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- North Korea nuclear test site has collapsed and may be out of action – China study
- Saudi Arabia criticised for 48 beheadings in four months of 2018
- Donald Trump likely to scrap Iran deal amid 'insane' changes of stance, says Macron
- British-Iranian academic Abbas Edalat detained in Iran, British officials say
- Google to improve YouTube Kids app to let parents control what children watch
- Malta losing money 'hand over fist' from Azerbaijan energy deal, claim experts
- Facebook posts record revenues for first quarter despite privacy scandal
- The largest thing in the universe? Cosmic collision 12bn years ago created mega-galaxy
- Peter Madsen sentenced to life for murdering journalist Kim Wall
- Justine Damond: Minneapolis police officer to plead not guilty to murder
- Unjust desserts: dish planned for Korean summit prompts anger in Japan
- Qatari man held for 13 years over links to al-Qaida: I was tortured on US soil
- Gorillas are far more numerous than previously thought, survey reveals
- Climate change to drive migration from island homes sooner than thought
- 'Designed for death': the Mumbai housing blocks breeding TB
- The sadism of white men: why America must atone for its lynchings
- Amber Rudd faces questions over immigrant removal targets
- Irish EU commissioner urges May to rethink customs union stance
- Congo's splintered opposition vows to defy repression and return to streets
- How white Americans used lynchings to terrorize and control black people
- 'Breathtaking homicidal violence': Latin America in grip of murder crisis
- Victoria pledges record funds to keep Indigenous children in community care
- Amitabh Bachchan: 'India is polio-free. Let's do the same for the world'
- Brazilian women braced for battle amid simmering fears over abortion | Jo Griffin
- Nepal's female masons dig deep to lay foundations for change and renewal | Pete Pattisson
- Korean summit: everything you need to know
- Pain and terror: America remembers its past - video
- Macron: 'One day the US will come back to the Paris agreement' – video
- 'I feel helpless': this is the face of child detention on Nauru – video
- Rösti reception: the Korean summit menu – in pictures
- Five touching moments between Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron – video
| North Korea nuclear test site has collapsed and may be out of action – China study Posted: 25 Apr 2018 11:09 PM PDT Report builds on evidence that site is unstable after sixth nuclear test and puts Kim Jong-un's pledge to no longer use site in a new light North Korea's main nuclear test site has partially collapsed under the stress of multiple explosions, possibly rendering it unsafe for further testing and leaving it vulnerable to radiation leaks, a study by Chinese geologists has shown. The findings could cast doubt on North Korea's sincerity in announcing last weekend that it would stop testing nuclear weapons at the site ahead of Friday's summit between the country's leader, Kim Jong-un, and the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in. Continue reading... |
| Saudi Arabia criticised for 48 beheadings in four months of 2018 Posted: 26 Apr 2018 12:54 AM PDT Rights group says half of those executed by 'notorious' system were on non-violent charges Saudi Arabia has executed 48 people in the past four months, half of them on non-violent drug charges, Human Rights Watch has said. The US-based group urged the kingdom to improve what it called a "notoriously unfair criminal justice system". Continue reading... |
| Donald Trump likely to scrap Iran deal amid 'insane' changes of stance, says Macron Posted: 25 Apr 2018 11:22 PM PDT French president's frank comments come after Congress address in which he stood up for policies his US counterpart has sought to destroy Emmanuel Macron conceded he had probably failed in his attempt during a three-day trip to Washington to persuade Donald Trump to stay in the Iran nuclear deal, describing US flip-flopping on international agreements as "insane". The French president had hoped to convince Trump to continue to waive sanctions on Iran, as agreed by the 2015 nuclear deal, in which Iran agreed to accept strict curbs on its nuclear activities. Macron offered Trump the prospect of negotiations on a new complementary deal that would address Iranian missile development and Tehran's military intervention in the Middle East. Continue reading... |
| British-Iranian academic Abbas Edalat detained in Iran, British officials say Posted: 25 Apr 2018 02:54 PM PDT Imperial College professor arrested by Revolutionary Guards, says watchdog British officials are investigating claims a British-Iranian academic has been detained by authorities in Tehran. Abbas Edalat, a professor of computer science and mathematics at Imperial College London and a political activist, was arrested by Iran's Revolutionary Guards on 15 April, according to a US-based watchdog. Continue reading... |
| Google to improve YouTube Kids app to let parents control what children watch Posted: 25 Apr 2018 12:00 PM PDT Enhanced controls will allow parents to handpick videos among a host of new features, but campaigners say YouTube must do more Google is updating its YouTube Kids app to improve the control over the videos and channels that can be watched by children. YouTube Kids is a separate app for smartphones and tablets that provides access to a subset of the videos available on the main site. There have been 70bn video views since the app, which is used by 11m families, launched in 2015. In the app's biggest change yet, Google is giving parents much greater control over what their children can find and watch. Continue reading... |
