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- US election 2020: Biden to announce Covid taskforce as Trump still protests defeat– live updates
- 'His speech was perfect': Chinese people celebrate Biden win
- Goodbye Trump, hello Biden: how America is waving goodbye to a shocking, shameful era
- How Georgia's Senate run-offs could finally hand Stacey Abrams her victory
- Ivanka Trump will lose White House status and job – what will she do next?
- ‘Hypocrites and greenwash’: Greta Thunberg blasts leaders over climate crisis
- Tropical storm Eta makes landfall in Florida after leaving dozens dead and missing
- Coronavirus live news: US nears 10m cases as global infections pass 50m
- Brexit: UK risks being 'international pariah' under Biden, says Labour
- Ethiopia: reports of heavy casualties in fighting in Tigray
- 'Stand By Her': China university students campaign to end period shaming
- Keir Starmer urges Labour to learn from Joe Biden's 'broad coalition'
- Global stocks hit record high as markets welcome Biden victory – business live
- Azerbaijan claims to have captured key town in Nagorno-Karabakh
- First passengers travel in Virgin's levitating hyperloop pod system
- 'Super rare' 100-year-old carrier pigeon message found in France
- US posts fourth consecutive daily Covid record as Joe Biden prepares taskforce
- New restrictions announced in US states seeing Covid-19 surges
- Wales ends 17-day 'firebreak' and brings in looser Covid measures
- 'Wiped off the map': tiny Italian villages cower from Covid threat
- Tracey Emin on her cancer: 'I will find love. I will have exhibitions. I will enjoy life'
- Race shapes travel: backpacking as a black woman
- I was sick of blokey books by dads – could mothers’ memoirs make me a better father?
- Bose QuietComfort Earbuds review: just shy of noise-cancelling greatness
- The Trials of Oscar Pistorius review – what about Reeva Steenkamp?
- The battle to bring Kenya's warrior children back to school – a photo essay
- Armed groups target Colombia's children as reform process slows
- Japan's 'Jo Baiden' becomes overnight internet sensation
- Latrell Mitchell avoids conviction for gun offence during coronavirus camping trip
- EU bank supports projects linked to human rights violations, NGOs claim
- Bilal Fawaz: 'I became best friends with darkness and pain a long time ago'
- Will Mitch McConnell strangle Joe Biden's legislative program at birth?
- New Zealand's rejection of legalising cannabis is a triumph for fear-mongering | Fiona Hutton
- Russia and China silence speaks volumes as leaders congratulate Biden
- 'She's made us proud': Kamala Harris's ancestral village celebrates election win – video
- Boris Johnson congratulates Biden and Harris: 'There is more that unites us than divides us' – video
| US election 2020: Biden to announce Covid taskforce as Trump still protests defeat– live updates Posted: 09 Nov 2020 02:05 AM PST
You want to know the latest on the vote counting, don't you? In Pennsylvania, Biden's lead is now 45,727. He's won 49.8% of the vote compared to Trump's 49.1%.
