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Zimbabwe military officials given key jobs in post-Mugabe cabinet
Theresa May rebukes Trump as opposition to state visit grows
State department denies Rex Tillerson is being replaced as Trump reveals little
Sicilians take aim at oil 'monster' they blame for children's birth defects
Argentina's missing submarine: 'No one will be rescued'
Cancer drug offers tantalising hope for HIV cure
Belgian artist rescued from installation representing 'inescapable burden of history'
Erdoğan knew of alleged Iranian scheme to evade sanctions via Turkey, court told
Ex-Twitter worker who 'admires' Trump says he was behind account deactivation
Doctor wins 2017 John Maddox prize for countering HPV vaccine misinformation
American Airlines glitch leaves 15,000 Christmas flights without a captain
Briton rescued in Caribbean admits smuggling coins worth $100,000
Trouble brewing: AB InBev accused of keeping cheap beer from Belgians
Bitcoin is a vehicle for fraudsters, warns Goldman Sachs boss
Dutch police launch inquiry into war criminal's courtroom suicide
Gloria Steinem on her Bill Clinton essay: 'I wouldn’t write the same thing now'
Ice Bucket Challenge co-founder dies after long battle with disease
Iceland seeks return to political stability with new prime minister
German court to hear Peruvian farmer's climate case against RWE
The fraught case of elderly people accused of sexually harassing carers
Taming 'the worm': how the Minhocão is São Paulo's soul
São Paulo 'exclusively for business, by business' at expense of urban poor
Occupation Hope: the DIY district ruled by women – in pictures
'This exhibition contains nudity': the front line of Brazil's culture wars
Protegidos pela noite: conheça o gigante mercado informal da Feirinha da Madrugada
Conheça o prefeito João Doria: a versão paulistana, esperta e polêmica de Trump
Copan strategy: the wild plan to revamp the ‘coolest building in Latin America’
Addiction v art: the radical theatre in the heart of Crackland
Soldier, financial guru and hip-hop legend: who was the real Hamilton?
Are you an EU national who has left the UK? Tell us why
US-led coalition says its strikes have killed 800 Iraqi and Syrian civilians
'Society needs to learn to accept': living with HIV and Aids in Africa – in pictures
Canadian marijuana advocate blasts ‘hypocrisy’ of ex-police cashing in on cannabis
Akihito to become first Japanese emperor to abdicate in 200 years
Labor takes aim at focus of banking royal commission
Friday briefing: Unwelcome guest? Trump state visit in peril
Kim Jong-nam had antidote to nerve agent that killed him in bag
New Zealand could force disgraced NBC host Matt Lauer to sell $13m farm
Honduras election: protesters clash with police as opposition cries foul
Tory MP hits back at rightwing foreign aid critics nick herbert
'Every app is a dating app': technology blamed for spike in HIV rates in Pakistan
Donald Trump's menacing talk on North Korea is leaving the US isolated
Videos tweeted by Trump: where are they from and what do they really show?
Pope Francis visits Myanmar and Bangladesh – in pictures
Tombohuaun untapped: 'my hope for this village is clean water' – in pictures

Zimbabwe military officials given key jobs in post-Mugabe cabinet

Posted: 01 Dec 2017 01:47 AM PST

President Emmerson Mnangagwa appoints senior soldiers and party loyalists to top posts but opposition politicians lose out

Zimbabwe's new president has announced a fresh cabinet with key roles given to veterans of the ruling Zanu-PF party and senior soldiers, and no posts for the opposition.

Emmerson Mnangagwa took power after a military takeover and popular protests ousted Robert Mugabe last week.

Theresa May rebukes Trump as opposition to state visit grows

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 07:57 PM PST

PM reiterates that US president was wrong to retweet videos from Britain First while justice minister Sam Gyimah expresses concern at state visit plan

Theresa May rebuked Donald Trump on Thursday over his sharing of propaganda videos from far-right group Britain First while the UK's ambassador to Washington confirmed he had formally complained to the White House about the president's offending tweets.

