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- Italy's Northern League pledges mass migrant deportations
- Macron's crusade for French language bolsters imperialism – Congo novelist
- Communist past returns to haunt embattled Czech PM
- Rapid fire rifle device on special offer in salute to Donald Trump
- Venezuela's new bitcoin: an ingenious plan or worthless cryptocurrency?
- Russian curler banished from Winter Olympics after failed drug test
- Orbán claims Hungary is last bastion against 'Islamisation' of Europe
- Gambia suspends death penalty in step towards abolition
- Israel ready to act against ‘dangerous’ Iran, Netanyahu warns
- Brazilian football match abandoned after mass brawl and nine red cards
- Iran plane crash in south of country 'kills all 65 onboard'
- Father and 11-year-old daughter killed in French Alps avalanche
- Trump faces calls to act against Russia after Mueller's indictments
- Thousands march in Kiev calling for Ukraine's president to quit
- 'I love Rome, but Rome doesn't love us': the city's new migrant crisis
- Dublin's dead men walking: 29 on death list in brutal gangland war
- Woman held in Stoke-on-Trent over abusive note on ambulance
- Grief, shock, reflection: the delicate task of reporting on a school shooting
- China calls on US to punish Terracotta warrior thumb thief
- Tasmanian Liberals vow to restore anti-protest laws struck down by high court
- Born by torchlight: living without power in Benin – in pictures
- Benazir Bhutto showed you can be a mother and prime minister – I know, I am her son
- 'Sorcery' attacks in Papua New Guinea's highlands – in pictures
- 'Do not test Israel's resolve,' Netanyahu warns Iran – video
| Italy's Northern League pledges mass migrant deportations Posted: 19 Feb 2018 01:31 AM PST Analysts doubt viability of far-right plan but it highlights nature of pre-election debate Italy's far-right Northern League has promised to introduce mass deportations of asylum seekers to Africa as part of a radical reshaping of migration policies if it wins next month's elections. The party, led by Matteo Salvini, would also seek to force asylum courts to disregard the circumstances of a migrant's journey in any deliberation about whether they should be granted asylum. Continue reading... |
| Macron's crusade for French language bolsters imperialism – Congo novelist Posted: 18 Feb 2018 09:00 PM PST Club of French-speaking countries needs total overhaul, says novelist Alain Mabanckou Alain Mabanckou, the acclaimed Congolese writer, has rejected Emmanuel Macron's project to boost French speaking worldwide, calling instead for a complete overhaul of the club of French-speaking countries known as la Francophonie, which he said had become an instrument of French imperialism propping up African dictators. The institutional network of French-speaking countries "cannot continue as it is today because it goes against everything we ever dreamed of", Mabanckou told the Guardian in Nantes, where he was artistic director of the Atlantide world literary festival this weekend. Continue reading... |
| Communist past returns to haunt embattled Czech PM Posted: 18 Feb 2018 09:00 PM PST Slovakian court dismisses Andrej Babiš claim he was wrongly identified as a former agent Only the fear of being unmasked as a collaborator seemed to cloud the businessman's horizon as he signed up as an informer for communist Czechoslovakia's secret police in jarringly jovial surroundings. Over generous refreshments during a 90-minute meeting in a Bratislava wine bar on 11 November 1982, the agent soon to be known as Bureš was asked to report what associates were saying about the late Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, whose death the previous day threatened to shake the communist world and the east-west cold war confrontation to the core. |
| Rapid fire rifle device on special offer in salute to Donald Trump Posted: 18 Feb 2018 03:07 PM PST 'Bump stock' used by Las Vegas shooter in promotional tie in with presidential campaign slogan There is a Presidents' Day sale on bump stocks, the device the Las Vegas shooter put on his rifles. Slide Fire Solutions, a bump stocks manufacturer, is offering 10% off with the coupon code MAGA. That's a salute to the campaign slogan of President Donald Trump, who promised to "Make America Great Again", and who has responded to the deadly massacres in the past five months by continuing to oppose any new gun control laws. Continue reading... |
| Venezuela's new bitcoin: an ingenious plan or worthless cryptocurrency? Posted: 18 Feb 2018 11:30 PM PST Some analysts see the 'petro' as a desperate move to secure cash amid an economic meltdown brought about by President Nicolás Maduro's policies Is Venezuela's new cryptocurrency an ingenious plan to evade U.S. sanctions? Or will it turn out to be a South American shitcoin? Continue reading... |
| Russian curler banished from Winter Olympics after failed drug test Posted: 18 Feb 2018 11:34 PM PST
