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- Jeff Bezos accuses National Enquirer owner of 'extortion and blackmail'
- 'Political earthquake' as Thai princess runs for PM against military junta
- Brexit 'no-deal' crisis command centre starts hiring civilians
- Saudi crown prince wanted to go after Jamal Khashoggi 'with a bullet' – report
- Emiliano Sala: fellow footballers pay tribute after body identified
- Conflict erupts for control of Libya's largest oil field
- Anti-FGM campaigner denied NHS cancer care
- Fire at Flamengo football training centre kills 10 people
- Berlusconi joins Salvini on campaign trail as Italian right seeks gains
- Sexual harassment allegations mount against Nobel laureate Oscar Árias
- Russian artists invite visitors to donate blood to exhibition
- 'Each one has a story': the mundane beauty of NYC's doors
- The battle for the future of Stonehenge
- A special place in hell ... and an unwanted place on Earth | John Crace
- US briefing: Jeff Bezos, Rod Rosenstein and Toronto killer's trial
- 'Pain has no borders': loved ones recall victims of Toronto serial killer
- 'Beautiful detail and a bit of green': Kyoto by Janis Malcomson
- 'Give back my money': banned billionaire Huang Xiangmo hits out at political parties
- What happened to the fight against racist monuments after Charlottesville?
- ‘My boyfriend sold one of my kidneys – then he sold me’: trafficking in Nepal
- Outrage over use of 'Miss Curvy' beauty pageant to promote Ugandan tourism
- Rome's war of words with President Macron may prove self-defeating
- Republican tries to remove Parkland parents during gun reform hearing – video
| Jeff Bezos accuses National Enquirer owner of 'extortion and blackmail' Posted: 07 Feb 2019 11:53 PM PST Amazon chief alleges tabloid threatened to publish nude images of him Jeff Bezos has accused the publisher of the National Enquirer of "extortion and blackmail" in a blogpost alleging it threatened to publish revealing personal photos unless the Amazon chief executive publicly affirmed the paper's reporting was not politically motivated. Bezos, who is the world's richest man and owns the Washington Post, became the subject of tabloid papers in January after he and his wife, MacKenzie, announced they were divorcing. Shortly after, the National Enquirer published "intimate text messages" revealing Bezos's relationship with Lauren Sánchez, a former TV anchor. Continue reading... |
| 'Political earthquake' as Thai princess runs for PM against military junta Posted: 08 Feb 2019 02:59 AM PST Surprise move pits Ubolratana Rajakanya Sirivadhana Varnavadi against leader of 2014 coup The sister of Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn has entered the race to become prime minister in next month's elections in an unprecedented move that redraws the country's political landscape. Ubolratana Rajakanya Sirivadhana Barnavadi said she was exercising her rights as a citizen in accepting an offer to represent the Thai Raksa Chart party. She is the first member of the royal family to run for the office of PM, and will face the coup leader and head of Thailand's military junta, Prayut Chan-o-cha, who said on Friday he was running to "maintain peace and order". Continue reading... |
| Brexit 'no-deal' crisis command centre starts hiring civilians Posted: 08 Feb 2019 02:44 AM PST Recruitment agencies told military-style operation could stay open for two years The government has started to recruit civilians to work in a Brexit emergency command and control centre, which is being set up to make sure Britain runs smoothly in the aftermath of a potential no deal. Briefing notes issued by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), to recruitment agencies state the EU Exit Emergencies Centre (EUXE) could stay open "potentially for two years". Continue reading... |
| Saudi crown prince wanted to go after Jamal Khashoggi 'with a bullet' – report Posted: 07 Feb 2019 05:34 PM PST US media report quotes intelligence sources who intercepted a conversation between Mohammed bin Salman and an aide in 2017 Saudi Arabia's crown prince told a senior aide he would go after Jamal Khashoggi "with a bullet" a year before the dissident journalist was killed inside the kingdom's Istanbul consulate, according to a US media report. US intelligence understood that Mohammed bin Salman, the country's 33-year-old de facto ruler, was ready to kill the journalist, although he may not have literally meant to shoot him, according to the New York Times ($). Continue reading... |
