May 18, 2018 - Articles

[umbertino]

Nevis: how the world’s most secretive offshore haven refuses to clean up – podcast

 

The years since 2008 have seen a global crackdown on offshore finance. Yet a few places have doubled down on offering secrecy to the super-rich. Among these, one tiny Caribbean island might be the worst offender

 

 

Written by Oliver Bullough, read by Lucy Scott and produced by Simon Barnard

Mon 30 Jul 2018 12.00 BST

 

Read the text version here

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2018/jul/30/nevis-how-the-worlds-most-secretive-offshore-haven-refuses-to-clean-up-podcast

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Black Panthers still in prison After 46 years, will they ever be set free?

 

Over two years, Ed Pilkington has interviewed eight people imprisoned since the 1970s black liberation struggle that rocked the US. As they near 50 years inside, will America’s black radicals ever be freed?

 

 

Mon 30 Jul 2018 09.00 BST

by Ed Pilkington with video by Tom Silverstone

 

 

 

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/30/black-panthers-prison-interviews-african-american-activism

 

Edited July 30, 2018 by umbertino

[umbertino]

Video of tourists killed in Tajikistan shows 'deliberate attack'

 

Footage suggests cyclists were murdered after being rammed off the road by black sedan

 

 

Andrew Roth in Moscow

Mon 30 Jul 2018 15.54 BST

 

 

 

.......four western cyclists killed in Tajikistan were the victims of a deliberate attack that began with them being forced off the road and ended in an assault with knives and guns.

The deaths of the four people – two Americans, one Swiss and one Dutch citizen – were originally reported as a hit-and-run incident that occurred on Sunday about 150 miles south of the capital, Dushanbe.

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/30/video-of-tourists-killed-in-tajikistan-shows-deliberate-attack

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three dead in New Orleans after gunmen open fire at busy strip mall

 

Two men shot ‘indiscriminately’ in area popular with locals, police say, as city mayor calls for end to violence

 

 

Sun 29 Jul 2018 19.11 BST

Jamiles Lartey in New Orleans

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/29/new-orleans-shooting-strip-mall-deaths

Edited July 30, 2018 by umbertino

[umbertino]

A siege. A bomb. 48 dogs. And the black commune that would not surrender

 

Forty years ago, Philadelphia erupted in one of the most dramatic shoot-outs of the black liberation struggle. Ed Pilkington tells the surreal story of the Move 9 – and what happened to them next

 

 

Tue 31 Jul 2018 09.00 BST

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/31/a-siege-a-bomb-48-dogs-and-the-black-commune-that-would-not-surrender

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Born in a cell: the extraordinary tale of the black liberation orphan

 

Mike Africa Jr has spent 40 years of his life with both parents behind bars. Then one day in June, his life changed. Ed Pilkington tells his story

 

 

Tue 31 Jul 2018 09.00 BST

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/31/debbie-sims-africa-mike-jr-black-liberation-orphan-move-nine-philadelphia

[umbertino]

Jersey Finance paid for IEA report rubbishing 'hotbeds of tax evasion' claims

 

Rightwing thinktank issued publication saying tax havens boosted the wider economy

 

Robert Booth and David Pegg

Tue 31 Jul 2018 19.11 BST

 

 

 

Gorey harbour, Jersey

Photograph: Brian Lawrence/Getty Images

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/31/jersey-finance-paid-iea-to-trash-hotbeds-of-tax-evasion-claims

[umbertino]

Suspected Russian spy found working at US embassy in Moscow

 

Exclusive: Russian is understood to have had full access to secret data during decade at embassy

 

Nick Hopkins

Thu 2 Aug 2018 21.08 BST Last modified on Thu 2 Aug 2018 22.00 BST

 

 

 

File photo of Russian police officer patrolling a street in front of the US embassy in Moscow

Photograph: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/02/suspected-russian-spy-us-embassy-moscow-secret-service

[umbertino]

'It's heartbreaking': military family shattered as wife of decorated US marine deported to Mexico

 

Alejandra Juarez forced to leave the United States for Mexico, despite her husband’s years of military service

 

Richard Luscombe in Haines City, Florida

Thu 2 Aug 2018 14.08 BST

 

 

Alejandra Juarez, 39, and Pamela, 16, and Estela, nine. ‘They try and punish me for something that happened a long time ago, but they’re punishing my husband, my kids.’

