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Abortion rights in 'dire, immediate danger' as Anthony Kennedy retires
Poland makes partial U-turn on Holocaust law after Israel row
Syrian forces' push into east Daraa 'could spark humanitarian crisis'
'You have not been forgotten,' Prince William tells Palestinians
Trump and Putin to reveal details of first official summit
Judge orders US to reunite families separated at border within 30 days
French butchers ask for police protection from vegan activists
EU to raise pressure on May over chances of no-deal Brexit
Ten face charges in France over suspected far-right terror plot
Suspect in Charlottesville protest killing charged with hate crime
Democrats see major upset as socialist beats top-ranking US congressman
Mbandaka has fought off Ebola – but can the DRC's equator city recover?
'Democracy is at stake': Anthony Kennedy's exit causes a political earthquake
UK's role in rendition and torture of terrorism suspects - key findings
UK could be heading for 'very worst' Brexit, says May's former policy chief - Politics live
Steve Bell on Prince William and Mahmoud Abbas – cartoon
World Surf League criticised over gender pay gap for junior surfers
'This is the beginning': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's victory speech – video
Mexico election: the candidates, the stakes and the key issues
Deluge of electronic waste turning Thailand into 'world's rubbish dump'
Wiring inside fatal Dreamworld ride was a 'rats nest', inquest told
Poll ranks India the world's most dangerous country for women
'Our men are leaving us': the Rohingya women facing life alone
New terrorist threat as EU stance on migrants triggers disquiet in Niger
Marginalised Mattis appears closer to exit as Trump's defence secretary
The new John Bolton: Trump ally swaps fire and brimstone for a spoonful of sugar
Trump has chance to reshape US supreme court after Justice Kennedy retires – video
Trump aims to meet Putin in ‘not too distant future’ – video
Black unarmed teen Antwon Rose shot in Pittsburgh - video

Abortion rights in 'dire, immediate danger' as Anthony Kennedy retires

Posted: 27 Jun 2018 01:41 PM PDT

Potential nominees shortlisted by Trump are believed to be jurists who would overturn the landmark decision Roe v Wade

The US supreme court legalized abortion in 1973. Now, 45 years later, activists say the departure of the court's moderate, Justice Anthony Kennedy, represents the most direct threat to reproductive freedom since abortion was legalized.

Poland makes partial U-turn on Holocaust law after Israel row

Posted: 27 Jun 2018 07:11 AM PDT

Threat of jail removed for those who attribute crimes of Nazi Germany to Poles

Poland's president, Andrzej Duda, has signed a legal amendment to decriminalise the false attribution to Poland and Poles of crimes committed by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust, signalling a partial retreat on contentious legislation enacted this year.

The legislation, which threatened prison terms of up to three years for any breaches, sparked a war of words between Polish and Israeli politicians and an outpouring of antisemitic rhetoric in Poland, as nationalist and pro-government media sought to portray the country as under attack from an international anti-Polish campaign orchestrated by foreign powers and Jewish advocacy groups.

Syrian forces' push into east Daraa 'could spark humanitarian crisis'

Posted: 27 Jun 2018 11:23 AM PDT

UN told that situation could be as lethal as sieges of Aleppo and eastern Goutha combined

A new Syrian government offensive to recapture rebel territory in the south-west of the country is endangering the fragile peace process and could provoke a humanitarian crisis worse than that which followed the siege of Aleppo, a senior UN official has warned.

Staffan de Mistura, the special envoy for Syria, told the UN's security council the attack by Syrian armed forces, backed by Iranian militia, would put more than 750,000 lives at risk. He said more than 45,000 people had already been displaced.

'You have not been forgotten,' Prince William tells Palestinians

Posted: 27 Jun 2018 10:40 AM PDT

Duke greeted by honour guard and marching band on historic trip to occupied West Bank

The Duke of Cambridge was clapped and cheered by Palestinians as he visited a refugee camp in Ramallah during an historic first visit by a member of the British royal family to the occupied West Bank.

A red carpet, marching band and honour guard welcomed the 36-year-old prince on his official visit, during which he toured a clinic and school in Jalazone camp, where 15,000 people live.

