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- Somali citizens count cost of surge in US airstrikes under Trump
- Angela Merkel braces for intensive negotiations in German coalition talks
- Hugh Masekela, South African jazz trumpeter, dies aged 78
- Senate passes short-term funding bill to end government shutdown
- Congo steps up deadly crackdown after more protests against Kabila
- Turkey's preoccupation with Syrian Kurds could spell disaster for US | Patrick Wintour
- Sweden summons Chinese ambassador over 'kidnapping' of Gui Minhai
- Japan: fatal avalanche engulfs skiers after volcano erupts
- Netflix valuation breaks $100bn for first time
- Chelsea Manning says she attended far-right pro-Trump event 'to gather intel'
- Rupert Murdoch tells Facebook: pay 'trusted' publishers for their content
- Venice authorities step in after four tourists charged £1,000 for meal
- Canadian climate science faces crisis that may be felt globally, scientists warn
- Jimmy Carr criticised for saying New Zealand city needs earthquake to look better
- Mashhad in the spotlight: inequality plagues Iran's holy city
- Italy elections: as left splinters, Berlusconi waits in wings
- National Grid criticises Ofgem over Hinkley Point C proposals
- Hammond dismisses Johnson's talk of post-Brexit NHS dividend
- Key players in the US government shutdown: who came out on top?
- Brazil braces for corruption appeal that could make or break ex-president
- Sydney former public servant charged with sending $30,000 to Isis
- Thai seafood: are the prawns on your plate still fished by slaves?
- North Korea tops list of world's most neglected humanitarian crises
- US air wars under Trump: increasingly indiscriminate, increasingly opaque
- The 'hardass', the 'racist' and the 'crazy uncle': how the first Daca deal derailed
- Let's call the pro-lifers what they are: pro-death
- Stormy reception for Mike Pence's speech to Knesset in Israel – video
- 'In a few hours the government will reopen,' says Chuck Schumer in Senate speech – video
- White House records new voicemail message blaming Democrats for shutdown – video
| Somali citizens count cost of surge in US airstrikes under Trump Posted: 22 Jan 2018 09:00 PM PST The Guardian has investigated scores of reports of US-led strikes targeting al-Shabaab, which have risen to unprecedented levels Dozens of civilians have been killed and wounded in Somalia as US-led airstrikes against Islamist militants increase to unprecedented levels, a Guardian investigation has found, raising fears that Washington's actions could bolster support for extremists. The escalation in strikes is part of the Trump administration's broader foreign policy strategy in Africa and the Middle East. There have been 34 US airstrikes in Somalia in the last six months – at least twice the total for the whole of 2016. Continue reading... |
| Angela Merkel braces for intensive negotiations in German coalition talks Posted: 22 Jan 2018 09:05 AM PST Chancellor welcomes SPD vote to begin negotiations but both sides have vocal doubters Angela Merkel has welcomed the Social Democrats' decision to enter into formal coalition talks, even as the party's leader signalled he would try to wring concessions from her before putting the final deal to members in a postal ballot. "The path for coalition negotiations is now clear," said the German chancellor, appearing relieved after the SPD's vote on the issue on Sunday. She said she would strive to create an economically stable government and would prioritise social justice and security. Continue reading... |
| Hugh Masekela, South African jazz trumpeter, dies aged 78 Posted: 23 Jan 2018 01:33 AM PST Man known as father of South African jazz had career spanning more than five decades From the archive video interview: When I look at the time left, I have to hurry up Hugh Masekela, the legendary South African jazz musician, has died aged 78. A statement from the trumpeter's family said Masekela "passed peacefully" in Johannesburg, where he lived and worked for much of his life. Continue reading... |
| Senate passes short-term funding bill to end government shutdown Posted: 22 Jan 2018 06:26 PM PST
The three-day government shutdown is over, as Donald Trump signed a short-term spending bill that would provide a temporary respite from the crisis until 8 February. The official end to the shutdown came on Monday night after Senate Democrats voted to fund the government for three weeks in exchange for a promise of a future Senate vote on immigration. The compromise broke the standoff over the fate of Dreamers, undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children. Continue reading... |
| Congo steps up deadly crackdown after more protests against Kabila Posted: 22 Jan 2018 09:00 PM PST Clergy among hundreds detained as Catholic church leads call for president to step down Hundreds of people have been arrested in a wide-ranging crackdown in the Democratic Republic of the Congo after fresh protests against the continued rule of President Joseph Kabila. Security forces shot dead at least six people and wounded dozens more as they fired teargas to disperse demonstrations organised by the Catholic church on Sunday. Among the victims was a woman who had wanted to become a nun, local media reported. The detained include at least a dozen priests and nuns. Continue reading... |
