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Melania Trump visits child detention center as fate of families remains unclear

Posted: 21 Jun 2018 01:12 PM PDT

As first lady visits US-Mexico border, there's no indication that parents separated from their children will be reunited

Melania Trump has made an unannounced visit to the US-Mexico border a day after the president retreated on immigration policy and signed an executive order to end his policy of family separations amid enormous political pressure.

The first lady was taking part in briefings and attending a tour of a "nonprofit social services center for children who have entered the United States illegally and a customs and border patrol processing center", according to a statement from her office.

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Sara Netanyahu charged with fraud over catering allegations

Posted: 21 Jun 2018 06:52 AM PDT

Israeli PM's wife accused of misusing public funds to buy in food from restaurants

Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Israel's prime minister, has been charged with fraud and breach of trust for allegedly using public funds to pay for restaurant meals to be delivered to the couple's official residence.

The long-anticipated charges were announced by Israel's justice ministry on Thursday. Benjamin Netanyahu is also under investigation.

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EU admits no African country has agreed to host migration centre

Posted: 21 Jun 2018 06:12 AM PDT

Plan to prevent deaths at sea revealed as Italy cries foul over summit called to help Germany

The European Union's most senior migration official has admitted that no north African country has yet agreed to host migrant screening centres to process refugee claims.

Details of an EU plan to prevent migrants drowning at sea emerged on Thursday after Italy criticised the agenda of an emergency summit for not offering enough to help it cope with arrivals.

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Quebec City mosque shooter 'not a monster' say parents

Posted: 21 Jun 2018 03:44 PM PDT

Alexandre Bissonnette's parents offer sympathy to victims but fear 'political sentence'

The parents of the 28-year-old man who opened fire on worshippers in a Quebec City mosque, killing six men and injuring more than a dozen others, have blamed years of bullying and intimidation for their son's actions, saying he is not a "monster."

After pleading guilty to six counts of first degree murder in March, Alexandre Bissonnette is facing life in prison without the possibility of parole for up to 150 years.

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Brexit: EU is getting ready for no-deal, says Jean-Claude Juncker

Posted: 21 Jun 2018 11:48 PM PDT

European commission president says bloc must prepare for worst outcome

The EU needs to be realistic about the dangerous state of the Brexit negotiations and is preparing to deploy its trillion-pound budget to cushion the bloc from the prospect of a no-deal scenario, the European commission president has warned.

With the two sides still far apart on the "hardest issues", just days from a crunch leaders' summit in Brussels, Jean-Claude Juncker told the Irish parliament on Thursday he was stepping up preparations for a breakdown in talks, and even drafting plans aimed at keeping the peace in Northern Ireland.

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Leader of Romania's ruling party sentenced for corruption

Posted: 21 Jun 2018 01:11 PM PDT

Liviu Dragnea, of the Social Democratic party, expected to appeal after being handed three-and-a-half-year sentence

The powerful leader of Romania's ruling party has been sentenced to prison in a blow to a government that has showered praise on Donald Trump's "drain the swamp" rhetoric, and threatened to create the EU's latest populist headache.

Liviu Dragnea, head of the Social Democratic party (PSD) and regarded as the most powerful man in the country, was convicted of abuse of power and handed a three-and-a-half-year sentence in an initial verdict after a corruption trial. Dragnea is expected to appeal.

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Médecins Sans Frontières staff working in Africa accused of using sex workers

Posted: 21 Jun 2018 07:15 AM PDT

Whistleblowers claim prostitutes were employed by aid agency employees, one of whom suggested it was possible to swap drugs for sex

The charity Médecins Sans Frontières has been hit by allegations that aid workers for the organisation used local prostitutes while working in Africa.

Whistleblowers told the Victoria Derbyshire programme the alleged behaviour was "blatant" and "widespread" among logistical staff.

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Belgian city to turn abandoned hangar into a 'mega-brothel'

Posted: 21 Jun 2018 06:36 AM PDT

Ostend's mayor says Hangar d'amour plan offers more security for sex workers but critics describe it as 'madness'

An abandoned hangar with protected architectural status is to be converted by the municipality of Ostend into a brothel to accommodate sex workers being moved out of the Belgian seaside town's red-light district.

The so-called "mega brothel" – to be known as the Hangar d'amour – will be run by a company that already manages a 51-bedroom brothel in Antwerp, known as Villa Tinto.

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Malta's 'barbaric' finch traps ruled illegal by EU court

Posted: 21 Jun 2018 04:52 AM PDT

Campaigners hail court verdict, which bans trapping of several species of the bird

Malta has broken EU law by allowing the hunting and trapping of several finch species, the European court has ruled.

The Mediterranean island will face potentially substantial fines unless it ends a derogation it introduced in 2014 allowing the songbirds to be captured.

