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Nigeria postpones election just hours before polls due to open
UK's Saudi weapons sales unlawful, Lords committee finds
Paul Manafort should be sentenced to up to 24 years in prison, Mueller says
Hopes fade for Zimbabwe gold miners missing after flood
Jussie Smollett: brothers arrested in alleged attack on Empire actor released
Aurora shooting: sacked employee kills five in Illinois warehouse
Trump declares national emergency to build US-Mexico border wall
Novichok victim Dawn Sturgess's parents tell of their anger and hurt
Revealed: Facebook enables ads to target users interested in 'vaccine controversies'
El Salvador supreme court overturns 30-year sentence for a teen rape victim
German minister calls for ban on conversion therapy
Labour and Tory MPs in talks over setting up new centrist party
Where can you kiss a same-sex partner in Bucharest? A cartoon by Andreea Chirică
Where did all those 90s rollerblades end up? Nairobi
Anna Wintour: a rare face-to-face with the most important woman in fashion
Man charged with murder of three Exeter men in their 80s
Have world leaders really got the will to bring peace to Yemen?
Tricked, abducted and killed: the last day of two child migrants in Mexico
Trump: Shinzo Abe nominated me for Nobel peace prize
Scott Morrison says people smugglers will ‘have a crack’ if Labor is elected
Amnesty India staff complain of harassment and discrimination
The Breadmaker: on the frontline of Venezuela's bakery wars – video
Condom handouts in schools prevent disease without encouraging sex
Trump's unseemly haste shows World Bank must no longer be in thrall to US
A new documentary about Lorena Bobbitt sheds light on the weirdness of the 90s
National emergency: Trump's 'clear abuse of power' faces torrent of lawsuits
Spain heads into election unknown as Sánchez runs out of road
Daily Telegraph's attempt at humour tanks with Nauru v Auschwitz graphic | Weekly Beast
Toxic black snow covers streets in Siberia - video
Colorado jogger describes life or death struggle with mountain lion - video
Pelosi slams Trump's national emergency over border wall – video
Mitch McConnell: Trump to sign funding bill but declare national emergency – video
Parkland shooting one year on: powerful speeches from the survivors – video

Nigeria postpones election just hours before polls due to open

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 06:37 PM PST

Electoral commission cites unspecified 'challenges' for vote that will now take place on 23 February

Nigeria's electoral commission has delayed the presidential election until 23 February, making the announcement just five hours before polls were set to open on Saturday.

It cited unspecified "challenges" amid reports that voting materials had not been delivered to all parts of the country.

UK's Saudi weapons sales unlawful, Lords committee finds

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 10:00 PM PST

Report finds UK arms 'highly likely to be cause of significant civilian casualties in Yemen'

The UK is on "the wrong side of the law" by sanctioning arms exports to Saudi Arabia for the war in Yemen and should suspend some of the export licences, an all-party Lords committee has said.

The report by the international relations select committee says ministers are not making independent checks to see if arms supplied by the UK are being used in breach of the law, but is instead relying on inadequate investigations by the Saudis, its allies in the war.

Paul Manafort should be sentenced to up to 24 years in prison, Mueller says

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 05:57 PM PST

Trump's former campaign manager found guilty in August on eight counts of tax fraud, bank fraud and a foreign bank account

Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, should be sentenced to up to 24 years in prison, the special counsel Robert Mueller said on Friday.

Mueller's team said in a court filing that Manafort should face a prison term of 235 to 292 months, or between 19 and a half and 24 and a half years, for "serious, longstanding, and bold" financial crimes.

Hopes fade for Zimbabwe gold miners missing after flood

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 09:00 PM PST

Relatives of more than 40 illegal workers say there is little chance of saving them

More than 40 illegal gold miners are believed to have died in Zimbabwe after they were trapped deep underground following a flash flood.

Police, engineers and other miners have struggled since Tuesday to reach any survivors of the accident, which took place in the town of Kadoma, 125 miles (200km) west of the capital, Harare.

