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- US school shootings: Florida survivors take NRA and politicians to task
- German court to rule on city bans for heavily polluting diesel cars
- Pakistan court bans Nawaz Sharif from leading his party
- Thousands of Gazans rush to border as Egypt opens crossing
- Boko Haram school attack: two girls killed and 76 rescued, official says
- Minnie Driver: Oxfam bosses 'knew what was going on and did nothing'
- Billy Graham, famed Christian evangelist, dies aged 99
- Caribbean diplomats ask UK for more compassion for citizens
- 'Capitalism makes you ill': the radical 70s 'anti-therapists' who turned to terrorism
- Zimbabwe and Kenya lead the way in Africa's dash from cash
- 'I hear you' - Trump uses cue card to remind him to listen to shooting survivors
- The rise of Bolivia’s indigenous 'cholitas' – in pictures
- Season of the Devil review – murderous Filipino opera of pain is a tough watch
- Barnaby Joyce 'needs to step down', Nationals MP Andrew Broad says
- ‘We lose 1,400 girls a year. Who will our boys marry?’: Armenia’s quandary | Suzanne Moore
- May says UK will not cut aid in wake of Oxfam scandal
- Trump cuts jeopardise lives of millions of Palestinian refugees, UN warns
- 'Pathetically weak': what Florida survivors said to NRA and politicians
- Six things we learned from the Florida town hall on gun control
- Marco Rubio on gun control: where does he stand on the issues?
- Angry father of Florida victim asks Trump: 'How many children have to get shot?' – video
- Trump says arming teachers with concealed weapons could prevent school massacres – video
- Florida shooting: students walk out of schools to call for gun control – video
- Five sermons from Billy Graham, the father of showman evangelicalism – video
- Billy Graham, 'America's pastor' – a life in pictures
| US school shootings: Florida survivors take NRA and politicians to task Posted: 22 Feb 2018 12:34 AM PST Raw emotion and tough questions took center stage at an event that saw Marco Rubio and an NRA spokeswoman grilled over gun control Faced with a furious crowd of Florida students demanding a renewed ban on assault weapons, Republican senator Marco Rubio offered one concession after another. He said he supported legislation to raise the legal age to purchase a rifle to 21 from 18. He said he supported a law to create gun violence restraining orders, which would give family members and law enforcement a way to petition a court to take away a dangerous person's guns. He said he opposed Donald Trump's proposal to prevent school shootings by arming teachers or putting more armed security in classrooms. Continue reading... |
| German court to rule on city bans for heavily polluting diesel cars Posted: 21 Feb 2018 09:00 PM PST Federal court set to announce whether Stuttgart and Düsseldorf can use vehicle bans to try to improve air quality One of Germany's top courts will rule on Thursday whether heavily polluting vehicles can be banned from the urban centres of Stuttgart and Düsseldorf, a landmark ruling which could cause traffic chaos and dramatically hit the value of diesel cars on the country's roads. Related: First fall in car sales since 2011 blamed on fears over diesel ban Continue reading... |
| Pakistan court bans Nawaz Sharif from leading his party Posted: 21 Feb 2018 12:16 PM PST Political uncertainty as judges nullify PML-N party's candidate list for senate elections Pakistan's supreme court has barred Nawaz Sharif from his position as president of the country's ruling party, ordering the reversal of all decisions he has taken in the role, in a move that plunges the country's politics into fresh uncertainty. The former prime minister, who was sacked by the supreme court last year, had managed to retain power by driving through a law that allowed disqualified politicians to lead political parties. |
| Thousands of Gazans rush to border as Egypt opens crossing Posted: 21 Feb 2018 09:08 AM PST Scores, many sick, wait for their names to be called out as Rafah crossing point is opened for four days for humanitarian cases Egypt opened its border with Gaza on Wednesday, providing rare passage for thousands stuck in the coastal enclave who have lived under blockade for more than a decade. Thousands of Palestinians – some sitting since dawn next to suitcases packed in the hope that Egypt will allow them in – gathered at a stadium before being sorted on to buses. They raised their identification papers as their names were called out from a list. Continue reading... |
| Boko Haram school attack: two girls killed and 76 rescued, official says Posted: 21 Feb 2018 05:02 PM PST At least 13 feared missing after insurgents attacked village of Dapchi on Monday evening The Nigerian military rescued 76 schoolgirls and recovered the bodies of two others on Wednesday, after the students went missing during a Boko Haram attack on a village, three parents, a resident and a local government official have told Reuters. Related: Nigeria releases 475 Boko Haram suspects for rehabilitation Continue reading... |
