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- Global coronavirus report: WHO chief Tedros in isolation after contact with positive case
- Time at a Standstill: Spain's lockdown experience – in pictures
- Covid lockdowns are cost of self-isolation failures, says WHO expert
- Doubts over 'rapid turnaround' Covid tests pledged by Johnson
- US election 2020: Trump threatens to fire Fauci as Harris warns over nation's 'moral direction' – live
- Tanzanian opposition figures arrested after disputed election
- Coronavirus live news: South Korea to fine people without masks; global deaths pass 1.2m
- Typhoon Goni: thousands of homes in Philippines feared destroyed
- Prince William 'tested positive for coronavirus' in April
- Chinese flyovers towards Taiwan peaked in October amid rising tensions
- London high court to deliver ruling on Johnny Depp libel case
- Edward Snowden applies for Russian citizenship for sake of future son
- Dutch Jewish family allege bias over refusal to return €20m painting
- Labour urges UK trade secretary to end delays over Kenya and Ghana deals
- Baby Shark becomes most viewed YouTube video ever, beating Despacito
- Wesley Snipes on art, excellence and life after prison: 'I hope I came out a better person'
- Daisy Chain: can a Cornish town adapt to survive another lockdown?
- Ed van der Elsken's crazy world – in pictures
- The Guardian view on Tories and migration: stop the posing | Editorial
- 'Why would he do it on purpose?' girl asked after alleged assault by Sydney swim instructor
- Nollywood's new generation in the spotlight at Film Africa in London
- For the sake of Cameroon, life-president Paul Biya must be forced out | Vava Tampa
- Covid: how chilling projections prompted Johnson to lockdown
- What you can and can't do in England's new Covid lockdown
- Trump has gone a long way toward hindering democracy in other countries
- Trump thanks supporters chanting 'fire Fauci' at Florida rally – video
- Emmanuel Macron: violence not an acceptable response to cartoons of Muhammad – video
- Keir Starmer says schools must remain open in second Covid lockdown – video
- Michael Gove says England's Covid-19 lockdown could be extended – video
- A history of voter suppression in Georgia – in pictures
| Global coronavirus report: WHO chief Tedros in isolation after contact with positive case Posted: 01 Nov 2020 09:55 PM PST UN agency chief says he has no symptoms; weekend sees widespread protests against lockdown in Europe; Trump crowd chants 'Fire Fauci' Follow all the coronavirus updates The head of the World Health Organization has gone into self-quarantine after someone he had been in contact with tested positive for Covid-19. With Covid-19 again spreading rapidly across Europe, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who is based in Geneva, made the announcement by Twitter late on Sunday night, but stressed he had no symptoms. Continue reading... |
| Time at a Standstill: Spain's lockdown experience – in pictures Posted: 01 Nov 2020 11:00 PM PST Time at a Standstill is a digital project that brings together the work of 42 photographers who explore the experience of el confinamiento in a country becalmed by coronavirus and isolation. The project can be viewed on the PHotoESPAÑA website Continue reading... |
| Covid lockdowns are cost of self-isolation failures, says WHO expert Posted: 01 Nov 2020 09:00 PM PST Dr Margaret Harris said 'high price' of lockdowns must buy time to improve test and trace Lockdowns affecting entire populations is a price countries pay for failing to ensure people with coronavirus and their contacts self-isolate, according to an expert from the World Health Organization. The WHO does not recommend that countries enter lockdowns. It has consistently said that the key to controlling epidemics, whether Covid-19, Sars or flu, is to test people, trace their contacts and ensure all those who are positive or who have been close to those infected are quarantined. Continue reading... |
| Doubts over 'rapid turnaround' Covid tests pledged by Johnson Posted: 01 Nov 2020 10:00 PM PST PM promised public could get results in '10 to 15 minutes' but tests are designed for lab staff The "rapid turnaround" coronavirus tests the prime minister announced on Saturday are not approved for the public to interpret themselves without an expert's help and so will not provide results in the promised 15 minutes, the Guardian has learned. Boris Johnson's briefing about this week's national lockdown in England included the promise of a mass rollout of "tests that you can use yourself to tell whether or not you are infectious and get the result within 10 to 15 minutes", which would be made available at universities and across whole cities. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 02 Nov 2020 01:59 AM PST
Joe Biden may have a sizeable national poll lead, but there are still elements of the Trump campaign who are extremely bullish about their opportunities to win: Senior campaign adviser Jason Miller predicted on Sunday that president Trump will win more than 290 electoral votes in Tuesday's election. Speaking on ABC's This Week, Miller said that Trump's pathway to victory would be secured as long as he wins most of the following states: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Related: US election polls tracker: who is leading in swing states, Trump or Biden?
