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- South Korea's Moon heads for Trump talks to try to keep summit on track
- 'They deserve no mercy': Iraq deals briskly with accused 'women of Isis'
- Irish abortion vote: 'propagandistic' use of children with Down's syndrome condemned
- Malaysia's 1MDB scandal investigator tells of death threats and bullets in the mail
- Class act: the great Dalit fightback that started in the schoolroom
- Japan sexual harassment survey reveals 150 allegations by women in media
- Activist sentenced to five years in prison for promoting Tibetan language
- Humans just 0.01% of all life but have destroyed 83% of wild mammals – study
- Marseille: at least one injured after masked gang opens fire in French city
- Danish politician says Muslims stay off work during Ramadan
- Asteroid from another star system found orbiting wrong way near Jupiter
- Trump attacks former CIA director ahead of Haspel's swearing-in
- Google sued for 'clandestine tracking' of 4.4m UK iPhone users' browsing data
- The fall of 'Italy’s Stalingrad': symbol of left wages war on migrants and poor
- ‘I had no real interest in politics, until this’ – Ireland’s accidental abortion activists
- Grenfell Tower fire inquiry: second day to hear more tributes to victims – live updates
- London one of worst capitals in Europe for clean, safe transport, study shows
- Tony Blair refuses to apologise to Libyan torture victim Abdel Hakim Belhaj
- Hawaii power plant shut down as lava nears geothermal wells
- Boris Johnson: Labour refusing to face reality over Venezuela regime
- Rangers find 109,217 snares in a single park in Cambodia
- Tribunal urged not to be ‘hypersensitive’ in gay police discrimination case
- Death toll climbs in Karachi heatwave
- HIV drug shortage puts hundreds of thousands of lives at risk in Uganda
- Untouchable no more: the Dalit bridegroom rejecting class prejudice | Amrit Dhillon
- Further arrests of Saudi women's rights activists in escalating crackdown
- Malaria rates soar in Venezuela – a nation that had nearly wiped it out
- Adventure tourists: when you visit remote tribes, learn the art of sharing | Elliott Oakley
- Central African leaders turn to constitutional changes to cement power
- North Korea's nuclear test site: is blowing up Punggye-ri just for show?
- Is Abramovich at last paying the price for being too close to Putin?
- Is Roman Abramovich's rule at Chelsea nearing its end?
- Toxic clouds rise up as lava from Kilauea volcano hits sea – video
- Hillary Clinton shows off Russian hat in jab at Donald Trump – video
| South Korea's Moon heads for Trump talks to try to keep summit on track Posted: 21 May 2018 11:55 PM PDT Kim and Trump appear at odds over the term 'denuclearisation' and President Moon is keen to defuse tensions on the peninsula The South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, is due to hold talks in the White House with Donald Trump on Tuesday amid growing uncertainty over Trump's planned North Korean summit in Singapore next month. Trump was reported by the New York Times to have been "surprised and angered" by a statement from a senior North Korean official last week that said the regime would never trade away its nuclear arsenal and would not settle for a "one-sided" outcome to Trump's summit with Kim Jong-un, due to take place on 12 June. Continue reading... |
| 'They deserve no mercy': Iraq deals briskly with accused 'women of Isis' Posted: 21 May 2018 09:00 PM PDT A Baghdad court has sentenced more than 40 foreign women to death after 10-minute hearings In a small holding room in a Baghdad court, French citizen Djamila Boutoutao cradled her two-year-old daughter and begged for help. Boutoutao, 29, is accused of being a member of Islamic State. Whispering in her native tongue within earshot of other accused Isis members – all foreigners like her – she said life had become unbearable. Continue reading... |
| Irish abortion vote: 'propagandistic' use of children with Down's syndrome condemned Posted: 22 May 2018 12:27 AM PDT Father, doctor and pro-choice campaigner accuses anti-abortion lobby of exploiting 'vulnerable group' in referendum A doctor, author and father of a son with Down's syndrome has hit out at Ireland's anti-abortion lobby for using children with the condition during campaigning for Friday's referendum. With only days left before the Irish electorate votes on whether to introduce limited abortion into the state's hospitals, Dr Chris Kaposy has condemned the "propagandistic use" of children like his son by anti-abortion campaigners. Continue reading... |
