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Nato summit: Donald Trump says Germany is 'captive of Russians'
Thai cave rescue: water pumps failed just after last boy escaped
Nevada prison illegally bought execution drugs, pharma company alleges
Donald Trump says he expects to find UK in 'turmoil' during visit
Japanese PM to meet flood evacuees as death toll rises to 179
'Toxic narrative' on migration endangers lives, report finds
Mexico: 40% of country is paralyzed by violence, says new chief of staff
Wife of former Malaysian PM Najib Razak sued over jewellery worth $14.8m
Japanese nurse 'sabotaged drips' in mass poisoning police believe killed dozens
Trump forced to reinstate 'catch and release' after court defeats
Chuck Schumer: Senate 'must review' Trump's supreme court nominee - video
Rocket Man: Trump autographs Elton John CD for Kim Jong-un
Suicide bombing kills at least 12 at Pakistan political rally
Tesla to open Shanghai electric car factory, doubling its production
The future will be dockless: could a city really run on 'floating transport'?
Family separations: the parents fighting in court to get their children back
'I’ve been so upset': novichok death shocks Salisbury's homeless
Central Europe is a lesson to liberals: don’t be anti-nationalist | Ivan Krastev
Shatila Stories review – refugees write their own tales
From the hassle of haggling to cash-free taxi rides in Rwanda – podcast
Fobbed off: woman accidentally steals car for two weeks after key mix-up
Thailand cave rescue: colleagues praise Australian doctor who played central role
Turnbull pushes back on coal pressure after ACCC report
Mass rape and killings in South Sudan may constitute war crimes, says UN

Nato summit: Donald Trump says Germany is 'captive of Russians'

Posted: 11 Jul 2018 01:29 AM PDT

US president says Berlin's relationship with Moscow is 'inappropriate' in tirade on opening day of summit

Donald Trump launched an extraordinary tirade against Germany on the opening day of the Nato summit, accusing Berlin of being a "a captive of the Russians" because of its dependency on energy supplies.

Thai cave rescue: water pumps failed just after last boy escaped

Posted: 11 Jul 2018 01:25 AM PDT

In the first detailed account of the mission to be published, rescuers say they heard screaming and a scramble for dry ground

The rescue operation to free the last of the 12 boys and their football coach from a Thailand cave could have been a disaster, divers have revealed, with water pumps draining the area failing just hours after the last boy had been evacuated.

Divers and rescue workers were still more than 1.5km inside the cave clearing up equipment when the main pump failed, leading water levels to rapidly increase, three Australian divers involved in the operation told the Guardian on Wednesday, in the first detailed account of the mission to be published.

Nevada prison illegally bought execution drugs, pharma company alleges

Posted: 10 Jul 2018 11:05 PM PDT

Alvogen says the sedative midazolam, to be used in execution of Scott Dozier, was obtained through subterfuge

A multinational pharmaceutical company has accused the heads of Nevada's prisons and health departments of conspiring to illegally buy one of its drugs to use in an execution on Wednesday.

A federal judge has called a hearing just hours before the killing is due to take place to listen to a demand by the drug manufacturer Alvogen for a block on the use of its sedative, midazolam, in putting to death Scott Dozier for murder.

Donald Trump says he expects to find UK in 'turmoil' during visit

Posted: 10 Jul 2018 05:22 AM PDT

Trump on Boris Johnson: he was 'very nice', 'very supportive'
Summit with Putin may be 'the easiest of them all', Trump says

Donald Trump expects to see a country in "turmoil" when he lands in the UK on Thursday for a two-day visit he said would make his subsequent summit with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki seem "easy".

Japanese PM to meet flood evacuees as death toll rises to 179

Posted: 10 Jul 2018 10:38 PM PDT

Shinzo Abe to tour worst-affected areas as dozens still missing and 10,000 in emergency shelters

Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe, will meet evacuees at on Wednesday at one of the areas worst-hit by record rains as the death toll rose to 179 and thousands remained stranded in shelters.

Abe, who cancelled a foreign trip this week as the disaster worsened, was due to visit the flood-ravaged Okayama area to see the scale of the damage first-hand.

'Toxic narrative' on migration endangers lives, report finds

Posted: 10 Jul 2018 11:00 PM PDT

Red Cross warns of dire consequences of 'new walled order' that withholds food and healthcare in the name of border control

The "criminalisation of compassion", with countries introducing laws that restrict help to those in need, endangers lives and risks pushing humanitarian standards back by a century.

A report claims migrants around the world are facing a "new walled order" as barriers to aid and vital services are raised, with children and the elderly most likely to suffer the "dire consequences" as a result.

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Mexico: 40% of country is paralyzed by violence, says new chief of staff

Posted: 10 Jul 2018 09:46 AM PDT

Alfonso Romo, who'll work under the new incoming president known as Amlo, says chronic insecurity has gripped the country

As much as 40% of Mexican territory is prisoner to chronic insecurity and violence, the future chief of staff of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the incoming president, has claimed.

