The three stowaways were rescued by the Spanish Coastguard in Las Palmas on Monday after an 11-day voyage
The Spanish coastguard has rescued three migrants who stowed away on a tanker that arrived in the Canary Islands from Nigeria by balancing on its rudder just above the waterline.
In a photograph distributed on Twitter by the coastguard on Monday, the three stowaways are shown perched on the rudder of the oil and chemical tanker Alithini II.
Online scams such as banking and credit card fraud are the most prevalent cyberthreat, says Interpol
Police and investigators fear organised gangs of fraudsters are expanding across sub-Saharan Africa, exploiting new opportunities as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and the global economic crisis to make huge sums with little risk of being caught.
The growth will have a direct impact on the rest of the world, where many victims of ?€?hugely lucrative?€? fraud live, senior police officials have said.
Exhibitions in UK and Africa rewrite history by celebrating discoveries of overlooked black excavators in colonial era
The photographs are rare, the subject choice unusual, but what the photographer captured was a common sight in the early 20th century: a team of colonised people, hard at work under a hot sun, excavating an ancient monument.
Today, without these photos, taken in Kenya in the 1940s and 50s, there would be scarcely any evidence that African Kenyans were present at archaeological digs. Their contributions and priceless finds were credited to their European bosses - and their important role in unearthing the history of their own continent has been all but forgotten.
The pastoralists had been detained over the death of a police officer during protests against government plans to evict them from ancestral land
Prosecutors in Tanzania have dropped murder charges against 24 Maasai pastoralists who were detained over the death of a police officer earlier this year.
The officer died in June during protests against government plans to evict them from their ancestral land in Loliondo, in Ngorongoro District, to make way for a conservation and a luxury hunting reserve.
International community urged to intervene as hundreds of thousands forced into refugee camps as homes and crops destroyed and aid workers attacked
Starvation is being used as a weapon of war by South Sudan government forces against their own citizens, an investigation has found.
Deliberate starvation tactics used by government forces and allied militia, and by opposition forces, are driving civilians out of their homes, exacerbating Africa?€?s largest refugee crisis, according to the report published on Thursday.
The murder in 2021 came after a man was falsely accused of lighting deadly wildfires that he had come to help fight
An Algerian court has sentenced 49 people to death for the brutal mob killing of a painter who was suspected of starting devastating wildfires - but had actually come to help fight them, according to defence lawyers and the state news agency.
The killing in 2021 in the Kabyle region of north-east Algeria shocked the country after graphic images of it were shared on social media. It came soon after wildfires in the mountainous Berber region that killed about 90 people, including soldiers trying to tame the flames.
Police announce arrest of suspect in pair of 40-year-old sexual assaults and slayings in Toronto
A 61-year-old Canadian man has been charged in the cold case killings of two women who were found dead in their Toronto homes within months of each other almost four decades ago.
The Toronto police chief, James Ramer, said Joseph George Sutherland, of Moosonee, Ontario, was arrested on Thursday and charged with first-degree murder in the killings of Erin Gilmour and Susan Tice in 1983.
Shanquella Robinson reportedly died while on holiday after viral video shows her being beaten, apparently by an American woman
The US is weighing an extradition request from Mexico after authorities in the country charged an American woman with murdering another US woman shown being beaten while they vacationed in a viral video.
Prosecutors in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur have not named the suspect in the death of North Carolina?€?s Shanquella Robinson, who reportedly died of a severe spinal cord or neck injury while on holiday in Mexico on 29 October.
Opposition to unveil plan to reverse biodiversity loss rather than simply halting it, which is government?€?s current target
The government will not be able to achieve its nature targets by 2030, even though they are ?€?embarrassingly poor?€?, the shadow environment minister and leading wildlife groups have said.
Next week at the Cop15 biodiversity conference in Montreal, Alex Sobel will be discussing Labour?€?s ?€?science-led, joined-up plan to tackle the climate and ecological emergency?€?. The plan will aim to reverse biodiversity loss by 2030, rather than simply halting it, which is the government?€?s current target.
Richard Drax reported to have visited Caribbean island for meeting on next steps, including plans for former sugar plantation
The government of Barbados is considering plans to make a wealthy Conservative MP the first individual to pay reparations for his ancestor?€?s pivotal role in slavery.
