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- 'Nunes memo' published after Trump declassifies controversial document
- Trinidad's jihadis: how tiny nation became Isis recruiting ground
- North Korea supplied arms to Syria and Myanmar, UN sanctions report finds
- World leaders unite in $2bn drive to tackle 'global learning crisis'
- Kenyan rule of law concerns as authorities defy TV ban order
- Rohingya refugees on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border – in pictures
- Syrian Kurds outraged over mutilation of female fighter
- Chinese Eden Project to feature world's highest indoor waterfall
- Father of Larry Nassar victims lunges at disgraced doctor in court
- Dow Jones suffers worst fall in two years amid fears of interest rate rise
- Migrant boat capsizing: 90 feared dead off coast of Libya
- After 400 years lost, 'cursed' novel of Spain's imperial age is finally published
- Cape Town faces Day Zero: what happens when the city turns off the taps?
- Day Zero: how Cape Town is running out of water
- Man believed to have been IRA double agent 'Stakeknife' released on bail
- Oxford professor charged with raping two women
- Las Vegas shooting: man charged with selling bullets to killer
- Scientists discover ancient Mayan city hidden under Guatemalan jungle
- Theresa May softens stance on migration and foreign students
- Row over Northern Territory magistrate brings intervention from chief justice
- Not remotely refreshing: global health fund rebuked over Heineken alliance
- Congo gripped by fear as thousands flee 'bone-chilling' violence
- Trump's release of Nunes memo is Nixonian – but today's GOP won't resist
- Saudi crown prince's UK visit will throw spotlight on ties and tensions
- What John Major said in China – and what Theresa May did not
- Trump says 'people should be ashamed' after memo is declassified – video
| 'Nunes memo' published after Trump declassifies controversial document Posted: 02 Feb 2018 11:27 AM PST Trump has allowed the release of the memo, which Democrats say is a crude attempt to undermine Mueller's Trump-Russia investigation Republicans on Friday released a controversial memo that alleges an abuse of power by the FBI in its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, after Donald Trump declassified the document and accused top officials of bias. The House intelligence committee chairman, Devin Nunes, published the memo minutes after the president's approval, despite a warning from the Department of Justice that it would be a "reckless" act. Democrats have portrayed the memo as a crude attempt to undermine the credibility of the Robert Mueller investigation into possible collusion between the Kremlin and members of the Trump campaign. Continue reading... |
| Trinidad's jihadis: how tiny nation became Isis recruiting ground Posted: 02 Feb 2018 04:22 AM PST The Caribbean nation has one of the world's highest Isis volunteer rates – and most don't come back Five years ago, Tariq Abdul Haqq was one of Trinidad and Tobago's most promising young boxers, a Commonwealth Games medallist with Olympic dreams. Related: 'An incredible transformation': how rehab, not prison, worked for a US Isis convert Continue reading... |
| North Korea supplied arms to Syria and Myanmar, UN sanctions report finds Posted: 02 Feb 2018 01:56 PM PST
North Korea has supplied weapons to Syria and Myanmar, according to a confidential report by independent United Nations monitors which also said Pyongyang violated UN sanctions to earn nearly $200m in 2017. The report to a UN security council sanctions committee, seen by Reuters on Friday, said monitors had investigated ongoing ballistic missile cooperation between Syria and Myanmar, including more than 40 previously unreported North Korea shipments between 2012 and 2017 to Syria's Scientific Studies and Research Centre, which oversees the country's chemical weapons programme. Continue reading... |
| World leaders unite in $2bn drive to tackle 'global learning crisis' Posted: 02 Feb 2018 09:45 AM PST Host nation Senegal carries torch for Africa at fundraising summit as UK support for 264 million children out of school is questioned Low-income countries have increased their commitment to tackling a "global learning crisis" as world leaders promised to spend $2.3bn on education over the next three years. A host of dignitaries, including six African heads of state and the singer Rihanna, descended on Dakar to attend a high-level financing conference in Senegal. |
