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North Korea talks: Trump praises own role but Washington frets over details
Syrian forces attacking eastern Ghouta ‘have surrounded rebels in Douma’
'All these flashbacks come': Rohingya’s teens speak out on Myanmar brutality | Liz Ford
Gunman and three hostages found dead at US veterans' home
Life with the Kennedys revealed in photography show
Pro-choice campaign calls 40,000 Irish expats home for abortion vote
Steve Bannon tells French far-right 'history is on our side'
Dogs trained to sniff out ancient treasures looted from Syria
Lorna Luft diagnosed with brain tumour after collapsing
Republican candidate's North Korea experience may not be all he claims
'Every place you go, you are being watched': reporting from Xi's China
Russian spy attack: nerve agent traces 'found in Zizzi restaurant'
After losing his daughter, Florida father demands gun reform: 'I’m not going away'
Rob Ford: brother of late Toronto mayor is new Progressive Conservative leader
'This could destroy China': parliament sets Xi Jinping up to rule for life
Liberal MP Tim Wilson marries partner Ryan Bolger
My part in the anti-war demo that changed protest for ever
Bono’s anti-poverty One Campaign faces claims of harassment
On International Women's Day, all I wanted was a day off

North Korea talks: Trump praises own role but Washington frets over details

Posted: 10 Mar 2018 12:57 PM PST

The announcement of a Trump-Kim summit caught the administration off guard, and officials are scrambling to roll out a policy framework

Donald Trump's sudden acceptance of a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has cast a cloud of uncertainty over Washington, with few details emerging over the terms of a potentially historic meeting that is fraught with risk.

Syrian forces attacking eastern Ghouta ‘have surrounded rebels in Douma’

Posted: 10 Mar 2018 07:02 AM PST

Largest town in region reported to be cut off as government forces press their advantage

Syrian government forces have surrounded the largest town in the besieged enclave of eastern Ghouta, in a prelude to a possible ground assault that could further inflame a dire humanitarian crisis.

Forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad have essentially split off Douma from the rest of eastern Ghouta, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a day after a Red Cross and UN aid convoy arrived in the town to unload food supplies to thousands of civilians in desperate need. Douma was once one of the largest cities in Syria.

'All these flashbacks come': Rohingya’s teens speak out on Myanmar brutality | Liz Ford

Posted: 10 Mar 2018 02:00 PM PST

Young male refugees in Bangladesh are being helped by pioneering aid efforts that try to address the hidden scars of war

Memories of the day in October that changed the life of teenager Mohammed Riaz for ever come in vivid flashbacks, when it's dark and quiet.

State forces arrived in his village in the Buthidaung township of Myanmar. Officers entered the family home, raped and killed his two elder sisters and shot his brother dead.

Gunman and three hostages found dead at US veterans' home

Posted: 10 Mar 2018 05:47 AM PST

Hostages were executives and psychologist in veterans system
Gunman had been kicked out of program, authorities say

Three women who devoted their lives to helping traumatized veterans were killed by a patient who had been kicked out of their treatment program, authorities and a relative of a victim said.

Life with the Kennedys revealed in photography show

Posted: 10 Mar 2018 04:05 PM PST

Exhibition of work by Life photographer Mark Shaw shows the Kennedys' home life as JFK rose from senator to president.

New York photographer Mark Shaw began his career capturing the images of stars such Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn for Life magazine, but the back catalogue he left on his death in 1969 at the age of 47 is best known for the candid glimpse it offers into the home life of the Kennedys.

Now Shaw's photographs of President John F Kennedy's family, taken both at the White House and at their summer retreat at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, are to go on show at the Proud Central gallery near the Strand in London. Chronicling the charismatic couple at the heart of a presidential court that became known as Camelot, Shaw's historic shots were taken over the period in which Kennedy ascended from the role of senator to president. Among the key photographs on show will be JFK's favourite portrait of himself, as well as shots of Jackie playing with her children. One of the most striking images shows Jackie leaning out of the family sailing boat clutching Shaw's camera.

