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- Larry Nassar's 'death warrant': sexual abuser jailed for up to 175 years
- Google CEO: we're happy to pay more tax
- Turkey to extend Syria campaign to Kurdish-controlled Manbij
- Brazilian court upholds corruption conviction for ex-president Lula
- Khaled Ali withdraws from Egyptian presidential race
- Beppe Grillo steps aside from Italy’s Five Star Movement
- Israel agrees to open graves in search for 'stolen babies'
- Julian Assange's health in 'dangerous' condition, say doctors
- Chinese labs use mail to send opioid fentanyl into US, Senate report finds
- Paris on flooding alert as rising Seine causes travel disruption
- 12 camels disqualified from Saudi beauty contest in 'Botox' row
- A walking cure for Sarcellitis: can trails unite Paris's city and suburbs?
- No privacy, no school, no respite: Mozambique's water crisis
- Knife and gun crime rises steeply in England and Wales
- Milan train crash: at least two people killed after derailment
- Donald Trump: 'I'm looking forward' to speaking under oath to Russia inquiry
- Honduras activists allege campaign of violent intimidation by security forces
- China 'holding at least 120,000 Uighurs in re-education camps'
- Australian of the year named as quantum physicist Michelle Yvonne Simmons
- 'Now is not the time': violence forces refugees to flee Afghanistan again
- Britain accused of failing in ‘basic moral duty’ to slavery victims
- Judge bans Turpin parents from contacting children – video
- ‘Larry Nassar, I hate you’: abuse victims in their own words – video
- Lip service: camels get ‘Botox’ at Saudi beauty contest – video report
- Paris on flood alert as Seine reaches highest level in over a century – video
| Larry Nassar's 'death warrant': sexual abuser jailed for up to 175 years Posted: 25 Jan 2018 01:12 AM PST
The former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar has been sentenced to between 40 and 175 years in prison for abusing athletes in his care. Judge Rosemarie Aquilina reached her decision after a sentence hearing that heard from dozens of women and girls, including the Olympic champions Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney. Continue reading... |
| Google CEO: we're happy to pay more tax Posted: 24 Jan 2018 11:02 AM PST Sundar Pichai tells Davos flawed tax system is to blame for EU countries missing out on revenue The chief executive of Google has declared he is happy for his company to pay more tax, and called for the existing system to be reformed. Sundar Pichai told an audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos that the tax system needed to be reformed to address concerns that some companies were not paying their fair share. Continue reading... |
| Turkey to extend Syria campaign to Kurdish-controlled Manbij Posted: 25 Jan 2018 12:08 AM PST Recep Tayyip Erdoğan vows to 'thwart' Kurdish opposition in move that may force US reaction Turkey has said it will extend its incursion in Syria to the town of Manbij, taking its forces to the edge of the US-backed Kurdish presence in the country's north-east and raising the spectre of a military standoff with Washington. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey's president, announced the move late on Wednesday as a Turkish military assault on the city of Afrin, in north-west Syria, continued for a fifth day. Continue reading... |
| Brazilian court upholds corruption conviction for ex-president Lula Posted: 24 Jan 2018 02:56 PM PST The ruling, which comes after an appeal against a judge's sentence in July, could mean he will be barred from running for a third term A Brazilian court has upheld the conviction of the former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for corruption and money laundering, in a ruling that complicates his plans to run for a third term and marks an extraordinary change of fortune for the most popular leader in modern Brazilian history. Three judges at the appeals court in Porto Alegre voted unanimously on Wednesday to uphold the sentence that Lula was handed by a lower court, and increased the penalty from nine and a half years to 12 years and one month. Continue reading... |
| Khaled Ali withdraws from Egyptian presidential race Posted: 24 Jan 2018 11:05 AM PST Lawyer ends challenge to Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, telling supporters 'opportunity for hope has gone' The Egyptian presidential hopeful and rights lawyer Khaled Ali has quit the race, becoming the latest would-be candidate who either has bowed out or been forced to abandon a challenge to the president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, before the March election. Ali, a prominent socialist, had entered the race as a symbol of Egypt's leftist revolutionary politics, but on Wednesday he told a press conference packed with supporters that "the opportunity for hope in this presidential election has gone". Continue reading... |
| Beppe Grillo steps aside from Italy’s Five Star Movement Posted: 24 Jan 2018 02:32 PM PST Comedian founded anti-establishment party alongside Gianroberto Casaleggio in 2009 Beppe Grillo, the bombastic comedian who co-founded Italy's anti-establishment Five Star Movement, has stepped aside in what some speculate could be a move to bolster the party's chances before the general election on 4 March. Grillo, who has been instrumental in turning the movement into Italy's most popular party, roared on to the political scene in 2009 after joining forces with the late web strategist Gianroberto Casaleggio to launch a blog that railed against political corruption. |
