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- Mark Zuckerberg agrees to testify before Congress over data scandal
- Girlfriend of French supermarket killer held for terrorist conspiracy
- Amazon priest who championed land rights for Brazil's poor is arrested
- New York to lead states in suing over citizenship question on census
- Cricket Australia sends Smith, Warner and Bancroft home as Lehmann stays
- China and Russia accused of waging 'war on human rights' at UN
- Lost Amazon villages uncovered by archaeologists
- Alton Sterling shooting: two police officers will not be charged with any crime
- White House investigating $500m loans to Kushner family firm – ethics chief
- EasyJet announces Berlin expansion and new long-haul link-ups
- Italian man cleared of aubergine theft after nine-year legal battle
- Spanish spies 'tracked Carles Puigdemont via friend's phone'
- Kim Jong-un and the mystery of the 'special green train' in China
- Final chapter? The slow death of Islamabad's secondhand bookshops
- Sergei and Yulia Skripal have slim chance of survival, says niece
- France holds state funeral for police hero of Trèbes siege
- Mordechai Vanunu gets 18 years for treason – archive, 28 March 1988
- Trump to end special legal status for Liberian immigrants
- Donald Trump floats using military budget to pay for border wall
- Brazil faces new yellow fever outbreak – and questions over lack of preparedness
- Kim Jong-un's visit to China fails to hide strain in relations
- Matt Canavan castigates fossil fuel opponents for using 'highly objectionable' term 'just transition'
- Block like an Egyptian: roller derby team get women's rights on track – Small Changes podcast
- Afghan clerics in talks with Isis to break polio vaccine myths
- Full steam ahead at the Indian train station run only by women – in pictures
- New Zealand's claim it has no Russian spies is perplexing. Why is it isolating itself?
- North Korea's Kim Jong-un meets with China's Xi Jinping - video
- Siberian mall fire: CCTV shows fire erupting – video
| Mark Zuckerberg agrees to testify before Congress over data scandal Posted: 27 Mar 2018 02:51 PM PDT Calls for CEO to appear reach fever pitch after Cambridge Analytica reports, paving way for showdown over Facebook accountability Facebook's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, has agreed to testify before the United States Congress in the wake of a data harvesting scandal that has sent the company's share price tumbling and prompted numerous investigations and lawsuits. Zuckerberg has accepted an invitation to testify before the House energy and commerce committee, according to an aide familiar with the discussions. A date has not yet been set, and the spokesperson for the House committee declined to confirm reports that the hearing was scheduled for 12 April. Continue reading... |
| Girlfriend of French supermarket killer held for terrorist conspiracy Posted: 27 Mar 2018 02:42 PM PDT Police investigating 18-year-old, known as Marine, who had been on a terrorism watchlist The 18-year-old girlfriend of a gunman who claimed allegiance to Islamic State before killing four in a shooting spree and supermarket hostage-taking in southern France has been placed under formal investigation for terrorist conspiracy. The woman, named in the media as Marine, appeared before judges on Monday, and is under investigation for conspiring with terrorists with a view to carrying out attacks. She remains in temporary police custody. |
| Amazon priest who championed land rights for Brazil's poor is arrested Posted: 27 Mar 2018 03:40 PM PDT
Brazilian police have arrested a priest in the Amazon who championed the rights of smallholders against powerful agricultural interests. Father Amaro Lopes is the best-known follower of the American-born nun, Dorothy Stang, who was murdered in 2005 in a killing orchestrated by landowners during a dispute that continues today. Continue reading... |
| New York to lead states in suing over citizenship question on census Posted: 27 Mar 2018 01:15 PM PDT Coalition of Democratic states files lawsuit against the Trump administration over question said to 'frighten minority groups' New York will lead a coalition of Democratic states in a lawsuit against the Trump administration over a decision to include a citizenship question on the 2020 US census. Related: Michael Cohen: Who is Trump's pugnacious and loyal lawyer? Continue reading... |
| Cricket Australia sends Smith, Warner and Bancroft home as Lehmann stays Posted: 27 Mar 2018 10:41 AM PDT • The three main players in the ball-tampering affair are sent home Darren Lehmann will remain as Australia head coach after the investigation into ball-tampering during the recent Cape Town Test concluded that just three players from the entire set-up were involved. Steve Smith, the Australia captain, his deputy David Warner and batsman Cameron Bancroft have all been sent home in disgrace and told to expect "significant sanctions" in the next 24 hours for their roles in the plot in which the latter was caught scuffing the ball with a piece of grit-covered sticky-tape. All three have been charged with "conduct contrary to the spirit of the game" and are expected to be face lengthy suspensions, with Smith and Warner also likely to be stripped of their leadership roles when the punishment is announced. Continue reading... |
