Saudi crown prince begins US trip as allies share concerns about Trump

March 19, 2018, 10:00 pm

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Mohammed bin Salman hopes to seal major business deals during a three-week tour but the failure of his relationship with Jared Kushner to deliver progress on Middle East peace and Iran has left him exposed

Ahead of his first visit to Washington as heir to the Saudi throne, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been warned to set a distance between himself and Donald Trump, who some regional advisers have come to regard as volatile and unpredictable.

The US president will receive Prince Mohammed in the White House on Tuesday during a reciprocal visit after Trump’s high-profile trip to Saudi Arabia last May when – on his first trip abroad as leader – he reset bilateral ties, which had become strained under Barack Obama.

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US primary elections: five races that could reshape the political landscape

March 20, 2018, 3:00 am

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From a special election caused by a scandal to challenges from the progressive left, these are the races to watch in the coming months

Spring is coming. This means the return of warm weather, flowers and competitive primaries. After Democrats notched wins over the winter in the special election for Alabama’s Senate seat and in Pennsylvania’s 18th congressional district, the change of the calendar means a change in the electoral landscape.

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Life without toilets: the photographer tackling a global taboo

March 19, 2018, 4:48 am

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Andrea Bruce’s prize-winning images from India, Haiti and Vietnam document the deeply sensitive issue of open defecation, which affects 1.1 billion of the world’s poorest people

Photographs: Andrea Bruce/NOOR/Eyevine

One of the biggest issues at the intersection of sanitation, poverty and global health, open defecation has also long been one of the hardest to represent visually.

For photographer Andrea Bruce, however, the challenge meant she did not have to think too long before agreeing to the year-long project documenting an issue both deeply sensitive and hugely important. The resulting photo essay, commissioned by National Geographic, has been selected for a first prize in the prestigious Pictures of the Year awards.

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'I've never been to school': child waste pickers living on Pakistan's streets | Haroon Janjua

March 20, 2018, 12:00 am

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Eight-year-old Zarmeena is one of the country’s 1.5 million homeless children, many of them Afghan refugees, who miss out on education and often fall prey to violence and abuse

On a cold winter morning, as the sun rises above the squalor and stench of the slums of the Islamabad, frail-looking children are already up, picking rags from the dumps. It is a risky and competitive business.

Zarmeena, an eight-year-old Afghan girl, wears ill-fitting wellington boots slashed down to ankle-length, with clothes that are no more than thin pieces of fabric wrapped around her.

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First residents allowed to return to Tathra after bushfire

March 20, 2018, 3:23 am

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More than 20 streets opened after fire service declares NSW bushfire has been contained, but many residents still wait to return home

Devastation of Tathra laid bare – in pictures

It was a bittersweet homecoming for the Tathra locals whose houses were spared in the fire that ravaged the small New South Wales coastal town.

As they were free to walk back through their doors, their neighbours could only peer through a bus window at the smouldering ruins they once called home.

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The Great Wave review – gripping mystery of North Korea kidnap scandal

March 20, 2018, 4:23 am

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Francis Turnly’s drama drills to the heart of the harsh politics and complex emotions surrounding a series of historic abductions of young Japanese people

Sometimes a play grips because of its subject. Such is the case with this new piece by Francis Turnly which, although dramaturgically conventional, opens up the story of the abduction by North Korea of young Japanese citizens.

Documentaries and movies have been made about this, but Turnly’s play seems especially timely as we struggle to understand life inside Kim Jong-un’s hermit state.

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Border patrol agent accused of shooting teen in Mexico to begin trial

March 20, 2018, 2:00 am

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Lonnie Swartz on trial for second-degree murder of José Antonio Elena Rodríguez, who was unarmed and on Mexico side of the border

A US border patrol agent accused of shooting across the border into Mexico and killing a teenager five years ago will go on trial on Tuesday on a charge of second-degree murder in a rare justice department prosecution of a fatal cross-border shooting.

The agent, Lonnie Swartz, is accused of killing 16-year-old José Antonio Elena Rodríguez, who was on the street in Nogales, in the Mexican state of Sonora, just across the border from Nogales, Arizona. An autopsy showed the unarmed teen was hit 10 times, mostly from behind.

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FBI links explosion near San Antonio to string of deadly bombs in Austin

March 20, 2018, 5:10 am

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Latest explosion occurred at FedEx facility in Schertz at 1am
Four package bombs have exploded in Austin in recent weeks

Federal investigators said a package that exploded at a FedEx facility near San Antonio in the early hours of Tuesday was believed to be linked to the string of bombings that has terrified Austin, the Texas capital, this month.

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Last male northern white rhino is put down

March 20, 2018, 1:00 am

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Hopes for species rest on IVF with two females after death of Sudan, the ‘gentle giant’

The last male northern white rhinoceros has died, leaving only two females with which conservationists hope to save the species from extinction.

Sudan, the “gentle giant” who lived in the Ol Pejeta conservancy in Kenya, was put down on Monday after the pain from a degenerative illness became too great. He is survived by his daughter and granddaughter.

