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- Venezuela's military envoy to US defects to opposition and calls for more to follow
- Twin explosions kill 20 people at Philippines cathedral
- Novak Djokovic v Rafael Nadal: Australian Open men's final – live!
- UK firms plan mass exodus if May allows no-deal Brexit
- Zimbabwe crackdown could last months, activists fear
- Hundreds feared dead as Brazil dam collapse releases mud tide
- Ex-mercenary claims South African group tried to spread Aids
- Justin Trudeau fires ambassador to China after remarks on Huawei case
- One in 20 Britons ‘does not believe’ Holocaust took place, poll finds
- Prince Philip apologises to woman injured in car crash
- The coldest jobs in the world
- Britons don’t grasp the EU’s essential motivation – a quest for the quiet life | Jeremy Cliffe
- Will corruption, cuts and protest produce a new Arab spring?
- Iowa Nice: hawkeyed experts say Elizabeth Warren hit ground running
- Sound of native languages in parliament to mark win for indigenous Canadians
- Festivalgoers hospitalised in NSW and Victoria after suspected drug-taking
- Guaidó is brave. But Venezuela’s elite will not be easily overthrown
- Women swear sometimes – let's get the hell over it
| Venezuela's military envoy to US defects to opposition and calls for more to follow Posted: 26 Jan 2019 08:52 PM PST Juan Guaidó welcomes support from Washington attache, who urges other officers to recognise the 'only legitimate president' Venezuela's top military envoy to the United States has defected from the government of Nicolás Maduro as the South American nation's political crisis deepened. Days after opposition leader Juan Guaidó proclaimed himself interim president amid social and economic chaos, Col Jose Luis Silva released a video on Saturday calling on other military officers to back the pretender. Continue reading... |
| Twin explosions kill 20 people at Philippines cathedral Posted: 27 Jan 2019 01:45 AM PST First blast in or near church on island of Jolo during Sunday mass is followed by second outside compound Twenty people were killed and 81 injured when two bombs exploded outside a Roman Catholic cathedral on a southern Philippine island where Muslim militants are active security officials have said. The country's national police chief said the first bomb went off in or near Jolo cathedral during a mass on Sunday, followed by a second blast outside the compound as government forces were responding to the attack. Oscar Albayalde said the dead included troops and civilians. Continue reading... |
| Novak Djokovic v Rafael Nadal: Australian Open men's final – live! Posted: 27 Jan 2019 02:03 AM PST
Djokovic flings an ace down the middle to earn three set points. Another one finishes it off. Nadal will need something extraordinary to pull off a comeback from here. He doesn't look capable of it. He's been thoroughly outplayed by the best player in the world.
Second set: Djokovic 6-3, 5-2 Nadal* (*denotes server): The game goes to 15-all when Nadal double-faults. Djokovic is on the hunt, nailing a forehand for 15-30. Then he batters a forehand down the line to earn two break points. He's totally in the zone; good luck booting him out of it. Nadal seems out of ideas. He nets a backhand to drop his serve again. Djokovic will serve for a two-set lead. This is exquisite tennis from the world No1. He's putting on a clinic. Continue reading... |
| UK firms plan mass exodus if May allows no-deal Brexit Posted: 26 Jan 2019 01:00 PM PST Business group warns that companies are getting ready to shift operations abroad Thousands of British companies have already triggered emergency plans to cope with a no-deal Brexit, with many gearing up to move operations abroad if the UK crashes out of the EU, according to the British Chambers of Commerce. Before a crucial week in parliament, in which MPs will try to wrest control from Theresa May's government in order to delay Brexit and avoid a no-deal outcome, the BCC said it believed companies that had already gone ahead with their plans represented the "tip of the iceberg" and that many of its 75,000 members were already spending vital funds to prepare for a disorderly exit. Continue reading... |
| Zimbabwe crackdown could last months, activists fear Posted: 26 Jan 2019 10:35 PM PST Opposition figures are in hiding as arrests and beatings continue. But the anger at Mnangagwa's regime persists Activists and lawyers in Zimbabwe fear that the brutal crackdown by security forces will continue "for the foreseeable future" as authorities seek to crush all possible opposition to the ruling Zanu-PF party. Hundreds of activists and opposition officials remain in hiding this weekend after almost two weeks of arbitrary arrests, beatings, rapes and abductions committed by police and military in the poor southern African country. Continue reading... |