If, like me, you were rather vague on what 'barnstorming' a state looks like on the last day of an election campaign, then Matt Hill, who is deputy national press secretary for the Biden campaign, has this itinerary of where Joe and his wife Jill Biden, Kamala Harris and her husband Douglas Emhoff are going to be today. NEW: @JoeBiden, @DrBiden, @KamalaHarris, and @DouglasEmhoff are barnstorming PENNSYLVNIA on Election Eve, fanning out across all four corners of a state that represents the strength and diversity of the Biden-Harris coalition nationwide. More details >> .@KamalaHarris in Eastern PA Monday: |
| Tanzanian opposition figures arrested after disputed election Posted: 02 Nov 2020 01:38 AM PST Chadema chair arrested alongside former politicians ahead of planned demonstrations A Tanzanian opposition leader says police have arrested several opposition figures and sealed off areas where a peaceful demonstration was to begin on Monday morning over last week's disputed election. Emmanuel Mvula, campaign manager with the ACT Wazalendo party, said there was a heavy deployment of security forces in the commercial hub of Dar es Salaam, where the two main opposition parties planned to march to the national electoral commission. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus live news: South Korea to fine people without masks; global deaths pass 1.2m Posted: 02 Nov 2020 01:59 AM PST WHO chief Tedros quarantines after contact with Covid case; Brexit party to rebrand as 'anti-lockdown' party; Prince William tested positive in April – reports. Follow the latest updates
Indonesia has today reported 2,618 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of infections to 415,402, data from the country's Covid-19 taskforce showed. This is the lowest daily rise of coronavirus cases since 26 August.
The Philippines' health ministry today reported 2,298 new coronavirus infections and 32 more deaths. In a bulletin, the ministry said total confirmed cases had increased to 385,400, while deaths had reached 7,269. The Philippines has the second-highest number of confirmed Covid-19 infections and deaths in Southeast Asia behind Indonesia. Continue reading... |
| Typhoon Goni: thousands of homes in Philippines feared destroyed Posted: 02 Nov 2020 12:55 AM PST Almost 1 million people evacuated from path of 2020's most powerful typhoon Thousands of homes and buildings are feared damaged or destroyed following a devastating typhoon that slammed into the Philippines on Sunday, causing mudslides and flooding. Almost 1 million people were evacuated from the projected path of Typhoon Goni, the world's strongest typhoon this year, which struck the country with gusts of up to 310km/h (190mph). The death toll stood at 16 on Monday. Continue reading... |
| Prince William 'tested positive for coronavirus' in April Posted: 01 Nov 2020 04:34 PM PST Duke of Cambridge reportedly kept result secret as he 'didn't want to worry anyone' The Duke of Cambridge tested positive for coronavirus in April, according to reports. The BBC said it had been told by Buckingham palace sources that Prince William had contracted Covid-19 that month. Continue reading... |
| Chinese flyovers towards Taiwan peaked in October amid rising tensions Posted: 02 Nov 2020 01:38 AM PST Increase in sorties comes amid reported unease in Taipei over softer China stance if Joe Biden wins US presidency China's military sent planes towards Taiwan on 25 of the 31 days of October, the highest frequency of the antagonistic sorties all year, a Taiwanese monitoring group has said. The report comes as the Taiwanese government seeks to hose down reports that it is concerned at the prospect of Joe Biden becoming the next US president and taking a more conciliatory approach to China than Donald Trump. Continue reading... |
| London high court to deliver ruling on Johnny Depp libel case Posted: 01 Nov 2020 10:00 PM PST Trial judge to deliver long-awaited ruling online in case between actor and the Sun newspaper The high court in London is to hand down its ruling on the libel case between Johnny Depp and the Sun newspaper at 10am on Monday, four months on from the courtroom battle between the actor and his ex-wife Amber Heard. Trial judge Mr Justice Nicol will deliver his long-awaited ruling via the internet. The Pirates of the Caribbean actor is suing the tabloid's publisher, News Group Newspapers (NGN), and its executive editor, Dan Wootton, over a 2018 article which labelled him a "wife-beater". Continue reading... |