| Emiliano Sala: fellow footballers pay tribute after body identified Posted: 08 Feb 2019 01:22 AM PST Sergio Agüero among those expressing sadness at death of Cardiff City player Tributes have been paid to the footballer Emiliano Sala after his body was recovered from the Channel and formally identified. An aircraft carrying the Cardiff City player, flown by David Ibbotson, crashed on 21 January en route from Nantes to Cardiff. Continue reading... |
| Conflict erupts for control of Libya's largest oil field Posted: 07 Feb 2019 09:00 PM PST Fighting between UN-backed GNA and Libyan National Army over field closed since December Fighting has broken out over the future of Libya's largest oil field, as forces loyal to the UN-recognised Tripoli-based government battle Libyan National Army (LNA) forces led by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, the leading figure in fractured Libya's east. Al-Sharara field, 560 miles south of Tripoli, is capable of producing 315,000 barrels of crude a day – about a third of Libya's total current output. But it has been closed by the Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) since December when the installation was seized by local tribes demanding the Tripoli government did more to lift the area out of poverty. Continue reading... |
| Anti-FGM campaigner denied NHS cancer care Posted: 08 Feb 2019 02:39 AM PST Man who fled Gambia after challenging government not eligible for free healthcare A campaigner against female genital mutilation who had been diagnosed with terminal cancer was sent away from a Derby hospital because he was not eligible for free NHS care. Saloum, 54, who asked for his surname not to be used, fled Gambia 10 years ago after risking his life by challenging the government for condoning the widespread use of FGM. Three-quarters of Gambian women aged 15-49 have undergone FGM. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Fire at Flamengo football training centre kills 10 people Posted: 08 Feb 2019 02:50 AM PST • Firefighters confirm fatalities on Friday morning • Blaze happened at Brazilian club's training centre A fire at the training centre of Rio de Janeiro football club Flamengo killed 10 people and injured at least three others on Friday, firefighters said. The fire broke out at Ninho do Urubu, a state-of-the-art training centre that was expanded and opened only two months ago. Continue reading... |
| Berlusconi joins Salvini on campaign trail as Italian right seeks gains Posted: 08 Feb 2019 01:50 AM PST Ex-prime minister met Matteo Salvini in show of unity among rightwing parties in Abruzzo Silvio Berlusconi has returned to the campaign trail alongside Matteo Salvini as his rightwing coalition is revived ahead of elections in the central Italian region of Abruzzo on Sunday. The former prime minister's appearance at a press conference on Thursday was his first major campaign outing since March last year when the same alliance, made up of his Forza Italia and the two far-right parties, Salvini's League and Brothers of Italy, took 38% of the vote in general elections. Continue reading... |
| Sexual harassment allegations mount against Nobel laureate Oscar Árias Posted: 07 Feb 2019 11:00 PM PST Pressure grows on two-time Costa Rica president as former Observer journalist speaks out over alleged assault in 1990 Oscar Árias, the Nobel peace laureate and two-time president of Costa Rica, is facing mounting accusations of sexual misconduct after a criminal complaint alleging assault was filed against him. Four women have now said they were assaulted by Árias. The complaint, filed by an unnamed activist, was followed by public allegations by Eleonora Antillon, a Costa Rican journalist, who said she too had been assaulted by Árias in the mid-80s, when she was working for his campaign. Continue reading... |
| Russian artists invite visitors to donate blood to exhibition Posted: 07 Feb 2019 09:00 PM PST Charleroi show will feature blood pumped through tubes spelling out banned song lyrics In an unusual twist on participatory art, visitors to an exhibition by two prominent Russian conceptual artists will be asked to donate blood for display. Black Horizon, which opens on Saturday in Charleroi, Belgium, is the work of Erik Bulatov and Andrei Molodkin, who say it is about censorship and propaganda. Continue reading... |
| 'Each one has a story': the mundane beauty of NYC's doors Posted: 07 Feb 2019 03:00 AM PST Instagrammer Jonathan shares his obsession with the city's doors, from the grand to the graffiti-ridden It is only natural to feel curious about what goes on behind the imposing, archaic or graffiti-ridden doors of our cities. Instagrammer Jonathan knows this feeling all too well. For the past year and a half he has been photographing the doors of New York from the grand to the scruffy, presenting a unique view of this well-documented city. Continue reading... |
