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- 'A wicked enemy': how Australia's coronavirus success story unravelled
- 'Major' breakthrough in Covid-19 drug makes UK professors millionaires
- Boris Johnson says coronavirus could have been handled differently
- Covid-19 Q&A: UK experts discuss how their lives have changed
- Coronavirus live news: England's gyms and pools reopen; WHO reports highest one-day global rise
- 'That’s an illegal order': veterans challenge Trump's officers in Portland
- Australia declares 'there is no legal basis' to Beijing’s claims in South China Sea
- Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan book claims royal relations turned bitter
- Public Health England calls for action on obesity in Covid-19 fight
- Wiley's management firm drops grime artist over antisemitic tweets
- Erdoğan leads first prayers at Hagia Sophia museum reverted to mosque
- Germany calls on UK to show more realism in Brexit negotiations
- US and Russia to hold talks on regulating militarisation of space
- Video witnessing of wills to be made legal in England and Wales during pandemic
- Johnny Depp wanted Amber Heard ‘barefoot, pregnant – and at home’, court told
- Why a generation is choosing to be child-free
- Moscow-on-Thames: Soviet-born billionaires and their ties to UK's political elite
- Israeli police use water cannon at anti-Netanyahu protest
- 'Journalism has been criminalised': Zimbabwean reporter denied bail
- 'Nobody’s ever seen anything like this': how coronavirus turned the US election upside down
- 'Not safe': Niagara Falls tour boats show US and Canada's different responses to Covid-19 – video
- Houston consulate: jeers for China as US repossesses mission
- US push for global alliance against China hampered by years of 'America first'
- Economic fallout from pandemic will hit women hardest
- The EU coronavirus fund will take Europe another step towards disintegration | Yanis Varoufakis
- Tech-enabled 'terror capitalism' is spreading worldwide. The surveillance regimes must be stopped
| 'A wicked enemy': how Australia's coronavirus success story unravelled Posted: 24 Jul 2020 06:03 AM PDT Weeks ago, Australia was the envy of the world. Now it has more than 3,000 active coronavirus cases and Melbourne is in lockdown. What went wrong? Less than a month ago, Australia was the envy of much of the world. With daily new coronavirus cases in the single digits, it was feted as part of a group of "first mover" nations - countries like Taiwan, Singapore and New Zealand that acted decisively to quash coronavirus. In mid-June, after three months of tight restrictions and differing levels of lockdown, life was not quite back to normal, but as politicians liked to stress, it was almost Covid-normal. Continue reading... |
| 'Major' breakthrough in Covid-19 drug makes UK professors millionaires Posted: 24 Jul 2020 08:42 AM PDT Synairgen's share price rises 540% on morning of news of successful drugs trial Three professors at the University of Southampton school of medicine have this week made a "major breakthrough" in the treatment of coronavirus patients and become paper millionaires at the same time. Almost two decades ago professors Ratko Djukanovic, Stephen Holgate and Donna Davies discovered that people with asthma and chronic lung disease lacked a protein called interferon beta, which helps fight off the common cold. They worked out that patients' defences against viral infection could be boosted if the missing protein were replaced. Continue reading... |
| Boris Johnson says coronavirus could have been handled differently Posted: 24 Jul 2020 10:42 AM PDT PM concedes government did not understand the virus in 'first few weeks and months' Boris Johnson has conceded there were "things we could have done differently" over Covid-19, and admitted the government did not understand the virus in the "first few weeks and months". In a sometimes combative interview with the BBC, the prime minister repeatedly refused to discuss any lessons that could be learned before a possible second wave of Covid-19 this winter, saying it was not the moment to "run a kind of inquiry into what happened in the past". Continue reading... |
| Covid-19 Q&A: UK experts discuss how their lives have changed Posted: 24 Jul 2020 10:00 PM PDT The Guardian spoke to four health and science figures to learn how the pandemic has impacted their daily life Peter Horby, professor of emerging infectious diseases at Oxford University, chief investigator on the Recovery trial, and member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage): "I bought a cloth face covering. I've worn it at the shops when they've been busy and there's not been much space. I'll be wearing it more now that it's compulsory." Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus live news: England's gyms and pools reopen; WHO reports highest one-day global rise Posted: 25 Jul 2020 01:54 AM PDT WHO reports 284,196 new cases; Vietnam reports first case in three months; US records fourth day of 1,000-plus deaths
Indonesia reported 1,868 new coronavirus infections on Saturday, bringing the total to 97,286, data from the country's Covid-19 task force showed. The number of deaths in the Southeast Asian nation related to Covid-19 rose by 49, bringing the total to 4,714.
