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- Global report: Covid cases worldwide near 20 million as Australia suffers deadliest day
- In the months my husband and I were apart, the world changed completely | Helen Sullivan
- UK coronavirus live: education secretary says Covid-19 unlikely to spread in classrooms
- Belarus opposition candidate rejects election result after night of protests
- Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under new national security law
- Coronavirus live news: Australia records deadliest day as global cases near 20 million
- Apple imported clothes from Xinjiang firm facing US forced labour sanctions
- Beirut explosion: protests outside parliament call for fall of government
- Labour MP Dawn Butler stopped by police in London
- Kiribati's president's plans to raise islands in fight against sea-level rise
- Damaged ship leaking oil off Mauritius could break up, says PM
- Six French aid workers and two locals killed in ambush in Niger wildlife park
- Martin Birch, producer for Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath and more, dies aged 71
- At least seven dead, including baby, as floods sweep Greek island of Evia
- 'We need people here': the Spanish towns welcoming migrants
- Q&A: what’s the real story behind recent UK refugee arrivals?
- Scott Morrison presses Trump for continued detention of ex-Afghan soldier who killed three Australians
- Aged care regulator took four days to tell Australian government of St Basil's Covid-19 outbreak
- Fighting for breath: how the medical oxygen industry is failing African hospitals
- Jacinda Ardern must use her power to push New Zealand to more progressive politics | Morgan Godfery
- Beirut: protesters clash with police outside Lebanon’s parliamentary precinct – video
- Beirut blast: Lebanese minister announces resignation – video
- Beirut explosion: drone footage reveals scale of damage to homes – video
| Global report: Covid cases worldwide near 20 million as Australia suffers deadliest day Posted: 09 Aug 2020 10:20 PM PDT Cases in Britain rise over 1,000 a day for first time since June; one in every 65 Americans has tested positive; US health secretary praises Taiwan Five months since the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus crisis a global pandemic, the number of Covid cases globally is nearing 20m, with almost 730,000 known deaths. The current number of confirmed infections stands at 19,792,519, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, with total new cases daily averaging more than 250,000. Continue reading... |
| In the months my husband and I were apart, the world changed completely | Helen Sullivan Posted: 09 Aug 2020 07:33 PM PDT We didn't know the pandemic would separate us for five months. 'People in love never give up,' a man at his hotel said to me In March, when I left Beirut, where my husband Felix and I were living, for a new job in Sydney, I knew we would be apart for a little while. It wasn't a huge deal – if the worst came to the worst, one of us could just jump on a plane. But 10 days after I arrived in Australia, Lebanon closed its only airport. Ten days after that, Australia introduced a mandatory fortnight of hotel quarantine for all overseas arrivals. Continue reading... |
| UK coronavirus live: education secretary says Covid-19 unlikely to spread in classrooms Posted: 10 Aug 2020 02:48 AM PDT Gavin Williamson says plans for school reopening guided by evidence of little transmission
Catherine Shoard's three-year-old is a big fan of trains, but just as lockdown began, she (Catherine, that is) bought a secondhand car. She's written a lovely piece about the strangeness of no longer using public transport, the curious isolation and narcissism of driving, and the enduring, but now imperilled, charm of the train. The loss to society of the richness of interaction public transport affords is also significant. Riding buses and trains and being at stations was how I used to see the world, in every way. I grew up in a family without a car, and days were plotted around timetables and route maps, special ticket deals and off-peak loopholes – all part of the fun, even when they went wrong. Your horizons were expanded by the people you'd meet as well as the places you'd see, people you could freely speak to, no matter how different their background. Some of my son's most memorable encounters have been with ticket inspectors and random fellow travellers. This is now off limits. Related: It would be a tragedy if the pandemic costs us the joys of train travel | Catherine Shoard
