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- North Korea invites world to watch closure of nuclear test site
- Jaded Iraqis trudge to polls as PM battles anti-Isis heroes
- Paris knifeman shot dead after killing one and injuring four
- New fissure in Hawaii volcano propels lava four storeys high
- Italy’s radical M5S and League on verge of forming government
- Myanmar: 19 die in fresh clashes between army and rebels in Shan state
- Malaysia: date set for release of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim
- Fracking mogul Jim Ratcliffe becomes UK’s richest person
- Ireland’s abortion referendum: ‘It’s painful and it’s personal’
- Al Walaja: the Palestinian village being slowly squeezed off the map
- In the Belhaj case, Britain set aside the rule of law and moral principles | Will Hutton
- Joe Biden: the liberal everyman spoiling for a fight with Trump as 2020 looms
- Indonesia church attacks: at least nine dead after bombs target Sunday masses
- Margaret River shooting: father says he still loves man believed responsible for deaths
- In Ethiopia’s bushlands, promised riches of a railway boom turn to dust
- Aid sector urged to crack down on war zone child abusers
- Midterms 2018: Republicans sense signs that blue wave can be broken
- There's a particular awfulness to using feminist politics to shield bad behavior
- Unseen photographs of civil rights conflict in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963
| North Korea invites world to watch closure of nuclear test site Posted: 12 May 2018 11:08 AM PDT Western reporters among those allowed to visit remote mountain location before Trump summit North Korea plans to officially dismantle its nuclear test site later this month at a ceremony attended by foreign media that will pave the way for leader Kim Jong-un's summit with the US president, Donald Trump. State authorities will put the site out of operation by using explosives to collapse the tunnels used for testing between 23 and 25 May, the foreign ministry said in a statement on the official KCNA website. Continue reading... |
| Jaded Iraqis trudge to polls as PM battles anti-Isis heroes Posted: 12 May 2018 09:59 AM PDT Iranian-backed opposition and US favourite Haider al-Abadi fail to inspire voters Under grey skies, along empty streets, Iraqis trickled to the polls on Saturday unconvinced that the leaders on offer can finally stabilise a country exhausted by war and dysfunction. Before the voting, Iraq's fourth national election since the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein had been hailed as its most instructive yet, a time when a long elusive calm could finally take root, now that the Islamic State terror group has been curbed. Continue reading... |
| Paris knifeman shot dead after killing one and injuring four Posted: 12 May 2018 10:56 PM PDT Police confirm attacker has been killed as French president praises officers' courage A knifeman killed one person and injured four others, one of them critically, before being shot dead by police in Paris. The attacker struck in one of the most popular areas of the city, near the celebrated opera house and theatres. Continue reading... |
| New fissure in Hawaii volcano propels lava four storeys high Posted: 12 May 2018 08:04 PM PDT
A new fissure roaring like jet engines and spewing magma opened on Hawaii's Kilauea volcano on Saturday, piling lava as high as a four-storey building, as the area torn by the US volcano's eruption spread. The crack in pasture land on Kilauea's east flank was the 16th recorded since the volcano, one of the world's most active, erupted eight days ago. Thousands of people have fled their homes on Hawaii's Big Island because of lava and toxic gases, and dozens of homes have been destroyed. Continue reading... |
| Italy’s radical M5S and League on verge of forming government Posted: 12 May 2018 02:00 PM PDT After two months of post-election negotiations, a coalition agreement – if not a decision on a prime minister – seems imminent When Italians went to the polls in early March, the message was loud and clear: it was time for the parties that had dominated politics since the early 1990s to vacate the stage. Over 50% of voters backed two outsider parties, the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) and the far-right League. Over two months later, the pair are on the verge of forming a coalition government that could break decisively with the centrist policies that went before. Continue reading... |
| Myanmar: 19 die in fresh clashes between army and rebels in Shan state Posted: 11 May 2018 11:11 PM PDT Fighting intensifies in Myanmar's north as focus is on the Rohingya crisis in the country's west At least 19 people have been killed in fresh clashes between Myanmar's military and an ethnic armed group in the remote northern Shan state, as fighting in the country's borderlands intensifies. "Nineteen [people] were killed in fighting" on Saturday, a military source said, adding that two dozen had been injured. Continue reading... |
