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- Carles Puigdemont to appear in court in Germany as Catalans protest
- Fire in Siberian shopping mall leaves at least 64 people dead
- Stormy Daniels: I was told to 'leave Trump alone' in parking lot threat
- Protesters arrested in Belarus during opposition rally
- Obama wants to 'create a million young Barack Obamas'
- Egypt election: polls open amid concerns over voter apathy
- Unicef predicts fresh outbreak of deadly cholera in Yemen
- Video shows unarmed black man before he is shot dead by Texas deputy
- Orange snow transforms eastern Europe into 'Mars'
- Marchers across the US united in plan for pro-gun politicians: 'Vote them out'
- Police operation in Rio favela leaves at least eight people dead
- Trump says many lawyers and top law firms want to represent him in Russia case
- Dubai: British newspaper editor gets 10 years' jail for wife's murder
- Australia captain Steve Smith gets one-match ban for role in ball tampering row
- Rising from the rubble: 'If we don't rebuild Mosul, maybe Isis will come back’
- Braunau in the spotlight: Hitler's birthplace embraces inclusion
- 'We share the stage': white suburban liberals and minority activists fight together for gun reform
- Brexit whistleblower: No 10 official outed me to distract from claims
- Yemen is entering its fourth year of war – when will the suffering end? | Hind Abbas
- Stormy Daniels: "A guy walked up on me and said, 'Leave Trump alone.'" – video
- Uber to sell south-east Asia business to competitor Grab
- NT police investigate alleged sexual assault of four-year-old boy near Tennant Creek
- 'Why we’re paying the rent for a million Syrian refugees'
- Forget policies, the Stormy Daniels affair shows how far US politics has sunk
- #MeToo is not just a debate, or a whinge. It’s a reality | Sarah Blasko
- Aerial view of deadly Siberian shopping mall fire - video
| Carles Puigdemont to appear in court in Germany as Catalans protest Posted: 26 Mar 2018 12:05 AM PDT German police detain former Catalan president under European arrest warrant The former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont is to appear in court following his arrest in Germany, which triggered a wave of protests in Catalonia where thousands of separatists confronted police. Puigdemont, who has been living in self-imposed exile in Brussels since October, was travelling in a car on the way from Finland to Belgium on Sunday when he was detained, having visited Finnish lawmakers in Helsinki. Continue reading... |
| Fire in Siberian shopping mall leaves at least 64 people dead Posted: 26 Mar 2018 02:22 AM PDT Children among missing or dead after mystery blaze in Kemerovo A fire at a shopping centre in the Siberian city of Kemerovo has left at least 64 people dead, many of them children. Russia's emergency ministry said that six people are still trapped in the rubble of the smouldering Winter Cherry shopping centre in Kemerovo. Continue reading... |
| Stormy Daniels: I was told to 'leave Trump alone' in parking lot threat Posted: 25 Mar 2018 04:00 PM PDT Porn actor claiming Trump affair says she was told: 'That's a beautiful little girl. It'd be a shame if something happened to her mom' Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who alleges she had sex with Donald Trump in 2006, claimed on Sunday night that she was threatened with physical violence after she first attempted to go public with the story by a man who told her: "Leave Trump alone." Speaking to Anderson Cooper in a highly-anticipated broadcast on CBS's news magazine, 60 Minutes, Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, gave a vivid account of an encounter she said took place in a Las Vegas parking lot in 2011. Continue reading... |
| Protesters arrested in Belarus during opposition rally Posted: 25 Mar 2018 09:29 AM PDT Demonstration in Minsk was banned by Alexander Lukashenko's government Scores of people have been arrested in the Belarus capital, Minsk, as supporters of the country's repressed opposition tried to hold a protest march. The attempted demonstration was to mark the 100th anniversary of the short-lived Belarusian People's Republic of 1918-19, seen by the opposition as the foundation of an independent Belarus. Continue reading... |
| Obama wants to 'create a million young Barack Obamas' Posted: 25 Mar 2018 01:10 PM PDT The former US president said his nonprofit foundation could create 'up and coming leaders' to take on the baton of 'human progress' Barack Obama has said he would like to create "a million young Barack Obamas" to take on the baton of "human progress", during a discussion in Japan about his post-presidential life. "The single most important thing I could do is to help develop the next generation," he said. Continue reading... |
