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- Belarus NGOs condemn government crackdown after ‘black week’ of raids
- Chinese leader Xi Jinping makes first visit to Tibet as president
- Tokyo Olympic Games 2020: build-up to the opening ceremony – live!
- ‘It’s just ice-cream’: settlers’ chilly response to Ben & Jerry’s boycott
- New Zealand shuts Australia travel bubble as Sydney’s Covid outbreak worsens
- China floods: thousands trapped without fresh water as rain moves north
- About 100 CIA officers and family have been sickened by Havana syndrome
- 100 days to Cop26: protesters urge Boris Johnson to take climate talks seriously
- Bougainville health minister and family lost at sea after boat sinks off Papua New Guinea
- Fire tornadoes, haze, clouds: US blazes create their own weather systems
- Death and detergents: Spanish poet sets hospital laundry work to verse
- US in ‘another pivotal moment’ as Delta variant drives surge in Covid cases
- Coronavirus live: Tokyo has 1,359 new cases as Olympics start; Philippines bans children from going out
- Fears for Indonesia provinces as Delta variant spreads out of Java
- Australian Medical Association says NSW Covid lockdown failing and urges change to AstraZeneca advice
- A new start after 60: ‘I was sick, tired and had lost myself – until I began lifting weights at 71’
- Tokyo 2020 – all your key Olympic questions answered
- Limbo star Amir El-Masry: ‘I sat on Omar Sharif’s lap! It was like I was with my granddad’
- Leon Bridges: ‘My transition was dishwasher one day, star the next’
- ‘There are no rules now’: how gen Z reinvented pop punk
- From Prince to Joy Division: 10 of the best posthumous albums
- Mountain of Salt: a Covid commentary from found images – in pictures
- Peter Rehberg, underground musician and Editions Mego head, dies aged 53
- Various artists: Music From the Arab World, Part 2 review | global album of the month
- Republican bid to limit health officials could cause ‘preventable tragedies’ – experts
- NSW Covid update: Scott Morrison rejects request from Gladys Berejiklian for extra Pfizer vaccine
- Violence against Africa’s children is rising. It stains our collective conscience | Graça Machel
- Argentina threatens to cancel deal for Sputnik vaccine as Russia fails to deliver
- Aid is not helping development in Tanzania | Letter
- Rates of double-jabbed people in hospital will grow – but that does not mean Covid vaccines are failing
- US 'not of the woods yet', says CDC chief, as Delta variant drives Covid surge – video
- Hong Kong: five arrested for sedition over children’s book about sheep – video
- Covid pass could be compulsory for entry to large events in England – video
- China floods: aluminium alloy plant explodes in Henan province – video
- Deadly rains hit central China as subways flood and tens of millions impacted – video
| Belarus NGOs condemn government crackdown after ‘black week’ of raids Posted: 22 Jul 2021 09:00 PM PDT Human rights groups say latest series of arrests and searches are part of 'a total purge on civil society' The government of Belarus has launched a broad crackdown on civil society, launching raids and arrests on dozens of organisations in what has been described as a "black week" for the country's NGOs. The raids, which began last week, have touched all corners of civil society, from groups that campaign for political prisoners' rights to those that crowdfund medical care and have helped medics in the fight against coronavirus. Continue reading... |
| Chinese leader Xi Jinping makes first visit to Tibet as president Posted: 23 Jul 2021 02:19 AM PDT Visit comes as China tightens control over region's Buddhist culture and invests heavily in infrastructure The Chinese leader has made his first visit to Tibet as president as authorities tighten controls over the Himalayan region's traditional Buddhist culture, accompanied by an accelerated drive for economic development and modernised infrastructure. State media reported on Friday that Xi Jinping had visited sites in the capital, Lhasa, including the Drepung monastery, Barkhor Street and the public square at the base of the Potala Palace that was home to the Dalai Lamas, Tibet's traditional spiritual and temporal leaders. Continue reading... |
| Tokyo Olympic Games 2020: build-up to the opening ceremony – live! Posted: 23 Jul 2021 02:42 AM PDT
Swimming: "The nine-day Olympic swimming schedule, which kicks off with the first heats on Saturday evening, is set to be dominated by the rivalry between swimming powerhouses Australia and the United States," writes Kieran Pender in Tokyo. Related: Australian swimmers eager to entertain on the eve of Olympics duel with US | Kieran Pender
The opening ceremony: "An unusual amount of uncertainty hangs over the entire enterprise," writes Simon Burnton. "Many ceremonies have been touted as genuinely innovative before following a familiar pattern, but the kind of intensively-rehearsed, bewilderingly-synchronised mass choreography they have traditionally relied on is precisely the kind of thing the Covid pandemic has made particularly difficult to arrange, which added to the event's uniquely problematic gestation might leave them with no choice but to actually try something completely different." Related: Spotter's guide: Tokyo's unique and uncertain Olympic opening ceremony Continue reading... |