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Quitting UN human rights council puts US 'on wrong side of history' – activists

Posted: 21 Jun 2018 05:28 AM PDT

Loss of moral leadership lamented as Trump administration is accused of wilfully undermining global justice

The Trump administration's decision to withdraw from the UN human rights council puts the US on the wrong side of history and should be urgently reversed, activists have said.

The council needed reform, said campaigners, but remained a vital force for accountability and justice in a "post-rights world".

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New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern welcomes baby girl 'to our village'

Posted: 21 Jun 2018 05:38 AM PDT

Prime minister and partner Clarke Gayford post photo with newborn online

"Welcome to our village, wee one," is how Jacinda Ardern announced the birth of her daughter to New Zealand, and the world.

The prime minister posted a photograph of her and partner Clarke Gayford cuddling their first child on her Facebook page late on Thursday afternoon (NZ time).

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Rats break into Indian ATM and chew up cash worth £13,300

Posted: 21 Jun 2018 11:21 AM PDT

Shredded bank notes discovered after cash machine stops working in Assam state

Rats have nibbled through more than 1m rupees of banknotes after entering a cash machine in north-east India, police said.

The costly invasion in Assam state was only detected by bank officials after complained that the machine was faulty and had stopped dispensing cash, police in Tinsukia district said.

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Pamplona court to release sexual abuse gang on bail

Posted: 21 Jun 2018 10:22 AM PDT

Protests as men who abused teen at bull running festival to be freed during appeal

The five men jailed for sexually abusing an 18-year-old woman at the running of the bulls festival in Pamplona two years ago are to be released on bail of €6,000, according to reports.

The case, known as the "wolf pack" trial because of the name the men used in their WhatsApp group, caused a national outcry after the defendants were sentenced to nine years in prison for sexual abuse, but acquitted of rape.

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Charing Cross station in London evacuated after bomb threat

Posted: 22 Jun 2018 12:10 AM PDT

Train services cancelled as man arrested after claiming to have a bomb

Armed police have arrested a man who claimed to have a bomb at a busy London train station, which was evacuated as a precaution.

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Bully-boy Erdoğan is a threat to Turkey – and the world | Simon Tisdall

Posted: 22 Jun 2018 12:00 AM PDT

The Turkish president is a dictator in all but name. Turkish voters should kick him out

The prospect of a triumphantly re-elected Recep Tayyip Erdoğan armed with sweeping new presidential powers is deeply alarming to many Turks, but it is also a scary prospect for the international community. Since taking national office 15 years ago, Erdoğan has turned from neighbourhood bully-boy into geostrategic threat. Under his choleric, resentful tutelage, Turkey has ceased to be a reliable friend of Europe and the US. If he gets his way in Sunday's polls, Erdoğan, a dictator in all but name, is likely to foment further instability in Syria and throughout the Middle East region.

Latest estimates suggest Erdoğan, who is facing stronger than expected opposition, will be forced into a second round run-off in July. Likewise, his neo-Islamist Justice and Development party, in power since 2002 and accused of economic mismanagement and corruption, may lose its overall parliamentary majority.

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Should doctors be free to refuse patients an abortion on personal grounds?

Posted: 21 Jun 2018 11:00 PM PDT

As a report highlights the ruinous impact of denying abortion, two medics offer opposing views on the role of personal belief

A rise in the number of healthcare providers who refuse to provide abortion services based on their personal beliefs is having a devastating impact on women and girls around the world, a new study has claimed.

Over the past two decades, at least 30 countries – including, most recently, Ireland, Chile and Argentina – have taken steps to improve access to abortion through legislative changes.

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Melania Trump wears 'I don't care' jacket on plane to visit child detention center

Posted: 22 Jun 2018 01:19 AM PDT

The first lady appeared to be wearing a Zara jacket with the astonishing caption: 'I really don't care. Do U?'

When Melania Trump met with detained children at the Texas border on Thursday, she struck a compassionate tone, asking staff at the facility: "How I can help ... these children to reunite with their families as quickly as possible?"

Related: Melania Trump visits child detention center as fate of families remains unclear

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‘Knights of anguish’ – Argentinian media react to World Cup humbling

Posted: 22 Jun 2018 12:00 AM PDT

The country's pain after La Albiceleste's 3-0 loss to Croatia percolated through its newspapers and sports magazines

It never looked certain for Argentina. There were always questions left to answer but obscured by the euphoria, anxiety and demands of their country, something felt off. Drawing with Iceland, a moral loss, showed the team's unease, but pundits pardoned a team that faced a fully parked bus.

Croatia would be the real test. The quiet might of their midfield, featuring Real Madrid's conductor and lead architect, Luka Modric, promised a game of back and forths where Argentina would prosper by taking advantage of gaps. Argentinian media listened to Modric who, outlining his tactics, said Croatia would cut off Javier Mascherano and added one sharp line: "Messi can't do it all." Did Sampaoli listen?