Jussie Smollett: brothers arrested in alleged attack on Empire actor released

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 11:08 PM PST

Chicago police say they no longer consider the brothers suspects in reported assault

Chicago police have released two Nigerian brothers arrested in connection with the alleged assault on Empire TV series actor Jussie Smollett and said they have new evidence to investigate as a result of questioning them.

"The individuals questioned by police in the Empire case have now been released without charging and detectives have additional investigative work to complete," Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement.

Aurora shooting: sacked employee kills five in Illinois warehouse

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 10:01 PM PST

Five officers were also wounded, police chief Ziman said
The shooter was shot and killed at the scene

A gunman opened fire at an Illinois manufacturing warehouse had just been fired from his job when he killed five fellow workers,authorities said.

Aurora police chief Kristen Ziman said the assailant, identified as 45-year-old Gary Martin, had worked at the Henry Pratt Company for 15 years before the violence unfolded at the firm's sprawling warehouse in Aurora, west of Chicago.

Trump declares national emergency to build US-Mexico border wall

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 06:16 PM PST

Activists file first legal complaint against plan that would divert funds from Pentagon

Donald Trump has defied fierce criticism to announce that he is using emergency powers to bypass Congress and pursue the building of a wall on the US-Mexico border.

At a combative, rambling and at times incoherent press conference in the White House, the US president insisted he had no choice but to declare a national emergency to stop illegal immigrants spreading crime and drugs.

Novichok victim Dawn Sturgess's parents tell of their anger and hurt

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 09:00 AM PST

Exclusive: Family break silence to express concerns that UK settled former spy in Salisbury

The parents of the woman who died in the Wiltshire novichok poisonings have broken their silence to express their anger and hurt at losing their daughter in an extraordinary international incident and say they believe there could be more of the nerve agent yet to be found.

Speaking as the first anniversary of the poisonings nears, Stan and Caroline Sturgess also revealed their concerns that the UK authorities chose to settle the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, exposing residents to risk.

Revealed: Facebook enables ads to target users interested in 'vaccine controversies'

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 10:59 AM PST

Social media platforms under pressure by US congressman to crack down on anti-vaccine propaganda, citing Guardian investigations

Facebook enables advertisers to promote content to nearly 900,000 people interested in "vaccine controversies", the Guardian has found.

Other groups of people that advertisers can pay to reach on Facebook include those interested in "Dr Tenpenny on Vaccines", which refers to anti-vaccine activist Sherri Tenpenny, and "informed consent", which is language that anti-vaccine propagandists have adopted to fight vaccination laws.

El Salvador supreme court overturns 30-year sentence for a teen rape victim

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 01:31 PM PST

Evelyn Beatríz Hernández Cruz, 19, was found guilty in July 2017 of aggravated homicide after having a stillbirth

El Salvador's supreme court has overturned a 30-year sentence for a teenage rape victim who was convicted of aggravated homicide after having a stillbirth.

German minister calls for ban on conversion therapy

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 02:16 PM PST

'Homosexuality is not an illness,' says health minister Jens Spahn

The German health minister, Jens Spahn, has said that he will seek to ban "conversion therapies" that claim to change sexual orientation. "Homosexuality is not an illness, which is why it does not need to be treated," Spahn, who is gay himself, told the left-leaning Berlin daily Die Tageszeitung.

Labour and Tory MPs in talks over setting up new centrist party

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 09:51 AM PST

Discussions could lead to new party consisting of six or more Labour MPs plus some Tories

Intense discussions are taking place at Westminster that could lead to the emergence of a new centrist party consisting of six or more disaffected anti-Brexit Labour MPs along with the involvement of some Conservatives and the backing of the Liberal Democrats.

Labour MPs reported that some of those involved had lobbied backbench colleagues they thought were sympathetic as to how they could "make the shift" away from a tribal loyalty to the party.

