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Democratic oversight is 'bullshit': Trump goes off-script at CPAC
May’s hopes rise as senior Tory MPs soften opposition to Brexit deal
Pulitzer-winning Reuters photographer Yannis Behrakis dies aged 58
'Super fugitive' mafia boss arrested after 14 years on the run
New Orleans: two killed and six injured after being hit by car
Handing over power may be first steps to change in Sudan
Shamima Begum: Dutch husband wants to take teenager to Netherlands
Stephon Clark: police officers who shot man eight times will not be charged
Solomon Islands oil leak: Australia sends more help amid environmental fears
US and South Korea scrap big military exercises to ease tensions with North
Dolly Parton’s sister ‘ashamed’ of star over silence on #MeToo protest
The neo-Nazi plot against America is much bigger than we realize
Three Sundays to Brexit – cartoon
Charity at heart of ‘white saviour’ row speaks out
Channel 4 resists demands to scrap film alleging abuse by Michael Jackson
Ex-Brazil president Lula leaves prison to attend grandson's funeral
James Stevens resigns from SA premier's office to bid for Christopher Pyne's seat
Slavery in the north: Washington’s fugitive, Detroit’s forgotten crime
Censured by Britain, Hezbollah is bigger than ever in Beirut
Ocasio-Cortez's critics babble and bluster … but can't ignore her | Arwa Mahdawi

Democratic oversight is 'bullshit': Trump goes off-script at CPAC

Posted: 02 Mar 2019 01:37 PM PST

President slams Russia investigation and Green New Deal
Trump is a national security risk – still Republicans back him

Donald Trump sought to regain his footing after a torrid week with a fiery speech using two of his favourite tactics: going off script and hurling insults at opponents.

May’s hopes rise as senior Tory MPs soften opposition to Brexit deal

Posted: 03 Mar 2019 12:00 AM PST

Despite their past criticisms, Graham Brady and his 1922 committee now seem willing to help the prime minister get her plans through

Theresa May's hopes of winning parliamentary approval for her Brexit deal grew last night as the leader of Conservative backbenchers softened his opposition – and suggested he will recommend that MPs back it – if the prime minister secures new assurances on the Irish backstop.

The move by Sir Graham Brady, who chairs the 1922 committee, is a significant shift and came as senior government sources predicted that May could hold the crucial meaningful vote as early as this week. Only weeks ago Brady successfully championed a Commons amendment that instructed May to return to Brussels to negotiate the complete removal of the backstop from the withdrawal agreement and find another way to solve the Irish border issue.

Pulitzer-winning Reuters photographer Yannis Behrakis dies aged 58

Posted: 02 Mar 2019 11:55 PM PST

Respected photojournalist covered violence and upheaval across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia

Yannis Behrakis, one of Reuters' most decorated and respected photographers, has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 58.

Behrakis covered many of the most tumultuous events around the world, including conflicts in Afghanistan and Chechnya, a huge earthquake in Kashmir and the Egyptian uprising of 2011.

'Super fugitive' mafia boss arrested after 14 years on the run

Posted: 02 Mar 2019 09:08 PM PST

Naples boss Marco Di Lauro considered second-most dangerous man in Italy

An Italian mafia "super fugitive", Marco Di Lauro, has been arrested in Naples after over 14 years on the run.

Di Lauro, 38, was arrested without a fight on Saturday at a modest apartment where he lived with his wife in the city's Chiaiano district, police said. He was sitting with his two cats and eating pasta when police arrested him in an operation involving around 150 officers.

New Orleans: two killed and six injured after being hit by car

Posted: 02 Mar 2019 11:38 PM PST

A suspect has been detained after a speeding vehicle careered into a bicycle lane

Two people have been killed and six injured after being struck by a vehicle on a busy street in New Orleans.

Police said that a suspect was in custody following the incident at around 8pm on Saturday along a multiple-block stretch of Esplanade Avenue.

Handing over power may be first steps to change in Sudan

Posted: 02 Mar 2019 11:00 PM PST

Bashir has declared state of emergency and promoted ally to head off internal party revolt

Street protesters in Sudan pressing for a change of leader and regime achieved a remarkable turnaround last week – but not the sort they were hoping for.

