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- Senators vote against hearing witnesses, paving way for Trump acquittal
- Fukushima radioactive water should be released into ocean, say Japan experts
- Coronavirus latest updates: Australia bans foreign arrivals from China as deaths hit 259 – live news
- Two charged over £50m jewellery robbery at Tamara Ecclestone’s home
- Trump administration unveils expanded travel ban
- Syria: pro-Assad forces batter Idlib and spark fears of fresh crisis
- The Crown will end after season five, with Imelda Staunton as Queen
- Australia fires live: bushfires threat grows south of Canberra as emergency warnings issued – latest updates
- Airbus to pay record £3bn in fines for 'endemic' corruption
- Jeff Bezos met FBI investigators in 2019 over alleged Saudi hack
- Greece defends anti-migrant floating barrier amid growing criticism
- No sex, please, we’re colleagues – the new rules of office romance
- Brexit: Britain wakes up to uncertain future after UK leaves EU – live news
- Sudan accused of failing men who say they were duped into working in Libya
- Claims that Prince Andrew failed to respond to FBI likely political, say prosecutors
- Murdered Salvadoran journalist's boyfriend given 50 years for femicide
- 'Mollah’s life was typical': the deadly ship graveyards of Bangladesh
- What is coronavirus and how worried should we be?
- Help or hindrance? How Chinese politics affected coronavirus response
- 'A grand tragedy': Senate votes against calling witnesses in Trump impeachment trial – video
- US declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency – video
- Coronavirus: Brit arrives at Wirral hospital for quarantine after leaving Wuhan – video
| Senators vote against hearing witnesses, paving way for Trump acquittal Posted: 31 Jan 2020 08:18 PM PST Senate voted 51-49 to block witnesses, with Republicans Mitt Romney and Susan Collins joining Democrats The US Senate voted against hearing witnesses in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump on Friday, paving the way for Trump's acquittal on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The Senate voted 51-49 to block witnesses, with only two Republicans, Mitt Romney of Utah and Susan Collins of Maine, crossing party lines to support the Democratic call for witnesses. Continue reading... |
| Fukushima radioactive water should be released into ocean, say Japan experts Posted: 31 Jan 2020 06:19 PM PST Build-up of contaminated water from wrecked nuclear plant has been sticking point in clean-up likely to take decades A panel of experts advising Japan's government on a disposal method for radioactive water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant has recommended releasing it into the ocean, a move likely to alarm neighbouring countries. Related: Fukushima fishermen concerned for future over release of radioactive water Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus latest updates: Australia bans foreign arrivals from China as deaths hit 259 – live news Posted: 01 Feb 2020 02:09 AM PST Death toll rises, with 11,000 confirmed cases of infection in China, as some airlines stop flights in to Beijing and Shanghai. Follow the latest developments
The Guardian's Beijing bureau chief, Lily Kuo, has tweeted about new restrictions in the second worst-hit city in China, Huanggang. New restrictions on the second worst-hit city in China. In Huanggang, only one family member per household will be allowed to go out every two days to get supplies, necessities. https://t.co/7YiP5pUqNg
China's premier, Li Keqiang, has asked the EU to facilitate China's urgent procurement of medical supplies from member countries, the Chinese government said. Continue reading... |
| Two charged over £50m jewellery robbery at Tamara Ecclestone’s home Posted: 31 Jan 2020 11:00 PM PST The pair, aged 47 and 29, are to face court charged with conspiracy to commit burglary at the heiress's London home Two people have been charged by detectives investigating a £50 million jewellery raid on heiress Tamara Ecclestone's London home, Scotland Yard said. Tower Hamlets residents Maria Mester, 47, and 29-year-old Emil-Bogdan Savastru have both been charged with conspiracy to commit burglary. Continue reading... |
| Trump administration unveils expanded travel ban Posted: 31 Jan 2020 02:02 PM PST
The Trump administration is expanding the reach of its controversial travel ban to six additional countries. The United States will stop issuing visas that offer a path to residency to nationals from Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Sudan, Myanmar and Tanzania, said Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of homeland security, in a conference call on Friday. Continue reading... |
| Syria: pro-Assad forces batter Idlib and spark fears of fresh crisis Posted: 31 Jan 2020 06:59 AM PST Wave of airstrikes force 700,000 civilians to flee towards Turkish border Syria's last opposition-held province has been battered with 200 airstrikes in the past three days in an assault that has pushed 700,000 civilians to flee towards the Turkish border and sparked fears of an impending international crisis. The strikes on north-west Idlib were carried out mainly against civilians, the US special envoy for Syria, James Jeffrey, said on Thursday. Continue reading... |
| The Crown will end after season five, with Imelda Staunton as Queen Posted: 31 Jan 2020 07:06 AM PST Creator Peter Morgan reveals fifth season will be the last of the Netflix drama The fifth series of Netflix's The Crown will be its last, its creator and writer, Peter Morgan, has revealed, as Imelda Staunton is confirmed to replace Olivia Colman as the Queen. Fans of the critically acclaimed show, watched by more than 73m households worldwide, had hoped for a sixth series, which Morgan himself had originally planned. But, he said he believed it was time to stop. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 01 Feb 2020 01:58 AM PST Emergency warnings include for Clear Range and Creewah Rd, Glen Allen fires as weather conditions worsen. Follow the latest news
This was from very early this morning - what the weather systems created by the fires look like from above Horrible fire day across Victoria & New South Wales in Australia today.
