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READ MORE Mosul, Iraq –  More than nine months after the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) was defeated in Mosul, the city’s residents continue to deal with the aftermath of the battle. Thousands of dead bodies belonging to civilians and ISIL fighters are still beneath the rubble in Mosul’s Old City. While Iraq’s civil defence initially refused to pick up the bodies of ISIL fighters, a group of young volunteers started to recover the bodies.  The al-Midan neighbourhood, which was the last bastion of ISIL fighters during the final stages of the battle over control of the city, is the epicentre of the destruction. Severe shelling by coalition warplanes resulted in dozens of collapsed houses and hundreds of people buried under the rubble. Without any formal training or expertise, the group of young volunteers collects the dead bodies, working in the morning hours when the smell is not too intense.  Initially, they were ...

READ MORE More than 80 people have died in Nicaragua since the unrest began more than a month ago. Protesters have taken to the streets, demanding President Daniel Ortega stand down. Authorities have been accused of using “lethal force” to crack down on the protests. On Wednesday, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in the latest and largest  anti-government protest  in decades. According to a rights group, 11 people were killed in what became one of the worst days of violence since protests against Ortega started. Here is what we know so far:  What triggered the protests? Demonstrations began on April 16, led by university students in Managua after the government failed to handle forest fires in one of the most protected areas of the Indio Maiz Biological Reserve. Two days later, the government introduced plans to cut pensions and social security, including decreasing pension payments by five percent and increasing worker social contrib...

READ MORE Avec un nouveau musée, dont l’architecture contemporaine face aux arènes est vertement critiquée par des experts internationaux du patrimoine, et une candidature laborieuse à l’Unesco, Nîmes mise sur son passé romain avec des décennies de retard sur des sites voisins. Inauguré samedi par la ministre de la Culture Françoise Nyssen, le musée de la Romanité est organisé autour d’une rue intérieure suivant le tracé de l’ancien rempart augustéen. Il est doté d’un toit terrasse offrant un panorama exceptionnel et d’un jardin ouverts à tous. Mosaïques, fresques, statues, objets de la vie quotidienne…: quelque 5.000 œuvres antiques sont désormais présentées dans un espace ultramoderne de métal et de verre de 9.200 m2, selon un parcours chronologique et thématique allant du 7e siècle avant notre ère jusqu’au Mo...

READ MORE Les prisons françaises peinent à contrôler la circulation de stupéfiants ou de téléphones mobiles. Mais ce qu’a réussi à faire ce détenu du centre de détention de La Talaudière dans le département de la Loire ferait hésiter entre l’amusement et la consternation. Un détenu de 28 ans était en effet jugé devant le tribunal correctionnel de Saint-Etienne, comme le rapporte Le Progrès mercredi 30, pour avoir installé dans sa cellule… une piscine gonflable. La chose est bien sûr strictement interdite, mais à la barre, l’accusé tente de se défendre en arguant de la nécessité d’une telle installation (qui restait cependant de petite taille): “Cette piscine me permettait de me rafraîchir l’été quand il faisait très chaud dans la cellule. Quand on ne travaille pas en prison, on a seulement droit à tro...

READ MORE Italy’s anti-establishment Five-Star Movement and the right-wing League succeeded Thursday in forming western Europe’s first populist government, which will be headed by a political novice whose first try was rejected four days earlier as too risky for the Italian economy. What changed was the willingness of Five-Star Leader Luigi Di Maio and the League’s Matteo Salvini to shuffle the proposed roster of government ministers amid a financial market scare. They moved an 81-year-old Eurosceptic economist vetoed by Italy’s president from overseeing the economy ministry to a European affairs Cabinet post. After the fits, starts and financial turbulence of recent days, the realization of a Five-Star-League coalition government put its populist posture on full display in Salvini’s first public remarks. He returned from Rome to address a crowd of supporters in his northern home region of Lombardy. “I want to make Italy a protagonist in Europe again...

READ MORE Karthik Nemmani didn’t win his regional spelling bee. He didn’t even win his county spelling bee. But he was still good enough to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Throwing everything he had into his one shot at glory, 14-year-old Karthik outlasted better-known spellers on Thursday night and became the champion after a dramatically abrupt end to the competition, when 12-year-old Naysa Modi misspelled the word “Bewusstseinslage” in the first championship round. Nemmani correctly spelled the word ‘koinonia’ to win the 91st iteration of the spelling bee. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty) Karthik had to spell two words correctly to seal the title, which he did with ease, and the lanky, soft-spoken Texan stepped back and smiled as he was showered with confetti. His winning word was “koinonia,” which means Christian fellowship or communion. Karthik is from McKinney, Texas, and Naysa lives in Frisco, Texas — both suburbs of Dallas ...

