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- Russia is aiming to interfere in US midterm elections, warns CIA chief
- Yemen's Saudi-backed government 'to flee from Aden'
- Kenya's opposition to swear in Raila Odinga as 'people's president'
- Dozens of villagers died in Nigerian air force raids, says Amnesty
- Rose McGowan's memoir Brave details alleged rape by Harvey Weinstein
- Survivors of capsized refugee boat say traffickers fired at passengers
- FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe steps down early
- Irish referendum on abortion reform to be held by end of May
- Elon Musk sells $3.5m worth of flamethrowers in a day
- Second woman arrested in Tehran for hijab protest
- VW condemned for testing diesel fumes on humans and monkeys
- US to resume refugee admissions from 11 countries Trump deemed 'high risk'
- Egypt election: sole challenger to Sisi registers at last minute
- 'There is no peace': traumatised Rohingya vow they won't go back to Myanmar
- How the people of Mosul subverted Isis 'apartheid'
- Confusion over 'pardon' for UK woman jailed in Egypt for smuggling
- Eurozone GDP: France posts strongest annual growth since 2011 - business live
- Toronto landscaper killed five people and buried them on clients' land – police
- Japanese woman sues government over forced sterilisation
- Kristina Keneally officially confirmed as Sam Dastyari's Senate replacement
- Ituren Carnival, ancient pagan festival – in pictures
- 'Price of conflict is too high': hunger at crisis levels in eight countries
- Food insecurity: a third of poorest households skip meals, survey finds
- Mauritania failing to tackle pervasive slavery, says African Union
- What's behind rich people pretending to be self-made?
- The changing face of Bhutan - in pictures
| Russia is aiming to interfere in US midterm elections, warns CIA chief Posted: 30 Jan 2018 12:01 AM PST Mike Pompeo says 'I have every expectation that they will continue to try' to meddle in House and Senate races in November Russia is set to continue its campaign of meddling in foreign elections by targeting the congressional midterm races in America, the head of the CIA has warned. Related: FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe steps down early Continue reading... |
| Yemen's Saudi-backed government 'to flee from Aden' Posted: 30 Jan 2018 01:59 AM PST Fighters seeking independence for southern Yemen have seized much of the city Leaders of Yemen's Saudi-backed government are reportedly preparing to flee from Aden as fighters from the armed wing of a political movement demanding secession for southern Yemen seized large parts of the city after three days of fighting. The Southern Transitional Council has been seeking secession from the rest of Yemen for years. Until recently it received support from the United Arab Emirates, causing a fracture in the Saudi-UAE alliance that intervened in Yemen against Houthi rebels that captured the north of the country. Continue reading... |
| Kenya's opposition to swear in Raila Odinga as 'people's president' Posted: 30 Jan 2018 01:14 AM PST Ceremony likely to lead to fresh violence after Uhuru Kenyatta won controversial vote last year Opposition leaders in Kenya say they will go ahead with a ceremony to swear in Raila Odinga as "president of the people" at a mass meeting "come hell or high water". The National Super Alliance (Nasa) is planning to hold the ceremony in Uhuru Park in Nairobi around noon on Tuesday. Continue reading... |
| Dozens of villagers died in Nigerian air force raids, says Amnesty Posted: 29 Jan 2018 10:27 AM PST Houses and civilians reportedly targeted in dispute over land between herdsmen and farmers At least 35 people were killed by the Nigerian military's air raids on villages last month, according to the human rights organisation Amnesty International. Witnesses described Nigerian air force jets bombing houses and targeting civilians trying to hide in five villages in raids that a military spokesman said at the time had a "positive effect" in tackling communal violence. |