| Malta losing money 'hand over fist' from Azerbaijan energy deal, claim experts Posted: 25 Apr 2018 09:25 AM PDT Leaked files reveal cost of agreement to taxpayers as opposition calls for more transparency The European commission approved a monopoly energy deal with Azerbaijan under which Maltese taxpayers could be losing tens of million of euros a year, according to an analysis of leaked files. A whistleblower gave a cache of data to the journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was killed by a car bomb in October. Continue reading... |
| Facebook posts record revenues for first quarter despite privacy scandal Posted: 25 Apr 2018 03:32 PM PDT Company sees almost $12bn in revenue, up nearly 50% from last year and beating analyst estimates as Zuckerberg hails 'strong start' Facebook's data privacy problems have had little impact on its profitability as the company posted record revenues for the first quarter of 2018. The company made $11.97bn in revenue in the first three months of the year, up 49% from the previous year, beating Wall Street estimates of $11.41bn. Continue reading... |
| The largest thing in the universe? Cosmic collision 12bn years ago created mega-galaxy Posted: 25 Apr 2018 10:00 AM PDT A spectacular pileup of 14 galaxies soon after the Big Bang has been seen and recorded for the first time The colossal merger of 14 galaxies more than 12 billion years ago has been captured by astronomers who used the world's most powerful telescopes to peer 90% of the way across the observable universe. The cosmic pileup occurred 12.4 bn years ago and the resultant gigantic galaxy will have continued to snowball in size ever since. Calculations suggest that by the present day, hundreds more galaxies would have been swallowed up by the cluster, propelling it to a mass equivalent to 1,000 trillion suns, which would make it the largest known object in the universe. Continue reading... |
| Peter Madsen sentenced to life for murdering journalist Kim Wall Posted: 25 Apr 2018 08:00 AM PDT Swedish journalist's dismembered remains found at sea after she failed to return from trip on Madsen's submarine A Danish inventor has been sentenced to life in prison for the premeditated murder and sexual assault of the Swedish journalist Kim Wall on his submarine in August last year. The judge, Anette Burkø, and two jurors found Peter Madsen, 47, guilty of all three of the main charges of premeditated murder, aggravated sexual assault and desecrating a corpse. Continue reading... |
| Justine Damond: Minneapolis police officer to plead not guilty to murder Posted: 25 Apr 2018 02:54 PM PDT Mohamed Noor argues in court documents he shot Australian woman in self-defence and using reasonable force The Minneapolis police officer accused of murdering Australian woman Justine Damond will plead not guilty and fight the charges at trial, court documents suggest. Mohamed Noor, 32, will seek to argue self-defence and reasonable force, according to court documents seen by the Guardian. Continue reading... |
| Unjust desserts: dish planned for Korean summit prompts anger in Japan Posted: 25 Apr 2018 01:55 PM PDT Tokyo opposes South Korea's mango mousse showing map of Korean peninsula, including disputed islands Japan has demanded that South Korea rethink a mango mousse dessert it plans to serve at summit with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, because it features a map of the Korean peninsula, including islands disputed with Japan. The mousse, labeled "Spring of the People" in a publicity photo, features islands known as Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in Korea, which lie about halfway between the east Asian neighbours in the Sea of Japan, which Seoul refers to as the East Sea. Continue reading... |
| Qatari man held for 13 years over links to al-Qaida: I was tortured on US soil Posted: 25 Apr 2018 11:00 AM PDT Ali al-Marri, declared an 'enemy combatant' by George W Bush, insists he is innocent – and wants to challenge his FBI interrogators in court A convicted "sleeper terrorist" linked to the 9/11 planners has spoken for the first time about his treatment in detention, claiming he was tortured and abused during 13 years of incarceration on American soil. Three years after his release, Ali al-Marri claims he is innocent and wants his FBI interrogators brought to account. Continue reading... |
| Gorillas are far more numerous than previously thought, survey reveals Posted: 25 Apr 2018 11:00 AM PDT Larger-than-expected population in Africa gives hope for species survival, scientists say, but animal remains critically endangered There are far more gorillas left in the world than previously thought, according to a landmark new survey, with numbers as much as double earlier estimates. However, their populations are continuing to fall fast, down 20% in just eight years, leaving them critically endangered. Furthermore, 80% of the remaining gorilla troops do not live in protected areas, leaving them vulnerable to the threats the researchers summarise as "guns, germs and [felled] trees". |
