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Child separations: Trump faces extreme backlash from public and his own party
Far-right Italy minister vows 'action' to expel thousands of Roma
Brexit row: GCHQ chief stresses UK's role in foiling European terror plots
US forces preparing for North Korea to hand over war dead
Labour to propose Bank of England remit to boost productivity
Nato chief warns over future of transatlantic relationship
Saudi-backed Yemeni forces capture Hodeidah airport
Stock markets roiled as US-China trade dispute escalates
Hungary steps up anti-immigration stance with plans for NGO tax
Rogue beekeepers and dirty tricks blamed for rise in Belgian hive heists
'They’re trying to break me': Polish judges face state-led intimidation
Synthetic biology raises risk of new bioweapons, US report warns
Kim Jong-un meets Xi Jinping for third time
Hidden City: will giving residents land rights transform a Buenos Aires slum?
Families divided at the border: 'The most horrific immigration policy I've ever seen'
Hadrian’s Wall being damaged by illegal metal detectorists
Brexit: May faces 'meaningful vote' crunch day - Politics live
‘The fact we exist is huge’: Iran’s women plotting course to world stage
Battling tokenism: Zimbabwe's female politicians pin hopes on polls
'The entire habitat is gone': Hawaii's natural wonders claimed by lava
These Guatemalan women save mothers and babies. Why are they treated so badly?
1MDB: Mahathir claims he has 'an almost perfect case' against former PM Najib
Tony Abbott signals he'll cross the floor to vote against Turnbull's energy plan
UK Foreign Office ranks among world's worst on revealing how aid is spent
The doctor from Myanmar faced with 1 million patients and a plague of rats – podcast
Image of sobbing toddler at US border: ‘It was hard for me to photograph’
Trump's family separation policy is as damaging to America as Abu Ghraib | Michael H Fuchs
'Essentially summer camps': how the right is defending family separations
Justin Trudeau promised to protect indigenous rights. He lied, again | Khelsilem
Protesters confront US homeland security secretary in Mexican restaurant – video
Rachel Maddow breaks down during report on 'tender age' shelters – video
Democrats heckle Trump: 'Mr President, don't you have kids?' – video
Nikki Haley: US will lead on human rights outside 'misnamed' UN council – video
'These children are not animals': US house decries separation policy – video
Why are families being separated at the southern US border? – video explainer

Child separations: Trump faces extreme backlash from public and his own party

Posted: 19 Jun 2018 11:23 AM PDT

Reaction to policy disquiets Republicans facing re-election
Families divided: 'The most horrific policy I've ever seen'

Donald Trump heads to Capitol Hill on Tuesday afternoon facing an extraordinary backlash from his own party – and the American public – over his policy of separating children from their parents at the southern US border.

Far-right Italy minister vows 'action' to expel thousands of Roma

Posted: 19 Jun 2018 11:37 AM PDT

Matteo Salvini shrugs off critics who say policy reminiscent of fascist past

Matteo Salvini vowed to turn "words into action" in his drive to root out and expel thousands of nomadic Roma from Italy as he shrugged off critics who said the far-right interior minister was adopting illegal policies reminiscent of the country's fascist past.

Salvini, who has seen a jump in his approval ratings in the little under three weeks he has been in office, has called for a new census of Roma and for all non-Italian Roma to be expelled from the country.

Brexit row: GCHQ chief stresses UK's role in foiling European terror plots

Posted: 19 Jun 2018 11:42 AM PDT

Jeremy Fleming's comments can be seen as riposte to EU threats to end UK access to security databases

Britain supplied key information to help break up terrorist operations in four European countries in the last year, one of its intelligence chiefs revealed on Tuesday, as the UK upped the ante in the growing row over post-Brexit security.

The director of the surveillance agency GCHQ, Jeremy Fleming, speaking on a visit to Nato headquarters, also stressed other European countries had benefited from classified intelligence shared by the UK on cyber-threats.

US forces preparing for North Korea to hand over war dead

Posted: 19 Jun 2018 04:48 PM PDT

US military in South Korea expect to receive remains of unknown number of missing US or allied service members

US forces in South Korea are preparing for the North Koreans to turn over the remains of an unknown number of US or allied service members who have been missing since the Korean war, US officials have said.

Labour to propose Bank of England remit to boost productivity

Posted: 19 Jun 2018 02:00 PM PDT

John McDonnell will call for major changes to UK's financial system based on broad review

The Bank of England could be given a mandate to boost productivity growth under a Labour government as part of opposition plans to overhaul the country's "economic architecture".

