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- Government willing to discuss Corbyn's terms, but Umunna calls foul
- Body recovered from wreckage of Emiliano Sala's plane
- This man plotted Guaidó's rise – and still dreams of leading Venezuela
- Cavity two-thirds the size of Manhattan discovered under Antarctic glacier
- Sri Lanka to begin hangings within months, ending 43-year stay on executions
- Japan PM vows to fight child abuse after 'heart-wrenching' death of girl, 10
- 'A drastic step backwards': Guatemala considers amnesty for war crimes
- Blackface past and sexual assault claim threaten Virginia's top three officials
- Deportation flight lands in Jamaica after reprieve for some
- US boyfriend of Russian agent Maria Butina charged with fraud
- Voting in cute baby contest halted after parents' snide comments about rivals
- Almaty spills its secrets: lost Soviet art discovered behind wall
- Trump wants out of America's longest war, but Afghans can't just walk away
- Five hurt in suspected gas explosion in Batley
- Corbyn faces backlash from Labour pro-Europeans after sending Brexit plan to PM - Politics live
- Male golfers happily took Saudi money. Female players may think twice
- From a ramshackle slum farm, young people are feeding Nairobi’s hungry | Naomi Larrson
- Guns v grief: inside America’s deadliest cultural chasm
- Leopoldo López: scion of Venezuelan elite dedicated to burying Chavismo
- 'Known hugger': Scott Buchholz told colleagues he may have misread the situation
- The dead Sudanese singer inspiring revolt against Omar al-Bashir
- From Iraq to Yemen: the grubby business of counting the war dead
- 'Aristocrats are anarchists': why the wealthy back Trump and Brexit
- Venezuela blocks border as Maduro tries to keep troops on side – video
- Donald Trump's 2019 State of the Union address – video highlights
| Government willing to discuss Corbyn's terms, but Umunna calls foul Posted: 07 Feb 2019 02:24 AM PST David Lidington calls customs union 'wishful thinking' but says government should be talking to Labour The government has expressed willingness to discuss Labour's terms for backing Theresa May's EU withdrawal bill, after Jeremy Corbyn offered support in return for five commitments to soften the Brexit deal on offer. David Lidington, the Cabinet Office minister and de facto deputy prime minister, said he had not had any direct "overtures" from Labour about talks but added: "We should be talking to the official opposition and understand their point of view." Continue reading... |
| Body recovered from wreckage of Emiliano Sala's plane Posted: 06 Feb 2019 03:40 PM PST Authorities yet to confirm if remains are those of missing footballer or pilot David Ibbotson A body has been recovered from the wreckage of the plane that crashed in the Channel with footballer Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson on board, three days after the aircraft was found. The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) has not said whether the body is that of the Argentinian striker or that of the pilot, following their disappearance on 21 January. Continue reading... |
| This man plotted Guaidó's rise – and still dreams of leading Venezuela Posted: 06 Feb 2019 10:00 PM PST Leopoldo López led the opposition's challenge to Maduro from house arrest but could his protege thwart his own ambitions? When Juan Guaidó declared himself Venezuela's interim president last month, he appeared to leapfrog a generation of rival opposition leaders and offer a dramatic way past the infighting and tactical differences that had hobbled previous efforts to unseat Nicolás Maduro. But the rise of the fresh-faced opposition leader was orchestrated by a Harvard-educated economist with a checkered history in Venezuelan politics, who continues to direct opposition strategy and coordinate with US and regional officials from under house arrest in Venezuela. Continue reading... |
| Cavity two-thirds the size of Manhattan discovered under Antarctic glacier Posted: 06 Feb 2019 02:09 PM PST Disintegration of rapidly melting Thwaites ice mass could threaten coastal communities worldwide Scientists have discovered a giant cavity at the bottom of a disintegrating glacier in Antarctica, sparking concerns that the ice sheet is melting more rapidly than expected. Researchers working as part of a Nasa-led study found the cavern, which they said was 300 metres tall and two-thirds the size of Manhattan, at the bottom of the massive Thwaites glacier. Continue reading... |
| Sri Lanka to begin hangings within months, ending 43-year stay on executions Posted: 06 Feb 2019 09:30 PM PST Crackdown inspired by Philippines' war on drugs comes as president Maithripala Sirisena faces tough election Sri Lanka will begin hanging convicted drug dealers within the next three months, its president has announced, ending a 43-year moratorium on executions as part of a crackdown inspired by the Philippines' brutal war on drugs. Maithripala Sirisena has been praising Rodrigo Duterte's violent campaign against the drugs trade as an "example to the world" and flagged the possible return of the death penalty for drug dealers last July. Continue reading... |
