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- Malaysia: Mahathir Mohamad says Anwar Ibrahim to be given royal pardon
- Iran and Israel have little incentive to hurry down the path to war
- Single women a 'burden on the state', says Japanese MP
- Eurovision: Jessica Mauboy sings up a storm to put Australia into grand final
- Spanish civil war speech invented by father of Michael Portillo, says historian
- Georgina Chapman: Harvey Weinstein's ex-wife breaks her silence
- Moldova PM rules out reunification with Romania
- Vladimir Putin's ice hockey slump continues in five-goal performance
- US issues apology after Canadian minister told to take off turban at airport
- Hurricane season may be even worse in 2018 after a harrowing 2017
- Trump confirms face-to-face talks with Kim Jong-un in Singapore in June
- Pentagon investigation into lethal Niger ambush finds multiple failures
- David Goodall, Australia's oldest scientist, ends his own life aged 104
- Canadian police investigate video of woman's racist rant in Alberta restaurant
- US cities losing 36 million trees a year, researchers find
- Time running out for Malaysian hitman in Australia
- Police identify suspect in Deptford double murder inquiry
- Cold War review – wounded love and state-sponsored fear in 1940s Poland
- Hundreds of thousands of children close to dying of hunger in Congo, UN warns
- Unexpected walruses crowd beach of small Alaskan village
- Lula's 'heir' sets his sights on becoming Brazil's youngest president
- Chinese broadcaster loses Eurovision rights over LGBT censorship
- Sam Dastyari's far-right abuser gets suspended fine for contempt
- Teenager who killed husband after he raped her is sentenced to death in Sudan
- Dozens killed and many more feared trapped after Kenya's Patel dam bursts
- UK may increase aid to Syrian White Helmets after Trump pulls funding
- Israel-Iran conflict is no surprise but implications are unclear
- Trump’s rejection of Iran nuclear deal may be Israel’s dream moment
- Forcibly outing LGBT children to their parents is monstrous | Drew Brown
- Malaysia's king will pardon jailed politician Anwar Ibrahim, PM says – video
- Enormous sinkhole appears on New Zealand farm – video
- Alberta woman's racist tirade – 'You are not Canadian' - video
- Dozens killed in Kenya after dam bursts – video report
- The impact of lava: destruction caused by volcano in Hawaii – video
| Malaysia: Mahathir Mohamad says Anwar Ibrahim to be given royal pardon Posted: 11 May 2018 12:13 AM PDT The new prime minister also pledges to recover billions of dollars lost in the 1MDB corruption scandal The newly-elected Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has said the country's monarch is willing to grant a full pardon to the jailed politician Anwar Ibrahim – beginning the process by which he could shortly succeed him. The announcement came a day after the 92-year-old was sworn in after a shock win that toppled a long-ruling coalition mired in a $3.2bn corruption scandal. Continue reading... |
| Iran and Israel have little incentive to hurry down the path to war Posted: 10 May 2018 11:39 PM PDT Latest attacks unlikely to ignite all-out conflict – but spark could come from a miscalculation As the number of Israeli strikes inside Syria have increased over the past four years, so have fears that the next attack will be a tipping point. Those concerns reached a climax on Thursday when residents of an already volatile neighbourhood woke to news of the biggest assault yet on targets inside Syria: predawn attacks that Israeli officials claim hit Iran's presence across the country. |
| Single women a 'burden on the state', says Japanese MP Posted: 10 May 2018 09:46 PM PDT Kanji Kato criticised for telling women to have multiple children as birth rate falls to lowest level since 1899 An MP from Japan's governing party has drawn accusations of sexism after he said women should have multiple children and warned those who preferred to remain single that they would become a burden on the state later in life. Kanji Kato, a member of prime minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic party, told a party faction meeting that when he is asked to give speeches at wedding receptions, he encourages the bride and groom to produce "at least three children". Continue reading... |
