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- Global protests grow after Israeli killing of Palestinian demonstrators
- North Korea threatens to cancel Trump summit over nuclear demands
- Erdoğan ends UK state visit by calling jailed journalists 'terrorists'
- Taliban launch large-scale assault on western Afghan city
- Liberal Hungarian university warns Viktor Orbán could force it abroad
- EU tells Iran it will try to protect firms from US sanctions
- Number of billionaires worldwide surged to 2,754 in 2017
- Gina Haspel: two Democratic senators signal backing for CIA nominee
- Parkland survivor aims to boost 'unacceptable' youth vote turnout
- Belgian clown accused of murder livestreams rooftop police standoff
- 'They went to execute him': fourth Mexican journalist killed so far in 2018
- Republican governors back Trump's nomination for Nobel peace prize
- Chinese double amputee conquers Everest on fifth attempt
- Families behind Indonesia bombings belonged to same religious study group
- Urban v rural: can cities protect reproductive rights?
- Labour would end 'hostile environment' policy, says Abbott
- Scottish government urged to cast aside Brexit 'bickering'
- Trump is wrong over Iran, but Europe can’t afford to divorce the US | Bruno Tertrais
- Mass grave of alleged victims of former president Jammeh found in the Gambia
- 'CEOs don't want this released': US study lays bare extreme pay-ratio problem
- Questions raised after 'sold out' church biopic plays to empty cinemas in Brazil
- Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim released from prison
- Barramundi farm first NT beneficiary of $5bn government incentive
- 'Children were dying of hunger': the doctor fighting for Ecuador's poor – podcast
- 'The river is dead': what is polluting the water of Brazil's Xikrin tribe? | Naira Hofmeister and José Cícero da Silva
- Pastors at embassy opening highlight evangelicals' deal with The Donald
- In Gaza, Palestinians feel abandoned to their fate by an indifferent world
- Couple in California deny torturing 10 children in their home – video
- Australia supports North Korea-US summit, Julie Bishop says – video
- 'Enough is enough': UN condemns Israel as Palestinians bury their dead – video report
- The 70th anniversary of Palestinian Nakba Day – in pictures
- Palestinians clash with Israeli troops in Ramallah, West Bank – video
- Volcano erupts as campers cook breakfast at the foot of Mount Merapi – video
| Global protests grow after Israeli killing of Palestinian demonstrators Posted: 15 May 2018 04:30 AM PDT UN officials condemn 'outrageous human rights violation' as Palestinians begin to bury their dead International condemnation of Israel's killing of 60 Palestinian protesters in Gaza has escalated as tens of thousands of people rallied in the coastal enclave to bury the dead. The killings took place on Monday during demonstrations at the Gaza border fence, which coincided with a high-profile ceremony to mark the transfer of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which overturned decades of US foreign policy. Continue reading... |
| North Korea threatens to cancel Trump summit over nuclear demands Posted: 16 May 2018 12:51 AM PDT
North Korea has abruptly cancelled high-level talks with Seoul and threatened to pull out of a planned summit with Donald Trump if the US continues to insist on the regime giving up all of its nuclear weapons. Related: Sign up for the Guardian's US daily email Continue reading... |
| Erdoğan ends UK state visit by calling jailed journalists 'terrorists' Posted: 15 May 2018 01:23 PM PDT Turkish president ignores call from Theresa May not to lose sight of defending democracy Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has ended his three-day state visit to the UK by insisting that all the journalists locked in Turkish jails were terrorist criminals, ignoring a warning from Theresa May not to lose sight of democratic values as he sought to defend his country from "the extraordinary pressures of a failed coup and Kurdish terrorism". At a press conference in Downing Street alongside May, Erdoğan made no reference to May's remarks about human rights, but instead urged her to do more to extradite Turkish exiles from the Gulenist or Kurdish movements, saying that if she did not act act against terrorists, it would come back to bite her. Continue reading... |
| Taliban launch large-scale assault on western Afghan city Posted: 15 May 2018 11:43 AM PDT Security forces reportedly rushing reinforcements to Farah as insurgents armed with captured weapons flood into city Taliban fighters armed with captured weapons and night vision goggles have flooded into the capital of Afghanistan's western Farah province, forcing the governor to flee and driving security forces and officials into a handful of besieged compounds. Insurgents launched their attack on Farah city, near the Iranian border, around 2am, city residents said. Within hours they were within a few hundred metres of police and intelligence headquarters and had set up checkpoints on roads in and out of city, local officials said. Continue reading... |