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China: new rules to prevent sex-selective abortions raise fears

Posted: 22 Jun 2018 01:00 AM PDT

Measures in Jiangxi province prompt concerns over state control and rights of women

New rules restricting abortions in a Chinese province have prompted concern from citizens and activists over state control of women's bodies.

Jiangxi province issued guidelines last week stipulating that women more than 14 weeks pregnant must have signed approval from three medical professionals confirming an abortion is medically necessary before any procedure. The measures are meant to help prevent sex-selective abortions, which are illegal in China. The sex of a child is usually discernible after 14 weeks.

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Anthony Albanese lays out his Labor manifesto: reform, growth, aspiration

Posted: 22 Jun 2018 01:31 AM PDT

Labor frontbencher uses speech to spell out broad-ranging vision urging party to 'stick to our values'

Anthony Albanese has laid out his own Labor manifesto, declaring the ALP must be the party of reform, of economic growth, of aspiration, of an empowered grassroots membership – and a party prepared to be bipartisan in the national interest.

The Labor frontbencher has taken the opportunity of delivering the Gough Whitlam address on Friday night to articulate his own broad-ranging vision for Labor in 2018, noting the ALP can't expect to "slide into government off the back of our opponent's failures" and saying it is not good enough to say to voters "elect us because the other mob are useless".

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Why Trump's immigration crackdown won't stem flow of Central Americans

Posted: 21 Jun 2018 11:00 PM PDT

The majority of migrants from a trio of countries are fleeing grinding poverty or the rampant gang and drug-related violence

"There are those who migrate to El Norte because of poverty. There are those who migrate to reunite with family members. And there are those … who don't migrate. They flee," wrote Salvadoran journalist Óscar Martínez in his 2010 book about the perilous pilgrimage that thousands of Central Americans make to the United States each year.

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The US withdrawal from the UNHRC is a gift to Xi Jinping and China | Frances Eve

Posted: 21 Jun 2018 06:10 PM PDT

It appears the last holdout in the resistance to 'human rights with Chinese characteristics' has collapsed

The US withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council is a gift to China's leader Xi Jinping.

Quitting the UNHRC won't make it disappear. It opens a leadership vacancy that China is happy to fill. The Trump administration has stepped back to allow China the space to dominate the council unchallenged and advance its agenda to redefine human rights after the "China model."

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Questions hang over Nato stability as summit draws closer

Posted: 21 Jun 2018 11:01 AM PDT

Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg attempts to defeat scepticism before Trump visit

Sceptism greeted the Nato secretary-general when he claimed the transatlantic bond that glues Nato together is not weakening but actually strengthening.

The sentiment was expressed at Lancaster House in London where Jens Stoltenberg made the remark to an audience of mainly defence and foreign policy specialists. And the scepticism would almost certainly be shared in capitals across Europe.

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Mini-summit on migration unlikely to heal European rifts

Posted: 21 Jun 2018 07:49 AM PDT

With differences so deep it is hard to see progress being made at Sunday's meeting

It will take more than a mini-summit to bridge the profound differences that exist both between and within EU capitals over how to handle asylum and irregular migration.

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

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How the US has prepared for nuclear Armageddon – in pictures

Posted: 21 Jun 2018 11:00 PM PDT

Since the days of the Truman administration, American officials have planned how to keep the government functioning during a nuclear Armageddon. Though details of the country's post-doomsday planning are classified, evidence of their decades-long efforts – some abandoned, some active – are hidden in plain sight around Washington DC and beyond

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US family separation crisis - in pictures

Posted: 21 Jun 2018 11:00 PM PDT

Children arriving in the US from Central America have long faced the prospect of family separation and navigated a complex legal immigration system that can take months or years to render a decision due to a massive backlog of cases. The government separated more than 2,300 children from their parents in recent weeks in a policy that has stoked widespread outrage among both Democrats and Republicans

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Japanese employer explains lunchbreak punishment on TV – video

Posted: 21 Jun 2018 10:22 PM PDT

Employers at a water bureau explain how a civil servant was punished for 'habitually' slipping away from his desk a few minutes early to buy a bento lunch. Senior officials at his bureau called a televised news conference, where they described the man's conduct as 'deeply regrettable'.

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Melania Trump wears 'I don't care' jacket en route to child detention centre – video

Posted: 21 Jun 2018 06:42 PM PDT

First Lady Melania Trump wore a jacket that read 'I really don't care, do u?' as she boarded a flight on Thursday to a facility housing migrant children separated from their parents. The green, hooded military jacket had the words written graffiti-style on the back.


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Canadian MP breastfeeds her son in parliament – video

Posted: 21 Jun 2018 11:47 AM PDT

Karina Gould made headlines this week when she breastfed her three-month-old son while sitting in the House of Commons. After a wave of public reaction to the clip, Gould tweeted: 'No shame in breastfeeding! Baby's gotta eat & I had votes' 

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