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- Coronavirus live news: Europe leaders told to 'act urgently'; US nears 9m cases
- Paris region sees record traffic jams ahead of lockdown
- White House coronavirus taskforce warns of 'unrelenting' spread
- World leaders condemn Nice attack as France terror alert level raised to maximum
- Australia must prepare for future shaped by extreme climate, bushfire royal commission warns
- US election 2020: signs of record turnout as candidates make final push through swing states – live
- New Zealand votes to legalise euthanasia in referendum
- Qatar says staff who searched Australian women at Doha airport committed 'illegal actions'
- Eurozone emerges from Covid-19 slump with fastest growth on record – business live
- Starmer says Corbyn could have predicted suspension for EHRC response
- UN urges UK to restart resettlement of refugees after family drowns in Channel
- Iran moves detained academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert back to Tehran prison
- Ecotricity founder to grow diamonds 'made entirely from the sky'
- 'He couldn't move': New York City man falls into sinkhole full of rats
- Hidden horrors: our writers on the scariest movies you (probably) haven't seen
- 'Battle for Labour's soul': what the papers say about Jeremy Corbyn's suspension
- The First Woman by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi review – coming of age in Uganda
- Mexicans for Trump? Amlo supporters have unlikely pick in US election
- Japan’s taboo-breaking tattoo fans – in pictures
- Coronavirus Australia: the week at a glance
- 'We have a right to be at the table': four pioneering female peacekeepers
- The polls point to a Biden victory but can they be trusted this time?
- Attacks in France put Islamist extremism back in spotlight
- Hurricane Zeta wreaks havoc across southern states of US – video
- 'Division and discord': Biden says Trump's rallies are 'spreading more than the virus' – video
- 'I'm so shocked': parishioners remember church warden killed in Nice attack – video
- Macron says France 'will not give in to terror' after Nice attack – video
- Nice attack: knife attacker kills three people at church in France – video report
- Nice attack: gunfire heard during police standoff outside church – video
| Coronavirus live news: Europe leaders told to 'act urgently'; US nears 9m cases Posted: 30 Oct 2020 03:02 AM PDT Head of the European Commission warns EU hospitals 'at risk of being overwhelmed' by Covid; Japan passes 100,000 cases; China reports 25 symptomatic new cases, down from the day before.
Nottinghamshire Police in England said 40 young people are facing fines after a party was broken up at a student hall of residence PA reports: Officers attended a flat in Trinity Square shortly before 11.15pm on Wednesday after details of the party were shared on social media, the force said. Police said they took the details of the attendees who each face a fixed penalty notice of 200.
Moscow residents who want to be vaccinated against Covid-19 may be able to do so as early as next month if large volumes of doses are supplied by then, city authorities said on Friday, Reuters reports. The deputy mayor Anastasia Rakova said the capital was creating a large network of specialised vaccination rooms with 2,500 high-risk people – primarily doctors and teachers – already vaccinated, Russian news agencies reported. Continue reading... |
| Paris region sees record traffic jams ahead of lockdown Posted: 29 Oct 2020 09:01 PM PDT Thursday's traffic was 30% higher than the previous record as people headed out to escape lockdown and others headed back from half-term holidays A dash by Parisians to either escape the new national lockdown or scramble back to the French capital to prepare for the restrictions caused record traffic jams on Thursday night. The movement in and out of the city created a record 706km of traffic on roads in the region by 6pm, according to France's traffic department. Continue reading... |
| White House coronavirus taskforce warns of 'unrelenting' spread Posted: 29 Oct 2020 06:24 AM PDT US is going in 'wrong direction' says Fauci as Covid cases rise in 47 states and patients overwhelm hospitals across the US The White House coronavirus taskforce is warning of a persistent and broad spread of Covid-19 in the western half of the United States and its members urged aggressive mitigation measures. "We are on a very difficult trajectory. We're going in the wrong direction," said Dr Anthony Fauci, the lead public health official on the taskforce and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Continue reading... |
| World leaders condemn Nice attack as France terror alert level raised to maximum Posted: 29 Oct 2020 10:49 PM PDT Leaders from the UK, US and Middle East express solidarity with France as soldiers are deployed to guard schools and churches Leaders from around the world have offered condolences and expressed their solidarity with the people of France after the nation suffered a second suspected Islamist extremist attack on its soil in a fortnight. President Emmanuel Macron said France was "under attack" in the wake of the killings inside the Notre-Dame basilica in the coastal city of Nice on Thursday which left three worshippers dead, but he vowed the French people would "not give in to any terror" in fighting intolerance. Continue reading... |
| Australia must prepare for future shaped by extreme climate, bushfire royal commission warns Posted: 29 Oct 2020 08:30 PM PDT Report into the apocalyptic 2019-20 bushfires says Australia must radically change its approach to fighting fires under new climate conditions Australia's bushfire disaster last summer was just a glimpse of what global heating will deliver to the country in the future, with major changes needed to the way the nation responds, according to the final report of the royal commission. The royal commission has made 80 recommendations, including calls for a more co-ordinated approach and new legislation to allow the prime minister to declare a national state of emergency. Continue reading... |
| US election 2020: signs of record turnout as candidates make final push through swing states – live Posted: 30 Oct 2020 03:04 AM PDT
Our US elections poll tracker is keeping an eye on the rolling 14 day averages of the polls in eight key states that will be vital in the race for the White House. It currently has Biden ahead in Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan, North Carolina, Arizona, Wisconsin and Iowa. Trump retains a lead in Ohio. But, a big note of caution here – at lot of those Biden leads are well within the polling margins of error. Related: US election polls tracker: who is leading in swing states, Trump or Biden?
