Unrest is seemingly everywhere. We look at the some of the reasons for and responses to it in Hong Kong, Lebanon, Chile, Catalonia and IraqIn Lebanon they are against a tax on WhatsApp and endemic corruption. In Chile, a hike in the metro fare and rampant inequality. In Hong Kong, an extradition bill and creeping authoritarianism. In Algeria, a fifth term for an ageing president and decades of military rule.The protests raging today and in the past months on the streets of cities around the world have varying triggers. But the fuel is familiar: stagnating middle classes, stifled democracy and the bone-deep conviction that things can be different – even if the alternative is not always clear. Continue reading...

British authorities criticised by nationalist paper as country voices shock at truck fatalitiesChinese citizens have expressed shock, anger and outrage over the deaths of 39 people found in a lorry in the UK and believed to be Chinese nationals, in a case experts suspect is linked to human trafficking.Chinese officials said on Friday that they were still working to confirm the identities of eight women and 31 men discovered in the back of a refrigerated trailer in Essex on Wednesday. The Chinese embassy in London said it was in close contact with the British police. Continue reading...

Mark Dreyfus has written to NSW police commissioner about the document used to attack Clover MooreShadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus has formally asked New South Wales police to investigate how Angus Taylor’s office came to use a doctored document to justify a political attack on the Sydney mayor’s climate change stance.Dreyfus wrote to NSW police commissioner Mick Fuller on Friday morning asking him to investigate the “highly concerning” revelations in the Guardian about the doctored document. Continue reading...

25 October 1982: Estimates suggest that between 6,000 and 15,000 people disappeared during the country’s “dirty war”Buenos Aires

Politicians and church leaders are stirring homophobia to rally bases and provoke fear among votersIn a recent survey, Poles were asked to identify what they felt to be the biggest threats facing them in the 21st century, choosing from options such as the climate crisis, renewed aggression from Russia and a possible economic downturn.Among men under 40, the most popular answer was “the LGBT movement and gender ideology”. The survey, conducted by Ipsos for the Polish website OKO.press, suggested that a government campaign against the nebulous concept of “LGBT ideology” was having an impact. Continue reading...

Amnesty claims people bussed out in handcuffs were beaten or signed ‘voluntary return’ forms in belief they would get blankets

Fire danger warnings have been issued for parts of southeast Australia due to hot weather and strong windsTemperatures in Sydney are expected to soar 14C degrees above the October average on Friday to reach 36C degrees in the city, the hottest day since March, while residents in Tasmania and Victoria are being warned of high winds.The Bureau of Meteorology New South Wales said 36C was also expected in Penrith in the Sydney’s west on Friday, 10 degrees above the October average. Continue reading...

Some Conservative MPs fear prime minister’s plan could backfire among votersLiveblog – latest Brexit developments

The two community outreach workers were among six charged in a drug sting by Victoria policeTwo workers linked to Melbourne’s medically-supervised injecting room have been charged with drug trafficking.Six people have been charged in an alleged drug trafficking sting that saw two workers tasked with bringing drug users into Melbourne’s medically-supervised injecting room arrested. Continue reading...

Labour refuses to give instant response to prime minister’s call for an early pollBoris Johnson has abandoned his “do or die” pledge to leave the EU by 31 October and will plead with MPs next week to give him a pre-Christmas general election.The prime minister wrote to Jeremy Corbyn on Thursday night saying he would give parliament one last opportunity to scrutinise his withdrawal agreement bill and “get Brexit done” by 6 November. But he will also table a motion under the Fixed Term Parliaments Act next Monday asking for an early general election. It will require the backing of two-thirds of MPs to succeed. Continue reading...

Friday: man arrested over the deaths of 39 Chinese migrants in a refrigerated truck trailer in the UK. Plus: reef islands lose half of their coral coverGood morning, this is Helen Sullivan bringing you the main stories and must-reads on Friday 25 october. Continue reading...

Chinese nationals would have been locked in refrigerated trailer for at least 10 hoursThe 39 people who were found dead in a refrigerated lorry trailer in Essex on Wednesday were already trapped when they arrived at the Belgian coast en route to England, local officials have said, as police confirmed that the victims were all Chinese nationals.The Belgian officials said the eight women and 31 men would have been locked in the trailer at temperatures as low as -25C for at least 10 hours after the trailer arrived at the port of Zeebrugge on Tuesday afternoon. Continue reading...

Security at Belgium port means victims likely got on before and were trapped for up to 10 hoursRow after row of shipping containers destined for British shores line the sprawling Belgian industrial port at Zeebrugge.A little more than 48 hours ago, 39 Chinese nationals were hidden somewhere in the ranks of containers, waiting to begin a new life in the UK. Instead, the trailer became their tomb. Continue reading...

