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- Ghouta aid convoy postponed amid chemical attack fears
- Stormy Daniels: White House appears to confirm Trump contract with porn star
- Danish inventor goes on trial for murder of journalist Kim Wall
- Italy's first black senator: my election shows far right is not anti-immigration
- Myanmar government is rogue and evil, says Bangladesh minister
- European clocks lose six minutes after dispute saps power from electricity grid
- Florida lawmakers pass bill allowing armed teachers in classrooms
- Study shows nearly one in four New Zealand children reported to welfare agencies
- International Women's Day 2018: protests across the world as women push for progress – live
- Galeries Lafayette heir joins French tycoons in opening art foundation
- Spanish women give up work for a day in first 'feminist strike'
- Iranian woman who removed headscarf jailed for two years
- Crew searching for MH370 'optimistic' of finding missing plane
- Hundreds of bitcoin-mining servers stolen in Iceland
- Cities, deconstructed: Hatakeyama's offbeat urban visions – in pictures
- 'Pest from the west': snow forces schools to close in parts of UK
- We can’t own girls. We owe them | Julia Gillard
- 'This case has already been won': White House on Donald Trump's relationship with porn star – video
- Vancouver declares 5% of homes empty and liable for new tax
- Man dies after falling from Sydney Tower
- 'We stand together': open letter on sexual misconduct in aid sector
- 'You need to hear us': over 1,000 female aid workers urge reform in open letter
- 'Woefully off track': global goals leave behind over half the world's children
- Care and midwifery in the world's most challenging places – in pictures
- Ten influential women answer questions about women – in pictures
- 'Are you happy, Gary?': Trump's top economic adviser quits administration – video report
| Ghouta aid convoy postponed amid chemical attack fears Posted: 08 Mar 2018 12:24 AM PST Heavy fighting and suspected gas attack halt aid delivery in Syria for second time this week An aid convoy planned to bring assistance to besieged civilians in eastern Ghouta has been postponed, as monitors said a suspected chemical attack had hit the Syrian rebel enclave amid heavy fighting. "The convoy for today is postponed as the situation is evolving on the ground, which doesn't allow us to carry out the operation in such conditions," Ingy Sedky, a spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, said. Continue reading... |
| Stormy Daniels: White House appears to confirm Trump contract with porn star Posted: 07 Mar 2018 11:28 PM PST The president's press secretary mysteriously claimed Trump won a case 'in arbitration' against adult film actor who is suing him The White House has made a mysterious claim that Donald Trump won a case "in arbitration" against a pornographic film actor who alleges that she had sex with him a decade ago. Press secretary Sarah Sanders' surprise assertion appears to confirm that a contract existed between Trump and Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford. Continue reading... |
| Danish inventor goes on trial for murder of journalist Kim Wall Posted: 08 Mar 2018 12:59 AM PST Peter Madsen is accused of sexually assaulting, torturing and murdering Swedish journalist on his submarine A Danish builder of submarines and rockets went on trial on Thursday accused of sexually assaulting, torturing and murdering the Swedish journalist Kim Wall after she joined him on board his home-built submarine for an interview in August last year. The accused, Peter Madsen, pleaded not guilty as the trial opened at Copenhagen district court in what prosecutor Jakob Buch-Jepsen has described as a "unusual and extremely brutal" case. Madsen is charged with murdering and dismembering Wall, along with a charge of sexual assault without intercourse of a particularly dangerous nature. Continue reading... |
| Italy's first black senator: my election shows far right is not anti-immigration Posted: 07 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PST Toni Iwobi, originally from Nigeria, says his election for the League shows far right party has no problem with 'legal migration' Italy's first black senator has said his election for the League has proved that the far-right party, whose anti-immigrant rhetoric helped it to its best ever result on Sunday, has no problem with legal migration. Campaigning under the party slogan "stop the invasion", Toni Iwobi, a 62-year-old businessman originally from Nigeria, won his seat in Spirano, a small town in the Lombardy province of Bergamo, as the party took almost 18% of the vote nationwide. Continue reading... |