| Climate change to drive migration from island homes sooner than thought Posted: 25 Apr 2018 11:00 AM PDT Low-lying atolls around the world will be overtaken by sea-level rises within a few decades, according to a new study Hundreds of thousands of people will be forced from their homes on low-lying islands in the next few decades by sea-level rises and the contamination of fresh drinking water sources, scientists have warned. A study by researchers at the US Geological Survey (USGS), the Deltares Institute in the Netherlands and Hawaii University has found that many small islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans will be uninhabitable for humans by the middle of this century. That is much earlier than previously thought. Continue reading... |
| 'Designed for death': the Mumbai housing blocks breeding TB Posted: 25 Apr 2018 11:00 PM PDT A new report confirms what many residents suspected: living conditions in the city's 'resettlement' blocks are little better than the slums they replaced It's a hot summer afternoon, but the windows stay firmly shut in the Sheikh family's home. Fifteen-year-old Samira, who is convalescing after tuberculosis (TB) and needs fresh air, says they keep the window of their second-floor apartment closed because of mosquitoes, bad smells from leaking pipes and a lack of privacy: the next block is just three metres away. Samira's neighbourhood of Govandi-Mankhurd was once on Mumbai's outskirts – far enough away to plonk fertiliser plants, refineries and a rubbish dump. Today, the area is one of the city's most populous, poor and underserved suburbs. This is where authorities have resettled, in large housing projects, slum-dwellers from other parts of the city whose shanties were cleared for new roads. Continue reading... |
| The sadism of white men: why America must atone for its lynchings Posted: 25 Apr 2018 11:00 PM PDT The new National Memorial for Peace and Justice – along with the related Legacy Museum – aims to shine a light on America's history of enforcing white supremacy through racial terrorism in the form of lynching Vanessa Croft was driving home after work in Gadsden, Alabama, last month when she noticed something strange in her rear-view mirror. There were two huge flags bearing the starred cross of the Confederacy fluttering angrily behind her from the back of a menacing black pickup truck. She had seen plenty of Confederate flags – almost every day she spots them on car licence plates or in windows in town. But this was different. It was after midnight, and as she drove the flags stayed behind her. She drove some more, they followed. Continue reading... |
| Amber Rudd faces questions over immigrant removal targets Posted: 26 Apr 2018 02:03 AM PDT 2015 report reveals target for 12,000 departures, after home secretary said no removal targets existed Amber Rudd will be hauled back before MPs on Thursday to explain how she did not know that her own department had set strict targets for the voluntary removal of illegal immigrants. The fallout from the Windrush scandal intensified after it emerged that targets for immigration enforcement teams existed, just hours after the home secretary had claimed they did not. Continue reading... |
| Irish EU commissioner urges May to rethink customs union stance Posted: 25 Apr 2018 10:00 PM PDT Phil Hogan to call for a 'softening of the red lines' between Brexiters and remainers Ireland's EU commissioner has urged Theresa May to face down the "immoderate ideology" of Brexiters and reconsider her position on remaining in a customs union with the EU. Phil Hogan, the commissioner for agriculture, will tell the senate in the Irish parliament on Thursday that remarks by Jacob Rees-Mogg about Ireland's beef trade with Britain were "unhelpful and irresponsible". Continue reading... |
| Congo's splintered opposition vows to defy repression and return to streets Posted: 25 Apr 2018 09:00 PM PDT Opposition figures in the DRC risk imprisonment, injury or even death. But still they speak out against President Joseph Kabila Opposition politicians and activists in the Democratic Republic of Congo have pledged to defy repression and step up their protests as the troubled country edges towards elections that have been promised by the president, Joseph Kabila, later this year. The DRC has been hit by a series of rebellions and outbreaks of communal violence in recent months, with some observers raising concerns of a slide into anarchy which could destabilise much of the region. Continue reading... |
| How white Americans used lynchings to terrorize and control black people Posted: 25 Apr 2018 11:00 PM PDT The Guardian is in Montgomery, Alabama, to cover the opening of America's first memorial to lynching victims. The legacy of such brutal, racist murders is still largely ignored Historians broadly agree that lynchings were a method of social and racial control meant to terrorize black Americans into submission, and into an inferior racial caste position. They became widely practiced in the US south from roughly 1877, the end of post-civil war reconstruction, through 1950. Continue reading... |
| 'Breathtaking homicidal violence': Latin America in grip of murder crisis Posted: 26 Apr 2018 12:45 AM PDT Region has experienced 2.5 million murders since 2000 and report paints bleak picture of extreme violence and deteriorating security Latin America has suffered more than 2.5m murders since the start of this century and is facing an acute public security crisis that demands urgent and innovative solutions, a new report warns. "The sheer dimensions of homicidal violence are breathtaking," says the report by the Igarapé Institute, a Brazil-based thinktank focused on security and development issues. Continue reading... |