| Rose McGowan's memoir Brave details alleged rape by Harvey Weinstein Posted: 29 Jan 2018 04:01 PM PST In the book, actor also recounts her fight against the 'Hollywood machine' and its misogyny After years of publicly accusing Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of rape, the actor Rose McGowan has detailed the sexual assault she said occurred after their first meeting more than 20 years ago. In her memoir Brave, published on 30 January worldwide, McGowan recalled first seeing Weinstein, whom she refers to only as "the Monster", at a screening of her film Going All the Way during the 1997 Sundance film festival. Continue reading... |
| Survivors of capsized refugee boat say traffickers fired at passengers Posted: 29 Jan 2018 07:43 AM PST Death toll from incident off Yemen coast last week reaches 30 but is expected to rise People traffickers fired automatic weapons at refugees to force them to jump into heavy seas off the coast of Yemen, according to survivors of the incident that killed dozens last week. The boat capsized after the shooting prompted panic. The death toll is currently 30, but is expected to rise. Continue reading... |
| FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe steps down early Posted: 29 Jan 2018 10:39 AM PST McCabe has exited ahead of his planned retirement amid an escalation by Donald Trump in attacks on the FBI Andrew McCabe, the deputy director of the FBI, stepped down on Monday in a widely anticipated move that nevertheless reflected a further deterioration in relations between the White House and authorities investigating Donald Trump's Russia ties. The move came after months of attacks on McCabe by the president, who implied that McCabe had been compromised by a political donation made in 2015 to McCabe's wife. Continue reading... |
| Irish referendum on abortion reform to be held by end of May Posted: 29 Jan 2018 03:06 PM PST Taoiseach confirms national plebiscite on abolishing eighth amendment and allowing terminations up to 12 weeks The Irish government has confirmed that it will hold a referendum on reform of the country's strict anti-abortion laws by the end of May. The cabinet agreed to give voters in the republic the chance to repeal the eighth amendment to the country's constitution on Monday. After a four-hour meeting, the Fine Gael-led minority coalition also decided to ask the electorate to endorse enabling powers to allow the Dáil (parliament) to draw up a new law that would eventually permit abortions in Irish hospitals up to 12 weeks into pregnancy. Continue reading... |
| Elon Musk sells $3.5m worth of flamethrowers in a day Posted: 29 Jan 2018 09:15 AM PST First it was 'Boring' baseball caps, now Tesla founder is selling flamethrowers – 'to liven up a party' Elon Musk, the multi-billionaire founder of electric car company Tesla and tunnelling company Boring, has sold $3.5m (£2.5m) worth of "boring" flamethrowers in less than 24 hours. The maverick businessman, who last week secured a pay deal that could see him collect $55bn, had pledged that if The Boring Company sold 50,000 baseball caps at $20 each he would start selling flamethrowers. Continue reading... |
| Second woman arrested in Tehran for hijab protest Posted: 29 Jan 2018 05:30 AM PST Woman was detained after standing on telecoms box to raise headscarf on a stick in repeat of protest last month A second woman has been arrested in Iran for protesting against the country's compulsory hijab rules after standing on a telecoms box on a Tehran street, taking off her headscarf and holding it aloft on a stick. The protest follows a similar action last month against the country's requirement that women cover themselves from head to toe in public. Continue reading... |
| VW condemned for testing diesel fumes on humans and monkeys Posted: 29 Jan 2018 07:21 AM PST Experiments involved monkeys and humans breathing in exhaust fumes for hours at a time Volkswagen, the world's biggest carmaker, is under fire globally from politicians and environmentalists following revelations it helped to fund experiments in which monkeys and humans breathed in car fumes for hours at a time. Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, said there was an urgent need for the company to reveal the true extent of the experiments, which were commissioned by the European Research Group of Environment and Health in the Transport Sector (EUGT), a body funded by Volkswagen, Daimler and BMW. Continue reading... |
