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All rights reserved. 2024</dc:rights> <image> <title>The Guardian</title> <url>https://assets.guim.co.uk/images/guardian-logo-rss.c45beb1bafa34b347ac333af2e6fe23f.png</url> <link>https://www.theguardian.com</link> </image> <item> <title>Binance executive denied bail in Nigeria over money laundering charges</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/17/binance-executive-denied-bail-in-nigeria-over-money-laundering-charges</link> <description><p>Tigran Gambaryan faces allegations of ‘serious criminality’ on behalf of world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange</p><p>A Nigerian court has ruled that Tigran Gambaryan, the Binance executive detained on charges of tax evasion and money laundering, can face trial on behalf of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/28/techscape-binance-changpen-zhao">the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange</a>.</p><p>In a judgment in Abuja on Friday – Gambaryan’s 40th birthday – the presiding judge, Emeka Nwite, denied the American national bail, saying he was likely to abscond.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/17/binance-executive-denied-bail-in-nigeria-over-money-laundering-charges">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/cryptocurrencies">Cryptocurrencies</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/nigeria">Nigeria</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/africa">Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/binance">Binance</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/business">Business</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/technology">Technology</category> <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 15:58:40 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/17/binance-executive-denied-bail-in-nigeria-over-money-laundering-charges</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6681d1dfb0e3c1e14a1837ca06a286d0847c206a/0_133_4032_2420/master/4032.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=3767b2661d79111253c911d21004c56d"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Abraham Achirga/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6681d1dfb0e3c1e14a1837ca06a286d0847c206a/0_133_4032_2420/master/4032.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a62052fe663a24dc2579e6c772b0870a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Abraham Achirga/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Eromo Egbejule in Abidjan</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-17T15:58:40Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘Bullet wounds are common’: crime rife in DRC’s rebel-besieged city of Goma</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/may/17/goma-drc-rwanda-m23-rebels-wazalendo-militias-democratic-republic-congo</link> <description><p>Robberies, shootings, extortion and rapes have surged since the Rwandan-backed M23 militia cut off the eastern Congolese capital</p><p>In broad daylight on 16 April, three armed and uniformed men held up a city centre mobile phone shop.</p><p>Threatening staff, they helped themselves to about £700 worth of goods, before making off on a motorbike, disappearing into the busy streets of Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/may/17/goma-drc-rwanda-m23-rebels-wazalendo-militias-democratic-republic-congo">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/global-development">Global development</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/congo">Democratic Republic of the Congo</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/africa">Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/conflict-and-development">Conflict and arms</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/rwanda">Rwanda</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/paul-kagame">Paul Kagame</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/law/war-crimes">War crimes</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/law/law">Law</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/internally-displaced-people">Internally displaced people</category> <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 12:39:02 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/may/17/goma-drc-rwanda-m23-rebels-wazalendo-militias-democratic-republic-congo</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/baf950e5f1f07a3dc6d2b54656460dee2ab035e6/0_448_6720_4032/master/6720.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=3e84aea9b152f77e138ace3b0d97e63c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Michel Lunanga/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/baf950e5f1f07a3dc6d2b54656460dee2ab035e6/0_448_6720_4032/master/6720.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=4550483f104d20d50ceb597abfb40ccc"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Michel Lunanga/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Emmet Livingstone in Goma</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-17T12:39:02Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>South Africa calls on ICJ to order Israel to end Rafah offensive</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/16/south-africa-icj-international-court-of-justice-israel-rafah-gaza</link> <description><p>Lawyers urge international court of justice to issue urgent measures over assault on Gaza’s southernmost city</p><p>South Africa has asked the international court of justice (ICJ) to urgently order Israel to end its assault on Rafah, halt its military campaign across Gaza, and allow international investigators and journalists into the territory.</p><p>In a court hearing, lawyers for South Africa expanded a written request for judges to issue an emergency order to stop the offensive into Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/16/south-africa-icj-international-court-of-justice-israel-rafah-gaza">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">Israel-Gaza war</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel">Israel</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/southafrica">South Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/africa">Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2024 20:40:01 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/16/south-africa-icj-international-court-of-justice-israel-rafah-gaza</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/2646eb90919778dd9068ec18f018d40e3270fcf1/334_55_5666_3399/master/5666.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c2e8f0a2c3d9fffd7e12701fb54e21ff"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Nick Gammon/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/2646eb90919778dd9068ec18f018d40e3270fcf1/334_55_5666_3399/master/5666.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a1765581a101332e8bd0b9d7f858a480"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Nick Gammon/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Emma Graham-Harrison</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-16T20:40:01Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘Realities of apartheid’: South African artist wins Deutsche Börse photography prize</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/16/realities-of-apartheid-south-african-artist-wins-deutsche-borse-photography-prize</link> <description><p>Lebohang Kganye blends oral traditions, family photos and theatre in a ‘new and fresh way’ to trace personal history of apartheid era</p><p>The South African artist Lebohang Kganye has won the prestigious Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation prize for her work that uses large-scale cutouts and elements of set design to trace and depict her family history during the apartheid era.</p><p>The Johannesburg-based artist took home the £30,000 prize for her winning exhibition, which is on display at the Photographers’ Gallery in central London and is called <em>Haufi nyana? I’ve come to take you home</em>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/16/realities-of-apartheid-south-african-artist-wins-deutsche-borse-photography-prize">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/deutsche-borse-photography-prize">Deutsche Börse photography prize</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/photography">Photography</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/artanddesign">Art and design</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/awards-and-prizes">Awards and prizes</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/southafrica">South Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/africa">Africa</category> <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2024 19:10:16 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/16/realities-of-apartheid-south-african-artist-wins-deutsche-borse-photography-prize</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bc5bd0c382d9f6660424e61d573e8581fa7de6e4/3144_0_8493_5102/master/8493.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=551555e8d3f7bbfe30674703ece343bb"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Lebohang Kganye</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bc5bd0c382d9f6660424e61d573e8581fa7de6e4/3144_0_8493_5102/master/8493.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b13338a8ecd957792d9458499030423c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Lebohang Kganye</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-16T19:10:16Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Nigerian activists condemn mass ‘forced marriages’ of 100 girls and young women</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/16/nigeria-activists-mass-forced-marriage-girls-young-women</link> <description><p>Petition launched to halt mass ceremony that organisers say is for 100 orphans whose parents were killed by gangs</p><p>Human rights activists in Nigeria have launched a petition to stop a plan to push 100 girls and young women into marriage in a mass ceremony, which has caused outrage in the west African country.</p><p>The plan, sponsored by Abdulmalik Sarkindaji, the speaker of the national assembly in the largely Muslim north-western state of Niger, were criticised by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/nigeria">Nigeria</a>’s women’s affairs minister, Uju Kennedy Ohanenye. She said she would seek a court injunction to stop the ceremony next week and establish if any of the girls were minors.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/16/nigeria-activists-mass-forced-marriage-girls-young-women">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/nigeria">Nigeria</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/forced-marriage">Forced marriage</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/africa">Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/womens-rights-and-gender-equality">Women's rights and gender equality</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/global-development">Global development</category> <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2024 18:44:14 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/16/nigeria-activists-mass-forced-marriage-girls-young-women</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/08fcd68ea31f2f535e29d73cc92f740498747e6c/0_217_4994_2997/master/4994.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=12a984abacbe5ebb1a96640d1eb00d90"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Kola Sulaimon/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/08fcd68ea31f2f535e29d73cc92f740498747e6c/0_217_4994_2997/master/4994.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a0dfa27afa9cf2acae06ec4c93cdb272"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Kola Sulaimon/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Staff and agencies in Lagos</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-16T18:44:14Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Scientists find buried branch of the Nile that may have carried pyramids’ stones</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/16/scientists-find-buried-branch-of-the-nile-that-may-have-carried-pyramids-stones</link> <description><p>Discovery of the branch, which ran alongside 31 pyramids, could solve mystery of blocks’ transportation</p><p>Scientists have discovered a long-buried branch of the Nile River that once flowed alongside more than 30 pyramids in Egypt, potentially solving the mystery of how ancient Egyptians transported the massive stone blocks to build the monuments.</p><p>The 40-mile-long (64km) river branch, which ran by the Giza pyramid complex among other wonders, was hidden under desert and farmland for millennia, according to a study revealing the find on Thursday.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/16/scientists-find-buried-branch-of-the-nile-that-may-have-carried-pyramids-stones">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/egypt">Egypt</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/science/egyptology">Egyptology</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/science/archaeology">Archaeology</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/africa">Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/science/science">Science</category> <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2024 16:42:34 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/16/scientists-find-buried-branch-of-the-nile-that-may-have-carried-pyramids-stones</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d8bf848ceaad7e6f7448d94f30686c68cb4c9787/0_302_4032_2419/master/4032.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=52041d91322727238a02d04350ecf527"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d8bf848ceaad7e6f7448d94f30686c68cb4c9787/0_302_4032_2419/master/4032.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ce62ae4e64164bf9bbc2e17f57057dcf"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Agence France-Presse in Paris</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-16T16:42:34Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ ubiquitous in Great Lakes basin, study finds</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/18/pfas-great-lakes-basin</link> <description><p>PFAS chemicals present in air, rain, atmosphere and water in basin, which holds nearly 95% of US freshwater</p><p>Toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” are ubiquitous in the Great Lakes basin’s air, rain, atmosphere and water, new peer-reviewed <a href="https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.3c10098">research</a> shows.</p><p>The first-of-its-kind, comprehensive picture of PFAS levels for the basin, which holds nearly 95% of the nation’s freshwater, also reveals that precipitation is probably a major contributor to the lakes’ contamination.</p><p>This story was amended on 18 May 2024 to clarify that Buffalo does not border Lake Ontario.