READ MORE Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford ranks as the least trustworthy of the four main party leaders among women, according to data from CBC’s Vote Compass survey, a gap that could prove costly for the Tories on election day.  Respondents were asked to score, on a scale of zero to 10, how trustworthy they believe each of the leaders to be. The results, derived from a total of 83,673 people, were then broken down by sex. About 58 per cent of the respondents were men, while 42 per cent were women.  Vote Compass |  Track how your views align with the party platforms​ Poll Tracker |  Ontario  NDP  moves ahead but trails in seats Ontario Votes 2018 |  Complete coverage here The Campaigner | Subscribe to our Ontario Election newsletter here The average score for Ford among women was 1.6, and 59 per cent of all women scored him at zero out of 10. NDP Leader Andrea Horwath ranked first among the leaders,...

READ MORE Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy  is staid to be unfrom bureau after a Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) gave a wilful support to a no-confidence suit over a crime case, creation it all though certain to succeed. During a discuss on a suit in a Spanish council on Thursday, PNV celebration orator Aitor Esteban pronounced a party’s support was in line with a will of a Basque people.  “We trust we are responding to what many Basques wish and best complying with a shortcoming by voting ‘yes’,” he said. The PNV’s support means a suit is expected to surpass a 176 votes required to pass and force Rajoy from office. On Monday, Spain’s council announced that Rajoy would face a opinion of no certainty on Friday, following Thursday’s debate. The categorical antithesis Socialist celebration filed a suit on May 25, one day after 29 people related to Rajoy’s People’s Party (PP) were convicted of crimes, including piracy ...

READ MORE Ituango, Colombia – Ruby Posada transient from her home on her son’s back, underneath a sheer light of a moon in northern Colombia, when a waters reached waist height. Her house, like dozens of others tighten to Colombia’s measureless River Cauca, was flooded when H2O burst through a dam construction site progressing this month. Grabbing what they could, she and her son assimilated other artisanal bullion miners and started a three-day travel wasteland to safety. Once they could go no further, they fashioned a white dwindle out of a broom and captivated a courtesy of rescuers from a Red Cross and a inhabitant disaster agency. Now, a replaced organisation have assimilated during slightest 24,000 people, many of whom warranted their vital fishing or mining bullion in a river, who have been evacuated from a area due to a risk of serve flooding, and are vital in proxy shelters. “We have no work, no tools, no houses, no animals,” Posada says, sitting...

READ MORE Le ministre français des Affaires étrangères, Jean-Yves Le Drian, a estimé jeudi que la Française Mélina Boughedir était une “terroriste de Daech qui a combattu contre l’Irak” et réitéré qu’elle devait être jugée dans ce pays. “Madame Boughedir est une combattante. Quand on va à Mossoul (nord de l’Irak) en 2016, c’est flow combattre et donc elle est jugée sur les lieux de ses exactions. C’est la logique normale. Elle a combattu contre les unités irakiennes, elle est jugée en Irak”, a-t-il déclaré à la chaîne d’information en continu LCI. “Elle est défendue, nous faisons en sorte que notre consultat suive sa situation, mais c’est à la probity irakienne de rendre son outcome à l’égard d’une terroriste de Daech qui a combattu contre l’Irak”, a-t-il martelé. Arr...

READ MORE Le premier gouvernement d’alliance entre un jeune mouvement antisystème et un parti d’extrême droite doit prêter serment vendredi après-midi à Rome, sous la instruction de Giuseppe Conte, un juriste complètement beginner en politique qui a promis une politique anti-austérité et sécuritaire. Après près de trois mois de tractations et de rebondissements inédits même flow un pays rompu aux crises politiques, le Mouvement 5 étoiles (M5S, antisystème) et la Ligue (extrême droite) ont trouvé un compromis avec le président Sergio Mattarella, qui exigeait des garanties sur le maintien de l’Italie dans la section euro. Le président avait opposé un halt spectaculaire à une première liste dimanche soir. Mais jeudi soir, il a signé avec un soulagement manifest une liste amendée de ministres qui doivent prêter serment à 16h00 (14h00 GMT) et dem...

