Brooklyn Center police chief describes fatal shooting of Black man, 20, as result of ?€?accidental discharge?€? from handgun
Police in a Minneapolis suburb said an officer accidentally shot and killed a 20-year-old Black man on Sunday afternoon during a traffic stop, releasing graphic body-camera footage they say shows an officer intended to use a Taser not a handgun during the death of unarmed Daunte Wright.
US intelligence sources believe Israel was behind Saturday?€?s cyber-attack on heavily guarded facility
The cyber-attack on the heavily guarded Natanz plant in Iran will set back Tehran?€?s nuclear programme by nine months, US intelligence sources have claimed.
Iran?€?s foreign ministry has blamed Israel for sabotaging Iran?€?s main uranium enrichment facility, and although Israel has not formally confirmed responsibility its officials have done little to dispel the notion.
A Guardian investigation exposes the breadth of state-backed manipulation of the platform
Facebook has repeatedly allowed world leaders and politicians to use its platform to deceive the public or harass opponents despite being alerted to evidence of the wrongdoing.
The Guardian has seen extensive internal documentation showing how Facebook handled more than 30 cases across 25 countries of politically manipulative behavior that was proactively detected by company staff.
Independent investigation launched into former PM?€?s lobbying for now-collapsed firm
No 10 is to a launch an independent investigation into former prime minister David Cameron?€?s lobbying for the now-collapsed Greensill and the role of the scandal-hit financier Lex Greensill in government.
The independent review, commissioned by Boris Johnson, will be led by the legal expert Nigel Boardman, a non-executive board member of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry pay tribute to ?€?extraordinary?€? grandfather in separate statements
The Duke of Edinburgh would want family members ?€?to get on with the job?€?, Prince William said, as he and his brother paid tribute to a ?€?grandpa?€? and ?€?an extraordinary man?€?.
Prince Harry, who has flown from California to attend Saturday?€?s ceremonial royal funeral, described Philip as ?€?master of the barbecue, legend of banter, and cheeky right ?€?til the end?€?.
China sends 25 military jets a day after US secretary of state?€?s comments about Beijing?€?s aggression
Twenty-five Chinese military jets breached Taiwan?€?s defence zone on Monday, the island?€?s government has said, after a senior US official warned of an ?€?increasingly aggressive?€? Beijing.
The defence ministry scrambled aircraft to broadcast warnings to leave after Chinese jets, including 18 fighters, entered the island?€?s southwest air defence identification zone for a 10th straight day.
Fears increase for those refusing to leave homes as La Soufrière eruptions continue for fourth day
Three days after La Soufrière volcano began to erupt on St Vincent, the eastern Caribbean island remains under a shower of ash and subject to severe water restrictions as authorities grow increasingly concerned for the safety of those who refused to evacuate.
La Soufrière, which last erupted in 1979, has been firing an enormous amount of ash and hot gas into the air since Friday morning. In the early hours of Monday, the largest explosion of the current eruption sent pyroclastic flows down the volcano?€?s south and south-west flanks.
Voters in presidential race reject leftist movement, while Peru vote heads for second round
A conservative businessman has unexpectedly won Ecuador?€?s presidential election as voters rejected the leftist movement started by the former president Rafael Correa more than a decade ago.
Preliminary results showed that Guillermo Lasso took 52% of the vote in the runoff following a campaign that pitted free-market economics against the social welfare plans of Andrés Arauz, an economist.
Colourised images from Tuol Sleng prison during 1970s genocide were manipulated, media group says
Cambodia has condemned images published by Vice media group that featured victims of the Khmer Rouge genocide, colourised and with some apparently edited to add smiles to their faces.
The artist Matt Loughrey modified images taken at the notorious Tuol Sleng prison, where thousands of people were tortured and interrogated before they were sent on to the killing fields of Choeung Ek.
British far-right activist?€?s team also approached Republican senator Ted Cruz?€?s office about securing a visa
The anti-immigration activist Tommy Robinson asked wealthy American backers to help him claim asylum in the US, the Guardian has learned, while his team approached the Republican senator Ted Cruz?€?s office about securing a visa.
