Guardian US New Zealand to vote in referendum on euthanasia The Guardian - Charlotte Graham-McLayIf passed, referendum will allow assisted dying for terminally ill if doctors approve New Zealand is to become the first country in the world to put euthanasia to a binding public vote after its lawmakers
Guardian USChinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong in chaos as protesters gather at universities with bows and arrows The Guardian - Verna Yu in Hong KongCampuses become latest battleground after months of protests that have brought the city to a standstill Hong Kong was paralysed on Wednesday, with riot police making arrests in a busy business district,
Guardian US Asylum: 90% of claims fall at first hurdle after US process change, lawsuit alleges Guardian US - Amanda Holpuch in New YorkPlaintiffs claim under 10% of women and children at a center in Texas pass their initial ‘credible fear’ interview, down from 97% The vital first step in the asylum-seeking process has nearly been extinguished
Guardian USEnvironment ‘Insect apocalypse’ poses risk to all life on Earth, conservationists warn The Guardian - Damian Carrington Environment editorReport claims 400,000 insect species face extinction amid heavy use of pesticides The “unnoticed insect apocalypse” should set alarm bells ringing, according to conservationists, who said that without
Guardian US Syria, Russia and sanctions on agenda during Erdoğan's 'critical' US visit The Guardian - Bethan McKernan in Istanbul and Julian Borger in WashingtonTrump to receive Erdoğan warmly but US-Turkish relations are at a low ebb – and policymakers are braced for a crucial week of talks The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, may receive a warm welcome
Guardian US Two people die as Venice floods at highest level in 50 years The Guardian - Jon Henley and Angela Giuffrida‘This is result of climate change,’ says Venice mayor, who declares state of emergency Two people have died as the highest water levels for more than 50 years caused hundreds of millions of euros of possibly
Guardian US Greta Thunberg leaves US with simple climate crisis message: vote The Guardian - Emily Holden in WashingtonThunberg: ‘My message to the Americans is the same as to everyone – to unite behind the science and to act on the science’ As Greta Thunberg departs the US to sail across the Atlantic for the second time
Guardian US Arizona border activist who gave water to migrants faces second trial Guardian US - Associated PressProsecutors accuse Scott Warren, a volunteer with a migrant aid group, of harboring migrants trying to avert authorities An Arizona border activist accused of harboring migrants who snuck across the US-Mexico
Guardian USBoris Johnson Boris Johnson to promise end to ‘Brexit groundhoggery’ in first stump speech The Guardian - Peter Walker Political correspondentPrime minister will repeat familiar themes in visit to West Midlands factory Boris Johnson is to use his first set-piece speech of the election campaign to stress a familiar roll-call of core policies,
Guardian USTechnology Facebook bug turns on iPhone camera when users scroll through their feed The Guardian - Kari Paul in San FranciscoA system bug has been allowing Facebook to access iPhone cameras as users scroll through their feed, the company confirmed on Tuesday. Twitter user Joshua Maddux tweeted a screen recording this weekend
Guardian US Trump decision to end Daca a choice to 'destroy lives', says Sotomayor Guardian US - Amanda Holpuch in WashingtonLiberal justice defends Daca at supreme court and reflects on human impact of ending program that protects young migrants The Trump administration should have to reckon with its decision to “destroy lives”
Guardian USDonald Trump DC braces for Erdoğan’s visit 18 months after bodyguards assaulted protesters The Guardian - Julian Borger in WashingtonHis bodyguards ran riot in the city as they punched and pushed Kurdish protesters and attacked American security officers Police in Washington DC, the US state department and the Secret Service are girding
Guardian US Bolivia: Jeanine Añez claims presidency after ousting of Evo Morales The Guardian - Jo Tuckman in Mexico City and Dan Collyns in La Paz• Ex-president’s party refuses to recognise senator’s claim • Morales says army told him of $50,000 price on his head The Bolivian senator Jeanine Añez has declared herself the country’s interim president
Guardian US Trump fumes as Democrats get ready for 'sober and rigorous' public hearings Guardian US - Tom McCarthy in New York• TV crews move into halls of Capitol for first public testimony • Trump calls on Republicans to defend him from ‘total scam’ Only three times in the history of the American republic has Congress initiated
Guardian US Aeroflot fails to see funny side of flier's fat-cat swap The Guardian - AFP in MoscowAirline scratches out traveller’s air miles after he used feline double to flout cabin rules The Russian airline Aeroflot has stripped a passenger of his air miles after he boasted online of sneaking overweight
