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- Trump misses deadline over moving US embassy to Jerusalem
- Killing of Ali Abdullah Saleh changes dynamics of Yemen's civil war
- Supreme court allows enforcement of Trump travel ban as appeals proceed
- Amateur explorers discover vast underground passage beneath Montreal
- The Hague says claims of war crimes by UK troops have 'reasonable basis'
- Germany accused over 'illegal' deportation of Afghan asylum seeker
- Trump slashes size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase national monuments in Utah
- Poor bear brunt of Beijing coal cleanup with no heating at -6C
- Honduras: police refuse to obey government as post-election chaos deepens
- Fury as Mexico presidential candidate pitches amnesty for drug cartel kingpins
- UN political chief to visit North Korea in landmark trip as tensions rise
- Syrian refugee rescued from tiny dinghy off Libyan coast
- Baby boy found to be alive after Delhi hospital declared him dead
- Former Georgian president Saakashvili is detained in Ukraine
- 'There's nothing for us': Farc rebels search for purpose a year after historic deal
- Fine art to topple fine wine in 2017 luxury investment league
- 'They're just not very British': will cities finally splash out on water fountains?
- Émile Zola, the photographer: personal collection goes under the hammer
- English pupils improve results in international reading exams
- Theresa May seeks to rescue Brexit deal as Dublin says it won't back down - Politics live
- Where did you go, Ivanka? How the first daughter's family leave plan fizzled
- The new Concorde? JAL buys into Branson's supersonic dream
- Australia’s year 4 literacy rate rises from 27th to 21st in study of 45 countries
- 'A gift from the sky': record-breaking nine-hour rainbow appears in Taiwan – video
- Tuesday briefing: Didn't anyone tell the DUP?
- 'A gift from the sky': record-breaking nine-hour rainbow appears in Taiwan
- Suspended dengue vaccine was given to 730,000 children, Philippines says
- Shock in France as Berlin 'martyrs' art show includes Bataclan attacker and 9/11 pilot
- Gloves not guns: fighting the good fight in Rio's brutal favelas | Jo Griffin
- Police have killed dozens of children in Philippines war on drugs, Amnesty says
- Donald Trump says he feels 'very badly' for Michael Flynn – video
- Panda cub growls and jumps at France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron – video
| Trump misses deadline over moving US embassy to Jerusalem Posted: 05 Dec 2017 01:35 AM PST White House says decision will be made in coming days, as Turkey warns that any change to city's status would be a 'red line' for Muslims Donald Trump appears to have missed a deadline for signing a waiver on a US law requiring its embassy to be moved to Jerusalem, in an act of brinkmanship over one of the Middle East's most fraught issues. According to diplomats and Palestinians officials, the original deadline was expected to have fallen on Friday at midnight and was pushed to Monday. That deadline passed without an announcement after a White House official said no action would be taken on Monday. Continue reading... |
| Killing of Ali Abdullah Saleh changes dynamics of Yemen's civil war Posted: 04 Dec 2017 09:00 PM PST Former president's death at hands of his erstwhile Houthi allies marks end of uneasy alliance that sparked war in 2014 The killing of Ali Abdullah Saleh, the former Yemeni president, removes the country's most important political figure for four decades from a complex equation that has plunged the Arab world's poorest nation into conflict and sparked the world's worst humanitarian crisis. His death marks a dramatic shift three years into a war in a state of stalemate. It risks the conflict becoming even more intractable. Continue reading... |
| Supreme court allows enforcement of Trump travel ban as appeals proceed Posted: 04 Dec 2017 04:37 PM PST Justices say the ban on residents of countries traveling to the US can take full effect even as legal challenges against it make their way through the courts The US supreme court ruled on Monday that a ban ordered by Donald Trump on travelers from six Muslim-majority countries and two other countries could be immediately imposed while multiple court cases challenging the ban are resolved. The ultimate disposition of the ban was expected to take months to resolve. But the 7-2 ruling by the high court was a blow to anti-discrimination advocates, who vowed to protest the decision. |
| Amateur explorers discover vast underground passage beneath Montreal Posted: 05 Dec 2017 12:00 AM PST Underground chamber about 6m high and 3m wide had been hidden behind ancient limestone walls A pair of amateur explorers in Canada have found a vast underground passage stretching hundreds of metres underneath the bustling streets of Montreal whose formation dates back more than 15,000 years ago to the Earth's last ice age. "It's just beautiful," said Luc Le Blanc, who found the network of caverns earlier this year with fellow spelunker Daniel Caron. "The walls sometimes look like layers of fudge and chocolate; there's brown, there's dark brown, there's ochre." Continue reading... |