Where can you kiss a same-sex partner in Bucharest? A cartoon by Andreea Chirică

Posted: 14 Feb 2019 11:30 PM PST

Romania's capital has a buzzing nightlife with plenty of options for a romantic night out – unless you're LGBT

Where did all those 90s rollerblades end up? Nairobi

Posted: 14 Feb 2019 03:30 AM PST

There's a whole new craze in east Africa, fuelled by secondhand inline skates – and a desire to unite

Photos and story by Duncan Moore

Nairobi's traffic congestion is notorious. Minibuses known as matatus battle for space with cars, motorbikes and hand-drawn carts, causing excruciating gridlock.

Through this automotive battleground dart the daring members of the Kenyan city's inline skating community, deftly weaving between moving vehicles, holding on to buses for speed and jumping over potholes.

Anna Wintour: a rare face-to-face with the most important woman in fashion

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 10:00 PM PST

The editor-in-chief of American Vogue talks to Jess Cartner-Morley about Michelle Obama, fake news and only spending 20 minutes at parties.

Portraits by Tyler Mitchell

• Read more from the spring/summer 2019 edition of The Fashion, our biannual fashion supplement

One morning last August, Anna Wintour was playing tennis with her coach in the 40-acre grounds of her Long Island summerhouse. She noticed he seemed a little distracted: "But his wife was about to have a baby, so I thought he was nervous about that." Then it struck her that they had attracted an unusual number of spectators. The house was brimful with family, but it was earlier than most people get up on a weekend. ("I'm a morning person," says Wintour, for whom anything later than 5am constitutes a lie-in.) As she prepared to serve, she heard a car pull up. "I am pretty OCD about guests and where they are sleeping. I thought, I'm not expecting anyone else, I don't have any more rooms. Who is this? And then I thought – that looks like Roger [Federer, with whom Wintour is good friends]. And that looks like [his wife] Mirka. And that looks like their twins." Wintour's daughter Bee Shaffer, it transpired, had arranged for a Federer-Wintour family tennis tournament, "which was the best gift a daughter could give a tennis-mad mother. I got to play doubles with Roger for the first time in our very long friendship, against my two nephews." Twenty-five floors above Manhattan, behind the ebonised mahogany Alan Buchsbaum desk from which she has ruled the fashion world for three decades, she leans back in her chair and smiles at the memory. "We won, of course."

Man charged with murder of three Exeter men in their 80s

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 02:02 PM PST

Alexander Lewis-Ranwell, 27, to appear at Exeter magistrates court on Saturday

A 27-year-old man has been charged with murdering three men in their 80s in Exeter, police have said.

Alexander Lewis-Ranwell, from Croyde, north Devon, will appear at Exeter magistrates court on Saturday, accused of murdering Anthony Payne, 80, and twins Dick and Roger Carter, 84, who all lived in Exeter. He has also been charged with two offences of causing grievous bodily harm with intent, Devon and Cornwall police said.

Have world leaders really got the will to bring peace to Yemen?

Posted: 16 Feb 2019 01:00 AM PST

We hear much about Yemen's crisis, but far less about the hypocrisy of states fuelling the very conflict they condemn

During his historic recent visit to the United Arab Emirates, Pope Francis condemned the war in my home country, Yemen, as a terrible humanitarian crisis.

Addressing the world he said: "Let us pray strongly, because there are children who are hungry, who are thirsty – they don't have medicine and they are in danger of death".

Tricked, abducted and killed: the last day of two child migrants in Mexico

Posted: 16 Feb 2019 01:00 AM PST

The deaths show the vulnerability of migrants forced to 'remain in Mexico' under new US policy for asylum seekers

On a Saturday afternoon in December, three Honduran boys walked out through the gates of the blue stucco YMCA shelter for unaccompanied child migrants in Tijuana, and turned past the gas station next door on to Cuauhtémoc Boulevard for a walk.

