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- Rex Tillerson's firing leaves US diplomacy in turmoil
- Russian spy attack: PM prepares reprisals as deadline passes
- Chinese reporter's spectacular eye-roll sparks viral memes and censorship
- World’s great forests could lose half of all wildlife as planet warms – report
- Trade war could derail global economic recovery, warns OECD
- National Geographic: for decades, our coverage was racist
- Trump considers firing veterans affairs secretary David Shulkin
- Mexico's would-be border crossers undermine Trump's case for a wall
- Archaeopteryx 'flew in bursts like a pheasant', scientists say
- Extreme winter weather becoming more common as Arctic warms, study finds
- 'Fight fire with fire': IMF's Lagarde calls for bitcoin crackdown
- Ukraine's National Militia: 'We're not neo-Nazis, we just want to make our country better'
- Belgian monks round on supermarket for selling their brew at £9 a bottle
- Bring in EU police over journalist's murder, MEPs urge Slovakia
- Cancún: from tourist beach paradise to hotbed of Mexico's drug violence
- Russian spy attack: May to set out reprisals in parliament
- Fears grow for future of Iran nuclear deal in wake of Tillerson's removal
- Walter Elkan obituary
- Pennsylvania special election: Democrats declare victory in setback for Trump
- The ballerina who rescued 100,000 children with hip-hop
- Rodrigo Duterte to pull Philippines out of international criminal court
- App delivery riders say they are paid as little as $6 an hour in Australia
- Chinese reporter’s dramatic eye-roll goes viral, then gets censored – video
- No, abusive men in the aid sector won't 'grow out of it' | Secret Aid Worker
- 'Immoral sentence': Salvadoran woman jailed for stillbirth set free after 14 years
- 'Freedom!': the mysterious movement that brought Ethiopia to a standstill | Tom Gardner
- Rex Tillerson: a rocky road with Trump that ended with a surprise firing
- 'Walkout' Wednesday: the essential information about the protests
- Trump examines border wall prototypes in California – video
- Rex Tillerson: 'I'll return to private life proud to have served my country' – video
- Trump and Tillerson: the end of a rocky relationship – video
- Bus carrying students plunges into ravine in Alabama – video
- Trump on Tillerson: 'It was a different mindset' - video
- Tuesday's best photos: mirror games and giant sculptures
- South Sudan's Dinka people – in pictures
| Rex Tillerson's firing leaves US diplomacy in turmoil Posted: 13 Mar 2018 03:26 PM PDT
Donald Trump threw US diplomacy into fresh turmoil on Tuesday by firing his secretary of state, Rex Tillerson – said to have discovered his fate via Twitter – and promoting two officials condemned by human rights groups for endorsing or overseeing torture. Related: Mike Pompeo: who is Trump's new pick for secretary of state? Continue reading... |
| Russian spy attack: PM prepares reprisals as deadline passes Posted: 14 Mar 2018 12:29 AM PDT May prepares to chair meeting of the national security council as she plans Moscow crackdown Theresa May is preparing to chair a meeting of the national security council after the midnight deadline she set Moscow over the spy poisoning case passed. The prime minister is preparing to set out a range of reprisals against the Russian state, including calls for fresh sanctions, visa bans and crackdowns on Russian money in the UK. She is expected to set out plans to build a coalition of international support – from the European Union, Nato and even the United Nations – to rein in Russia over time. Continue reading... |
| Chinese reporter's spectacular eye-roll sparks viral memes and censorship Posted: 13 Mar 2018 11:07 PM PDT Liang Xiangyi showed theatrical disdain for a colleague's soft-ball question to a minister at a press conference For years foreign correspondents have debated whether to boycott the pantomime press conferences Beijing uses to present a facade of transparency during its annual political summits. On Tuesday one Chinese journalist hinted – in side-splitting fashion – at which side of the row she was on with an eye-roll so theatrical it set the internet alight and – in these politically treacherous times – may also have landed her in trouble. Continue reading... |
| World’s great forests could lose half of all wildlife as planet warms – report Posted: 13 Mar 2018 05:01 PM PDT From the Amazon to Africa, WWF report predicts catastrophic losses of as much as 60% of plants and 50% of animals by the end of the century The world's greatest forests could lose more than half of their plant species by the end of the century unless nations ramp up efforts to tackle climate change, according to a new report on the impacts of global warming on biodiversity hotspots. Mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds are also likely to disappear on a catastrophic scale in the Amazon and other naturally rich ecosysterms in Africa, Asia, North America and Australia if temperatures rise by more than 1.5C, concludes the study by WWF, the University of East Anglia and the James Cook University. Continue reading... |