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/18/pfas-great-lakes-basin">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/pfas">PFAS</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/michigan">Michigan</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/canada">Canada</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/wisconsin">Wisconsin</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/illinois">Illinois</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/indiana">Indiana</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ohio">Ohio</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/minnesota">Minnesota</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/new-york">New York</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/americas">Americas</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/environment">Environment</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 18:06:03 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/18/pfas-great-lakes-basin</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c4835a95dc98658dfa6e77754fe75a0c5558e4e1/0_259_4000_2401/master/4000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d9bae733a2436dc3ad401f2f0f8c978f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c4835a95dc98658dfa6e77754fe75a0c5558e4e1/0_259_4000_2401/master/4000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=af8e7ee9e492adff8b1c4de4ed167a46"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Tom Perkins</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T18:06:03Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude brings fame to Gabriel García Márquez’s Colombian hometown</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/18/netflix-gabriel-garcia-marquez-colombian-one-hundred-years-of-solitude</link> <description><p>Locals hope TV adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude will bring new life to Aracataca, birthplace of author’s magical realism</p><p>In sweltering mid-afternoon heat, children splash in the clear water of the canal that threads through town as elderly neighbours look on from rocking chairs on the porches of their sun-washed houses. Butterflies spring from every bush, sometimes fluttering together in kaleidoscopes.</p><p>At the foot of Colombia’s Sierra Nevada mountains, about 20 miles from the Caribbean coast, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/22/last-novel-of-gabriel-garcia-marquez-stands-in-tribute-to-his-defiance-of-dementia">Gabriel García Márquez’s</a> fictional world of Macondo lives on.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/18/netflix-gabriel-garcia-marquez-colombian-one-hundred-years-of-solitude">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/books/gabrielgarciamarquez">Gabriel García Márquez</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/colombia">Colombia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/netflix">Netflix</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/americas">Americas</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/books/books">Books</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/books/fiction">Fiction</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/television">Television</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tv-and-radio">Television & radio</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/media">Media</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 15:00:11 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/18/netflix-gabriel-garcia-marquez-colombian-one-hundred-years-of-solitude</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bcf54e84421bb4062f1e37dfc4f34948731cc17b/0_167_5000_2999/master/5000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a3d47d2d7a43f57c7622d24a9c78b50c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Nathalia Angarita/New York Times/Redux/eyevine</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bcf54e84421bb4062f1e37dfc4f34948731cc17b/0_167_5000_2999/master/5000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c9fb30330022519cca1941ef7a62779c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Nathalia Angarita/New York Times/Redux/eyevine</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Luke Taylor in Aracataca, Colombia</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T15:00:11Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Fans queue round the block as tiny Mexican taco stand wins Michelin star</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/fans-queue-round-the-block-as-tiny-mexican-taco-stand-wins-michelin-star</link> <description><p>There was more business than usual and some bemused regulars after El Califa de León was rewarded for its ‘exceptional’ offering</p><p>El Califa de León, an unassuming taco joint in Mexico City, measures just 3 metres by 3 metres and has space for only about six people to stand at a squeeze. Locals usually wait for 5 minutes between ordering and picking up their food.</p><p>All that changed on Wednesday, however, when it became the first Mexican taco stand ever to win a Michelin star, putting it in the exalted company of fine dining restaurants around the world, and drawing crowds like it has never seen.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/fans-queue-round-the-block-as-tiny-mexican-taco-stand-wins-michelin-star">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/mexico">Mexico</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/food/mexican">Mexican food and drink</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/americas">Americas</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/food/food">Food</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/food/restaurants">Restaurants</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 07:00:02 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/fans-queue-round-the-block-as-tiny-mexican-taco-stand-wins-michelin-star</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b49d1eab7826f0127e1ed750577320a689038523/0_240_4000_2400/master/4000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f21b239678439e2a1284894899660ed8"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Héctor Vivas/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b49d1eab7826f0127e1ed750577320a689038523/0_240_4000_2400/master/4000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d559e664a55f273488ca750ca625e3b0"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Héctor Vivas/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Thomas Graham in Mexico City</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T07:00:02Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Teen who texted 911 rescued after she was trafficked to California from Mexico</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/17/teen-texted-911-rescued</link> <description><p>In texts received in Spanish and translated to English, the girl tried to describe her location, though she did not know where she was</p><p>Authorities rescued a 17-year old girl after she was trafficked to Ventura county, California, from Mexico two months ago and texted 911 for help.</p><p>On Thursday, the Ventura county sheriff’s office <a href="https://local.nixle.com/alert/10989739/">announced </a>that on 9 May authorities rescued the girl after she sent messages to 911. The text message correspondence began with a call taker at a 911 communication center, according to the sheriff’s office, which added that the messages were received in Spanish and translated into English.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/17/teen-texted-911-rescued">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/california">California</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/child-labor">Child labor</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/law/human-trafficking">Human trafficking</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/mexico">Mexico</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/americas">Americas</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/law/law-us">Law (US)</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-crime">US crime</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/west-coast">West Coast</category> <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 18:21:08 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/17/teen-texted-911-rescued</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e9930f8a18c79670393e88b61f93586dccb08770/0_0_4000_2401/master/4000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=0a693737283096f3ce9454f65789ac84"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e9930f8a18c79670393e88b61f93586dccb08770/0_0_4000_2401/master/4000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e58d86e6c521611c7b39782d6e1024ce"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Maya Yang</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-17T18:21:08Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Mayoral candidate and five others killed in shooting at campaign rally in Mexico</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/shooting-campaign-rally-mexico</link> <description><p>Young girl was among six people killed in gunfire in an area of Chiapas where shootings have become common and widespread</p><p>A mayoral candidate and five other people have been killed when gunmen opened fire at a campaign rally in the violence-racked southern Mexico state of Chiapas.</p><p>State prosecutors said a young girl was among the six people killed in the gunfire late on Thursday, along with the mayoral candidate Lucero López Maza. Two others were injured, they said.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/shooting-campaign-rally-mexico">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/mexico">Mexico</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/americas">Americas</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/andres-manuel-lopez-obrador">Andrés Manuel López Obrador</category> <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 18:18:09 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/shooting-campaign-rally-mexico</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8183e591a3be0e379661c817daf244e102269114/0_0_3000_1800/master/3000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=eb515eb2510dd8ea70edf0dac9216dd3"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8183e591a3be0e379661c817daf244e102269114/0_0_3000_1800/master/3000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5e878d8f0a5102e08c658c205c7cd730"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Associated Press in Mexico City</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-17T18:18:09Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Buenos Aires metro fare jumps 360% amid Argentina’s harsh austerity measures</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/buenos-aires-metro-fare-increase</link> <description><p>Libertarian president Javier Milei has slashed public spending as he wrestles to tame hyperinflation, now at 289% annually</p><p>Commuters in Buenos Aires have been hit by an overnight 360% increase in subway fares, in one of the most dramatic price hikes in a harsh budget austerity campaign launched by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/argentina">Argentina</a>’s libertarian president, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/javier-milei">Javier Milei</a>.</p><p>After weeks of hearings, a judge on Thursday lifted an order that had temporarily blocked the scheduled increase in subway fares. That cleared the way for the change to take effect on Friday morning as office workers across Buenos Aires streamed through the turnstiles of South America’s oldest underground metro.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/buenos-aires-metro-fare-increase">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/argentina">Argentina</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/austerity">Austerity</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/economy">Economic policy</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/javier-milei">Javier Milei</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/poverty">Poverty</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/americas">Americas</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 17:54:45 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/buenos-aires-metro-fare-increase</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/db3aa2f7ee770e44cbcd85f890eb7e5a235e2e98/0_197_8192_4918/master/8192.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=81bbb8453d91f1e7a7238b2109e32991"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Agencia Press South/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/db3aa2f7ee770e44cbcd85f890eb7e5a235e2e98/0_197_8192_4918/master/8192.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=dd913d890ee412b152e9752fc28daf51"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Agencia Press South/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Associated Press in Buenos Aires</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-17T17:54:45Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>China to cut mortgage rates as part of plan to prop up property market</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/china-to-cut-mortgage-rates-as-part-of-plan-to-prop-up-property-market</link> <description><p>Local authorities will be allowed to turn unsold homes from developers into affordable housing</p><p>China will cut mortgage rates and allow local authorities to turn unsold homes from developers into affordable housing, in a series of drastic measures by Beijing aimed at propping up the country’s faltering property market.</p><p>The People’s Bank of China said it would scrap the minimum rate of interest and reduce down-payment ratios to 15% for first-time buyers and 25% for second homes. It will also <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c51nyglznm6o">create a 300bn yuan (£32.8bn) facility</a> to support local state-owned companies to buy homes at reasonable prices, it said in a series of statements on Friday.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/china-to-cut-mortgage-rates-as-part-of-plan-to-prop-up-property-market">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/china">China</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/realestate">Real estate</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/business">Business</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/asia-pacific">Asia Pacific</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/money/property">Property</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/money/mortgage-rates">Mortgage rates</category> <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 12:19:04 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/china-to-cut-mortgage-rates-as-part-of-plan-to-prop-up-property-market</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/19d638bffa44bb5524dfa171956564783781dba5/43_202_3940_2366/master/3940.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ee82870c8c15c7888fe516322776404a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/19d638bffa44bb5524dfa171956564783781dba5/43_202_3940_2366/master/3940.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=762e1b73dbfbf18a0de105f4ee11ac93"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Hazel Sheffield</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-17T12:19:04Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>New Caledonia riots: parts of territory ‘out of state control’, French representative says</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/new-caledonia-riots-protests-noumea-out-of-state-control</link> <description><p>Days of unrest in the French Pacific territory – sparked by a plan to change voting rules – have left five dead</p><p>Tensions remained high in Nouméa, the capital of New Caledonia, on Friday after days of riots as the French government’s representative said areas of the Pacific territory have “escaped” state control.