The UK government has announced plans to save around 150 grassroots music venues from insolvency while cashflow is limited for venues shuttered during the coronavirus pandemic. The culture secretary, Oliver Dowden, released £2.25m for the sector from the overall £1.57bn fund announced on 5 July to shore up the arts in the UK. Related: English music venues to receive £2.25m in emergency pandemic aid Continue reading... |
| 'That’s an illegal order': veterans challenge Trump's officers in Portland Posted: 24 Jul 2020 10:00 PM PDT Two veterans asked federal agents if they understood their oath to defend the constitution as teargas was fired The Black Lives Matter protest in Portland looked to be winding down last Saturday night when US marine corps veteran Duston Obermeyer noticed a phalanx of federal officers emerge from the federal courthouse. They shot teargas at the crowd and pushed a protester to the ground with such force that, Obermeyer said, she slid 6ft across the pavement. Continue reading... |
| Australia declares 'there is no legal basis' to Beijing’s claims in South China Sea Posted: 24 Jul 2020 06:44 PM PDT Australia says China's claims to disputed islands are 'invalid' and are not consistent with UN convention on law of the sea Australia has declared "there is no legal basis" to China's territorial and maritime claims in the South China Sea, marking an escalation of recent tensions with Beijing and bringing Canberra further in line with Washington. The declaration, made in a submission to the United Nations on Thursday, comes after the United States hardened its position earlier this month, accusing Beijing of a "completely unlawful … campaign of bullying" to control the sea. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan book claims royal relations turned bitter Posted: 24 Jul 2020 05:12 PM PDT Biography in which Sussexes did not take part depicts deteriorating relationship with Prince William and Kate Relations between the Sussexes and Prince William and his wife, Kate, deteriorated so much that by March the two couples were barely speaking, extracts from a book on Prince Harry and Meghan claims. Finding Freedom, by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, claims the couples hardly spoke during an engagement at the Commonwealth service at Westminster Abbey despite not having seen each other since January amid the fallout of the Sussexes' decision to step back from the royal family. Continue reading... |
| Public Health England calls for action on obesity in Covid-19 fight Posted: 24 Jul 2020 10:00 PM PDT New evidence links obesity to increased risks of coronavirus-related hospitalisation, intensive care and death The case for action on obesity has "never been stronger", according to Public Health England , who today publish a review of evidence which shows that being overweight remains one of the biggest risk factors in the battle against Covid-19. The health agency's review of evidence relating to weight and the effects of the virus, published on Saturday, found that the risks of hospitalisation, intensive care treatment and death all "seem to increase progressively with increasing BMI (body mass index) above the healthy weight range". Continue reading... |
| Wiley's management firm drops grime artist over antisemitic tweets Posted: 25 Jul 2020 01:21 AM PDT Campaign group asks police to investigate rapper's posts likening Jews to Ku Klux Klan The grime artist Wiley has been dropped by his management company after making antisemitic comments on Twitter. The musician's manager, John Woolf, said A-List Management had "cut all ties" with Wiley after a series of social media posts were made on accounts belonging to him on Friday. Continue reading... |
| Erdoğan leads first prayers at Hagia Sophia museum reverted to mosque Posted: 24 Jul 2020 08:53 AM PDT Turkish president recites Qur'an at monument as Greece declares day of mourning Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has led worshippers in the first prayers in Istanbul's iconic Hagia Sophia since his controversial declaration that the monument, which over the centuries has served as a cathedral, mosque and museum, would be turned back into a Muslim house of worship. The Turkish leader and an entourage of senior ministers arrived for the service in the heart of Istanbul's historic district on Friday afternoon, kneeling on new turquoise carpets while sail-like curtains covered the original Byzantine mosaics of Jesus and the Virgin Mary. Continue reading... |
| Germany calls on UK to show more realism in Brexit negotiations Posted: 24 Jul 2020 12:00 PM PDT Comments will be a blow to No 10, which had hoped Merkel would help break deadlock Angela Merkel's government has called for more realism from the UK in the ongoing trade and security talks, after the EU capitals were given a "sobering" update by Michel Barnier following the recent round of Brexit negotiations. After a presentation by the EU's chief negotiator to ambassadors from the 27 member states on Friday, a spokesman for the German government, which holds the rolling EU presidency, said the bloc was ready to move negotiations quickly forward but "expressed the need for more realism in London". Continue reading... |