| Minnie Driver: Oxfam bosses 'knew what was going on and did nothing' Posted: 21 Feb 2018 09:44 AM PST Actor and activist who worked with charity for 20 years stepped down to 'send a message' after Haiti sexual misconduct scandal Actor and activist Minnie Driver has said she stood down as an ambassador for Oxfam to "send a clear message" to the charity's bosses over sexual abuse, which "they knew was going on and did nothing" about. Driver was speaking at an event in London in which she also elaborated on her experiences with Harvey Weinstein and her involvement in the #MeToo movement. Continue reading... |
| Billy Graham, famed Christian evangelist, dies aged 99 Posted: 21 Feb 2018 07:56 AM PST
Billy Graham, the 20th-century Christian crusader and father of showman evangelicalism who had the ear of 12 US presidents, has died at the age of 99. Among the first to pay tribute were Donald Trump and his vice-president Mike Pence, the most recent beneficiaries of the voting power of US evangelical Christians. Continue reading... |
| Caribbean diplomats ask UK for more compassion for citizens Posted: 21 Feb 2018 11:00 PM PST People who came to the UK with parents as children may have unresolved residency status The Home Office must adopt a "more compassionate" approach towards retirement-age Commonwealth citizens facing deportation despite living in the UK all their adult lives, senior Caribbean diplomats have urged. There could be thousands of people born in Commonwealth countries who emigrated to the UK with their parents as children and did not realise they were required to formally naturalise in Britain. Their unresolved residency status could mean they face problems accessing pensions, housing, healthcare and work, said Guy Hewitt, the Barbados high commissioner in London. Continue reading... |
| 'Capitalism makes you ill': the radical 70s 'anti-therapists' who turned to terrorism Posted: 22 Feb 2018 01:57 AM PST The theories behind Germany's Socialist Patients Collective turned medical treatment on its head – but led some of them to the Red Army Faction "Turn illness into a weapon," proclaimed the manifesto of the SPK, or Socialist Patients' Collective. "The kidney stone that makes you suffer," it declared, was the same as "the stone thrown into the control room of capitalism." Published in 1972 by a group of students at Heidelberg University – with a foreword by Jean-Paul Sartre, who said he was "extremely impressed" by its ideas – the SPK's manifesto stated that mental illnesses were the result of wider ills in capitalist societies. To heal the patient, the patient had to heal the system first – by violent means, if necessary. Continue reading... |
| Zimbabwe and Kenya lead the way in Africa's dash from cash Posted: 21 Feb 2018 09:00 PM PST Efficiency and safety of mobile money has millions forgoing notes and coins "Drunks love paying by M-Pesa," the owner of a bar in a low-income area of Kenya's capital, Nairobi, explained drily. "It's easy to get conned when you have cash." The well-known mobile money platform may not choose to commandeer this observation as a marketing slogan, but it does capture some of the reasons why M-Pesa is starting to shift Kenyans away from using cash. |
| 'I hear you' - Trump uses cue card to remind him to listen to shooting survivors Posted: 22 Feb 2018 01:44 AM PST The US president was pictured holding a briefing note that appeared to be a reminder for him to show empathy to school shooting survivors visiting the White House Briefing notes captured by photographers at US president Donald Trump's White House listening session with survivors of gun violence show that he needed to be reminded to say "I hear you". Related: Trump's solution to school shootings: arm teachers with guns Continue reading... |
| The rise of Bolivia’s indigenous 'cholitas' – in pictures Posted: 22 Feb 2018 12:49 AM PST As recently as 10 years ago, Bolivia's indigenous Aymara and Quechua women were socially ostracised and systematically marginalised. Known as 'cholitas', these women, recognisable by their wide skirts, braided hair and bowler hats, were banned from using public transport and entering certain public spaces. Their career opportunities were severely limited. While these women have been organising and advocating their civil rights since at least the 1960s, their movement was invigorated by Evo Morales' election as Bolivia's first indigenous president in 2006. In Cholita's Rise, the photographer Eduardo Leal has created an exhibition of work that portrays their accomplishments and celebrates their success while also looking to inspire others Continue reading... |