| Japan PM vows to fight child abuse after 'heart-wrenching' death of girl, 10 Posted: 06 Feb 2019 10:39 PM PST Mia Kurihara, who died after being returned to her father's care, joins high-profile cases that have shocked the country Authorities in Japan are facing demands to do more to protect children from abusive parents following the death of a 10-year-old girl who was returned to the care of her father despite evidence that he had been violent towards her. Mia Kurihara was found dead in the bathroom of her home in Chiba, near Tokyo, in January, just over year after telling teachers that her father, Yuichiro Kurihara, regularly beat and bullied her. Continue reading... |
| 'A drastic step backwards': Guatemala considers amnesty for war crimes Posted: 06 Feb 2019 10:00 PM PST Proposal under consideration by congress would free criminals convicted of extrajudicial killings and torture War criminals convicted of extrajudicial killings, torture and sexual slavery could soon walk free if Guatemalan lawmakers sanction a blanket amnesty for crimes committed during the 36-year armed conflict which left 200,000 people dead or disappeared. Congress will vote this week to reform the national reconciliation law and give absolute impunity for crimes against humanity including genocide, rape and forced disappearance. The law currently exempts only political crimes and has been regarded as a beacon for postwar justice since coming into force alongside the 1996 peace accords. Continue reading... |
| Blackface past and sexual assault claim threaten Virginia's top three officials Posted: 06 Feb 2019 11:46 PM PST Attorney general Mark Herring and governor Ralph Northam admitted blacking up while Justin Fairfax faces sex allegation The political crisis in Virginia escalated dramatically on Wednesday when the state's attorney general confessed to putting on blackface in the 1980s and a woman went public with detailed allegations of sexual assault against the lieutenant governor. With Governor Ralph Northam's career already hanging by a thread over a racist photo in his 1984 medical school yearbook, the day's developments threatened to take down Virginia's top three elected officials, all of them Democrats. Continue reading... |
| Deportation flight lands in Jamaica after reprieve for some Posted: 06 Feb 2019 06:07 PM PST Campaigners condemn 'ad hoc' system under which 29 people were expelled from UK but others allowed to stay at last minute A deportation flight carrying 29 people landed in Jamaica from the UK on Wednesday amid concern over Home Office tactics. More than 50 foreign national offenders who were being held in detention centres had reportedly been due to leave on the flight. But many of them were able to have their removal cancelled after their lawyers took action. Continue reading... |
| US boyfriend of Russian agent Maria Butina charged with fraud Posted: 07 Feb 2019 12:15 AM PST Paul Erickson, who arranged high-level NRA visit to Moscow, allegedly cheated investors out of thousands A conservative US political activist romantically linked to the Russian agent Maria Butina has been indicted by a federal grand jury on wire fraud and money laundering charges, the US attorney's office in South Dakota has said. Paul Erickson, 56, was indicted on 11 counts of wire fraud and money laundering on Tuesday and pleaded not guilty to the charges in an appearance before US magistrate judge Mark Moreno, the office said. Erickson's attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Continue reading... |
| Voting in cute baby contest halted after parents' snide comments about rivals Posted: 06 Feb 2019 07:41 PM PST Bonds Baby Search says staff will now pick pageant winners after online vitriol turned juvenile Public voting in an Australian clothing company's baby pageant competition has been cancelled because of out-of-control parents sledging the appearances of other parents' infants. Bonds Baby Search has announced staff will now pick the daily winners and they have also introduced a pets category into the competition that has an overall prize pool of $40,000. Continue reading... |
| Almaty spills its secrets: lost Soviet art discovered behind wall Posted: 06 Feb 2019 03:00 AM PST Thanks to the Kazakhstan city's loss of capital status in the 90s, rare mosaics, sgraffiti and other artworks escaped destruction When Jama Nurkalieva and a small group of colleagues conducted a site survey of a disused Soviet-era panoramic cinema in Almaty, the former capital of Kazakhstan, they had no idea what lay behind the internal plasterboard wall that faces out towards the street – until someone spotted a narrow gap. As the caretaker shined a light into the darkness behind, the group caught a glimpse of a man's head. Out came the toolbox and the rest of the artwork was slowly revealed: a Soviet-era sgraffito by the graphic artist Eugeny Sidorkin that had been lost and forgotten for decades. Continue reading... |
| Trump wants out of America's longest war, but Afghans can't just walk away Posted: 06 Feb 2019 09:00 PM PST Hope is real after landmark Taliban talks, but fears remain about what might happen if US troops depart The start of 2019 has brought for Afghanistan a tantalising hope of peace, fragile but very real, as the Taliban sat down for talks first with Americans in Qatar and this week with senior members of the Afghan elite in Moscow. These discussions come fraught with fears, that the progress for women and civil rights will be traded away too easily, and that the Taliban may renege on any deal once US troops and their coercive power are gone. Continue reading... |
