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- Italy's deal with Libya to 'pull back' migrants faces legal challenge
- Donald Trump set to reveal decision on Iran nuclear deal
- Ontario issues first non-binary birth certificate after human rights claim
- Eric Schneiderman: New York attorney general resigns after assault allegations
- Vladimir Putin sworn in for fourth term in Kremlin ceremony
- Elon Musk is dating Grimes – plus four other things we learned at Met Gala 2018
- Hezbollah makes strong showing in Lebanon elections
- 'I'll continue writing the truth': the editor taking on Erdoğan
- Afghan helicopter raid killed or injured over 100, says UN report
- Keeping track: drunk man causes 1,280 minutes of delays on German railway
- Melania Trump launches campaign to help children stay 'healthy and balanced'
- Prominent Mexican journalist fired after call to kill presidential hopeful Amlo
- Sun 'will flare into massive planetary nebula when it dies'
- Canada: police told massage therapist sexual harassment 'part of the business'
- 'Cairo has started to become ugly': why Egypt is building a new capital city
- The art of diversity: how power is shifting at the top of US museums
- Oxford armed standoff ends peacefully, say police
- France must move beyond May 1968 and tackle the racial legacy of empire | David Palumbo-Liu
- The NRA's convention in Dallas – in pictures
- 'Our land is our home': Canadians build tiny homes in bid to thwart pipeline
- China sentences former political rising star to life in prison for corruption
- Federal budget 2018: Labor attacks Turnbull over Costello's deficit comments – politics live
- UN sexual misconduct chief was promoted while facing harassment claims
- Malaysia election 2018: everything you need to know
- Trump likely to scrap Iran deal, says former White House negotiator – video
- Melania Trump announces her ‘Be Best’ initiative for children - video
- Dramatic timelapse footage shows lava engulfing car in Hawaii – video
- Boris Johnson urges US to 'not throw away' Iran nuclear deal – video
| Italy's deal with Libya to 'pull back' migrants faces legal challenge Posted: 07 May 2018 10:00 PM PDT Migrants who are returned to Libya subjected to grave human rights violations, lawsuit claims Italy's collaboration with Libya to stop migrants reaching Europe is facing a legal challenge over allegations that it has led to grave human rights violations against those crossing the Mediterranean, including torture and slavery. A lawsuit filed in the European court of human rights (ECHR) alleges that Italy's work with the Libyan coastguard, which has stopped migrant boats at Italy's behest and forced thousands of people to return to Libya against their will, has subjected them to inhumane conditions, beatings, rape and starvation. Continue reading... |
| Donald Trump set to reveal decision on Iran nuclear deal Posted: 08 May 2018 12:00 AM PDT President says announcement to be made at White House at 2pm ET ahead of deadline for US to re-certify landmark pact Donald Trump has said in a tweet that he will announce a "decision" on the Iran nuclear deal at the White House on Tuesday. Related: Iran deal: prominent backer says he was warned of Trump bid to discredit him Continue reading... |
| Ontario issues first non-binary birth certificate after human rights claim Posted: 07 May 2018 02:29 PM PDT Joshua Ferguson celebrates 'victory for the trans community' almost a year after petitioning Canada's biggest province for a new document Canada's largest province has issued its first non-binary birth certificate, marking the culmination of a successful human rights claim against Ontario. Joshua Ferguson had waited nearly a year after petitioning the provincial government for a new birth certificate in order change the document from male to non-binary, as Ferguson identifies as neither male nor female. Instead, the film-maker uses the pronoun "they". Continue reading... |
| Eric Schneiderman: New York attorney general resigns after assault allegations Posted: 07 May 2018 06:59 PM PDT Schneiderman, who is suing Harvey Weinstein over sexual misconduct claims, accused in New Yorker of assaulting four women New York's attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, abruptly resigned on Monday night following accusations published in the New Yorker that he physically assaulted four women he was romantically involved with. Schneiderman rose to national prominence as a foe of the Trump administration and a high-profile figure in the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment. Continue reading... |
| Vladimir Putin sworn in for fourth term in Kremlin ceremony Posted: 07 May 2018 06:55 AM PDT Russian president promises to serve people faithfully amid tensions with west and domestic discontent over poverty Vladimir Putin has been sworn in for a fourth presidential term in a lavish Kremlin ceremony as tensions with the west rise and domestic discontent over poverty and wealth inequality simmers. State television began its live coverage of the inauguration on Monday with Putin, 65, apparently hard at work in his Kremlin office. He then walked down a long, red-carpeted corridor to a black limousine that whisked him to the nearby Grand Kremlin Palace, the former throne room of Russia's tsars. |
| Elon Musk is dating Grimes – plus four other things we learned at Met Gala 2018 Posted: 08 May 2018 12:47 AM PDT Elon Musk has got together with musician Grimes, Rihanna rules and you don't need a dress to make a statement Continue reading... |