The Russian curler Alexander Krushelnitsky has been formally charged with a doping offence by the Court of Arbitration for Sport after testing positive for the banned substance meldonium. He is now likely to be stripped of his mixed curling bronze medal, won with his wife Anastasia Bryzgalova last week, and there are also growing questions about the International Olympic Committee's decision to allow 168 Russians to compete here under a neutral flag despite the country's massive state-sponsored doping programme in Sochi. But as Krushelnitsky was leaving the Winter Olympics on Monday morning his Olympic Athletes of Russia team-mates were insisting that he was innocent. "We were all shocked when we found out," said Viktoria Moiseeva. "Of course we very much hope it was some kind of mistake. With us it's not faster, higher, stronger; it's about being more accurate. I can't imagine what kind of drugs you could use in curling … so it's very hard to believe." Continue reading... |
| Orbán claims Hungary is last bastion against 'Islamisation' of Europe Posted: 18 Feb 2018 10:34 AM PST PM steps up populist rhetoric in annual state of the nation speech ahead of April elections The prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, has ramped up his populist rhetoric ahead of April elections to claim that "dark clouds are gathering" and that his country is a last bastion in the fight against the "Islamisation" of Europe. In his annual state of the nation speech, Orbán, who already appears set to win a third consecutive four-year term, made what are now familiar claims about his success in beating back threats to Hungary's way of life from "Brussels, Berlin and Paris politicians". Continue reading... |
| Gambia suspends death penalty in step towards abolition Posted: 18 Feb 2018 09:04 PM PST President Adama Barrow announces that he wants to abolish executions in his country Gambian President Adama Barrow has announced a suspension of the death penalty in his country, in a break from the former regime of the dictator Yahya Jammeh. Barrow, a onetime security guard in London who was elected president in December 2016, signed a UN treaty on the abolition of capital punishment last year. Continue reading... |
| Israel ready to act against ‘dangerous’ Iran, Netanyahu warns Posted: 18 Feb 2018 11:56 AM PST Tehran will not be allowed to put 'noose of terror around our neck', PM says in Munich speech Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Israel will act directly against Iran if necessary, not just its allies in the Middle East. As Iran's military role expands in Syria and Yemen and Donald Trump pushes for a more confrontational approach toward Tehran, Israel is seeking wider support for efforts to contain its regional arch-enemy. Continue reading... |
| Brazilian football match abandoned after mass brawl and nine red cards Posted: 18 Feb 2018 07:13 PM PST Derby between Vitoria and Bahia called off after a punch-up between players from both sides A Brazilian football match between Vitoria and Bahia was abandoned with 11 minutes remaining on Sunday after the hosts had six men sent off in a game marked by a mass punch-up between players from both sides. The score in the Bahia state championship clash between the two local rivals was 1-1 when Bruno Bispo became the ninth player in all, and the fifth from Vitoria, to be shown the red card. Continue reading... |
| Iran plane crash in south of country 'kills all 65 onboard' Posted: 18 Feb 2018 04:21 AM PST Aseman Airlines plane crashed en route from Tehran to Yasuj in severe weather conditions, according to state media reports All passengers and crew onboard an Iranian commercial flight died after the plane crashed amid severe weather conditions in a mountainous region in the south of the country, state television reported on Sunday. Aseman Airlines flight 3705, en route from Tehran to the southern city of Yasuj, the capital of the impoverished province of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, went off radar 50 minutes into its journey, not far from its destination. Continue reading... |
| Father and 11-year-old daughter killed in French Alps avalanche Posted: 18 Feb 2018 11:42 AM PST Pair from Paris region had been skiing at Val d'Isère resort in area closed because of avalanche risk A father and his 11-year-old daughter were killed when an avalanche swept them away while they were skiing in the French Alps, rescue officials have said. They said the man, 43, and his daughter were from the Paris region and had been skiing in the Pisaillas glacier area of the Val d'Isère resort that had been closed because of the avalanche risk. Continue reading... |
| Trump faces calls to act against Russia after Mueller's indictments Posted: 18 Feb 2018 09:38 AM PST Democrats and former intelligence officials argue Trump had done nothing to protect future elections from Russian interference
Donald Trump faced mounting calls on Sunday to act against Russia after special counsel Robert Mueller unveiled indictments on Friday accusing 13 Russians and three companies of interfering in the 2016 presidential election to help Republicans. Continue reading... |
| Thousands march in Kiev calling for Ukraine's president to quit Posted: 18 Feb 2018 08:11 AM PST Supporters of deported former Georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili demand impeachment of Petro Poroshenko Thousands of supporters of the deported former Georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili have marched through the streets of Kiev, demanding the impeachment of the Ukrainian president. Journalists said an estimated 10,000 people took part in the rally on Sunday, though the ministry of internal affairs put the number at about 3,000. Continue reading... |
