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Palestine Red Crescent says 80 people were hurt during clashes with Israeli police outside Jerusalem’s Old CityFresh clashes have erupted between Palestinians and Israeli police outside the Old City of Jerusalem, extending some of the city’s worst unrest in years, as a former Israeli defence official warned of an atmosphere like a powder keg ready to explode at any time.At least 80 people were injured, including a one-year-old, and 14 were taken to hospital, the Palestine Red Crescent said. Israeli police said at least one officer was hurt. Continue reading...

Three of four suspects in explosion targeting Mohamed Nasheed in custody as he recovers in hospitalMaldives police have arrested a person believed to be the prime suspect in an explosion that critically wounded the country’s former president and was blamed on Islamic extremists.Police said on Sunday they had in their custody three of the four suspects in Thursday’s blast targeting the former president Mohamed Nasheed, who is recovering in hospital after multiple operations. Continue reading...

Elizabeth Miki Brina’s memoir about coming to terms with her Japanese-American heritage is warm and affectingMost memoirs are about resolving an identity crisis of some kind. And this is an extreme one. Born to a mother from Okinawa and a father who was a US soldier, Elizabeth Miki Brina grows up in New Jersey and Fairport, New York, faintly aware of her history but unable to really assimilate it for years. As a child, she clings to her father, to Beverly Hills 90210, to Chuck E Cheese dinners, to Aerosmith cassette tapes; she cuts up her mother’s kimonos and, as soon as she is old enough, dyes her hair blond. She wants blue contact lenses but her parents draw the line at that. Even at the age of 18, when she starts to say the words “half-Japanese” out loud, she is not able to explain “what Okinawa is”, the place where her mother was born and raised.As the author explains, the words “internalised racism” were not in anyone’s vocabulary at that time – and they certainly weren’t familiar to her parents, two people who were young and naive when they fell in love and spend the rest of their marriage just trying to do their best, with the kind of quietly disastrous consequences that secretly make up many ordinary family lives. With the benefit of hindsight and the beady eye of a ruthless biographer, Miki Brina’s life story becomes an extraordinarily compelling and involving account of what it means to grow up denying a part of yourself. Continue reading...

Locals in the port of Granville think the row between France and the UK over fishing makes no senseIf you look out to sea from the Christian Dior museum on the cliffs above Granville, you see the grey outline of what appears to be another part of the Norman coast.It is. But it isn’t. Continue reading...

Israeli police and Palestinian protestors clashed around al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem during the final nights of Ramadan

Waverley Council reconsidering popular practice, which could lead to new restrictions, a reduction in nets or a ban on the sportAustralia’s most famous beaches may restrict volleyball following complaints the sport poses a risk to other beachgoers.Informal games of beach volleyball are a regular sight at Sydney’s Bondi and Tamarama beaches, which allow three and four nets respectively. Continue reading...

The world’s biggest holiday firm is setting sail for a brighter summer as Brits grab their chance to seek some (Algarve) sunTristan da Cunha, here we come. Travel firm Tui will have given one tiny cheer at the end of last week, when the UK government finally confirmed the resumption of international leisure travel with a threadbare “green list” of far-flung countries, where desperate holidaymakers can safely venture without a 10-day quarantine on return.For those who want to stay in the northern hemisphere, at least Portugal made the cut, although Tui executives are doubtless examining the pool facilities in fellow green-lister the Faroe Islands right now. Tui, the world’s biggest tourism company, will give more details of the state of the holiday market when it reports first-half results on Wednesday. Continue reading...

In both states, where the majority of incarcerated youths are Indigenous, the oscillation from ashamed to ruthless has occurred in the space of a few years“Please, I beg you, do not just put it in the filing cabinet,” Pat Anderson, an Alyawarre woman and prominent Indigenous leader, told the first hearing of the royal commission into youth detention in the Northern Territory. “The very survival of Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory depends on this commission making a real impact here.”That was 2016. Footage of teenagers in the Don Dale detention centre – one stripped half-naked, hooded and strapped to a chair – was likened to the treatment of prisoners in Abu Ghraib. Malcolm Turnbull, the prime minister who called the inquiry, was “deeply shocked”. Continue reading...

