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- Sydney police fine hundreds of anti-lockdown protesters for ‘filthy, risky behaviour’
- Anger over Sajid Javid’s advice to not ‘cower’ from Covid
- Olympics 2020 day two: Kiesenhofer’s road race glory, tennis and gymnastics – live!
- ‘Very saddened’: Toa, the orphaned baby orca that enthralled New Zealand, is buried
- Plans of four G20 states are threat to global climate pledge, warn scientists
- Foreign Office is ‘complicit in British man’s Somalia torture’
- Cuban leftists begin to turn their fire on the ‘harmful practices of the state’
- Philippines floods: thousands flee Manila after days of torrential rain
- ‘A cartel shouldn’t get away with this.’ Anger at opioid settlements that exclude admission of wrongdoing
- R Kelly had sexual contact with underage boy as well as girls, prosecutors say
- Even a pandemic can’t keep Ryanair from flying higher
- Europe clamps down amid fears over rapid spread of Delta variant
- Covid live: UK could extend vaccine passports to sports; India reports 39k new cases
- ‘People are dying who did not have to die’: anger grows in Guatemala as Covid surges
- How England’s ‘pingdemic’ took a heavy toll on the Tories
- Dina Asher-Smith: ‘You get 10 seconds to make your mark’
- Meet Julie K Brown, the woman who brought down Jeffrey Epstein
- ‘Your mammy was a flower’: a young boy’s bereavement
- The insect apocalypse: ‘Our world will grind to a halt without them’
- Buried in concrete: how the mafia made a killing from the destruction of Italy’s south
- The cost of cooling: how air conditioning is heating up the world
- ‘Our silence permits perpetrators to continue’: one woman’s fight to expose a father’s abuse
- Tokyo diary: South Korea and Japan turn back the clock
- PM confirms extra doses of Pfizer vaccine – as it happened
- Biden races to unite allies against China knowing sooner or later an explosion will occur
- Turkey’s labourers take to TikTok to show millions their harsh work conditions – video
| Sydney police fine hundreds of anti-lockdown protesters for ‘filthy, risky behaviour’ Posted: 24 Jul 2021 09:05 PM PDT Prime minister denounces 'selfish' protesters who marched against coronavirus measures as police taskforce traces everyone who broke rules Hundreds of fines have been issued and dozens charged in Sydney after anti-lockdown protesters marched and clashed with police in what one deputy commissioner called "violent, filthy, risky behaviour". The Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, said on Sunday the previous day's protests – in which thousands breached the region's coronavirus measures to protest – were "selfish and self-defeating", adding: "It achieves no purpose. It won't end the lockdown sooner." Continue reading... |
| Anger over Sajid Javid’s advice to not ‘cower’ from Covid Posted: 24 Jul 2021 04:08 PM PDT Bereaved families, Labour and Lib Dems all condemn health secretary's 'insensitivity' Sajid Javid has provoked a wave of anger from families of the victims of Covid after he said people must no longer "cower" from the virus. The health secretary announced on Saturday that he had made a "full recovery" from Covid-19 after falling ill eight days ago, and said: "Please, if you haven't yet, get your jab, as we learn to live with, rather than cower from, this virus." Continue reading... |
| Olympics 2020 day two: Kiesenhofer’s road race glory, tennis and gymnastics – live! Posted: 25 Jul 2021 02:19 AM PDT
Taekwondo: Great Britain's first medal at Tokyo is a surety, as Bradly Sinden goes through to the men's 68kg final later today against Ulugbek Rashitov from Uzbekistain. I didn't catch the end of that semifinal bout, but apparently neither did Sinden's opponent Shuai Zhao. Sounds like it'll be worth finding the replay. That was liquid Takewondo from Bradly Sinden. 16-9 down at the end of round 2, still losing with 15 seconds to go then wins by eight points
Basketball: First half is done and Australia lead 43-40. It was tight most of the quarter before Australia got the lead out to five points, then Nigeria had the chance to close to one point but Precious Achiuwa missed both his free throws after Joe Ingles left a knee hanging out. The Australians miss a couple of shots of their own via Patty Mills late in the piece, and in the end they run down the clock to get to half time with their lead. |
| ‘Very saddened’: Toa, the orphaned baby orca that enthralled New Zealand, is buried Posted: 24 Jul 2021 06:12 PM PDT Orca cared for by hundreds of volunteers and experts in bitter cold after becoming separated from its pod two weeks ago An orphaned baby orca that captured the hearts of people across New Zealand has been farewelled at a special ceremony and taken away for burial, ending a desperate mission to reunite it with its pod. The young calf, named Toa – which means brave or strong in Māori – was thought to be between two and six months old, and became stranded on rocks north of Wellington two weeks ago with minor injuries. Continue reading... |