President Omar al-Bashir, who seized power in a coup 30 years ago and has clung on tenaciously since, unexpectedly stood down as head of the ruling National Congress party (NCP). But rather than open the door to reform, as protesters demanded, Bashir gave power to a close ally – who, like him, has been charged by the international criminal court (ICC) with war crimes in Darfur.

Shamima Begum: Dutch husband wants to take teenager to Netherlands

Posted: 02 Mar 2019 11:42 PM PST

Detained Isis fighter Yago Riedijk says it was British runaway's 'own choice' to marry him in Syria at 15

The Dutch husband of Shamima Begum, the British-born teenager who joined Islamic State, says he wants to return to the Netherlands with her and their newborn son.

Isis fighter Yago Riedijk, 27, is being held in a Kurdish-run detention centre in northern Syria.

Stephon Clark: police officers who shot man eight times will not be charged

Posted: 02 Mar 2019 06:16 PM PST

District attorney says officers justified in using lethal force
Protests expected over decision on March 2018 shooting

The police officers who shot and killed Stephon Clark will not be charged by the Sacramento county district attorney's office.

Solomon Islands oil leak: Australia sends more help amid environmental fears

Posted: 02 Mar 2019 10:52 PM PST

Spill could damage Rennell Island, the world's largest raised coral atoll and home to many species found nowhere else

Australia is sending more help to the Pacific nation of the Solomon Islands to stop oil from a grounded cargo ship destroying a world heritage-listed marine sanctuary, Australia's foreign minister said on Sunday.

At least 75 tonnes of heavy fuel oil has spilled from Hong Kong-flagged bulk carrier Solomon Trader since Cyclone Oma drove it onto a reef at Rennell Island on 5 February.

US and South Korea scrap big military exercises to ease tensions with North

Posted: 02 Mar 2019 05:59 PM PST

Operations involving thousands of troops have always infuriated Pyongyang

The US and South Korea have said they will end their annual large-scale joint military exercises as Washington pursues efforts to improve ties with North Korea.

The decision comes days after the conclusion of Donald Trump's second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, which ended without a formal agreement but with both sides suggesting they would keep talking.

Dolly Parton’s sister ‘ashamed’ of star over silence on #MeToo protest

Posted: 03 Mar 2019 12:00 AM PST

Younger sibling says singer should use her position to speak out about abuse in the country and western music industry

Dolly Parton has been criticised by her younger sister for not speaking out more about sexual predators in the country and western music scene, after the star of 9 to 5 said she didn't identify as a feminist and indicated she had no interest in becoming a cheerleader for the #MeToo movement.

In a scathing attack on the Nashville singer's approach to sexual harassment, Stella Parton urged her sister to use her position as a pop culture icon to advocate more for women's rights.

The neo-Nazi plot against America is much bigger than we realize

Posted: 02 Mar 2019 09:00 PM PST

Lt Christopher Hasson is the product of traditions in white supremacist circles, and experts say there are 'thousands like him'

In the early summer of 2017, US coast guard lieutenant Christopher Hasson had an idea. He had been trying to figure out an effective way of killing billions of people – "almost every last person on Earth" – but found himself coming up against the daunting logistics of such a task.

Three Sundays to Brexit – cartoon

Posted: 02 Mar 2019 10:00 AM PST

As 29 March nears, fears rise over US demands for greater access to Britain's supermarkets

Charity at heart of ‘white saviour’ row speaks out

Posted: 02 Mar 2019 11:00 PM PST

The leaders of a Ugandan campaign group explain why they are angry about western aid agencies

Jinja, a sleepy town by the shores of Lake Victoria in eastern Uganda, is a coveted place for tourists. It is also the cradle of the "white saviour complex", according to the group that took the television journalist Stacey Dooley to task for posting a photograph of herself with a black child on social media while filming for Comic Relief in Uganda.

Kelsey Nielsen, who runs No White Saviours (NWS) with Olivia Alaso, told the Observer: "We see it in restaurants, when a white person is served first while a black person receives crappy services. We see it in the way organisations pay black workers less."