Here's some of that Washington Post report that the Trump administration is not playing ball already when it comes to the peaceful transition of power to the Biden-Harris team: A Trump administration appointee is refusing to sign a letter allowing Joe Biden's transition team to formally begin its work this week, in another sign the incumbent president has not acknowledged Biden's victory and could disrupt the transfer of power. The administrator of the General Services Administration, the low-profile agency in charge of federal buildings, has a little-known role when a new president is elected: to sign paperwork officially turning over millions of dollars, as well as give access to government officials, office space in agencies and equipment authorized for the taxpayer-funded transition teams of the winner. Continue reading... |
| 'His speech was perfect': Chinese people celebrate Biden win Posted: 08 Nov 2020 11:05 PM PST While president Xi remains silent, Chinese residents voice cautious optimism for better relations between the two superpowers While China's top officials remained conspicuously silent on Joe Biden's presidential victory over Donald Trump, Chinese residents celebrated and held out cautious optimism for improved US-China ties. On Monday, Biden's speech after being declared the projected winner was among the most viewed topics on social media, with the hashtag "Biden national address" viewed more than one billion times on Weibo. Continue reading... |
| Goodbye Trump, hello Biden: how America is waving goodbye to a shocking, shameful era Posted: 09 Nov 2020 02:00 AM PST Trump's brutal policies and spread of misinformation have divided the US. Uniting the country will be Biden's biggest task As the result was finally called, the end of his presidency confirmed, Donald Trump teed off on a crisp, autumnal Saturday afternoon at his private golf club in Virginia. The president was in the midst of a four-day mission to spread baseless misinformation about election integrity in an attempt to subvert US democracy. Continue reading... |
| How Georgia's Senate run-offs could finally hand Stacey Abrams her victory Posted: 08 Nov 2020 11:00 PM PST Two years ago, she lost to then-secretary of state Brian Kemp, but that loss spurred her to fight for Georgians' right to vote Two years ago, Stacey Abrams became a household name when she ran for governor of Georgia against Brian Kemp, then secretary of state. Though her votes came in short, she refused to concede – citing widespread voter suppression in a state where the election was run by the opponent himself. In 2020, she is still not the governor. But in some ways, Abrams never lost. Continue reading... |
| Ivanka Trump will lose White House status and job – what will she do next? Posted: 09 Nov 2020 12:00 AM PST Trump isn't just losing her status as first daughter, she's also losing her job as 'advisor to the president' Ivanka Trump isn't just losing her status as first daughter with her father Donald Trump's defeat to Joe Biden – she's also losing her job. In her father's White House, Ivanka Trump works as "advisor to the president", purportedly focusing on "the education and economic empowerment of women and their families as well as job creation and economic growth through workforce development, skills training and entrepreneurship". Continue reading... |
| ‘Hypocrites and greenwash’: Greta Thunberg blasts leaders over climate crisis Posted: 09 Nov 2020 02:00 AM PST Exclusive: Leaders are happy to set targets for decades ahead, but flinch when immediate action is needed, she says Greta Thunberg has blasted politicians as hypocrites and international climate summits as empty words and greenwash. Until humanity admits it has failed to tackle the climate crisis and begins treating it as an emergency like the coronavirus pandemic, society will be unable to stop global heating, she said. In an interview with the Guardian, Thunberg said leaders were happy to set targets for decades into the future, but flinched when immediate action to cut emissions was needed. She said there was not a politician on the planet she would vote for: "If only," said the teenager, who will turn 18 in January. Continue reading... |
| Tropical storm Eta makes landfall in Florida after leaving dozens dead and missing Posted: 08 Nov 2020 09:29 PM PST State officials closed beaches, ports and Covid testing sites ahead of Eta's arrival Sunday night A strengthening Tropical Storm Eta made landfall on Florida's Lower Matecumbe Key on Sunday night, days after leaving scores of dead and more than 100 missing in Mexico and Central America. The US National Hurricane Center in Miami declared hurricane and storm surge warnings for the Keys from Ocean Reef to the Dry Tortugas, including Florida Bay. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus live news: US nears 10m cases as global infections pass 50m Posted: 09 Nov 2020 01:48 AM PST US currently has 9.96m confirmed Covid cases; pandemic expert says half positive cases not being identified; economic fallout makes prospect of third world war 'a risk'. Follow the latest updates
Here is the latest Covid world map, showing how the virus has spread around the globe. Related: Covid world map: which countries have the most coronavirus cases and deaths?
