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- ‘Unforgivable’: Gareth Southgate on racist abuse of England players
- Haiti police say murder suspect is middleman living in Florida
- ‘Change is coming’: UN sets out Paris-style plan to cut extinction rate tenfold
- Afghan family trapped in Istanbul airport after fleeing Taliban threats
- Troops called in after jailing of Zuma ignites violence and looting
- Thousands march in Cuba in rare mass protests amid economic crisis
- Bay of Pigs veteran among victims of Miami condo collapse as toll rises to 94
- Guggenheim Bilbao asks for €100,000 to restore Jeff Koons’ Puppy
- Jordan court jails two ex-officials for 15 years over alleged royal plot
- Mint condition Super Mario 64 game sells for record $1.5m
- Coronavirus live: Dutch PM sorry for opening up too soon as cases surge; Thailand to mix AstraZeneca and Sinovac
- Sajid Javid confirms 19 July plan to lift Covid restrictions in England
- ‘Devastating’: WHO scientist condemns Euro 2020 final over Covid risk
- No Gangnam Style: South Korea Covid rules enforce slower music in gyms
- Nazis, fear and violence: when reporting from Berlin was dangerous
- How we made: Car Wash by Rose Royce
- ‘I spent the whole night celebrating’: Italy fans revel in Euro 2020 triumph
- How we met: ‘My flight was delayed, I went to the bar – and found my future wife’
- Magnum’s great escape: confinement and liberation – in pictures
- ‘No peace without justice’: families of Italy’s mafia victims wait for closure
- Johnson and Patel accused of hypocrisy over racist abuse of England footballers
- EU nations reimpose Covid measures as cases surge
- Plurality review – simple-minded multiple-identity thriller
- Former UTS dean found not guilty of nine charges in fake harassment trial
- Almost one in three globally go hungry during pandemic – UN
- ‘We cannot vote or get jobs’: plight of 300,000 Zimbabweans without documents
- Health campaigners call for an end to the use of the word leper
- My time in Taiwan shows the virus will exploit any hint of complacency | Helen Davidson
- Thousands join rare anti-government protests in Cuba – video
- Widow of Haitian president releases first statement since assassination – audio
‘Unforgivable’: Gareth Southgate on racist abuse of England players Posted: 12 Jul 2021 04:33 AM PDT
Figures from across the world of football have shown their support for England's black stars after they were subjected to another night of racist abuse on social media following defeat in the European Championship final. Provisional data analysis conducted by the Guardian, in collaboration with Hope Not Hate, found more than 120 instances of England players receiving direct racial abuse on Twitter in the hours following the game. The majority of messages contained the n-word while others compared players to monkeys or used emojis associated with racist slurs. This compares to 44 racist messages during England's first three matches of the tournament. Streams of abuse were also posted on Instagram. Continue reading... |
Haiti police say murder suspect is middleman living in Florida Posted: 12 Jul 2021 05:01 AM PDT Items found at Christian Emmanuel Sanon's house include bullets, gun parts and US drug agency hat Police in Haiti say they have arrested a new suspect in the assassination of the country's president, Jovenel Moïse – a Haitian living in Florida who arrived on a private plane in June allegedly to act as a middleman between the alleged hitmen and the plot's unnamed masterminds. As Haiti descended ever deeper into a dangerous political chaos, with notorious gang leader Jimmy "Barbecue" Cherizier calling on Haitians to "mobilise", the motive for the killing of Moïse remained clouded in mystery. Continue reading... |
‘Change is coming’: UN sets out Paris-style plan to cut extinction rate tenfold Posted: 12 Jul 2021 07:00 AM PDT Ambitious draft goals to halt biodiversity loss revealed, with proposed changes to food production expected to 'raise eyebrows' Eliminating plastic pollution, reducing pesticide use by two-thirds, halving the rate of invasive species introduction and eliminating $500bn (£360bn) of harmful environmental government subsidies a year are among the targets in a new draft of a Paris-style UN agreement for biodiversity loss. The goals set out by the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to help halt and reverse the ecological destruction of Earth by the end of the decade also include protecting at least 30% of the world's oceans and land and providing a third of climate crisis mitigation through nature by 2030. Continue reading... |
Afghan family trapped in Istanbul airport after fleeing Taliban threats Posted: 12 Jul 2021 05:55 AM PDT Family of 16 had hoped to claim asylum in Russia, as thousands flee Afghanistan after troops withdrawal Sixteen members of an Afghan family who fled Taliban death threats have been trapped in Istanbul airport for the past two weeks, and thousands more refugees are making their way overland seeking safety in Turkey, as the security situation in Afghanistan rapidly deteriorates after the withdrawal of US and Nato forces. The family, from Herat city, decided to leave the country in June after a relative was shot and killed on the street by Taliban forces. Several of them work with international aid organisations on issues such as women's rights, and have continued to face threats. Continue reading... |
