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- Gaza: Nakba day protests as Palestinians bury those killed in embassy unrest – live updates
- Meghan Markle's father will not attend the royal wedding – report
- Iraq's shock election result may be turning point for Iran
- Mexico’s education reforms flounder as more spent on PR than teacher training
- Melania Trump undergoes kidney surgery
- Airline pilot 'sucked halfway out' when cockpit windshield broke
- Editor of Bangkok Post 'forced to step down' over coverage of government
- Supreme court rejects appeal from Blackwater guards convicted of killing Iraqi civilians
- 'Tax Amazon': Seattle passes plan for corporate wealth tax to fund housing
- Billionaire Christopher Chandler denies spy claims
- Warning sounded over China's 'debtbook diplomacy'
- Scientists 'transplant memories' between sea snails via injection
- Turkey's president blames US for returning world to 'dark days'
- Wandering stars: are Tallinn's digital nomads building the city of the future?
- Visible darkness: the shadowed streets of Chicago – in pictures
- ‘Slow genocide’: Myanmar’s invisible war on the Kachin Christian minority
- Bristol mayor to ask UN to give cities greater role in migration talks
- UK real wages rise, as German economy slows - business live
- I love Eurovision, but Jerusalem 2019 will be no cause for celebration | Michael Segalov
- Africa's female rising stars of business are still seen as second-class citizens | Afua Osei
- Pilot 'sucked halfway out' after windshield blows out at 32,000ft – video
- Damning report finds NDIS complaints ignored for months
- Discrimination kills 230,000 girls under five in India each year, study shows
- Sudan urged to pardon teenager facing death for killing husband who raped her
- Friends without benefits: how Europe was wrongfooted by Trump over Iran
- Death, division and denial as US embassy opens in Jerusalem
- The gun control debate has shifted. Can a new initiative bring change?
- Korean Air: how a high-flying family dynasty was brought low – video
- Fatal clashes in Gaza after opening of US embassy – in pictures
- Georgian ravers and rightwingers clash over club culture – video
- Palestinians killed as US opens embassy in Jerusalem – video report
| Gaza: Nakba day protests as Palestinians bury those killed in embassy unrest – live updates Posted: 15 May 2018 02:21 AM PDT Follow the latest developments in Gaza as the funerals take place of dozens of Palestinians shot dead by the Israeli forces in protests at the US moving its embassy to Jerusalem
The funerals of many of the victims of Monday's violence are due to get underway after noon prayers which are taking place now. Related: Palestinians to bury 58 people killed in US embassy protests
In an interview with Bloomberg, Turkey's president Reccep Tayip Erdoğan blamed Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu for Monday's killings. EXCLUSIVE: Turkey's President Erdogan says Trump and Israeli PM Netanyahu are responsible for the death of at least 55 Palestinians in Gaza https://t.co/m8oytB3HhZ #tictocnews pic.twitter.com/7NouhA6Wgy Continue reading... |
| Meghan Markle's father will not attend the royal wedding – report Posted: 14 May 2018 11:20 PM PDT Report follows controversy that Thomas Markle Sr helped stage paparazzi photographs of himself preparing for the event Meghan Markle's father may not attend her wedding, it has emerged, just five days before he was due to walk her down the aisle. Doubts that Thomas Markle Sr, 73, would give his daughter away on Saturday followed claims by US celebrity website, TMZ, that he was pulling out amid allegations he cooperated with a Los Angeles based photo agency to stage pictures of himself preparing for the wedding day. Markle Sr had suffered a heart attack six days ago, TMZ claimed. Continue reading... |
| Iraq's shock election result may be turning point for Iran Posted: 14 May 2018 09:00 PM PDT Result is blow to US, but Iran will also lose out after Iraq's protest against rule by proxy The unexpectedly poor showing of Haider al-Abadi, Iraq's prime minister, in parliamentary elections has dealt a blow to US influence in the country. It was a poor return for American backing for the Baghdad government's drive to extirpate Islamic State and regain lost territory. But the bigger loser may be Iran, whose allies in Iraq's Shia militias known as the Popular Mobilisation Forces were pushed into second place by Moqtada al-Sadr, the veteran nationalist. Put simply, Sadr believes Iraqis should run Iraqi affairs – not Washington, not Tehran and not their proxies. Continue reading... |
| Mexico’s education reforms flounder as more spent on PR than teacher training Posted: 15 May 2018 01:46 AM PDT Five years after Enrique Peña Nieto's ambitions programme to reform education, Mexico still ranks last among 35 OECD countries It was a flagship policy of Mexico's president Enrique Peña Nieto: an ambitious reform programme which would revolutionize the country's education system, improve standards, tame an all-powerful teachers' union and crack down on rampant corruption – such as wages for non-existent "ghost teachers". Related: 'The help never lasts': why has Mexico's education revolution failed? Continue reading... |
