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- Hoda Muthana: Trump bars Alabama woman who joined Isis from US return
- Endgame for the Isis ‘caliphate’ looms in small Syrian town
- Climate change cause of most under-reported humanitarian crises, report finds
- Two senior Tories ready to resign if May fails to change Brexit direction
- Pope vows 'concrete' measures at child sexual abuse summit
- Antisemitism at worst levels since second world war, says Macron
- Dhaka fire in apartments used as chemical store kills 70
- Benjamin Netanyahu strikes deal with hardline parties ahead of Israel elections
- Justin Trudeau’s image of transparency threatened by scandal
- Giant tortoise believed extinct for 100 years found in Galápagos
- Glass houses: how much privacy can city-dwellers expect?
- The new household rules: ditch your toilet brush and wash much, much more
- Birmingham murder inquiry launched after fatal stabbing of boy, 16
- Brexit: Hammond warns of no-deal damage as more Tories consider exit - politics live
- House Democrats to file measure aimed at blocking Trump's emergency declaration
- Chinese port bans imports of Australian coal, sending dollar tumbling
- ‘Full of Liberal mates’: Labor accuses Coalition of 'stacking' tribunal
- Thursday briefing: Future looking up? Tories exit over Brexit
- 'I came to Peru to survive': the Venezuelans migrating for HIV drugs | Dan Collyns
- Trump has turned foreign aid into shabby political theatre | Peter Beaumont
- I witnessed the purgatory of people trapped in Syria's Rukban camp | Marwa Awad
- Immigration, rail funding and lawsuits: why California and Trump are at war
- Thousands march in France against rise in antisemitism – video report
| Hoda Muthana: Trump bars Alabama woman who joined Isis from US return Posted: 21 Feb 2019 12:18 AM PST Mike Pompeo says Muthana, 24, is not a US citizen but refusal to take her back likely to face legal challenge Donald Trump has said he ordered the state department to block an American-born woman who left Alabama to join Islamic State in 2014 from returning to the US. Hoda Muthana, 24, told the Guardian this week that she regretted leaving the US to join the terrorist group and wants to return from Syria with her 18-month-old son. Continue reading... |
| Endgame for the Isis ‘caliphate’ looms in small Syrian town Posted: 20 Feb 2019 12:22 PM PST Special forces said to be preparing to storm Baghuz to flush out last Islamic State diehards They left Baghuz in a convoy of trucks, slowly snaking across the desert as thin trails of black smoke from mortar strikes drifted into the sky behind them. The Islamic State fighters dangled their legs off the backs of vehicles normally used for transporting sheep. Brightly coloured keffiyehs wrapped around their faces, they stared at Kurdish troops as they passed without saying a word. Continue reading... |
| Climate change cause of most under-reported humanitarian crises, report finds Posted: 21 Feb 2019 02:00 AM PST Few headlines were sparked by food crises that ravaged Madagascar, Ethiopia and Haiti Climate change was responsible for the majority of under-reported humanitarian disasters last year, according to analysis of more than a million online news stories. Whole populations were affected by food crises in countries ravaged by by drought and hurricanes such as Ethiopia and Haiti, yet neither crisis generated more than 1,000 global news stories each. Continue reading... |
| Two senior Tories ready to resign if May fails to change Brexit direction Posted: 21 Feb 2019 01:56 AM PST Justine Greening and Dominic Grieve say they would not be able to support government under no deal • Follow all the day's political developments - live updates Two senior Conservatives have said they are ready to resign from the party if it does not change its direction on Brexit, after three of their colleagues joined eight former Labour MPs in a breakaway group in parliament. Related: Conservative split as rebels denounce grip of hardline Brexiters Continue reading... |
| Pope vows 'concrete' measures at child sexual abuse summit Posted: 21 Feb 2019 01:32 AM PST Church must 'listen to cry of little ones seeking justice', says pontiff at Vatican conference Pope Francis has opened a landmark Vatican conference on the sexual abuse of children by priests, saying the Catholic church would "listen to the cry of the little ones seeking justice". Related: Pope Francis decries critics of church as 'friends of the devil' Continue reading... |
| Antisemitism at worst levels since second world war, says Macron Posted: 21 Feb 2019 12:52 AM PST The French president says his party will introduce legislation to combat hate speech online Antisemitism appears to have reached its worst levels since the second world war, Emmanuel Macron told Jewish community leaders on Wednesday, a day after thousands of people took to the streets in France to denounce hate crimes. The French government is to adopt the intergovernmental organisation International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's (IHRA) definition of antisemitism and propose a law to reduce hate speech from being circulated online, the French president said. Continue reading... |
| Dhaka fire in apartments used as chemical store kills 70 Posted: 20 Feb 2019 08:42 PM PST Police warn death toll may rise in 'highly combustable' blaze in old part of Bangladesh capital At least 70 people have died after a massive fire engulfed apartment buildings that also housed chemical warehouses in the old city of Bangladesh's capital Dhaka. Dozens of people were trapped in the buildings, unable to escape onto narrow streets clogged with traffic, as the highly-combustible stores of chemicals, body sprays and plastic granules erupted in flames. Continue reading... |