Court documents released in the US show the English Defence League founder discussed moving his family to Texas in 2019, where he would earn money by speaking at venues ?€?including evangelical churches?€?.
Efforts are focused on removing ?€?rolling deadlines?€? from border control implementations, sources say
The UK is edging towards a new deal with the EU on Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland with the potential for easing border checks on certain goods.
Officials in London and Brussels have been involved in intense ?€?technical talks?€? in the past two weeks over the future checks on food, plants and parcels going from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.
The global coronavirus pandemic is still growing exponentially, the World Health Organization said on Monday, as it reported 4.4m cases in the last week, the seventh straight week of rising numbers.
The latest global figures represent a 9% increase in infections on last week and a 5% rise in deaths.
A scientist has described ?€?a joyous day?€? as people in England enjoyed a relaxation of restrictions, but warned that people should remain cautious.
Lawrence Young, a virologist and professor of molecular oncology at Warwick Medical School, stressed that the virus and its variants is ?€?still out there?€?.
A relatively cheap, inhaled asthma drug helps older people struggling at home with Covid to recover three days faster, according to a landmark study.
A trial in people over 65, and over 50 with underlying health conditions, found that inhaling budesonide twice a day for two weeks shortened their recovery time and helped them stay well and feel better than those who were not given the drug in subsequent weeks.
More than two million devotees bathed in the River Ganges on Monday despite soaring rates of new Covid-19 cases across India, a second wave that has struck down Bollywood stars, sent migrant workers fleeing from cities and contributed to the slowing of vaccination programmes around the world.
The largest bathing day of the Hindu religious festival Kumbh Mela in the northern Indian city of Haridwar highlighted the immense challenge facing officials in trying to implement social distancing as the daily rate of new Covid-19 cases crossed 160,000 over the weekend, India?€?s highest point since the beginning of the pandemic.
Desperate to have a proper clearout after more than a year of semi-confinement? These expert tips will help you reclaim your living space
Now that we?€?ve all had more than a year of staring at nothing but the inside of our own homes, it?€?s becoming very apparent that we own far too much stuff. But, while a household clearout is a good idea in theory, it?€?s one that usually requires a bit of a run-up. If you?€?re struggling to get started, here are some expert tips.
The Grammy award-winning rock band have received commercial success yet critics haven?€?t been quite as receptive - can their new album change that?
Talk to Josh Kiszka, lead singer of the band Greta Van Fleet, about his time growing up in a small town in the American midwest and you?€?d think he was describing the life of Huckleberry Finn. ?€?We were outside most of the time, building rafts and taking them down the river,?€? the 24-year-old told the Guardian. ?€?There wasn?€?t a lot of television in the house. And when all the other kids wanted cellphones, I fought that. I preferred to take a hike.?€?
Kiszka?€?s parents strongly encouraged him and his two brothers in that pursuit. ?€?My mother even took the clocks off the wall at one point,?€? he said. ?€?They were the opposite of helicopter parents. They taught us to do things independently.?€?
Analysis: there are several reasons Russia would want to raise tensions, but an attack appears unlikely
Russia?€?s fortnight-long military buildup to the east and south of Ukraine has helped it mass an estimated 80,000 troops in the border region in an attention-grabbing exercise that is increasingly occupying western thinking.
Tanks and other artillery units have also been arriving at Voronezh, east of Ukraine, according to Janes, a military intelligence firm, and a staging ground for about 3,000 troops been established to the south of the city.
Two centres - in Zahlé and in Beirut - offer specialised services, such as speech and physiotherapy, for disabled Syrian refugees who can?€?t afford to pay for them.
He declared his intention to go away for a while after pointed criticism of his second memoir. But now the musician is back with a new album - and a visceral documentary
Moby is considering the question he is often asked in interviews: ?€?Do I think I?€?ve been treated unfairly??€? muses the 55-year-old musician, who, let?€?s face it, is hardly a stranger to terrible press. ?€?Honestly, I don?€?t think I have been. I?€?m sure there are times when I?€?ve been portrayed badly and it was accurate. And even with some of the bad stuff I?€?ve been through, I don?€?t have any right to complain. When you look at the 8 billion people on the planet, a reasonably affluent caucasian cis-gendered male public figure musician is not necessarily the first person you think of as having valid criticisms about how they?€?re being treated.?€?