| Trade war could derail global economic recovery, warns OECD Posted: 13 Mar 2018 01:05 PM PDT Thinktank upgrades its growth forecast but says tit-for-tat tariffs would make international trade vulnerable The west's leading economic thinktank has warned Donald Trump that a trade war prompted by US protectionism threatens to derail a recovery in global growth, which has reached its highest level in seven years. In its latest interim forecasts, the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said it expected the world economy to expand by 3.9% in both 2018 and 2019 – a 0.3 percentage point upgrade in each year from its last set of predictions last November. Continue reading... |
| National Geographic: for decades, our coverage was racist Posted: 13 Mar 2018 11:24 AM PDT Historian says past editions reinforced notion that non-white people were exotic and savage National Geographic has acknowledged that its coverage of black and minority ethnic people in America and the wider world has been historically racist, frequently promoting caricatures of the "noble savage" and barely featuring the US's minority ethnic population. An internal investigation last year showed that until the 1970s, National Geographic in effect ignored minority ethnic Americans who were not labourers or domestic workers, and portrayed non-white people around the world as "exotics, famously and frequently unclothed, happy hunters, noble savages – every type of cliche." Continue reading... |
| Trump considers firing veterans affairs secretary David Shulkin Posted: 13 Mar 2018 03:54 PM PDT Rick Perry in frame as Shulkin faces claims he persuaded his security detail to go shopping with him at Home Depot and lug the purchases into his house Donald Trump is considering replacing the embattled veterans affairs secretary David Shulkin with Rick Perry, the energy secretary. A source familiar with the White House discussions told the Associated Press that Trump has floated the notion of the cabinet reshuffle as a way to right the ship at the VA, believing Shulkin has become a distraction to the department's work. The source was not authorized to discuss internal deliberations. Continue reading... |
| Mexico's would-be border crossers undermine Trump's case for a wall Posted: 13 Mar 2018 01:04 PM PDT Few of the men at a Tijuana migrant shelter fit the profile of 'bad hombres' and existing measures are keeping them out When Donald Trump views the prototypes of his proposed border wall outside San Diego on Tuesday he could say, truthfully, that just a few miles south there are hundreds of Mexican men desperate to break into the United States. You can find them at shelters like Casa del Migrante, a hostel for migrants in Tijuana, a sprawling city with a soaring murder rate. They admit they have no permission to live in the US and are determined to enter illegally. Continue reading... |
| Archaeopteryx 'flew in bursts like a pheasant', scientists say Posted: 13 Mar 2018 11:03 AM PDT The winged Late Jurassic creature would take to the air in frenetic, flapping bounds, fossil x-rays show Archaeopteryx, one of life on Earth's first stabs at building a bird, evaded predators and cleared obstacles on the ground by bursting into flight like a startled pheasant, a new analysis suggests. High-resolution x-ray images of the creature's skeleton reveal tell-tale similarities with the bones of birds that cannot glide or soar but instead take to the air in frenetic, flapping bounds, scientists say. Continue reading... |
| Extreme winter weather becoming more common as Arctic warms, study finds Posted: 13 Mar 2018 09:00 AM PDT Scientists found a strong link between high temperatures near the pole and unusually heavy snowfall and frigid weather farther south. The sort of severe winter weather that has rattled parts of the US and UK is becoming more common as the Arctic warms, with scientists finding a strong link between high temperatures near the pole and unusually heavy snowfall and frigid weather further south. A sharp increase in temperatures across the Arctic since the early 1990s has coincided with an uptick in abnormally cold snaps in winter, particularly in the eastern US, according to new research that analyzed temperature data from 1950 onwards. Continue reading... |
| 'Fight fire with fire': IMF's Lagarde calls for bitcoin crackdown Posted: 13 Mar 2018 06:00 AM PDT IMF chief says cryptocurrency's own blockchain technology could be used to control it Christine Lagarde has called for a crackdown on bitcoin by using the technology behind the digital currency to "fight fire with fire". The head of the International Monetary Fund said authorities around the world could harness the potential of cryptocurrencies to help bring them under control, warning that failure to do so would allow the unfettered development of a "potentially major new vehicle for money laundering and the financing of terrorism". |
