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Maryland shooting: five victims named after 'targeted attack' – as it happened
Theresa May tells EU leaders: you are putting lives at risk over Brexit
Deepwater Horizon disaster altered building blocks of ocean life
Five held in Spain over alleged sexual assault on underage girl
Former Pakistan prime minister barred from re-election
Scientists call for a Paris-style agreement to save life on Earth
Trump trashed Nato at G7, calling it ‘as bad as Nafta’, officials confirm
Outcry as Indian film body readmits actor accused of kidnap plot
Kim Jong-nam murder suspects were trained assassins, court told
UN: spend an extra £5tn by 2030 to tackle global 'care crisis'
Donald Glover and Rashida Jones make workplace harassment video for Time's Up
Dollar stores are thriving – but are they ripping off poor people?
MPs condemn Home Office over detained Windrush pair
Barnier says 'huge and serious' gap remains between UK and EU demands on Brexit – Politics live
Canada: Syrian children's choir turns down US festival trip over border fears
The great firewall of China: Xi Jinping’s internet shutdown
Emil Gayed investigation expanded to fifth hospital
Can millennials save unions in America?
Revealed: how US sex traffickers recruit jailed women for prostitution
UK under fire over slavery measures after 'disturbing' case of trafficked boy
UK nervous over unpredictable Trump's summit with Putin
'We're still putting out a newspaper': Capital Gazette defiant after shooting – video
Mongolia's shamanic rituals – in pictures
Protesters occupy US Senate building over Trump border policy – video
Shooting at Maryland newspaper office – video

Maryland shooting: five victims named after 'targeted attack' – as it happened

Posted: 29 Jun 2018 01:34 AM PDT

Police in Annapolis confirm fatalities at Capital Gazette, with three others injured.

6.42am BST

With that, we'll be closing the liveblog for today.

Here's what we know so far:

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6.06am BST

The fundraiser to help the Capital Gazette newsroom and staff has hit $50,000, in 8 hours.

Started by Bloomberg reporter Madi Alexander, the money will go towards medical bills, funeral costs, repairs, and any other unforeseen costs of today's shooting.

Theresa May tells EU leaders: you are putting lives at risk over Brexit

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 02:05 PM PDT

PM hits back over security co-operation after Brussels criticism of UK's 'split cabinet'

Theresa May has issued a stark warning to EU leaders that their citizens' lives will be at risk if they fail to show more flexibility on Brexit, as she struggled to regain the initiative at a bad-tempered summit in Brussels.

The prime minister had earlier faced pointed criticism from a succession of leaders as they arrived at the European council meeting, in which they highlighted division and indecision at Westminster.

Deepwater Horizon disaster altered building blocks of ocean life

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 07:03 AM PDT

Oil spill disaster reduced biodiversity in sites closest to spill, report finds, as White House rolls back conservation measures

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster may have had a lasting impact upon even the smallest organisms in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists have found – amid warnings that the oceans around America are also under fresh assault as a result of environmental policies under Donald Trump.

Lingering oil residues have altered the basic building blocks of life in the ocean by reducing biodiversity in sites closest to the spill, which occurred when a BP drilling rig exploded in April 2010, killing 11 workers and spewing about 4m barrels of oil into the Gulf.

Five held in Spain over alleged sexual assault on underage girl

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 06:47 AM PDT

Suspects accused of drugging and assaulting girl in Maspalomas, Gran Canaria

Spanish police have reportedly arrested four men and a boy on suspicion of drugging and sexually assaulting an underage girl at a resort in the Canary Islands.

Local media reports said the five suspects called themselves la nueva manada (the new wolfpack), after a gang that was jailed for sexually abusing an 18-year-old woman in Pamplona two years ago and released on bail to widespread outrage last week.

Former Pakistan prime minister barred from re-election

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 03:32 PM PDT

Ban on former leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi raises prospect of military interference

Pakistan's former prime minister and a member of his cabinet have been controversially barred from contesting next month's general election.

