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- UK coronavirus live: face masks become compulsory in England's shops and takeaways
- Niagara Falls tour boats highlight US and Canada's stark Covid-19 divide
- Mexico's neglect of Covid-19 testing mystifies experts as cases surge
- China orders US consulate in Chengdu to close as tensions rise
- Behrouz Boochani granted refugee status in New Zealand
- Coronavirus live news: Belgium halts lockdown easing; Bolsonaro breaches distancing rules despite positive test
- Top lawyer accused of relaying offer of £1m 'bribe' to police, say court transcripts
- Smartwatch maker Garmin hit by outages after ransomware attack
- Boris Johnson says 'anti-vaxxers are nuts'
- Mel Gibson was hospitalised with coronavirus in April
- UK reputation after DfID merger in ‘safe hands’ under Raab, says Trevelyan
- New Yorkers vote in special contest to reimagine famous Brooklyn Bridge
- Chad Wolf: who is the Trump official leading the crackdown in Portland?
- Australia’s Coon cheese to change name in effort to help ‘eliminate racism'
- Why more than 1 million Uighurs are being held in camps in China – video explainer
- Crossrail opening delayed again due to coronavirus
- The Rifleman review – Latvian war epic aims high
- Iranian passenger plane forced to change course as US fighter jets approached – report
- The Guardian view on population growth: a small planet needs big solutions | Editorial
- A lively nursing director, an outspoken phlebotomist: US healthcare workers who died from Covid-19
- Australian retailers urge government to broaden employers' power to cut workers' hours
- Two wheels good: India falls back in love with bikes after Covid-19
- 'A critical situation': Bangladesh in crisis as monsoon floods follow super-cyclone
- Covid-19 threatens access to abortions and contraceptives, experts warn
- Fears growing for five indigenous Garifuna men abducted in Honduras
- Coronavirus near me: are UK Covid-19 cases rising or falling in your area?
- Jenelyn Kennedy's death was senseless – we must all ensure she did not die in vain
- Why is Xi Jinping pitting China against the world?
- Ocasio-Cortez speaks about 'culture of violence against women' after Republican's insults – video
- Portland mayor teargassed by federal agents during protest – video
| UK coronavirus live: face masks become compulsory in England's shops and takeaways Posted: 24 Jul 2020 03:01 AM PDT Police will have power to enforce the rules, which come into effect today
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The local neighbourhood in England with the highest number of deaths involving Covid-19 is still the area of Crabtree & Fir Vale in Sheffield, which has seen a total of 67 deaths. These figures cover the four months from March to June. It is followed by Related: 'People were abandoned': injustices of pandemic laid bare in Brent Related: How one neighbourhood in London lost 36 residents to Covid-19 – podcast Continue reading... |
| Niagara Falls tour boats highlight US and Canada's stark Covid-19 divide Posted: 24 Jul 2020 02:15 AM PDT New York state boats have ferried many more tourists than their Ontarian counterparts, where distancing has been far stricter Every day, Mory DiMaurizio looks out his window at Niagara Falls and sighs in frustration. Not at the sight of the falls – one of the most stunning natural wonders of the world – but rather at the prospect of US tour boats with blue-ponchoed Americans. Continue reading... |
| Mexico's neglect of Covid-19 testing mystifies experts as cases surge Posted: 24 Jul 2020 02:45 AM PDT The country performs just three tests per 100,000 people, with explanations ranging from cost-cutting to a push for herd immunity Before travelling to Washington to meet Donald Trump earlier this month, the Mexican president took a coronavirus test. Until then, Andrés Manuel López Obrador had never been tested, arguing that there was no need for it – even though several cabinet members had become infected with Covid-19. Continue reading... |
| China orders US consulate in Chengdu to close as tensions rise Posted: 24 Jul 2020 03:00 AM PDT Move by Beijing comes in response to the closure of the Chinese consulate in Houston earlier this week and amid worsening relations between the countries Beijing has ordered the closure of a US consulate in south-western China, in a move that escalates tensions between the two countries to a new level. On Friday, China's ministry of foreign affairs said it had ordered the US consulate in Chengdu, in Sichuan province, to cease all operations. Authorities notified the US of China's decision to revoke its consent for the consulate to operate, according to a notice on the ministry's website. Continue reading... |