| Ukraine's National Militia: 'We're not neo-Nazis, we just want to make our country better' Posted: 12 Mar 2018 10:00 PM PDT Ultranationalist group with neo-Nazi links says it has been driven to action by 'impotent' police Just past midnight in a snow-covered forest near Kiev, four men dressed in black with truncheons strapped to their waists listen carefully for the telltale buzzing of chainsaws that belong to illegal loggers. "The police in our country are ineffective, corrupt or drunk," says Zhenya, one of the men. "That's why we have to deal with this problem ourselves." These woodland vigilantes, all in their early to mid-twenties, are not your typical environmental activists. They are members of the National Militia, an ultranationalist organisation closely linked to Ukraine's Azov movement, a far-right group with a military wing that contains openly neo-Nazi members, and its political spin-off, the National Corpus party. Continue reading... |
| Belgian monks round on supermarket for selling their brew at £9 a bottle Posted: 13 Mar 2018 05:23 AM PDT Beer from Saint Sixtus abbey in Flanders had been flying off shelves despite hefty price-tag Even at £9 a bottle, beer from Saint Sixtus abbey was flying off the supermarket shelves. Until the monks found out. Angry Trappists from the 19th-century Cistercian monastery in Westvleteren, west Flanders, have accused the Dutch supermarket brand Jan Linders of a breach of their "ethical values" for selling the brew. Continue reading... |
| Bring in EU police over journalist's murder, MEPs urge Slovakia Posted: 13 Mar 2018 05:08 AM PDT Call for Europol to take lead role in investigation as Robert Fico's government nears collapse The EU crime-fighting agency Europol should jointly lead the investigation into the murder of a Slovak journalist, senior members of the European parliament have said, amid concerns that the Slovakian government is not doing enough to solve the crime. Robert Fico's government is on the brink of collapse, after the murder last month of the investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancee, Martina Kušnírová, and the biggest street protests in the country's 25-year history amid widespread public distrust. His junior coalition partner has called for early elections and a no confidence vote is to be held on Monday. Continue reading... |
| Cancún: from tourist beach paradise to hotbed of Mexico's drug violence Posted: 14 Mar 2018 12:00 AM PDT The murder of an alleged cartel boss in his hospital bed is the latest outrage in a resort city torn by trafficking and corruption The Playamed hospital is an unremarkable two-storey building on a quiet street lined with red-blossomed flame trees, just a few minutes' drive from the white-sand beaches and all-inclusive resorts of Cancún's hotel zone. Recently, however, it was the setting for an incident underlining the relentless spread of Mexico's drug war to cities previously best known as beach holiday destinations. Continue reading... |
| Russian spy attack: May to set out reprisals in parliament Posted: 14 Mar 2018 01:50 AM PDT Midnight deadline passes for Kremlin to explain why former spy poisoned by nerve agent Theresa May is preparing to set out a range of reprisals against the Russian state to parliament on Wednesday, after a midnight deadline passed for the Kremlin to explain why a former spy was poisoned by a Russian-manufactured nerve agent. Russia said there would be retaliation against any fresh measures. Maria Zakharova, the Russian foreign affairs ministry spokeswoman, said Britain must not try to threaten Moscow, pointing to Vladimir Putin's recent speech in which he presented a range of new nuclear weapons. Continue reading... |
| Fears grow for future of Iran nuclear deal in wake of Tillerson's removal Posted: 13 Mar 2018 12:49 PM PDT Iranian officials unnerved by Trump's 'unpredictable' behaviour while Europe alarmed by prospect of a full-scale US-EU trade war The abrupt dismissal of Rex Tillerson as US secretary of state was seen overseas as a hardening of the Donald Trump's America First policy, a serious blow to the future of the Iran nuclear deal, and a possible harbinger of a full-blown trade war with the European Union. In his brief comments on Tillerson's removal, Trump mentioned policy disagreements over Iran. |
| Posted: 13 Mar 2018 08:25 AM PDT My father, Walter Elkan, who has died aged 94, was an economist who specialised in African economies and was an adviser to governments and global organisations. He was born in Hamburg. His father, Hans Septimus Elkan, was a businessman and his mother, Maud (nee Barden), an avid pianist. Fleeing from nazism, he arrived in England in 1938; his mother and siblings also came to Britain, but at different times; his father had died previously. Continue reading... |
