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Book revelations put new focus on Donald Trump's mental health
Pakistan PM calls US aid 'insignificant' as Trump threatens to cut it off
Hard-won UN debate sees US at odds with partners over Iran
Paul Haggis: Crash director accused of sexual misconduct by four women
Bushfires in South Australia as south-eastern states face scorching weekend
Republican senators want ex-British spy behind Trump dossier to be investigated
Lithuanian company linked to Bono fined after Paradise Papers revelations
Brazil seethes as man jailed for sexual abuse of teenager joins congress
Moscow-led church in Ukraine refuses to bury boy from Kiev branch
EU antifraud office finds 'irregularities' in payments allegedly obtained by Czech PM
Stock market extends surge despite slowing US job growth
Fierce row over plans to publish antisemitic texts by French writer Céline
Tough new German law puts tech firms and free speech in spotlight
Intel facing class-action lawsuits over Meltdown and Spectre bugs
'There's a lot of repenting': why Australian prisoners are converting to Islam
'Australian flu': spread prompts handshake ban in Northern Ireland churches
Brexit: May urged to stay in single market by 20 British MEPs
The 20 photographs of the week
Tourist killed in Egypt hot air balloon crash
Trump hopes to steady the ship at Camp David retreat after bruising start to year
Ontario premier slams coffee shop chain for clawing back minimum wage rise
North Korea 'likely' to join Winter Olympics, says regime official
The best books on Guatemala: start your reading here
Passengers witness explosion as two planes collide at Toronto’s Pearson airport – video
White House says Wolff never interviewed Trump for book – video
California's marijuana muddle – video explainer
Donald Trump has 'lost it', says Michael Wolff – video
Out cold: iguanas fall from trees as temperatures drop in Florida - video

Book revelations put new focus on Donald Trump's mental health

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 11:06 AM PST

Yale psychiatric professor who briefed members of Congress last month tells the Guardian 'the danger has become imminent'

Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House review – tell-all burns all

The revelations in Michael Wolff's explosive book about Donald Trump's first year in office have renewed scrutiny of the president's mental health.

Pakistan PM calls US aid 'insignificant' as Trump threatens to cut it off

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 03:39 PM PST

Shahid Khaqan Abbasi says Pakistan is a leader in fighting terror after Trump warns he could withhold funding over country's 'lies and deceit'

Pakistan's prime minister, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, has declared himself mystified by US threats to cut off funding, saying that US financial assistance was "very, very insignificant" and that Pakistan was "on the forefront of the war on terror".

In an interview with the Guardian, Abbasi said that reports that the US was considering cuts of up to $2bn in security assistance were bewildering because the total aid Pakistan – civilian and military – actually received was a tiny fraction of that amount.

Hard-won UN debate sees US at odds with partners over Iran

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 04:31 PM PST

America accused of 'preposterous bullying' by Iran as heated discussion lays bare deep rifts over Middle East's future

The US successfully fought off a Russian-led attempt on Friday to block a UN security council discussion over the past week's Iranian protests. But it immediately found itself at odds with its European partners, who used the subsequent debate to reject American efforts to make the protests an excuse for ditching the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.

Russia had tried to stop the UN discussion on the grounds that it would represent an inappropriate interference in Iran's internal affairs. But the US countered by finding the required votes on the 15-strong security council to press for a debate.

Paul Haggis: Crash director accused of sexual misconduct by four women

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 12:44 PM PST

The Oscar winner, whose credits also include Crash, has denied the claims with his lawyer stating: 'He didn't rape anybody'

Paul Haggis has been accused of sexual misconduct by four women, including two allegations of rape.

The Oscar-winning screenwriter and director was originally the subject of a lawsuit in December from a publicist who claimed he raped her. Now, three other women have come forward with accusations, according to the Associated Press.

Bushfires in South Australia as south-eastern states face scorching weekend

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 08:47 PM PST

Severe heatwave conditions forecast for New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, amid warnings of elevated fire dangers

Residents of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia are facing a scorcher of a weekend, and have been advised to drink plenty of water, take care in the surf and prepare properties for bushfire risks.

An "extremely dangerous" bushfire was burning out of control in South Australia's southeast on Saturday afternoon, and residents were warned their lives and properties were at risk.

Republican senators want ex-British spy behind Trump dossier to be investigated

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 12:34 PM PST

Letter to justice department suggests Christopher Steele lied to US authorities
Democrats denounce 'attempt to deflect' attention from Trump-Russia inquiry

Two Republican senators have called for the investigation of Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence officer who compiled a dossier on alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.

Lithuanian company linked to Bono fined after Paradise Papers revelations

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 11:35 AM PST

Company agrees to pay €53,000 in back taxes following investigation, as U2 frontman ends his minority investment

A Lithuanian company linked to the U2 frontman Bono has agreed to pay €53,000 (£47,000) in back taxes and a fine following an investigation prompted by the Paradise Papers.

