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- Nato expresses 'full solidarity' with Turkey over Syria airstrikes
- Naomi Seibt: 'anti-Greta' activist called white nationalist an inspiration
- Malaysia's Mahathir says he will stand again for PM
- Welsh woman declares vindication after ‘guerrilla rewilding’ court case
- UC Santa Cruz fires 54 graduate students participating in months-long strike
- Article by young Boris Johnson helped inspire Thatcher's 'No, no, no'
- Roman Polanski wins best director at French 'Oscars' amid protests
- Canada mining firm accused of slavery abroad can be sued at home, supreme court rules
- Asia Bibi: Pakistani woman jailed for blasphemy claims asylum in France
- New York plastic bag ban comes into force but opponents tote exceptions
- Rebecca Solnit: ‘Younger feminists have shifted my understanding’
- UK weather: critical incident in Wales as Storm Jorge drenches country
- 'My God, it's chaos': Lush's founder on why he is so downcast
- Refugees in Istanbul rush to board coach to reach Turkish border to Europe – video
- Children forced into sex work among 230 people rescued in Niger raid
- ‘He made a mistake’: will California's black voters look past Bloomberg’s stop-and-frisk past?
- Tacky's Revolt review: Britain, Jamaica, slavery and an early fight for freedom
- Coronavirus news: South Korea reports 'critical moment' after 813 new cases – live updates
- 'Very high risk': Australia adds Iran to coronavirus travel ban
- Zimbabwe's president appeals for help to end country's 'financial isolation'
- Malawi legalises cannabis amid hopes of fresh economic growth
- Amazon people turn to water tanks after environmental disaster
- Yes, it is worse than the flu: busting the coronavirus myths
- Russia and Turkey's next moves will define the Syrian war's end
| Nato expresses 'full solidarity' with Turkey over Syria airstrikes Posted: 28 Feb 2020 10:32 AM PST Military alliance could strengthen reconnaissance missions to limit threat from Russian planes Nato allies will consider strengthening Ankara's air defences in response to the strike that killed 33 Turkish troops in rebel-held Syria overnight, following an emergency meeting of the military alliance in Brussels on Friday. Turkey had also called for western countries to establish a no-fly zone after the incident but Nato sources stressed that idea – which could lead to direct conflict with the Russian air force – was not seriously discussed. Continue reading... |
| Naomi Seibt: 'anti-Greta' activist called white nationalist an inspiration Posted: 28 Feb 2020 08:00 AM PST German teenager spoke at an event at US rightwing conference CPAC A young campaigner who has been hailed by climate sceptics as the right's answer to Greta Thunberg has previously described a white nationalist who appeared to promote "white genocide" theories as one of her "inspirations". Naomi Seibt, a 19-year-old from Münster, Germany, who styles herself as a "climate realist", has also had to deny she made remarks that could be seen as antisemitic following an attack on a synagogue last year. Continue reading... |
| Malaysia's Mahathir says he will stand again for PM Posted: 28 Feb 2020 09:15 PM PST Coalition with Anwar Ibrahim back on after a week of political turmoil Mahathir Mohamad has said he will stand again for Malaysian prime minister on behalf of the former ruling coalition, less than a week after quitting and plunging the country into political turmoil. Mahathir – who as interim prime minister is the world's oldest government leader at 94 – has reunited with on-off ally and long-term rival Anwar Ibrahim, 72 – resuming a pact that swept their coalition to a surprise election victory in 2018. Continue reading... |
| Welsh woman declares vindication after ‘guerrilla rewilding’ court case Posted: 28 Feb 2020 09:00 PM PST Sioned Jones convicted of stealing logs after 20 years of felling non-native trees in Cork Sioned Jones used to adore the landscape and wildlife of her adopted home in Bantry, a bucolic region in west Cork on Ireland's Atlantic coast. She planted vegetables and herbs, foraged for nuts and berries and observed birds, insects, frogs and lizards. Then, on land above her house, the state-owned forestry company Coillte planted a forest of Sitka spruce, a non-native species that Jones considered a dark, dank threat to biodiversity. Continue reading... |
| UC Santa Cruz fires 54 graduate students participating in months-long strike Posted: 28 Feb 2020 06:45 PM PST Termination letters were sent to those students protesting for a cost-of-living adjustment amid California's housing crisis The University of California, Santa Cruz, issued termination letters on Friday to 54 graduate students who have been waging a months-long strike for a cost-of-living-adjustment amid soaring rents. The firings came as graduate students at the University of California, Davis, and University of California, Santa Barbara, began their own cost-of-living strikes in solidarity. One of their demands is that all UC Santa Cruz graduate workers who participated in strike activities be restored to full employment status. Continue reading... |