| Israel agrees to open graves in search for 'stolen babies' Posted: 24 Jan 2018 09:12 AM PST Families allege thousands of Yemeni Jewish children were abducted after state's founding Israel has agreed to open graves believed to hold the remains of children who died shortly after the country's founding, in the latest move in a long-running debate over whether the babies were stolen from their parents. Families and activists believe that several thousand children, mostly from poor Yemeni Jewish communities, were systematically abducted by childless Jewish families of east European descent. Other Arab and Balkan Jews have also claimed infants were taken after they arrived in Israel. Continue reading... |
| Julian Assange's health in 'dangerous' condition, say doctors Posted: 24 Jan 2018 08:00 AM PST Two clinicians who examined Assange renew calls for him to be given safe passage to hospital Julian Assange's long stay in the Ecuadorian embassy in London is having a "dangerous" impact on his physical and mental health, according to clinicians who carried out the most recent assessments of him. The pair renewed calls for the WikiLeaks publisher to be granted safe passage to a London hospital. |
| Chinese labs use mail to send opioid fentanyl into US, Senate report finds Posted: 24 Jan 2018 03:13 PM PST
Illegal shipments of the powerful and addictive opioid fentanyl are pouring into the United States by mail from China and the US Postal Service must step up the use of hi-tech detection methods to fight the problem, according to a congressional report unveiled on Wednesday. A year-long investigation by a Senate homeland security and government affairs investigations subcommittee found there is easy access for buyers in the United States to purchase fentanyl, often in relatively large quantities, through the internet. Continue reading... |
| Paris on flooding alert as rising Seine causes travel disruption Posted: 24 Jan 2018 06:05 PM PST Part of the Louvre museum is closed as the river is forecast to reach 6.1 metres by Saturday – three times its normal height Parisians have been warned to stay away from the river Seine as it continues to rise, flooding surrounding roads and causing disruption to the city's transport network. As water levels touched 5.2 metres on Wednesday, the capital's authorities said the river was expected to reach 6.1 metres (20ft) by Saturday. Continue reading... |
| 12 camels disqualified from Saudi beauty contest in 'Botox' row Posted: 24 Jan 2018 03:08 AM PST Twelve animals disqualified from country's annual show after receiving injections to improve their pout Twelve camels have been disqualified from Saudi Arabia's annual camel beauty contest after receiving botulinum toxin injections to make their pouts look more alluring. Saudi authorities have raised the profile of the King Abdulaziz camel festival by relocating it from the desert to the outskirts of the capital, Riyadh. Continue reading... |
| A walking cure for Sarcellitis: can trails unite Paris's city and suburbs? Posted: 24 Jan 2018 11:30 PM PST To many city residents the banlieues surrounding Paris represent a dystopian vision made real – all high-rises and social isolation. Can new walking tours and a 300-mile track mend centuries of misunderstanding and distrust? Sarcelles has come to represent everything wrong with Paris's banlieues to such an extent that there's even a word – Sarcellitis – to describe the ennui created by modernist high-rises, concrete and social isolation. The northern suburb represents a dystopian vision made real – especially for those who have never visited. Taking a tour is the last thing on their minds. Continue reading... |
| No privacy, no school, no respite: Mozambique's water crisis Posted: 24 Jan 2018 04:45 AM PST In the absence of basic sanitation, life in rural Mozambique during the dry season involves a relentless cycle of arduous journeys to collect water unfit for drinking. The struggle for survival, which affects young and old alike, puts those affected at risk of disease and leaves little time for anything else Photographs: Mário Macilau/WaterAid Water is evaporating from the beautiful landscapes of Mozambique. There is too little to keep people alive, and the lack of it is forcing them from their homes, splitting up families and killing children. Photographer Mário Macilau travelled around his country, talking to people whose only supply of water is from filthy rivers that dry up quickly in the hotter months. Continue reading... |
| Knife and gun crime rises steeply in England and Wales Posted: 25 Jan 2018 02:15 AM PST Fourteen percent rise in all recorded crime is accompanied by even steeper increases in knife and gun crime The rise in crime in England and Wales is accelerating, with a 14% year-on-year increase in offences recorded by forces across England and Wales, according to police figures. The 14% rise in recorded crime shown in quarterly figures released on Thursday has been accompanied by even steeper increases in knife crime, which has increased by 21% in the 12 months to September, and gun crime, which has also risen by 20%. Continue reading... |
| Milan train crash: at least two people killed after derailment Posted: 25 Jan 2018 01:34 AM PST At least 10 seriously injured after incident at Pioltello-Limito station on outskirts of the city A commuter train has derailed in northern Italy, killing at least two people, seriously injuring 10 and trapping others heading into Milan at the start of the working day, police said. The Trenord-operated train derailed at Pioltello-Limito station on the outskirts of the city, halting rail traffic in Italy's financial capital. At least two main carriages peeled off the rails but were still standing, albeit at an angle. Rescue crews helped passengers escape. Continue reading... |