Choosing her words carefully, the prime minister said: "I am very clear that retweeting from Britain First was the wrong thing to do," while British diplomats waited in vain for the president to delete the tweets or offer any kind of apology.

State department denies Rex Tillerson is being replaced as Trump reveals little

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 02:07 PM PST

Trump only confirmed the secretary of state was at White House after reports emerged Thursday that the CIA director Mike Pompeo would replace him

The state department has said it has been assured by the White House there are no plans to oust Rex Tillerson and replace him with the CIA director, Mike Pompeo.

Sicilians take aim at oil 'monster' they blame for children's birth defects

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 09:00 PM PST

Italy's biggest oil firm is accused of polluting an area where experts found more toxic substance than water in the sea

Everyone in the Sicilian town of Gela knows someone who has been hit by the health crisis that has gripped the town for decades.

Mortality rates are higher than elsewhere on the island, and the town has an unusually high rate of birth defects, including the highest rate in the world of a rare urethra disorder.

Argentina's missing submarine: 'No one will be rescued'

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 02:43 PM PST

Navy will now only look in shallower waters for ARA San Juan, which sank off Patagonia, with 44 crew on board

Argentina has called off the rescue operation for its missing submarine 15 days after a reported explosion apparently sent it to the bottom of the Atlantic ocean off the coast of Patagonia.

"No one will be rescued," said navy captain Enrique Balbi, who has been acting as official spokesperson for the rescue effort. Nonetheless, the search operation for the ARA San Juan would continue in waters of up to 500 metres deep, he added.

Cancer drug offers tantalising hope for HIV cure

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 04:05 PM PST

Patient given nivolumab, a new generation cancer drug, shown to have a reduced reservoir of dormant HIV cells and a boosted immune response

A new generation cancer drug has raised hopes for those living with HIV after it was found to reduce the reservoir of dormant HIV cells in the body and boost the immune response of a patient.

Doctors say the effect the cancer drug nivolumab appeared to have on the patient offers a tantalising hope that it might provide a way to eradicate the virus from patients.

Belgian artist rescued from installation representing 'inescapable burden of history'

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 04:41 PM PST

Man chained to block of marble had to be cut free after he failed to liberate himself by chiselling away at the stone

A Belgian man who chained himself to a block of marble to show the "burden of history" from which artists cannot escape, was unable to free himself and had to be cut loose after 19 days.

In a performance that lasted 438 hours, Mikes Poppe attached himself to a three-metre (10ft) chain buried in the middle of a block of marble in the courthouse of the Belgian coastal city of Ostend.

Erdoğan knew of alleged Iranian scheme to evade sanctions via Turkey, court told

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 05:28 AM PST

Jurors in New York hear businessman Reza Zarrab describe money laundering network to enable Iran to access global markets

A scheme Iran allegedly used to evade sanctions through a state-owned bank in Turkey has been detailed in court by a businessman who claimed the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, had been aware of the billion-dollar operation.

In a case that has strained relations between Turkey and the US, Reza Zarrab, a Turkish-Iranian gold trader, described a sprawling money laundering network that allowed Iran access to international markets from 2010 to 2015 in violation of sanctions over its nuclear programme.

Ex-Twitter worker who 'admires' Trump says he was behind account deactivation

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 11:28 AM PST

Bahtiyar Duysak of Germany tells CNN he made 'a mistake' in temporarily deactivating the president's account, but the details remain murky

A German man who says he "admires" Donald Trump has claimed responsibility for the deactivation of the president's Twitter account for 11 minutes on 2 November, though questions remain about how and why he did it.

Twitter said at the time that the temporary outage was caused by "a Twitter customer support employee who did this on the employee's last day". Many Trump opponents hailed the unknown employee as a hero.

