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- Michael Flynn pleads guilty to lying to FBI as Trump-Russia inquiry takes critical step
- 'We revived an ancient tradition': Israel's new subterranean city of the dead
- Nail-packed device found near German Christmas market
- Taliban gunmen wearing burqas launch deadly attack on Peshawar college
- Senate Republicans pass sweeping overhaul of US tax code
- Germany's SPD denies agreeing coalition talks with Angela Merkel
- Belgian prince says proposed pay cut would breach his human rights
- Google refuses legal request to share pay records in gender discrimination case
- Former Catalan leaders appear before supreme court in Madrid
- Nine women accuse playwright Israel Horovitz of sexual misconduct
- Why the UN is investigating extreme poverty … in America, the world's richest nation
- For pitta's sake: EU kebab meat move could make doner a goner
- Melting pot: how migration fuelled Brazilian cuisine – in pictures
- 'It's not just extra-rich and extra-poor': Paulistanos respond to São Paulo Live
- Deslocamento diário de quatro horas: tarefa difícil da vida na periferia de São Paulo
- Man charged with murder after attempted robbery of Rolex watch
- Nick Clegg meets Richard Thaler: ‘All it would take to stop Brexit is a couple of dozen brave Tories’
- Goats review – livestock and smoking barrels in a shaggy tale from Syrian war
- French the new lingua franca of the world – vraiment? | Steven Poole
- Senate strikes amendment giving tax exemption for Betsy DeVos's old college
- The V&A's new Chinese outpost: an oasis of calm in a kitsch jumble
- Charity declines funds from Sydney hotel seeking pokies expansion
- Has Hollywood changed? Mel Gibson’s bulletproof career would suggest not | Hadley Freeman
- Honduras suspends rights as violence spreads over delayed vote count
- MEPs looking into death of journalist 'disturbed' by trip to Malta
- Slobodan Praljak's suicide reopens old wounds in Bosnia
- Increase company tax based on executive pay, Wayne Swan says
- Judge suspends part of Quebec's face-covering ban
- Brexit climbdown is not what leaving the EU was meant to look like
- Despite it all, we have reasons to be cheerful – but what are they? | Letters
- Tim Farron should stop whingeing about disdain for Christians | Letters
- Don’t encourage these ridiculous ageist and sexist stereotypes | Letters
- Flynn has pleaded guilty but signs are Mueller's inquiry has bigger fish to fry
- Trump's Twitter attack only serves to increase UK's post-Brexit angst | Patrick Wintour
- Britain First: behind the online curtain is a minute, incoherent party
- 'Lock him up!' shout protesters after Michael Flynn pleads guilty to lying to FBI – video
- Frame by frame: how the Michael Flynn-Russia saga unfolded – in pictures
- Mount Agung volcano erupting in Bali – in pictures
- Pope Francis meets Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh - video
- How Britain did Gaddafi’s dirty work – podcast
- Mount Agung timelapse video shows smoke billowing from Bali volcano – video
| Michael Flynn pleads guilty to lying to FBI as Trump-Russia inquiry takes critical step Posted: 01 Dec 2017 08:40 AM PST
In a startling breakthrough for prosecutors investigating potential collusion between Russia and the Donald Trump presidential campaign, former national security adviser Michael Flynn announced on Friday that he was cooperating with prosecutors and ready to testify about Russian contacts. After months of silence and invisibility, Flynn walked into a federal courthouse in Washington DC on Friday morning and pleaded guilty to one count of lying to the FBI. The plea was part of a larger deal with special counsel Robert Mueller's team, and strikes at the heart of the Trump White House. Continue reading... |
| 'We revived an ancient tradition': Israel's new subterranean city of the dead Posted: 01 Dec 2017 05:07 AM PST Catacombs are Israel's most high-profile attempt yet to solve an unusual problem: the shortage of places to bury its dead Beneath Jerusalem's main cemetery at Givat Shaul, one of several huge new tunnels disappears into the hillside. Inside the hill, the tunnels branch into a grid of three "avenues" and seven "streets". Looking up from the centre of the grid, an imposing shaft rises dozens of metres to the cemetery garden above. Continue reading... |
| Nail-packed device found near German Christmas market Posted: 01 Dec 2017 03:00 PM PST Suspicious package containing unidentified powder led to police evacuating market in Potsdam, near Berlin A Christmas market was evacuated in the German city of Potsdam on Friday after a nail-packed device was found in a nearby shop. Brandenburg's interior minister, Karl-Heinz Schröter, said the package left at a pharmacy contained nails and a powder, which was being analysed to determine whether it was an explosive. |