| Liberal Hungarian university warns Viktor Orbán could force it abroad Posted: 15 May 2018 07:05 AM PDT Michael Ignatieff of Budapest-based Central European University says institution has been left in limbo after Viktor Orbán questioned its legal status Central European University is prepared to move its base of operations out of Hungary if the government of Viktor Orbán does not sign a deal to legalise its status soon, its rector has said. "We can't go into another academic year like this. We're in a holding pattern but it's not going to go on too much longer," said Michael Ignatieff, CEU's rector and a former liberal politician in his native Canada, in an interview at the CEU campus in Budapest. Continue reading... |
| EU tells Iran it will try to protect firms from US sanctions Posted: 15 May 2018 04:47 AM PDT EU stays in nuclear deal but official warns there is 'no one magic option' over trade after US withdrawal Tehran is being given assurances that European governments will seek to protect companies doing business in Iran from renewed US sanctions, as foreign ministers prepare to meet in Brussels to salvage the nuclear deal. Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, met Federica Mogherini, the EU external affairs chief, on Tuesday morning and will meet the foreign ministers of France, Germany and the UK – the three European signatories to the deal – in the evening. Iran wants assurances that EU trade with Iran will continue to grow, despite Donald Trump pulling the US out of the nuclear deal. Continue reading... |
| Number of billionaires worldwide surged to 2,754 in 2017 Posted: 15 May 2018 10:54 AM PDT Wealth-X census finds billionaires' combined wealth increased to an all-time high of $9.2tn A record 357 new billionaires were minted last year as the already very wealthy saw their combined fortunes soar to an all-time high of $9.2tn (£6.8tn) - more than three times the UK's gross domestic product. The number of billionaires worldwide increased by 14.9% to 2,754 in 2017 as the wealthy benefited from the "remarkable performances in equity markets and global economy", according to a report by ultra-rich research firm Wealth-X. Continue reading... |
| Gina Haspel: two Democratic senators signal backing for CIA nominee Posted: 15 May 2018 01:07 PM PDT
Two crucial Democratic senators announced on Tuesday that they will support Gina Haspel, Donald Trump's nomination for CIA director, in a move that immediately tipped the balanced towards her being confirmed by Congress in relatively short order. Related: Sign up for the Guardian's US daily email Continue reading... |
| Parkland survivor aims to boost 'unacceptable' youth vote turnout Posted: 15 May 2018 10:05 AM PDT Ryan Deitsch will spend his summer traveling across the country enabling voter registration, in a fresh push for gun control laws Instead of going to college this fall, Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school senior Ryan Deitsch will focus on turning out the youth vote in November's midterm elections in hopes of a fresh push for stricter gun control laws. His summer vacation will be spent traveling across the country enabling voter registration. Deitsch and other student survivors of the 14 February school shooting in Parkland, Florida, brought hundreds of thousands of Americans to the streets this spring for the March for Our Lives, a protest for stricter gun control laws that sparked hundreds of rallies across the country. Continue reading... |
| Belgian clown accused of murder livestreams rooftop police standoff Posted: 15 May 2018 07:52 AM PDT Kevin Lapeire, who appeared on Belgium's Got Talent, has been arrested for allegedly killing ex One of Belgium's leading children's entertainers broadcast himself live on Facebook during a rooftop standoff with armed police before being arrested over the alleged murder of his former girlfriend. Kevin Lapeire, who appeared on Belgium's Got Talent and won an award for the best clown in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, waved a pistol and threw a gas canister at police before finally surrendering. Continue reading... |
| 'They went to execute him': fourth Mexican journalist killed so far in 2018 Posted: 15 May 2018 10:57 AM PDT Radio news host Juan Carlos Huerta was shot dead on the first anniversary of reporter Javier Valdez's murder Yet another Mexican journalist has been assassinated as attacks on media workers in the country continue unabated. Juan Carlos Huerta was shot dead on Tuesday morning as he drove away from his home in Villahermosa, the capital of southern Tabasco state. Continue reading... |
