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- British general’s ‘discreet’ effort to revive Afghan peace negotiations
- Cannes Palme d’Or goes to female director for only the second time
- Unease in the air as Cyprus ‘ghost town’ rises from the ruins of war
- Angela Merkel to visit flood-ravaged areas in Germany
- Dozens arrested in Los Angeles as anti-trans protest outside spa turns violent
- ‘I’m surprised it took so long’: Cubans find anger in their souls
- Sajid Javid tests positive as health chiefs tell PM: don’t let Covid rip
- Filled with doubt, division and Covid, Tokyo braces for Olympics
- Far-right commentator Katie Hopkins dumped by Big Brother after Australia hotel quarantine claims
- Police release images of 10 men wanted over Euro 2020 Wembley final unrest
- Britney Spears refuses to perform again while father retains control over career
- Keep wearing masks to slow spread of Covid, scientists warn Britons
- Coronavirus live: Boris Johnson will not isolate despite contact; two athletes test positive in Tokyo Olympic Village
- Wall of love: the incredible story behind the national Covid memorial
- The era of Covid ambivalence: what do we do as normalcy returns but Delta surges?
- Joe Biden: six months on, cold, hard reality eclipses early euphoria
- Novelist Elif Shafak: ‘I’ve always believed in inherited pain’
- Loneliness: coping with the gap where friends used to be
- Ken Burns: ‘I felt that Hemingway’s uber-masculinity was a mask’
- ‘Sustainable isn’t a thing’: why regenerative agriculture is food’s latest buzzword
- ‘Tell those stories’: Kurds call for torture prison to be turned into place of healing
- Classified details of army’s Challenger tank leaked via video game
- Syria’s President Assad sworn in for fourth term with 95% of vote
- Gross inequality stoked the violence in South Africa. It’s a warning to us all | Kenan Malik
- NSW Covid update: Gladys Berejiklian relaxes south-west Sydney rules on workers despite 105 new cases
- Where UK aid cuts bite deepest – stories from the sharp end
- Delays aggravate debate over Covid jabs for UK children
- Sajid Javid posts message saying he has tested positive for Covid – video
| British general’s ‘discreet’ effort to revive Afghan peace negotiations Posted: 17 Jul 2021 10:15 PM PDT General Sir Nick Carter has been arranging meetings with contacts in Kabul and Pakistan to try to prevent a descent into civil war Britain's top general, Sir Nick Carter, has been using his personal connections with Afghan and Pakistan leaders in a behind-the-scenes effort to stop Afghanistan sliding into full-blown civil war, and help bolster stalling US-brokered peace talks in Qatar. At the weekend a senior Afghan delegation arrived in Doha to try to restart the virtually dormant negotiations, after months which have seen the Taliban sweep across much of rural Afghanistan, although they still do not hold any cities. Continue reading... |
| Cannes Palme d’Or goes to female director for only the second time Posted: 17 Jul 2021 12:42 PM PDT Julia Ducournau's serial killer film Titane scoops top award, while best actor and actress go to Caleb Landry Jones and Renate Reinsve The Palme d'Or, the most prestigious of cinema festival prizes, has gone to Titane, an unconventional and violent film directed by the 37-year-old French director Julia Ducournau. Continue reading... |
| Unease in the air as Cyprus ‘ghost town’ rises from the ruins of war Posted: 18 Jul 2021 12:00 AM PDT Varosha, once a chic resort, is being rebuilt in the latest move of Turkey's power play in the eastern Mediterranean "Do you want to ride or walk?" asks Seyki Mindik. The municipal employee points under the fierce July sun towards the multicoloured bicycles stacked within view of the police barrier at the entrance to Varosha. "There is so much to see. Tourists love it here." Not so long ago the very notion of the eastern Mediterranean's most famous ghost town being resurrected as a 21st-century theme park would have been unthinkable. For more than four decades there has been almost no movement among ruins of war left to rot with the passage of time. Continue reading... |
| Angela Merkel to visit flood-ravaged areas in Germany Posted: 18 Jul 2021 01:36 AM PDT Chancellor to survey damage and meet survivors as German death toll passes 150 with dozens missing Angela Merkel is to visit flood-ravaged areas in Germany to survey the damage and meet survivors, after days of extreme downpours in western Europe left at least 183 people dead and dozens missing. The chancellor is scheduled to travel on Sunday to the village of Schuld in Rhineland-Palatinate state, one of the two hardest-hit regions in western Germany, where the swollen Ahr river swept away houses and left debris piled high in the streets. Continue reading... |
| Dozens arrested in Los Angeles as anti-trans protest outside spa turns violent Posted: 17 Jul 2021 07:52 PM PDT Wi Spa, a Koreatown business with a trans-inclusive policy, has become the target of a rightwing media storm Dozens of people have been arrested in Los Angeles following a chaotic and at times violent demonstration by anti-transgender protesters who targeted a Koreatown spa that has a trans-inclusive policy allowing trans women to use women's facilities. Saturday marked the second weekend of violent protests this month in the streets around Wi Spa, a neighborhood business that has found itself at the heart of a right-wing media storm over an alleged incident in which a customer filmed herself complaining about a trans woman in the women's area of the spa. Continue reading... |