An international response is required to the global migration crisis, and Britain has a responsibility to play its partThe known facts about how 39 people died in a lorry in Essex this week remain sparse, stark and shocking. The 31 male and eight female victims were all adults and, it became clear on Thursday, all were Chinese nationals. They arrived in Britain from Belgium by sea, in a refrigerated container, shortly after midnight on Wednesday morning. The container was then attached to the back of a lorry that had come from Northern Ireland via Holyhead and was driven to an industrial estate in Essex, where it was discovered about an hour later. There were no survivors.Fundamental parts of the story remain unclear and are under active investigation. The most important of these is to discover who the victims were and to tell their stories. Did they enter the container willingly or under duress? Who was responsible for loading them into the container? By what route did they reach Essex? Were they being trafficked or were they migrants entering the country illegally? Answers to all these questions are essential. For this appears to amount to mass murder. Continue reading...

Party whose leader is labelled a Nazi is on par with CDU going into Thuringia poll on Sunday

Lorry cab reached Holyhead from Dublin, and trailer arrived in Purfleet from Zeebrugge – but where was it before that?

Guardian readers respond to Afua Hirsch’s call for a London memorial to the victims of slaveryThank you for the article by Afua Hirsch (Britain was built on the backs of slaves, 23 October). I am 77. As a child in the 1940s, I was proud that vast areas of the world map were coloured pink, and amazed that the language that was spoken in many of them was named after the apparently little country that I lived in. In my teens (by which time most of the pink had gone) I worked as a cleaner in my local hospital as a holiday job, and brought a recently arrived Caribbean nurse home for a meal. I was embarrassed that, although my parents tried to be welcoming to her, they were unable to behave and speak to her in a natural manner.In retrospect I recognised that they saw her as “other” before they saw her as a lonely young woman in a strange country. Continue reading...

AAT says it has high number of refugee and migration lodgements and ‘lower than required’ people and resourcesThe tribunal tasked with hearing tens of thousands of refugee appeals, as well reviewing other visa, tax, child support and workers compensation decisions, is struggling under a growing workload despite record clearance rates.The administrative appeals tribunal (AAT) received, finalised and was left with the highest number of applications on record last year. Continue reading...

Poundbury village backtracks on plan to install yellow lines at spot where motorcyclist was killedA grieving mother has accused Prince Charles’s designer town Poundbury of putting aesthetics over safety after its refusal to install its first yellow lines at the spot where her son was killed in a motorcycle accident.Poundbury is the Dorset town owned by the Duchy of Cornwall and built in line with Charles’s vision of a sustainable and architecturally pleasing community. Continue reading...

Research also finds voters are willing to see union ‘change substantially’ to get their wayA majority of voters in England, Wales and Scotland believe that violence against MPs is a “price worth paying” in order to get their way on Brexit, an academic survey has found.The poll from Cardiff University and the University of Edinburgh asked respondents what they would be willing to see happen in order to leave or remain within the European Union. Continue reading...

Aidan James, 28, is first Briton to stand trial for travelling to Syria to join battle against IsisA British man who trained to fight with Kurdish units against Islamic State has been found guilty of a terrorism offence in a retrial at the Old Bailey.Aidan James, 28, from Formby in Merseyside, was found guilty of training in weapons with the banned Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) in Iraq. Continue reading...

From Chile to Ecuador and Bolivia to Haiti police and protesters are clashing on the streets, but what are the common threads and will they lead to change?Tanks on the streets in Chile. Barricades and bloodshed in Bolivia. Weeks of unrest that have pushed Haiti to the brink and forced Ecuador’s president to relocate his government.“This is a social revolution,” said Andrea Lyn, a 61-year-old actor who took to the streets of Santiago this week. “It is us saying: no more.” Continue reading...

Couple from Northern Ireland flown over to see Mo Robinson, Guardian understands

Residents in Camden fear display could attract rowdy hen and stag partiesA museum dedicated to vaginas has been granted an alcohol licence despite residents’ concerns it could attract rowdy stag and hen parties.The Vagina Museum is due to open on 16 November at Camden Market, in London, with the aim of spreading knowledge about “gynaecological anatomy and health”. Continue reading...

Ahead of her ambitious Cornucopia tour reaching the UK in November, we select the greatest work by the Icelandic pop-polymathAn overlooked gem, tacked on to the end of her fan-selected Greatest Hits collection, It’s in Our Hands is a sublime slice of future R&B conjured up in collaboration with the avant-techno duo Matmos. There is a particularly spicy and formidable version included on the Vespertine Live album. Continue reading...