The east Gippsland fire continues to cause issues for emergency services. It is too late to leave if you are in the path of the Bonang blaze. EMERGENCY WARNING has been issued for Bonang. |
| Airbus to pay record £3bn in fines for 'endemic' corruption Posted: 31 Jan 2020 09:33 AM PST UK court sanctions fines after firm admits using agents across world to bribe officials to land high-value contracts Airbus, Europe's largest aerospace multinational, is to pay a record £3bn in penalties after admitting it had paid huge bribes on an "endemic" basis to land contracts in 20 countries. Anti-corruption investigators hailed the result as the largest ever corporate fine for bribery in the world after judges declared that the corruption was "grave, pervasive and pernicious". Continue reading... |
| Jeff Bezos met FBI investigators in 2019 over alleged Saudi hack Posted: 31 Jan 2020 04:03 AM PST Amazon founder interviewed as FBI conducts inquiry into Israeli firm linked to malware Jeff Bezos met federal investigators in April 2019 after they received information about the alleged hack of the billionaire's mobile phone by Saudi Arabia, the Guardian has been told. Bezos was interviewed by investigators at a time when the FBI was conducting an investigation into the Israeli technology company NSO Group, according to a person who was present at the meeting. Continue reading... |
| Greece defends anti-migrant floating barrier amid growing criticism Posted: 31 Jan 2020 06:30 AM PST Minister says barrier would send message to smugglers that 'rules of the game have changed' The Greek government has defended plans to erect a floating barrier in the Mediterranean to deter thousands of people determined to reach Europe from making the sea journey from Turkey. Dismissing criticism, the country's minister for migration and asylum, Notis Mitarakis, said the proposed barrier in the Aegean Sea would send a strong message to people smugglers that the "rules of the game had changed". Continue reading... |
| No sex, please, we’re colleagues – the new rules of office romance Posted: 01 Feb 2020 02:00 AM PST Last year the CEO of McDonald's lost his job over a consensual affair. Has the workplace crush had its day? Jenny had been living in Hong Kong for a couple of weeks when she fell "head over heels" in love with Christine, the creative director of a small fashion company. But there was a problem: Christine already had a girlfriend. And another problem: Christine was interviewing Jenny for a job at the company at the time. "The first thing she did when she came in was to sit in her chair and say to me: 'So you're the English girl,'" Jenny recalls. "She was very direct – it wasn't something I was used to. It felt strong." Jenny, whose parents are from Hong Kong, had decided to move there after graduating from university in 2018, to learn more about her culture. She was 22, and describes herself as extremely shy. She applied for a series of positions at creative companies, but Christine's firm was the first to invite her for an interview; Jenny landed an entry-level position, reporting directly to Christine. Her new boss wasn't like anyone she'd met before. She was powerful and direct in business meetings, but playful, disarming, even confessional one-to-one. She worked out and channelled a masculine, minimalist style: white shirts, blazers, black turtlenecks. She seemed to take a special interest in the English girl. Continue reading... |
| Brexit: Britain wakes up to uncertain future after UK leaves EU – live news Posted: 01 Feb 2020 02:03 AM PST Follow the latest developments the morning after Britain's EU exit
Green MEP Catherine Rowett marks her return from Brussels this morning with a "European breakfast". Still on my way home. Still European but sadly disenfranchised and stripped of rights and citizenship. A European breakfast with view of the departing @Eurostar trains. Next stop Stowmarket. pic.twitter.com/a0JoCVCuzN
Welsh Remainers mourning the UK's departure from the EU are set to hold a rally in Cardiff this morning. #AlwaysEuropean Rally, Nye Bevan Statue, Queen St, 11.15 today. |
| Sudan accused of failing men who say they were duped into working in Libya Posted: 31 Jan 2020 04:31 AM PST Families protest amid claims men who went to work in UAE were given military training and then sent to Libya to guard oil fields Sudan's government has been accused of failing young men who claim they were tricked into guarding Libyan oil facilities by a security firm from the United Arab Emirates. Families have been protesting outside the UAE embassy and the Sudanese foreign ministry in Khartoum over the past week, demanding action after their relatives were recruited by a company that they say offered jobs as security guards in the Emirates, not Libya. Continue reading... |