Indonesia reported 2,853 new coronavirus infections on Monday, taking the total number of cases to 440,569, data from the country's COVID-19 task force showed. |
| Brexit: UK risks being 'international pariah' under Biden, says Labour Posted: 09 Nov 2020 01:15 AM PST Lord Falconer issues warning as House of Lords prepares to vote on internal market bill The UK risks becoming "an international pariah" and endangering relations with the US under Joe Biden, Labour has said, after ministers pledged to press ahead with a plan to break international law by potentially rewriting parts of the Brexit withdrawal deal. Lord Falconer, the shadow attorney general, said the government was "in a big hole" over its internal market bill, which the House of Lords is expected to amend this week to remove the contentious proposals. Continue reading... |
| Ethiopia: reports of heavy casualties in fighting in Tigray Posted: 08 Nov 2020 09:07 AM PST Country's prime minister sent in federal troops and aircraft last week in major escalation Heavy casualties have been reported in ongoing clashes between the Ethiopian army and troops loyal to the ruling party of the restive northern province of Tigray. At least six people were killed and 60 people wounded in one location along the Tigray border alone, Doctors Without Borders said on Saturday, and a medical official said nearly 100 government soldiers had been treated for gunshot wounds at a hospital in the northern Amhara region. Continue reading... |
| 'Stand By Her': China university students campaign to end period shaming Posted: 08 Nov 2020 11:00 AM PST Free sanitary pad dispensers installed on campuses in effort to counter 'stigma of menstruation' in the country Chinese students have launched a program setting up free sanitary pad dispensers in toilets at universities across the country in a bid to end period shaming of young women. "Sanitary pad support boxes" have been set up in almost 250 campuses following a campaign on social media by an advocacy group called Stand By Her. Those who take from the period support boxes are encouraged to help replenish its stock later. Continue reading... |
| Keir Starmer urges Labour to learn from Joe Biden's 'broad coalition' Posted: 08 Nov 2020 10:30 AM PST Writing in the Guardian, Labour leader says strategy that won back votes in the US can work in UK The Labour leader, Keir Starmer, has urged his party to learn from Joe Biden's "broad coalition" which won back voters who turned away from the Democrats four years ago, pointing to the president-elect's emphasis on "family, community and security". Starmer, an enthusiastic supporter of Biden's bid who shares a WhatsApp group with his staff called "Let's Go Joe", said the victory of the former vice-president and his running mate Kamala Harris would "fill the void in global leadership" and was a vote "for a better, more optimistic future". Continue reading... |
| Global stocks hit record high as markets welcome Biden victory – business live Posted: 09 Nov 2020 02:04 AM PST Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news
Optimism about the outlook for risk assets during a Joe Biden presidency has driven global stock markets to a record high today, reports Bloomberg: "Stock markets have responded to the U.S. elections with relief," Ulrich Urbahn, head of multi-asset strategy at Berenberg Bank, said by email. "One reason for this, apart from the reduction of hedges, may have been that the election result (president Biden, divided Congress) essentially secures the status quo but with less political tension." Urbahn said Berenberg remains constructive on equities and optimistic on European small caps, Asian emerging-market equities and bonds amid bets that the Covid-19 vaccine approval is approaching and that the global economy will recover next year. "Why the excitement? Hopes of less diplomatic and trade angst, a lower dollar helps global rebalancing," Chris Bailey, European strategist at Raymond James in London said in a note. "A lot of hope... but over two months until inauguration day!" Investors expect Republicans to maintain control of the Senate, making it harder for a Biden administration to push through major policy changes, from a planned tax hike to a big fiscal stimulus package. What we lost in the previous week we made back last week and more. America has voted, Biden wins and the market likes it," said Armin Peter, head of European debt syndicate at UBS. Mr Biden has made fighting the coronavirus outbreak in the US a priority and is expected to spearhead an additional stimulus effort to cushion the economic blow from the pandemic, in addition to raising taxes.
