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While Britain seems to put politics above the economy, Germany’s new law welcomes foreign job-seekers Two European countries announced radical overhauls of their immigration rules on Wednesday, but there the similarity ended. Britain, where concerns about long-term impacts of immigration helped drive the 2016 vote to leave the European Union, billed its stricter regime as “a route to strengthened border security and an end to free movement”. Continue reading...

Petition urges company to drop trademark on Swahili phrase before summer release of Lion King remake More than 50,000 people have signed a petition accusing Disney of “colonialism and robbery” after it trademarked the Swahili phrase “hakuna matata”. The expression means “no problem” in Swahili, which is spoken across east Africa and is a national language of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Continue reading...

When Temie Giwa-Tubosun realised Nigerians lacked safe access to vital health care products like blood she decided to do something about it. That decision changed her life and saved those of many others Temie Giwa-Tubosun is the founder and CEO of blood-delivery start-up LifeBank , a company that is saving lives in Nigeria. Her latest challenge, a World Bank Project for which she is on the advisory board, lies beyond Nigeria – the Lake Victoria Challenge is a competition using drones to transport health support to hard to reach rural communities living around Lake Victoria in East Africa. Her work has earned her the title of one of the BBC’s 100 Women in 2014 and as a positive female role model for the Fourth Industrial Revolution by the World Economic Forum on Africa. She talks about why setting up a business was the best way for her to help people and where she plans to go next. Continue reading...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo goes to the polls on Sunday with 21 candidates running to replace Joseph Kabila, who has been president since 2001. The photographer John Wessels has been watching the campaign transform the streets of the capital, Kinshasa Continue reading...

Ogoniland women produce most of the family’s food but the twin pressures of land grabs and pollution are making it impossible for them to survive Two women pick a slimy path through a creek, prized by generations of their female forbears for its mangroves, which once provided an abundance of food. The elder in orange, the younger in blue, they fail to find a single periwinkle snail, a single fish or a usable piece of kindling between them. Their feet struggle to take purchase on the mud, more slippery than it used to be. Continue reading...

A selection of some of the planet’s most stomach-turning foods, including maggot cheese, fish sperm sac sushi and Chinese mouse wine, are on display in Los Angeles as part of a new exhibition that aims to delight and disgust in equal measure. The Disgusting Food Museum displays dishes from around the world in a bid to challenge stereotypes about which ingredients one would consider to be disgusting Continue reading...

Party works to avoid split after Cate Faehrmann and Justin Field demanded left faction be banned The New South Wales Greens appear to have avoided a split three months out from a state election, with two state MPs backing down from a threat to quit the party. Last week two of the party’s upper house MPs, Cate Faehrmann and Justin Field, sent a letter to members threatening to quit the party unless it held a recount of its preselection ballot and formally banned a section of the party’s hard-left faction . Continue reading...

It is not possible to conclude missing New South Wales boy is dead, coroner’s court hears ahead of inquest It is not possible to conclude that missing New South Wales boy William Tyrrell is dead based on the current evidence, a court has heard. A directions hearing was held at Glebe coroner’s court on Wednesday ahead of an inquest into the three-year-old’s disappearance and suspected death more than four years ago. Continue reading...

Australian Prudential Regulation Authority says some banks no longer need 30% lending restriction Australia’s financial regulator has lifted its restriction on banks’ ability to issue interest-only loans, in a move that will likely support house prices. Data revealed last week that property price declines in Sydney and Melbourne were no longer confined to expensive dwellings, but had spread to middle and lower segments of the market in recent months. Continue reading...

The White House says it is not backing down from its criticism of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s interview of Mike Flynn, the former Trump national security adviser who pleaded guilty to lying to the law enforcement agency. Press secretary Sarah Sanders said of the FBI criticism: ‘We don't have any reason to want to walk that back’ US politics – live Continue reading...

