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- Brexit backstop: Theresa May to put new proposals to EU
- Jeremy Hunt urges Germany to rethink Saudi arms sales ban
- Shamima Begum 'a bit shocked' that UK has revoked citizenship
- 'It was insensitive': Burberry apologises for 'noose' hoodie after model complains
- Thousands take to streets of France after antisemitic attacks
- Green MEPs held after anti-nuclear protest at Belgian military base
- Roger Waters condemns Richard Branson's Venezuela aid concert
- Eighth Labour MP quits party to join breakaway Independent Group
- European farms could grow green and still be able to feed population
- South Korea nixes diversity rules after saying K-pop stars 'look identical'
- End of an era: Seoul prepares to rip out its manufacturing heart
- Why BlacKkKlansman should win the best picture Oscar
- Voyage to the Garbage Patch: the female sailors taking on plastic
- More than 2.5 million people have opted out of My Health Record
- Polio spreads in Afghanistan and Pakistan 'due to unchecked borders'
- Trump might have a solid case for emergency declaration, analysts say
- China's Forbidden City lights up for lunar new year show – in pictures
- Bernie Sanders 2020: where the presidential candidate stands on key issues – video profile
| Brexit backstop: Theresa May to put new proposals to EU Posted: 19 Feb 2019 04:00 PM PST PM heads to Brussels as Philip Hammond declares 'Malthouse compromise' unviable Theresa May will present the EU with new legal proposals to solve the Irish backstop issue on Wednesday, which Downing Street hopes will be enough to convince Eurosceptics to back her Brexit deal. The chancellor, Philip Hammond, confirmed late on Tuesday that the government no longer intended to pursue alternative arrangements for the backstop in the withdrawal agreement, which had been championed by cross-factional MPs including Eurosceptic Steve Baker and soft Brexiter Nicky Morgan. Continue reading... |
| Jeremy Hunt urges Germany to rethink Saudi arms sales ban Posted: 20 Feb 2019 01:14 AM PST UK foreign secretary visits Berlin after raising concerns about impact of moratorium Jeremy Hunt, the British foreign secretary, will visit Berlin on Wednesday after urging Germany to exempt big defence projects from its efforts to halt arms sales to Saudi Arabia, or face damage to both its economic and European credentials. Related: UK's arms export supervisor attacks NGOs over Yemen deaths Continue reading... |
| Shamima Begum 'a bit shocked' that UK has revoked citizenship Posted: 20 Feb 2019 02:03 AM PST Teenager who travelled from London to Syria to join Isis says decision is 'kind of heart-breaking' Shamima Begum, the teenager who travelled from east London to Syria to join Islamic State in 2015, has described Home Office plans to strip her of citizenship as "kind of heart-breaking". Related: Shamima Begum: will the plan to revoke her citizenship succeed? Continue reading... |
| 'It was insensitive': Burberry apologises for 'noose' hoodie after model complains Posted: 19 Feb 2019 05:14 PM PST Liz Kennedy said the design at London Fashion Week evoked lynchings and suicide The chief executive and chief creative officer of luxury fashion brand Burberry have apologised for putting a hoodie with strings tied in the shape of a noose on its London Fashion Week runway. The knotted strings surfaced after Sunday's show when a model complained both before the show and on Instagram, saying the noose not only evoked lynchings but also suicide. Continue reading... |
| Thousands take to streets of France after antisemitic attacks Posted: 19 Feb 2019 12:00 PM PST Surge in 'poisonous' acts includes Jewish cemetery desecrated with swastikas Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in cities across France to protest against a recent rise in antisemitic attacks. Political leaders from all parties, including former presidents Francois Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy, gathered in Paris, filling the Place de la Republique, to decry anti-Semitic acts with one common slogan: "Enough!" Macron visited the national Holocaust memorial in Paris with the heads of the Senate and National Assembly. Continue reading... |