</p><p>Louis Le Franc, high commissioner of the Republic in New Caledonia, announced new security deployments. The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/16/hundreds-of-french-police-deployed-amid-new-caledonia-riots">number of police and gendarmes</a> on the island will rise to 2,700 from 1,700 by Friday evening.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/new-caledonia-riots-protests-noumea-out-of-state-control">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/new-caledonia">New Caledonia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/pacific-islands">Pacific islands</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/france">France</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/asia-pacific">Asia Pacific</category> <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 11:40:16 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/new-caledonia-riots-protests-noumea-out-of-state-control</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/54ca4d01d427a0a117b8287aea039c380192f2c1/0_0_3716_2230/master/3716.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=658967558e29262ed183e46a614779ad"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Delphine Mayeur/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/54ca4d01d427a0a117b8287aea039c380192f2c1/0_0_3716_2230/master/3716.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c9e49b414fb0d1be5336feba68778fde"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Delphine Mayeur/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Julien Mazzoni in Nouméa with agencies</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-17T11:40:16Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Weather tracker: heavy snow hits eastern highlands in South Korea</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/17/weather-tracker-heavy-snow-seoraksan-gangwon-south-korea</link> <description><p>As much as 40cm fell in less than a day in part of Seoraksan national park. Plus, a powerful tornado in Australia</p><p>There was unusually heavy snowfall this week in the highlands of the mountainous region of eastern Gangwon province in South Korea. Between 5.30pm local time on Wednesday and 9am on Thursday, as much as 40cm fell at the Socheong shelter of Seoraksan national park, while 20cm was recorded at its Jungcheong shelter.</p><p>This unexpected snowfall has caused damage ahead of a harvest on wild vegetable farms that operate on the mountains. Conditions over the next few days are expected to improve, with warmer and drier weather over the weekend.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/17/weather-tracker-heavy-snow-seoraksan-gangwon-south-korea">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/south-korea">South Korea</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/environment">Environment</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/asia-pacific">Asia Pacific</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 07:20:46 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/17/weather-tracker-heavy-snow-seoraksan-gangwon-south-korea</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/fe11eb76a3df22f92c6f06df4f116a4a79def1ea/0_307_4608_2765/master/4608.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=3c0276ddfa23fad52bbdb72a426f8422"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: YONHAP/EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/fe11eb76a3df22f92c6f06df4f116a4a79def1ea/0_307_4608_2765/master/4608.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=38a7a3ac23e94b3a40e24db404169e93"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: YONHAP/EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Daniel Harris (Metdesk)</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-17T07:20:46Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Chinese social media companies remove posts ‘showing off wealth and worshipping money’</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/chinese-social-media-companies-remove-posts-showing-off-wealth-and-worshiping-money</link> <description><p>Targeting posts boasting of personal wealth appears to be part of campaign to ‘purify the internet cultural environment’</p><p>Chinese social media companies have launched a new crackdown on user content, targeting posts that show off personal wealth and financial extravagance.</p><p>In a statement posted online on Wednesday, Weibo said it had spent this month carrying out special management work on “undesirable value-orientated content”, including content <a href="https://weibo.com/1934183965/OeoKasYBl#comment">“showing off wealth and worshipping money”</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/chinese-social-media-companies-remove-posts-showing-off-wealth-and-worshiping-money">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/china">China</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/asia-pacific">Asia Pacific</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 05:33:36 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/chinese-social-media-companies-remove-posts-showing-off-wealth-and-worshiping-money</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e8a8559b073a1088edf27fefc83a70e46665329e/0_0_5894_3537/master/5894.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=58d582cf85b3e5cc83697f96a203b46c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e8a8559b073a1088edf27fefc83a70e46665329e/0_0_5894_3537/master/5894.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=4394a7180c45cb27ab2dcd26696dcc7f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Chi-Hui Lin in Taipei</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-17T05:33:36Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Hundreds of French police deployed amid New Caledonia riots</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/16/hundreds-of-french-police-deployed-amid-new-caledonia-riots</link> <description><p>State of emergency in place because of deadly unrest over bill that will let French people vote in provincial elections after 10 years of residence</p><p>Hundreds of police reinforcements have arrived in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia as the government in Paris insisted talks would not happen until calm had been restored.</p><p>As many as 1,000 extra police and gendarmes are being deployed to bolster the 1,700-strong force already in New Caledonia after three nights of violent riots that have killed five people, including two police officers.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/16/hundreds-of-french-police-deployed-amid-new-caledonia-riots">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/new-caledonia">New Caledonia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/asia-pacific">Asia Pacific</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/pacific-islands">Pacific islands</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2024 17:04:02 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/16/hundreds-of-french-police-deployed-amid-new-caledonia-riots</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c2e13a3b237b7cc3157ed04ef5e9b6319d85d47f/64_0_1920_1152/master/1920.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=70044d0f8b23d55e2f4e5e11adf187ec"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Lilou Garrido Navarro Kherachi/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c2e13a3b237b7cc3157ed04ef5e9b6319d85d47f/64_0_1920_1152/master/1920.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d5076cfe6ace5ca117f90518429cc0bb"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Lilou Garrido Navarro Kherachi/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Guardian staff and agencies</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-16T17:04:02Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Zelenskiy says situation is ‘difficult’ on visit to Kharkiv; Putin calls China relationship an international ‘stabilising factor’ – as it happened</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/may/16/vladimir-putin-beijing-visit-china-live-updates-war-ukraine-latest-today-xi-jinping</link> <description><p>Ukrainian military says its has forced Russia to reduce tempo of offensive; Russian president thanks Xi Jinping for ‘trying to solve Ukraine crisis’. This live blog is closed</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/16/vladimir-putin-xi-jinping-china-visit">Putin in China on mission to strengthen relationship</a></li><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/16/ukraines-defences-thin-on-ground-as-russia-advances-on-kharkiv">How Russia has advanced in Kharkiv despite warnings attack was coming</a></li></ul><p>Vladimir Putin has said that Russia-China cooperation is not directed against any other power and is a stabilising factor for the world, during his meeting with Xi Jinping.</p><p>It is of crucial significance that relations between Russia and China are not opportunistic and are not directed against anyone. Our cooperation in world affairs today acts as one of the main stabilising factors in the international arena.”</p><p>In our new journey we intend to remain good neighbours, trusted friends and reliable partners, consistently strengthening the relationship between our two nations … defending international equality.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/may/16/vladimir-putin-beijing-visit-china-live-updates-war-ukraine-latest-today-xi-jinping">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/china">China</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia">Russia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/xi-jinping">Xi Jinping</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/vladimir-putin">Vladimir Putin</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine">Ukraine</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/asia-pacific">Asia Pacific</category> <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2024 13:46:30 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/may/16/vladimir-putin-beijing-visit-china-live-updates-war-ukraine-latest-today-xi-jinping</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c62e7cd729ddff51034f9b4eb167c273d3f94210/0_196_5874_3524/master/5874.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=2f2244c1c328645e578d320c0a8f812e"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Roman Pilipey/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c62e7cd729ddff51034f9b4eb167c273d3f94210/0_196_5874_3524/master/5874.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=1a4a3d3e7fea05518ac0554e990901ef"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Roman Pilipey/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Martin Belam, Ben Quinn and Jonathan Yerushalmy</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-16T13:46:30Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Australia news live: Victorian state Labor conference continues after premier condemns behaviour of Saturday pro-Palestine protesters</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/may/19/australia-news-live-victoria-state-labor-conference-pro-palestine-protests-jim-chalmers-insiders</link> <description><p>Group of protesters entered the Moonee Valley Racecourse building on Saturday morning ahead of speeches by Jacinta Allan and the PM. Follow the day’s news live</p><ul><li>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">morning and afternoon news emails</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></li></ul><p>Chalmers calls Dutton’s budget reply and criticisms that immigration leads to pressure on housing “dark” and intentionally divisive". Chalmers says Dutton’s reply is based on “numbers that he has plucked out of the air”.</p><p>If you think about the relationship between migration and housing, for example, of the less than 5,000 homes purchased by foreigners in the most recent data, around 1,300 of them were established homes, and so this will make nowhere near the difference that he is claiming that it will.</p><p>We need a sensible migration program to find the nurses, and the builders, and other people that we need to ensure that our economy can continue to grow into the future.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/may/19/australia-news-live-victoria-state-labor-conference-pro-palestine-protests-jim-chalmers-insiders">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australia-news">Australia news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/victoria">Victoria</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/labor-party">Labor party</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 23:23:38 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/may/19/australia-news-live-victoria-state-labor-conference-pro-palestine-protests-jim-chalmers-insiders</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d62be5d065dcb4d31b40c98c5f015bfeebbc20e6/0_31_4146_2488/master/4146.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b1d55ba91b6895db0137284bbeb9deec"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Con Chronis/AAP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d62be5d065dcb4d31b40c98c5f015bfeebbc20e6/0_31_4146_2488/master/4146.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=2c7e3fcf9b02089b39054a6b7177551d"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Con Chronis/AAP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Kate Lyons</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T23:23:38Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Victorian premier accuses pro-Palestine protesters of bringing ‘violence, homophobia and antisemitism’ to Labor conference</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/18/pro-palestine-protesters-crash-victorian-labor-state-conference-ahead-of-debate-on-israel-hamas-war</link> <description><p>Six motions calling for end to Israel-Gaza conflict carried after Jacinta Allan says she is ‘disgusted’ by behaviour of protesters at Labor state conference</p><ul><li>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">morning and afternoon news emails</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></li></ul><p>The Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, has accused pro-Palestinian protesters of bringing “violence, homophobia and antisemitism to the front door of state conference”.</p><p>On Saturday morning, ahead of speeches by Allan and the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, a group of protesters entered the Moonee Valley Racecourse building and began chanting outside the conference room filled with MPs, unionist and other rank-and-file members.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/18/pro-palestine-protesters-crash-victorian-labor-state-conference-ahead-of-debate-on-israel-hamas-war">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/victoria">Victoria</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/victorian-politics">Victorian politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/protest">Protest</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/labor-party">Labor party</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australia-news">Australia news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/jacinta-allan">Jacinta Allan</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 09:18:17 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/18/pro-palestine-protesters-crash-victorian-labor-state-conference-ahead-of-debate-on-israel-hamas-war</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f987cceba0ceb707711bc91696abe09aca75e21d/0_356_5363_3219/master/5363.