It is the latest in a series of blows to the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party that have fuelled accusations the country's military is trying to deny the party a second term.

Scientists call for a Paris-style agreement to save life on Earth

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 08:17 AM PDT

Conservation scientists believe our current mass extinction crisis requires a far more ambitious agreement, in the style of the Paris Climate Accord. And they argue that the bill shouldn't be handed just to nation states, but corporations too.

Let's be honest, the global community's response to the rising evidence of mass extinction and ecological degradation has been largely to throw crumbs at it. Where we have acted it's been in a mostly haphazard and modest way — a protected area here, a conservation program there, a few new laws, and a pinch of funding. The problem is such actions — while laudable and important — in no way match the scope and size of the problem where all markers indicate that life on Earth continues to slide into the dustbin.

But a few scientists are beginning to call for more ambition — much more — and they want to see it enshrined in a new global agreement similar to the Paris Climate Accord. They also say that the bill shouldn't just fall on nations, but the private sector too.

Trump trashed Nato at G7, calling it ‘as bad as Nafta’, officials confirm

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 09:23 AM PDT

President's remarks were confirmed by European officials, adding to jitters among allies about what will happen at July Nato summit

Donald Trump trashed Nato, saying it was "as bad as Nafta", the North American free trade agreement the US president openly despises, European officials have confirmed.

Outcry as Indian film body readmits actor accused of kidnap plot

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 06:23 AM PDT

Vote to reinstate Mollywood star Dileep prompts women including his accuser to quit

A star of Indian cinema accused of involvement in the kidnapping and sexual assault of another actor has been readmitted to an industry association, triggering a wave of resignations from the group, including by his alleged victim.

Gopalakrishnan Padmanabhan Pillai, better known by his stage name Dileep, is awaiting trial over an incident in February 2017 in which a group of men allegedly forced their way into the woman's car and sexually assaulted her as they drove around Kochi city, in Kerala state, for several hours.

Kim Jong-nam murder suspects were trained assassins, court told

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 06:19 AM PDT

Prosecutors allege two women smeared nerve agent on North Korean leader's half-brother

Two women accused of murdering the estranged half-brother of Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, must have been trained to carry out an assassination using a deadly nerve agent, Malaysian prosecutors have said.

Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong are charged with having common intent with four North Korean fugitives to kill Kim Jong-nam at Kuala Lumpur international airport in February 2017.

UN: spend an extra £5tn by 2030 to tackle global 'care crisis'

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 07:52 AM PDT

Report highlights risk of rising inequality against women worldwide

The world economy faces a looming "care crisis" risking further division between men and women across the planet, according to a UN report calling for governments and companies worldwide to spend at least an extra $7tn (£5.3tn) on care by 2030.

Making the case for spending on support for children, old people and the neediest in society to double by the end of the next decade, the UN's International Labour Organisation (ILO) warned demographic changes alone mean the current path for care funding falls far short of requirements.

Donald Glover and Rashida Jones make workplace harassment video for Time's Up

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 02:44 AM PDT

The actor provides the voice for the Rashida Jones-directed short film that offers guidance for 'scared and confused' workers

Donald Glover and Rashida Jones have joined forces to make an "anti-harassment" video for the Time's Up movement.

The animated short film, which is directed by Jones and narrated by Glover, seeks to offer guidance to correct conduct in the workplace for those who have been left "scared, confused, maybe a little angry" by the recent high-profile misconduct allegations made against public figures.

Dollar stores are thriving – but are they ripping off poor people?

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 03:00 AM PDT

Plenty of items actually work out pricier than buying from supermarkets – but many don't have that luxury

While online retailers have transformed the landscape of American commerce, the largest three dollar-store chains are prospering offline, opening more than 1,800 stores last year.

The cost of a trip can be so negligible – the average customer drops $29 a month – and dollar stores have grown so ubiquitous, that it's hard to countenance what economists confirm: visitors to dollar stores are often paying more than well-off consumers who shop elsewhere.