Trump and Putin to reveal details of first official summit

Posted: 27 Jun 2018 12:23 PM PDT

Russian presidential aide says location of meeting will not be in the US or Russia, after meeting between Putin and John Bolton

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have agreed a time and place to hold their first official summit, a senior Russian official announced on Wednesday.

The Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov told journalists that the summit will be held in a country other than Russia or the United States. The date and location of the meeting will be announced on Thursday, Ushakov said.

Judge orders US to reunite families separated at border within 30 days

Posted: 27 Jun 2018 10:10 AM PDT

Federal ruling also prevents officials from splitting up families who crossed US-Mexico border illegally

A federal judge has ordered that US immigration agents can no longer separate parents and children caught crossing the border from Mexico illegally and must work to reunite those families that have been split up within 30 days.

Dana Sabraw, a district court judge in San Diego, granted the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) a preliminary injunction on Tuesday, which set a hard deadline in a process that until now had yielded uncertainty about when children might again see their parents.

French butchers ask for police protection from vegan activists

Posted: 27 Jun 2018 05:17 AM PDT

Butchers' federation claims vegans want to 'impose their lifestyle' on the majority

Butchers in France have asked the government for police protection from animal rights activists, claiming their security was being threatened and that vegans were trying to impose a meat-free lifestyle on the nation.

The French federation of butchers wrote to the interior minister saying shops had been sprinkled with fake blood and covered in graffiti. It claims that a growing media focus on veganism was threatening butchers' safety.

EU to raise pressure on May over chances of no-deal Brexit

Posted: 27 Jun 2018 10:11 AM PDT

Prime minister has agreed to address 27 EU leaders at a dinner on Thursday

The European Union's 27 leaders are to ratchet up the pressure on Theresa May by giving her a strong warning about the growing risk of a no-deal Brexit, as countries across Europe confirmed they were intensifying work on their contingency plans for Britain crashing out of the bloc.

With a complete absence of progress on key issues, including that of avoiding a hard border on the island of Ireland, the prime minister will be pressed at a summit in Brussels to reassure her fellow leaders about her intentions.

Ten face charges in France over suspected far-right terror plot

Posted: 27 Jun 2018 10:47 AM PDT

Police linked those arrested to extremist group urging people to combat Muslims

Ten alleged extreme-right militants suspected of a terrorist plot to attack Muslims in France are to appear before a judge and face preliminary charges.

Nine men and one woman aged 32 to 69 – including one retired police officer – were arrested in raids across France on Saturday, in the Paris area, the Mediterranean island of Corsica and the western Charentes-Maritimes region.

Suspect in Charlottesville protest killing charged with hate crime

Posted: 27 Jun 2018 10:29 AM PDT

Federal grand jury agreed to indict James Alex Fields, who drove into a crowd, killing one, with 30 crimes

Federal hate crime charges have been filed against a man accused of plowing a car into a crowd of people protesting against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year, killing a woman and injuring dozens more.

The Department of Justice announced on Wednesday that a federal grand jury agreed to indict 21-year-old James Alex Fields, of Ohio, with 30 crimes, including one count of a hate crime resulting in the death of Heather Heyer, and 28 other hate crimes involving an attempt to kill other people, who were injured.

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

Posted: 27 Jun 2018 12:48 PM PDT

Joe Crowley, 10-term Democrat expected to be party's next House leader, loses to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 28, in New York

Ocasio-Cortez: who is the new progressive star of the Democrats?

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old Democratic socialist from the Bronx, has unseated Joe Crowley, a 20-year congressman, in a stunning political upset that sent shockwaves through the party.

The victory, in a New York district primary election to determine who stands against the Republicans in November's midterms for a seat in Congress, immediately prompted debate about the wider ramifications for the Democrats, and whether it heralds a further move to the left.

Mbandaka has fought off Ebola – but can the DRC's equator city recover?