Photograph: Richard Luscombe for the Guardian

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/02/military-family-separation-immigration-trump-mexico

[umbertino]

UN sounds the alarm over Saudi human rights crackdown after two more arrests

 

Samar Badawi and Nassima al-Sadah become latest victims of clampdown that treats rights defenders ‘worse than criminals’

 

Rebecca Ratcliffe

Thu 2 Aug 2018 12.59 BST Last modified on Thu 2 Aug 2018 16.33 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/aug/02/un-sounds-alarm-saudi-human-rights-crackdown-arrests-samar-badawi-nassima-al-sadah

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19 minutes ago, umbertino said:

'It's heartbreaking': military family shattered as wife of decorated US marine deported to Mexico

 

Alejandra Juarez forced to leave the United States for Mexico, despite her husband’s years of military service

 

Richard Luscombe in Haines City, Florida

Thu 2 Aug 2018 14.08 BST

 

 

Alejandra Juarez, 39, and Pamela, 16, and Estela, nine. ‘They try and punish me for something that happened a long time ago, but they’re punishing my husband, my kids.’

Photograph: Richard Luscombe for the Guardian

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/02/military-family-separation-immigration-trump-mexico

after 16 years, she never even tried to become a citizen??

[umbertino]

My son, Osama: the al-Qaida leader’s mother speaks for the first time

 

Nearly 17 years since 9/11, Osama bin Laden’s family remains an influential part of Saudi society – as well as a reminder of the darkest moment in the kingdom’s history. Can they escape his legacy?

 

 

Fri 3 Aug 2018 00.01 BST

By  Martin Chulov

 

 

 

Osama bin Laden (second from right) on a visit to Falun, Sweden, in 1971

Photograph: Camera Press

 

 

 

More pics

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/03/osama-bin-laden-mother-speaks-out-family-interview

[umbertino]

Denialism: what drives people to reject the truth

 

From vaccines to climate change to genocide, a new age of denialism is upon us. Why have we failed to understand it?

 

 

Fri 3 Aug 2018 06.00 BST

By Keith Kahn-Harris

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/03/denialism-what-drives-people-to-reject-the-truth

[umbertino]

'It’s an absolute disgrace': tears and anger as wife of US marine deported to Mexico

 

Associated Press in Orlando

Fri 3 Aug 2018 20.54 BST

 

 

 

Alejandra Juarez walks with her two daughters and her husband to the departure gates at Orlando airport. After 20 years in the United States, she no longer has family or friends in Mexico

Photograph: Joey Roulette/Reuters

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/03/us-marine-wife-alejandra-juarez-deported-mexico

[umbertino]

Swiss Alps plane crash leaves all 20 passengers and crew dead

 

Investigation under way after mid-century JU-Air plane crashed into mountainside

 

Reuters

Sun 5 Aug 2018 13.19 BST First published on Sun 5 Aug 2018 12.39 BST

 

 

 

A general view of the accident site

Photograph: Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/05/up-to-20-feared-dead-in-swiss-alps-plane-crash

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hamza bin Laden has married daughter of lead 9/11 hijacker, say family

 

Exclusive: union confirmed by Osama bin Laden’s family during interview with the Guardian

 

Martin Chulov

Sun 5 Aug 2018 11.37 BST Last modified on Sun 5 Aug 2018 14.04 BST

 

Hamza bin Laden, the son of the late al-Qaida leader, has married the daughter of Mohammed Atta, the lead hijacker in the 9/11 terror attacks, according to his family..........

 

 

 

 

Western intelligence agencies have been increasingly focusing on the whereabouts of Hamza bin Laden

Photograph: AP

 

 

 

 

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/05/hamza-bin-laden-marries-daughter-of-911-hijacker-mohammed-atta

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Portland far-right rally: police charge counterprotesters with batons drawn

 

Police in riot gear use stun grenades and pepper spray on leftwing groups protesting against Patriot Prayer marchers

 

 

Sun 5 Aug 2018 07.47 BST

Jason Wilson in Portland, Oregon and agencies

 

 

 

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/04/patriot-prayer-to-carry-guns-at-portland-rally-as-fears-of-violence-rise

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Melania Trump praises LeBron James in statement after husband insults him

 

Shortly after Donald Trump mocked NBA star, first lady says she would visit his school and Michael Jordan joins chorus of support

 

Amanda Holpuch in New York and Ben Jacobs in New Orleans

Sat 4 Aug 2018 20.52 BST

 

 

 

Melania Trump said James appeared to be doing ‘good things on behalf of our next generation’.

Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/04/lebron-james-donald-trump-insult-melania-trump

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yuval Noah Harari: ‘The idea of free information is extremely dangerous’

 

As his new book is published, the bestselling author talks fake news, meditation and appearing with Natalie Portman

 

 

Sun 5 Aug 2018 08.00 BST

By  Andrew Anthony

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/aug/05/yuval-noah-harari-free-information-extremely-dangerous-interview-21-lessons

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Viral video shows snake eating pigeon in busy London street

 

RSPCA called to incident after snake found coiled around bird in Leytonstone High Road

 

Haroon Siddique

Sun 5 Aug 2018 12.00 BST Last modified on Sun 5 Aug 2018 13.11 BST

 

 

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/aug/05/video-snake-eating-pigeon-leytonstone-high-road-rspca

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Portugal’s skies turn orange as desert air sends temperature soaring

 

Heatwave affecting parts of southern Europe reaches new intensity, with temperatures rising to 45C (113F)

 

 

Brendan de Beer, João Madeira and Sam Jones

Sat 4 Aug 2018 20.23 BST

 

 

 

A helicopter combats a forest fire in Monchique

Photograph: Filipe Farinha/EPA

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/weather/2018/aug/04/europe-heatwave-portugal-spain-extreme-temperatures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Family asked to prove son's disability before boarding Jet2 flight

 

Jack Johnson, 10, who has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, was humiliated and distressed by experience

 

 

Fri 3 Aug 2018 15.59 BST

Nazia Parveen North of England correspondent

 

 

 

Jack Johnson who has Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Photograph: Facebook

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/03/jet2-family-jack-johnson-duchenne-muscular-dystrophy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[umbertino]

The pope is right: the death penalty has no place in Catholicism

 

Rightwing Catholics may not agree, but the unequivocal defence of human life is in line with the church’s teachings

 

 

Mon 6 Aug 2018 13.12 BST Last modified on Mon 6 Aug 2018 15.15 BST

Austen Ivereigh

 

 

 

 

‘Western society has gradually turned its back on the death penalty as offensive to the intrinsic value of life.’

Photograph: Massimo Percossi/EPA

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/06/pope-catholicism-death-penalty-rightwing-catechism

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Of course Trump attacks LeBron James: the NBA star is a true role model

 

Sporting bodies must stand with activist athletes like the basketball star, fighting for the dignity of fellow humans

 

 

Mon 6 Aug 2018 14.27 BST

Laurence Halsted

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/06/trump-lebron-james-nba-star-true-role-model

 

 

 

 

 

[umbertino]

Domino-effect of climate events could push Earth into a ‘hothouse’ state

 

Leading scientists warn that passing such a point would make efforts to reduce emissions increasingly futile

 

Jonathan Watts

Mon 6 Aug 2018 20.00 BST Last modified on Mon 6 Aug 2018 20.35 BST

 

 

 

Polar bears on sea ice: the loss of the Greenland ice sheet could disrupt the Gulf Stream, which would in turn raise sea levels and accelerate Antarctic ice loss

Photograph: Paul Goldstein/Cover Images

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/06/domino-effect-of-climate-events-could-push-earth-into-a-hothouse-state

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Socialist bookshop inundated with support after rightwingers' attack

 

Donations and messages of support have flooded in after far-right protesters targeted Bookmarks in central London

 

Alison Flood

Mon 6 Aug 2018 13.50 BST Last modified on Mon 6 Aug 2018 18.45 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/06/socialist-bookshop-support-after-rightwingers-attack-bookmarks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Portland woman who protested rightwing rally says she was burned by police grenade

 

Michelle Fawcett, 52, felt ‘earth-shattering explosion’ on Saturday and said Portland police’s response was ‘totally indiscriminate’

 

 

Mon 6 Aug 2018 20.02 BST

Jason Wilson in Portland

 

 

 

 

Michelle Fawcett and her injured arm. ‘I felt struck in the chest, then the arm, and then a really intense and searing pain.’

