Beating the dangerous influence of private interests on governments requires independent judges, journalists and a courageous civil society

Ahora sí: hemos llegado al final de las aventuras de nuestro simpático maquinista Johnnie Gray. A lo largo —a lo muy largo— de once artículos hemos seguido sus aventuras y desventuras mientras intenta rescatar su locomotora de las garras de unos espías yanquis, deteniendo la mirada en la tecnología ferroviaria de la época, de la que Buster Keaton se revela como buen conocedor. Ya solo nos queda acomodarnos y dejarnos sorprender por una escena digna de una buena cinta de catástrofes.

* VP served under presidents from Nixon to George W Bush * Cheney will be remembered for key role after 9/11 The former White House chief of staff, congressman, secretary of defense and US vice-president Dick Cheney has died, his family has said. He was 84. A Yale dropout who avoided service in Vietnam, Cheney nonetheless became a giant of Republican politics. Continue reading...

After mass killings in El Fasher and four years on from a coup, UAE now admits its Sudan policy has gone wrong

Nasser Abu Srour says prisons became like ‘another front’ in Gaza war and tells of struggle to adjust to life outside A celebrated Palestinian author who was freed last month after more than 32 years in Israeli prisons has said the use of torture increased dramatically during his last two years of captivity as Israel came to treat its jails as another front in the Gaza war. Nasser Abu Srour, whose prison memoir has been translated into seven languages and is tipped to win a major international literary prize this month, was among more than 150 Palestinians serving life sentences who were freed as part of the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire and then immediately exiled to Egypt, where most remain in limbo. Continue reading...

El operario, de 66 años, fue rescatado tras pasar 11 horas bajo los escombros, pero ha fallecido en el hospital

A new law will restrict protests outside the homes of public office holders. The right to demonstrate is a given, but to menace private homes is just not right, says security minister Dan Jarvis

The EU’s population is expected to peak at around 453 million in 2026, before beginning a gradual decline. By 2100, if migration remains at zero, Eurostat projects that the EU’s population will have fallen by 34%, significantly affecting the labour force.

Top lawyers call for change in rhetoric that has left minority ethnic Britons fearful as politicians target migrants * UK politics live – latest updates Leading British lawyers have warned of a political “race to the bottom”, after a Conservative MP tipped as future party leader said large numbers of legally settled families must be deported. Katie Lam, a shadow Home Office minister and a Tory whip, said people with legal status in the UK should have their right to stay revoked, to ensure the UK is mostly “culturally coherent”. The Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, rowed back on Lam’s statement last Thursday, weeks later. Continue reading...

El hombre metió el animal en un transportín e intentó hundirlo en un estanque de Sils para hacerlo desaparecer

Expert panel says report on gap in global wealth between rich and poor highlights need for intervention by G20 More than $70tn (£53tn) of inherited wealth will pass down the generations across the world over the next decade, widening inequality and highlighting the need for intervention by the G20 group of leading nations, a group of economists and campaigners have warned. In a report ahead of the G20 meetings in Johannesburg, hosted by the South African government later this month, the expert panel said the gap in global wealth between rich and poor will widen over the next decade without a permanent monitoring group such as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Continue reading...