For Australians forced to survive on $275 a week, the ALP’s pledge to conduct a welfare review before a Newstart increase has sparked outrage Annette Lovell is used to waiting. It is Tuesday and she has $30 in her bank account. She also has two things she needs to buy so one will have to wait until Friday. “Of course the blood pressure medication is important but so is phone credit,” she said. “If I miss a call regarding a job prospect, I am unable to call back.” Continue reading...

Wednesday: Judge says he can’t hide disdain for former Trump national security adviser’s betrayal. Plus: emergency Brexit no-deal planning steps up Good morning, this is Eleanor Ainge Roy bringing you the main stories and must-reads on Wednesday 19 December. Continue reading...

Negotiations between countries have stopped, raising particular concern for Canada as its relationship with US sours Amid an increasingly bitter diplomatic feud sparked by the detention of a senior Huawei executive in Vancouver, a highly coveted free trade deal between Canada and China looks increasingly unlikely. The arrest of Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of telecom giant Huawei – and China’s subsequent detention of two Canadians – has halted negotiations between the two countries. And as the United States prepares to request Meng’s extradition in the coming weeks, China has vowed to unleash punitive measures. Continue reading...

Adam Thomas, Claudia Patatas and four others jailed over National Action membership A neo-Nazi couple who named their baby son after Adolf Hitler and made their home a “shrine to extreme racism” have been jailed for membership of a terrorist group. Adam Thomas was pictured cradling his son while wearing the hooded robes of the Ku Klux Klan. His partner Claudia Patatas believed “all Jews must be put to death”, a trial at Birmingham crown court heard. Continue reading...

Terry Carney, former member of administrative appeals tribunal, maintains the ‘extortionate’ debt recovery is illegal Centrelink’s “robo-debt” system is a form of illegal extortion allowed by failings across a “plethora” of democratic and legal institutions, according to a former member of the administrative appeals tribunal. Prof Terry Carney, a long-serving member of the AAT, has penned an extraordinary attack on the institutional failings that allowed the robo-debt program . Continue reading...

Trafficked to the UK and raped for years, Abdul became homeless, got involved in crime and was threatened with deportation The Home Office has paid £30,000 to a victim of child trafficking who was held illegally in immigration detention for several months despite having refugee status and showing clear signs of having been tortured and abused. Abdul* (not his real name) was about seven when he was trafficked into the UK in the mid-90s. He thinks he came from Somalia but is not certain. He lived with adults who pretended to be his family but who abused him physically and sexually. One attempt to escape failed when police sent him back to his abusers. Suffering serious mental health problems as a teenager, he became street homeless and addicted to drugs. Continue reading...

Imelda Cortez, 20, faced an attempted murder charge under draconian abortion laws after being raped by her stepfather A rape victim who was charged with attempted murder in El Salvador after giving birth to her abuser’s baby has been found not guilty and freed from jail. Imelda Cortez, 20, has been in custody since April 2017 after giving birth in a latrine to a baby girl fathered by her abusive stepfather. Continue reading...

Russian media have seized on the yellow vest protests – but they don’t seem to have played a role in their genesis Russian state television has spent much of the last two weeks playing up the chaos of France’s protests, continuing a trend of coverage that emerged long before troll factories and the modern era of “fake news”. Seven years ago, the Kremlin-backed TV station Russia Today went all in on coverage of a leftist street protest in the west. Did Occupy Wall Street fit the Kremlin’s interests of showing a western nation in (relative) chaos? Yes. But at that time, few would have suggested that Occupy was anything but a genuine protest movement. Continue reading...

Europe told if it does not act it will be ‘turning blind eye to genocide’ under Bolsonaro Brazil’s foremost indigenous leader has called on the EU to impose trade sanctions to prevent ecological disaster and a “social extermination” by her country’s far-right president-elect, who takes office on 1 January. Jair Bolsonaro has terrified indigenous communities by promising to take every centimetre of their land, designate rights activists as “ terrorists ” and carve a motorway through the Amazon, which could deforest an area larger than Germany. Continue reading...