| Myanmar government is rogue and evil, says Bangladesh minister Posted: 07 Mar 2018 11:54 PM PST Finance minister doubts hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees can go home A senior minister in Bangladesh has condemned the Myanmar government as "evil" and said he did not believe the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees could be repatriated. More than 700,000 Rohingya live in camps on the Bangladesh border of Myanmar after fleeing a campaign of violence by the military across Rahkine state. Many of their homes and villages were burned to the ground, thousands of people were killed and hundreds of women raped. Continue reading... |
| European clocks lose six minutes after dispute saps power from electricity grid Posted: 07 Mar 2018 05:46 PM PST A row between Kosovo and Serbia is draining energy from the continent's 25-nation system, causing electronic clocks to fall behind Europeans who have been arriving late to work or school in recent weeks have more than just the bad weather to blame. The real reason is an unprecedented lag in the continent's electricity grid that is causing some clocks to run too slowly. The problem is caused by a political dispute between Serbia and Kosovo that is sapping a small amount of energy from the local grid, causing a domino effect across Europe's 25-nation synchronized high voltage power network spanning the continent from Portugal to Poland and Greece to Germany. |
| Florida lawmakers pass bill allowing armed teachers in classrooms Posted: 07 Mar 2018 05:02 PM PST Bill headed to governor's desk would raise gun-buying age to 21 and increase funding for school security and mental health support Florida's lawmakers narrowly passed a controversial gun reform bill late on Wednesday that would allow armed teachers in the state's classrooms, three weeks to the day after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school massacre in which 17 people were killed. The new legislation, which must now be approved by the Florida governor, Rick Scott, also raises the age at which weapons can be purchased to 21 and provides extra money for school security and mental health support. Continue reading... |
| Study shows nearly one in four New Zealand children reported to welfare agencies Posted: 07 Mar 2018 10:08 PM PST Tracking of 55,443 children over 20 years found that 10% were subject to abuse and neglect, and 3% placed into care Nearly a quarter of New Zealand children born in 1998 ended up being reported to the country's child welfare agencies, a new report has found. The study by the Auckland University of Technology tracked 55,443 children born in 1998 until the end of 2015. Continue reading... |
| International Women's Day 2018: protests across the world as women push for progress – live Posted: 08 Mar 2018 01:47 AM PST In the year of #MeToo and Time's Up, 8 March keeps the spotlight on women calling for change. Follow the day's global action live
My colleague Lucy Lamble has been at the London School of Economics in London this morning, where Danish development cooperation minister, Ulla Tørnæs, one of the people who set up the She Decides movement in response to Trump's Global Gag rule, has called for a "new normal" in the face of pushbacks to women's rights over their sexual and reproductive rights: International Women's is a day to celebrate the incredible journey millions of women and girls around the world have taken. A journey towards a life in dignity, with equal opportunities, freedom and prosperity. [A hundred years ago, for the first time the British Parliament passed an act granting most women – yet not all – the right to vote. Look at you now. What a long way we have come. But the journey is far from over. For many girls and women, the journey has not yet even started.] In several parts of the world, gender equality and women's enjoyment of human rights is but a distant hope. And women's rights are even under increasing pressure. Various conservative and religious movements globally are adding pressure. This needs to change. We cannot, and should not, accept the setbacks we now see. All of us have a responsibility to act. To stand up and fight for those millions of girls and women, who do not enjoy the same fundamental human rights as we do. "I have always understood equality as not about demanding 'more', but rather being entitled to the same." LSE Director Minouche Shafik is first in our series of inspiring #LSEwomen launching this #InternationalWomensDay #IWD #IWD2018 https://t.co/reyFQ3mV7J pic.twitter.com/IVmb2t2Enq
Spanish newspaper El Pais has posted this rather cool little video, explaining that they are not fully staffed today because of the women's strike. En la redacción de EL PAÍS, hoy no estamos todos #LasPeriodistasParamos #Huelga8Marzo #WomensDay https://t.co/Ku1A43HyXY pic.twitter.com/mcbSkjcMKK Continue reading... |
