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- Evangelical Christians 'uncritical' in support for Trump, senior bishop says
- At least 10 people injured by explosion in St Petersburg store
- Russian satellite lost after being set to launch from wrong spaceport
- Israeli minister plans to name Western Wall train station after Trump
- Children increasingly used as weapons of war, Unicef warns
- Ukraine and separatists begin largest prisoner exchange of conflict
- Steve Bannon cuts ties with far-right candidate trying to unseat Paul Ryan
- Obama beats Trump again as most admired American man in poll
- Maëlys de Araujo case: hundreds join march in France for missing girl
- New York: giant penis mural that drew shock and scorn painted over
- Ex-Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski accused of sexual assault
- Obama tells Prince Harry: leaders must stop corroding civil discourse
- Best of the Best: the South Korean school for hackers hitting back against the North
- Hundreds spend night at Stansted airport as snow and ice hit flights
- Cloud of corruption hangs over Bulgaria as it takes up EU presidency
- Lorde's Israel concert: ambassador to New Zealand asks to meet singer
- Alabama election: Roy Moore files lawsuit to stop Doug Jones certification
- Latin America voters likely to take stand against corruption as usual in 2018
- Pilot shortage: Australia to relax visa laws to attract foreign flyers
- Blasts at Afghan news agency and Shia centre in Kabul kill dozens
- Tensions in tourism: Nepal's middle class claim they are 'unwanted guests' | Pete Pattisson
- The magnets and light beams that signal an end to blood tests for malaria | Kate Hodal
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- Record 36-metre tower built in memory of Lego fan – video
| Evangelical Christians 'uncritical' in support for Trump, senior bishop says Posted: 27 Dec 2017 04:01 PM PST Paul Bayes, bishop of Liverpool, accuses some religious leaders of 'colluding with a system that marginalises the poor' A senior Church of England bishop has lambasted conservative evangelical Christians in the US for their "uncritical support" of Donald Trump, urging them to reflect on how their endorsement of the president relates to their faith. Paul Bayes, the bishop of Liverpool, said "self-styled evangelicals" risked bringing the word evangelical into disrepute, and added there was no justification for Christians contradicting God's teaching to protect the poor and the weak. Continue reading... |
| At least 10 people injured by explosion in St Petersburg store Posted: 27 Dec 2017 02:55 PM PST Russian anti-terror organisation investigating after bomb packed with shrapnel goes off in supermarket At least 10 people were injured on Wednesday by an explosion at a supermarket in St Petersburg, Russia's second-largest city and the site of a deadly subway bombing this year. Russia's investigative committee said a device containing 200 grams of explosives had gone off at a storage area for customers' bags. It said the device had been rigged with shrapnel to cause more injuries. Continue reading... |
| Russian satellite lost after being set to launch from wrong spaceport Posted: 27 Dec 2017 04:39 PM PST Deputy prime minister admits programmers gave the $45m device coordinates for Baikonur rather than Vostochny cosmodrome Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Wednesday the loss of a 2.6bn-rouble ($45m) satellite launched last month was due to an embarrassing programming error. Russian space agency Roscosmos said last month it had lost contact with the newly launched weather satellite – the Meteor-M – after it blasted off from Russia's new Vostochny cosmodrome in the country's far east. Continue reading... |
| Israeli minister plans to name Western Wall train station after Trump Posted: 27 Dec 2017 06:25 AM PST Yisrael Katz wants to name stop on new rail line after US president for his 'brave decision to recognise city as Israel's capital' Israel's transport minister is pushing ahead with a controversial plan to extend Jerusalem's soon-to-open high-speed rail line to the Western Wall, where he wants to name a station after the US president, Donald Trump. Yisrael Katz's proposal for the "Donald John Trump" station, which is in the initial planning stage, involves constructing two underground stations and excavating more than two miles (3km) of tunnel 50 metres beneath central Jerusalem and under the politically and historically sensitive Old City. |
| Children increasingly used as weapons of war, Unicef warns Posted: 27 Dec 2017 04:20 PM PST 2017 was a brutal year for young people caught in conflict, UN agency says, citing their recruitment as fighters and bombers Children caught in war zones are increasingly being used as weapons of war – recruited to fight, forced to act as suicide bombers, and used as human shields – the United Nations children's agency has warned. In a statement summarising 2017 as a brutal year for children caught in conflict, Unicef said parties to conflicts were blatantly disregarding international humanitarian law and children were routinely coming under attack. Continue reading... |
| Ukraine and separatists begin largest prisoner exchange of conflict Posted: 27 Dec 2017 07:59 AM PST Ukraine handing over 306 prisoners in exchange for 74 people taken captive by Russia-backed separatist forces Ukraine and Russia-backed separatists have begun to exchange more than 300 prisoners in the war-torn east of the country, in the largest such swap since the insurgency broke out in 2014. The exchange of prisoners was being carried out at a checkpoint near Horlivka, a city in the eastern Donetsk region. Ukraine handed over 246 prisoners in exchange for 74 people who had been taken captive by separatist forces. Continue reading... |
