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Death sentence quashed for teenager who killed rapist husband in Sudan
Trump hails 'tremendous victory' after supreme court upholds travel ban
EU hearing puts Poland in dock over judicial changes
Teacher who won $1m will use windfall to get artists into schools
Seventeen states sue Trump administration over family separations
Second Spanish church falls prey to well-intentioned restorer
SFO to prosecute Monaco-based Unaoil on corruption charges
Canada's largest national park risks losing world heritage status
Tiny bird threatens one of Canada's biggest music festivals
PSNI deputy chief constable to head Ireland's police force
May's plan to stay in single market 'will be blocked by French and Germans'
Macron meets Pope Francis for twice as long as Trump
European parliament 'won't pay for offshore migrant camps'
America's famed Route 66 put on list of 11 endangered historic places
Benefit or burden? The cities trying out universal basic income
Mapping China's frontline: the Yangtze at 100km intervals - a photo essay
UK ban on heterosexual civil partnerships ruled discriminatory
EU migration crisis: what are the key issues?
Libya urges UN to block oil sales after clashes between rival factions
Zimbabwe's president blames rally attack on Grace Mugabe faction
The moment 28-year-old socialist beats top-ranking Democrat in congressional primary - video
Mexico election: candidates avoid stances on same-sex marriage and abortion
Imperial Twilight by Stephen R Platt review – lessons for today from the opium war
Albanese denies speech was signal he was available for leadership
Weapons costing lives in deadly wars abroad are also costing jobs at home | Rod Austin
Misuse of opioids such as tramadol and fentanyl is 'global epidemic', report finds
'Half of Indian children are sexually abused': a survivor speaks out – podcast
The Ugandan girl who trekked barefoot to escape marriage at 13
How we can fight child labour in the tobacco industry
Very good boy: police dog 'attempts CPR' on his handler – video

Death sentence quashed for teenager who killed rapist husband in Sudan

Posted: 26 Jun 2018 10:03 AM PDT

After international outcry, appeal court found Noura Hussein guilty of manslaughter and handed down a five-year sentence

A young Sudanese woman facing execution for killing her husband as he tried to rape her has had her death sentence quashed.

Lawyers for 19-year-old Noura Hussein announced the news on Tuesday afternoon and said the verdict for premeditated murder had also been quashed.

Trump hails 'tremendous victory' after supreme court upholds travel ban

Posted: 26 Jun 2018 09:17 AM PDT

White House says court 'upheld authority' after justices rule 5-4 ban was within president's power to craft national security policy

The US supreme court has upheld Donald Trump's travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority countries, in a significant victory for the administration and a blow to anti-discrimination advocates.

In a 5-4 ruling handed down on Tuesday, the court accepted the government's argument that the ban was within the president's power to craft national security policy and his authority to "suspend entry of aliens into the United States".

EU hearing puts Poland in dock over judicial changes

Posted: 26 Jun 2018 09:51 AM PDT

Case is first time EU member state has been subject to hearing over strength of its democratic institutions

Poland has been put in the dock by its fellow EU member states in an unprecedented hearing over the country's alleged failure to respect democratic norms.

In a move the Polish prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, said he deplored, France and Germany laid out the case against the country's rightwing government during a meeting of ministers in Luxembourg.

Teacher who won $1m will use windfall to get artists into schools

Posted: 26 Jun 2018 06:10 AM PDT

Andria Zafirakou recruits musicians, art historians and actors to her cause

After winning a $1m global teaching prize, Andria Zafirakou could have paid off her mortgage, bought a Ferrari and put her feet up for the rest of her life.

Instead, the north London teacher has announced she is using the money she won in March with the Varkey Foundation global teacher prize – a kind of Nobel prize for teaching – to set up a campaigning charity to get more artists and arts organisations into Britain's schools.

Seventeen states sue Trump administration over family separations

Posted: 26 Jun 2018 11:32 AM PDT

States including New York, California and Washington filed lawsuits accusing government of denying people their rights

Seventeen US states led by Democratic attorney generals are suing the Trump administration in an effort to force officials to reunite migrant families separated at the border.

In the latest setback for Donald Trump's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy, the states, which include New York, California and Washington, filed lawsuits on Tuesday accusing the government of denying migrants their rights.

Second Spanish church falls prey to well-intentioned restorer

Posted: 26 Jun 2018 04:59 AM PDT

St George effigy painted in restoration compared to Ecce Homo Monkey Christ

For 500 years, the painted wooden effigy of St George that adorns a chapel in the Spanish town of Estella has been locked in a silent struggle against his old foe, the dragon.