Their destination was a sports centre-turned-migrant camp to visit people they'd met travelling north with a caravan of other Central Americans.

Trump: Shinzo Abe nominated me for Nobel peace prize

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 02:22 PM PST

US president claims his name was put forward after opening dialogue with Kim Jong-un

Donald Trump has claimed that Japan's prime minister nominated him for the Nobel peace prize for his work to open up a dialogue with North Korea. At a White House event to discuss his proposed border wall, Trump touched on his upcoming summit with North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un in Vietnam.

The president said early exchanges with Kim were filled with "fire and fury", but since their first meeting last year the two had established a good relationship. He said: "[Shinzo Abe] gave me the most beautiful copy of a letter that he sent to the people who give out a thing called the Nobel prize.

Scott Morrison says people smugglers will ‘have a crack’ if Labor is elected

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 08:44 PM PST

Bill Shorten dismisses PM's comments, saying it's possible to have strong borders and treat people humanely

The prime minister, Scott Morrison, has sent out a fresh message on border security, saying "people smugglers know they won't get through me and Peter Dutton" but would "have a crack" if Bill Shorten became prime minister.

Morrison said the government had "increased the strength, resource and capability again of Operation Sovereign Borders" after the asylum seeker medevac legislation passed parliament this week, in spite of the Coalition's best efforts to block it.

Amnesty India staff complain of harassment and discrimination

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 06:56 AM PST

Campaigners demand external investigation after human rights organisation dismisses their claims

Prominent Indian rights activists have withdrawn their support for Amnesty India amid allegations of caste discrimination and harassment within the organisation, the Guardian has learned.

The allegations include claims that staff were humiliated, ill-treated and discriminated against because of their caste, a system of social hierarchy among Hindus.

The Breadmaker: on the frontline of Venezuela's bakery wars – video

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 04:00 AM PST

In the midst of Venezuela's spiralling economic crisis, Natalia and fellow members of a Chavista collective have stepped in to take over production at a local bakery, La Minka. Authorities had suspended operations when the owners were accused of overpricing their loaves and hoarding flour. In March 2017, with the tacit support of the government, the collective began selling affordable bread. This is the story of their fight to safeguard the bakery's future and keep the Chavista dream alive

Condom handouts in schools prevent disease without encouraging sex

Posted: 14 Feb 2019 09:01 PM PST

UN study finds misgivings over impact of condom distribution in secondary schools are misplaced

Making condoms available to teenagers at school does not make them more promiscuous – but neither does it reduce teenage pregnancy rates.

According to a major review by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), giving out condoms in secondary schools does not increase sexual activity, or encourage young people to have sex at an earlier age.

Trump's unseemly haste shows World Bank must no longer be in thrall to US

Posted: 14 Feb 2019 05:03 AM PST

The race to head the World Bank opened with the US candidate already known. Other countries must stand up and be counted

With characteristic lack of restraint, the Trump administration last week jumped the gun on the World Bank presidential election process by naming David Malpass as its preferred candidate to succeed Jim Yong Kim.

The formal nomination process, which did not begin until the following day, is based on selection principles agreed in 2011 that put the emphasis on an "open, merit-based and transparent" appointment. It is high time those principles were put in practice.

A new documentary about Lorena Bobbitt sheds light on the weirdness of the 90s

Posted: 16 Feb 2019 01:00 AM PST

Nineties women who dared to speak out, from Anita Hill to Courtney Love, were derided with a glee that was downright Victorian

I was born at the end of the 1970s, which means I am somewhat in a no man's land, generationally – at the fag end of Gen X, too old to be a millennial. "Xennial" someone suggested recently, and what that term lacks in clarity it also lacks in pronouncability. So I prefer something less snappy but more descriptive: too young to remember John Lennon's death, but old enough to remember Tiffany.