| The Hague says claims of war crimes by UK troops have 'reasonable basis' Posted: 04 Dec 2017 02:17 PM PST International criminal court to press ahead with investigating allegations that British forces mistreated detainees in Iraq The chief prosecutor at the international criminal court in The Hague, Fatou Bensouda, has declared there is a "reasonable basis" to believe that UK soldiers committed war crimes against detainees during the Iraq conflict. The announcement on Monday means the ICC will press ahead with its investigation into claims that British troops abused and unlawfully killed prisoners after the US-led invasion. |
| Germany accused over 'illegal' deportation of Afghan asylum seeker Posted: 04 Dec 2017 10:00 PM PST Lawyers say decision to return 26-year-old contradicts government's own rules on removals The German government has been accused of breaking its own rules on removing Afghan asylum seekers with a decision to deport a 26-year-old who fears he will be killed if returned. The man, who the Guardian is not naming, is due to be flown out of Germany on Wednesday to a country he has not set foot in since he was five years old. |
| Trump slashes size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase national monuments in Utah Posted: 04 Dec 2017 05:34 PM PST President signs two proclamations slashing protections for Utah monuments, representing a triumph for fossil fuel industries, ranchers and Republicans Donald Trump was widely condemned on Monday for drastically shrinking two national monuments, representing the biggest elimination of public lands protection in US history. Related: 'We'll see the battle lines': Trump faced by Native American alliance over Bears Ears Continue reading... |
| Poor bear brunt of Beijing coal cleanup with no heating at -6C Posted: 04 Dec 2017 08:48 AM PST Switch from coal to gas has left residents of towns around Beijing without heating after gas supply falters, reports Climate Home News While middle class Beijingers breathe the cleanest air in recent winters, in Zhuozhou, a small city 20 minutes by train from Beijing's downtown, residents are shivering through cold nights without heating. The reason: a five-year anti-pollution drive has forced rural areas in northern China to switch from dirty coal to the cleaner alternative. The massive retrofitting campaign has sent gas prices soaring while many are left without heating systems at all. In two villages close to Zhuozhou's high-speed railway station, on the city's eastern edge, villagers estimate only about one third of homes have been connected with natural gas supply, while others say they are still anxiously waiting for the gas company to install furnaces. Their old-fashioned coal stoves were all demolished as the government intensified efforts to phase out coal use in rural homes. Continue reading... |
| Honduras: police refuse to obey government as post-election chaos deepens Posted: 04 Dec 2017 06:08 PM PST All national police will refuse to enforce a curfew after days of deadly violence triggered by allegations of electoral fraud Honduran police have announced they will refuse to obey orders from the government of the incumbent president, Juan Orlando Hernandez, and will remain in their barracks until a political crisis triggered by last Sunday's contested presidential election has been resolved. All national police – including elite US-trained units – in the capital, Tegucigalpa, would refuse to enforce a curfew ordered by the government after days of deadly violence triggered by allegations of electoral fraud, a spokesman said on Monday night. Continue reading... |
| Fury as Mexico presidential candidate pitches amnesty for drug cartel kingpins Posted: 04 Dec 2017 02:12 PM PST Andrés Manuel López Obrador says he wants a dialogue on the drug war that has cost the country an estimated 200,000 lives over the last decade A leading Mexican presidential candidate has been accused of wanting to explore a deal with the devil in an attempt to bring peace to the country. Speaking in the violence-wracked southern state of Guerrero this weekend, Andrés Manuel López Obrador floated the idea of an amnesty for drug cartel kingpins, saying he wanted a dialogue on the drug war that has cost the country an estimated 200,000 lives over the last decade. |
| UN political chief to visit North Korea in landmark trip as tensions rise Posted: 04 Dec 2017 01:43 PM PST Jeffrey Feltman will meet foreign minister and other diplomats in highest-level UN visit to country in more than six years The United Nations' political affairs chief will visit North Korea this week, making the highest-level visit by a UN official in more than six years as tensions grip the region over Pyongyang's nuclear and weapons programs. Jeffrey Feltman, a former senior US state department official, will visit from Tuesday to Friday and meet with officials to discuss "issues of mutual interest and concern", the United Nations said. Continue reading... |
| Syrian refugee rescued from tiny dinghy off Libyan coast Posted: 04 Dec 2017 01:48 PM PST Rescue ship chief reports that man who worked as a nurse fled because he feared he could be killed by Islamist militias A Syrian refugee has been saved at sea after he set out solo in a tiny rubber boat from Libya, where he said he had been working as practically a slave for three years. Related: Migrants from west Africa being 'sold in Libyan slave markets' Continue reading... |
| Baby boy found to be alive after Delhi hospital declared him dead Posted: 04 Dec 2017 05:34 AM PST Two doctors have been sacked after parents of premature baby pronounced dead find him wriggling in body bag Police in Delhi have launched an investigation after a baby that had been pronounced dead by doctors was found to be moving in a body bag as his parents prepared to deliver funeral rites. Two doctors have been sacked from Delhi's upmarket Max hospital in Shalimar Bagh, where the boy and his twin sister were born prematurely at 22 weeks last week. Continue reading... |
