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- Cuba: more than 100 dead after plane crashes shortly after takeoff
- Santa Fe shooting: Texas governor confirms 10 people dead and 10 wounded
- Argentina forced to seek IMF aid over fears for economy
- Trump claims FBI planted agent in his 2016 campaign 'for political purposes'
- Italy's first black minister fears far-right party's government influence
- Belgian authorities admit two-year-old girl was shot in the face by police
- China: we have not bowed to Trump's call to cut US trade surplus by $200bn
- All Chilean bishops offer their resignation over sexual abuse cover-up
- Dollars galore! Rare bottles of whisky sell for record $1m-plus
- Murder inquiry launched after girl's body found in Dublin farmhouse
- Ebola: two more cases confirmed in Mbandaka in DRC
- Trump administration to revive Reagan-era abortion 'gag' rule
- A suicide in Gaza
- Royal wedding live: Harry and Meghan to marry at Windsor - latest news
- Italy's far right use Irish vote to boost anti-abortion campaign
- 'Sometimes dancing, sometimes furious': a girl shot dead in Gaza
- The Guardian view on North Korea: no art as Trump seeks deal | Editorial
- Rocks or climate change? HIV or HPV? Take our Big Republican Science Quiz!
- 'Maduro would beat Jesus': Venezuelans lament rigged system as election looms
- China lands nuclear strike-capable bombers on South China Sea islands
- Commonwealth Bank apologises for staff manipulation of children's accounts
- Street Child World Cup: 'I lived on a train, surviving on leftover food' | Jo Griffin
- How many school shootings have there been in 2018 so far?
- More than 100 people dead in Cuba plane crash – video
- Texas high school shooting results in multiple deaths – video report
- Footage shows US troops trying to escape Niger ambush – video
| Cuba: more than 100 dead after plane crashes shortly after takeoff Posted: 18 May 2018 07:55 PM PDT
More than 100 people have died after an aging Boeing 737 carrying 104 passengers and six crew crashed into a nearby field shortly after taking off from Havana's main airport. Related: Southwest passenger dies after being partially sucked out of window Continue reading... |
| Santa Fe shooting: Texas governor confirms 10 people dead and 10 wounded Posted: 18 May 2018 01:39 PM PDT Governor Greg Abbott confirms the number of fatalities in a shooting at a high school about an hour south-east of Houston Ten people have been killed and 10 wounded in a shooting at a Texas high school that ended with a 17-year-old suspected shooter, a student at the school, surrendering to the authorities. Related: How many school shootings have there been in 2018 so far? Continue reading... |
| Argentina forced to seek IMF aid over fears for economy Posted: 18 May 2018 12:54 PM PDT Country pursues deal after President Mauricio Macri fails to stem run on the peso Argentina's struggle this week to prevent a collapse in its currency and soaring interest rates from destabilising its ailing economy appeared to have ended in failure on Friday, leaving it to seek financial aid from the International Monetary Fund. The IMF, the lender of last resort to nation states, said the South American country had formally requested an "exceptional access standby arrangement" that would allow Argentina to pay its foreign bills while the government sought to prevent a repeat of the 2001 crisis. Continue reading... |
| Trump claims FBI planted agent in his 2016 campaign 'for political purposes' Posted: 18 May 2018 10:41 AM PDT The president and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani went on the offensive after a report that an intelligence source informed to the FBI Donald Trump escalated an increasingly cutthroat fight with the justice department on Friday, with a series of tweets accusing federal agents of infiltrating his 2016 presidential campaign "for political purposes" and to "frame" him for crimes he "didn't commit". The president was echoed on television by the former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, his lawyer, who said Trump's accusations "may turn out to be closer to the truth than people thought". Continue reading... |
| Italy's first black minister fears far-right party's government influence Posted: 18 May 2018 06:57 AM PDT Cécile Kyenge, who is now an MEP, speaks out after the League agrees a power-sharing deal with M5S Italy's first black cabinet minister has expressed deep concerns about the entry into Italy's government of the League, as the far-right party and the populist Five Star Movement (M5S) revealed plans for more detention centres to be built across the country. Cécile Kyenge, who has been a regular target of racial abuse, said the League's position as a coalition partner in the incoming government made her less hopeful about the possibility of Italy passing immigration reforms or other changes that would ease a path to citizenship for thousands of undocumented minors. Continue reading... |
