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- Coronavirus live news: 4 million excess deaths in India, study suggests, as official Covid toll passes 414,000
- ‘Embargo and isolation’: northern Cyprus nine months after hardliner wins election
- Oregon’s enormous Bootleg fire expands to cover 564 square miles
- Bill Clinton fancied an Indian rather than tea with the Queen
- Pedro Castillo makes unity plea after finally being named Peru’s next president
- Baghdad suicide bombing: dozens killed, scores injured in blast at packed Iraq market
- Ugandan activists describe months of physical abuse in prison
- ‘Weird and unfair’: Usain Bolt criticises advances in spike technology
- Colombia under fire for backing Cuba protests while stifling dissent at home
- Tokyo Olympics: fears athletes could face hottest Games on record
- Dominic Cummings tells BBC Johnson denied Covid would overwhelm NHS
- Lockdowns do not harm health more than Covid, say researchers
- Rising Covid cases spark fears of resurgent pandemic in US
- China reports highest number of Covid cases since January
- ‘We tried to be joyful enough to deserve our new lives’: What it’s really like to be a refugee in Britain
- ‘Like Uber for snake emergencies’: tech takes the sting out of bites in rural India
- ‘Contraception divides opinion’: tackling taboos in Zimbabwe as teen pregnancies soar
- Ghost World at 20: the comic-book movie that refused to conform
- Looking for love? Dress as a shark! Is Sexy Beasts a new low for dating shows?
- Record number of migrants cross Channel in one day
- Here We Are review – superb performances and insight in Israeli autism drama
- US seeks cooperation with China on climate but not at any price
- Victoria extends lockdown; SA announces shutdown – as it happened
- Migration and Covid deaths depriving poorest nations of health workers
- Even as Ardern signals alignment with US, New Zealand still seeks to maintain distance | Pete McKenzie
- Nudge or nutcracker? Either way PM faces vaccine passport backlash
- For years Eddie Obeid fended off all allegations. Now the truth can’t be denied | Anne Davies
- I work in an NHS Covid ward – and I feel so angry
- Iraq: market explosion in Baghdad kills dozens – video
- Biden says Facebook isn’t ‘killing people’ but Covid misinformation causes harm – video
- Dozens dead in Mumbai after intense monsoon rains cause landslides – video report
| Posted: 20 Jul 2021 02:20 AM PDT Excess deaths in India are measure of overall impact of pandemic; mainland China records 65 new cases, highest since January
Taiwan's Medigen Vaccine Biologics Corp said on Tuesday it will start a late-stage clinical trial this year in Paraguay for its Covid vaccine, part of the island's push to make its own shots against the coronavirus. Taiwan's government on Monday approved the emergency use and production of Medigen's vaccine despite criticism from opposition parties the vaccine has yet to finish final clinical trials and with no efficacy data available.
In Senegal, Covid cases have soared in the past week, threatening to overwhelm health services just as Senegalese prepare to gather in extended families for Eid al-Adha. President Macky Sall threatened on Friday to close borders and impose a new state of emergency after the country broke its daily case record three times in a single week. |
| ‘Embargo and isolation’: northern Cyprus nine months after hardliner wins election Posted: 20 Jul 2021 02:13 AM PDT Ersin Tartar presses on with proposals for two-state solution to Cyprus problem It's been nine months since Ersin Tatar assumed the presidency of the self-declared Turkish republic of northern Cyprus and, like his predecessors, he has found little has changed. Embargos, international isolation and political restrictions remain perennial problems for his unrecognised state. Even today, nearly 38 years after the territory proclaimed independence, foreign dignitaries pass through his colonial-era office and still object to being photographed next to the flags on his desk. Continue reading... |
| Oregon’s enormous Bootleg fire expands to cover 564 square miles Posted: 20 Jul 2021 02:20 AM PDT One of the largest fires in modern Oregon history has burned an area half the size of Rhode Island Fuelled by erratic winds and dry lightning, the enormous Bootleg fire in southern Oregon burned through another 47,000-plus acres on Monday to reach an estimated total of 364,000 acres (564 square miles) - an area more than half the size of Rhode Island. The challenging weather conditions have added to the dangers for the crews in parched Oregon forests who are battling the fire, currently the largest in the US. Continue reading... |
| Bill Clinton fancied an Indian rather than tea with the Queen Posted: 19 Jul 2021 04:01 PM PDT Then US leader also turned down Chequers dinner because he wanted to 'be a tourist', archives show Bill Clinton turned down tea with the Queen and dinner at Chequers because he wanted to "be a tourist" and try out an Indian restaurant during his first official visit to the UK with Tony Blair as prime minister, formerly classified documents reveal. Downing Street wanted to pull out all the stops for a visit seen as crucial to "establishing a good working relationship" between the new prime minister and the then US president. Buckingham Palace contacted No 10 to say "HM the Queen would be very pleased" to invite the Clintons to tea at 5pm on their brief one-day detour from summits in Paris and The Hague. Continue reading... |