Doctor wins 2017 John Maddox prize for countering HPV vaccine misinformation

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 11:00 AM PST

Riko Muranaka awarded prize for efforts to explain jabs's safety amid scare campaigns which have seen Japanese vaccination rate fall from over 70% to 1%

A Japanese doctor who has stood up to a campaign of misinformation around a common anti-cancer vaccine has won a prestigious prize for championing evidence in the face of hostility and personal threats.

Riko Muranaka at Kyoto University was awarded the 2017 John Maddox prize on Thursday for her efforts to explain the safety of the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine amid strong opposition from anti-vaccine activists and a small group of academics.

American Airlines glitch leaves 15,000 Christmas flights without a captain

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 07:44 AM PST

The airline is scrambling after a scheduling mishap, offering overtime pay and flights to on-call pilots, leading the pilots' union to lodge a protest

A scheduling glitch has allowed all American Airlines pilots to take time off during Christmas week, leaving the airline scrambling to find pilots to operate thousands of flights over the busy Christmas holiday period.

Briton rescued in Caribbean admits smuggling coins worth $100,000

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 10:43 AM PST

Lewis Bennett was rescued alone with an 'unusually heavy' bag after his wife mysteriously disappeared

A British man whose wife mysteriously vanished while they were sailing off the coast of Cuba has admitted smuggling stolen coins worth thousands.

Lewis Bennett, 40, faces up to 10 years in prison after changing his plea to guilty in a federal court in Miami on Thursday over the charge of transporting stolen property.

Trouble brewing: AB InBev accused of keeping cheap beer from Belgians

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 08:02 AM PST

EU investigation finds brewer may have deliberately prevented cheaper imports from reaching consumers in Belgium

It is an announcement that could hardly be better designed to get the blood of the average Belgian boiling.

The European commission has said drinkers in the country have probably been paying over the odds for their favourite beers for years.

Bitcoin is a vehicle for fraudsters, warns Goldman Sachs boss

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 10:25 AM PST

CEO Lloyd Blankfein attacks cryptocurrency after value dives 20% in a day, saying bank will not get involved until it becomes less volatile

The boss of Goldman Sachs became the latest high-profile critic of bitcoin, claiming it was a vehicle to commit fraud as the value of the cryptocurrency plunged 20% in less than 24 hours.

Lloyd Blankfein, chief executive of the US investment bank, said: "Something that moves 20% [overnight] does not feel like a currency. It is a vehicle to perpetrate fraud."

Dutch police launch inquiry into war criminal's courtroom suicide

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 10:31 AM PST

International criminal tribunal for former Yugoslavia asks Dutch police to investigate how poison was smuggled into court

Dutch police have launched a criminal investigation into the death of the Bosnian Croat commander Slobodan Praljak, who swallowed poison as his appeal verdict was being streamed live around the world.

The international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has invited local police officers to conduct the inquiry into how the chemical was smuggled into the high-security courtroom in The Hague.

Gloria Steinem on her Bill Clinton essay: 'I wouldn’t write the same thing now'

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 09:54 AM PST

The feminist icon spoke to the Guardian about her 1998 op-ed, which drew criticism: 'what you write in one decade you don't necessarily write in the next'

Gloria Steinem would not mount the same vigorous defence of Bill Clinton today that she offered in a controversial 1998 article that downplayed accusations of harassment against the then president, the feminist icon has told the Guardian.

But Steinem said she did not regret writing the New York Times article in the first place.

Ice Bucket Challenge co-founder dies after long battle with disease

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 09:08 AM PST

ALS Association says Anthony Senerchia, 46, died on Saturday
Social media phenomenon raised money for degenerative illness

The ALS Association says a man credited as one of the co-founders of the viral "Ice Bucket Challenge" that swept social media in 2014 has died after a years-long battle with the condition known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Anthony Senerchia was 46.