| Eurovision: Jessica Mauboy sings up a storm to put Australia into grand final Posted: 10 May 2018 11:35 PM PDT Rapturous applause greets performance of We Got Love in Lisbon semi-final • Sign up to receive the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Step one: believe in it. That's how you write a song. And there's nothing bigger than the power of belief at Eurovision, except perhaps for Eurovision expectation. Who will surprise? Who will flounder? Who will go for a Roman centurion in a hamster wheel? Who will get lewd with a saxophone? But let's be realistic: we were only ever here for Jessica Mauboy, who won through to the grand final on Friday morning Australian time after a triumphant return to Eurovision. Continue reading... |
| Spanish civil war speech invented by father of Michael Portillo, says historian Posted: 11 May 2018 12:07 AM PDT Doubt cast on account of heroic defence of liberal values written by father of Michael Portillo On 12 October 1936, Miguel de Unamuno stood in the assembly hall of Spain's oldest university and delivered a premature but prescient lament for the triumph of might over right and militarism over reason. The Spanish civil war was not quite three months old but the elderly writer and philosopher had already foreseen its outcome. Continue reading... |
| Georgina Chapman: Harvey Weinstein's ex-wife breaks her silence Posted: 10 May 2018 08:53 AM PDT The Marchesa fashion designer has given her first interview to American Vogue
The interview will be interpreted as an attempt to rehabilitate Chapman's fashion brand, Marchesa, which was tainted by its association with Weinstein. This week, the brand controversially secured its first A-list endorsement since the scandal, being worn at the Met Gala by Scarlett Johansson. |
| Moldova PM rules out reunification with Romania Posted: 10 May 2018 09:00 PM PDT Pavel Filip opposed to tie-up with neighbour despite growing calls for countries to unite Moldova's government has ruled out reunification with Romania despite a surge in demands for the two countries to unite. The prime minister, Pavel Filip, said Moldova's place was as a sovereign state, independent of Romania. "Too much has been said about reunification, identity, language and I want to look at the concrete development of the country," he told the Guardian. Continue reading... |
| Vladimir Putin's ice hockey slump continues in five-goal performance Posted: 10 May 2018 02:36 PM PDT
It appears rumours of Vladimir Putin's invincibility may have been exaggerated as the Russian president only managed to score five of his team's 12 goals during an exhibition ice hockey game on Thursday. That tally continues a worrying trend for the Russian president. Putin plays regularly for the Legends of Hockey team in a game given wide coverage on Russian state TV. Playing alongside former NHL players, Putin scored eight goals in 2015 and seven last year, meaning the 65-year-old's hopes of playing professionally now appear to be slipping. Continue reading... |
| US issues apology after Canadian minister told to take off turban at airport Posted: 10 May 2018 01:48 PM PDT Navdeep Bains, a cabinet minister, said he refused to take off his turban after he had already passed through regular security checks Officials from the Trump administration issued an apology after a security agent at a Detroit airport repeatedly demanded that a Canadian cabinet minister remove his turban, the minister has revealed. Navdeep Bains, the country's minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, described the incident in an interview with the French-language paper La Presse on Thursday. Continue reading... |
| Hurricane season may be even worse in 2018 after a harrowing 2017 Posted: 10 May 2018 10:00 PM PDT The initial forecasts of an above-average season for hurricanes, beginning on 1 June, follow a punishing spate of storms last year The US may have to brace itself for another harrowing spate of hurricanes this year, with forecasts of an active 2018 season coming amid new research that shows powerful Atlantic storms are intensifying far more rapidly than they did 30 years ago. Related: 'We've been forgotten': Hurricane Harvey and the long path to recovery Continue reading... |
| Trump confirms face-to-face talks with Kim Jong-un in Singapore in June Posted: 10 May 2018 11:41 AM PDT
Donald Trump will come face to face with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, in Singapore on 12 June, the US president announced on Thursday. The summit – a first between a sitting US president and his North Korean counterpart – will be the stage for critical talks aimed at curbing North Korea's nuclear weapons programme. Continue reading... |
| Pentagon investigation into lethal Niger ambush finds multiple failures Posted: 10 May 2018 02:06 PM PDT