| US to resume refugee admissions from 11 countries Trump deemed 'high risk' Posted: 29 Jan 2018 02:59 PM PST Admissions will resume with added security screenings after October 2017 order temporarily banning refugees from certain countries The US will resume refugee admissions from 11 countries after halting admissions from those countries last October to conduct a 90-day security review. Senior administration officials said Monday that admissions will resume with added security screenings, including more in-depth interviews. Continue reading... |
| Egypt election: sole challenger to Sisi registers at last minute Posted: 29 Jan 2018 08:38 AM PST Mousa Mostafa Mousa, Ghad party leader, gets on ballot hours before nomination deadline
Any candidate representing genuine opposition to Sisi has either been arrested or intimidated into dropping out. After the rightwing politician Mortada Mansour rescinded his candidacy, a chaotic race to find a challenger – and provide a veneer of democracy to the election - stretched into Monday. Continue reading... |
| 'There is no peace': traumatised Rohingya vow they won't go back to Myanmar Posted: 29 Jan 2018 09:00 AM PST Efforts to send Rohingya back over the border are foundering before they have even begun "They burned my house and my whole village, they stole my crops," Nagumia says. "I saw them throw the young children, and the old people who could not run, into the fire. They cut people's throats and their bellies and left them to die. I cannot go back. What am I going to go back to?" Across the Naf River from Myanmar, in the swollen Rohingya refugee camps huddled against Bangladesh's border, the wounds are too raw: there is almost no one yet willing to consider return. Continue reading... |
| How the people of Mosul subverted Isis 'apartheid' Posted: 29 Jan 2018 11:30 PM PST Part two – the fall: Once Isis had established its authority in Mosul, it administered the city using a two-tier system – privileges for 'brothers', hardship for everyone else. But locals resisted, and the Ponzi scheme began to crumble The day Isis attacked Mosul, Wassan, an affable young doctor with a cherubic face, ran from the maternity ward to the emergency room at Jimhoriya hospital. Injured civilians had begun pouring in. Wassan had just graduated from medical school, and had no experience in treating trauma casualties. As the wounded continued to arrive, what she lacked in knowledge she tried to make up for with enthusiasm. By the evening, the wards were overflowing, patients spilling into the corridors. Wassan slept overnight in the hospital, ignoring her father's incessant phone calls to come home. Continue reading... |
| Confusion over 'pardon' for UK woman jailed in Egypt for smuggling Posted: 30 Jan 2018 01:58 AM PST British embassy in Cairo has apparently denied reports Laura Plummer's release is imminent The future of a British woman jailed in Egypt for smuggling nearly 300 banned painkiller pills into the country is mired in confusion after reports she was facing a pardon were denied. Laura Plummer, a shop assistant from Hull, was sentenced to three years in prison in December after she was convicted of possessing controlled drugs, found on her as she entered the country. Continue reading... |
| Eurozone GDP: France posts strongest annual growth since 2011 - business live Posted: 30 Jan 2018 02:15 AM PST All the day's economic and financial news, including new eurozone growth figures
NEWSFLASH: The eurozone and the wider EU have both posted their strongest annual growth since the financial crisis. New GDP figures from Eurostat confirm that the European recovery remains on track, with annual growth of 2.5% in the EU and the narrower single currency block. That's the strongest annual growth in a decade.
