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- North Korea halts nuclear and missile tests ahead of planned Trump summit
- Avicii: chart-topping EDM star dies at 28
- Democratic party sues Russia, WikiLeaks and Trump campaign over election disruption
- Eight jailed in Italy over secret talks between state officials and mafia
- Inside North Korea, all they will say about Trump is 'he's crazy'
- Israeli forces kill two at Gaza frontier during fourth week of protests
- Mexican court blocks sales of Frida Kahlo Barbie doll
- Smallville actor Allison Mack arrested in connection with sex cult
- Mexico's congress votes to remove politicians' legal immunity
- Growing pains: how Oregon wound up with way more pot than it can smoke
- German town braces for arrival of neo-Nazis at music festival
- Comey memos: six of the biggest takeaways
- Uproar in Canada after homeopath gives boy pill made from rabid dog's saliva
- Treating pain without addiction: inside the lab fighting the opioid crisis
- Memories still painful 25 years after Stephen Lawrence murder
- Great lengths
- The 20 photographs of the week
- South Africa riots force president to leave Commonwealth summit
- What happened to winter? Vanishing ice convulses Alaskans' way of life
- The end of the Castro era? Raúl's exit likely to change little in Cuba
- North Korea's nuclear pause: grist for both doves and hawks | Robert E Kelly
- Fears over fate of historic Sydney sandstone building
- 'Untouchable' Myanmar army under fire over torture and murder claims | Joshua Carroll
- Why road to Syria peace could begin in a sleepy Swedish farmhouse
- Stonewall's Ruth Hunt tells Owen Jones: 'My heart breaks for trans communities' – video interview
| North Korea halts nuclear and missile tests ahead of planned Trump summit Posted: 20 Apr 2018 08:43 PM PDT
North Korea has said it will end its tests of nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles, and shut down its nuclear test site, in a dramatic development ahead of a much-anticipated meeting between its leader, Kim Jong-un, and Donald Trump. The suspensions went into immediate effect on Saturday, according to state-run KCNA news agency. Continue reading... |
| Avicii: chart-topping EDM star dies at 28 Posted: 21 Apr 2018 02:06 AM PDT The producer and DJ, real name Tim Bergling, was found dead in Oman Swedish DJ Avicii has died in Muscat, Oman, at the age of 28. His representative said in a statement: "It is with profound sorrow that we announce the loss of Tim Bergling, also known as Avicii. He was found dead in Muscat, Oman, this Friday afternoon local time, 20 April. Continue reading... |
| Democratic party sues Russia, WikiLeaks and Trump campaign over election disruption Posted: 20 Apr 2018 01:21 PM PDT The party alleges in the federal lawsuit that Trump campaign officials conspired with Russia to hurt Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton The Democratic National Committee has filed a lawsuit against the Russian government, the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks, alleging a widespread conspiracy to help swing the 2016 US presidential election. Related: Rudy Giuliani joins Trump's legal team to help end Russia investigation Continue reading... |
| Eight jailed in Italy over secret talks between state officials and mafia Posted: 20 Apr 2018 01:59 PM PDT Five-year case has thrown light on one of the murkiest chapter's in Italy's recent history A court in Italy has convicted eight men, including mob bosses, police investigators and a close associate of Silvio Berlusconi, over a secret attempt to negotiate with the Sicilian mafia in order to end a bloody bombing campaign in the 1990s After the verdict, members of the public cheered the prosecutors. Eight men were handed jail sentences ranging from eight to 28 years, including three former heads of the security police department – Mario Mori, Giuseppe De Donno and Antonio Subranni – and the co-founder of Berlusconi's Forza Italia party, Marcello Dell'Utri. Continue reading... |
| Inside North Korea, all they will say about Trump is 'he's crazy' Posted: 20 Apr 2018 07:57 AM PDT Official silence on Kim Jong-un's planned meeting with US president is evident during rare, stage-managed media tour of Pyongyang From Pyongyang's vast, empty boulevards to its dusty, disorderly alleyways, there is no talk of the high-stakes summit between the US president, Donald Trump, and North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, that has transfixed the rest of the world. The meeting is still a state secret, unmentioned in official media, unknown to the majority of Kim's citizens – and far too dangerous for those who have heard whispers to discuss them in public. Continue reading... |
| Israeli forces kill two at Gaza frontier during fourth week of protests Posted: 20 Apr 2018 11:34 AM PDT Palestinian men aged 24 and 25 shot and killed near border fence in northern Gaza Israeli troops stationed on the frontier with Gaza have shot dead two Palestinians and wounded more than 40 people during the fourth week of Friday protests, all of which have been met with lethal force. Thousands of residents from the coastal strip demonstrated near the metal perimeter fence, some burning tyres and throwing rocks. Several young Palestinian men attempted to fly home-made kites with small cans of petrol attached to their tails into Israeli territory. Continue reading... |
| Mexican court blocks sales of Frida Kahlo Barbie doll Posted: 20 Apr 2018 11:00 AM PDT
Distant relatives of Frida Kahlo have won a temporary injunction that stops sales of a Barbie doll depicting the late Mexican artist. Kahlo's great-niece Mara de Anda Romeo argued in a Mexican court that Mattel does not have the rights to use Kahlo's image as part of its Inspiring Women series. Continue reading... |