Protest criminalised, direct action equated with terrorism: it’s starting to feel like the bad old days of Pinochet“We’re at war against a powerful enemy,” declared President Sebastián Piñera live on Sunday night TV from the Chilean army headquarters. “Democracy not only has the right but the duty to defend itself using all instruments … and the rule of law to fight those who would destroy it.” You may be forgiven for thinking Chilean democracy is besieged by some terrifying force: a foreign army, or even an invader from outer space. Nothing could be further from the truth. Piñera’s statement is doublethink: a lie travelling the world while truth is still putting on its boots.Piñera then did what they all do – the Trumps, the Bolsonaros, the Johnsons of this world. He stamped his authority Continue reading...

Family of Orchard, who died in 2012 after restraint by police, call decision ‘ethically wrong’The family of a church caretaker with mental health problems who died after being restrained at a police station has expressed anger after disciplinary proceedings against two detention officers involved in the tragedy have been dropped.Thomas Orchard, 32, died after a heavy webbing belt was placed across his face while he was being restrained in Exeter following a public order incident in 2012. Continue reading...

Rolling updates of today’s political developments, including the Queen’s speech vote, division over a possible election and EU debate over Brexit extension

Moscow court extends detention until 29 December for Paul Whelan, who says he’s being kept for a potential prisoner swapA former US marine who has been held in Russia since last year on spy charges insisted he was more Mr Bean than Mr Bond as a Moscow court extended his detention for another two months.Paul Whelan, 49, who has US, Irish, Canadian and British citizenship, denounced the case against him and said he was being held “hostage” for a possible prisoner exchange. Continue reading...

Spanish dictator’s body moved from tomb in the Valley of the Fallen to lie alongside his wife

Author highlights evidence suggesting that ‘orphanage tourism’ drives families apart and makes children vulnerable to abuseJK Rowling has called on students around the world not to volunteer at orphanages, pointing to emerging evidence that “orphanage tourism” drives family separation and child trafficking.Speaking at the One Young World summit in London, the global forum for young leaders, the Harry Potter author and founder and president of children’s charity Lumos, said orphanages do “irreparable harm” and “perpetuate the abuse” of children and communities. Continue reading...

Men who worked for sexual health charity face life imprisonmentUganda said on Thursday it had arrested 16 LGBT activists on suspicion of gay sex, which is punishable with life imprisonment, in what activists called an escalating campaign against sexual minorities.The 16 men, believed to be aged between 22 and 35, were taken into custody late on Monday at the office of a sexual health charity where they all worked and lived, fellow activists said. Continue reading...

Police say 31 men and eight women were found, as extra time secured to detain man held on suspicion of murderThe 39 people found dead in a lorry trailer in Essex were Chinese nationals, police have confirmed, as they secured extra time to hold a Northern Irish man on suspicion of murder.The victims, discovered in a refrigerated trailer in Grays on Wednesday, were eight women and 31 men, Essex police added. Continue reading...

Labour peer heads push to ‘save family reunion’ amid fears Brexit will stop young refugees from joining relatives in UKBritain’s “hardening” attitude to asylum seekers threatens to end one of the last safe routes for children to reach the UK, Alf Dubs has said.Lord Dubs believes the Home Office is targeting a permanent reduction in childrens’ rights, under an EU law known as the Dublin regulation, to join family in the UK after Brexit. Continue reading...

The brothers haven’t seen each other since 2012. Their story highlights the deteriorating plight of Syrian refugeesThe last time all five brothers were together was in August 2012, inside a bomb shelter in southern Syria.It was Ramadan, and each night they broke fast to the sound of artillery and airstrikes pounding their besieged neighbourhood above. Continue reading...

House of Bicentenary in site near Pompeii has been under restoration for 35 yearsAn ancient Roman house has reopened to the public in the archaeological park of Herculaneum, the town near Naples buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79.Considered the site’s most noble Roman villa, the House of the Bicentenary had been under restoration for 35 years. The three-storey, 600 sq metre domus, which contains stunning frescoes and mosaic floors, was discovered in 1938, 200 years after excavations at the site began, but closed to the public in 1983 after falling into disrepair. Continue reading...

IICSA report lays bare culture of cover-up and denial that facilitated 30 years of abuseA “sadistic and predatory” atmosphere and a culture of cover-up and denial in a Catholic school allowed sexual abusers to commit crimes against children for decades, an independent inquiry has found.Senior figures at Ealing Abbey and St Benedict’s school in west London, part of the English Benedictine Congregation, were perpetrators of abuse over a 30-year period. Staff members failed to raise concerns because of a “mafia-like” atmosphere and the fear of losing their jobs. Continue reading...

