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- Donald Trump names Brett Kavanaugh as supreme court nominee – as it happened
- Eight boys now freed after day two of rescue effort – as it happened
- White House close to refusing interview with Russia investigation
- Myanmar court charges Reuters journalists under Official Secrets Act
- Italian Catholic priests go to war with Salvini over immigration
- Emmanuel Macron pledges to overhaul French welfare state
- Trump administration to miss deadline to reunite all children under five with families
- One in three fish caught never makes it to the plate – UN report
- Who owns the space under cities? The attempt to map the ground beneath our feet
- India's unofficial recycling bin: the city where electronics go to die
- The man who paves India's roads with old plastic
- Brexit backdrop for Harry and Meghan's Ireland visit
- Theresa May to meet new cabinet after Boris Johnson's Brexit resignation – live
- High court to decide if Kenya to blame for girl's death after botched abortion
- Trump names Brett Kavanaugh as supreme court nominee – video
- Toronto: chief medical officer calls for decriminalisation of all drugs
- Thailand cave rescue: operation under way to free last four boys and coach – live
- Head of inquiry into Murray-Darling Basin plan questions its use of science
- 'Mum, please pay or they'll kill me': Congo's child kidnapping crisis
| Donald Trump names Brett Kavanaugh as supreme court nominee – as it happened Posted: 09 Jul 2018 08:27 PM PDT Trump nominates Kavanaugh, a conservative rising star, to replace Anthony Kennedy on supreme court
We're going to wrap up our coverage of Trump's Supreme Court nominee for the evening. Thanks for reading – goodnight!
Senator John McCain, a Republican from Arizona who is battling brain cancer, released a statement on Trump's supreme court choice In selecting Judge Brett Kavanaugh to fill the vacancy left by Justice Kennedy, President Trump has chosen a nominee with impeccable credentials and a strong record of upholding the Constitution. Over the course of Judge Kavanaugh's impressive legal career, he has built a reputation as a fair, independent, and mainstream judge who has earned widespread respect from his peers. One of the Senate's highest constitutional responsibilities is to provide advice and consent on nominations to the Supreme Court, and I look forward to the Senate fulfilling this critical duty through a fair and thorough confirmation process. Continue reading... |
| Eight boys now freed after day two of rescue effort – as it happened Posted: 09 Jul 2018 07:55 AM PDT Head of operation in Tham Luang caves in northern Thailand tells press conference rescuers are getting faster in efforts to free boys and their coach
That ends a noticeably more cheerful press conference led by Narongsak Osatanakorn, the head of the joint command centre coordinating the operation. He received a round of applause for the second consecutive night and was even seen thanking a few journalists. Related: Eight boys now freed in daring rescues from Thai cave
The retrievals are getting faster: "Our rescuers can [now] shorten the operation time by two hours," he says. "Over 100 including 18 international cave divers took part in today's operation." #thamluangcave "Again, we have to prepare equipment that will take another 20 hours. I can't give you exact timing [for the next operation]," says Osatanakorn #thamluangcave Will last 5 be released tomorrow? "I can't tell. I am not in charge of this as it is up to the diving team. Their plan is designed for rescuing four." #ThamLuangRescue "the kids (released on Sunday) are now very fine. If you ask whether they have eaten Kow Pad Krapow - no. They haven't eaten that but they can take normal food like diluted porridge" #ThamLuangCaves Continue reading... |
| White House close to refusing interview with Russia investigation Posted: 09 Jul 2018 01:55 AM PDT Robert Mueller's investigating team is 'most corrupt I've ever seen', says Rudy Giuliani Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani has warned Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election, that the White House is close to refusing to grant an interview with the president. Giuliani took the increasingly belligerent tone of the White House up a notch on Sunday when he called the Russian investigation the "most corrupt I've ever seen". Speaking on This Week on ABC News, he accused the special counsel of assembling a team of investigators around him that included "very, very severe partisans working on an investigation that should have been done by people who are politically neutral". Continue reading... |
| Myanmar court charges Reuters journalists under Official Secrets Act Posted: 08 Jul 2018 10:00 PM PDT At the time of their arrest Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, had been working on an investigation into the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim men Two Reuters journalists who uncovered a massacre of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar have been charged for violating the Official Secrets Act. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were charged under the colonial-era 1923 act for allegedly illegally possessing state secrets in government documents and face up to 14 years in prison if convicted. Continue reading... |
| Italian Catholic priests go to war with Salvini over immigration Posted: 08 Jul 2018 09:00 PM PDT As far-right League party's xenophobic rhetoric spreads across the country, priests call for tolerance Gianfranco Formenton, a priest in Italy's central Umbria region who has long preached against racism and in support of migrants, knows what it is like to clash with Matteo Salvini, the recently installed interior minister and leader of the far-right League party. In response to the party's xenophobic rhetoric in 2015 – the year more than a million migrants arrived in Europe and 150,000 landed on Italy's southern shores – he put a sign up on the door of his church in San Martino di Trignano, a hamlet of the town of Spoleto, saying: "Racists are forbidden from entering. Go home!" Continue reading... |