| Hundreds feared dead as Brazil dam collapse releases mud tide Posted: 26 Jan 2019 03:17 PM PST Officials warn few survivors are expected after mining workers in canteen and on a bus are caught in a wave of iron ore waste Hundreds of people are feared dead after a dam operated by the mining company Vale collapsed in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, releasing a wave of red iron ore waste and causing the worst environmental catastrophe in the country's recent history. Authorities say that 40 people have died, and more than 300 people remain missing according to the company. The disaster comes only three years after a similar failure of the Fundão tailings dam near Mariana – co-owned by Vale – which killed 19 people. Continue reading... |
| Ex-mercenary claims South African group tried to spread Aids Posted: 27 Jan 2019 12:02 AM PST New documentary details unit's disturbing obsession with HIV A South Africa-based mercenary group has been accused by one of its former members of trying to intentionally spread Aids in southern Africa in the 1980s and 1990s. The claims are made by Alexander Jones in a documentary that premieres this weekend at the Sundance film festival. He says he spent years as an intelligence officer with the South African Institute for Maritime Research (SAIMR), three decades ago, when it was masterminding coups and other violence across Africa. Continue reading... |
| Justin Trudeau fires ambassador to China after remarks on Huawei case Posted: 26 Jan 2019 02:27 PM PST John McCallum had said Meng Wanzhou could make a strong argument against being sent to the US In an unprecedented move, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday said he had fired his ambassador to China, who had prompted a political furor with comments about Huawei's high-profile extradition case. Related: 'I misspoke': Canada ambassador to China regrets saying Huawei chief had 'strong case' Continue reading... |
| One in 20 Britons ‘does not believe’ Holocaust took place, poll finds Posted: 26 Jan 2019 04:01 PM PST Call for better education after scale of ignorance is revealed in survey to coincide with memorial day One in 20 British adults do not believe the Holocaust happened, and 8% say that the scale of the genocide has been exaggerated, according to a poll marking Holocaust Memorial Day. Almost half of those questioned said they did not know how many Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, and one in five grossly underestimated the number, saying that fewer than two million were killed. At least six million Jews died. Continue reading... |
| Prince Philip apologises to woman injured in car crash Posted: 27 Jan 2019 01:53 AM PST Duke of Edinburgh wishes Emma Fairweather 'a speedy recovery' and suggests low sun may have been to blame A "very contrite" Duke of Edinburgh has personally apologised for his part in a car crash to a woman who was left with a broken wrist. In a letter to Emma Fairweather, Prince Philip, 97, suggested glare from the winter sun may have been to blame for the incident as he pulled out from a side road on to the A149 near the Sandringham estate in Norfolk on 17 January. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 27 Jan 2019 12:00 AM PST Antarctic scientists, avalanche specialists, Alaskan farmers and an industrial deep-freeze manager… Candice Pires talks to five people who have to endure extreme cold to do their job Madi Rosevear, 27, PhD student, works in Antarctica and lives in Hobart, Tasmania Continue reading... |
| Britons don’t grasp the EU’s essential motivation – a quest for the quiet life | Jeremy Cliffe Posted: 27 Jan 2019 12:00 AM PST We must learn to understand that the union is all about protecting the safety and prosperity of its citizens What does the EU want? This simple question has foxed Brits throughout the Brexit talks. It is alleged that Brussels is desperate to retain Britain; that it yearns to get rid of it; that German car-makers and friendly states such as the Netherlands will force Angela Merkel to let Britain cherrypick the best of membership; that Europeans want to ruin Britain, sending it on its way with a punishment beating pour encourager les autres. None of this contradictory speculation has turned out to be right, and Britain's negotiating efforts have been the poorer for it. European mainlanders can be hard to read. The Friday before last, prominent Germans including Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Angela Merkel's heir presumptive, wrote a saccharine letter to the Times urging Britain to stay. On Monday the Polish foreign minister broke EU ranks to suggest that the Irish backstop be limited, to get Theresa May's deal over the line. Yet on Wednesday Merkel seemingly contradicted her own colleagues, opining fatalistically that Britain, an island, had always had "patchy" relations with the EU and suggesting that its exit is inevitable. The day after, an exasperated Emmanuel Macron told a crowd near Lyon that Brexit has "torn British society apart" and "cannot be delivered", his tone so critical that it moved a Spectator writer to ask why the French president "hates Britain so much". The motivations and instincts of our continental partners sometimes baffle us Brits. Continue reading... |