| Pennsylvania special election: Democrats declare victory in setback for Trump Posted: 14 Mar 2018 01:18 AM PDT Rick Saccone styled himself president's wingman but faced tight race with Democrat Conor Lamb in district Trump won by 20 points in 2016 It wasn't clear who won the special election for Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district on Tuesday night. With Democrat Conor Lamb maintaining a narrow lead of 579 votes over Republican Rick Saccone , the result might still go either way, although that did not stop Lamb from declaring victory early Wednesday morning. However, it was clear who lost the election: Donald Trump. |
| The ballerina who rescued 100,000 children with hip-hop Posted: 14 Mar 2018 01:30 AM PDT When Vania Masías saw acrobats at traffic lights in the Peruvian capital she saw raw talent and a chance to transform their circumstances Vania Masías vividly remembers the first time she saw acrobats somersaulting at a traffic light on a visit to her home city in 2004. She was at the peak of an illustrious career as a ballet dancer in Europe – but before long, she would leave it all behind it to nurture the raw talent she found in the streets of the Peruvian capital. Continue reading... |
| Rodrigo Duterte to pull Philippines out of international criminal court Posted: 14 Mar 2018 02:08 AM PDT President accuses ICC of crusade against him after it opened inquiry into his war on drugs Rodrigo Duterte is to withdraw the Philippines from the international criminal court after it opened a crimes against humanity investigation into his brutal war on drugs. In a lengthy statement, the Philippines president accused the ICC and the UN of a crusade against him, denouncing what he described as "baseless, unprecedented and outrageous attacks on my person". Continue reading... |
| App delivery riders say they are paid as little as $6 an hour in Australia Posted: 14 Mar 2018 01:10 AM PDT UberEats, Deliveroo and Foodora riders rally in Sydney for better pay and conditions Bicycle deliverers for UberEats, Foodora and Deliveroo have said they are paid as little as $6 an hour and called for better conditions and government regulation. At a protest rally in Sydney, union officials said riders were being "flogged by technology" and workers described the high exposure to injury, low rates of pay and lack of workers compensation characteristic of the booming gig economy. Continue reading... |
| Chinese reporter’s dramatic eye-roll goes viral, then gets censored – video Posted: 14 Mar 2018 01:23 AM PDT Chinese reporter Liang Xiangyi of the financial news service Yicai Media, rolls her eyes after another journalist asks a question during the annual meeting of China's National People's Congress. The clip starts trending on Sina Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, before getting censored Continue reading... |
| No, abusive men in the aid sector won't 'grow out of it' | Secret Aid Worker Posted: 14 Mar 2018 12:00 AM PDT Deep-rooted sexism in the heart of our workplace is driving a culture of harassment Beyond the horror stories and investigations into allegations of sexual abuse in the humanitarian field is the broader problem of workplace culture and the sexism and toxic masculinity at the heart of many NGOs' operations. In the humanitarian sector there is a subset of aid workers – usually white male international staff – who remain blind to the way gender impacts on their work. They consider the issue an annoying detail that NGOs should be allowed to leave at the door when the context is an emergency and bombs are falling. The problem is seen as especially trivial when raised by young women who management and HR assume simply can't handle the "hardship posting". |
| 'Immoral sentence': Salvadoran woman jailed for stillbirth set free after 14 years Posted: 13 Mar 2018 09:58 AM PDT Supreme court commutes Maira Verónica Figueroa Marroquín's 30-year sentence for murder, calling it immoral and excessive A woman convicted of aggravated murder in El Salvador after suffering a stillbirth has been freed from prison, the second such release in the space of a month. Maira Verónica Figueroa Marroquín, 34, had her sentence commuted by the ministry of justice and was released on Tuesday after serving almost 15 years of a 30-year sentence. Continue reading... |
| 'Freedom!': the mysterious movement that brought Ethiopia to a standstill | Tom Gardner Posted: 13 Mar 2018 04:52 AM PDT Qeerroo – young Oromo activists – drove the mass strike that helped topple the prime minister of one of Africa's most autocratic governments Today, Desalegn is a banker. But once he was a Qeerroo: a young, energetic and unmarried man from Ethiopia's largest ethnic group, the Oromo, bound by what he calls a "responsibility to defend the people". Twelve years ago he helped organise mass protests against an election result he and many others believed the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) had rigged. This landed him in prison, along with thousands of others, on terrorism charges. |