Vote will coincide with 2020 general election; it follows legalisation of drug’s use for medicinal purposes New Zealand will hold a referendum on whether to legalise cannabis for recreational use at the general election in 2020, a week after legalising the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes. The governing Labour party promised the Green party they would hold a national referendum on legalising the drug, as part of the confidence and supply agreement between the two. Continue reading...

Mario Marcelo Santoro flew to Rio on weekend mining executive’s body found in Sydney Mario Marcelo Santoro, the man accused of murdering his Brazilian ex-girlfriend Cecilia Haddad in Sydney, spoke for the first time during a court hearing in Rio de Janeiro on Monday and told the court his trip back home to Brazil on the weekend of her death had been planned in advance. But under direction from his lawyers, Santoro, 40, only answered questions from the defence, did not address the issue of his innocence or guilt, and declined to answer questions from the judge or prosecutors. Continue reading...

Five living Jesuits and another eight who are dead who served in churches, high schools and colleges were named The Roman Catholic Jesuit province serving much of the eastern United States on Monday released the names of Jesuit priests who face “credible or established” accusations of sexual abuse of minors dating to 1950. In a letter, the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus identified five living Jesuits facing offenses that took place in the province and another eight who are dead. The men – part of a Catholic order that includes more than 16,000 men worldwide – served in churches, high schools, colleges and other institutions. Continue reading...

Yair Netanyahu, 27, barred for 24 hours for anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian comments The son of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has been temporarily banned from Facebook after a series of anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian posts the social network said broke its rules on hate speech. The company confirmed the ban after Yair Netanyahu, 27, claimed in a tweet on Sunday that Facebook had blocked him for 24 hours for posting criticism after it removed a post last week in which he called for revenge against “those monsters” following the fatal shooting of two Israeli soldiers by a Palestinian at a bus station in the West Bank. Continue reading...

Film explores how women on the streets of Freetown suffer extortion, exploitation and imprisonment because of archaic laws Mariatu was 15 years old when her widowed mother died and she ended up sleeping rough on the streets of Freetown where she fell into commercial sex work. Not long after, she was arrested for “loitering” and, unable to pay a police bribe, spent six months in an adult jail. Continue reading...

Former foreign affairs minister says signing up to international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons would ‘tear up’ US alliance Gareth Evans has warned signing up to the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons will “tear up” the United States alliance ahead of a critical contested vote in an otherwise tranquil Labor conference. The former foreign affairs minister made the comments to Guardian Australia on the sidelines of Labor’s national conference, intervening in a dispute over how to translate in-principle support for disarmament into practical action. Continue reading...

Watchdog organisation Border Violence Monitoring has published videos of Croatian police conducting apparent 'pushback' operations against asylum seekers in woods on the border with Bosnia Continue reading...

Hungary's rightwing government has faced a rare sit-in by opposition politicians. About a dozen MPs spent the night in the state television headquarters, in Budapest, in a continuation of their demonstration against PM Viktor Orbán's policies Hungary's opposition MPs attack Orbán's 'slave law' during state TV protest Continue reading...

Italy's anti-immigration deputy prime minister is Europe's most followed politician on Facebook, with 3.4 million followers. Matteo Salvini used live streams in the run-up to parliamentary elections to speak directly to his supporters and show, as he puts it, images 'they would never show' in the mainstream media Revealed: how Italy's populists used Facebook to win power The populist social media playbook: the battle for Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Continue reading...

From the flight of Rohingya Muslims into neighbouring Bangladesh to the journey undertaken by pilgrims travelling to the Ganges delta, the lives of migrants are celebrated in a series of stunning entries to a photography competition organised by Oxford University’s centre of migration, policy and society Continue reading...

Polls show Texas congressman among voters’ favorites to take on Donald Trump but critics warn he is untested Rarely has a candidate lost a statewide election in America and immediately been declared a major contender for the next presidential race. Beto O’Rourke, the congressman who fell just shy of defeating the Texas senator Ted Cruz, appears to be the exception and his 2020 prospects are already sending ripples through what promises to be a remarkable and intense contest. Continue reading...

