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A380: Airbus to stop making superjumbo as orders dry up
'It was execution': 13 dead in Brazil as state pushes new gang policy
Dutch PM on Brexit: UK is a waning country too small to stand alone
UK will not put officials at risk to rescue Isis Britons, says minister
Gilets jaunes boxer who punched police given one-year jail sentence
Rappler editor Maria Ressa freed on bail after outcry
Italy rejects record number of asylum applications
German economy just avoids recession but weaker exports take toll
Blood on the door: 24 hours of chaos in Australian politics
Ryan Adams: multiple women accuse singer of emotional abuse, report says
Bavaria campaigners abuzz as bees petition forces farming changes
How a Slovakian neo-Nazi got elected
Four people stabbed in football-related violence in Rome
Life in the shadow of al-Shabaab: 'If I don't call, my mother thinks I'm dead'
Monica Witt: from US intelligence officer to alleged Iranian spy
'Dignity and respect': Dominican factory vows to never be a sweatshop
Blood on the door: Burston-Ashby clash sets parliament on surreal, end-of-days journey
Thursday briefing: Up goes council tax as austerity grinds on
Haiti in disarray as anti-government protests lead to prison breakout
Breast-ironing: UK government vows to tackle abusive practice
Parkland one year on: what victories have gun control advocates seen?
Ilhan Omar grills Trump’s Venezuela envoy over past – video

A380: Airbus to stop making superjumbo as orders dry up

Posted: 13 Feb 2019 10:57 PM PST

Firm makes 'painful' decision to end production of the planes in 2021 – putting UK jobs at risk

Airbus has announced it will end production of its A380 superjumbo passenger jet after failing to secure orders – a move that puts UK jobs at risk.

The European aerospace group said it had made the "painful" decision to stop making the world's largest superjumbo in 2021 after Emirates, the A380's biggest customer, reduced an outstanding order for 53 planes to only 14.

'It was execution': 13 dead in Brazil as state pushes new gang policy

Posted: 14 Feb 2019 12:00 AM PST

Recent raid suggests police are implementing 'shoot-to-kill' tactics that Rio's new governor campaigned on

When he was campaigning to become the governor of Rio de Janeiro state, Wilson Witzel promised "shoot-to-kill" tactics against armed members of the city's powerful drug gangs.

Now, after a deadly operation in which 13 people were killed, fears are rising that police in Rio are already implementing the policy.

Dutch PM on Brexit: UK is a waning country too small to stand alone

Posted: 14 Feb 2019 01:58 AM PST

Mark Rutte gives withering verdict as he warns against 'devastating' no-deal scenario

Britain is a "waning country" and too small to stand alone on the world stage, the Dutch prime minister, Mark Rutte, has claimed in a withering assessment of the UK's exit from the EU.

Rutte, who has emerged as a key player in the talks over the past two years, also warned in an interview that the UK looked to be sliding off the "precipice" towards a "devastating" no-deal Brexit.

UK will not put officials at risk to rescue Isis Britons, says minister

Posted: 14 Feb 2019 01:40 AM PST

Ben Wallace insists 'actions have consequences' in case of schoolgirl Shamima Begum

The security minister, Ben Wallace, has said he would not put officials' lives at risk to rescue UK citizens who went to Syria and Iraq to join Islamic State, insisting "actions have consequences".

"I'm not putting at risk British people's lives to go looking for terrorists or former terrorists in a failed state," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

Gilets jaunes boxer who punched police given one-year jail sentence

Posted: 14 Feb 2019 01:22 AM PST

Christophe Dettinger was caught on camera attacking an officer at a protest in Paris

A former French light-heavyweight champion who punched and kicked a police officer during a gilets jaunes (yellow vests) protest in Paris has been given a one-year prison term.

Christophe Dettinger was caught on camera on 5 January throwing a flurry of punches at an officer during clashes on a footbridge over the River Seine.

Rappler editor Maria Ressa freed on bail after outcry

Posted: 13 Feb 2019 09:54 PM PST

Philippines journalist targeted by President Duterte says cyber-libel case is 'politically motivated' while US senator condemns 'trumped-up charges'

Maria Ressa, the editor of an online news outlet critical of the Philippines' president, Rodrigo Duterte, has been released on bail after she was arrested on Wednesday.

Ressa was arrested at the headquarters of Rappler, the news site she founded, by four plainclothes officers and brought to the National Bureau of Investigation where she was held on charges of cyber-libel.