| Former Georgian president Saakashvili is detained in Ukraine Posted: 05 Dec 2017 01:22 AM PST Crowds of supporters demonstrate as anti-corruption campaigner is taken away by police from his home in Kiev Ukrainian police have detained the former president of Georgia, who has emerged as an anti-corruption campaigner in his new country. As police arrived to detain Mikheil Saakashvili at his home in Kiev on Tuesday morning he went up on the roof to protest, attracting a crowd of supporters downstairs. Footage from the scene showed Saakashvili being taken away while several hundred protesters were blocking the road. Continue reading... |
| 'There's nothing for us': Farc rebels search for purpose a year after historic deal Posted: 05 Dec 2017 01:00 AM PST At the height of its power, Colombia's Farc was the most powerful guerrilla army in Latin America. Now former fighters are struggling to adapt to civilian life Until recently, Sofía, a slight, unassuming 22 year old, was a member of Latin America's most powerful guerrilla army: the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc). At the height of its powers, the group mounted devastating ambushes on government soldiers, kidnapped thousands of ordinary civilians and shifted shipments of drugs worth millions. Continue reading... |
| Fine art to topple fine wine in 2017 luxury investment league Posted: 04 Dec 2017 11:23 PM PST Rich investors burned in the financial crisis are back in the market for modern masterpieces, according to Knight Frank luxury investment index Art is expected to overtake wine as the best-performing luxury investment asset this year as a growing number of millionaires snap up contemporary masterpieces for their mansions. Rich people, hit by a collapse in art pricesafter the 2007-2008 financial crisis, have returned to the market, according to high end estate agent Knight Frank. Art sold at auction increased in value by 16% over the 12 months to the end of September, slightly behind fine wines which rose by 17%, its luxury investment index revealed. Continue reading... |
| 'They're just not very British': will cities finally splash out on water fountains? Posted: 04 Dec 2017 11:00 PM PST An exclusive Guardian investigation into water fountains across Britain reveals a shocking lack of alternatives to plastic bottles – but could change be coming? Michael Gove has suggested water fountains to combat the tide of plastic produced in Britain. Sadiq Khan wants drinking points to dot the London landscape. Twice in the same week, two of the most powerful environmental decision-makers in the UK have offered the same antidote to the country's plastic addiction: don't re-buy, refill. It's a timely idea. A million plastic bottles are bought worldwide every minute, and drinking fountains have the potential to dramatically cut the consumption of such single-use plastic. Continue reading... |
| Émile Zola, the photographer: personal collection goes under the hammer Posted: 04 Dec 2017 06:21 AM PST Thousands of photographs and equipment belonging to writer's grandson expected to fetch up to £53,000 at auction Émile Zola is best known as the 19th century French author of celebrated works including Thérèse Raquin, Nana and Germinal. Now, the leader of the Naturalist literary movement is being recognised as a talented and experimental photographer with the auction of a rarely seen personal collection of pictures. Continue reading... |
| English pupils improve results in international reading exams Posted: 05 Dec 2017 01:33 AM PST Children aged nine and 10 who took part in global assessment of reading ability are ranked joint eighth out of 50 participating countries Nine- and 10-year-olds in England have improved their reading scores in a set of prestigious international exams, although their results still lag behind Russia, Singapore and Hong Kong, which top the table. English children who took part were ranked a creditable joint eighth out of 50 participating countries, scoring the same as their peers in Norway and Taiwan, and climbing up from 10th position in the last round of tests five years ago. Continue reading... |
| Theresa May seeks to rescue Brexit deal as Dublin says it won't back down - Politics live Posted: 05 Dec 2017 01:34 AM PST Rolling coverage of the day's political developments as they happen, including Theresa May's attempt to salvage a Brexit deal after it was rejected by the DUP
Nicola Sturgeon has called for opposition parties and pro-EU Conservative MPs to form an informal coalition at Westminster to ensure the UK remains in the single market and customs union, exploiting the disarray in Theresa May's government. The first minister challenged Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, to get his act together in a tweet on Tuesday morning, stating: "This could be the moment for opposition and soft Brexit/remain Tories to force a different, less damaging approach - keep the UK in the single market and customs union. But it needs Labour to get its act together. How about it @jeremycorbyn?" This could be the moment for opposition and soft Brexit/remain Tories to force a different, less damaging approach - keep the UK in the single market and customs union. But it needs Labour to get its act together. How about it @jeremycorbyn?
