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Separation at the border: children wait in cages at south Texas warehouse
Iván Duque wins election to become Colombia's president
Trump lawyer shrugs off Roger Stone meeting with Russian over Clinton dirt
State of emergency declared in Papua New Guinea after riots
Eurydice Dixon: memorial to murdered comedian vandalised
Aquarius migrants arrive in Spain after rough week at sea
Next stop, Nina Simone … Paris metro ‘must honour its heroines’
Colombia votes in election that could become fresh poll on Farc deal
US woman fights off rabid bobcat, strangling it with bare hands
Australian firms told to catch up on climate change risk checks
Glasgow must review heritage planning in wake of fire, says MP
Jeremy Hunt: NHS cash boost is not dependent on Brexit dividend
Scientists scramble to stop bananas being killed off
Melania Trump speaks out against child separations at border: 'Hate to see it'
Osaka earthquake: three people dead after 6.1-magnitude tremor
Labor unlikely to support stage two of $143bn tax package
Osaka hit by 6.1-magnitude earthquake during rush hour – video report
Between war and peace: Ukrainian youth – in pictures
Turkey elections 2018: everything you need to know
Midterms: Democratic women and Republican populists surge in primaries
US immigration protests as hundreds of children held in Texas facility – video

Separation at the border: children wait in cages at south Texas warehouse

Posted: 17 Jun 2018 02:22 PM PDT

US Border Patrol allows reporters to visit holding facility
Melania Trump speaks out against separation policy

Inside an old warehouse in south Texas, hundreds of children wait away from their parents in a series of cages created by metal fencing.

One cage had 20 children inside. Scattered about are bottles of water, bags of chips and large foil sheets intended to serve as blankets.

Iván Duque wins election to become Colombia's president

Posted: 17 Jun 2018 04:29 PM PDT

Conservative opponent of Farc peace process wins long and divisive campaign

Colombia has chosen Iván Duque, a conservative neophyte, to be its next president after a long and divisive campaign that often centred on a controversial peace process with leftist rebels the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc).

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Trump lawyer shrugs off Roger Stone meeting with Russian over Clinton dirt

Posted: 17 Jun 2018 12:03 PM PDT

Rudy Giuliani 'doubts' president knew about 2016 meeting in which Russian demanded $2m for damaging information

Donald Trump's lawyer said on Sunday he "doubted" the president knew about a newly reported May 2016 meeting between sometime adviser Roger Stone and a Russian offering damaging information about Hillary Clinton, then Trump's rival for the White House.

State of emergency declared in Papua New Guinea after riots

Posted: 17 Jun 2018 04:21 PM PDT

Prime minister Peter O'Neill declares nine-month state of emergency and suspends a provincial government after riots in Southern Highlands last week

Papua New Guinea has declared a state of emergency, suspended a provincial government and is sending armed forces to its rugged highlands to restore order after rioters went on a rampage of looting and burning, the government said.

Violence has often ravaged the remote interior of the resource-rich Pacific nation, where tribal and land disputes overlay regional politics.

Eurydice Dixon: memorial to murdered comedian vandalised

Posted: 17 Jun 2018 06:06 PM PDT

Tributes and flowers laid at scene in Melbourne of 22-year-old's death covered in white paint and offensive graffiti

A makeshift memorial of flowers and notes left in tribute to the Melbourne comedian Eurydice Dixon has been vandalised at the weekend with thick white paint.

Dixon was murdered on Wednesday in Princes Park, Carlton North, as she was walking home from a comedy show she had performed at in the city. People have been leaving tributes to the 22-year-old in the park since then, where thousands of people are preparing to attend a vigil on Monday night.

Aquarius migrants arrive in Spain after rough week at sea

Posted: 17 Jun 2018 02:27 AM PDT

Red Cross stands ready as rescue ship docks in Valencia

The 630 migrants and refugees rescued off the coast of Libya and turned away from Italy and Malta have begun to arrive at the Spanish port of Valencia after seven days at sea.

An Italian coastguard vessel, Dattilo, the first of three ships transporting the group, pulled into Valencia harbour at 6.20am carrying 274 people.

Next stop, Nina Simone … Paris metro ‘must honour its heroines’

Posted: 16 Jun 2018 10:00 PM PDT

A public vote to name two Paris stations has turned into a battle over a sexist rail map

To travel on the Paris métro is to take a journey through French – and world – history. Honoured with a station name are war heroes, statesmen, artists and writers including Charles de Gaulle, Markos Botsaris, Franklin D Roosevelt and Victor Hugo.

But notable by their absence are women. Only four of the 303 stops on 16 lines are named after female figures, French or otherwise.

Colombia votes in election that could become fresh poll on Farc deal

Posted: 16 Jun 2018 10:00 PM PDT

Key decider in presidential runoff will be who can win votes that went to centrists defeated in first round

Colombia goes to the polls on Sunday to choose the country's first president since a historic peace deal was signed with leftist Farc rebels.

From 8am, voters can choose between Iván Duque, a neophyte conservative who opposes the peace deal, and Bogotá's former mayor Gustavo Petro, once a leftist rebel himself, who defends it.

US woman fights off rabid bobcat, strangling it with bare hands

Posted: 17 Jun 2018 11:17 AM PDT

'I thought, not today ... there was no way I was going to die' says Georgia grandmother who strangled animal to death

A 46-year-old grandmother strangled a rabid bobcat to death after the animal attacked her in her front yard in north-eastern Georgia.

The Athens-Banner Herald reported that DeDe Phillips of Hart county had gone outside on 7 June to take a picture when the bobcat lunged at her.