| Republican governors back Trump's nomination for Nobel peace prize Posted: 15 May 2018 11:07 AM PDT Seven governors write letter to Nobel committee praising Trump for 'transformative efforts to bring peace to the Korean peninsula' Henry McMaster, South Carolina's governor, and a group of fellow governors are backing Donald Trump's nomination for the Nobel peace prize, citing what they called Trump's "transformative efforts to bring peace to the Korean peninsula". Related: Nobel prize in literature 2018 cancelled after sexual assault scandal Continue reading... |
| Chinese double amputee conquers Everest on fifth attempt Posted: 15 May 2018 04:55 AM PDT Xia Boyu, 69, reaches summit after his feet were amputated in his first bid 43 years ago and losing his legs to cancer A Chinese mountaineer who lost both feet trying to summit Everest 43 years ago and then had his legs amputated due to cancer has successfully climbed the mountain on his fifth attempt. Xia Boyu on Monday reached the top of the world's highest peak with a group of 13 others more than four decades after his first crack at it. Continue reading... |
| Families behind Indonesia bombings belonged to same religious study group Posted: 15 May 2018 05:54 AM PDT Police say children radicalised by parents to help carry out spate of suicide attacks in East Java The families behind a wave of suicide bombings in the Indonesian city of Surabaya were all members of the same religious study group who radicalised some of their children through homeschooling, investigators in East Java have said. Ch Insp Machfud Arifin said the three families were all connected through a Sunday evening group, adding that they met each week to study Islam and watch jihadist films. Continue reading... |
| Urban v rural: can cities protect reproductive rights? Posted: 15 May 2018 11:15 PM PDT The run-up to Ireland's abortion vote has revealed a divide already at the fore in the US, Italy and Poland – where urban policy-makers are standing up against state conservatism A lone woman scales a brick building, turning to look at a number 8 chained to her ankle, hampering her progress. The animation appeared this month, projected on to Dublin's Treasury building, and images quickly spread on social media under the hashtag #TheWeightOfTheEighth. It was a striking symbol of a debate that has engulfed Ireland in recent months, playing out on the walls and streets of its cities. On 25 May, Ireland will vote on whether to repeal the eighth amendment to its constitution – a clause that protects the right to life of the unborn – and clear a path to legalising abortion in the country. The question challenges the Irish state's conservative, patriarchal foundations, from which many people in Ireland – its urban dwellers in particular – feel increasingly disconnected. Continue reading... |
| Labour would end 'hostile environment' policy, says Abbott Posted: 16 May 2018 02:07 AM PDT Shadow home secretary also says a Labour government would close Yarl's Wood and Brook House detention centres Labour would officially end the government's hostile environment immigration policy, and close the Yarl's Wood and Brook House detention centres, the shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott, has pledged. In a speech on immigration following the news that up to 63 members of the Windrush generation might have been wrongly deported, Abbott said ministers should also end the "scandalous practice" of children born in Britain being made to pay large fees for citizenship. Continue reading... |
| Scottish government urged to cast aside Brexit 'bickering' Posted: 16 May 2018 02:28 AM PDT Holyrood's vote against EU bill has sparked unnecessary row, says Scottish secretary The Scottish secretary has accused the Scottish government of manufacturing an "unnecessary row" over Brexit after Holyrood voted to reject the EU withdrawal bill. David Mundell said he was frustrated and disappointed after Holyrood decided by a large majority to withhold its consent to the EU bill because it could allow UK ministers to impose policies on Scotland without Holyrood's agreement. Continue reading... |
| Trump is wrong over Iran, but Europe can’t afford to divorce the US | Bruno Tertrais Posted: 15 May 2018 09:59 PM PDT No other US president has been as antagonistic to European principles. But there's no alternative to a strong transatlantic partnership In 2003 a US-led war in the Middle East fractured western unity and divided the European family. It was a trauma of historic proportions, a watershed in some ways comparable to the 1956 Suez crisis. With Donald Trump's decision on Iran, we may be on the verge of another such moment. On the surface, things may not look as bad as they did in early 2003. At this point, US military action against Iran is a worst-case hypothesis – not a plan. No 180,000-strong force is being built up near Iranian territory. Nor are Europeans split into two camps. In this current crisis, and despite Brexit, Europeans look like they're sticking together. Trump's decision is not only extraordinarily brutal, it affects a project whose origins are found in a European initiative taken in the autumn of 2003, when the UK, France and Germany sent their foreign ministers to Tehran for talks: that project was aimed at limiting and controlling Iran's nuclear programme through peaceful means. It took 12 years of international diplomacy, in which Europe played an important role, to reach the nuclear deal that Trump has now decided to tear up. Continue reading... |