| Pedro Castillo makes unity plea after finally being named Peru’s next president Posted: 19 Jul 2021 07:24 PM PDT One-time teacher asks for 'effort and sacrifice' in first remarks after being confirmed as president-elect Pedro Castillo, a rural teacher turned political novice, has become the winner of Peru's presidential election after the country's longest electoral count in 40 years. In his first comments as president-elect, he called for national unity. "I ask for effort and sacrifice in the struggle to make this a just and sovereign country," he said. Continue reading... |
| Baghdad suicide bombing: dozens killed, scores injured in blast at packed Iraq market Posted: 19 Jul 2021 05:07 PM PDT Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the deadly attack in Sadr City neighbourhood A suicide bomber has killed at least 35 people and wounded more than 60 in a crowded market in the Sadr City neighbourhood of Baghdad on Monday, the eve of the Eid al-Adha festival, security and hospital sources said. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, the group's Nasheer news agency said on Telegram. It said one of its militants blew up his explosive vest among the crowds. Hospital sources said the death toll could rise as some of the wounded were in critical condition. Continue reading... |
| Ugandan activists describe months of physical abuse in prison Posted: 20 Jul 2021 12:13 AM PDT Reports by supporters of opposition politician Robert Kyagulanyi will increase pressure on president over human rights Opposition activists who spent months behind bars in Uganda have described systematic physical abuse, denial of basic legal rights and appalling conditions as they waited for trial on charges they claim were fabricated. The experiences of the activists, revealed to the Guardian after their release last month, will increase pressure on Uganda, a key western ally in east Africa, over human rights failings that have grown significantly worse since the country's president, Yoweri Museveni, started to face a significant political challenge in recent years. Continue reading... |
| ‘Weird and unfair’: Usain Bolt criticises advances in spike technology Posted: 19 Jul 2021 10:07 PM PDT
Usain Bolt said that advances in spike technology that could help wipe out his world records are laughable and that the new shoes also give an unfair advantage over any athletes not wearing them. After athletes ripped through the record books in distance running with carbon-plated, thick-soled shoes, the technology has now moved into sprint spikes, where – although there is less time in a race for the advantage to make an impact – it is still enough to make a difference. Continue reading... |
| Colombia under fire for backing Cuba protests while stifling dissent at home Posted: 20 Jul 2021 02:00 AM PDT Government calls for freedom of expression in Cuba as police mount brutal response to local activists Colombia's government has been accused of hypocrisy after calling for solidarity with protesters in Cuba even as it cracks down harshly on mass demonstrations against economic inequity and human rights abuses. Colombia is bracing for another round of anti-poverty demonstrations and unrest, with large marches planned for Tuesday 20 July, Colombia's independence day, after taking a monthlong hiatus during a surge in Covid-19 cases. Continue reading... |
| Tokyo Olympics: fears athletes could face hottest Games on record Posted: 20 Jul 2021 12:12 AM PDT Beach volleyball players have already found sand too hot for their feet during practice As if the coronavirus was not enough to contend with, Olympic athletes who have arrived ahead of the start of the Tokyo Games on Friday now find themselves at the sharp end of a Japanese summer. Related: 'Weird and unfair': Usain Bolt criticises advances in spike technology Continue reading... |
| Dominic Cummings tells BBC Johnson denied Covid would overwhelm NHS Posted: 19 Jul 2021 11:14 PM PDT Former aide says Boris Johnson held out on October lockdown because those 'dying are essentially all over 80' Boris Johnson denied the NHS would be overwhelmed and said he was not prepared to lock down the country to save people in their 80s, texting his adviser "get Covid and live longer," according to new WhatsApp messages released by Dominic Cummings. In his first TV interview, the prime minister's former chief adviser said Johnson held out on reimposing Covid restrictions because "the people who are dying are essentially all over 80." Continue reading... |
| Lockdowns do not harm health more than Covid, say researchers Posted: 19 Jul 2021 11:00 PM PDT Little evidence that social restrictions during the pandemic have added to rates of death and ill-health Since early in the coronavirus pandemic, critics of unprecedented lockdown measures seen worldwide have argued that these interventions cause more harm than the disease itself. But an analysis of global health data suggests there is little evidence to support the idea that the cure is worse than the disease. The analysis, published in the journal BMJ Global Health, considered claims that lockdowns cause more health harms than Covid-19 by examining their impacts on measures including death rates, routine health services and mental health. Continue reading... |