Moby is upbeat today - ?€?I can?€?t think of many things to complain about besides baldness and mortality?€? - which is perhaps surprising given that the last time he was in the public eye, it involved rather a lot of the aforementioned terrible press. To summarise: in among the shocking confessions, rampant addiction and grotty sex of his second memoir, 2019?€?s Then It Fell Apart, was the claim that the ?€?beautiful actress?€? Natalie Portman had asked him out when she was 20, at which point he would have been in his mid-30s.
The inside story of Sophie Zhang?€?s battle to combat rampant manipulation as executives delayed and deflected
Shortly before Sophie Zhang lost access to Facebook?€?s systems, she published one final message on the company?€?s internal forum, a farewell tradition at Facebook known as a ?€?badge post?€?.
?€?Officially, I?€?m a low-level [data scientist] who?€?s being fired today for poor performance,?€? the post began. ?€?In practice, in the 2.5 years I?€?ve spent at Facebook, I?€?ve ?€? found multiple blatant attempts by foreign national governments to abuse our platform on vast scales to mislead their own citizenry, and caused international news on multiple occasions.?€?
French-owned Retirement Villages Group aims to spend £2bn across 4o locations over the next decade
A property developer owned by a French investment management group has announced an ambitious £2bn plan to build 5,000 retirement homes across 40 urban sites in the UK over the next decade.
As town and city centres are being reshaped as a result of the changes to UK high streets accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic, Retirement Villages Group (RVG) said it had won planning permission for a £110m retirement community of 196 one and two-bed apartments to rent or buy in central West Byfleet in Surrey, on the site of a 1960s office block with shops and a car park, which will be knocked down.
Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince condemns government inaction and says violence by ?€?armed gangs?€? is now ?€?unprecedented?€?
The Catholic church has warned that Haiti is facing a ?€?descent into hell?€? and condemned government inaction after 10 people, including seven members of the clergy, were abducted by kidnappers demanding $1m ransom.
?€?For some time now, we have been witnessing the descent into hell of Haitian society,?€? the archdiocese of the capital Port-au-Prince said in a statement, adding that ?€?violence by armed gangs?€? was taking on ?€?unprecedented?€? proportions.
Nesrine Malik?€?s columns | Ex-leaders compared | Love for Guardian letters | A mother?€?s place
Your columnist Nesrine Malik writes (11 April) that the pandemic has made her reflect wistfully on the bargain she made when she left Sudan to find success far from home. Nesrine?€?s columns, expressing subtle thoughts with admirable lucidity, have been something I?€?ve looked forward to reading all during lockdown. Perhaps we in her adopted country are not the audience she most longs for, but her eloquence has surely touched many readers. Susan Tomes Edinburgh
- It?€?s been suggested that there?€?s little to distinguish between the main parties. But what former leaders do with their time may be instructive: David Cameron?€?s delayed self-justification for his use of networks to lobby for a company (Report, 12 April) should be weighed against Gordon Brown?€?s call for the G7 to develop a vaccination plan for the poorest countries (Opinion, 12 April). Les Bright Exeter
The Guardian?€?s Oliver Laughland is in Minnesota and has a new report on the death of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man who was fatally shot by police during a traffic stop in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center on Sunday.
Laughland reports:
Mourners and outraged community members in the Minneapolis area made their way on Monday to the site where police shot and killed a Black man in the suburb of Brooklyn Center during a traffic stop the day before.
The killing sparking clashes between hundreds of protesters and officers in an area already on edge during the murder trial of former officer Derek Chauvin, under whose knee George Floyd, a Black man, died nearly one year ago, sparking international protests and outrage.
Nearly one year after Black Lives Matter demonstrations prompted Americans to re-think and re-address racial inequality across the US, there has been significant pushback from predominantly Republican lawmakers; 29 states are now seeing efforts to enact stifling anti-protest laws, reports The Guardian?€?s Adam Gabbatt.
These demonstrations were spurred by the death of George Floyd. Derek Chauvin, a White former Minneapolis police officer, placed his knee against the neck of Floyd, who is Black, for more than nine minutes during an arrest on 25 May. Chauvin is now on trial on charges of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter, in Floyd?€?s death.
