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- Fire in cells of Venezuelan police station kills 68
- French police seek driver who tried to run down soldiers in Alps
- Malala Yousafzai makes tearful return to Pakistan for first time since Taliban shooting
- Trump lawyer discussed presidential pardons for Flynn and Manafort – report
- Beach from Leonardo DiCaprio film to temporarily close due to tourist damage
- Mexican police officers found guilty of murdering journalist in rare conviction
- Mireille Knoll: marches held in France after suspected antisemitic killing
- Russia will hit back against countries expelling diplomats, says Johnson
- Australian military says allegations it killed civilians in Iraq are credible
- Orbán's opponents target Hungarian voters living in Britain
- Google sees major claims of harassment and discrimination as lawsuits proceed
- Ireland sets May date for historic abortion referendum
- Pope will not apologize for abuse in Canada's indigenous schools
- 'Gentrification without displacement': Wire actor's property plan causes storm
- Exclusive: Arizona governor and Uber kept self-driving program secret, emails reveal
- Ex-Parole Board chief criticises justice ministry over Worboys case
- Fourth plinth review – 'My heart is in my mouth'
- South African woman jailed in landmark ruling for racist rant
- Trump tweets misleading photos suggesting border wall under way
- What the tourists did to paradise – in pictures
- George Pell hearing: police quizzed on why they didn't ask for diary
- Young lives hang by a thread as past haunts Rohingya mothers
- Watchdog warns £1.2bn aid fund leaves UK at risk over human rights abuses
- Saudi women strive to bring male guardians to a Twitter end
- Displaced Ukrainians and Battle Against Stigma – in pictures
| Fire in cells of Venezuelan police station kills 68 Posted: 29 Mar 2018 02:05 AM PDT Relatives of detainees fight with police outside station in Valencia as details are slow to emerge Distraught families gathered outside a police station in Venezuela demanding information after a fire in the cells killed 68 people. Relatives of detainees fought with police outside the facility in Valencia, in Carabobo state, after local officials would confirm only that there had been fatalities in Wednesday's fire. Officers used teargas to disperse the crowd. Continue reading... |
| French police seek driver who tried to run down soldiers in Alps Posted: 29 Mar 2018 02:20 AM PDT Hunt for man who appeared to ram vehicle into troops jogging outside base in French Alps Police are searching for a driver who appeared to ram his vehicle into soldiers jogging outside their base in the French Alps, the army has said. The man first threatened a group of soldiers who were out jogging at about 8am in Varces-Allieres-et-Risset, near Grenoble, and later tried to run down another group of soldiers returning from a jog, army spokesman Colonel Benoit Brulon told AFP. |
| Malala Yousafzai makes tearful return to Pakistan for first time since Taliban shooting Posted: 29 Mar 2018 02:26 AM PDT Nobel peace prize recipient meets prime minister Abbasi and delivers address on national TV The Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai has returned to Pakistan, in her first visit to her native country since she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman for advocating education for girls in 2012. Precise details of her itinerary have been "kept secret in view of the sensitivity surrounding the visit", a government official said of the trip, which is expected to last four days and include a meeting with the prime minister, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. Continue reading... |
| Trump lawyer discussed presidential pardons for Flynn and Manafort – report Posted: 28 Mar 2018 12:35 PM PDT White House denies New York Times report that possibility of pardons was raised as Mueller built case against Trump aides One of Donald Trump's lawyers discussed the possibility of presidential pardons for two former aides as the special counsel Robert Mueller built cases against them in his investigation into Russian election meddling, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. Related: Mueller reveals Manafort and Gates associate had Russian intelligence ties Continue reading... |
| Beach from Leonardo DiCaprio film to temporarily close due to tourist damage Posted: 28 Mar 2018 01:26 PM PDT Maya Bay, on Koh Phi Phi Leh, will be shut down by Thai authorities for four months to help recover damaged coral reefs and sea life Authorities in Thailand have ordered the temporary closing of the beach made famous by the Leonardo DiCaprio movie The Beach to halt environmental damage caused by too many tourists. Maya Bay, on the island of Koh Phi Phi Leh in the Andaman Sea, will be closed to all visitors for four months annually starting this June to allow for the recovery of the island's battered coral reefs and sea life. The decision to keep visitors away was made on Wednesday by Thailand's national parks and wildlife department. Continue reading... |