| Rising Covid cases spark fears of resurgent pandemic in US Posted: 19 Jul 2021 03:58 PM PDT Biden implores Americans to get vaccinated and stocks fall amid outbreaks in areas with low inoculation rates A rapid increase in coronavirus cases in the US and abroad is fueling fears of a pandemic resurgence and on Monday sent shockwaves through the stock market as the highly contagious Delta variant takes hold – and Joe Biden urged Americans to "please, please get vaccinated". The number of new cases, hospitalizations and deaths due to Covid-19 have been rising worryingly in recent days, largely driven by outbreaks in parts of the country with low vaccination rates, as officials have been warning of a "pandemic of the unvaccinated". Continue reading... |
| China reports highest number of Covid cases since January Posted: 19 Jul 2021 09:54 PM PDT Confirmed cases doubled compared to a day earlier, with most imported from neighbouring Myanmar China has reported the highest daily tally of new confirmed Covid-19 cases since January, driven by a surge in imported infections in southwestern Yunnan province, which shares a border with Myanmar. Mainland China recorded 65 new confirmed cases for 19 July, compared with 31 a day earlier, the National Health Commission said in a statement on Tuesday. That was the most since 30 January, when 92 new cases were reported. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 19 Jul 2021 10:00 PM PDT As a child, I fled Afghanistan with my family. When we arrived in Britain after a harrowing journey, we thought we could start our new life in safety. But the reality was very different During the summer I turned 15, I fell into a prolonged depression that lasted well into my 20s. My mother, my two brothers and I had just arrived in London, and because we were seeking asylum as refugees, we were moved into a hostel for vulnerable families on Fitzjohn's Avenue in the affluent north-west of the city. The journey to London had been so difficult that we had separated from my father, one of my brothers and my sister a few months earlier. The hostel was situated on a tree-lined avenue that connects Swiss Cottage to Hampstead village. A pleasant walk north takes you to Hampstead Heath and Keats House, to the south is Regent's Park, where my family would walk around the park's ornate rose garden and sit by the fountain, our favourite spot. Four years earlier, in autumn 1992, my family had left our home in Kabul when the sudden withdrawal of US interests from Afghanistan left militias fighting for power, making ordinary life impossible. Once-frequent family gatherings had been reduced to funerals attended by a few. Food and water were scarce. We rarely left our home – the adults only went out on the most essential errands. My uncle sometimes cycled across the city to bring us drinking water as rockets fell around him. We would be worried sick until his return. Continue reading... |
| ‘Like Uber for snake emergencies’: tech takes the sting out of bites in rural India Posted: 19 Jul 2021 10:30 PM PDT Venomous snakebites cause tens of thousands of deaths each year. But homegrown apps are coming to the rescue – and protecting reptiles from reprisals When 12-year-old Anay Sujith felt a sharp sting in his leg while asleep in his hut in a village in Kerala, "I started yelling and woke up my parents," he recalls. They immediately sought help – not with a phone call, but through an app. A team from Kannur Wildlife Rescuers (KWR) reached the boy's home, in Ramatheru village in the coastal city of Kannur, within minutes and he was admitted to hospital 20 minutes later. He had been bitten four times by a venomous Russell's viper, one of the "big four" snakes in India responsible for the greatest number of venomous snakebites. Continue reading... |
| ‘Contraception divides opinion’: tackling taboos in Zimbabwe as teen pregnancies soar Posted: 19 Jul 2021 11:30 PM PDT With Covid lockdowns blamed for rising rates, MPs and teachers say it's time to 'face reality' and allow younger teens access to birth control Malet*, 14, stands in the long queue at the maternity clinic in Harare. She is here for her routine checkup. Most of the people in the queue are teenage girls. Malet fell pregnant the first time she had sex. Her baby is due in two months. Continue reading... |
| Ghost World at 20: the comic-book movie that refused to conform Posted: 19 Jul 2021 11:09 PM PDT The astute and unconventional adaptation of Daniel Clowes' source material remains one of the most unique examples of the genre In the 20 years since Ghost World was released, nerd culture has become dominant culture, turning a term once associated with the dweeby outcasts of 80s comedies to a shorthand nearly everyone can self-apply. Now you're a nerd for seeing Ant-Man and the Wasp on opening day. In truth, the term was always meaningless, whether it applied to pitiable dorks with taped-together glasses and pocket protectors or the hordes jamming Hall H at ComicCon every year, hyped up over the biggest movies on the planet. Authentic nerds are exiled from the culture entirely – few people want to spend time around them, much less pay money to see them on the screen. Related: AI at 20: Spielberg's misunderstood epic remains his darkest movie yet Continue reading... |