| Melania Trump undergoes kidney surgery Posted: 14 May 2018 01:17 PM PDT Trump had a successful procedure to treat a benign kidney condition and is at Walter Reed medical center, according to her spokeswoman The White House reported on Monday that Melania Trump has been admitted to hospital, probably for the rest of the week, after undergoing a procedure to treat a benign kidney condition. The first lady's spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, said that the procedure was successful and that there were no complications. |
| Airline pilot 'sucked halfway out' when cockpit windshield broke Posted: 14 May 2018 10:16 PM PDT Sichuan Airlines co-pilot was pulled back inside by crew after right windshield blew out at 32,000 feet The co-pilot of a Sichuan Airlines flight that was forced to make an emergency landing on Monday was "sucked halfway out" of the plane when a cockpit windshield blew out, local media reported citing the aircraft's captain. Captain Liu Chuanjian – hailed as a hero on social media after having to land the Airbus A319 manually – told the Chengdu Economic Daily his aircraft had just reached a cruising altitude of 32,000ft when a deafening sound tore through the cockpit. Continue reading... |
| Editor of Bangkok Post 'forced to step down' over coverage of government Posted: 14 May 2018 11:17 PM PDT Umesh Pandey said he refused an order from board of directors to 'tone down' the newspaper's reporting and editorials The editor of the Bangkok Post newspaper has said he has been forced to step down after refusing to curtail critical coverage of the ruling military government. Umesh Pandey, who has held the position since July 2016, said the board of directors had asked him to "tone down" the newspaper's reporting and editorials on the actions of the military government, particularly over their suppression of freedom of speech and the delays over long-promised elections. Continue reading... |
| Supreme court rejects appeal from Blackwater guards convicted of killing Iraqi civilians Posted: 14 May 2018 09:53 AM PDT The four men, who were employed as security guards for a private US contractor, were convicted in 2014 of killing 14 Iraqi civilians in 2007 The supreme court has refused to consider appeals by the former Blackwater security contractors convicted in the 2007 slaying of 14 Iraqi civilians at a crowded traffic junction in Baghdad that marked one of the lowest points in the bloody conflict. The court announced on Monday that it will not hear an appeal brought by the four men convicted in 2014 trial. They worked for the North Carolina-based private security firm then called Blackwater Worldwide that was contracted by the US government to provide security to US officials working in Iraq. Continue reading... |
| 'Tax Amazon': Seattle passes plan for corporate wealth tax to fund housing Posted: 14 May 2018 06:02 PM PDT City leaders unite behind plan to charge big businesses per worker and divert those funds to housing and homeless services A parade of hardhat union workers and threats from hometown-behemoth Amazon did not stop Seattle leaders from passing on Monday a "head tax" meant to fund housing projects and homeless services. A watered-down version of the tax, which will charge the city's largest employees $275-per-worker annually, is now expected to be enacted by Seattle's mayor, Jenny Durkan. The tax is projected to generate about $48m a year to address a housing crisis spurred on by Amazon's rapid growth. Continue reading... |
| Billionaire Christopher Chandler denies spy claims Posted: 15 May 2018 12:00 AM PDT MPs told parliament that the New Zealand-born businessman had links with Russian intelligence A billionaire accused in parliament of having links to Moscow intelligence has said that he is not a spy, does not speak Russian and is the victim of a sustained and mysterious campaign of "innuendo." In an interview with the Guardian, the New Zealand-born Christopher Chandler shrugged off the claims made last week by a group of cross-party MPs, who cited documents which suspected him of "working for Russian intelligence services". Continue reading... |
| Warning sounded over China's 'debtbook diplomacy' Posted: 14 May 2018 11:12 PM PDT Academics identify 16 countries loaned billions that they can't afford to repay China's "debtbook diplomacy" uses strategic debts to gain political leverage with economically vulnerable countries across the Asia-Pacific region, the US state department has been warned in an independent report. The academic report, from graduate students of the Harvard Kennedy school of policy analysis, was independently prepared for the state department to view and assessed the impact of China's strategy on the influence of the US in the region. Continue reading... |