| The battle for the future of Stonehenge Posted: 07 Feb 2019 10:00 PM PST Britain's favourite monument is stuck in the middle of a bad-tempered row over road traffic. By Charlotte Higgins Stonehenge, with the possible exception of Big Ben, is Britain's most recognisable monument. As a symbol of the nation's antiquity, it is our Parthenon, our pyramids – although, admittedly, less impressive. Neil MacGregor, the former director of the British Museum, recalls that when he took a group of Egyptian archaeologists to see it, they were baffled by our national devotion to the stones, which, compared to the refined surfaces of the pyramids, seemed to them like something hastily thrown up over a weekend. Unlike those other monuments, though, Stonehenge is more or less a complete mystery. Nobody knows for sure why, or by whom, this vast arrangement of boulders was erected on Wiltshire's downlands, in the south of England, about 5,000 years ago. Into this void have rushed myriad theories, from the academically sober to the blatantly fantastic. Over the centuries, its construction has been confidently credited to giants, wizards, Phoenicians, Mycenaeans, Romans, Saxons, Danes and aliens. (According to one medieval theory, Merlin had it transported from Ireland to serve as the funeral monument for Britons slaughtered by Hengist, the treacherous Saxon.) Continue reading... |
| A special place in hell ... and an unwanted place on Earth | John Crace Posted: 08 Feb 2019 03:08 AM PST Donald Tusk's frustration may have good grounds, unlike anti-natalist Raphael Samuel No one seems quite sure whether Raphael Samuel, the anti-natalist from Mumbai who plans to sue his parents for having been born without his consent, is for real or not. My natural cynicism inclines me to believe Raph is a bit of a wind-up merchant, but there are still plenty of people who are taking him seriously. The logic certainly appears somewhat fragile. Unless Raph believes that everyone but him managed, before they existed in any form, to send secret messages giving persons unknown permission to have unprotected sex, he must be baffled that no one else has got round to suing their parents. And indeed bewildered that his own parents haven't sued their parents for being born against their will. Nor is it entirely clear what Raph hopes to get out of this. Does he want his parents to kill him? Does he want the right to officially be considered not to exist for tax purposes? Or can he just not wait to collect on his inheritance and is looking for an early financial payoff? Whichever it is, I would be encouraging his parents to get their retaliation in early by counter-suing Raph for being an ungrateful miserabilist and not the son for which they had hoped. Though that could be a dangerous precedent. There must have been plenty of times when my parents felt like suing me for damages. Not that I had any money to give them back then. As for me, I'm just looking for someone to sue for the fact that one day I am going to die. Continue reading... |
| US briefing: Jeff Bezos, Rod Rosenstein and Toronto killer's trial Posted: 08 Feb 2019 03:09 AM PST Friday's top story: Amazon boss accuses National Enquirer owner of 'extortion and blackmail'. Plus, why the US withdrawal from Afghanistan is a dangerous capitulation Good morning, I'm Tim Walker with today's essential stories. Continue reading... |
| 'Pain has no borders': loved ones recall victims of Toronto serial killer Posted: 08 Feb 2019 12:00 AM PST The eight men murdered by Bruce McArthur – many of south Asian or Middle Eastern heritage – all had lives, hopes and dreams When Greg Dunn addressed a packed Toronto courtroom this week, his voice drew taut as he spoke of his close friend Andrew Kinsman, who was murdered by the serial killer Bruce McArthur. "Fractures never heal as well as a break and they tend to bother you for the rest of your life," Dunn said. "My life has been truly fractured. My heart, soul and spirit have been fractured. They may heal in time, but it will never be the same." Continue reading... |
| 'Beautiful detail and a bit of green': Kyoto by Janis Malcomson Posted: 08 Feb 2019 03:00 AM PST Over the years, former architect Janis Malcomson has explored Kyoto's mixture of tradition and modernity – and had a tofu revelation Continue reading... |