MPs condemn Home Office over detained Windrush pair

Posted: 29 Jun 2018 02:12 AM PDT

Committee describes officials' behaviour towards long-term UK residents as 'shocking'

The Home Office behaved in a "shocking" manner towards two Windrush citizens, Paulette Wilson and Anthony Bryan, both of whom were wrongly sent to immigration detention centres before a planned removal from the UK, despite being continuously resident for around 50 years, a committee of MPs and peers has ruled.

The Home Office displayed an "inadequate regard for the human rights" of those wrongly detained as a result of immigration enforcement, the report by the joint committee on human rights concluded.

Barnier says 'huge and serious' gap remains between UK and EU demands on Brexit – Politics live

Posted: 29 Jun 2018 02:13 AM PDT

Agreement would bolster the bloc's external borders and improve solidarity to ease pressure on nations like Greece and Italy. Follow the latest here

10.13am BST

There has been increasing speculation that Theresa May will propose a Brexit outcome that would effectively keep the UK in the single market for goods. If she does, according to Business Insider's Adam Payne, the EU will say no.

Exclusive: The EU will reject any UK proposal to stay in the single market for goods, a source close to Michel Barnier told me. With just 6 weeks of Cabinet negotiating left, the Brexit proposal May has reportedly been considering is dead prior to arrival. https://t.co/n1uwxWVaVB

10.09am BST

Dalia Grybauskaitė, the president of Lithuania, told reporters in Brussels that it was clear that a "hard landing" for the UK was "on the table" but that, even should the talks breakdown, she was confident that the UK would continue to be a close security partner.

She added that it was "in nobody's interests" to have a no deal.

Canada: Syrian children's choir turns down US festival trip over border fears

Posted: 29 Jun 2018 01:00 AM PDT

Toronto's Nai Kids choir makes decision to stay home in wake of Trump's travel ban and says it's 'not something we wanted to risk'

A Canadian children's choir made up mostly of recently arrived Syrian refugees has turned down an invite to perform at a prestigious international festival in the US over fears of crossing the border under the Trump administration's travel ban.

The great firewall of China: Xi Jinping’s internet shutdown

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 10:00 PM PDT

Before Xi Jinping, the internet was becoming a more vibrant political space for Chinese citizens. But today the country has the largest and most sophisticated online censorship operation in the world. By Elizabeth C Economy

In December 2015, thousands of tech entrepreneurs and analysts, along with a few international heads of state, gathered in Wuzhen, in southern China, for the country's second World Internet Conference. At the opening ceremony the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, set out his vision for the future of China's internet. "We should respect the right of individual countries to independently choose their own path of cyber-development," said Xi, warning against foreign interference "in other countries' internal affairs".

No one was surprised by what they heard. Xi had already established that the Chinese internet would be a world unto itself, with its content closely monitored and managed by the Communist party. In recent years, the Chinese leadership has devoted more and more resources to controlling content online. Government policies have contributed to a dramatic fall in the number of postings on the Chinese blogging platform Sina Weibo (similar to Twitter), and have silenced many of China's most important voices advocating reform and opening up the internet.

Emil Gayed investigation expanded to fifth hospital

Posted: 29 Jun 2018 01:36 AM PDT

Disgraced gynaecologist may have worked at Grafton Base Hospital in NSW in 1994 and 1995

An independent inquiry into a gynaecologist found to have been performing needless and harmful surgeries on women over two decades has been expanded to include a fifth public hospital.

On Friday the chief executive of the Northern New South Wales Local Health District, Wayne Jones, said the district had information that Emil Shawky Gayed may also have worked at Grafton Base Hospital, 500km north-east of Sydney, in 1994 and 1995.

Can millennials save unions in America?