| US and Russia to hold talks on regulating militarisation of space Posted: 24 Jul 2020 01:48 PM PDT
US and Russian officials will meet in Vienna on Monday to discuss whether and how to regulate the militarisation of space, in the wake of an alleged Russian satellite-launched missile test. The two governments agreed to hold a "space security exchange" in January, but the meeting was put off as a result of the pandemic. Continue reading... |
| Video witnessing of wills to be made legal in England and Wales during pandemic Posted: 24 Jul 2020 04:01 PM PDT Change in law forced by Covid-19 backdated to 31 January to ensure last wishes are fulfilled Video witnessing of wills is to be made legal in England and Wales to make it easier for people to record their final wishes during the coronavirus pandemic. Existing law requires a will to be made "in the presence of" at least two witnesses but stipulations on isolating and shielding during lockdown have led some people to turn to video platforms such as Zoom and FaceTime instead. Continue reading... |
| Johnny Depp wanted Amber Heard ‘barefoot, pregnant – and at home’, court told Posted: 24 Jul 2020 09:34 AM PDT Heard became 'nervous wreck' at auditions, fearing Depp's reaction, acting coach says Johnny Depp wanted Amber Heard "barefoot and pregnant – and at home", her acting coach told the high court in London as she outlined her growing suspicions that the Pirates of the Caribbean actor was hitting his wife. Kristina Sexton, Heard's friend and then acting coach, said she had not seen Depp "hit, kick or throw anything" at Heard, but she was aware of the "volatility" of their relationship and had "overheard some serious fights" while waiting to start her coaching sessions. Continue reading... |
| Why a generation is choosing to be child-free Posted: 25 Jul 2020 12:00 AM PDT The biggest contribution anyone can make to the climate crisis is not to have children. So why do we still treat parenthood as the default? When I think that it won't hurt too much, I imagine the children I will not have. Would they be more like me or my partner? Would they have inherited my thatch of hair, our terrible eyesight? Mostly, a child is so abstract to me, living with high rent, student debt, no property and no room, that the absence barely registers. But sometimes I suddenly want a daughter with the same staggering intensity my father felt when he first cradled my tiny body in his big hands. I want to feel that reassuring weight, a reminder of the persistence of life. Then I remember the numbers. If my baby were to be born today, they would be 10 years old when a quarter of the world's insects could be gone, when 100 million children are expected to be suffering extreme food scarcity. My child would be 23 when 99% of coral reefs are set to experience severe bleaching. They would be 30 – my age now – when 200 million climate refugees will be roaming the world, when half of all species on Earth are predicted to be extinct in the wild. They would be 80 in 2100, when parts of Australia, Africa and the United States could be uninhabitable. Continue reading... |
| Moscow-on-Thames: Soviet-born billionaires and their ties to UK's political elite Posted: 24 Jul 2020 10:00 PM PDT How party donations, sports teams and lavish London residences have granted access to highest echelons of public life Businesspeople born in the Soviet Union play a significant role in British business and politics. Some have given money to political parties. Others have made substantial investments in media and industry. All have homes in London, with several visiting regularly from Moscow. Following a week in which Russia and its links to the UK have been in the news, the Guardian has looked into the impact of Soviet-born men and women on recent UK public life. Continue reading... |
| Israeli police use water cannon at anti-Netanyahu protest Posted: 24 Jul 2020 04:37 AM PDT Many arrested in Jerusalem at demonstration against government's handling of coronavirus outbreak Israeli police deployed water cannon and arrested 55 people overnight at a protest in Jerusalem against the country's indicted prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. A few thousand people had gathered in the city for what have become frequent rallies against Benjamin Netanyahu. Continue reading... |
| 'Journalism has been criminalised': Zimbabwean reporter denied bail Posted: 24 Jul 2020 10:02 AM PDT Hopewell Chin'ono is in jail awaiting trial on charges he rejects of inciting violence A prominent investigative journalist in Zimbabwe has said the struggle against corruption in the country must continue as he was sent back to prison to await trial on charges of incitement of public violence. Hopewell Chin'ono, an internationally respected reporter, recently published documents raising concerns that powerful individuals in Zimbabwe were profiting from multimillion-dollar deals for essential supplies to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading... |