| Malaysia's 1MDB scandal investigator tells of death threats and bullets in the mail Posted: 21 May 2018 10:50 PM PDT Shukri Abdull has been reappointed to investigate scandal after having to flee to Washington the first time around The man who headed the first investigation into Malaysia's 1MDB scandal has said that he "almost died" whilst carrying out the probe, and was forced to flee the country after officers working for him were incarcerated, witnesses disappeared and he had multiple threats on his life. Shukri Abdull, who last week was re-appointed by the newly elected prime minister Mahathir Mohamad to head up the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), recounted in an emotional press conference the personal trauma he had gone through in 2015 while first trying to uncover the truth. Continue reading... |
| Class act: the great Dalit fightback that started in the schoolroom Posted: 21 May 2018 09:00 PM PDT A network of free after-school coaching classes for Dalits is just one way that India's lowest caste is raising its sights When he was 14, Govind Gyan Chand started attending the large school near his village. In the first week, some upper-caste boys took him aside and asked him about his caste. He told them he was Dalit, considered the lowest caste in Indian society. When he left school for the day, the boys were waiting outside, and flogged him. "I don't know why they did it," he says. "All I know is the upper caste likes to torture us. I wanted to give up school – somehow I didn't." Now 22, Chand divides his time between classes in college, working, and teaching English and maths to the Dalit children of his village. He is a volunteer for Bhim Pathshala, a network of free after-school coaching classes for Dalit children run by Bhim Army, an organisation that works for the education and rights of Dalits. Continue reading... |
| Japan sexual harassment survey reveals 150 allegations by women in media Posted: 21 May 2018 09:03 PM PDT A third of cases involved inappropriate behaviour by government officials, police officers and MPs Dozens of women working for Japanese newspapers and TV networks have been sexually harassed – many repeatedly – with government officials, police officers and MPs cited as the perpetrators in about a third of the cases, according to a new survey. Related: Japan's #MeToo: senior bureaucrat resigns over sexual misconduct allegations Continue reading... |
| Activist sentenced to five years in prison for promoting Tibetan language Posted: 21 May 2018 10:33 PM PDT China detained Tashi Wangchuk in 2016 over his campaign to teach the Tibetan language in local schools An activist who campaigned for Tibetan language education has been sentenced to five years in prison in China for "inciting separatism." Tashi Wangchuk, who has been in jail for more than two years, was found guilty by a court in the western Chinese city of Yushu, according to his lawyers. Tashi was detained in 2016 after appearing in a New York Times documentary talking about his campaign for Tibetan language in local schools. The video, "A Tibetan's Journey for Justice," followed Tashi as he travelled from a Tibetan area of Qinghai province to Beijing where he attempted to file a lawsuit against local officials for contravening China's constitution, which maintains that all ethnicities in China "have the freedom to use and develop their own spoken and written languages". Continue reading... |
| Humans just 0.01% of all life but have destroyed 83% of wild mammals – study Posted: 21 May 2018 12:00 PM PDT Groundbreaking assessment of all life on Earth reveals humanity's surprisingly tiny part in it as well as our disproportionate impact Humankind is revealed as simultaneously insignificant and utterly dominant in the grand scheme of life on Earth by a groundbreaking new assessment of all life on the planet. The world's 7.6 billion people represent just 0.01% of all living things, according to the study. Yet since the dawn of civilisation, humanity has caused the loss of 83% of all wild mammals and half of plants, while livestock kept by humans abounds. Continue reading... |
| Marseille: at least one injured after masked gang opens fire in French city Posted: 21 May 2018 03:49 PM PDT Police are not investigating incident as terrorism after attackers targeted a housing estate and reportedly took one man hostage Hooded gunmen armed with AK-47s have opened fire near a group of young people on a housing estate outside the Mediterranean French city of Marseille before reportedly taking a man hostage. At least one person was injured when the gunmen, all dressed in black, drew up in three vehicles, and began shooting near a cultural centre in the Busserine district. Continue reading... |
| Danish politician says Muslims stay off work during Ramadan Posted: 21 May 2018 02:19 PM PDT Critics scorn Inger Støjberg's 'completely absurd idea' that daylight fasting is dangerous A Danish government minister has asserted that Muslims should not work during Ramadan because the month-long daylight fasting period poses safety hazards in some professions and makes the practice "dangerous for us all." The integration minister, Inger Støjberg, an immigration hardliner in Denmark's centre-right government, questioned in a blog post on Monday how "commanding observance to a 1,400-year-old pillar of Islam" was compatible with modern labour markets. Continue reading... |