| Claims that Prince Andrew failed to respond to FBI likely political, say prosecutors Posted: 01 Feb 2020 01:00 AM PST Andrew has said he is 'angry and bewildered' and denies reports that he has been contacted about the Jeffrey Epstein investigation Claims made this week that Prince Andrew failed to respond to an FBI investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's alleged sex trafficking conspiracy were likely issued by US investigators as an appeal for political support, former sex crime prosecutors say. Earlier this week, US attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman took the extraordinary step of announcing from the steps of Epstein's Upper East Side mansion in New York, that prosecutors and the FBI had repeatedly contacted the Duke of York's lawyers to follow up on his previous pledge that he was "willing to help any appropriate law enforcement agency". Continue reading... |
| Murdered Salvadoran journalist's boyfriend given 50 years for femicide Posted: 31 Jan 2020 12:03 PM PST
The boyfriend of a murdered Salvadoran journalist has been found guilty of femicide and given the maximum 50-year prison sentence on Friday, a rare conviction in the deadly gender violence that often goes unpunished in the Central American nation. Mario Huezo was convicted by a judge of killing Karla Turcios, with whom he lived and had a child with, after a nine-day trial in a court that hears gender violence cases in San Salvador. Continue reading... |
| 'Mollah’s life was typical': the deadly ship graveyards of Bangladesh Posted: 30 Jan 2020 11:00 PM PST Khalid Mollah died while working among the thousands who dismantle old ships in Chittagong. Now, in a test case that could transform the industry, his widow is suing the firm that sold the vessel for scrap Khalid Mollah was uneducated, illiterate and out of work when, in early 2009, he left his pregnant wife Hamida Begum to take the 200-mile bus ride to Chittagong from the small village of Gopai, in northern Bangladesh. The young man's destination was Sitakunda, the notorious, 20km stretch of wide beach and tidal mudflats just north of Bangladesh's fast-growing second city. Here, nearly 25,000 people work in dozens of ship-breaking yards, steel-rolling mills and factories to recover and sell on every bit of plate metal, deck, mast, funnel, hatch, gangplank, wire, nut, cable, bolt, wood and rivet that makes up the world's giant ships. Continue reading... |
| What is coronavirus and how worried should we be? Posted: 31 Jan 2020 05:05 AM PST What are the symptoms caused by the virus from Wuhan in China, how is it transmitted from one person to another, and at what point should you see a doctor? It is a novel coronavirus – a member of the coronavirus family that has never been encountered before. Like other coronaviruses, it has come from animals. Many of those infected either worked or frequently shopped in the Huanan seafood wholesale market in the centre of the Chinese city, which also sold live and newly slaughtered animals. New and troubling viruses usually originate in animal hosts. Ebola and flu are other examples. Continue reading... |
| Help or hindrance? How Chinese politics affected coronavirus response Posted: 31 Jan 2020 04:21 AM PST Authoritarian bureaucracy has allowed dramatic response but also let virus fester When Wuhan's mayor took to live national television to discuss the rapidly escalating outbreak of coronavirus in his city, he came primed for a rare – and very prolonged – display of self criticism. Over nearly an hour Zhou Xianwang said his work "wasn't performed well enough", that the city government had failed to provide timely information or act on what it knew, and offered his own resignation, although it is yet to be accepted. Continue reading... |
| 'A grand tragedy': Senate votes against calling witnesses in Trump impeachment trial – video Posted: 31 Jan 2020 05:02 PM PST The US Senate has voted against calling witnesses and collecting new evidence in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump, clearing the way for a near-certain acquittal. The Republican-controlled Senate voted 51-49 to block the Democrats' drive to hear testimony from witnesses including former national security adviser John Bolton. Only two Republicans, Mitt Romney and Susan Collins, supported the motion. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer called the result a 'tragedy on a very large scale'. Continue reading... |
| US declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency – video Posted: 31 Jan 2020 02:49 PM PST US officials have declared a public health emergency over the coronavirus outbreak. Foreign nationals who have travelled to China will be barred from entering the country from Sunday. Alex Azar, the health and human services secretary, said US citizens who had travelled to China's Hubei province in the last fortnight would be subject to a mandatory 14-day quarantine on their return Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus: Brit arrives at Wirral hospital for quarantine after leaving Wuhan – video Posted: 31 Jan 2020 02:15 PM PST A British family who had been trapped at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak landed in the UK on Friday. Matt Raw and his wife Ying were transferred to a hospital in Wirral, where they will be quarantined for 14 days Continue reading... |
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