| Five hurt in suspected gas explosion in Batley Posted: 07 Feb 2019 01:42 AM PST People treated for burns after blast in centre of Yorkshire town on Wednesday evening Five people have been injured in a suspected gas explosion at a flat in Batley town centre in Kirklees, West Yorkshire. Several people sustained burns and were treated in hospital after the incident on Wednesday evening, West Yorkshire police said. Continue reading... |
| Corbyn faces backlash from Labour pro-Europeans after sending Brexit plan to PM - Politics live Posted: 07 Feb 2019 02:37 AM PST Rolling coverage of the day's political developments as they happen, including Theresa May's visit to Brussels for Brexit talks with Donald Tusk and Jean-Claude Juncker
On the Today programme David Lidington, the Cabinet Office minister and Theresa May's de facto deputy, said that the government would be happy to talk with Labour further about its Brexit plans. He said that he had not received any "direct overtures" from the party about talks, but that he would be willing to discuss the issue with Sir Keir Starmer, the shadow Brexit secretary, or Emily Thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary. But he also claimed that the Labour proposals (see 9.36am) reflected "wishful thinking". A key part of any discussion would be "to understand exactly where the Labour frontbench is coming from", he said. He went on: I would be saying to Labour, 'What is it that you don't like about what is in the political declaration at the moment?', because what we have there is an idea of a customs arrangement with the European Union that still allows us to have an independent trade policy on top of that, but while getting access - tariff-free and quota-free - for our goods and agriculture to the European market. I would be asking what on earth they mean when they say they want to be in a customs union with the EU but also for Britain to have a say in EU trade policy with other countries. That's not something that's allowed under the European treaties. This seems to be wishful thinking.
Here are three more Labour MPs expressing doubts about Jeremy Corbyn's Brexit offer to Theresa May. From Darren Jones Essentially Norway+ which still raises the question: what's the point? We gain nothing but lose our vote and our veto. I won't support it but either way it should go back to the people for ratification. @peoplesvote_uk https://t.co/iMDWh1195i Just to be clear - I won't be endorsing any form of #Brexit that doesn't go back to the people for them to have the #FinalSay with an option to keep the deal we already have @peoplesvote_uk Compromise can be a good thing. But not compromise without legitimacy. The last thing this country needs are Westminster stitch-ups which risk angering *both* Leavers and Remainers and creating yet more division. That's why the people should have the #FinalSay @peoplesvote_uk I understand the desire to seek a parliamentary consensus to resolve the #Brexit crisis. Not sure backing May's botched deal in return for non-binding promises about the future is sensible or would work. #brexitshambles #peoplesvote https://t.co/UrCKsmH8WX Continue reading... |
| Male golfers happily took Saudi money. Female players may think twice Posted: 07 Feb 2019 02:00 AM PST Saudi Arabia plans to host a tournament for female golfers but athletes may have qualms about a country in which women are second-class citizens Saudi Arabia, a country that recently took the radical step of allowing women to drive, is now a stop on the European Tour. Surprisingly, given that until recently women weren't even allowed to watch sporting events in Saudi Arabia, there is even talk of a women's tournament being held in the kingdom. (Insert your joke about the country finally welcoming female drivers here.) "The old story of Saudi Arabia that it's segregated is no longer applicable," Majed Al-Sorour, CEO of the Saudi Golf Federation, said last week. Continue reading... |
| From a ramshackle slum farm, young people are feeding Nairobi’s hungry | Naomi Larrson Posted: 06 Feb 2019 11:30 PM PST On a tiny urban smallholding in Kenya, the Huruma Town Youth Group tend goats and chickens and grow vegetables – sharing their bounty with the community's most vulnerable In a space of less than an eighth of an acre in Huruma, a small informal settlement in north-east Nairobi, is a tiny farm housing 19 goats and 286 birds – chickens, doves and guineafowl. Pens and cages have been cobbled together with discarded wood and corrugated iron. Goats hop from a pen curious to see their new visitors, passing day-old chicks who squeak from inside a cage. There's a goat skin drying out in the sun as a bunch of flies swarm above it. Continue reading... |
| Guns v grief: inside America’s deadliest cultural chasm Posted: 07 Feb 2019 02:30 AM PST A mass shooting occurs nine out of 10 days in America. Stephen Marche explores America's dueling gun cultures, from the world's largest arms show to a family who helps victims cope Outside the world's largest gun show the flag flies at half-mast, but it's unclear for which catastrophe. The most recent mass shooting, at the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, California, was on a Wednesday and Wanenmacher's Tulsa Arms Show is three days later, but the shock of mass shootings and the periods of mourning which follow ebb more quickly now than even a few years ago. The nightmare has woven itself into the everyday informational stream: the stock market rises and falls, one team beats another team, restaurants open and close, Apple announces a new phone, a man enters a public place with artillery and massacres a bunch of strangers. It's news but not shocking news. There is a mass shooting – more than four people not including the shooter – nine out of 10 days in America. Continue reading... |