Our education editor, Richard Adams, called this piece "easily the best analysis of this year's exam results" situation on Twitter earlier, so it's worth your time. On the HEPI website, Rob Cuthbert, emeritus professor of higher education management at the University of the West of England, writes: For the first time ever, students are competing within the school with their schoolmates for the limited numbers of grades available at each level. These are not the grades this year's students deserve, they are the grades which the Ofqual model says the school deserves on the basis of past students' achievements. The only way to restore individual fairness is to restore individual appeals which look at the student's actual achievements, not the past record of the school. Every previous student has had, every future student will have, access to an individual appeal process. Not in 2020. So much for the secretary of state's pledge that this year's students should not face 'a systematic disadvantage as a consequence of these extraordinary circumstances'. Continue reading... |
| Belarus opposition candidate rejects election result after night of protests Posted: 10 Aug 2020 02:22 AM PDT 'I will believe my own eyes,' says Svetlana Tikhanovskaya after commission says Alexander Lukashenko won landslide Share your reaction on the Belarus election result The main opposition candidate in Belarus's election has rejected the official results that gave President Alexander Lukashenko a landslide victory and her team has vowed to stay in the country to campaign for a change of power. "I will believe my own eyes – the majority was for us," Svetlana Tikhanovskaya told reporters in the capital, Minsk, on Monday, after widespread reports of vote-tampering in Sunday's election. Continue reading... |
| Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under new national security law Posted: 10 Aug 2020 01:18 AM PDT Leading pro-democracy figure detained over alleged foreign collusion as police search Apple Daily offices Profile: a pro-democracy tycoon who is not afraid to take on Beijing One of Hong Kong's most strident pro-democracy figures has been arrested and the newspaper he runs searched by police in a stark escalation by authorities enforcing new national security laws brought in by Beijing. The raid on Apple Daily, Hong Kong's largest pro-democracy daily paper, and arrest of Jimmy Lai and senior executives, were condemned by activists and journalists, who said they marked "the day press freedom officially died". Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus live news: Australia records deadliest day as global cases near 20 million Posted: 10 Aug 2020 02:47 AM PDT Australian state of Victoria records 19 deaths; US cases pass 5m; UK daily infections pass 1,000 for first time since June
Wearing a face mask became compulsory on dozens of busy Paris shopping streets and in other popular parts of the city from 8am on Monday as coronavirus numbers continued to tick up in in and around the French capital. The order applies to everyone aged 11 or over covers crowded zones where physical distancing is difficult, police said, including open-air markets and streets with large numbers of cafés and bars, such as the rue Oberkampf and two popular streets in the Marais district, the rue de Bretagne and the rue des Francs-Bourgeois. #COVID19 | Le port du masque sera obligatoire à #Paris dans les zones à forte fréquentation de personnes à compter du lundi 10 août à 8h.https://t.co/HOfho8JcQn
Chinese air force jets briefly crossed the mid-line of the Taiwan Strait on Monday and were tracked by Taiwanese missiles, Taiwan's government said, as US health chief Alex Azar visited the island to offer President Donald Trump's support. Azar arrived in Taiwan on Sunday, the highest-level Us official to visit in four decades, and praised the country's response to Covid-19. Continue reading... |
| Apple imported clothes from Xinjiang firm facing US forced labour sanctions Posted: 09 Aug 2020 09:00 PM PDT Details on staff uniforms come after CEO Tim Cook says he will not tolerate modern slavery Apple has imported clothes – probably uniforms for staff in stores – from a company facing US sanctions over forced labour at a subsidiary firm in China's western Xinjiang region, shipping records show. The details come a week after Apple's chief executive, Tim Cook, told the US Congress he would not tolerate forced labour or modern-day slavery in the company's supply chains. Continue reading... |
| Beirut explosion: protests outside parliament call for fall of government Posted: 09 Aug 2020 01:27 PM PDT Clashes broke out between rioters and police as global donors pledged recovery aid Thousands of protesters pelted Lebanon's parliamentary precinct with rocks on Sunday, demanding the fall of the government in the wake of the catastrophic blast that destroyed parts of Beirut last week. The violent rally took place around sunset, as an international donor conference launched to fund the enormous cost of recovery resolved that the country would not be abandoned. Continue reading... |