| Malaysia: date set for release of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim Posted: 12 May 2018 04:57 AM PDT Former deputy PM, jailed on sodomy charges in 2015, to receive royal pardon this week Anwar Ibrahim, the former deputy prime minister of Malaysia, is due to be released from prison on Tuesday, his daughter has said. Anwar is serving a second prison sentence for sodomy, which many believe was politically motivated and the result of judicial pressure brought by the country's ousted prime minister, Najib Razak. Continue reading... |
| Fracking mogul Jim Ratcliffe becomes UK’s richest person Posted: 13 May 2018 01:00 AM PDT Petrochemical firm Ineos founder knocks Hinduja brothers from top spot in Sunday Times Rich List Fracking and chemicals billionaire Jim Ratcliffe increased his wealth by more than £15bn last year to take the crown as Britain's richest person, with a £21bn fortune. Ratcliffe, 65, has overtaken the Hinduja brothers, to take the Sunday Times Rich List title thanks to a huge increase in value of his petrochemical company Ineos, the UK's biggest fracking firm. Continue reading... |
| Ireland’s abortion referendum: ‘It’s painful and it’s personal’ Posted: 13 May 2018 01:00 AM PDT On 25 May, the people of Ireland will vote on whether to relax their harsh abortion laws. We talk to some of the thousands of women who've been galvanised by the chance of a lifetime Social change used to come slowly in Ireland. Now, it cannot seem to come fast enough. Three years ago this month, the Republic voted in favour of same-sex marriage – and became the first country in the world to do so. A year later, Leo Varadkar, who was a number of firsts rolled into one, became taoiseach. At 38, he was the country's youngest ever prime minister, the first from an ethnic minority background and the first to have come out as gay. Now, voters are about to go to the polls to have their say on arguably the most bitterly and repeatedly contested issue in modern Ireland: abortion. This is the sixth referendum on the subject in the past 35 years. But while previous votes were about small, esoteric changes to the existing law, this time the Irish people will decide whether to liberalise, once and for all, one of the most restrictive abortion regimes in the world, or to keep the status quo. Voters will be asked on 25 May if they want to repeal article 40.3.3 – known as the eighth amendment – which gives unborn foetuses and pregnant women an equal right to life, in effect enshrining a ban on abortion in Ireland's constitution and making it the sole western democracy to do so. It is only since 2013 that terminations have been allowed in cases where the mother's life is in danger and currently the penalty for accessing an illegal abortion is up to 14 years in prison. Continue reading... |
| Al Walaja: the Palestinian village being slowly squeezed off the map Posted: 12 May 2018 10:04 PM PDT As the 70th anniversary of Nakba approaches – when 700,000 Palestinians lost their homes in the wake of the creation of Israel – farming families on the West Bank recount their struggle to survive In the middle part of the last century the inhabitants of the village of Al Walaja, not far from Jerusalem, considered themselves very lucky. Fertile hills, terraced for growing vegetables and fruit, led down to a valley where an Ottoman-era railway line connected Jerusalem with the Mediterranean port of Jaffa. Close to a station, Al Walaja's farmers always had buyers for their lentils, peppers, and cucumbers. Mohammed Salim, who estimates he is approaching 80 as he was born "sometime in the 40s", remembers vast fields owned by Al Walaja families. "There was nothing else here." Continue reading... |
| In the Belhaj case, Britain set aside the rule of law and moral principles | Will Hutton Posted: 12 May 2018 10:00 PM PDT Abdel Hakim Belhaj got his apology, but we still lost the moral high ground It was one of the most shaming, self-abasing apologies ever made in the House of Commons, indeed arguably in any western legislature. On Thursday, the attorney general read the prime minister's statement saying sorry for Britain's complicity in the abduction of a free man to live through six years of imprisonment and torture at the hands of a dictator, through which we hoped to gain information. His crime? He was the enemy of a murderous regime which realpolitik dictated we temporarily befriend. Mrs May could scarcely have been more abject. "On behalf of her majesty's government," she wrote, "I apologise unreservedly… what happened to you is deeply troubling. It is clear that you were subjected to appalling treatment and that you suffered greatly." Continue reading... |