With coronavirus surging in Japan and internationally, this summer?€?s Games are a risky prospect
As coronavirus swept the globe last spring, Japan portrayed the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics until this summer as an opportunity as well as a necessity. The delayed Games would be the light at the end of the tunnel; a celebration of humanity?€?s victory over Covid.
With around 100 days to go, that promise now looks not merely optimistic, but flat wrong. The Olympics are approaching amid a resurgence of the virus and the opposition of the vast majority of the host nation. Grumbles are a familiar part of the Games cycle, dispelled as momentum builds in the final weeks. But the current concerns go far beyond the usual worries about slow ticket sales or uncompleted venues.
Essential poll finds Scott Morrison?€?s approval at lowest level in a year and approval of Coalition management of pandemic down eight points in a month
Voter approval of the Morrison government?€?s handling of the pandemic has dropped eight points in a month, and more than half of voters in the Guardian Essential poll sample think the Coalition needs to step up and take more responsibility for ensuring Australians are vaccinated against Covid-19 as quickly as possible.
The latest survey of 1,368 voters suggests the government is in a vulnerable political position as it attempts to recalibrate the vaccination program, with just over half of respondents believing they are being vaccinated more slowly than they would like, and nearly a third (27%) of the sample feeling vaccinations are progressing a lot more slowly than they would like.
The director of a leading sexual and reproductive health charity has accused the government of ?€?abandoning?€? women and girls it promised to help, as aid cuts derail a leading Tory programme to reduce maternal deaths and prevent unsafe abortions in poor countries.
The threat to the women?€?s integrated sexual health (Wish) programme could mean 7.5m additional unintended pregnancies, 2.7m unsafe abortions and 22,000 maternal deaths over the next year, said Dr Alvaro Bermejo, director general of International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF).
About 28% of Peruvians wouldn?€?t choose any of the candidates, poll shows ahead of Sunday?€?s vote
An ultra-conservative millionaire who admits to scourging himself daily to repress sexual desire is just one of an assortment of low-polling candidates who all have a shot at becoming Peru?€?s next president.
Rafael López Aliaga is technically tied with five other contenders in an unpredictablecontest to make a runoff vote in June, including a former goalkeeper, a Sorbonne-educated socialist and the daughter of the country?€?s jailed former leader Alberto Fujimori.
The world has turned a blind eye to Denis Sassou Nguesso?€?s controversial re-election, which will extend his iron-fisted reign to more than 40 years
The result of last month?€?s presidential election in Congo-Brazzaville brought no surprises. After 36 years in power, Denis Sassou Nguesso, 77, clinched 88% of the vote with a turnout of more than 67%. Accusations of vote irregularities, including ballot box stuffing, were widespread. His closest rival, who had urged for a ?€?vote for change?€? died of Covid on the day of the vote.
Television showed a triumphant Sassou at home with his smiling henchmen, as the interior minister, Raymond Zéphirin Mboulou - instead of the head of the electoral commission - announced the win. The question now is whether or not the African Union, the US, the EU, the UK and former colonial power France will simply turn a blind eye to another disputed election result while Congolese are dying from extreme poverty?
Rich profits from the prized nut have failed to benefit those finding them. Now cooperatives hope to shake up the system
On a steamy March morning, Edivan Kaxarari walks with a few other villagers in single file down a trail in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil?€?s Rondônia state, near the border with Bolivia.
His sister-in-law Cleiciana carries her 11-month-old son in one arm and a rifle in the other, and his brother Edson clears the path ahead with a machete. It is hunting season for the seeds of the Amazonian Brazil nut tree.
Analysis: Apparent attack by Israel is a reminder of the weaknesses of industrial control systems
The apparent attack by Israel on Iran?€?s nuclear enrichment facility appears to be the latest episode in an increasing tit-for-tat cyberwar. Both sides have already targeted so-called industrial control systems [ICS], which have emerged as a key weakness for countries across the globe.
While Iran described the latest attack as ?€?sabotage?€?, Israeli media called it a cyber-attack.