| Emmanuel Macron pledges to overhaul French welfare state Posted: 09 Jul 2018 10:25 AM PDT President promises changes to unemployment benefits, pensions and health system Emmanuel Macron has promised to overhaul the French welfare state and cut public spending, telling MPs at the Palace of Versailles that his only ideology is to strive for "French greatness". The pro-business, centrist leader, who beat the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in an election a year ago, denied seeking to help the wealthy at the expense of the poor as he sought to shake off accusations that he is a "president of the rich". Continue reading... |
| Trump administration to miss deadline to reunite all children under five with families Posted: 09 Jul 2018 01:34 PM PDT So far, DoJ has reunited only two of the 102 children and said it expects to reunite another 54 by tomorrow's deadline The US government has only managed to reunite two of 102 migrant children under the age of five with their families after they were separated at the southern border, and has admitted it will not be able to meet a federal district judge's deadline for them all to be reunited by Tuesday. In a hearing on Monday, the Department of Justice told Judge Dana Sabraw that it expects to reunite another 54 children by tomorrow's 10pm deadline, which would leave approximately 46 children separated. Continue reading... |
| One in three fish caught never makes it to the plate – UN report Posted: 09 Jul 2018 12:00 AM PDT Global fish production is at record levels thanks to fish farming, says the UN FAO, but much is wasted and many species are worryingly overfished One in three fish caught around the world never makes it to the plate, either being thrown back overboard or rotting before it can be eaten, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. Its biannual report on the state of the world's fisheries, released on Monday, also shows that total fish production has reached a record high thanks to more fish farming, particularly in China, with over half the fish eaten in the world now coming from aquaculture. Continue reading... |
| Who owns the space under cities? The attempt to map the ground beneath our feet Posted: 09 Jul 2018 11:15 PM PDT The space under cities is getting busier – from transport excavations to billionaire's mega-basements. So how to keep track of what's down there? Just over a year ago I was sent a photograph of a tunnel-boring machine in a dirt lot in Los Angeles. The caption read: "Elon Musk is about to start digging." The message was from Wayne Chambliss, a geographer in southern California, who tends to be prescient in such matters – and indeed, Musk's freshly minted Boring Company soon set its machine loose, ripping through the subsurface soil under the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne to create a short tunnel. Continue reading... |
| India's unofficial recycling bin: the city where electronics go to die Posted: 09 Jul 2018 03:00 AM PDT In Moradabad, whole communities subsist by processing waste created by the world's love affair with electronic goods. In this extract from their book, Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey investigate the impact of this dangerous trade From the road one could see locals washing the ash from burned e-waste and using sieves to recover fragments of metal. Women and children broke apart and segregated the printed circuit board components, prying open the object and separating the gold, silver and copper-plated components. Locals in Moradabad in western Uttar Pradesh described [to us] the process of recycling this hazardous material. Once the basic dismantling and separation were achieved, different methods of extraction followed: typically burning, grinding, washing and bathing in acid. Continue reading... |
| The man who paves India's roads with old plastic Posted: 08 Jul 2018 09:00 PM PDT Indian chemistry professor shows that repurposed plastic can be good for the environment At 73, Dr Rajagopalan Vasudevan is roughly as old as the mass production of plastic. But that is not the reason why the chemistry professor has a soft spot for the much-maligned material. "Plastic isn't the problem," the venerable scientist says in his office in the southern Indian city of Madurai. "We are. Plastic wouldn't clog our oceans or our landfills if we didn't throw it there in the first place. And there is so much we can do with it instead." Continue reading... |
| Brexit backdrop for Harry and Meghan's Ireland visit Posted: 10 Jul 2018 02:06 AM PDT Royals' first official overseas trip as married couple comes at request of British government The newlywed Duke and Duchess of Sussex are to introduce themselves to the neighbours, visiting the Irish Republic to pour on diplomatic balm against the backdrop of Brexit. A red-carpet welcome awaits the couple as they fly into Dublin on Tuesday afternoon on their first official overseas trip as a married couple. |
| Theresa May to meet new cabinet after Boris Johnson's Brexit resignation – live Posted: 10 Jul 2018 02:16 AM PDT New faces will join prime minister after series of resignations put her tenure in doubt. Follow the latest developments here
Theresa May leaves No 10 after cabinet. She's not dressed up for her new ministers – she was heading immediately to Westminster Abbey for a service to mark the 100th anniversary of the RAF.