| Asteroid from another star system found orbiting wrong way near Jupiter Posted: 21 May 2018 05:27 AM PDT For the first time, a permanent member of our solar system has been found to have originated elsewhere A permanent visitor from interstellar space has been found in our solar system, astronomers studying an asteroid orbiting our sun have revealed. While collisions with Earth by comets and asteroids from within our solar system are thought to have brought organic material and water necessary for life to emerge, experts say the latest discovery suggests bodies from beyond the solar system might have also have played a role. Continue reading... |
| Trump attacks former CIA director ahead of Haspel's swearing-in Posted: 21 May 2018 09:59 AM PDT Trump suggested John Brennan was to blame for Robert Mueller's investigation, referencing remarks from Fox & Friends Donald Trump praised the new CIA director, Gina Haspel, at her swearing-in ceremony on Monday, saying there was "no one in this country better qualified" for the job. Related: After Trump attacks New York Times, Giuliani tells paper Mueller will be done by September Continue reading... |
| Google sued for 'clandestine tracking' of 4.4m UK iPhone users' browsing data Posted: 21 May 2018 08:18 AM PDT Collective action seeking up to £3.2bn for claims Google bypassed privacy settings of Apple's Safari browser Google is being sued in the high court for as much as £3.2bn for the alleged "clandestine tracking and collation" of personal information from 4.4 million iPhone users in the UK. The collective action is being led by former Which? director Richard Lloyd over claims Google bypassed the privacy settings of Apple's Safari browser on iPhones between August 2011 and February 2012 in order to divide people into categories for advertisers. Continue reading... |
| The fall of 'Italy’s Stalingrad': symbol of left wages war on migrants and poor Posted: 21 May 2018 11:00 PM PDT The closure of its factories hit Sesto hard, but when the perpetrator of the Berlin truck attack was shot there, the former leftwing stronghold turned right Gramsci Avenue, May Day Square, Karl Marx library … even today the streets of Sesto San Giovanni recall its past as the "Stalingrad of Italy". For more than seven decades, this suburb of Milan was ruled by the Communist party and its political heirs, but things have radically changed since the election of the new rightwing mayor, Roberto Di Stefano. Begging, bivouacking in parks or streets and drinking alcohol in the open have all been banned. Those breaking the rules are expelled, and over the past year that has been the fate of more than 200 people – most of them homeless, street vendors or migrants. Continue reading... |
| ‘I had no real interest in politics, until this’ – Ireland’s accidental abortion activists Posted: 21 May 2018 10:00 PM PDT On 25 May, voters in Ireland will decide whether to legalise abortion. Doctors, grandparents and those who have been forced to travel the UK to seek terminations have been raising their voices in a bid to shift the narrative In September 1983, article 40.3.3 – the eighth amendment – was voted into the Irish constitution. It equated the life of the "unborn" with that of the mother. It gave rise to a ban on abortion in all circumstances from the moment of conception. It also led to a grave national silence, whereby abortion was outsourced to neighbouring jurisdictions, with Britain becoming a place of medical refuge for at least 168,703 Irish women. Now, just less than 35 years later, a grassroots mobilisation of doctors, lawyers, parents, grandparents, tech professionals, psychologists, fashion designers, artists, midwives, nurses and more has led to an unstoppable revolution and a referendum on 25 May, which may well result in the amendment finally being removed from the Irish constitution. Siobhan Donohue is one such accidental activist. "I never in my wildest dreams thought I would be sitting here talking about my abortion," says Donohue. "I never put my head up about anything. I was the kid who never talked in class. I did everything by the book. I had no real interest in politics, until this, until I felt this sense of outrage." Continue reading... |
| Grenfell Tower fire inquiry: second day to hear more tributes to victims – live updates Posted: 22 May 2018 02:39 AM PDT Follow live updates on the second day of the Grenfell Tower inquiry as it continues to hear tributes to the 72 people who died
The inquiry was played video footage from a memorial service for Debbie Lamprell in Holland Park. A choir sang a moving rendition of Amazing Grace at the event.