The Observer understands that Richard Drax, MP for South Dorset, recently travelled to the Caribbean island for a private meeting with the country?€?s prime minister, Mia Mottley. A report is now before Mottley?€?s cabinet laying out the next steps, which include legal action in the event that no agreement is reached with Drax.
One of the largest creatures to have walked the Earth is to become the Natural History Museum?€?s new star attraction
It will be one of the largest exhibits to grace a British museum. In spring, the Natural History Museum in London will display the full cast of a skeleton of a titanosaur, a creature so vast it will have to be shoehorned into the 9-metre-high Waterhouse gallery.
One of the most massive creatures ever to have walked on Earth, Patagotitan mayorumwas a 57-tonne behemoth that would have shaken the ground as it stomped over homelands which now form modern Patagonia. Its skeleton is 37 metres long, and 5 metres in height - significantly larger than the museum?€?s most famous dinosaur, Dippy the diplodocus, which used to loom over its main gallery.
Beijing court finds Chinese-born singer raped three women in November and December 2020
A Beijing court has sentenced the Chinese-born Canadian pop star Kris Wu to 13 years in jail after finding him guilty of crimes including rape, just over a year after his arrest in China, where he was born and built a lucrative career.
The court in Chaoyang district said investigations showed that from November to December 2020, Wu, also known as Wu Yifan, raped three women.
Police reportedly demand information from Beijing protester as show of force appears to largely prevent fresh demonstrations
Police are out in force in China to stamp out zero-Covid protests amid reports some demonstrators have been interrogated by authorities over the phone after attending the rare street gatherings in cities across the country.
On Monday police stopped and searched people at the sites of weekend protests in several Chinese cities, after a show of civil disobedience unprecedented since president Xi Jinping assumed power a decade ago.
Government websites and email still offline, leading to delays in payments and services across the country
One month after a cyber-attack brought down government servers and websites in Vanuatu, frustrated officials were still using private Gmail accounts, personal laptops, pen and paper, and typewriters to run the government of the prime minister, Ishmael Kalsakau, who came into office just a few days after the crash.
The malware attack on state networks has caused delays in communication and coordination in the Pacific island nation of 314,000 people and 80 islands.
Seoul says unidentified woman was transferred to New Zealand authorities on Monday evening
South Korea has extradited a 42-year-old murder suspect to New Zealand, two months after she was arrested over her possible connection to the discovery of the bodies of two long-dead children in abandoned suitcases in August.
South Korea?€?s justice ministry said on Tuesday the unidentified woman was handed over to New Zealand authorities on Monday evening at Incheon international airport near Seoul. The ministry said it also has provided New Zealand with unspecified ?€?important evidence?€? on the case.
The economic outlook for China is not good however its leaders respond to anti-lockdown protests
For much of the world there has been hope for some time that the worst economic shocks from the Covid pandemic are in the rearview mirror. In China, however, there are important reminders that risks to the world economy still remain.
Three years since the virus first spread, protests in several Chinese cities against the Beijing government?€?s strict zero-Covid policies have reignited concerns in financial markets over the economic costs of the pandemic. Global oil prices have fallen back, while the Chinese yuan and stock markets across Asia have taken a hammering.
Barriers erected on street where demonstrations have been held against rigid coronavirus policies
Chinese police have launched a show of force across the country in an effort to head off further protests against the government?€?s rigid zero-Covid policies and tackle what have become the most extraordinary acts of civil disobedience in the country for decades.
Dozens of police cars lined the streets around a central Beijing subway station and patrolled surrounding blocks on Monday evening, while uniformed and plain-clothed officers stood guard at station exits and stopped passersby for questioning. Hours after the scheduled start of a protest organised via encrypted messaging apps there were few apparent participants.
Activity indicates ?€?first major failure?€? to stop government interference under ownership of Elon Musk
Twitter has been flooded with nuisance posts designed to obscure news of the coronavirus lockdown protests in China, in an apparent state-directed attempt to suppress footage of the demonstrations.