Theresa May chairs cabinet this morning knowing that she has just a few days at most to rescue the Brexit deal almost agreed yesterday after it was torpedoed by the DUP. Yesterday's setback was the worst the government has had since the Brexit negotiations started about seven months ago. But quite how catastrophic was it? One view is that this was just part of routine Brussels/Ulster talks choreography, where no one ever signs up to something without a bit of a row because otherwise voters think they haven't fought their corner. The Sunday Times' EU correspondent Bojan Pancevski was one of those making this argument yesterday, and on RTE this morning Sir Malcolm Rifkind, the former Conservative foreign secretary, was saying much the same thing. "This is classic last-minute drama which is pretty common in Europe," he said. "There is no reason at all why this cant be sorted out." What an absolutely ludicrous, incompetent, absurd, make it up as you go along, couldn't run a piss up in a brewery bunch of jokers there are running the government at the most critical time in a generation for the country. In the absence of agreed solutions, the UK will ensure that there is continued regulatory alignment from those rules of internal market and customs union which, now or in the future, support north-south cooperation and protection of the Good Friday agreement. BREAKING Simon Coveney, Ireland's PM: The irish government is not going to reverse its position - we want to give Theresa May time. "if there are presentation issues we will look at that. " We have been moving forward on the basis of good faith. We believe the British government has also been. There has been very difficult negotiations, we recognise these are very difficult political issues to manage for the British prime minister and we want to give her the time and the space to do that. But we don't want to give the impression the irish government is going to reverse away from the deal we felt we had in place and agreed yesterday. Ireland's EU minister Helen McEntee, holding the line given by Coveney on way into Dail this morn - "I don't think this govt will be willing to change the meaning of the text" I don't think it should be there because I think he problem that we will have is trying to strike free trade agreements around the world [if the UK and Northern Ireland are aligned to EU regulation]. Continue reading... |
| Where did you go, Ivanka? How the first daughter's family leave plan fizzled Posted: 04 Dec 2017 11:00 PM PST At the Republican national convention, Ivanka Trump pledged to fight for mothers. But her proposal was rebuffed amid the Republican tax overhaul "As a mother myself, of three young children, I know how hard it is to work while raising a family. And I also know that I'm far more fortunate than most." Those were the words of Ivanka Trump at the 2016 Republican national convention, moments before her father took the stage to accept his party's nomination for president. Standing at the podium before a crowd of thousands in Cleveland, with millions more watching across America, Ivanka touted Donald Trump as a champion of working women while vowing to fight for gender equality "right alongside of him". Continue reading... |
| The new Concorde? JAL buys into Branson's supersonic dream Posted: 04 Dec 2017 11:00 PM PST Japan Airlines invests $10m in Boom Supersonic project, which aims to build new generation of jets Japan Airlines (JAL) has invested millions of dollars in a Sir Richard Branson-backed plan to reintroduce supersonic passenger flights 14 years after Concorde was retired. The Japanese airline said on Tuesday it had invested $10m (£7.4m) in Boom Supersonic, a Denver-based startup aiming to build a new generation of supersonic jets promising 3.5-hour flights from London to New York for an "affordable" $5,000 return as soon as 2025. Continue reading... |
| Australia’s year 4 literacy rate rises from 27th to 21st in study of 45 countries Posted: 05 Dec 2017 01:04 AM PST Australian students lag significantly behind those in countries such as Russia, England and Singapore Australia's overall primary literacy rates are improving but the number of students with the lowest literacy rates remain stubbornly consistent, a new study has found. The Pirls assessment – Progress in International Reading Literacy Study – released on Tuesday, gauged the literacy skills of 580,000 year 4 students in 50 countries. Continue reading... |
| 'A gift from the sky': record-breaking nine-hour rainbow appears in Taiwan – video Posted: 05 Dec 2017 12:22 AM PST A professor in Taiwan claims to have witnessed the longest ever visible rainbow, clocking in at nearly nine hours, and plans to submit it for a world record Continue reading... |
| Tuesday briefing: Didn't anyone tell the DUP? Posted: 04 Dec 2017 10:31 PM PST Unionists pull rug from under May at Brexit talks … court allows Trump travel ban for time being … and what happens when hard drugs are decriminalised Good morning, it's Warren Murray bringing you the briefing today. Continue reading... |