At the start of the second day Michael Volpe, director of Holland Park Opera, read out a tribute to Debbie Lamprell by her mother Miriam Lamprell. Continue reading... |
| London one of worst capitals in Europe for clean, safe transport, study shows Posted: 22 May 2018 02:15 AM PDT Exclusive: UK capital has the most expensive public transport, third-worst air quality and is one of most dangerous to walk and cycle, study of 13 EU cities reveals London is trailing behind other major European capitals in its effort to create a clean, affordable and safe transport system, according to a new report. The study of 13 EU cities found London has the joint third worst air quality after Moscow and Rome, as well as the most expensive public transport and the highest number of cycling accidents. Continue reading... |
| Tony Blair refuses to apologise to Libyan torture victim Abdel Hakim Belhaj Posted: 22 May 2018 02:08 AM PDT Former UK prime minister says he knew nothing about case until after he left office Tony Blair has refused to personally apologise to the Libyan dissident Abdel Hakim Belhaj, who was tortured in a Libyan jail following a rendition operation mounted with the help of MI6, saying he knew nothing about the case until after he left office. Blair, speaking about the case for the first time since Theresa May's government apologised to Belhaj and his wife, Fatima Boudchar, said he was "content to go along with" that apology, but did not express any personal remorse. Continue reading... |
| Hawaii power plant shut down as lava nears geothermal wells Posted: 22 May 2018 01:48 AM PDT Crews cap wells at Puna Geothermal Venture plant on Big Island as lava from Kīlauea volcano flows on to site Lava from the erupting Kīlauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island has flowed on to a geothermal power plant site, forcing workers to shut down the facility to prevent the uncontrollable release of toxic gases. Related: Hawaii volcano fills sky with acid plumes and glass shards as lava hits sea Continue reading... |
| Boris Johnson: Labour refusing to face reality over Venezuela regime Posted: 21 May 2018 02:30 PM PDT Foreign secretary says party's refusal to condemn President Maduro is 'beyond satire' Boris Johnson, the UK foreign secretary, has sought to turn the crisis in Venezuela to the Conservatives' political advantage, accusing the Labour leadership of a "refusal to face reality" over the nature of the regime in Caracas. Nicolás Maduro, who has overseen rocketing unemployment and hyperinflation, was re-elected president on Sunday after a poll widely condemned by the international community as unfair. Continue reading... |
| Rangers find 109,217 snares in a single park in Cambodia Posted: 22 May 2018 12:43 AM PDT Snares – either metal or rope – are indiscriminately killing wildlife across Southeast Asia, from elephants to mouse deer. The problem has become so bad that scientists are referring to protected areas in the region as "empty forests." A simple break cable for motorbikes can kill a tiger, a bear, even a young elephant in Southeast Asia. Local hunters use these ubiquitous wires to create snares – indiscriminate forest bombs – that are crippling and killing Southeast Asia's most charismatic species and many lesser-known animals as well. A fact from a new paper in Biodiversity Conservation highlights the scale of this epidemic: in Cambodia's Southern Cardamom National Park rangers with the Wildlife Alliance removed 109,217 snares over just six years. "Some forests in Vietnam don't have any mammals left larger than squirrels," Thomas Gray, the lead author of the new paper and the Science Director for Wildlife Alliance, said. "Given how diverse these forests formally were this must be having substantial impacts on ecosystem services and the [forest's] entire biodiversity." Continue reading... |
| Tribunal urged not to be ‘hypersensitive’ in gay police discrimination case Posted: 22 May 2018 02:14 AM PDT Four gay police officers allege they were targeted on the basis of their sexuality Lawyers for the New South Wales police force have urged a tribunal not to be "hypersensitive" in considering whether four gay officers were discriminated against because of their sexuality. On Tuesday the state's civil and administrative tribunal heard closing submissions from the NSW police in a discrimination case filed by three openly gay male officers from the Newtown local area command and one of their long-term partners, who previously worked at the station. Continue reading... |
