Venezuela: Pressure mounts on Maduro as US plans 'concrete steps'
Mike Pence to announce 'clear actions' to address Venezuela crisis as Brazil urges allies to join 'liberation effort'.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is facing growing international pressure after his troops repelled foreign aid convoys at the country's borders, with the United States threatening new sanctions and Brazil urging allies to join a "liberation effort".
Juan Guaido, Venezuela's self-declared interim president, urged the international community on Sunday to consider "all measures" to overthrow Maduro after clashes at border crossings left at least three protesters dead and 300 others wounded near the Brazilian border.
Serena Williams cartoon not racist, Australian media watchdog rules
Herald Sun newspaper’s depiction of player ‘spitting the dummy’ at US Open had been widely condemned
A Herald Sun cartoon that depicted Serena Williams jumping in the air and “spitting the dummy” after losing a match to Naomi Osaka was not racist, the Press Council has found.
The News Corp cartoon came under global condemnation in September last year for publishing what some saw as a racist, sexist cartoon.
But in an adjudication published in the tabloid on Monday, the Australian Press Council accepted the Herald Sun’s argument that the cartoon was in response to Williams’ “outburst” on the court at the US Open final, and rejected suggestions that the tennis champion was in an ape-like pose.
They came to Syria to fight Isis. Now they want to stay
A Canadian metal worker, a British engineer and an American restaurant worker are among thousands of western volunteers who came to join a ‘revolution’, writes Richard Hall
The rise of Isis attracted thousands of foreigners from around the world to Syria. But it wasn’t just religious extremists who were drawn here.
While scores were travelling to Syria for jihad, a smaller but no less committed group of internationalists was heading to the other side of the battle.
“People back home like to think Daesh [Isis] is just a problem for the Middle East and that’s it,” says Kyle Town, a mild-mannered 30-year-old from Thunder Bay, in Ontario, Canada, using the Arabic name for Isis. “But it doesn’t just exist here. It affects everyone.”
Monsanto 'Roundup' weed killer trial begins in San Francisco
A key trial concerning the controversial weed killer Roundup — a trade name for glyphosate — begins Monday in San Francisco. At issue is whether or not Roundup and Monsanto are responsible for a Californian man's cancer.
The maker of the controversial herbicide Roundup, Bayer's Monsanto, goes on trial again on Monday in the United States, six months after a groundskeeper won the first-ever lawsuit alleging that the chemical causes cancer.
Roundup contains glyphosate, a chemical that environmentalists and other critics have long maintained leads to cancer. Roundup is a brand owned by German chemical and pharmaceutical giant Bayer after its purchase of US-based Monsanto last year.
Chameli earns 51¢ an hour making clothes for Australia's $23 billion fashion industry
By Anna Patty
Chameli often goes hungry and earns about 51¢ an hour making clothes in a factory that supplies Australia's $23 billion fashion industry.
She lives in a nine square metre room with her husband and three daughters, aged between 5 and 14, and shares two stoves and one bathroom with five other families. Because she is unable to make ends meet on poverty wages making clothes supplied to Australian brands including Big W, her children no longer attend school and the eldest works in a clothing factory.
"The thing that motivates me the most ... I just think if I don't work, my children won't get any food," she says.
Trump: North Korea 'could be great power' without nuclear weapons
North Korea could become one of the world's "great economic powers" if it relinquishes its nuclear weapons, US President Donald Trump has said.
Writing on Twitter, Mr Trump said the nation had "more potential for rapid growth than any other".
His comments came hours after his secretary of state Mike Pompeo said Pyongyang remains a nuclear threat.
Mr Trump will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un for the second time on the 27-28 February in Hanoi, Vietnam.
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