Posted: 27 Jun 2018 03:00 AM PDT

Aside from the threat of disease, this colonial city on banks of the Congo has been blighted by generations of underinvestment and bad government

Mbandaka, once prosperous and charming, with electricity and running water 24 hours a day, hasn't moved on since the 1970s. Quite the opposite – this city, situated at the confluence of the Congo and Ruki rivers, has declined. Rainwater gnaws at the tarmac of its roads due to lack of drainage; houses collapse into the sodden ground of its estates; its socioeconomic life exudes poverty and misery, all the more glaring beside the affluent minority. Deadly malnutrition is creeping into many families. In late May, news that Ebola had reached Mbandaka added an edge of fear to this dismal portrait. The latest outbreak had already killed nearly 30 across the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and reaching a city of 1.2 million threatened a serious escalation.

'Democracy is at stake': Anthony Kennedy's exit causes a political earthquake

Posted: 27 Jun 2018 04:01 PM PDT

Democrats warn successor 'could radically alter the course of justice' and help Trump put an enduring stamp on America

The retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy is a political earthquake that could affect millions of lives and allow Donald Trump to put a stamp on America that will endure long after he leaves the White House.

Presidents come and go, and their policies can swiftly be reversed, as Trump has demonstrated in seeking to erase much of Barack Obama's legacy. But justices are appointed for life to the supreme court, which plays an outsized role in American life compared to equivalent bodies around the world.

UK's role in rendition and torture of terrorism suspects - key findings

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 02:12 AM PDT

Reports reveal extent of British intelligence agencies' involvement after 9/11

Two reports published by the parliamentary intelligence and security committee have found British intelligence agencies were involved in the torture and kidnap of terrorism suspects after 9/11.

Here are the key details from the reports:

UK could be heading for 'very worst' Brexit, says May's former policy chief - Politics live

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 02:17 AM PDT

Rolling coverage of the day's political developments as they happen, including the start of the EU summit in Brussels.

10.17am BST

Dominic Grieve, the Conservative MP who chairs the intelligence and security committee, is holding a press conference now to explain the findings of the ISC's two report published this morning. (See 10.09am and 10.14am.)

10.14am BST

Here are the two intelligence and security committee reports published today.

Steve Bell on Prince William and Mahmoud Abbas – cartoon

Posted: 27 Jun 2018 03:24 PM PDT

World Surf League criticised over gender pay gap for junior surfers

Posted: 27 Jun 2018 11:46 PM PDT

Photo of winners of Ballito Pro junior tournament with cheques provokes condemnation over pay disparity

Billabong and the World Surf League have faced criticism over the disparity in prize money between the male and female winners of a junior surfing tournament in South Africa.

The winners – Rio Waida from Indonesia and Zoe Steyn from South Africa – were pictured on the stage with oversized cheques, but Steyn's at 4000 rand ($400) was half that of Waida's.

'This is the beginning': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's victory speech – video

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 02:16 AM PDT

Victorious Democratic candidate addresses supporters in the Bronx, New York City, saying she would introduce a wave of change in the US and her campaign had brought hope to Americans

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

Mexico election: the candidates, the stakes and the key issues

Posted: 27 Jun 2018 10:30 PM PDT

Voters will choose their next president Sunday at a time of disillusionment at unchecked corruption, poverty and violence

Deluge of electronic waste turning Thailand into 'world's rubbish dump'

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 01:33 AM PDT

Thailand has been swamped by waste from the west after Chinese ban on imports

At a deserted factory outside Bangkok, skyscrapers made from vast blocks of crushed printers, Xbox components and TVs tower over black rivers of smashed-up computer screens.

This is a tiny fraction of the estimated 50m tonnes of electronic waste created just in the EU every year, a tide of toxic rubbish that is flooding into south-east Asia from the EU, US and Japan.

Wiring inside fatal Dreamworld ride was a 'rats nest', inquest told

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 01:48 AM PDT

Some family members of victims watch 'awful' CCTV footage of Thunder River Rapids incident

Some family members of Dreamworld tragedy victims chose to remain in a Queensland court on Thursday to watch the "awful" footage of the incident which took their loved ones' lives.

Others, however, couldn't face the vision and waited outside until the court re-opened.

"The video wasn't shown to the public because of the sensitivity of it," counsel assisting the coroner Ken Foster QC said.

"It's awful footage no matter how you look at it ... it is simply not for public consumption."