| Plans of four G20 states are threat to global climate pledge, warn scientists Posted: 25 Jul 2021 12:45 AM PDT 'Disastrous' energy policies of China, Russia, Brazil and Australia could stoke 5C rise in temperatures if adopted by the rest of the world A key group of leading G20 nations is committed to climate targets that would lead to disastrous global warming, scientists have warned. They say China, Russia, Brazil and Australia all have energy policies associated with 5C rises in atmospheric temperatures, a heating hike that would bring devastation to much of the planet. The analysis, by the peer-reviewed group Paris Equity Check, raises serious worries about the prospects of key climate agreements being achieved at the Cop26 summit in Glasgow in three months. The conference – rated as one of the most important climate summits ever staged – will attempt to hammer out policies to hold global heating to 1.5C by agreeing on a global policy for ending net emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050. Continue reading... |
| Foreign Office is ‘complicit in British man’s Somalia torture’ Posted: 25 Jul 2021 12:30 AM PDT 'David Taylor' claims hooding, sensory deprivation and waterboarding was to persuade him to cooperate with the CIA A British citizen has claimed he was tortured in Somalia and questioned by US intelligence officers, raising concern that controversial practices of the post-9/11 "war on terror" are still being used. The 45-year-old from London alleges he has endured hooding, sensory deprivation and waterboarding at the hands of the Somali authorities to persuade him, he believes, to cooperate with the CIA. Foreign Office officials are aware of the allegationsof torture and US involvement, but their failure to act has raised questions over UK complicity. Continue reading... |
| Cuban leftists begin to turn their fire on the ‘harmful practices of the state’ Posted: 25 Jul 2021 01:15 AM PDT Leading radicals are raising their voices against the demand for uncritical backing for the government Luis Emilio Aybar is a voice from the left, which in Cuba means pretty far left. By any measure, he should be a stalwart defender of the island's communist regime. After widespread public protests that two weeks ago roiled the nation, the 34-year-old published an article in the magazine La Tizza, which bills itself as "a space to think about socialism". After the prerequisite denunciation of the US, he wrote: "What happened on 11 July is also because we communists and revolutionaries do not fight with sufficient force and efficiency the harmful practices of the state. Continue reading... |
| Philippines floods: thousands flee Manila after days of torrential rain Posted: 24 Jul 2021 06:24 PM PDT One person has died as officials struggle to provide adequate Covid-safe emergency shelter for nearly 15,000 residents Thousands of residents have fled flooded communities and swollen rivers in the Philippine capital, Manila, and outlying provinces after days of torrential monsoon rains that left at least one villager dead. Officials say they are struggling to open more emergency shelters in order to allow social distancing among the displaced residents and prevent evacuation camps from turning into epicentres of Covid-19 infections. In the hard-hit city of Marikina in the capital region, nearly 15,000 residents were evacuated to safety overnight as waters rose alarmingly in a major river. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 24 Jul 2021 11:00 PM PDT Multibillion-dollar settlements specifically exclude admission of wrongdoing over a crisis that has claimed 600,000 lives There is growing anger among families bereaved by the US opioid epidemic at pharmaceutical companies "buying their way out of accountability" with multibillion-dollar settlements that specifically exclude any admission of wrongdoing. Related: Enough fentanyl to kill San Francisco: the new wave of the opioid crisis sweeping California Continue reading... |
| R Kelly had sexual contact with underage boy as well as girls, prosecutors say Posted: 24 Jul 2021 12:27 PM PDT
Federal prosecutors in R Kelly's sex trafficking case say the R&B star had sexual contact with an underage boy as well as girls, and jurors should hear those claims. Related: Surviving R Kelly producers: 'We wanted to explain why you shouldn't blame survivors' Continue reading... |
| Even a pandemic can’t keep Ryanair from flying higher Posted: 24 Jul 2021 04:05 PM PDT Although profits may be down this week, the airline's shares – and its chief executive's optimism – are defying gravity Who's afraid of the Delta variant? Not Michael O'Leary. Over the last 16 months of sickness, death and lockdown, the billionaire Ryanair boss has rediscovered his controversy button and has lately been loudly telling governments to stick their "scariants" and let everyone fly again. Much of his ire has been reserved for Ireland, whose scientific and medical leaders must envy the UK's Chris Whitty for only getting accosted in the park. Continue reading... |