Italy rejects record number of asylum applications

Posted: 13 Feb 2019 09:00 PM PST

Hardline policies from Italy's rightwing government having devastating effect on migrants

Italy has rejected a record 24,800 asylum applications in the last four months, and aid groups say hardline policies introduced by the rightwing populist government are beginning to have a devastating effect on migrants in the country.

The rejections were up 25% on the previous four months, from June to September 2018, and coincide with the bringing into law of the Salvini decree on immigration, named after the far-right interior minister, Matteo Salvini.

German economy just avoids recession but weaker exports take toll

Posted: 14 Feb 2019 02:00 AM PST

Europe's largest economy recorded zero growth in the fourth quarter of 2018

Germany narrowly avoided falling into recession in the second half of last year as weaker exports dragged Europe's largest economy to stalling point during the final three months of 2018.

The German economy recorded zero growth in the fourth quarter, managing to just avoid a technical recession after reporting a contraction of 0.2% in the third quarter amid a slump in industrial output.

Blood on the door: 24 hours of chaos in Australian politics

Posted: 14 Feb 2019 12:42 AM PST

Sexual harassment claims, grappling and filibustering test voters' patience

Australian politics has experienced one of the most bizarre days in recent memory, with allegations of sexual harassment levelled at members of parliament, a physical altercation that left a senator in bandages, that same senator admitting he daubed blood on the door of another politician's office, and a question time so long it broke records.

The extraordinary events left political commentators open-mouthed and came as tensions rose in Canberra ahead of a federal election expected in May.

Ryan Adams: multiple women accuse singer of emotional abuse, report says

Posted: 13 Feb 2019 04:03 PM PST

Seven women allege musician 'dangled career opportunities' while sexually pursuing female artists, New York Times reports

Multiple women have accused singer-songwriter Ryan Adams of emotional and verbal abuse and harassment, the New York Times reported Wednesday.

Seven women and more than a dozen associates of Adams described a "pattern of manipulative behavior in which Adams dangled career opportunities while simultaneously pursuing female artists for sex", the New York Times wrote. The story included allegations of a young female fan who said she had an online relationship with the singer when she was 15 and 16 years old, which included "graphic texting" and a video call in which Adams "exposed himself during phone sex".

Bavaria campaigners abuzz as bees petition forces farming changes

Posted: 13 Feb 2019 09:00 PM PST

10% of German state's voters sign, obliging authorities to preserve species diversity

A petition in Bavaria on preserving species diversity, popularly known as the "save the bees" campaign, has garnered sufficient support to enforce significant changes to the state's farming practices.

The organisers reached their target of securing the signatures of 10% of eligible voters in the southern German state well before the Wednesday evening deadline.

How a Slovakian neo-Nazi got elected

Posted: 13 Feb 2019 10:00 PM PST

In 2013, the far-right politician Marian Kotleba won a shock victory in regional elections. Four years later, he was voted out in a landslide. But now he's running for president. By Shaun Walker

More from this series: The new populism

In December 2013, Marian Kotleba, a former secondary school teacher who had become Slovakia's most notorious political extremist, arrived to begin work at his new office – the governor's mansion in Banská Bystrica, the country's sixth-largest city. Kotleba venerated Slovakia's wartime Nazi puppet state, and liked to dress up in the uniforms of its shock troops, who had helped to round up thousands of Jews during the Holocaust. Now, in the biggest electoral shock anyone could remember in the two decades since Slovakia's independence, the people of Banská Bystrica and the surrounding region had voted for the 37-year-old Kotleba to be their governor. The four-storey mansion, with its vaulted ceilings and gilded pillars, would be his workplace for the next four years.

Banská Bystrica is a tranquil kind of place, with a genteel Mitteleuropa charm: the centre has pavement cafes, neat rows of burgher houses and a number of handsome baroque churches. At eight minutes to every hour, a clock in the central square plays a dainty jewellery-box jingle. And now, it had the dubious distinction of being the first place in modern Europe to have elected a person widely regarded as a neo-fascist to a major office.

Four people stabbed in football-related violence in Rome

Posted: 14 Feb 2019 02:57 AM PST

A Briton, two Spaniards and an American were injured in fighting at bar in Italian capital

A Briton was among four people stabbed in football-related clashes in central Rome, according to Italian media reports.

Fighting broke out shortly after 9pm on Wednesday at a bar in the Monti area before continuing outside. About 40 people were involved in the clashes, which took place before a Europa League match between Lazio and Sevilla at the Olympic Stadium on Thursday night.