| Edward Snowden applies for Russian citizenship for sake of future son Posted: 02 Nov 2020 01:16 AM PST US whistleblower says move is to prevent him being separated from his as-yet unborn son in 'era of pandemics and closed borders' The US whistleblower Edward Snowden and his wife are applying for Russian citizenship in order not to be separated from their future son in an era of pandemics and closed borders, he said on Monday. Snowden's wife, Lindsay, is expecting a child in late December, the RIA news agency cited Anatoly Kucherena, his Russian lawyer, as saying. Continue reading... |
| Dutch Jewish family allege bias over refusal to return €20m painting Posted: 01 Nov 2020 09:30 PM PST Restitutions committee members have links to the Stedelijk Museum, which houses the Kandinsky work A Jewish family suing for the return of a €20m (£18m) painting by Wassily Kandinsky obtained by Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands has accused an official advisory committee of bias after ruling against them. Lawyers acting for the heirs to Robert Lewenstein, who fled for France in 1940, told an Amsterdam court there was an "appearance of partiality and a conflict of interest" within the Netherlands' restitutions committee, which advises on the return of art lost by Jewish families during the second world war. Continue reading... |
| Labour urges UK trade secretary to end delays over Kenya and Ghana deals Posted: 01 Nov 2020 10:00 PM PST Exclusive: Liz Truss urged to sign off deals quickly to spare African states high tariffs once Brexit transition period ends The Labour party has urged the UK trade secretary, Liz Truss, to end delays over rollover deals with Kenya and Ghana to prevent them being slapped with high tariffs when the UK leaves the EU on 1 January. Negotiations with Kenya and Ghana have yet to be signed off with only nine weeks to go before the UK's transition deal with the EU comes to an end, when import charges would be imposed on goods worth £2.6bn from the African countries. Continue reading... |
| Baby Shark becomes most viewed YouTube video ever, beating Despacito Posted: 02 Nov 2020 01:32 AM PST Catchy children's song reaches 7.04bn views, over four years after it was first uploaded Baby Shark, the cute and ultra-catchy children's song recorded by South Korean company Pinkfong, has become the most viewed video ever on YouTube. At 7.04bn views, it edges past Despacito, the 2017 single by Puerto Rican pop stars Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee. Continue reading... |
| Wesley Snipes on art, excellence and life after prison: 'I hope I came out a better person' Posted: 01 Nov 2020 10:00 PM PST After a fall as dramatic as any of his film roles, Snipes is back on track, starring with Eddie Murphy in the long-awaited Coming 2 America. He discusses police brutality, Michael Jackson – and his secret society Wesley Snipes seemed to have everything in the 90s and early 00s. He was a film star, gifted, gorgeous, chiselled from top to bottom. Box office gold. There seemed to be no genre he couldn't star in: thrillers (detective Thomas Flanigan in King of New York), action movies (drug baron Nino Brown in New Jack City), sports comedies (basketball hustler Syd Deane in White Men Can't Jump), LGBT comedies (drag queen Noxeema Jackson in To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar), arthouse romances (commercials director Max Carlyle in One Night Stand) and dramas (architect Flipper Purify in Jungle Fever). In 2004, his salary was a reported $13m for producing and starring in the third Blade blockbuster, Blade: Trinity. Snipes could not have been flying much higher. And then he fell. Boy, did he fall. Continue reading... |
| Daisy Chain: can a Cornish town adapt to survive another lockdown? Posted: 02 Nov 2020 02:00 AM PST When the remote town of St Just, Cornwall, was locked down in March, the small community worried that its economy wouldn't survive. But one town councillor, Daisy Gibbs, rallied an army of volunteers to form 'the Daisy chain', an informal support network to ensure every household in the district had support. Inspired by her imagination and resilience, filmmaker Sky Neal followed the Daisy Chain for seven months, as local businesses adapted and the community pulled together to realise a more sustainable future. However, as a second wave of restrictions threatens, the town has to dig deep to find the resilience they need to ensure their future. Can they re-invent their local economy to survive and thrive beyond Covid? Continue reading... |