| ‘I’m surprised it took so long’: Cubans find anger in their souls Posted: 18 Jul 2021 02:00 AM PDT Thousands took to the streets last week in unprecedented protests. Our writer meets some of those trying to force change There's a man from the government playing love songs in the park. Orlando Fuentes has a table, an awning against the hard Caribbean sun, and a sound system from which floats Silvio Rodríguez's Cita con Ángeles. A woman says that she can't listen, that it's a beautiful song ruined by being played at too many government rallies. After 16 months of pandemic and a week of unprecedented protests, the Cuban government wants to soothe the anger. Music is being played in parks across the country. Continue reading... |
| Sajid Javid tests positive as health chiefs tell PM: don’t let Covid rip Posted: 17 Jul 2021 03:44 PM PDT Boris Johnson may be forced to self-isolate after meeting health secretary, who confirms he has virus Sajid Javid was self-isolating on Saturday after testing positive for Covid, as senior public health leaders from across the UK accused Boris Johnson today of "letting Covid rip" by relaxing legal restrictions. The health secretary, who is fully vaccinated, said he had mild symptoms and confirmed the result of a lateral flow test with a positive PCR test. "I will continue to isolate and work from home," he tweeted. Continue reading... |
| Filled with doubt, division and Covid, Tokyo braces for Olympics Posted: 17 Jul 2021 09:00 PM PDT After a year's delay, the Games begin this week. But it is an event that few in a fearful host nation now want as infections rise again The joy and anticipation that greeted the International Olympic Committee's decision in 2013 to award the 2020 Games to Tokyo feels like it belongs in another age, let alone a different decade. Related: Who needs Usain Bolt when there's Sky Brown? New stars set to shine at Tokyo Olympics Continue reading... |
| Far-right commentator Katie Hopkins dumped by Big Brother after Australia hotel quarantine claims Posted: 18 Jul 2021 12:46 AM PDT Seven terminates contract and British far-right figure expected to leave country after joking about plans to breach quarantine rules British far-right figure Katie Hopkins has been dumped as a cast member of Seven's Big Brother VIP and will leave the country after breaching her contract, Guardian Australia can reveal. Hopkins, 46, broadcast a live video from what she claimed was a Sydney hotel room on Saturday morning, describing Covid-19 lockdowns as "the greatest hoax in human history" while joking about elaborate plans to breach quarantine rules. Continue reading... |
| Police release images of 10 men wanted over Euro 2020 Wembley final unrest Posted: 17 Jul 2021 06:47 PM PDT Fans have 'questions to answer', says Met, as two 18-year-olds are arrested for allegedly helping people get past security Police have released images of 10 men being sought in connection with violence and disorder at the final of Euro 2020. After two men were arrested earlier on Saturday for allegedly enabling people without tickets to enter Wembley stadium during last Sunday's final, the Metropolitan police issued the images and an appeal for help identifying fans "who we think have questions to answer". Continue reading... |
| Britney Spears refuses to perform again while father retains control over career Posted: 17 Jul 2021 07:54 PM PDT In the latest twist of her legal battle, the singer says she would rather share videos from her living room than go on stage Britney Spears has refused to perform again while her father retains control over her career, and said the conservatorship she has been under for 13 years had "killed my dreams". Her remarks, in a lengthy Instagram post, were the latest in a series of emotional public comments about the conservatorship that controls her personal and financial affairs and which she has begged to be brought to an end. Continue reading... |
| Keep wearing masks to slow spread of Covid, scientists warn Britons Posted: 17 Jul 2021 11:00 PM PDT Experts point to risks of indoor Covid-19 transmission: 'If you don't wear a mask, the virus spreads further. It's as simple as that' Scientists have strongly endorsed the continued wearing of masks in enclosed public spaces over summer. As Covid-19 cases continue to spiral, face coverings offer people the most robust way of limiting the spread of the disease in cafes, theatres and restaurants, they said last week. Rates of new Covid-19 cases topped 50,000 a day last week, leading scientists and health experts to warn that the country could be forced into a lockdown later this year as rising numbers of infections look likely to continue until autumn. In these circumstances, they said, wearing of masks should be continued despite the government's refusal to make such a move official. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 18 Jul 2021 02:29 AM PDT British prime minister will take part in daily testing pilot after health secretary diagnosed with Covid; athletes are first to test positive on site
South Africa have confirmed three positive Covid-19 cases in their soccer squad for the Olympic Games in Tokyo, including players Thabiso Monyane and Kamohelo Mahlatsi. Video Analyst Mario Masha also tested positive on arrival in Tokyo as the team prepares to face hosts Japan on Thursday, Reuters reports. We have three positive cases of Covid-19 in the camp here, two players and an official. There is daily screening....Masha and Monyane reported high temperatures and positive saliva tests, and were then taken to do the nasal test...and they unfortunately tested positive for Covid-19. Mahlatsi is the latest player to go through the same process. This unfortunate situation has made us miss our first intensive training session last night.