It does seem incredible that this close to Election Day there are states where people are still bickering over how to conduct the election, but here we all are. Simon Lewis reports for Reuters on the latest shenanigans in battleground Pennsylvania. Officials have urged local election offices to actually begin counting mail-in ballots on Election Day, after several Republican-led counties in the battleground state said they would not start tabulating the votes until a day later. Continue reading... |
| New Zealand votes to legalise euthanasia in referendum Posted: 29 Oct 2020 06:12 PM PDT Results must be enacted by the new Labour government by November 2021, but second referendum on legalising cannabis fails to find support New Zealanders have voted to legalise euthanasia for those with a terminal illness, in a victory for campaigners who say people suffering extreme pain should be given a choice over how and when to bring their life to a close. The decision on whether to legalise euthanasia appeared as a referendum question on the 17 October general election ballot paper, alongside a second referendum question on whether to legalise cannabis – which did not succeed, according to preliminary results. Continue reading... |
| Qatar says staff who searched Australian women at Doha airport committed 'illegal actions' Posted: 30 Oct 2020 02:49 AM PDT Following a preliminary investigation the government said 'those responsible ... have been referred to the public prosecution office' The Qatari government says those responsible for the intimate medical examinations of women at Doha airport did not follow standard procedures and have been referred to the public prosecution office. Women on 10 flights – including 18 women bound for Sydney – were searched in early October after a newborn baby was found dumped in the terminal. The government on Friday said a preliminary investigation had found "standard procedures were violated". Continue reading... |
| Eurozone emerges from Covid-19 slump with fastest growth on record – business live Posted: 30 Oct 2020 03:07 AM PDT Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, including new growth figures from across the eurozone
newsflash: These were by far the sharpest increases observed since time series started in 1995, and a rebound compared to the second quarter of 2020, when GDP had decreased by 11.8% in the euro area and by 11.4% in the EU.
When Harold Macmillan (possibly) warned that "Events, dear boy, events" knocked governments off course, he probably didn't have a global pandemic in mind. Or the eurozone (in those days, Britain was trying unsuccessfully to join the EEC, before Charles De Gaulle crushed prime minister Macmillan's hopes). GDP numbers for Q3 are out today (QoQ) Not much heterogeneity between Germany, France and Italy as regards the Q3 GDP level. But Spain is a clear laggard. pic.twitter.com/GRlfW2MoTJ Continue reading... |
| Starmer says Corbyn could have predicted suspension for EHRC response Posted: 30 Oct 2020 03:03 AM PDT Labour leader says it is theoretically possible former leader could be expelled from party Keir Starmer has said Jeremy Corbyn could have predicted his decision to play down the extent of antisemitism in Labour would lead to disciplinary action, as he said it was theoretically possible the former leader could be expelled from the party. In a round of media interviews as Labour descended into infighting following Corbyn's suspension for saying antisemitism in Labour had been "dramatically overstated for political reasons", Starmer insisted he had nothing to do with this disciplinary process. Continue reading... |
| UN urges UK to restart resettlement of refugees after family drowns in Channel Posted: 29 Oct 2020 11:01 PM PDT Scheme designed to resettle about 5,000 refugees a year is currently suspended due to pandemic The UK government needs to urgently restart its resettlement scheme after two young children and their parents died while trying to cross the Channel, the UN refugee agency's UK representative has said. Iranian Kurds Rasul Iran Nezhad and his wife, Shiva Mohammad Panahi, both 35, and two of their children, Anita, nine, and Armin, six, drowned on Tuesday as they tried to reach Britain by boat. The fate of the family's third child, 15-month-old Artin, is unknown. Continue reading... |
| Iran moves detained academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert back to Tehran prison Posted: 29 Oct 2020 06:28 PM PDT Moore-Gilbert, who has Australian and British citizenship, had been held in Qarchak, widely regarded as the worst female prison in Iran The detained British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert has been moved back to Tehran's Evin prison, sources with knowledge of her case have confirmed to the Guardian. Moore-Gilbert is understood to be back in the secretive ward 2A of Tehran's largest prison, where she had spent much of the past two years under the control of Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Continue reading... |