| ‘It’s just ice-cream’: settlers’ chilly response to Ben & Jerry’s boycott Posted: 22 Jul 2021 09:00 PM PDT Locals in Efrat, an Israeli settlement with US cultural links, give their views on the ban on sales to occupied territories There are blue skies and green grass outside and inside Pizzeria Efrat, a restaurant in a settlement of the same name in the occupied West Bank. Outside, the pizza parlour is surrounded by lush parks and wide, quiet roads. Inside, the famous cartoon cows on tubs of Ben & Jerry's ice-cream greet customers from no fewer than three branded freezer cabinets, stacks of red pizza boxes piled up behind them. Continue reading... |
| New Zealand shuts Australia travel bubble as Sydney’s Covid outbreak worsens Posted: 22 Jul 2021 07:19 PM PDT Jacinda Ardern pauses flights for eight weeks as her health chief says the spread in NSW was 'clearly not under control' New Zealand is shutting down the quarantine-free travel bubble with Australia for two months, as the country grapples with a number of serious outbreaks of Covid-19. The country had already paused travel with the states of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. The new pause applies to all of Australia for the next eight weeks. Continue reading... |
| China floods: thousands trapped without fresh water as rain moves north Posted: 22 Jul 2021 10:49 PM PDT Extreme rainstorms are continuing their path of destruction, dumping 260mm on the city of Xinxiang in just two hours Thousands of people remain trapped in central China as floods continue to batter the region, killing at least 51, a number that is expected to rise again sharply as recovery crews access previously submerged roads and tunnels in the capital city. Record-breaking rainstorms – which dumped a year's worth of rain on and around the capital of Henan province, Zhengzhou, earlier this week – have since moved north, affecting outer cities and regional areas, trapping people without electricity or fresh water, including at hospitals. Continue reading... |
| About 100 CIA officers and family have been sickened by Havana syndrome Posted: 22 Jul 2021 04:48 PM PDT Director William Burns has initiated a taskforce to investigate the syndrome and tripled the size of the medical team involved About 100 CIA officers and family members are among about 200 US officials and kin sickened by "Havana syndrome", the CIA director, William Burns, said on Thursday, referring to the mysterious set of ailments that include migraines and dizziness. Burns, tapped by Joe Biden as the first career diplomat to serve as CIA chief, said in a National Public Radio interview that he had bolstered his agency's efforts to determine the cause of the syndrome and what is responsible. Continue reading... |
| 100 days to Cop26: protesters urge Boris Johnson to take climate talks seriously Posted: 22 Jul 2021 10:00 PM PDT With 100 days to go to crucial UN crisis summit in Glasgow, PM is accused of lack of leadership Protesters will fill London's Parliament Square on Friday morning, calling on the prime minister, Boris Johnson, to make the climate crisis his top priority, as the UK prepares to host UN talks that will determine whether the world tips into environmental catastrophe this decade. Giant alarm clocks will show time running out, while 100 protesters chant that Johnson and his chancellor, Rishi Sunak, are "missing in action" on the climate crisis. Continue reading... |
| Bougainville health minister and family lost at sea after boat sinks off Papua New Guinea Posted: 22 Jul 2021 05:19 PM PDT Six people missing after boat sank just 150 metres from Nissan Island, with lone survivor swimming 15 kilometres to neighbouring island Authorities in Bougainville are still searching for the autonomous region's health minister after he and his family went missing in rough seas at the weekend. Charry Napto, his wife and son were among seven people on board a banana boat which was travelling to Nissan Island from Buka, the capital of Bougainville, on Saturday. Continue reading... |
| Fire tornadoes, haze, clouds: US blazes create their own weather systems Posted: 22 Jul 2021 11:00 PM PDT Bootleg fire is generating enough energy and extreme heat that 'it's changing the weather', says expert In southern Oregon, the Bootleg fire has now burned a swath of land larger than the city of Los Angeles. It has forced at least 2,000 residents from their homes and burned 160 houses and buildings. And it's not alone – there are more than 80 fires burning across the United States. Some of these fires are now so intense and large they can create their own weather systems, including fire tornadoes, clouds and other weird phenomena – including smoky haze that has reached New York City, 3,000 miles from where the fires started. New York City now has some of the world's worst air quality, prompting state officials to issue an alert for residents with underlying health conditions, such as asthma, to avoid the outdoors. Continue reading... |