It is "almost inevitable" that coronavirus infections in the UK will reach 100,000 daily cases alongside 1,000 people admitted to hospital a day, a government scientific adviser has said on the eve of restrictions being lifted in England. Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London and a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that these these figures could double, but this was "much less certain". It's very difficult to say for certain, but I think 100,000 cases a day is almost inevitable. I think it's almost certain we'll get to 1,000 hospitalisations per day. It'll almost certainly get to 100,000 cases a day. The real question is, do we get to double that or even higher? And that's where the crystal ball starts to fail. We could get to 2,000 hospitalisations a day, 200,000 cases a day, but it's much less certain. Continue reading... |
| Wall of love: the incredible story behind the national Covid memorial Posted: 18 Jul 2021 12:00 AM PDT How bereaved campaigners, with a little help from the activists Led By Donkeys, created a powerful tribute to UK pandemic victims On the morning of the day of the Euro 2020 final, Westminster Bridge is already bustling with football fans and England flags, but down by the riverside hush prevails. On the Albert Embankment, there is a wall, about a third of a mile long and shaded by plane trees, which runs alongside St Thomas' hospital and looks out over the Thames at the palace of Westminster. Before 29 March this year, it was just a wall; now it is decorated with more than 150,000 red hearts, each one representing a life lost to Covid-19. Even the Sunday runners look a little sheepish about jogging past a memorial to the UK's largest peacetime mass trauma event in more than a century. As I walk along what is in effect the national Covid memorial, past occasional photographs, wilting bouquets and painted stones, I read shattering stories told in just a few words. There's one dedication to a husband and wife who died nine hours apart and another that must have been written by a NHS worker: "TO ALL THOSE I COULD NOT SIT WITH… I'M SORRY." Sometimes, hearts are tied together by pen like a bunch of balloons, to encompass messages from entire families. Certain phrases recur, like mantras of remembrance. In loving memory. We will always remember you. Gone but not forgotten. Continue reading... |
| The era of Covid ambivalence: what do we do as normalcy returns but Delta surges? Posted: 18 Jul 2021 12:01 AM PDT We imagined a gleeful summer of pandemic relief. Instead, new anxieties have replaced old ones We were promised a Hot Vax Summer. The term – a riff on Hot Girl Summer, the hit 2019 summer single – emerged this spring as predictive shorthand for the (perhaps literally) orgiastic welcome of a post-vaccine reality. But, as might be expected of a phenomenon named for the last great summer anthem of a world before Covid-19, Hot Vax Summer connoted more than a gleeful exchange of fluids. It came to signal a best-case scenario for a time of transition. Pure celebration and best lives lived. In simplest terms, relief. Continue reading... |
| Joe Biden: six months on, cold, hard reality eclipses early euphoria Posted: 17 Jul 2021 11:00 PM PDT The president reset the tone from the Trump era and passed a huge Covid relief bill but other priorities have hit formidable political obstacles Angela Merkel thrice called him "dear Joe". He pledged unity in taking on "democratic backsliding, corruption, phony populism". But he also warned: "If we don't leave right now, we're going to miss dinner" – one that included crispy sea bass, black pepper tagliatelle and kabocha squash. Joe Biden's meeting with German chancellor last week offered comfort food for anyone nostalgic for the old global order. But as Merkel leaves the stage after 16 years, certain of her legacy as a towering figure in European politics, Biden is still striving to make his mark. Continue reading... |
| Novelist Elif Shafak: ‘I’ve always believed in inherited pain’ Posted: 18 Jul 2021 01:00 AM PDT The award-winning Turkish-British writer, whose new book explores love and politics in Cyprus and London, talks about generational trauma, food in exile and how heavy metal helps her write If trees could talk, what might they tell us? "Well," says the Turkish-British writer Elif Shafak, smiling at me over a cup of mint tea, her long hair a little damp from the rain. "They live a lot longer than us. So they see a lot more than we do. Perhaps they can help us to have a calmer, wiser angle on things." In unison, we turn our heads towards the window. We're both slightly anxious, I think, Shafak because she arrived for our meeting a tiny bit late, and me because this cafe in Holland Park is so noisy and crowded (we can't sit outside because yet another violent summer squall