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Rogue soldier shot dead after Thai shopping mall massacre
Ireland general election: Sinn Féin surges to 22% in exit poll
Britons arrive from Wuhan as coronavirus kills more than Sars
Endangered mountain gorillas 'killed by lightning' in Uganda
Turkey threatens to hit back as Assad advances in northern Syria
Crisis in Lesbos as flood of migrants increases
PM’s plan for terrorists could be ‘counter-productive’, says father of London Bridge attack victim
'Insider attack' by Afghan soldier kills two US troops
Bloomberg's unusual campaign: $10m ads, self-funding and a Super Tuesday focus
Trump cries fake news as image of dramatic orange tan line goes viral
Harry and Meghan attend exclusive JP Morgan event in Miami
Michael Bloomberg is trying to buy the presidency – that should set off alarms | Robert Reich
Storm Ciara's hurricane-force winds batter UK transport network
Sinking in the Swamp review: dispatches from the belly of the Trumpian beast
Coronavirus: Wuhan evacuees transported to quarantine camp 30km from Darwin
NSW and Queensland weather: rain lashes east coast causing flash floods and fallen trees – as it happened
Armed ecoguards funded by WWF 'beat up Congo tribespeople'
Māori have been robbed of our identity and our land – we must fight to get them back
If China valued free speech, there would be no coronavirus crisis
Thailand shooting: footage appears to record gunshots – video
'Contact is limited': inside the world's coronavirus quarantines – video
Democratic debate: candidates clash on healthcare and race – video highlights

Rogue soldier shot dead after Thai shopping mall massacre

Posted: 08 Feb 2020 09:18 PM PST

Death toll stands at 26 after sergeant major killed commanding officer then attacked Terminal 21 complex in Nkhon Ratchasim city

A soldier who shot dead 26 people has been killed by police following an overnight siege at a Thai shopping mall.

Eight people were held hostage by the gunman in the city of Nkhon Ratchasim, according to sources quoted by Reuters. Dozens more were trapped for hours on Saturday night as police attempted to regain control of the seven-floor building.

Ireland general election: Sinn Féin surges to 22% in exit poll

Posted: 08 Feb 2020 03:39 PM PST

Republican party level with Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil in Saturday evening's poll

Sinn Féin has scored dramatic gains in Ireland's general election, according to an exit poll on Saturday night, realigning Irish politics and boosting the party's chance of joining the next government.

The republican party won 22.3% of the vote while Leo Varadkar's ruling Fine Gael party slumped to 22.4%, the poll said, potentially spelling an end to Varadkar's tenure as taoiseach. Fianna Fáil, the main opposition party, won 22.2%.

Britons arrive from Wuhan as coronavirus kills more than Sars

Posted: 08 Feb 2020 11:49 PM PST

Further 81 deaths confirmed in China's Hubei province, taking global total to at least 800

A plane carrying British citizens evacuated from the coronavirus-hit Chinese city of Wuhan has landed in Oxfordshire.

The flight, with more than 200 people on board including some foreign nationals, arrived at RAF Brize Norton shortly before 7.30am on Sunday.

Endangered mountain gorillas 'killed by lightning' in Uganda

Posted: 08 Feb 2020 09:24 PM PST

The four were members of a group known as the Hirwa family that had crossed into Mgahinga national park from Rwanda

Four endangered mountain gorillas, including three adult females, have been killed by an apparent lightning strike in a Ugandan national park, a conservation group has said.

A post-mortem examination has been performed on the four, including a male infant, who died on 3 February in Mgahinga National Park in south-west Uganda.

Turkey threatens to hit back as Assad advances in northern Syria

Posted: 09 Feb 2020 01:39 AM PST

Three million stuck at Turkish border in one of worst humanitarian crises since start of war

Time is running out for three million civilians on Syria's border with Turkey, caught in the crosshairs of a brutal regime offensive that has led Ankara to threaten military action against Bashar al-Assad if his forces do not pull back.

Yesterday Turkey's defence ministry said it would strike back at regime troops and allied militias if its military posts in Syria's northwest Idlib province were threatened, echoing President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's ultimatum last week that Assad must withdraw to a previously agreed ceasefire line before the end of February.

Crisis in Lesbos as flood of migrants increases

Posted: 09 Feb 2020 01:02 AM PST

Greek island a 'powder keg ready to explode' as number of arrivals leads to tensions with local people

Greek authorities are struggling to cope with rising tension on islands where pressure from a new influx of refugees and migrants has reached critical point.