Guardian US Schiff ahead of public hearings: Trump tried to scheme with Ukraine – as it happened Guardian US - Maanvi Singhin San Francisco (now) and Joan E Greve in Washington (earlier)The House intelligence chair, Adam Schiff, pushed back against Republicans’ defense of the president in an interview with NPR Tune in tomorrow morning for live coverage of the first public impeachment
Guardian US Incestuous couple who murdered their teenage sons jailed for life The Guardian - Nazia Parveen North of England correspondentSarah Barrass and half-brother Brandon Machin also tried to kill four remaining children A couple in an incestuous relationship who murdered their two teenage sons and tried to kill their remaining four
Guardian US Trump adviser Stephen Miller injected white nationalist agenda into Breitbart, investigation reveals The Guardian - Jason WilsonSenior Trump adviser Stephen Miller shaped the 2016 election coverage of the hard right-wing website Breitbart with material drawn from prominent white nationalists, Islamophobes, and far-right websites,
Guardian US Google's secret cache of medical data includes names and full details of millions – whistleblower The Guardian - Ed Pilkington in New YorkA whistleblower who works in Project Nightingale, the secret transfer of the personal medical data of up to 50 million Americans from one of the largest healthcare providers in the US to Google, has expressed
Guardian US Donald Trump plans to make foreign aid conditional on religious freedom The Guardian - Peter BeaumontAid,Global development,US news,World news,Trump administration,US politics,Religion,Society,Donald Trump,Evangelical Christianity,Christianity,Middle East and North Africa President wants to apportion
Guardian US American Isis suspect stuck on border 'not our problem', says Erdoğan The Guardian - Bethan McKernan in IstanbulAlleged militant deported as part of Turkey’s drive to expel foreign jihadists in its custody An alleged American member of Islamic State, stranded for a second day on the border between Greece and Turkey
Guardian US Maya Rockeymore Cummings, widow of Elijah, to announce run for Congress Guardian US - Associated Press in Baltimore• Democrat resigns party chair to run for husband’s district • Cummings, 48, will have double mastectomy on Friday The widow of Elijah Cummings has resigned as Maryland’s Democratic party chair to run
Guardian US Lights, camera, impeachment: TV phase of inquiry carries pluses and pitfalls Guardian US - Tom McCarthy in New YorkTelevised hearings allow Democrats to put the case against Trump to the public but also gives Republicans a chance to muddy waters The opening phase of the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump has
Guardian US Labour suffers second cyber-attack in two days The Guardian - Peter Walker and Alex HernParty understood to be subject of second distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Tuesday afternoon The Labour party has faced a second cyber-attack, a day after experiencing what it called a “sophisticated
Guardian US Australia fires could be out of control for months, says fire chief Australia News - Ben Doherty in SydneyConcern grows over wind changes and high temperatures forecast for later this week It could be months before eastern Australia has more than a million hectares of bushfires under control, the New South
Guardian US Taliban prisoners released in attempt to free western kidnap victims The Guardian - Michael Safi in AmmanAfghan president Ghani hopes move will help secure release of American and Australian Afghanistan’s president says he has ordered the release of three Taliban fighters in an effort to persuade the insurgent
Guardian US WW2 wreck of fighter plane off Welsh coast gets protected status The Guardian - Steven MorrisGhostly remains of ‘Maid of Harlech’ occasionally visible in the sand The skeletal remains of an American fighter plane that crashed during the second world war off the Welsh coast, and occasionally emerge
Guardian US 300 new blazes across New South Wales on Tuesday and a dozen homes damaged – as it happened Australia News - Josh Taylor (now), Naaman Zhou and Christopher Knaus (earlier)• Follow Wednesday’s live blog for the latest updates: NSW and Qld fires: bushfire conditions worsen in Queensland – live • If you are in a bushfire affected area stay tuned to your local emergency broadcaster.
Guardian US Israel strikes on Islamic Jihad chiefs prompt reprisal rocket attacks The Guardian - Oliver Holmes in JerusalemAssassination attempts target political leader in Syria and kill commander in Gaza Israel has launched airstrikes in Gaza and Syria against two senior figures from the militant group Islamic Jihad in targeted
Guardian US 'We depend on the Tongass': Alaskans fight to save US’s largest national forest Guardian US - Nina LakhaniTribal leaders to testify before Congress in battle against Trump administration’s assault on environmental protections Tribal leaders, fishermen and environmentalists from Alaska will testify before on