A military investigation has found "individual, organisational and institutional failures" leading up to an ambush of US special forces and local troops by an Isis-affiliated group in Niger last October. The incident took place just south of the Niger-Mali border when a joint patrol was returning from an attempt to find a leader of Isis in the Greater Sahara (Isis-GS), Doundoun Cheffou, and were taken by surprise by a much bigger force of militants on motorbikes and pickup trucks. Five Nigerien and four American soldiers were killed. Continue reading... |
| David Goodall, Australia's oldest scientist, ends his own life aged 104 Posted: 10 May 2018 06:32 AM PDT Goodall ate fish and chips and cheesecake and listened to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in final hours Australia's oldest scientist, David Goodall, has ended his own life at a clinic in Switzerland, surrounded by family and while listening to Beethoven's Ode to Joy. The British-born 104-year-old professor was forced to travel on a one-way ticket from his home in Western Australia to Switzerland where liberal assisted dying laws allowed him to end his life legally, in contrast to Australia where it remains forbidden. Continue reading... |
| Canadian police investigate video of woman's racist rant in Alberta restaurant Posted: 10 May 2018 10:28 AM PDT Monir Omerzai posted Facebook video of him and friends in Denny's being racially abused and told to 'go back to your fucking country' Police in Canada are investigating a video that shows a woman unleashing a racist tirade at a group of customers at a Denny's restaurant in southern Alberta, shouting at them to "go back to where you came from" and accusing them of not paying taxes. Among those sitting at the table was Monir Omerzai, who said the incident had left him reeling. After being encouraged by friends, he posted a video of the confrontation this week. Continue reading... |
| US cities losing 36 million trees a year, researchers find Posted: 10 May 2018 03:00 AM PDT Scientists warn of environmental threats rising from trend that is 'likely to continue unless policies are altered' Cities in the United States are increasingly seeing concrete in place of greenery as urban areas lose an estimated 36m trees annually, according to a study from the Forest Service. Tree cover in urban areas has declined at a rate of around 175,000 acres per year, while impervious cover – such as roads and buildings – has increased significantly across the country. An estimated 40% of new impervious surfaces were in areas where trees used to grow, the study found. Continue reading... |
| Time running out for Malaysian hitman in Australia Posted: 10 May 2018 10:50 PM PDT Sirul Azhar Umar is in detention where he must prove that he did not mastermind the execution of the former lover of the ousted Malaysian PM's confidant As Najib Razak was fighting the election that would end his controversial prime ministership of Malaysia, a former official of his political party quietly entered Australia's Villawood detention centre to visit an inmate at the centre of one of the biggest scandals of Najib's reign. Two weeks ago, Datuk Khairul Anwar Rahmat, the former head of Najib's United Malay National party's youth wing, flew to Sydney and, with the approval of Australia's department of home affairs, went straight to meet in private with Sirul Azhar Umar, a former police commando and hitman. Continue reading... |
| Police identify suspect in Deptford double murder inquiry Posted: 11 May 2018 01:01 AM PDT Nathaniel Henry was found dead weeks after the murder of Noel and Marie Brown in south-east London Police have said forensic evidence links a man who died in December to the double murder of a convicted sex offender and his daughter in the same month. Scotland Yard announced a major development in the investigation into the killing of Noel Brown, 69, and Marie Brown, 41, naming Nathaniel Henry as a significant suspect. Continue reading... |
| Cold War review – wounded love and state-sponsored fear in 1940s Poland Posted: 11 May 2018 12:54 AM PDT Ida director Paweł Pawlikoswki's exquisitely chilling Soviet-era drama maps the dark heart of Poland itself • Sign up for Film Today and get our film team's highlights of the day The torn curtain of love is the theme of Paweł Pawlikowski's mysterious, musically glorious and visually ravishing film set in cold war Poland and beyond. The crystalline black-and-white cinematography exalts its moments of intimate grimness and its dreamlike showpieces of theatrical display. It is an elliptical, episodic story of imprisonment and escape, epic in scope. A love affair thrashes and wilts in the freedom of a foreign country, and then begins to submit to the homeland's doomy gravitational pull. Like Pawlikowski's previous picture, Ida, this is about the dark heart of Poland itself. The wounded love at its centre surfaces from the depths