| Joe Biden: the liberal everyman spoiling for a fight with Trump as 2020 looms Posted: 13 May 2018 12:08 AM PDT The Democratic field is likely to be swollen but the 75-year-old could represent a likable consensus candidate for both wings of the party Among recent pilgrims to the Arizona ranch of Senator John McCain was Joe Biden. The Republican, who has an aggressive form of brain cancer, urged the former vice-president to "not walk away" from politics, Biden told the New York Times. It did not take much imagination to see this as a metaphorical shove – into the next race for the White House. Related: 'John McCain is not fighting a losing battle': a senator defends his legacy Continue reading... |
| Indonesia church attacks: at least nine dead after bombs target Sunday masses Posted: 12 May 2018 10:50 PM PDT Forty people also injured in the blasts in Surabaya, the country's second-largest city At least nine people have been killed and 40 others injured in bomb attacks, including a suicide blast, targeting churches in Indonesia's second biggest city, Surabaya. Related: 'A vigilante state': Aceh's citizens take sharia law into their own hands Continue reading... |
| Margaret River shooting: father says he still loves man believed responsible for deaths Posted: 12 May 2018 09:38 PM PDT Aaron Cockman speaks to reporters as West Australian premier Mark McGowan defends firearms laws The shattered father of the four children killed in the Margaret River family shooting massacre says he still loves the man believed responsible for their deaths – their grandfather. Peter Miles, his wife, Cynda, daughter Katrina and Aaron Cockman's four children – daughter Taye, 13, and sons Rylan, 12, Arye, 10, and Kadyn Cockman, 8 – were found dead at the Miles's Osmington property, north-east of Margaret River in Western Australia on Friday. Continue reading... |
| In Ethiopia’s bushlands, promised riches of a railway boom turn to dust Posted: 12 May 2018 02:09 PM PDT Villagers, lured by new jobs and rich rewards for selling their land, now face poverty and heartbreak as claims of corruption engulf £2.5bn transport project 'They promised us we would get jobs there," says Tadele, nodding at the grand, almost baroque edifice at the bottom of the hill. Adama's new railway station, yellow bricks golden in the afternoon sun, is still a symbol of hope for the 43-year-old who lives in a village overlooking it. But its promise is dimmer than it was. A stint on the payroll of the Chinese firm that built Ethiopia's new railway ended sourly. After six months he was fired, for reasons he disputes. Now, like many in his village and in small towns all along the railway from the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to Djibouti, the tiny nation and synonymous Red Sea port that borders Ethiopia, he is frustrated, impatient – and unemployed. Continue reading... |
| Aid sector urged to crack down on war zone child abusers Posted: 12 May 2018 01:30 PM PDT National Crime Agency warns of sex offenders travelling to conflict zones to exploit vulnerable children Sex offenders and paedophiles are travelling to the world's conflict zones to prey on vulnerable children, the National Crime Agency has warned. Robert Jones, deputy director of the NCA's child exploitation and online protection command, said offenders were exploiting the chaos of war and areas hit by natural disaster. He urged the aid sector to help make it as difficult as possible for individuals to commit crimes abroad. Continue reading... |
| Midterms 2018: Republicans sense signs that blue wave can be broken Posted: 12 May 2018 10:00 PM PDT History suggest a bumper year for Democrats but while Trump may be an electoral liability in some districts in others he is an asset After months of hype about Democrats' chances of taking back both chambers of Congress in the November midterm elections, Republicans are now more sanguine. The "blue wave" is not hitting every beach. Related: Sign up for the Guardian's US daily email Continue reading... |
| There's a particular awfulness to using feminist politics to shield bad behavior Posted: 12 May 2018 05:00 AM PDT It's terrible when anyone is outed as an abuser, but New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman's case was uniquely slimy The Week in Patriarchy is a weekly roundup of what's happening in the world of feminism and sexism. If you're not already receiving it by email, make sure to subscribe. Continue reading... |
| Unseen photographs of civil rights conflict in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963 Posted: 12 May 2018 05:34 AM PDT In spring 1963, African American civil rights activists in Alabama started the Birmingham campaign, a series of sit-ins, boycotts and marches against segregation laws. The peaceful demonstrations were met with violence, teargas and police dogs. The events were a turning point in the civil rights movement, making front-page news around the world. The Observer dispatched photographer Colin Jones to cover the story and capture the activism centred around the 16th Street Baptist church. Many of these images, discovered in the Observer's picture archive, have never before been published. Continue reading... |
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