| Taliban gunmen wearing burqas launch deadly attack on Peshawar college Posted: 01 Dec 2017 06:00 AM PST Nine people killed and dozens injured after militants open fire at agricultural college in north-western Pakistan Nine people have been killed and dozens injured after Taliban militants wearing burqas stormed a college in Peshawar as Pakistan marked the birthday of the prophet Muhammad, officials said. Police said at least three militants opened fire at security guards near the gates of the Agriculture Training Institute, injuring one person before making their way inside and targeting student accommodation. Continue reading... |
| Senate Republicans pass sweeping overhaul of US tax code Posted: 01 Dec 2017 10:56 PM PST Bill passed in early hours of Saturday will benefit big businesses and the wealthy, and give Donald Trump his first major legislative victory Senate Republicans have passed the most sweeping overhaul of the US tax code in three decades, a significant step that moves Donald Trump closer to achieving the first major legislative victory of his presidency. The Senate passed their tax plan in a 51-49 vote early Saturday morning after a frantic rewrite of the legislation. Senator Bob Corker was the sole Republican to vote against the bill, which would bestow huge benefits on US corporations and the wealthiest Americans. Continue reading... |
| Germany's SPD denies agreeing coalition talks with Angela Merkel Posted: 01 Dec 2017 07:10 AM PST Leader Martin Schulz says reports are 'plainly and simply' wrong but that his party will continue to explore all options The leader of Germany's Social Democratic party has denied reports that he has green-lighted talks about another "grand coalition" with Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats. "The reports are plainly and simply wrong," the SPD leader, Martin Schulz, said on Friday after claims in the German newspaper Bild that the two parties had agreed to begin exploratory talks on a new coalition following a meeting with the German president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, on Thursday. Continue reading... |
| Belgian prince says proposed pay cut would breach his human rights Posted: 01 Dec 2017 06:18 AM PST PM has moved to slash royal's €380,000 endowment after he was criticised for appearance at Chinese state event A wayward brother of the king of Belgium has claimed the government is violating his human rights after the prime minister moved to cut his annual €308,000 (£280,000) government endowment. The prime minister, Charles Michel, called a meeting with Prince Laurent, younger sibling to King Philippe, in response to his unauthorised appearance in full naval uniform at a Chinese state celebration of the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Red Army. Continue reading... |
| Google refuses legal request to share pay records in gender discrimination case Posted: 01 Dec 2017 05:58 PM PST Tech company's lawyers say it should not have to provide data on how men and women are compensated, as judge appears to take firm's side on key issues Google is resisting a legal request to disclose salary records in a class-action gender discrimination lawsuit, marking the technology company's latest efforts to prevent scrutiny of how much it pays its female employees. Google attorneys argued in court on Friday that a judge should block a suit brought by former employees alleging systematic pay disparities on behalf of all women at the company. The company is also arguing that it should not have to provide information on the salaries of men and women or disclose wage policy documents until a first ruling on the class-action status. Continue reading... |
| Former Catalan leaders appear before supreme court in Madrid Posted: 01 Dec 2017 06:30 AM PST Eight former cabinet members jailed on sedition charges ask judge to release them before forthcoming regional election Eight former Catalan cabinet members in custody awaiting trial have appeared before the supreme court in Madrid after requesting their release before a regional election. The separatist leaders requested the court appearance to pledge lawful behaviour and renounce unilateral independence efforts in the hope of being released. Continue reading... |
| Nine women accuse playwright Israel Horovitz of sexual misconduct Posted: 01 Dec 2017 06:04 AM PST Horovitz departs from the Gloucester Stage Company as his son, Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz, issues statement saying 'I believe the allegations are true' Award-winning playwright-screenwriter Israel Horovitz, who faces multiple allegations of sexual harassment, has departed from the Gloucester Stage Company. The Massachusetts-based theater announced on Thursday that Horovitz – who is the father of Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys – had left after officials there confronted him about a New York Times story detailing on-the-record allegations ranging from forcible kissing to rape. Horovitz was Gloucester's founding artistic director and an ex-officio member of the board of directors. In 1993, the Boston Phoenix reported similar allegations. But the theater at the time defended him. Continue reading... |