| Belgian authorities admit two-year-old girl was shot in the face by police Posted: 18 May 2018 09:45 AM PDT Prosecutors confirm child found dead after police opened fire on van carrying refugees was killed by a gunshot wound The authorities in Belgium have admitted that a two-year-old girl who died after police opened fire on a van carrying migrants near Mons on Thursday was shot in the face. Prosecutors had initially denied the account given to the Guardian by relatives of the girl, called Mawda, suggesting instead that she had been taken ill or died as a result of erratic driving. |
| China: we have not bowed to Trump's call to cut US trade surplus by $200bn Posted: 18 May 2018 09:41 AM PDT Beijing says 'this rumor is not true' but makes conciliatory signals in effort to stop tit-for-tat dispute escalating into full-scale trade war China has rejected Trump administration claims that it had offered to cut its trade surplus with the US by $200bn, China's foreign ministry said on Friday. Various US news outlets, citing anonymous sources, had reported that Chinese trade officials, meeting with US counterparts in Washington this week, had acceded to Trump demands to cut its $375bn annual trade surplus, in part by increasing purchases of American goods. Continue reading... |
| All Chilean bishops offer their resignation over sexual abuse cover-up Posted: 18 May 2018 04:46 AM PDT It is not yet clear whether Pope Francis will accept resignations of 34 bishops Chile's bishops have offered to resign en masse over a sexual abuse and cover-up scandal that has embroiled Pope Francis and has been highly damaging to the Catholic church. Thirty-one serving bishops and three retired bishops signed a letter of resignation on Friday. "We have put our positions in the hands of the Holy Father and will leave it to him to decide freely for each of us," they said. "We want to ask forgiveness for the pain caused to the victims, to the pope, to God's people and to our country for the serious errors and omissions we have committed." Continue reading... |
| Dollars galore! Rare bottles of whisky sell for record $1m-plus Posted: 18 May 2018 10:27 AM PDT Vintage Scotch dubbed 'holy grail of Macallan' auctioned in Hong Kong A bottle of single malt whisky has been sold for a record $1.1m (£815,760) at an auction in Hong Kong. The very rare 1926 Macallan scotch whisky was sold an hour after a bottle of the same vintage also changed hands for a slightly smaller seven-figure sum. Continue reading... |
| Murder inquiry launched after girl's body found in Dublin farmhouse Posted: 18 May 2018 05:04 AM PDT Anastasia Kriegel, 14, was missing for three days before her body was discovered A murder investigation has been launched after a teenage girl's body was discovered in a disused farmhouse in Ireland. Anastasia Kriegel's body was discovered in the property near Lucan village in County Dublin on Thursday afternoon. Continue reading... |
| Ebola: two more cases confirmed in Mbandaka in DRC Posted: 18 May 2018 09:08 AM PDT Total of three cases confirmed in city of 1 million people, raising fears of wider outbreak Two more cases of Ebola have been confirmed in the north-western city of Mbandaka in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, health officials have said. The report brings to three the number of confirmed cases in the city of 1 million people, raising the prospect of a wider outbreak than feared. Continue reading... |
| Trump administration to revive Reagan-era abortion 'gag' rule Posted: 18 May 2018 07:42 AM PDT
Donald Trump's administration will reinstate a decades-old policy that will strip federal funds from family planning clinics providing abortion or related services, marking its latest salvo to curtail women's reproductive rights. The Department of Health and Human Services will announce the proposal on Friday, an administration official confirmed to the Guardian. The move would revive a policy first implemented by Ronald Reagan in 1988, which effectively barred reproductive health organizations that received federal grants from providing or even discussing abortion with patients. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 17 May 2018 10:00 PM PDT How the death of a talented young Palestinian writer brought to light a sharp rise in suicides. By Sarah Helm When Mohanned Younis, a 22-year-old student, returned to his home in a relatively prosperous part of Gaza City one night last August, he was in an agitated state. He had been depressed, his mother, Asma, recalled. But she was not too worried when he locked himself in his room. A talented writer whose short stories, many posted on his Facebook page, had won a wide audience, Mohanned was about to graduate in pharmacy, expecting excellent grades. In his writing, he gave voice to the grief and despair of his generation. Only books gave him some escape. He often shut himself away to read and write, or to work out with his punch bag. Continue reading... |