| Kenyan rule of law concerns as authorities defy TV ban order Posted: 02 Feb 2018 08:52 AM PST Opposition figure briefly detained as Uhuru Kenyatta's government defies order to lift ban on private television stations Kenyan authorities defied a court order to lift a ban on three private television stations and briefly detained an opposition figure on Friday, setting the scene for a new confrontation between the judiciary and Uhuru Kenyatta's government. Miguna Miguna, who has declared himself a "general" of the opposition's National Resistance Movement, was detained in a dawn raid on his Nairobi home, and later released on bail of 50,000 Kenyan shillings (£350). Continue reading... |
| Rohingya refugees on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border – in pictures Posted: 02 Feb 2018 01:29 PM PST Since last August, more than 668,000 Rohingya refugees – about 400,000 of them children – have fled Myanmar for camps over the Bangladesh border. Their makeshift shelters will be at risk from flooding and landslides in the upcoming cyclone and monsoon season Continue reading... |
| Syrian Kurds outraged over mutilation of female fighter Posted: 02 Feb 2018 11:54 AM PST Turkish-backed rebels accused of filming mistreatment of Women's Protection Units member Syrian Kurds have accused Turkish-backed rebels of mutilating then filming the body of one of their female fighters after a video emerged of her corpse. Turkey and allied Syrian rebels have pressed an offensive since 20 January against the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in northern Syria, whose Kurdish fighters Ankara views as terrorists. Continue reading... |
| Chinese Eden Project to feature world's highest indoor waterfall Posted: 02 Feb 2018 06:23 AM PST Qingdao counterpart of Cornish attraction will cost £150m and will be themed around water
The world's highest indoor waterfall is to be the centrepiece of a Chinese outpost of the Cornish eco attraction the Eden Project. Continue reading... |
| Father of Larry Nassar victims lunges at disgraced doctor in court Posted: 02 Feb 2018 10:07 AM PST Randall Margraves asks for 'five minutes alone' with sexual abuser jailed for up to 175 years The judge in the gymnastics sexual abuse case said on Friday there is "no way" she will punish the father of three girls who were his victims, after the man tried to attack the former US gymnastics team doctor in court on Friday. Randall Margrave, the father of three daughters sexually abused by disgraced team doctor Larry Nassar, was nevertheless told by the judge that his actions were wrong, and Margrave apologized at Nassar's sentencing hearing in Michigan. Continue reading... |
| Dow Jones suffers worst fall in two years amid fears of interest rate rise Posted: 02 Feb 2018 01:15 PM PST Apple, Visa and Exxon among biggest fallers as American and European stock markets tumble from record highs Wall Street ended its worst week in two years on Friday with another sharp fall as markets in Europe also continued to tumble from the record-high levels reached less than a month ago. Investors headed for the exits amid growing fears over a bond market rout, triggered by early signs of inflation in the US as economic growth accelerates and wages appear to finally be rising after years of stagnation. US government bond yields, which rise as prices fall, hit the highest level since January 2014. Continue reading... |
| Migrant boat capsizing: 90 feared dead off coast of Libya Posted: 02 Feb 2018 03:44 AM PST Most of those feared dead are Pakistani, three survivors tell UN migration agency At least 90 people are feared drowned off the coast of Libya after a smuggler's migrant boat capsized, the UN's migration agency has said. Ten bodies have so far washed ashore near the Libyan town of Zuwara, Olivia Headon, a spokeswoman for International Organisation for Migration, said. Eight were believed to be Pakistani, and two Libyan. Continue reading... |
| After 400 years lost, 'cursed' novel of Spain's imperial age is finally published Posted: 02 Feb 2018 02:43 AM PST Previous workers on Golden Age manuscript The Orphan's Story died, leading to rumours of curse Four hundred years after it was written, a lost and supposedly cursed Golden Age novel chronicling the splendour, adventure and violence of Spain's imperial zenith has been published for the first time. Historia del Huérfano, or The Orphan's Story, charts the progress of a 14-year-old Spaniard who leaves Granada and heads to the Americas to seek his fortune. Its hero ricochets around the Spanish empire, from the high-society fiestas of Lima to the mephitic mines of Potosí, and goes on to witness Sir Francis Drake's attack on Puerto Rico and the sacking of Cádiz. Continue reading... |