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India confirms bodies in Isis mass grave are its kidnapped construction workers

March 20, 2018, 2:06 am

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DNA tests on bodies in mass grave near Mosul show match to missing construction workers

India says 39 of its citizens who were kidnapped by Islamic State in Iraq in 2014 have been confirmed dead after remains recovered from a mass grave outside Mosul were DNA tested.

The Indian external affairs minister, Sushma Swaraj, told parliament that tests had shown a match with the construction workers, who disappeared in June 2014 when the city fell to Isis.

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Boeuf! Burger sales in France overtake classic ham baguette

March 20, 2018, 5:18 am

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Around 1.5bn burgers sold last year, overtaking traditional jambon-buerre baguette

Hamburger sales in France have overtaken those of the classic jambon-beurre baguette as diners surrender to the American fast-food favourite.

Burgers were on the menu at 85% of eating establishments in France last year, with 1.5bn being sold, according to a study by the Paris-based restaurant consultants Gira Conseil.

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Toddler dies after being rescued from car that 'rolled into Welsh river'

March 20, 2018, 5:18 am

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Family thought Mini carrying Kiara Moore had been stolen, sparking two-hour police search

A two-year-old girl has died after the car she was briefly left in apparently rolled into a river in Wales.

Kiara Moore’s parents thought the car had been taken and reported it stolen, prompting a police search.

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China's radical plan to limit the populations of Beijing and Shanghai

March 19, 2018, 9:00 am

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Two Chinese megacities implemented population caps last year – and official data shows the policy might already be having an effect

In the weaving alleys of Shanghai’s Laoximen district, swathes of residential buildings sit empty. The historic area in the heart of the city is being slowly demolished, and many residents have already abandoned it, leaving behind rows of traditional terraced houses with boarded-up windows and demolition signs on the doors.

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Empty half the Earth of its humans. It's the only way to save the planet | Kim Stanley Robinson

March 20, 2018, 4:00 am

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There are now twice as many people as 50 years ago. But, as EO Wilson has argued, they can all survive – in cities

Discussing cities is like talking about the knots in a net: they’re crucial, but they’re only one part of the larger story of the net and what it’s supposed to do. It makes little sense to talk about knots in isolation when it’s the net that matters.

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#Pizza4Protesters: community backs students over gun control walkout

March 19, 2018, 7:11 am

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Crowdfunding drive launched after Pennsylvania school gave 225 students detention

Wellwishers have been crowdfunding to send pizza to 225 students at a Pennsylvania school who were given detention for taking part in protests against school shootings.

Students at Pennridge high school took part in a national school walkout on 14 March against the wishes of the school board. The board warned pupils in advance that anybody taking part in the protest would receive the standard punishment for skipping class – a Saturday morning in detention.

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Canada to send force including female troops to support UN mission in Mali

March 19, 2018, 12:36 pm

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Increasing women’s role in peacekeeping is a priority, says minister
Force of helicopters and infantry is smaller than first indicated

Canada will deploy helicopters and troops – including female soldiers – to Mali in support of an ongoing UN peacekeeping mission, the government has announced.

Defence minister Harjit Sajjan told reporters that Canada would deploy two Chinook transport helicopters and four Griffon attack helicopters to provide armed escort and protection in the fight against Islamist militants in Mali.

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Norwegian minister faces no-confidence vote after terrorism post

March 19, 2018, 7:46 am

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Justice minister Sylvi Listhaug accuses opposition of putting terrorists’ rights above security

A social media post by Norway’s justice minister accusing the opposition Labour party of putting terrorists’ rights above national security has triggered a no-confidence vote that could bring down the country’s minority government.

A majority of MPs in parliament back Tuesday’s scheduled vote against Sylvi Listhaug, of the populist, anti-immigration Progress party, after widespread outrage at a Facebook post that she has since deleted.

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Cynthia Nixon announces candidacy for New York governor

March 19, 2018, 12:11 pm

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Nixon, who faces a tough battle against Andrew Cuomo, would become both the first female and first openly gay governor

The actor Cynthia Nixon announced that she is running for New York governor on Monday, in a move that will pit her against the incumbent Democrat, Andrew Cuomo.

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Interstellar visitor ’Oumuamua probably came from a two-star system

March 19, 2018, 11:20 am

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Astronomers studying the interstellar asteroid ’Oumuamua find that it probably formed around a binary star

The mysterious, cigar-shaped object now called ’Oumuamua was found crossing the solar system last October by robotic telescopes on Hawaii. The trajectory showed it had come from another star system and was already on its way back into interstellar space. This sparked a race against time. Astronomers had just a week before it faded from view.

Identifying its home star system seemed like a hopeless task. Our galaxy contains hundreds of billions of stars. Now, however, a new study narrows things down a bit. It concludes that ’Oumuamua, meaning “scout” in Hawaiian, probably came from a binary star.

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Trump calls for death penalties for drug dealers as focus of opioids plan

March 19, 2018, 2:03 pm

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Trump’s policy rollout focuses on punishment for dealers and traffickers but doesn’t propose new legislation to combat the crisis

Donald Trump called on Monday for some drug dealers to receive the death penalty in a new opioids policy rollout in New Hampshire, a state hard hit by the national crisis.

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