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e599879efdad4fafe00d508ebdc58714"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Con Chronis/AAP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f987cceba0ceb707711bc91696abe09aca75e21d/0_356_5363_3219/master/5363.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=501060f8c968ad3f4d11426e19a4070b"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Con Chronis/AAP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Benita Kolovos Victorian state correspondent</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T09:18:17Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Parents overestimate sons’ maths skills more than daughters’, study finds</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/may/18/parents-overestimate-sons-maths-skills-more-than-daughters-study-finds</link> <description><p>Gender stereotypes at home may hamper female students’ ability to progress in the classroom, research suggests</p><p>Parents are more likely to overestimate maths ability in sons than daughters, according to research that suggests that gender stereotypes at home may hinder the progress of female students.</p><p>The findings, <a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2024/may/gender-stereotypes-family">presented in a lecture at University College London</a> this week, found that parents tend to be overconfident about their children’s academic performance in reading and maths regardless of gender. But, in maths, parents overestimated boys’ skills to a significantly greater extent.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/may/18/parents-overestimate-sons-maths-skills-more-than-daughters-study-finds">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/educationsgendergap">The gender gap</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/mathematics">Mathematics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/education">Education</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australia-news">Australia news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/schools">Schools</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 07:00:04 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/may/18/parents-overestimate-sons-maths-skills-more-than-daughters-study-finds</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/015352b7ba089ced653bde92f3dc5f32a6a83f3e/0_0_5121_3073/master/5121.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=7ace2401f516875a55502ff179daee01"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Robert Daly/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/015352b7ba089ced653bde92f3dc5f32a6a83f3e/0_0_5121_3073/master/5121.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=eee7193f75a63bcf48192818bdf9acec"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Robert Daly/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Hannah Devlin</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T07:00:04Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Customer-facing workers ‘should not have to work in fear’, Victorian premier says, announcing plans for tougher laws</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/18/customer-facing-workers-should-not-have-to-work-in-fear-victorian-premier-says-announcing-plans-for-tougher-laws</link> <description><p>Jacinta Allan proposes stronger penalties for people who assault, threaten or intimidate retail, hospitality, and other workers</p><ul><li><strong>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">morning and afternoon news emails</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></strong></li></ul><p>Jacinta Allan has used her first Labor state conference as Victorian premier to announce plans to change the law to better protect retail, hospitality and other customer-facing workers from abuse and assault amid reports of a surge in violence.</p><p>In her speech to party faithful at Moonee Valley Racecourse on Saturday, Allan detailed plans to introduce tougher penalties for people who assault, threaten or intimidate workers.</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed">Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup</a></strong></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/18/customer-facing-workers-should-not-have-to-work-in-fear-victorian-premier-says-announcing-plans-for-tougher-laws">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/victorian-politics">Victorian politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/victoria">Victoria</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australia-news">Australia news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/jacinta-allan">Jacinta Allan</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 04:01:39 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/18/customer-facing-workers-should-not-have-to-work-in-fear-victorian-premier-says-announcing-plans-for-tougher-laws</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/254565148bb649b2845c38d1e401e568022262d5/0_183_4659_2795/master/4659.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5d7b8a4be04d645cff8c3074c99ea4e3"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Con Chronis/AAP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/254565148bb649b2845c38d1e401e568022262d5/0_183_4659_2795/master/4659.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=21eb1b8200c0bb8db934942d212ca9dd"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Con Chronis/AAP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Benita Kolovos Victorian state correspondent</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T04:01:39Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Police charge 17-year-old with attempted murder over alleged daylight brawl and stabbing in Brisbane</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/18/police-charge-17-year-old-with-attempted-over-alleged-daylight-brawl-and-stabbing-in-brisbane-ntwnfb</link> <description><p>Boy charged after an alleged fight ended in a man being stabbed multiple times in Acacia Ridge</p><ul><li><strong>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">morning and afternoon news emails</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></strong></li></ul><p>A 17-year-old boy has been charged with attempted murder after an alleged fight ended in a stabbing in the Brisbane suburb of Acacia Ridge.</p><p>Police allege two men were seen fighting on the footpath outside a Gregory St address at 2.30pm on Friday, before the 17-year-old brought out a knife and stabbed a 19-year-old man multiple times.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/18/police-charge-17-year-old-with-attempted-over-alleged-daylight-brawl-and-stabbing-in-brisbane-ntwnfb">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/queensland">Queensland</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australia-news">Australia news</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 02:55:21 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/18/police-charge-17-year-old-with-attempted-over-alleged-daylight-brawl-and-stabbing-in-brisbane-ntwnfb</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b9d2f364dc757c6182dcffbdf36377df63418488/0_45_6865_4119/master/6865.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c1e95ffd7712d3734e6a8f28ea05fc73"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b9d2f364dc757c6182dcffbdf36377df63418488/0_45_6865_4119/master/6865.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=3776248b403dffc0eab0c65478ae36ba"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Australian Associated Press</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T02:55:21Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Children’s author charged with online grooming in Sydney</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/18/childrens-author-charged-with-online-grooming-in-sydney-ntwnfb</link> <description><p>Man, 41, arrested and charged with online grooming after allegedly sending inappropriate images to someone he thought was 13</p><ul><li>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">morning and afternoon news emails</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></li></ul><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/new-south-wales">New South Wales</a> police have charged a children’s author for the alleged online grooming of children, under Strike Force Trawler.</p><p>The state crime command’s sex crimes squad force detectives launched an investigation early this month after receiving an interstate report a children’s author was allegedly communicating inappropriately with a child online.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/18/childrens-author-charged-with-online-grooming-in-sydney-ntwnfb">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/new-south-wales">New South Wales</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/police-policing-australia">Australian police and policing</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australia-news">Australia news</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 00:17:21 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/18/childrens-author-charged-with-online-grooming-in-sydney-ntwnfb</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bf31dcf838b2ee448e39103ab43f6ca159c57bf0/0_83_2785_1671/master/2785.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=76f5e72bc57027f22572824766152892"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: SUPPLIED/PR IMAGE</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bf31dcf838b2ee448e39103ab43f6ca159c57bf0/0_83_2785_1671/master/2785.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5e1e04590ddb389dde68ce7d1590f03d"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: SUPPLIED/PR IMAGE</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Australian Associated Press</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T00:17:21Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Suspect in court as Putin’s friends capitalise on shooting of Slovakian PM Robert Fico</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/suspect-putin-shooting-slovakian-pm-robert-fico</link> <description><p>Media is barred from hearing as 71-year-old man appears in closed session over attempted assassination of prime minister</p><p>The suspect in the shooting of Slovakian prime minister Robert Fico appeared in a closed court hearing on Saturday outside Bratislava amid growing fears about the future of the deeply divided nation.</p><p>The media was barred from the hearing, and reporters were kept behind a gate by armed police officers wearing balaclavas.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/suspect-putin-shooting-slovakian-pm-robert-fico">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/robert-fico">Robert Fico</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/slovakia">Slovakia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia">Russia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/hungary">Hungary</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine">Ukraine</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 15:52:09 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/suspect-putin-shooting-slovakian-pm-robert-fico</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/2e7e3bb07299f8a78d6aa739a1cf65eba380cb60/377_0_3124_1874/master/3124.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=935ed806eabac44f796233c7084a684f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Tomas Benedikovic/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/2e7e3bb07299f8a78d6aa739a1cf65eba380cb60/377_0_3124_1874/master/3124.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ccc6c5205177c40284a24d5815df94c8"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Tomas Benedikovic/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Pjotr Sauer in Bratislava and Lili Bayer in Brussels</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T15:52:09Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Disappearing ink, fake polls and voter fraud: EU fears as Russian propaganda ads target Euro elections</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/disappearing-ink-fake-polls-and-voter-eu-fears-as-russian-propaganda-ads-target-euro-elections</link> <description><p>Researcher uncovers vast Facebook campaign and accuses Meta of ‘lack of willingness’ to counter it</p><p>The stories are doom-laden, laced with vitriolic sneers about Emmanuel Macron, Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Ursula von der Leyen. Ukrainians are “ready to depose” their leader, Macron is breaking French “rules” with aid to Ukraine, an “uncontrolled influx” from the east is “seriously harming the Germans”.</p><p>According to new research, these are just a few examples of a vast pro-Russian propaganda campaign washing over Facebook accounts of French and German citizens, before the European parliament elections next month.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/disappearing-ink-fake-polls-and-voter-eu-fears-as-russian-propaganda-ads-target-euro-elections">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/european-elections">European elections</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/eu">European Union</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ursula-von-der-leyen">Ursula von der Leyen</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/meta">Meta</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia">Russia</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 12:00:07 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/disappearing-ink-fake-polls-and-voter-eu-fears-as-russian-propaganda-ads-target-euro-elections</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/41748ce2a2401635d0ae140aec23ffb30bcaeca4/0_288_8640_5184/master/8640.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c2ca8d2056d156b641c5a1bc08e2d495"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Ida Marie Odgaard/EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/41748ce2a2401635d0ae140aec23ffb30bcaeca4/0_288_8640_5184/master/8640.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=1ab9e104ff38f5989d285101bd467160"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Ida Marie Odgaard/EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Jennifer Rankin</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T12:00:07Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Eight climate activists arrested in Germany over airport protest</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/climate-activists-arrested-germany-munich-airport</link> <description><p>About 60 flights cancelled after members of Letzte Generation glue themselves to ground at Munich</p><p>Eight climate activists have been arrested after causing Munich airport to close, leading to about 60 flight cancellations.</p><p>Six activists broke through a security fence and glued themselves to access routes leading to runways, officials and local media reported.