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Chinese tourist in France becomes Europe's first coronavirus fatality
Manchester City banned from Champions League for two seasons
Trump claims he has 'legal right' to intervene in criminal cases
'Can you post a meme?': Facebook changes ad rules after Bloomberg exploits loophole
Mali killings: 40 die in inter-ethnic attacks
Syrian military helicopter shot down amid tensions with Turkey
'Master of his universe': Weinstein saw women as disposable, prosecutor says
Australia's offshore detention is unlawful, says international criminal court prosecutor
‘It fills us with rage’: Mexican activists protest femicide at presidential palace
Canada driver captures rare sighting of mother lynx and her kittens
Harry Dunn: car 'seen driving on wrong side of road' outside RAF base
The electability business: is Bernie Sanders America's Corbyn?
Storm Dennis to bring high winds, heavy rain and flooding to UK
The Guardian view on Idlib: nowhere left to run | Editorial
Bernie Sanders' success has Democratic centrists sounding the alarm
'All we have are walls': crisis leaves Venezuela’s schools crumbling
US to evacuate citizens from coronavirus-hit cruise ship
Albanese calls on Phil Gaetjens to make sports grants report public
Queer activists escorted out of Pete Buttigieg event in San Francisco – video
Rare sighting of lynx family crossing road in Manitoba – video
Wuhan's cat rescuer: the man saving pets abandoned during coronavirus outbreak – video

Chinese tourist in France becomes Europe's first coronavirus fatality

Posted: 15 Feb 2020 02:24 AM PST

French health minister confirms death of man from virus that has killed more than 1,500 people around world

Europe has its first coronavirus fatality as a Chinese tourist in France has died from the disease, the country's health minister confirmed.

The elderly Chinese national was among 11 confirmed coronavirus cases in France, with their death announced by the French health minister, Agnès Buzyn, on Saturday.

Manchester City banned from Champions League for two seasons

Posted: 14 Feb 2020 10:27 AM PST

Ban starts next season and City also fined €30m (£25m)
Club say they will appeal to CAS at 'earliest opportunity'

Manchester City have been banned from the Champions League for the next two seasons by Uefa and fined €30m (£25m) after they were found to have seriously misled European football's governing body and broken financial fair play rules.

The severity of the ban from both of Uefa's elite club competitions and the scale of the fine reflect how seriously Uefa's FFP compliance bodies consider the club to have breached the rules and code of conduct.

Trump claims he has 'legal right' to intervene in criminal cases

Posted: 14 Feb 2020 04:29 PM PST

President reasserts his right to tweet on judicial issues following William Barr's warning the posts 'make it impossible for me to do my job'

Donald Trump has ignored a plea from his attorney general, William Barr, to not tweet about ongoing legal cases, by using his Twitter account to say he has a "legal right" to do so.

Barr delivered a remarkable public rebuke of the president just hours earlier, saying that Trump's tweets "make it impossible for me to do my job" and that he would not be "bullied or influenced" over justice department decisions.

'Can you post a meme?': Facebook changes ad rules after Bloomberg exploits loophole

Posted: 14 Feb 2020 11:21 AM PST

Policy change involves what Facebook calls 'branded content', sponsored items posted by ordinary users who are typically paid by companies

Facebook decided on Friday to allow a type of paid political message that had sidestepped many of the social network's rules governing political ads, in a reversal that highlights difficulties tech companies and regulators have in keeping up with the changing nature of paid political messages.

Facebook's policy change comes days after the Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg exploited a loophole to run humorous messages promoting his campaign on the accounts of popular Instagram personalities followed by millions of younger people.

Mali killings: 40 die in inter-ethnic attacks

Posted: 14 Feb 2020 11:47 PM PST

Gunmen kill at least 31 people, set huts and crops alight and burn livestock in village of Ogossagou

Forty people, including nine soldiers, have been killed in a spate of attacks in central Mali, authorities said, with most of the deaths caused by inter-ethnic violence in the deeply troubled region.

Thirty-one people were killed in an attack overnight Friday in Ogossagou, a village mainly inhabited by Fulani people, where 160 died last March in a massacre blamed on Dogon militiamen, the government said.

Syrian military helicopter shot down amid tensions with Turkey

Posted: 14 Feb 2020 08:30 PM PST

Aircraft is second one to be shot down in a week in region where Turkish troops and Russian-backed Syrian forces are clashing

A Syrian military helicopter has been shot down over the last major rebel bastion in the northwest of the country, the second such incident in a week of high tensions with neighbouring Turkey.