| Article by young Boris Johnson helped inspire Thatcher's 'No, no, no' Posted: 28 Feb 2020 04:01 PM PST Papers show Telegraph article was in briefing pack before historic speech on Europe Margaret Thatcher's infamous "No, no, no" retort to Jacques Delors, a historic moment in the UK's relationship with Europe, which also had the effect of precipitating her downfall, was partly inspired by an article penned by a young journalist named Boris Johnson, her newly released private papers show. In 1990, 30 years before Johnson took the UK out of the European Union, an article he penned as the Telegraph's EC (European Community) correspondent warning of the threat the EC posed to national sovereignty was in Thatcher's briefing pack as she delivered the combative speech to parliament. Continue reading... |
| Roman Polanski wins best director at French 'Oscars' amid protests Posted: 28 Feb 2020 03:40 PM PST Activists protest against director who pleaded guilty to statutory rape in US but fled before sentencing Police and protesters clashed briefly outside the French "Oscars" ceremony on Friday evening as the Franco-Polish film director Roman Polanski was awarded the prize for best director. Immediately after the announcement there was shouting and booing among the audience, and the two actors who announced the award quickly left the stage. Continue reading... |
| Canada mining firm accused of slavery abroad can be sued at home, supreme court rules Posted: 28 Feb 2020 02:14 PM PST Case brought by three Eritreans against Nevsun Resources can continue as companies operating overseas face new legal risk A Vancouver-based mining company can be sued in Canada for alleged human rights abuses overseas including allegations of modern slavery, Canada's supreme court has ruled. The decision means three Eritreans who filed a civil suit against Nevsun Resources in British Columbia can continue their case in a lower court. Continue reading... |
| Asia Bibi: Pakistani woman jailed for blasphemy claims asylum in France Posted: 28 Feb 2020 12:33 PM PST Emmanuel Macron invites Christian who spent eight years on death row to live in country Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian woman who spent eight years on death row on blasphemy charges, has filed an initial application for asylum in France and been invited to live in the country by Emmanuel Macron. But speaking after a meeting with the French president in the Elysée palace on Friday, Bibi said she had not decided where she would settle. She was acquitted last year and granted a one-year leave of stay with her family in Canada. Continue reading... |
| New York plastic bag ban comes into force but opponents tote exceptions Posted: 29 Feb 2020 12:00 AM PST Campaigners hail move against environmentally damaging bags though small-business concerns mean many will remain A plastic bag ban will come into force in New York on Sunday, a moment hailed by environmentalists but marred by last-minute bickering. Related: Is there anything more un-American than New York's plastic bag ban? | Emma Brockes Continue reading... |
| Rebecca Solnit: ‘Younger feminists have shifted my understanding’ Posted: 29 Feb 2020 02:00 AM PST It's a myth that wisdom comes only with age, the writer argues. Young women and girls offer new tools to use As you grow older you become an immigrant from a vanished country, a country some of your peers may remember but the young may find unimaginable or incomprehensible. You could call it the land of before; before some great change, before we did things this way, before we decided that was unacceptable, before we shed new light on an old problem. I was shaped by a world that no longer quite exists, so I can't imagine myself at, say, 18 in the present moment, because to do so is to imagine someone utterly different. She does not exist, and I – as we all do – exist as the cumulative effect of my experiences, opportunities or lack thereof, and ideals. So much of what shaped and scarred my younger self, and made me a solitary feminist, and then much later one among many, was the unspeakability of violence against women and all the denigration, harassment and silencing that went with it. It was epidemic, and yet every incident was supposed to be an isolated incident, and nobody was supposed to connect the crimes to the culture that relished violence against women as entertainment, and denied it existed in any significant way as fact, and made sure that prevention and prosecution were as feeble as they were rare. All those forces still exist, but something else does alongside them: a vigorous conversation, speaking and naming and describing and defining; rejecting the excuses and cover-ups and justifications. Continue reading... |