Poll ranks India the world's most dangerous country for women

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 02:00 AM PDT

A survey of global experts puts Afghanistan and Syria in second and third place, with the US the only western nation in the top 10

India is the world's most dangerous country for women due to the high risk of sexual violence and being forced into slave labour, according to a poll of global experts.

Afghanistan and Syria ranked second and third in a Thomson Reuters Foundation survey of 548 experts on women's issues, followed by Somalia and Saudi Arabia.

'Our men are leaving us': the Rohingya women facing life alone

Posted: 27 Jun 2018 11:00 PM PDT

Having fled persecution in Myanmar, a growing number of women are at risk of harassment and attack in Bangladesh after being deserted by their husbands

Sara Khatun is deeply cynical about marriage. One of many Rohingya women trying to cope alone in the refugee camps of Bangladesh, she was left by her husband and has five children to look after.

Sitting in the bamboo porch of a meeting place, out of the monsoon rains, she relates the serious problems that men cause in the Cox's Bazar camps. "If I was unmarried I would never get married," she says.

New terrorist threat as EU stance on migrants triggers disquiet in Niger

Posted: 27 Jun 2018 05:58 AM PDT

Efforts to buttress Europe's borders have left people smugglers in Niger jobless and ripe for exploitation by jihadist groups

A new terrorist threat is brewing in the Sahel, partly as a consequence of the European-sponsored crackdown on migration, according to local leaders in Niger.

Thousands of men who transported, fed, and housed the hundreds of thousands of migrants who used to cross the impoverished west African country are now unemployed and could easily be exploited by one of the major jihadist groups operating in the region, said leaders in the remote former migrant hub of Agadez.

Marginalised Mattis appears closer to exit as Trump's defence secretary

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 01:00 AM PDT

James Mattis was left out of the loop on issues such as Iran, Korea and a new space force but his departure would alarm allies

James Mattis has lost influence in the Trump administration, and his future as US defence secretary is now in question, according to former administration officials and analysts.

His eclipse is a worrying prospect for US allies, whom Mattis has worked hard to reassure by mitigating Donald Trump's unilateral actions and disparaging remarks with promises of sustained solidarity and cooperation.

The new John Bolton: Trump ally swaps fire and brimstone for a spoonful of sugar

Posted: 27 Jun 2018 11:15 PM PDT

Trump's national security adviser seems to have abandoned his firebrand persona – and in Moscow the change of tone was striking

The trademark walrus moustache was still there, and the penetrating gaze was just the same, but in almost every other way the new John Bolton and the old John Bolton seemed very different.

The old Bolton was a firebrand pundit, raining derision from television talk shows and editorials on US diplomats promoting compromise with America's enemies. Almost a year ago he wrote a commentary describing Vladimir Putin as a serial liar responsible for an "act of war' in the form of his interference in the US election and warned: "We negotiate with Russia at our peril".

Trump has chance to reshape US supreme court after Justice Kennedy retires – video

Posted: 27 Jun 2018 09:55 PM PDT

Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement, which takes effect on 31 July, gives Donald Trump a second supreme court appointment in his 17 months in office. 'I'm very honoured that he chose to do it during my term in office because he felt confident in me to make the right choice and carry on his great legacy,' Trump said of Kennedy at a rally in North Dakota on Wednesday night.

• Anthony Kennedy: US supreme court justice to retire

Trump aims to meet Putin in ‘not too distant future’ – video

Posted: 27 Jun 2018 02:05 PM PDT

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have agreed a time and place to hold their first official summit, a senior Russian official announced on Wednesday. Trump told reporters he will discuss the war in Syria and the situation in Ukraine with his Russian counterpart. The two sides have been at odds over issues including Russia's alleged interference in the 2016 US election, the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria, cybersecurity, Nato policy and nuclear weapons. Relations between the two countries are widely seen as being at their worst since the cold war

Trump and Putin to reveal details of first official summit

Black unarmed teen Antwon Rose shot in Pittsburgh - video

Posted: 27 Jun 2018 01:25 PM PDT

Video of the incident shows two men running away from a car that had been stopped by police, amid the sound of gunfire. The video sparked outrage and several nights of protests in the western Pennsylvania city.

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