Chinese bot accounts - not operated by humans - are being used to flood the social networking service with adverts for sex workers, pornography and gambling when users search for a major city in the country, such as Shanghai or Beijing, using Chinese script.
The censure motion against Scott Morrison over multiple ministries scandal will be debated in House of Representatives tomorrow. Follow the day?€?s news live
Bipartisanship cedes to brinkmanship in battle over integrity commission
Meanwhile, Mark Dreyfus is preparing to stare down the Liberals and the Greens over an amendment to the national anti-corruption commission legislation which Dreyfus says risks establishing the commission and the Liberals and Greens say will ensure it won?€?t be political.
The New South Wales government has been forced to cancel 33,121 Covid restriction-related fines after a court case found they were too vague.
On Tuesday Revenue NSW announced it had cancelled the Covid-era fines, which is about about half of the total number of fines issued by the government for breaches of Public Health Orders during the height of pandemic restrictions.
A key campaigner for the yes vote says the National party is ?€?out of touch?€? with regional Australia after the party announced it would not support a referendum on the Indigenous voice to parliament.
The Torres Strait Islander man Thomas Mayor spent 18 months travelling around Australia speaking to Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people about the Uluru statement and the proposal for a voice, addressing large crowds in cities and small groups in country halls.
Jimmy Barnes is in ?€?constant and severe pain?€? and will undergo back and hip surgery as soon as possible to address it, meaning he will postpone half a year of performances while he recovers.
In a statement issued on Tuesday, the 66-year-old musician said: ?€?I?€?ve been jumping off PA?€?s and stomping around stages for nearly 50 years, but it?€?s finally caught up with me. I?€?ve had niggling back and hip issues for years, but things suddenly got a lot worse over the last few weeks and I?€?m now in constant and severe pain.
The national anti-corruption commission bill is set to pass after Labor successfully stared down a Greens threat to support a Coalition amendment on the appointment of the Nacc commissioner.
On Monday Guardian Australia revealed the Greens?€? threat to combine with the Coalition to require a super majority of three-quarters of the Nacc oversight committee to appoint a commissioner, in a move that could have derailed the bill.
The Cape York leader Noel Pearson has called the National party leader, David Littleproud, a ?€?kindergarten kid?€? whose party is in danger of being ?€?left behind in history?€? after it decided to oppose an Indigenous voice to parliament.
In a blistering interview with ABC radio on Tuesday, Pearson also accused the Northern Territory Country Liberal party senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price of being drawn into a ?€?a tragic redneck celebrity vortex?€?.
Representatives of Eurosceptic insist he had been left with no option but to appeal to European court of human rights
Lawyers for Owen Paterson have admitted the irony of the former MP bringing a case against the UK government at the European court of human rights, despite having previously called on Britain to ?€?break free?€? of the court entirely.
Representatives for Paterson, a prominent Eurosceptic Conservative who resigned last year in the midst of a lobbying scandal, issued a statement on Monday insisting he had been left with no option but to appeal to a court whose authority he had previously questioned.
Ukraine officials say Russia is continuing to shell cities with no strategic aim other than to cause casualties as it prepares for new mass strikes. This live blog is closed
The Kremlin?€?s spokesperson has denied reports that Russian forces were planning to leave the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine, telling reporters they should not look for signs where there were none.
Meanwhile, the Kremlin said it welcomed a Vatican offer to provide a negotiating platform to resolve the Ukraine conflict, but that Kyiv?€?s position made this ?€?impossible?€?.
Arrests made in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Spain and Dubai, including one ?€?extremely big fish?€?
A ?€?super-cartel?€? that controlled one-third of the cocaine trade in Europe has been taken down in six countries, police have said.
The EU police agency, Europol, announced that 49 suspects were arrested during the investigation, after raids in Europe and the United Arab Emirates targeting the cartel?€?s ?€?command and control centre?€? and logistics network.
Diplomat in Moscow says US has ?€?put a significant proposal on the table?€? in effort to free basketball star jailed on drugs conviction
The US is waiting for a ?€?serious response?€? from Russia to a series of proposals regarding the release of the basketball star Brittney Griner, a senior US diplomat said.