| Behrouz Boochani granted refugee status in New Zealand Posted: 23 Jul 2020 03:59 PM PDT Exclusive: Journalist who became the voice of the victims of Australia's punitive detention system granted a visa after seven-year ordeal Behrouz Boochani, the Kurdish Iranian exile and journalist who became the voice of those incarcerated on Manus Island, has had his refugee status formally recognised by New Zealand, and granted a visa to live there. He said he finally felt secure "knowing that I have a future". Continue reading... |
| Posted: 24 Jul 2020 03:08 AM PDT Brazilian president seen with supporters; Belgian rise in infections largely among young adults; future Tokyo Olympics must be 'simple and safe'
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has gone into quarantine after the head of his political office tested positive for coronavirus late on Thursday, the government press office said in a statement. Borissov, 61, whose first test for coronavirus came out negative, will stay in self-isolation until the results of a second test taken early on Friday come out, a government spokeswoman said.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has shut public schools in South Africa for a month, and pledged to crack down on corruption in aid and procurement spending related to the Covid-19 outbreak in the country. The announcement came a day after researchers revealed that excess mortality data suggested that South Africa's Covid outbreak had contributed to 60 percent more deaths over a ten week period from early May than official figures suggested , and among further steep increases in the number of confirmed cases in the country. Continue reading... |
| Top lawyer accused of relaying offer of £1m 'bribe' to police, say court transcripts Posted: 24 Jul 2020 03:00 AM PDT Exclusive: Mishcon de Reya partner Mike Stubbs allegedly relayed offer as part of plot to release €300m from Swiss bank account A lawyer at one of the UK's most prestigious law firms has been accused of relaying an offer of a £1m "bribe" to police officers as part of a bizarre plot to release €300m (£274m) hidden in a Swiss bank account, according to court transcripts obtained by the Guardian. Mike Stubbs, a partner at Mishcon de Reya, allegedly told two Metropolitan police detectives that a former SAS sergeant with intelligence contacts had concocted a plan to release what were described as "CIA funds" being held in the Swiss bank for "covert" purposes in Somalia. Continue reading... |
| Smartwatch maker Garmin hit by outages after ransomware attack Posted: 24 Jul 2020 12:49 AM PDT US company forced to shut down call centres, website and some other online services Garmin has been forced to shut down its call centres, website and some other online services after a ransomware attack encrypted the smartwatch maker's internal network and some production systems. The US company shut down services including the official Garmin website and all customer services, including phone lines, online chat and email. Continue reading... |
| Boris Johnson says 'anti-vaxxers are nuts' Posted: 24 Jul 2020 02:35 AM PDT Prime minister makes comments while promoting extension of free winter flu jabs Boris Johnson has said people opposed to vaccinations are "nuts" as he promotes an expanded programme of flu jabs that ministers hope will ease pressure on the NHS if there is a second wave of coronavirus this winter. Visiting a doctors' surgery in London on Friday, the prime minister said to staff, according to Reuters: "There's all these anti-vaxxers now. They are nuts, they are nuts." Continue reading... |
| Mel Gibson was hospitalised with coronavirus in April Posted: 24 Jul 2020 12:22 AM PDT The actor spent a week in a Los Angeles hospital after contracting the illness and was treated with the drug Remdesivir The actor Mel Gibson spent a week in hospital after contracting coronavirus earlier this year, his representatives have confirmed. Speaking to the Daily Telegraph Australia, the spokesperson said: "He tested positive in April and spent a week in the hospital. He was treated with the drug Remdesivir, while in the hospital, and has tested negative numerous times since then as well as positive for the antibodies." News of the hospitalisation of Gibson, 64, emerges a month after the actor fought back against allegations of anti-semitism and homophobia by Winona Ryder. A representative for Gibson denied the allegations and accused Ryder of lying "about it over a decade ago, when she talked to the press, and lying about it now". Continue reading... |