The attack on Friday in a region where Turkish troops and Russian-backed government forces have engaged in multiple clashes came as Washington urged Ankara to look to its western allies in light of Moscow's actions.

'Master of his universe': Weinstein saw women as disposable, prosecutor says

Posted: 14 Feb 2020 12:28 PM PST

Joan Illuzzi-Orbon stresses movie mogul's power imbalance
Prosecution makes closing arguments in rape trial

Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood mogul who was a "master of his universe", stepped on, demoralised, humiliated and ultimately abused and raped "disposable" women he tricked into his lair, a prosecutor told the jury on Friday in closing arguments at his New York rape trial.

Australia's offshore detention is unlawful, says international criminal court prosecutor

Posted: 14 Feb 2020 04:13 PM PST

Treatment of refugees and asylum seekers 'cruel, inhuman or degrading', but does not warrant prosecution, ICC office says

Australia's offshore detention regime is a "cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment" and unlawful under international law, the international criminal court's prosecutor has said.

But the office of the prosecutor has stopped short of deciding to prosecute the Australian government, saying that while the imprisonment of refugees and asylum seekers formed the basis of a crime against humanity, the violations did not rise to the level to warrant further investigation.

‘It fills us with rage’: Mexican activists protest femicide at presidential palace

Posted: 14 Feb 2020 11:25 AM PST

Demonstration stemmed from outrage over killing of Ingrid Escamilla and publication of photos of her mutilated corpse

Dozens of activists gathered outside Mexico's presidential palace on Friday to protest against violence against women, chanting "Not one murder more" and splashing one of its large, ornate doors with blood-red paint and the words "femicide state".

Canada driver captures rare sighting of mother lynx and her kittens

Posted: 14 Feb 2020 09:39 AM PST

The wild cats which are larger than bobcats spend much of their life hidden in thick forest and are rarely seen in groups

It is one of Canada's stealthiest predators, so spotting a single lynx is rare enough for travelers in the country's hinterland.

But a driver in the western province of Manitoba recently managed to capture on video an entire family of the wild cats as they crossed the road.

Harry Dunn: car 'seen driving on wrong side of road' outside RAF base

Posted: 14 Feb 2020 03:18 PM PST

Police investigate after video on social media appears to show near-miss close to where teen died

A police investigation has been launched after a video on social media appeared to show a car being driven on the wrong side of the road outside an RAF base near where teenager Harry Dunn was killed.

Northamptonshire police said it is "aware of footage shared on social media on Friday relating to a near-miss close to RAF Croughton" and "a full investigation is being carried out and witnesses are sought".

The electability business: is Bernie Sanders America's Corbyn?

Posted: 14 Feb 2020 11:00 PM PST

Some Democratic observers fear their party is following the British left's road to defeat

British politics rarely intrudes into a US presidential election. In 1988, Joe Biden was forced to abandon his first bid for the White House after it emerged that he had quoted without attribution a chunk of oratory from the then Labour party leader, Neil Kinnock. In 2016, Donald Trump deployed Nigel Farage as an occasional mascot on the stump, the Brexit victory in that year's referendum deemed a happy omen that populists could defy the odds and win. In 2020, a third name has surfaced, offered as a cautionary tale to a Democratic party that this week confirmed a septuagenarian radical socialist and longtime backbench rebel as its frontrunner. That name is Jeremy Corbyn.

"I don't want the Democratic party of the United States to be the Labour party of the United Kingdom," James Carville, the victorious manager of Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign, told audiences on cable TV and in New Hampshire this week, warning that if Democrats nominate Bernie Sanders, they will almost certainly be following Corbyn's Labour party to defeat.

Storm Dennis to bring high winds, heavy rain and flooding to UK

Posted: 15 Feb 2020 01:49 AM PST

More than 200 flights cancelled as military is sent to Calderdale to bolster preparations for latest storm

Storm Dennis will batter the UK this weekend with winds of up to 70mph (110km/h) and more than a month's rain expected to fall in just two days in some areas, with hundreds of homes at risk of flooding.

With the country hit by horrendous weather for the second weekend in a row, the military is being sent to Calderdale, West Yorkshire, on Saturday to support the recovery and bolster preparations for the latest storm.

The Guardian view on Idlib: nowhere left to run | Editorial

Posted: 14 Feb 2020 10:25 AM PST

Hundreds of thousands of civilians are fleeing a renewed assault by the Syrian regime, in desperate circumstances. Is anyone paying attention?