Friction is growing between local people and asylum seekers landing in boats from Turkey. Last week the region's most senior official likened the situation on Lesbos to a "powder keg ready to explode". Kostas Moutzouris, governor of the north Aegean, said: "It's crucial that a state of emergency is called."

PM’s plan for terrorists could be ‘counter-productive’, says father of London Bridge attack victim

Posted: 09 Feb 2020 12:11 AM PST

David Merritt, whose son Jack died in 2019 attack, calls for deradicalisation programmes

David Merritt felt heavy with grief when news of the Streatham terrorist attack broke, but he wasn't shocked. The father of Jack Merritt, a 28-year old prison rehabilitation worker who was killed in the London Bridge terror attack in November, has warned that "the government is failing to do its job to keep the public safe" and that the prime minister's plans to force through emergency terrorist sentencing is "a hasty measure" that "could be counter-productive."

Last week, the government announced plans to rush through emergency legislation that would prevent the release of terrorist offenders without parole board-risk assessments. Alex Carlile, the UK's former reviewer of terror legislation, cast doubt on whether changes could be made retrospectively to the sentences of up to 224 terrorist offenders currently in prison. Ministers expect a legal challenge.

'Insider attack' by Afghan soldier kills two US troops

Posted: 08 Feb 2020 10:29 PM PST

Shooter had argued with US forces before opening fire and then being killed, says Afghan official

Two US soldiers were killed and six wounded in a so-called insider attack in eastern Afghanistan's Nangarhar province when an Afghan soldier in uniform opened fire late on Saturday, the US military said.

A member of the Nangarhar Provincial Council, Ajmal Omer, said the gunman was killed.

There have been numerous attacks by Afghan national army soldiers on their allied partners over the 18 years of Afghanistan's protracted war.

Bloomberg's unusual campaign: $10m ads, self-funding and a Super Tuesday focus

Posted: 08 Feb 2020 11:00 PM PST

The billionaire ex-mayor decided to forgo New Hampshire and all other early primary states and has invested $188m in his campaign

In their stump speeches, advertising, and meet-and-greets, the top 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are eagerly sniping at each other as they criss cross the Granite state in the final days before the critical New Hampshire Democratic primary on Tuesday.

Yet one person is conspicuously absent. Looming over the race is fellow candidate and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a billionaire who has decided to completely forgo New Hampshire and all other early primary states to instead invest heavily in the crucial set of Super Tuesday states that vote on 3 March – an unconventional and risky strategy.

Trump cries fake news as image of dramatic orange tan line goes viral

Posted: 08 Feb 2020 01:50 PM PST

Photo from White House south lawn draws amusement
Indignant Trump says image 'photoshopped, obviously'

An image of a windswept Donald Trump, which appears to show a dramatic forehead tan line through his blown-back blond hair, has gone viral – prompting the hashtag #orangeface to trend on Twitter.

Harry and Meghan attend exclusive JP Morgan event in Miami

Posted: 08 Feb 2020 05:49 AM PST

Sussexes appear in one of their first engagements since stepping down as senior royals

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex attended an exclusive JP Morgan event in one of their first engagements since stepping down as senior royals, a palace source has said.

It is unclear whether the couple, who have pledged to become more financially independent, were paid for their roles as speakers at a summit the banking giant hosted in Miami on Thursday.

Michael Bloomberg is trying to buy the presidency – that should set off alarms | Robert Reich

Posted: 08 Feb 2020 10:00 PM PST

If the choice comes down to tyrant or oligarch, we must choose the latter. But our democracy would still be in peril

We haven't seen his name on any of the ballots in the first four states, but that's about to change. I'm talking, of course, about multibillionaire presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg.

Storm Ciara's hurricane-force winds batter UK transport network

Posted: 09 Feb 2020 02:18 AM PST

Trains, flights and ferries cancelled as rain and 80mph winds threaten to bring flooding

Hurricane-force winds have rocked Britain's transport network, causing the cancellation of trains, flights and ferries and prompting warnings of power cuts and a risk to life from falling debris.

The arrival of the weather front known as Storm Ciara, along with heavy rain and winds of more than 80 miles per hour, also comes with a heightened risk of flooding.

Sinking in the Swamp review: dispatches from the belly of the Trumpian beast

Posted: 08 Feb 2020 11:00 PM PST

Lachlan Markay and Asawin Suebsaeng deliver gossip as well as the goods from behind the scenes of our national reality show

In July 2018, the Daily Beast's Lachlan Markay posted a short piece about a mysterious $375,000 contribution from "Global Energy Producers" to America First Action, a pro-Trump Super Pac. Eighteen months later, federal agents arrested Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman en route to Dulles airport; they were holding one-way tickets. Republican politicians who took their cash are offloading it as if it were doused with coronavirus and the president has suddenly forgotten the name of their former patron: Rudy Giuliani.