| Galeries Lafayette heir joins French tycoons in opening art foundation Posted: 07 Mar 2018 04:27 AM PST Guillaume Houzé's cultural centre will rival that of France's richest man, Bernard Arnault It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a Frenchman in possession of a good fortune may not be in want of a wife, but a private cultural foundation. Bernard Arnault, France's richest man and the head of the luxury goods group LVMH, has his Louis Vuitton Foundation based in a building in Paris resembling a glass cloud, designed by the architect Frank Gehry. Continue reading... |
| Spanish women give up work for a day in first 'feminist strike' Posted: 07 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PST Mayors of Madrid and Barcelona among supporters of walkout on International Women's Day Women in Spain will abandon their paid and unpaid work on Thursday to participate in the country's first nationwide "feminist strike", which aims to highlight sexual discrimination, domestic violence and the wage gap. The walkout, which coincides with International Women's Day, is being supported by some of the country's most high-profile female politicians, including Manuela Carmena and Ada Colau, the mayors of Madrid and Barcelona respectively. Continue reading... |
| Iranian woman who removed headscarf jailed for two years Posted: 07 Mar 2018 12:14 PM PST Prosecutor says woman took off obligatory hijab in Tehran street to 'encourage corruption' An Iranian woman who publicly removed her veil in protest against Iran's compulsory headscarf law has been sentenced to two years in prison, the judiciary said on Wednesday. Tehran's chief prosecutor, Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, who announced the sentence, did not give the woman's identity but said she intended to appeal against the verdict, the judiciary's Mizan Online news agency reported. Continue reading... |
| Crew searching for MH370 'optimistic' of finding missing plane Posted: 07 Mar 2018 08:46 PM PST First statement from officers on board Seabed Constructor ship is upbeat despite half of 'priority area' having now been searched The crew searching for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have said they "remain optimistic" of finding the missing plane in their first statement to media. Two Malaysian navy officers aboard the search ship, Azmi Rosedee and Adbul Halim Ahmad Nordin, told the New Straits Times they were "doing their utmost", even as the search was slowed by bad weather and tricky underwater terrain in the Indian Ocean. Continue reading... |
| Hundreds of bitcoin-mining servers stolen in Iceland Posted: 07 Mar 2018 08:53 AM PST Two people held and others questioned over large-scale thefts from data centres About 600 computer servers used to mine bitcoin were stolen in Iceland in a series of large-scale robberies in December and January, according to police. The servers were taken from data centres in Reykjanesbær, near Reykjavik airport, and Borgarnes on Iceland's west coast. Continue reading... |
| Cities, deconstructed: Hatakeyama's offbeat urban visions – in pictures Posted: 07 Mar 2018 11:00 PM PST For 30 years, Japanese photographer Naoya Hatakeyama has probed the intimate lives of cities – from the quarries where they are blasted from the rock to the secret subterranean rivers that sustain them Continue reading... |
| 'Pest from the west': snow forces schools to close in parts of UK Posted: 08 Mar 2018 01:50 AM PST Hundreds of schools shut across northern Wales and England as icy blast causes disruption Hundreds of schools have been forced to close after heavy snow brought rush-hour chaos to roads across northern Wales and England. Forecasters said up to 4 inches of snow would fall in parts of Britain as the "pest from the west" brought fresh disruption after the "beast from the east" last week. |
| We can’t own girls. We owe them | Julia Gillard Posted: 07 Mar 2018 03:35 PM PST There are more than 130 million out-of-school girls globally. This International Women's Day, we pledge to help them govern their own destinies Just two weeks ago, we learned of yet another tragic abduction by Boko Haram of girls in northeastern Nigeria. A near replay of the 2014 mass kidnapping in Chibok that attracted global attention, the terror group this time reportedly kidnapped more than 100 girls at a boarding school in the town of Dapchi in Yobe state. The continuing and extreme threat to girls who only want to go to school is a stark reminder of why we must observe International Women's Day, as we do today. In spite of the truly remarkable social, economic and political strides for women around the world over the last generation, we're far from the goal of full gender equality. Continue reading... |
| 'This case has already been won': White House on Donald Trump's relationship with porn star – video Posted: 08 Mar 2018 12:02 AM PST The White House press secretary, Sarah Sanders, has seemingly confirmed Donald Trump's contract with the porn star Stormy Daniels. Sanders said: 'This case has already been won in arbitration and anything beyond that, I would refer you to the president's outside counsel' Continue reading... |