| Turkey's preoccupation with Syrian Kurds could spell disaster for US | Patrick Wintour Posted: 22 Jan 2018 09:00 PM PST The west cannot afford to lose Ankara's role as a countervailing force to a Russian-imposed peace The US, Britain and France have all strongly criticised the Turkish invasion of northern Syria, but the three countries have so far been unwilling to instruct their Nato partner to pull back. The low-key stance urging Turkey to minimise casualties probably means Ankara can press ahead with its attempts to drive the Syrian Kurds out of Afrin province in north-west Syria. Continue reading... |
| Sweden summons Chinese ambassador over 'kidnapping' of Gui Minhai Posted: 22 Jan 2018 07:00 PM PST Sweden's foreign minister says the situation has worsened since the bookseller was taken by police while travelling on a train to Beijing Sweden has summoned China's ambassador to Stockholm to explain the dramatic snatching of a Swedish bookseller as he travelled to Beijing with two European diplomats. Gui Minhai, 53, was taken on Saturday by about 10 plainclothes officers as his train stopped at a station outside the Chinese capital. His current whereabouts is unknown. Continue reading... |
| Japan: fatal avalanche engulfs skiers after volcano erupts Posted: 23 Jan 2018 12:10 AM PST Falling rocks from Kusatsu-Shirane, north-west of Tokyo, leave one dead and 12 injured A member of Japan's self-defence forces died and around a dozen skiers were injured after a volcano erupted near a ski resort, triggering an avalanche and sending rocks raining down on the slopes. The skiers were injured when they became trapped by the avalanche or were hit by falling volcanic rocks from Mount Kusatsu-Shirane, according to local media. Five were seriously injured, but none was in a critical condition, rescuers said. Continue reading... |
| Netflix valuation breaks $100bn for first time Posted: 22 Jan 2018 02:27 PM PST Video streaming service announces it added 8.33m subscribers in final three months of 2017, including 6.36m internationally New subscribers drawn in by shows including Stranger Things, Bright and The Crown helped push the valuation of Netflix past $100bn on Monday for the first time. Releasing its latest quarterly figures the video streaming service announced it had added 8.33 million subscribers in the three months to the end of December. |
| Chelsea Manning says she attended far-right pro-Trump event 'to gather intel' Posted: 22 Jan 2018 02:48 PM PST Former whistleblower pictured at party thrown by conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich, but she insists it was purely for intelligence gathering Chelsea Manning, the former whistleblower who is now running for the US Senate, is defending herself against accusations that she has forged links with the far right after she appeared at a pro-Trump party thrown by notorious conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich. Related: Chelsea Manning: 'I'm a very different person than I was 10 years ago' Continue reading... |
| Rupert Murdoch tells Facebook: pay 'trusted' publishers for their content Posted: 22 Jan 2018 12:42 PM PST Amid policy changes at social network, media mogul criticizes it for failing to 'adequately reward' publishers that add value and integrity Rupert Murdoch issued a new salvo in the row between Facebook and news publishers on Monday, calling on the social media company to pay publishers for their content. "If Facebook wants to recognize 'trusted' publishers then it should pay those publishers a carriage fee similar to the model adopted by cable companies," the News Corp chairman said in a statement. "The publishers are obviously enhancing the value and integrity of Facebook through their news and content but are not being adequately rewarded for those services." Continue reading... |
| Venice authorities step in after four tourists charged £1,000 for meal Posted: 22 Jan 2018 10:18 AM PST Quartet of Japanese tourists ordered steak, grilled fish and water and were charged €1,100 in restaurant The police chief and mayor of Venice have pledged action after four Japanese tourists said they were presented with a bill of €1,100 (£970) for four steaks and a plate of mixed grilled fish, washed down with water. Another three women in the same group suspected they might be taken for a ride at the restaurant near St Mark's Square and ate elsewhere, the Ansa news agency reported, but still ended up paying €350 (£308) for three dishes of seafood pasta. Continue reading... |
| Canadian climate science faces crisis that may be felt globally, scientists warn Posted: 22 Jan 2018 02:20 PM PST In a letter to Justin Trudeau, 250 scientists highlight their concern over the imminent end of a research program to better understand climate change Canadian climate science is facing a looming crisis whose repercussions could be felt far beyond the country's borders, hundreds of scientists have warned, after the Canadian government failed to renew the country's only dedicated funding program for climate and atmospheric research. Related: Indigenous Canadians face a crisis as climate change eats away island home Continue reading... |