Life in the shadow of al-Shabaab: 'If I don't call, my mother thinks I'm dead'

Posted: 13 Feb 2019 11:00 PM PST

The extremist group's enduring influence in Mogadishu makes the Somali capital a dangerous place to live and work

Once every other month, journalist Hassan Dahir, 28, leaves his hostel in central Mogadishu under the cover of darkness to visit his mother in Yaqshid district, north-east of the capital.

He will spend the night with her and return to his rented room before dawn.

Monica Witt: from US intelligence officer to alleged Iranian spy

Posted: 13 Feb 2019 11:00 PM PST

Air force specialist served in Iraq and converted to Islam after attending conference in Iran on amorality of US culture

Whatever turned Monica Witt from the US air force and the world of Washington defence contractors and took her to Iran as an alleged defector and spy, it seems to be have been a wholehearted transformation.

If the account presented in Wednesday's justice department indictment is to be believed, the former military intelligence officer was so enthusiastic about turning her back on her homeland and her past that her Iranian recruiters balked, until she threatened to take her secrets to Russia instead and hand them over to WikiLeaks

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'Dignity and respect': Dominican factory vows to never be a sweatshop

Posted: 14 Feb 2019 03:00 AM PST

Alta Gracia, which aims to 'treat workers decently' and pay a living wage, is a far cry from the grueling conditions many of the workers previously experienced

Factory worker Aracelis Upia sings to herself as she sews a blue collar on to a T-shirt soon to be sold at a US college bookstore. Another chats with a colleague at the water cooler. Large fans circulate cool air throughout the factory while merengue music blares from a loudspeaker.

Blood on the door: Burston-Ashby clash sets parliament on surreal, end-of-days journey

Posted: 14 Feb 2019 02:13 AM PST

As current and former One Nation members battle over sexual harassment accusations, Coalition takes drastic action to stave off Labor trap

It's hard to find the words to capture the precise form of unhinging that is playing out in the 45th parliament in its final days, but let me try.

Over the past couple of days, a war between current and former members of One Nation resulted in allegations of sexual harassment against a staffer being aired under parliamentary privilege, a retaliatory allegation of unwanted back stroking, a physical confrontation between a staffer and a senator, blood smeared on Pauline Hanson's door, and, finally, the revocation of a staffer's parliamentary pass.

Thursday briefing: Up goes council tax as austerity grinds on

Posted: 13 Feb 2019 10:26 PM PST

Councils forced to cut services while hiking charges … Airbus to end production of A380 … and schoolgirl who married into Isis seeks return to UK

Hello, it's Warren Murray delivering an elegant sufficiency of news.

Haiti in disarray as anti-government protests lead to prison breakout

Posted: 14 Feb 2019 01:00 AM PST

Demonstrations over missing $4bn in development funds leave police overstretched, allowing 78 inmates to escape

The impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti, hit by days of violent demonstrations that have claimed four lives, has suffered a mass prison breakout after 78 inmates escaped while police were dealing with protesters.

The demonstrations, the culmination of months of anti-corruption protests over the fate of almost $4bn (£3.1bn) in missing funds earmarked for social development – delivered via a controversial deal for Venezuelan petrol – have swelled in recent days under the slogan: "Kot kòb Petrocaribe a?" ("Where's the Petrocaribe money?").

Breast-ironing: UK government vows to tackle abusive practice

Posted: 13 Feb 2019 12:09 AM PST

Home Office says ritual is child abuse and should be prosecuted under assault laws

Revealed: 'dozens' of girls subjected to breast-ironing in UK

The government has vowed to confront the practice of breast-ironing, calling it child abuse and saying the police should prosecute offenders under assault laws.

In a written parliamentary statement following Guardian revelations that the abusive practice was spreading in the UK, the Home Office said it was committed to challenging the cultural attitudes behind all "honour-based abuse", but gave no indication it would legislate.

Parkland one year on: what victories have gun control advocates seen?

Posted: 13 Feb 2019 10:00 PM PST

From the March for Our Lives to a background check bill, activists have seen success in preventative measures since the shooting

A year after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school on 14 February 2018 sparked a national youth protest movement, gun violence remains an American crisis.

Nearly 1,200 American children and teenagers have been killed with guns in the past 12 months, a number that does not take into account an additional 900 to 1,000 youth gun suicides.

Ilhan Omar grills Trump’s Venezuela envoy over past – video

Posted: 13 Feb 2019 05:04 PM PST

The Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar had a heated exchange with the Trump administration's special envoy to Venezuela over his record in Latin America.

The Minnesota representative pressed Elliott Abrams – a former Reagan administration official – on his involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal

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