Posted: 29 Jun 2018 02:00 AM PDT

The US Supreme Court has just stripped back the power of organised labour still further, but millennials don't care. In an era of inequality and frustration they are joining unions in unprecedented numbers

Last year Dae Dae Motley-Gibson was struggling. The 23-year-old was juggling an exhausting work schedule at her job in a kitchen at Newark airport, alongside parenting duties and a family medical crisis. She needed support. She found it in a union.

Young people like Motley-Gibson are starting their work lives at a time when activism has been mostly absent from low-wage industries. In the airline workforce, unions have long represented flight attendants and other professionals. But the labour movement hasn't penetrated the precarious airport-catering sectors, staffed mostly by low-wage immigrants and people of colour.

Revealed: how US sex traffickers recruit jailed women for prostitution

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 11:00 PM PDT

Guardian investigation finds incarcerated women are groomed by pimps and forced into sex work once released

Women in prisons across the US are being recruited by sex traffickers who force them into prostitution on their release.

A Guardian investigation has found that traffickers are using government websites to obtain personal information including mugshots, release dates and charge sheets to identify potential victims while they are still behind bars.

UK under fire over slavery measures after 'disturbing' case of trafficked boy

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 06:23 AM PDT

Lawyers ramp up pressure on government to improve protection for victims after 15-year-old released from detention goes missing

The government is under pressure to better protect victims of modern slavery and human trafficking in the UK, after landmark rulings against the Home Office's treatment of a 15-year-old child and other victims.

Lawyers are challenging "systematic deficiencies" in Theresa May's flagship strategy to tackle modern slavery and protect victims. They urged the Home Office to respond to recent court rulings that show vulnerable victims are being failed.

UK nervous over unpredictable Trump's summit with Putin

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 09:02 AM PDT

British diplomats fear impulsive US president will make Russia a personal offer and leave Europe in the lurch

"People say Donald Trump's strength is that he thinks outside the box. But that is not right. He does not even know what the box is." The remark by a senior British politician with decades of experience dealing with US presidents reflects a nervousness not just about the random unpredictability of the incumbent of the Oval Office, but also the chasm between Trump's apparent lack of interest in the ties that bind the transatlantic alliance and the precious regard with which they are still held in London.

That British nervousness becomes more acute in the face of a daunting Trump triptych next month: a Nato summit on 11-12 July, a Chequers bilateral with Theresa May on 13-14 July, and, rounding off his trip to Europe, a summit with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on 16 July.

'We're still putting out a newspaper': Capital Gazette defiant after shooting – video

Posted: 29 Jun 2018 12:31 AM PDT

A journalist at the Capital Gazette, the newspaper that was the target of a shooting which left five people dead, says 'we're still putting out a newspaper'. Several other people were injured in the attack in Annapolis, Maryland, and the suspected shooter is in custody

Capital Gazette shooting: five dead in attack on newspaper office

Mongolia's shamanic rituals – in pictures

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 11:00 PM PDT

Banned for 70 years under communist rule, the ancient practice of shamanism has been protected by Mongolia's constitution since 1992

Protesters occupy US Senate building over Trump border policy – video

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 09:38 PM PDT

Several hundred activists occupied a US Senate office building on Thursday, filling it with chants decrying US president Donald Trump's 'zero tolerance' policy towards immigrants before lining up to be arrested for refusing police orders to leave.

The protesters, mostly women dressed in white, sat on the Hart building's marbled floors and wrapped themselves in foil sheets. The sheets appeared to be a reference to those given to migrant children sleeping on thin mattresses on the floors of detention centers

Shooting at Maryland newspaper office – video

Posted: 28 Jun 2018 01:20 PM PDT

Police in Annapolis, Maryland were on the scene after reports of an active shooter inside a building that houses the Capital Gazette newspaper. The Baltimore Sun, which owns the Annapolis newspaper, says a reporter told them of the shooting Thursday afternoon. On TV reports, people could be seen leaving the building with their hands up as police officers urged them to depart through a parking lot and officers converged on the building

• Annapolis shooting: police respond to gunshots at local newspaper office

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