| Death and detergents: Spanish poet sets hospital laundry work to verse Posted: 22 Jul 2021 09:00 PM PDT Begoña M Rueda reflects on her prize-winning account of laundry work during the Covid crisis Spain was not long into the first wave of the Covid pandemic when the poet and hospital laundry worker Begoña M Rueda realised there wasn't quite enough room on the public pedestal for all those who worked in the country's over-stretched and often under-resourced health system. "At eight, people step on to their balconies to applaud / the labours of the doctors and the nurses / but few applaud the labours of the woman who sweeps and mops the hospital / or of those of us who wash the linen of the infected / with our bare hands," Rueda writes in one of the poems that makes up her latest collection. Continue reading... |
| US in ‘another pivotal moment’ as Delta variant drives surge in Covid cases Posted: 22 Jul 2021 07:35 PM PDT
The US is "at another pivotal moment in this pandemic" as rising Covid-19 cases show no signs of abating, driven by the Delta variant, and some hospitals are filling up, especially in areas with low vaccination rates, government officials warned on Thursday. The US government did not change its guidance on mask wearing, despite debates going on in the White House and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about whether those who have been vaccinated should once again be officially advised to wear masks indoors to prevent the spread. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 23 Jul 2021 02:43 AM PDT Latest updates: Tokyo battles wave of infections as Olympics get underway; Philippines bans children aged 5-17 leaving the house until end of July
Indonesia has reported a record 1,566 Covid deaths - the country's highest daily toll to date. It also recorded 49,071 new coronavirus infections. The latest figures bring the total number of deaths to 80,598 and overall cases to 3,082,410. Related: Struggling for work and food, Indonesia's poorest suffer as Covid crisis deepens
Russia has promised to resolve delays in deliveries of Sputnik V to Argentina after the South American country complained that it was holding back its vaccination campaign. The Kremlin said it would fix the issue but that its first priority was to meet demand at home, where deaths and infections are high. Continue reading... |
| Fears for Indonesia provinces as Delta variant spreads out of Java Posted: 23 Jul 2021 12:11 AM PDT Shortages of beds and oxygen as Covid variant reaches areas with weaker healthcare systems Scenes that have for months haunted hospitals across Indonesia's Java island are appearing across the country, as the Delta variant spreads to new provinces, causing shortages of beds and oxygen. Images have circulated on social media of overstretched hospitals in both Papua and Kalimantan. One video shows a patient lying inside an ambulance, with two of his relatives sitting next to him. "The people need help. [I] have brought them to hospitals but all of them rejected us. [The hospitals] said there is no oxygen. How come the government can't provide oxygen?" the ambulance driver, who recorded the video, can be heard saying. The Twitter account reported that the patient finally died. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 22 Jul 2021 10:13 PM PDT Exclusive: Dr Omar Khorshid says Atagi advice must be changed given growing number of cases from Sydney outbreak
The president of the Australian Medical Association, Dr Omar Khorshid, says it is unlikely lockdown measures can contain the Delta outbreak in New South Wales and has urged the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (Atagi) to recommend the AstraZeneca vaccine for more age groups. Currently, the Atagi advice recommends the Pfizer vaccine, which is in short supply and high demand in Australia, "as the preferred vaccine for those aged 16 to under 60 years" due to the risk of rare but severe clotting known as TTS linked to AstraZeneca and more frequent in the under-60 age group. Continue reading... |
| A new start after 60: ‘I was sick, tired and had lost myself – until I began lifting weights at 71’ Posted: 22 Jul 2021 10:00 PM PDT Joan Macdonald faced growing health problems before she began lifting weights, shattering preconceptions about what's possible in your eighth decade Joan Macdonald has not always looked like a bodybuilder. At 71, she weighed 90kg (14st 4lb), and had rising blood pressure and kidney troubles. She was also on medication for cholesterol and acid reflux, and her doctor wanted to double the dose. Her daughter, Michelle, expressed Macdonald's dilemma bluntly. "You're going to end up like your mother did in a nursing home!" she told Macdonald. "And people are going to have to look after you. Do you want that?" Continue reading... |