| Hezbollah makes strong showing in Lebanon elections Posted: 07 May 2018 10:16 AM PDT Iran consolidates influence as Shia party wins small majority at expense of Sunni prime minister Hezbollah has gained political ground in Lebanon and consolidated Iran's influence on the fragile state's affairs after winning, along with its allies, a small majority in national elections. The Shia militia-cum-political bloc's gains came at the expense of the Sunni prime minister, Saad Hariri, whose authority was weakened by a relatively poor showing in stronghold areas. Continue reading... |
| 'I'll continue writing the truth': the editor taking on Erdoğan Posted: 07 May 2018 09:00 PM PDT Şener Leven has made his tiny Turkish Cypriot newspaper an enemy of Turkey's president
Şener Levent is on a mission. He has survived being set on by mob and two gun attacks and has had a dead dog left at his door, but none has not stopped the editor taking Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, to task. |
| Afghan helicopter raid killed or injured over 100, says UN report Posted: 07 May 2018 11:53 AM PDT Assault on religious ceremony in April was intended to break a stalemate with the Taliban Rockets and heavy machine guns fired from Afghan government helicopters killed and wounded at least 107 boys and men attending a religious ceremony near the northern city of Kunduz last month, according to a UN report. Villagers in the Dasht-e Archi district of Kunduz province said that dozens of people, including many children, had been killed in the 2 April attack, prompting the UN to launch an investigation. Continue reading... |
| Keeping track: drunk man causes 1,280 minutes of delays on German railway Posted: 07 May 2018 09:35 AM PDT Man woke up inside container near Munich's Pasing station unsure where he was and contacted police, who searched train by train An intoxicated man's ill-advised decision to spend a night on a freight train caused disruption for commuters in Munich as police had to suspend services at a busy station to look for him. Munich police said they received an emergency call at 5.20am from a man who reported that he had woken up in a container on a train near Pasing station, Munich's third-largest, and could not get out. Continue reading... |
| Melania Trump launches campaign to help children stay 'healthy and balanced' Posted: 07 May 2018 01:14 PM PDT First lady announces 'Be Best' program, which aims to promote physical and emotional wellbeing in today's 'ever-connected world' Melania Trump, the first lady of the United States, briefly stepped out of her husband's larger than life shadow on Monday to launch a campaign against cyber-bullying – before putting on a show of unity with Donald Trump. Just as Hillary Clinton was once scrutinized during her husband Bill's sex scandal, Melania faced the cameras even as Donald Trump kept changing his story about an alleged extramarital encounter with the pornographic film actor Stormy Daniels. Continue reading... |
| Prominent Mexican journalist fired after call to kill presidential hopeful Amlo Posted: 07 May 2018 01:44 PM PDT After tweeting a call to assassinate Andrés Manuel López Obrador, two Mexican media outlets cut ties with the journalist, Ricardo Alemán Two Mexican media outlets have cut ties with a prominent journalist after he appeared to call on supporters of presidential hopeful Andrés Manuel López Obrador to assassinate the leftwing candidate. Ricardo Alemán tweeted Saturday: "John Lennon was killed by a fan. Versace was killed by a fan. Selena was killed by a fan. Now's the time chairos" – using a word many on Mexico's right use to disparage supporters of López Obrador, candidate of the leftist Morena party in July's election. Continue reading... |
| Sun 'will flare into massive planetary nebula when it dies' Posted: 07 May 2018 08:00 AM PDT In 5 billion years our dying sun will transform into a stunning planetary nebula visible for millions of light years around, scientists say Enjoy the sun while it lasts: in 5 billion years' time, our host star will burn out, rip itself apart and turn into a massive glowing ring of interstellar gas and dust, scientists say. Astronomers have long known that the sun will die when it runs out of fuel, but the precise nature of its death throes has been far from clear, even to the most morbid of the field's practitioners. Continue reading... |
| Canada: police told massage therapist sexual harassment 'part of the business' Posted: 07 May 2018 10:46 AM PDT Officer in Montreal tried to dissuade therapist Claudia Cavaliere from making formal statement after client masturbated in front of her A Canadian police officer told a massage therapist that harassment at work was just "part of the business" when she tried to report an incident of sexual abuse. Claudia Cavaliere went to Montreal police after a client requested a full-body massage and then proceeded to masturbate in front of her. Continue reading... |