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/climate-activists-arrested-germany-munich-airport">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/germany">Germany</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/protest">Protest</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/activism">Activism</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-crisis">Climate crisis</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/environment">Environment</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/activism">Environmental activism</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 11:42:29 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/climate-activists-arrested-germany-munich-airport</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e261a2d15b432ed91c0ee6a830cbeb5208801b89/0_57_1697_1018/master/1697.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6137e98bf9611a9eb482adef190390a3"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e261a2d15b432ed91c0ee6a830cbeb5208801b89/0_57_1697_1018/master/1697.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f0efb3c36f399d5afc02d2368966c4b6"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Agencies</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T11:42:29Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Zelenskiy says situation in Kharkiv under control but he fears second Russian attack</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/volodymyr-zelenskiy-expects-russian-offensive-in-northeast-ukraine-to-intensify</link> <description><p>Ukraine’s president says air defences must quadruple to halt Russian advance as morale falls among troops</p><p>The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has said he expects Russia to step up <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/ukraine-russia-war-briefing-what-we-know-kharkiv-campaign">its offensive in the north-east</a> and warned Kyiv has only a quarter of the air defences it needs to hold the front line.</p><p>Russian forces, which had made only moderate advances in recent months, launched <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/11/russian-attack-kharkiv-ukraine-villages">a surprise assault in Kharkiv region on 10 May</a> that has resulted in their biggest territorial gains in a year-and-a-half.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/volodymyr-zelenskiy-expects-russian-offensive-in-northeast-ukraine-to-intensify">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine">Ukraine</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia">Russia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/volodymyr-zelenskiy">Volodymyr Zelenskiy</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/vladimir-putin">Vladimir Putin</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 10:08:45 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/volodymyr-zelenskiy-expects-russian-offensive-in-northeast-ukraine-to-intensify</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8b4fafdd68345cfacff34be9fa47ce73126dc844/0_395_5960_3578/master/5960.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=36c6432dbf7c783913de52c9e345740a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Roman Pilipey/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8b4fafdd68345cfacff34be9fa47ce73126dc844/0_395_5960_3578/master/5960.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8d4d0737984e0bdabb45c83baf6a3ef1"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Roman Pilipey/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Agence France-Presse in Kyiv</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T10:08:45Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>French post office releases scratch-and-sniff baguette stamp</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/17/french-post-office-releases-scratch-and-sniff-baguette-stamp</link> <description><p>‘Bakery scent’ added via microcapsules to postage stamp celebrating ‘jewel of French culture’</p><p>The French Post Office has released a scratch-and-sniff postage stamp to celebrate the baguette, once described by President Emmanuel Macron as “250 grams of magic and perfection”.</p><p>The stamp, which costs €1.96, depicts a baguette decorated with a red, white and blue ribbon. It has a print run of 594,000 copies.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/17/french-post-office-releases-scratch-and-sniff-baguette-stamp">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/stamps">Stamps</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/france">France</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/food/bread">Bread</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/design">Design</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/artanddesign">Art and design</category> <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 19:24:16 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/17/french-post-office-releases-scratch-and-sniff-baguette-stamp</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1c2948351de111c2b74cabd16f0e93e87dae598f/2_0_3443_2068/master/3443.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b281df41988670345df3c87dd758d14d"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Universal Postal Union/X</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1c2948351de111c2b74cabd16f0e93e87dae598f/2_0_3443_2068/master/3443.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ac00b8f4330f6c4095526a802d7d5042"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Universal Postal Union/X</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Agence France-Presse in Paris</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-17T19:24:16Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Francis Ford Coppola: US politics is at ‘the point where we might lose our republic’</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/17/francis-ford-coppola-us-politics-republic-rome-megalopolis-cannes</link> <description><p>Speaking at Cannes, the director says Megalopolis, his reworking of ancient Rome’s Catiline conspiracy, has become ever more prescient</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/16/megalopolis-review-coppola-sci-fi-adam-driver">Megalopolis review – Coppola’s passion project is megabloated and megaboring</a></p><p>The US, whose founders tried to emulate the laws and governmental structures of the Roman republic, is headed for a similarly self-inflicted collapse, director Francis Ford Coppola has said at the premiere of his first film in more than a decade.</p><p>“What’s happening in America, in our republic, in our democracy, is exactly how Rome lost their republic thousands of years ago,” Coppola told a press conference at the Cannes film festival on Friday. “Our politics has taken us to the point where we might lose our republic.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/17/francis-ford-coppola-us-politics-republic-rome-megalopolis-cannes">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/film/cannes-2024">Cannes 2024</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/film/cannesfilmfestival">Cannes film festival</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/film/francis-ford-coppola">Francis Ford Coppola</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/france">France</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/festivals">Festivals</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/film/film">Film</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 15:36:50 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/17/francis-ford-coppola-us-politics-republic-rome-megalopolis-cannes</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/421df57c15f4d9e6190ac9ce8aef636f6b42d424/142_169_3972_2382/master/3972.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a0a41a4274d1e7bf2a178dc200e071f5"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Stéphane Cardinale/Corbis/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/421df57c15f4d9e6190ac9ce8aef636f6b42d424/142_169_3972_2382/master/3972.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=71eed153454160534f0c89283e6bd802"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Stéphane Cardinale/Corbis/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Philip Oltermann in Cannes</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-17T15:36:50Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Israeli minister vows to quit war cabinet if PM fails to agree new Gaza plan</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/father-of-woman-killed-at-israeli-festival-tells-of-relief-after-recovery-of-her-body</link> <description><p>Benny Gantz’s threat to withdraw his opposition party from coalition calls into question future of government</p><p>The Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz has threatened to resign if Benjamin Netanyahu fails to adopt an agreed plan for Gaza, calling into question the future of the Israeli government.</p><p>During a press conference on Saturday, Gantz announced that if a plan for postwar governance of the territory is not consolidated and approved by 8 June, his opposition National Unity party will withdraw from the coalition government.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/father-of-woman-killed-at-israeli-festival-tells-of-relief-after-recovery-of-her-body">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">Israel-Gaza war</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel">Israel</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories">Palestinian territories</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/hamas">Hamas</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 19:09:03 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/father-of-woman-killed-at-israeli-festival-tells-of-relief-after-recovery-of-her-body</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/58642800f3bbca66a884d8b79db2992984aca406/0_374_5616_3370/master/5616.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=31b7ede09a2630ac6a9da9d9fa47ff2d"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Tsafrir Abayov/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/58642800f3bbca66a884d8b79db2992984aca406/0_374_5616_3370/master/5616.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=132153958a41ae5773033690f9a8fee7"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Tsafrir Abayov/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem and Emma Graham-Harrison</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T19:09:03Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Islamic Jihad leader killed in West Bank and 70 targets hit in Gaza, says Israel</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/israeli-forces-say-islamic-jihad-leader-islam-khamayseh-killed-in-strike-on-west-bank-jenin</link> <description><p>IDF says ‘senior terrorist operative’ Islam Khamayseh was killed in strike on the city of Jenin</p><p>Israel says its jets have struck 70 targets across Gaza in the past 24 hours, while an airstrike in Jenin killed a “significant” Islamic Jihad figure who operated as the head of logistics for the organisation’s brigade in the city.</p><p>The strike, carried out on Friday night by a fighter jet and a helicopter, killed Islam Khamayseh, a “senior terrorist operative in the Jenin camp” who was responsible for a series of attacks in the area, the IDF said.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/israeli-forces-say-islamic-jihad-leader-islam-khamayseh-killed-in-strike-on-west-bank-jenin">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/gaza">Gaza</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel">Israel</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/hamas">Hamas</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories">Palestinian territories</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 17:16:42 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/israeli-forces-say-islamic-jihad-leader-islam-khamayseh-killed-in-strike-on-west-bank-jenin</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9f5a9d05882628cd4aef94b9d0f5f763f9c43377/0_314_5088_3053/master/5088.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b921e7204ba963f205e90d99006d2bfb"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Alaa Badarneh/EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9f5a9d05882628cd4aef94b9d0f5f763f9c43377/0_314_5088_3053/master/5088.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a99c94973814da6f7c8ad45f4db5b14c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Alaa Badarneh/EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T17:16:42Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Hamas ‘rejects’ any military presence in Gaza as aid begins to arrive along US-made pier – as it happened</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/may/18/israel-gaza-war-rafah-hamas-middle-east-aid-latest-news</link> <description><p>This live blog is now closed, you can <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">read more of our Israel-Gaza war coverage here</a></p><p><strong>Israel</strong> on Friday attacked <strong>South Africa</strong>’s case against it in the <strong>international court of justice</strong> as an “obscene exploitation” of the genocide convention, claiming it aimed not to protect <strong>Palestinian</strong> civilians but to defend <strong>Hamas</strong> militants.</p><p>Israel’s representatives told the court their country was fighting a war of self-defence it “did not want and did not start”. They said <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel">Israel</a> had made “extraordinary” efforts to protect civilians, and had complied with orders from the court to let more aid into Gaza.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/may/18/israel-gaza-war-rafah-hamas-middle-east-aid-latest-news">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">Israel-Gaza war</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel">Israel</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/hamas">Hamas</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/gaza">Gaza</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 15:03:27 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/may/18/israel-gaza-war-rafah-hamas-middle-east-aid-latest-news</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0c8dea4ad7f221796b025c366d2d57a0b0df6b87/0_195_1600_960/master/1600.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6344739df93c82dfd431246e6292efa0"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Israel Defense Forces/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0c8dea4ad7f221796b025c366d2d57a0b0df6b87/0_195_1600_960/master/1600.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=578ac3608878837a5f37b05250bfae29"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Israel Defense Forces/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Amy Sedghi (now) and Tom Ambrose (earlier)</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T15:03:27Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Israeli abuse of jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti ‘amounts to torture’</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/israeli-abuse-of-jailed-palestinian-leader-marwan-barghouti-amounts-to-torture</link> <description><p>With thousands now held without charge, lawyers say Israel is <br>signalling that no detainee is safe</p><p>Marwan Barghouti spends his days huddled in a cramped, dark, solitary cell, with no way to tend to his wounds, and a shoulder injury from being dragged with his hands cuffed behind his back.</p><p>Barghouti holds almost mythic status within Palestinian politics, seen as a figure whose potential to unify different factions has only grown during his 24 years in prison.