| UK reputation after DfID merger in ‘safe hands’ under Raab, says Trevelyan Posted: 24 Jul 2020 03:05 AM PDT Outgoing international development secretary says Britain's 'world superpower' status will remain after merger with FCO, despite fierce criticisms Britain's status as a world superpower in development is in "safe hands" under Dominic Raab, according to the international development secretary, as she prepares to leave her post. In an interview with the Guardian, Anne-Marie Trevelyan expressed sadness at leaving the Department for International Development (DfID), whose work is "truly impactful" and "doing good", she said. But she said she has seen passion and enthusiasm in the foreign secretary towards helping developing countries become stronger. Continue reading... |
| New Yorkers vote in special contest to reimagine famous Brooklyn Bridge Posted: 24 Jul 2020 02:00 AM PDT Six finalists chosen after city launched plan to rethink bridge that currently carries cars, trains, cyclists and pedestrians The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted much of New York City's normal rhythms of travel, with many people now hopping on to bicycles rather than the subway. A design competition could now solidify these changes by offering up a revamped version of the famous Brooklyn Bridge. Related: If McDonald's is reopening, why not schools? It's complicated | Emma Brockes Continue reading... |
| Chad Wolf: who is the Trump official leading the crackdown in Portland? Posted: 24 Jul 2020 02:00 AM PDT Trump's fifth homeland security secretary has denied there's a systemic problem in US law enforcement and overseen extreme immigration restrictions Chad Wolf wasn't Donald Trump's first pick for homeland security secretary – he wasn't even his fifth or sixth. But now he is the figurehead for the federal government's intervention in Portland, where his department's militarized agents have been recorded pushing protesters into unmarked vehicles. Continue reading... |
| Australia’s Coon cheese to change name in effort to help ‘eliminate racism' Posted: 23 Jul 2020 11:24 PM PDT Company has previously resisted calls to change branding, saying it was named after American cheesemaker Edward William Coon The Australian cheese brand Coon will change its name to help "eliminate racism" following a campaign stating the product name was offensive to Indigenous Australians. Friday's announcement by Saputo, the dairy company that owns Coon, "to retire the Coon brand name", comes after a decades-long effort to rename the cheese, including an unsuccessful 1999 complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission from Indigenous activist Dr Stephen Hagan. Continue reading... |
| Why more than 1 million Uighurs are being held in camps in China – video explainer Posted: 24 Jul 2020 12:10 AM PDT In Xinjiang province, China, more than 1 million Uighurs and other Muslim minorities are being held in 're-education' camps that the government claims are benign vocational centres teaching useful career skills. But former camp detainees have described them as de facto prisons implementing mass brainwashing and obedience to the Communist party. As more evidence emerges of torture, forced sterilisation of women and other methods of population reduction, should the situation in Xinjiang be termed a genocide? The Guardian's Lily Kuo explains
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| Crossrail opening delayed again due to coronavirus Posted: 23 Jul 2020 01:30 PM PDT First section of Elizabeth line will not open as planned in summer 2021, board says The heavily delayed Crossrail will not open as planned in summer 2021 because of delays caused by coronavirus, its board has said. The troubled railway, from Berkshire to Essex via central London, was originally expected to open in December 2018 but repeated delays have pushed it back. Continue reading... |
| The Rifleman review – Latvian war epic aims high Posted: 23 Jul 2020 11:00 PM PDT This trench-warfare tale is its country's biggest box-office success, but it is guilty of some bad misfires The Rifleman is the top-grossing film of all time at the Latvian box office and if you had to guess at the kind of film that would inspire such nationwide enthusiasm, you'd guess it was something like this: a lavishly mounted, lion-hearted first world war epic based on a book banned by the Soviets for 60 years. Oto Brantevics stars as Arturs, a 16-year-old who signs up in 1915 to fight the Germans, alongside his brother Edgars (Raimonds Celms) and father Vanags (Martins Vilsons). Both Arturs and his dad are outside the required age range for the army, but rules are bent on account of the father's exceptional marksmanship. Thus, three men of the same family set off to war, fighting sometimes for the Tsar, sometimes for the Red Army – but always, really, for each other. Continue reading... |