Legal limit for daily exposure to damaging particulate matter was breached five times Millions of people were exposed to “shocking” levels of harmful air as a result of moor fires that raged across Greater Manchester this summer, a new study has found. Firefighters and soldiers battled devastating blazes at Winter Hill and Saddleworth Moor for weeks in June and July this year. Continue reading...

Police find technology entrepreneur unconscious on his bed in Manhattan apartment Colin Kroll, a technology executive who co-founded the HQ Trivia app, has been found dead in New York at the age of 34. The city’s police department said officers had gone to Kroll’s Manhattan apartment early on Sunday after getting a call asking for a wellbeing check on him. He was found unconscious and unresponsive on his bed. Continue reading...

Patricia Byrne discovered ‘weakened’ but walking along side of a road, rescuers say The family of an 84-year-old woman who went missing in a national park in Western Australia last week say they feel like they have won the lottery after she was found weak but alive on Sunday. Patricia Byrne shocked police and rescue workers after she appeared from bushland in the the Stirling Range national park, in the state’s south-west. She had not been seen since Thursday, and her disappearance sparked a land and air search effort of Mount Trio. Continue reading...

The suspected attacker, Chérif Chekatt, was killed by police after two-day manhunt A fifth person has died of their injuries after Tuesday’s Christmas market attack in Strasbourg, French prosecutors have confirmed. An official from the Paris prosecutor’s office said the victim was a Polish national, but gave no other details. An Italian journalist, a Thai tourist, an Afghan mechanic and a French national were also killed in the shooting. Continue reading...

About 5,500 people attend rally organised by Belgian far-right party Vlaams Belang At least 90 people have been arrested after anti-migration protesters clashed with police outside EU institutions in Brussels. Authorities fired teargas and used water cannons as around 5,500 people demonstrated against a UN migration pact signed last week in Marrakech, Morocco, at a rally organised by the Belgian far-right party Vlaams Belang. Continue reading...

Monday: Scientists warn that on current emissions targets the world will warm by 3C. Plus: Luke Buckmaster reveals his list of the year’s best in Australian television Good morning, this is Eleanor Ainge Roy bringing you the main stories and must-reads on Monday 17 December. Welcome to the last week of the morning mail for 2018. Continue reading...

Senior adviser says ‘We’re going to do whatever is necessary to build the border wall’ A top aide to Donald Trump insisted on Sunday that the administration is prepared to shut down the government in order to get the funding it demands to build a long-promised wall on the US-Mexico border . Democrats, in response, flatly refused to shift position in order to help avoid such a government freeze. Continue reading...

Projects to tackle aftermath of war are being frustrated or scuppered by visa rejections, organisers say Government-backed projects to tackle the aftermath of the war in Iraq have been frustrated or scuppered by the UK’s continuing “hostile” immigration policy, it has been claimed. A scheme that involves training Iraqi civil servants at UK universities faces being axed after immigration officials rejected dozens of student visa applications. Continue reading...

Critics say the town has taken a ‘disproportionately high’ number of asylum seekers in recent years High on a hill above Bolton on a sunny Sunday last June, a mother and three children were rushing for a bus on their way to church when they encountered an angry local called Dale Hart. They had not been in Bolton long, having arrived on the UN’s Gateway Protection Programme , which offers a legal route for up to 750 long-term refugees to settle in the UK each year via camps in Africa and the Middle East. Continue reading...

From indicative votes to Norway Plus, the solutions currently under consideration As Theresa May prepares to address parliament on Monday after Downing Street denied there were plans for a second referendum, here are some of the options being floated as a solution to the current impasse. Continue reading...

Two women were in Fiat that collided with Mini as freezing weather swept across UK Two women have died in a crash that blocked one of the main routes over the Pennines in freezing weather conditions. The women, aged 20 and 22, were in a white Fiat 500 that was in collision with a blue Mini Cooper on the A628 Woodhead Pass, South Yorkshire police said. Continue reading...