| Jimmy Carr criticised for saying New Zealand city needs earthquake to look better Posted: 22 Jan 2018 04:11 PM PST Comedian branded insensitive for tweet that Dunedin, the country's oldest city, would benefit from a rebuild British comedian Jimmy Carr has caused offence in New Zealand by suggesting the country's oldest city – Dunedin – could be improved by an earthquake. The comedian has been touring the country and last night performed in Dunedin, on the lower east coast of the South Island. Continue reading... |
| Mashhad in the spotlight: inequality plagues Iran's holy city Posted: 22 Jan 2018 04:42 AM PST Rampant development has emphasised a widening social gap in Mashhad, the starting point of last year's anti-government protests The wave of anti-government protests in Iran at the end of December began in one of the country's conservative strongholds: its second city, Mashhad. Site of the huge Imam Reza shrine that draws more than 20 million Shia pilgrims a year, the city's population has ballooned to around 3 million in recent years. After a proposed modernisation of the area around the shrine complex by architect Dariush Borbor was abandoned following the Islamic revolution, rampant development in the last two decades may have helped aggravate social forces hitting the streets today. It's been rumoured that hardline rivals to Iran's reformist president Hassan Rouhani orchestrated the street protests from their nationalist-religious base of Mashhad. Azar Tashakor, a 50-year-old urban sociologist whose father made pilgrimages to the city and who later studied there, thinks this underestimates a widening social gap. Continue reading... |
| Italy elections: as left splinters, Berlusconi waits in wings Posted: 22 Jan 2018 09:00 PM PST The only thing pundits can agree on is the ruling Democratic party seems headed for a humiliating defeat Ask anyone in Italy about who might be sitting at the head of government in Palazzo Chigi following national elections on 4 March and the answer is a collective shrug of the shoulder. Silvio Berlusconi, the former prime minister and master of reinvention, has portrayed the centre-right coalition he leads as a safe pair of hands against the insurgency of the populist Five Star Movement, which has the overwhelming support of young voters but a dismal track record in municipal governments. Continue reading... |
| National Grid criticises Ofgem over Hinkley Point C proposals Posted: 23 Jan 2018 01:28 AM PST Company says regulator's plans are 'disappointing' and its claim of £100m savings is too high National Grid has hit out at Ofgem's proposals over an £800m project to connect the Hinkley Point C power station to the electricity network, saying they put investment in the UK energy sector at risk. The Hinkley Seabank plan is an essential overhaul of the power network to send electricity from the new plant in Somerset – which will meet 7% of the UK's demand – to the rest of the country. |
| Hammond dismisses Johnson's talk of post-Brexit NHS dividend Posted: 23 Jan 2018 01:02 AM PST Foreign secretary calls for more funds but chancellor says economy is suffering Economic confidence is suffering due to the UK's impending withdrawal from the EU, Philip Hammond has said, as he pointedly knocked down demands from Boris Johnson for a "Brexit dividend" for the NHS, in a sign of growing divisions within the government. |
| Key players in the US government shutdown: who came out on top? Posted: 22 Jan 2018 10:00 PM PST Both parties claim to have emerged from negotiations with the upper hand, but did they? Here's how leaders on either side fared A three-day shutdown of the federal government came to an end on Monday, as lawmakers in Washington reached a compromise that funded the government through 8 February and reauthorized a popular children's health insurance program. Related: Senate passes short-term funding bill to end government shutdown Continue reading... |
| Brazil braces for corruption appeal that could make or break ex-president Posted: 23 Jan 2018 12:01 AM PST Civil unrest expected as Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, still hugely popular despite corruption conviction, fights to stay in upcoming election race Brazil is bracing for a historic court decision which could remove the most popular leader in modern Brazilian history from an election he is currently poised to win – and may prove devastating to the leftwing Workers' party he founded. Nerves are stretched taut ahead of Wednesday's appeals court decision, in which three judges will decide whether or not to uphold the conviction of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on corruption and money laundering charges. Continue reading... |
| Sydney former public servant charged with sending $30,000 to Isis Posted: 22 Jan 2018 11:36 PM PST Linda Merhi, 40, appears in court charged with five counts of making funds available to a terrorist organisation A former federal public servant has appeared in a Sydney court over allegations she transferred more than $30,000 to fund the terrorism of Islamic State. Linda Merhi, 40, was arrested by the New South Wales joint counter-terrorism team at Parramatta early on Tuesday. Continue reading... |