Elizabeth Rood, the US chargée d?€?affaires in Moscow, told Russia?€?s state-owned RIA news agency that talks about freeing Griner - who was sentenced to nine years in a penal colony on charges of possessing and smuggling drugs - were ongoing. But Rood said Russia was yet to seriously engage.
Officials warned last year more than 90% of municipalities were at risk from landslides, floods and erosion
There have been calls to limit and crack down on both legal and illegal construction in Italy after the head of the country?€?s civil protection office said more than 90% of Italian municipalities were at risk from landslides and other natural disasters.
Fabrizio Curcio made the comments in an interview with La Stampa after travelling to the southern Italian island of Ischia, where eight people including a 22-day-old baby are so far confirmed to have been killed in a landslide on Saturday.
European parliament is investigating powerful surveillance tool used by governments around the world
Victims of spyware and a group of security experts have privately warned that a European parliament investigatory committee risks being thrown off course by an alleged ?€?disinformation campaign?€?.
The warning, contained in a letter to MEPs signed by the victims, academics and some of the world?€?s most renowned surveillance experts, followed news last week that two individuals accused of trying to discredit widely accepted evidence in spyware cases in Spain had been invited to appear before the committee investigating abuse of hacking software.
Foreign Office minister says case of Hussein Abo al-Kheir raised ?€?at highest level?€? and demands end to executions
The British government has condemned as ?€?abhorrent?€? what it said was the clear torture of a Jordanian national on death row in Saudi Arabia for drug offences, and demanded an end to a sudden spate of executions in the Gulf monarchy.
It was the first time the British government has made the allegation.
Head of World Cup organising committee says he sees rainbow armband as protest against Islamic values
The head of Qatar?€?s World Cup organising committee has accused teams who wanted to wear the OneLove armband at the World Cup of sending a ?€?very divisive message?€? to the Islamic and Arab world.
Hassan al-Thawadi?€?s comments came as the UK sports minister Stuart Andrew said he would wear the rainbow-coloured armband at the England v Wales match on Tuesday.
Ex-PM poised to form one of most hardline religious and nationalist governments in country?€?s history
The former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has struck a coalition deal with a far-right leader known for his homophobic rhetoric and disparaging remarks about non-Orthodox Jews, a sign of the prospective government?€?s hardline makeup.
Netanyahu?€?s Likud party announced on Sunday that the agreement named Avi Maoz, the leader of the ultra-nationalist Noam party, as a deputy minister, whose portfolio includes an office bolstering Jewish identity among Israelis.
Art activism has increased in and outside the country since death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini
Dozens of Iranian artists have called for an international boycott of cultural institutions run by or affiliated with the Islamic Republic in protest against the regime?€?s worsening human rights abuses.
The call by artists, writers, film-makers and academics living in Iran and among its diaspora comes amid growing anti-government art activism by Iranians inside and outside the country after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini.
This year?€?s tournament has been dominated by off-field matters. We look at the issues around the labor used to build the tournament?€?s infrastructure
The deaths of migrant workers in Qatar in the build-up to this year?€?s World Cup have drawn criticism across the world. While the tournament?€?s organizers put the official count at 40, estimates by the Guardian put the figure in the thousands. Here we explore the key questions around an issue that has tarnished the World Cup for many fans.
Rights activist Farideh Moradkhani releases video describing government as ?€?murderous and child-killing?€? after her arrest
A niece of Iran?€?s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has called on foreign governments to cut all links with Tehran?€?s ?€?murderous and child-killing?€? regime in a video posted online two days after she was arrested.
The video of a statement by Farideh Moradkhani, a well-known rights activist, has been circulating online after it was shared by her France-based brother Mahmoud Moradkhani on Friday. Mahmoud Moradkhani said his sister had been arrested on Wednesday after going to a prosecutor?€?s office following a summons.
Ousted PM calls off march on Islamabad to avoid further chaos but continues to press for early elections, possibly by pulling his PTI party out of regional assemblies
Pakistan?€?s former prime minister Imran Khan told tens of thousands of supporters on Saturday that he would fight until his ?€?last drop of blood?€? in his first public address since being shot in an assassination attempt this month.
The shooting was the latest twist in months of political turmoil that began in April when Khan was ousted by a vote of no confidence in parliament.