The Irish singer, whose real name is Paul Hewson, was a passive minority investor in a Malta-based company which bought a shopping centre in north-eastern Lithuanian via a holding company in the country called Nude Estates 2.

Brazil seethes as man jailed for sexual abuse of teenager joins congress

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 11:24 AM PST

Role for Nelson Nahim, sentenced for submitting 15-year-old to prostitution, is just latest political scandal: 'Congress will always be capable of getting worse'

Just when it seemed that Brazil's scandal-plagued political class could not be any less popular, the country is incensed at the revelation that its congress will soon include a man jailed for the sexual exploitation of underage girls.

Moscow-led church in Ukraine refuses to bury boy from Kiev branch

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 08:08 AM PST

Death of a baby crushed by a man jumping from apartment block exposes religious divide in the Orthodox Christian country

The death of a baby crushed by a drunk man who committed suicide by jumping out of an eighth-floor apartment in Ukraine has exposed the religious divide in the Orthodox Christian country.

A Moscow-led church in the central city of Zaporizhia refused to bury the one-year-old boy killed on New Year's Eve because he was christened by a rival church overseen by Kiev.

EU antifraud office finds 'irregularities' in payments allegedly obtained by Czech PM

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 11:19 AM PST

Secret report by the EU's antifraud office calls on Brussels to take 'appropriate measures' over a farm and hotel owned by Andrej Babiš's Agrofert

The EU's antifraud office has found "irregularities" in subsidy payments allegedly obtained by Czech prime minister Andrej Babiš, according to extracts from a secret report.

Details of the investigation released by the Czech finance ministry have confirmed that Babiš, who was sworn into office last month, is in the remarkable position of being an EU leader linked to an investigation by the bloc's antifraud team.

Stock market extends surge despite slowing US job growth

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 09:18 AM PST

Economy adds 148,000 jobs in December with jobless rate steady at 4.1%
Pace of hiring has slowed and wages continue to lag behind growth

Wall Street has shrugged off slowing growth in US jobs, extending a surge in the stock market as the world's largest economy comes closer to reaching full employment.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up about 0.2% in New York on Thursday morning, adding more than 50 points to reach 25,123, despite the weaker readings for job creation last month. Figures from the US labor department showed 148,000 new positions were created in December, below the forecasts of economists, as the retail sector shed 20,000 jobs over the holiday season.

Fierce row over plans to publish antisemitic texts by French writer Céline

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 07:34 AM PST

French publisher Gallimard says it will publish 1930s pamphlets by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, who called for extermination of Jews

A fierce row has erupted in Paris after a major publisher announced it would produce a new collection of the violently antisemitic hate pamphlets by novelist Louis-Ferdinand Céline.

French publishing house Gallimard has insisted it will go ahead with the publication of the 1,000-page collection of 1930s pamphlets by Céline, who called for the extermination of Jews. The publication date is not set but Gallimard has insisted its intention is to frame the texts "and put them back in their context as writings of a great violence, marked by the antisemitic hatred of the author".

Tough new German law puts tech firms and free speech in spotlight

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 03:36 AM PST

Social media firms must remove hate speech or face fines up to £44m under controversial law that came into force on 1 January

US social media companies have scaled up operations in Germany, where a controversial new law has turned the country into a testbed for whether tech firms can be relied on to tell the difference between free speech and hate speech.

Facebook and Twitter have fitted their German websites with additional features for flagging up controversial content, and spent months hiring and training moderators to cope with the Network Enforcement Act, which came into full effect on 1 January 2018.

Intel facing class-action lawsuits over Meltdown and Spectre bugs

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 05:52 AM PST

Plaintiffs claim compensation for security flaws and alleged slowdown that fixing computers will cause, while corporations count cost of corrections

Intel has been hit with at least three class-action lawsuits over the major processor vulnerabilities revealed this week.

The flaws, called Meltdown and Spectre, exist within virtually all modern processors and could allow hackers to steal sensitive data although no data breaches have been reported yet. While Spectre affects processors made by a variety of firms, Meltdown appears to primarily affect Intel processors made since 1995.

'There's a lot of repenting': why Australian prisoners are converting to Islam

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 11:00 AM PST

Experts say prison conversions can be a positive force, giving inmates hope, structure and a pathway to rehabilitation. It's when harsh conditions and segregation are introduced that radicalisation becomes a danger

The image was designed to shock: dozens of Muslims prostrated towards Mecca behind the razor wire of Goulburn's Supermax jail.

"Jailhouse jihad," the headline blared above a story warning that Australia's prisons were becoming a hotbed of extremism.