World stock markets have hit a fresh record high this morning, thanks to the Biden Bounce. MSCI's All Country World Index, which tracks shares in 49 countries, has powered to a fresh peak thanks to the gains in Europe and across Asia-Pacific markets today. "Stocks had already started to move higher last week on the assumption there would be a divided government. This expectation extends into the new trading week following the latest voting figures which put Biden in first place. "While the threat of legal action by Trump could delay proceedings, investors are pricing in almost zero chance for the incumbent to destabilise affairs. So that means the market is in risk-on mood with equities rising across Asia, Europe and pre-market indicative prices also suggest a good day for US stocks. Continue reading... |
| Azerbaijan claims to have captured key town in Nagorno-Karabakh Posted: 08 Nov 2020 08:04 AM PST President Aliyev says country's forces have taken Shusha, despite Armenian denials Azerbaijan has said it has recaptured the symbolic town of Shusha, a claim denied by Armenian officials as fighting in the bloody six-week-old battle over the Nagorno-Karabakh territory appeared to reach an apex. "[This day] will become a great day in the history of Azerbaijan," said Azerbaijan's president, Ilham Aliyev, in a televised address. His announcement on Sunday was greeted with celebrations on the streets of Baku as Azerbaijanis gathered to wave flags and sing. Continue reading... |
| First passengers travel in Virgin's levitating hyperloop pod system Posted: 09 Nov 2020 01:14 AM PST Super high-speed pods could eventually make New York to Washington trip in 30 minutes Richard Branson's Virgin Hyperloop has completed the world's first passenger ride on a super high-speed levitating pod system, a key safety test for technology it hopes will transform human and cargo transportation. Virgin Hyperloop executives Josh Giegel, its chief technology officer, and Sara Luchian, the director of passenger experience, reached speeds of up to 107mph (172 km/h) at the company's DevLoop test site in Las Vegas, Nevada, the company said on Sunday. Continue reading... |
| 'Super rare' 100-year-old carrier pigeon message found in France Posted: 08 Nov 2020 07:03 PM PST Tiny capsule discovered in Ingersheim appears to have been sent by a soldier during the first world war A couple out for a walk in eastern France have discovered a tiny capsule containing a message despatched by a Prussian soldier over a century ago using a carrier pigeon. The message from an infantry soldier based at Ingersheim, written in German in a barely legible hand, detailed military manoeuvres apparently during the first world war and was addressed to a superior officer, said Dominique Jardy, curator of the Linge Museum at Orbey in eastern France. Continue reading... |
| US posts fourth consecutive daily Covid record as Joe Biden prepares taskforce Posted: 08 Nov 2020 08:22 AM PST President-elect Biden says 'Plan will be to built on bedrock of science' and promised 'to spare no effort' to fight pandemic As President-elect Joe Biden announced that he would name his own coronavirus taskforce on Monday, the US recorded its fourth consecutive record daily total of new Covid cases, close to 130,000. Continue reading... |
| New restrictions announced in US states seeing Covid-19 surges Posted: 09 Nov 2020 12:00 AM PST Residents in Oregon are being asked to limit gatherings to six people while New York implements rules for out-of-state visitors As America grapples with record-breaking surges in Covid-19 infections and no meaningful federal response, some state and local governments are implementing new restrictions to combat the surging virus. Other hard hit areas, however, are taking little to no action against a pandemic that has claimed more than 200,000 lives and sent the US economy into a tailspin. Continue reading... |
| Wales ends 17-day 'firebreak' and brings in looser Covid measures Posted: 09 Nov 2020 12:00 AM PST Up to four people can meet in cafes and pubs, and supermarkets can sell non-essentials Wales's new national measures to combat coronavirus have come into force following the end of the country's 17-day "firebreak" lockdown. Groups of up to four people can now meet in cafes, pubs and restaurants while shops, gyms, hairdressers and places of worship will also reopen. Continue reading... |
