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- Tokyo Olympics: Covid case found at athletes’ village, raising infection fears
- ‘They’re killing people’: Biden slams Facebook for Covid disinformation
- Arizona counties find fewer than 200 possible voter fraud cases among 3m 2020 ballots
- Regulate business to tackle climate crisis, urges Mark Carney
- Oregon wildfire causes miles-high ‘fire clouds’ as flames grow
- ‘Enough with the burning’: EU executive accused of sacrificing forests
- Killer dubbed the ‘Hollywood Ripper’ sentenced to death for double murder
- The assassination of Haiti’s leader remains shrouded in mystery: ‘We may never know’
- Afghans flee to eastern Turkey as Taliban takes control amid chaos
- Biz Markie, rapper known for Just a Friend, dies at age 57
- Covid live news: Beta variant may evade vaccines, say experts as UK faces ‘protracted’ period of high infections rates
- England’s Covid unlocking is threat to world, say 1,200 scientists
- Covid countdown brings heartbreak and hope for Irish pubs
- Thailand bans public gatherings as Covid cases hit record high
- Going places: The international authors to read this summer
- ‘It was devastating’: what happens when therapy makes things worse?
- Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for tomato and turmeric kitchari | The new vegan
- Jake Shears: ‘I’d like to say sorry to the Scissor Sisters. I could be an absolute monster’
- Blind date: ‘He is very, very different from my friends’
- George the Poet meets Munya Chawawa: ‘Poetry isn’t perceived as being masculine’
- Train operators face calls to publish research on Covid risks
- No man’s land: three people seeking asylum stuck in Cyprus’s buffer zone
- Casablanca Beats review – Morocco’s answer to Fame strikes a chord
- US democracy faces a momentous threat says Joe Biden – but is he up for the fight?
- Tough new rules to combat outbreak as more than 100 infections recorded – as it happened
- Marcus Rashford mural and Cuba protests: human rights this fortnight – in pictures
- ‘Enjoy the little things’: Melburnians give their tips to surviving extended lockdown
- Arizona: stranded family rescued as flash floods inundate cities – video report
- CDC chief says Covid becoming 'a pandemic of the unvaccinated' – video
- Belgian news crew capture moment flooded house partially collapses – video
- Ontario tornado: aerial views show extent of damage to building in Canadian town – video
- Aftermath of Germany and Belgium floods – in pictures
| Tokyo Olympics: Covid case found at athletes’ village, raising infection fears Posted: 16 Jul 2021 11:12 PM PDT Organisers in Japan confirm that a visitor from abroad who is involved in organising the Games has tested positive A person has tested positive for Covid-19 at the Tokyo Olympics athletes' village, organisers said, adding to concerns about infections at the Games which begin next week. Related: Thomas Bach promises 'safe and secure' Olympics as Tokyo Covid cases soar Continue reading... |
| ‘They’re killing people’: Biden slams Facebook for Covid disinformation Posted: 16 Jul 2021 07:04 PM PDT False claims about vaccines has proliferated on the social network, and on other sites including Twitter and YouTube, says president Joe Biden says social media platforms such as Facebook "are killing people" for allowing disinformation about coronavirus vaccines to be posted on its platform, as the administration continued criticising the company. "They're killing people. ... Look, the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated. And they're killing people," the US president told reporters at the White House on Friday, when asked about disinformation and what his message was to social media platforms such as Facebook. Continue reading... |
| Arizona counties find fewer than 200 possible voter fraud cases among 3m 2020 ballots Posted: 16 Jul 2021 03:35 PM PDT Findings undermine Trump's claims after Biden beat him by more than 10,000 votes in state Arizona county election officials have identified fewer than 200 cases of potential voter fraud out of more than 3m ballots cast in last year's presidential election, undercutting Donald Trump's claims of a stolen election as his allies continue a disputed ballot review in the state's most populous county. The 182 cases identified by the Associated Press represent instances where problems were clear enough that officials referred them for further review. So far, only four cases have led to charges, including those identified in a separate state investigation. No one has been convicted. No vote was counted twice. Continue reading... |
