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- 'People don't want to fly': Covid-19 reawakens Europe's sleeper trains
- Coronavirus cases in Papua New Guinea double in days amid fears for health system
- Sydney coronavirus toilet paper stoush: mother and daughter found guilty
- ‘It's over, I am going to die’: how Uganda’s coronavirus curfew is claiming lives
- Vietnam detects first locally transmitted Covid-19 cases since April
- Flag lowered at US consulate in Chengdu as China takes control
- One million Cambodians under threat from development of vital wetlands – report
- Coronavirus: UK could impose more 'handbrake restrictions' on arrivals beyond Spain
- Tom Cotton calls slavery 'necessary evil' in attack on New York Times' 1619 Project
- US envoy to South Korea shaves off moustache amid colonialist row
- 'These are his people': inside the elite border patrol unit Trump sent to Portland
- AstraZeneca signs deal worth up to £4.7bn for cancer treatment
- Germany by far most admired country, with US, China and Russia vying for second – global poll
- Know sweat: scientists solve mystery behind body odour
- From Dukes of Hazzard to Kanye West: the curse of the Confederate flag
- ‘I can't give in’: The Togolese nun caring for Aids patients amid Covid-19
- Covid-19 proves childcare in the US is broken – can it be fixed?
- 'What about us?' Canada home care workers' lockdown heroics neglected
- The Uighurs' suffering deserves targeted solutions, not anti-Chinese posturing | James Millward
- ‘Significant risk of dying’: Australian aged care workers accuse minister of playing down safety concerns
- To save the EU, its leaders must first focus on saving the planet | Daniel Judt, Reja Wyss and Antonia Zimmermann
- The US withdrawal from the Paris climate accord will hurt people of color most | Adrienne Hollis
- In 100 days, the climate emergency may be even more serious. That's why we’re launching this series | John Mulholland
- Coronavirus near me: are UK Covid-19 cases rising in your area?
- 'It's crazy': UK holidaymakers react to Spain quarantine change – video
- Footage shows moment car drives through crowd of protesters in Colorado – video
- Spain quarantine: government acted 'as swiftly as we could', says Raab – video
| 'People don't want to fly': Covid-19 reawakens Europe's sleeper trains Posted: 27 Jul 2020 01:46 AM PDT Overnight services in Europe had seemingly hit the buffers but pandemic has revived demand For all their promise of romance and adventure, Europe's sleeper trains had appeared to have reached the end of the line. Cripplingly expensive to run and forsaken by travellers for budget airlines, a decision by the German rail operator Deutsche Bahn to terminate the service connecting Paris to Berlin six years ago ushered in the closure of routes across the continent including almost all of France's network. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus cases in Papua New Guinea double in days amid fears for health system Posted: 26 Jul 2020 07:05 PM PDT Port Moresby hospital hit by staff shortages after emergency department workers test positive, bringing case tally to 62 Coronavirus cases in Papua New Guinea have nearly doubled in a weekend, with the emerging pandemic threatening to overwhelm the country's already-fragile healthcare system. The pandemic has, so far, been largely suppressed in the archipelagic nation, with low infection rates and only one death – of an already seriously-ill patient – linked to Covid-19. Continue reading... |
| Sydney coronavirus toilet paper stoush: mother and daughter found guilty Posted: 27 Jul 2020 12:01 AM PDT Meriam Bebawy took the law into her own hands after another shopper grabbed a packet of toilet paper from her trolley at Woolworths, a magistrate has found A Sydney magistrate has likened a coronavirus-fuelled stoush over toilet paper to a rugby league bust-up as he found a mother and daughter guilty of affray. Health worker Meriam Bebawy, 23, and her daycare operator mother, Treiza Bebawy, 61, have been sentenced over an altercation with another woman at a Woolworths store in Chullora on 7 March. Continue reading... |
| ‘It's over, I am going to die’: how Uganda’s coronavirus curfew is claiming lives Posted: 26 Jul 2020 11:30 PM PDT Evelyn Namulondo and Eric Mutasiga were killed by officers enforcing Covid-19 movement restrictions – and their families want justice The last words Evelyn Namulondo said to her elder sister, Jennifer, were: "It's over, I am going to die." It was 15 May and the 30-year-old was in a hospital bed in Jinja, Uganda, two days after being shot by unidentified men apparently trying to enforce Uganda's 7pm to 6am coronavirus curfew. Namulondo was on a motorcycle taxi at 5am, heading to the restaurant she co-founded, when men she thought were police officers asked the driver to stop. When the taxi sped off instead, they fired, hitting Namulondo. Continue reading... |
| Vietnam detects first locally transmitted Covid-19 cases since April Posted: 26 Jul 2020 10:53 PM PDT Nation which had been praised for its swift action against coronavirus brings in strict new disease prevention measures Vietnam is evacuating 80,000 people from the central city of Danang and reimposing disease-prevention measures, after four local coronavirus cases were detected, the first to be recorded in the country for more than three months. Life had returned to normal for many in the country, which had been praised widely for taking quick action to contain Covid-19 and was on the brink of reaching 100 days without any new local infections. On Saturday, however, a 57-year-old grandfather was confirmed to have tested positive - the first community infection since April. Continue reading... |