| Egypt election: polls open amid concerns over voter apathy Posted: 25 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PDT With Abdel Fatah al-Sisi assured of re-election, the campaign has focused on boosting turnout Egyptians are going to the polls on Monday in an election that is almost certain to result in victory for the president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, after all credible opponents after all credible opponents were prevented from getting on the ballot. The country's 60 million eligible voters have a choice between the incumbent and a little-known candidate who has previously expressed support for Sisi. Continue reading... |
| Unicef predicts fresh outbreak of deadly cholera in Yemen Posted: 25 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PDT Official warns disease that hit more than 1m children in 2017 will return within months Yemen is likely to be hit by another outbreak of deadly cholera within months, Unicef's Middle East director has warned on the eve of the third anniversary of the country's civil war. More than 1 million children were infected by cholera last year due to lack of access to water and vaccination. Unicef's Geert Cappelaere said one child every 10 minutes was dying from preventable diseases in Yemen. Continue reading... |
| Video shows unarmed black man before he is shot dead by Texas deputy Posted: 25 Mar 2018 01:45 PM PDT Cellphone video of sheriff's deputy fatally shooting Danny Ray Thomas shows the man wandering in a Houston street with his trousers around his ankles before officer confronts him Cellphone video of a sheriff's deputy fatally shooting an unarmed black man shows the man wandering in a Houston street with his trousers around his ankles and continuing to approach the deputy as the officer tells him to stop. The video, obtained by the Houston Chronicle from a civilian witness, does not show the actual shooting because a car passes in front of the cellphone camera as the Harris county deputy fires a single shot. Continue reading... |
| Orange snow transforms eastern Europe into 'Mars' Posted: 25 Mar 2018 05:38 PM PDT Dust and sand from storms in northern Africa carpet ski resorts in Russia and Romania Dust from a sandstorm in the Sahara desert is causing snow in eastern Europe to turn orange, transforming mountainous regions of Ukraine, Russia, Bulgaria and Romania into Mars-like landscapes. The unusual scenes are believed to be created by a mix of sand, dust and pollen particles stirred up and swept across from storms in northern Africa. According the meteorologists, the phenomenon occurs roughly every five years. Continue reading... |
| Marchers across the US united in plan for pro-gun politicians: 'Vote them out' Posted: 24 Mar 2018 04:42 PM PDT Thousands of people rallied in Washington DC and other US cities on Saturday, expressing clear outlines for action on gun reform For four minutes and 25 seconds, 18-year-old Emma Gonzalez held a crowd of hundreds of thousands in the nation's capital in near total silence. With tears rolling down her cheeks, intermittently closing her eyes, the teenager's stillness told its own story. Related: Thousands join March for Our Lives anti-gun protests around the world Continue reading... |
| Police operation in Rio favela leaves at least eight people dead Posted: 25 Mar 2018 09:01 AM PDT Allegations that some of the victims were innocent residents executed in a revenge mission after a police officer was killed there A police operation in a Rio favela has left at least eight people dead amid allegations that some of the victims were innocent residents executed in a revenge mission after a police officer was killed there this week. Police said they were attacked by drug gangsters. The bloody operation in the Rocinha favela, located near postcard beaches like Leblon, came six months after the army briefly occupied the favela following a week of gun battles between rival drug gangs, and five weeks after president Michel Temer put the military in charge of Rio security . Continue reading... |
| Trump says many lawyers and top law firms want to represent him in Russia case Posted: 25 Mar 2018 06:46 AM PDT Donald Trump: 'Don't believe the Fake News narrative that it is hard to find a lawyer who wants to take this on' Donald Trump suggested on Sunday that he was not about to hire a new lawyer to represent him in "the Russia case" following a shake-up of his legal team. And he claimed that many lawyers and "top law firms" wanted to work for him. Continue reading... |
| Dubai: British newspaper editor gets 10 years' jail for wife's murder Posted: 24 Mar 2018 11:15 PM PDT Francis Matthew, former editor of the English-language Gulf News, had faced the possibility of the death penalty over the July 2017 killing A British newspaper editor in Dubai has been was found guilty of bludgeoning his wife to death with a hammer and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Francis Matthew was not present in the Dubai Court of the First Instance for the verdict read by Judge Fahad al-Shamsi, which is common in courts in the United Arab Emirates. Continue reading... |
| Australia captain Steve Smith gets one-match ban for role in ball tampering row Posted: 25 Mar 2018 05:46 AM PDT