| Labour MP Dawn Butler stopped by police in London Posted: 09 Aug 2020 09:28 AM PDT Car driven by a friend pulled over by officers who later admitted they made a mistake Dawn Butler, the Labour MP and former shadow equalities minister, has accused the police of being institutionally racist after she and a friend were stopped while driving to Sunday lunch. Butler, a strong critic of police stop-and-search tactics, said the car was being driven by her male friend, who like Butler is black, when two police cars pulled it over in Hackney, east London. Officers said the vehicle was registered in North Yorkshire. Continue reading... |
| Kiribati's president's plans to raise islands in fight against sea-level rise Posted: 09 Aug 2020 07:02 PM PDT Exclusive: Taneti Maamau says Kiribati will seek support from China and other allies to elevate islands from the sea, partly through dredging Kiribati will raise its islands above the ocean as part of its fight against sea-level rise, seeking help from its new diplomatic partner China to secure the archipelagic nation's future, the country's newly re-elected president has said. In his first in-depth interview since his resounding election win in June, Taneti Maamau told the Guardian international co-operation would be on Kiribati's terms: he said he would not accept large loans "from any country", and would not allow China to build a base on Kiribati's strategically significant Christmas Island, south of Hawaii. Continue reading... |
| Damaged ship leaking oil off Mauritius could break up, says PM Posted: 09 Aug 2020 11:45 PM PDT Growing oil spill from MV Wakashio threatens ecological and economic disaster A ship that ran aground off Mauritius leaking tonnes of oil into the ocean is cracking up, the country's prime minister has said, threatening an even greater ecological and economic disaster for the island nation. More than 1,000 tonnes of fuel has seeped from the bulk carrier MV Wakashio into the sea off south-east Mauritius, polluting the coral reefs, white-sand beaches and pristine lagoons that lure tourists from around the globe. Continue reading... |
| Six French aid workers and two locals killed in ambush in Niger wildlife park Posted: 09 Aug 2020 01:35 PM PDT Emmanuel Macron's office confirms six French volunteers with ACTED relief organisation died in attack on Sunday Gunmen on motorcycles killed six French aid workers, a Nigerien guide and a driver in a wildlife park in Niger on Sunday, officials said. The group were attacked in a giraffe reserve 65km (40 miles) from the west African country's capital, Niamey, the governor of Tillaberi region, Tidjani Ibrahim Katiella, told Reuters. "They were intercepted and killed," he said. Continue reading... |
| Martin Birch, producer for Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath and more, dies aged 71 Posted: 10 Aug 2020 02:26 AM PDT Hard rock 'genius' helmed nine classic Iron Maiden albums and worked with Deep Purple, Fleetwood Mac and others Martin Birch, the producer whose bright but heavy sound was applied to classic albums by Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and more, has died aged 71. No cause of death has been announced. Whitesnake frontman David Coverdale tweeted: "It is with a very heavy heart I've just had verified my very dear friend & producer Martin Birch has passed away … Martin was a huge part of my life … helping me from the first time we met through until Slide It In … My thoughts & prayers to his family, friends & fans." Continue reading... |
| At least seven dead, including baby, as floods sweep Greek island of Evia Posted: 09 Aug 2020 05:19 PM PDT Eight-month-old found dead in a house after torrential rain causes rivers to burst their banks and blocking roads Seven people have died, including a baby, as torrential rains and floods swept the Greek island of Evia, damaging dozens of houses and blocking roads. The eight-month-old baby was found dead in a house in the village of Politika on Sunday, said a spokesman for firefighters involved in rescue efforts. The baby's parents were unharmed. Continue reading... |
| 'We need people here': the Spanish towns welcoming migrants Posted: 09 Aug 2020 09:00 PM PDT Small towns look to bring back life and the sound of children after young Spaniards leave in search of work On the wall of a small flat in Pareja, not far from the chemist, the plaza mayor and the 16th-century church, hangs a picture of a wooden farmhouse set among the palms and endless plains of western Venezuela. Were the painting bigger, it would show the mud-brick bread oven where Ángel Márquez and his family baked bread to sell, and the cows, the pigs and the horse they left behind when they finally decided enough was enough. Continue reading... |