| 'A gift from the sky': record-breaking nine-hour rainbow appears in Taiwan Posted: 04 Dec 2017 09:08 PM PST Chou Kun-hsuan of Chinese Culture University claims phenomenon beats six-hour rainbow seen in Sheffield in 1994 A professor in Taiwan claims to have witnessed the longest ever visible rainbow, clocking in at nearly nine hours, and plans to submit it for a world record. The rainbow lasted for eight hours and 58 minutes in the mountains around the Taiwanese capital of Taipei, according to Chou Kun-hsuan, a professor at the Chinese Culture University. Continue reading... |
| Suspended dengue vaccine was given to 730,000 children, Philippines says Posted: 04 Dec 2017 07:46 PM PST Sanofi's Dengvaxia immunisation could worsen disease in some patients not previously exposed to virus The Philippines has ordered an investigation into the immunisation of more than 730,000 children with a dengue vaccine that has been suspended following an announcement by French drug company Sanofi that it could worsen the disease in some cases. The World Health Organisation said it hoped by the end of the year to conduct a full review of data on the vaccine, commercially known as Dengvaxia. In the meantime, the WHO recommended it be used only in people who had a prior infection with dengue. Continue reading... |
| Shock in France as Berlin 'martyrs' art show includes Bataclan attacker and 9/11 pilot Posted: 04 Dec 2017 05:20 PM PST Exhibition showcases 20 people who 'died for their convictions' includes French jihadist Ismael Omar Mostefai and Mohammed Atta A Berlin art installation dedicated to "martyrs" has prompted outrage by including one of the Paris jihadist attackers alongside the likes of Martin Luther King and Socrates, with the French embassy calling the display "deeply shocking". The so-called Martyr Museum by a Danish art collective shows the portraits of 20 people throughout history who "died for their convictions" accompanied by short biographies. Continue reading... |
| Gloves not guns: fighting the good fight in Rio's brutal favelas | Jo Griffin Posted: 04 Dec 2017 10:30 PM PST After Alan Duarte lost nine of his male relatives to violence, he set up a boxing academy to help young people develop their potential. His work is now the subject of an award-winning documentary by British filmmakers, The Good Fight The men in Alan Duarte's family do not die from natural causes. Gun violence in the favela complex of Alemão, Rio de Janeiro, has claimed the lives of 10 close male relatives. After the death of his brother, Jackson, Duarte decided to fight back. With a few borrowed gloves and castoff punchbags, in 2014 Duarte set up the boxing academy Abraço Campeão (Embracing Champions) to help children and young people develop their potential as well as the skills to forge a better future, despite growing up in a community blighted by armed conflict and decades of state neglect. Continue reading... |
| Police have killed dozens of children in Philippines war on drugs, Amnesty says Posted: 04 Dec 2017 08:52 AM PST Rights group urges International Criminal Court to open investigation into crimes against humanity committed over past 18 months in brutal state crackdown Police have killed dozens of children in the "war on drugs" in the Philippines in the last 18 months, Amnesty International said. The rights group urged the International Criminal Court to open an investigation into crimes against humanity in the violent crackdown, including the deaths of an estimated 60 young people by police and vigilantes. Some of those killed were deliberately targeted in anti-drugs raids, while others were caught in the crossfire. There have also been "riding in tandem" attacks, carried out by vigilantes on motorcycles, which are often paid for by police, Amnesty said. Continue reading... |
| Donald Trump says he feels 'very badly' for Michael Flynn – video Posted: 04 Dec 2017 08:10 AM PST The US president addresses the media about his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who last week pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. Trump had already fired Flynn for lying to the vice-president, Mike Pence, about his contacts with Russia in February. Trump said it was 'very unfair' how Flynn was being treated compared with Hillary Clinton, who Trump claimed had lied to the FBI many times without sanction Continue reading... |
| Panda cub growls and jumps at France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron – video Posted: 04 Dec 2017 07:57 AM PST France's first baby panda has been named Yuan Meng ('accomplishment of a dream') at a ceremony attended by Chinese dignitaries and the French first lady, Brigitte Macron. The ceremony at Beauval zoo, south of Paris, was considered a diplomatic event, but the four-month-old male cub decided otherwise, making a growling sound and jumping towards Macron when she put her hand over a glass wall to pet the animal. The baby panda's mother, Huan Huan, was artificially inseminated from partner Yuan Zi this spring. Both are at the zoo on a 10-year loan from China, and their offspring officially belong to the Chinese government. The cub will be sent to a Chinese panda reserve when it is weaned |
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