| 'Wiped off the map': tiny Italian villages cower from Covid threat Posted: 08 Nov 2020 03:39 AM PST Coronavirus potentially poses a threat to the very existence of places such as Roccafiorita in Sicily When the mayor of Roccafiorita received a phone call in October informing him that an employee in his office had tested positive for Covid-19, his heart sank. Set among the forests at the foot of Mount Kalfa, Roccafiorita is the smallest village in southern Italy. The average age of its 187 inhabitants is over 60. If Covid were to spread among the population, the village could disappear. Continue reading... |
| Tracey Emin on her cancer: 'I will find love. I will have exhibitions. I will enjoy life' Posted: 08 Nov 2020 10:00 PM PST As she recovers from a brutal summer of cancer treatment, Tracey Emin takes us round her new show – and imagines spending the next 30 years painting in her pyjamas to the sound of birdsong 'I am so lucky," says Tracey Emin as we stand in the grand galleries of the Royal Academy. I can tell, from her brown eyes, that she's smiling beneath her face mask. As we roam rooms painted moody blue for her new exhibition, in which her paintings, bronzes and neons are juxtaposed with the oils and watercolours of Edvard Munch, Emin adjusts her stoma bag occasionally and laughs a lot. "I'm in love with Munch," she says. "Not with the art, but with the man. I have been since I was 18." This is not what I expected. Minutes earlier, walking through this London gallery's courtyard, I felt darkness descending everywhere. England was re-entering lockdown, Biden hadn't yet won Michigan and the last visitors to the Royal Academy for a month were heading out into the night. I expected the 57-year-old artist to be at death's door, defeated by disease and circumstance. She is, after all, putting on an exhibition hardly anyone will see: "They sold 16,000 advance tickets but when Boris announced the second lockdown, we knew we couldn't open." All she can hope is that the gallery will open in December, but that is uncertain. Continue reading... |
| Race shapes travel: backpacking as a black woman Posted: 08 Nov 2020 10:30 PM PST In an extract from her new book, the Kenyan writer reflects on how guidebooks to Africa, with their warnings of danger, instilled fear in her – until a solo trip to Burkina Faso The pitch-black night of the Sahara does not yield to the sunlight until it is good and ready, and when it does, it flees so fast you would think the place is constantly bathed in blinding light. Stark sunrises turn the giant dunes dull brown for a scant few seconds; for a handful of minutes, as the sun is creeping up the sky, the sand glows. Then the sky cracks open and turns brilliant blue, and everything around you will shimmer in response. Until that moment when the blue scares off the dark, the dusty roads leading from Gorom-Gorom to Oursi, a small town outside a small town in northern Burkina Faso, are shrouded in the desert's secrecy, blanketed by inscrutable darkness and breathtaking silence. Six nights a week, that is. Continue reading... |
| I was sick of blokey books by dads – could mothers’ memoirs make me a better father? Posted: 09 Nov 2020 12:00 AM PST All the parenting manuals I'd read were jokey and superficial. Then I turned to Rachel Cusk and Deborah Levy … What does a book look like that is going to change your life? How do the pages feel? How does it smell? Surely not like the parenting books I started reading more than two years ago, in the spring of 2018, when I was on parental leave, the weather was gorgeous and my marriage was beginning to crumble. And yet these were books that would change my life. Only not in the way I anticipated. If it seems late to start reading up on how best to be a father after your child is born, then I'd better not mention I have one more daughter, who was then almost nine. I had some catching up to do then; 10 years of it, to be exact. I approached the task with the same degree of self-confidence as I might have if buying a dishwasher, blindly searching the web for keywords: father, dad, fatherhood. I chanced on a collection of personal essays by the novelist Michael Chabon, called Pops, which had just come out to agreeable reviews. I swallowed the book in one gulp, and was not disappointed. There were snippets I could easily relate to, such as when Chabon points out that for a father to receive praise, he rarely has to do more than show up with a baby in a grocery shop queue. The moment I put down the book, I found out he had written one more, called Manhood for Amateurs. I downed that one, too, and, like a lonely drunk in a bar, I deposited my credit card and kept ordering. Continue reading... |