Troops called in after jailing of Zuma ignites violence and looting Posted: 12 Jul 2021 06:19 AM PDT Ex-president's supporters loot shops and block highways as South Africa's highest court rules on whether to uphold sentence South Africa's army is to deploy to help police to quell rioting and looting that has cost seven lives and led to hundreds of arrests, military officials have announced. Authorities have been unable to stem sporadic outbreaks of violence across two provinces since the former president Jacob Zuma handed himself over to police to serve a 15-month prison sentence last week. Continue reading... |
Thousands march in Cuba in rare mass protests amid economic crisis Posted: 12 Jul 2021 07:03 AM PDT US sanctions and coronavirus crisis lead to food shortages and high prices, sparking one of the biggest such demonstrations in memory The biggest mass demonstrations for three decades have rippled through Cuba, as thousands took to the streets in cities throughout the island, demonstrating against food shortages, high prices and communist rule. The protests began in the morning, in the town of San Antonio de los Baños in the west of the island, and in the city of Palma Soriano in the east. In both cases protesters numbered in the hundreds. Continue reading... |
Bay of Pigs veteran among victims of Miami condo collapse as toll rises to 94 Posted: 12 Jul 2021 08:22 AM PDT • Juan Mora, 80, died with his wife and son in the Surfside disaster • Mora took part in the abortive 1961 invasion of Cuba As workers continue to search the rubble of the collapsed condo building in Surfside, Florida, stories of the extraordinary lives of victims are starting to emerge, among them a Cuban exile who took part in the calamitous Bay of Pigs invasion 60 years ago. Related: Death toll rises to 90 in Miami condo collapse as search for victims continues Continue reading... |
Guggenheim Bilbao asks for €100,000 to restore Jeff Koons’ Puppy Posted: 12 Jul 2021 05:28 AM PDT Museum launches first crowdfunding campaign to repair structure of US artist's 13-metre west highland terrier It's a crowdfunding campaign seeking to pull on heartstrings and save a puppy in bad shape, but this request by the Guggenheim in Bilbao is on a different scale. The museum is asking for €100,000 in donations to restore the American artist Jeff Koons' 12.4-metre-tall Puppy. The flower-covered sculpture of a west highland terrier stands at the entrance to the museum. Its vibrant 38,000 plants, which include petunias, impatiens, marigolds and begonias, are replaced twice a year. Continue reading... |
Jordan court jails two ex-officials for 15 years over alleged royal plot Posted: 12 Jul 2021 01:38 AM PDT Ex-royal aide Bassem Awadallah and Sharif Hassan bin Zaid, a royal family member, convicted of plotting to foment unrest A Jordanian state security court has sentenced two former officials to serve 15 years in prison over an alleged plot to foment unrest in the western-allied Middle East kingdom. Bassem Awadallah, who has US citizenship and once served as a top aide to King Abdullah II; and Sharif Hassan bin Zaid, a member of the royal family, were found guilty of sedition and incitement charges. Each was sentenced to 15 years in jail. Continue reading... |
Mint condition Super Mario 64 game sells for record $1.5m Posted: 12 Jul 2021 06:30 AM PDT Sealed cartridge dating from 1996 is described as one of fewer than five copies in such condition A sealed, mint condition copy of the video game Super Mario 64 has sold at auction for more than $1.5m (£1.1m), making it the most expensive video game ever sold. The game cartridge, dating from 1996, was in high demand at US auction house Heritage Auctions for its "historical significance, rarity and condition" since there are "fewer than five copies" in such good condition. Continue reading... |
Posted: 12 Jul 2021 08:28 AM PDT Mark Rutte reimposed measures on bars, restaurants and nightclubs; Thailand to use Oxford vaccine as second shot after Chinese-made jab
The reopening of schools cannot wait for all pupils and teachers to be vaccinated, or for the number of Covid cases to be reduced to zero, the chiefs of Unicef and Unesco have said in a joint statement. More than 156m primary and secondary school age children in 19 countries are still not attending school, the senior UN officials said, as they insisted "reopening schools for in-person learning cannot wait." There is clear evidence that primary and secondary schools are not among the main drivers of transmission. Meanwhile, the risk of COVID-19 transmission in schools is manageable with appropriate mitigation strategies in most settings. The decision to open or close schools should be based on risk analysis and the epidemiological considerations in the communities where they are situated. Reopening schools cannot wait for all teachers and students to be vaccinated. With the global vaccine shortages plaguing low and middle-income countries, vaccinating frontline workers and those most at risk of severe illness and death will remain a priority. All schools should provide in-person learning as soon as possible, without barriers to access, including not mandating vaccination prior to school entry. From learning loss, mental distress, exposure to violence and abuse, to missed school-based meals and vaccinations or reduced development of social skills, the consequences for children will be felt in their academic achievement and societal engagement as well as physical and mental health. The most affected are often children in low-resource settings who do not have access to remote learning tools, and the youngest children who are at key developmental stages. The losses for parents and caretakers are equally heavy. Keeping children at home is forcing parents around the world to leave their jobs, especially in countries with no or limited family leave policies.