Revealing the findings from a review of the UK financial system, the shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, will on Wednesday make the case for a fundamental transformation that could include a revamp of the Bank's remit in order to help drive economic growth.

Nato chief warns over future of transatlantic relationship

Posted: 19 Jun 2018 03:56 AM PDT

Exclusive: Jens Stoltenberg says US and Europe must work to avoid breakdown in western unity

• Europe and North America need to stay united – now more than ever

The head of Nato has warned that the deep divisions between the US under Donald Trump and its European allies are not going away and there is no certainty that the transatlantic relationship and its military alliance will survive.

Against a backdrop of Trump's open baiting of the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, over immigration and her domestic difficulties, Jens Stoltenberg has called for all Nato members to work to avoid a disastrous breakdown in western unity.

Saudi-backed Yemeni forces capture Hodeidah airport

Posted: 19 Jun 2018 07:46 AM PDT

Military advance comes after UN envoy fails to broker ceasefire with Houthi rebels

Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces have captured the airport at Hodeidah and have started preparations for the more complex task of capturing the city and its port nine miles (15km) to the north. The port is critical to the supply of aid to the rest of the famine-struck country.

Confirmation that the airport on the southern outskirts of the city had been seized after three days of fighting came from both TV pictures and eyewitness accounts. At least 40 Houthi fighters who had held the airport were killed, but most retreated into the city, preparing to fight a potentially intense street-by-street campaign that could endanger tens of thousands of civilians.

Stock markets roiled as US-China trade dispute escalates

Posted: 19 Jun 2018 07:41 PM PDT

Markets dropped across the world after Trump threatened to impose $200bn more in levies on Chinese goods

Business live: trade war fears escalate

The trade dispute between the US and China escalated on Tuesday, with a senior Trump official accusing China of "theft" and Beijing accusing the US of blackmail.

The news roiled global stock markets as investors feared that escalating tensions could trigger an international trade war.

Hungary steps up anti-immigration stance with plans for NGO tax

Posted: 19 Jun 2018 11:13 AM PDT

Government also resubmits bill to criminalise those deemed to be helping illegal immigration

The Hungarian government has stepped up its anti-immigration measures with plans to introduce a 25% tax on aid groups it says support migration.

Viktor Orbán's administration has been among the most hostile to immigration in Europe. His Fidesz party was re-elected in a landslide victory in April, promising to crack down on non-governmental organisations it says support migrants.

Rogue beekeepers and dirty tricks blamed for rise in Belgian hive heists

Posted: 19 Jun 2018 09:26 AM PDT

150,000 bees stolen near Tessenderlo in latest incident, as interest in hobby grows

Dirty tricks by rival beekeepers have been blamed for a rise in hive thefts in Belgium after huge growth in interest in the hobby.

Following the disappearance of 150,000 bees from hives near the Flemish town of Tessenderlo, keepers have been advised to keep a keen eye on their insects and alert the police to suspicious activity.

'They’re trying to break me': Polish judges face state-led intimidation

Posted: 18 Jun 2018 09:00 PM PDT

Judges say ruling party is tightening its grip through threats and hate campaigns

Three high-profile Polish judges have complained of a "state-led campaign of intimidation and harassment" against them, as Poland's ruling party tightens its grip on the judiciary.

Since taking power in 2015 the Law and Justice party (PiS) has assumed direct oversight of state prosecutors and the judicial body that appoints, promotes and disciplines judges, as well as the power to dismiss and appoint court presidents, who wield considerable power and influence in the Polish justice system.

Synthetic biology raises risk of new bioweapons, US report warns

Posted: 19 Jun 2018 09:26 AM PDT

Report warns that swift progress in our ability to manufacture viruses is making us vulnerable to biological attacks

The rapid rise of synthetic biology, a futuristic field of science that seeks to master the machinery of life, has raised the risk of a new generation of bioweapons, according a major US report into the state of the art.

Advances in the area mean that scientists now have the capability to recreate dangerous viruses from scratch; make harmful bacteria more deadly; and modify common microbes so that they churn out lethal toxins once they enter the body.

Kim Jong-un meets Xi Jinping for third time

Posted: 19 Jun 2018 06:28 AM PDT

North Korean leader meets Chinese president a week after Kim's summit with Donald Trump

One week after holding a summit with the US president, Donald Trump, the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has met the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, his third visit since March.

On Tuesday, the Chinese state broadcaster CCTV showed Kim and Xi holding talks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, usually used for formal state visits. Analysts believe Kim is in China to brief Xi on the summit, seek economic assistance, as well as pay deference to Beijing, which is eager to emphasise its role in talks between North Korea, the US, and South Korea.

