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- Catalan parliament needs Puigdemont, says speaker
- Jacob Zuma could step down as South African president 'within days'
- Rachel Brand, No 3 justice department official, reportedly planning to resign
- California police worked with neo-Nazis to pursue 'anti-racist' activists, documents show
- Cambodian leader Hun Sen's Facebook 'likes' become subject of lawsuit
- Iceland's new leader: 'People don't trust our politicians'
- Colombia and Brazil clamp down on borders as Venezuela crisis spurs exodus
- East Coast line bailout puts rail privatisation back in spotlight
- Bookseller Gui Minhai surfaces in Chinese custody to deliver staged confession
- Israeli fighter jet downed by Syrian fire, says military
- John Kelly: from the designated White House grownup to Trump's enabler?
- 'The training stays with you': the elite Mexican soldiers recruited by cartels
- Kim Jong-un's sister invites South Korean president to Pyongyang
- NSW Liberals reject Tony Abbott-backed plan for preselections
- Does the US really need a huge boost in military spending?
- South Korean president meets Kim Yo-jong - video
- 'We wish him well': Trump defends official accused of domestic abuse – video
- 'Quest for justice': former Isis hostage on capture of ‘Beatles’ – video
- The bird market of Kabul – in pictures
| Catalan parliament needs Puigdemont, says speaker Posted: 09 Feb 2018 06:06 AM PST Roger Torrent urges end to direct Madrid rule but calls for dialogue over political crisis The speaker of the Catalan parliament has insisted that the deposed regional president, Carles Puigdemont, remains the only candidate to form a new government, as he renewed his call for a negotiated political solution to the independence crisis. Roger Torrent, who became speaker following December's snap elections, told the Guardian that while he hoped for dialogue with the Spanish state, Catalonia urgently needed a new government to bring an end to direct rule from Madrid. Continue reading... |
| Jacob Zuma could step down as South African president 'within days' Posted: 09 Feb 2018 07:21 AM PST Head of state facing corruption charges negotiates terms of exit with ANC boss Cyril Ramaphosa Jacob Zuma, the president of South Africa, is expected to leave office within days, parliamentarians from the ruling African National Congress party have said. Zuma, who is facing multiple charges of corruption, has been negotiating the terms of his departure with Cyril Ramaphosa, the ANC leader. Continue reading... |
| Rachel Brand, No 3 justice department official, reportedly planning to resign Posted: 09 Feb 2018 02:45 PM PST
The No 3 official at the US justice department, Rachel Brand, is planning to resign, it was reported on Friday. Brand, who has been in the job nine months as the department has endured a wave of attacks from Donald Trump and his supporters, is next in the chain of command behind Rod Rosenstein, who is overseeing Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Continue reading... |
| California police worked with neo-Nazis to pursue 'anti-racist' activists, documents show Posted: 09 Feb 2018 04:00 AM PST Officers expressed sympathy with white supremacists and sought their help to target counter-protesters after a violent 2016 rally, according to court documents California police investigating a violent white nationalist event worked with white supremacists in an effort to identify counter-protesters and sought the prosecution of activists with "anti-racist" beliefs, court documents show. The records, which also showed officers expressing sympathy with white supremacists and trying to protect a neo-Nazi organizer's identity, were included in a court briefing from three anti-fascist activists who were charged with felonies after protesting at a Sacramento rally. The defendants were urging a judge to dismiss their case and accused California police and prosecutors of a "cover-up and collusion with the fascists". Continue reading... |
| Cambodian leader Hun Sen's Facebook 'likes' become subject of lawsuit Posted: 09 Feb 2018 09:52 AM PST Exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy claims prime minister bought 'likes' to appear popular The exiled Cambodian politician Sam Rainsy has filed a legal suit against Facebook, demanding it hand over any information which could prove that the Cambodian prime minister, Hun Sen, purchased millions of "likes" to appear popular on the social media platform. Continue reading... |
| Iceland's new leader: 'People don't trust our politicians' Posted: 09 Feb 2018 03:48 AM PST Katrín Jakobsdóttir says her goal is to restore confidence as she becomes Iceland's fourth prime minister in two years By the age of eight, Katrín Jakobsdóttir was reading Agatha Christie. A couple of decades later, she wrote her masters dissertation on the works of Arnaldur Indridason, a king of Nordic noir. In literature, crime is her thing. It is a specialism that might stand her in good stead in her new real-life job, as prime minister of Iceland and, at 42, Europe's youngest female leader. "Crime fiction," she said, only half-joking, "is about not really trusting anyone. And that's generally how politics works." Continue reading... |
| Colombia and Brazil clamp down on borders as Venezuela crisis spurs exodus Posted: 09 Feb 2018 08:52 AM PST Venezuela's neighbors plan to dispatch more security personnel while Brazil prepares to relocate thousands of refugees to country's interior Venezuela's neighbours are tightening their borders, alarmed by the exodus of hundreds of thousands of desperate refugees fleeing hunger, hyperinflation and a spiralling political crisis. Brazil and Colombia are sending extra troops to patrol frontier regions where Venezuelans have arrived in record numbers over recent months. Continue reading... |