| Cape Town faces Day Zero: what happens when the city turns off the taps? Posted: 03 Feb 2018 12:00 AM PST In 10 weeks engineers will turn off water for a million homes as this South African city reacts to one-in-384-year drought. The rich are digging boreholes, more are panic-buying bottled water, and the army is on standby Interactive explainer: how Cape Town is running dry The head of Cape Town's disaster operations centre is drawing up a plan he hopes he never has to implement as this South African city on the frontline of climate change prepares to be the first in the world to turn off the water taps. "We've identified four risks: water shortages, sanitation failures, disease outbreaks and anarchy due to competition for scarce resources," says Greg Pillay. "We had to go back to the drawing board. We were prepared for disruption of supply, but not a no-water scenario. In my 40 years in emergency services, this is the biggest crisis." Continue reading... |
| Day Zero: how Cape Town is running out of water Posted: 03 Feb 2018 12:00 AM PST |
| Man believed to have been IRA double agent 'Stakeknife' released on bail Posted: 02 Feb 2018 10:07 AM PST Freddie Scappaticci was questioned by officers investigating murder, kidnap and torture during Northern Ireland Troubles The man believed to have been one of Britain's most important agents inside the IRA, "Stakeknife", has been released on bail after being questioned by detectives investigating 18 murders during the Northern Ireland Troubles. Freddie Scappaticci is understood to have been arrested earlier this week by police officers from Operation Kenova - the multimillion-pound inquiry into the activities of the former double agent. Continue reading... |
| Oxford professor charged with raping two women Posted: 02 Feb 2018 03:13 PM PST Tariq Ramadan, adviser to the UK government, held in custody over French hotel attack claims The prominent Swiss academic Tariq Ramadan, a professor of contemporary Islamic studies at the University of Oxford, has been charged with rape and ordered to remain in custody in France. Ramadan, 55, is being held on charges of rape and rape of a vulnerable person after two women accused him of violently assaulting them in hotel rooms in Lyon and Paris in 2009 and 2012 after conferences. Continue reading... |
| Las Vegas shooting: man charged with selling bullets to killer Posted: 02 Feb 2018 07:46 PM PST Rounds had fingerprints from Douglas Haig, 55, of Mesa, Arizona, as well as marks from tools he used to make ammunition that he illegally sold, say police A man suspected of selling armour-piercing bullets to the Las Vegas gunman who killed 58 people at a music festival has been charged with conspiracy to manufacture and sell the ammunition without a licence. Douglas Haig, 55, of Mesa, Arizona, is the first person arrested and charged in connection with the 1 October massacre, which ranks as the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history. Continue reading... |
| Scientists discover ancient Mayan city hidden under Guatemalan jungle Posted: 02 Feb 2018 09:54 PM PST Aerial laser mapping detects thousands of hidden structures in Peten region, suggesting its population was millions more than previously thought Researchers using a high-tech aerial mapping technique have found tens of thousands of previously undetected Mayan houses, buildings, defence works and pyramids in the dense jungle of Guatemala's Peten region, suggesting that millions more people lived there than previously thought. The discoveries, which included industrial-sized agricultural fields and irrigation canals, were announced on Thursday by an alliance of US, European and Guatemalan archaeologists working with Guatemala's Mayan Heritage and Nature Foundation. Continue reading... |
| Theresa May softens stance on migration and foreign students Posted: 02 Feb 2018 02:00 PM PST College-goers from abroad have no longterm effect on migration numbers, prime minister admits International students do not have a long-term impact on migration numbers, Theresa May has admitted, in a marked softening of tone from her previous hardline position on the issue. The prime minister took a tough stance towards overseas students when she was home secretary and in her first few months as prime minister, attacking those coming to the UK under the auspices of perceived low-grade institutions, with the real intention of finding work. |