| UK weather: critical incident in Wales as Storm Jorge drenches country Posted: 29 Feb 2020 01:56 AM PST England has had more than double its average February rainfall as downpours continue Police declared a critical incident in flood-hit south Wales overnight, as Storm Jorge brought heavy rain and strong winds in what is Britain's fourth weekend of downpours. February's third named storm is forecast to bring rain, gales and snow, prompting weather warnings stretching from Cornwall to the north of Scotland and across to Northern Ireland. Continue reading... |
| 'My God, it's chaos': Lush's founder on why he is so downcast Posted: 28 Feb 2020 10:00 PM PST Mark Constantine's beauty brand is in tune with the zeitgeist: so why is his ethical approach to capitalism not bearing fruit? The badge on the lapel of Lush's co-founder, Mark Constantine, does the talking for him today as his beauty retail empire is buffeted by one crisis after another. A potential pandemic is "closing half the bloody world", he explains, as his lapel badge reads: "Fuck, fuck, fuckity fuck". Continue reading... |
| Refugees in Istanbul rush to board coach to reach Turkish border to Europe – video Posted: 28 Feb 2020 01:31 PM PST Dozens of Syrian refugees were seen rushing to board coaches in Turkey's Istanbul on Friday after Ankara decided to open its border to Europe. The move comes after an airstrike on Thursday killed at least 33 Turkish soldiers in Syria's Idlib province. Fearing the window to leave Turkey would soon close, some of the 3.6 million Syrians living in the country have begun to vacate
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| Children forced into sex work among 230 people rescued in Niger raid Posted: 29 Feb 2020 01:00 AM PST Police discover trafficked minors coerced into exploitative work and men from Ghana who were recruited online and enslaved Children as young as 10 were among more than 230 people rescued last month during a series of raids combating sex trafficking and forced labour in Niger. Operation Sarraounia uncovered 46 children in forced begging and sex work and hundreds of Ghanaian men who had been recruited online and then enslaved in the capital, Niamey, said Interpol, which provided assistance. Continue reading... |
| ‘He made a mistake’: will California's black voters look past Bloomberg’s stop-and-frisk past? Posted: 29 Feb 2020 03:00 AM PST As Super Tuesday looms, the New York mayor has been emphasizing his push for gun legislation and policies on systemic racism As presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg heads into the primary elections on Super Tuesday, the question of whether black voters will be able to look past the New York mayor's legacy of stop-and-frisk continues to loom over his campaign. Bloomberg has poured millions into progressive efforts such as climate change and gun violence prevention: two issues that disproportionately harm black people. On Wednesday, Bloomberg appeared in San Francisco to kick off a series of events highlighting his record of standing up to the gun lobby and pushing for stricter gun legislation. Continue reading... |
| Tacky's Revolt review: Britain, Jamaica, slavery and an early fight for freedom Posted: 28 Feb 2020 10:15 PM PST Vincent Brown's military history sheds precious light on a brutally suppressed revolt which paved the road to abolition By 1690, Jamaica was the jewel of Britain's American possessions. An economy largely based on the production of sugar brought wealth and led to the beginnings of an imperial system. Related: Another Mother review: Jamaica memoir skips island's darker history Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus news: South Korea reports 'critical moment' after 813 new cases – live updates Posted: 29 Feb 2020 02:47 AM PST US strengthens travel advice, raising Iran and Italy to a level three, advising people to 'avoid nonessential travel'. Follow live news
Pope Francis has cancelled official engagements for the third day in a row, the Associated Press reports. He last appeared in public on Wednesday, when he was seen coughing and blowing his nose. According to AP: The 83-year-old pope, who lost part of a lung to a respiratory illness as a young man, has never canceled so many official audiences or events in his seven-year papacy. Francis is, however, continuing to work from his residence at the Vatican's Santa Marta hotel and is receiving people in private, the Vatican press office said. On Saturday, those private meetings were with the head of the Vatican's bishops' office, Francis' ambassadors to Lebanon and France and a Ukrainian archbishop. Canceled were his two planned official audiences formal affairs in the Apostolic Palace where Francis would have delivered a speech and greeted a great number of people at the end. Those were to include an audience with an international bioethics organization and with members of the scandal-marred Legion of Christ religious order. On Sunday, Francis is expected to leave the Vatican with top Holy See bureaucrats for a week of spiritual exercises in the Roman countryside, an annual retreat that the pope attends at the start of each Lent.