| Benjamin Netanyahu strikes deal with hardline parties ahead of Israel elections Posted: 20 Feb 2019 10:44 PM PST Prime minister reaches preliminary agreement with Jewish Home and Jewish Power parties The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Wednesday reached a preliminary election deal with two fringe religious-nationalist parties in a bid to unify his hardline bloc before elections in April. Netanyahu's Likud party announced it would reserve the 28th spot on its parliamentary list for the Jewish Home party and grant it two cabinet ministries in a future government if it merges with the Jewish Power party. Continue reading... |
| Justin Trudeau’s image of transparency threatened by scandal Posted: 20 Feb 2019 10:00 PM PST Canada's PM losing support after claim he pressed minister not to prosecute firm When Justin Trudeau embraced Canada's attorney general, Jody Wilson-Raybould, last year in the country's House of Commons, it became a moment emblematic of the powerful friendship between the two, part of the government's promise to mend the broken relationship between the government and indigenous peoples in Canada. Now, Wilson-Raybould is out of her job and Trudeau has found himself on the defensive, fending off accusations that members of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) – a powerful body staffed with hand-picked confidants – put pressure on Wilson-Raybould to not pursue criminal charges against a large Canadian engineering firm. The scandal has cast a shadow over Trudeau's domestic image of commitment to transparent government, potentially harming his electoral prospects. Continue reading... |
| Giant tortoise believed extinct for 100 years found in Galápagos Posted: 21 Feb 2019 01:31 AM PST Adult female discovered 113 years after only other living Chelonoidis phantasticus was found A living member of species of tortoise not seen in more than 110 years and feared to be extinct has been found in a remote part of the Galápagos island of Fernandina. Related: Welcome home, Lonesome George: giant tortoise returns to Galapagos Continue reading... |
| Glass houses: how much privacy can city-dwellers expect? Posted: 20 Feb 2019 03:30 AM PST The recent court decision against the neighbours of Tate Modern in London belies a much wider problem – everyone is constantly being watched Alexander McFadyen says that he and his family were "more or less constantly watched" while they were at home. They had to be "properly dressed" at all times, and even then they were often photographed or filmed, and sometimes spied on with binoculars. McFadyen set out to measure the problem. While working at the dining table, he counted 84 people taking photographs in 90 minutes. This is the reality of living in a glass-walled flat in Block C of Neo Bankside, just 34 metres from the viewing gallery at Tate Modern, which receives up to 600,000 visitors a year. A neighbour, Claire Fearn, said being watched like that made her "sick to her stomach". People waved and made obscene gestures at her and her family. Her husband, Giles Fearn, found pictures of their home posted online by strangers. Many of the images are still on Twitter, often with amused remarks about the misfortune of their wealthy owners. (The flats are worth an average of £4.35m each.) Another neighbour, Lindsay Urquhart, visited the viewing gallery and heard someone remark that she and the other residents of Block C deserved to lose their privacy because they were "rich bastards". Continue reading... |
| The new household rules: ditch your toilet brush and wash much, much more Posted: 20 Feb 2019 10:00 PM PST How many towels does one person need? Should you change your sheets each week? And do you really have to clean the toilet with nothing but your rubber gloves? Experts on 10 modern domestic dilemmas Domestic questions that are burning and unanswerable in more or less equal measure are a staple of social media. This week, it was towels. Specifically, how many does an adult human need to own? The podcast host Abdul Dremali asked, and more than 2,000 Twitter replies later, he still couldn't go shopping for towels. There are some household jobs that no one knows if they are doing right. So can the experts settle a few domestic debates? Continue reading... |
| Birmingham murder inquiry launched after fatal stabbing of boy, 16 Posted: 21 Feb 2019 12:51 AM PST Teenager was found with fatal injuries in Small Heath area on Wednesday evening A murder investigation has been launched after a 16-year-old boy was stabbed to death. The teenager was discovered with fatal injuries on Herbert Road in Small Heath, Birmingham, at around 8pm on Wednesday, West Midlands police said. Continue reading... |
| Brexit: Hammond warns of no-deal damage as more Tories consider exit - politics live Posted: 21 Feb 2019 02:16 AM PST The chancellor, Philip Hammond, refuses to say whether he would quit in the event of a no-deal as two senior MPs warn they would leave the party
Anna Soubry, who left the Conservative party yesterday, is hosting the mid-morning show on LBC, which began at 10am, standing in for regular host James O'Brie who's on holiday. She is asking people to ring in to answer the question as to whether she did the right thing in leaving the Conservative party. Anna Soubry is live on LBC, the day after leaving the Conservatives. Watch it live here. https://t.co/Vk7vUoMCxX
Labour of course has had its own problems and Jeremy Corbyn has responded to the departure of eight of its MPs by demanding that they put themselves up for re-election. We will deliver the change the people of this country need and deserve. pic.twitter.com/17NRn222s4 These MPs now want to abandon the policies on which they were elected so the decent and democratic thing for them to do is to resign and put themselves up for election. And I want to make it absolutely clear, I regard the fight against antisemitism as an absolute priority and we are utterly determined to root out antisemitism from our party and our society. Continue reading... |