| Victoria pledges record funds to keep Indigenous children in community care Posted: 26 Apr 2018 01:50 AM PDT Experts say having Aboriginal guardianship means children in out-of-home care are more likely to be safely reunited with their families • Sign up to receive the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Victoria has announced a record $47.3m in funding to support Indigenous children in the child protection system following a landmark agreement to ensure community control over children placed into out-of-home care. It has also announced $10.8m to fund dedicated diversion programs and support services for Indigenous children in youth detention. Continue reading... |
| Amitabh Bachchan: 'India is polio-free. Let's do the same for the world' Posted: 26 Apr 2018 02:00 AM PDT By reaching each child on the planet with life-saving vaccines, deadly diseases can be wiped out, says the Bollywood star There was a time, not that long ago, when eradicating polio from my country seemed like pure fiction. Not even 10 years ago, India was home to nearly half of the world's polio cases. And when I was a boy, the idea that polio could be defeated was an impossibility, an endless fight, an actual war against infinity. So the sense of pride I felt on the day, four years ago, when we could finally announce the eradication of polio from India, was outstripped only by my sense of awe at the true legends of this fight – the volunteers and vaccinators who went from door to door, village to village, to give every child those precious drops. |
| Brazilian women braced for battle amid simmering fears over abortion | Jo Griffin Posted: 25 Apr 2018 11:00 PM PDT The abortion debate is nearing a crossroads in a country where stringent laws put women seeking terminations at deadly risk For her first abortion, Anna went to a clandestine clinic in the south zone of Rio de Janeiro where a doctor bungled the procedure and left her needing further treatment. Years later, no trace remains of the now-defunct clinic, yet memories of the experience still stir anxiety. "Even if the service was good, you knew you could go to prison if you were found out," says Anna, who wanted to be known only by her first name. "And if something went wrong, who could you ask for help? There was no one." Continue reading... |
| Nepal's female masons dig deep to lay foundations for change and renewal | Pete Pattisson Posted: 25 Apr 2018 05:28 AM PDT When a lack of trained builders hampered reconstruction in earthquake-hit Nepal, women stepped up to the plate – yet their resourcefulness has perturbed some traditionalists This time last year Phulsani Tamang was living in a makeshift temporary shelter on the terraced slopes of eastern Nepal. Her home had been destroyed by the 2015 earthquake, which claimed close to 9,000 lives and left hundreds of thousands of people homeless. Continue reading... |
| Korean summit: everything you need to know Posted: 25 Apr 2018 09:00 PM PDT Kim Jong-un will meet Moon Jae-in on 27 April, in a historic summit that could bring about a formal truce and lay the groundwork for a Trump/Kim meeting Kim Jong-un will meet South Korean leader Moon Jae-in on 27 April, only the third time leaders from the two countries have met and the first since Kim took power in 2011 after the death of his father. The two nations technically remain in a state of war, since a peace treaty was never signed at the end of the 1950-53 Korean War, and this meeting could touch on a formal truce. It will also be focused on preparing the ground for US president Donald Trump to meet Kim in May or June. Here is everything you need to know about the historic meeting. Continue reading... |
| Pain and terror: America remembers its past - video Posted: 25 Apr 2018 11:00 PM PDT More than 4,400 enslaved black men, women and children were lynched by white mobs between 1877 and 1950. As America's first memorial and museum dedicated to the legacy of enslaved black people opens in Montgomery, Alabama, Guardian US chief reporter Ed Pilkington meets founder and racial justice lawyer Bryan Stevenson Continue reading... |
| Macron: 'One day the US will come back to the Paris agreement' – video Posted: 25 Apr 2018 03:04 PM PDT Emmanuel Macron made an impassioned speech in Washington on Wednesday advocating many of the things, including the Paris climate change accord, that Donald Trump has spent much of his presidency trying to destroy. Continue reading... |
| 'I feel helpless': this is the face of child detention on Nauru – video Posted: 25 Apr 2018 11:00 AM PDT Ali is a 12-year-old Iranian asylum seeker detained on Nauru. His mother has been repeatedly recommended for urgent medical transfer to Australia but, 14 months on, there is no immediate plan to move her Continue reading... |
| Rösti reception: the Korean summit menu – in pictures Posted: 25 Apr 2018 07:40 AM PDT A Korean 'reinterpretation' of the Swiss fried potato dish rösti is one highlight of the banquet planned for after Friday's summit between the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and South Korea's president, Moon Jae-in Continue reading... |
| Five touching moments between Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron – video Posted: 25 Apr 2018 03:43 AM PDT The French president is on the first state visit to the US under Trump's presidency. During the three-day trip, the two heads of state have shared some touching moments – including Trump brushing dandruff from Macron's suit – in between discussions on global affairs Continue reading... |
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