| 'Nobody’s ever seen anything like this': how coronavirus turned the US election upside down Posted: 25 Jul 2020 12:00 AM PDT With almost 100 days to go till election day, the virus has changed the issues, the way the fight is fought – and quite possibly the outcome Mar-a-Lago was the place to see and be seen for guests who paid thousands of dollars for the privilege on New Year's Eve. Diamonds and furs abounded on the red carpet. When Donald Trump arrived at his estate in Palm Beach, Florida, in high spirits and a tuxedo, he declared: "We're going to have a great year, I predict." Related: Trump's free-speech legal folly has merely emboldened his critics | Lloyd Green Continue reading... |
| 'Not safe': Niagara Falls tour boats show US and Canada's different responses to Covid-19 – video Posted: 24 Jul 2020 01:03 PM PDT Footage of Niagara Falls tour boats highlights the stark differences in physical distancing between Canadian and US-managed companies. Canadian tour company Hornblower Niagara Cruises's ships can carry up to 700 people but Ontario's strict rules to prevent the spread of coronavirus have permitted them to carry only six passengers at a time. In contrast, the US-owned Maid of the Mist boats, which usually carry around 500 people, are operating at 50% capacity
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| Houston consulate: jeers for China as US repossesses mission Posted: 24 Jul 2020 07:22 PM PDT Door forced open after consular staff move out to heckling by anti-communist protesters A group of men who appeared to be American officials were seen forcing open a back door of the Chinese consulate in Houston as a US closure order took effect at 4pm on Friday. Related: US-China tensions escalate after closure of Houston consulate Continue reading... |
| US push for global alliance against China hampered by years of 'America first' Posted: 24 Jul 2020 10:28 AM PDT Beijing is flexing its muscles on multiple fronts but Trump's retreat from world leadership leaves it ill-placed to helm a fightback The confrontation between the US and China is gathering pace with each passing week. In the past few days, the Chinese consulate in Houston has been shuttered amid allegations it was a spy hub, and the US mission in the south-western city of Chengdu was closed in retaliation, on similar grounds. The FBI has started arresting Chinese researchers at US universities with suspected links to the People's Liberation Army (PLA), one of whom temporarily took refuge in the consulate in San Francisco, before surrendering. Continue reading... |
| Economic fallout from pandemic will hit women hardest Posted: 24 Jul 2020 08:00 AM PDT IMF says 30 years of gains for women could be erased as recession deepens
Even before the coronavirus pandemic, there were vast inequalities between men and women in the world of work. Despite chipping away at the glass ceiling over recent decades, in 2020 the gender pay gap still remains stubbornly high, while more men called Steve and Dave run FTSE 100 companies than women. Four months from the launch of lockdown, and as Britain slips into the deepest recession for three centuries, it is increasingly clear the economic fallout from the pandemic is having a disproportionate impact on women. Continue reading... |
| The EU coronavirus fund will take Europe another step towards disintegration | Yanis Varoufakis Posted: 24 Jul 2020 07:36 AM PDT The recovery package promises deeper integration between European countries. Here's why I think it won't work During the early years of the eurozone crisis, I remember gauging its depths by the rapidly diminishing half-life of the celebrations that followed every European Union summit. Premature proclamations that the crisis was over inspired hope, which caused the money markets to rebound. But then, at some point, gloom would unfailingly return. As the years of austerity for the many and socialism for the few ground on, that point arrived sooner after each EU summit. Could it be that, at long last, this sad pattern has been broken by last week's summit, which resulted in a brand new, €750bn post-pandemic EU recovery fund? Continue reading... |
| Tech-enabled 'terror capitalism' is spreading worldwide. The surveillance regimes must be stopped Posted: 24 Jul 2020 03:00 AM PDT Terror capitalism uses tools such as facial recognition to extract profits from marginalized people. Big tech and governments are collaborating When Gulzira Aeulkhan finally fled China for Kazakhstan early last year, she still suffered debilitating headaches and nausea. She didn't know if this was a result of the guards at an internment camp hitting her in the head with an electric baton for spending more than two minutes on the toilet, or from the enforced starvation diet. Maybe it was simply the horror she had witnessed – the sounds of women screaming when they were beaten, their silence when they returned to the cell. Continue reading... |
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