Senate parliamentarian?€?s decision widens path for Democrats to enact Joe Biden?€?s sprawling infrastructure plan
A novel interpretation of an arcane parliamentary procedure has presented congressional Democrats with an unexpected - and tantalizing - new opportunity to advance some of their most ambitious legislative goals despite their slim majorities and fierce Republican opposition.
When the storm hit Vanuatu last year, the lack of international support gave local aid workers a chance to be heard
If someone had told me this time last year that Vanuatu was about to weather one of the worst cyclones of our recent history with our borders closed, I may not have believed you.
After Cyclone Pam in 2015, hundreds of aid workers rushed in from overseas, eager to deliver lifesaving aid to communities who had lost everything.
When Coca-Cola and Delta backed bigoted lawmakers, we organized, rose up, used our voices to make change - and it worked
In the last general election, Georgians delivered our country from the hands of fascism by securing Democrats in the White House and the Senate. As payback for doing so, Republicans are waging an unholy war against voting rights in the state, pushing Jim Crow-style measures like SB 202 into law, which will make it harder for hundreds of thousands of Georgians to cast their ballots. This dangerous bill impacts specific communities the most: Black, brown, young, and new voters in Georgia.
Many voters don?€?t know that Republicans aren?€?t working alone to disenfranchise us. Their accomplices were some of the most powerful corporations in our state. In fact, Georgia-based companies like Delta, Coca-Cola and Home Depot previously bankrolled the backers of voter suppression bills to the tune of over $7.4m.
One of two police officers accused of pepper-spraying and pointing their guns at a Black US army officer during a traffic stop has been fired, a Virginia town announced late on Sunday, hours after the governor called for an independent investigation.
In the December 2020 encounter, two officers are accused of drawing their guns, pointing them at army second lieutenant Caron Nazario and using a slang term to suggest he was facing execution.
Nazario, who is Black and Latino, was also pepper-sprayed and knocked to the ground by the officers, Joe Gutierrez and Daniel Crocker, according to the lawsuit he filed earlier this month against them. The two sides in the case dispute what happened but Crocker wrote in a report that he believed Nazario was ?€?eluding police?€? and he considered it a ?€?high-risk traffic stop?€?. Attorney Jonathan Arthur said Nazario was trying to stop in a well-lit area
?€?Residents in South Baltimore are fighting to 'starve' their nearby Bresco incinerator due to health concerns over the amount of pollution it creates. Of the 72 remaining facilities in the US, the vast majority are located in predominantly low-income or minority communities, raising concerns about compounding pollutants in already overburdened neighbourhoods
Israel became the first country in the world to test vaccine passports when it announced the 'green pass' scheme in February. The passes allow people who have had two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine to return to restaurants, theatres and sport events. With many countries planning to reopen after their vaccination campaigns, the Guardian's Jerusalem correspondent, Oliver Holmes, examines the lessons that could be learned from Israel's rollout
Video from Georgetown, a community several kilometres away from La Soufrière volcano on the Caribbean island of St Vincent, shows buildings blanketed in a layer of ash after the volcano spectacularly erupted after decades of inactivity.
The eruption of La Soufrière on Friday caused dark clouds of ash to blow about 10km into the air, prompting an evacuation request from the government. Assessing the thick ash covering parts of St Vincent, the disaster response team predicted things may not return to normal for a 'very long time'
Iran announced on Saturday that it had started up advanced uranium enrichment centrifuges at Natanz, in breach of its undertakings under a 2015 nuclear deal and days after the start of talks on rescuing the accord. The following day a spokesperson for Iran?€?s civilian nuclear programme said an 'accident' had happened at the facility's electrical distribution grid. Behrouz Kamalvandi says the reason for the loss in power is unknown and will be investigated but there were no injuries and no contamination
An explosive eruption rocked La Soufrière volcano on the eastern Caribbean island of St Vincent on Friday following mandatory evacuation orders from the local government. There were no immediate reports of casualties from the burst that occurred just four days short of the 42nd anniversary of the last eruption.
Large number of US citizens demonstrated against the war in Iraq (and the possible war in Iran) during this October weekend. Massive turnout in Boston and San Fransisco, and also in Chicago, LA and DC people took to the streets. The message was: NO more war in Iraq! NO to a war with Iran!