of cynicism, exhaustion and state-sponsored submission and fear. In Poland of the late 1940s, as the cold war's snowy chill begins to settle, a musician and a broadcaster are touring remote villages with their recording equipment, earnestly listening to folk songs, hoping to recruit a fresh-faced troupe of young people for a show of authentic traditional Polish song and dance. These youngsters will be billeted in a country house for a month – as if in some prehistoric un-televised reality show – and drilled in picturesque Polish musical forms, with some tested for starring roles, ready to be shown off at theatrical evenings to party officials and maybe even politically congenial foreigners. Continue reading... |
| Hundreds of thousands of children close to dying of hunger in Congo, UN warns Posted: 10 May 2018 11:00 PM PDT Unicef issues urgent appeal for funding to support 40,000 children at risk of death in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Kasai region Hundreds of thousands of children in a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo face imminent death from hunger, the UN children's agency, Unicef, warned on Friday. Without urgent humanitarian assistance, said the agency, child fatalities in the Kasai region – which erupted in violence in August 2016, and has forced 1 million people from their homes – could "skyrocket". Continue reading... |
| Unexpected walruses crowd beach of small Alaskan village Posted: 10 May 2018 07:11 PM PDT Port Heiden is used to an occasional walrus but 200 turned up last month and two weeks later a thousand were spotted Walruses are gathering on the Alaskan peninsula and scientists are trying to work out why. Residents of a village of 110 on the peninsula see the occasional walrus in Bering Sea waters, but when 200 packed a beach just outside the community, it took them by surprise. Continue reading... |
| Lula's 'heir' sets his sights on becoming Brazil's youngest president Posted: 11 May 2018 01:00 AM PDT Guilherme Boulos, only 35, has a slim chance in the October election, but he's already seen as a potential successor – by Lula himself It sounds like the longest of long shots. Guilherme Boulos has never stood for political office of any kind, but he is somehow now aiming for the very top job. |
| Chinese broadcaster loses Eurovision rights over LGBT censorship Posted: 11 May 2018 02:13 AM PDT Mango TV blacked out performance featuring two male dancers during semi-final The European Broadcasting Union has blocked a Chinese broadcaster from airing the Eurovision song contest after it edited out LGBT elements from an online stream of the semi-finals on Tuesday. Mango TV, a video-streaming site linked to one of China's most watched channels, Hunan TV, blacked out the performance of Ireland's Ryan O'Shaugnessy, during which two male dancers depicted a fraught relationship. The site also pixellated a rainbow flag waved during another performance. |
| Sam Dastyari's far-right abuser gets suspended fine for contempt Posted: 11 May 2018 02:09 AM PDT Neil Erikson's $10,000 penalty held back on condition he uploads no more content featuring Toll Group Sign up to receive the top stories in Australia every day at noon A far-right activist faces the threat of a hefty fine over an online video in which the former senator Sam Dastyari was called a "terrorist" and a "monkey" at a Melbourne pub. Neil Erikson was fined $10,000 on Friday for contempt but the penalty was suspended on the condition he does not upload any more content featuring his former employer, the freight company Toll Group. Continue reading... |
| Teenager who killed husband after he raped her is sentenced to death in Sudan Posted: 10 May 2018 07:03 PM PDT Activists in last-ditch effort to save 19-year-old condemned to death for stabbing the man she was forced to marry as he assaulted her A 19-year-old Sudanese woman has been condemned to death by a court in Omdurman for stabbing to death the husband to whom she was forcibly married, who she says raped her with assistance of his family. The death penalty for Noura Hussein was confirmed by a judge on Thursday after her husband's family rejected the possibility of financial compensation and instead asked for her to be executed. Continue reading... |
| Dozens killed and many more feared trapped after Kenya's Patel dam bursts Posted: 10 May 2018 03:42 PM PDT Hundreds of homes in Rift Valley swept away by lethal torrent of mud and debris as 2km area is engulfed A dam has burst its banks in Kenya's Rift Valley, killing at least 47 people and forcing hundreds from their homes, officials have said. Water burst through the banks of the Patel dam in Solai, 190km north-west of the capital, Nairobi, at about 9pm on Wednesday. The ensuing deluge swept away hundreds of homes, including those on the expansive Nyakinyua farm, which borders the reservoir. Continue reading... |