Pro-choice campaign calls 40,000 Irish expats home for abortion vote

Posted: 10 Mar 2018 04:05 PM PST

Citizens living abroad urged to return in bid to swing referendum and repeal termination ban

Up to 40,000 Irish citizens living abroad are being urged to return home to cast crucial votes in a historic referendum in May that could overturn the country's ban on abortion. A campaign, Home to Vote, is calling on the Irish diaspora in the UK, Europe, north America and elsewhere to book flights and ferries to Ireland to exercise their democratic right.

Three years ago thousands of Irish citizens returned home to vote on same-sex marriage legislation, boosting the remarkable two-thirds majority for changing the law. Campaigners now hope to repeat the feat.

Steve Bannon tells French far-right 'history is on our side'

Posted: 10 Mar 2018 11:37 AM PST

Former Trump adviser addresses Front National as Marine Le Pen attempts to relaunch her party

Donald Trump's former adviser Steve Bannon has told France's far-right Front National that, "history is on our side and will bring us victory" in an address to the party's conference.

Announced as a surprise speaker at the event, Bannon said: "You are part of a movement that is bigger than that in Italy, bigger than in Poland, bigger than in Hungary."

Dogs trained to sniff out ancient treasures looted from Syria

Posted: 10 Mar 2018 04:04 PM PST

Special K-9 units may soon be deployed in the fight against terrorists and criminals looting precious artefacts from war zones

Working dogs are being trained to sniff out ancient treasures smuggled from countries such as Syria and Iraq. The pioneering US research programme – "K-9 Artifact Finders" – has been set up in response to alarm over cultural heritage trafficking.

Dogs already play a crucial role in helping detect narcotics and explosive devices. The new programme, involving the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Vet Working Dog Centre, is hoping to use them to root out cultural artefacts in shipping containers, cargo crates, the post and luggage. Michael Danti, an archaeologist who has worked in Iran, Iraq and Syria, said that dogs can already detect soil and agricultural products, and he believes that their target scents could be further refined.

Lorna Luft diagnosed with brain tumour after collapsing

Posted: 10 Mar 2018 03:45 PM PST

Daughter of Judy Garland was forgetting lyrics during a performance and collapsed afterwards

Lorna Luft, the daughter of US actor Judy Garland, has been diagnosed with a brain tumour after collapsing following a performance in London.

The singer, 65, was "forgetting lyrics and monologue" before she collapsed back stage at the Pizza Express Jazz Club on Friday night.

Republican candidate's North Korea experience may not be all he claims

Posted: 10 Mar 2018 03:30 AM PST

Rick Saccone, standing in Pennsylvania's special congressional election, says he negotiated regularly with communist officials – others remember it differently

North Korea rarely plays a prominent role in US congressional elections, but Rick Saccone – the Republican candidate for Congress in Tuesday's crucial special election in Pennsylvania – has made much of his experience in the reclusive country.

A television advertisement features moody shots of a missile launch and goose-stepping North Korean soldiers – and Saccone's claim that his career as "a diplomat in North Korea" makes him uniquely placed to deal with the looming crisis over Pyongyang's nuclear programme.

'Every place you go, you are being watched': reporting from Xi's China

Posted: 10 Mar 2018 04:07 AM PST

The Guardian's outgoing Beijing correspondent reflects on six years of increasing repression

"You don't work out, do you?" inquired one of the officers who had summoned me to my hotel lobby in China's pre-eminent police state. We had only checked in 10 minutes earlier and, after an exhausting week reporting along Xinjiang's spectacular high-altitude border with Pakistan, I was desperate for a hot shower and a snooze.

But "Mike" and his partner "Max" – two Uighur police officers tasked with thwarting even the slightest hint of hostile foreign journalism in this ever more repressive region of western China – were insistent.

Russian spy attack: nerve agent traces 'found in Zizzi restaurant'

Posted: 11 Mar 2018 01:42 AM PST

Toxic substance detected in premises in centre of Salisbury where Skripals ate, BBC reports

Traces of a nerve agent used in an attack on the Russian former spy Sergei Skripal have reportedly been found in the Zizzi restaurant in Salisbury.

Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, who is also critically ill, ate in the restaurant hours before they were found unconscious last Sunday. On Monday, Wiltshire police said the restaurant, on Castle Street, had been closed "as a precaution", and it remains cordoned off.