Iceland seeks return to political stability with new prime minister

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 04:01 AM PST

Katrín Jakobsdóttir takes reins of left-led coalition pledging to invest in public services and sustain economic recovery

The leader of Iceland's Left-Green movement has become the country's new prime minister at the head of a broad three-party coalition that could restore a measure of political stability after a succession of scandals.

Katrín Jakobsdóttir, 41, a popular former education minister who is considered to be Iceland's most trusted politician, took office on Wednesday after formally signing a new government accord with the centre-right Independence and Progressive parties.

German court to hear Peruvian farmer's climate case against RWE

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 07:04 AM PST

Decision to hear Saul Luciano Lliuya's case against the energy giant is a 'historic breakthrough with global relevance', campaigners say

A German court has ruled that it will hear a Peruvian farmer's case against energy giant RWE over climate change damage in the Andes, a decision labelled by campaigners as a "historic breakthrough".

Farmer Saul Luciano Lliuya's case against RWE was "well-founded," the court in the north-western city of Hamm said on Thursday.

The fraught case of elderly people accused of sexually harassing carers

Posted: 01 Dec 2017 02:00 AM PST

As sexual misconduct makes headlines, caregivers' crisis is marked by thorny questions – as alleged perpetrators may be infirm, facing dementia, or dying

The allegations are familiar. Groping. Lewd comments. Cornering and harassing. Demanding sex. Abusing power.

But in this case, the transgressors are not prominent figures in politics, media or entertainment.

Taming 'the worm': how the Minhocão is São Paulo's soul

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 11:30 PM PST

On weekdays residents who live within feet of this folly of Brazil's military dictatorship must put up with pollution and a constant roar – but at other times cars are banned. In a city short on public space, the people take control

"I remember when our street had trees on it. It was so nice," says 91-year-old Elca Cartum as she sits in her living room, just feet away from the incessant stream of cars and trucks on the elevated highway that passes right outside her window.

Elca has been living on the third floor since 1959. First they widened the street and planted trees to make a boulevard, she recalls. Then in the late 60s Brazil's military dictatorship decided São Paulo needed an elevated highway to help link the east and west of the rapidly growing city.

São Paulo 'exclusively for business, by business' at expense of urban poor

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 05:27 PM PST

Property speculation has created a community of 'invisible, extremely vulnerable' people in Brazil's largest city, Raquel Rolnik tells Guardian Cities

São Paulo should be for all people, not all investors, the former UN special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing has said, condemning rising inequality and the disenfranchisement of the urban poor in Brazil's largest city.

Raquel Rolnik was discussing warring forces in São Paulo at Pivô, an exhibition space in the Copan building hosted by Guardian Cities on Thursday night. A former urban planning minister in Brazil, Rolnik served as the UN's special rapporteur for adequate housing for six years to 2014.

Occupation Hope: the DIY district ruled by women – in pictures

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 10:53 AM PST

They've survived single parenthood, housing shortages and a devastating fire to build what they have today: Ocupação Esperança, a space in São Paulo where women are in charge and the poor are protected

Fires in São Paulo favelas more likely on higher-value land

'This exhibition contains nudity': the front line of Brazil's culture wars

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 06:37 AM PST

The galleries depict group sex and bestiality, while on the street evangelists cry blasphemy and paedophilia, with a reformed porn star leading the charge. Crunch time is approaching for a divided society

On a recent afternoon, art lovers leaving a sexually explicit exhibition at the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) were met by a group of bearded men in glittery makeup and tutus dancing to deafening electronic music at the head of a march against censorship and homophobic violence.

As the demonstrators made down their way down the city's Paulista Avenue, they passed a group of evangelical Christians, who waited impassively for the noise to abate before joining hands to pray and sing religious rock songs.

Protegidos pela noite: conheça o gigante mercado informal da Feirinha da Madrugada

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 05:48 AM PST

Todo dia, à uma da manhã, milhares de trabalhadores de oficinas clandestinas reúnem-se nas ruas do Brás para vender roupas com estampas piratas da Minnie e da Nike. Às sete, a polícia entra em cena e encerra a feira. O que está por trás da vista grossa feita pelas autoridades durante a madrugada?