| Europe clamps down amid fears over rapid spread of Delta variant Posted: 25 Jul 2021 12:00 AM PDT Governments are launching de facto vaccine passport schemes as they try to head off a summer Covid wave like the UK's With the school term finally over, Britons are flying to Europe in their tens of thousands, record levels for this Covid year. They are arriving in countries where the Delta variant paralysing Britain is just becoming dominant – and Europe is responding by clamping down. Some countries have tightened border controls, with Malta barring entry to unvaccinated travellers and Germany bringing in stricter quarantine rules for people arriving from Spain and the Netherlands. More broadly, authorities from Greece to Italy and France to Portugal are bringing in what are effectively vaccine passports for a wide range of activities, although most are shying away from using that term, which has become incendiary. Continue reading... |
| Covid live: UK could extend vaccine passports to sports; India reports 39k new cases Posted: 25 Jul 2021 02:19 AM PDT Follow all the latest news on the coronavirus pandemic from around the world
In the UK, Malcolm Clarke, chairman of the Football Supporters' Association, said the idea of only fully vaccinated fans being able to attend Premier League matches is a "risk" that will need to be "managed very carefully". Some of our members are totally opposed to this and think that it's an infringement of their civil liberties or they don't want to be vaccinated, whereas others say this is perfectly reasonable. I think my major concern is to ensure that this is operationally okay. I think if they're going to do this with big football crowds then they need to have the resources to do the checks. I'm not convinced that all football clubs will be able to manage that in a way that doesn't cause some chaos.
Malaysia's total coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic surpassed 1 million on Sunday after the country's health ministry reported a record 17,045 new cases. |
| ‘People are dying who did not have to die’: anger grows in Guatemala as Covid surges Posted: 25 Jul 2021 02:00 AM PDT Only 1.6% of the Guatemalan population has been fully vaccinated, and amid corruption allegations critics are calling on the president to quit The last time René García spoke with his family, he was having a coffee at home south of the Guatemalan capital last year after receiving an insulin shot that failed to improve his health. Related: Argentina threatens to cancel deal for Sputnik vaccine as Russia fails to deliver Continue reading... |
| How England’s ‘pingdemic’ took a heavy toll on the Tories Posted: 24 Jul 2021 11:15 PM PDT It was billed as a return to freedom, but the week ended with empty supermarket shelves and cancelled trains as many thousand workers – including the PM and chancellor – self-isolated Last weekend, as MPs prepared for their long summer holiday break from Westminster, a senior member of Boris Johnson's cabinet had this to say about the Conservative government's achievements in steering the country through the Covid-19 pandemic. "It seems incredible to me we are still ahead in the polls after the year we've had. I think that we have plenty to feel good about, don't you?" A week on, his choice of the word "incredible" seems to be the most apt. Within hours of making this assessment, and as freedom day approached, the health secretary for England, Sajid Javid, announced he had tested positive for Covid-19. Continue reading... |
| Dina Asher-Smith: ‘You get 10 seconds to make your mark’ Posted: 24 Jul 2021 11:00 PM PDT The fastest woman Britain has ever seen is also thoughtful, inspirational and willing to talk about things that athletes often avoid, like politics and periods. But in the countdown to the Tokyo Olympics, sprinter Dina Asher-Smith knows that every second counts Around 9am local time, this coming Friday, Dina Asher-Smith will crouch on a starting line in Tokyo, ready for her first race of the Olympic Games. Nose this close to the ground, hugger-mugger with the other athletes, the moment will smell to her of skin cream and sweat, also the rubber of the track, a smell that might remind you or me of a playground's springy surface, but which always makes Asher-Smith think of home. She has been a competitive sprinter since primary school. She started medalling in major 100m and 200m races about the time she was old enough to drive. Now, at 25, she is one of the fastest two or three women alive, and surely Britain's best hope for athletics gold this summer. On Friday morning, she'll try to rid her mind of any such expectations. Crouched on the track she'll place herself in an imaginary bubble, ignoring smells, impressions, sounds, even ready to ignore the echoing pop of the starter's pistol. Wastes time, Asher-Smith has learned, listening for that. Better to try to feel the gun go and in the very same instant go herself. Ballerina focus will be required, next, to recreate a precise pattern of initial steps that she'll have planned in advance with her coach. That ought to be the end of any conscious effort on her part. Over the next eight or nine seconds in a 100m race, or the next 20-something seconds in a 200m race, she says: "I shouldn't really know what the sensations are. I shouldn't be in a place to be reflective at all. I shouldn't be feeling, only doing." Continue reading... |