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/israeli-abuse-of-jailed-palestinian-leader-marwan-barghouti-amounts-to-torture">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories">Palestinian territories</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel">Israel</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">Israel-Gaza war</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 12:00:08 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/israeli-abuse-of-jailed-palestinian-leader-marwan-barghouti-amounts-to-torture</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0ff3d4b17b488a9e1af30e0b1d230be8984e69ad/0_192_5760_3456/master/5760.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=4718c1fd6e86798b7782fa03b6ece449"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: NurPhoto/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0ff3d4b17b488a9e1af30e0b1d230be8984e69ad/0_192_5760_3456/master/5760.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e325a2ff22bd3294ac846e1ef760a72a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: NurPhoto/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Ruth Michaelson, Sufian Taha and Quique Kierszenbaum in Jerusalem and Ramallah</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T12:00:08Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Supplies arrive in Gaza via new pier but land routes essential, says US aid chief</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/gaza-pier-aid-un-distribution</link> <description><p>Samantha Power says barely 100 trucks of aid a day enter Gaza, far less than 600 needed to address threat of famine</p><p>Humanitarian assistance has begun to arrive in Gaza along <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/16/us-completes-installation-of-floating-pier-to-deliver-aid-to-gaza">a US-made pier</a>, but the US aid chief said the new sea corridor could not be a substitute for land crossings, and warned that deliveries of food and fuel entering Gaza had slowed to “dangerously low levels”.</p><p>The White House national security spokesperson, John Kirby, confirmed on Friday that truckloads of humanitarian aid, including food from the United Arab Emirates, sent by ship from Cyprus, had been unloaded on the Gaza coast and handed over to the control of the UN.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/gaza-pier-aid-un-distribution">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">Israel-Gaza war</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories">Palestinian territories</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel">Israel</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/unitednations">United Nations</category> <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 21:20:39 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/gaza-pier-aid-un-distribution</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/244baf0d57a5118388e9fcd8304f0b5d2e9bef2a/12_0_2145_1288/master/2145.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=cb628da7624d9a9299f3cccdc48f2b2e"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Reuters TV/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/244baf0d57a5118388e9fcd8304f0b5d2e9bef2a/12_0_2145_1288/master/2145.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5498a6dad83cd2158aa96bce20574b58"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Reuters TV/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Julian Borger in Washington</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-17T21:20:39Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Israel recovers bodies of three hostages taken by Hamas, including Shani Louk</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/israel-recovers-bodies-of-three-hostages-taken-by-hamas-including-shani-louk</link> <description><p>Bodies of Amit Buskila and Itzhak Gelerenter also recovered from Gaza as Israel says 129 hostages remain in captivity</p><p>The bodies of three hostages kidnapped by Hamas, including the German-Israeli Shani Louk, have been retrieved from Gaza by the Israeli military, it announced.</p><p>The other two hostages were identified as Amit Buskila, 28, and Itzhak Gelerenter, 56, according to the military spokesperson Rear Adm Daniel Hagari, who said the three victims were taken to Gaza after being killed by Hamas at the Nova music festival.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/israel-recovers-bodies-of-three-hostages-taken-by-hamas-including-shani-louk">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">Israel-Gaza war</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel">Israel</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/hamas">Hamas</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories">Palestinian territories</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/gaza">Gaza</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 17:20:49 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/israel-recovers-bodies-of-three-hostages-taken-by-hamas-including-shani-louk</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/69adf20f599beaf5da389f3f72b7410c0a584e49/94_57_2003_1202/master/2003.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=bcf853c43cb482af403938f952aff7ba"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Hostages Families Forum Headquarters/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/69adf20f599beaf5da389f3f72b7410c0a584e49/94_57_2003_1202/master/2003.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=38152ceea141a5960a048511d86038b8"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Hostages Families Forum Headquarters/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Lorenzo Tondo and Quique Kierszenbaum in Jerusalem</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-17T17:20:49Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Fresh floods in Afghanistan kill at least 60 after heavy rain brings devastation</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/fresh-flooding-in-afghanistan-people-dead-after-heavy-rain-brings-devastation</link> <description><p>Thousands of homes and farming land damaged in Ghor province, a week after over 300 people killed in flash floods</p><p>At least 60 people have been killed in a fresh bout of heavy rain and flooding in central Afghanistan, according to an official.</p><p>Dozens others remained missing, said Abdul Wahid Hamas, spokesperson for Ghor’s provincial governor, on Saturday. He said the province had suffered significant financial losses, with thousands of homes and properties damaged and hundreds of hectares of agricultural land destroyed in the floods on Friday, including in the province’s capital city, Feroz Koh.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/fresh-flooding-in-afghanistan-people-dead-after-heavy-rain-brings-devastation">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/afghanistan">Afghanistan</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/flooding">Flooding</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/extreme-weather">Extreme weather</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/environment">Environment</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/south-and-central-asia">South and central Asia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-crisis">Climate crisis</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 17:00:13 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/fresh-flooding-in-afghanistan-people-dead-after-heavy-rain-brings-devastation</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e32b95ebd5155a9357b8e453d56243d8cc3b8501/0_53_3456_2074/master/3456.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=21639491f92c5210ddcb771dcc736252"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e32b95ebd5155a9357b8e453d56243d8cc3b8501/0_53_3456_2074/master/3456.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b694e40e964f612bc43febbccea9344f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Guardian staff and agencies</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T17:00:13Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Three Spanish tourists and an Afghan shot dead in Afghanistan attack</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/three-foreign-tourists-and-an-afghan-killed-in-shooting-attack-in-afghanistan-bamiyan</link> <description><p>Four suspects arrested at the scene of attack in Bamiyan, with four more foreigners and three Afghans reported wounded</p><p>Three Spanish tourists and an Afghan civilian have been killed in a shooting attack in Bamiyan province, central Afghanistan.</p><p>The Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, wrote on social messaging platform X that he was “shocked by the news of the murder of Spanish tourists in Afghanistan”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/three-foreign-tourists-and-an-afghan-killed-in-shooting-attack-in-afghanistan-bamiyan">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/afghanistan">Afghanistan</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/south-and-central-asia">South and central Asia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/taliban">Taliban</category> <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 20:53:20 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/three-foreign-tourists-and-an-afghan-killed-in-shooting-attack-in-afghanistan-bamiyan</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3285957399fc020f85b896f6b03f72ddf6ba45d2/0_302_5500_3300/master/5500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=1a9c2509b588123ae316699de7dd6b82"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Ali Khara/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3285957399fc020f85b896f6b03f72ddf6ba45d2/0_302_5500_3300/master/5500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=19dd92ac89b17abfa769d6da9f1b0412"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Ali Khara/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Staff and agencies in Kabul</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-17T20:53:20Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘Impossible’ heatwave struck Philippines in April, scientists find</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/14/impossible-heatwave-philippines-april-scientists</link> <description><p>Human-caused climate crisis brought soaring temperatures across Asia, from Gaza to Delhi to Manila</p><p>The record-breaking heatwave that scorched the Philippines in April would have been impossible without the climate crisis, scientists have found. Searing heat above 40C (104F) <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/04/inside-an-oven-how-life-in-south-east-asia-is-a-struggle-amid-sweltering-heat">struck across Asia</a> in April, causing deaths, water shortages, crop losses and widespread school closures.</p><p>The extreme heat was made 45 times more likely in India and five times more likely in Israel and Palestine, the study found. The scientists said the high temperatures compounded the already dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where displaced people are living in overcrowded shelters with little access to water.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/14/impossible-heatwave-philippines-april-scientists">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-crisis">Climate crisis</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/extreme-heat">Extreme heat</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/philippines">Philippines</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/extreme-weather">Extreme weather</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/environment">Environment</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel">Israel</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories">Palestinian territories</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/africa">Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/india">India</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/asia-pacific">Asia Pacific</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/south-and-central-asia">South and central Asia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 21:00:21 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/14/impossible-heatwave-philippines-april-scientists</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f60c4b0614208123b6687904a2b550c2cb30be91/0_258_3872_2323/master/3872.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5e561cf690619f34470c873e903097c4"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Aaron Favila/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f60c4b0614208123b6687904a2b550c2cb30be91/0_258_3872_2323/master/3872.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=4fe31c1933a3ac14a3400e8fc3f425e5"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Aaron Favila/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Damian Carrington Environment editor</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-14T21:00:21Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Kazakh court jails former minister for 24 years for brutal murder of wife</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/may/14/kazakh-court-jails-former-minister-for-24-years-for-brutal-of-wife</link> <description><p>Kazakhstan to toughen penalties for domestic violence as killing of Saltanat Nukenova prompts national outcry and shines spotlight on high femicide rates </p><p>A former Kazakh government minister has been sentenced to 24 years in prison for the torture and murder of his wife in one of the most high-profile cases of domestic violence in Kazakhstan’s history.</p><p>Kuandyk Bishimbayev, 44, was shown in surveillance footage repeatedly beating Saltanat Nukenova, 31, after they quarrelled in a restaurant he owned in Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana, in November 2023. A forensic examination later found evidence of strangulation.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/may/14/kazakh-court-jails-former-minister-for-24-years-for-brutal-of-wife">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/kazakhstan">Kazakhstan</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/global-development">Global development</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/domestic-violence">Domestic violence</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/femicide">Femicide</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/south-and-central-asia">South and central Asia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/womens-rights-and-gender-equality">Women's rights and gender equality</category> <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 11:40:11 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/may/14/kazakh-court-jails-former-minister-for-24-years-for-brutal-of-wife</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7825505e67dc47ebd81d08bc44555be0c3f3e26c/0_79_6163_3698/master/6163.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=7c0c4425a2cb1c10b6705600d01db022"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7825505e67dc47ebd81d08bc44555be0c3f3e26c/0_79_6163_3698/master/6163.