Executives from Pfizer are due to meet with officials from the US Food and Drug Administration on Monday to discuss the possibility of supplying booster doses of coronavirus vaccines, according to a report by the UPI news agency. The meeting between the drug company and the US medicines regulator comes as Israel announced it would this week begin distributing a third vaccine dose to adults with weaker immune systems. Continue reading... |
Sajid Javid confirms 19 July plan to lift Covid restrictions in England Posted: 12 Jul 2021 07:49 AM PDT Large indoor venues urged to check customers' status as mask-wearing and gatherings rules swept away Large indoor venues in England will be urged to check the Covid status of their customers on entry this summer, while prevalence of the virus is high, the health secretary, Sajid Javid, has announced. Speaking to MPs, the health secretary confirmed the government's plan on 19 July to lift almost all the remaining legal restrictions put in place during the pandemic, including those covering mask-wearing and the size of social gatherings. Continue reading... |
‘Devastating’: WHO scientist condemns Euro 2020 final over Covid risk Posted: 12 Jul 2021 05:46 AM PDT WHO's Covid-19 technical lead, Maria Van Kerkhove, says event likely to have spurred Covid-19 transmission A WHO scientist has said watching unmasked crowds singing and shouting at the Euro 2020 football final in London on Sunday was "devastating", and expressed concerns that it would spur Covid-19 transmission, including of the Delta variant. Covid infections in England have been surging, driven by the highly transmissible Delta variant and the lifting of restrictions, even as vaccination rates remain high. On 19 July, almost all remaining restrictions are set to be lifted, including mask-wearing and social distancing mandates. Continue reading... |
No Gangnam Style: South Korea Covid rules enforce slower music in gyms Posted: 12 Jul 2021 04:17 AM PDT Authorities add requirement that workout tunes must not exceed 120 beats per minute in group exercises Plenty of gymgoers rely on a good tune to get themselves through that workout, but in South Korea their musical options have just reduced significantly under new Covid-19 rules. To the standard restrictions such as social distancing and travel curbs, South Korea has added a requirement that gyms do not play music with higher than 120 beats per minute (bpm) during group exercises such as aerobics and spinning. Continue reading... |
Nazis, fear and violence: when reporting from Berlin was dangerous Posted: 12 Jul 2021 12:00 AM PDT Our Germany correspondent salutes the man who did his job 100 years ago, when it was far more perilous and unpredictable Frederick Augustus Voigt, who was the Manchester Guardian's Berlin correspondent between 1920 and 1932, did not look like an intrepid reporter. A 1935 portrait by the Bauhaus photographer Lucia Moholy makes it appear as though he wants to back away from the camera, distrustful eyes barricaded behind thick, round glasses. His physical appearance was described in his 1957 obituary as "fragile-looking and nervous in manner, shortsighted, with a trick of smiling from the mouth downwards." Continue reading... |
How we made: Car Wash by Rose Royce Posted: 12 Jul 2021 08:00 AM PDT 'This will never be a hit, we told each other – we are literally singing about a car wash!' I was singing in a band called the Jewels and was spotted and recommended to Norman Whitfield. I had no idea he was a legendary Motown songwriter and producer. I went to meet him at his mansion in Beverly Hills and said: "Sir, why do you have all these gold and platinum records on your walls?" He dropped to the floor and laughed for 20 minutes. Later everyone went: "The Norman Whitfield? The Temptations? Marvin Gaye?" But I was this little girl from Biloxi in Mississippi. I never read the names on the back of albums. Continue reading... |
‘I spent the whole night celebrating’: Italy fans revel in Euro 2020 triumph Posted: 12 Jul 2021 05:33 AM PDT Fireworks, flags, tooting car horns and Brexit taunts greet shootout victory against England Within moments of Gianluigi Donnarumma's decisive save, the screams of tens of thousands of fans exploded across Italian towns and cities. The celebrations continued long into the night, with many Italians missing a night's sleep amid the sound of fireworks, smoke bombs, chanting and tooting car horns. In Rome, euphoric fans had gathered next to the Colosseum and other key monuments, waving the Italian flag, dancing and singing songs including Notti Magiche (Magic Nights) by Gianna Nannini and Edoardo Bennato. Continue reading... |