| Royal wedding live: Harry and Meghan to marry at Windsor - latest news Posted: 19 May 2018 01:51 AM PDT Follow live updates of the build-up and ceremony From 'no obey' to gospel choir : wedding service details revealed How are you marking the day? Share your stories
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| Italy's far right use Irish vote to boost anti-abortion campaign Posted: 19 May 2018 01:00 AM PDT ProVita activists boost campaign in run-up to 40th anniversary of legalisation of abortion Activists and far-right politicians have seized on Italy's low birth rate and the attention on Ireland's referendum on abortion to boost their pro-life campaign. As the 40th anniversary of Italy's legalisation of abortion approaches, the renewed effort also comes as the far-right League, which contains many anti-abortion militants, stands on the brink of forming a government with the anti-establishment Five Star Movement following inconclusive general elections in March. |
| 'Sometimes dancing, sometimes furious': a girl shot dead in Gaza Posted: 19 May 2018 01:00 AM PDT Wesal Sheikh Khalil was an ordinary teenager confronting an extraordinary political situation The family of Wesal Sheikh Khalil say that in a matter of weeks the teenager experienced a complete transformation, from a hop-scotching child to an adolescent infuriated by injustice in Gaza. "You are cowards," she screamed at her aunts when they refused to join protests at the border, where health officials say Israeli forces have killed more than 110 and shot thousands since demonstrations began in late March. Continue reading... |
| The Guardian view on North Korea: no art as Trump seeks deal | Editorial Posted: 18 May 2018 09:18 AM PDT The US president boasts of a possible peace deal with North Korea, but the prospects of success at next month's planned summit in Singapore look worse than ever It is not clear whether Donald Trump set out to threaten Kim Jong-un with Muammar Gaddafi's fate. It is not even certain that he realises he did so. In his rambling remarks on Thursday he appeared to confuse Libya and Syria. He took his national security adviser John Bolton's remarks on the "Libya model" to refer to the military intervention of 2011, rather than the negotiated removal of its nuclear programme in 2003. It is even possible that he intended to reassure: "That model would take place if we don't make a deal, most likely. But if we make a deal, I think Kim Jong-un is going to be very, very happy," he said. So making sense of this administration's pinball trajectory towards next month's possible summit is a fool's errand. Yet that is what Pyongyang, and the rest of us, must do. North Korea had already warned that it might not attend, but in calibrated terms, taking aim at Mr Bolton for pushing the Libya model and insisting on "abandoning nuclear weapons first, compensating afterwards". Intentionally or not, Mr Trump doubled down by spelling out the prospect of regime change and "total decimation" if no deal is reached. This is precisely why the North wants its WMDs: leaders without them are more easily removed. The advance of Mr Bolton and Mike Pompeo, and then the US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, have made it still less likely that the North can either achieve or trust a security guarantee. Continue reading... |
| Rocks or climate change? HIV or HPV? Take our Big Republican Science Quiz! Posted: 19 May 2018 12:01 AM PDT Take our quiz and see if you know more about political faux pas than some politicians seem to know about science This week the GOP reminded us once again just how much they champion science. First Mo Brooks, a congressman from Alabama, pondered whether rocks falling into the ocean could be causing rising sea levels at a hearing of the House science, space and technology committee. Then Bill Gates revealed that president Trump asked him if HIV and HPV were the same same thing. Brooks and Trump are not the only Republicans to have a creative interpretation of the world. Take our quiz and see if you know more about politicians getting things wrong than some US politicians seem to know about science. Continue reading... |