| Regulate business to tackle climate crisis, urges Mark Carney Posted: 17 Jul 2021 12:00 AM PDT Former Bank chief says governments must act as free markets will not reduce emissions alone Governments must step up their regulation of businesses to tackle the climate crisis, the former Bank of England governor Mark Carney has urged, because the financial free markets will not reduce greenhouse gas emissions alone. Carney, who left the Bank of England last year before the first Covid-19 lockdown, is now one of the most influential figures working on Cop26, the vital UN climate talks to be held in Glasgow in November. He is a UN envoy on climate change and Boris Johnson's finance adviser on the climate. Continue reading... |
| Oregon wildfire causes miles-high ‘fire clouds’ as flames grow Posted: 16 Jul 2021 04:54 PM PDT Pyrocumulus clouds viewable from 100 miles away as Bootleg fire grows beyond size of New York City Smoke and heat from a huge wildfire in south-eastern Oregon are creating giant "fire clouds" over the blaze – dangerous columns of smoke and ash that can reach up to six miles (10km) in the sky and are visible from more than 100 miles (160km) away. Authorities have put these clouds at the top of the list of the extreme fire behavior they are seeing amid the Bootleg fire, the largest wildfire burning in the US. The inferno grew on Friday to about 377 sq miles (976 sq km), an area larger than New York City, and was raging through a part of the American west that is enduring a historic drought. Continue reading... |
| ‘Enough with the burning’: EU executive accused of sacrificing forests Posted: 16 Jul 2021 07:38 AM PDT Campaigners criticise European Commission strategy that allows continued burning of trees for fuel The EU executive has been accused of "sacrificing forests" after it published proposals that would allow trees to continue to be burned for fuel. The charges of "accelerating climate breakdown" through wood-burning were made on Friday as the European Commission unveiled its forest strategy, which includes a goal to plant 3bn trees across the EU by 2030. Continue reading... |
| Killer dubbed the ‘Hollywood Ripper’ sentenced to death for double murder Posted: 16 Jul 2021 09:04 PM PDT 'Death followed Michael Gargiulo everywhere he went', says judge, in case which included the murder of the girlfriend of actor Ashton Kutcher A man dubbed the "Hollywood Ripper" has been sentenced to death for the home-invasion murders of two women and the attempted murder of a third in a much-delayed case stretching back 20 years. Victims' family members wept as Los Angeles superior court Judge Larry Fidler handed down the sentence to 45-year-old Michael Thomas Gargiulo on Friday. Continue reading... |
| The assassination of Haiti’s leader remains shrouded in mystery: ‘We may never know’ Posted: 16 Jul 2021 12:55 PM PDT Authorities are still struggling to understand the motives and masterminds behind the first killing of a Haitian president since 1915 Giovanna Romero remembers her husband, Mauricio, as a caring father who called home every night when he was out of the country on work. He did so as usual on the night of 6 July – from where, exactly, she isn't sure – to remind her and their children he loved them and tell them to take care. "I'll call again soon," the retired Colombian soldier promised – a pledge he would be unable to keep. Continue reading... |
| Afghans flee to eastern Turkey as Taliban takes control amid chaos Posted: 16 Jul 2021 05:50 AM PDT Some pay smugglers to take them to Istanbul as withdrawal of US troops rekindles fears of civil war Twenty-eight days into their journey out of Afghanistan, a woman and her five children are sitting in the shade near a bus station in Tatvan, a town on the shore of Lake Van in eastern Turkey. She is waiting for a smuggler, who was paid in advance, to take the family to Istanbul. Tired and dirty, the younger children are playing in the dust and laughing; the youngest boy wants a piggyback. The smuggler is two days late. Continue reading... |
| Biz Markie, rapper known for Just a Friend, dies at age 57 Posted: 16 Jul 2021 06:39 PM PDT Hip-hop star known for his personality, beatboxing and freestyle skills scored his biggest hit in 1989 Biz Markie, the New York rapper, beatboxer and producer, has died at age 57. Markie's representative, Jenni Izumi, said the rapper and DJ died peacefully Friday evening with his wife by his side. The cause of death has not been released. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 17 Jul 2021 02:19 AM PDT Beta variant of coronavirus spreading in France may evade vaccines, a scientist involved in advising the UK government has warned
Asked about whether full lockdown easing in England could lead to the emergence of a new more dangerous coronavirus variant, professor Mark Woolhouse said. He told Times Radio: It could be... but there are literally hundreds of variants around the world. We don't know where the next variant of concern, one that will actually threaten public health, will come from.