How we met: ‘My flight was delayed, I went to the bar – and found my future wife’ Posted: 12 Jul 2021 03:00 AM PDT Darragh, 46, and Susan, 44, met in an airport hotel thousands of miles from their homes in the US. They now live in Oregon with their daughter and two dogs In the summer of 2008, Darragh was travelling home to New York via Heathrow after a holiday in the Balkans. "Everything was delayed," he remembers. "I was offered a room in a hotel for the night as I couldn't get back home that day." He went down to the bar to drown his sorrows. "It was packed with people watching a European Championship quarter-final match. I overheard an American woman ordering a martini," he says. When the bartender gave her a full glass of vermouth by accident, she went "ballistic", he says, causing a huge scene. Continue reading... |
Magnum’s great escape: confinement and liberation – in pictures Posted: 12 Jul 2021 06:00 AM PDT It's been 16 months since the pandemic grounded the world. These images from Magnum's July square print sale explore themes of being shut in – and getting away from it all Continue reading... |
‘No peace without justice’: families of Italy’s mafia victims wait for closure Posted: 11 Jul 2021 09:00 PM PDT Italy's sluggish legal process under the spotlight as devastated relatives fight for cases to go to trial Clinging to his son's coffin, Vincenzo Agostino solemnly swore that he would not cut his hair or beard until justice was served. It was 10 August 1989, five days after two mafia hitmen on a motorbike had killed Antonino Agostino, a police officer, and his wife, Ida, who was five months pregnant. The couple were shot dead in broad daylight on the seafront promenade in Villagrazia di Carini, a town about 20 miles from Palermo. Vincenzo witnessed his son's agony as the killers fired a full magazine of bullets at him. He saw his daughter-in-law, who was shot in the heart, move closer to her husband in a vain attempt to console him. Continue reading... |
Johnson and Patel accused of hypocrisy over racist abuse of England footballers Posted: 12 Jul 2021 07:40 AM PDT PM and home secretary criticised despite condemning racism aimed at players after match Boris Johnson and Priti Patel have been accused of hypocrisy over their stance on racism in football, after they condemned the abuse of three black England players but previously refused to criticise fans who booed the team for taking the knee. Both the prime minister and home secretary said they were appalled by social media abuse of Marcus Rashford, Bukayo Saka and Jadon Sancho, who missed penalties in the Euro 2020 final at Wembley on Sunday night. Continue reading... |
EU nations reimpose Covid measures as cases surge Posted: 12 Jul 2021 06:32 AM PDT Daily cases have more than doubled in Greece and Spain and are up sevenfold in the Netherlands Multiple EU member states are maintaining or reimposing Covid restrictions as the Delta variant fuels an alarming surge in cases. Hospital admissions, however, have not so far followed the same curve, with officials suggesting that as vaccination campaigns advance, hospitalisation data should become a bigger factor in assessing and responding to the pandemic. Continue reading... |
Plurality review – simple-minded multiple-identity thriller Posted: 12 Jul 2021 06:00 AM PDT This Taiwanese sci-fi about an investigation in which the suspects' minds are injected into a host body starts promisingly, but quickly ditches any complexity Dabbling in a myriad of already weary tropes first pioneered by The Matrix trilogy, this Taiwanese sci-fi crime thriller Plurality could have put a fresh twist on big-budget Hollywood efforts, but falls flat on both the production design and the narrative front. The young son of a city councillor is the latest victim in a string of kidnappings targeting children with disabilities or facial disfigurements, and the police become convinced that the perpetrator is one of the five passengers who have died in a mysterious bus crash. Thanks to a new technology, they are able to use the vegetative body of a criminal on death row into which to inject the brain fluids of the suspects. (These include a shady businessman, a spoiled dropout, a reticent college student, a father estranged from his daughter, and the bus driver.) As the police try to extract information from these evasive subjects, the more gruelling the interrogation becomes, the more violently the five identities wrestle for control of their corporeal host, which leads to explosive revelations and bloodshed. Continue reading... |