| 'Cairo has started to become ugly': why Egypt is building a new capital city Posted: 07 May 2018 11:30 PM PDT Billed as smart city in the desert, boasting greenery and luxury housing, the government is set to relocate to the as-yet-unnamed city in 2019. But will anyone else move in? Billboards promising another way of life have long clustered alongside the clogged highways of central Cairo. Advertisements for gated housing developments called "Regent's Park", "Beta Greens" or "Uptown" promise "360-degree greenery" and open spaces. One, on a busy and polluted central road, invites onlookers to "just breathe". The promise of escape from the congestion of central Cairo to a new life 40km away on the city's outskirts is fetishised for those able to afford it. Nowhere is this more clear than on the billboards advertising real estate in "Entrada", a housing and commercial property development in Egypt's new administrative capital, which is currently without a name. "Welcome to a supreme community," proclaims one. The development is touted by its creators as "the entrance to a new city, a new lifestyle, a new community and a new worldwide centre of attraction". Continue reading... |
| The art of diversity: how power is shifting at the top of US museums Posted: 07 May 2018 07:30 AM PDT Positions that are typically dominated by rich white men are finally being opened up to others, but is change happening fast enough? Last month, former Nasa scientist Ellen Stofan walked into the National Air and Space Museum in Washington and unlocked the door to the director's office – which, for the first time, was her own. It was a breakthrough moment, as the museum has always had a male director since it first opened in 1976, until now. Related: Diversity in spotlight as Met museum hires 10th white male director in a row Continue reading... |
| Oxford armed standoff ends peacefully, say police Posted: 08 May 2018 01:19 AM PDT Part of city centre was cordoned off after shots were fired from property in Paradise Square on Monday An armed siege in Oxford has ended "peacefully", according to Thames Valley police. Paradise Square, Paradise Street and part of Norfolk Street in the city were closed into Tuesday morning following a shootout between police and an armed man. Continue reading... |
| France must move beyond May 1968 and tackle the racial legacy of empire | David Palumbo-Liu Posted: 08 May 2018 02:00 AM PDT Among the many 50th-anniversary events in Paris, one conference challenged the elite's view of 1968 Paris is commemorating the 50th anniversary of Mai 68, which scholar Kristin Ross describes as "the largest mass movement in French history, the biggest strike in the history of the French workers' movement". Tours and exhibits dot the city – most dwell on the solidarity between French students and workers, something still manifest today in the anti-Macron protests. But one conference offered a different picture of 68. Bandung of the North was held in an outlying area, Saint-Denis, in the amphitheatre of a workers' hall filled to capacity for three days with activists, organisers and scholars; the speakers were all people of colour. It looked back, not to 1968, but to the landmark Bandung conference of 1955, where representatives of the non-aligned countries of Asia and Africa gathered to discuss common concerns and strategies. Bandung of the North provided a revolutionary way of understanding the current tensions and debates in France around race, immigration and refugees. It confronted France (and all colonial and imperialist powers) with the legacy of its imperial project and its attempts to downplay the political, social and cultural effects of that legacy under the guise of a French "republic". Continue reading... |
| The NRA's convention in Dallas – in pictures Posted: 08 May 2018 01:00 AM PDT The 2018 National Rifle Association (NRA) convention in Dallas, Texas was held over three days and the venue occupied more than 15 acres Continue reading... |
| 'Our land is our home': Canadians build tiny homes in bid to thwart pipeline Posted: 07 May 2018 11:30 PM PDT Much of Kinder Morgan pipeline's proposed route lies within Secwepemc territory, and locals describe their fightback as 'a matter of life and death' In the heart of the Canadian province of British Columbia, dozens of activists have been gathering to saw lumber, raise walls and install windows. By the time their work is done, 10 tiny homes will have been built – all in the name of thwarting a pipeline. Continue reading... |
| China sentences former political rising star to life in prison for corruption Posted: 07 May 2018 10:08 PM PDT Sun Zhengcai is one of the most powerful officials to be toppled under President Xi Jinping's anti-graft campaign A top Chinese official once seen as a potential successor to president Xi Jinping has been sentenced to life in prison for taking more than $26m in bribes, according to state media. Sun Zhengcai, a former politburo member and party boss of the southwestern city of Chongqing, is one of the highest officials to be toppled by an anti-graft campaign that critics say is Xi's way to root out rivals rather than corruption. Continue reading... |
| Federal budget 2018: Labor attacks Turnbull over Costello's deficit comments – politics live Posted: 08 May 2018 02:22 AM PDT PM says he will not be lectured on deficit by party that last delivered surplus in 1989, as Scott Morrison prepares Australia federal budget. All the day's events, live
I can assure you my running shoes are on, and I am prepared to run the kilometre or so (well, it feels like it) from the lock up room back to the press gallery to start giving you the run down on this thing. The big reveal starts the moment Scott Morrison's speech hits the despatch box, and the sound of 100s of journalists hitting 'send' can be heard around the nation. Or at least around these corridors.