| Why the UN is investigating extreme poverty … in America, the world's richest nation Posted: 01 Dec 2017 10:00 AM PST At the heart of Philip Alston's special mission will be one question: can Americans enjoy fundamental human rights if they're unable to meet basic living standards? The United Nations monitor on extreme poverty and human rights has embarked on a coast-to-coast tour of the US to hold the world's richest nation – and its president – to account for the hardships endured by America's most vulnerable citizens. The tour, which kicked off on Friday morning, will make stops in four states as well as Washington DC and the US territory of Puerto Rico. It will focus on several of the social and economic barriers that render the American dream merely a pipe dream to millions – from homelessness in California to racial discrimination in the Deep South, cumulative neglect in Puerto Rico and the decline of industrial jobs in West Virginia. Continue reading... |
| For pitta's sake: EU kebab meat move could make doner a goner Posted: 01 Dec 2017 07:09 AM PST European parliament phosphates ban would sound death knell for nightclubber's favoured snack, industry warns It's the news that none of Europe's late-night revellers want to hear: the end of the doner kebab could be nigh. A move by the European parliament to ban the phosphates necessary to keep seasoned kebab meat moist and flavoursome, even after the most arduous periods on a spit, is said to pose a direct threat to the future of the high street delicacy. Continue reading... |
| Melting pot: how migration fuelled Brazilian cuisine – in pictures Posted: 02 Dec 2017 12:00 AM PST São Paulo was built by successive waves of migration, from the Portuguese to the Japanese and Italians, and in more recent years Lebanese, Syrians, Palestinians and Bolivians – a diversity celebrated in its burgeoning restaurant scene Continue reading... |
| 'It's not just extra-rich and extra-poor': Paulistanos respond to São Paulo Live Posted: 01 Dec 2017 11:30 PM PST We are grateful to everyone whose ideas and opinions made our weeklong in São Paulo series richer. Here are some of the thoughts – and criticisms – you shared "It is a great white concrete dream, or nightmare," wrote Patrick Semple, a Guardian Cities reader, of São Paulo, his home since February. "It is a fabulous party, infuriating and starkly beautiful. It is more expensive than London, yet people can get by on the street. "It is noisy, all the time: the school day starts at half-past six, the bars close at 3am, music is as ubiquitous as the car fumes. The roads are ruinous. When it rains, rivers erupt in the gutters; when it's hot they fill up with people. From high up, the city at night looks like God's chandelier has just crashed to earth." Continue reading... |
| Deslocamento diário de quatro horas: tarefa difícil da vida na periferia de São Paulo Posted: 01 Dec 2017 07:39 AM PST Como a maior parte dos habitantes de São Paulo, Alcione Santos mora nas margens da maior cidade da América do Sul. A viagem diária para trabalhos mal remunerados é brutal Uma hora após tocar o alarme de Alcione Santos às 5h50 ela caminha até a esquina onde para o ônibus... isso se ele já não estiver cheio. "Tem vezes que eu espero 10 minutos, outras vezes espero 30, porque não tem o horário então a gente nunca sabe," ela explica. Se o primeiro ônibus estiver superlotado, ou se ele quebrar, a longa espera significa que ela chegará atrasada ao trabalho. Assim como a maioria dos 20 milhões de habitantes da Grande São Paulo, Alcione só tem condições de morar na periferia da maior cidade da América do Sul. Devido a sua enorme expansão e décadas de baixo investimento em transporte público, muitos têm de encarar deslocamentos diários de três, quatro ou até cinco horas para chegar a empregos mal remunerados no centro. Quase 70% das viagens são feitas de ônibus e, em lugares como Itaquaquecetuba, no extremo leste, onde vive Alcione, ele é o único elo para o trabalho e o dinheiro. Continue reading... |