| Ed van der Elsken's crazy world – in pictures Posted: 01 Nov 2020 11:00 PM PST Recognised as one of the most influential photographers of the last century for his raw street-style images of daily life, Ed van der Elsken's working archive has been acquired by the Rijksmuseum and the Nederlands Fotomuseum, and includes unseen images in an unpublished photobook, Feest ("to party"), which provides insight into his approach Continue reading... |
| The Guardian view on Tories and migration: stop the posing | Editorial Posted: 01 Nov 2020 11:00 AM PST The drowning of a family of five in the Channel and a fire on a ship off the coast of Senegal should prompt action – 'thoughts and prayers' are not enough "We don't see migration as a problem at all: we see people dying at sea as a problem and the existence of the mafias as a problem." Such was the view expressed last week by Hana Jalloul, secretary of state for migration in Spain. Days earlier, more than 140 people had died off the coast of Senegal, after their ship caught fire and capsized, in the deadliest shipwreck recorded this year. Ms Jalloul spoke of efforts to support the regional government of the Canary Islands, which is struggling to cope with the number of arrivals, and stressed her determination to combat organised crime. She also pointed to migrants' crucial role in Spanish life, including as care workers during the pandemic. British politicians could profit from studying her example in the aftermath of the drowning of a family of four Kurdish Iranians in the Channel. (A fifth member of the same family, aged 15 months, is missing and presumed dead.) Reports of the deaths of Rasul Iran Nezhad, Shiva Mohammad Panahi and their children drew forth platitudes from the home secretary, Priti Patel, about "thoughts and prayers". But nothing said by her or Boris Johnson did anything to dispel the impression that their attitude to people trying to reach the UK to seek asylum is chiefly antagonistic. While Ms Patel repeated her opposition to "callous criminals exploiting vulnerable people", there was no serious attempt to sympathise with the migrants' desperation – or acknowledge that their reliance on smugglers is a matter not of accident but of political choice. Continue reading... |
| 'Why would he do it on purpose?' girl asked after alleged assault by Sydney swim instructor Posted: 02 Nov 2020 02:00 AM PST Former Mosman swimming teacher Kyle Daniels is facing a jury trial accused of touching nine of his students on or near their genitals A young girl who accused her swimming teacher of inappropriately touching her twice asked why anyone would have done so on purpose, a Sydney jury has heard. During a police interview this year the girl said her former swimming instructor, Kyle James Henk Daniels, "accidentally touched my part you're not allowed to". Continue reading... |
| Nollywood's new generation in the spotlight at Film Africa in London Posted: 01 Nov 2020 11:15 PM PST Gender equality, postnatal depression and transatlantic migration are all tackled in quest for international audiences Once Nollywood might have meant films that were low budget and high drama and aimed mostly at a west African audience. But Nigerian cinema has evolved and this year a slew of new film-makers are tackling grittier subjects – and winning international acclaim. A roster of screenings at autumn's Film Africa festival in London reveal directors unafraid to look at issues such as gender equality, postnatal depression and transatlantic migration. Continue reading... |
| For the sake of Cameroon, life-president Paul Biya must be forced out | Vava Tampa Posted: 01 Nov 2020 11:30 PM PST The country should be rich, but millions live in dire poverty. France must stop supporting the president and his electoral ploys On 6 December, Africa's oldest serving leader, Paul Biya, and his ruling party, Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (RDPC), will be declared the winner of the country's first ever regional elections. That much is clear, and is expected inside and outside of the west African country – Biya has misruled with an iron fist for nearly 40 years. But the question we should be asking, but as yet have not, is what this means for Cameroon's 25 million people. In my view the answer is more poverty, more violence, more corruption and more suffering. This should compel us all to act. Continue reading... |
| Covid: how chilling projections prompted Johnson to lockdown Posted: 01 Nov 2020 10:03 AM PST Opposition of Sunak melted away during quad meeting and PM sided with Gove and Hancock Morgues in converted ice rinks, security guards outside overwhelmed hospitals to turn patients away, even municipal mass graves. When Boris Johnson's "quad" of senior ministers met on Friday, they were presented with a chilling prognosis of what would happen if they failed to take draconian action. Continue reading... |
