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Trump backs plan to end family separations but shirks responsibility
Panama Papers firm did not know who 75% of its clients were
New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern goes into hospital to give birth
Police investigate video showing England fans making Nazi salutes
'Womp womp': Corey Lewandowski on border separation of girl with Down's syndrome
Italy's Salvini warns EU to 'defend its border' against migrants
'Occupy Ice': activists blockade Portland building over family separations
Woman died of cancer after unnecessary treatment by disgraced doctor
'Trump slump': gunmaker American Outdoor Brands hit by sharp sales drop
Canada becomes second country to legalise cannabis use
Hungary passes anti-immigrant 'Stop Soros' laws
EU rebuked for €36bn refugee pushback gambit
Heat and dust: Kathmandu's commuter hell – in pictures
James Comey: 'You stare at children crying – what kind of people are we?’
Summer solstice celebrations around the UK – in pictures
Daimler issues profit warning on back of US-China trade dispute
Algeria shuts down internet to prevent cheating during high school exams
Tourism preventing Kenya's cheetahs from raising young, study finds
Is it justifiable to harass those who enforce Trump's immigration policy?
Revealed: Canada uses massive US anti-terrorist database at borders
John Lloyd, public service chief, investigated for code of conduct breach
Japanese worker punished for starting lunch three minutes early
Ethnic tensions rise in Uganda as World Cup row leaves four refugees dead
Philippines 'sitting on a timebomb' as inquiry urged into political killings
Accountability is the only way to end violence in Myanmar
Italy's treatment of Roma people rooted in centuries-old prejudice
'Say hello to mommy': Trump mocks protester at Minnesota rally – video
Justin Trudeau says legalising cannabis will protect children – video

Trump backs plan to end family separations but shirks responsibility

Posted: 19 Jun 2018 11:25 PM PDT

As anger over policy grows, it emerges children are being sent to 'tender age' shelters

Family separation crisis – live updates

Donald Trump has told Republicans he is "1,000%" behind their immigration reform effort, but did not offer a clear path forward as his administration faced bipartisan condemnation over separating children and their parents at the border.

Panama Papers firm did not know who 75% of its clients were

Posted: 20 Jun 2018 12:00 PM PDT

Mossack Fonseca made frantic efforts to discover its own clients' identities as it fell under global scrutiny

The offshore firm at the heart of the Panama Papers leak did not know who as many as three-quarters of its clients were at the time of the exposé, according to an investigation.

The Panamanian company Mossack Fonseca made frantic efforts to discover its clients' identities in the spring of 2016 as it fell under global scrutiny.

New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern goes into hospital to give birth

Posted: 20 Jun 2018 03:54 PM PDT

Winston Peters takes over as acting PM as the 37-year-old arrives at hospital early on Thursday

Prime minister Jacinda Ardern has gone into hospital to give birth to her first child amid a flurry of excitement in New Zealand.

A statement from the prime minister's office said Ardern and her partner, Clarke Gayford, arrived at Auckland hospital at 5.50am on Thursday.

Police investigate video showing England fans making Nazi salutes

Posted: 20 Jun 2018 09:54 AM PDT

• Footage appears to show fans at World Cup singing fascist song
• FA condemns 'disgraceful' conduct and pledges to help inquiry

British police are working with the Football Association to investigate a video that has surfaced online apparently showing England fans at the World Cup in Russia performing Nazi salutes.

The video shows two fans performing a Nazi salute and singing a fascist chant while in a bar. The establishment closely resembles one in Volgograd, where England played Tunisia on Monday.

'Womp womp': Corey Lewandowski on border separation of girl with Down's syndrome

Posted: 20 Jun 2018 08:38 AM PDT

Trump's ex-campaign manager refused to apologize for dismissing the seriousness of removal of girl from her mother

Donald Trump's former presidential campaign manager has refused to apologize for appearing to dismiss the significance of the removal of a 10-year-old Mexican girl with Down's syndrome from her mother.