| Will corruption, cuts and protest produce a new Arab spring? Posted: 26 Jan 2019 07:00 AM PST In Sudan, Egypt and beyond, unrest is growing and hardline dictators are ill-equipped to respond Sudan missed out on the Arab spring, but that may be changing. Protests against Omar al-Bashir, the indicted war criminal who has dominated the country for 29 years, are becoming a daily occurrence. Street-level unrest, sparked by rising bread and fuel prices, began last month and spread quickly. But the focus of demonstrators, their ranks swollen by teachers, lawyers and doctors, has switched to Bashir himself. They want him gone. Bashir's response has been predictably repressive. And the president may succeed in battering his critics into silence, as in the past. But the causes of the unrest cannot be bludgeoned away: a struggling economy, low investment, high unemployment, corruption, bad governance and a potentially disastrous lack of opportunity for new generations of young people. Continue reading... |
| Iowa Nice: hawkeyed experts say Elizabeth Warren hit ground running Posted: 26 Jan 2019 10:00 PM PST Ask those who know in the first-in-the-nation state and they agree: the Massachusetts Democrat is an early frontrunner The concept of "Iowa Nice" has long been central to campaigning in the first-in-the-nation caucus state. But it's rarely been a concept around which a first-tier candidate for president has structured a whole campaign. Related: Joe Biden pleads for unity in hint at a possible 2020 run Continue reading... |
| Sound of native languages in parliament to mark win for indigenous Canadians Posted: 27 Jan 2019 02:00 AM PST For the first time from Monday speeches in indigenous languages will be translated simultaneously but the wider picture is gloomy When the Canadian MP Robert-Falcon Ouellette stood in the House of Commons in June 2017 to deliver a speech on the country's epidemic of violence against indigenous women, few of his colleagues could understand him. Ouellette spoke in the Cree indigenous language, and – despite a request for English or French interpreters – no simultaneous translation was provided. His speech was only the second time an indigenous language had been officially spoken in the 151-year history of the house. Continue reading... |
| Festivalgoers hospitalised in NSW and Victoria after suspected drug-taking Posted: 27 Jan 2019 12:30 AM PST Eleven people left ill in Sydney and six near Ballarat after Australia Day long weekend music festivals A teenage boy has been found with almost 600 capsules and $2,000 cash at a Sydney music festival where several people left critically ill due to drug use. Six young men aged under 25 left the Hardcore Till I Die festival at Sydney Olympic Park on Saturday in critical or serious conditions. All were either stable or discharged from hospital by Sunday. Continue reading... |
| Guaidó is brave. But Venezuela’s elite will not be easily overthrown Posted: 27 Jan 2019 12:00 AM PST For all the young man's popularity, the military are behind Maduro. Nothing will change unless they desert him Venezuela's generals did not immediately announce where they stood when Juan Guaidó, a young parliamentarian, was sworn in as "interim president" in front of a huge crowd in the streets of Caracas. It was a largely symbolic assumption of office, since Guaidó has no power to enforce any decisions. But the new champion of the opposition was recognised as "legitimate president" by the administration of Donald Trump and other American and European powers, including the UK. Continue reading... |
| Women swear sometimes – let's get the hell over it Posted: 26 Jan 2019 06:00 AM PST 'Prominent woman says curse word' has become a news genre unto itself – just ask Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Rashida Tlaib I'm going to let you in on a shocking secret: sometimes women swear. Here's another revelation: there is generally nothing newsworthy about a woman swearing. I am eager to emphasize this because you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise: "Prominent woman says curse word" is a highly popular, highly sexist, news genre. Just look at the recent headlines about the congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Continue reading... |
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