| Scientists 'transplant memories' between sea snails via injection Posted: 14 May 2018 10:00 AM PDT Experiment shows some memories are encoded in molecules that form part of an organism's genetic machinery, researchers say Science may never know what wistful memories play on the mind of the California sea hare, a foot-long hermaphrodite marine snail, as it munches on algae in the shallow tide pools of the Pacific coast. But in a new study, researchers claim to have made headway in understanding the simplest kind of memory a mollusc might form, and, with a swift injection, managed to transfer such a memory from one sea snail to another. Continue reading... |
| Turkey's president blames US for returning world to 'dark days' Posted: 14 May 2018 06:37 AM PDT US has chosen to be part of problem not solution, says Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in London speech The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has said the world is living in dark times reminiscent of the years leading up to the second world war as he lambasted decisions by Donald Trump to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal and recognise Jerusalem as the Israeli capital. Donald Trump's victory in US election in November 2016 put the fate of the deal in doubt. He had promised prior to his election to "dismantle the disastrous deal with Iran", although many believed he might instead adopt a more rigorous implementation of the agreement and tighten sanctions already in place. This could force Tehran to violate first or make the deal redundant. |
| Wandering stars: are Tallinn's digital nomads building the city of the future? Posted: 14 May 2018 11:15 PM PDT Estonia's nomad visa and space-age digital infrastructure are set to make Tallinn more attractive to location-independent workers. Is this the future of urban employment? Nicole Tan, a 29-year-old content marketer from Singapore, has visited enough places in the last year to make an Instagram follower weep: Jamaica, Miami, Portland, San Francisco, LA, Budapest, Slovenia, Berlin, Luxembourg, Iceland, Romania, Poland, Paris, Amsterdam and Thailand. In almost all of those places, her working life has continued as usual. "Last year I was moving every other week, or almost every couple of days," she says. "Time to go, time to go. I had to be at places." Continue reading... |
| Visible darkness: the shadowed streets of Chicago – in pictures Posted: 14 May 2018 03:00 AM PDT Clarissa Bonet uses her smartphone to capture interactions between people, light and architecture, then returns to recreate the images using models. The results are lavish artworks that appear to be chance snapshots |
| ‘Slow genocide’: Myanmar’s invisible war on the Kachin Christian minority Posted: 13 May 2018 07:10 PM PDT While global attention is fixed on the Rohingya crisis, another ethnic minority is at risk of being crushed by the military When Tang Seng heard gunshots close to his village in Myanmar, he had a choice: carry his grandmother away from the fighting on his back or run for help. She asked him to kill her and leave her there but he refused. Related: Myanmar army killing civilians in escalating conflict in Kachin, warns UN Continue reading... |
| Bristol mayor to ask UN to give cities greater role in migration talks Posted: 14 May 2018 11:43 PM PDT Marvin Rees invited to take part in New York talks The mayor of Bristol, Marvin Rees, is to argue at the United Nations that cities must be given a stronger and more formal role in global negotiations on migration. Rees, who becomes the first mayor to take part in UN discussions on the global compact for migration in New York, said cities as well as national governments needed to be involved in the attempt to create a worldwide framework for the management of migration. Continue reading... |
| UK real wages rise, as German economy slows - business live Posted: 15 May 2018 02:24 AM PDT Basic pay in Britain is rising faster than inflation, but Germany has suffered a growth slowdown
Earlier:
Disappointingly, UK productivity is falling again. Productivity (broadly, how much we each produced) shrank by 0.5% in the first three months of 2018, the ONS says. "The great British job-creating machine kicked back into life in the first quarter of 2018, taking the employment rate to a new record high. Unemployment edged down further and regular pay growth continued to edge up as the labour market has tightened. Real pay growth, excluding bonuses, is now firmly back into positive territory. "All of this good news stands in marked contrast to the subdued GDP growth of just 0.1% estimated for the first quarter. This estimate could be revised up later but, taken at face value, it suggests that productivity growth turned significantly negative again after a couple of quarters when it seemed to be perking up.