Today, however, the saint faces a different battle thanks to a feat of restoration that has prompted comparisons with the infamous "Ecce Homo Monkey Christ" and exasperated the mayor.

SFO to prosecute Monaco-based Unaoil on corruption charges

Posted: 26 Jun 2018 12:00 PM PDT

Charges relate to alleged corrupt payments to secure Iraq-based contracts for firms

The Serious Fraud Office is to prosecute an oil company following a two-year criminal investigation into alleged bribery in the energy industry.

On Tuesday, the SFO announced that it was bringing four charges of corruption against Unaoil, a Monaco-based oil consultancy. The company is accused of conspiring to making corrupt payments to secure Iraqi construction contracts for two multinationals.

Canada's largest national park risks losing world heritage status

Posted: 26 Jun 2018 01:34 PM PDT

Wood Buffalo national park also faces danger from oil and gas development and hydroelectric projects, government report says

The world's second-largest national park is under threat from a destructive combination of climate change, oil and gas development and hydroelectric projects, according to a new report from the Canadian government.

Tiny bird threatens one of Canada's biggest music festivals

Posted: 26 Jun 2018 10:04 AM PDT

The killdeer, a protected bird that weighs less than five ounces, laid eggs in area where the main stage will be for Ottawa's Bluesfest

A diminutive bird known for its shrill, high pitched call is threatening to derail one of Canada's biggest music festivals after it built a nest in the same location as the main stage was slated to be erected.

The first hint of trouble for Ottawa's Bluesfest, an outdoor festival that draws some 300,000 people each year in the nation's capital, came last week after workers at the site stumbled across an agitated killdeer, a brown and white bird that weighs less than five ounces.

PSNI deputy chief constable to head Ireland's police force

Posted: 26 Jun 2018 11:47 AM PDT

Appointment of Drew Harris considered a dividend of Good Friday agreement

The deputy chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland has been appointed to run the Republic's police force in an extraordinary cross-border job switch.

Drew Harris will take up his post as commissioner of the Garda Síochána in September after a 35-year career in policing in the UK, principally in Northern Ireland.

May's plan to stay in single market 'will be blocked by French and Germans'

Posted: 26 Jun 2018 09:11 AM PDT

Madrid's foreign minister says there will be no deal for goods access without free movement

Theresa May's plan to protect British industry by keeping the UK in a single market for goods without respecting the free movement of people after Brexit will be rejected by an "angry" France and Germany, despite some sympathy within the EU to Downing Street's cause, Spain's foreign minister has said.

The new Spanish government would also block such a political fix, Josep Borrell told the Guardian, ahead of both a summit of leaders in Brussels and a summer tour by the prime minister of EU capitals during which May hopes to convince leaders of her economic case.

Macron meets Pope Francis for twice as long as Trump

Posted: 26 Jun 2018 08:48 AM PDT

Hour of talks with pontiff puts French president's religious views in spotlight

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, was granted an unusually long meeting with Pope Francis in which they discussed migration issues, conflict in the Middle East and the future unity of Europe.

In his first visit to the Vatican, Macron spoke behind closed doors to the pope for 57 minutes – the pontiff's longest meeting with a head of state, exceeding his lengthy talks with Barack Obama and almost double the audience granted to Donald Trump.

European parliament 'won't pay for offshore migrant camps'

Posted: 26 Jun 2018 09:23 AM PDT

Labour MEP Claude Moraes says body would not back 'extreme' move as migration crisis looms

A senior European politician has warned that MEPs would seek to block any use of EU funds for offshore migrant camps in north Africa.

The opposition to offshore centres for processing asylum claims raises tensions before an EU summit that will be dominated by a political crisis over migration that threatens Angela Merkel's future as German chancellor.

America's famed Route 66 put on list of 11 endangered historic places

Posted: 26 Jun 2018 07:48 AM PDT

To ensure special protection for famous highway, Congress and the president would have to declare it a national historic trail

Believe it or not, there is a way for Donald Trump to unite the country – by saving the famous Route 66, which has been placed on a list of America's most endangered historic places.

Benefit or burden? The cities trying out universal basic income

Posted: 26 Jun 2018 11:15 PM PDT

Cities around the world are experimenting with basic income schemes. The benefits for residents seem obvious – but what's in it for the cities?

For the first time in many years, Lance Dingman has food in his freezer.