| Meet Julie K Brown, the woman who brought down Jeffrey Epstein Posted: 25 Jul 2021 12:00 AM PDT It was by focusing on his silenced victims, says the dogged Miami Herald reporter, that she was able to help bring the billionaire sex offender to justice after police and prosecutors had failed The town of Palm Beach in Florida, the crime writer Carl Hiaasen has observed, "is one of the few places left in America where you can still drive around in a Rolls-Royce convertible and not get laughed at." It's an unironic island, filled with the super-rich and famous, plastic surgeons and, of course, the former US president, Donald Trump, who holds court at his ostentatious Mar-a-Lago resort. A satellite of Miami, the island prides itself on its many flamboyant charity balls, but no amount of good-cause fundraising can remove the whiff of corruption that hangs heavy in the subtropical air. If money talks in most places, in Palm Beach it speaks with a confident authority that's seldom questioned. Never has that understanding been more egregiously demonstrated than in the case of the inscrutable financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Continue reading... |
| ‘Your mammy was a flower’: a young boy’s bereavement Posted: 25 Jul 2021 01:00 AM PDT One of 11 children, Séamas O'Reilly was just five years old when his mother died. In an extract from his touching new memoir, he recalls with awful day of her wake One thing they don't tell you about mammies is that when they die you get new trousers. On my first full day as a half-orphan, I remember fiddling with unfamiliar cords as Margaret held my cheek and told me Mammy was a flower. She and her husband, Phillie, were close friends of my parents and their presence is one of the few memories that survive from that period, most specifically the conversation Margaret had with me there and then. "Sometimes," croaked Margaret in a voice bent ragged from two days' crying, "when God sees a particularly pretty flower, He'll take it up from Earth, and put it in his own garden." It was nice to think that Mammy was so well-liked by God, since she was a massive fan. She went to all his gigs – mass, prayer groups, marriage guidance meetings. She had all the action figures – small Infant of Prague statuettes, much larger Infant of Prague statuettes, little blue plastic flasks of holy water in the shape of God's own mammy herself. So, in one sense, Margaret's version of events was kind of comforting. It placed my mother's death in that category of stories where people met their heroes. Continue reading... |
| The insect apocalypse: ‘Our world will grind to a halt without them’ Posted: 25 Jul 2021 02:00 AM PDT Insects have declined by 75% in the past 50 years – and the consequences may soon be catastrophic. Biologist Dave Goulson reveals the vital services they perform I have been fascinated by insects all my life. One of my earliest memories is of finding, at the age of five or six, some stripy yellow-and-black caterpillars feeding on weeds in the school playground. I put them in my empty lunchbox, and took them home. Eventually they transformed into handsome magenta and black moths. This seemed like magic to me – and still does. I was hooked. In pursuit of insects I have travelled the world, from the deserts of Patagonia to the icy peaks of Fjordland in New Zealand and the forested mountains of Bhutan. I have watched clouds of birdwing butterflies sipping minerals from the banks of a river in Borneo, and thousands of fireflies flashing in synchrony at night in the swamps of Thailand. At home in my garden in Sussex I have spent countless hours watching grasshoppers court a mate and see off rivals, earwigs tend their young, ants milk honeydew from aphids, and leaf-cutter bees snip leaves to line their nests. Continue reading... |
| Buried in concrete: how the mafia made a killing from the destruction of Italy’s south Posted: 25 Jul 2021 01:00 AM PDT The south of the country bears the scars of how bosses enriched their clans with illegal, brutalist buildings and gaudy, now decaying, villas
It is the result of a building frenzy of the 1960s and 1970s, when Vito Ciancimino, a mobster from the violent Corleonesi clan, ordered the demolition of splendid art nouveau mansions to make space for brutalist tower blocks, covering vast natural and garden areas with tonnes of concrete. It is one of the darkest chapters in the postwar urbanisation of Sicily, and would go down in history as the "sack of Palermo". Continue reading... |
| The cost of cooling: how air conditioning is heating up the world Posted: 25 Jul 2021 12:00 AM PDT As temperatures rise, a new book delves into the environmental toll of America's favorite way to cool off The widespread reliance on air conditioning in the US is explored in Eric Dean Wilson's book After Cooling: on Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort. The book explores how air conditioning has become one of the most effective ways to cool off – and explains how harmful chemicals that make our lives comfortable also contribute to the climate crisis. The modern refrigerant – gas in fridges, freezers and air conditioners – was first introduced in 1930s in the form of a chemical called chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), better known as Freon. This chemical escaped into the air over time, ripping a hole in the ozone layer. In 1987, a global agreement was reached to ban the production of CFCs – although every year an ozone hole reappears over Antarctica in October. Continue reading... |