'Australian flu': spread prompts handshake ban in Northern Ireland churches

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 06:54 PM PST

Catholic diocese of Down and Connor suspends 'sign of peace' during services and calls for sanitary measures around holy communion

A Catholic diocese in Northern Ireland has suspended the "sign of peace" handshake in its masses due to the risk of infection from a strain of the flu first seen in Australia in the southern hemisphere's 2017 winter.

At least 170,000 cases were confirmed at the end of the Australian winter, more than twice as many as in 2016. Health officials say they logged 72 flu-related deaths.

Brexit: May urged to stay in single market by 20 British MEPs

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 10:00 PM PST

Cross-party group says leaving EU single market would leave UK poorer and merit voters being allowed to rethink Brexit

Theresa May is being urged to change course and seek full membership of the European single market and customs union by 20 British MEPs, including three Tories and the majority of Labour politicians based in Brussels.

In a letter that lays down a challenge for the prime minister but also the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, the group claims the case for staying in the internal market has become stronger since the referendum.

The 20 photographs of the week

Posted: 06 Jan 2018 01:14 AM PST

New Year's celebrations, Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and winter storms in the US - the week's biggest news stories captured by the world's best photojournalists

Tourist killed in Egypt hot air balloon crash

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 05:22 AM PST

A South African was killed and 12 other people injured when their balloon 'landed too forcefully' near the ancient city of Luxor

A South African tourist was killed and 12 other people injured when a hot air balloon crashed near Egypt's ancient city of Luxor on Friday, a health ministry official said.

Sharif Wadie, the assistant health minister in charge of emergency services, said there were no other fatalities but did not elaborate on the extent of the passengers' injuries. The nationalities of the injured were not immediately clear.

Trump hopes to steady the ship at Camp David retreat after bruising start to year

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 09:00 PM PST

Buffeted and stung by the portrait of a dysfunctional presidency in Michael Wolff's book, Trump will talk policy with Republican congressional leaders

Donald Trump headed for the splendid isolation of his Camp David presidential retreat on Friday after the bombshell book that rocked his administration hit shops across the US.

Trump will hope to leave behind the acrimony of Washington laid bare in journalist Michael Wolff's account and concentrate on policy and looming elections in talks with congressional Republican leaders.

Ontario premier slams coffee shop chain for clawing back minimum wage rise

Posted: 06 Jan 2018 01:00 AM PST

Kathleen Wynne denounces 'act of a bully' as Tim Hortons franchises cut paid breaks and employee benefits in response to province's minimum wage hike

The leader of Canada's most populous province has lashed out at prominent business owners who clawed back employee benefits and paid breaks in order to offset the costs of a minimum wage increase, describing the move as the "act of a bully".

North Korea 'likely' to join Winter Olympics, says regime official

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 11:00 PM PST

IOC delegate Chang Ung makes remark at Beijing airport while apparently travelling to Switzerland, where the Olympic committee is based

North Korea's Olympic representative has reportedly said the reclusive nation is "likely to participate" in next month's Winter Games in South Korea.

The comments by Chang Ung, Pyongyang's representative to the International Olympic Committee, come a day after the North and South agreed to hold rare talks next week and hours after Seoul and Washington announced they would postpone joint military exercises that rile North Korea.

The best books on Guatemala: start your reading here

Posted: 06 Jan 2018 01:00 AM PST

A literary tour of Guatemala includes a blistering satire about a tyrannical president, and two books based around the country's long-running civil war

Passengers witness explosion as two planes collide at Toronto’s Pearson airport – video

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 08:44 PM PST

Video shared on social media shows the explosion caused by the collision of two planes at Toronto's Pearson airport on Friday

White House says Wolff never interviewed Trump for book – video

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 12:42 PM PST

The White House press secretary, Sarah Sanders, tells Fox and Friends that Michael Wolff never interviewed president Trump, saying that he 'repeatedly begged to see the president'. Wolff says he 'absolutely' spoke with Trump

California's marijuana muddle – video explainer

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 09:04 AM PST

On 1 January, California became the latest state to permit the sale of recreational marijuana in licensed stores. But three days later, the attorney general issued new guidance calling on states to enforce federal drug laws prohibiting the substance. Despite the confusion, the new shops have been doing brisk business

Donald Trump has 'lost it', says Michael Wolff – video

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 08:16 AM PST

Author of Fire and Fury quotes Steve Bannon, stating that Donald Trump 'has lost it'. Speaking to Savannah Guthrie on NBC's Today programme, Wolff said the president's staff had all said Trump was like a child

• Watch the full interview on NBC's homepage

Out cold: iguanas fall from trees as temperatures drop in Florida - video

Posted: 05 Jan 2018 05:50 AM PST

Unusually cold weather has sent the green lizards tumbling from their perches on trees – a result of their cold-blooded bodies basically shutting down when it gets too chilly.

The iguanas are unlikely to be dead, experts say, but merely stunned and will reanimate when they warm up.

Lizard blizzard: iguanas rain from trees as animals struggle with US cold snap

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