| Season of the Devil review – murderous Filipino opera of pain is a tough watch Posted: 22 Feb 2018 01:00 AM PST The latest film from Norte, The End of History director Lav Diaz, takes us into the heart of darkness, but at four hours it's a frustrating experience There can hardly be a deeper, darker vale of tears at this year's Berlin film festival than Season of the Devil, the stylised yet starkly austere, four-hour film in black and white from Filipino director Lav Diaz, about the brutal period of martial law imposed on his country by President Marcos in the 1970s. I have had mixed responses to Diaz's films recently: I admired the grandeur and mystery of his "Russian adaptations", that is, his The Woman Who Left (2016), a version of Tolstoy's story God Sees the Truth, But Waits; and Norte, The End of History (2013), a loose reworking of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment. Sometimes however, the sheer opacity and impenetrability of his film-making, and of course his natural tendency to let his features run to epic length – and beyond – has been forbidding. In some ways, his work is the cinematic equivalent of open-ended plainsong. The comparison is not entirely arbitrary. Because the extraordinary thing about Season of the Devil is that it is a bizarre sort of musical. The majority of it is sung through. But there is no chance of a original soundtrack album of Season of the Devil going to iTunes. Because the singing in it of a bleakly subdued sort. It is all unaccompanied and the melodies are a kind of moaning lullaby-lament, the same for the Marcos militia gangsters as for their oppressed civilian victims. The identical musical style is disconcerting, but conveys the sense that everyone is labouring under the same grim harmonies of evil and despair. This musical conceit put me in mind of Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary about Indonesia, The Act of Killing (2012). Season of the Devil is shot in a deep-focus monochrome, in a series of scenes each shot from a fixed camera position. This makes for some superbly composed images, particularly the exterior daylight locations. But Diaz has an exasperating habit of shooting indoors in the semi-darkness with a single light source directed straight into the camera. In many ways, Season of the Devil isn't an easy watch. Continue reading... |
| Barnaby Joyce 'needs to step down', Nationals MP Andrew Broad says Posted: 22 Feb 2018 01:19 AM PST Victorian backbencher says he has lost confidence in the deputy PM and would call on him to resign leadership Nationals MP Andrew Broad will attempt to force a resolution of Barnaby Joyce's embattled leadership of the National party when MPs return to Canberra next Monday for the resumption of parliament. Joyce, who is digging in for the fight, was hit late on Thursday with Broad's public expression of no confidence and by news, reported by the Daily Telegraph, that the Nationals had received a complaint of sexual harassment against the deputy prime minister – a complaint dismissed by Joyce's spokesman as "spurious and defamatory". Continue reading... |
| ‘We lose 1,400 girls a year. Who will our boys marry?’: Armenia’s quandary | Suzanne Moore Posted: 21 Feb 2018 11:00 PM PST Sex selection may have been outlawed, but a shortage of women threatens the very survival of a country where boys are traditionally seen as an investment and girls as a loss Sometimes it seems there are so many ways to destroy women that the methods become invisible to us. There are some women you will never see because they will never be born. Amartya Sen talked of "missing women" in his famous 1990 essay because of technologies that enable prenatal sex selection. Continue reading... |
| May says UK will not cut aid in wake of Oxfam scandal Posted: 21 Feb 2018 07:42 AM PST Prime minister defies calls to scrap UK commitment to spend 0.7% of national income on aid The UK's aid budget will not be cut as a result of the sexual exploitation scandal affecting the sector, the prime minister has confirmed in a push back against the right wing of her party. There have been calls for the government to scrap the commitment to spend at least 0.7% of gross national income on foreign aid, including from the MP some Tories have touted as Theresa May's potential successor, Jacob Rees-Mogg. Continue reading... |
| Trump cuts jeopardise lives of millions of Palestinian refugees, UN warns Posted: 21 Feb 2018 03:56 AM PST Head of UN agency for Palestinian refugees fears new generation could be radicalised as food aid to Gaza and Syria approaches critical low The head of the main United Nations agency supporting Palestinian refugees has warned that the organisation is facing the most severe funding crisis in its history, threatening its support to an estimated 5.3 million people, including more than 400,000 inside Syria. Pierre Krähenbühl, commissioner general of the UN Relief and Works Agency, added that cuts in support to the already impoverished and demoralised population his organisation supports – many of them victims of recent conflict – risked radicalising a new generation of young Palestinians. Continue reading... |
