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- Revealed: Trump team hired spy firm for ‘dirty ops’ on Iran arms deal
- UK regulator orders Cambridge Analytica to release data on US voter
- Thousands protest against Macron under heavy security in Paris
- Israel fears ‘explosion of violence’ as US prepares to open embassy in Jerusalem
- Russian police arrest more than 200 anti-Putin protesters
- 'Great power competition': Nato announces Atlantic command to counter Russia
- Journalists’ deaths can only thicken the fog of war over Afghanistan
- Trump White House accuses China of 'Orwellian nonsense'
- Trump friend Tom Barrack has been questioned by Mueller, sources say
- Nasa launches InSight spacecraft to explore the insides of Mars
- Indian police arrest 14 after teenage girl raped and burned to death
- 'Guns down, paintballs up': the US trend for settling feuds with paintball wars
- Cambridge Analytica has gone. But what has it left in its wake?
- The Displaced; Migrant Brothers; Lights in the Distance – reviews
- From Qatar’s blockade, a bold, unexpected new vision is emerging
- NRA members post-Parkland: 'We're not children-hating monsters' – video
- Ruffled feathers: feral peacocks split community in Canada
- Malaysian police stop boat carrying 131 Sri Lankans to Australia and New Zealand
- Ban deals that silence harassment victims, says former Tory minister
- Trump’s dirty ops attack on Obama legacy shows pure hatred for Iran deal
- Alexei Navalny and scores more arrested at anti-Putin rally – video
| Revealed: Trump team hired spy firm for ‘dirty ops’ on Iran arms deal Posted: 05 May 2018 01:00 PM PDT Israeli agency told to find incriminating material on Obama diplomats who negotiated deal with Tehran Aides to Donald Trump, the US president, hired an Israeli private intelligence agency to orchestrate a "dirty ops" campaign against key individuals from the Obama administration who helped negotiate the Iran nuclear deal, the Observer can reveal. People in the Trump camp contacted private investigators in May last year to "get dirt" on Ben Rhodes, who had been one of Barack Obama's top national security advisers, and Colin Kahl, deputy assistant to Obama, as part of an elaborate attempt to discredit the deal. Continue reading... |
| UK regulator orders Cambridge Analytica to release data on US voter Posted: 05 May 2018 06:13 AM PDT In landmark cross-border decision, Information Commissioner's Office gives company 30 days to comply with David Carroll's request Cambridge Analytica has been ordered to hand over all the data and personal information it has on an American voter, including details of where it got the data and what it did with it, or face a criminal prosecution. The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) served the enforcement notice to the company on Friday in a landmark legal decision that opens the way for up to 240 million other American voters to request their data back from the firm under British data protection laws. Continue reading... |
| Thousands protest against Macron under heavy security in Paris Posted: 05 May 2018 06:36 AM PDT Police out in force for demonstration over reforms after May Day disturbances Police were out in force in central Paris on Saturday as thousands of people protested against Emmanuel Macron's sweeping reforms a year after he assumed the presidency. Continue reading... |
| Israel fears ‘explosion of violence’ as US prepares to open embassy in Jerusalem Posted: 05 May 2018 12:48 PM PDT Decision to relocate into the disputed city in the same week as Israel's 70th anniversary raises concerns of increased tension Police in Israel have started patrols and security sweeps of a southern Jerusalem neighbourhood, anxiously preparing for a US embassy inauguration that Israelis and Palestinians fear may launch a week of violence. The move on 14 May will mark the start of a potentially volatile week when Israel will celebrate its 70th anniversary and Palestinians mark the "catastrophe", or Nakba, of their displacement on the 15th. Continue reading... |
| Russian police arrest more than 200 anti-Putin protesters Posted: 05 May 2018 05:09 AM PDT Authorities in Siberia detain opposition supporters before Moscow rally to protest against president's inauguration Police in Siberia detained more than 200 people at protests against Vladimir Putin's rule in the run-up to an opposition rally in central Moscow on Saturday. Alexei Navalny, the opposition figurehead, has called for nationwide rallies to protest against inauguration on 7 May to a fourth presidential term. "Putin is not our tsar," Navalny said in a video address before the rallies. |
| 'Great power competition': Nato announces Atlantic command to counter Russia Posted: 04 May 2018 10:30 PM PDT US to reactivate its Second Fleet and host new naval command in Norfolk, Virginia, amid rising tensions with Moscow Amid rising tensions with Russia, the Pentagon has announced the official launch of a new naval command and the reactivation of the US Second Fleet to bolster the US and Nato presence in the Atlantic Ocean. "The return to great power competition and a resurgent Russia demands that Nato refocus on the Atlantic to ensure dedicated reinforcement of the continent and demonstrate a capable and credible deterrence effect," said Johnny Michael, a Pentagon spokesman. He said the new Nato command "will be the linchpin of trans-Atlantic security". Continue reading... |