| Smallville actor Allison Mack arrested in connection with sex cult Posted: 20 Apr 2018 01:14 PM PDT The 35-year-old was arrested for her role as a co-conspirator in a sex cult called Nxivm, which is being prosecuted for sex trafficking and forced labor Smallville actor Allison Mack, who played Chloe Sullivan on the hit CW series for 10 seasons, has been arrested for her involvement in a sex cult called Nxivm. She is due to appear in court in Brooklyn on Friday. The group's leader, Keith Raniere, was arrested for sex trafficking and forced labor last month. He was extradited to the United States from Puerto Vallarta in Mexico and is currently being held at a federal prison in Oklahoma City without bond. Continue reading... |
| Mexico's congress votes to remove politicians' legal immunity Posted: 20 Apr 2018 01:25 PM PDT The vote to remove politicians' immunity is meant to curb corruption and lessen perceptions Mexico's political class can act above the law Mexico's lower house of Congress has voted to remove politicians' immunity from prosecution, a move meant to curb corruption and impunity and lessen perceptions the country's political class can act above the law. Under the constitutional changes approved late on Thursday, the country's president – who can currently only be impeached for treason and "serious crimes of the common order" – could be put on criminal trial while in office, but only after a vote in congress. Continue reading... |
| Growing pains: how Oregon wound up with way more pot than it can smoke Posted: 20 Apr 2018 12:01 AM PDT The state's glut of marijuana – over 1m lb of unsold pot – is in many ways the result of an industry still finding its feet Trey Willison, a cannabis farmer in Eugene, first started worrying last May about there being too much marijuana in Oregon. He had sold all his "clone" plants to other growers, who were using them to cultivate yet more marijuana. "You start doing the math on that and it just didn't make sense how people could be growing that many plants," Willison said. Continue reading... |
| German town braces for arrival of neo-Nazis at music festival Posted: 20 Apr 2018 11:51 AM PDT Large police deployment and counter-protests planned for event that coincides with Hitler's birthday A small town in eastern Germany is bracing for the arrival of hundreds of neo-Nazis planning to attend a music festival timed to coincide with Adolf Hitler's birthday. Anti-fascist groups have promised counter-protests and a large police deployment aims to prevent violence during the Schild und Schwert (Shield and Sword, or SS) festival in Ostritz, Saxony, on the border with Poland, a region where the AfD scored some of its strongest results in the 2017 elections. Continue reading... |
| Comey memos: six of the biggest takeaways Posted: 20 Apr 2018 10:40 AM PDT Donald Trump tweeted the recently released memos show 'no collusion' – but that might not be the conclusion that jumps out most Beginning in January 2017, when he first met Donald Trump, James Comey, then FBI director, carefully described each of his interactions with the new president in memos he shared with top deputies and lawyers within the agency. Comey said he wrote the memos because he thought the president might later lie about those interactions. Related: Mystery world leader Trump failed to call for six days revealed to be ... Putin Continue reading... |
| Uproar in Canada after homeopath gives boy pill made from rabid dog's saliva Posted: 20 Apr 2018 10:16 AM PDT
The Canadian government's system of approving homeopathic treatments has been challenged after a naturopath in the province of British Columbia claimed to have treated a four-year-old's behavioural problems with a remedy made from the saliva of a rabid dog. Anke Zimmerman said she had used the product to treat a preschooler named Jonah who had been having trouble sleeping and had been aggressive and violent towards his peers. "His school is complaining that he hides under tables and growls at people," she wrote on her blog. Continue reading... |
| Treating pain without addiction: inside the lab fighting the opioid crisis Posted: 20 Apr 2018 04:00 AM PDT N-001 was designed by a startup to counter pain but avoid the detrimental side effects of opioid use, addiction among them To enter the downtown San Francisco lab space that houses their Nebraska-born biotech startup company, Neurocarrus, Paul Blum and Benjamin Pavlik often pass a collection of people who Blum described as "falling apart from overdose". The lab is located below a methadone clinic. "We see the effects of drug addiction and mental illness every single day," said Arvind Gupta, the founder of IndieBio, an incubator which has invested $250,000 in seed funding and lab space for Neurocarrus because he believes the co-founders might offer a partial solution to a national crisis. Continue reading... |
| Memories still painful 25 years after Stephen Lawrence murder Posted: 20 Apr 2018 10:00 PM PDT The south-east London suburb of Eltham has struggled to shake off a reputation for racism Life continues near the unobtrusive granite plaque which marks the spot where Stephen Lawrence died, 25 years ago on Sunday. A woman pushes a pram, cars and buses rumble along, people wait at a bus stop perhaps unaware that this is the place where the aspiring architect was set upon by a gang of racists and stabbed to death. The murder of the 18-year-old on Well Hall Road in Eltham, south-east London, left an indelible mark on British society, forcing the country to face up to endemic racism which resulted in two men being convicted for his murder but only 18 years later and after a change in the law. But now, a quarter of a century after Stephen was killed, those who have watched the repercussions unfold warn that lessons hard learned are in danger of being lost. Continue reading... |