| Q&A: what’s the real story behind recent UK refugee arrivals? Posted: 09 Aug 2020 11:00 PM PDT Britain takes in very few of the world's asylum seekers and only a minority of them arrive by boat Q: Media reports suggest that many refugees are making a beeline for the UK. Is this correct? A: The UK is home to just 1% of the world's 29.6 million refugees. Asylum seekers make up a very small percentage of overall migrants to the UK with study and work cited as the main reasons why people want to come to the country, according to research from Oxford's Migration Observatory. Asylum applications in the UK are relatively low – 35,099 in the year ending March 2020, significantly lower than a peak of 84,000 applications in 2002. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 09 Aug 2020 09:15 PM PDT Hekmatullah's potential release is the result of a peace agreement between US and Taliban but PM says 'he should never be released' Scott Morrison says he has pressed Donald Trump for help to prevent the release of an Afghan man who was convicted of murdering three Australian soldiers in Afghanistan. The prime minister said the Australian government would continue to push "as hard as we can" for the continued detention of the former Afghan soldier known as Hekmatullah, after reports he could be released as a result of peace negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban. Continue reading... |
| Aged care regulator took four days to tell Australian government of St Basil's Covid-19 outbreak Posted: 10 Aug 2020 01:38 AM PDT Labor spokeswoman says delay was a 'catastrophic communications' failure that may have been deadly for Melbourne aged care home's residents The aged care regulator has been accused of a "catastrophic communications failure" causing a "potentially deadly delay" after it was revealed it took four days to inform the federal government about a Covid-19 case at Melbourne's St Basil's aged care home. The aged care quality and safety commissioner, Janet Anderson, wrote to the Senate committee on Covid-19 on Friday to clarify that the commission had learned on 10 July that a staff member had tested positive on 8 July. Continue reading... |
| Fighting for breath: how the medical oxygen industry is failing African hospitals Posted: 09 Aug 2020 11:15 PM PDT Sub-Saharan hospitals are dependent on costly oxygen from multinational suppliers. As Covid-19 spreads, doctors are being forced to make terrible choices As Covid-19 spreads throughout Africa, a potentially deadly lack of oxygen is leaving doctors unable to offer essential treatment. Some experts put considerable blame on two multinational gas suppliers that dominate the market for oxygen cylinders across much of the continent, saying that their high prices and systems make the treatment unaffordable. Continue reading... |
| Jacinda Ardern must use her power to push New Zealand to more progressive politics | Morgan Godfery Posted: 09 Aug 2020 06:43 PM PDT The PM promised transformative government, but has so far largely maintained the status quo Jacinda Ardern was travelling in a taxi in July 2017, two months before the election that would make her prime minister, when arguably the most important message in her nine-year parliamentary career came through. Labour's poll results were crashing, the message said, and the party leader – the austere Andrew Little – was considering stepping down. Would Ardern, the then deputy leader, consider stepping up? In the following days calls went back and forth. The party activists (and MPs at risk of losing their seats) were in the pits, and Little told the country's leading current affairs show resigning had crossed his mind. From that admission, the poll numbers could only fall further. The Greens were at 15% , sucking up votes to Labour's left while the conservative National party was polling in the mid-to-high 40s, maintaining an iron grip on the centre right. Continue reading... |
| Beirut: protesters clash with police outside Lebanon’s parliamentary precinct – video Posted: 09 Aug 2020 06:32 PM PDT Thousands of protesters have taken to the parliamentary precinct in the capital demanding the fall of the government days after a major explosion rocked Beirut, killing 159 people injuring more than 6,000. The protests began at sunset and continued into the night, with demonstrators clashing with police and soldiers. The demonstrations come as two government ministers and a string of MPs resigned from their posts, loosening the government's already parlous grip on power Continue reading... |
| Beirut blast: Lebanese minister announces resignation – video Posted: 09 Aug 2020 06:16 AM PDT Lebanon's information minister, Manal Abdel Samad, has quit in the first government resignation since an explosion in the port of Beirut killed more than 150 people and destroyed large parts of the capital. She apologised to the Lebanese public for failing them in her statement Continue reading... |
| Beirut explosion: drone footage reveals scale of damage to homes – video Posted: 09 Aug 2020 04:43 AM PDT The destruction caused by last week's explosion in Beirut is visible in drone footage shot in devastated neighbourhoods. The close-up footage shows buildings reduced to rubble and homes rendered uninhabitable. The explosion in the city's port killed at least 154 people, injured 6,000 and damaged large parts of the city. Officials say the blast, which was felt hundreds of miles away, could have caused damages worth as much as £11.5bn
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