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- Donald Trump flips on North Korea, declaring country still an 'extraordinary threat'
- Demagogues and charlatans are stoking fear, says Joe Biden
- Jogger accidentally crosses US border from Canada and is held for two weeks
- Greece 'turning a page' as eurozone agrees deal to end financial crisis
- Trump threatens car tariffs after EU sets up £2.5bn of levies on US
- Netflix chief of communications leaving after reports of using N-word
- Vatican diplomat admits he possessed child abuse images
- 'Xenophobic and racist': Elena Ferrante warns of danger to Italy from Matteo Salvini
- UN condemns Trump administration for exacerbating US poverty levels
- Oil output to rise by 1m barrels a day as Opec reaches compromise
- Supreme court bans police access to phone records without a warrant
- Rule of law 'virtually absent' in Venezuela, UN report says
- Grin and bear it: researcher has no hard feelings for grizzly that cracked her skull
- Boris Becker insists diplomatic passport is genuine
- Man stabbed to death in Norwich
- UK not bluffing about walking away with no Brexit deal – Liam Fox
- The 20 photographs of the week
- Explosion at rally for new Ethiopian prime minister
- How Toronto serial killer Bruce McArthur went unnoticed for years
- Dying refugee moved from Nauru to Australia after intense campaign
- Sheep exporter's licence cancellation a federal decision, says WA premier
- Africa is finally uniting: now we need good politics | Paul Kagame
- Support proves key for teachers and children alike in Kenya’s largest slum
- Is Melania Trump using fashion to troll her husband?
- Rise of xenophobia is fanning immigration flames in EU and US | Simon Tisdall
- Bear clambers out of a car window after getting stuck – video
- 'Thrilled to bits': Jacinda Ardern's parents on new arrival – video
| Donald Trump flips on North Korea, declaring country still an 'extraordinary threat' Posted: 23 Jun 2018 02:10 AM PDT President extended the 'national emergency' for one year in an executive order, re-authorizing economic restrictions Donald Trump has declared that North Korea still poses an "extraordinary threat" to the United States, just days after saying that the country's nuclear program no longer constituted a danger. In an executive order on Friday, the president extended for one year the so-called "national emergency" with respect to the nuclear-armed nation, re-authorizing economic restrictions against it. Continue reading... |
| Demagogues and charlatans are stoking fear, says Joe Biden Posted: 22 Jun 2018 05:47 AM PDT Former US vice-president compares situation to 1930s as migration convulses politics The former US vice-president Joe Biden has accused "demagogues and charlatans" of stirring up voters' fears just as they did in the 1930s as the issue of migration convulses politics on both sides of the Atlantic. Biden, seen as a potential Democratic party candidate against Donald Trump in 2020, did not mention the US president by name but linked his anti-immigrant drive and that of European populists and the far right to pre-war fascists who were willing to create scapegoats to retain their grip on power. Continue reading... |
| Jogger accidentally crosses US border from Canada and is held for two weeks Posted: 22 Jun 2018 12:18 PM PDT
It started as a leisurely jog along a Canadian beach on a cool spring evening. But it turned into a two-week nightmare after Cedella Roman accidentally veered across the US border and was seized by US border patrol agents. The French citizen was visiting her mother and studying English, when the family headed to White Rock, about an hour's drive from Vancouver in May. Continue reading... |
| Greece 'turning a page' as eurozone agrees deal to end financial crisis Posted: 22 Jun 2018 01:24 PM PDT Athens hails agreement to give country access to markets in August after final bailout Greece's government has said the country is "turning a page" after eurozone member states reached an agreement on the final elements of a plan to make its massive debt pile more manageable, ending an eight-year bailout programme. "I have to say the Greek government is happy with this deal," the finance minister, Euclid Tsakalotos, said on Friday. "But at the same time, this government will not forget what the Greek people went through in the past eight years." Continue reading... |