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8c506e36d3d8ed6116df971f7221ea8d"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Aigerim Turgunbaeva</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-14T11:40:11Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Rohingya being forcibly conscripted in battle between Myanmar and rebels</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/may/14/rohingya-being-forcibly-conscripted-in-battle-between-myanmar-and-rebels</link> <description><p>Myanmar military has conscripted 1,000 Rohingya men and boys since February, with fears some are being used as human shields, according to NGOs</p><p>For more than four hours Abdullah* waited in the darkness as soldiers marched 30 of his neighbours from their homes in the Myanmar border state of Rakhine and forced them by gunpoint to join him on the truck that would take them all to a military base.</p><p>By the morning they were standing in front of a military commander ordering them to fight with the army against a local rebel group – some of the 1,000 Rohingya people the Myanmar military has <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/04/10/myanmar-military-forcibly-recruiting-rohingya#:~:text=The%20junta%20is%20using%20a,arrest%2C%20abduction%2C%20and%20beatings.">conscripted since February</a>, according to Human Rights Watch.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/may/14/rohingya-being-forcibly-conscripted-in-battle-between-myanmar-and-rebels">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/rohingya">Rohingya</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/global-development">Global development</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/myanmar">Myanmar</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/south-and-central-asia">South and central Asia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/conflict-and-development">Conflict and arms</category> <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 04:00:27 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/may/14/rohingya-being-forcibly-conscripted-in-battle-between-myanmar-and-rebels</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5280f6e320ce82262aa36acf7c34efb7ea23f40b/0_252_4243_2547/master/4243.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=22627208efdbecfe315e1ba682670c3d"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Riva Press</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5280f6e320ce82262aa36acf7c34efb7ea23f40b/0_252_4243_2547/master/4243.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=1e24dd92cea6637f5683d80a2a906030"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Riva Press</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Kaamil Ahmed</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-14T04:00:27Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘Pressured to withdraw’: BJP accused of intimidation tactics in India polls</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/14/bjp-accused-intimidation-india-elections-gujarat</link> <description><p>Opposition say ruling party undermining democracy by using police to harass candidates into not contesting in elections</p><p>When the people of Gujarat cast their votes last week in India’s six-week-long election, there was one constituency in the state that stood silent. There were no polling stations or impatient queues of people, and no one with the tell-tale inky finger. In Surat, no voting was necessary – the outcome was already decided.</p><p>Mukesh Dalal, from the ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), won the seat by default after every other candidate was either disqualified or dropped out of the race. It was the first time in 73 years that Surat’s candidate was appointed, not elected.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/14/bjp-accused-intimidation-india-elections-gujarat">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/india">India</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/narendra-modi">Narendra Modi</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/south-and-central-asia">South and central Asia</category> <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 02:00:22 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/14/bjp-accused-intimidation-india-elections-gujarat</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8b6264c156d34e06833ef579aeaaa78218b53894/0_252_5775_3466/master/5775.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=210f0b96ee62330d29f665cfd1e54054"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Aakash Hassan</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8b6264c156d34e06833ef579aeaaa78218b53894/0_252_5775_3466/master/5775.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=2f7144fea4d0cf543a6f0bcf5911f9e7"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Aakash Hassan</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Aakash Hassan in Gandhinagar</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-14T02:00:22Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Hospitals to share waiting lists under Labour plans for quicker care</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/18/hospitals-to-share-waiting-lists-under-labour-plans-for-quicker-care</link> <description><p>Party says pooling resources across regions would deliver 40,000 extra appointments a week for patients</p><p>Hospitals would have to share waiting lists and pool resources under Labour’s plans to reduce waiting times by delivering up to 40,000 extra NHS appointments a week.</p><p>The party has announced that patients would be offered appointments at nearby hospitals, rather than necessarily at their local one, which would enable people to receive faster treatment. Hospital staff and resources would be pooled across a region and would run evening and weekend surgeries.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/18/hospitals-to-share-waiting-lists-under-labour-plans-for-quicker-care">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/nhs">NHS</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/wes-streeting">Wes Streeting</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour">Labour</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/health">Health</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/hospitals">Hospitals</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 22:43:04 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/18/hospitals-to-share-waiting-lists-under-labour-plans-for-quicker-care</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/98188206702ae2066d69c35bfb0dbd6fc8cc3748/0_163_5184_3110/master/5184.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=79063ed7df70ee6544018c9895149643"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Mark Thomas/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/98188206702ae2066d69c35bfb0dbd6fc8cc3748/0_163_5184_3110/master/5184.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b4fcb3cc5f83e5976e0146a2f7795769"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Mark Thomas/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Nadeem Badshah and agency</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T22:43:04Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Tony O’Reilly, one of Ireland’s leading business figures, dies aged 88</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/may/18/tony-oreilly-one-of-irelands-leading-business-figures-dies-aged-88</link> <description><p>O’Reilly, who was also an international rugby player for Ireland and the British and Irish Lions, died in Dublin on Saturday</p><p>Tony O’Reilly, one of Ireland’s leading business figures, has died at the age of 88.</p><p>O’Reilly, who had a career in the media as well as being an international rugby player for Ireland and the British and Irish Lions, died in St Vincent’s hospital in Dublin on Saturday.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/may/18/tony-oreilly-one-of-irelands-leading-business-figures-dies-aged-88">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/anthony-o-reilly">Anthony O'Reilly</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/media">Media</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/sport">Sport</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 21:24:16 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/may/18/tony-oreilly-one-of-irelands-leading-business-figures-dies-aged-88</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/01d284bda22317d442b9c02cc8a7c233be804132/0_60_1800_1080/master/1800.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=32669a398f8140003e23835ea63b7921"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Gene J Puskar/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/01d284bda22317d442b9c02cc8a7c233be804132/0_60_1800_1080/master/1800.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=54e4840758c8de758f8397a0a87635cb"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Gene J Puskar/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>PA Media</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T21:24:16Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Nadhim Zahawi says it was a mistake for Tories to force Boris Johnson from No 10</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/18/nadhim-zahawi-says-it-was-a-mistake-for-tories-to-force-boris-johnson-from-no-10</link> <description><p>Former chancellor, who was one of those who urged Johnson to go, says Tories should have realised ‘Twitter was not the country’</p><p>Former chancellor Nadhim Zahawi has said he and his Conservative colleagues were wrong to force out Boris Johnson as prime minister in 2022.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/07/boris-johnson-resigns-as-conservative-leader-after-cabinet-revolt">Johnson resigned</a> after less than three years in No 10 after more than 50 resignations from government of MPs and staff and waves of backbenchers urging him to quit over the handling of the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/04/chris-pincher-a-timeline-of-allegations-and-investigations">Chris Pincher affair</a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/01/scandal-timeline-tory-sleaze-boris-johnson">numerous other scandals</a>. He resigned as an MP <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/09/boris-johnson-resigns-as-mp-with-immediate-effect-over-partygate-report">a year later</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/18/nadhim-zahawi-says-it-was-a-mistake-for-tories-to-force-boris-johnson-from-no-10">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/nadhim-zahawi">Nadhim Zahawi</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/boris-johnson">Boris Johnson</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/conservatives">Conservatives</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 20:30:04 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/18/nadhim-zahawi-says-it-was-a-mistake-for-tories-to-force-boris-johnson-from-no-10</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/2e83729567dac7d2eb5056b0f5ca04ff02532b38/0_110_3248_1948/master/3248.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b2af7d56487660b5c73e5fa025a53794"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/2e83729567dac7d2eb5056b0f5ca04ff02532b38/0_110_3248_1948/master/3248.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f2aa43fd48677ea54288978fffaee8b3"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Nadeem Badshah</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T20:30:04Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Third of voters believe Starmer was wrong to let Elphicke into Labour party</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/18/voters-starmer-wrong-elphicke-labour-party-opinium-poll-tory-mp-defection</link> <description><p>In latest Opinium poll, only 16% say accepting rightwing Tory MP’s defection was the right move – against 33% who see it as a mistake</p><p>More voters believe Keir Starmer was wrong to allow a rightwing Tory MP into Labour than think it was the right move, after anger from within the party’s ranks over the defection.</p><p>Natalie Elphicke, the Dover MP, said the Tories had become “a byword for incompetence and division” when she made her <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/08/conservative-mp-natalie-elphicke-defects-to-labour-party">shock departure to Labour</a> earlier in May. The party leadership regarded it as a major coup to win the support of the MP on the frontline of the Channel crossings issue that Rishi Sunak has attempted to prioritise. The move came despite concerns among MPs that her views conflict with Labour in a variety of areas.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/18/voters-starmer-wrong-elphicke-labour-party-opinium-poll-tory-mp-defection">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/keir-starmer">Keir Starmer</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour">Labour</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/general-elections">General elections</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/conservatives">Conservatives</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/rishi-sunak">Rishi Sunak</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/polls">Opinion polls</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 19:00:14 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/18/voters-starmer-wrong-elphicke-labour-party-opinium-poll-tory-mp-defection</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6db1af1b052f7f75d160dd2ee4766fe94c9a0214/0_123_3000_1800/master/3000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=34abf1bcad0eb11f6675b52efdb8ef2d"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6db1af1b052f7f75d160dd2ee4766fe94c9a0214/0_123_3000_1800/master/3000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a79cda70fa2cdb2daf229ab75ee1826c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Michael Savage Policy Editor</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T19:00:14Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Jeremy Hunt urged to honour pledge on infected blood compensation payouts</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/18/jeremy-hunt-urged-honour-pledge-infected-blood-compensation-payouts</link> <description><p>As the inquiry publishes its final report, the chancellor is under pressure to find £10bn to put right a longstanding injustice</p><p>The chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, will come under pressure to stay true to his word and sign off on immediate compensation payments totalling up to £10bn to victims of the contaminated blood scandal when the long-awaited final report on the affair is published on Monday.</p><p>The scandal is described as the worst treatment disaster in NHS history, with more than 3,000 people having died as a result of receiving contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 1980s. It is estimated that, even today, a person infected during the scandal dies every four days.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/18/jeremy-hunt-urged-honour-pledge-infected-blood-compensation-payouts">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/contaminated-blood-scandal">Contaminated blood scandal</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/jeremy-hunt">Jeremy Hunt</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/aids-and-hiv">Aids and HIV</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/nhs">NHS</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/health">Health</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/hepatitis-c">Hepatitis C</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour">Labour</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 18:00:13 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/18/jeremy-hunt-urged-honour-pledge-infected-blood-compensation-payouts</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0a4b4c86d49fa8027bd6298eb8f0e614b5726b38/0_180_4875_2925/master/4875.