| Man charged with murder after attempted robbery of Rolex watch Posted: 01 Dec 2017 03:01 PM PST Jordan Bailey-Mascoll will appear in court for allegedly stabbing Danny Pearce to death after he refused to hand over watch Detectives investigating the killing of a man stabbed and shot at by thieves on a moped after refusing to hand over his Rolex watch have charged a man with murder. Danny Pearce, 31, was fatally stabbed in Greenwich, south-east London, in July by thieves who were alleged to have demanded he give them his Rolex watch. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 02 Dec 2017 01:00 AM PST The former deputy PM and the Nobel prize winner discuss the EU, business and Trump Richard Thaler was awarded the Nobel prize for economics in October, for work that has "built a bridge between the economic and psychological analyses of individual decision-making". While traditional economics assumes that people are rational actors, Thaler explores the consequences of irrationality, bias and error, and proposes ways that governments, through mechanisms as simple as changing the phrasing on a form, can encourage, or "nudge", smarter decision-making. Nudge, the 2008 bestseller he wrote with Cass Sunstein, introduced the influential concept of "choice architecture", while his 2015 book Misbehaving was a personal history of behavioural economics. As the author Michael Lewis put it, he's "the economist who realised how crazy we are". Nick Clegg, meanwhile, is adapting to life outside Westminster. He was leader of the Liberal Democrats between 2007 and 2015, deputy prime minister in David Cameron's coalition government and MP for Sheffield Hallam for 12 years, before losing his seat to Labour in the last election. He has written a memoir of his time in government and, more recently, a passionate polemic, How To Stop Brexit (And Make Britain Great Again). Continue reading... |
| Goats review – livestock and smoking barrels in a shaggy tale from Syrian war Posted: 01 Dec 2017 03:59 PM PST Royal Court, London The last time we saw a goat on stage was as a dead love-object in a work by Edward Albee. In this play by Liwaa Yazji, there are six live goats representing the animals handed out by Syrian authorities to families who have lost loved ones in the civil war. We know from Yazji's own testament this is based on fact, but it also pinpoints the dilemma of a play that is far better at providing information than at generating dramatic tension. Related: A goat for every martyr: the bitterly funny play about the surreal cost of Syria's civil war Continue reading... |
| French the new lingua franca of the world – vraiment? | Steven Poole Posted: 01 Dec 2017 10:00 PM PST Emmanuel Macron's big ambition for the French language is optimistic, but it adds up to nothing more than an enjoyable bit of grandiose rhetoric Are we turning into a French-speaking planet? That was the surprising possibility raised by president Emmanuel Macron on a recent visit to Burkina Faso. "French will be the first language of Africa," he said, plausibly, before adding, "perhaps the world." Ah, oui? C'est vrai? No, this is preposterous, and therefore very French. It's true that a 2014 study (by, coincidentally, a French investment bank) did indeed suggest that French could be the most spoken language of the world by 2050 – assuming enormous population increases in Africa. But, given that French is currently the first language of only 75 million people, most observers still bet on English or Mandarin Chinese. Macron's real message, perhaps, was simply that France is important – because talking up the French language has always been a proxy way of talking up the importance of France itself. Continue reading... |
| Senate strikes amendment giving tax exemption for Betsy DeVos's old college Posted: 02 Dec 2017 12:05 AM PST Education secretary and her brother are alumni of Hillsdale College, which Republicans wanted to help because it refuses federal funding The Senate voted to strike an amendment from the Republican tax bill that would have benefited a small Christian college in southern Michigan with ties to education secretary Betsy DeVos. In a surprise 52-48 vote, four Republicans supported an amendment offered by Democrat Jeff Merkley to remove the exception from the legislation. The decision came after Democrats raised the issue in a contentious exchange on the Senate floor. Continue reading... |
| The V&A's new Chinese outpost: an oasis of calm in a kitsch jumble Posted: 01 Dec 2017 09:13 AM PST Wedged between a landlocked cruise liner and gothic apartment blocks, the V&A's first international foothold, built in the cradle of the new China, is more luxury mall than magical museum A fake iPhone is on display next to a mobile designed for the elderly in the V&A's new outpost in Shenzhen, southern China, the first overseas branch in the museum's history, which opens on Saturday. Both phones were made nearby, one the product of the region's many counterfeit factories, the other developed by a young local designer with an enlarged keypad and SOS button. It might look like a simple moral pairing of the bad copy vs the good innovation, until you learn that the knock-off iPhone was also an improvement on the original: it features a double SIM-card slot, essential for the many people who shuttle between Shenzhen and Hong Kong. "We wanted to show that the 'copycat China' stereotype isn't as black and white as people might think," says Brendan Cormier, curator of the V&A's inaugural exhibition, Values of Design, which sees 250 items loaned from the London institution's collection for the next two years, including a handful of new contemporary Chinese acquisitions. "Shenzhen has gone from being a place where things are simply made, to a centre of innovation where these truly disruptive products are being designed." Continue reading... |