| China and Russia accused of waging 'war on human rights' at UN Posted: 27 Mar 2018 10:31 AM PDT The two countries lobbied to cut funding for human rights monitors and for a senior post dedicated to human rights work China and Russia are leading a stealthy and increasingly successful effort at the United Nations to weaken UN efforts to protect human rights around the world, according to diplomats and activists. The two countries have used the UN budget panel, known as the fifth committee, to cut funding for human rights monitors and for a senior post in the secretary general's office which is supposed to ensure that human rights – one of three pillars of the UN's function – are not forgotten in its day-to-day work. Continue reading... |
| Lost Amazon villages uncovered by archaeologists Posted: 27 Mar 2018 08:51 AM PDT 81 settlements have been found in an area once thought to have been near-uninhabited, and research suggests there were hundreds more Once people thought the Amazon was a near-uninhabited rainforest before the Europeans turned up, but researchers say they have found new evidence that it was in fact a hive of human activity and home to millions of people. A new study has revealed details of 81 sites in the previously uncharted territory of the Amazon's upper Tapajós Basin, with settlements ranging from small villages just 30m wide to a large site covering 19 hectares. Continue reading... |
| Alton Sterling shooting: two police officers will not be charged with any crime Posted: 27 Mar 2018 10:41 AM PDT Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake II won't be charged for incident that occured in July of 2016 that sparked unrest throughout Baton Rouge The two police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Alton Sterling in July 2016 in Baton Rouge will not be charged with any crime, the Louisiana attorney general announced on Tuesday. Prior to the decision, police were already preparing for city-wide protests in response. "After a thorough and exhaustive review of the evidence ... the Louisiana Department of Justice cannot proceed with a prosecution of either officer," said Jeff Landry at a morning press conference, after meeting members of Sterling's family privately. Continue reading... |
| White House investigating $500m loans to Kushner family firm – ethics chief Posted: 27 Mar 2018 08:08 AM PDT David Apol of the Office of Government Ethics says officials looking to find out if loans may have spurred ethics or criminal law violations White House officials have been looking into whether $500m in loans that went to Jared Kushner's family real estate company may have spurred ethics or criminal law violations, according to the head of the federal government's ethics agency. Related: Jared Kushner's company faces inquiry over false building permits Continue reading... |
| EasyJet announces Berlin expansion and new long-haul link-ups Posted: 27 Mar 2018 09:07 AM PDT Airline in talks with other carriers to allow booking of more connecting flights EasyJet Europe, the sister airline set up to preserve easyJet after Brexit, has accelerated its growth by announcing rapid expansion in Berlin and new long-haul connections at Paris and Amsterdam. The easyJet chief executive, Johan Lundgren, said: "There's no doubt that the growth potential is in Europe. The UK will always be a critical market, but we have more to go at in the European mainland." |
| Italian man cleared of aubergine theft after nine-year legal battle Posted: 27 Mar 2018 07:52 AM PDT Italy's highest appeal court acquits man originally jailed for five months after legal wrangle that cost at least €7,000 An Italian man has finally been acquitted of stealing an aubergine nine years after being charged, ending a legal wrangle that cost taxpayers thousands. The man, then 49, had the aubergine in his bucket when police caught him trying to escape through a privately owned field near Lecce, in the southern region of Puglia, in 2009. Continue reading... |
| Spanish spies 'tracked Carles Puigdemont via friend's phone' Posted: 27 Mar 2018 04:30 AM PDT Intelligence agents tracked movements of former Catalan president before he was detained in Germany, according to reports Spanish intelligence agents had been tracking the movements of the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont using the geolocation service on his friend's mobile phone before he was detained in Germany at the weekend, according to reports. Puigdemont was detained under a European arrest warrant in the northern German province of Schleswig-Holstein on Sunday morning as he journeyed by car from Helsinki to Brussels, where he has been living in self-imposed exile since Catalonia's unilateral declaration of independence last October. Continue reading... |