In anticipation of an end to the Covid-19 pandemic, states and cities across the United States have enjoyed reopening once-shuttered communities for business, leisure, summer festivities and travel as life has returned to near-normal. However, health officials remain on high alert given one ongoing obstacle to being finished with Covid-19: wide swaths of unvaccinated people in America that could allow the virus to further mutate and potentially spawn more transmissible and increasingly deadly variants. Related: Unvaccinated could be breeding ground for Covid variants, US officials fear Continue reading... |
| England’s Covid unlocking is threat to world, say 1,200 scientists Posted: 16 Jul 2021 06:03 AM PDT International experts say 'unethical experiment' could allow vaccine-resistant variants to develop Boris Johnson's plan to lift virtually all of England's pandemic restrictions on Monday is a threat to the world and provides fertile ground for the emergence of vaccine-resistant variants, international experts say. Britain's position as a global transport hub would mean any new variant here would rapidly spread around the world, scientists and physicians warned at an emergency summit. They also expressed grave concerns about Downing Street's plans. Continue reading... |
| Covid countdown brings heartbreak and hope for Irish pubs Posted: 17 Jul 2021 12:00 AM PDT When the country entered lockdown just before St Patrick's day last year owners were hopeful they'd be back within months The 2009 romantic comedy (500) Days of Summer has nothing to do with Irish pubs but could end up as an epitaph for some of them. When Ireland entered lockdown just before St Patrick's day in 2020 pub owners hoped to reopen after a few weeks, or at worst a few months. Continue reading... |
| Thailand bans public gatherings as Covid cases hit record high Posted: 16 Jul 2021 09:58 PM PDT More restrictions are being considered as the country battles its worst outbreak yet Thailand has imposed a nationwide ban on public gatherings and was considering more restrictions on movement as authorities reported record numbers of new cases and deaths on Saturday. Despite partial lockdowns in Bangkok and nine other provinces this week, the country's Covid-19 task force reported 10,082 new coronavirus cases and 141 new deaths, bringing the total number of infections to 391,989 cases and 3,240 fatalities since the pandemic started. Continue reading... |
| Going places: The international authors to read this summer Posted: 17 Jul 2021 01:00 AM PDT Foreign travel may be curtailed, but from Germany's Mariana Leky to Japan's Shiori Ito, there is plenty of exciting writing coming to our shores. Meet the writers who are making waves Continue reading... |
| ‘It was devastating’: what happens when therapy makes things worse? Posted: 17 Jul 2021 01:00 AM PDT Therapists are meant to help people change their lives, but those who behave badly may end up doing more harm than good Courtney thought it was strange when her therapist asked her to follow him on Instagram. She had begun seeing Michael – a psychoanalyst who has written books and appeared on television – to treat her fear of flying in 2018 (both of their names, and those of all the patients in this article have been changed). After a few sessions, he suggested the pair connect on Instagram, where he posted everything from mindfulness tips to topless gym selfies. As she didn't use the app much, Courtney shrugged off her concerns and continued therapy, discussing her childhood abuse, depression, anxiety and sex life. Then, around five months after she had begun seeing him, Michael asked if she had been offended by a message he had sent. What message? Courtney hadn't seen one, so Michael demanded that she check her Instagram inbox then and there. "All this sex talk has got me gagging for it," his message began, "I can't wait to get home and sort myself out." Continue reading... |
| Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for tomato and turmeric kitchari | The new vegan Posted: 17 Jul 2021 02:30 AM PDT For those times when you crave nourishing comfort, this simple, risotto-like bowlful will definitely satisfy Kitchari is a mixture of rice and lentils, cooked with usually only a few spices. It is the height of comfort for most Indians, and what most women in my family make when everyone's tastebuds need a rest. It's a vote for a simpler meal, the equivalent of a pleasant cycle ride down a winding country lane. In our family (the youngest being just one), it is one of only a few meals we can put in the centre of the table and eat together - as a cook, that is the ultimate comfort. Continue reading... |
