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- Britain wins rare praise for leading race to test life-saving Covid drugs
- Sinclair delays interview containing Fauci Covid-19 conspiracy theory
- ‘It’s a ghost town’: tourism crisis hits British cities from Edinburgh to Bath
- Reimposition of quarantine hits Spain’s vital, already struggling tourism sector
- Coronavirus live news: global cases pass 16m as Australia sees record new deaths
- 49% of voters believe Kremlin interfered in Brexit referendum
- 'White as hell': Portland protesters face off with Trump but are they eclipsing Black Lives Matter?
- A Renaissance masterpiece, Nazi looters, a double murder … and a happy ending
- Ted Yoho: Christian group obtains resignation over Ocasio-Cortez attack
- Britain will respond to space threat from Russia and China – minister
- Lib Dem leadership hopeful Layla Moran hints at closer links with Labour
- ‘We’re living in fear’: LGBT people in Italy pin hopes on new law
- China’s TV channel faces UK ban as complaints mount
- Nantes cathedral fire: volunteer arrested and charged with arson
- Timid, incompetent ... how our spies missed Russian bid to sway Brexit
- They were at the death camp at the same time. Now the survivor sees the SS guard meet his fate
- Grenfell families want inquiry to look at role of 'race and class' in tragedy
- If you’re not terrified about Facebook, you haven’t been paying attention
- Netanyahu faces Israelis’ anger as virus surges and unemployment rises
- Somalia removes prime minister in no-confidence vote
- The US election is in 100 days: what are the biggest threats to it?
- Tsunami of fake news hurts Latin America's effort to fight coronavirus
- North Korea declares state of emergency as Covid-19 case reported
- NSW records 14 new coronavirus cases as Thai restaurant cluster in Sydney's west rises to 67
- Portland protesters counter teargas with leaf blowers in standoff with federal troops – video
| Britain wins rare praise for leading race to test life-saving Covid drugs Posted: 25 Jul 2020 11:00 PM PDT UK's high infection rate and centralised NHS have enabled Recovery team to help victims across the world It has been a startling week for those following Britain's response to the pandemic. Roundly derided for the lateness of its lockdown and its bungled testing programmes, the UK was the unexpected recipient of a sudden bout of lavish praise for its scientists' efforts to combat the d isease. "The Brits are on course to save the world," wrote leading US economist Tyler Cowen in Bloomberg Opinion, while the journal Science quoted leading international scientists who have heaped praise on British researchers' anti-Covid work. Continue reading... |
| Sinclair delays interview containing Fauci Covid-19 conspiracy theory Posted: 25 Jul 2020 01:08 PM PDT
Sinclair Television said on Saturday it would delay airing an interview with a conspiracy theorist who claims baselessly that Dr Anthony Fauci, the country's top infectious disease expert, created the coronavirus behind the current pandemic. Related: A disgraced scientist and a viral video: how a Covid conspiracy theory started Continue reading... |
| ‘It’s a ghost town’: tourism crisis hits British cities from Edinburgh to Bath Posted: 25 Jul 2020 11:15 PM PDT The effects of coronavirus on both international and domestic visitor numbers have left former hotspots fearing for the future On a typical July day, restaurateur Paul Wedgwood would see hundreds of people with wheelie suitcases – airline tags still attached – walking past the window of his restaurant on Edinburgh's Royal Mile. This Thursday, he has seen just two. "We would normally look outside and you wouldn't be able to see any tarmac – now it's bare," he said. "It's just a ghost town." Like other British cities which usually attract high numbers of international tourists throughout the summer, Edinburgh is quiet, and businesses are suffering. August's festival had already been cancelled when news came last week that December's Hogmanay party will not go ahead as usual. Continue reading... |
| Reimposition of quarantine hits Spain’s vital, already struggling tourism sector Posted: 25 Jul 2020 02:30 PM PDT Move causes consternation in country that went into one of Europe's strictest lockdowns before the UK The British government's decision to pull Spain from the list of safe countries and require returning holidaymakers to self-isolate for a fortnight will come as a heavy blow to Spain's lucrative and vital tourist sector. The country, which relies on tourism for 12% of its GDP, was already expecting a bleak post-Covid summer. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus live news: global cases pass 16m as Australia sees record new deaths Posted: 26 Jul 2020 01:40 AM PDT Florida's infections overtake New York's; North Korea holds emergency meeting after suspected Covid-19 case reported; WHO says 1m cases reported per week for last five weeks
Indonesia reported 1,492 new coronavirus infections on Sunday, bringing the country's total caseload to 98,778, data from the Health Ministry website showed. The number of coronavirus-related deaths in Indonesia rose by 67, bringing the total to 4,781.