Metaphorically and literally, Clive and Mary have spent their almost four decades together learning to speak each other’s languageNames: Clive Smallman and Mary Haropoulou

First minister says there is ‘no democratic justification’ for No 10 denying second vote

For decades, scientists and economists have been making wagers about the outcome of human population growth. Now, more than ever, their speculations need to be taken seriouslyIn 2011, when the global population hit 7 billion, economist David Lam and demographer Stan Becker made a bet. Lam predicted food would get cheaper over the next decade, despite continuing population growth. Becker predicted that food prices would go up, because of the damage humans were doing to the planet, which meant that population growth would outstrip food supply. Becker won and, following his wishes, Lam has just written out a cheque for $194 to the Vermont-based nonprofit Population Media Center, which promotes population stabilisation internationally.$194, about £140, equates to the amount by which a basket containing five food types – oils and fats, cereals, dairy, meat and sugar – and worth on average $1,000 in the decade to 2010, increased in price over the following decade, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s Food Price Index (FFPI) and allowing for inflation. Continue reading...

Passengers face ‘significant’ disruption as GWR and LNER suspend services in order to inspect trains

Israeli police broke into the prayer room at the mosque in East Jerusalem as several hundred Palestinians stayed on after Friday prayers to protest against potential evictions of Palestinians from homes on land claimed by Jewish settlers.

Preselection vote leaves the long-serving powerbroker in hard-to-win third place at the next federal electionThe influential Tasmanian conservative powerbroker Eric Abetz has been demoted to third place on the Liberal party’s Tasmanian Senate ticket in a shock preselection vote.It could signal the end of Abetz’s almost three-decade Senate career, given that third place on the ticket is difficult to win. Continue reading...

The musician on his Raquel Welch wallpaper, crying when Maradona died and breaking his back in four placesBorn in Glasgow, Bobby Gillespie, 58, founded Primal Scream in 1982. The band’s third album, Screamadelica, won the 1992 Mercury music prize. Utopian Ashes, Gillespie’s album with Jehnny Beth, is released on 2 July; their single, Remember We Were Lovers, is out now. He lives in London with his wife, fashion stylist Katy England, and two sons.When were you happiest?

Lawyer gives details of airman’s complaint over Corsica incident where he was tied to target while bombs and bullets hailed aroundA French pilot has filed a legal complaint after being subjected to a hazing ritual in which he was tied to a target and had fighter jets open fire around him, his lawyer has said.The young man had just been posted to an airbase in the south of the island of Corsica in March 2019 when he was grabbed by colleagues and tied up with adhesive tape, his lawyer said, confirming details first published in La Provence newspaper. Continue reading...

After the alleged murder of Polikalepo Kefu, Pacific LGBTQI groups are calling for change, including revoking sodomy lawsThe large hall of the basilica in the Tongan capital Nuku’alofa, hasn’t seen many crowds since Covid restrictions were introduced a year ago.But on Thursday night, people from across all parts of society packed every inch of available space in the venue, clad mostly in black and the traditional woven ta’ovala dress. Continue reading...

Save the Children’s analysis finds Britain will spend 80% less on nutrition abroad this year, as hunger levels rise around the worldBritain is set to spend 80% less on helping feed children in poorer nations than before the pandemic, according to a charity’s analysis.Save the Children said the British government will spend less than £26m this year on vital nutrition services in developing countries, a drop of more than three-quarters from 2019. The estimate of aid cuts to nutrition comes after UN agencies called for urgent action to avert famine in 20 countries including Yemen, South Sudan and northern Nigeria. Continue reading...

Here are the current coronavirus hotspots in New South Wales and what to do if you’ve visited them

Police believe the driver lost control of the 4WD on a dirt road and it rolled several timesA car being driven by a 14-year-old boy has rolled on a dirt road in central Queensland. A passenger, a 16-year-old boy, died.Police will allege the boy at the wheel lost control of the four-wheel-drive on a dirt section of Wills Road north-west of Emerald about 6pm on Friday. Continue reading...

Katharine Murphy talks to the finance minister in an exclusive interview ahead of the federal budget. They discuss the ongoing challenges the Covid pandemic holds for Australia’s economy, and Birmingham’s personal reflections on parliament’s cultural reckoning Continue reading...

Reactions and all the latest results after Thursday’s elections in Scotland, England and Wales

Senior coroner says there needs to be an investigation into what may have been the ‘unnatural’ death of Belly Mujinga

The government has revealed the destinations to which quarantine-free holidays will be allowed

PC accused of murder allegedly told fellow officer to strike former footballer with her batonThe police officer accused of murdering Dalian Atkinson swore and urged his partner to hit the stricken former footballer with her baton as he lay injured, a jury has heard.The two officers were called to a disturbance in Meadow Close, Telford, after Atkinson shouted outside his father’s house on 15 August 2016. They found him behaving erratically. Continue reading...