| Ecotricity founder to grow diamonds 'made entirely from the sky' Posted: 29 Oct 2020 05:01 PM PDT UK millionaire Dale Vince says lab-grown gems will be 'world's first zero-impact' diamonds A British multi-millionaire and environmentalist has set out plans to create thousands of carats of carbon-negative, laboratory-grown diamonds every year "made entirely from the sky". Dale Vince, the founder of green energy supplier Ecotricity, claims to have developed the world's only diamonds to be made from carbon, water and energy sourced directly from the elements at a "sky mining facility" in Stroud. Continue reading... |
| 'He couldn't move': New York City man falls into sinkhole full of rats Posted: 29 Oct 2020 01:09 PM PDT Leonard Shoulders was waiting for bus in the Bronx when concrete cracked open and he fell into hole, unable to scream for help A New York City man has fallen through a sinkhole in a sidewalk, landing directly on to a pack of rats and leaving him unable to scream for help out of a fear that they might crawl into his mouth, local media have reported. In a city long used to tall tales of urban horror, like crocodiles in the sewers, the real-life terror experienced by Leonard Shoulders, 33, appeared to strike an appalled chord with denizens of the Big Apple. Continue reading... |
| Hidden horrors: our writers on the scariest movies you (probably) haven't seen Posted: 29 Oct 2020 11:04 PM PDT In time for Halloween, Guardian writers have picked out their favourite underseen scary movies, from Brazil's first horror film to a found footage gem Continue reading... |
| 'Battle for Labour's soul': what the papers say about Jeremy Corbyn's suspension Posted: 29 Oct 2020 08:06 PM PDT Reports predict Keir Starmer will face a 'civil war' after moving against his leftwing predecessor, while others focus on 'day of shame' Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer's suspension of his predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn, in response to the long-awaited report on an investigation into antisemitism in the party dominates the front pages today. The Guardian's front page reports that Labour has been "plunged into crisis" after Corbyn was suspended for saying antisemitism within the party was "dramatically overstated for political reasons". The paper adds that the decision to suspend the leftwinger has "led to rumours of a split". Continue reading... |
| The First Woman by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi review – coming of age in Uganda Posted: 30 Oct 2020 12:30 AM PDT A girl longs for her absent mother in this frank, witty tale about power and gender roles from the author of Kintu Kirabo is an inquisitive child. She has even more unanswered questions than other girls in the run-up to puberty, the greatest and most mysterious of which is: "Who is my mother?" In the small Ugandan village of Nattetta, nobody seems to want to tell her, least of all the grandparents who have loved and protected her throughout her life; fleeting visits from her father, Tom, who is busy making his mark in Kampala, yield no further insight. So Kirabo, already unsettled by her ability to depart her body and soar above her neighbourhood, decides to consult the village witch, Nsuuta. Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's first novel, Kintu, explored the complex effects of masculinity and its limitations on the relationship between fathers and sons; its canvas took in both the pre-colonial period and its long-lasting legacy. Vivid and ambitious, it suggested a writer unafraid to juxtapose past and present, the mythological and the modern - a scope that Makumbi reprises in her second novel. Here, she focuses on the origin myths of motherhood, the contested ground of women's sexuality and the intersection between personal, public and political power, in a style that is frank, funny and direct. Beginning in 1975, in the middle of Idi Amin's dictatorship, the story captures the surrealism of living in unpredictable and violent times, folding awareness of vast events into the minutiae of daily life. Continue reading... |
| Mexicans for Trump? Amlo supporters have unlikely pick in US election Posted: 30 Oct 2020 03:00 AM PDT President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a leftwing populist, has developed something of a rapport with his US counterpart Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador identifies as leftist, dismissing his opponents as "conservatives". Donald Trump launched his 2016 bid for the US presidency by describing Mexican migrants as "rapists" and threatened economic ruin by ripping up a trade deals between Mexico, the United States and Canada. Continue reading... |
| Japan’s taboo-breaking tattoo fans – in pictures Posted: 30 Oct 2020 12:00 AM PDT A growing tribe in Japan are defying deeply held prejudices linking tattoos with crime, turning their bodies into palettes of colour with elaborate designs, often featuring characters from traditional fables Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus Australia: the week at a glance Posted: 30 Oct 2020 02:58 AM PDT A summary of the major developments in the coronavirus outbreak across the country Here are all the latest developments in the coronavirus pandemic in Australia. This is Elias Visontay and it's Friday 30 October. Continue reading... |