| Mexican police officers found guilty of murdering journalist in rare conviction Posted: 28 Mar 2018 12:41 PM PDT Two officers sentenced to 25 years in prison after being convicted in the killing of newspaper owner Moisés Sánchez in Veracruz Two police officers have been sentenced to 25 years in prison for the murder of a Mexican journalist, marking a rare conviction in a country where crimes committed against media members almost always remain in the realm of impunity. The police officers, identified as Luigui Heriberto N and José Francisco N, were convicted of killing newspaper owner Moisés Sánchez in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz, the most lethal jurisdiction for journalists in the hemisphere. Continue reading... |
| Mireille Knoll: marches held in France after suspected antisemitic killing Posted: 28 Mar 2018 11:36 AM PDT Elderly woman who survived the notorious Vel d'Hiv roundup was attacked in her flat in Paris Silent marches are taking place in Paris and other large French cities in memory of an 85-year-old woman who survived the Holocaust but was stabbed to death last week, in what is being investigated as an antisemitic attack. Related: Police treat killing of elderly woman in Paris as antisemitic attack Continue reading... |
| Russia will hit back against countries expelling diplomats, says Johnson Posted: 28 Mar 2018 01:30 PM PDT Foreign secretary warns of possible disruption to energy supplies or harassment of diplomatic missions in Moscow Boris Johnson, the British foreign secretary, has predicted Russia will retaliate against countries that have acted in solidarity with the UK over the poisoning of Russian spy Sergei Skripal, suggesting Moscow may interfere with energy supplies, or disrupt the lives of their Moscow-based diplomats and their families. Hailing the courage of the 27 countries that had backed Britain by taking action against Russia, he said their show of solidarity had crystallised a collective feeling across three continents that patience with Russia's malign behaviour had come to an end. Continue reading... |
| Australian military says allegations it killed civilians in Iraq are credible Posted: 28 Mar 2018 01:46 PM PDT Defence force makes statement before report by US-led coalition fighting Islamic State The Australian defence force says allegations that an air force bomb in Mosul, Iraq, killed civilians are "credible". The Australian Super Hornet air strike last year is said to have killed two civilian adults and injured two children when it bombed a terrace house in west Mosul. Continue reading... |
| Orbán's opponents target Hungarian voters living in Britain Posted: 27 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PDT Opposition candidates trying to drum up vote against far-right leader in run-up to election With Hungary's Viktor Orbán on course to win a third term in office on 8 April, opposition politicians and grassroots activists are mounting a late push to mobilise an untapped source of potential protest votes against the far-right leader: Hungarians living in Britain. Two leading opposition candidates have visited the UK in recent weeks, and a group of Hungarians living in London has started a crowdfunding campaign to buy social media advertisements persuading Hungarians to register to vote. |
| Google sees major claims of harassment and discrimination as lawsuits proceed Posted: 28 Mar 2018 01:04 PM PDT Two lawsuits by female employees, alleging company underpays women and that 'bro-culture' enabled daily harassment, move ahead California courts have allowed female Google employees to move forward with two major lawsuits alleging patterns of sexual harassment and pay disparities, which civil rights attorneys say could uncover "widespread" discrimination at the tech company. A San Francisco judge has approved a class-action complaint alleging that the Silicon Valley corporation systematically underpays women in engineering, management, sales and education, meaning Google will have to publicly respond to claims that thousands of women have been denied proper compensation. Continue reading... |
| Ireland sets May date for historic abortion referendum Posted: 28 Mar 2018 10:17 AM PDT Vote on 25 May will offer citizens opportunity to overhaul one of world's strictest regimes Ireland will vote in a referendum on 25 May on liberalising its strict abortion laws, the government has confirmed, in an announcement that officially begins two months of campaigning. Abortion has long been a divisive issue in the once stridently Catholic country. A complete ban was only lifted in 2013, when terminations were allowed in cases where the mother's life was in danger. Continue reading... |