| Kim Jong-un and the mystery of the 'special green train' in China Posted: 27 Mar 2018 04:37 AM PDT Distinctive train looks similar to one used by North Korean leader's late father, prompting speculation of visit A green and yellow train has set off a firestorm of speculation as to whether the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has been in China on his first trip abroad. The visit, which would be Kim's first to China since taking power in 2011, comes before historic meetings with his counterparts in South Korea and the US, expected to take place later this year. Continue reading... |
| Final chapter? The slow death of Islamabad's secondhand bookshops Posted: 27 Mar 2018 11:00 PM PDT Since the 1970s, 'old bookshops' have lent character to Pakistan's capital. But as the city's economy surges, how long can they survive? Nadeem Ahmad Siddiqui is holding court with a group of friends and regulars at his Islamabad bookshop, Jumbo. The jovial chatter and tea drinking is broken up every so often by a customer seeking Siddiqui's help. One child is gently admonished to find something more stimulating to read, while a question about medical textbooks from a mother and daughter soon turns into an animated discussion about India-Pakistan relations. Tucked away in the corner of a busy commercial sector, unassuming Jumbo Books has iconic status among Islamabad's "old bookshops", as secondhand book stores are known here. Once the nondescript doorway is located among the swanky new restaurants and fashion boutiques of Pakistan's capital, the visitor takes a staircase down to a concrete basement. Inside are shelves piled high with rare antique books, philosophical tomes and contemporary literature. Continue reading... |
| Sergei and Yulia Skripal have slim chance of survival, says niece Posted: 28 Mar 2018 01:31 AM PDT Viktoria Skripal not hopeful about former Russian spy and daughter in nerve agent attack The niece of the poisoned former Russian spy Sergei Skripal has said he and his daughter Yulia have only a slim chance of surviving. Viktoria Skripal said the prognosis for both "really isn't good" following the novichok nerve agent attack in Salisbury, Wiltshire, on 4 March. Continue reading... |
| France holds state funeral for police hero of Trèbes siege Posted: 28 Mar 2018 01:50 AM PDT Arnaud Beltrame's coffin escorted through Paris on national day of mourning The French police officer who died saving hostages' lives at a supermarket siege last week is being honoured with a state funeral with full military honours on Wednesday on what has been declared a national day of mourning. Arnaud Beltrame was killed after volunteering to swap places with hostages being held by gunman Radouane Lakdim at a supermarket at Trèbes near Carcassonne on Friday. Continue reading... |
| Mordechai Vanunu gets 18 years for treason – archive, 28 March 1988 Posted: 27 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PDT 28 March 1988: Vanunu gave the Sunday Times details of his eight years employment at a top-secret nuclear research centre in Israel Mordechai Vanunu, the former technician convicted last week of treason and espionage for revealing the secrets of Israel's nuclear arsenal to a British newspaper, was yesterday sentenced to 18 years in prison. The three judges in the Jerusalem district court said in passing sentence that they had taken into consideration Vanunu's solitary confinement in prison and his co-operation with the authorities. Continue reading... |
| Trump to end special legal status for Liberian immigrants Posted: 27 Mar 2018 03:32 PM PDT
Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered an end to special legal status for certain immigrants from Liberia, thousands of whom escaped the violence of war and have lived in the United States for decades. They will now face the prospect of deportation, with the law that will end their protection coming into effect next year. The president cited improved conditions in the west African country. Continue reading... |
| Donald Trump floats using military budget to pay for border wall Posted: 27 Mar 2018 11:37 PM PDT The president raised the idea in a meeting with House speaker Paul Ryan last week, according to a source familiar with the discussion Donald Trump is floating the idea of using the military's budget to pay for his long-promised border wall with Mexico. Continue reading... |
| Brazil faces new yellow fever outbreak – and questions over lack of preparedness Posted: 28 Mar 2018 12:00 AM PDT The country plans to vaccinate its entire population against the lethal mosquito-borne disease but specialists doubt its capacity to do so As it struggles to control its second deadly yellow fever outbreak in consecutive years, Brazil's government has said it will vaccinate everyone in this continent-sized country who is not already protected – which means giving injections to 77 million people by the end of 2019. But although Brazil already recommends yellow fever vaccines in many areas of 23 of its 27 states, it has not been able to deliver on those recommendations, leaving many unprotected. Continue reading... |
