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US condemns Venezuela military over border killings as aid showdown looms

Posted: 22 Feb 2019 08:07 PM PST

Country braced for violence after clashes early on Friday leave two dead and 15 injured

The US has condemned Venezuela's military after soldiers shot dead two people and injured 15 others trying to keep the country's border with Brazil open for aid deliveries.

The White House warned in a statement: "Egregious violation of human rights by [President Nicolás] Maduro and those who are following his orders will not go unpunished."

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Nigeria election: blasts heard hours before presidential polls open

Posted: 22 Feb 2019 09:52 PM PST

Nigerians are hoping vote will go ahead following delay over unspecified 'challenges'

Suspected Islamist militants have attacked a north-eastern Nigerian town, forcing people to flee hours before presidential election polls were due to open, residents have said.

"We have fled, along with our wives and children and hundreds of others," Ibrahim Gobi, who lives in the town of Geidam in Yobe state, said on Saturday. "We are right now running and hiding in the bushes."

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Confidential emails sent by Facebook executives leaked online

Posted: 22 Feb 2019 06:39 PM PST

Communications between senior figures, including Mark Zuckerberg, shed new light on data use

Documents posted online Friday appear to be confidential internal Facebook communications that reveal new details of the company's treatment of user data.

About 60 pages of un-redacted exhibits from a lawsuit between Facebook and Six4Three, an app developer, were posted anonymously on GitHub on Friday. They include emails between various Facebook executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and a "highly confidential" 2012 memo detailing various policy matters.

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R Kelly in police custody after being charged with 10 counts of sexual abuse

Posted: 22 Feb 2019 06:49 PM PST

Indictment filed in Illinois and seen by Guardian includes nine counts involving victims aged between 13 and 17

R Kelly is in police custody in Chicago after turning himself in at the Chicago police precinct on Friday night.

Earlier in the day, the R&B star had been charged with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse in Illinois for incidents dating back as far as May 1998.

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Saudi sisters trapped in Hong Kong fear death penalty if deported

Posted: 22 Feb 2019 10:37 PM PST

Pair say they have fled family abuse and will either be killed or made to marry if forcibly returned

Two Saudi sisters trapped in Hong Kong say chronic physical abuse by male family members prompted them to flee the kingdom, where they fear they will be forcibly returned.

The two are the latest example of Saudi women trying to escape from the ultra-conservative kingdom who find themselves dodging officials and angry family.

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State of emergency declared in Sudan by under-fire president

Posted: 22 Feb 2019 04:25 PM PST

Clashes between police and protesters break out as Omar al-Bashir announces measures

Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir, has appointed a new prime minister, but left the country's current defence, foreign and justice ministers in place following the declaration of a one-year state of emergency.

Just hours after announcing that he would dissolve the country's central and state governments, Bashir appointed new state governors who were all from the military, according to a presidency statement.

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Tainted alcohol kills at least 84 people in India

Posted: 22 Feb 2019 09:09 PM PST

Hundreds more are sick, with many of them critical, says Assam health minister

At least 84 people have died from drinking toxic bootleg liquor in the north-east Indian state of Assam, and about 200 others have been hospitalised, a government minister said on Saturday.

The deaths come less than two weeks after more than 100 people died from drinking tainted alcohol in northern India.

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Film about clerical child abuse opens in French cinemas

Posted: 22 Feb 2019 09:00 PM PST

By the Grace of God released as judges prepare to deliver verdict in first trial related to scandal

It was filmed in secrecy, certain scenes were so sensitive they had to be shot abroad and two legal cases were brought this week to try to ban it from French cinemas.

But By the Grace of God, the film by the acclaimed French director François Ozon which took the Silver Bear jury prize at the Berlin film festival last weekend, has finally opened in French cinemas this week amid controversy surrounding the country's biggest church abuse scandal.

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Labour promises universal right to flexible working from day one

Posted: 22 Feb 2019 08:37 PM PST

Dawn Butler to tell conference women need an economy that works for them, not against them

A Labour government would give everyone the right to choose when they do and do not work from the day they are employed, its shadow women and equalities secretary will tell Labour's women's conference on Saturday.

"Women do the vast majority of unpaid care, but this must not be a barrier to women in work," Dawn Butler will say. "That's why I'm announcing Labour's plans to introduce rights to flexible working from day one of employment.

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UN urges torture inquiry after Indonesia police put snake on West Papua boy

Posted: 22 Feb 2019 05:59 PM PST

Expert panel says incident shows the 'deeply entrenched discrimination and racism' faced by Papuans

Indonesian police who used a large snake to terrorise a handcuffed boy is reflective of "a widespread pattern of violence" against indigenous West Papuans, a United Nations panel of experts has said, calling for investigations into numerous cases of violence, unlawful arrest and mistreatment.

Earlier this month a video emerged of Indonesian police interrogating a young boy, in handcuffs and on the floor, while officers wrapped a large snake around him.