Under cover of darkness: inside São Paulo's vast illegal Feirinha night market

A cada dois meses, o vendedor ambulante Aziz Abdel Rahman embarca em um ônibus em Brasília para viajar a noite toda por 1.140 quilômetros. Às duas da manhã, ele chega ao seu destino: a escura e lotadíssima Feirinha da Madrugada, maior feira informal da América do Sul, no centro de São Paulo.

Aziz viaja em busca das roupas mais baratas do país e, na Feirinha, a madrugada é o melhor horário para as compras. É quando ele faz suas buscas entre centenas de pilhas e araras de roupas espalhadas pelas ruas do Brás, em busca de pechinchas como as calças esportivas a R$ 10, que ele depois vende nas ruas de Brasília por R$ 55.

Conheça o prefeito João Doria: a versão paulistana, esperta e polêmica de Trump

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 05:31 AM PST

Herdeiro privilegiado, apresentador d'O Aprendiz, fez uma campanha populista e ataca a oposição pelas redes sociais. Depois de eleito, está promovendo cortes orçamentários e privatizações. Será que ele está destinado ao cargo mais importante do Brasil?

Meet mayor João Doria – São Paulo's slick, polarising answer to Trump

O nome oficial é farinata, mas os críticos inventaram outro: ração humana.

Feita a partir de alimentos básicos com prazo de validade vencido, o alimento provocou protestos assim que João Doria, prefeito de São Paulo, sugeriu que seria uma opção para pobres e estudantes da maior cidade da América do Sul.

Copan strategy: the wild plan to revamp the ‘coolest building in Latin America’

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 04:24 AM PST

Once a crime-ridden mess, Oscar Niemeyer's colossal curving structure has flourished thanks to the efforts of its fabled administrator. But can he push through his last, greatest scheme – the replacement of 72 million tiles?

Imagine covering the area of a city postcode in tiles little larger than thumbnails and you get some idea of the latest, greatest and possibly final challenge facing the fabled administrator of São Paulo's most iconic building.

Affonso Celso Prazeres de Oliveira has managed the colossal Edifício Copan since 1993, turning the once run-down magnet for drug-dealers and prostitutes into what one resident calls "the coolest building in Latin America".

Addiction v art: the radical theatre in the heart of Crackland

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 03:32 AM PST

As police yesterday yet again applied brute force to the residents of São Paulo's 1,000-strong encampment of addicts, a group of artists is trying something wildly different

• Inside Crackland: the open-air drug market that São Paulo just can't kick

Soldier, financial guru and hip-hop legend: who was the real Hamilton?

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 05:54 AM PST

Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical about the founding father is set to storm London. Often mistaken for a president, its hero engineered America and Britain's special relationship, was rocked by a harassment scandal and got his face on the $10 bill

It's the end of the first act of Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda's runaway musical smash about the US founding father. The Americans have just won a decisive victory over the British at Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781. Alexander Hamilton and the Marquis de Lafayette meet at centre-stage and say: "We're immigrants. We get the job done."

Miranda's parents migrated from the Caribbean to New York; Hamilton himself made that journey two centuries earlier. Born on Nevis in the British West Indies, he arrived on the American mainland aged 15. Aaron Burr, his future nemesis, begins the musical by asking how a "bastard orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman", could rise in life to help found a new nation. The answer is that, along the way, Hamilton, like so many immigrants, worked harder than most, becoming a soldier, lawyer, finance minister and then duelist. He excelled at all of these – except the last.

Are you an EU national who has left the UK? Tell us why

Posted: 01 Dec 2017 01:16 AM PST

A significant number of EU nationals the past year have chosen to return to their native country. If this describes you, we'd like you to tell us why

EU nationals make up three-quarters of those who chose to return to their native country, in what official figures show as the largest drop since records began in net migration to Britain the past year.

