The Guardian Recently installed solar lights mark burial sites on Cowessess First Nation, where a search had found 751 unmarked graves from the former Marieval Indian residential school near Grayson, Saskatchewan. Photograph: Shannon Vanraes/Reuters In her job as a forensic pathologist, Kona Williams investigates hundreds of deaths a year. But when she heard that unmarked graves
BBC Rights activists, journalists and lawyers around the world have been targeted with phone malware sold to authoritarian governments by an Israeli surveillance firm, media reports say. They are on a list of up to 50,000 phone numbers of people believed to be of interest to clients of the company, NSO, leaked to major news
BBC AT LEAST 80 people have died and hundreds more are unaccounted for in Germany after some of the worst flooding in decades. Record rainfall in western Europe caused rivers to burst their banks, devastating the region. Belgium has also reported at least 11 dead after the extreme weather, which political leaders have blamed on
Reuters HAITIAN police say they have arrested one of the suspected masterminds in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, a Haitian man whom authorities accused of hiring mercenaries to oust and replace Moise. Moise was shot dead early on Wednesday at his Port-au-Prince home by what Haitian authorities describe as a unit of assassins formed
BBC THOUSANDS of Cubans have joined the biggest protests for decades against the island’s Communist government. They marched in cities including the capital Havana, shouting, “Down with the dictatorship!”. Images on social media showed what appear to be security forces detaining and beating some of the protesters. Cubans have been angered by the collapse of
BBC HAITI’S President Jovenel Moïse has been killed in an attack on his home in the nation’s capital, according to the country’s interim prime minister. Claude Joseph said the president’s home in Port-au-Prince was stormed by unidentified armed men at 01:00 local time (05:00 GMT). First Lady Martine Moïse was also injured in the attack.
By Thandiwe Garusa THE Elders, a group of eminent internationally acclaimed politicians, have urged world leaders to rise to the challenge and demonstrate a direct and personal responsibility in leading efforts to prevent future global pandemics such as Covid-19 and the threats they pose. The Elders said this can be achieved by the leaders publicly
BBC A MILITARY transport aircraft carrying 92 people, mostly troops, has crashed in the southern Philippines. Seventeen bodies were found at the crash site on Jolo island, but 40 people survived and were taken to a nearby military hospital. The plane, a C130 Hercules, was trying to land at Jolo airport when it overshot the
BBC The US white ex-police officer convicted of murdering African-American man George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020 has been sentenced to 22 years and six months in jail. The judge said Derek Chauvin’s sentence was based “on your abuse of a position of trust and authority, and also the particular cruelty shown” to Mr
Africa News Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari will travel to London for a medical check-up, his office said Thursday, three months after a previous trip caused an outcry in the country. Buhari, 78, has flown to London several times for health reasons since he was first elected in 2015, though the nature of his ailment has
BBC Benjamin Netanyahu has lost his 12-year hold on power in Israel after the country’s parliament voted in a new coalition government. A new “government of change” will be led by right-wing nationalist Naftali Bennett of the Yamina party. He will lead an unprecedented coalition of parties which was approved with a razor-thin majority of
BBC French President Emmanuel Macron has been slapped in the face on an official visit to the southeast of France. In a video circulating on social media, Macron is seen walking up to a barrier on a trip to Tain-l’Hermitage outside the city of Valence. A man slaps Macron in the face before officers quickly
TimesLive British Prime Minister Boris Johnson married his fiancee Carrie Symonds in a small ceremony at Westminster Cathedral on Saturday, his office said. The event was not announced in advance and media reports said guests were invited at the last minute to the Roman Catholic cathedral in central London, adding that even senior members of
BBC China has announced that it will allow each couple to have up to three children, marking the end of a strict two-child policy. According to state media outlet Xinhua, the change was approved by President Xi Jinping in a politburo meeting. It comes after a once-in-a-decade census showed that China’s population grew at its
Timeslive Israel bombarded Gaza with air strikes and Palestinian militants kept up cross-border rocket fire on Wednesday, with no firm sign of any imminent ceasefire despite international calls to end more than a week of fighting. Israeli leaders said they were pressing on with an offensive against Hamas and Islamic Jihad, but an Israeli military
AP Indian navy ships and helicopters searched in extreme weather and rough seas Wednesday for 78 people still missing from a barge that sank off Mumbai as a deadly cyclone blew ashore this week. Navy Cdr. Alok Anand said 183 people were rescued within 24 hours by the three ships and helicopters engaged in the
BBC Police in India’s capital Delhi have asked local authorities to identify more sites for Covid-19 cremations. A second wave of the coronavirus is ravaging parts of India, overwhelming hospitals, morgues and crematoriums. The total number of infections passed 18 million on Thursday, with 386,452 more recorded, the biggest one-day increase on record for any
AP India crossed a grim milestone Wednesday of 200,000 people lost to the coronavirus as a devastating surge of new infections tears through dense cities and rural areas alike and overwhelms health care systems on the brink of collapse. The health ministry reported a single-day record 3,293 COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing
BBC Chad’s President Idriss Déby has died of his injuries following clashes with rebels in the north of the country at the weekend, the army has said. The announcement came a day after provisional election results projected he would win a sixth term in office. The government and parliament have been dissolved. A curfew has
BBC Tear gas has been fired and a curfew imposed amid angry protests after police fatally shot a black man in a traffic stop in the US city of Brooklyn Center, just north of Minneapolis. The man has been identified by relatives as 20-year-old Daunte Wright. Brooklyn Center’s mayor issued a city-wide curfew until 06:00