Armenia has asked the French president, Emmanuel Macron, to chair peace talks with Azerbaijan in a fresh challenge to Vladimir Putin?€?s increasingly loose grip on Russia?€?s regional allies in the wake of the war in Ukraine.
The snub from a traditional ally to Putin, who had hosted an inconsequential meeting of the warring countries?€? leaders last month, comes immediately on the back of his disastrous summit with six former Soviet states.
Government watchdog says £3.5bn aid in 20 years to 2020 failed to achieve aim of stabilising Afghan government
The UK?€?s £3.5bn aid to Afghanistan between 2000 and 2020 was implicated in corruption and human rights abuses and failed to achieve its primary objective of stabilising the country?€?s government, an assessment by the UK government?€?s aid watchdog has found.
Describing the two-decade aid project as the UK?€?s single most ambitious programme of state building, the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) says decisions to spend aid on counterinsurgency operations were flawed, adding that efforts to reduce gender inequality are likely to be wiped out by the Taliban.
Men on death row for murder of secular writer snatched by bikers who sprayed police with chemical
Two Islamist militants who were on death row in Bangladesh for the killing of a US blogger critical of fundamentalist Islam have made a dramatic escape on motorbikes while being escorted to a court hearing in the capital, Dhaka.
The two men were among those convicted of the murder of Avijit Roy, an American-Bangladeshi writer and blogger who was hacked to death with machetes in the streets of Dhaka in 2015.
With the deadly devastation fresh in the world?€?s mind, Pakistan pushed for damage funds with other frontline countries
In early September, after unprecedented rainfall had left a third of Pakistan under water, its climate change minister set out the country?€?s stall for Cop27. ?€?We are on the frontline and intend to keep loss and damage and adapting to climate catastrophes at the core of our arguments and negotiations. There will be no moving away from that,?€? Sherry Rehman said.
Pakistan brought that resolve to the negotiations in Sharm el-Sheikh and, as president of the G77 plus China negotiating bloc, succeeded in keeping developing countries united on loss and damage - despite efforts by some rich countries to divide them. Its chief negotiator, Nabeel Munir, a career diplomat, was backed by a team of savvy veteran negotiators who had witnessed the devastation and suffering from the floods, which caused $30bn (£25bn) of damage and economic losses. Every day, Munir repeated the same message: ?€?Loss and damage is not charity, it?€?s about climate justice.?€?
Anthony Albanese has paid tribute to his foreign minister Penny Wong and to regional neighbours while confirming that the economist Sean Turnell has been released from prison in Myanmar and is on his way home to Australia.
Australia?€?s prime minister spoke to Turnell - a former adviser to the democratically elected civilian government led by ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi - after arriving in Bangkok on Thursday night.
Editors urge ministers to end ?€?endemic?€? use of Slapps - legal cases designed to hinder investigations
A coalition of senior journalists and editors from across the political spectrum are calling on the justice secretary, Dominic Raab, to back a proposed law to tackle the global super-rich?€?s use of ?€?abusive legal tactics to shut down investigations?€?.
More than 70 newspaper editors, publishers and media lawyers wrote to Raab on Tuesday demanding that the government take urgent action to stop oligarchs and kleptocrats from using their fortunes to exploit British courts, intimidating and silencing investigative journalists with strategic lawsuits against public participation (Slapps).
End Fuel Poverty Coalition fears energy suppliers are using warrants to disconnect poorest ?€?by the back door?€?
Campaigners have called for an immediate ban on pre-payment meter (PPM) installations made under court warrants because of fears that energy suppliers are using them to disconnect the poorest, most indebted customers ?€?by the back door?€?.
Energy firms?€? licence conditions protect many vulnerable people from formal disconnection over the winter, but the End Fuel Poverty Coalition said transferring households on to PPMs, which require regular top-ups and charge for energy at a higher rate, often prompted people in debt to ?€?self-disconnect?€?.
Revised online safety bill proposes fines of 10% of revenue but drops harmful communications offence
Social media platforms that breach pledges to block sexist and racist content face the threat of substantial fines under government changes to the online safety bill announced on Monday.
Under the new approach, social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter must also give users the option of avoiding content that is harmful but does not constitute a criminal offence. This could include racism, misogyny or the glorification of eating disorders.