| Row over Northern Territory magistrate brings intervention from chief justice Posted: 02 Feb 2018 08:13 PM PST Michael Grant backs plan for handling complaints about judiciary in wake of furore around Alice Springs magistrate's treatment of young offenders and victims The Northern Territory chief justice, Michael Grant, has backed a plan to refer complaints over judges' behaviour to the New South Wales judicial commission, following a months-long scandal over a magistrate's treatment of youth offenders in Alice Springs. Alice Springs magistrate Greg Borchers's judicial behaviour has been under scrutiny over a series of comments made from the bench including telling a 13-year-old offender he had "taken advantage" of his mother's alleged murder by his father to commit crimes. Continue reading... |
| Not remotely refreshing: global health fund rebuked over Heineken alliance Posted: 02 Feb 2018 05:24 AM PST Campaigners condemn decision of chief fundraiser for HIV, TB and malaria to enter partnership with Heineken A global health fund has come under severe criticism over its decision to partner with Heineken, a move campaigners warn will "undermine and subvert" alcohol policy implementation in Africa. In an open letter to the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, an alliance of more than 2,000 health organisations voiced misgivings about the alliance and called for its immediate end. Continue reading... |
| Congo gripped by fear as thousands flee 'bone-chilling' violence Posted: 02 Feb 2018 02:00 AM PST International Organisation for Migration warns Democratic Republic of the Congo close to breaking point as fighting spills into previously stable areas All pictures courtesy of Christian Jepsen/Norwegian Refugee Council The UN refugee agency has become the latest aid organisation to voice its alarm over rising violence in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo that has forced thousands of people to flee their homes. Continue reading... |
| Trump's release of Nunes memo is Nixonian – but today's GOP won't resist Posted: 02 Feb 2018 12:41 PM PST Analysis: The president's decision follows a pattern of seeking to undermine institutions, and his views are no longer on the fringe The release of the "Nunes memo" confirms Donald Trump's willingness to burn down America's institutions to save his own skin. But unlike in the era of Richard Nixon, the Republican resistance to such tactics is all but dead. On Friday, the US president approved the release of a classified memo commissioned by the Republican chairman of the House intelligence panel, Devin Nunes, that alleges bias against Trump within the FBI and justice department. Continue reading... |
| Saudi crown prince's UK visit will throw spotlight on ties and tensions Posted: 02 Feb 2018 04:28 AM PST UK is keen to endorse effort to reform kingdom but 'values gap' exists, especially on rights The powerful Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, is set to meet senior royals on a visit to London this month that will give him a chance both to present himself as his country's modernising face and experience British protests over Saudi Arabia's human rights record and its conduct in the three-year Yemen civil war. The visit, already announced in principle by Boris Johnson, was discussed by the two men when the foreign secretary went to Riyadh last week. It is expected MBS, as he is colloquially known, will also visit Paris and Washington. Continue reading... |
| What John Major said in China – and what Theresa May did not Posted: 02 Feb 2018 03:43 AM PST Major travelled to Beijing as British PM in 1991 and held forth in public about human rights When John Major travelled to Beijing in 1991, the then British prime minister faced criticism as the first major western leader to visit after the Tiananmen Square massacre two years earlier had made China an international pariah. His host was Li Peng, the notorious premier known as the "Butcher of Beijing". But during his three-day stay, Major made no bones about raising unwelcome political topics, publicly challenging Beijing over religious freedom, freedom of speech, an uprising in Tibet, the detention of student demonstrators and the massacre. "The world has not forgotten the events of June 1989," Major told a press conference at which he took 17 questions – nine of them about human rights or the fight for democracy. Continue reading... |
| Trump says 'people should be ashamed' after memo is declassified – video Posted: 02 Feb 2018 11:39 AM PST Following the release of a controversial memo alleging FBI abuses, US president Donald Trump says: 'A lot of people should be ashamed of themselves.' Trump tells reporters Friday: 'The memo was sent to Congress, it was declassified. Congress will do whatever they're going to do. But I think it's a disgrace what's happened in our country' |
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