| Trump threatens car tariffs after EU sets up £2.5bn of levies on US Posted: 22 Jun 2018 09:02 AM PDT Bourbon whiskey, Levi's and Harley-Davidson on list as EU measures comes into force Donald Trump has threatened to widen the mounting trade dispute between US and the EU by imposing tariffs on European cars, after Brussels made good on its threat of retaliatory levies on American products including bourbon whiskey, Levi's jeans and Harley-Davidson motorbikes. Raising the stakes in the tit-for-tat exchange of import tariffs threatening to spark a global trade war, the US president tweeted in response to the EU tariffs which came into effect late on Thursday: "If these Tariffs and Barriers are not soon broken down and removed, we will be placing a 20% Tariff on all of their cars coming into the U.S. Build them here!" Continue reading... |
| Netflix chief of communications leaving after reports of using N-word Posted: 22 Jun 2018 03:07 PM PDT Jonathan Friedland is gone from the company after reportedly using the racial slur twice during work meetings Netflix's chief communications officer, Jonathan Friedland, is leaving the video streaming company after reports that he had twice used the N-word during work meetings. A company spokesperson confirmed on Friday that Friedland was leaving the company, without giving more details. Continue reading... |
| Vatican diplomat admits he possessed child abuse images Posted: 22 Jun 2018 02:14 PM PDT Monsignor Carlo Alberto Capella tells court he developed 'morbid' desire A Catholic priest who worked as a diplomat at the Vatican's embassy in Washington has admitted at the start of his trial that he had possessed images of child sexual abuse while based in the US. Monsignor Carlo Alberto Capella, who was arrested in the Vatican in April after he had been recalled, told the court in the Vatican that he had developed a "morbid" desire after he arrived in the US to take up the diplomatic post in 2016. "It was never part of my priestly life before," he told the court, adding that he was unhappy at the embassy in Washington. Continue reading... |
| 'Xenophobic and racist': Elena Ferrante warns of danger to Italy from Matteo Salvini Posted: 22 Jun 2018 08:23 AM PDT In her Guardian column, author of the bestselling Neapolitan novels makes rare intervention in politics to voice fears of interior minister's 'racist fists' The Italian novelist Elena Ferrante has made a rare foray into the political arena, warning of the dangers of underestimating the "xenophobic and racist" new interior minister Matteo Salvini who heads up Italy's far-right League party. Writing in her column for the Guardian's Weekend magazine, the reclusive Ferrante, who has kept her identity hidden, said she had never been politically active, and while she has "feared for the fate of democracy" in Italy, she has more often "thought our worries have been deliberately exaggerated". Continue reading... |
| UN condemns Trump administration for exacerbating US poverty levels Posted: 22 Jun 2018 09:01 AM PDT In damning report, UN's poverty monitor hit back at criticisms by Nikki Haley, saying government policies would punish millions of low-income Americans The Trump administration has been castigated at the United Nations in Geneva for consciously exacerbating levels of inequality in America that are already the most extreme in the western world. The excoriating report on the state of the US nation was delivered to a packed hearing of the human rights council on Friday by the UN's monitor on extreme poverty, Philip Alston. In what is now turning into a battle of words between the US government and international observers, Alston hit back at criticisms that had been leveled at him the previous day by Nikki Haley, US ambassador to the UN. Continue reading... |
| Oil output to rise by 1m barrels a day as Opec reaches compromise Posted: 22 Jun 2018 08:45 AM PDT Delegates at Vienna meeting say talks were fraught – Brent crude rises 2% Major oil producers have agreed to pump more crude to help reduce prices and prevent a supply shortage, in a significant reversal of Opec's strategy of curbing output over the past 18 months. After a fraught meeting in Vienna in which Iran was initially at odds with a Saudi-led drive to boost production, ministers settled on a target they said would increase output by around 1m barrels per day (bpd). Continue reading... |
| Supreme court bans police access to phone records without a warrant Posted: 22 Jun 2018 10:52 AM PDT Court bars police from accessing call listings and location without a warrant, in 'most consequential privacy ruling in a generation' A US supreme court ruling issued Friday barred police from accessing cellphone records such as call listings and location data without first obtaining a search warrant, in a landmark decision in favor of privacy protections. Advocates hailed the 5-4 ruling as a victory for personal privacy rights in an age when digital technology and the widespread use of mobile devices could create easy paths for law enforcement or other state bodies into the most intimate corners of private life. Continue reading... |
