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- Death toll mounts as Palestinians protest on Gaza border
- Trump administration hits 24 Russians with sanctions over 'malign activity'
- US stock markets sink on China trade war fears
- 'It’s been 1,000 days': wife of jailed Chinese lawyer on march for answers
- Canadian doctor accused of using own sperm in IVF treatment
- Zimbabwe urged to take action against child labour on tobacco farms
- New Facebook controls aim to regulate political ads and fight fake news
- Rotterdam in the spotlight: from dismal mega-port to 'Dutch Brooklyn'
- Senior Met officer calls for 'societal change' to tackle London killings
- What will happen now Sergei Skripal is no longer critically ill?
- The 20 photographs of the week
- Africa is slowly splitting in two – but this 'crack' in Kenya has little to do with it
- HBO's Paterno, with Al Pacino as famed coach, probes scars of Sandusky scandal
- Canada: multiple deaths after truck collides with junior hockey team bus
- Reunited after 24 years: rare happy ending for China's broken families
- 'Stolenwealth Games': Indigenous protests continue on Gold Coast
- The fight goes on to ensure healthcare is not a privilege reserved for the rich | Lucy Lamble
- Alice in Wonderland and Midsomer Murders: Moscow's alternative theories for Skripal case
- Owen Jones goes on a Russian dirty money tour: 'We need to hit kleptocrats in their wallets'
- Sergei Skripal responding well to treatment, says Salisbury hospital – video
- Palestinians killed and wounded in Gaza border protests – video
| Death toll mounts as Palestinians protest on Gaza border Posted: 06 Apr 2018 11:30 PM PDT Renewed violence comes despite call by UN secretary general urging Israeli forces to use 'extreme caution' At least nine Palestinian men have been killed and scores more injured by Israeli gunfire on the Gaza border, a week after 18 Palestinians were killed at similar demonstrations. The renewed violence came despite a call by the UN secretary general, António Guterres for Israel to exercise "extreme caution". His appeal was echoed by the UN human rights spokeswoman Elizabeth Throssell who said unjustified recourse to live fire could amount to wilful killing of civilians – a breach of the fourth Geneva convention. Continue reading... |
| Trump administration hits 24 Russians with sanctions over 'malign activity' Posted: 06 Apr 2018 07:23 AM PDT Government officials and oligarchs are among those sanctioned, in US retaliation for alleged election meddling and other actions The Trump administration announced new sanctions on seven Russian oligarchs and 17 top government officials on Friday, in a move that targets Vladimir Putin's inner circle for "malign activity" including meddling in the 2016 US election and other aggressions. The new economic sanctions represent the most forceful action yet taken by the Trump administration against Putin's circle. Continue reading... |
| US stock markets sink on China trade war fears Posted: 06 Apr 2018 02:01 PM PDT The major indexes as well as tech stocks tumbled despite Trump officials downplaying any likelihood new tariffs would be enacted Investors fled US stocks on Friday after Donald Trump threatened more tariffs against Chinese goods, China vowed to battle "to the end" and US employment data missed analysts' expectations. Related: China threatens 'Trump country' with retaliatory tariffs ahead of midterms Continue reading... |
| 'It’s been 1,000 days': wife of jailed Chinese lawyer on march for answers Posted: 05 Apr 2018 09:20 PM PDT Li Wenzu does not know if Wang Quanzhang is still alive as she embarks on 100km journey to where he was last detained The wife of a detained Chinese human rights lawyer who has embarked on a 100-kilometre march to highlight his plight says she does not even know if he is still alive. Wang Quanzhang, who defended political activists and victims of land seizures, has had no contact with the outside world since he disappeared in a 2015 police sweep. He has since been charged with "subversion of state power" but authorities have blocked lawyers from visiting him. Continue reading... |
| Canadian doctor accused of using own sperm in IVF treatment Posted: 06 Apr 2018 09:57 AM PDT DNA suggests Dr Norman Barwin illicitly fathered 11 children after couple find husband's sperm was not used to conceive their daughter A Canadian fertility doctor is facing accusations of using his own sperm to inseminate 11 of his clients, in a class action lawsuit that claims he did so without their knowledge or consent. The proposed lawsuit against Dr Norman Barwin was first launched in 2016 by an Ottawa family who claimed that the prominent doctor had used his own sperm – rather than that of the family's father – to conceive their daughter in 1990. Continue reading... |
| Zimbabwe urged to take action against child labour on tobacco farms Posted: 06 Apr 2018 12:57 PM PDT Human Rights Watch says children as young as 11 are working on farms and face exposure to toxic chemicals The global watchdog Human Rights Watch has urged Zimbabwe to take urgent steps to stem child labour and other rights abuses on the country's tobacco farms. In a report titled "Bitter Harvest", the HRW revealed on Friday that children as young as 11 were working on tobacco farms, often in hazardous conditions, to earn school fees or supplement the family income. Continue reading... |