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| The 20 photographs of the week Posted: 20 Apr 2018 11:52 PM PDT Protests in Gaza, evacuations in Syria and the Commonwealth Games in Australia – the week captured by the world's best photojournalists Continue reading... |
| South Africa riots force president to leave Commonwealth summit Posted: 20 Apr 2018 10:19 PM PDT Cyril Ramaphosa travels to North West province where police have fired rubber bullets during protests over alleged corruption and failing services South African police have fired rubber bullets at protesters as violent riots forced President Cyril Ramaphosa to cut short his attendance at the Commonwealth leaders' summit in London. Shops were looted, roads were blocked and vehicles set alight in North West province on Friday in unrest over alleged government corruption and poor public services. At least 23 people were arrested and one man was reported to have died in sporadic violence that erupted this week in Mahikeng, the provincial capital. Continue reading... |
| What happened to winter? Vanishing ice convulses Alaskans' way of life Posted: 20 Apr 2018 11:00 PM PDT Arctic Dispatches, part 1: The past winter was the warmest on record in the Arctic, putting a lifestyle that has endured for millennia at risk: 'The magnitude of change is utterly unprecedented' A few days before Christmas last year, Harry Brower, mayor of Alaska's North Slope Borough, was at home when he heard a stunning noise – the sound of waves lapping at the shore. The sound was as wrenching and misplaced as hearing hailstones thud into the Sahara. Until fairly recently, the Arctic ocean regularly froze up hard up against the far north coast of Alaska by October. In 2017, it wasn't until the final few days of the year that the ice encased the waves. Continue reading... |
| The end of the Castro era? Raúl's exit likely to change little in Cuba Posted: 21 Apr 2018 12:01 AM PDT The island is getting a new president in Miguel Díaz-Canel – but the hands on the levers of power will remain the same As pundits around the globe proclaimed the end of the Castro era this week, Cuba's new president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, promptly dismissed such a notion. "Raúl Castro … will lead the decisions of greatest transcendence for the present and the future of this country," said Díaz-Canel in a speech marking the official changing of the guard on Thursday. |
| North Korea's nuclear pause: grist for both doves and hawks | Robert E Kelly Posted: 20 Apr 2018 11:11 PM PDT A win for security, but real acid test of Pyongyang's intentions is whether it will give up the weapons it has already built North Korea has announced it will cease testing nuclear devices and missiles, and promised to shut down its primary nuclear test site at Punggye-ri. If this is genuine, it is a serious step forward, but we should greet it with cautious optimism. We have been on the cusp of a breakthrough with North Korea before, only to be disappointed. There will be a lot of questions. But there is no need to be recalcitrantly hawkish about this. Within the limits of North Korea's strained credibility, this is a win for allied security. |
| Fears over fate of historic Sydney sandstone building Posted: 20 Apr 2018 08:30 PM PDT NSW opposition fears the ornate chief secretary's building will be sold off as key tenant vacates • Sign up to receive the top stories in Australia every day at noon The New South Wales opposition fears that the chief secretary's office, one of Sydney's finest sandstone buildings and home to the office of the "father of federation", Sir Henry Parkes, could be sold – now that its key tenant is moving out. The Berejiklian government announced on Friday that the NSW Industrial Relations Commission would move to Parramatta, but it has declined to say what will happen to the impressive colonial building the commission now occupies. Continue reading... |
| 'Untouchable' Myanmar army under fire over torture and murder claims | Joshua Carroll Posted: 20 Apr 2018 06:20 AM PDT A handful of recent convictions show troops are starting to be held to account, while the military are listed for the first time on a UN armed forces blacklist The three young men went out to get firewood and never returned. Their families spent days worrying, then heard gunshots crackling in the distance. Hours later, they found the mutilated bodies, hastily buried five miles from their homes at the Maihkawng internal displacement camp in Myanmar's conflict-torn Kachin state. Continue reading... |
| Why road to Syria peace could begin in a sleepy Swedish farmhouse Posted: 20 Apr 2018 09:00 PM PDT Divided UN heads for a retreat to remote corner of Sweden with the hope of thawing tensions The incessant trilling of the larks was still the dominant sound at Backåkra, a traditional 'fyrlängad' – a four-sided, half-timber farmhouse, overlooking a sun-bathed coastal heath sprinkled with purple flowers. But this peaceful, secluded corner of Österlen, the southeastern corner of the Swedish county of Skåne, will on Saturday be crawling with specialist security officers, diplomats and journalists as the UN security council meets for its annual retreat. Continue reading... |
| Stonewall's Ruth Hunt tells Owen Jones: 'My heart breaks for trans communities' – video interview Posted: 20 Apr 2018 03:34 AM PDT The Stonewall chief executive, Ruth Hunt, talks to Owen Jones about her shock at the level of vitriol directed at transgender men and women. She says the scale of abuse in the UK has contributed to high levels of self-harm, mental illness and suicidal thoughts in trans communities |
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