| Jake Shears: ‘I’d like to say sorry to the Scissor Sisters. I could be an absolute monster’ Posted: 17 Jul 2021 01:30 AM PDT The singer-songwriter on blanking on live TV, breaking up during Covid and the closest he's come to death Born in Arizona, Jake Shears, 42, fronted the band Scissor Sisters. Their 2004 debut album went to No 1 in the UK and the following year they won three Brit awards. Shears' latest solo single, Do The Television, is out now. He lives in New Orleans. What is your greatest fear? |
| Blind date: ‘He is very, very different from my friends’ Posted: 16 Jul 2021 10:00 PM PDT Jillian, 57, consultant, meets Alan, 70, medical delivery driver What were you hoping for? |
| George the Poet meets Munya Chawawa: ‘Poetry isn’t perceived as being masculine’ Posted: 17 Jul 2021 12:00 AM PDT The podcaster talks to the online satirist about the joys of rhyming, the limits of macho culture and mocking Matt Hancock George the Poet first met Munya Chawawa when he was invited on the latter's Reprezent 107.3 FM radio show to talk about his single, Follow the Leader, and recently launched podcast. Some three years on, and the careers of both men are transformed: George has left his label to become a spoken-word artist, activist and PhD student. His Have You Heard George's Podcast? has also reached Peabody award-winning heights, with a new series introducing his expansive theory about Black music's untapped socio-economic potential. Meanwhile, Chawawa has become Britain's foremost social-media satirist, laying into government corruption and grime beefs with equal alacrity, and earning a major label record deal in the guise of posh drill rapper, Unknown P. His latest viral video, the Matt Hancock-inspired Shaggy parody It Was Me, has 2.5m views on Twitter and counting. Related: The Guide: Staying In – sign up for our home entertainment tips Continue reading... |
| Train operators face calls to publish research on Covid risks Posted: 16 Jul 2021 10:00 PM PDT Rail industry resists calls from passenger groups to release data on risk of contracting Covid on trains Train operators have been urged to release research showing the risk of contracting Covid on trains, with the chances now believed to be substantially higher than the figure publicised by the rail industry last year. The industry-funded Rail Research and Safety Board (RSSB) said in July 2020 that the risk was just one infection in 11,000 average journeys in Great Britain. Continue reading... |
| No man’s land: three people seeking asylum stuck in Cyprus’s buffer zone Posted: 17 Jul 2021 12:00 AM PDT The Cameroonians, who had 'no idea' they had jumped into the demilitarised area, have been trapped for almost two months A few months after Grace Ngo flew into Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus from her native Cameroon, she decided to head "for the west". Smugglers pointed the student in the direction of the Venetian walls that cut through the heart of Nicosia, Europe's last divided capital. A little before midnight on 24 May, Ngo leapt from the breakaway Turkish Cypriot republic into what she hoped would be the war-divided island's internationally recognised Greek south. Continue reading... |
| Casablanca Beats review – Morocco’s answer to Fame strikes a chord Posted: 16 Jul 2021 11:19 AM PDT A group of talented teens push the boundaries of their religious society by putting on a concert in Nabil Ayouch's earnest film Franco-Moroccan director Nabil Ayouch has made a likable, high-energy youth movie that could almost be called the Moroccan answer to Fame and which features that time-honoured plot device: putting on a concert. Using nonprofessionals playing docu-fictionalised versions of themselves, Ayouch has created a drama revolving around an arts centre for young people that he himself helped to set up in the tough district of Sidi Moumen, called by someone here the Bronx of Casablanca. The school includes a special programme called the Positive School of Hip-Hop. A crowd of smart, talented teens join the class and we watch as they find out the challenges, limits and opportunities of learning self-expression through western-style rap in a Muslim society. Continue reading... |
| US democracy faces a momentous threat says Joe Biden – but is he up for the fight? Posted: 16 Jul 2021 11:00 PM PDT The president's speech in Philadelphia decried Republicans' assault on voting rights but critics say it offered few answers, especially on Senate rules that let the minority to block reform Few in the audience applauding Joe Biden could have questioned the sincerity of his warning about a momentous threat to American democracy. But they may have walked away with lingering doubts about his ability to meet the moment or answer fears that even the office of the presidency will be found politically impotent in the face of the challenge. Continue reading... |