| 'Pathetically weak': what Florida survivors said to NRA and politicians Posted: 21 Feb 2018 11:03 PM PST Key quotes from the CNN town hall with Stoneman Douglas students, teachers, an NRA representative and lawmakers Survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school massacre in Parkland, Florida, and victim's parents joined politicians, local sheriff Scott Israel, and Dana Loesch of the National Rifle Association in a town hall discussion hosted by CNN. Here's what they had to say: Continue reading... |
| Six things we learned from the Florida town hall on gun control Posted: 21 Feb 2018 10:47 PM PST At event held a week after Stoneman Douglas massacre, Marco Rubio dodged NRA questions while assault rifle ban divided the crowd Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school students, teachers and parents booed, screamed and asked questions through tears as they interrogated lawmakers and a National Rifle Association spokeswoman about how the shooting that killed 17 people could have happened in the first place – and what those in power would do to stop another massacre. Here are six key takeaways from the two-hour CNN town hall: Continue reading... |
| Marco Rubio on gun control: where does he stand on the issues? Posted: 21 Feb 2018 05:34 PM PST The Florida senator wants to position himself as a Republican seeking compromise. Here's what he's said then and now Just two years ago, the National Rifle Association (NRA) spent more than $1m during a single election cycle to support the re-election of the Florida senator Marco Rubio. Today, Rubio is trying to position himself as a Republican seeking compromise on gun control laws. He agreed to join CNN's town hall to discuss – with angry, grieving student survivors – what needs to be done after a school shooting left 17 people dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Florida. Continue reading... |
| Angry father of Florida victim asks Trump: 'How many children have to get shot?' – video Posted: 21 Feb 2018 05:57 PM PST Andrew Pollack, whose daughter died in the Florida school shooting, tells of his frustration with gun laws during a meeting between Donald Trump and friends and relatives of victims. 'I'm very angry. Because it keeps happening … How many schools, how many children have to get shot? … It should've been one school shooting and we should have fixed it,' he says. 'And I'm pissed because my daughter I'm not going to see again ... King David cemetery, that's where I go to see my kid now ... we need our children safe.' Samual Zeif, a friend of another victim, said: 'I don't understand why I can still go into a store and buy a weapon of war.' At the meeting Trump proposed measures to arm teachers. Continue reading... |
| Trump says arming teachers with concealed weapons could prevent school massacres – video Posted: 21 Feb 2018 03:52 PM PST US president Donald Trump says he's considering backing proposals to promote concealed carrying of weapons by trained school employees to respond to shootings. Meeting students and parents affected by school shootings, Trump responded to a call to arm teachers and other school employees so they can react before law enforcement arrives. Trump said he believes the proposal could 'solve the problem' by making potential attackers think twice Trump's solution to school shootings: arm teachers with guns |
| Florida shooting: students walk out of schools to call for gun control – video Posted: 21 Feb 2018 09:34 AM PST Students across the US are walking out of their schools to protest against gun violence and demand stricter gun laws after last week's massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, Florida. They're marching in solidarity with the survivors of the second deadliest public school shooting in US history to call for a ban on the sale of assault rifles of the sort used to kill 17 students and educators last week Continue reading... |
| Five sermons from Billy Graham, the father of showman evangelicalism – video Posted: 21 Feb 2018 09:23 AM PST Billy Graham, the renowned evangelist preacher, has died aged 99. Graham was famous for his impassioned sermons delivered to millions of people across the United States and around the world. He visited at least 185 countries to spread his message and was a confidant of several US presidents. Photograph: Everett/Rex/Shutterstock Continue reading... |
| Billy Graham, 'America's pastor' – a life in pictures Posted: 21 Feb 2018 07:00 AM PST Billy Graham, who has died aged 99, was a Southern Baptist minister with celebrity status. His evangelical rallies were compared to pop concerts, and he preached the gospel to live audiences of over 210m people in 185 countries Continue reading... |
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