Geraint Johnes, professor of economics at Lancaster University Management School, is disappointed that total pay growth (including bonuses) slowed to 2.6% from 2.8% a month ago. Professor Johnes, who is also research director at the Work Foundation, says this shows some weakness in the labour market: This is a disappointing result, in that it represents a fall from the 2.8% figure achieved in February, and it means that we have to wait still longer for real wages to recover. The single month measure shows a year-on-year growth of just 2.3%. This continued flatness in wages provides justification for the Bank of England's decision not to raise interest rates – despite the buoyancy of the employment figures, the recovery in the labour market is quite simply not there, and rising wages clearly present no threat in terms of inflation." Continue reading... |
| I love Eurovision, but Jerusalem 2019 will be no cause for celebration | Michael Segalov Posted: 15 May 2018 02:24 AM PDT Israeli winner Netta declaring Jerusalem the next host city struck more than a note of discord, especially after this week's bloodshed It wasn't immediately obvious to me why I felt a sudden sense of discomfort just before midnight on Saturday. Standing in a packed-out square in Lisbon with thousands of others, I was watching the Eurovision final on a giant screen, the results from the night slowly rolling in. Having spent the preceding week with the UK's contestant, SuRie, initially I thought I was just gutted for her after a wash of low scores and a stage invasion. But looking around, as Netta, the Israeli entry, took to the stage, overjoyed and victorious – the Israeli flags being waved all around me suddenly took on a more sinister tone. Eurovision is traditionally held in the country that won the previous year, and when Netta gave her short acceptance speech, she made it clear: "Next year in Jerusalem." Whether this was an off-the-cuff remark, or high command decision being communicated to the world, really doesn't matter. It seems that, despite Tel Aviv being the country's cultural capital and queer-friendly city, it would be in the disputed city of Jerusalem that next year's event will be held. On the day of Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day), the optics of this was no accident. This controversial day in the Israeli calendar marks the date that the whole of Jerusalem was brought under Israeli rule. To others, it marks the further ongoing occupation of Palestinian land. Now it will be the host of the world's largest live music competition – it makes the light-hearted event feel a little more dark. Continue reading... |
| Africa's female rising stars of business are still seen as second-class citizens | Afua Osei Posted: 14 May 2018 11:00 PM PDT Despite the compelling narrative about African women becoming titans of industry, sexism and inequality make scaling up impossible for many entrepreneurs Africa is building up a glowing reputation as the global leader in female entrepreneurship. Last year, MasterCard released its celebratory Index of Women Entrepreneurs to much fanfare. Uganda and Botswana topped the list, which further pushed the new narrative that women are rising above adverse circumstances to create businesses that will rev the engine of growth in sub-Saharan Africa. Unfortunately, few have been willing to admit that this story, satisfying though it may be, is incomplete at best. The high levels of labour force participation that earn commendations mask the persistence of significant, structural limitations on female business-owners. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Pilot 'sucked halfway out' after windshield blows out at 32,000ft – video Posted: 15 May 2018 01:48 AM PDT A pilot was forced to make an emergency landing after his co-pilot was 'sucked halfway out' of a plane. The Sichuan Airlines flight was cruising at 32,000ft when the windshield blew out. A cabin crew member was also injured but none of the 119 passengers were hurt. The co-pilot sustained scratches and a sprained wrist |
| Damning report finds NDIS complaints ignored for months Posted: 15 May 2018 01:42 AM PDT Ombudsman links backlog to lack of resourcing, competing priorities and pressure on the National Disability Insurance Agency • Sign up to receive the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning People with a disability are waiting months for simple callbacks when they complain of errors or inadequacies with their national disability insurance scheme support plan, the ombudsman has found. The commonwealth ombudsman on Tuesday released the findings of its investigation into hundreds of complaints about the National Disability Insurance Agency's ability to handle requests for reviews of support plans. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Discrimination kills 230,000 girls under five in India each year, study shows Posted: 15 May 2018 02:02 AM PDT Neglect to blame for skewed mortality rates, says Lancet report that urges looking beyond pre-natal sex selection at deaths from inequality of education and health Hundreds of thousands of young girls in India die every year because of "invisible discrimination", according to research published in the Lancet Global Health. Researchers from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis estimate an average of 239,000 girls under five in India die each year, or 2.4 million in a decade, because of their gender. Continue reading... |