British tourists flying home on Sunday from holidays in Spain reacted angrily to the UK government's abrupt decision to impose a two-week coronavirus quarantine on everyone travelling from there. The move to take Spain off a safe-travel list was announced late on Saturday and took effect from midnight (2300 GMT on Saturday), leaving travellers with no time to dodge it or plan ahead. Continue reading... |
| 49% of voters believe Kremlin interfered in Brexit referendum Posted: 25 Jul 2020 11:15 PM PDT Opinium poll for the Observer also reveals 47% of public think Putin's government affected UK's 2019 general election Almost half the British public believes the Russian government interfered in the EU referendum and last year's general election, according to a poll. The latest Opinium poll for the Observer found that 49% of voters think there was Russian interference in the Brexit referendum, with 23% disagreeing. Some 47% believed Russia interfered in the December general election. The poll findings come after the long-awaited publication of the report into Russian interference by parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee last week. It found that the government had not attempted to investigate potential Russian interference in the referendum. It said the UK had "badly underestimated" the Russian threat. Continue reading... |
| 'White as hell': Portland protesters face off with Trump but are they eclipsing Black Lives Matter? Posted: 25 Jul 2020 11:00 PM PDT On another night of confrontation with federal agents, activists said their message was in danger of being forgotten
Teal Lindseth surveyed the sea of mothers she was about to lead into the firing line. "I look at this crowd and I don't see many black people," lamented the 21-year-old African American activist. "Oregon is white as hell. Whitewashed." Continue reading... |
| A Renaissance masterpiece, Nazi looters, a double murder … and a happy ending Posted: 25 Jul 2020 11:33 PM PDT His grandparents had to sell their paintings for a pittance – and then were killed. Simon Goodman on why the recovery of one means so much A masterpiece by the Italian Renaissance artist Paolo Uccello, which disappeared after the Nazis forced its owner to sell it for a pittance before sending him and his wife to their deaths, is to be sold this week after its current owners discovered its shocking past. The painting, Battle on the Banks of a River, had belonged to Friedrich "Fritz" Gutmann, who was murdered at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1944, shortly before his wife, Louise, was gassed at Auschwitz. Continue reading... |
| Ted Yoho: Christian group obtains resignation over Ocasio-Cortez attack Posted: 25 Jul 2020 08:32 PM PDT Nonpartisan organisation Bread for the World says Yoho agreed to step down following incident with congresswoman A nonpartisan Christian organisation that seeks to end hunger says it has asked for and received the resignation of Republican congressman Ted Yoho from its board of directors, following what it called his "verbal attack" on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Democrat congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez had accused Yoho of using a vulgar and sexist insult while upbraiding her during a confrontation last Monday on the steps of the Capitol. Yoho maintained he did not use the words cited, though a reporter who witnessed the incident confirmed the language as she described it. Continue reading... |
| Britain will respond to space threat from Russia and China – minister Posted: 25 Jul 2020 09:13 PM PDT 'Provocative test of a weapon-like projectile' from Russian satellite shows peaceful use of space is under threat, says defence secretary Britain will boost its ability to handle threats posed by Russia and China in space as part of a foreign, security and defence policy review, the defence secretary, Ben Wallace, has said. "This week we have been reminded of the threat Russia poses to our national security with the provocative test of a weapon-like projectile from a satellite threatening the peaceful use of space," Wallace wrote in the Sunday Telegraph, adding that China also posed a threat. Continue reading... |
| Lib Dem leadership hopeful Layla Moran hints at closer links with Labour Posted: 26 Jul 2020 12:07 AM PDT As voting in the leadership race opens, the MP says cooperation is the path to electoral success Scrapping Britain's first-past-the-post electoral system would be a precondition for the Liberal Democrats considering a future coalition with Labour, a contender to lead the party has warned. Layla Moran, who is vying for the job alongside acting party leader Ed Davey, said that she was interested in building significant levels of cooperation with Labour before the next election. She even suggested the parties could build a joint campaigning force where it benefited them. Continue reading... |