| ‘Our silence permits perpetrators to continue’: one woman’s fight to expose a father’s abuse Posted: 24 Jul 2021 11:30 PM PDT At 81, after years of suffering, Clare Devlin has joined the campaign to stop sex crime against children by revealing her own ordeal at the hands of her celebrated judge parent Clare Devlin's first memory of being sadistically and sexually snared by her father was when she was seven. But she knows that wasn't the first time it had happened. She remembers a feeling of dread of something already known, a "recognition of feelings of fear and anger and grief". The abuse continued throughout her childhood and adolescence until she finally found a way to stop the man who was the most powerful person in her universe. Her father, Patrick Devlin, was one of the most celebrated judges in the country. Now Clare is 81 years old and, with her family's support, she is going public about his behaviour, lending herself to the international movement to stop child sexual abuse. As well as telling her story to the Observer, she has also made a submission to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, which finishes taking evidence in October. Continue reading... |
| Tokyo diary: South Korea and Japan turn back the clock Posted: 25 Jul 2021 01:30 AM PDT The two countries revived Olympic tradition and former colonial tensions with politically charged gestures • With early coverage of the Games inevitably focused on coronavirus, geopolitical tensions have barely had a look-in. But South Korea and its former colonial ruler Japan are doing their best to revive the Olympic tradition. They have clashed over politically charged banners hanging from the South Korean team's balconies, while a planned appearance by the country's president, Moon Jae-in, was abruptly cancelled after a Japanese diplomat in Seoul accused him of "masturbating" over a potential summit with his Japanese counterpart, Yoshihide Suga. • Visiting reporters are unlikely to elicit much sympathy from the Japanese public as they document the coronavirus-shaped hoops they have to jump through to cover events at Tokyo 2020. After all, they are guests in a country where most people would rather they had stayed at home. Continue reading... |
| PM confirms extra doses of Pfizer vaccine – as it happened Posted: 25 Jul 2021 01:05 AM PDT Scott Morrison confirms extra 85 million Pfizer doses; NSW records 141 new local cases and two deaths, including a woman in her 30s; too soon to tell if Victorian lockdown will end Tuesday as state records 11 new local cases. This blog has now closed
With that, we might leave you for the night. I'll see you bright and early on the blog Monday morning to kick start the next week of news.
Okay, here are the numbers on all the arrests and penalty notices to come out of the Syndey anti-lockdown protest so far. NSW police say they have received more than 5,500 reports from members of the public, with 63 people arrested. Thirty-five people – aged between 18 and 69 - were charged with various offences, including assault police officer in execution of duty, resist officer in execution of duty, wilfully obstruct officer in execution of duty and not comply with noticed direction... Of these, 20 were refused bail to appear at Parramatta Local Court today [Sunday 25 July 2021]. Investigators are following up every report and have issued two court attendance notice and [penalty notices] to 16 people today. Continue reading... |
| Biden races to unite allies against China knowing sooner or later an explosion will occur Posted: 24 Jul 2021 10:30 PM PDT US president is being much tougher than expected on Beijing, but a lack of solidarity will undermine his policy's success It's generally accepted in Washington that once-buoyant hopes for the emergence of a free, democratic China, initially sparked by Richard Nixon's groundbreaking 1972 visit, have sunk without trace. President Xi Jinping's regime is now described as a "systemic rival", "strategic competitor" or outright "threat". The EU, Nato, the UK, and regional allies broadly agree: the era of engagement is over. What's lacking is agreement over what comes next. The hole where common policy and joint action should be gapes ever more dangerously amid almost daily collisions on multiple fronts with Xi's aggressive, authoritarian one-party state. If it's not about human rights abuses, cyberhacking, or trade, it's Taiwan, visas, spying, maritime disputes, the Indian border, or alleged hostage-taking. Continue reading... |
| Turkey’s labourers take to TikTok to show millions their harsh work conditions – video Posted: 23 Jul 2021 10:00 PM PDT Workers in Turkish factories, construction sites and fields have become the unlikely stars of TikTok, revealing harsh and dangerous conditions in posts with millions of views. Turkey, ranked among the '10 worst countries in the world for workers', is one of TikTok's largest user bases, with approximately 19.2 million users. Its algorithm can allow a labourer with a handful of followers to reach millions if their posts land on the 'discover' page. But despite the grim reality evident in these videos, creativity and humour shine through the cracks Continue reading... |
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