| New Facebook controls aim to regulate political ads and fight fake news Posted: 06 Apr 2018 12:00 PM PDT Moved intended to stall spread of false information and 'prevent future abuse in elections' Facebook is stepping up its efforts to fight fake news and political misinformation, with new controls intended to ensure authenticity and transparency among advertisers and publishers on the site. CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a post shortly after the moves were announced: "These steps by themselves won't stop all people trying to game the system. But they will make it a lot harder for anyone to do what the Russians did during the 2016 election and use fake accounts and pages to run ads." He also threw his company's support behind the Honest Ads Act, a US Senate bill: "Election interference is a problem that's bigger than any one platform ... This will help raise the bar for all political advertising online." Continue reading... |
| Rotterdam in the spotlight: from dismal mega-port to 'Dutch Brooklyn' Posted: 06 Apr 2018 03:00 AM PDT Unilever's new HQ has shed its mundane image with jazzy architecture and a commitment to sustainability. Even Amsterdammers are interested If Unilever plc's recent announcement about moving its corporate HQ out of London rang with the dread air of Brexodus, it was drowned out by the buzz already emanating from the company's new home: Rotterdam. The Netherlands' gritty second city once struggled to maintain even that ranking in Dutch hearts, as revealed by the well-worn motto: "Amsterdam to party, Den Haag to live, Rotterdam to work." But the last decade has put paid to that dismissal, with showstoppers such as Rem Koolhaas's De Rotterdam and the horseshoe-shaped Markthal bulwarking the city's reputation for adventurous architecture, cheap rents pulling in the creative crowd, and the rest of the world finally clueing up to life beyond the container port. Vogue recently called the city nothing less than "the Dutch Brooklyn". Continue reading... |
| Senior Met officer calls for 'societal change' to tackle London killings Posted: 07 Apr 2018 02:04 AM PDT Radical action from government and communities urged as man is held over murder of teenage girl A senior Scotland Yard officer has said radical "societal change" is needed to stem a rising tide of homicides after detectives arrested a man on suspicion of the murder of a teenage girl that brought national attention to London's violent crime crisis. DCS Michael Gallagher, the head of the Metropolitan police's organised crime command and former lead on knife crime, said action was needed from government, parents and communities as Britain's largest force could not arrest its way out of the problem. Continue reading... |
| What will happen now Sergei Skripal is no longer critically ill? Posted: 06 Apr 2018 10:26 AM PDT With both Skripals' health now stabilising, they may soon be able to help with investigation What is the latest development in the Salisbury nerve agent attack? Former Russian agent Sergei Skripal is no longer in a critical condition and is responding to treatment, according to doctors at the Salisbury district hospital. Continue reading... |
| The 20 photographs of the week Posted: 06 Apr 2018 11:42 PM PDT Protests in Gaza, the death of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr and the Commonwealth Games in Australia – the week captured by the world's best photojournalists Continue reading... |
| Africa is slowly splitting in two – but this 'crack' in Kenya has little to do with it Posted: 06 Apr 2018 07:35 AM PDT A widely reported crack in the Rift Valley was not formed by tectonic movement, but by erosion of soil from recent heavy rains Global media outlets have been abuzz recently about a large "crack" which appeared in the Kenyan Rift Valley. Many of these news pieces have tried to get to the bottom of what caused this feature, with many reports concluding that it was evidence for the African continent actively splitting into two. However, many articles cited limited expert comment, much of which was taken out of context and was based on minimal hard evidence. Other articles fed directly off previous reports, propagating unsubstantiated rumours and losing sight of original sources. |
| HBO's Paterno, with Al Pacino as famed coach, probes scars of Sandusky scandal Posted: 07 Apr 2018 02:00 AM PDT A new HBO film shows how Jerry Sandusky revealed flaws in Joe Paterno that no one, least of all the coach himself, knew were there Joe Paterno coached football at Pennsylvania State University for 62 years, 46 of them as head coach, winning 409 games (a major college record) and two national championships. Five times he was chosen Coach of the Year by his peers in the American Football Coaches Association. His Nittany Lions' 1987 Fiesta Bowl victory over the Miami Hurricanes was the most watched college football game at the time. He will be remembered, though, for just one season, 2011, when he was fired by the Penn State board of trustees in the midst of the ugliest sports-related scandal in American history. Which is not to call the rape of dozens of boys a sports scandal. He could have imagined no more bitter irony than being remembered for just one season. Continue reading... |