| Looking for love? Dress as a shark! Is Sexy Beasts a new low for dating shows? Posted: 19 Jul 2021 06:46 AM PDT A disturbing new Netflix series makes dates dress up as animals – from rhinos to insects – so that choices are made on personality not looks. So why is everyone involved so hot? "Ass first, personality second," says a deadpan beaver at a bar. Meanwhile, a panda with pleading eyes says she wants a baby by the age of 26. A rhino in a dress shirt chips in with "Vulnerability is our biggest muscle" – and gets a high five from a delighted dolphin. What fresh hell is this? Are we not, for just one moment, deserving of a rest? Netflix says no. After holding us hostage for three weeks with Love Is Blind – in hindsight, not a good use of our last days before the pandemic – the evil-genius algorithm has come up with another "dating experiment". Continue reading... |
| Record number of migrants cross Channel in one day Posted: 20 Jul 2021 12:47 AM PDT Home Office says at least 430 people made the dangerous crossing on Monday Hundreds of migrants crossed the Channel to the UK on Monday, setting a new daily record. The Home Office said that at least 430 people made the crossing. In Dungeness, Kent, about 50 people, including women and young children, were seen arriving on a beach after crossing in a single dinghy. Continue reading... |
| Here We Are review – superb performances and insight in Israeli autism drama Posted: 20 Jul 2021 02:00 AM PDT Drawn on the writer's personal experience, Nir Bergman's father-son runaway adventure delivers poignancy through myriad insights Moving but unsentimental, this Israeli drama is a perfect example of how a cinematic story becomes paradoxically more universal by being very specific about people and places. It explores an intense relationship between father Aharon (Shai Avivi) and his son Uri (Noam Imber), a young man in his 20s; although the word autism barely features here, or at least not in the English subtitles, it's starkly obvious that Uri is on the spectrum. He can speak, but he's very attached to his routines, resistant to eat much apart from pasta stars and obsessed with watching Charlie Chaplin films on his portable DVD player; he must have his dad around to help him navigate the world at all times lest there's any danger he might, for example, step on a snail, a prospect that completely terrifies him, or in case he's not sure if someone has made a joke. Although the dialogue only skims these characters' backstories, it soon becomes clear that Aharon, once a successful graphic designer, has essentially turned taking care of Uri into his life's work, to the point where both men are entirely interdependent on each other. Uri's mother Tamara (Smadi Wolfman) doesn't live with them any more, but arguably she can see more clearly than Aharon that Uri needs to be around peers and learn how to live semi-independently, if only to help him prepare for a time when Aharon and Tamara themselves won't be around. She has found an assisted living facility that's willing to take Uri in, but it's really Aharon who can't let go; and the two of them end up on the run, or as much on the run as you can be in a country as tiny as Israel. Continue reading... |
| US seeks cooperation with China on climate but not at any price Posted: 20 Jul 2021 12:47 AM PDT Climate envoy John Kerry has rejected notion that Beijing could buy US silence on human rights as price of cooperation on climate In the next four months or so, the world will find out whether it is possible for one branch of the US federal government – the state department - to accuse Chinese officials of committing genocide, and for another branch – led by the special envoy on climate change, John Kerry – to persuade China to transform the way its dirty economy operates. Is it possible simultaneously to compete for mastery of the world and to collaborate to save that world? The outcome of this diplomatic experiment will become known at the British-hosted Cop26 in Glasgow convened to try to put the world on course for only 1.5C of warming. All countries are expected to produce their nationally determined contributions – how much they will reduce their carbon footprint. British officials insist Cop26 is about more than China and the US, but without these two players, jointly responsible for 40% of global green house gas emissions, nothing meaningful is achievable. Continue reading... |
| Victoria extends lockdown; SA announces shutdown – as it happened Posted: 20 Jul 2021 01:26 AM PDT This blog is now closed
Thanks everybody, we are going to wind things down for the evening. A big day:
McGowan also mentions another container ship, Mattina, which was berthed in Fremantle between the 10th and 12th of July after sailing from Jakarta in Indonesia. It has sailed on to New Zealand and health officials there have advised the WA government that nine of 21 crew have tested positive for Covid-19. Continue reading... |