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'No place does me like Lagos' – a cartoon by Tayo Fatunla

Posted: 22 Feb 2019 04:00 AM PST

The city has endured much through the years, but as cartoonist Tayo Fatunla grew up saying: 'Eko oni baje' or 'Lagos cannot be destroyed'

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The deadly truth about a world built for men – from stab vests to car crashes

Posted: 23 Feb 2019 12:59 AM PST

Crash-test dummies based on the 'average' male are just one example of design that forgets about women – and puts lives at risk

When broadcaster Sandi Toksvig was studying anthropology at university, one of her female professors held up a photograph of an antler bone with 28 markings on it. "This," said the professor, "is alleged to be man's first attempt at a calendar." Toksvig and her fellow students looked at the bone in admiration. "Tell me," the professor continued, "what man needs to know when 28 days have passed? I suspect that this is woman's first attempt at a calendar."

Women have always tracked their periods. We've had to. Since 2015, I've been reliant on a period tracker app, which reassures me that there's a reason I'm welling up just thinking about Andy Murray's "casual feminism". And then there's the issue of the period itself: when you will be bleeding for up to seven days every month, it's useful to know more or less when those seven days are going to take place. Every woman knows this, and Toksvig's experience is a neat example of the difference a female perspective can make, even to issues that seem entirely unrelated to gender.

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Man and woman in 70s die in crash with van being chased by police

Posted: 23 Feb 2019 12:52 AM PST

Police say Ford Transit collided with pair's car in south-east London just after midnight

A man and a woman in their 70s have died after the car they were in collided with a Ford Transit van that was being pursued by police.

Scotland Yard said police officers spotted a van being "driven erratically at speed" that failed to stop.

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Brexit: what happens the next day if there is no deal?

Posted: 22 Feb 2019 11:00 PM PST

If the UK leaves the EU without a deal, what will be the immediate impact on your finances, rights and travel plans?

In a sentence You'll have to request a green card from your insurer if driving to Europe after 29 March

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Too much, too young? Mayor could become the first millennial president

Posted: 22 Feb 2019 11:00 PM PST

Pete Buttigieg, the openly gay mayor who has seen South Bend through a rebound, is a little-known contender for the 2020 Democratic nomination

Over a bowl of pulled pork, lentils, giardiniera and mixed greens, with the Eagles' Peaceful Easy Feeling playing in the background, Pete Buttigieg is asked a question that no elected official running for US president has ever been asked before. What was it like growing up gay?

"I wasn't even prepared to acknowledge to myself that I was gay at school," he said, reflecting on his childhood in South Bend, Indiana, a conservative state governed, until recently, by vice-president Mike Pence. "I had never met an out person my age the entire time I went to school; didn't know that there was such a thing. I had heard of one at another school. So it was just literally out of the question."

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Cyclone Oma: surfers enjoy wild swell but downgraded storm could yet intensify

Posted: 22 Feb 2019 09:18 PM PST

'Unpredictable' storm could continue to bring abnormally high tides and damaging winds

East coast surfers have defied warnings about large swells whipped up by ex-cyclone Oma, a sub-tropical system that intensified into a category two storm early on Saturday but was downgraded by 11am after taking a south-eastern turn.

The storm, twice the diameter of 2017's deadly cyclone Debbie, was tracking south towards Lord Howe Island but was predicted to turn and head north again.

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Vietnam threatens to deport Trump and Kim impersonators before 'sensitive' summit

Posted: 22 Feb 2019 07:15 PM PST

Authorities unhappy with pair walking the streets of Hanoi and causing a 'disturbance'

Vietnamese authorities were not amused when an impersonator of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, wandered the streets of Hanoi on Friday, just days before the second summit between Kim Jong-un and the US president, Donald Trump.

Howard X, an Australian, said Vietnamese authorities questioned him and another impersonator dressed as Trump and warned them they could be deported after they had taped an interview at a local TV station. The interview was not aired.

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'Slowly the craze will come': the off-piste plan to get Nepal skiing

Posted: 22 Feb 2019 09:00 PM PST

Entrepreneurs aiming to set up Nepal's first ski resort are undeterred by difficult terrain and lack of state support

Along the single icy road leading through the village of Kuri, high in the hills of eastern Nepal, tourists stop to stare at a pair of skis. "Is it a skateboard?" asks one. "Maybe they are ice skates," suggests another. "No idea," they agree, before walking off gingerly along the slippery track.

Nepal may have the highest mountains in the world, but you are about as likely to see a skier here as you are a yeti. Nepal sent no athletes to the Winter Olympics last year, and there is not a single ski resort in the country.

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Canada: Jagmeet Singh faces existential byelection on road to challenge Trudeau

Posted: 22 Feb 2019 07:58 AM PST

First non-white leader of a major political party needs to win a seat in parliament before he can run for PM

The leader of Canada's left-of-centre New Democratic party is facing a key byelection on Monday which will decide whether or not he is able to challenge Justin Trudeau in October.

Jagmeet Singh, the first non-white leader of a major political party in the country's history, must win the byelection in Burnaby, a city east of Vancouver, in order to get a seat in parliament and be in position to go up against the PM in this year's general election.

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