| Green MEPs held after anti-nuclear protest at Belgian military base Posted: 20 Feb 2019 12:43 AM PST UK's Molly Scott Cato among those held after action over stockpiling of US nuclear bombs Three Green MEPs – including one from the UK – have been arrested after breaking into a Belgian military airbase to protest against its stockpiling of American B61 nuclear bombs. The MEPs – Molly Scott Cato, Michèle Rivasi and Tilly Metz – unfurled a banner on a runway for F-16 fighter jets at the Kleine Brogel base in the east of the country calling for a nuclear-free Europe, before being taken into custody. Continue reading... |
| Roger Waters condemns Richard Branson's Venezuela aid concert Posted: 20 Feb 2019 01:35 AM PST Virgin says event 'is not a political statement and the US is not involved' The Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has criticised an upcoming Live Aid-style concert to raise funds for humanitarian aid for Venezuela, by claiming it is a US-backed effort to tarnish the socialist government. Related: Maduro government and Richard Branson to hold rival Venezuela concerts Continue reading... |
| Eighth Labour MP quits party to join breakaway Independent Group Posted: 19 Feb 2019 03:04 PM PST Joan Ryan says party has become 'infected with scourge of anti-Jewish racism' Joan Ryan has become the eighth Labour MP to resign and join the breakaway Independent Group, claiming Jeremy Corbyn's party has become "infected with the scourge of anti-Jewish racism". Ryan, the MP for Enfield North, said she had been a member for four decades but could no longer remain as a Labour MP. Continue reading... |
| European farms could grow green and still be able to feed population Posted: 19 Feb 2019 10:00 PM PST Research shows loss in yields could be offset by reorienting diets away from grain-fed meat Europe would still be able to feed its growing population even if it switched entirely to environmentally friendly approaches such as organic farming, according to a scientific paper. A week after research revealed a steep decline in global insect populations that has been linked to the use of pesticides, the study from European thinktank IDDRI claims such chemicals can be phased out and greenhouse gas emissions radically reduced in Europe through agroecological farming, while still producing enough nutritious food for an increasing population. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| South Korea nixes diversity rules after saying K-pop stars 'look identical' Posted: 20 Feb 2019 12:32 AM PST Guidelines to address promotion of unrealistic beauty standards withdrawn in state censorship row Government guidelines aimed at promoting more diversity in South Korea's K-pop world have been withdrawn after critics said they amounted to state censorship of a booming industry. The guidelines issued last week by the ministry of gender equality and family complained that K-pop stars looked too alike, saying "the problem of … uniformity among singers is serious", and noting most idols were thin and wore identical makeup and skimpy outfits. Continue reading... |
| End of an era: Seoul prepares to rip out its manufacturing heart Posted: 19 Feb 2019 11:00 PM PST The next 15 megacities #15: The fast-growing South Korean capital is about to wipe out Euljiro, a neighbourhood home to 10,000 shops and 50,000 tradespeople that was integral to the country's postwar boom From the main street, the Euljiro neighbourhood doesn't look like much: some shabby retail stores, cold-noodle restaurants, a Starbucks. Enter one of the small alleys, however, and you'll find yourself in a kind of manufacturing anthill: thousands upon thousands of shops, each crammed to the rafters with bolts, circuit boards, iron castings, gauges, wires, lights, switches, tools and innumerable tiny objects that defy description. Continue reading... |
| Why BlacKkKlansman should win the best picture Oscar Posted: 20 Feb 2019 02:00 AM PST Spike Lee's politically charged cinema has irked the Academy in the past, but his witty take on how a black policeman outsmarted the Ku Klux Klan could prove sweetly timed "Today's young generation, they don't know anything," says Spike Lee in the Oscar-winning Rumble in the Jungle documentary, When We Were Kings. "Something happened last year, they know nothing about it. There are these great, great stories. These great historic events. I'm not talking about 1850s stuff. They don't know who Malcolm X is. They don't know who JFK is. They don't know Muhammad Ali or Jackie Robinson. You can go down the line. It's scary." You could interpret Lee's career, in part, as an exercise in filling those holes in America's collective memory. Malcolm X is probably the most famous example, with his 1992 film reigniting a debate about the black political leader and his legacy. His documentary 4 Little Girls told the story of the Birmingham church bombing with its eerie parallels to the Charleston church shooting. But even She Hate Me – ostensibly an ethically questionable film about sperm donation – had a section dedicated to the story of Frank Wills, the security guard who raised the alarm about the Watergate break-in, struggled to find work after (he believed he was blacklisted) and who died in extreme poverty in 2000 at the age of 52. Continue reading... |