| Tokyo 2020 – all your key Olympic questions answered Posted: 23 Jul 2021 01:06 AM PDT Medals out of recycled phones, sewage-stopping sand and virtual clapping in the shadow of Covid-19 add up to a very different Olympic Games The greatest impact of Covid on the Games, other than the fact it is being held a year late, will be the absence of spectators. Venues won't be silent, however, with "an immersive sound system" playing "sound created from previous Olympic Games" – which means that vocal ticket holders from many events at London 2012 will, in a manner of speaking, get to attend a second Olympics – while those watching at home will be able to "clap virtually" using an app. Continue reading... |
| Limbo star Amir El-Masry: ‘I sat on Omar Sharif’s lap! It was like I was with my granddad’ Posted: 23 Jul 2021 12:00 AM PDT A familiar face from TV roles in The Night Manager and Industry, the Cairo-born actor is spellbinding in the upcoming independent film about asylum seekers in the Outer Hebrides. But does he owe his career to the Lawrence of Arabia star? Amir El-Masry has a gravely handsome face and a forehead that goes on for ever: he is like an Easter Island statue with matinee-idol looks. Audiences will have a lot of time to study that face in Limbo, a bittersweet British comedy about asylum seekers dispatched to a far corner of the Outer Hebrides (the film was shot in Uist) while their claims are processed. Related: Limbo review – heart-rending portrait of refugees stranded in Scotland Continue reading... |
| Leon Bridges: ‘My transition was dishwasher one day, star the next’ Posted: 23 Jul 2021 01:00 AM PDT The speed of the soul singer's stardom left him reeling. As he releases his best album yet, he explains how he shook off his insecurities – and confronted love, loss and a racist US Leon Bridges leans back on a gold velvet couch at Gold-Diggers, a compound in east Hollywood that includes a hotel, nine recording studios, a bar and a live music venue. Here in Studio 2, sunlight streams down from a skylight, bathing Bridges' sky-blue madras shirt and buttery-brown leather loafers in a soft glow. His sartorial combination places him somewhere between a soul singer and country star circa 1970. Now 32, Bridges was working as a dishwasher just seven years ago, vying for attention at open mic nights in his home town of Fort Worth, Texas. In 2015, he released his debut album, the Grammy-nominated Coming Home, and soon the sheltered Christian found himself performing his spiritual, gospel-imbued song River on Saturday Night Live and covering Ray Charles for the Obamas at the White House. Music journalists hailed this soul singer/songwriter as the second coming of Sam Cooke. Continue reading... |
| ‘There are no rules now’: how gen Z reinvented pop punk Posted: 22 Jul 2021 10:00 PM PDT Twenty years ago, it was made by juvenile men in shorts. Now, from Meet Me @ the Altar to Olivia Rodrigo, diverse young women have reclaimed the genre – and made it the sound of the summer A white man whining about high school, his mediocre hometown or a faceless girl: that is what most people picture when they think of pop punk. In the 90s and 00s, all-male bands such as Green Day, Blink-182, New Found Glory and Sum 41 ruled the charts, looking like Jackass extras in Dickies pants and wallet chains and sounding – albeit mildly – like rebellion. Now, though, a diverse group of women are emerging who have kept the genre's sense of belligerence and fun, but are developing it to create something youthful that also has a quality those older bands eschewed – emotional maturity. Today's pop punks go to therapy (I'm Gonna Tell My Therapist On You by Pinkshift) and sing self-reflectively about relationships. Their vocals recall the soprano gymnastics of the genre's 00s matriarch, Paramore's Hayley Williams more than her nasal male contemporaries. Pop punk has become a defining sound of 2021: Olivia Rodrigo's splenetic Good 4 U recently spent five weeks at No 1 in the UK, the longest stretch for a rock song for 25 years, while Willow, the daughter of Will Smith, released a pop punk album last week that discusses her personal growth and confronts the fake people in her life. Continue reading... |
| From Prince to Joy Division: 10 of the best posthumous albums Posted: 23 Jul 2021 01:00 AM PDT The best records from those lost too soon, including a heavyweight hip-hop opus, a collection of intriguing demos and a haunted swansong This week's Welcome 2 America is the third posthumous Prince album to emerge since his death in 2016. Perhaps the most intriguing, however, is Originals, a collection of Prince's original demos of songs later made famous by other artists (Manic Monday, Love… Thy Will Be Done, Nothing Compares 2 U). A tantalising glimpse into a restless genius's artistic process. Continue reading... |