Composite: Michelle Fawcett

 

 

 

More pics

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/06/portland-protest-rightwing-patriot-prayer-police

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Mexico: 11 ‘starving’ children rescued from makeshift compound

 

Two armed men were arrested after the children were found with no food or fresh water and ‘dirty rags’ for clothing

 

 

Mon 6 Aug 2018 18.55 BST

Jamiles Lartey in New Orleans

 

 

 

 

Conditions at a compound in rural New Mexico where 11 children were taken into protective custody for their own health and safety after a raid by authorities

Photograph: HANDOUT/Reuters

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/06/new-mexico-starving-children-rescued-compound

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Five reasons why Trump’s new tax cut plan would boost small business

 

Challengers are calling the idea just another tax gift to the rich and opposition is fierce – but I like the idea

 

 

Mon 6 Aug 2018 11.00 BST Last modified on Mon 6 Aug 2018 18.57 BST

By  Gene Marks

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/06/five-reasons-why-trumps-new-tax-cut-plan-would-boost-small-busines

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chicago police say 11 dead and 70 hurt in weekend shootings

 

One shooting in courtyard on South Side left eight people injured as Rudy Giuliani blames ‘Democratic rule’ for violence in city

 

Associated Press

Mon 6 Aug 2018 14.59 BST Last modified on Mon 6 Aug 2018 15.18 BST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/06/chicago-police-weekend-shootings-violence

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Police violence, cliques, and secret tattoos: fears rise over LA sheriff 'gangs'

 

Investigation faces skepticism amid concerns that groups, linked to a history of attacks on inmates, are resurgent

 

 

Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles

Mon 6 Aug 2018 06.00 BST

 

 

 

Between 10 and 20 deputies at the Compton station had tattoos like Samuel Aldama’s, above, he said

Photograph: Courtesy John Sweeney

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/05/police-violence-cliques-and-secret-tattoos-fears-rise-over-la-sheriff-gangs

[umbertino]

German couple who sold son to paedophiles on darknet jailed

 

Pair from Staufen sentenced to 12 years for rape, sexual abuse and forced prostitution

 

Kate Connolly in Berlin

Tue 7 Aug 2018 10.31 BST

 

 

Berrin T (left) and Christian L (right) sit next to their lawyers for the verdict in their trial for rape, sexual abuse and forced prostitution

Photograph: Ronald Wittek/EPA

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/07/german-couple-who-sold-son-to-paedophiles-on-darknet-jailed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mendocino Complex wildfire becomes California's biggest ever

 

Thousands of firefighters battle blaze as it destroys 87 homes and 82 other structures, and forces evacuations

 

 

Scott Bransford in Colusa, California

Tue 7 Aug 2018 07.00 BST

 

 

 

Vid

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/06/california-wildfire-mendocino-complex

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

'This is human trafficking': After Maria, Puerto Rico to move 3,200 inmates to Arizona

 

Some warn that the radical overhaul of Puerto Rico’s prison system badly impacted by Hurricane Maria may have dire consequences for the civil rights of inmates

 

 

Tue 7 Aug 2018 11.00 BST

by Oliver Laughland in Bayamón

 

 

 

 

The Puerto Rico Corrections and Rehabilitation Department wants to downsize and transfer inmates to private jails in the US

Photograph: Angel Valentin for the Guardian

 

 

 

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/07/puerto-rico-prisons-inmates

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Caribbean states beg Trump to grasp climate change threat: 'war has come to us'

 

As warming temperatures caused by climate change is strengthening hurricanes, leaders in the region plead with Trump to rejoin the Paris climate deal

 

 

Tue 7 Aug 2018 11.00 BST Last modified on Tue 7 Aug 2018 14.33 BST

By  Oliver Milman

 

 

 

 

Hurricanes Katia (left), Irma (center) and Jose (right) in September 2017 – the first time on record that three major hurricanes made landfall at the same time in the Caribbean

Photograph: GOES-13 and MODIS/NASA/NOAA

 

 

 