| Voyage to the Garbage Patch: the female sailors taking on plastic Posted: 19 Feb 2019 10:00 PM PST Plastic is everywhere, and it's not going anywhere – potentially posing serious risks to our health. A crew of scientists and activists is conducting a hands-on investigation When I arrive at the marina in Victoria on a late-July morning, the sky and water are complementary shades of azure. On the deck of the 72ft shiny-bright Sea Dragon, moored here in the island capital of British Columbia for just one day, are four young women, part of the crew of the research voyage "eXXpedition". They're hauling buckets of black sludge up to the deck from the ocean floor. The team will meticulously pack the wet sand from the harbor floor into little glass jars. These jars will be added to a library of sand, water, and air samples that they've collected over the past six weeks from across the north Pacific. They'll ship some of those samples off to Plymouth, England, to be analyzed by eXXpedition's marine scientist Imogen Napper. The idea is that by cataloging this library, she and the team will begin to get a better sense of what kind of plastic is out there in the ocean. Continue reading... |
| More than 2.5 million people have opted out of My Health Record Posted: 20 Feb 2019 01:12 AM PST New figures show that during the three-month extension about 1.4 million people opted out More than 2.5 million Australians have opted out of the My Health Record system, new figures show. The figures, revealed in Senate estimates on Wednesday, show almost one in 10 Australians eligible for Medicare have opted out of the controversial system. Continue reading... |
| Polio spreads in Afghanistan and Pakistan 'due to unchecked borders' Posted: 19 Feb 2019 11:00 PM PST Campaigners say resurgence of deadly virus threatens despite huge successes of vaccination drive The unmonitored movement of people across the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan threatens efforts to eradicate polio from the two countries, as the year's first cases of the virus are recorded in the volatile region. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative said people travelling through unchecked crossings is believed to be one of the main causes of the spread of the disease in the area. Continue reading... |
| Trump might have a solid case for emergency declaration, analysts say Posted: 19 Feb 2019 11:06 AM PST Though Trump himself suggested there is no real emergency, courts are unlikely to second-guess a president's broad leeway Many legal analysts who watched Donald Trump declare a national emergency over immigration on Friday thought the president had weak legal grounds for doing so. In particular, many thought Trump hurt his own case by admitting, right there in the White House Rose Garden: "I didn't need to do this, but I'd rather do it much faster." "This quote should be the first sentence of the first paragraph of every complaint filed this afternoon," tweeted George Conway, a top Washington lawyer and the husband of Trump aide Kellyanne Conway. Continue reading... |
| China's Forbidden City lights up for lunar new year show – in pictures Posted: 19 Feb 2019 06:15 PM PST For the first time in its history, Beijing's famous landmark is bathed in light as part of the Lantern festival marking the end of the lunar new year celebrations Continue reading... |
| Bernie Sanders 2020: where the presidential candidate stands on key issues – video profile Posted: 19 Feb 2019 06:25 AM PST Bernie Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont who ran against Hillary Clinton for the 2016 Democratic nomination, has announced his run for the presidency in 2020. Sanders, 77, running as a Democrat, will be up against a more crowded and diverse field this time round Continue reading... |
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