One thing that is non-debatable about my generation is that we all came of age in the 1990s. Any sensible adult will look back on their teenage years with vague bemusement. (And any adult who doesn't should be avoided at all costs: the best thing about the film Juno was Jason Bateman's character, who illustrated the toxicity of a grown man who still thinks he is 18.) But these days it does feel that the 90s was an exceptionally weird time, especially for girls.

National emergency: Trump's 'clear abuse of power' faces torrent of lawsuits

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 08:26 AM PST

Declaration prompts dire warnings but fallout could be contained by successful legal challenge or resolution in Congress

As state attorneys general across the country threaten to sue the White House over Donald Trump's declaration of a national immigration emergency on Friday, Democrats and Republicans insisted Trump was overstepping his powers, while legal analysts warned of a dangerous new phase of the Trump presidency.

Spain heads into election unknown as Sánchez runs out of road

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 05:22 AM PST

Political landscape fragmented amid Catalan secession crisis and re-emergence of far-right

Spain is heading into what could be months of political uncertainty after its Socialist prime minister called a snap general election for April – the country's third in less than four years – against the backdrop of a continuing Catalan secession crisis.

It was always improbable that Pedro Sánchez, whose administration will be the shortest in Spain's modern democratic history, would last long. He came to power in June only because his predecessor, the conservative Mariano Rajoy , lost a no-confidence vote after a string of corruption revelations about his People's Party (PP).

Daily Telegraph's attempt at humour tanks with Nauru v Auschwitz graphic | Weekly Beast

Posted: 14 Feb 2019 03:24 PM PST

Tabloid misses target with tasteless triviality. Plus: ABC and Fairfax HQs get a makeover

The Daily Telegraph gave the paediatrician Paul Bauert a huge slap for likening asylum seekers on Nauru to Jews at Auschwitz – but the tabloid made a rather tasteless comparison itself along the way.

"The main problem these people have is a lack of meaning, a lack of any end to what's going on, a lack of certainty," Bauert had said about the asylum seekers on Nauru. "Even those that finally knew they were about to be condemned to the gas chamber at least found some sense of relief in knowing what was happening." The medico later apologised.

Toxic black snow covers streets in Siberia - video

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 06:20 AM PST

Residents of a coalmining region in Siberia have been posting online videos showing entire streets and districts covered in toxic black snow that critics say highlight a man-made ecological catastrophe in which British industry is compliant.

Colorado jogger describes life or death struggle with mountain lion - video

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 02:04 AM PST

Brian Kauffman has spoken publicly on his encounter with a mountain lion. The ordeal, which happened on the 4 February on a trail in the mountains west of Fort Collins, Colorado, left the cat dead and Kauffman with 28 stitches.

'A foot on its neck': Colorado jogger tells how he survived mountain lion attack

Pelosi slams Trump's national emergency over border wall – video

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 12:33 AM PST

Responding to Donald Trump's decision to declare a national emergency to fund his border wall with Mexico, House speaker Nancy Pelosi says he is setting a precedent that should be met with 'great unease and dismay' and the Democrats are considering making a legal challenge. 'You want to talk about a national emergency? Let's talk about today,' Pelosi adds, noting that it is the first anniversary of the massacre at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school, in which 17 people died

Mitch McConnell: Trump to sign funding bill but declare national emergency – video

Posted: 14 Feb 2019 01:59 PM PST

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has said Donald Trump has indicated he's prepared to sign a funding bill that will prevent another government shutdown but will also declare a national emergency on America's border with Mexico. That move could allow him to circumvent Congress to tap funding for his long-promised border wall that has been at the centre of a fierce dispute with Democrats who say such a barrier is expensive and ineffective. Lawmakers of both parties have raised concerns.

Trump to declare national emergency on border wall, says Mitch McConnell

Parkland shooting one year on: powerful speeches from the survivors – video

Posted: 14 Feb 2019 04:28 AM PST

Seventeen people were killed on 14 February 2018 at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, Florida. After the tragedy Parkland students united and campaigned for change

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