Italy's Salvini warns EU to 'defend its border' against migrants

Posted: 20 Jun 2018 10:26 AM PDT

Far-right interior minister says country ready to renegotiate its financial commitments

Italy's far-right interior minister, Matteo Salvini, is calling on the European Union to "defend its border" against migrants arriving from Africa, and suggested that Italy was ready to "renegotiate" its financial commitments to the bloc if more was not done to help Italy handle the migrant crisis.

The bombastic former radio host, who has emerged as Italy's de facto prime minister since the arrival of the new populist government, also pointed a finger of blame at "human traffickers and do-gooders" who he said were responsible for deaths on the Mediterranean.

'Occupy Ice': activists blockade Portland building over family separations

Posted: 20 Jun 2018 07:19 PM PDT

Dozens pitch tents outside immigration office in response to thousands of migrant children split from their parents

Family separations crisis – live updates

After successfully forcing Portland's Ice office to shut down Wednesday, occupying protesters are vowing to stay until so-called "zero tolerance" immigration policies end.

The pledge by members of #OccupyICEPDX came as Donald Trump signed an executive order ending his administration's policy of separating migrant children from parents at the border with Mexico. Yet despite the order US official have said there are no immediate plans to reunite children separated from their parents under the "zero tolerance" policy, which has come under heavy criticism from Democrats, Republicans, human rights activists, international leaders and the public.

Woman died of cancer after unnecessary treatment by disgraced doctor

Posted: 20 Jun 2018 02:52 PM PDT

Exclusive: Surgery performed by Emil Shawky Gayed masked growth of uterine cancer as officials fear other women could be at risk

A woman died of cancer after unnecessary and negligent surgery she received at the hands of a disgraced doctor in New South Wales, health officials have confirmed.

She was one of dozens of women harmed by Emil Shawky Gayed, who over the course of at least one decade mutilated and performed harmful surgery on patients.

'Trump slump': gunmaker American Outdoor Brands hit by sharp sales drop

Posted: 20 Jun 2018 03:26 PM PDT

Firearms sales fall 40% for firm once called Smith & Wesson
Figures continue downward trend under pro-gun president

The "Trump slump" struck again on Wednesday as American Outdoor Brands Corporation, the gunmaker formerly known as Smith & Wesson, reported another sharp drop in sales.

Full year net sales were $606.9m compared with $903.2m a year ago, a decrease of 32.8%. Firearms sales alone were even harder hit, dropping more than 40%.

Canada becomes second country to legalise cannabis use

Posted: 19 Jun 2018 05:11 PM PDT

Cannabis Act passes, with the legislation expected to take effect in a few months

Canada is to become the second country in the world to fully legalise marijuana, after the senate approved legislation paving the way for recreational cannabis to be legally bought and sold within the next two or three months.

"We've just witnessed a very historic vote that ends 90 years of prohibition," senator Tony Dean told reporters on Tuesday after the vote to pass the Cannabis Act.

Hungary passes anti-immigrant 'Stop Soros' laws

Posted: 20 Jun 2018 07:06 AM PDT

Legislation approved by parliament restricts ability of NGOs to help in asylum claims

Hungary's parliament has passed a series of laws that criminalise any individual or group that offers to help an illegal immigrant claim asylum.

The legislation restricts the ability of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to act in asylum cases and was passed in defiance of the European Union and human rights groups.

EU rebuked for €36bn refugee pushback gambit

Posted: 19 Jun 2018 10:00 PM PDT

Bloc hikes funds for Africa by 20% but reports highlight rights breaches and lack of accountability

The European Union is to increase its spending in Africa by more than 20% over the next seven years to a minimum of €36bn (£31bn) in an attempt to reduce the number of migrants and refugees crossing the Mediterranean.

But a succession of reports funded by the EU or written by leading MEPs say European efforts to stem the flow is characterised by misdirected finances, lack of accountability and repeated breaches of basic human rights, including an inability to undermine the business model of human trafficking, an industry worth as much as £35bn a year.

Heat and dust: Kathmandu's commuter hell – in pictures

Posted: 20 Jun 2018 03:00 AM PDT

As the government ploughs on with its controversial road expansion scheme, commuting in Nepal's capital can take up to four hours – while many joke that the dust mask has become part of the national dress

James Comey: 'You stare at children crying – what kind of people are we?’