| Flag lowered at US consulate in Chengdu as China takes control Posted: 27 Jul 2020 12:34 AM PDT Troops posted outside building as Chinese authorities take over diplomatic mission Chinese authorities have taken over the US consulate general in Chengdu, marking the diplomatic mission's official closure and a new low point in ties between the world's largest economies. At dawn on Monday, the American flag outside the consulate was lowered while police held back crowds that had gathered over the weekend to watch. At 10am, the mission was closed, according to China's foreign ministry. Continue reading... |
| One million Cambodians under threat from development of vital wetlands – report Posted: 26 Jul 2020 05:59 PM PDT New sprawling development near Phnom Penh could prompt environmental catastrophe, including for the capital's water systems The destruction of critically-important wetlands by politically-connected developers in Cambodia threatens to flood more than one million Phnom Penh residents, ruin the city's wastewater system, force hundreds of families from their homes, and trigger environmental devastation, a new report has warned. The sprawling Tompoun/Cheung Ek wetlands, just south of Phnom Penh, play a vital role in sustaining the Cambodian capital, acting as a natural store of 70% of its rain and wastewater and providing livelihoods for the more than 1,000 families who live, farm and fish in the area. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus: UK could impose more 'handbrake restrictions' on arrivals beyond Spain Posted: 26 Jul 2020 11:07 PM PDT Quarantine measures for people travelling from Spain may be applied to other countries Holidaymakers have been warned the government could impose "handbrake restrictions" on more countries beyond Spain in order to stop the spread of coronavirus – with travellers unlikely to be given much warning if further quarantine measures need to be enforced. The restrictions on travellers returning from Spain after the measures were announced overnight threw summer holiday plans into disarray for British tourists, and will raise fears among those travelling to other European countries that they could face a similar turnaround at a moment's notice. Continue reading... |
| Tom Cotton calls slavery 'necessary evil' in attack on New York Times' 1619 Project Posted: 26 Jul 2020 02:54 PM PDT
The Arkansas Republican senator Tom Cotton has called the enslavement of millions of African people "the necessary evil upon which the union was built". Related: Trump aims barb at Reagan Foundation in fundraising coin kerfuffle Continue reading... |
| US envoy to South Korea shaves off moustache amid colonialist row Posted: 26 Jul 2020 10:58 PM PDT Harry Harris visits barbershop to ease ties strained by differences over North Korea – and whether his moustache evoked the days of Japanese rule The most controversial moustache in South Korea has fallen victim to the razor's blade, with US ambassador Harry Harris visiting a barbershop months after his facial hair became the subject of unusual criticism. Seoul and Washington are security allies and the US stations 28,500 troops in the country but their relationship has been strained in recent years by differences in their approaches to North Korea and cost-sharing responsibilities. Continue reading... |
| 'These are his people': inside the elite border patrol unit Trump sent to Portland Posted: 27 Jul 2020 02:00 AM PDT Bortac, a quasi-militarised outfit equivalent to the Navy Seals, has been deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan In January 2011, James Tomsheck, then a top internal affairs investigator inside US Customs and Border Protection, attended a meeting of about 100 senior CBP leaders in a hotel in Irvington, Virginia. Amid the sanitized splendor of the hotel ballroom, he vividly recalls hearing the nation's then highest-ranking border patrol agent, David Aguilar, laying out his vision for the future. Border patrol, the former CBP deputy commissioner said, was to become the "marine corps of the US federal law enforcement community". Continue reading... |
| AstraZeneca signs deal worth up to £4.7bn for cancer treatment Posted: 27 Jul 2020 01:49 AM PDT Pharmaceuticals company buys global rights to new technology from Japan's Daiichi Sankyo Drugmaker AstraZeneca could pay up to $6bn (£4.7bn) for the global rights to a new Japanese cancer treatment. The Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company said it would pay $1bn (£800m) up front to its partner Daiichi Sankyo. Continue reading... |
| Germany by far most admired country, with US, China and Russia vying for second – global poll Posted: 26 Jul 2020 09:38 PM PDT Annual Gallup survey casts doubt on Mike Pompeo's claim that the US is 'perfectly positioned' to lead the free world in rivalry with China Germany is the most admired country in the world for the third year running, leaving the US in a tight battle for distant second place with China and Russia, according to a new global leadership poll. The annual poll, conducted by Gallup, casts more doubt on US secretary of state Mike Pompeo's claim on Friday that the US was "perfectly positioned" to lead the free world in a new ideological rivalry with the Chinese Communist Party. Continue reading... |