After losing his daughter, Florida father demands gun reform: 'I’m not going away'

Posted: 10 Mar 2018 11:00 PM PST

Since Fred Guttenberg's daughter was killed in the Parkland school shooting, he's devoted himself to pushing for change

Fred Guttenberg was at the midpoint of a 15-hour day of advocacy in Washington, and he was refusing to sit down. "No one should feel comfortable talking about the death of my kid," he told a long line of Senate Democrats. He was standing behind the chair that had been provided for him.

Rob Ford: brother of late Toronto mayor is new Progressive Conservative leader

Posted: 10 Mar 2018 09:52 PM PST

Doug Ford is a former city councillor and, like his brother, has been the subject of drug allegations

The new leader of Ontario's conservative party is the brother of late Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who became famous for smoking crack cocaine.

The Progressive Conservative party elected Doug Ford as the party's new leader Saturday before the June election in Canada's most populous province.

'This could destroy China': parliament sets Xi Jinping up to rule for life

Posted: 11 Mar 2018 12:57 AM PST

People's Congress confirms abolition of presidential term limits, sparking fears Xi is 'leading us back to the Mao era'

The Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, has succeeded in abolishing presidential term limits, a momentous political coup that paves the way for him to stay in power for years to come.

Nearly 3,000 members of China's National People's Congress voted the highly controversial constitutional amendment through during a Sunday afternoon session at the Great Hall of the People – an imposing Mao-era theatre on the western fringe of Tiananmen Square.

Liberal MP Tim Wilson marries partner Ryan Bolger

Posted: 10 Mar 2018 10:33 PM PST

Wilson, who argued for marriage equality in Australia, tweets photo of pair, saying '11th of March is a special day'

Federal Liberal MP and marriage equality advocate Tim Wilson has married partner Ryan Bolger.

My part in the anti-war demo that changed protest for ever

Posted: 11 Mar 2018 12:04 AM PST

Fifty years ago this week, Donald Macintyre was one of 246 anti-Vietnam protesters arrested in London's Grosvenor Square…

The only direct reporting from Saigon in the Observer on 17 March 1968 was on an inside page: a two-column dispatch by Gavin Young reflecting on the sobering effect on US officials and the military of Hanoi's ferocious Tet offensive, which had ended the previous month. But Vietnam still permeated the paper, from the front-page lead on the world gold crisis, triggered above all by Lyndon Johnson's huge spending on the war, and Bobby Kennedy's announcement the previous day that he was going to challenge LBJ for the Democratic presidential nomination (only to be assassinated less than three months later), to Kenneth Tynan's Shouts and Murmurs column from New York, recording his friend Gore Vidal saying that if the war continued after November's elections "a change in nationality would be the only moral response".

But there wasn't, in the Observer or any other Sunday paper, a prediction of the mayhem that would ensue that very afternoon in Mayfair – "the Battle of Grosvenor Square", as the paper would describe it a week later, before going on to suggest that not since the "fascist-communist fights of the 1930s" had the police been confronted with "sustained public violence" on the scale of that day's demonstration against the US war in Indochina. Certainly the scenes in front of the US embassy had little of the decorousness familiar to those in the square – and there were many – who were veterans of CND Aldermaston marches or even of the Committee of 100's sit-down anti-nuclear protests. James Callaghan, then home secretary, told the Commons the next day that 117 policemen had been injured, 246 protesters had been arrested and charged, and that 48 demonstrators had received medical care (St John Ambulance said it had treated 86 people on the spot).

Bono’s anti-poverty One Campaign faces claims of harassment

Posted: 10 Mar 2018 10:08 AM PST

Former employees at musician's One Campaign allege they were 'treated worse than dogs'

The anti-poverty campaign co-founded by Bono is being threatened with legal action by former employees who say they were bullied by a senior official for almost four years and that their complaints were not dealt with properly.

The One Campaign, created in 2004 to fight extreme poverty and preventable diseases, launched an investigation after a group of former employees from its Johannesburg office tweeted allegations of management misconduct, claiming that some staff in Africa were "treated worse than dogs".

On International Women's Day, all I wanted was a day off

Posted: 10 Mar 2018 04:00 AM PST

Women are talking, writing and taking action more than ever – which would be great, except it shows how bad things are

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