| 'We have a right to be at the table': four pioneering female peacekeepers Posted: 29 Oct 2020 03:30 AM PDT Twenty years after a landmark UN resolution, leading figures share insight on women's vital role in mediating conflict In October 2000, the UN security council adopted resolution 1325 – the first resolution that acknowledged women's unique experience of conflict and their vital role in peace negotiations and peacebuilding. Twenty years on, we speak to four women helping keep the peace around the world. Continue reading... |
| The polls point to a Biden victory but can they be trusted this time? Posted: 29 Oct 2020 11:13 AM PDT Although polling averages gave Clinton the edge over Trump in 2016 there are significant differences in the evidence today For months, activists and Democratic party officials have been telling Joe Biden supporters that the only answer to the question "can we trust the polls?" is to go out and vote for Biden, and then get others to do the same. Continue reading... |
| Attacks in France put Islamist extremism back in spotlight Posted: 29 Oct 2020 09:50 AM PDT Many of the factors in the surge in violence of a few years ago have gone but some still remain The "vision of horror" in Nice, as police described the scene of a fatal knife attack in a church on Thursday, is a serious challenge for Emmanuel Macron. The French president has promised a crackdown on Islamist extremism, including shutting down mosques and other organisations accused of fomenting radicalism and violence, and said France was engaged in an existential battle against radical Islamic ideologies and separatism. His hardline interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, has spoken of extremists as the enemy within. There was also a stabbing outside the French consulate in Saudi Arabia on Thursday and an incident in the French city of Avignon involving a man armed with a knife who tried to attack police. It follows the murder two weeks ago of a schoolteacher in Conflans on the outskirts of Paris after he had shown students a caricature of the prophet Muhammad, and the wounding of two people outside the former offices of Charlie Hebdo. Continue reading... |
| Hurricane Zeta wreaks havoc across southern states of US – video Posted: 30 Oct 2020 02:25 AM PDT Hurricane Zeta has wreaked havoc across southern states of the US, killing at least six people and leaving 2.6 million without power. Zeta brought damaging winds of 100mph across states including Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, while flooding also occurred Continue reading... |
| 'Division and discord': Biden says Trump's rallies are 'spreading more than the virus' – video Posted: 29 Oct 2020 10:24 PM PDT The Democratic presidential candidate has slammed the president's campaign rallies, saying they are spreading more than just Covid-19 – they are dividing the nation politically. 'Donald Trump just had a super-spreader event here again,' Biden told supporters in Tampa, Florida. 'They're spreading more than just coronavirus. He's spreading division and discord.' Biden also criticised the Trump camp's approach to managing the spread of Covid, with the president playing down its impact despite rising case numbers across the country
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| 'I'm so shocked': parishioners remember church warden killed in Nice attack – video Posted: 29 Oct 2020 12:18 PM PDT Parishioners of the Notre-Dame Basilica in Nice, where a woman was beheaded and two others were killed by a knife attacker on Thursday, have paid tribute to the victims. 'I'm so shocked. I still imagine him, I still see him walking, lighting up the candles,' said Laura Male, as she remembered the church warden Continue reading... |
| Macron says France 'will not give in to terror' after Nice attack – video Posted: 29 Oct 2020 11:19 AM PDT The French president, Emmanuel Macron, said on Thursday that he would step up the deployment of soldiers to protect places of worship and schools after a knife attack in Nice in which three people were killed. Speaking from the scene, a defiant Macron said France had been attacked 'because of our values, our taste for freedom, the possibility there is here to believe freely' Continue reading... |
| Nice attack: knife attacker kills three people at church in France – video report Posted: 29 Oct 2020 10:17 AM PDT France will not give in to terrorism, Emmanuel Macron has said in a call for firmness and unity after the country's latest terrorist attack left three people dead. On Thursday morning, a man armed with a knife killed two women and a man at the Notre-Dame Basilica in the city centre of Nice on the Côte d'Azur Continue reading... |
| Nice attack: gunfire heard during police standoff outside church – video Posted: 29 Oct 2020 06:43 AM PDT A video captured the sound of gunfire as police responded at the scene of a deadly church attack in the French city of Nice on Thursday. A man armed with a knife has killed three people – two women and a man – during the terrorist attack inside the Notre-Dame Basilica in the city centre. Police described the scene as a 'vision of horror'. The mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, said the attacker had said 'Allahu Akbar' several times while he was being arrested and handcuffed by police Continue reading... |
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