Former UTS dean found not guilty of nine charges in fake harassment trial Posted: 12 Jul 2021 03:35 AM PDT Sydney academic Dianne Jolley, who is accused of sending herself threatening letters, has admitted to writing one note at work A former dean of science at the University of Technology Sydney accused of sending threatening letters to herself and colleagues has been found not guilty of nine charges. In the NSW district court on Monday, judge Ian Bourke ordered the jury to find Dianne Jolley not guilty of three counts of sending a letter to induce a false belief it would cause danger. Continue reading... |
Almost one in three globally go hungry during pandemic – UN Posted: 12 Jul 2021 06:50 AM PDT Big leap in malnutrition during Covid, with fifth of children now believed to be stunted, report warns The number of people who did not have enough food to eat rose steeply during the Covid-19 pandemic to include almost a third of the world, according to a new UN report published on Monday. Five UN agencies said the number of people without access to healthy diets grew by 320 million last year to nearly 2.37 billion people– more than the increases in the previous five years combined. Continue reading... |
‘We cannot vote or get jobs’: plight of 300,000 Zimbabweans without documents Posted: 11 Jul 2021 11:30 PM PDT Amnesty is calling for action to help those with no papers who are denied access to education, employment and healthcare At 45, Philimon Mashava has never had a bank account or a phone in his name. He has never had a birth certificate and, without documents, Mashava's stateless existence has meant him missing out on school and countless job opportunities, as employers want some form of identification. Continue reading... |
Health campaigners call for an end to the use of the word leper Posted: 11 Jul 2021 11:00 PM PDT Derogatory use of the "L-word" has increased during Covid and is said to be further marginalising people with the curable disease Health campaigners are calling for an end to the use of the word leper, saying the language frequently used by politicians and others during the pandemic has made people with leprosy even more marginalised. The metaphor of the socially outcast "leper" has been used often, whether in media reports on stigma against early Covid-19 patients or by politicians in Italy and Brazil complaining about being seen as "leper colonies". Campaigners now want an end to the use of what they call the "L-word". Continue reading... |
My time in Taiwan shows the virus will exploit any hint of complacency | Helen Davidson Posted: 11 Jul 2021 02:45 AM PDT I've had an almost pandemic-free existence reporting from Taiwan, but it hasn't all been a smooth ride For much of this year, I've lived a mostly Covid-free life. Taiwan wasn't just lucky. It had been traumatised by Sars, which it didn't handle well, and established comprehensive epidemic plans for the next time. There was no talk of herd immunity or accepting mass deaths as inevitable. As far as Taiwan was concerned, Covid-19 wasn't getting in, and if it tried they were ready. Taiwan took full advantage of being an island to quarantine itself from the world. It funnelled entrants through a tightly controlled system defined by extreme caution. Continue reading... |
Thousands join rare anti-government protests in Cuba – video Posted: 12 Jul 2021 06:59 AM PDT The biggest mass demonstrations for three decades have rippled through Cuba, as thousands took to the streets in cities throughout the island, demonstrating against food shortages, high prices and communist rule. President Miguel Díaz-Canel blamed the unrest on foreign influence and said that 'destabilisation in our country' would be met with a 'revolutionary response'. Cubans are living through the gravest economic crisis the country has known for 30 years Continue reading... |
Widow of Haitian president releases first statement since assassination – audio Posted: 11 Jul 2021 04:34 AM PDT The hospitalised wife of Haiti's assassinated president, Jovenel Moïse, has given her first public statement since being wounded in the attack that killed him, accusing enemies of wanting 'to kill his dream, his vision, his ideology'. But fresh questions have been raised over Haiti's official narrative for the assassination, as uncertainty gripped the Caribbean country and the streets of the capital remained eerily quiet amid fears Haiti is lurching into a new phase of political and social upheaval Continue reading... |
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