| Know sweat: scientists solve mystery behind body odour Posted: 27 Jul 2020 02:00 AM PDT University of York researchers trace the source of underarm aromas to a particular enzyme Scientists have unravelled the mysterious mechanism behind the armpit's ability to produce the pungent smell of body odour. Researchers at the University of York traced the source of underarm odour to a particular enzyme in a certain microbe that lives in the human armpit. Continue reading... |
| From Dukes of Hazzard to Kanye West: the curse of the Confederate flag Posted: 26 Jul 2020 10:00 PM PDT Lynyrd Skynyrd flew it, Ludacris stamped on it and Spike Lee compared it to a swastika. In the era of Black Lives Matter, what do these battles reveal about the American South's Confederate flag? John Schneider, AKA Bo Duke from the TV show The Dukes of Hazzard, recently asked his fans a question via YouTube: "Was The Dukes of Hazzard a racially charged show? Was the intention of the paint scheme on the General Lee a white supremacist statement in any way? And if you think it was, I wanna know." For the uninitiated, the General Lee was the Duke brothers' 1969 Dodge Charger, which outperformed the cop cars of rural Georgia week after week from 1979 to 1985. Bo and Luke's car was named after a Confederate civil war hero; its horn played the opening bars of Dixie; and, as for its paint scheme, it sported a giant Confederate flag on its roof. It was basically the South on wheels. Continue reading... |
| ‘I can't give in’: The Togolese nun caring for Aids patients amid Covid-19 Posted: 27 Jul 2020 12:30 AM PDT NGO chief and Catholic sister Marie-Stella Kouak is no stranger to crisis, but fears a 'catastrophic' disruption of HIV/Aids drugs Dapaong is a buzzing, multi-religious city, 13 miles south of Togo's border with Burkina Faso and more than 300 miles (500km) north of the capital, Lomé. In and around the town, Marie-Stella Kouak is well-known. One of the few female community leaders, she is easily recognised by her booming laugh and the white nun's veil on her head. Continue reading... |
| Covid-19 proves childcare in the US is broken – can it be fixed? Posted: 27 Jul 2020 02:00 AM PDT Childcare has become central to US economic recovery, but daycares are struggling to safely reopen during a pandemic and recession Years ago, when our three children were small, my husband and I were caught in a catch-22 familiar to many working-class families. Our kids had serious medical issues, but we couldn't afford the treatment they needed; my husband's employer only provided insurance for the employee, not their family. I found a job that provided minimal health insurance, but the cost of daycare for three kids was way more than the job paid. Related: The future of workplaces: how Covid-19 will transform office life Continue reading... |
| 'What about us?' Canada home care workers' lockdown heroics neglected Posted: 27 Jul 2020 02:20 AM PDT Personal care workers provided a vital service to their elderly and vulnerable clients but face precarious terms and low wages For the elderly people in her care, Victoria Walker is perhaps one of the most important figures in their lives. The 37-year-old single mother eases them out of bed, bathes them and cooks their meals. If there is enough time, she pops out to the store for extra groceries. And when Canada's largest city imposed a strict lockdown at the height of its coronavirus outbreak, Walker and thousands of other personal care workers continued to do their jobs: rising early each morning, taking public transit across the city and returning home late at night. Continue reading... |
| The Uighurs' suffering deserves targeted solutions, not anti-Chinese posturing | James Millward Posted: 27 Jul 2020 02:00 AM PDT While Trump faces off against Xi, others must act to prevent genocide in Xinjiang and a new cold war Leaders in China and the US seem nostalgic for the worst aspects of the 20th century. Following recent revelations about forced labour, family separation and the repression of Uighur births, there should be no doubt that the policies inflicted by the Chinese Communist party (CCP) on the indigenous central Asians it rules meet the UN definition of genocide. While the Trump administration has belatedly begun imposing sanctions over these atrocities, its overall China policy is driven by self-serving, not humanitarian, motivations. It is clear that after first appeasing Xi Jinping, Trump now hopes a new cold war will cover up his own bungled response to Covid-19. How, then, should other countries respond to the Xinjiang crisis amid dangerous Trumpian provocations? It helps to understand what's been happening in Xinjiang on its own, outside the context of superpower sabre-rattling. What the People's Republic of China (PRC) has been doing in Xinjiang has little to do with counter-terrorism. It is the culmination of a decade-long campaign to develop the north-western territory of Xinjiang by making its landscape and peoples seem more "Chinese". The PRC has reversed what were once relatively pluralistic diversity policies in favour of assimilationism, aimed at engineering a homogeneous "Zhonghua" people: a nationalistic, unitary Chinese identity envisioned in general secretary Xi Jinping's "China Dream". Continue reading... |