READ MORE Paramedics found Wayne Millard mill cold and branch black in his bed, with a route of blood issuing from his head and a revolver sitting in a bag subsequent to him. Gruesome crime stage photos of Millard’s physique were shown in a Toronto courtroom Thursday, as a hearing of his son, twice-convicted torpedo Dellen Millard, began before a decider alone in Superior Court. The hearing outlines a final charges nonetheless to be staid opposite Millard, 32, who is already portion uninterrupted life sentences for a deaths of Hamilton’s Tim Bosma in 2013, and Toronto’s Laura Babcock  in 2012. Millard has pleaded not guilty.  The 71-year-old elder Millard’s genocide was creatively ruled a self-murder behind in late 2012. He was found dead at his home during 5 Maple Gate Court in Etobicoke, Ont., with a singular gunshot wound by his eye. After military launched investigations into Dellen Millard for a Bosma and Babcock mu...

READ MORE Indigenous groups in a Fort McMurray segment of Alberta have put governments on notice they wish to buy an equity share in a controversial Trans Mountain pipeline. While Premier Rachel Notley was in Fort McMurray doing a feat path after a sovereign government agreed to buy a Trans Mountain pipeline, Indigenous leaders expelled a matter that they dictated to buy an equity seductiveness in a line.  “You know, in sequence for us to be successful, we need to pierce a oil,” Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Chief Allan Adam pronounced after a premier spoke.  ‘We wish to be owners’: Fort McMurray First Nations and Métis combine on pipelines The Indigenous groups hand-delivered a minute to Notley during their scheduled assembly with a premier.  Notley said seductiveness from a accumulation of groups is to be approaching in a tube and she doesn’t doubt, in a suggestion of reconciliation...

READ MORE Ottawa’s bailout of a Trans Mountain tube has stirred a new conflict of tube heat in New Brunswick. Here’s a cure: take dual contribution and call us in a morning. Politicians, business leaders and journal editorials are job for a sovereign supervision to somehow revitalise a Energy East proposal, a 4,600-kilometre pipeline that would lift Alberta bitumen to Saint John for enlightening and export. The devise died final October, yet this week’s preference by a Trudeau supervision to spend during slightest $4.5 billion nationalizing another tube devise to British Columbia has officials here pining for identical treatment. The Trans Mountain offer is to twin a existent line carrying bitumen from Edmonton to a pier of Burnaby. Saint John mayor calls on feds to revitalise Energy East after $4.5B Trans Mountain deal Liberals to buy Trans Mountain tube for $4.5B to safeguard enlargement is built Demise of Energy East a ‘devastating blow’ to Sa...

READ MORE Bob Dyky is exactly a kind of man U.S. President Donald Trump is perplexing to greatfully by commanding new tariffs on Canada — though a retired Pennsylvania steelworker isn’t impressed. The tariffs, announced by U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in a write lecture on Thursday, bluster to impose a 25 per cent tariff on steel imports and a 10 per cent tariff on aluminum from Canada and Mexico and a European Union. But Dyky, who voted for Trump, says Canada should be exempt. Canada hits behind during U.S. with dollar-for-dollar tariffs on steel What is on Canada’s tariff list? Read it here He spoke with As It Happens horde Carol Off from his hometown of Monessen, Penn. Here is partial of that conversation. Bob, what do we make of President Trump slapping tariffs on Canadian steel? I totally remonstrate with it. The United States and Canada are some-more than allies, they are partners. And if we go behind and demeanour during history, g...

READ MORE A Thai appeals court has vindicated a British labour rights activist entangled in a years-long legal confrontation with a fruit-packing company after he publicised alleged human rights violations at its factory. The legal victory for Andy Hall on Thursday was welcomed by UK-based rights group Amnesty International but is not necessarily the end of protracted court battles that forced him to leave Thailand in 2016. On Twitter, Hall said he had previously lost hope of justice but now a “flame was reignited in my heart”. “There is still the possibility that today’s verdict could lead in some way to peace and reconciliation,” he said. A criminal defamation and other cases against Hall stemmed from a 2013 report he researched for Finnish consumer organisation Finnwatch that alleged labour abuses at Natural Fruit’s pineapple canning operation. It employed migrant workers from Myanmar who said the company abused them and broke labour regulations. S...