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/07/trump-climate-change-threat-caribbean-islands-warning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Berkeley police under fire for publishing anti-fascist activists' names and photos

 

Unusual release of arrested demonstrators’ identities could fuel harassment and abuse, experts and activists say

 

 

Mon 6 Aug 2018 22.43 BST Last modified on Tue 7 Aug 2018 01.58 BST

Sam Levin in Oakland

 

 

 

 

Counter-protesters were arrested at an “alt-right” rally in Berkeley

Photograph: Amy Osborne/AFP/Getty Images

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/06/berkeley-activists-arrested-police-identified-twitter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[umbertino]

Superdrug first large UK retailer to sell HIV self-testing kits

 

Kits 99.7% accurate and take 15 minutes – but £33.99 ($43.85) cost could be out of reach of many

 

Wed 8 Aug 2018 13.35 BST Last modified on Wed 8 Aug 2018 14.12 BST

By  Sarah Marsh

 

 

 

Superdrug says self-testing kits will help increase early detection rates, with roughly one in eight people with HIV in UK undiagnosed

Photograph: BioSURE/PA

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/08/superdrug-first-major-uk-retailer-to-sell-self-testing-hiv-kits

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ten months without power: the Puerto Ricans still without electricity

 

Almost a year after Hurricane Maria ravaged the island’s ailing power infrastructure, the Ruiz family is one of 1,000 still off the grid

 

 

Wed 8 Aug 2018 11.00 BST

Oliver Laughland in Utado, Puerto Rico

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/08/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-electricity-ten-months

 

 

 

 

 

Saudi group posts photo of plane about to hit Toronto's CN tower amid Canada spat

 

Infographic KSA apologised for tweeting the altered image on Monday, hours after Riyadh expelled the Canadian ambassador

 

Ashifa Kassam in Toronto

Wed 8 Aug 2018 10.17 BST

 

 

Toronto’s CN Tower. The altered image showed an Air Canada plane aimed at Toronto’s skyline

Photograph: Ikonica/Getty Images/Radius Images

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/07/saudi-arabia-canada-toronto-cn-tower-9-11-photo-apology

 

 

 

French police accused of harassing aid workers at Calais

 

Charities distributing food to homeless migrants allege 600 acts of intimidation by officers, including teargassing

 

Angelique Chrisafis in Paris

Wed 8 Aug 2018 14.47 BST

 

 

An aid worker in 2016 with people displaced from the “Jungle” camp in Calais, France

Photograph: Pascal Rossignol/Reuters

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/08/french-police-accused-of-harassing-aid-workers-at-calais

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drug addiction is a tragedy. But we could stop so many people dying

 

We know exactly what works to prevent drug-related deaths – and yet the numbers are still rising

 

 

Tue 7 Aug 2018 12.15 BST Last modified on Tue 7 Aug 2018 16.31 BST

By Karen Tyrell

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/07/drug-addiction-stop-people-dying

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 8, 2018 by umbertino

[nstoolman1]

On 8/7/2018 at 9:14 AM, umbertino said:

Berkeley police under fire for publishing anti-fascist activists' names and photos

 

Unusual release of arrested demonstrators’ identities could fuel harassment and abuse, experts and activists say

 

 

Mon 6 Aug 2018 22.43 BST Last modified on Tue 7 Aug 2018 01.58 BST

Sam Levin in Oakland

 

 

 

 

Counter-protesters were arrested at an “alt-right” rally in Berkeley

Photograph: Amy Osborne/AFP/Getty Images

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/06/berkeley-activists-arrested-police-identified-twitter

 

 

 

So they published the names of Alt Left protesters at an Alt Right gathering. 

Sounds right. Use your first amendment right and learn to except that actions have consequences.    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Muleslayer]

 Have you ever noticed how social justice warriors always have a drumstick thighs?

well the alleged females anyway.

Edited August 9, 2018 by Muleslayer
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[umbertino]

Dozens dead in Yemen as bus carrying children hit by airstrike

 

Red Cross says strike hit bus at market in Dahyan, in rebel-held north of country

 

 

Saeed Kamali Dehghan

Thu 9 Aug 2018 13.13 BST

 

 

Vid (WARNING...MIGHT RESULT DISTURBING TO SOME...)