| UK may increase aid to Syrian White Helmets after Trump pulls funding Posted: 10 May 2018 05:07 AM PDT Theresa May pays tribute to life-saving rescue group working in 'horrendous' conditions and will look at boost in British support Britain could increase its funding to the Syrian volunteer rescue group the White Helmets following reports that Donald Trump is withdrawing US support. Theresa May said she would consider plugging the gap, acknowledged the important work done by the organisation in "horrendous" conditions. The US government previously contributed about a third of the overall funding for the group. Continue reading... |
| Israel-Iran conflict is no surprise but implications are unclear Posted: 10 May 2018 06:30 AM PDT Key question is whether underlying assumptions governing rules of competition between two nations have changed If the precise timing of the outbreak of hostilities between Israel and Iran in Syria is surprising, the fact that it has occurred is less so. For well over a year Israeli officials have been talking up the Iranian threat and the prospect of a conflict in "the north". Continue reading... |
| Trump’s rejection of Iran nuclear deal may be Israel’s dream moment Posted: 10 May 2018 03:33 AM PDT Israeli strikes on Iranian assets in Syria raise concerns the US and Israel are acting in concert Israel's heaviest strikes against Iranian targets in Syria, in response to apparent missile attacks on the occupied Golan Heights, reveal how much has been uncorked by Donald Trump's decision to quit the Iran nuclear deal this week. If confirmed, it is the first time Iranian forces have struck at Israeli positions from inside Syria and the response was the largest Israeli strike yet against Iranian positions. Related: Israel retaliates after Iran 'fires 20 rockets' at army in occupied Golan Heights Continue reading... |
| Forcibly outing LGBT children to their parents is monstrous | Drew Brown Posted: 10 May 2018 03:00 AM PDT A proposal in Alberta, which would require schools to inform parents if their teenagers join gay-friendly groups, shows how fragile social progress is – even in Canada How much control does a parent have over the inner life of their adolescent child? This thorny philosophical issue has come to a head in Canada, where the conservative party in Alberta has endorsed a policy that would require schools to inform parents if their children enroll in "extracurricular activities of a religious or sexual nature". Continue reading... |
| Malaysia's king will pardon jailed politician Anwar Ibrahim, PM says – video Posted: 11 May 2018 01:51 AM PDT The newly elected prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, also pledges to recover billions of dollars lost in the 1MDB corruption scandal Continue reading... |
| Enormous sinkhole appears on New Zealand farm – video Posted: 10 May 2018 08:55 PM PDT A huge sinkhole has opened up on a farm in Tumunui, New Zealand. A volcanologist says it is the biggest he has seen in the country, three times bigger than the previous largest. The gaping hole measures around 200m long and 20m deep and is expected to get bigger. Continue reading... |
| Alberta woman's racist tirade – 'You are not Canadian' - video Posted: 10 May 2018 11:14 AM PDT A Canadian woman has lost her job after a Facebook video emerged showing her making racist remarks in a restaurant. Kelly Pocha asks patrons if they pay their taxes and tells them she is not one of their 'Syrian bitches' and demands that they speak English Continue reading... |
| Dozens killed in Kenya after dam bursts – video report Posted: 10 May 2018 08:44 AM PDT Water broke through the banks of the Patel dam in Solai, northern Kenya, on Wednesday night, killing at least 38 people and forcing hundreds from their homes. Up to 40 people were rescued from the mud and taken to hospital in rescue operations conducted by the Kenya Red Cross and Nakuru county disaster management teams. But many more are feared to be trapped under debris and mud, which have submerged homes over a radius of nearly 1.2 miles Continue reading... |
| The impact of lava: destruction caused by volcano in Hawaii – video Posted: 10 May 2018 04:33 AM PDT The Kilauea volcano has destroyed more than 20 homes and caused hundreds to evacuate parts of Hawaii. The eruption spewed lava hundreds of metres into the air. A dozen lava vents have opened in the streets of the Puna district Continue reading... |
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