| Thai seafood: are the prawns on your plate still fished by slaves? Posted: 23 Jan 2018 12:00 AM PST Report finds trafficking persists on Thai fishing boats, as campaigners challenge retailers to guarantee products are free of rights abuses Thailand's billion-dollar seafood export industry remains infested with human rights abuses despite government pledges to stamp out slavery in its fishing industry, according to research by Human Rights Watch. Four years after damning revelations of chattel slavery aboard Thai fishing boats linked to seafood exported and sold by major retailers around the world, a report says that rights violations in one of Thailand's major export industries continue unabated, including forced labour and widespread human trafficking. Continue reading... |
| North Korea tops list of world's most neglected humanitarian crises Posted: 22 Jan 2018 10:30 PM PST Study says country's severe food shortages are ignored by global media, with emergencies in Eritrea and Burundi similarly overlooked The deepening humanitarian emergency in North Korea is the least reported in the world, according to a study that measures media coverage of crises across the globe. While insults traded between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un dominated headlines, North Korea's severe food shortages, estimated to have left two in five of its population undernourished, received little attention from the world's news outlets, the report said. Continue reading... |
| US air wars under Trump: increasingly indiscriminate, increasingly opaque Posted: 22 Jan 2018 09:00 PM PST Lack of transparency over looser rules of engagement is hallmark of administration, writes Julian Borger The escalating air war in Somalia is part of a global pattern of an ever broader and unfettered use of air power that has it roots in the Obama administration but which has been spurred on and expanded under Donald Trump. In the first year of his presidency, Trump has gone out of his way to claim credit for the defeats inflicted on Islamic State, attributing it to his loosening of constraints on his generals. Continue reading... |
| The 'hardass', the 'racist' and the 'crazy uncle': how the first Daca deal derailed Posted: 22 Jan 2018 11:26 AM PST John Kelly and Stephen Miller were responsible for walking Trump back from a deal on Friday, renewing concerns about White House proxy power Pundits have labeled them the "hardass", the "racist nativist" and the "crazy uncle in the attic". Related: Government shutdown: Democrats back bill to end deadlock Continue reading... |
| Let's call the pro-lifers what they are: pro-death Posted: 22 Jan 2018 03:00 AM PST On the 45th anniversary of Roe v Wade, it's time to highlight a hidden truth: restricting abortion means more maternal deaths Ever since the anti-abortion movement claimed the "pro-life" label in the 1970s, the battle over reproductive rights has taken an apocalyptic tone. If the anti-abortion side is pro-life, then the other side – the millions of women who rally every January to keep abortion legal and safe – must be composed of the gaunt, gray-winged handmaidens of death. This polarizing rhetoric turns every clash between the two sides into a prelude to Armageddon, the final showdown between life and death, good and evil. When charged with caring only for life in its fetal form, the anti-abortion side hoists its mythological claim that abortion is a risk factor for breast cancer, lifelong depression and suicide. Thus they can say that they do not only save fetal lives, but the lives of the women who carry these fetuses. Continue reading... |
| Stormy reception for Mike Pence's speech to Knesset in Israel – video Posted: 22 Jan 2018 03:05 PM PST The American vice-president, Mike Pence, said in a speech to the Israeli parliament that the US embassy in Israel would move to Jerusalem by the end of 2019. Pence's speech was briefly disrupted by Israeli Arab parliament members who held up protest signs in Arabic and English, reading 'Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine' before being ejected by ushers. Pence responded by saying with a smile: 'It is deeply humbling for me to stand before this vibrant democracy.' Continue reading... |
| 'In a few hours the government will reopen,' says Chuck Schumer in Senate speech – video Posted: 22 Jan 2018 12:08 PM PST US senators voted to move forward on legislation that would reopen the federal government until 8 February, ending a three-day standoff between Democrats and President Donald Trump's Republicans over immigration and border security. Funding legislation cleared a procedural hurdle in the Senate and was expected to pass a full Senate vote promptly, allowing the government to reopen. The shutdown, which began on the first anniversary of Trump's inauguration, threatened to undercut the president's self-crafted image as a dealmaker who would repair the broken culture in Washington Continue reading... |
| White House records new voicemail message blaming Democrats for shutdown – video Posted: 22 Jan 2018 04:28 AM PST A message on the public comment line now says: 'Unfortunately, we cannot answer your call today, because congressional Democrats are holding government funding, including funding for our troops and other national security priorities, hostage to an unrelated immigration debate' • US shutdown: White House phone message blames Democrats Continue reading... |
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