| Migration and Covid deaths depriving poorest nations of health workers Posted: 19 Jul 2021 03:07 AM PDT Fragile health systems are at risk due to high numbers of medical staff leaving to work in richer countries, say experts The loss of frontline health workers dying of Covid around the globe, is being compounded in the hospitals of developing nations by trained medical staff leaving to help in the pandemic effort abroad, according to experts. With new Covid waves in Africa, and with Latin America and Asia facing unrelenting health emergencies, the number of health worker deaths from Covid-19 in May was at least 115,000, according to the World Health Organization. Its director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, acknowledged data is "scant" and the true figure is likely to be far higher. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 19 Jul 2021 08:11 PM PDT As the prime minister treads the delicate path between China and the US we shouldn't overstate the significance of her latest moves New Zealand has long prided itself on having an "independent" foreign policy that charts a middle path between great powers. It's an approach for which the prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, and her new foreign minister, Nanaia Mahuta, have voiced strong support. Over the past week, however, Ardern has moved towards a much closer alignment with America. It's the latest sign that for small countries caught amid great power competition, independence is increasingly difficult. It also raises the question: is this the end of New Zealand's "independent" foreign policy, and if so, what comes next? Continue reading... |
| Nudge or nutcracker? Either way PM faces vaccine passport backlash Posted: 19 Jul 2021 12:31 PM PDT Analysis: Latest Covid policy announced on what was supposed to be 'freedom day' likely to provoke huge anger What was billed as "freedom day" has ended with accusations that the government has paved the way for exactly the opposite, as Boris Johnson braces for the backlash to his plans to introduce vaccine passports in a matter of months. The documents have long been a fascination of the prime minister, who touted their use for pubs and theatres back at the start of 2021, but acknowledged the moral dilemma they posed in a country that has always prided itself on opposition to a European-style "papers, please" regime. Continue reading... |
| For years Eddie Obeid fended off all allegations. Now the truth can’t be denied | Anne Davies Posted: 19 Jul 2021 10:30 AM PDT I was among those who first reported on Eddie Obeid's dealings in the NSW Upper Hunter. Monday's supreme court verdict is vindication for many who investigated him "If it is corruption, then it is corruption on a scale probably unexceeded since the days of the Rum Corps," counsel assisting the NSW Independent Commission against Corruption, Geoffrey Watson SC, declared theatrically at the opening of the inquiry into the grant of a coal licence at Mount Penny in 2012. A decade later, the NSW supreme court has found the grant of the controversial coal exploration licence in the Bylong Valley was the result of a criminal conspiracy that resulted in the Obeid family making at least $30m. Continue reading... |
| I work in an NHS Covid ward – and I feel so angry Posted: 19 Jul 2021 04:05 AM PDT It is hard not to feel undermined by rising cases and the decision to relax restrictions, says this consultant It is hard to summarise exactly why I feel so angry. While the third wave is clearly under way, things are definitely different this time around. For the equivalent case numbers, hospitalisations are far lower, and people overall are less unwell. Vaccines have made the difference. Many of our admissions have not been vaccinated, however. Some want to achieve "natural immunity"; it is unclear whether they realise that the only way to do this is to get the disease instead. Another wants "to see some real data", as if all the information assessed by the regulatory authorities before approval, and the clear real-world data about the reduction in cases, is somehow fabricated. Someone's friend got some side-effects from the vaccine so she didn't have it; guess which one of them ended up in hospital. Most of these people have the decency to look sheepish, or to describe themselves as "one of those idiots". Continue reading... |
| Iraq: market explosion in Baghdad kills dozens – video Posted: 19 Jul 2021 06:05 PM PDT At least 35 people were killed and many more injured in an explosion in Iraq's capital Baghdad, on the eve of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha. The blast took place in Wahailat market, Sadr City district during rush hour. Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack. Continue reading... |
| Biden says Facebook isn’t ‘killing people’ but Covid misinformation causes harm – video Posted: 19 Jul 2021 02:21 PM PDT Joe Biden has tempered his assessment that social media platforms are 'killing people' by hosting misinformation about the Covid-19 vaccines, saying that he hoped they would not take it 'personally'. He added that vaccine misinformation on Facebook can harm people and the point of his rhetoric was to ramp up pressure on the companies to take action and save lives Continue reading... |
| Dozens dead in Mumbai after intense monsoon rains cause landslides – video report Posted: 19 Jul 2021 07:04 AM PDT More than 30 people have died in the Indian city after an intense burst of rainfall caused flooding and landslides, as changing monsoon patterns because of the climate crisis lead to more extreme rains across India. The landslide in the eastern suburb of Chembur enveloped homes as people were sleeping and killed at least 21, according to the National Disaster Response Force Continue reading... |
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