Posted: 20 Jun 2018 10:00 PM PDT

Would Hillary Clinton be in the White House – and the world a better place – if not for the former FBI director? He talks conscience, regret, and why the US public will vote Trump out

Are there times, in the dead of night, just after Donald Trump has appalled the world with some newly horrific act, when James Comey is gripped by the dreaded thought: It was me who put that man in power?

The answer Comey gives is unexpectedly swift and direct. "Yes, actually. Mostly because people say that to me all the time. So I hear that quite a bit." And what does he do with that thought? "It's very painful. And I sometimes wonder, if I could go back in time, would I do something deeply unprincipled? I wouldn't. All it does is make it painful, [because] I think Donald Trump is doing – and will do – great damage to my country. But that just adds to the pain."

Summer solstice celebrations around the UK – in pictures

Posted: 21 Jun 2018 01:24 AM PDT

Around the UK people marked the longest day in the northern hemisphere, from the annual festival at Stonehenge to the London Eye, while a gathering of hundreds of druids, pagans and revellers gathered at the ancient neolithic monument in Avebury, Wiltshire

Daimler issues profit warning on back of US-China trade dispute

Posted: 21 Jun 2018 01:39 AM PDT

Mercedes-Benz maker expects the tit-for-tat tariff spat to hit car sales

The Mercedes-Benz maker Daimler has become the first major company to issue a profit warning after being hit by the escalating trade war between the US and China.

The German carmaker said on Wednesday night that it expected profits this year to be "slightly below the previous year's level". It had previously pencilled in a slight rise.

Algeria shuts down internet to prevent cheating during high school exams

Posted: 20 Jun 2018 06:23 PM PDT

Nation taken offline and metal detectors set up in 2,000 exam centres to prevent repeat of past fiascos

The whole nation of Algeria went offline on Wednesday for the start of high school exams, the first in a series of internet blackouts to stop the possibility of students cheating.

Mobile and fixed internet connections were cut across the country for a total of two hours, to coincide with the start of two school tests.

Tourism preventing Kenya's cheetahs from raising young, study finds

Posted: 21 Jun 2018 02:10 AM PDT

Research in Maasai Mara linked areas with high density of vehicles to lower numbers of cubs raised to independence

High levels of tourism can lead to a dramatic reduction in the number of cheetahs able to raise their young to independence, new research has found.

A study in Kenya's Maasai Mara savannah found that in areas with a high density of tourist vehicles, the average number of cubs a mother cheetah raised to independence was just 0.2 cubs per litter – less than a tenth of the 2.3 cubs per litter expected in areas with low tourism.

Is it justifiable to harass those who enforce Trump's immigration policy?

Posted: 21 Jun 2018 03:00 AM PDT

While some argue naming and shaming is an effective route to change, 'doxxing' remains a highly dubious practise

Until a few months ago, Stephen Miller was just an anonymous bureaucrat in the Trump administration. However, thanks to his role as a key architect of the zero tolerance border policy, everyone now knows the political adviser's name. What's more, a lot of people have his personal phone number.

On Wednesday, Splinter, a news site owned by Univision, published Miller's cell phone number stating: "The Trump administration's policy of separating immigrant children from their families has been credited primarily to the strenuous efforts of White House adviser Stephen Miller. Perhaps you would like to call him about it."

Revealed: Canada uses massive US anti-terrorist database at borders

Posted: 21 Jun 2018 03:00 AM PDT

• Documents released to the Guardian show Tuscan contains more than 680,000 names provided to every border guard
• Database is effectively a second Canadian no-fly list, run by the US

Canadian border guards have been screening travellers using a huge, secretive US anti-terrorism database that is almost never referred to publicly, new documents reveal.

The database, called Tuscan, is provided to every Canadian border guard and immigration officer, and empowers them to detain, interrogate, arrest and deny entry to anyone found on it.

John Lloyd, public service chief, investigated for code of conduct breach

Posted: 21 Jun 2018 01:45 AM PDT

Labor says move is 'unprecedented' because no commissioner had ever been accused of such a breach

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The outgoing public service commissioner John Lloyd is being investigated for an alleged breach of the public service code of conduct, in what Labor has called an "unprecedented" move.