After the torture and massacre of civilians, after the targeted attacks upon rescuers, doctors and schools, after the barrel bombs and chemical weapons, it should be hard to believe that there could be a new wave of misery for Syria unleashed by Bashar al-Assad and his Russian and Iranian backers. Yet here it is. The assault on Idlib, the last rebel-held enclave, is the largest-scale humanitarian catastrophe of a war now in its ninth year. The United Nations has warned that 832,000 people, most of them children, have been displaced in less than three months; 100,000 people have fled in the past week. Many had already fled the Syrian regime's murderous assaults before, in some cases three or four times; the province's population has swelled from 1 million to 3 million since the war broke out. They face sub-zero temperatures, and many don't even have tents in which to shelter. Doctors report children dying of exposure.

Conditions are likely to worsen. The frontlines are approaching Idlib city, probably sending further waves of families towards the closed Turkish border. Fighting has claimed the lives of both Turkish and Syrian troops, prompting the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, to move in reinforcements and threaten: "In the event of the tiniest harm to our soldiers … we will hit regime forces in Idlib and anywhere else."

Bernie Sanders' success has Democratic centrists sounding the alarm

Posted: 15 Feb 2020 01:00 AM PST

The self-described democratic socialist would spell disaster for down-ballot Democrats, party moderates are warning

Bernie Sanders' win in New Hampshire should delight progressives, but it will not be without consequences. His victory has put a target on his back, supporters fear, with well-funded centrist Democrats and allied organizations sharpening their knives as they attempt to scupper his newly won frontrunner status.

Candidates including Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar have repeatedly warned that Sanders would lose to Trump – despite evidence suggesting otherwise – but each has broadened their attacks in the past days to suggest that nominating Sanders would also spell disaster for House and Senate Democrats.

'All we have are walls': crisis leaves Venezuela’s schools crumbling

Posted: 15 Feb 2020 01:00 AM PST

Schools across the country in dire straits as teachers abandon the profession or skip the country amid one of the worst economic downturns in modern history

There are 723 pupils at the José Eduardo Sánchez Afanador school but no electricity, no computers, no tables and no chairs.

The windows lack glass, the toilets have lost their sinks and its metal classroom doors have been plundered by thieves, allowing pigeons to colonize several of the filthy spaces.

US to evacuate citizens from coronavirus-hit cruise ship

Posted: 15 Feb 2020 01:57 AM PST

About 380 US citizens on quarantined Diamond Princess to be flown home from Japan

Hundreds of American passengers onboard a cruise liner quarantined in Japan due to the coronavirus outbreak will be flown home on chartered aircraft, the US embassy in Tokyo said on Saturday.

The aircraft is expected to arrive in Japan late on Sunday to fly the estimated 380 US citizens onboard the Diamond Princess to Travis air force base in California, where they will have to spend another fortnight in quarantine.

Albanese calls on Phil Gaetjens to make sports grants report public

Posted: 14 Feb 2020 08:22 PM PST

Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet secretary must be seen to be independent, opposition leader says

The federal opposition leader, Anthony Albanese, has said top bureaucrat Phil Gaetjens must show his independence in the sports grants scandal "that just stinks".

Gaetjens, the secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, wrote on Friday to the Senate inquiry into the sports grants saga that cost the previous sports minister, Bridget McKenzie, her job.

Queer activists escorted out of Pete Buttigieg event in San Francisco – video

Posted: 14 Feb 2020 01:44 PM PST

Queer activists were met with chants of 'Boot-Edge-Edge' after they disrupted a private fundraiser for Pete Buttigieg in San Francisco on Friday evening. The activists, escorted out of the event, reflected unease among the LBGTQ+ community over the Buttigieg campaign

Queer activists disrupt Pete Buttigieg event in San Francisco: 'We deserve better'

Rare sighting of lynx family crossing road in Manitoba – video

Posted: 14 Feb 2020 09:39 AM PST

Driver Shaun Kirchmann spotted an entire family of the wild cats crossing the road in the Canadian Province of Manitoba as he made his weekly commute home. He pulled over and filmed the mother lynx and her five kittens before they disappeared into the trees. The wild cats spend much of their life hidden in thick forest and are rarely seen in groups

Wuhan's cat rescuer: the man saving pets abandoned during coronavirus outbreak – video

Posted: 14 Feb 2020 06:42 AM PST

It is estimated that more than 30,000 pets have been left stranded after the Chinese government sealed off Wuhan following the coronavirus outbreak.

In response, people trapped in Wuhan have been volunteering and checking in on the animals whose owners are stuck outside the city. Here's Ye Jialin's story of helping those who are currently not allowed to return home

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