| Mountain of Salt: a Covid commentary from found images – in pictures Posted: 22 Jul 2021 11:00 PM PDT Bindi Vora's Mountain of Salt is a collection of found images and appropriated text conceived as a response to the Covid pandemic. The wry, sometimes humorous, text-based series of collages focuses on the language used over the past year and was developed from collecting words and sentences derived from politicians, journalists and other individuals. Vora says she is 'interested in how we might unite and reflect on this time currently being experienced in our individual and collective ways, as we all live in the hope of clambering out and making it to the other side unscathed. This curious collection of phrases speaks to the dissemination of language and its effect upon us' Bindi Vora's work is on display, alongside Alys Tomlinson's Lost Summer, at Charing Cross hospital in London until September |
| Peter Rehberg, underground musician and Editions Mego head, dies aged 53 Posted: 23 Jul 2021 02:26 AM PDT Austrian made numerous albums of ambient and electronic music and set up label to champion key works in the genres Peter Rehberg, the Austrian musician and record-label head who was a globally respected figure in underground music, has died aged 53 of a heart attack. His death was announced by the musician Kassel Jaeger, who wrote on Instagram: "Peter is gone, suddenly. Just like that … I owe him so much. So do many of us." Continue reading... |
| Various artists: Music From the Arab World, Part 2 review | global album of the month Posted: 23 Jul 2021 12:30 AM PDT (Habibi Funk) Since 2015, Berlin-based label Habibi Funk has carved out a specific and increasingly popular niche by reissuing lesser-known records by artists from north Africa and the Middle East. Treading carefully around the colonial resonances of white-owned labels purporting to "discover" these acts, label founder Jannis Stürtz splits profits 50-50 between the label and the artists (or their estates). The label released its first Eclectic Selection compilation in 2017 – one that featured everything from Fadoul's Casablancan funk to Algerian Ahmed Malek's expansive instrumentals. The cover of this second instalment encapsulates its culture-spanning ethos, depicting Malek at an ice-cream bar in Osaka in 1970 – a trip he later said came to inspire his own varied approach to genre. Malek is featured here again, his track Casbah providing a sprightly horn arrangement over a loose disco groove. Fadoul also reappears with the driving funk of Ahl Jedba, his throaty vocals displaying his contemporaneous kinship with James Brown's own delivery. Continue reading... |
| Republican bid to limit health officials could cause ‘preventable tragedies’ – experts Posted: 23 Jul 2021 02:00 AM PDT At least nine states have considered 'emergency power limitation' legislation proposed by conservative organization Alec Republican lawmakers across more than a dozen states are working to limit the powers of local health departments in ways experts say is likely to lead to "preventable tragedies" during disease outbreaks, including the Covid-19 pandemic. The attempts to limit the emergency powers of public health agencies comes alongside harassment of individual public health workers, renewed concern about the spread of the highly transmissible Covid-19 Delta variant, and a flagging US vaccination campaign. Continue reading... |
| NSW Covid update: Scott Morrison rejects request from Gladys Berejiklian for extra Pfizer vaccine Posted: 23 Jul 2021 02:40 AM PDT NSW premier warns vaccine rollout is crucial to stop the virus seeping into other states as NSW records 136 local coronavirus cases
Scott Morrison has rejected a bid by the New South Wales government to secure extra Pfizer doses to help battle the Covid outbreak in south-west Sydney hotspots. Before national cabinet on Friday, the NSW premier, Gladys Berejiklian, sought a reallocation of Pfizer doses from other states to combat what she termed a "national emergency" as the spread of the Delta variant continued via essential workers in supermarkets, food processing and logistics. Continue reading... |
| Violence against Africa’s children is rising. It stains our collective conscience | Graça Machel Posted: 22 Jul 2021 11:01 PM PDT We must apply our own home-grown initiatives if we are to curb abuses of Africa's most vulnerable Of all the unspeakable injustices suffered by Africa's children – and I've witnessed many – violence is surely the worst because it is almost entirely preventable. Africa's children suffer many hardships, including poverty, hunger and disease. Violence against children is avoidable, yet young people in Africa, especially girls, continue to live with sexual violence, child marriage, female genital mutilation, forced labour, corporal punishment and countless other forms of abuse. After decades spent trying to improve young people's life chances, I had hoped to see at the very least a significant reduction in violence that threatens children. It is now 31 years since the adoption of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child and we have seen some governments putting into place laws and policies aimed at ending violence against children. There have also been efforts, though insufficient, towards eradicating female genital mutilation and child marriage, which cause untold lifelong suffering. Continue reading... |