Dingman, from Hamilton in Ontario, Canada, lost one of his legs in 1988 as a result of a bone infection and now has a prosthetic; he has also struggled with his mental health. He used to receive a disability benefit, but the amount was so low as to leave him no way out of poverty. Today Dingman, 56, is paid C$1,900 (£1,080) per month under the city's basic income pilot project – and he says the difference is life-changing.

Mapping China's frontline: the Yangtze at 100km intervals - a photo essay

Posted: 26 Jun 2018 04:15 AM PDT

Mother River is a four-year project for which the British-Chinese photographer Yan Wang Preston photographed the 6,211km Yangtze river at precise 100km intervals with a large-format film camera

A Kickstarter campaign is running until 30 June 2018 to raise funds for the Mother River book production

The Yangtze river is usually celebrated by idealistic images of iconic places. But with Mother River, Yan Wang Preston wanted to undermine the deep-seated preference towards certain river places and their landscape representations. By selecting photographic sites at equally spaced locations, she did not necessarily produce a picturesque view. Instead, the project is filled with random landscapes that have rarely been photographed before.

UK ban on heterosexual civil partnerships ruled discriminatory

Posted: 27 Jun 2018 01:52 AM PDT

Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan win claim at supreme court after fight to open up civil partnerships to opposite-sex couples

A heterosexual couple who have been denied the right to enter into a civil partnership have won their claim at the UK's highest court that they have suffered discrimination.

Justices at the supreme court unanimously found in favour of Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan in a decision that will put pressure on the government to change the law.

EU migration crisis: what are the key issues?

Posted: 27 Jun 2018 12:55 AM PDT

European nations are meeting in an effort to solve the deepening political crisis: what will they be talking about?

This week's EU summit will be dominated by a deepening political crisis in the bloc over how to handle irregular immigration. Here is a look at the main issues, which countries want what, why all this matters and how it might develop.

Libya urges UN to block oil sales after clashes between rival factions

Posted: 26 Jun 2018 09:00 PM PDT

Move comes after strongman Khalifa Haftar takes control of key Gulf of Sirte oil terminals

Libya's oil industry – the sole reliable source of revenue for the strife-torn country – has been plunged into chaos after its United Nations-recognised government was forced to urge the UN to block any sales from its main oil terminals.

The key terminals in the east of the country were captured from local militias last week by the so-called Libyan National Army, headed by strongman Khalifa Haftar. But on Tuesday Haftar announced his forces would send the revenues to a rival oil corporation in the country's east rather than the UN-recognised National Oil Corporation (NOC).

Zimbabwe's president blames rally attack on Grace Mugabe faction

Posted: 27 Jun 2018 01:53 AM PDT

Emmerson Mnangagwa claims G40 faction was behind blast that killed two people

Emmerson Mnangagwa, the president of Zimbabwe, has blamed an apparent assassination attempt at a political rally last weekend on a faction led by Grace Mugabe, the wife of the ousted president Robert Mugabe.

In an interview with the BBC, Mnangagwa said he believed the so-called G40 faction was responsible for the grenade thrown at the podium in the White City stadium in Bulawayo on Saturday afternoon.

The moment 28-year-old socialist beats top-ranking Democrat in congressional primary - video

Posted: 27 Jun 2018 01:27 AM PDT

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Puerto-Rican American socialist, causes a major upset in New York after defeating Joe Crowley in the Democrats''congressional primary. Crowley, who was expected to be the party's next House leader, took 42.5% of the vote while Ocasio-Cortez had 57.5% in the predominantly minority district that included parts of Queens and the Bronx

Democrats see major upset as socialist beats top-ranking US congressman

Mexico election: candidates avoid stances on same-sex marriage and abortion

Posted: 27 Jun 2018 12:00 AM PDT

Despite an electorate craving change, candidates including the frontrunner, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, have avoided social issues

In both of Mexico's last two presidential elections, Julieta Brambila voted for Andrés Manuel López Obrador because she supported his plans to tackle corruption, curb poverty and overturn "neoliberal" economic policies.

Polls ahead of this Sunday's vote suggest that the silver-haired left-winger is finally on the brink of victory, but Brambila admits to some mixed feelings over his surprisingly conservative positions on social issues.