| Iranian passenger plane forced to change course as US fighter jets approached – report Posted: 23 Jul 2020 05:46 PM PDT Iran promises political response after several passengers were reportedly injured when Mahan Air plane quickly changed altitude Two US fighter jets came close to an Iranian passenger plane over Syrian airspace, causing the pilot to change altitude quickly to avoid collision and injuring several passengers, Iran's official IRIB news agency reported. The agency initially said a single Israeli jet had come near the plane but later quoted the pilot as saying there were two jets that identified themselves as American. Continue reading... |
| The Guardian view on population growth: a small planet needs big solutions | Editorial Posted: 23 Jul 2020 10:46 AM PDT New research suggests that the global peak may be lower than expected. But the challenges will still be immense In 1798, Thomas Malthus wrung his hands as he contemplated the growing mass of humanity, warning: "The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race." A few years after he wrote that essay, the global population hit 1 billion. Now, thanks to the exponential growth which he described, it is closing in on 8 billion. The scholar's direst warnings, echoed by others through the years, have not come to pass. But his concerns about the strain on resources have been multiplied by the climate crisis, with greenhouse gas emissions rising, and global heating in turn causing land loss and deterioration. Continue reading... |
| A lively nursing director, an outspoken phlebotomist: US healthcare workers who died from Covid-19 Posted: 24 Jul 2020 03:00 AM PDT We are documenting the lives of every US medical worker who dies helping patients during the pandemic. These are just a few of hundreds of cases Lost on the frontline is a collaboration between the Guardian and Kaiser Health News that aims to document the lives of healthcare workers in the US who die from Covid-19, and to understand why so many are falling victim to the pandemic. Each week, we're documenting new cases of healthcare workers who have died on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic. Here are their stories: Continue reading... |
| Australian retailers urge government to broaden employers' power to cut workers' hours Posted: 24 Jul 2020 02:25 AM PDT The National Retail Association wants all businesses to have greater flexibility, not just those receiving jobkeeper Australia's retailers are calling on the Morrison government to broaden the power of employers to cut workers' hours and change duties, as Labor signalled it will oppose the move to extend flexibility linked to the jobkeeper wage subsidy. The National Retail Association chief executive, Dominique Lamb, told Guardian Australia the government should consider granting all businesses the flexibility to vary work hours – not just the firms in receipt of the jobkeeper wage subsidy. Continue reading... |
| Two wheels good: India falls back in love with bikes after Covid-19 Posted: 23 Jul 2020 11:15 PM PDT A bicycle boom has seen Indians swapping cars – the ultimate status symbol – for a more humble mode of transport With cases of Covid-19 surging past the one million mark, Indians are shunning crowded buses and trains to travel on what has traditionally been regarded in this status-conscious society as the poor man's mode of mobility: the bicycle. At Bike Studio in Bhopal, owner Varun Awasthi is almost out of stock. Sales are up by 30% and he expects them to rise to 50% once he gets more bicycles. Continue reading... |
| 'A critical situation': Bangladesh in crisis as monsoon floods follow super-cyclone Posted: 23 Jul 2020 10:30 PM PDT Despite flood planning efforts hundreds have been killed and millions hit as third of land is submerged by non-stop rain Bangladesh could be plunged into a humanitarian crisis as it undergoes the most prolonged monsoon flooding in decades while it is still recovering from the effects of super-cyclone Amphan. Despite the UN has lauding its new initiatives for early intervention aimed at preparing communities for crisis, 550 people have been killed and 9.6 million affected by the disaster in Bangladesh, Nepal and north-eastern India, according to the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent. Continue reading... |