| Bose QuietComfort Earbuds review: just shy of noise-cancelling greatness Posted: 08 Nov 2020 11:00 PM PST A comfortable fit, with solid battery life but big case and no onboard volume controls Bose has finally launched its noise-cancelling Bluetooth QuietComfort Earbuds, a pair that hope to replicate the success of the firm's legendary overhead QC35 headphones that dominate flights and rail commutes alike. The new earbuds cost £249.95 and sit above the £179.95 Sport Earbuds, which do not have noise cancelling. They look more like small Bluetooth headsets rather than earbuds, similar to Sony's design for its top noise-cancelling earbuds. Despite being large and relatively heavy at 8.5g each (most earbuds weigh under 6g), they have a light and comfortable fit, thanks to their soft and well-shaped silicone tips. Continue reading... |
| The Trials of Oscar Pistorius review – what about Reeva Steenkamp? Posted: 08 Nov 2020 02:45 PM PST This docuseries could have asked bigger questions on domestic violence, or the murder of Pistorius's scarcely mentioned girlfriend. Instead, it is a flawed, fawning hagiography The BBC provoked an outcry last month when it ran a two-minute trailer for this four-part documentary series (BBC Two and BBC iPlayer) that referred to "an international hero who inspired millions" who had "suddenly found himself at the centre of a murder investigation", without once mentioning the name of the woman Pistorius killed: Reeva Steenkamp. If you did not know the story, you would probably have thought you were about to watch a re-examination of a murder investigation gone wrong and the righting of a terrible miscarriage of justice. The BBC eventually apologised and replaced the advert with something they said was more representative of the tone of the film. They should just have left it. It was a meretricious trailer for a meretricious film by a director – Daniel Gordon – who, in one of the press interviews for the series, said he was "still flip-flopping" on the matter of Pistorius's guilt. Continue reading... |
| The battle to bring Kenya's warrior children back to school – a photo essay Posted: 08 Nov 2020 11:15 PM PST Covid closures coincided with an initiation ceremony that has put many on a path out of education and set back years of progress Photographs by Joost Bastmeijer Shortly after sunrise, three boys step off their motorcycle, pat the dust off their checkered shuka cloths, and enter their family's boma – an enclosure built from thorny acacia branches in eastern Samburu. Now that they are morans, the teenagers are considered adults and are no longer permitted to sleep in their parents' house. Instead, they go each evening to sleep in a nearby school building and return home in the morning. The school has been shut since the Covid-19 outbreak, and benches have been moved aside to make room for mattresses, and a makeshift kitchen. Continue reading... |
| Armed groups target Colombia's children as reform process slows Posted: 08 Nov 2020 11:45 PM PST For families in the northern province of Cauca, time is running out as drug gangs and guerrilla groups exploit Covid chaos "He came home scared and distant," said his mother, Luzmery. Both knew that the men, who control their hamlet in the northern Cauca province, would be back for an answer. "He told me, 'I don't want to go. What should I do?'" Continue reading... |
| Japan's 'Jo Baiden' becomes overnight internet sensation Posted: 09 Nov 2020 01:50 AM PST Small-town mayor, 73, whose name can be pronounced similarly to president-elect, congratulated by PM Joe Biden's election victory has brought an improbable moment of celebrity to a local politician in Japan. Yutaka Umeda, 73, the mayor of Yamato, a small town in the south-west of the country, has become an overnight internet sensation after it was noticed that the kanji characters used to write his name can also be pronounced "Jo Baiden". Continue reading... |
| Latrell Mitchell avoids conviction for gun offence during coronavirus camping trip Posted: 09 Nov 2020 02:11 AM PST NRL star was previously fined for Covid social-distancing breaches during the trip to his Taree farm in April South Sydney NRL star Latrell Mitchell has been spared a criminal conviction for a gun offence during a camping weekend on the NSW mid north coast during the Covid-19 pandemic. Mitchell, 23, who pleaded guilty in August to giving a firearm to an unauthorised person, was sentenced to a conditional release order on Monday in Taree local court. Under the order, he must not commit any offence for the next 12 months and he has to return to court if called to do so at any time during that period. Continue reading... |