| Rule of law 'virtually absent' in Venezuela, UN report says Posted: 22 Jun 2018 08:13 AM PDT
Government security forces in Venezuela carry out unjustified killings without any apparent consequences, as the rule of law is "virtually absent" in the country, according to a new report by the United Nations. The UN human rights office called on the government to bring perpetrators to justice and said it was sending its report to the international criminal court (ICC), whose prosecutor opened a preliminary investigation in February. Continue reading... |
| Grin and bear it: researcher has no hard feelings for grizzly that cracked her skull Posted: 22 Jun 2018 10:08 AM PDT Researcher who walked miles to reach safety after attack says she will continue to study the animals A researcher who survived a grizzly bear attack that cracked open her skull said the bear "was just doing what bears do" and she will continue to study the animals. Related: US woman fights off rabid bobcat, strangling it with bare hands Continue reading... |
| Boris Becker insists diplomatic passport is genuine Posted: 22 Jun 2018 11:35 AM PDT Former tennis star says he received document from Central African Republic's ambassador Former world No 1 tennis player Boris Becker has insisted he has a genuine diplomatic passport from the Central African Republic after officials dismissed it as a fake. The retired German tennis star, who claims his role as an attache to the EU gives him diplomatic immunity from bankruptcy proceedings in the UK, told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: "I have received this passport from the ambassador. I have spoken to the president on many occasions. It was an official inauguration. I believe the documents they are giving me must be right." Continue reading... |
| Man stabbed to death in Norwich Posted: 23 Jun 2018 12:00 AM PDT Police say a man in his 20s has been arrested over the killing of a man in his 40s A man has died after a stabbing in Norwich city centre, triggering a murder investigation. Police were called to the Rose Lane car park just after midnight on Friday after reports that a man in his 40s had been stabbed. Continue reading... |
| UK not bluffing about walking away with no Brexit deal – Liam Fox Posted: 23 Jun 2018 01:52 AM PDT Boris Johnson says Brits don't want to be saddled with a 'soft, long bog-roll Brexit' The UK is not bluffing about walking away from the EU negotiations without a deal, Liam Fox has said, telling the bloc's leaders it would not be wise to assume it was off the cards. The trade secretary, speaking on the second anniversary of the Brexit vote, said it was essential the EU believed Britain was serious about the threat to walk away from negotiations. |
| The 20 photographs of the week Posted: 23 Jun 2018 12:46 AM PDT Family separations on the US-Mexico border, the eruption of the Fuego volcano in Guatemala, demonstrations in Nicaragua and Germany's defeat to Mexico at the World Cup – the week captured by the world's best photojournalists Continue reading... |
| Explosion at rally for new Ethiopian prime minister Posted: 23 Jun 2018 02:33 AM PDT A few people reportedly injured in blast shortly after speech by Abiy Ahmed in Addis Ababa An explosion has disrupted a huge rally for Ethiopia's new, reformist prime minister shortly after he addressed a huge crowd. Abiy Ahmed described the explosion as a "well-orchestrated attack" but one that failed. It happened when he was waving to one of the biggest crowds to gather in the east African nation in recent years. Continue reading... |
| How Toronto serial killer Bruce McArthur went unnoticed for years Posted: 23 Jun 2018 12:00 AM PDT A friendly gardener and mall Santa, McArthur may also have been the worst ever serial killer of gay men. Did police turn a blind eye? When the biggest forensic investigation in Toronto history began, it was still possible to be blind to the full extent of the horror. On 18 January 2018, in the mid-morning, Bruce McArthur, a 66-year-old freelance landscaper, entered his Thorncliffe Park apartment building in Toronto, accompanied by a young man. |
| Dying refugee moved from Nauru to Australia after intense campaign Posted: 22 Jun 2018 10:03 PM PDT Exclusive: Doctors say Afghan refugee hasn't got long to live and should be allowed dignity and respect in his last days |