| Charity declines funds from Sydney hotel seeking pokies expansion Posted: 01 Dec 2017 05:57 PM PST White Ribbon knocks back donation of $50,000 after learning it is linked to an NSW gambling licence application process A domestic violence charity was offered $50,000 by a Sydney hotel that is seeking state government approval for more poker machines. The charity, White Ribbon, initially accepted the offer but later declined it after realising it was being used as part of a New South Wales licensing application process. Continue reading... |
| Has Hollywood changed? Mel Gibson’s bulletproof career would suggest not | Hadley Freeman Posted: 02 Dec 2017 01:00 AM PST Clearly it takes an awful lot to destroy a high-profile straight white man's career This is the story of two actors, one female and one male, both hugely successful in the 80s and 90s, and both blighted with what Wikipedia would euphemistically call "legal controversies". These largely happened in the early years of this century, when the woman was caught shoplifting in 2001 while under the influence of prescription drugs; and the man, while being arrested for drunk-driving in 2006, ranted antisemitic garbage at the arresting officer. But where she had to wait 15 years to be given another starring role, and even then it was as a kitsch 80s novelty in Stranger Things, he was out of work for only five years after the DUI incident, and not for a minute after he was recorded shouting racist and threatening abuse at his then girlfriend in 2010; he also pleaded no contest to a misdemeanour charge of battering her that same year. Instead, he was blessed with an Oscar nomination this year and has starred in big-budget comedies. In other words, his career continued exactly as it always would have done whereas hers was blighted for ever. Continue reading... |
| Honduras suspends rights as violence spreads over delayed vote count Posted: 01 Dec 2017 10:40 PM PST Army and police given more powers and curfew imposed to contain unrest sparked by fears that last Sunday's election has been fixed The Honduran government has suspended constitutional rights to give the army and police more powers and imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew to contain unrest triggered by a contested election, a senior government official said on Friday. Ebal Diaz, a high official for the council of ministers, announced the move on television shortly after the country's electoral tribune said it would aim to resume counting votes on Saturday. |
| MEPs looking into death of journalist 'disturbed' by trip to Malta Posted: 01 Dec 2017 09:00 PM PST Delegation reporting on Daphne Caruana Galizia's death finds 'perception of impunity' due to apparent reluctance to investigate major cases MEPs on a fact-finding mission to Malta after the killing of the investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia have said they arrived "seriously concerned" about the rule of law on the island and were leaving "even more worried". Dispatched after the European parliament demanded that EU authorities open a formal dialogue with Malta over the death, the delegation said an apparent reluctance to investigate and prosecute major cases had created a "perception of impunity". Continue reading... |
| Slobodan Praljak's suicide reopens old wounds in Bosnia Posted: 01 Dec 2017 09:00 PM PST In his hometown of Čapljina, the convicted Croat general is hailed by many as a hero, while others have less rosy memories On the main square of the quiet town of Čapljina, hundreds of candles on the paving stones outside the pastel-shaded municipal building spell out one name: Praljak. The dramatic suicide of the Croat general Slobodan Praljak, swigging poison on live television moments after his sentence for war crimes was upheld on Wednesday, shocked the world. On Friday, Dutch prosecutors said Praljak died after taking potassium cyanide, citing the results of a preliminary postmortem. "This has resulted in a failure of the heart, which is indicated as the suspected cause of death," they said. Continue reading... |
| Increase company tax based on executive pay, Wayne Swan says Posted: 01 Dec 2017 06:43 PM PST Commonwealth Bank head earned $12.3m last year – the combined pay of 250 tellers at the bank, former treasurer says Governments should increase company taxes if top executives continue to draw huge salaries, in order to give workers a fairer share of the economic pie, according to the former Labor treasurer Wayne Swan. Swan will use a speech on Saturday marking the 45th anniversary of the election of the Whitlam government to argue that political parties on the centre left must be unequivocal in articulating an economic framework that delivers rising living standards for workers. Continue reading... |