| ‘We’re living in fear’: LGBT people in Italy pin hopes on new law Posted: 26 Jul 2020 01:59 AM PDT Debate on long-awaited bill that would punish discrimination and hate crimes towards LGBT people opens on Monday For 15 years, Marco and his boyfriend had lived together fairly peacefully in a town outside Rome. Then, in early June, a neighbour started harassing them. "It began quite lightly, with him being provocative whenever we met in the street," the 38-year-old said. "Then he came to our home and forced his way in, calling us 'dirty faggots'. My boyfriend managed to get rid of him but he returned with a baton and threw himself against the door, repeating the same insults and threatening to set us alight when we were asleep." Continue reading... |
| China’s TV channel faces UK ban as complaints mount Posted: 26 Jul 2020 12:46 AM PDT Regulator Ofcom under growing pressure to block state-backed station for its broadcast of forced confessions Britain's broadcasting regulator is under mounting pressure to bar China's state-owned TV channel from the UK's airwaves after accusations that it has repeatedly breached impartiality rules and aired forced confessions. There are currently three live investigations under way by Ofcom into China Global Television Network (CGTN), the country's English-language news channel. The regulator has already ruled against the channel earlier this month, for airing a forced confession by the former British journalist Peter Humphrey. Labour is to raise alleged repeated breaches by the channel with Ofcom's chief executive Melanie Dawes. Continue reading... |
| Nantes cathedral fire: volunteer arrested and charged with arson Posted: 25 Jul 2020 09:22 PM PDT The 39-year-old who closed the cathedral for the night had previously been questioned and released by police A volunteer assistant suspected of setting a French cathedral on fire has been rearrested, then indicted and detained in pre-trial custody by prosecutors. The man, already held and released by police last week, was indicted on Saturday night "on charges of destruction and damage by fire" of the gothic cathedral of Nantes, the public prosecutor for the western city said. Continue reading... |
| Timid, incompetent ... how our spies missed Russian bid to sway Brexit Posted: 25 Jul 2020 11:15 PM PDT MPs who compiled the Russia report were incredulous at Britain's reluctance to tackle Kremlin In September 2015 a tall young man with jet black hair and a pleasant grin made his way to Doncaster. His name was Alexander Udod. With the EU referendum vote on the horizon, Udod was attending Ukip's annual conference. In theory he was a political observer. Actually Udod was an undercover spy, based at the Russian embassy in London. Udod chatted with the man who would play a key role in Brexit – the Bristol businessman Arron Banks. The spy invited Banks to meet the Russian ambassador Alexander Yakovenko. What allegedly followed was a series of friendly encounters between Leave.EU and the Russians in the crucial months before the June 2016 poll: a boozy lunch, pints in a Notting Hill pub, and the offer of a Siberian gold deal. (Banks denies receiving money from Russia and previously stated his only contact with the Russian government in the run-up to the referendum consisted of "one boozy lunch" with the ambassador.) Continue reading... |
| They were at the death camp at the same time. Now the survivor sees the SS guard meet his fate Posted: 25 Jul 2020 10:29 PM PDT Pleased at the verdict, insulted by the penalty: Manfred Goldberg tells of his reaction to last week's conviction of Bruno Dey for his role in 5,000 deaths at Stutthof They were both German teenagers when they arrived at Stutthof concentration camp within a few weeks of each other in 1944. One was a 17-year-old recruit to the SS, the other a 14-year-old Jewish boy who had already spent three years incarcerated by the Nazis. Manfred Goldberg, now 90, doesn't know if Bruno Dey, now 93, was one of the guards that watched his every move from a tower, ready to shoot at any sign of transgression. But he is convinced of Dey's part in the deaths of thousands of inmates. The SS guards committed "crimes beyond description", he told the Observer. "Atrocities of that magnitude cannot be forgotten." Continue reading... |
| Grenfell families want inquiry to look at role of 'race and class' in tragedy Posted: 25 Jul 2020 11:17 PM PDT Campaigners accuse Kensington council of 'contemptuous disregard' in decisions that led up to the fire The Grenfell Tower fire inquiry must include a separate investigation into how "race and class" contributed to the tragedy, according to a group supporting more than a third of the deceased. The organisation, which represents 28 of the 72 individuals who died in the fire, submitted a statement on 21 July to the inquiry chairman, judge Sir Martin Moore-Bick, to request that an extra module be added to the inquiry to examine if the cost-cutting measures that helped spread the fire would have been sanctioned "if the tower block was in an affluent part of the city for an affluent white population". Currently there are eight modules, each covering a separate theme, in phase 2 of the inquiry which is examining why the fire happened. Continue reading... |
| If you’re not terrified about Facebook, you haven’t been paying attention Posted: 26 Jul 2020 02:00 AM PDT Facebook and America are now indivisible, says the Observer journalist who broke the Cambridge Analytica scandal – and the world is a sicker place for it