| Sudan urged to pardon teenager facing death for killing husband who raped her Posted: 14 May 2018 03:57 AM PDT UN and rights groups lead campaign for 19-year-old given death penalty for stabbing man she was forced to marry as he assaulted her The UN and international rights groups are calling on Sudan to pardon a 19-year-old woman sentenced to death after she killed her husband as he tried to rape her. Noura Hussein, who was compelled by her family to marry when she was 16, is facing death by hanging after a sharia court, which follows Islamic religious laws, found her guilty of premeditated murder for stabbing her husband, who she says had previously raped her with the assistance of his family. Continue reading... |
| Friends without benefits: how Europe was wrongfooted by Trump over Iran Posted: 14 May 2018 11:29 AM PDT World leaders thought they gained traction in a last-minute bid to salvage the Iran deal, but Trump's radicalism persisted It was clear within the first few minutes of Emmanuel Macron's White House meeting with Donald Trump that there was little hope of saving the Iran nuclear deal, when the US president declared he was ready to impose the "worst ever" sanctions on Tehran. Related: Turkey's president blames US for returning world to 'dark days' Continue reading... |
| Death, division and denial as US embassy opens in Jerusalem Posted: 14 May 2018 10:52 AM PDT Trump applauds 'a great day for Israel' as hail of bullets kills dozens of Palestinian protestors Israel rained bullets on its own parade – and furnished a murderous metaphor for a divided age. On one side of the fence, or barrier, or wall, or call it what you will, American and Israeli dignitaries lined up in best bibs and tuckers to salute the relocation of the US embassy to Jerusalem. The pompous grandiosity of this tacky ceremony conveyed the essence of Trump-ism: all sound and symbolic fury, lacking substance or sense. Related: Trump threw a match into Jerusalem with no plan to put out the fire | Rachel Shabi Continue reading... |
| The gun control debate has shifted. Can a new initiative bring change? Posted: 14 May 2018 10:14 AM PDT After the passion of March for Our Lives, some groups see the best hope for legislative success in states such as Washington and Oregon Though America has seen a string of mass shootings over the past year, no gun control legislation has been passed at the federal level. Related: 'It doesn't stop': Parkland students' pain still raw three months after shooting Continue reading... |
| Korean Air: how a high-flying family dynasty was brought low – video Posted: 14 May 2018 10:54 PM PDT Korean Air workers demand the chairman, Cho Yang-ho, step down after a series of bad-tempered incidents involving his family that could spell the downfall of one of South Korea's most powerful dynasties. |
| Fatal clashes in Gaza after opening of US embassy – in pictures Posted: 14 May 2018 04:07 PM PDT At least 55 Palestinians were killed and more than 2,000 wounded during clashes at the Gaza-Israel border during protests against the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem. Palestinians are also marking the Nakba, or the day of the disaster, when Palestinians were forcefully expelled from their villages during the war that led to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 Continue reading... |
| Georgian ravers and rightwingers clash over club culture – video Posted: 14 May 2018 11:34 AM PDT Thousands of techno fans took to the streets of Georgia's capital, Tbilisi, after armed police raided two of the country's most celebrated nightclubs, which the protesters saw as an attack on their generation and culture. Rightwing extremists gathered in a counter-demonstration, and riot police were deployed to keep the two groups apart Continue reading... |
| Palestinians killed as US opens embassy in Jerusalem – video report Posted: 14 May 2018 11:13 AM PDT Israeli forces have killed at least 58 Palestinians and injured more than 1,200 during protests on the Gaza side of the border with Israel. It marks the deadliest day in Gaza since the 2014 war. In a video message played at the US embassy opening ceremony, Donald Trump said: 'The United States remains fully committed to facilitating a lasting peace agreement' Continue reading... |
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