| Leopoldo López: scion of Venezuelan elite dedicated to burying Chavismo Posted: 06 Feb 2019 10:05 PM PST The opposition leader behind Juan Guaidó's rise has been under house arrest since 2017, but is an experienced schemer Leopoldo López has been under house arrest since 2017, but he played a key role in Juan Guaidó's sudden ascent from the political margin to Venezuela's would-be president. López claims to be distant relative of Simón Bolívar, the general who liberated Venezuela from Spanish rule in the 19th century. Like many members of the Venezuelan elite, he was educated in the United States, at a boarding school in New Jersey, and later at Harvard, where he attended the Kennedy school of government. Continue reading... |
| 'Known hugger': Scott Buchholz told colleagues he may have misread the situation Posted: 07 Feb 2019 12:59 AM PST Sources say Queensland MP told them he hugged the RAAF officer who filed the complaint The under-fire Liberal minister Scott Buchholz gave a female air force officer what he described to colleagues as "a hug" – a move which led to an official complaint against him. Buchholz has issued an apology to the officer following the incident in Darwin last August during a taxpayer-funded exchange with the Australian defence force to observe the military exercise Pitch Black in 2018. Continue reading... |
| The dead Sudanese singer inspiring revolt against Omar al-Bashir Posted: 06 Feb 2019 09:00 PM PST Six years after his death, youth idol Mahmoud Abdelaziz remains an influential symbol of a very different Sudan When Mahmoud Abdelaziz, one of Sudan's most popular singers, died in Amman in January 2013, his fans mobbed the runway of Khartoum airport as his body was flown home, forcing the cancellation of flights. Others poured out on to the city's streets, forming one of the biggest crowds witnessed in Sudan's recent history. Continue reading... |
| From Iraq to Yemen: the grubby business of counting the war dead Posted: 06 Feb 2019 05:11 AM PST A Labour MP's grotesque take on Yemen war casualties serves only to show the sordid and politicised nature of body counts Counting the bodies in conflicts is a necessary, confusing and too often sordid business. Body counts are necessary for obvious reasons. Numbers supply a moral reference point. They tell us about the scale of a conflict as well as if civilians were targeted and how. They provide evidence for different kinds of human rights advocacy in an international setting, and assist in setting policy for emergency assistance. Continue reading... |
| 'Aristocrats are anarchists': why the wealthy back Trump and Brexit Posted: 07 Feb 2019 12:00 AM PST Nationalism has been sold as 'a war for the little guy' but Brooke Harrington argues that it serves the interests of elites We know that politics makes strange bedfellows, but few alliances are more surprising than the one linking the ultra-rich to ultra-nationalists. What could the wealthiest people in the world have in common with those upending politics in the name of the "forgotten man"? As I have found in over a decade of research on global elites and tax havens, a shared political project unites them: both seek to weaken or dismantle international alliances that constrain them. For ultra-nationalists, this project means "taking back control" of their governments from foreigners. For the ultra-rich, it means eliminating the controls that international organizations and alliances have imposed on them individually and as a class: a world without the EU, or without the Global Magnitsky Act, is one in which the people who appeared in the Panama Papers can get even richer and expand their influence over an increasing share of the world's governments and resources. Continue reading... |
| Venezuela blocks border as Maduro tries to keep troops on side – video Posted: 06 Feb 2019 11:00 PM PST Venezuelan soldiers have blocked the border crossing with Colombia ahead of a humanitarian aid delivery from the US arranged by opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who has declared himself interim president. 'We have been threatened by the US empire,' said Venezuela's embattled president Nicolás Maduro. But the aid blockade could lead to troops disobeying Maduro's orders and allowing the much-needed aid to pass. International pressure is growing on Maduro to step down after major EU nations this week joined the US, Canada and some Latin American countries in recognising Guaidó as the country's legitimate leader |
| Donald Trump's 2019 State of the Union address – video highlights Posted: 06 Feb 2019 05:49 AM PST Donald Trump has delivered his second State of the Union address, calling for bipartisan unity before taking aim at 'ridiculous partisan investigations', while continuing his demand for a US-Mexico border wall. Female Democrat members attended the speech dressed in white, in a tribute to the women's suffrage movement Continue reading... |
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