| East Coast line bailout puts rail privatisation back in spotlight Posted: 10 Feb 2018 12:00 AM PST Once again, a franchise operator has bid too much for a contract and run out of steam For the third time in a decade, an East Coast rail franchise operator has shown little of the financial prudence once associated with the great cities linked by its trains from London to Yorkshire and Scotland. Following the failures of GNER in 2007 and National Express in 2009, Virgin Trains East Coast has run out of steam, with the government declaring a financial covenant breached and the contract set to fail in months. The latest incumbent has, like its predecessors, bid too much to run a lucrative line whose potential revenues have fallen short, at a time when economic uncertainty has gnawed away at ticket sales. Continue reading... |
| Bookseller Gui Minhai surfaces in Chinese custody to deliver staged confession Posted: 09 Feb 2018 06:26 PM PST Activists call the video, in which Gui criticises his home nation of Sweden, 'the product of pure coercion' Three weeks after he was snatched from a Beijing-bound train, the Swedish bookseller Gui Minhai has resurfaced in police custody, making what activists denounced as a surreal, venal and shameful video confession to a series of unspecified offenses. "I feel ashamed about myself. I have made mistakes," Gui, 53, is filmed telling a small group of reporters who said they had been given access to the prisoner by Chinese security officials. Continue reading... |
| Israeli fighter jet downed by Syrian fire, says military Posted: 09 Feb 2018 10:36 PM PST Jet crashed amid anti-aircraft fire in an offensive against Iranian targets in Syria An Israeli F-16 fighter has crashed after being shot at by Syrian anti-aircraft missiles on a raid to destroy Iranian facilities accused of launching a drone into Israel. The Israeli military claimed it shot down the drone and struck Iranian targets in Syria after what it called a "severe and irregular violation of Israeli sovereignty". Continue reading... |
| John Kelly: from the designated White House grownup to Trump's enabler? Posted: 09 Feb 2018 10:00 PM PST The former general was meant to bring military discipline but his role in the Rob Porter case has raised new questions about his judgment Continue reading... |
| 'The training stays with you': the elite Mexican soldiers recruited by cartels Posted: 10 Feb 2018 12:01 AM PST Last year, Mexico's murder rate reached the highest level on record – and years of military defections are fueling the violence Delfino was handpicked twice. At 18, he was chosen by the Mexican army to join its elite unit, the airborne special forces group known by its Spanish acronym, Gafe, where he specialized as a sniper. Ten years later, he was recruited again – this time by the very people he'd been trained to kill. Continue reading... |
| Kim Jong-un's sister invites South Korean president to Pyongyang Posted: 10 Feb 2018 01:14 AM PST Kim Yo-jong's meeting with Moon Jae-in was highest-level contact between countries in more than a decade North Korea's dictator, Kim Jong-un, has invited the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, to visit Pyongyang at the "earliest date possible" in what would be the first summit between the two nations in more than a decade. Kim Yo-jong, the sister of the North Korean leader, made the overture during an historic lunch at Seoul's presidential palace. Continue reading... |
| NSW Liberals reject Tony Abbott-backed plan for preselections Posted: 09 Feb 2018 09:24 PM PST Party endorses Bennelong motion, a compromise plan that is believed to have the support of Turnbull and Berejiklian The NSW Liberal party has endorsed a compromise plan on preselection rules and has rejected the Warringah motion – a plan by the former prime minister Tony Abbott to give all party members a vote in preselections in their local electorates. Abbott's plan, which was put to the party in two parts, was defeated during a vote by the 500-plus delegates at the party's annual general meeting at the Sydney Town Hall on afternoon. There were 216 votes in favour of it and 300 against. Continue reading... |
| Does the US really need a huge boost in military spending? Posted: 09 Feb 2018 03:00 AM PST Activists question how US can justify spending even more on defense 'when we can't manage to turn the lights on in Puerto Rico' Donald Trump's new idea for a grand military parade has been met with an outcry from critics, who warn that in addition to its strong despotic whiff, such a stunt would waste millions of taxpayer dollars. But the Pentagon might soon find itself with more flexibility to satisfy that presidential whim and more, if a budget deal expected to be struck in the Senate this week goes through. Continue reading... |
| South Korean president meets Kim Yo-jong - video Posted: 09 Feb 2018 10:04 PM PST Moon Jae-in has met a North Korean delegation, including Kim Jong-un's sister Kim Yo-jong, in Seoul following the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics. Continue reading... |
| 'We wish him well': Trump defends official accused of domestic abuse – video Posted: 09 Feb 2018 12:33 PM PST Donald Trump has defended a former White House official, Rob Porter, who has resigned after two ex-wives accused him of domestic abuse. Trump wished Porter well, saying he did ' a very good job when he was in the White House' Continue reading... |
| 'Quest for justice': former Isis hostage on capture of ‘Beatles’ – video Posted: 09 Feb 2018 09:32 AM PST The French journalist Nicolas Henin, a former Isis hostage, speaks about the need for justice following the capture of two British militants known as the 'Beatles' in Syria. Henin was abducted in June 2013 and held captive for 10 months before being released |
| The bird market of Kabul – in pictures Posted: 09 Feb 2018 12:33 AM PST A visit to the narrow lane of Ka Faroshi bird market brings comfort to war-weary Afghans Continue reading... |
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