| Death toll climbs in Karachi heatwave Posted: 22 May 2018 02:11 AM PDT Ambulance service says more than 60 have died in past four days in Pakistani city A Pakistani welfare organisation says the heatwave gripping the region has killed 65 people in Karachi. Anwar Kazmi, a spokesman for the non-governmental Edhi Foundation, which is also the country's largest ambulance service, said on Tuesday that 65 bodies had been taken to its morgue over the past four days due to heat-related deaths, including those of people who died after losing consciousness on the streets. Continue reading... |
| HIV drug shortage puts hundreds of thousands of lives at risk in Uganda Posted: 22 May 2018 02:00 AM PDT Scarcity of antibiotic Septrin drives fears of weakened immunity among patients, setting back efforts to end Aids by 2030 The lives of hundreds of thousands of Ugandans living with HIV are being put at risk as the country runs out of a drug given to people on antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) to fight infections. Sarah Achieng Opendi, state minister for health, told the Guardian the country's national medical stores were running out of the antibiotic Septrin, which is used to treat and fight conditions like flu, malaria, diarrhoea and tuberculosis. Continue reading... |
| Untouchable no more: the Dalit bridegroom rejecting class prejudice | Amrit Dhillon Posted: 21 May 2018 10:00 PM PDT When a student from India's lowest caste proposed to take his marriage procession past the homes of well-to-do Hindus, uproar ensued. Yet he is now poised for a significant victory The dusty, nondescript road has long been a no-go area, on pain of death, for bridegrooms from the Dalit caste and their wedding processions. In July, however, on a date yet to be fixed, Sanjay Kumar Jadav, 27, will lead his parade of male relatives – called the "baraat" – down the road in Nizampur village. The group will pass the houses of upper caste Hindus who fear they will be "tainted" by his passing, to where his fiancee Sheetal lives. There, the couple will be married. |
| Further arrests of Saudi women's rights activists in escalating crackdown Posted: 21 May 2018 07:13 AM PDT Ten leading campaigners reportedly held as media denounce women as 'traitors' for supporting end to ban on female drivers At least 10 prominent Saudi activists, mostly women's rights campaigners, have now been reported to have been arrested in what appears to be an escalating clampdown ahead of the much-vaunted lifting of the prohibition on women driving in the kingdom on 24 June. The arrests, with more feared by human rights campaigners, come amid a high-profile campaign in Saudi media outlets and on social media denouncing the women as "traitors". Continue reading... |
| Malaria rates soar in Venezuela – a nation that had nearly wiped it out Posted: 21 May 2018 04:54 AM PDT Shocking reversal for country once lauded for nearly wiping out the disease, reflecting wider problems in failing healthcare system Venezuela is facing an escalating malaria crisis, even as the infection rates have continued to decline across most of the rest of the planet. The situation is a shocking reversal in a country that was once seen as a flag bearer for global malaria eradication. Once the Americas' most malaria-infected country, the disease was almost wiped out between the 1960s and the 1980s. Continue reading... |
| Adventure tourists: when you visit remote tribes, learn the art of sharing | Elliott Oakley Posted: 21 May 2018 03:49 AM PDT Living with Guyana's Wai Wai taught me that building relationships – and earning money – is vital for indigenous people to get access to healthcare and education Every night during a 600-mile kayak trip, adventurer Pip Stewart asked her team members for their highlight of the day. In an Instagram post, she recounted how one, a Wai Wai guide named Romel, would give the same response each day: "It was good. I enjoyed the paddling. We had good food." For the trip – which was the first ever descent of the Essequibo river in Guyana – Stewart and fellow adventurers Laura Bingham and Ness Knight recruited their guides from a village I know. As an anthropologist working with the Wai Wai, an indigenous people in the rainforest villages in Guyana and Brazil, I was struck by Stewart's account. She observed that Romel and the Wai Wai "are better at accepting and appreciating what is". Her post led me back to a question related to my own research: what do indigenous guides get out of adventure tourism? Continue reading... |