Channel 4 resists demands to scrap film alleging abuse by Michael Jackson

Posted: 03 Mar 2019 01:00 AM PST

The broadcaster will go ahead with Finding Neverland, which contains claims by two men that the singer assaulted them

Channel 4 is to go ahead with the broadcast of British director Dan Reed's controversial documentary about Michael Jackson's alleged abuse of two children, despite demands from the late singer's estate to pull it from the schedule.

"We tried to make it graphic enough to be eye-opening and for people to be confronted with what it means for a little child to be seduced and raped by an adult paedophile," the Bafta-winning film-maker Reed said this weekend.

Ex-Brazil president Lula leaves prison to attend grandson's funeral

Posted: 02 Mar 2019 01:25 PM PST

Workers' party leader serving 12 years for corruption
Lula reiterates his innocence, vowing: 'I'm going to get out'

Former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva left prison on Saturday to attend the funeral of his seven-year-old grandson, reiterating his innocence before political leaders and relatives who had gathered to mourn.

Lula, who is serving a 12-year sentence for corruption and money laundering, was released at 7am local time from a prison in the Paraná state capital, Curitiba. He flew to São Paulo before taking a helicopter to São Bernardo do Campo, where the funeral took place. He was scheduled to return to his cell later in the afternoon.

James Stevens resigns from SA premier's office to bid for Christopher Pyne's seat

Posted: 02 Mar 2019 09:36 PM PST

Long-serving Liberal MP for Sturt will not contest the next election but says Stevens would be a fine replacement

James Stevens has resigned as chief of staff to the South Australian premier, Steven Marshall, in a bid to replace Christopher Pyne in the federal seat of Sturt.

When the defence minister announced on Saturday he would not recontest the Adelaide seat he has held for 26 years, he told reporters Stevens "fits the criteria" to be his successor.

Slavery in the north: Washington’s fugitive, Detroit’s forgotten crime

Posted: 02 Mar 2019 10:00 PM PST

Two prizewinning books detail the life of a woman who refused to be a possession of the nation's first president and the Michigan city's troubled past

Ona Judge, the enslaved woman who fled President George Washington to live for decades as a fugitive, gave just two interviews in her lifetime. The will of Lisette Denison, born in 1786, is the only surviving document generated by an enslaved resident of Detroit.

From such tatters of history, researchers have reshaped the historical narrative around slavery in the US, building a fuller picture of the country's greatest crime.

Censured by Britain, Hezbollah is bigger than ever in Beirut

Posted: 02 Mar 2019 11:15 AM PST

The group has been added to the UK's terrorist list, but after Assad's victory in Syria it plays a powerful role in the region

At the back of a room full of marble-covered graves, a woman nods gently as she reads to her dead son. Another mother puts a candle inside a small lantern on top of a tomb. Both wear black chadors, and neither says anything above a whisper. Here the secrets of dead are laid bare in inscriptions; where and when the men were killed, and whom they were fighting for: the most formidable group in Lebanon, Hezbollah.

Between the women, an arched wreath covers three graves to which a trickle of visitors is drawn.Life-size photos of three men stand behind them, with a picture of the only woman buried there, the mother of perhaps the militant group's most revered figure, its former military chief, Imad Mughniyeh. At times during the last two turbulent decades, the Martyrs' Cemetery on the edge of Beirut's southern suburbs has heaved with anger as the dead have arrived from battlefields. But last week an air of calm hung over the graveyard, just as it has for many months in Hezbollah's surrounding heartland, where after seven polarising years of war in Syria, many residents sense the dawn of a new – but no less foreboding – era.

Ocasio-Cortez's critics babble and bluster … but can't ignore her | Arwa Mahdawi

Posted: 02 Mar 2019 06:00 AM PST

The young congresswoman has turned the tables on the Wall Street Journal after it accused her of taking 'pride in ignorance'

Large swaths of America appear to be suffering from a debilitating condition known as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Derangement Syndrome (AOCDS). Symptoms include bouts of extreme condescension, an inability to stop sputtering the word "socialist", and overwhelming anger that a young woman of colour is unapologetically succeeding.

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