| Judge suspends part of Quebec's face-covering ban Posted: 01 Dec 2017 06:20 PM PST The law, which opponents say targets Muslim women, has been put on hold until guidelines and exemptions are enacted A Canadian judge has suspended part of a Quebec law banning people from wearing full-face veils when giving or receiving public services, handing a provisional victory to civil liberties groups who argued that the law is unconstitutional and discriminates against Muslim women. Judge Babak Barin on Friday suspended the portion of the act banning face coverings until the government enacts guidelines for how the law will be applied and how exemptions might be granted. The government of the mainly French-speaking province of Quebec now has a chance to clarify in detail how the law would be put into practice. Continue reading... |
| Brexit climbdown is not what leaving the EU was meant to look like Posted: 01 Dec 2017 11:27 AM PST The agenda at Monday's crunch meeting between Theresa May and Jean Claude-Juncker is not what voters were promised As the scale of the Brexit climbdown takes shape this weekend, one thing is already becoming clear: this wasn't what leaving the EU was meant to look like. Ahead of Monday's crunch meeting between Theresa May and commission president, Jean Claude-Juncker, the comparison between what is on the table in Brussels and what British voters were promised is striking. The first disappointment is that the UK government is not even talking about the things it really wants yet. The concessions Britain is being pressed to finalise – on money, regulation and legal independence – are simply to begin the process of discussing a trade deal. The same Brexit enthusiasts who once insisted it would be ours for the taking now argue the cost is so high we need to steel ourselves for living without it. Continue reading... |
| Despite it all, we have reasons to be cheerful – but what are they? | Letters Posted: 01 Dec 2017 10:59 AM PST Amid the post-crash gloom, new ONS data shows happiness is on the rise in England. Christopher Slater would like to see some analysis of this incongruity As a leftwing, longtime Guardian reader, I tend to be unsurprised, if depressed, by your daily reports on worsening conditions in most aspects of life in the UK since the financial crisis of 2008, especially in the period dominated politically by the Conservatives: worsening conditions and rewards at work; cuts in public services; attacks on welfare; increases in housing costs; crisis in prisons; increasing inequality etc. Yet this week (Brexit watch, 29 November) you report a rare piece of good news: a study from the Office for National Statistics that shows a significant improvement in general happiness and life satisfaction in England over the last five years. It would be interesting to read some discussion of this remarkable discrepancy. |
| Tim Farron should stop whingeing about disdain for Christians | Letters Posted: 01 Dec 2017 10:58 AM PST Jayne Ozanne says if Christianity is viewed as dangerous, it is because many who have espoused it have caused great harm; Ben Summerskill recalls that Farron voted against sexual orientation regulations; and Rev Martin Gainsborough says the MP should roll his sleeves up and do the church's work Like Tim Farron I am a "Bible-believing Christian who seeks to live obediently to God" (Liberalism has eaten itself – it isn't very liberal any more, 28 November). Unlike Mr Farron, I am gay. While I agree with him that at the heart of a liberal society is the "right to offend and a duty to tolerate offence", I believe that this right has limits. Indeed, I believe that it is this that forms the principal shared value in our society – that one can hold a view as long as it does not cause another human being harm. If, as Mr Farron says, Christianity is now viewed as dangerous by society, it is because many who have espoused it have caused great harm, particularly to our most vulnerable members of society. Without public recognition and repentance for the significant damage we have inflicted on people, sadly all those professing a Christian faith will be judged with scepticism and disbelief by a nation that is angered by the hypocrisy of a church that professes a gospel of love but does not actually embody it in its practices. |
| Don’t encourage these ridiculous ageist and sexist stereotypes | Letters Posted: 01 Dec 2017 10:57 AM PST An article in which the writer described her husband's affair with an older woman would have been laughable if it wasn't so insulting, according to Sarah Reisz I'm 68 and found the blatant ageism and sexism in your article (My husband left me – for an older woman, Family, 25 November) deeply offensive. The "older woman" (not yet 60) is – God forbid – "still reaching for the henna hair dye despite her advancing years". She's "old enough to be my daughter's grandmother … How insulting, right? And what an outrage! … The humiliation should be devastating." Of course, the ex cannot be with her because of who she is or because he actually finds her attractive, but because her age means they can be "free of responsibility or restrictions … It is not as if he met the love of his life and had to be true to himself. She was just an escape route". Continue reading... |