| EU bank supports projects linked to human rights violations, NGOs claim Posted: 08 Nov 2020 04:01 PM PST European Investment Bank accused of failure to properly assess impacts of supported projects in Africa and Asia The EU-funded European Investment Bank has been using taxpayer cash to support infrastructure projects linked to alleged human rights violations, an investigation by NGOs shows. The report – led by campaign groups Counter Balance and the CEE Bankwatch Network – has accused the EIB of a lack of transparency and a failure to properly assess the impact of its funding as it extends its role beyond Europe to former Soviet republics, Africa and Asia. Continue reading... |
| Bilal Fawaz: 'I became best friends with darkness and pain a long time ago' Posted: 08 Nov 2020 04:01 PM PST After being abused as a boy in Nigeria and trafficked to London at 14, boxing and piano playing gave him hope and at 32 Bilal Fawaz is finally able to fight professionally "There is beauty in darkness," Bilal Fawaz says with a poetic flourish as we sit on an old bench outside the Cricklewood Boxing Gym in this stark corner of north-west London. "I became best friends with darkness and pain a long time ago." The sky is sombre, with black clouds rolling in, and Fawaz talks with electrifying force. He is a newly professional boxer but his past is haunting and his future uncertain. Fawaz was abused as a boy in Nigeria and then trafficked to London. Continue reading... |
| Will Mitch McConnell strangle Joe Biden's legislative program at birth? Posted: 09 Nov 2020 12:00 AM PST The Kentucky senator revels in the nickname the Grim Reaper and tried to frustrate the previous Democratic president at every turn After celebrating the winning of a Joe Biden presidency, Democrats are waking to the hangover of figuring out how to govern under the shadow of a runaway pandemic and the potential for gridlock imposed by the man who likes to call himself the Grim Reaper, the Republican Senate leader, Mitch McConnell. Continue reading... |
| New Zealand's rejection of legalising cannabis is a triumph for fear-mongering | Fiona Hutton Posted: 08 Nov 2020 05:21 PM PST As other countries make leaps and bounds in drug law reform, Aotearoa seems bound to the tired and worn path of prohibition Sadly New Zealand has voted no to legalising cannabis, but it was close: 48.4% voted in support of the Cannabis Legalisation and Control Bill and 50.7% voted against. As someone who campaigned hard for a yes vote, for much needed reform of our drug laws, I am reduced to tears. I have been receiving heartbreaking emails from people thanking me for my work to try and get the evidence out there, to try and stem the tide of fear-mongering and misinformation about cannabis and those who use it. Continue reading... |
| Russia and China silence speaks volumes as leaders congratulate Biden Posted: 08 Nov 2020 09:46 AM PST Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping stay silent while Iran waits to see how US will compensate for Trump sanctions Most world leaders rushed to congratulate Joe Biden on his election, but Russia and China, two likely losers from the defeat of Donald Trump, remained silent, perhaps waiting for the outgoing president to concede defeat. The president of the Maldives, Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, is thought to be the first to have congratulated Biden, tweeting his welcome within 24 minutes of the US networks declaring Biden victorious. By contrast, Vladimir Putin, accused of collusion in Trump's 2016 victory, and Xi Jinping kept their counsel. Continue reading... |
| 'She's made us proud': Kamala Harris's ancestral village celebrates election win – video Posted: 08 Nov 2020 10:46 AM PST The small Indian village of Thulasendrapuram burst into celebration after waking up to the news that Kamala Harris will become the first woman and the first person of south-Asian descent to become US vice-president. People set off firecrackers, played music and shared food in the village, where Harris's maternal grandfather was born. 'We take immense pride in her victory, and who she has become,' said one resident
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| Boris Johnson congratulates Biden and Harris: 'There is more that unites us than divides us' – video Posted: 08 Nov 2020 04:58 AM PST The UK prime minister insisted there is scope for cooperation with the incoming Biden administration as he congratulated the Democrat and his running mate Kamala Harris. Biden, who has Irish ancestry, has made it clear there will be no agreement on a post-Brexit UK-US trade deal if a no-deal outcome threatens the Good Friday agreement. 'There is far more that unites the government of this country and governments in Washington at any stage than divides us,' Johnson said.
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