National Highways has obtained an injunction to ?€?prevent unlawful protests?€? until November 2023
A high court injunction has been granted that would impose fresh penalties on Just Stop Oil activists for demonstrating on the country?€?s busiest motorway until November next year.
National Highways said it had secured the civil order to ?€?prevent unlawful protests?€? on the M25, after a series of actions by the environmental group caused significant traffic disruption.
Jason Penrose launched a ?€?campaign of consistent stalking?€? against The Crown actor, making her fear for her life, court told
A persistent stalker who left Claire Foy ?€?terrified in her own home?€? and fearing he would kill her and her daughter entered the UK illegally, a court has heard.
Jason Penrose, 49, launched a ?€?campaign of consistent stalking?€? and even turned up at the The Crown star?€?s home on 17 December last year and repeatedly rang the doorbell, Wood Green crown court was told on Monday.
PM is stuck between two wings of party and at risk of Commons defeat on pro-renewables amendment
Rishi Sunak is scrambling to find a compromise on permitting onshore wind amid a growing backbench Conservative rebellion, though No 10 remains fearful of a backlash from MPs who oppose windfarms.
The U-turn on backing onshore wind projects would directly contradict a pledge by Sunak during his leadership campaign but Downing Street has sought to frame it as government policy.
Cochise county officials have endorsed claims of voter fraud despite no evidence of any problems
Republican officials in a rural Arizona county refused on Monday to certify the results of the 2022 midterm election, despite no evidence of anything wrong with the count from earlier this month.
Some officials who have embraced voter fraud theories held out, defying a state deadline and setting the stage for a legal battle.
Governor attends Monday ceremony as Chesapeake residents mourn diverse group
Hundreds gathered on Monday in Virginia?€?s second-largest city to honor six people killed in a mass shooting at a Walmart, with the state?€?s governor pledging to confront a ?€?mental health and a behavioral health crisis?€?.
Chesapeake?€?s candlelight vigil paid tribute to a diverse group of third-shift workers, ages 16 to 70, who unloaded trucks, broke down cardboard boxes and stocked shelves in this sprawling but tight-knit community near the coast.
With 9 December deadline fast approaching, business groups also push US government to intervene in labor dispute before holidays
Joe Biden called on Congress to intervene and block a railroad strike before next month?€?s deadline in the stalled contract talks, saying a strike would ?€?devastate our economy?€?.
Biden?€?s move comes as business groups have warned that the looming strike would hit just before the holiday season and worsen the US?€?s inflation problems.
Suspect met teen online and ?€?catfished?€? her before killing three members of her family, according to officers
The suspect in a triple homicide in southern California who died in a shootout with police was a Virginia law enforcement officer who police believe drove across the country to meet a teenage girl before killing three members of her family.
Austin Lee Edwards, 28, also probably set fire to the family?€?s home in Riverside, California, on the day of the shooting on Friday before leaving with the girl, the Riverside police department said in a news release.
Advisers wanted ex-president to distance himself from white supremacist with whom he dined but Trump feared alienating supporters - insiders
Donald Trump repeatedly refused to disavow the outspoken antisemite and white supremacist Nick Fuentes after they spoke over dinner at his Mar-a-Lago resort, rejecting the advice from advisers over fears he might alienate a section of his base, two people familiar with the situation said.
The former US president was urged publicly and privately to denounce Fuentes in the aftermath of the dinner, which included the performer Ye, previously known as Kanye West, who has also recently been propagating antisemitic remarks.
Here?€?s more on Arizona?€?s election controversy, from the Hill.
Maricopa residents can cast a ballot at any of the county?€?s vote centers, so poll workers print customized ballots on demand to match one of more than 12,000 ballot styles, depending on where a voter lives.
But after previously testing the printers, county officials say they began hearing at 6:30 a.m. on Election Day that some machines were printing ballots too light for tabulators to read.
Republican supervisors in Mohave County said last week that they will sign off Monday but wanted to register a protest against voting issues in Maricopa County.
In Cochise County, GOP supervisors demanded that the secretary of state prove vote-counting machines were legally certified before they will approve the election results.
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!