Economists are concerned by the rise in UK consumer borrowing: The UK unsecured credit boom which we have been assured is slowing in fact accelerated to an annual rate of 9.5% in December #BoE Food for thought for the @bankofengland MPC next week. Mortgage approvals lowest since Jan 2015, but unsecured consumer credit reverses recent slowdown with £1.52bn of new borrowing in December (+9.5% YoY). V difficult balancing act for UK policymakers pic.twitter.com/wOQ5ct62q4 Continue reading... |
| Toronto landscaper killed five people and buried them on clients' land – police Posted: 29 Jan 2018 05:58 PM PST Police search 30 sites where suspect worked amid 'unprecedented' investigation after bodies found in large flower planters Police in Canada have accused a Toronto landscaper of murdering at least five people and burying their remains in large flower planters on his clients' properties, in a case that has sparked an "unprecedented" investigation. "The city of Toronto has never seen anything like this," Hank Idsinga of the Toronto police told reporters on Monday. Continue reading... |
| Japanese woman sues government over forced sterilisation Posted: 30 Jan 2018 01:18 AM PST Estimated 16,000 people were sterilised without their consent under eugenics law A Japanese woman who was forcibly sterilised aged 15 due to a mental disability has become the first of thousands of victims of the country's former eugenics law to sue the government. The woman, who is in her 60s, is seeking 11m yen (£72,000), claiming the state violated her human rights and offered her no support when she underwent the procedure, according to court documents quoted by Kyodo News. Continue reading... |
| Kristina Keneally officially confirmed as Sam Dastyari's Senate replacement Posted: 30 Jan 2018 01:30 AM PST Former state premier will take up her seat as soon as NSW parliament meets to endorse her The former New South Wales premier and Sky News broadcaster Kristina Keneally, will replace Sam Dastyari in the Senate, and could arrive in Canberra for the opening of parliament next week. Keneally was formally endorsed by the right faction to replace the strife prone Dastyari on Tuesday night, but the timing of her arrival is contingent on the New South Wales parliament, which will need to have a joint sitting to rubber stamp the move. Continue reading... |
| Ituren Carnival, ancient pagan festival – in pictures Posted: 30 Jan 2018 01:00 AM PST In one of the most ancient carnivals in Europe, dating from before the Roman empire, residents of two Basque towns, Ituren and Zubieta, ring their cowbells in order to frighten off the devil and bring good luck to farmers. Continue reading... |
| 'Price of conflict is too high': hunger at crisis levels in eight countries Posted: 29 Jan 2018 10:30 PM PST War driving up acute food insecurity on a vast scale, report finds, with Yemen, South Sudan and Syria worst affected The number of hungry people living in conflict zones is rising, with eight countries recording crisis or emergency levels of food insecurity in at least a quarter of their people, food agencies warned the UN security council on Monday. In Yemen, 17 million people, or 60% of the population, are facing acute food insecurity, while in South Sudan, the figure is 4.8 million or 45% of its people. The other countries ranked as having the highest proportions of food insecure people were Syria, Lebanon, Central African Republic, Ukraine, Afghanistan and Somalia, according to a report by the World Food Programme and the Food and Agriculture Organisation. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Food insecurity: a third of poorest households skip meals, survey finds Posted: 29 Jan 2018 04:01 PM PST Large families and jobless worst hit by rising costs and austerity, with 32% and 36% missing meals A third of the UK's poorest households are skipping meals because they cannot afford to put food on the table, according to a survey that highlights the extent to which austerity and rising food prices are driving "hidden hunger". Groups worst hit by benefit cuts and freezes, such as unemployed people and families with three or more children, were most likely to suffer food insecurity, while relatively protected groups, such as retired people, were least likely to experience such problems. Continue reading... |
| Mauritania failing to tackle pervasive slavery, says African Union Posted: 29 Jan 2018 08:13 AM PST In landmark ruling, AU orders compensation for brothers born into slavery and failed by legal system, criticising 'culture of impunity' The African Union has reprimanded Mauritania for failing to take action against widespread slavery within its borders and ordered the government to give financial compensation to two child slaves who were failed by its legal system. The landmark ruling is the first time the AU has spoken out against the pervasive practice of hereditary slavery in Mauritania, which activists believe affects many thousands of people. Continue reading... |
| What's behind rich people pretending to be self-made? Posted: 29 Jan 2018 07:22 AM PST Americans reflexively link hard work with reward, but what happens as the two become ever more disconnected? Bailey's Beach in Newport, Rhode Island was once described by the New York Times as a summer spot for "America's ruling class," populated by Astors, Vanderbilts and other "emerald-barnacled dinosaurs attended by uniformed retainers and underwritten by ironclad fiduciary trusts". When Adam Roberts, now 33, spent childhood summers there, he wasn't quite sure how his family fitted in. Continue reading... |
| The changing face of Bhutan - in pictures Posted: 30 Jan 2018 12:39 AM PST For decades Bhutan had no television, no traffic lights and a culture that had barely changed in centuries. Today, bars dot the capital, Thimphu, set in mist-covered mountains, teenagers play video games in internet cafes, and men smoke and gamble in snooker halls Continue reading... |
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