Evidence suggests a "Brexodus" is taking place with official figures showing net migration to Britain fell by 106,000 to 230,000 in the past 12 months.

US-led coalition says its strikes have killed 800 Iraqi and Syrian civilians

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 09:17 AM PST

Estimate of deaths since 2014 is far lower than those provided by monitoring groups

The American-led coalition battling Islamic State has said at least 800 civilians have been killed in airstrikes in Iraq and Syria since its campaign began in 2014 – far fewer than the numbers documented by monitoring and human rights groups.

Credible monitoring teams have produced estimates of civilian deaths that go as high as nearly 6,000, raising questions over America's commitment to protecting civilian lives as it bombed militant strongholds.

'Society needs to learn to accept': living with HIV and Aids in Africa – in pictures

Posted: 01 Dec 2017 02:00 AM PST

Across Africa, girls and young women are disproportionately affected by HIV and Aids. Treatment remains out of reach for many pregnant women and mothers who have the virus, with stigma and discrimination common. Photographer Karin Schermbrucker spent a decade travelling with Unicef, documenting the courage of such women

The exhibition Umama Onesibindi – Mother of Courage opens in Johannesburg on 1 December, World Aids Day

Canadian marijuana advocate blasts ‘hypocrisy’ of ex-police cashing in on cannabis

Posted: 01 Dec 2017 01:15 AM PST

Former public servants and police officers are finding opportunities in the country's fledgling industry – including some who were once adamantly anti-pot

One of Canada's most prominent marijuana activists has taken aim at former police officers who have entered the country's fledgling cannabis industry, saying it was "hard to stomach" that those who spent years sending people to jail for pot offences are now poised to profit as the country moves towards legalisation.

"It's a mix of hypocrisy and pure profiteering," Jodie Emery told the Guardian. "They made a living off tax dollars for trying to keep people out of the cannabis business and now they're going to position themselves to cash in."

Akihito to become first Japanese emperor to abdicate in 200 years

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 11:46 PM PST

Octogenarian monarch will step down in April 2019, heralding start of new imperial era led by his eldest son, Naruhito

Emperor Akihito of Japan is to abdicate on 30 April 2019, aged 85, in the first such departure from the Chrysanthemum throne in about 200 years, the government has said.

Akihito's eldest son, Crown Prince Naruhito, will ascend the throne the following day, beginning an as-yet-unnamed era.

Labor takes aim at focus of banking royal commission

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 11:07 PM PST

Chris Bowen says Coalition must ensure banking culture investigated and secure bipartisan agreement on terms of reference

The shadow treasurer, Chris Bowen, has warned the Turnbull government it must get its terms of reference right for its royal commission into the financial industry, otherwise the "scandals" will continue and the public will remain dissatisfied.

In a letter to the treasurer, Scott Morrison, he said it was a worrying sign that the government did not consult the corporate regulator before drafting its terms of reference, and Labor had serious concerns about the government's narrow focus on industry super funds.

Friday briefing: Unwelcome guest? Trump state visit in peril

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 10:28 PM PST

Minister says he is 'deeply uncomfortable' with plan to invite president to UK … Preschoolers being grouped by ability … Kremlin set for World Cup draw

Hello and welcome to the Guardian's daily briefing. I'm Martin Farrer and these are the top stories this Friday morning.

Kim Jong-nam had antidote to nerve agent that killed him in bag

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 08:35 PM PST

Toxicologist says North Korea leader's half-brother was carrying vials containing atropine, an antidote for poisons such as VX and insecticides

Kim Jong-nam, the murdered half-brother of North Korea's leader, had a dozen vials of antidote for lethal nerve agent VX in his sling bag on the day he was poisoned, a Malaysian court has heard.

Two women, Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Doan Thi Huong, from Vietnam, are charged with conspiring with four North Korean fugitives in the murder, making use of banned chemical weapon VX at the Kuala Lumpur international airport on 13 February.