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/09/dozens-dead-in-yemen-as-bus-carrying-children-hit-by-airstrike-icrc

 

SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME....F The Saudis (in this case)

They acknowledged the mass murder action (SCHOOLBUS) and still tried to justify it as a form of retaliation.....SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Argentina abortion defeat shows enduring power of Catholic church

 

Irish vote to legalise procedure was seen as blow to church’s authority, but its power has merely shifted south

 

Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent

Thu 9 Aug 2018 11.30 BST

 

 

Pro-abortion activists outside Argentina’s congress building in Buenos Aires react after senators voted to maintain the country’s ban on almost all abortions

Photograph: Julieta Ferrario/ZUMA Wire/REX/Shutterstock

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/09/argentina-abortion-defeat-shows-enduring-power-of-catholic-church

Edited August 9, 2018 by umbertino

[umbertino]

'Can't fight evil with evil': life in Mexico's most murderous town

 

Incoming president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has pledged to overhaul Mexico’s militarized assault on the drug cartels that has left 200,000 people dead

 

 

Tom Phillips in Tecomán

Thu 9 Aug 2018 06.30 BST

 

 

Women adorn photographs of missing people to call attention to the cases on Mothers Day in Mexico City, on 10 May

Photograph: Eduardo Verdugo/AP

 

 

 

More pics

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/09/mexico-amlo-war-on-drugs-violence-clean-up

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sexual violence is the new normal in India – and pornography is to blame

 

‘Girls and women are getting raped left, right and centre,’ says the supreme court. Instead of lamenting, it should act

 

Thu 9 Aug 2018 09.00 BST

Mari Marcel Thekaekara

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/09/sexual-violence-india-rape-pornography

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lombok (Indonesia island) earthquake: new quake hits as earlier tremor death toll rises

 

Magnitude 6.2 quake causes additional damage and building collapses as search goes on after Sunday’s disaster

 

Kate Lamb in Jakarta and agencies

Thu 9 Aug 2018 13.02 BST

 

 

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/09/indonesia-earthquake-death-toll-nearly-triples

 

 

 

 

 

 

A tweet, then a trade freeze: latest row shows Saudi Arabia is asserting new rules

 

Riyadh’s actions against Canada are a signal that any criticism of its domestic policies is unacceptable

 

Martin Chulov and Ashifa Kassam

Tue 7 Aug 2018 20.51 BST

 

 

Mohammed bin Salman at the 29th Arab League summit in Dhahran on 15 April

Photograph: Bandar Al-Jaloud/AFP/Getty Images

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/07/saudi-arabia-canada-spat-analysis

 

 

He gave permission to women to drive and opened up cinema theaters for everybody...Wow....But he's most likely just another dictator.......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Britain's richest person to leave UK for tax-free Monaco

 

Pro-Brexit Ineos boss Sir Jim Ratcliffe reportedly leaving to save tax on £21bn ($27.02B) fortune

 

 

Rupert Neate Wealth correspondent

Thu 9 Aug 2018 13.58 BST

 

 

Nearly 35 in every 100 Monaco / Montecarlo residents are millionaires

Photograph: Cultura/REX

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/aug/09/britains-richest-man-to-leave-uk-for-tax-free-monaco

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

German drug maker sues to halt planned execution in Nebraska

 

Fresenius Kabi says state illegally obtained the company’s drugs to use for a lethal injection procedure

 

 

Agence France-Presse

Wed 8 Aug 2018 22.09 BST

 

 

Nebraska’s lethal injection chamber at the state penitentiary in Lincoln, Nebraska

Photograph: Nate Jenkins/AP

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/08/german-drug-maker-sues-to-halt-planned-execution-in-nebraska

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Illinois: church leadership steps down after sexual harassment allegations

 

Willow Creek church’s board also apologized to the women who accused founder Bill Hybels of harassment

 

Associated Press

Thu 9 Aug 2018 13.52 BST Last modified on Thu 9 Aug 2018 15.44 BST

 

 

 

Bill Hybels, the former pastor of the Willow Creek megachurch, on 1 July 2010. He has denied groping allegations dating to the 1980s

Photograph: Charles Dharapak/AP

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/09/illinois-willow-creek-community-church-board-of-elders-step-down

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guardian view on Saudi Arabia: time to back Canada