| Central African leaders turn to constitutional changes to cement power Posted: 21 May 2018 09:00 PM PDT Burundi president's power grab is latest by a number of regional leaders to have raised term limits or bolstered their powers Voters in Burundi have backed wide-ranging constitutional changes that will reinforce the power of the president, Pierre Nkurunziza, potentially allowing him to rule for up to 14 more years after his current term expires in 2020. The measures were approved by 75% of voters, with 17% opposed, on a reported turnout of 98%. Continue reading... |
| North Korea's nuclear test site: is blowing up Punggye-ri just for show? Posted: 21 May 2018 07:12 PM PDT North Korea has invited a handful of journalists to watch as it dismantles its only known nuclear test site, but experts warn the move is purely symbolic This week North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will shut the nation's only known nuclear test site ahead of an expected meeting with Donald Trump on 12 June. However, experts have warned that the move is more symbolic than practical. Here is all you need to know about the dismantling of Punggye-ri. Related: Dismantling of North Korea nuclear site 'well under way', satellite images show Continue reading... |
| Is Abramovich at last paying the price for being too close to Putin? Posted: 21 May 2018 08:58 AM PDT Chelsea's owner is vulnerable to UK retaliation because of his proximity to Russian president There is a compelling, two-word explanation for why Roman Abramovich is apparently having difficulties renewing his British visa: Vladimir Putin. According to reports from Moscow, Abramovich was unable to watch his Chelsea team's 1-0 victory over Manchester United in Saturday's FA Cup final at Wembley because his investor's visa expired last month. His private Boeing jet has not been back to the UK since 1 April. Continue reading... |
| Is Roman Abramovich's rule at Chelsea nearing its end? Posted: 21 May 2018 08:31 AM PDT Russian oligarch has become a sporadic visitor to the club into which he has poured more than £1bn since 2003 Roman Abramovich's absence as Chelsea defeated Manchester United to claim the FA Cup, and the 15th major trophy of his ownership, is now explained by the delay in granting his renewal application for an investor's visa. Yet, at the time, his non-appearance at Wembley hardly set the alarm bells ringing. The oligarch has become a sporadic visitor to the club into which he has poured more than £1bn since acquiring it in 2003, missing some significant home games en route and never travelling to away fixtures. While he had attended his side's loss to Arsenal in last season's FA Cup final and was regularly seen at Stamford Bridge in the first half of this season, the 51-year-old was last in attendance in his box in the middle tier of the West Stand for the victory over Crystal Palace in March. Continue reading... |
| Toxic clouds rise up as lava from Kilauea volcano hits sea – video Posted: 21 May 2018 09:14 PM PDT White clouds of gas billow into the sky over Hawaii as molten rock from the Kilauea volcano pours into the ocean. People have been warned to stay away from the fumes, which are laced with hydrochloric acid and fine glass particles that can irritate the skin and eyes and cause breathing problems. Continue reading... |
| Hillary Clinton shows off Russian hat in jab at Donald Trump – video Posted: 21 May 2018 02:01 PM PDT Hillary Clinton takes swipe at the US president over alleged Russian election interference during a graduation speech at Yale university. She made the speech on a day that students traditionally wear 'over the top hats' Continue reading... |
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