| Journalists’ deaths can only thicken the fog of war over Afghanistan Posted: 05 May 2018 09:15 AM PDT Emma Graham-Harrison, who has frequently reported from Kabul for the Observer and the Guardian, assesses the full impact of last week's suicide attack on the city Afghanistan is not widely known for its media, but it should be. For the bravery shown by hundreds of reporters in the face of escalating carnage, but also because it is a beacon for free press in a region where that is rare. In a country where officials are widely resented for corruption and incompetence, and security forces fight a deepening insurgency, a vibrant media at least means citizens know what is happening and have a platform to discuss it and challenge those in power. Continue reading... |
| Trump White House accuses China of 'Orwellian nonsense' Posted: 05 May 2018 12:25 PM PDT
The White House on Saturday condemned Chinese efforts to control how US airlines refer to Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao as "Orwellian nonsense". The harshly worded statement came as a high-level trade delegation led by the Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin returned from negotiations in China. Related: Trump's knife crime comments are ridiculous, says London surgeon Continue reading... |
| Trump friend Tom Barrack has been questioned by Mueller, sources say Posted: 05 May 2018 12:57 PM PDT
Investigators working for special counsel Robert Mueller have interviewed one of Donald Trump's closest friends and confidants, California real estate investor Tom Barrack, the Associated Press has learned. Related: 'We're not changing any stories': Trump's week of contradiction Continue reading... |
| Nasa launches InSight spacecraft to explore the insides of Mars Posted: 05 May 2018 04:33 AM PDT
A robotic geologist armed with a hammer and quake monitor rocketed toward Mars on Saturday, aiming to land on the red planet and explore its mysterious insides. Related: Nasa mission to map Mars interior will launch this weekend Continue reading... |
| Indian police arrest 14 after teenage girl raped and burned to death Posted: 05 May 2018 03:45 AM PDT Suspects accused of attacking victim after abducting her while family were away at wedding A 16-year-old girl has been kidnapped and gang raped, then burned to death when her family tried to seek justice, in the latest case of horrific sexual violence to emerge in India. Police have arrested 14 men in connection with the assault and murder in eastern Jharkhand state, but the main suspect is still on the run. Continue reading... |
| 'Guns down, paintballs up': the US trend for settling feuds with paintball wars Posted: 05 May 2018 01:00 AM PDT A rapper's call to resolve conflict with paintball wars is being hailed as a way to tackle gun violence. But some have turned deadly In videos pouring on to social media from cities across the US, young men are seen brandishing weapons, calling out rivals and firing as people scatter down blocks and around buildings. The point of it all? Gun violence prevention, according to the people involved. The weapons fire paintballs and participants say it's a way of settling feuds and disagreements that might otherwise have led to real gunfire. Continue reading... |
| Cambridge Analytica has gone. But what has it left in its wake? Posted: 05 May 2018 11:00 PM PDT The firm closed its doors last week. But the writer who led the investigation into it says this is far from the end of the story This weekend marks a peculiar anniversary for the Observer. One year ago we published the article that led to the first of a series of legal threats from Cambridge Analytica: threats that have dogged the reporting of this story ever since. And this weekend marks the end of the week in which the company collapsed. It was not the first piece we had published about the company – the lawyers cited six previous ones – but it was our article on 7 May, "The Great British Brexit Robbery", that prompted the "pre-action protocol for defamation". Or, as one colleague said: "It appears that you have put your stick into the hornets' nest one time too many." Continue reading... |
| The Displaced; Migrant Brothers; Lights in the Distance – reviews Posted: 05 May 2018 11:00 PM PDT Three powerful, conscience-stirring books use personal testimony to help us see the refugee crisis through the eyes of its victims This September it will be three years since the body of Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy in red T-shirt and blue shorts, was washed ashore on a beach in Turkey. The picture that ran on the front pages of newspapers across Europe, and prompted calls for politicians to confront with all urgency what even the Sun called the "biggest crisis since the second world war", was perhaps the only moment in recent memory in which popular empathy for refugees clearly outweighed disregard or antipathy. For a month or more, maybe, after the picture ran, and Alan lay face down in all of our consciences, there was a feeling in European capitals that a different approach was desperately needed; several cities saw rallies in which crowds carried banners reading "Refugees Welcome Here". In November, however, the Paris attacks happened, and the popular mood once again hardened against "migrants". That new year the lurid reports of mass sexual assaults from crowds of young men of "north African appearance" in German cities were used to justify a far more alarmist rhetoric, which culminated in the calculated and algorithmed scaremongering leading up to the EU referendum. Weaponised borders became a critical and mythologised issue; deliberately "hostile environments" for "aliens" a matter of political pride. In the 24 months after Alan's body was discovered on the sand, 8,500 people drowned or disappeared trying to cross the Mediterranean to a place of greater safety; had it not been for the volte face in humanity of the Italian coast guard, the number would have been far higher. Comparable numbers will have perished this year, but not one of their pictures has made lasting front-page news. Continue reading... |
| From Qatar’s blockade, a bold, unexpected new vision is emerging Posted: 05 May 2018 10:05 PM PDT Enforced isolation has given the emirate confidence to pursue a political and cultural reboot For most of the past year the city-state of Qatar, the wealthiest peninsula on the planet, has been exploring the law of unintended consequences. The trigger for that came last June, when Qatar's closest neighbours, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the UAE, escalated a simmering disquiet about the Gulf state's role in the region to implement a full land and air blockade. Overnight, planes and cargo ships heading for Qatar were diverted, all diplomatic links were cut and Qatar's sole land border, with Saudi Arabia, was closed. Even camels were not spared the politics – 12,000 Qatari animals were forcibly repatriated. Continue reading... |
| NRA members post-Parkland: 'We're not children-hating monsters' – video Posted: 05 May 2018 10:00 PM PDT At the group's annual convention in Dallas, Lois Beckett speaks to ordinary NRA members in the wake of unprecedented pushback from teenage mass shootings survivors, and hears that the Parkland students 'need to do a little research before they jump into things they don't know much about' Continue reading... |
| Ruffled feathers: feral peacocks split community in Canada Posted: 05 May 2018 04:00 AM PDT Tensions have come to a head over the fate of dozens of wild peacocks that have taken up residence on a city street For a decade, a group of feral peacocks have divided the community of Sullivan Heights. Some of the residents of this suburban neighbourhood outside Vancouver love the birds, who have taken up residence in the local trees; others say they are kept awake by the peacocks' screeching. For Parminder Brar, the final straw came last year, when he says his father injured himself slipping on peacock excrement on Brar's property. He formally issued a request to take down the tree where the peacocks had built a nest. The city turned him down. Continue reading... |
| Malaysian police stop boat carrying 131 Sri Lankans to Australia and New Zealand Posted: 05 May 2018 07:51 PM PDT Nine Malaysians, four Indonesians and four Sri Lankans accused of people smuggling Malaysian police have intercepted a tanker with 131 Sri Lankans believed bound for Australia and New Zealand, destroying an alleged human smuggling ring that has been operating for over a year. Authorities halted the modified tanker on Tuesday off the coast of southern Johor state, national police chief Mohamad Fuzi Harun said. He said the immigrants included 98 men, 24 women, four boys and five girls. Continue reading... |
| Ban deals that silence harassment victims, says former Tory minister Posted: 06 May 2018 01:05 AM PDT Nicky Morgan says it is time to crack down on sexual harassment New laws should be considered to stop non-disclosure agreements being used to silence the victims of sexual harassment and punish those who abuse their power, a former Conservative cabinet minister has said. Nicky Morgan, the former education secretary and women's minister, said the time had come to ask if new powers were needed to tackle harassment as part of Theresa May's pledge to tackle the "burning injustices" in Britain. Continue reading... |
| Trump’s dirty ops attack on Obama legacy shows pure hatred for Iran deal Posted: 05 May 2018 01:01 PM PDT US president's move using Israeli private security brings prospect of a new conflict in the Middle East ever closer The use of an Israeli private security firm to dig for dirt on senior members of the Obama administration linked to the Iran nuclear deal, as revealed in today's Observer, shows how far President Donald Trump and the hawks around him are willing to go to destroy the agreement. The 2015 deal is the last major element of Barack Obama's foreign policy legacy left standing, after nearly 16 months of the Trump era. The drive to unravel the agreement is both deeply personal – driven by Trump's animus towards his predecessor – and global in its implications for international peace and security. Continue reading... |
| Alexei Navalny and scores more arrested at anti-Putin rally – video Posted: 05 May 2018 08:34 AM PDT Police arrest the Russian opposition leader and others protesting across the country against Vladimir Putin. Navalny had called on Kremlin critics to take to the streets and register their opposition ahead of Putin's inauguration for a fourth presidential term
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