Will the PM keep trying to push his withdrawal agreement bill or call an early election?

Authorities believed Mimi Mefo, an award-winning journalist who works for Deutsche Welle in Berlin, might try to stayA Berlin-based journalist who was due to speak at a press freedom conference in Brisbane has said she was denied a visa by the Australian government because they believed she might try to stay.Mimi Mefo, an award-winning Cameroonian journalist who currently works for Deutsche Welle, was scheduled to deliver a keynote address at the Integrity 20 conference on Friday. Continue reading...

Athletes lose moral compass after using secret paths and markings to win contestA Chinese orienteering team has been disqualified for cheating at the Military World Games in China.Chinese runners in the middle-distance competition on Sunday initially came first, second, and fourth among the women and second among the men. Continue reading...

The remains of the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco are being moved from a grandiose mausoleum outside Madrid to be reburied in a family crypt. The closed-door operation will fulfil the wishes of those who considered the mausoleum an affront to the tens of thousands who died in the country’s civil war

The new book Conversations on Conflict Photography delves into the stories behind some of the most critical images photographers have had to takeIn the newly published Conversations on Conflict Photography, Lauren Walsh, a professor at New York University and the New School, discusses the visual documentation of suffering with award-winning photographers, photo editors and representatives of major humanitarian organizations.The excerpts below delve into the stories behind some of the most critical images these photographers have had to take during the course of their profession. Continue reading...

Woman reportedly held hostage in latest incident involving visitor to Italian cityA tourist is facing charges of kidnapping after allegedly holding a worker at a bureau de change in Venice hostage in a row over exchange rates.The man is reported to have been unhappy with the amount in euros he got in exchange for $100. Continue reading...

Asterix and the Chieftain’s Daughter, released on Thursday, stars a rebellious teenage Gaul who keeps Asterix and Obelix on their toes

Nusrat Jahan Rafi was set on fire after refusing to withdraw sexual harassment allegationA court in Bangladesh has sentenced 16 people to death over the murder of a 19-year-old student who was burned alive.Nusrat Jahan Rafi was doused in paraffin and set on fire in April after refusing to withdraw a sexual harassment complaint against the headteacher of the seminary she attended. Continue reading...

Among the 3,400 residents of the Falklands are a community of about 100 Zimbabweans, who have been a familiar and welcome sight in the past decade, clearing the 25,000 mines laid by Argentinian troops during their 74-day occupation of the islands in 1982 Continue reading...

A refusal to include affordable housing led Johannesburg to reject glossy plans for high-end housing, offices, a rail station and entertainment district. It seems the city will get disconnected car-centric gated communities insteadThe Gautrain rushes through the green rolling hills and grasslands of Modderfontein, the commuter rail’s gold livery recalling Johannesburg’s reason for existence as a mining town, and speeds past the platforms of the commuter station that never got finished.Four lanes of smooth tarmac lead over the horizon. Streetlights evenly spaced and dropdowns from the kerbs make it easier for pedestrians to cross than in much of South Africa’s biggest city – except there are no pedestrians. The paint still looks fresh and the markings clear, but these roads to nowhere end in concrete and steel barriers. Continue reading...

Minister could face investigation as Sydney lord mayor calls on Taylor to release evidence to back up his ‘implausible’ claimLabor is calling for a police investigation into whether a document was forged in Angus Taylor’s office with the purpose of influencing the exercise of duty by the lord mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore, with Labor declaring it will refer the matter in the next 24 hours.Labor rounded on the controversy-prone federal minister for emissions reduction in parliament on Thursday following a revelation by Guardian Australia that false figures were used by Taylor’s office to unleash a political attack on Moore last month. Continue reading...

Amnesty calls for end to detentions under male ‘guardianship’ systemAmnesty International has called on Jordan to end what it has described as an abusive system that jails women if they disobey their male “guardians” or have relationships deemed inappropriate.Despite recent efforts to give women better protections, Amnesty said in a new report published on Wednesday that Jordan still allows the arbitrary detention of women, including when male family members – usually fathers or brothers – complain to the authorities that they have been absent without permission. Continue reading...

She was vilified when she left office in 2015 – but polls say the former president and Alberto Fernández are likely to oust Mauricio MacriWhen she left office in 2015, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was vilified by her opponents as a corrupt populist who had bankrupted Argentina during her two-term presidency.Related: Indigenous Mapuche pay high price for Argentina's fracking dream Continue reading...