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Wednesday: Jury took nine hours to reach verdict in trial of Derek Chauvin. Plus: Australia’s period poverty problemGood morning. A verdict is due any moment now in the trial over the killing of George Floyd. Murdoch media is under fire from the former US director of national intelligence, and Australia’s flawed vaccination program is having devastating ramifications for those stuck abroad.Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been found guilty of the charge of murder over the killing of George Floyd. US president Joe Biden earlier said he was “praying the verdict is the right verdict” and described the evidence against Chauvin as “overwhelming”. Three thousand National Guard troops have been deployed in Minneapolis and St Paul, a region that has been on edge, not only about whether there will be violent unrest but also whether justice will be done in the death of Floyd, one of so many Black people killed by police in America. Just nine days ago, police in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center shot dead 20-year-old Daunte Wright after a traffic stop. Continue reading...

Palestinian Abu Zubaydah, detained for 19 years without trial, takes US, UK and five other countries before panelA Palestinian man held in Guantánamo Bay is taking the US, the UK and five other states before a UN human rights panel for their role in the CIA rendition and detention of terrorism suspects at “black sites” around the world.The unusual case is being brought to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions (UNWGAD) by Zayn Al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn, known as Abu Zubaydah, who has been detained for 19 years without trial. Continue reading...

Country’s economy battered by more than a year of border restrictions imposed after the Covid outbreak Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNorth Korea is facing one of the worst economic crises in its 73-year history, amid shortages of food and medicines and warnings of rising unemployment and homelessness.The country’s economy has been battered by more than a year of border restrictions imposed after the coronavirus outbreak, flooding caused by natural disasters, and international sanctions imposed in response to the regime’s nuclear and ballistic missile programmes. Continue reading...

Digital currency under pressure from payment crackdown and tweets from Elon MuskThe price of bitcoin fell by almost 30% on Wednesday, after a Chinese government crackdown on banks’ use of cryptocurrencies accelerated a long-predicted sell-off, in a day of chaotic trading.The world’s largest digital currency tumbled to about $30,000 (£21,000) amid frenzied trading, a drop of more than 50% since it hit record highs of more than $64,000 in mid-April. However, by 10pm UK time, the bitcoin price had risen back to about $38,500, still down 11% on the day, according to Refinitiv data. Continue reading...

Firm should set example by using its videoconferencing tools to reduce flying, campaigners sayMicrosoft is being urged to limit its corporate travel to 2020 levels for good, to set an example that others can follow by using its videoconferencing tools to limit its impact on the environment.The Just Use Teams campaign, launched by a group of climate activists and Microsoft customers, says the company has spoken about the urgent need to tackle climate change but remains among the top 10 corporate flyers globally, despite being the only one to own and operate a videoconferencing platform. Continue reading...

Lebanese capital remains a shell of a city as efforts to find who is to blame for tragedy have made little progressWhen his workplace blew to pieces, dockworker Yusuf Shehadi was waiting to hear back from colleagues who had scrambled to help firefighters extinguish a blaze in the port of Beirut. The fire was bad and getting worse, they told him in their last conversation before a giant explosion killed them, and 210 others, a year ago today.The catastrophic blast laid to ruin the place Shehadi had worked for a decade. And he immediately knew its cause. “I had taken the nitrate from the dock to the hangar six years earlier,” he said of the massive stockpile of military-grade fertiliser that he had helped move from a freighter to a nearby hangar in 2014. Continue reading...

Didion, who has died aged 87, emerged as part of the ‘New Journalism’ generation of writers in the 1960s and won acclaim for her essays, plays and novels. Her personal style also made her an influential figure in the world of fashion Continue reading...

Gentile said the Sex and the City actor threatened to ruin her career if she ever came forward about the alleged assaultA fourth woman has come forward to accuse Chris Noth of sexual assault, days after the actor best known for his character Mr Big on Sex and the City was fired from the CBS TV drama The Equalizer.Singer-songwriter Lisa Gentile gave an account on Thursday that Noth had forcibly kissed and groped her in her New York apartment after she met him at Da Marino, a restaurant in midtown Manhattan where another of Noth’s accusers has said she was assaulted by the actor. Continue reading...

Civil liberties watchdogs condemn agency’s collection of domestic data without congressional or court approval or oversightThe Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been secretly collecting Americans’ private information in bulk, according to newly declassified documents that prompted condemnation from civil liberties watchdogs.The surveillance program was exposed on Thursday by two Democrats on the Senate intelligence committee. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico alleged that the CIA has long concealed it from the public and Congress. Continue reading...

Ukraine city near Polish border has not yet been touched by Russian bombs but people are readying for the worstRussia-Ukraine war: latest updatesWhat we know on day 17A few days ago, the local authorities of Lviv, 50 miles from the border with Poland and a safe haven for hundreds of thousands of internally displaced Ukrainians, ordered dozens of statues to be wrapped in padding to protect them from Russian attacks. Despite being so far untouched by the bombings, the 700,000 inhabitants of this magnificent Unesco world heritage site knew that, at some point, the time would also come for them.So when last Friday the cities of Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk, about 130km from here, were targeted by Russian forces in one of the military attacks located closest to the west since the beginning of the war, it came as no surprise. Continue reading...