Hidden City: will giving residents land rights transform a Buenos Aires slum?

Posted: 19 Jun 2018 03:00 AM PDT

Argentina's president once talked of forcing slums out of the city – now he wants to deliver residents the deeds to their land. But will it help?

"It was really bad in there – I mean, it's literally a ruin," says Romina Vargas of Argentina's most famous abandoned building, where she once lived. "There was lots of contaminated water on the lower floors, there were no sewers, and kids would come and take drugs inside. It's good that it's coming down."

Built in the 1930s and later championed by president Juan Domingo Perón, the 14-storey building in south-west Buenos Aires was intended to be the largest hospital in Latin America; a cornerstone of Perón's grand populist vision for Argentina. But construction stopped abruptly in 1955 with a military coup. The abandoned colossus at the edge of the capital became known as the White Elephant.

Families divided at the border: 'The most horrific immigration policy I've ever seen'

Posted: 19 Jun 2018 03:00 AM PDT

As immigration advocates struggle to help more than 1,600 children taken from their parents, Trump refuses to back down

One month before Donald Trump's administration enacted a policy that allowed the government to take thousands of migrant children from their parents, the president twice told crowds at his rallies that immigrant gang members were not people.

"These are animals," he said in May. Over the weekend, video and photos emerged of the cage-like detention centers where children, separated from their parents, are housed.

Hadrian’s Wall being damaged by illegal metal detectorists

Posted: 20 Jun 2018 01:30 AM PDT

Historic England says treasure hunters have left more than 50 holes along stretch of the wall

Treasure hunters have damaged a 1,900-year-old stretch of Hadrian's Wall by digging illicitly for ancient artefacts, according to experts.

Historic England said a surge in "nighthawk" metal detectorists searching illegally for Roman loot under the cover of darkness had left more than 50 holes around Brunton Turret, one of the best preserved sections of Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland, which was built by the 20th Legion of the Roman army.

Brexit: May faces 'meaningful vote' crunch day - Politics live

Posted: 20 Jun 2018 02:18 AM PDT

Follow live updates as Theresa May makes a final push to head off a 'meaningful vote' rebellion

10.18am BST

Jeremy Corbyn is trying to persuade Labour Leavers to vote against the government.

Also worth noting that five Labour MPs - @KevinBarronMP @CarolineFlintMP @RogerGodsiff @FitzMP Denis Skinner - abstained last week. Sounds like Corbyn will have his work cut out.

10.13am BST

ITV's political editor Robert Peston reckons there is a real risk that May could a lose a vote that she could have avoided.

Writing on Facebook he says: "May could have swallowed the substance of the amendment and emerged unscathed."

The real significance of today's showdown is it's a dress rehearsal for the biggie next month - the customs union amendment to the Trade Bill. Rebels are desperate to show they have the numbers to win that, PM desperate to show they don't. (2/2)

It's the rebel waverers that matter most this afternoon, not your Anna Soubrys or Ken Clarkes. And although both May and Corbyn say this is about the national interest, not party interest, it's how their MPs interpret their conflicting loyalties that will swing the decision today.

‘The fact we exist is huge’: Iran’s women plotting course to world stage

Posted: 20 Jun 2018 12:00 AM PDT

Twelve years ago Kat Khosrowyar arrived in Iran on holiday. Now she's driving a revolution in women's football there

To say things have changed for women's football in Iran since Katayoun Khosrowyar first arrived in the country more than 12 years ago would be as understated as the coach of the newly established under-19 side herself. Back then the 30-year-old from Oklahoma known as "Kat" arrived in Tehran on a family holiday, was scouted for Iran's newly formed futsal team and ended up captaining the national side after moving there permanently.

"I didn't speak the language or know anything about my culture – all I knew was that the food was really good," Khosrowyar tells the Guardian. "Twelve years ago there were a lot of restrictions – people would ask: 'Why do you want to play football? Just stay at home and learn to be good wives.' But now we get lots of help from people who are outspoken about supporting women's football."

Battling tokenism: Zimbabwe's female politicians pin hopes on polls

Posted: 19 Jun 2018 11:00 PM PDT

In July's crucial election – the first since the fall of Mugabe – women hope to deliver a decisive blow against sexism

Women in Zimbabwe are hoping for a political breakthrough in the forthcoming elections, despite a "hostile atmosphere" and "resistance" from male politicians.