| Steve Bannon cuts ties with far-right candidate trying to unseat Paul Ryan Posted: 27 Dec 2017 12:45 PM PST
Paul Nehlen, the far-right activist who is challenging House speaker Paul Ryan for his congressional seat, will not get the backing of Breitbart News and Steve Bannon. Related: Obama tells Prince Harry: leaders must stop corroding civil discourse Continue reading... |
| Obama beats Trump again as most admired American man in poll Posted: 27 Dec 2017 11:27 AM PST Trump is not the first incumbent president not to be named most-admired man: Richard Nixon and George W Bush missed out in years of poor approval ratings Wednesday brought bad news for Donald Trump: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are still the man and woman most admired by Americans, according to the results of an annual Gallup poll. Related: Obama tells Prince Harry: leaders must stop corroding civil discourse Continue reading... |
| Maëlys de Araujo case: hundreds join march in France for missing girl Posted: 27 Dec 2017 09:18 AM PST Police have found no trace of nine-year-old who disappeared from wedding reception near Chambéry in French Alps in August Hundreds of people have joined a silent march for a nine-year-old girl whose disappearance from a wedding reception four months ago could be linked to the mystery killing of a British couple in the French Alps. There has been no trace of Maëlys de Araujo since August despite widespread searches and hundreds of police interviews. |
| New York: giant penis mural that drew shock and scorn painted over Posted: 27 Dec 2017 11:42 PM PST
A four-storey painting of a penis that piqued the curiosity of New Yorkers when it appeared on Christmas Eve was being painted over on Wednesday – by order of the building's landlord. The painting, on an apartment building on Broome Street in the Lower East Side, was commissioned by a local street art foundation and made by a Swedish artist, Carolina Falkholt, as a companion to a similarly vast if more abstract vagina, further east on Pike Street. Continue reading... |
| Ex-Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski accused of sexual assault Posted: 27 Dec 2017 08:20 AM PST Joy Villa, a Trump supporter who is considering a political run, called the police after Lewandowski allegedly struck her 'extremely hard' on the buttocks A singer and potential congressional candidate says she has filed a sexual assault complaint against Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump's former campaign manager, for hitting her twice on her buttocks at a Washington gathering in November. Related: Obama tells Prince Harry: leaders must stop corroding civil discourse Continue reading... |
| Obama tells Prince Harry: leaders must stop corroding civil discourse Posted: 27 Dec 2017 06:55 AM PST Former US president also talks about life after leaving office in rare interview conducted by prince for BBC Radio 4's Today programme Boxers or briefs? Prince Harry's quickfire questions for Obama Politicians, and others in positions of power, should stop corroding civil discourse and seek to unify society, the former US president Barack Obama said in a rare interview conducted by Prince Harry for BBC Radio 4's Today programme. Related: Prince Harry guest-edits BBC Radio 4 Today programme Continue reading... |
| Best of the Best: the South Korean school for hackers hitting back against the North Posted: 27 Dec 2017 04:00 PM PST A series of attacks on government agencies, TV and banking networks convinced Seoul to develop an elite cadre of experts to defend the country At the fortified border between South and North Korea, students on a computer hacking course are instructed to peer northwards across a strip of empty land toward the enemy state. "Our country is divided and we are at war, but you can't see that division in cyberspace," said Kim Jin-seok. "So we take them to see it in person." Continue reading... |
| Hundreds spend night at Stansted airport as snow and ice hit flights Posted: 28 Dec 2017 01:30 AM PST Wintry weather affects Ryanair and EasyJet flights to and from Essex airport as some passengers wait eight hours to reclaim baggage Hundreds of people were forced to spend the night at Stansted airport as wintry conditions hit, causing dozens of flights to be cancelled or delayed. Snow and ice affected Ryanair and EasyJet flights to and from the airport, which primarily serves London and the surrounding areas to the north of the capital, forcing many to spend hours waiting in the terminal. Continue reading... |
| Cloud of corruption hangs over Bulgaria as it takes up EU presidency Posted: 28 Dec 2017 01:37 AM PST Anti-corruption campaigners fear Brussels is going soft on Sofia while presence of far-right minority parties also raises concerns Music will play, fireworks will explode and shimmer; then at the stroke of midnight on 1 January, Bulgaria, the poorest and "most corrupt" country in the European Union, will pick up the baton of the bloc's rotating presidency. The presidency – chairing EU meetings and setting an agenda – does not have the clout it once did, but it is still a big moment for the eastern Balkan nation of 7.4 million people, which was part of the last wave of EU enlargement that reunited east and west. Continue reading... |