| Argentina threatens to cancel deal for Sputnik vaccine as Russia fails to deliver Posted: 22 Jul 2021 11:39 AM PDT Moscow owes 18.5m doses, leaving Argentina in a 'very critical situation' with only 12% fully vaccinated, leaked letter reveals Argentina's gamble on Sputnik V vaccine has left it in a "very critical situation" because of Russia's failure to fulfill delivery commitments, according to an official letter to Moscow leaked on Thursday. Russia owes Argentina 18.5m doses of its Sputnik V jab, over two-thirds of them vital second-component doses. |
| Aid is not helping development in Tanzania | Letter Posted: 22 Jul 2021 09:43 AM PDT The country is one of the largest recipients of western aid, and yet poverty and unemployment remain rife, write two healthcare professionals In response to Benny Dembitzer's letter (20 July), we are currently working in Tanzania, one of the largest recipients of western aid in the world. We are doing research with the Hadza people, investigating the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in that population. In comparison to our observations from 2018, it appears that very little development has occurred in Tanzania. If anything, Tanzanians appear to be poorer and there appears to be more unemployed people now, which, given the challenges of Covid, is even more worrying. This highlights that the current aid model is not fit for purpose and western governments should rethink the way they support Tanzania and other countries urgently. In the medical field, we are finding that progress has been halted, and probably reversed. One of the causes is that the rich world takes so many doctors, nurses and other health professionals from the developing world. Countries such as Tanzania have educated these professionals at their expense. We collect the ripe fruits. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 22 Jul 2021 08:34 AM PDT Several factors, including the portion of those at highest risk among the double-vaccinated and antibody levels, account for the data The next wave of Covid will be different. When cases soared in spring and winter last year lockdowns rapidly brought them back under control. This time it will be vaccines that do the hard work. But Covid jabs are not a perfect shield. They slow the spread of the virus, help prevent disease, and reduce the risk of dying. They do not bring all this to an end. Continue reading... |
| US 'not of the woods yet', says CDC chief, as Delta variant drives Covid surge – video Posted: 22 Jul 2021 07:34 PM PDT The US is at another 'pivotal moment' in the pandemic as the Delta variant drives a big rise in new cases, said CDC director, Rochelle Walensky, who warned 'we are not out of the woods yet'. She added: 'The Delta variant is more aggressive and much more transmissible than previously circulating strains,' she said. 'It is one of the most infectious respiratory viruses that we know of and that I have seen in my 20-year career.'
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| Hong Kong: five arrested for sedition over children’s book about sheep – video Posted: 22 Jul 2021 06:25 AM PDT Five members of a Hong Kong union behind a series of children's books about sheep trying to hold back wolves from their village have been arrested for sedition. The arrests were made by the new national security police unit, which is undertaking a sweeping crackdown on dissent. The two men and three women detained had 'conspired to publish, distribute, exhibit or copy seditious publications', the unit said Continue reading... |
| Covid pass could be compulsory for entry to large events in England – video Posted: 22 Jul 2021 04:19 AM PDT The vaccines minister has confirmed the government intends to go ahead with making Covid vaccination a condition for entry to nightclubs from September in England. Nadhim Zahawi said that after a successful trial the government has rolled out the NHS Covid pass, which allows people to show their Covid status, whether proof of vaccination, test results or natural immunity. He added the government reserved the right to make its use compulsory in future but confirmed MPs will get a vote on plans to use Covid passports Continue reading... |
| China floods: aluminium alloy plant explodes in Henan province – video Posted: 22 Jul 2021 01:56 AM PDT Dramatic footage shows the moment an aluminium plant exploded in China's central Henan province after a record-breaking rain storm. Local government officials said Dengfeng Power Group's plant exploded when flood waters from a nearby river breached a wall and entered it
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| Deadly rains hit central China as subways flood and tens of millions impacted – video Posted: 21 Jul 2021 11:49 PM PDT Heavy rains have flooded parts of central China's Henan province, upending the lives of tens of millions and leaving at least 12 dead. More than 20cm of rain fell in one hour in Zhengzhou, the regional capital, flooding the city's subway system and major roads. The heavy rains began on 17 July before severe downpours on 20 July Continue reading... |
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