Mariana Chaudhary was alerted by the smoke alarm as her neighbour’s flat was gutted on Friday morningMariana Chaudhary, 34, lives at New Providence Wharf in east London. Her flat is on the eighth floor, where the fire broke out, and she was confronted by thick black smoke when she opened her front door on Friday morning. Her neighbour’s flat was on fire, but the only thing that alerted her was her own smoke alarm.“I shut the door and ran back to my balcony because the flat was filling with smoke,” she said. “My eyes were stinging.” Continue reading...

UN fears ceasefire talks have stalled after rebel leaders came close to accepting deal before rejecting it

Police treating attack in capital Male that wounded four others including British national as act of terrorismThe former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed has been left in a critical condition following an assassination attempt that also wounded four others, including a British national.Police said they were treating the bomb blast, which occurred at about 8.30pm local time on Thursday evening, as an act of terrorism. Continue reading...

Demonstrations that began with a general strike on 28 April quickly descended into violence, with as many as 37 protesters killed across the countryYina Reyes, a 39-year-old nurse from the downtrodden neighbourhood of Siloé in the Colombian city of Cali, knows only too well what Covid-19 can do to a person – and to a community. Her mother was hospitalized with the disease, and came close to death.As a home care nurse, she has seen patients get sick and neighbours die. In the early days of the pandemic, her husband lost his job as a chauffeur, leaving her to provide for their daughter and his parents, who share their home. Continue reading...

Often we give to others the help we need ourselves, says Annalisa Barbieri. What would happen if you put yourself first occasionally?I’m a 37-year-old gay male. I don’t want an “other half”, because I like being single, but I’m always there for my friends, even during this pandemic. However, recently I’ve found they are not really there for me. None of them asks how I am, even after I’ve shared something that has upset me.Sometimes I need a little care, a hug, a little backup, or something to lift me up, too. I don’t hate being that person for them, but I do hate myself when I am trying to lift a friend in need when I haven’t dealt with something of my own. Continue reading...

Calls for independent investigation after at least 25 people were killed in raid on Jacarezinho favela

Italian government supplied vessel to help Tripoli control flow of migrants in MediterraneanAn Italian fisher wounded when his trawler was machined-gunned by the Libyan coastguard was fired on from a boat supplied by Italy’s government to help Tripoli control the flow of migrants, the Guardian can reveal.Libyan authorities, who say the coastguard vessel fired warning shots into the air, said three Italian fishing vessels had entered Libyan territorial waters without authorisation before the incident on Thursday, the latest episode in a territorial dispute involving crews from the Sicilian port of Mazara del Vallo who fish for red prawns off the Libyan coast. Continue reading...

People in the greater Sydney region, including Wollongong, the Central Coast and the Blue Mountains, had new Covid restrictions from 5pm Thursday. Can you have visitors? Is mask-wearing compulsory? Is travelling permitted? Here’s what you can and can’t do over the weekend and on Mother’s Day

Body of Maria Jane Rawlings, 45, was discovered by a dog walker in bushes in Romford on TuesdayA woman whose body was found in bushes in an east London suburb is believed to have been murdered, according to police.Maria Jane Rawlings, 45, was found dead in Little Heath, Romford, by a man walking his dog at about 2pm on Tuesday. Continue reading...

Ultimately, Britain will need to find a way to cooperate with its closest neighbours without resorting to gunboat diplomacyWhen the UK and the EU finalised their trade deal last December, you could be forgiven for assuming that Boris Johnson had fulfilled his pledge to “get Brexit done”. But as events this week have proved, the process is far from over. An argument with France over fishing rights around the island of Jersey rapidly descended into threats, blockades and the government sending in the navy.The current dispute rests on differing interpretations of one part of the trade and cooperation agreement (TCA), the trade deal that now governs economic relations between the UK and the EU. While Jersey is not part of the UK and was never within the EU, the TCA replaced the Bay of Granville agreement, which used to govern fishing rights in Jersey’s waters. Continue reading...

Research reveals that many national vaccination plans exclude asylum seekers, refugees, migrants and IDPs

Reported ‘separation contract’ of Bill and Melinda shows agreement can be reached without litigation

Chios case highlights deplorable conditions on islands despite EU allocating millions of euros to improve facilities, aid workers sayAt a desolate refugee camp on the Greek island of Chios earlier this week, a young man died alone in a tent. By the time the guards arrived on the scene, about 12 hours after the Somali refugee’s death, the body was surrounded by rodents.Asylum seekers who had initially alerted staff spoke in horror at seeing rats and mice swarming about. Continue reading...