| Mass grave of alleged victims of former president Jammeh found in the Gambia Posted: 15 May 2018 11:00 PM PDT Bodies discovered of 12 west Africans human rights groups say were killed by paramilitary hit squad under orders of Yahya Jammeh A mass grave containing the bodies of 12 west Africans allegedly killed by a paramilitary force controlled by the former president Yahya Jammeh has been identified near the Gambian capital, Banjul. The "Junglers", a notorious hit squad that answered only to Jammeh, executed 54 people who were trying to make their way to Spain by sea in 2005, suspecting them of being mercenaries trying to overthrow the government, according to human rights groups that interviewed 30 Gambian officials. |
| 'CEOs don't want this released': US study lays bare extreme pay-ratio problem Posted: 16 May 2018 02:00 AM PDT The first comprehensive study of CEO-to-worker pay reveals an extraordinary disparity – with the highest gap approaching 5,000 to 1 The first comprehensive study of the massive pay gap between the US executive suite and average workers has found that the average CEO-to-worker pay ratio has now reached 339 to 1, with the highest gap approaching 5,000 to 1. The study, titled Rewarding Or Hoarding?, was published on Wednesday by Minnesota's Democratic US congressman Keith Ellison, and includes data on almost 14 million workers at 225 US companies with total annual revenues of $6.3tn. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Questions raised after 'sold out' church biopic plays to empty cinemas in Brazil Posted: 15 May 2018 11:30 PM PDT Critics call film a 'programmed success' as viewers in half-empty shows report being given tickets by the controversial church Brazil's biggest cinema hit in more than a decade is a biopic of a powerful Evangelical bishop that has broken box office records. There's just one problem: the sold-out film fails to fill cinemas. |
| Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim released from prison Posted: 16 May 2018 01:49 AM PDT Pardon is first big success of the nation's newly elected governing coalition, Pakatan Harapan, led by 92-year-old Mahathir Mohamad Malaysia's former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim, jailed for sodomy three years ago, has walked free from prison after receiving a royal pardon. Anwar's release is the first big success of the newly elected governing coalition, Pakatan Harapan, led by 92-year-old Mahathir Mohamad, which was swept into power after a shock election victory last week. Continue reading... |
| Barramundi farm first NT beneficiary of $5bn government incentive Posted: 16 May 2018 01:56 AM PDT The Naif was set up to give the northern Australian economy a boost, but two years later, only two businesses have received funds • Sign up to receive the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning It has taken nearly two years but a barramundi farm near Darwin has become the first Northern Territory recipient to receive funds from the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility, with almost $30 million to expand its business. Sign up to receive the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading... |
| 'Children were dying of hunger': the doctor fighting for Ecuador's poor – podcast Posted: 15 May 2018 10:00 PM PDT With malnourishment and preventable diseases rife among indigenous people, Dr Erika Arteaga-Cruz vowed to remedy the country's inequalities in healthcare Dr Erika Arteaga-Cruz left her work in an Ecuadorean hospital to become a health activist, trying to get medication and treatment to the country's indigenous communities. 'We took a huge range of medicines, but what they really needed was food.' Arteaga-Cruz talks to Lucy Lamble about her work improving the living standards of the most vulnerable people in society. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 15 May 2018 04:37 AM PDT Federal courts are battling to shut down a nickel mining plant said to be contaminating the Cateté river – a charge the company denies The Xikrin, who have lived alongside the Cateté river in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil for centuries, have a mantra: "The river is our life." Surrounded by an abundance of plant species, they swim and bathe here. To fish, the tribe use timbó, a toxic vine that reduces the concentration of oxygen in the water, forcing the fish to come to the surface, where they are shot with arrows. "If we use hooks to fish, only one of our families will eat fish," explains former tribal chief Onkray Xikrin. "But with timbó the whole village can eat." |