Coronavirus: Wuhan evacuees transported to quarantine camp 30km from Darwin

Posted: 08 Feb 2020 10:14 PM PST

Qantas flight carrying 266 people, including 92 children, was granted clearance and all passengers assessed as 'clinically well'

A flight carrying more than 200 Australian evacuees from Wuhan landed in Darwin after being granted delayed clearance to fly from Chinese authorities, who locked down the city in response to the coronavirus outbreak.

The travellers disembarked through the RAAF base rather than the main airport terminal and were to be transported by bus to the disused Manigurr-Ma/Howard Springs work camp 30km from Darwin to be monitored for the virus.

NSW and Queensland weather: rain lashes east coast causing flash floods and fallen trees – as it happened

Posted: 09 Feb 2020 02:17 AM PST

Sydney and the New South Wales Central Coast are set to receive more rainfall in 24 hours than they have since 1998. Follow the latest

• NSW weather: six families rescued from floodwaters as rain lashes east coast

10.16am GMT

We're going to close up the live blog for the night. We'll continue our reporting on the east coast storms and floods in the morning.

You can find the latest updates related to your region on the NSW Bureau of Meteorology and NSW State Emergency Service websites.

10.02am GMT

We now have a waterfront house instead of property

Lunch time vs tonight .... high tide still to come#rain #flood #narrabeenlake #narrabeen #sydney #flooding #massive #surf pic.twitter.com/k86QVJpDOX

Armed ecoguards funded by WWF 'beat up Congo tribespeople'

Posted: 07 Feb 2020 09:27 AM PST

Exclusive: Inquiry into $21.4m conservation project reports 'credible' evidence of abuse

Armed ecoguards partly funded by the conservation group WWF to protect wildlife in the Republic of the Congo beat up and intimidated hundreds of Baka pygmies living deep in the rainforests, an investigation into a landmark global conservation project has heard.

A team of investigators sent to northern Congo by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) to assess allegations of human rights abuses gathered "credible" evidence from different sources that hunter-gatherer Baka tribespeople living close to a proposed national park had been subjected to violence and physical abuse from the guards over years, according to a leaked draft of the report.

Māori have been robbed of our identity and our land – we must fight to get them back

Posted: 08 Feb 2020 05:44 PM PST

Jacinda Ardern is doing a good job, but Waitangi reminds us of what we have lost

This week, to mark Waitangi Day, the Guardian is publishing five pieces of commentary from Māori writers.

I am ashamed to say this year was my first time at Waitangi.

If China valued free speech, there would be no coronavirus crisis

Posted: 08 Feb 2020 04:50 AM PST

Country could have contained spread of disease if only it had learned lessons from Sars outbreak

The death of the whistleblower Chinese doctor Li Wenliang has aroused strong emotions across China. Social media is awash with posts mourning the death of a martyr who tried to raise alarm over the coronavirus but was taken into a police station instead for "spreading false rumours" and "disrupting social order".

Grief quickly turned into angry demands for free speech. The trending topic "we want freedom of speech", which attracted millions of views, and links to Do You Hear the People Sing, a song popularised in recent Hong Kong protests, were quickly censored by police.

Thailand shooting: footage appears to record gunshots – video

Posted: 08 Feb 2020 09:12 AM PST

Video shared on social media appears to capture sounds of gunshots heard from a car travelling in Nakhon Ratchasima in north-eastern Thailand. Police have said at least 20 people were killed when a soldier opened fire in different locations in the city

Thai soldier kills at least 20 in mass shooting

'Contact is limited': inside the world's coronavirus quarantines – video

Posted: 08 Feb 2020 05:54 AM PST

People who are being held in facilities in dozens of countries explain what daily life is like and their hopes for returning home soon. China's Hubei province, where the coronavirus originated from, is under lockdown to limit contagion. The death toll has risen to 724, with 86 more people dying in mainland China, according to officials. This is the highest one-day jump so far

Democratic debate: candidates clash on healthcare and race – video highlights

Posted: 08 Feb 2020 02:35 AM PST

Democratic presidential candidates clashed in a televised debate in New Hampshire on Friday night at the end of a week dominated by the Iowa caucuses chaos and Donald Trump's acquittal. Attacks were focused against Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders, the two candidates who declared victory in Iowa, as the hottest topics discussed were healthcare and race

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