| Pope will not apologize for abuse in Canada's indigenous schools Posted: 28 Mar 2018 11:08 AM PDT Schools largely run by Catholic church took 150,000 First Nations, Inuit and Métis children away from families and force them to convert Pope Francis will not apologize to survivors of Canada's Indian residential schools for the role the Roman Catholic church played in operating the institutions or the abuses suffered there. Some 150,000 First Nations, Inuit and Métis children were taken from their families over much of the last century and put in the schools, where they were forced to convert to Christianity and not allowed to speak their native languages. Many were beaten and verbally and sexually abused, and up to 6,000 are said to have died. Almost two-thirds of the 130 schools were run by the Catholic church. Continue reading... |
| 'Gentrification without displacement': Wire actor's property plan causes storm Posted: 28 Mar 2018 04:00 AM PDT Wendell Pierce says his $20m apartment complex, which includes a cafe and and art gallery, will 'bring value' to the citizens of Baltimore Earlier this month Wendell Pierce, who played detective William "Bunk" Moreland in the seminal HBO television series The Wire, tweeted his excitement about a new block of Baltimore apartments in which he is a major investor. Arguing that the Nelson Kohl building would bring gentrification without displacement, he celebrated its ribbon-cutting next month as a new step in the city's development. He also touted the $20m (£14.1m), privately funded project as the new economic engine of the city's Station North neighbourhood. "Economic Development is the Social Justice Movement of the 21st Century. Development generates revenue," he tweeted. Continue reading... |
| Exclusive: Arizona governor and Uber kept self-driving program secret, emails reveal Posted: 28 Mar 2018 11:36 AM PDT A cozy relationship with governor Doug Ducey enabled an autonomous program with limited expert oversight – but governor denies it was 'secret' Arizona's Republican governor repeatedly encouraged Uber's controversial experiment with autonomous cars in the state, enabling a secret testing program for self-driving vehicles with limited oversight from experts, according to hundreds of emails obtained by the Guardian. The previously unseen emails between Uber and the office of governor Doug Ducey reveal how Uber began quietly testing self-driving cars in Phoenix in August 2016 without informing the public. Continue reading... |
| Ex-Parole Board chief criticises justice ministry over Worboys case Posted: 29 Mar 2018 01:40 AM PDT Nick Hardwick says minister has failed to take his department's share of responsibility The former head of the Parole Board, who was forced out over the quashed decision to release the rapist John Worboys, has said the justice secretary, David Gauke, has failed to take his department's share of responsibility for failings in the case. Nick Hardwick, who was forced to resign by Gauke, said three high court judges had made it clear that a dossier of evidence supplied by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to the Parole Board panel considering Worboys' release did not contain sufficient detail on Worboys' alleged broader offending. Continue reading... |
| Fourth plinth review – 'My heart is in my mouth' Posted: 28 Mar 2018 08:55 AM PDT Trafalgar Square, London Michael Rakowitz's new work for the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square shimmers, even in the rain and under a leaden sky. A life-sized copy of the winged god that stood at the Nergal Gate of Nineveh from 700 BC until its destruction by Islamic State in 2015, Rakowitz's replica in London recalls what has been lost and makes it new. Its scale perfectly matches the proportions of the empty fourth plinth. Riveted together from 10,500 empty Iraqi date-syrup cans, the relief sculpture has a disconcerting exactitude, with its polychrome wing on one side, the sheer gold wall and cuneiform inscription on the other, the god's implacable face, its ruinous majesty. Related: Winged bull made of syrup cans unveiled on fourth plinth Continue reading... |
| South African woman jailed in landmark ruling for racist rant Posted: 28 Mar 2018 09:28 AM PDT Vicki Momberg sentenced to three years, with one year suspended, for directing offensive slurs at police officer A white woman has been jailed in South Africa for yelling racist abuse at a black police officer, in a case that laid bare attitudes that endure more than two decades after the end of apartheid. In a ruling that lawyers believed to be the first prison term imposed in South Africa for verbal racial abuse, estate agent Vicki Momberg was sentenced to three years, with one year suspended, for directing offensive slurs at the officer. Previously people convicted of the same crime have been fined. Continue reading... |