Australian firms told to catch up on climate change risk checks

Posted: 17 Jun 2018 11:00 AM PDT

New report says Australian companies lag behind international organisations

Australian companies are not doing enough work to model the risks of climate change and how it will affect their profitability, a new report by a thinktank says.

Progressive thinktank the Centre for Policy Development says that while most companies have committed to considering what climate change and the Paris climate agreement means for their business strategy, too few have begun using scenario analysis techniques to model what its impacts could be and how to respond to it.

Glasgow must review heritage planning in wake of fire, says MP

Posted: 18 Jun 2018 01:44 AM PDT

Glasgow North East MP calls for radical action to protect city's Victorian architecture

The city of Glasgow should undertake a "radical and very honest" review of the way that it manages its heritage buildings in the wake of the devastating fire that gutted the Glasgow School of Art's Mackintosh building, according to a local MP.

Paul Sweeney, the Scottish Labour MP for Glasgow North East who viewed the damage to the Mackintosh building with the fire service on Saturday evening, the night after the fire, told the Guardian the city urgently needed a comprehensive and more preventative strategy for preserving its ageing stock of Victorian architecture.

Jeremy Hunt: NHS cash boost is not dependent on Brexit dividend

Posted: 18 Jun 2018 01:04 AM PDT

Health secretary says extra £20bn annual funding will happen even if Brexit delivers no economic benefits

Jeremy Hunt has conceded that having a Brexit dividend to partly finance an increase in NHS spending will depend on the economy outstripping forecasts, as he pledged the £20bn in extra annual funding would be provided even if this did not happen.

Scientists scramble to stop bananas being killed off

Posted: 17 Jun 2018 11:00 PM PDT

British firm races to produce bananas resistant to fungus sweeping global plantations

A British company has joined the race to develop a banana variety resistant to diseases and climatic changes that threaten to disrupt the availability of the country's favourite fruit – or even kill it off altogether.

The UK alone consumes more than 5bn bananas a year, while the fruit is a staple food in many poor countries and accounts for an export industry worth $13bn (£9.8bn) a year.

Melania Trump speaks out against child separations at border: 'Hate to see it'

Posted: 18 Jun 2018 12:39 AM PDT

First Lady calls on 'both sides' to come together on immigration reform as Democrats press for changes on controversial policy

Melania Trump's spokeswoman has said the first lady "hates to see children separated from their families", in a rare public statement at odds with her husband's policy of separating children from their parents at the Mexico border.

Osaka earthquake: three people dead after 6.1-magnitude tremor

Posted: 18 Jun 2018 01:11 AM PDT

The earthquake hit the Japanese city just before 8am on Monday, killing three people, including a nine-year-old girl.

Three people have died and more than 200 others were injured after a powerful earthquake shook the Japanese coastal city of Osaka and nearby areas during the morning rush hour on Monday.

The victims were named as Rina Miyake, a 9-year-old girl, and Minoru Yasui, an 80-year-old man, who died when they were hit by collapsing walls after the magnitude-6.1 quake struck just before 8am local time, media said. A second man, Motochika Goto, 85, was crushed by a falling bookcase at his home.

Labor unlikely to support stage two of $143bn tax package

Posted: 18 Jun 2018 01:29 AM PDT

Opposition backs initial tax cuts for low income earners, but likely not later stages aimed at higher earners

Labor has signalled it is unlikely to support stage two of the Turnbull government income tax cuts ahead of definitive deliberation by the shadow cabinet on the $143bn budget package on Monday evening.

As the treasurer conceded that the Australian Tax Office could allow some of the tax cuts to be delivered retrospectively in the event of a parliamentary logjam on the package, the shadow treasurer, Chris Bowen, gave a broad hint that stage two of the plan was unlikely to win Labor's backing.

Osaka hit by 6.1-magnitude earthquake during rush hour – video report

Posted: 18 Jun 2018 12:41 AM PDT

Japan's coastal city of Osaka has been hit by a 6.1-magnitude earthquake during Monday morning's rush hour, killing three people and injuring more than 200. Despite a relatively low magnitude, its shallow depth of 13km caused violent tremors. Officials warned of possible strong aftershocks

Osaka earthquake: Three dead after 6.1-magnitude tremor

Between war and peace: Ukrainian youth – in pictures

Posted: 17 Jun 2018 11:00 PM PDT

For more than three years, Ukraine has been plagued by a conflict between the eastern secessionist territories and the Kiev government. These images portray a generation caught between war and peace

Turkey elections 2018: everything you need to know

Posted: 17 Jun 2018 09:00 PM PDT

Erdoğan is running for president, of course, but who else is in the running for control?

The country will hold presidential and parliamentary elections on 24 June. If no candidate wins an outright majority in the first round of the presidential elections, a second round will be held on 8 July between the top two candidates in the race.

Midterms: Democratic women and Republican populists surge in primaries

Posted: 17 Jun 2018 08:50 AM PDT

Results show that in an electorate with increasingly few swing voters, motivating the base is what matters most

In the 2018 primaries, two clear trends have emerged.

US immigration protests as hundreds of children held in Texas facility – video

Posted: 17 Jun 2018 11:27 PM PDT

Protesters gather outside a detention facility in south Texas, where hundreds of children wait away from their parents in cages created by metal fencing. The US border patrol allowed reporters to briefly visit the site, where it holds families arrested at the southern US border. Melania Trump and Laura Bush have spoken out against the policy of separation and what they called heartbreaking scenes.