The official death toll from coronavirus in Iran has reached 43, Reuters reports. It comes amid unofficial claims that the true figure is much higher. The news agency quoted a health official, Kianush Jahanpur, as telling state TV: Unfortunately nine people died of the virus in the last 24 hours. The death toll is 43 now. The new confirmed infected cases since yesterday is 205 that makes the total number of confirmed infected people 593. Iran, which has the highest death toll outside China, has ordered the shutting of schools until Tuesday and the government has extended the closure of universities and a ban on concerts and sports events for a week. Several high-ranking officials, including a vice minister, deputy health minister and five lawmakers, have tested positive for the coronavirus as the rapid spread of the outbreak forced the government to call on people to stay at home. Iranian media reported on Saturday that one lawmaker, elected in Iran's Feb. 21 polls, had died of the coronavirus. Iran's government spokesman will hold his weekly news conference online due to the outbreak, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported. Continue reading... |
| 'Very high risk': Australia adds Iran to coronavirus travel ban Posted: 28 Feb 2020 08:58 PM PST Health minister Greg Hunt will implement ban on foreign travellers due to 'significant rise' in deaths due to Covid-19 From Sunday Australia will ban foreign travellers arriving from Iran, the country with the highest death rate from coronavirus outside of China. On Saturday the health minister Greg Hunt said Iran's struggle to contain the disease meant anyone who is not a permanent resident or citizen of Australia would not be allowed to come to Australia until 14 days after they had left Iran, meaning they would have to first go to another country. Australian citizens and residents would be allowed to return, but must self-isolate for 14 days. This lifts the travel advice to the same level as is current for China. As with China, Australians are being told not to travel to Iran. Continue reading... |
| Zimbabwe's president appeals for help to end country's 'financial isolation' Posted: 28 Feb 2020 07:53 AM PST Emmerson Mnangagwa makes passionate plea for support as he targets upper middle-income status by 2030 The president of Zimbabwe has appealed for help in pulling his debt-ridden country out of "financial isolation". Emmerson Mnangagwa made his passionate call for international funding after he failed to secure new loans from the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, African Development Bank and the Paris Club due to outstanding foreign debts of $8bn (£6.2bn). Continue reading... |
| Malawi legalises cannabis amid hopes of fresh economic growth Posted: 28 Feb 2020 04:32 AM PST Law change hailed by supporters as chance for country to benefit from rising global demand for medicinal cannabis products Malawi has passed a bill decriminalising cannabis for medicinal and industrial purposes, almost five years after a motion to legalise industrial hemp was adopted. While Malawi is famous internationally for its recreational cannabis strain "Malawi Gold", the bill to legalise medicinal and industrial production faced huge opposition from social and religious conservatives in the country. |
| Amazon people turn to water tanks after environmental disaster Posted: 27 Feb 2020 11:00 PM PST Scheme provides clean water and helps foster trust between indigenous groups Romelia Mendúa was handing out plantain drinks served in aluminium bowls. Guests were seated in a hammock and on the bare wooden floor. Beyond the window was the lush vegetation of Ecuador's north-eastern Amazon. Chocula, as the drink is called, is made by mashing plantains into water, and is a common refreshment in the Amazon. But the water in Mendúa's chocula was no ordinary water. It came through a tap in her kitchen connected to two tanks outside collecting and filtering rainfall. Continue reading... |
| Yes, it is worse than the flu: busting the coronavirus myths Posted: 28 Feb 2020 05:59 AM PST The truth about the protective value of face masks and how easy it is to catch Covid-19 Many individuals who get coronavirus will experience nothing worse than seasonal flu symptoms, but the overall profile of the disease, including its mortality rate, looks more serious. At the start of an outbreak the apparent mortality rate can be an overestimate if a lot of mild cases are being missed. But this week, a WHO expert suggested that this has not been the case with Covid-19. Bruce Aylward, who led an international mission to China to learn about the virus and the country's response, said the evidence did not suggest that we were only seeing the tip of the iceberg. If borne out by further testing, this could mean that current estimates of a roughly 1% fatality rate are accurate. This would make Covid-19 about 10 times more deadly than seasonal flu, which is estimated to kill between 290,000 and 650,000 people a year globally. Continue reading... |
| Russia and Turkey's next moves will define the Syrian war's end Posted: 28 Feb 2020 05:12 AM PST Neither side can back down from proxy standoff, but Russia holds whip hand in Idlib For more than three years, Russia and Turkey have been shadow boxing on the soils of northern Syria. In the past three weeks, the stalking has turned to shooting; the Turks aiming their guns at the Moscow-allied Assad regime, and the Russians increasingly swinging their turrets towards the Turkish military. In a war fought largely through proxies, any direct conflict between main players was considered highly dangerous and, until Thursday night, unlikely. But after the deaths of at least 30 Turkish troops – most likely the consequence of a Russian airstrike – both sides are in a standoff from which neither can afford to back down. Continue reading... |
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