SHIFTING BLAME: Near the end of the one-minute-long video, the Obamas were shown with their faces on the bodies of monkeys for about one second
US President Donald Trump on Friday refused to apologize for a video posted on his social media account depicting former US president Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as monkeys, although he said he condemned the post as the White House shifted the blame to staff. The video shared on Trump
ANTI-SEMITISM: Some newsletters promote hateful ideas such as white supremacy and Holocaust denial, with one describing Adolf Hitler as ‘one of the greatest men of all time’
The global publishing platform Substack is generating revenue from newsletters that promote virulent Nazi ideology, white supremacy and anti-Semitism, a Guardian investigation has found. The platform, which says it has about 50 million users worldwide, allows members of the public to self-publish ar
The Washington Post on Saturday said its CEO and publisher Will Lewis was leaving effective immediately, just days after the storied newspaper owned by billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos made drastic job cuts that angered readers. Although newspapers across the US have been facing brutal industry
A prince, an ambassador, senior diplomats, top politicians. All brought down by the Jeffrey Epstein files, and all in Europe, rather than the US. The huge trove of Epstein documents released by the US Department of Justice has sent shock waves through Europe’s political, economic and social elites —
A man and his dogs pass Nancy Guthrie’s home in Tucson, Arizona, on Saturday. Guthrie, mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie, is believed to have been kidnapped from her home the previous weekend. The television host on Saturday released a video on social media, in which she says the family i
DIPLOMATIC THAW: The Canadian prime minister’s China visit and improved Beijing-Ottawa ties raised lawyer Zhang Dongshuo’s hopes for a positive outcome in the retrial
China has overturned the death sentence of Canadian Robert Schellenberg, a Canadian official said on Friday, in a possible sign of a diplomatic thaw as Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney seeks to boost trade ties with Beijing.Schellenberg’s lawyer, Zhang Dongshuo (張東碩), yesterday confirmed China’s
NEW RULES: There would be fewer school days, four-day workweeks, and a reduction in transportation services as the country battles a crisis exacerbated by US pressure
The Cuban government on Friday announced emergency measures to address a crippling energy crisis worsened by US sanctions, including the adoption of a four-day work week for state-owned companies and fuel sale restrictions.Cuban Deputy Prime Minister Oscar Perez-Oliva Fraga blamed Washington for the
A sign hanging from a rusty ice-green shipping container installed by Thai forces on what they say is the border with Cambodia reads: “Cambodian citizens are strictly prohibited from entering this area.”On opposite sides of the makeshift barricade, fronted by coils of barbed wire, Cambodians lamente
A minuscule snail once thought to have disappeared has been saved from the edge of extinction, a British zoo said yesterday. The greater Bermuda land snail had not been spotted for years until a cluster of shells was caught slithering through an alleyway in Hamilton in 2014.Some were flown to Cheste
In a Minneapolis apartment, the curtains are drawn and a table with four computers and three children make a crude substitute for a classroom.Esmeralda, Kevin and Carlos have stopped going to school — at least physically — in the weeks since US immigration agents surged into the Midwestern city.“If
Thousands of mourners yesterday gathered in Islamabad to start burying the 31 killed in a suicide bombing at a Shiite Muslim mosque, as residents expressed concern that there could be further attacks.A man opened fire at the Khadija Tul Kubra Imambargah compound on the outskirts of Pakistan’s capita
SHOW OF SUPPORT: The move showed that aggression toward Greenland is a question for Europe and Canada, and the consequences are global, not just Danish, experts said
Canada and France, which adamantly oppose US President Donald Trump’s wish to control Greenland, were to open consulates in the Danish autonomous territory’s capital yesterday, in a strong show of support for the local government.Since returning to the White House last year, Trump has repeatedly ins
Japan would switch the world’s largest nuclear power plant back on next week, after a glitch with an alarm forced the suspension of its first restart since the 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant disaster.Takeyuki Inagaki, the head of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant run by Tokyo E
Jeremiah Kithinji had never touched a computer before he finished high school. A decade later, he is teaching robotics, and even took a team of rural Kenyans to the World Robotics Olympiad in Singapore.In a classroom in Laikipia County — a sparsely populated grasslands region of northern Kenya known
Two medieval fortresses face each other across the Narva River separating Estonia from Russia on Europe’s eastern edge.Once a symbol of cooperation, the “Friendship Bridge” connecting the two snow-covered banks has been reinforced with rows of razor wire and “dragon’s teeth” anti-tank obstacles on t
Architect Buse Ceren Gul is on a mission: Restore a 166-year-old Greek Orthodox church that was long a beacon of her hometown’s multicultural past. She believes restoring the church left mostly in ruins by the earthquakes in southern Turkey three years ago would help locals reconnect to their city.T
HELP: A reported sanctions lift on assistance to North Korea would allow groups to provide humanitarian aid, such as supplements and medical equipment
A senior South Korean official yesterday said “new progress” on North Korea could come within days, with a local report saying the administration of US President Donald Trump has decided to approve humanitarian sanctions exemptions for Pyongyang.Seoul has made considerable efforts to bring North Kor
NO GO: Washington wants Beijing to join the pact, but although China said it regrets the expiration of the treaty, it has balked at any restrictions on its growing nuclear arsenal
The last remaining nuclear arms pact between Russia and the US expired yesterday, removing any caps on the two largest atomic arsenals for the first time in more than a half-century.The termination of the New START Treaty could set the stage for what many fear could be an unconstrained nuclear arms
Italy has thwarted a series of Russian cyberattacks targeting the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, the Italian minister of foreign affairs said on Wednesday.The attacks were “on foreign ministry offices, starting with Washington, and also some Winter Olympics sites, including hotels in Cortina,” Itali
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