| Donald Trump: 'I'm looking forward' to speaking under oath to Russia inquiry Posted: 25 Jan 2018 01:10 AM PST President says he is willing to talk with Robert Mueller in investigation into Russian interference in 2016 election Donald Trump has said that he would be willing to speak to the special counsel office's under oath, adding that he was "looking forward" to talking with Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, including alleged contacts with the Trump campaign. Speaking with reporters at the White House before he set out for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump was asked about a potential interview with Mueller. Continue reading... |
| Honduras activists allege campaign of violent intimidation by security forces Posted: 24 Jan 2018 10:30 PM PST Environmental campaigners report death threats amid a crackdown on continuing protests against alleged election fraud Activists in Honduras have been targeted in a wave of surveillance, intimidation and violence since the country's security forces cracked down on a wave of social unrest prompted by last month's disputed presidential election. Lawyers from the Movimiento Amplio (MA) – a collective representing communities opposing dams and mines in the north of the country – have received death threats, while the group's founder has been followed and assaulted by armed men. Continue reading... |
| China 'holding at least 120,000 Uighurs in re-education camps' Posted: 25 Jan 2018 12:03 AM PST US-backed news group claims Mao-style camps are springing up on China's western border At least 120,000 members of China's Muslim Uighur minority have been confined to political "re-education camps" redolent of the Mao era that are springing up across the country's western borderlands, a report has claimed. Radio Free Asia (RFA), a US-backed news group whose journalists have produced some of the most detailed reporting on the heavily securitised region of Xinjiang, said it obtained the figure from a security official in Kashgar, a city in China's far west that has been the focus of a major crackdown. Continue reading... |
| Australian of the year named as quantum physicist Michelle Yvonne Simmons Posted: 25 Jan 2018 01:45 AM PST Matildas striker Sam Kerr named young Australian of the year and biophysicist Dr Graham Farquhar the senior Australian of the year The quantum physicist Prof Michelle Yvonne Simmons has been named the 2018 Australian of the year for her pioneering work in the field of quantum computing. At an awards ceremony on Thursday, Simmons was praised for world-leading research that could result in the first working quantum computer – a machine that performs calculations using subatomic particles rather than components of classic computing. Continue reading... |
| 'Now is not the time': violence forces refugees to flee Afghanistan again Posted: 25 Jan 2018 01:00 AM PST Political rhetoric about country's safety dismissed after study shows 72% of returnees forced into renewed flight Almost three-quarters of Afghan refugees who return home are forced to flee again due to violence, according to a survey that found the vast majority of displaced families do not receive aid assistance. The study, commissioned by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, comes after a deadly attack on Save the Children's office in Jalalabad on Wednesday, which killed three, wounded 26 and forced the organisation to temporarily close its Afghan operations. Continue reading... |
| Britain accused of failing in ‘basic moral duty’ to slavery victims Posted: 24 Jan 2018 11:00 PM PST Lack of support for whistleblowers who testify against traffickers condemns them to life on streets, campaigners warn Victims of slavery who have acted as witnesses in the prosecution of their traffickers are ending up destitute and homeless on the streets of Britain, campaigners have warned. Other potential whistleblowers, left without accommodation or access to support services for weeks after being identified as victims of slavery, have been forced to return to their traffickers simply to keep a roof over their heads. Continue reading... |
| Judge bans Turpin parents from contacting children – video Posted: 24 Jan 2018 07:39 PM PST A Californian judge has barred David and Louise Turpin, accused of torturing their children and shackling them to beds for months at a time, from contacting the victims. The siblings, aged between two and 29 years, were rescued from their home on 14 January. The parents have pleaded not guilty to torture, abuse and other charges. Continue reading... |
| ‘Larry Nassar, I hate you’: abuse victims in their own words – video Posted: 24 Jan 2018 12:09 PM PST The former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar has been sentenced to up to 175 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually abusing girls in his care under the guise of medical treatment. Over the course of his seven-day sentencing hearing a total of 156 girls and women spoke out to tell their stories Continue reading... |
| Lip service: camels get ‘Botox’ at Saudi beauty contest – video report Posted: 24 Jan 2018 08:31 AM PST Twelve camels have been disqualified from the annual King Abdulaziz camel festival, which is held in Saudi Arabia each year. The animals were found to have received Botox-like injections in their lips, while a vet was caught performing plastic surgery to make camels' ears smaller. The prize money in the beauty contest runs to tens of millions of pounds Continue reading... |
| Paris on flood alert as Seine reaches highest level in over a century – video Posted: 24 Jan 2018 05:01 AM PST Paris is on flooding alert as the river Seine continues to rise. Parisians have been warned to stay away from the river. Surrounding roads have been flooded and disruption to the city's transport network continues. Authorities said the river could pass the 6.1-metre (20ft) level of 2016, the highest in more than 100 years. |
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