| Vancouver declares 5% of homes empty and liable for new tax Posted: 07 Mar 2018 06:35 PM PST After introducing a 20% tax on foreign buyers, the city in western Canada is continuing to tackle housing affordability Thousands of homes in Vancouver have been declared unused and liable for a new empty homes tax as part of a government attempt to tackle skyrocketing home prices and soaring rents. About 4.6% or 8,481 homes in the western Canadian city stood empty or underutilised for more than 180 days in 2017, according to declarations submitted to the municipality by 98.85% of homeowners. |
| Man dies after falling from Sydney Tower Posted: 07 Mar 2018 11:39 PM PST Man was on the skywalk and jumped, police and paramedics confirm A man has died in Sydney's CBD after jumping from Sydney Tower while on a skywalk, police and paramedics have confirmed. It has been reported the man removed his harness. At 2.40pm on Thursday, New South Wales police and ambulance were called to a building on Castlereagh Street near the busy Pitt Street mall to attend to the man, who died at the scene. Continue reading... |
| 'We stand together': open letter on sexual misconduct in aid sector Posted: 07 Mar 2018 11:13 PM PST The letter signed by more than 1,000 women aid workers urging reform Violence Against Women and Girls is endemic across all societies. The #MeToo and #TimesUp movements have exposed the level of sexual harassment experienced by women in the film industry, but this is just the tip of the iceberg. Thanks to the work of women acting in solidarity with their sisters around the world, in recent weeks it has become increasingly apparent that the international aid sector has its own shortcomings. We, the undersigned, demand that the aid sector is reformed and the patriarchal norms which dominate it are rooted out. We stand together to speak out about the violence and abuse perpetrated against women and girls by men who work within charities. We stand together because our voices are stronger in unison and have often not been heard when we have stood alone. We acknowledge that not all women have the same amount of power - race, class, sexual orientation, economic realities and other forms of discrimination and oppression all play a part in women's ability to to be heard. Patriarchy impacts women and girls from the global south and women of colour hardest. We acknowledge that these women are most affected and vulnerable to exploitation and abuse by aid workers, yet are also the least likely to be heard and least likely to be able to sign on to support this letter. Continue reading... |
| 'You need to hear us': over 1,000 female aid workers urge reform in open letter Posted: 07 Mar 2018 11:00 PM PST Women unite in call for charities, donors and the UN to support and protect staff who report sexual misconduct More than a thousand female aid workers from around the world have signed an open letter calling for urgent reform across the humanitarian sector, including better support for women who report sexual misconduct. The letter, addressed to the leaders of international charities, the UN and donors, urges organisations to treat allegations of sexual harassment and abuse as a priority. Whistleblowers must be listened to and protected, said the signatories. |
| 'Woefully off track': global goals leave behind over half the world's children Posted: 07 Mar 2018 10:08 AM PST Sustainability agenda that pledged to maximise every child's chances undermined by lack of data in some countries, says Unicef report More than half a billion of the world's poorest children are invisible to the international organisations that could help them most. Children worldwide are "uncounted" in development targets because they live in countries where the data required to monitor and evaluate key areas such as education and nutrition is unavailable, Unicef has warned. |
| Care and midwifery in the world's most challenging places – in pictures Posted: 08 Mar 2018 12:58 AM PST On International Women's Day we celebrate the work of Unicef in supporting midwives and healthcare workers in some of the world's most challenging countries to give birth Continue reading... |
| Ten influential women answer questions about women – in pictures Posted: 07 Mar 2018 03:03 PM PST For International Women's Day we posed three big questions to activists and writers who appeared at the Sydney Opera House's All About Women festival • Protests around the world as women press for progress – live updates |
| 'Are you happy, Gary?': Trump's top economic adviser quits administration – video report Posted: 07 Mar 2018 05:15 AM PST Donald Trump sees another high-profile member of his administration resign, this time top economic adviser Gary Cohn. The former chief operating officer at Goldman Sachs quit after Trump's decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminium imports, a move he opposed Continue reading... |
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