Labor has targeted Lloyd in Senate estimates sessions over allegations of favouritism to the right-wing thinktank the Institute of Public Affairs, of which he is a longtime member and former director.

Japanese worker punished for starting lunch three minutes early

Posted: 21 Jun 2018 12:51 AM PDT

Managers called TV news conference and bowed in apology at employee's 'deeply regrettable' actions

Japan's commitment to addressing its dismal record on work-life balance has been called into question after a civil servant was punished for "habitually" slipping away from his desk a few minutes early to buy a bento lunch.

The 64-year-old, an employee of the waterworks bureau in the western city of Kobe, was fined and reprimanded after he was found to have left his desk just three minutes before the start of his designated lunch break on 26 occasions over a seven-month period.

Ethnic tensions rise in Uganda as World Cup row leaves four refugees dead

Posted: 21 Jun 2018 02:00 AM PDT

Deadly dispute between South Sudanese refugees during Brazil v Switzerland game inflames ethnic tensions

Ugandan officials have begun segregating refugees after a rise in ethnic tensions led to the deaths of four South Sudanese, including a teenager.

Security agencies have been heavily deployed in northern Uganda's refugee settlements, home to more than 1 million people, in response to unrest between the warring ethnic groups that have fled conflict in South Sudan.

Philippines 'sitting on a timebomb' as inquiry urged into political killings

Posted: 20 Jun 2018 11:00 PM PDT

Exiled land rights defender calls for international help to investigate rights abuses under President Rodrigo Duterte

A human rights activist branded a terrorist by the Philippine government has urged the international community to support an independent investigation into political killings in the country.

Amid growing unrest in the Philippines, Joan Carling said President Rodrigo Duterte has shown a complete disregard for the rule of law that, coupled with plans to plunder the land and resources of the indigenous people she campaigns to protect, has created a ticking time bomb.

Accountability is the only way to end violence in Myanmar

Posted: 20 Jun 2018 07:44 PM PDT

The global community's inertia while the military wages vicious campaigns must cease - we must establish an accountability structure and end impunity

Three women were at their farm when they were taken by 80 soldiers belonging to Myanmar military, and were repeatedly gang-raped by the troops before eventually being released four days later. This tragically now familiar sounding story of a crime in Myanmar did not occur during the "clearance operations" following August 2017 in Myanmar's northern Rakhine State, but in July 2000 on the other side of the country in Shan State. This case was documented in a 2002 report Licence to Rape, along with 172 other cases of sexual violence perpetrated in Shan State between 1991 and 2001.

Far too many such crimes have been committed with scant consequences faced by the culprits. On ensuring accountability for gross violations of human rights in Myanmar, so far the international community has failed.

Italy's treatment of Roma people rooted in centuries-old prejudice

Posted: 20 Jun 2018 10:51 AM PDT

History of persecution includes enslavement, forced sterilisation and massacres

When Italy's new government attacked the country's Roma population, threatening to expel thousands from the country, they were tapping into centuries-old prejudices against the group.

Persecution of the Roma in Europe dates back at least several hundred years. The Council of Europe details a history of extreme persecution including enslavement, forced sterilisation, separation from children and massacres.

'Say hello to mommy': Trump mocks protester at Minnesota rally – video

Posted: 20 Jun 2018 10:33 PM PDT

Donald Trump takes aim at protester at a rally in Duluth, Minnesota, saying 'he's going home to his mom.' The president goes on to predict the media will report that there were massive protests at the rally. He briefly mentions his executive order to keep detained families together but says the tough stance on immigration would remain. He blames the Democrats for the immigration problems, claiming they do not care about the effects of uncontrolled immigration

Justin Trudeau says legalising cannabis will protect children – video

Posted: 20 Jun 2018 05:01 PM PDT

The Canadian prime minister says marijuana will be legal nationwide on 17 October. Trudeau said in parliament that the government is committed to better protecting Canada's youth and hopes to take money away from organised crime. The country will become the second in the world to make cannabis legal nationwide

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