has just blown in). A sycamore or horse chestnut-induced sense of perspective could be just what the pair of us need. Shafak, who is sometimes described as Turkey's most famous female writer, has a reputation for outspokenness. A fierce advocate for equality and freedom of speech, her views have brought her into conflict with the increasingly repressive government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. In person, however, you get no immediate sense of this. Gentle and warm, her voice is never emphatic; she smiles with her (green) eyes as well as her mouth. And while her new novel, The Island of Missing Trees – her first since the Booker-shortlisted 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World – is certainly political, its themes to do with violence and loss, it's also a passionate love story, one of whose most important characters just happens to be – yes – a gentle and sagacious tree. Continue reading... |
| Loneliness: coping with the gap where friends used to be Posted: 18 Jul 2021 01:00 AM PDT Friendships can be difficult, and lockdowns have made them even harder to maintain. But we should cherish them Almost every day for the past few months, I've told my husband I am lonely. Obviously I'm glad that he's around. What I miss are my friends. In the first lockdown, we stayed in touch with Zoom dates, which were awkward, often drunk and occasionally very joyful. Those days are long gone. I've returned to texting, and though I'm often deep in four or five conversations at once, it isn't the same as being together. In the past year, there was a difficult bereavement in my family, and work has been harder than normal. None of these things are unique or insurmountable but the isolation has left me feeling almost capsized by anxiety and paranoia. Continue reading... |
| Ken Burns: ‘I felt that Hemingway’s uber-masculinity was a mask’ Posted: 18 Jul 2021 01:30 AM PDT The acclaimed documentary-maker on his six-part portrait of Ernest Hemingway, his 40‑year career, and working during a golden age of storytelling Ken Burns, 67, is a veteran and celebrated American film-maker who has made more than 30 documentaries in a career lasting more than 40 years. Among them is a much lauded history of the American civil war and an equally rapturously received history of the Vietnam war. His six-part documentary on Ernest Hemingway is currently on BBC Four and iPlayer and there is a forthcoming series on Muhammad Ali. What attracted you to Ernest Hemingway as a subject? |
| ‘Sustainable isn’t a thing’: why regenerative agriculture is food’s latest buzzword Posted: 18 Jul 2021 12:00 AM PDT Everyone from small farms to McDonald's is getting involved in regenerative agriculture. Could it point the way to a better future for farming? A pheasant struts around the Garden of Eden. The pheasant is, well, a pheasant, a male, with those long, jaunty tail feathers; the Garden of Eden is the semi-serious name given by Dan Cox, a 39-year-old chef turned farmer, to a patch of land about half the size of a football pitch on his farm in south-east Cornwall. Cox began working on it in 2017 and it is his experiment to create a growing space in complete harmony with nature, but also productive and bountiful with some of the most delicious vegetables you will ever taste. Cox looks at the pheasant, which is picking at his seeds and shoots, and squints. "They're like colourful Chinese chickens that have been bred for stupidity and flying upwards," he says. "There's nothing good about them. They don't taste nice. They're not supposed to be here. They're very aggressive. You're going about your business in your garden and the cocks are coming and attacking you. Crazy! Something's gone wrong, something's been removed from the system somewhere to allow that thing to flourish in the first place." Continue reading... |
| ‘Tell those stories’: Kurds call for torture prison to be turned into place of healing Posted: 17 Jul 2021 09:00 PM PDT Fears Turkey's 'culture centre' plan for Diyarbakır military prison could whitewash history Altan Tan was 24 when Diyarbakır's notorious Military Prison No 5 was built, just before Turkey's 1980 military coup. Not long after that, his father was thrown inside, never to emerge. "He was only there for a few weeks before he was tortured to death. I never had the chance to go inside and visit him," the Kurdish politician and writer said. "There are no Kurds, no families who don't have memories associated with this building." Continue reading... |
