Six In The Morning Monday January 9

Meryl Streep gets political in Golden Globes acceptance speech

By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN

Updated 0830 GMT (1630 HKT) January 9, 2017

Meryl Streep was honored at the Golden Globes for a lifetime of notable work, and she used her moment in the spotlight to make a sustained attack on US President-elect Donald Trump.

In her nearly 6-minute address while accepting the Cecil B. Demille Award, the actress attacked Trump's campaign rhetoric, without mentioning him by name. And she criticized Trump for mocking a disabled reporter in a campaign speech.

Streep highlighted the importance of the "most vilified segments in American society right now" -- "Hollywood, foreigners and the press."

Talks to secure Cyprus reunification enter 'final stages'

Turkish and Greek Cypriot officials say first direct negotiations since 1974 are ‘best and last chance’ for resolution

Helena Smith in Athens

Monday 9 January 2017 06.00 GMT

A historic effort to end the division of Cyprus begins in earnest on Monday when Greek and Turkish community leaders resume reunification talks ahead of a high stakes multilateral conference, the first since the island’s partition 43 years ago.

After 18 months of intensive negotiations to settle inter-ethnic divisions, attempts to finesse the details of a peace deal will see Nicos Anastasiades and Mustafa Akıncı pore over maps and discuss territorial trade-offs before tackling the potentially explosive issue of security.

French police 'stealing blankets from migrants', charity warns

Médecins Sans Frontières say the practice is putting lives in danger as temperatures drop to below freezing 

• Lucy Pasha-Robinson 
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Police in Paris have been accused of putting migrants’ lives in danger by stealing their blankets in the heart of winter.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) also warned of “systematic police violence” targeted at the hundreds of migrants forced to sleep rough on the streets of Paris due to overcrowding in the capital's only reception centre.  

MSF accused police of harassing migrants, waking them up in the middle of the night, using tear gas to disperse them, and not allowing them to sit down as they queue for a place in the shelter in the northern Parisian neighbourhood of La Chapelle. 

Iraqi forces reach Tigris River for first time in battle for Mosul

Latest update : 2017-01-09

Iraqi forces battling jihadists in Mosul reached the Tigris River that divides the city Sunday, a key step and a first since the launch of a huge operation in mid-October.

The Islamic State group was on the back foot in Mosul after a week of significant gains for Iraqi forces but pressed a deadly campaign of bombings in Baghdad, where two more attacks killed 18 people.

Elite Counter-Terrorism Forces (CTS) took control of the eastern end of the southernmost bridge in Mosul, a morale-booster in a 12-week-old operation that has encountered many difficulties.

Slavery thrives in the gaps between our knowledge

The power to end exploitation is already in our hands, Liberty Asia's founder says. What holds us back is the lack of basic data needed to make the right decisions

By DUNCAN JEPSON

The much quoted line by the great abolitionist William Wilberforce that “you may choose to look the other way, but you can never say again that you did not know” now applies as much to the anti-slavery movement itself as to the global society they want to activate.

Wilberforce needed his society to understand clearly and profoundly that profiting from the forced labor of people was wrong. In our vastly more regulated, structured and complex world of the 21st century, there are many, many people who in their everyday work exert influence over decisions and mechanisms — whether big or small — in business, administration, regulation, policy and enforcement. The challenge facing us today is how to give these people the specific information and data they need so that they can change their minds, change their behavior and so contribute to the fight.

Small hands big missiles: Trump's dangerous adolescence

What happens when two teenage leaders get access to nuclear weapons?

Marwan Bishara

Marwan Bishara is the senior political analyst at Al Jazeera.

When people, notably women, say "men are boys with more expensive toys", they mean cars, boats or golf clubs. Not a university, a foundation or a beauty pageant; and certainly, not drones, cruise missiles and Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles. 

But now we've got a man who demonstrated once and again that he's got the "temperament, language skills and emotional age" of a teenager holding the most powerful office in the land and with direct access to the nuclear codes.