In 2016, we didn't know. We were innocent. We still believed social media connected us and that connections were good. That technology equalled progress. And progress equalled better. Four years on, we know too much. And yet, it turns out, we understand nothing. We know social media is a bin fire and that the world is burning. But it's like the pandemic. We understand in outline how bad things could get. But we remain hopelessly human. Relentlessly optimistic. Of course, we believe there'll be a vaccine. Because there has to be, doesn't there? Continue reading... |
| Netanyahu faces Israelis’ anger as virus surges and unemployment rises Posted: 25 Jul 2020 10:00 AM PDT Despite a prompt lockdown, the veteran leader is seen to have lost control of the crisis For Benjamin Netanyahu it wasn't a bad spring this year, considering the previous 12 months. The prime minister managed, somehow, to continue his treasured run as Israel's longest-serving leader, despite a scandalous corruption indictment, three national elections that almost ousted him, and a menacing party primary. Having been sworn back into power – his fifth term – in May, the 70-year-old politician won global praise for a swift lockdown, with Israel cited as a textbook example of how to handle a pandemic. Continue reading... |
| Somalia removes prime minister in no-confidence vote Posted: 25 Jul 2020 08:59 AM PDT 170 of 178 MPs back motion against Hassan Ali Khaire for failing to move towards democratic elections Somalia's parliament removed the prime minister, Hassan Ali Khaire, from his post in a vote of no confidence on Saturday for failing to pave the way towards fully democratic elections, the speaker said. A whopping 170 of parliament's 178 MPs backed the no-confidence motion, and Khaire's ouster was immediately endorsed by the president, Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, who had appointed him as prime minister in February 2017. Continue reading... |
| The US election is in 100 days: what are the biggest threats to it? Posted: 26 Jul 2020 12:00 AM PDT Fears that voter suppression would keep significant numbers of voters from the ballot box have been exacerbated by Covid-19 The 2020 election is shaping up to be a presidential contest unlike any other in American history. Even before the pandemic, there were deep concerns over how voter suppression would shut significant numbers of Americans out of the ballot box. Covid-19 has exacerbated those fears as states rapidly ramp up their vote by mail apparatus to curb long lines and crowds at the polls. Continue reading... |
| Tsunami of fake news hurts Latin America's effort to fight coronavirus Posted: 26 Jul 2020 02:00 AM PDT More than 160,000 people have died but from Mexico to Brazil, social networks are awash with quack cures and conspiracies For months Gustavo Andrade has been battling to convince his parishioners to take Covid-19 seriously. Related: Desperate Bolivians seek out toxic bleach falsely touted as Covid-19 cure Continue reading... |
| North Korea declares state of emergency as Covid-19 case reported Posted: 25 Jul 2020 04:15 PM PDT Kim Jong-un imposes lockdown on Kaesong, calling it a 'critical situation' North Korean leader Kim Jong-un convened an emergency politburo meeting after a person suspected of having Covid-19 returned from South Korea after illegally crossing the border this month, state media said on Sunday. If confirmed, it would be the first case officially acknowledged by North Korean authorities, who have so far said the country has no confirmed cases of coronavirus. Continue reading... |
| NSW records 14 new coronavirus cases as Thai restaurant cluster in Sydney's west rises to 67 Posted: 26 Jul 2020 01:16 AM PDT State records six new cases linked to Thai Rock restaurant and four new cases associated with a funeral service in Bankstown • Victoria records 459 new coronavirus cases and 10 deaths in Australia's deadliest day in pandemic The number of Covid-19 cases linked to a western Sydney Thai restaurant has risen to 67 while dozens of people and several hospitality venues have been slapped with fines for breaching coronavirus safety measures. New South Wales recorded 14 new Covid-19 cases in the 24 hours to 8pm on Saturday, including six cases associated with the Thai Rock Wetherill Park restaurant cluster, with two of these also linked to Our Lady of Lebanon Church. Continue reading... |
| Portland protesters counter teargas with leaf blowers in standoff with federal troops – video Posted: 25 Jul 2020 11:24 AM PDT Black Lives Matter protesters used leaf blowers to blow back teargas in clashes with federal troops in Portland, Oregon. On the 57th day of protests in the city, thousands of demonstrators marched on a federal courthouse where they have clashed with officers throughout the week. The troops, deployed by Donald Trump against the wishes of Portland's mayor, fired teargas and pepper rounds into the crowd, and some responded by throwing fireworks back
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