| Classified details of army’s Challenger tank leaked via video game Posted: 18 Jul 2021 02:30 AM PDT User uploads secret files to prove how tank was 'incorrectly' modelled in game played worldwide Classified details of the British Army's main battle tank, Challenger 2, have been leaked online after a player in a tank battle video game disputed its accuracy. The player, who claimed to have been a real life Challenger 2 tank commander and gunnery instructor, disputed the design of the tank in the popular combat video game "War Thunder", arguing it needed changing. He claimed game designers had failed to "model it properly". Continue reading... |
| Syria’s President Assad sworn in for fourth term with 95% of vote Posted: 17 Jul 2021 10:52 AM PDT Inauguration follows election dismissed by US, UK and other countries as 'neither free nor fair' President Bashar al-Assad took the oath of office for a fourth term in war-ravaged Syria on Saturday, after officially winning 95% of the vote in an election dismissed abroad. It was the second presidential poll since the start of a decade-long civil war that has killed almost half a million people and battered the country's infrastructure. Continue reading... |
| Gross inequality stoked the violence in South Africa. It’s a warning to us all | Kenan Malik Posted: 17 Jul 2021 11:30 PM PDT The country's social contract has broken, fuelled by corruption and extreme poverty 'It feels qualitatively different this time." There are few people I know in South Africa who don't think this about the carnage now engulfing the nation. Violence was institutionalised during the years of apartheid. In the post-apartheid years, it has rarely been far from the surface – police violence, gangster violence, the violence of protest. What is being exposed now, however, is just how far the social contract that has held the nation together since the end of apartheid has eroded. Many aspects of the disorder are peculiar to South Africa. There are also themes with wider resonance. Events in the country demonstrate in a particularly acute fashion a phenomenon we are witnessing in different ways and in degrees of severity across the globe: the old order breaking down, with little to fill the void but sectarian movements or identity politics. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 18 Jul 2021 12:58 AM PDT Premier widens who can leave Fairfield, Canterbury-Bankstown and Liverpool to include all authorised workers, as long as they get tested regularly
Plans to allow only emergency and health staff to leave three south-western Sydney areas at the centre of the city's Covid-19 outbreak for work were shelved on Sunday, despite another day of more than 100 new cases. New South Wales health authorities announced 105 new local cases on Sunday, with 27 of them out in the community while they were infectious. Continue reading... |
| Where UK aid cuts bite deepest – stories from the sharp end Posted: 17 Jul 2021 11:01 PM PDT As women and children lose out on programmes that could change their lives, Britain's reputation has been diminished Bukola Onyishi was delighted when she found out that the British government was going to help her realise a dream in one of the poorest parts of Nigeria. With a grant agreement that was meant to last for three years, she was finally going to be able to launch a female empowerment programme for the women of Bauchi state in the country's north-east, many of whom had fled the militant Islamist group Boko Haram and were now living in abject poverty in camps for the internally displaced. "The grant made us very happy," says Onyishi, country director for Women for Women International. "[Bauchi] was the right place to be." Setting it up was not easy: Onyishi and her colleagues had a job to persuade community elders of the project's value, encountering deep-seated patriarchal beliefs that surprised even her in their obstinacy. But they came round in the end, and the first 12-month empowerment programme began, teaching 1,200 carefully selected women about everything from their basic human rights to numeracy and business skills. Continue reading... |
| Delays aggravate debate over Covid jabs for UK children Posted: 16 Jul 2021 11:00 PM PDT Analysis: opinion is becoming sharply divided in the absence of official recommendations The delay in deciding whether to vaccinate children over 12 against Covid is unlikely to help resolve what is already a contentious issue. A survey by the Office for National Statistics has found that almost 90% of parents in England would favour giving their children a vaccine if offered, and school leaders have also backed jabs for pupils. Continue reading... |
| Sajid Javid posts message saying he has tested positive for Covid – video Posted: 17 Jul 2021 08:17 AM PDT The health secretary for England, Sajid Javid, has announced in a video on Twitter that he has tested positive for coronavirus and has mild symptoms. In a video, Javid said: "This morning I tested positive for Covid. I'm waiting for my PCR result, but thankfully I have had my jabs and symptoms are mild." |
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