Alfonso Romo, a prominent entrepreneur who was part of the leftist's watershed election triumph last week, made the assertion during a summit of business leaders on Monday in Mexico City.

Wife of former Malaysian PM Najib Razak sued over jewellery worth $14.8m

Posted: 10 Jul 2018 10:52 PM PDT

Luxury company brings suit against Rosmah Mansor a week after raids on her family's property in connection with 1MDB scandal

A luxury Lebanese jewellery company is suing former Malaysian first lady Rosmah Mansor, demanding she return 44 pieces of jewellery worth US$14.8 million.

Rosmah allegedly received the consignment of jewellery, which includes a tiara and diamond necklaces, on May 22, according to lawyers representing Global Royalty Trading SAL.

Japanese nurse 'sabotaged drips' in mass poisoning police believe killed dozens

Posted: 10 Jul 2018 10:02 PM PDT

Ayumi Kuboki arrested on suspicion of injecting disinfectant into intravenous bags

A former nurse has admitted tampering with intravenous drips in a mass poisoning case that police believe led to the deaths of dozens of patients at a hospital in Japan two years ago.

Ayumi Kuboki, 31, was arrested at the weekend on suspicion of killing Sozo Nishikawa, 88, by injecting his intravenous drip bag with disinfectant when she was working at Oguchi hospital in Yokohama.

Trump forced to reinstate 'catch and release' after court defeats

Posted: 10 Jul 2018 09:39 PM PDT

Some migrant families to be fitted with ankle monitors and allowed to go free while their cases are determined

Donald Trump's administration has said it will release some migrant families from detention with ankle monitors, marking a return to the so-called "catch-and-release" policy the president vehemently denounced.

The announcement comes as the US government scrambles to reunite thousands of migrant children who were separated from their parents at the border under the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy.

Chuck Schumer: Senate 'must review' Trump's supreme court nominee - video

Posted: 10 Jul 2018 02:36 PM PDT

The Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, is calling for an investigation into Donald Trump's supreme court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. 'Judge Kavanaugh's long track record of partisan politics comes with a long paper trail,' Schumer said. 'The Senate must now be able to have access and time to adequately review all documents associated with Judge Kavanaugh'

Rocket Man: Trump autographs Elton John CD for Kim Jong-un

Posted: 10 Jul 2018 08:16 PM PDT

Mike Pompeo took disc to Pyongyang but did not get a chance to give it to North Korean leader

Donald Trump has confirmed he has prepared and autographed a CD of Elton John's Honky Chateau album, featuring the song Rocket Man, to be given as a gift to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

Trump derided Kim as "little rocket man" during their 2017 war of words in which Trump also threatened North Korea with "fire and fury".

Suicide bombing kills at least 12 at Pakistan political rally

Posted: 10 Jul 2018 03:52 PM PDT

Attack targeted meeting of Awami National party in Peshawar, with election candidate among the dead

A suicide bomber blew himself up at an anti-Taliban political party's rally in north-west Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 12 people, including a candidate for elections due to be held on 25 July, police said.

The attack on a meeting of the Awami National party (ANP) in Peshawar also injured nearly 50 others, said city police chief Jamil Qazi.

Tesla to open Shanghai electric car factory, doubling its production

Posted: 10 Jul 2018 09:51 AM PDT

Elon Musk says first facility outside the US will build 500,000 cars a year

Tesla is to open a new electric car production plant in Shanghai, its first outside the US, chief executive Elon Musk said from the city on Tuesday.

The new auto plant is slated to produce 500,000 cars a year, taking Tesla's total global manufacturing capacity to 1m vehicles a year. Most automotive factories are tooled to produce 200,000 to 300,000 vehicles a year.

The future will be dockless: could a city really run on 'floating transport'?

Posted: 10 Jul 2018 11:15 PM PDT

Citymapper now supports dockless transport options such as Ofo bikes in London and San Francisco's Bird electric scooters, offering an insight into the future of transport in cities

Last week, London-based transportation app Citymapper coined a new phrase: "floating transport". "It has no set stops or infrastructure," the company explained, "and it's filling a mobility gap in our cities."

It's a useful shorthand to lump together everything from dockless cycle hire, like Ofo and Mobike's London offerings, Bird and Lime's San Franciscan electric scooters, to Daimler's short-term car hire service Car2Go – all of which are now supported by Citymapper's app, alongside fixed urban transport options like buses and trains.

Family separations: the parents fighting in court to get their children back

Posted: 10 Jul 2018 03:00 AM PDT

Five parents separated from their kids – four of whom were deported – joined together in a lawsuit to appeal their convictions

Elba Luz Domínguez's voice cracks over the phone line from El Salvador. The memory of wading the river up to her waist between Mexico and the US with her daughter, then promptly being shackled by US border patrol and her daughter taken away, brings her to tears. Worse, despite fleeing appalling violence, after months in detention she was deported back home – without her child.