 

Riyadh’s thin-skinned response to Ottawa’s justified criticism is intended as a warning to others. Europe should take heed

 

 

Wed 8 Aug 2018 18.16 BST Last modified on Wed 8 Aug 2018 21.40 BST

Editorial

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/08/the-guardian-view-on-saudi-arabia-time-to-back-canada

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Court denies Brock Turner bid for new trial after 'outercourse' claims

 

Appeals court upholds Brock Turner’s convictions for sexual assault and attempted rape, ruling that he received a fair trial

 

Associated Press

Thu 9 Aug 2018 09.48 BST First published on Thu 9 Aug 2018 02.51 BST

 

 

 

A California court on Wednesday rejected Brock Turner’s bid for a new trial and upheld his sexual assault and attempted rape convictions

Photograph: Stephen Lam/Reuters

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/08/stanford-swimmer-request-for-new-trial-denied

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Evictions and 'criminalized spaces': the legacy of Oakland's Ghost Ship fire

 

As sentencing approaches following a warehouse fire that killed 36, artists on the fringes struggle to find spaces to live and work

 

 

Thu 9 Aug 2018 11.00 BST Last modified on Thu 9 Aug 2018 11.02 BST

Sam Levin in Oakland

 

 

 

 

The artist Hager Seven Asfaha in the live/work art space he shares in Oakland

Photograph: Robert Gumpert for the Guardian

 

 

 

More pics

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/09/oakland-ghost-ship-fire-sentencing-evictions-deaths

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Canada shooting: police among four killed in Fredericton

 

Mass shooting rocks small city of 58,000 people in east of country

 

 

Fri 10 Aug 2018 15.22 BST

Ashifa Kassam in Toronto

 

 

 

 

Emergency vehicles at the Brookside Drive area in Fredericton on Friday

Photograph: Social Media/Reuters

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/10/canada-several-killed-in-fredericton-shooting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Police in Germany rescue man being chased by baby squirrel

 

Officers in Karlsruhe arrive to find man unable to shake off tiny rodent

 

Josie Le Blond in Berlin

Fri 10 Aug 2018 12.33 BST

 

 

The offender, who has been nicknamed Karl-Friedrich.

Photograph: Karlsruhe police/EPA

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/10/driving-me-nuts-german-police-rescue-man-baby-squirrel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Norway trials free heroin prescriptions for most serious addicts

 

Project aims to improve quality of life and reduce high fatal overdose rates

 

 

Agence France-Presse in Oslo

Fri 10 Aug 2018 15.35 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/10/norway-trials-free-heroin-prescriptions-for-most-serious-addicts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Woman held in Dubai with daughter after drinking wine on flight

 

Dentist says she was detained and had passport confiscated after having one glass of wine

 

Press Association

Fri 10 Aug 2018 12.35 BST Last modified on Fri 10 Aug 2018 15.08 BST

 

 

Ellie Holman faces being detained in Dubai for up to a year while awaiting a court hearing

Photograph: Detained in Dubai/PA

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/10/woman-held-in-dubai-with-daughter-for-drinking-glass-of-wine-on-flight

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

'Mission to touch the sun': Nasa to launch Parker Solar Probe

 

On Saturday, the US space agency will launch the fastest object ever made on a journey to our nearest star

 

 

Ian Sample Science editor

Fri 10 Aug 2018 14.12 BST

 

 

The solar probe will fly though the sun’s corona where temperatures reach 3m celsius and travel at speeds of up to 430,000mph

Photograph: Nasa/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben/EPA

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/aug/10/mission-to-touch-the-sun-nasa-to-launch-parker-solar-probe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The best answer to Holocaust denial is getting the facts right

 

Professor Eve Rosenhaft of the University of Liverpool writes to correct a historical error in a piece about the vandalising of Elie Wiesel’s house in Romania

 

Letters

Fri 10 Aug 2018 16.03 BST Last modified on Fri 10 Aug 2018 16.07 BST

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/10/the-best-answer-to-holocaust-denial-is-getting-the-facts-right

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘The lost cause’: the women’s group still battling for the Confederate

 

The United Daughters of the Confederacy, a 124-year-old organization, are aiming to stop the removal of Confederate statues as protests persist