| Sheep exporter's licence cancellation a federal decision, says WA premier Posted: 22 Jun 2018 10:39 PM PDT Mark McGowan says that if the farming lobby has any concerns, it should take this up with Canberra The Western Australia premier, Mark McGowan, says farmers in the state concerned about the decision to suspend the licence of Australia's largest sheep exporter should "take it up with the federal government". The federal agriculture department announced on Friday it had suspended the live export licence of Perth-based Emanuel Exports pending the outcome of a review into the company's response to a show cause notice, issued as part of a broader investigation into its animal welfare record. Continue reading... |
| Africa is finally uniting: now we need good politics | Paul Kagame Posted: 22 Jun 2018 07:57 AM PDT With a free trade agreement signed, a new era of prosperity beckons for the African continent In Africa, our biggest threats are also opportunities. By 2035, 450 million Africans will have joined the working age population, more than the rest of the world combined in that time. They will power our economies forward, as long as there are jobs they have the knowledge to perform. But our schools and universities have not kept pace with technology. Over half of all jobseekers have few or no skills, while 41% have qualifications but no skills for the jobs available. The gap is wider still in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. |
| Support proves key for teachers and children alike in Kenya’s largest slum Posted: 22 Jun 2018 06:00 AM PDT Efforts to improve the training and resources available to childminders in Nairobi's Kibera settlement are bearing fruit – to the benefit of all concerned Three-year-old Joy and her sister Lavine, four, are surrounded by kitchen pots, soft toys and an old wellington boot. It's mid-morning at Kidogo's nursery and preschool, and the sisters are playing in the dramatic centre, a place set aside for children to invent their own games. Each corner of the room is dedicated to a different activity: music, stories, art or a quiet space for reading. The centre is one of the few quality childcare facilities in Kibera, an overcrowded informal settlement in Nairobi that houses 170,070 people, according to a 2009 national census (although other estimates have put the number significantly higher). Most centres are found in cramped rooms or homes, with one woman responsible for 20 or so children. Ventilation is poor and there are reports of babies being given sleeping pills to knock them out for the day, or children being locked in dark rooms. There's rarely space to play. Continue reading... |
| Is Melania Trump using fashion to troll her husband? Posted: 22 Jun 2018 10:27 AM PDT The first lady's 'I really don't care jacket' isn't the first time she's appeared to have sent a sartorial signal The internet is arm-deep in jacket-gate. Ever since Melania Trump wore the world's most inappropriate jacket on her trip to a child detention center on Thursday, theories have been swirling as to the first lady's motives. Related: Melania Trump wears 'I don't care' jacket on plane to visit child detention center Continue reading... |
| Rise of xenophobia is fanning immigration flames in EU and US | Simon Tisdall Posted: 22 Jun 2018 04:56 AM PDT Populists are exploiting citizens' fears while ignoring root causes of migration crises Like a timebomb waiting to go off, Europe's smouldering immigration problem exploded into a full-blown crisis last week. The US experienced a similar delayed upheaval, after the human consequences of Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" border policy became too painful to ignore. The two events are closely linked, the product of systemic international failings. The longstanding inability of governments to cope with challenges posed by the increased flows of refugees, asylum seekers and economic migrants is common to both sides of the Atlantic. The ensuing vacuum has been filled by opportunists such as Trump, maverick fringe parties, andrightwing zealots such as Italy's new interior minister, Matteo Salvini, and the US attorney general, Jeff Sessions. Continue reading... |
| Bear clambers out of a car window after getting stuck – video Posted: 22 Jun 2018 04:17 AM PDT A bear trapped in a car in California created so much damage to the vehicle that the only way to get the animal out was to smash one of the windows. A police officer broke a window of the Subaru Outback that was parked in Carnelian Bay, before making a hasty retreat. Moments later the bear clambered out Continue reading... |
| 'Thrilled to bits': Jacinda Ardern's parents on new arrival – video Posted: 22 Jun 2018 03:16 AM PDT Laurell and Ross Ardern describe their joy after their daughter, New Zealand's prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, gave birth to a girl. Her father said the baby was in safe hands with Jacinda and Clarke Gayford as parents Continue reading... |
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