The election next month will be the first since the fall of Robert Mugabe, the 94-year-old who ruled for almost four decades, and is one of the most important in the country's turbulent history.

'The entire habitat is gone': Hawaii's natural wonders claimed by lava

Posted: 20 Jun 2018 01:00 AM PDT

The Kilauea eruption has wiped out rare sites and whole ecosystems. As the island mourns a tragedy, it also accepts the brutal cycle of nature

In Puna, the area of Hawaii island that's been hardest hit by the Kilauea volcano eruption, those who lived nearest to the lava flows watched the forest around their homes begin to die first. They said the fruit trees, flowers and ferns began turning brown, languishing in the noxious, sulfur-dioxide-filled air. Then the lava came. Now large swaths of formerly verdant forest has been replaced by rough and barren volcanic terrain.

"Before the eruptions, that area was probably the best forest left in the state of Hawaii," said Patrick Hart, a biology professor at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. "There were areas where the native Ohia forest extended right up to the ocean, and you just don't see that in the rest of Hawaii," he said. Now it's covered with 20 to 30ft of lava.

These Guatemalan women save mothers and babies. Why are they treated so badly?

Posted: 20 Jun 2018 02:04 AM PDT

Comadronas fulfil a role similar to a doula for many pregnant indigenous women. But discrimination is hampering their work

Juana Cac Perpuac sits on the grass outside the health centre in her town with a look of desperation and disbelief in her eyes. She whispers: "I'm attending to one woman who is eight months pregnant and very thin. I told her to come here to get help, but the staff wouldn't see her. She's due soon and I think she's going to have problems." Cac Perpuac adds that doctors and nurses often don't take women like her seriously. She fears the worst for the woman she is looking after.

1MDB: Mahathir claims he has 'an almost perfect case' against former PM Najib

Posted: 19 Jun 2018 10:46 PM PDT

New prime minister alleges his former protege is 'totally responsible' for the embezzlement of billions of dollars of government money

Malaysia's new prime minister has claimed that investigators have an "almost perfect case" against former leader Najib Razak, who will face charges of bribery, theft of government funds and embezzlement for his role in the 1MDB scandal.

Mahathir Mohamad described on Wednesday how Najib's signature was on all the 1MDB transaction documents. In an interview with Reuters, Mahathir said Najib was "totally responsible for 1MDB. Nothing can be done without his signature, and we have his signature on all the deals entered into by 1MDB. Therefore, he is responsible."

Tony Abbott signals he'll cross the floor to vote against Turnbull's energy plan

Posted: 20 Jun 2018 02:08 AM PDT

Former PM could join Craig Kelly, who has also threatened to oppose national energy guarantee

The former prime minister Tony Abbott has flagged crossing the floor to oppose the national energy guarantee, joining fellow conservative Craig Kelly, who telegraphed a similar threat three weeks ago in an interview with Guardian Australia.

Conservative critics of the policy are attempting to ratchet up internal pressure on the energy minister, Josh Frydenberg, before a critical meeting with his state and territory counterparts at the beginning of August.

UK Foreign Office ranks among world's worst on revealing how aid is spent

Posted: 19 Jun 2018 10:00 PM PDT

Annual index on transparency of major international donors rates Whitehall department as 'poor', though DfID scores highly

The British Foreign Office has been ranked one of the world's worst major aid donors on transparency, according to a new study.

The Whitehall department was described as "poor" and "well below average" on transparency of aid spend, ranking 40th among 45 major donors by the Aid Transparency Index, launched by the global campaign Publish What You Fund.

The doctor from Myanmar faced with 1 million patients and a plague of rats – podcast

Posted: 19 Jun 2018 09:00 PM PDT

When disaster struck his community in remote Chin state, Dr SaSa rushed to help – and found himself trying to treat 400 people a day

Growing up in an isolated village in western Myanmar was tough, with no running water or electricity, and little access to healthcare. The nearest hospital was several days' walk away. SaSa was determined to become a doctor, but just as he reached the end of his training, the bamboo on which his community survived was wiped out, triggering a huge increase in rats, who ate what little food was left. The overwhelming challenges of trying to bring medical help to the remote region inspired SaSa to found the organisation Health and Hope, which has since enabled hundreds of villagers in Chin state to become community health workers.

Image of sobbing toddler at US border: ‘It was hard for me to photograph’

Posted: 19 Jun 2018 03:46 AM PDT

The photographer behind the viral image that exposed the anguish of Trump's controversial border policy speaks out

Photographer John Moore, whose viral image of a weeping two-year-old girl at the US border has become the potent symbol of the outrage over Donald Trump's controversial "zero tolerance" policy, including family separations, knew what he had captured was "important".