New Zealand could force disgraced NBC host Matt Lauer to sell $13m farm

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 07:46 PM PST

Government's investment office seeking information about allegations against TV host which could question his fitness to own land in the country

New Zealand is considering the fitness of scandal-hit US Today host Matt Lauer to own a large farm in pristine Lakes country, a move which has been welcomed by the increasingly concerned local community.

The former NBC journalist purchased Hunter Valley Station in the lower South Island in February, after approval from the New Zealand overseas investment office (OIO).

Honduras election: protesters clash with police as opposition cries foul

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 06:11 PM PST

The central American nation in crisis as rightwing incumbent Juan Orlando Hernandez claws back poll lead amid vote-rigging allegations

Honduras is teetering on the brink of its worst political crisis since the 2009 military coup after the beleaguered electoral commission failed for the fourth day to declare a winner in the presidential race amid mounting irregularities and allegations of vote rigging.

The incumbent Juan Orlando Hernandez, a rightwing autocrat representing the National party, is accused of illegally meddling in the Sunday's election in an attempt to hold on to power and deny victory to the opposition Alliance leader Salvador Nasralla.

Tory MP hits back at rightwing foreign aid critics nick herbert

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 11:01 PM PST

Nick Herbert's report challenges tabloid headlines that claim aid to poor countries is wasted

A Conservative MP is leading a fightback against tabloid and rightwing attacks on foreign aid with a new report on how the funds help to reduce poverty.

Nick Herbert, a former minister, said it was important to defend the effectiveness of aid at a time of pressure on western governments to cut back their spending.

'Every app is a dating app': technology blamed for spike in HIV rates in Pakistan

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 11:00 PM PST

Experts claim use of apps and social media to find sexual partners, combined with ignorance about HIV born of social stigma, have increased infection

While technology may have strengthened the fight against HIV and Aids in many countries, in Pakistan it has led to an increase in HIV infection among young people, health experts and activists have warned.

Mobile apps and social media have opened new avenues for social encounters in the conservative south Asian country. For gay men and male sex workers in particular, smartphones provide a degree of sexual liberation, a way of connecting with partners away from the streets.

Donald Trump's menacing talk on North Korea is leaving the US isolated

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 08:43 AM PST

The US president seems oblivious to the consequences of war, and international support for his belligerence is weakening

Donald Trump's latest threat to destroy North Korea's regime by force produced an angry response from Russia on Thursday. Yet elsewhere, the menacing talk from Washington was mostly met with uncomfortable silence.

While there is no shortage of international concern about Kim Jong-un's latest, "breakthrough" missile test on Wednesday, Trump's bellicose talk of war is rendering the US increasingly isolated.

Videos tweeted by Trump: where are they from and what do they really show?

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 08:08 AM PST

These videos have been circulating on far-right websites since 2013 as ammunition in an online infowar

Re-captioned, retweeted and, in effect, hijacked by anti-Muslim, nationalist, alt-right and far-right websites since 2013, the clips retweeted by Donald Trump are ammunition in an online infowar.

The three videos posted by the Britain First deputy leader, Jayda Fransen, purport to show Muslims committing acts of violence: two assaulting people, one destroying a statue of the virgin Mary.

Pope Francis visits Myanmar and Bangladesh – in pictures

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 05:47 AM PST

Pope Francis visits Myanmar, a country facing global condemnation over its treatment of Rohingya Muslims, and travels on to its neighbour

Tombohuaun untapped: 'my hope for this village is clean water' – in pictures

Posted: 30 Nov 2017 04:57 AM PST

After years of civil war and Ebola, villagers of Tombohuaun in Sierra Leone have not been able to rebuild the concrete enclosure that protected their water spring. To highlight the threat from dirty water, Wateraid commissioned Joey Lawrence to take portraits of villagers as they wished to be seen

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