| Covid-19 threatens access to abortions and contraceptives, experts warn Posted: 23 Jul 2020 08:29 AM PDT Unplanned pregnancy rates have fallen globally, report finds, but coronavirus could endanger access to services Rates of unplanned pregnancies have fallen around the world, according to new data published by health research organisation the Guttmacher Institute and the UN Human Reproduction Programme (HRP) on Wednesday. Global rates of unintended pregnancies have fallen from 79 per 1,000 women aged 15 to 49 in 1990 to 64 in 2019, thanks in part to a concerted effort to increase access to contraceptives, but there are concerns that decades of progress in reducing the numbers risk being undone by Covid-19, as lockdown restrictions hamper health services. Continue reading... |
| Fears growing for five indigenous Garifuna men abducted in Honduras Posted: 23 Jul 2020 03:30 AM PDT The Triunfo de la Cruz region has been embroiled in a struggle to save their ancestral land from developers and drug traffickers Fears are growing for the safety of five black indigenous men in Honduras who were abducted from their homes last weekend by heavily armed gunmen in police uniforms. The victims are Garifuna fishermen from the town Triunfo de la Cruz on the north coast – a region where communities are embroiled in a longstanding struggle to save their ancestral land from drug traffickers, palm oil magnates and tourism developers aided by corrupt officials and institutions. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus near me: are UK Covid-19 cases rising or falling in your area? Posted: 24 Jul 2020 12:33 AM PDT Latest updates: how has Covid-19 progressed where you live? Check the week-on-week changes across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland The map shows local authorities where the number of cases has increased week-on-week and where it has fallen. Some of this is due to natural fluctuations, especially in areas where there are very few cases, and so a rise from 1 to 2 is a doubling. Increased testing also means that more cases may be being detected than previously, although the impact of this between one week and the next is likely to be slight. Continue reading... |
| Jenelyn Kennedy's death was senseless – we must all ensure she did not die in vain Posted: 23 Jul 2020 03:00 PM PDT The teenager's violent death has inspired a broader movement against PNG's endemic domestic abuse For six full days 19-year-old Jenelyn Kennedy suffered. Her legs and arms were chained, witness statements to police say, her mouth gagged. They allege she died from being beaten, locked in her room. Her young children in a room down the hall. Continue reading... |
| Why is Xi Jinping pitting China against the world? Posted: 23 Jul 2020 08:59 AM PDT Xi has stifled dissent at home and is increasingly willing for China to assert itself abroad Earlier this week, Chinese leader Xi Jinping held a rare meeting in Beijing with business leaders. Admitting that the Covid-19 pandemic had a "huge impact" on the country's economy, Xi used a Chinese idiom to assure his listeners. "While the green hills last, there will be wood to burn," he said. "If we maintain our strategy … we will find opportunity in crisis and turbulence. The Chinese people will surely prevail over all difficulties and challenges ahead". Continue reading... |
| Ocasio-Cortez speaks about 'culture of violence against women' after Republican's insults – video Posted: 23 Jul 2020 10:31 AM PDT The New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the insults a Republican colleague was heard saying to her on the steps of the US Capitol on Monday are part of a larger problem faced by all women. The Hill reported that Ocasio-Cortez was confronted by the Florida Republican congressman Ted Yoho. He apparently said she was 'disgusting' for saying of spiking gun violence in New York this month 'is a problem of a diseased society, which neglects its marginalized people … policing is not the solution to crime'. Speaking on the House floor on Thursday morning, Ocasio-Cortez said: 'In front of reporters, Representative Yoho called me, and I quote, a "fucking bitch"' |
| Portland mayor teargassed by federal agents during protest – video Posted: 23 Jul 2020 09:26 AM PDT The mayor of Portland was teargassed by federal agents during protests against the presence of the agents sent by Donald Trump to quell unrest in the city. Ted Wheeler, the Democratic mayor of the city in Oregon, said it was the first time he had been teargassed. Protesters had lit a large fire and armed agents launched teargas and stun grenades into the crowd. Wheeler was mostly jeered by demonstrators who have clashed nightly with federal agents. The mayor has opposed the federal agents' presence, but has faced harsh criticism for not taking more action to protect citizens
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