| Trump tweets misleading photos suggesting border wall under way Posted: 28 Mar 2018 05:04 PM PDT Images show fence replacement work undertaken before Congress refused to fully fund wall's construction Donald Trump has tweeted pictures of cranes replacing barrier fence along the Mexican border, suggesting his proposed 2,000-mile "wall" was under way. But the pictures in fact show local work on only a two-mile stretch of barrier undertaken last month – before Congress refused to fully fund Trump's wall in a budget deal he signed recently. Continue reading... |
| What the tourists did to paradise – in pictures Posted: 29 Mar 2018 01:56 AM PDT Thomas Egli's parents honeymooned on Gili Trawangan, a beautiful island in the Indonesian archipelago. Three decades later, the Swiss photographer went to see it for himself – and found it buckling under the weight of tourism Continue reading... |
| George Pell hearing: police quizzed on why they didn't ask for diary Posted: 28 Mar 2018 10:38 PM PDT Detective says police did not seek out Pell's diary records or archival information on his movements in relation to alleged event The committal hearing into sexual offence allegations against Cardinal George Pell has concluded, with senior detectives saying they did not ask Pell for his diary records nor approach St Patrick's Cathedral for archival information about his movements. On Thursday Det Chris Reed was cross-examined by Pell's defence barrister, Robert Richter QC. Richter pressed Reed on events alleged to have occurred at Melbourne's St Patrick's Cathedral in 1996 after Sunday mass while Pell was dressed in his robes. Richter said a review of a church newspaper as well as church records revealed Pell only gave mass at the church on two dates in 1996, both in December and after he became Archbishop of Melbourne. Continue reading... |
| Young lives hang by a thread as past haunts Rohingya mothers Posted: 28 Mar 2018 11:00 PM PDT Still traumatised after fleeing violence in Myanmar, Nazima Begum is struggling to breastfeed her seven-month-old son. Her story is all too common among the hundreds of thousands of women who have taken refuge in Bangladesh Nazima Begum watches as a strip of paper with green, yellow and red bands is placed around her baby's upper arm. If the circumference falls in the green zone, that's good. If it falls in the red, it's dangerous. Her seven-month-old son, Ataur Rahman, is firmly in the danger zone. The circumference of his arm is 85mm. Anything below 110mm indicates severe malnourishment and risk of death. He weighs 4.2kg and is just over 60cm in length. The World Health Organization estimates the average weight and height for a seven-month-old boy is 8kg and 69cm. |
| Watchdog warns £1.2bn aid fund leaves UK at risk over human rights abuses Posted: 28 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PDT Aid commission says failure to scrutinise human rights records means conflict, security and stability fund may support abusive regimes The British government's flagship programme to support global security, peace building and conflict transition has been criticised for serious shortcomings in the way it operates, including the risk that it could be working with "human rights abusers". The conflict, security and stability fund – which has a current budget of £1.2bn, and operates in about 70 countries – was set up under the auspices of several key government departments, including the Foreign Office and the Department for International Development, to work in countries with strong British interests where there is a risk of conflict or instability. Continue reading... |
| Saudi women strive to bring male guardians to a Twitter end Posted: 28 Mar 2018 02:30 AM PDT Millions of women embrace social network to push for social reforms including abolition of system of male dominion Women in Saudi Arabia are riding a "Twitter wave" of activism that they hope will lead to the abolition of a legal guardianship system that gives men authority over their lives. There has been an "explosion of advocacy" on Twitter over the past two years, say the authors of a report – the first of its kind produced by Saudi women – documenting how women in the kingdom have been fighting for their rights since 1990. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Displaced Ukrainians and Battle Against Stigma – in pictures Posted: 28 Mar 2018 11:00 PM PDT Displaced Ukrainians and Battle Against Stigma, two series by Mark Neville, focus on the impact that post-traumatic stress disorder has on people who experience conflict. After spending three months embedded with troops in Helmand province, Afghanistan, Neville returned home suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. In Ukraine, he observed how the civil war affected children in the Donbass region.
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