| What you can and can't do in England's new Covid lockdown Posted: 01 Nov 2020 08:01 AM PST Which businesses will have to close, how many people can meet and more key questions answered Boris Johnson has announced a four-week lockdown in England, following weeks of pressure from his own scientific advisers and opposition parties to introduce tougher measures to tackle coronavirus. The full details of the restrictions will be published early this week before a vote in parliament on Wednesday. This is what we know so far. Continue reading... |
| Trump has gone a long way toward hindering democracy in other countries Posted: 01 Nov 2020 02:30 AM PST The president has questioned American democracy for four years, creating challenges abroad The last time a Republican won the popular vote for president, the winning candidate declared that the spread of democracy was central to American security. "It is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world," said George W Bush in his second inaugural address in 2005. Continue reading... |
| Trump thanks supporters chanting 'fire Fauci' at Florida rally – video Posted: 02 Nov 2020 01:47 AM PST Donald Trump has threatened to fire America's top infectious disease expert during a rally in Florida, just 24 hours before the US presidential election. Anthony Fauci has served for over three decades as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and has been critical of Trump's handling of the coronavirus outbreak. During the midnight rally in Florida, crowds chanted: 'Fire Fauci', which the president allowed to continue for several seconds before responding: 'Don't tell anybody, but let me wait until a little bit after the election.' Continue reading... |
| Emmanuel Macron: violence not an acceptable response to cartoons of Muhammad – video Posted: 01 Nov 2020 10:00 AM PST Emmanuel Macron has defended the right of publishers to depict caricatures of the prophet Muhammad in France. 'I will never accept that someone can justify the use of physical violence because of these cartoons,' Macron said. On 16 October, a history teacher, Samuel Paty, was beheaded outside his school near Paris after showing pupils two caricatures of Muhammad as part of a discussion about free speech. The French president sought to calm anti-French protests in Islamic countries after the reprinting of the Charlie Hebdo cartoons in an interview with Al Jazeera. Macron said he 'understands the feelings of Muslims about the caricatures'. But he said it was not his role as president to restrict freedom of expression when it caused offence Continue reading... |
| Keir Starmer says schools must remain open in second Covid lockdown – video Posted: 01 Nov 2020 04:22 AM PST Keir Starmer has said schools must stay open during England's second coronavirus lockdown. 'The harm caused to children by not being in school is huge,' the Labour leader told BBC One's The Andrew Marr Show. He said the risk of infections could be managed by mass weekly testing at schools. Sir Jeremy Farrar, a member of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), has suggested schools may need to close to make the lockdown more effective Continue reading... |
| Michael Gove says England's Covid-19 lockdown could be extended – video Posted: 01 Nov 2020 04:05 AM PST Michael Gove has said the new coronavirus lockdown in England could be extended beyond four weeks if the number of infections does not fall far enough. Gove told Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday show that measures would be reviewed on 2 December and could last longer if the virus has not been contained
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| A history of voter suppression in Georgia – in pictures Posted: 01 Nov 2020 03:00 AM PST Ever since the 15th amendment granted Black men the right to vote, southern states have found myriad ways to walk back this basic tenet of democracy. From white primaries to poll taxes, to literacy tests and recent voter roll purges, voter suppression has always been a defining characteristic of American elections. As part of her photo project Let The Record Show, Roopa Gogineni spent time at the Atlanta History Center and the Georgia Archives photographing documents and objects to chronicle the centuries-long struggle for the right to vote in the state of Georgia Continue reading... |
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