic agreement between Santos's government and the Farc rebels, the Nobel prizewinning president discusses the biggest obstacles to reconciliation, and the importance of healing the wounds of the 8 million registered victims of the violence. But could a change of leadership next year put peace in peril? Continue reading... |
| Mongolia's liver cancer crisis: 'No other country has a problem like this' | Hannah Griffin Posted: 07 Nov 2017 04:34 AM PST Cirrhosis and liver cancer cause 15% of all deaths in Mongolia. Now the government is waking up to the issue – and tackling the hepatitis that triggers it Danzan Purev beams as he shows members of a support group photos of his infant nephew on his iPhone. The 68-year-old geologist is charismatic and jokes with the others gathered in the room in Ulan Bator. But his mood changes as he begins to recount his long experience with hepatitis, a disease that has blighted his life. Purev was diagnosed with hepatitis B and C in the early 1990s. By the end of the decade his health and quality of life had deteriorated, leaving him constantly sick and fatigued. He had to sell his business to finance a trip to Korea to undergo treatment, which was not successful. "Financially, I just went down," he says. Continue reading... |
| Stress is bad for your health. Today's political uncertainty makes it worse Posted: 07 Nov 2017 03:00 AM PST Americans are exposed to one of the most damaging sources of stress: uncertainty. The assault on our fundamental sense of security can make us sick
David Dobbs' 13-year-old daughter has type 1 diabetes. Since 2015, the 59-year-old freelance writer and author has relied on Obamacare, officially known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), to help pay for his daughter's insulin, blood testing supplies and other medical needs. But as the endless series of cliffhangers over the fate of the ACA continues, Dobbs says he's starting to feel hunted. Without insurance, diabetes treatment alone would cost his family about $20,000 to $30,000 a year, he estimates – and that's if nothing goes wrong and prompts an astronomically expensive hospitalization. Continue reading... |
| Donald Trump: gun control 'shouldn't be discussed right now' - video Posted: 07 Nov 2017 08:46 AM PST In answer to a reporter's question at a press conference in South Korea, the US president says tougher gun laws would not have prevented Sunday's mass shooting at a south Texas church, and argues that more restrictions may have led to more casualties. He says it is a 'situation that probably shouldn't be discussed too much' and noted that he was in South Korea. Trump supported gun control before reversing his position to enter the Republican presidential primary and courted the National Rifle Association's endorsement in 2016. This year he became the first president in three decades to speak at the group's annual convention • Trump says tougher gun laws would have made Texas church shooting worse Continue reading... |
| Delhi smog declared public health emergency – video Posted: 07 Nov 2017 06:25 AM PST A public health emergency has been declared in Delhi as a choking blanket of smog descended on one of the world's most polluted capital cities. The declaration from the Indian Medical Association came as the US embassy website said levels of the fine pollutants known as PM2.5 that are most harmful to health reached 703 on the air quality index – well over double the threshold of 300 that authorities class as hazardous Continue reading... |
| One year on: reporting Trump's election night win – video Posted: 07 Nov 2017 04:02 AM PST The Guardian reporters Paul Lewis, Sabrina Siddiqui and Gary Younge recall their experiences of the real estate mogul's unexpected victory – a moment of triumph for some and utter disbelief for others: 'Everybody will remember where they were on the night Donald Trump was elected' Continue reading... |
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