Steve Smith has been has been handed a one-match ban, fined 100% of his match fee by the ICC and has stood down as Australia captain for the remainder of the third Test against South Africa after admitting his team deliberately tampered with the ball. The vice captain David Warner has also stood down while Cameron Bancroft has been fined 75% of his match fee and handed three demerit points. Related: Steve Smith must go after scandal that has torched Australia's reputation Continue reading... |
| Rising from the rubble: 'If we don't rebuild Mosul, maybe Isis will come back’ Posted: 25 Mar 2018 11:00 PM PDT Months after Isis was forced out and tired of waiting for government action, volunteers have begun the urgent job of rebuilding Iraq's cities "Even if we work every day for the next six months, we still won't finish this job – we don't have enough support or equipment," says Muhammed Shaban, an officer of the Civil Defence Force in west Mosul, in the exhausted tone of someone who is unable to separate his life from his work. Shaban and his colleagues were recovering as many as 30 bodies a day in August last year, one month after the fighting ceased. More bodies still lie under the rubble along the banks of the Tigris river, where the last bloody battles were fought. "We are working with our hands and it is so hard," says Shaban. He is still waiting to be paid. Continue reading... |
| Braunau in the spotlight: Hitler's birthplace embraces inclusion Posted: 25 Mar 2018 11:00 PM PDT The house at 15 Salzburger Vorstadt still attracts tourists, but the town where Hitler was born has reinvented itself as a place that welcomes outsiders "I was travelling with Germans recently, and when they heard where I'm from, they said: 'Nothing good ever came from Braunau!'" recounts Monika Raschhofer at local paper Braunauer Warte am Inn to illustrate the pall Adolf Hitler casts over this small town on the border with Germany. Coming from Braunau means being asked, and asked, about Hitler and the house at 15 Salzburger Vorstadt, where he was born on 20 April 1889. It is 80 years this month since Hitler made the most historically important of his rare visits to Braunau, passing through as he annexed Austria in 1938. He didn't stop: his family had moved away when he was three and, with the Anschluss to take care of, he headed straight to nearby Linz, the city he considered home. Continue reading... |
| 'We share the stage': white suburban liberals and minority activists fight together for gun reform Posted: 25 Mar 2018 11:22 AM PDT For decades minority communities have pushed for regulation of the gun industry but white liberal allies have rarely shown up to fight with them. The Parkland students have made a concerted effort to close the 'empathy gap' There is no national day of protest marking the death of Edna Chavez's brother. Like the teenagers killed in Parkland, Florida, last month, he was a high school student when he was shot. "It was a day like any other day, sunset going down on South Central," Chavez, 17, told a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people at the March for Our Lives in Washington on Saturday. "You hear pops, thinking they're fireworks. They weren't pops. You see the melanin on your brother's skin turn gray." Continue reading... |
| Brexit whistleblower: No 10 official outed me to distract from claims Posted: 26 Mar 2018 02:01 AM PDT Shahmir Sanni says he has endured one of the 'most awful weekends' of his life after being outed by former Vote Leave official A whistleblower claims he was outed as gay by a Downing Street official in an attempt to distract attention from allegations he made that Vote Leave may have breached referendum spending rules. Shahmir Sanni says he has endured one of the "most awful weekends" of his life after telling the Observer how Vote Leave channelled money through BeLeave, a group linked to Cambridge Analytica, to get around electoral law. Continue reading... |
| Yemen is entering its fourth year of war – when will the suffering end? | Hind Abbas Posted: 26 Mar 2018 02:09 AM PDT With millions displaced and disease rife, the human cost is already incalculable. The international community must act In three years, so many things can happen in a person's life. A child will start going to nursery, a student can get a bachelor's degree. In three years, someone can meet the love of their life and get married; someone can start a business and succeed. Imagine what change can happen to a country that is considered the poorest in the Middle East and exhausted by war. The day that changed the lives of millions of Yemenis was 26 March 2015, when, within three hours, the sky filled with aircraft. People were shocked by what was happening, hoping that when the sun next rose, this would just have been a bad dream. They thought it would only last for a couple of days, but sadly three days passed and there was still war; three weeks passed and there was still war; three months passed and there was still war; and, today, three years will have passed, yet the situation keeps deteriorating. Continue reading... |