| Pastors at embassy opening highlight evangelicals' deal with The Donald Posted: 15 May 2018 11:40 AM PDT Controversial preachers at Jerusalem event symbolise the Christian right's pact with a president who has sinned, but also delivered It was a historic and bloody day for Israel but also a deeply revealing moment in US domestic politics. At the opening of the American embassy in Jerusalem on Monday, a prayer and a benediction were given by two Christian evangelicals from Texas notorious for insulting other religions. Related: Pastor who prayed at embassy opening is 'a religious bigot', says Mitt Romney Continue reading... |
| In Gaza, Palestinians feel abandoned to their fate by an indifferent world Posted: 15 May 2018 07:48 AM PDT Hopes for reviving any Israeli-Palestinian negotiations now look like a remote fantasy Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are desperate. Not only because they are burying their dead while marking the anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe) of 1948 that saw their grandparents flee or expelled from homes in what is now Israel, but also because their lives under blockade are intolerable, as is the sense that they have been abandoned to their fate by an indifferent world. Israel was their main enemy before and after the 1967 war. It unilaterally dismantled settlements and withdrew its forces from Gaza in 2005 but still controls its borders, airspace and waters. Continue reading... |
| Couple in California deny torturing 10 children in their home – video Posted: 15 May 2018 09:56 PM PDT A Californian couple deny multiple charges of torture and child abuse after 10 children were discovered in 'horrific' conditions in their suburban home. Jonathan Allen, 29, denies seven counts of torture and nine charges of abuse. Ina Rogers will be charged on Wednesday. Police officers found the condition of the house to be 'unsafe' and 'unsanitary' Continue reading... |
| Australia supports North Korea-US summit, Julie Bishop says – video Posted: 15 May 2018 09:07 PM PDT The country's foreign minister tells a Perth press conference that any opportunity to bring the regime to the negotiating table should be taken. 'I have said from the outset that North Korea must demonstrate concrete, verifiable steps that it is genuine in its desire to denuclearise and to work towards peace on the Korean peninsula,' Julie Bishop says
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| 'Enough is enough': UN condemns Israel as Palestinians bury their dead – video report Posted: 15 May 2018 09:28 AM PDT Palestinians have been burying their dead after 59 protesters were killed at the Gaza border by Israeli forces on Monday. The funerals fall on the anniversary of the Nakba, or 'catastrophe', marking the flight or exile of more than 700,00 Palestinians from their homes during the creation of Israel in 1948. UN officials have condemned the killing of protesters as an 'outrageous human rights violation' Continue reading... |
| The 70th anniversary of Palestinian Nakba Day – in pictures Posted: 15 May 2018 09:05 AM PDT Palestinians have been marking Nakba Day, which is generally commemorated on 15 May to honour the more than 700,000 Palestinians who fled or were expelled from their homes in the 1948 war surrounding Israel's creation. Also, thousands joined funeral processions for some of the dozens of Palestinians killed by Israeli troops in a mass march on the Gaza border, as Israelis faced growing diplomatic fallout from the use of lethal force against unarmed protesters. Israeli forces killed 59 Palestinians, most by gunfire, and injured more than 2,700 on Monday, the Gaza health ministry said Continue reading... |
| Palestinians clash with Israeli troops in Ramallah, West Bank – video Posted: 15 May 2018 06:42 AM PDT Palestinians have continued to clash with Israeli troops in the city of Ramallah on Tuesday. Several people were seen being carried on stretchers to waiting ambulances. About 200 Palestinians were protesting in Bethlehem while another 100 were demonstrating in Ramallah Continue reading... |
| Volcano erupts as campers cook breakfast at the foot of Mount Merapi – video Posted: 15 May 2018 05:54 AM PDT A group of campers in central Java, Indonesia, were forced to abandon their belongings after Mount Merapi sent plumes of thick smoke into the air. Shopen Pangestu, who posted the footage on Instagram, described how he and his friends first heard rumbling sounds and a roar Continue reading... |
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