| Flynn has pleaded guilty but signs are Mueller's inquiry has bigger fish to fry Posted: 01 Dec 2017 11:26 AM PST The former national security adviser's statement of offence says he consulted with a 'very senior member' of Trump's transition team about his Russia contacts Almost everything about Michael Flynn's guilty plea to perjury and his cooperation agreement with the special counsel investigation into Russian election interference suggests that it is part of a much bigger picture, legal experts said on Friday. Related: Michael Flynn pleads guilty to lying to FBI as Trump-Russia inquiry takes critical step Continue reading... |
| Trump's Twitter attack only serves to increase UK's post-Brexit angst | Patrick Wintour Posted: 01 Dec 2017 06:02 AM PST US president's insulting tweet to Theresa May injects urgency into growing debate about UK's future foreign policy alliances As UK diplomats picked over the rubble of the special relationship caused by Donald Trump's twitter attack on both Theresa May and the UK's multicultural society, seasoned foreign policy hands pointed out that there have been serious high level breakdowns in Anglo-US relations in the past, but it is rare for a disagreement to be so public or for a US president to be so insulting to a prime minister or the UK's sense of its own identity. The row – at one level banal – may also inject an urgency into a growing debate about UK's foreign policy alliances in the wake of Brexit, diplomats said. |
| Britain First: behind the online curtain is a minute, incoherent party Posted: 01 Dec 2017 02:43 AM PST Far-right party has amplified itself online, with help from Trump, but in reality it has no chance of electoral success Like Dorothy discovering that the Wizard of Oz is just a little old man behind a curtain, most people who look closely at Britain First conclude sooner or later that there is far less to them than meets the eye. Behind the 1.9m Facebook likes, the 27,000 Twitter followers and the countless videos of speeches, stands a party with a minute membership, incoherent policies and a negligible chance of electoral success. Continue reading... |
| 'Lock him up!' shout protesters after Michael Flynn pleads guilty to lying to FBI – video Posted: 01 Dec 2017 10:47 AM PST Protesters called for Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn to be locked up after he pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. Continue reading... |
| Frame by frame: how the Michael Flynn-Russia saga unfolded – in pictures Posted: 01 Dec 2017 08:57 AM PST The retired general quickly became one of Donald Trump's most trusted aides – but his contacts with Russians and his lies to the FBI came back to haunt him Continue reading... |
| Mount Agung volcano erupting in Bali – in pictures Posted: 01 Dec 2017 08:52 AM PST Indonesian authorities have raised the alert to the highest level and ordered people within 10km of Mount Agung to leave the area. The volcano, rising about 3,000 metres above Bali's Karangasem district, had its last major eruption in 1963, killing about 1,100 people Continue reading... |
| Pope Francis meets Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh - video Posted: 01 Dec 2017 07:29 AM PST Pope Francis has called for 'decisive measures' to resolve the political crisis causing mostly Muslim refugees from neighbouring Myanmar to flee to Bangladesh. He called on countries to give 'immediate material assistance' to help Bangladesh deal with the Rohingya crisis. The exodus of Rohingya people from Rakhine state to the southern tip of Bangladesh was sparked by a military crackdown in August Continue reading... |
| How Britain did Gaddafi’s dirty work – podcast Posted: 01 Dec 2017 04:00 AM PST Secret papers show how far MI6 went to please Libya's ruthless intelligence agents – including helping to kidnap the dictator's enemies Subscribe via Audioboom, iTunes, Soundcloud, Mixcloud, Acast & Sticher and join the discussion on Facebook and Twitter Continue reading... |
| Mount Agung timelapse video shows smoke billowing from Bali volcano – video Posted: 01 Dec 2017 03:02 AM PST Villagers on the slopes of Mount Agung have returned to more than 40 temporary shelters, after the Bali authorities renewed their warnings for residents to evacuate. Sightings of flaming lava in the volcano's crater have sparked fresh fears of imminent disaster in the valley below. Agung's last eruption, in 1963, killed more than 1,000 people and razed several villages Continue reading... |
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