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=adfe0ea50ea78b5b693b7bf4cfb8a4a3"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0a4b4c86d49fa8027bd6298eb8f0e614b5726b38/0_180_4875_2925/master/4875.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=263f632bd02d8e9d6bfdd7281805d89e"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Toby Helm Political editor</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T18:00:13Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Fewer than one in 10 arts workers in UK have working-class roots</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/article/2024/may/18/arts-workers-uk-working-class-roots-cultural-sector-diversity</link> <description><p>The cultural sector falls short on other measures of diversity too, with 9o% of workers white, says new report</p><p>Six in 10 of all arts and culture workers in the UK now come from middle-class backgrounds, compared with just over 42% of the wider workforce, according to new research.</p><p>And while 23% of the UK workforce is from a working-class background, working-class people are underrepresented in every area of arts and culture. They make up 8.4% of those working in film, TV, radio and photography, while in museums, archives and libraries, the proportion is only 5.2%.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/article/2024/may/18/arts-workers-uk-working-class-roots-cultural-sector-diversity">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/class-issues">Class issues</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/inequality">Inequality</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/money/work-and-careers">Work & careers</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/money/discrimination-at-work">Discrimination at work</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/disability">Disability</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/social-trends">Social trends</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 17:00:13 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/article/2024/may/18/arts-workers-uk-working-class-roots-cultural-sector-diversity</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/81be0c3d084d5f079c20ec8cc4387ab0ef11dc46/0_102_5229_3138/master/5229.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6c3fa94be8a7c4c808888985c01a85b4"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Caiaimage/Martin Barraud/Getty Images/iStockphoto</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/81be0c3d084d5f079c20ec8cc4387ab0ef11dc46/0_102_5229_3138/master/5229.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=1c154334e1c553efaf5fa12c28bdaa55"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Caiaimage/Martin Barraud/Getty Images/iStockphoto</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Rachael Healy</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T17:00:13Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Police arrest six student protesters at University of Pennsylvania</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/18/university-pennsylvania-student-arrests</link> <description><p>Pro-Palestinian students were attempting to take over a university hall to protest school’s refusal to negotiate in ‘good faith’</p><p>More than a dozen pro-Palestinian activists, including six students at the University of Pennsylvania, were arrested after attempting to occupy a hall on the university campus late Friday.</p><p>The protesters were arrested around 9pm after trying to take over Fisher-Bennett Hall but had been met with a response from university and Philadelphia police, <a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2024/05/penn-fisher-bennett-hall-occupy-arrests">according to reports</a>. The Daily Pennsylvanian reported that protesters caused the evacuation of an alumni event at the Penn Museum.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/18/university-pennsylvania-student-arrests">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/philadelphia">Philadelphia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-campus-protests">US campus protests</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">Israel-Gaza war</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/students">Students</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/protest">Protest</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-universities">US universities</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/higher-education">Higher education</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 18:03:25 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/18/university-pennsylvania-student-arrests</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d697f636a1a42e52cbd928c92dea2fdcf54f9b77/0_2_3600_2160/master/3600.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a2aefd395545be451d0a465d4bb298ab"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jessica Griffin/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d697f636a1a42e52cbd928c92dea2fdcf54f9b77/0_2_3600_2160/master/3600.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=4ed07c076b9fa45ba7e5aff7b804f820"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jessica Griffin/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Edward Helmore</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T18:03:25Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Six-month-old baby shot repeatedly during Arizona standoff with child’s father</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/18/six-month-old-baby-shot-arizona-standoff</link> <description><p>Police were able to rescue child, who is in hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, before house caught fire with father still in it</p><p>A six-month-old baby is currently hospitalized after a man allegedly shot the infant several times during an armed home standoff in Surprise, Arizona, about 30 miles north-west of Phoenix.</p><p>At about 3am on Friday, the father of the child allegedly broke into the home where the child and mother lived, according to Surprise police. The child’s father did not live in the house, police said, adding that the man held the mother and child hostage for several hours before the mother managed to escape.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/18/six-month-old-baby-shot-arizona-standoff">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/arizona">Arizona</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/gun-crime">Gun crime</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-crime">US crime</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/children">Children</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 16:50:18 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/18/six-month-old-baby-shot-arizona-standoff</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ce7d7457e9fa3b7bfa25d9792cb8370c78feaa97/0_400_6000_3600/master/6000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c169a2dbdbd09ef3d72d8a20d0c0be13"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Matt Rourke/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ce7d7457e9fa3b7bfa25d9792cb8370c78feaa97/0_400_6000_3600/master/6000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ce3f3a9e215095dd80fef3363640ab3d"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Matt Rourke/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Maya Yang</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T16:50:18Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Virginia governor allows Confederate groups to keep tax exemptions</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/18/virginia-glenn-youngkin-confederacy-taxes</link> <description><p>Republican Glenn Youngkin also vetoed bills related to maintaining access to contraception, saying they were ‘not ready’</p><p>Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin has vetoed two bills that would have stripped tax exemptions for the United Daughters of the Confederacy, an organization that has opposed the removal of statues of southern state generals during the US civil war and other markers of the southern states’ attempt to secede from the Union in defense of slavery.</p><p>The Republican governor vetoed several measures, including those related to maintaining access to contraception, saying in a statement they were “not ready to become law”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/18/virginia-glenn-youngkin-confederacy-taxes">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/virginia">Virginia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/race">Race</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/reproductive-rights">Reproductive rights</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 16:42:55 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/18/virginia-glenn-youngkin-confederacy-taxes</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/53af7aae22eb2d363b8df235582b5f57a6f363fc/0_40_5382_3230/master/5382.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=94988f98014b3f195e9471d8e084d4b0"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Ryan M Kelly/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/53af7aae22eb2d363b8df235582b5f57a6f363fc/0_40_5382_3230/master/5382.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=33483239e44159a53da3506e89b7c647"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Ryan M Kelly/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Edward Helmore</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T16:42:55Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Alabama poultry plant could be closed for 30 days for allegedly hiring minors</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/18/mar-jac-poultry-child-labor-violations</link> <description><p>At least two children have already been killed while working in Mar-Jac Poultry plants in the US south over the last year</p><p>A poultry plant in Jasper, Alabama, has been accused of hiring minors and could be shut down for 30 days, according to a newly released US Department of Labor lawsuit.</p><p>Mar-Jac Poultry, the largest employer in Walker county, is accused of violating federal labor laws when it hired four minors as young as 16 who were allegedly discovered working overnight at the company’s slaughterhouse.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/18/mar-jac-poultry-child-labor-violations">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/alabama">Alabama</category> <category 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width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/54393d5eaeec9cbb4a28113bd22c20bb355a7729/0_166_2520_1513/master/2520.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e35c526fa476f737e9c91ffb041358d6"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Lici Beveridge/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Edward Helmore</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T14:53:41Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Missouri Republican party fails to boot KKK-linked candidate from gubernatorial ticket</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/18/missouri-republican-governor-race-kkk-candidate</link> <description><p>Judge declines to remove Darrell McClanahan, who claims one-year honorary membership in terror group, from GOP primary race</p><p>A long-shot Missouri gubernatorial candidate with ties to the Ku Klux Klan will stay on the Republican ticket, a judge ruled on Friday.</p><p>Cole county circuit court judge Cotton Walker denied a request by the Missouri GOP to kick Darrell McClanahan out of the August Republican primary.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/18/missouri-republican-governor-race-kkk-candidate">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/missouri">Missouri</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/far-right">The far right</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/republicans">Republicans</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/race">Race</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-politics">US politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 13:24:01 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/18/missouri-republican-governor-race-kkk-candidate</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/43f940b20f5a82d708c790820b0bd6d0450eeb9a/0_445_7734_4643/master/7734.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=116ea4a78abf4ae20f2277f35ac2f247"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jeff Roberson/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/43f940b20f5a82d708c790820b0bd6d0450eeb9a/0_445_7734_4643/master/7734.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=aac7d5e2eb7393e9c4255c146e4c474d"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jeff Roberson/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T13:24:01Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘She’s in the pantheon now’: Kristi Noem and the politicians who hit self-destruct</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/18/kristi-noem-dog-politician</link> <description><p>The dog-killing South Dakota governor’s VP hopes are in tatters. But she’s not the first politician to flame out with an own goal</p><p>She could have been a contender. But then she wrote a book. And suddenly Kristi Noem was caught like a rabbit – or a rambunctious puppy – in the headlights.</p><p>The governor of South Dakota found herself insisting that a false claim she met the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un had been put in her book by accident. Wait, said <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/video/gov-kristi-noem-on-claim-she-met-kim-jong-un-vargas-reports/9669787/">Elizabeth Vargas of NewsNation</a>, you recorded the whole audiobook version and read this passage out loud. Why didn’t you take it out then?</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/18/kristi-noem-dog-politician">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/kristi-noem">Kristi Noem</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-politics">US politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/south-dakota">South Dakota</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/republicans">Republicans</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/democrats">Democrats</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/sarahpalin">Sarah Palin</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/mark-sanford">Mark Sanford</category> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 13:00:07 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/18/kristi-noem-dog-politician</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9f8ecbaee455151eedf1eba566549159737d63bd/0_400_6000_3600/master/6000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=648341c66e9e358d7c9992907905d803"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9f8ecbaee455151eedf1eba566549159737d63bd/0_400_6000_3600/master/6000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=af5f2af31674aebd2907a46613f3c35e"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>David Smith in Washington</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-18T13:00:07Z</dc:date> </item> </channel></rss> If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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