| Tough new rules to combat outbreak as more than 100 infections recorded – as it happened Posted: 17 Jul 2021 01:58 AM PDT Restrictions on movement in three LGAs, limits on retail and pause on construction announced. This blog is now closed
That's where we're going to leave this blog for today. Here's a recap of the main stories of the day:
Australian politicians have expressed their anger after British rightwing commentator Katie Hopkins posted a video claiming she is in hotel quarantine in Sydney while tens of thousands of Australians are stranded overseas and unable to return home due to reduced flight caps. The limit on the number of international arrivals coming into Australia via commercial flights was halved from 14 July over concerns from some state premiers about the infectiousness of the Delta variant of Covid-19. Continue reading... |
| Marcus Rashford mural and Cuba protests: human rights this fortnight – in pictures Posted: 17 Jul 2021 12:30 AM PDT A roundup of the coverage of the struggle for human rights and freedoms, from Turkey to Colombia Continue reading... |
| ‘Enjoy the little things’: Melburnians give their tips to surviving extended lockdown Posted: 16 Jul 2021 01:00 PM PDT Pros at dealing with long-term Covid restrictions, Melbourne residents share their advice for those in Sydney We may have escaped the ravages of Covid that have maimed nations elsewhere, but Australians have still endured its consequences through lengthy, disruptive lockdowns. Nowhere is this as intimately understood than in Melbourne, which is now in its fifth lockdown. And as our fellows in Sydney stare down a potentially long road stuck at home, we thought it useful this week to invite Melburnians to offer tips on how best to cope. Continue reading... |
| Arizona: stranded family rescued as flash floods inundate cities – video report Posted: 16 Jul 2021 01:00 PM PDT In Tucson, a fire department swift water team rescued a father and his two daughters from the roof of their vehicle on Wednesday after they drove into a usually dry wash and got stranded in floodwaters, said Golder Ranch Fire District spokesman Capt Adam Jarrold. In Flagstaff, floodwaters have inundated communities in the shadow of a mountain that burned in 2019 and adjacent neighbourhoods, sending at least one vehicle floating down a city street. Continue reading... |
| CDC chief says Covid becoming 'a pandemic of the unvaccinated' – video Posted: 16 Jul 2021 11:20 AM PDT Speaking during a White House briefing, Dr Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control, said US coronavirus cases were up about 70% over the last week, with nearly all hospital admissions and deaths among the unvaccinated. The White House Covid-19 coordinator, Jeffrey Zients, added that the pandemic is 'one that predominantly threatens unvaccinated people' and that the administration expects cases to increase in the weeks ahead because of spread in communities with low vaccination rates Continue reading... |
| Belgian news crew capture moment flooded house partially collapses – video Posted: 16 Jul 2021 11:14 AM PDT Belgian TV station VTM recorded the partial collapse of a house in the town of Pepinster while interviewing its mayor, Philippe Godin, on Thursday. The back wall of the flooded house began to cave in as he spoke, with the situation deteriorating quickly as furniture and other household goods fell through the collapsing floors. Moments later cameras caught two people jumping from the rooftop of the house into a neighbouring building. Continue reading... |
| Ontario tornado: aerial views show extent of damage to building in Canadian town – video Posted: 16 Jul 2021 10:13 AM PDT A tornado ripped through Barrie, Ontario in Canada on Thursday, injuring at least eight people and destroying about 25 buildings, CBC reported. Police in Barrie, a town 82km (50 miles) north of Toronto, said they were responding to multiple reports of damage in the south-eastern part of the city. At least four people were hospitalised, according to local authorities. Continue reading... |
| Aftermath of Germany and Belgium floods – in pictures Posted: 16 Jul 2021 05:13 AM PDT At least 110 people have died in devastating floods across parts of western Germany and Belgium. Search and rescue operations are continuing with hundreds still unaccounted for Continue reading... |
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