| Lorde's Israel concert: ambassador to New Zealand asks to meet singer Posted: 27 Dec 2017 10:17 PM PST Itzhak Gerberg says cancelled performance could have 'contributed to the spirit of hope and peace in the Middle East' Israel's ambassador to New Zealand has invited Lorde to meet him after the singer cancelled her concert in Tel Aviv. On Christmas Day, Lorde cancelled a concert scheduled for Israel in June after criticism from activists in the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. Continue reading... |
| Alabama election: Roy Moore files lawsuit to stop Doug Jones certification Posted: 28 Dec 2017 01:39 AM PST Republican's complaint, filed hours before declaration of Democrat as winner, says there should be a fraud investigation Republican Roy Moore has filed a lawsuit to try to stop Alabama from certifying Democrat Doug Jones as the winner of the state's special Senate election on 12 December. The court filing occurred about 14 hours before Thursday's meeting of a state canvassing board to officially declare Jones the winner. Jones defeated Moore by about 20,000 votes. |
| Latin America voters likely to take stand against corruption as usual in 2018 Posted: 28 Dec 2017 12:00 AM PST Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, Costa Rica and Paraguay face elections and may experience an anti-establishment tide that defies notions of left and right The anti-establishment tide that has swept much of the world is set to break over Latin America in 2018. Some 350 million voters are due to head to the polls in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, Costa Rica and Paraguay to elect new presidents – and in several cases, potentially slam a defibrillator into their ailing political systems. "Attempting to understand or interpret the elections for what they mean in a left-right swing would be a mistake," said Christopher Sabatini, a Latin America expert at Columbia University. "What we are more likely to see is more popular reaction against corruption." Continue reading... |
| Pilot shortage: Australia to relax visa laws to attract foreign flyers Posted: 27 Dec 2017 09:47 PM PST Regional Aviation Association says immigration minister Peter Dutton's office has confirmed the change Foreign pilots will once again be allowed into Australia on working visas to help address a shortage that threatens to ground planes and cancel flights. The occupations eligible for foreign worker visas were slashed during a government shake-up in April but from next month pilots will once again be granted access after concerns about the national shortage. |
| Blasts at Afghan news agency and Shia centre in Kabul kill dozens Posted: 28 Dec 2017 12:48 AM PST At least 40 people killed and 30 wounded in suicide bombing – the latest in a series of attacks on media organisations Dozens of people, many of them students, have been killed in a suicide attack on an office of the Afghan Voice news agency and a neighbouring cultural centre in Kabul. At least 40 people died and 30 were wounded in the blasts, the latest in a series to have hit media organisations in Kabul, the interior ministry deputy spokesman, Nasrat Rahimi, said. Continue reading... |
| Tensions in tourism: Nepal's middle class claim they are 'unwanted guests' | Pete Pattisson Posted: 27 Dec 2017 11:00 PM PST Locals who want to join overseas visitors in enjoying the country's stunning mountains say its tourist industry gives western trekkers preferential treatment As Sandeep Poudyal trudged along the last stretch of the track leading to Manang, a village in the Nepalese Himalayas overlooked by the towering Annapurna range, all he could think about was the warm bed and hot food waiting in the hotel he had booked for himself and his five Nepalese friends. But when he arrived, after trekking for nearly nine hours, he was told the hotel was fully booked. Poudyal later learned that his rooms had been given away to foreign trekkers. Two days later, it happened again in the next village on the trail. Continue reading... |
| The magnets and light beams that signal an end to blood tests for malaria | Kate Hodal Posted: 27 Dec 2017 03:00 AM PST After missing lectures due to malaria, a Ugandan engineer came up with a low-cost device to speed up diagnosis of one of sub-Saharan Africa's biggest killers Malaria is the leading cause of death in Uganda. Children and pregnant women are most vulnerable, but the blood tests that help diagnose it are invasive, expensive and time consuming. It means that half of all malaria deaths continue to be in children aged under five. Software engineer Brian Gitta, 25, became determined to turn this statistic on its head after malaria forced him to miss lectures at university. Along with six student friends – all of whom have been infected several times with malaria – he developed a low-cost, reusable device that can test for the disease quickly and accurately, without drawing blood. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 28 Dec 2017 12:00 AM PST A look back at some of the most impactful moments of 2017, remixed by Swiss motion designer and music producer Cee-Roo Continue reading... |
| Record 36-metre tower built in memory of Lego fan – video Posted: 27 Dec 2017 06:09 PM PST Residents of Tel Aviv have built a world record-contending plastic brick tower, featuring more than 500,000 pieces, to honour a young cancer victim in the Israeli city. The multi-coloured monument was named after eight-year-old Lego fan Omer Sayag and was completed using cranes in Rabin Square on Wednesday after more than a fortnight's construction work by thousands of people using donated blocks. Continue reading... |
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