Imperial Twilight by Stephen R Platt review – lessons for today from the opium war

Posted: 27 Jun 2018 01:00 AM PDT

A beautifully written and expert account of western aggression in 19th-century China casts light on the Chinese reaction to Trump

While campaigning for the US presidency, Donald Trump talked tough on China. He accused the country of "raping" the US economically: its trade policies and currency manipulation were allegedly perpetrating "one of the greatest thefts in the history of the world". In March, Trump put his money where his mouth was, announcing up to $60bn of tariffs on Chinese imports. The US, the White House proclaimed, was "strategically defending itself" from "economic aggression". Within hours, the People's Republic responded by announcing its own tariffs on key US exports: pork, apples, soybeans. The rhetoric of public opinion in China was revealing of the deeper history of this trade row. Chinese editorialists promptly linked Trump's action back to 19th-century western aggressions, and specifically to the collisions that dragged China violently into a western-dominated international world. In punishing China economically, they declared, the US was plotting to "repeat the plundering of the opium war" – a conflict Britain fought between 1839 and 1842 to protect its revenues from the opium trade and open China to British goods and influence. Parts of the Chinese cybersphere quickly resorted to militant language: "The superpower game is joined … we will block soldiers with generals and floods with dams …bring it on!"

We need to understand how and why China remembers the opium war; we forget sensitivities about the events at our peril

Albanese denies speech was signal he was available for leadership

Posted: 27 Jun 2018 01:46 AM PDT

MP's comments come as backbencher Ross Hart fails to endorse Shorten's decision on repealing tax cuts

Anthony Albanese says Bill Shorten has a "right" to announce Labor policy and he says his recent speech laying out an alternative manifesto was not an attempt to signal to colleagues that he was available for the top job.

Albanese's comments came as Tasmanian backbencher Ross Hart characterised Shorten's controversial decision on Tuesday to announce that Labor would repeal tax cuts for firms earning between $10m and $50m as a "captain's call" and failed to endorse it, despite facing 13 questions about it during a tortuous radio interview on Wednesday.

Weapons costing lives in deadly wars abroad are also costing jobs at home | Rod Austin

Posted: 26 Jun 2018 11:00 PM PDT

A report shows a slump in jobs in the UK arms sector even as the technology sharpens and intensifies conflicts overseas

The growing reliance on technology in many of the world's ongoing conflicts is impacting heavily on the UK's defence sector.

Advances in weaponry being deployed in war zones in Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan – developed by market leaders in China, eastern Europe, the US, Germany and France as well as the UK – mean the number of jobs in the industry are falling sharply.

Misuse of opioids such as tramadol and fentanyl is 'global epidemic', report finds

Posted: 26 Jun 2018 10:00 PM PDT

UN figures reveal deepening opioid crisis in Africa, with cocaine and opium production at records levels worldwide

The misuse of pharmaceutical opioids is fast becoming a "global epidemic", with the largest quantities being seized in African countries for the second year in a row, according to a UN report.

While huge attention has been paid to the opioid crisis in the US – where the misuse of prescription drugs like fentanyl dominates – figures released by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has revealed seizures in Africa of opioids now account for 87% of the global total.

'Half of Indian children are sexually abused': a survivor speaks out – podcast

Posted: 26 Jun 2018 09:00 PM PDT

Award-winning social activist, TEDx speaker and filmmaker Insia Dariwala talks about her hopes for a world where boys and girls can be safe and free

Insia Dariwala always knew her life wasn't going to be ordinary. But she didn't know how big an impact she would go on to make on Indian society. Sexually abused when she was 10, she realised while writing her film the Candy Man that her husband was also a survivor. That marked a turning point for Dariwala, who decided the film should have a male protagonist, and now campaigns about the dangers of child sexual abuse she says need to be addressed in a gender neutral space.

The Ugandan girl who trekked barefoot to escape marriage at 13

Posted: 26 Jun 2018 05:09 AM PDT

Scholastica Nacap fled to avoid being wed to a much older man. Now she helps teach other girls to safeguard their future

Scholastica Nacap walked barefoot for 60km, across dangerous mountain terrain in north-east Uganda, to avoid getting married. She was just 13. Orphaned at nine, she was told by her father's relatives she must marry a much older, wealthy man, so Nacap ran.

"I had to escape. I couldn't accept [becoming] a wife and mother at 13," she says.

How we can fight child labour in the tobacco industry

Posted: 27 Jun 2018 12:00 AM PDT

Our investigations at Human Rights Watch show how widely child labour is used worldwide – but Brazil sets a better example

Very good boy: police dog 'attempts CPR' on his handler – video

Posted: 26 Jun 2018 06:51 PM PDT

Madrid's municipal police have trained a police dog to carry out what looks like CPR. His performance may look impressive but it is 'just a stunt', police spokesman Fernando Rodriguez told Euronews. "Poncho was trained to do this number for school visits. He doesn't actually know how to perform CPR." The video has had more than 2.5m views after it was posted online by the police in Madrid

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