| Stormy Daniels: "A guy walked up on me and said, 'Leave Trump alone.'" – video Posted: 25 Mar 2018 11:56 PM PDT Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who alleges she had sex with Donald Trump in 2006, claimed on Sunday night that she was threatened with physical violence after she first attempted to go public with the story by a man who told her: 'Leave Trump alone.' Speaking to Anderson Cooper in a highly anticipated broadcast on CBS's news magazine, 60 Minutes, Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, gave a vivid account of an encounter she said took place in a Las Vegas parking lot in 2011. At the time, she had recently arranged for the story of her sexual encounter with Trump to be told by In Touch magazine for $15,000, though the publication was stalling because Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, had threatened to sue, she said. Daniels was on her way to a fitness class with her infant daughter when she said she was accosted. It was at that point that the alleged threat was made, according to her account. Stormy Daniels: I was told to 'leave Trump alone' in parking lot threat Continue reading... |
| Uber to sell south-east Asia business to competitor Grab Posted: 25 Mar 2018 09:52 PM PDT US ride-hailing firm will take 27.5% stake in Asia-based Grab and its CEO will join Grab's board Ride-hailing firm Uber has agreed to sell its south-east Asian business to bigger regional rival Grab, marking the US company's second retreat from an Asian market. The deal is the industry's first big consolidation in south-east Asia, home to about 640 million people, and puts pressure on Indonesia's Go-Jek, which is backed by Alphabet's Google and China's Tencent. Continue reading... |
| NT police investigate alleged sexual assault of four-year-old boy near Tennant Creek Posted: 26 Mar 2018 02:19 AM PDT Incident allegedly took place in remote community near Tennant Creek, where two-year-old was allegedly raped last month Northern Territory police are investigating the alleged sexual assault of another young child in an outback community, just weeks after the alleged rape of a two-year-old prompted emergency measures to bring alcohol-fuelled violence under control. Officers from the child abuse taskforce are investigating the alleged incident in a Barkly region remote community, and have a youth in custody. Continue reading... |
| 'Why we’re paying the rent for a million Syrian refugees' Posted: 25 Mar 2018 11:00 PM PDT European cash assistance schemes are helping Turkey manage millions of refugees. In return, the country is expected to stop migrants coming west. But the deal is too one-sided, say the Turkish authorities At a supermarket in Gaziantep, Huda is shopping for eggs, rice and bread to feed her four children. She is using the money left over after paying the rent. A Syrian refugee in Turkey, she no longer has to queue for food handouts or at soup kitchens. Huda now has her own debit card loaded with funds as part of a European-funded unconditional cash transfer programme. Continue reading... |
| Forget policies, the Stormy Daniels affair shows how far US politics has sunk Posted: 25 Mar 2018 06:46 PM PDT As the porn star's allegations show, discourse in Washington is shifting to something more tawdry and celebrity-oriented On Sunday night, Stephanie Clifford, the porn star known as Stormy Daniels, gave a bombshell interview on 60 Minutes about her sexual encounter with Donald Trump and his attempts to keep her from speaking out about their relationship. The most shocking part was not her claim she was threatened with physical violence or some of the sordid details she shared. Instead, it was simply that it all seemed relatively normal. Related: The poison in politics runs deeper than dodgy data | Gary Younge Continue reading... |
| #MeToo is not just a debate, or a whinge. It’s a reality | Sarah Blasko Posted: 25 Mar 2018 06:33 PM PDT Now Australia is a new campaign to stop sexual harassment. Here, the Aria-award winning musician writes about why she got involved On a couple of occasions, it has become clear to me that the #MeToo movement has been misinterpreted by many – and, in turn, been taken down a different path of discussion entirely. Recently some men I know were talking, within earshot, about how the debate had "gotten out of hand". In a hushed conversation, they commented on how they thought women should express themselves better on the matter. They had interpreted the movement as some kind of "man-hating" exercise, utilised by women as an opportunity to complain about them. The discussion had clearly become personal to them. Continue reading... |
| Aerial view of deadly Siberian shopping mall fire - video Posted: 26 Mar 2018 12:29 AM PDT A fire at a shopping centre in the Siberian city of Kemerovo has left at least 53 people dead, many of them children. The fire broke out at the Winter Cherry shopping centre on a busy Sunday afternoon and quickly engulfed the top floor of the building, spreading through a children's ice-skating rink, play centre and a two-screen cinema. Russian emergency workers were still recovering bodies a day after the fire and searching for more than a dozen people still reported missing. It is still unclear what caused the fire.
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