In economic news, GDP rose by 0.3% in May, the ONS has said, as growth in the service sector compensated for a contraction in manufacturing. GDP growth for the March-to-May quarter was 0.2%, the ONS said, the same as the first quarter of 2018. More in our business live blog with Graeme Wearden. Related: UK economic growth rises to 0.3% in May thanks to service sector – business live Continue reading... |
| High court to decide if Kenya to blame for girl's death after botched abortion Posted: 09 Jul 2018 11:00 PM PDT Family of raped teenager are demanding government reissues guidance on safe terminations after crackdown puts lives at risk A teenager who was raped and left with chronic kidney disease after a botched backstreet abortion has died before a court could rule on whether the Kenyan government was to blame for her death. The girl, known as JMM, was left vomiting and with heavy bleeding after an abortion in 2014. She was 14 at the time, and was raped by an older man. |
| Trump names Brett Kavanaugh as supreme court nominee – video Posted: 09 Jul 2018 06:58 PM PDT US president Donald Trump has named conservative federal appeals court Judge Brett Kavanaugh as his nominee to serve on the US supreme court Continue reading... |
| Toronto: chief medical officer calls for decriminalisation of all drugs Posted: 10 Jul 2018 02:00 AM PDT City's top public health official urges government to do away with legal penalties to lower opioid-related deaths and overdoses The chief medical officer in one of North America's largest cities is calling for the decriminalisation of all drugs as a means of curbing Canada's rising number of opioid-related deaths and overdoses. In recommendations expected to be considered by Toronto's board of health next week, the city's top public health official, Dr Eileen de Villa, called on the federal government to do away with legal penalties for the possession of all drugs for personal use. |
| Thailand cave rescue: operation under way to free last four boys and coach – live Posted: 10 Jul 2018 02:23 AM PDT An international team of rescuers has gone back into the northern Thailand cave to bring out the remaining boys and their coach, who have been trapped for 18 days
A Guardian source has confirmed that a ninth boy has been rescued from the cave.
Both CNN and Reuters are reporting that a ninth boy has been rescued. Reuters cited an official with knowledge of the operation. CNN cited two sources: a Thai navy source and a member of the rescue team. The Guardian in trying to get confirmation. Reports mounting now that a ninth boy has exited the cave. Four to go #thamluangcave @matthew_weaver Continue reading... |
| Head of inquiry into Murray-Darling Basin plan questions its use of science Posted: 09 Jul 2018 11:37 PM PDT Commissioner says Murray-Darling authority seems to have approved plans it did not see as achievable The commissioner heading South Australia's royal commission into the Murray-Darling Basin plan, Bret Walker SC, has repeatedly questioned whether the Murray Darling Basin Authority relied on the best available science. Hearing evidence today from the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists, a group that includes some of Australia's most eminent environmental scientists, Walker quizzed the group on the twin themes of whether the MDBA was fulfilling its obligations under the Water Act and whether it was relying on the best available science. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 'Mum, please pay or they'll kill me': Congo's child kidnapping crisis Posted: 09 Jul 2018 02:58 AM PDT Beset by political and economic turmoil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo faces a fresh threat in the form of brutal abductors who hold children to ransom It's been a year since Chantal buried her eight-year-old son. "I lost my mind that day," says the 46-year-old, wiping tears from her cheeks. Curled on the porch outside her small house in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's eastern town of Goma, Chantal says she'll never forget the day when a man, wearing a hat that covered his face, delivered a letter saying that her son Charles had been kidnapped. Continue reading... |
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