| 'Maduro would beat Jesus': Venezuelans lament rigged system as election looms Posted: 18 May 2018 11:30 PM PDT Many fear dirty tricks will keep the unpopular president in power, but the opposition is urging people not to boycott Sunday's vote After denouncing Venezuela's food shortages and hyperinflation in a speech ahead of Sunday's presidential election, the opposition candidate, Henrí Falcón, sat in his campaign bus, sucking a throat lozenge – and chewing over his predicament. Falcón ought to be the favorite. He's up against Nicolás Maduro, the deeply unpopular and increasingly authoritarian president who is seeking another six-year term despite leading this oil-rich nation into its worst economic crisis in decades. Continue reading... |
| China lands nuclear strike-capable bombers on South China Sea islands Posted: 18 May 2018 10:30 PM PDT Exercise described by air force as preparation for 'the battle' for the disputed waters China's air force has landed bombers on islands and reefs in the South China Sea as part of a training exercise in the disputed region, it said in a statement. Several bombers of various types – including the long-range, nuclear strike-capable H-6K – carried out landing and take off drills at an unidentified island airfield after carrying out simulated strike training on targets at sea, the Chinese airforce said. Continue reading... |
| Commonwealth Bank apologises for staff manipulation of children's accounts Posted: 18 May 2018 11:38 PM PDT Dormant Dollamite accounts were activated with loose change in order to spruik sales and bonus targets Commonwealth Bank has apologised for the widespread manipulation of Dollamites accounts by its retail staff in an effort to inflate their bonuses and hit performance targets. The practice, revealed by Fairfax Media on Saturday, involved CBA's Youthsaver accounts, commonly known as Dollarmites, which are created by school-aged children and their families. Continue reading... |
| Street Child World Cup: 'I lived on a train, surviving on leftover food' | Jo Griffin Posted: 18 May 2018 05:33 AM PDT More than 200 young people from across the world headed for Moscow in advance of the World Cup to play football and speak out on street children's rights For three boys in the Kenyan team, taking part in the Street Child World Cup in Moscow has meant swapping their prison shirts for football kit. The teenagers were released from a juvenile detention centre to play in the tournament and will serve out the short time left on their sentences back in Mombasa. Their crime: being on the streets. "I had to fight really hard to get permission to bring them, but I wanted to give them a really positive experience," says the team's manager, Frederick Achola, from the Glad's House organisation. Continue reading... |
| How many school shootings have there been in 2018 so far? Posted: 18 May 2018 12:12 PM PDT Attack on a Texas high school is the 16th shooting to have resulted in death or injury during the first five months of the year Five months into 2018, there have been 16 shootings at US schools that have resulted in injury or death, based on data from campaign group Everytown for Gun Safety. The shooting in Texas on Friday, where, by mid-morning, the death toll was given by a local sheriff as between eight and 10, now stands as the 16th school shooting of the year, according to the campaign group Everytown for Gun Safety. Continue reading... |
| More than 100 people dead in Cuba plane crash – video Posted: 18 May 2018 01:59 PM PDT More than 100 people were killed when a Boeing 737 plane crashed in Cuba. The incident happened shortly after takeoff as the plane plunged into a field near Havana's main airport. Continue reading... |
| Texas high school shooting results in multiple deaths – video report Posted: 18 May 2018 01:50 PM PDT Ten people were killed and 10 wounded in a shooting at a Texas high school. The incident – the 16th school shooting in the US this year – took place at Santa Fe high school on Friday morning before 8am local time. The suspected shooter was in custody. Continue reading... |
| Footage shows US troops trying to escape Niger ambush – video Posted: 18 May 2018 05:36 AM PDT Drone footage of a militant ambush in Niger that killed four US and five Nigerien service personnel shows the soldiers desperately trying to escape. Later they are seen being fired upon by friendly forces who mistook them for the enemy. It shows how the fleeing troops set up a quick defensive location on the edge of a swamp and, thinking they were about to die, wrote messages home to their loved ones Continue reading... |
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