| Canada: multiple deaths after truck collides with junior hockey team bus Posted: 06 Apr 2018 10:47 PM PDT Hockey club president says 'there have been multiple fatalities our whole community is in shock' A crash between a transport truck and a bus carrying a junior hockey team in Western Canada left multiple people dead and others seriously injured, Canadian police said late on Friday. The bus was carrying the Humboldt Broncos of the Saskatchewan junior hockey league to the town of Nipawin for a playoff game. It collided with a transport truck. Continue reading... |
| Reunited after 24 years: rare happy ending for China's broken families Posted: 06 Apr 2018 11:00 PM PDT The story of Kang Ying, and the parents who searched 24 years for her, moved the country Growing up, Kang Ying didn't think much about the fact that she was adopted. Her family, farmers in a rural county of China's south-western Sichuan province, never treated her differently. When Kang asked about her birth parents, she was told she had been found on the street, a little girl no more than four years old, probably abandoned. In March, Kang, now 28, learned that was not the whole story. Married and with children of her own, she began to wonder about her own mother. She searched online for "child lost more than 20 years ago" and came across a sketch that made her stop. Continue reading... |
| 'Stolenwealth Games': Indigenous protests continue on Gold Coast Posted: 06 Apr 2018 10:55 PM PDT Group says it will continue demonstrations during Commonwealth Games An Aboriginal group marched through the centre of Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast on Saturday, continuing their protest against the hosting of the 2018 Commonwealth Games. After assembling on the foreshore, north of the Cavill Avenue mall, about 150 people – mainly women and children – proceeded along the beach chanting and dancing, and attracting plenty of interest from beachgoers along the way. Continue reading... |
| The fight goes on to ensure healthcare is not a privilege reserved for the rich | Lucy Lamble Posted: 06 Apr 2018 05:07 AM PDT The World Health Organization is 70 years old on 7 April. But is it still in good shape to tackle the huge inequalities in treatment across the world? On this World Health Day, 7 April, the World Health Organization marks its 70th anniversary. It has notched up some notable achievements such as the efforts to eradicate diseases like smallpox, a convention on tobacco control and a framework to prevent flu pandemics. Alongside this runs coordinating work on global standards and guidelines for essential drugs, diagnosis, treatment and health workers. Continue reading... |
| Alice in Wonderland and Midsomer Murders: Moscow's alternative theories for Skripal case Posted: 06 Apr 2018 03:08 AM PDT Russia's irreverent explanations for Salisbury attack may play to Kremlin's favour in boosting domestic support Moscow's explanations for the Salisbury nerve agent attack last month have been irreverent and numerous; Russian officials appear to have hurled alternative versions of events at the wall just to see what sticks. Russian polemics at the UN security council have alluded to Alice in Wonderland and the TV series Midsomer Murders, suggesting that Sweden synthesised the poison or that it was a "false flag" attack by British authorities, among more than a dozen other theories. |
| Owen Jones goes on a Russian dirty money tour: 'We need to hit kleptocrats in their wallets' Posted: 06 Apr 2018 02:54 AM PDT Amid the recriminations over the Sergei Skprial poisoning, questions have been raised about how the UK government deals with Russia. Is expelling diplomats enough? Or would clamping down on the use of offshore accounts and money laundering to invest in London properties hurt the Kremlin more? Owen Jones takes a bus trip around London to find out Continue reading... |
| Sergei Skripal responding well to treatment, says Salisbury hospital – video Posted: 06 Apr 2018 01:13 PM PDT Dr Christine Blanshard, the medical director at Salisbury district hospital, reveals that the health of Sergei and Yulia Skripal is improving. The pair, who were poisoned in the town last month, have become caught up in an international tussle between the UK and Russia. Continue reading... |
| Palestinians killed and wounded in Gaza border protests – video Posted: 06 Apr 2018 10:10 AM PDT At least five Palestinian protesters have been killed and scores more injured by Israeli gunfire on the Gaza border, a week after 18 Palestinians were killed at similar demonstrations. The renewed violence came despite a call by the UN secretary general, António Guterres, asking Israel to exercise "extreme caution". Continue reading... |
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