'I’ve been so upset': novichok death shocks Salisbury's homeless

Posted: 10 Jul 2018 10:00 PM PDT

Hostel residents express concern over media attention and city's drug problem

For residents of John Baker House, the homeless hostel in Salisbury that had been Dawn Sturgess's home for nearly two years, the news of her death from novichok poisoning had come as a terrible shock. Her next-door neighbour was close to tears when he spoke about her.

"I've been hiding, I've been so upset," he said. "It happens to the wrong ones. We were both going to the next stage of getting out of there, she was about to get a flat, that was the next goal.

Central Europe is a lesson to liberals: don’t be anti-nationalist | Ivan Krastev

Posted: 10 Jul 2018 10:00 PM PDT

The breakup of Yugoslavia fed the belief that flag-waving leads to bloodshed. But this eroded support for the centre ground and fuelled ethnic-based intolerance

'I've only ever been afraid of signs and symbols, never of people and things," wrote the Romanian novelist Mihail Sebastian at the start of For Two Thousand Years, the marvellous 1934 book that captures his country's suffocating atmosphere of antisemitism and toxic nationalism between the two world wars. Today in Europe and the US there's a lot of talk about the 1930s returning, as fears of rising nationalism take hold. But here's the paradox: several studies show that nationalistic attitudes, particularly anti-migration sentiment, haven't changed much in the past 20 years. People have always been uncomfortable with the idea of foreigners settling in their country.

Shatila Stories review – refugees write their own tales

Posted: 11 Jul 2018 12:59 AM PDT

Novice authors in a Lebanon refugee camp have collaborated on a novella. It is a literary achievement as well as an act of witness

Many art forms are produced collaboratively, but we persist in the idea that literature must be the work of a single consciousness. Shatila Stories, a novella shaped from nine pieces of fiction created following a writing workshop, proves that wrong. Not only does it cohere, but its strength lies in its multiplicity of viewpoints and voices, which, instead of being a clever postmodern trick, lend depth, texture and most of all, authenticity – essential given that this is a story set in Shatila, a teeming refugee camp in Beirut.

"Don't talk about the camp unless you know it," commands a scrawl of graffiti depicted in a photograph at the start. Its nine writers, some of whom fled the war in Syria, some of whom were born in the camp, know it intimately, and the result is a startlingly unusual book, one that has the potential to open minds and change perceptions.

From the hassle of haggling to cash-free taxi rides in Rwanda – podcast

Posted: 10 Jul 2018 10:00 PM PDT

Entrepreneur Karanvir Singh has come up with a cashless system for motorbike taxis to help passengers get a fair deal – and improve road safety

Karanvir Singh was born in Delhi and struggled through school before discovering technology and later setting up Yego Moto thousands of miles away in Kigali. 'It was fate,' he says of his move to Rwanda, where he has found it easy to do business. In a city of 20,000 motorbikes, his cashless payment system not only frees people from arguing over fares but tracks speeding so there are fewer traffic accidents.

Fobbed off: woman accidentally steals car for two weeks after key mix-up

Posted: 10 Jul 2018 03:04 PM PDT

Police in Canada are warning against leaving electronic key fobs in unattended vehicles after a woman drove off in the wrong car

Police in Canada are reminding drivers not to leave electronic key fobs sitting in unattended vehicles, after a woman in Ontario accidentally stole a car for two weeks having mistaken it for her rental car.

The woman rented a black Nissan Sentra in late June, according to police in Cornwall, a city of some 47,000 people in eastern Ontario.

Thailand cave rescue: colleagues praise Australian doctor who played central role

Posted: 11 Jul 2018 01:42 AM PDT

Richard Harris has 30 years of cave-diving experience and was asked to join the operation by name

Colleagues of the Australian doctor who played a central role in the Thailand cave rescue have praised his actions in helping bring the 12 boys and their coach to safety.

Turnbull pushes back on coal pressure after ACCC report

Posted: 11 Jul 2018 12:41 AM PDT

'We want to be supporting lower prices,' says PM, backing ACCC's criticism of subsidies

Malcolm Turnbull has pushed back against pressure from the Nationals and some conservative Liberals to subsidise coal, arguing that backing one technology over another is a recipe for higher power prices.

Campaigning in Queensland after a new report from Australia's Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) suggested Australia's electricity market was broken, Turnbull said he was focused on the task of lowering energy prices for consumers.

Mass rape and killings in South Sudan may constitute war crimes, says UN

Posted: 10 Jul 2018 05:06 AM PDT

Report describes campaign of 'horrific acts' by state forces, with three commanders identified as bearing greatest responsibility

The United Nations has accused South Sudanese government forces and allied militias of potential "war crimes" over a campaign of rape and killing that targeted civilians in opposition-held villages in the conflict-torn country.

According to the UN human rights office, at least 232 civilians were killed and 120 women and girls raped during an offensive between 16 April and 24 May in the country's Unity state, with three commanders identified as bearing the "greatest responsibility" in the violence.

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