| House Democrats to file measure aimed at blocking Trump's emergency declaration Posted: 20 Feb 2019 07:10 PM PST Lawmakers' move, planned for Friday, sets up clash over presidential powers and immigration but is likely to fail House Democrats will file a resolution Friday aimed at blocking the national emergency declaration that Donald Trump has issued to help finance his wall along the Southwest border, teeing up a clash over billions of dollars, immigration policy and the constitution's separation of powers. Though the effort seems almost certain to ultimately fall short – perhaps to a Trump veto – the resulting votes will let Democrats take a defiant stance against Trump that is sure to please liberal voters. They will also put some Republicans from swing districts and states in a difficult spot. Continue reading... |
| Chinese port bans imports of Australian coal, sending dollar tumbling Posted: 20 Feb 2019 11:51 PM PST Dalian has blocked imports from China's top supplier, Reuters reports, amid simmering diplomatic tension between Beijing and Canberra One of China's biggest ports has banned imports of Australian coal and will cap overall coal imports for 2019 through its harbours at 12m tonnes, an official at Dalian Port Group has said. The indefinite ban on imports from Australia, which is China's top coal supplier, comes as major ports elsewhere in China prolong clearing times for Australian coal to at least 40 days, Reuters has reported. Continue reading... |
| ‘Full of Liberal mates’: Labor accuses Coalition of 'stacking' tribunal Posted: 21 Feb 2019 01:47 AM PST Mark Dreyfus says the government has a 'shameful record' on appointments to the administrative appeals tribunal Labor has blasted the attorney general Christian Porter for appointing six former parliamentarians and eight former staffers from Coalition ranks to the administrative appeals tribunal. Porter announced a total of 34 new appointments to the tribunal on Thursday, including former Liberal Senate president Stephen Parry, who received a seven-year term after quitting politics in 2017 over his dual citizenship. Continue reading... |
| Thursday briefing: Future looking up? Tories exit over Brexit Posted: 20 Feb 2019 10:36 PM PST 'Anti-EU awkward squad now run the party' … big winners at Brits … and help us continue our progressive journalism Hello, I'm Warren Murray and if you only read a few things today, here they are. Continue reading... |
| 'I came to Peru to survive': the Venezuelans migrating for HIV drugs | Dan Collyns Posted: 20 Feb 2019 11:00 PM PST Darwin Zerpa is among those who have fled to Peru to get the antiretrovirals he needs. Now he counsels others with the virus By day it is one of Lima's grandest squares. By night the Plaza San Martín becomes a magnet for nightclubbers and bag-snatchers, as well as a haunt for male sex workers and their clients. It is here just before midnight that 29-year-old Darwin Zerpa and other volunteers set up shop. Pulling up in an out-of-service ambulance and folding out a table on the pavement, they mark out a spot where passersby can get HIV finger-prick test results in less than 10 minutes. Continue reading... |
| Trump has turned foreign aid into shabby political theatre | Peter Beaumont Posted: 20 Feb 2019 06:25 AM PST Stalled relief supplies for Venezuela at the Colombian border are a stark illustration of Trump's crudely transactional approach to aid In their grey livery, the US Air Force C-17s shuttling into Camilo Daza airport in Cúcuta, Colombia, look more belligerent than friendly – which is, perhaps, the point. In the city itself, the planes' cargo – boxes labelled USAid and intended for distribution by the Venezuelan opposition just across the border – are accumulating in the town's warehouses. Continue reading... |
| I witnessed the purgatory of people trapped in Syria's Rukban camp | Marwa Awad Posted: 20 Feb 2019 03:39 AM PST Constant hunger and thirst haunt those stranded in the desert, where escape means paying vast sums to smugglers Between the southern border of Syria, Jordan and Iraq lies a stretch of land akin to purgatory. More than 40,000 people are stranded in Rukban, almost 300km from Damascus. Families here are cut off from the world, facing hunger and lacking healthcare, transport and education. Continue reading... |
| Immigration, rail funding and lawsuits: why California and Trump are at war Posted: 20 Feb 2019 02:56 PM PST The state, which styles itself as the Democratic-led 'resistance', has launched 46 lawsuits against the Trump administration The Trump administration's plans to pull millions in federal funding from California's high-speed rail project is just the latest in the ongoing antagonism between the president and the state that stands on the opposite end of his party's ideological spectrum. Governor Gavin Newsom called the move "political retribution" for the state's lawsuit against Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency, but California and Trump have been at it since before he was even elected president. Continue reading... |
| Thousands march in France against rise in antisemitism – video report Posted: 20 Feb 2019 05:55 AM PST Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets across France in protest against an increase in the number of antisemitic attacks in the country. Recent incidents have included a Jewish cemetery being desecrated with swastikas and the philosopher Alain Finkielkraut being subjected to a torrent of hate speech on the fringe of a gilets jaunes (yellow vests) protest in Paris Thousands take to streets of France after antisemitic attacks Continue reading... |
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