| Kim Jong-un's visit to China fails to hide strain in relations Posted: 28 Mar 2018 01:40 AM PDT Kim and his wife were treated to a banquet, a performance and a lesson in Chinese tea culture When the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, and his wife, Ri Sol-ju, visited Beijing this week they were treated to a banquet at the stately Great Hall of the People, a performance, and a lesson in Chinese tea culture, given by the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, and his wife, Peng Liyuan. The event was "overflowing with a harmonious and intimate atmosphere from its beginning to the end", North Korea's state news agency, KCNA, breathlessly reported. The pageantry of Kim's surprise visit to Beijing, confirmed only after he left China on Wednesday, obscures a strained relationship between the two long-time communist allies. China's state news agency, Xinhua, was careful to describe the visit as "unofficial". |
| Posted: 28 Mar 2018 12:12 AM PDT Resources minister tells press club references to transition are really about job destruction Matt Canavan has backed greater exploitation of resources such as an expansion in oil and gas drilling, including in the Great Australian Bight, and land-clearing to develop agriculture in northern Australia. At the National Press Club on Wednesday, the resources and northern Australia minister gave an at-times fiery defence of coal, lashing opponents of burning fossil fuels for using the "highly objectionable" term of "just transition", which he said was a euphemism for destruction of jobs. Continue reading... |
| Block like an Egyptian: roller derby team get women's rights on track – Small Changes podcast Posted: 27 Mar 2018 11:00 PM PDT Lucy Lamble talks to Angie Kaster, co-founder of Egypt's first roller derby team – the all-female CaiRollers – about how this brutal contact sport is empowering local women Acast, Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Mixcloud, Audioboom. Join the discussion on Facebook and Twitter and email us at podcasts@theguardian.com Fresh from the protests of the 2011 revolution, a group of women came together to form the CaiRollers team. Early on, getting used to breaking cultural taboos in this combative sport – "Knock me over, it's fine!" – was one of the biggest challenges, but the squad has gone from strength to strength. This year they took on Abu Dhabi's team in the first roller derby in the Gulf. Lucy Lamble hears from Angie Kaster, an ex-London Rollergirl, about how this intensely physical sport builds players' confidence both on and off the track. Continue reading... |
| Afghan clerics in talks with Isis to break polio vaccine myths Posted: 27 Mar 2018 04:36 AM PDT Islamic clerics consult with Taliban and Islamic State to ensure immunisation campaign goes ahead despite scepticism and distrust Islamic clerics have agreed to work with the Afghan government to persuade militant groups in the country that vaccination programmes should be allowed in remote areas. Imans are to consult with the Taliban, Islamic State and other factions in the mountainous Kunar province in a bid to get efforts to eradicate polio back on track, after six new cases were reported in Afghanistan this year. Continue reading... |
| Full steam ahead at the Indian train station run only by women – in pictures Posted: 27 Mar 2018 03:13 AM PDT In a country where women are quitting the workforce at an alarming rate, the all-female staff of Gandhinagar railway station in Jaipur are bucking the trend. Employed as ticket-sellers, station masters and conductors, the women say they hope to inspire a generation of girls passing through the station All photographs by Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty Images Continue reading... |
| New Zealand's claim it has no Russian spies is perplexing. Why is it isolating itself? Posted: 27 Mar 2018 09:50 PM PDT Jacinda Ardern's refusal to join international action against Russia could be an attempt to stake out independent credentials, but there is little to be gained The New Zealand Labour government's refusal to join international collective action against Russia over the nerve agent attack in the UK on former spy Sergei Skripal is perplexing. The 26-nation solidarity coalition expelling Russian diplomats and intelligence officers from their soil includes all of New Zealand's major security partners as well as important trade counterparts. Continue reading... |
| North Korea's Kim Jong-un meets with China's Xi Jinping - video Posted: 28 Mar 2018 01:25 AM PDT North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, made a surprise visit to Beijing during which he met the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, and pledged his commitment to denuclearising the Korean peninsula. Continue reading... |
| Siberian mall fire: CCTV shows fire erupting – video Posted: 27 Mar 2018 03:16 AM PDT At least 64 people have died after a fire broke out at a shopping centre in Kemerovo, Siberia. CCTV footage shows the moment the blaze began, causing people to run for safety Continue reading... |
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