| Posted: 27 Jul 2020 02:48 AM PDT Survey of 1,000 workers found two-thirds do not feel prepared for a Covid-19 outbreak at their facility Aged care workers have scolded the federal minister for aged care, Richard Colbeck, after he said the sector was responding "exceptionally well" to Covid-19 outbreaks, accusing him of downplaying their safety concerns as hundreds of the residents they care for face a "significant risk of dying". The alarm was sounded by the United Workers Union after surveying more than 1,000 aged care workers. It found that two-thirds of workers do not feel prepared for a coronavirus outbreak at their facility, while almost 30% of workers reported having no training in how to use personal protective equipment. More than 90% said they could not afford to take unpaid leave. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 27 Jul 2020 12:00 AM PDT European countries are spending big to revive their economies, but they will have no legitimacy with young people if they ignore the climate The future of Europe depends on climate action. This is the resounding message that young Europeans have delivered to their leaders over the past two years. To be sure, the wave of young climate activists across the continent, from Fridays for Future to Extinction Rebellion, is part of a global response to the climate crisis. But for the EU in particular, it is also a warning from a new generation of Europeans to their leaders: our European identity hinges on your climate policies. For our parents' generation, the European Union defined itself as a protector of peace, a fortress against fascism and a society of (relative) social security. For our generation – we are in our mid-20s – this narrative does not resonate. We came of age in a Europe of crises: a financial collapse, a panic over migration, a surge of populism. These formative moments gave the lie to the notion of a united European identity. To many of us, the EU appeared less a project of democracy, diversity or solidarity than one of bureaucracy, xenophobia and fracture. What is more, Europe's responses to these crises were hardly material for a new common narrative. Just the opposite: the responses were the crises. Continue reading... |
| The US withdrawal from the Paris climate accord will hurt people of color most | Adrienne Hollis Posted: 27 Jul 2020 12:00 AM PDT The Paris agreement threw a lifeline to millions of people of color facing a premature death. Trump is tearing that away It's official – in 100 days the United States will formally withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. The impact of Donald Trump's decision, taken three years ago, is already being felt by environmental justice communities. Racism is the driving force behind why certain people and places face disproportionate environmental exposure to toxic substances, adverse climate change effects, Covid-19 infections and deaths. This raises the question: was withdrawing from the Paris agreement also a racist decision? How will this morally incomprehensible policy change affect Black, Latinx, Indigenous and other communities of color? Continue reading... |
| Posted: 27 Jul 2020 12:00 AM PDT
On 4 November, the day after the presidential election, the US is poised to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. The agreement, which came together after years of diplomacy by the Obama administration and other global leaders, commits 200 countries to chart a new course in efforts to combat climate change. But very soon the United States may not be one of them. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus near me: are UK Covid-19 cases rising in your area? Posted: 26 Jul 2020 12:31 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... |
| 'It's crazy': UK holidaymakers react to Spain quarantine change – video Posted: 26 Jul 2020 09:41 AM PDT British travellers in Madrid have expressed their shock and anger at the government's sudden decision to impose a two-week quarantine on those returning from Spain Continue reading... |
| Footage shows moment car drives through crowd of protesters in Colorado – video Posted: 26 Jul 2020 04:48 AM PDT A car drove through a crowd and a person was shot in the Denver suburb of Aurora on Saturday during demonstrations against racial injustice. The Aurora police department said on Twitter that protesters were walking on Interstate 225 when a vehicle drove through them, and a protester fired a weapon, wounding at least one person who was taken to a hospital in stable condition Continue reading... |
| Spain quarantine: government acted 'as swiftly as we could', says Raab – video Posted: 26 Jul 2020 03:41 AM PDT Dominic Raab has defended the government's sudden decision to impose restrictions on holidaymakers returning from Spain after a surge in coronavirus cases in the country. Travellers will have to self-isolate for two weeks upon their return. The foreign secretary said the government would not 'make apologies' for the move as inaction could have risked a second wave in the UK
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