What he could not guess, however, was how great an impact his picture would have on the debate as it was published around the globe.

Trump's family separation policy is as damaging to America as Abu Ghraib | Michael H Fuchs

Posted: 19 Jun 2018 11:00 PM PDT

The torture of detainees at the Iraqi prison shattered America's image as a defender of human rights – and separating families only further undermines it

The words "Abu Ghraib" have become synonymous with torture, a black eye for America that has damaged US national security.

Donald Trump's policy of ripping children away from their parents at the border is a new black mark on America that could also undermine US national security.

'Essentially summer camps': how the right is defending family separations

Posted: 19 Jun 2018 12:29 PM PDT

As a chorus of condemnation builds, defenders are finding unusual ways to back a policy that seems indefensible

On Monday, the conservative news site Drudge Report filled its famous, all-caps lead story slot with the headline "BORDER BATTLE: USA TAKING IN 250 KIDS PER DAY". Next to the story was a photo of young children holding guns, implying that the children separated from their parents are gun-toting criminals.

The children in the photo were not traumatised minors who crossed the US-Mexico border with their parents. They weren't even from Central America – they were Syrians. The photo had been taken in Syria in 2012 by photojournalist Christiaan Triebert, and was a blatantly misleading attempt to try to find some way to make the border policy seem legitimate.

Justin Trudeau promised to protect indigenous rights. He lied, again | Khelsilem

Posted: 19 Jun 2018 03:00 AM PDT

One oil spill from the Trans Mountain pipeline would destroy Squamish territory. So much for Trudeau's promise

Oil pipelines can be positive for indigenous people. Here's how

The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project is no ordinary pipeline. This project, which the government of Canada has just decided to nationalise, will travel more than 1,000km from northern Alberta through unspoiled wilderness to end at the port of Vancouver. The port is on the Salish Sea, part of the hereditary territory of the Squamish People. The Salish Sea is home to some of the world's largest wild salmon runs. Majestic orcas swim in the waters and feed on the abundance.

Protesters confront US homeland security secretary in Mexican restaurant – video

Posted: 20 Jun 2018 12:51 AM PDT

Kirstjen Nielsen, the US homeland security secretary, is confronted by protesters who chant 'shame' as she dines at a Mexican restaurant. The video was originally posted by the Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America. Nielsen is seen trying to ignore the protesters as other diners look on. The Trump administration is facing a growing backlash against its policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the southern border

Protesters taunt US homeland security secretary as she eats Mexican meal

Rachel Maddow breaks down during report on 'tender age' shelters – video

Posted: 19 Jun 2018 09:43 PM PDT

The MSNBC host struggles to get through a segment on her nightly show, describing babies being forcibly removed from their parents and taken to shelters under Trump's hardline immigration laws. Maddow eventually crosses to another anchor, appearing too emotional to finish reading the report.

Democrats heckle Trump: 'Mr President, don't you have kids?' – video

Posted: 19 Jun 2018 09:27 PM PDT

As Trump walked out of the closed-door meeting in the Capitol basement, he was confronted by about six House Democrats, who shouted 'stop separating our families!'

Nikki Haley: US will lead on human rights outside 'misnamed' UN council – video

Posted: 19 Jun 2018 06:35 PM PDT

US ambassador Nikki Haley says America is withdrawing from the UN human rights council, saying abusers continue to serve on, and be elected to, the council. Haley claims the council continues to politicise and scapegoat countries with 'positive human rights records'. She called it a 'cesspool of political bias' that targets Israel in particular. 'We will continue to lead on human rights outside the misnamed human rights council,' she says.

'These children are not animals': US house decries separation policy – video

Posted: 19 Jun 2018 10:13 AM PDT

The Trump administration's zero-tolerance immigration policy has come under attack at a congressional hearing. New York representative Jerry Nadler gave an impassioned speech condemning the separation of migrant families and people being held in cages at the border

Trump administration scrambles as outrage grows over border separations

Why are families being separated at the southern US border? – video explainer

Posted: 19 Jun 2018 06:12 AM PDT

The children of migrants and refugees who cross the southern US border illegally are being separated from their families while their parents face legal proceedings. While they wait for their parents to be released, the children are put into inhospitable detention centres furnished with metal cages and concrete floors. Audio recordings released by a charity reveal the distress many children are experiencing in the centres, despite the Department of Homeland Security's insistence that the children are well treated

• Trump administration scrambles as outrage grows over border separations

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