| 'I love Rome, but Rome doesn't love us': the city's new migrant crisis Posted: 18 Feb 2018 11:30 PM PST Italy's refugee crisis has reached its peak in Rome, where thousands of migrants are being evicted from squatting in the city's abandoned buildings Mobile phones lie idle, drawers dangle from chests and documents scatter the rooms. On the walls hang photos of weddings and children, all left behind in the rush to leave when the police stormed in. Six months ago the former office block in Via Curtatone, overlooking Piazza Indipendenza in central Rome, became a flashpoint of Italy's migrant crisis when police evicted the 800 Eritrean and Ethiopian refugees who had been living there for four years. Continue reading... |
| Dublin's dead men walking: 29 on death list in brutal gangland war Posted: 18 Feb 2018 11:38 PM PST Police say no end in sight to fight over drug trade by rival gangs loyal to Christy Kinahan and Gerry Hutch In the most violent gangland feud in Irish criminal history they are Dublin's dead men walking. As one international crime gang headed up by a Dublin drug smuggler seeks to annihilate its rival in the Irish capital, at least 29 men have been told they are on death lists. Continue reading... |
| Woman held in Stoke-on-Trent over abusive note on ambulance Posted: 19 Feb 2018 01:51 AM PST Staffordshire police say a 26-year-old woman was arrested for public order offences A woman has been been arrested in Stoke-on-Trent after an abusive note was reportedly left on an ambulance. Staffordshire police said a 26-year-old woman was arrested for public order offences, in the latest case of ambulance workers facing intimidation from members of the public. Continue reading... |
| Grief, shock, reflection: the delicate task of reporting on a school shooting Posted: 19 Feb 2018 02:00 AM PST A journalist and the father of a Florida shooting survivor discuss hard questions in the aftermath of tragedy, and how soon is too soon to talk about gun control On Wednesday evening, just hours after the Parkland school shooting had claimed the lives of 17 people, students who had evacuated were sent to a nearby hotel to reunite with their families. Continue reading... |
| China calls on US to punish Terracotta warrior thumb thief Posted: 19 Feb 2018 01:59 AM PST Officials condemn destruction of ancient statue by American man at Philadelphia exhibition Chinese authorities are demanding exemplary punishment for an American man who allegedly stole a terracotta warrior's thumb while it was on show at a Philadelphia museum. According to reports in US and Chinese media, Michael Rohana, 24, was attending a pre-Christmas party at the Franklin Institute when he went through an unlocked door into the Terracotta Warriors of the First Emperor exhibition. Continue reading... |
| Tasmanian Liberals vow to restore anti-protest laws struck down by high court Posted: 19 Feb 2018 12:47 AM PST Laws banning protest were overturned following legal challenge by Bob Brown The Tasmanian Liberal government has promised to introduce new anti-protest laws to replace those struck out by the high court if it is returned to power next month. The previous laws were ruled unconstitutional in October after a challenge by the former Australian Greens leader Bob Brown, who had been arrested during an anti-logging protest in the state's north-west. Continue reading... |
| Born by torchlight: living without power in Benin – in pictures Posted: 18 Feb 2018 11:00 PM PST For 300 people in the Beninese village of Kokahoue, life without electricity is a daily reality, forcing midwives to deliver babies using lamps and torches. French photographer Pascal Maitre, winner of London Business School's annual photography awards, has documented the problem in a stunning series of images, while entries from other contestants explore how communities have improvised to deal with issues ranging from poaching to deforestation Continue reading... |
| Benazir Bhutto showed you can be a mother and prime minister – I know, I am her son Posted: 18 Feb 2018 04:20 PM PST After Jacinda Ardern announced her pregnancy, some questioned how she would cope. They should look at Pakistan's late leader The news about Jacinda Ardern struck a nerve with my sisters and I. It is indeed uplifting to see the world rejoice at her good fortune. While there are the detractors and naysayers, the barrage of good wishes, the #knitforJacinda campaign and countless other little gestures, has been overwhelmingly positive. |
| 'Sorcery' attacks in Papua New Guinea's highlands – in pictures Posted: 18 Feb 2018 08:06 PM PST Sanguma is a Papua New Guinean word meaning black magic or sorcery. If something unwanted occurs in a village, people, most commonly women, are often accused of committing black magic, or of being a witch. They are then cast out of their homes and attacked or killed. Photographer Kristina Steiner travelled to the highlands of PNG to meet the victims of an increased number of violent attacks against people accused of sanguma. The PNG government acknowledged the increase in 'sorcery' attacks in 2013 after women's groups demanded action to stop them Continue reading... |
| 'Do not test Israel's resolve,' Netanyahu warns Iran – video Posted: 18 Feb 2018 11:55 AM PST Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has sent a warning to the 'tyrants of Tehran' while holding up a piece of what he claimed to be an Iranian drone that had been brought down by Israeli defence forces Continue reading... |
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