| Rex Tillerson: a rocky road with Trump that ended with a surprise firing Posted: 13 Mar 2018 01:35 PM PDT The secretary of state had known a battle was brewing – but he had survived similar clashes with the president before Rex Tillerson's last significant act as secretary of state was characteristically out of tune with the White House. Donald Trump's spokeswoman, Sarah Sanders, had avoided any blame of Russia for the poisoning of an ex-spy in Britain, but minutes later Tillerson issued his own statement, which was definitive in supporting the UK assessment that Moscow was behind the attack. Continue reading... |
| 'Walkout' Wednesday: the essential information about the protests Posted: 13 Mar 2018 09:00 AM PDT Mass student protests at nearly 3,000 schools across the US will last for 17 minutes to mark the 17 deaths in the Florida school shooting Students across the US have planned "walkout" demonstrations for Wednesday, a month to the day after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, Florida, in which 17 people were killed. Related: Walkout Wednesday: students risk punishment for joining gun control protest Continue reading... |
| Trump examines border wall prototypes in California – video Posted: 13 Mar 2018 03:18 PM PDT During Donald Trump's first presidential visit to California he inspected prototypes of his proposed border wall at Otay Mesa, yards from the border with Mexico, while a mile down the road police in riot gear separated rival groups of demonstrators chanting for and against Trump. 'For the people that say no wall, if you didn't have walls over here, you wouldn't even have a country,' Trump said
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| Rex Tillerson: 'I'll return to private life proud to have served my country' – video Posted: 13 Mar 2018 12:34 PM PDT Rex Tillerson, who was fired by Donald Trump on Tuesday, said he would be delegating all of his responsibilities as US secretary of state immediately before leaving office at the end of the month. 'What is most important is to ensure an orderly and smooth transition during a time that the country continues to face significant policy and national security challenges,' he said. Trump fired Tillerson after a series of public rifts over policy on North Korea, Russia and Iran, replacing his chief diplomat with the CIA director, Mike Pompeo. Continue reading... |
| Trump and Tillerson: the end of a rocky relationship – video Posted: 13 Mar 2018 10:51 AM PDT Donald Trump fired his secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, on Tuesday, citing clashes over policy as the main reason. The pair have had a tense relationship following disagreements including over Iran, North Korea and Jerusalem. The CIA director, Mike Pompeo, will replace Tillerson Trump fires Tillerson: president swings axe after series of policy clashes Continue reading... |
| Bus carrying students plunges into ravine in Alabama – video Posted: 13 Mar 2018 10:22 AM PDT A charter bus taking high school students home from a trip to Disney World plunged off a bridge and into a ravine in Alabama early on Tuesday, killing the driver and injuring several passengers. Video footage showed the vehicle lying on its side on grassland next to a creek and embankment, with severe damage visible to the front axle and side panels • Alabama bus crash: driver killed and students injured on school trip Continue reading... |
| Trump on Tillerson: 'It was a different mindset' - video Posted: 13 Mar 2018 08:13 AM PDT Donald Trump has fired his secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, and announced his intention to replace him with the CIA director, Mike Pompeo. Trump announced the shake-up in a tweet, adding that Gina Haspel, currently Pompeo's deputy, would become the CIA's first female director. Tillerson had recently predicted he would stay in office at least until the end of 2018 Trump fires Tillerson: president swings axe after series of policy clashes Continue reading... |
| Tuesday's best photos: mirror games and giant sculptures Posted: 13 Mar 2018 07:16 AM PDT The Guardian's picture editors bring you photo highlights from around the world Continue reading... |
| South Sudan's Dinka people – in pictures Posted: 13 Mar 2018 02:14 AM PDT During South Sudan's dry season between December and May, members of the Dinka tribe move from the highlands to the lowlands close to the river Nile, where they set up extensive cattle camps, ensuring their animals are close to grazing land. Photographer Stefanie Glinski visited a camp in Mingkaman, in Lakes state Continue reading... |
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