 

 

Associated Press in Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Fri 10 Aug 2018 17.17 BST

 

 

 

United Daughters of the Confederacy member Carrie McGough in front of the Alabama capitol building during a Confederate Memorial Day ceremony in Montgomery, Alabama on 27 April 2015

Photograph: Brynn Anderson/AP

 

 

 

More pics

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/10/united-daughters-of-the-confederacy-statues-lawsuit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Latin America's fight to legalise abortion: the key battlegrounds

 

After Argentina rejected a bill to allow abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy, hopes of reform now rest elsewhere

 

Annie Kelly

Thu 9 Aug 2018 15.01 BST Last modified on Thu 9 Aug 2018 21.00 BST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/aug/09/latin-america-fight-to-legalise-abortion-argentina-brazil-chile-venezuela-uruguay-colombia-el-salvador-peru

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘My death is not my own’: the limits of legal euthanasia

 

Henk Blanken knows Parkinson’s disease might one day take him past the point at which he wants to carry on. Dutch law says it is legal for a doctor to help him die when the time comes – but there’s no guarantee that will happen

 

 

Fri 10 Aug 2018 06.00 BST

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/10/my-death-is-not-my-own-the-limits-of-legal-euthanasia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Being black in America is not so different from being black in Britain

 

In both places we ‘enjoy’ a status that is simultaneously hypervisible and invisible

 

 

Bim Adewunmi

Fri 10 Aug 2018 10.00 BST

 

 

 

‘My time in the US has coincided with some of the most awful chapters in today’s push for social justice and civil rights.’

Photograph: Getty Images

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/aug/10/black-america-not-so-different-britain-bim-adewunmi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Henry Ford & Adolf Hitler

 

 

The dark legacy of Henry Ford’s anti-Semitism (COMMENTARY)

 

By A. James Rudin

October 10, 2014

 

 

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/the-dark-legacy-of-henry-fords-anti-semitism-commentary/2014/10/10/c95b7df2-509d-11e4-877c-335b53ffe736_story.html?utm_term=.c19a745e1931

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How was the relation between Adolf Hitler and Henry Ford?

 

 

https://www.quora.com/How-was-the-relation-between-Adolf-Hitler-and-Henry-Ford

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Henry Ford and the Nazi

 

 

 

https://www.ghi-dc.org/fileadmin/user_upload/GHI_Washington/Publications/Bulletin49/bu49_135.pdf

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Seattle: stolen plane crashes after rogue flight from Sea-Tac airport

 

F-15 fighter planes give chase after twin-propellor Q400 barges on to runway at Seattle-Tacoma airport and takes off

 

Warren Murray, Guardian international desk, and Levi Pulkkinen in Seattle

Sat 11 Aug 2018 07.46 BST

 

 

Vid

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/11/seatac-airport-seattle-plane-takes-off-without-permission

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monsanto ordered to pay $289m as jury rules weedkiller cause of man's cancer

 

Court finds in favor of DeWayne Johnson, ill man who was first to take Roundup maker to trial over allegations

 

Sam Levin in San Francisco

Sat 11 Aug 2018 09.57 BST

 

DeWayne Johnson listens during the Monsanto trial in San Francisco last month

Photograph: Pool New/Reuters

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/aug/10/monsanto-trial-cancer-dewayne-johnson-ruling

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Neo Nazi in Ulysses, PA

 

WARNING: Graphic language

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 12, 2018 by umbertino

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Thirty micrometres a minute: scientists discover the speed of death

 

By studying frogs’ eggs, researchers have measured the rate at which cells kill themselves off for an organism’s greater good

 

 

Sun 12 Aug 2018 15.00 BST

 

 

Computer illustration of the destruction of a human cell.

Photograph: Kateryna Kon/Getty Images/Science Photo Library RF

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/science/shortcuts/2018/aug/12/thirty-micrometre-minutes-scientists-discover-speed-of-death

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cancer: one in four too scared to seek medical help over symptom

 

People with signs of the disease are failing to act, with many worrying they will waste a doctor’s time, a new survey reveals

 

Denis Campbell Health Editor

Sun 12 Aug 2018 09.00 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/12/cancer-survey-britons-avoid-doctors

Edited August 12, 2018 by umbertino