Greens leader Richard Di Natale was on the ABC a short while ago. He slammed the government's budget priorities, and pointed to multinational tax avoidance as an issue that ought to be a clear priority. Di Natale also calls for a Buffet rule (a minimum tax rate of 30% on individuals making more than $1m). He said the treasurer "got lucky" because of strong commodity prices. "We've got a tax avoidance system, not a tax system, we've got huge loop holes that need to be closed..." @RichardDiNatale tells @PatsKarvelas #auspol #rndrive #Budget2018 https://t.co/9x85t192fX pic.twitter.com/b2pHlbJSpC Continue reading... |
| UN sexual misconduct chief was promoted while facing harassment claims Posted: 07 May 2018 11:00 PM PDT Jan Beagle was subject of a harassment inquiry, though later cleared, when appointed to role in which she now spearheads sexual abuse taskforce The official tasked with tackling sexual misconduct within the United Nations was promoted to her position as undersecretary general for management while subject to a harassment investigation. Jan Beagle, who now leads the UN's special taskforce on sexual harassment, was investigated over harassment claims last year while working as deputy executive director of UNAids, which spearheads the global fight against HIV and Aids. Continue reading... |
| Malaysia election 2018: everything you need to know Posted: 07 May 2018 04:54 PM PDT Contest between former PM Mahathir Mohamad and his protege turned rival Najib Razak is building up to be the one of the most hotly contested in history What is happening? Malaysia goes to the polls on Wednesday 9 May to decide who will be the nation's seventh prime minister. The day has been declared a bank holiday. It is building up to be the one of the most hotly contested elections in the country's history, and will also be the biggest ever with a record 2,333 candidates. |
| Trump likely to scrap Iran deal, says former White House negotiator – video Posted: 07 May 2018 06:16 PM PDT Donald Trump is set to reveal whether he will keep the US in the Iran deal, a move that could determine the fate of 2015 agreement that froze Iran's nuclear program. Robert Malley, the former lead White House negotiator on the Iran agreement under President Barack Obama, says he expects Trump to withdraw from the deal Continue reading... |
| Melania Trump announces her ‘Be Best’ initiative for children - video Posted: 07 May 2018 01:57 PM PDT The first lady, Melania Trump, has formally launched her long-awaited initiative, Be Best. The public awareness campaign encourages adults to teach children how to be good citizens. She said the campaign would also focus on the issues of opioid abuse Continue reading... |
| Dramatic timelapse footage shows lava engulfing car in Hawaii – video Posted: 07 May 2018 01:13 PM PDT A video uploaded to social media shows the lava flow engulfing a parked car on the streets of Puna, Hawaii. Kīlauea volcano has destroyed 26 homes and forced 1,700 people to leave their residences since it erupted on Thursday, spewing lava and toxic gas. So far no fatalities or major injuries have been reported Continue reading... |
| Boris Johnson urges US to 'not throw away' Iran nuclear deal – video Posted: 07 May 2018 01:05 PM PDT Boris Johnson, the British foreign secretary, pleads with Donald Trump not to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal Continue reading... |
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