| 'Give back my money': banned billionaire Huang Xiangmo hits out at political parties Posted: 07 Feb 2019 10:44 PM PST Huang says treatment is 'grotesquely unfair' and his donations should be returned if they were not appropriate The Chinese billionaire and major political donor Huang Xiangmo has hit out at a decision to bar him from Australia, describing his treatment as "grotesquely unfair" and telling political parties to return his money if they believe it was given inappropriately. Huang has been effectively barred from re-entering Australia after authorities blocked his bid for citizenship and cancelled his residency. Concerns have been raised about his long-running involvement with the Australian Council for the Promotion of the Peaceful Reunification of China, which experts say acts as part of China's global influence network. Continue reading... |
| What happened to the fight against racist monuments after Charlottesville? Posted: 08 Feb 2019 03:00 AM PST Though national news outlets are paying less attention, efforts to remove Confederate statues and other memorials are alive and well Shortly after the horror of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, there was extensive reporting on the snap decisions of many cities and counties to remove commemorations of the Confederacy, many of which were erected long after the conclusion of the war. Eighteen months later, the national news cycle has largely moved on. The good news that most media, aside from small local outlets, are not covering is the continuing success of grassroots activists fighting to remove statues and plaques, rename landmarks and delete dedications from state houses. Continue reading... |
| ‘My boyfriend sold one of my kidneys – then he sold me’: trafficking in Nepal Posted: 08 Feb 2019 01:00 AM PST A checkpoint along the Nepal-India border has become has one of the world's busiest human trafficking routes. Now it is being policed by survivors who try to spot other potential victims It is midday in Bhairchawa, one of the 23 official border checkpoints between Nepal and India. Each day, up to 100,000 people cross under the stone arch separating the two countries. Some are on foot, others in trucks or on bikes, mopeds and rickshaws. Amid the chaos – the people, the dust, the noise of traffic and honking of horns – are the guardians: women who, having survived the horrors of human trafficking, now spend every day trying to spot potential victims and their exploiters among the crowds. One of the women on duty today is Pema. While we talk, her eyes remain fixed on the crowds, scanning the throngs of people moving slowly across the checkpoint. Continue reading... |
| Outrage over use of 'Miss Curvy' beauty pageant to promote Ugandan tourism Posted: 07 Feb 2019 05:50 AM PST Campaign involving 'naturally endowed, nice-looking women' sparks backlash from ministers and activists A plan to promote Uganda's tourist industry with a "Miss Curvy" beauty contest has caused a government row in the east African nation. The proposal to add "curvy and sexy women" to official literature listing Uganda's attractions, devised by the country's tourism minister, has drawn an angry rebuke from the minister of ethics and integrity and condemnation from women's right activists. Continue reading... |
| Rome's war of words with President Macron may prove self-defeating Posted: 07 Feb 2019 10:00 PM PST The French ambassador's recall ought to remind Italy's populist leaders that they need some friends in Europe Diplomatic etiquette would normally classify the recall of an ambassador for "consultations" as a middle-order symbol of displeasure. During the cold war, the summoning, or withdrawal, of an ambassador was mundane. More recently, Hungary pulled its ambassador from the Netherlands in 2017, in response to criticism by the outgoing Dutch ambassador in Hungary. Related: France recalls Rome envoy over worst verbal onslaught 'since the war' Continue reading... |
| Republican tries to remove Parkland parents during gun reform hearing – video Posted: 07 Feb 2019 08:26 AM PST The Republican Matt Gaetz pushed Trump's goal of building a wall across the southern border of the US during a Congress hearing on gun reform. Arguing against the proposed HR8 bill, which would require universal background checks, he said: 'HR8 would not have stopped many of the circumstances ... but a wall, southern border, may have.' Gaetz's comments angered Manuel Oliver and Fred Guttenberg, both fathers who lost their children in the Parkland shootings in 2018, which prompted Gaetz to call for Oliver to be thrown out Continue reading... |
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