South Australian prison officer involved in transporting 29-year-old Indigenous man before his death initially refuses to answer questionsA prison guard has been directed to answer questions despite an attempt to claim legal protection and remain silent during a South Australian coronial inquest into the death in custody of an Indigenous man.Corrections officer Trent Hall gave evidence on Friday at the inquest into the 2016 death of Wayne Fella Morrison. Continue reading...

From shoddy subtitles to improbable accents and the fact that no one ever uses a toilet, our writers address the biggest bugbears on the small screen

The Guardian has published more than 5m pieces of journalism since 1821. With the help of staff, readers, supporters and alumni we pick 200 of the most powerful, and ask Guardian staff past and present to reflect on their enduring appeal. Day one: investigations, from Wikileaks to Snowden

People fleeing militant violence near Total’s Afungi project in Cabo Delgado have been blocked by government forcesMore than 20,000 Mozambicans have been trapped near a huge natural gas project in the country’s Cabo Delgado province, more than a month since it was abandoned after a militant attack.People camped at the gates of French energy company Total’s Afungi site have had been unable to escape, despite fears of imminent violence, and have limited food because the Mozambican government has blocked humanitarian access. Continue reading...

The paper has printed through two centuries of changes – from the arrival of electric power to the birth of AIOn the day the Guardian was born in Manchester on 5 May 1821, the big story was taking place 4,800 miles away on an island in the south Atlantic. Continue reading...

At least 25 people have been killed after heavily armed police stormed Jacarezinho, one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest favelas, in pursuit of drug traffickers in what was the deadliest raid in the city’s history. About 200 members of Rio’s civil police launched the raid into Jacarezinho in the early hours despite a 2020 supreme court order outlawing such incursions during the coronavirus pandemic. While police hailed the raid a success, critics said it was a ‘massacre’

Minister’s lawyers succeed in winning interim suppression orders of details of the broadcaster’s defenceChristian Porter’s lawyers have claimed that the ABC is not pleading the defence of truth to “most” of his defamation claim, but the public broadcaster said this would be a “significant” part of its case involving 15 witnesses.At a federal court hearing on Friday, the minister’s lawyers succeeded in winning interim orders to prevent publication of particulars of the ABC’s defence, pending a hearing to determine the merits of the minister’s application, including if they are an abuse of court process. Continue reading...

Friday: national cabinet will discuss repatriation plans today. Plus: NSW government refers environmental offset purchases to watchdogGood morning – did you stay up to watch the meteors? It’s Friday 7 May, and this is Imogen Dewey with the latest news on Covid restrictions and the lead-up to the budget, plus warnings over Queensland’s proposed coercive control laws.The Morrison government is expected to begin repatriating Australians stranded (an estimated 9,000) amid India’s deadly second Covid wave as soon as its travel ban ends on 15 May, with evacuated citizens and permanent residents to quarantine at Howard Springs near Darwin. Scott Morrison is expected to announce details today. New South Wales yesterday announced new restrictions for greater Sydney, including Wollongong, the Central Coast and the Blue Mountains, following two cases of local Covid transmission in Sydney’s east. New Zealand has temporarily suspended quarantine-free travel from the state – initially for 48 hours – while the source of the infections is investigated. And Australia’s drugs regulator confirmed five more cases of a rare clotting condition are likely linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine, taking the country’s tally to 11 cases. Continue reading...

Witness on third day of trial says she had to look away in horror as police officer stamped on his head in 2016 incidentA police officer accused of murdering the former footballer Dalian Atkinson told him to “keep your head down” as he repeatedly stamped on his head while he lay on the ground after being shot with a Taser stun gun, a key witness has told the trial.Jean Jeffrey-Shaw told the trial at Birmingham crown court, how she had to look away in horror. She said she asked her husband why the officer had been telling Atkinson to keep his head down when he appeared to her to be dead. Continue reading...

New restrictions and deep cuts to allowances mean both French and Jersey boat owners feel betrayed by BrexitDawn was still four hours away and the small Normandy port of Carteret was alive, some boats hurriedly unloading their catch for a rapid turnaround, others turning on their lights and firing up their engines for the first time that night.Minutes after 3am on Thursday they had left the quayside and, in pitch darkness and a gentle swell, were pushing smartly out to sea to join a growing armada of 60-odd boats from Cherbourg right the way round to St-Malo. Continue reading...