Analysts say carmaker will outline job cuts in new year as part of drive to combat Brexit and falling sales Jaguar Land Rover is planning to announce thousands of job cuts in the new year as part of a £2.5bn savings plan to ward off the threat from Brexit, falling sales in China and a drop in demand for diesel cars. Britain’s biggest carmaker employs 40,000 in the UK and has already cut 1,000 temporary contract workers at its plant in Solihull , which builds Range Rovers and the Land Rover Discovery SUV. It has also reduced working hours for some workers, including at its Wolverhampton factory in the run-up to Christmas. Continue reading...

Trump’s personal lawyer says he fears investigators would try to trap the president into lying Donald Trump ’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani , on Sunday ruled out a face to face interview between the president and special counsel Robert Mueller – because he fears investigators would try to trap Trump into lying. As pressure increases on Trump in a range of investigations, Giuliani told Fox News Sunday that an interview would happen “over my dead body”. Continue reading...

Eldar Shafir of Princeton University says implicit bias is often used to describe actions that go well beyond Implicit bias is frequently invoked these days, from racial bias in the classroom or in hiring, to gender bias in academic settings. Unfortunately, it is often used to describe behaviour that goes well beyond ( We know there is bias. So what do we do now?, Opinion, 8 December). Implicit bias comes in two forms. One is automatic, quick and unavoidable. It’s the reaction you have before you have time to regroup. When your task is to name the number of digits in the following array, “7 7 7 7,” the correct answer is four, but people’s first impulse, before they correct it, is to say “seven!” Correction takes time, and requires attention and understanding. Continue reading...

Israel signalled its displeasure on Sunday with Australia's recognition of West Jerusalem as its capital, when a minister close to Benjamin Netanyahu said it was a mistake to contradict the notion of Israeli control over the whole city Israel chides Australia's recognition of West Jerusalem as capital Continue reading...

The man who would be premier cites two local members ‘who never lost the common touch’ as inspiration Maroubra. It’s not the sort of suburb that people usually get emotional about, but something happens when the new NSW opposition leader, Michael Daley talks about the place where he was born and raised, and which he now represents in the NSW parliament. “I was born and bred in South Maroubra,” says Daley proudly. “The whole clan live in the same postcode.” Continue reading...

Human Rights Watch accuses president of ruling by ‘terror and intimidation’ after protests Activists and prominent members of Latin America’s left have condemned Nicaragua’s increasingly authoritarian regime under President Daniel Ortega after the former revolutionary hero stepped up his attack on political opponents by raiding some the country’s most important non-governmental organisations and media. Since Thursday armed police have seized the headquarters of one of Nicaragua’s top independent media outlets, Confidencial, and its leading human rights group, CENIDH , in the latest phase of a crackdown designed to cement Ortega’s grip on power after months of protests. Continue reading...

Canberra ‘mistaken’ in support for Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem, minister says Israel signalled its displeasure on Sunday with Australia’s recognition of West Jerusalem as its capital . The country’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu remained silent on Canberra’s move at the weekly Israeli cabinet meeting, which he often uses to hold forth in public on diplomatic developments, but a minister close to him said it was a mistake to contradict the notion of Israeli control over the whole city. Continue reading...

Egypt unveiled the discovery of a well-preserved tomb decorated with hieroglyphs and statues south of Cairo on Saturday. Officials expect more discoveries as archaeologists continue to excavate the site in the coming months Continue reading...

Brazil’s incoming foreign minister says leftist leader is not invited to inauguration The incoming foreign minister under Brazil’s far-right president-elect, Jair Bolsonaro, has called on the international community to unite to “liberate” Venezuela from the rule of its authoritarian leftist leader, Nicolás Maduro. Ernesto Araújo, a pro-Trump climate change sceptic , made the appeal on Sunday as he announced that Maduro was not being invited to Bolsonaro’s inauguration next month “out of respect for the Venezuelan people”. Continue reading...