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- Tokyo 2020 Olympics: tennis, rugby sevens, gymnastics and more – live!
- Denmark could face legal action over attempts to return Syrian refugees
- Coronavirus live news: fears in Japan after record case rise; Cambodia locks down provinces bordering Thailand
- Vote Leave chief awarded £580k Covid deal after call from Dominic Cummings
- New Zealand rated best place to survive global societal collapse
- Jared Kushner set to move away from politics and launch investment firm
- CEOs told to ‘think before they tweet’ after Just Eat spat with Uber
- Extreme weather will be the norm and UK is not prepared, scientists warn
- At least six Rohingya refugees killed as floods hit camps in Bangladesh
- Belgium opens manslaughter investigation over flood deaths
- Arthur, children’s animated TV series, to end after 25 years
- Japan urges young people to get jabs and stay in amid Tokyo Covid surge
- Vaccine passport plan intended to coax young to have jabs, says Raab
- Thailand: Bangkok warehouse turned into 1,800-bed hospital as Covid crisis worsens
- City of Nanjing isolated as China fights worst Covid outbreak in months
- Man v food: is lab-grown meat really going to solve our nasty agriculture problem?
- Mental health memes are everywhere – can they offer more than comic relief?
- ‘It messes with you mentally’: the fear, swelling and stress of life with lymphoedema
- The truth about fast fashion: can you tell how ethical your clothing is by its price?
- Climate crisis: what one month of extreme weather looks like – video
- When shame kills: why do so many mothers in Senegal feel forced to murder their babies?
- Two women struck by lightning on summit of Snowdon
- Fighting Siberia’s wildfires – in pictures
- US Senate votes to advance infrastructure deal after bipartisan breakthrough
- Blaxploitation salvation: film directors’ children on rescuing their fathers’ lost movies
- Five weeks into the greater Sydney lockdown, the rules are eye-glazingly complicated | Anne Davies
- UNHCR’s seven decades of work with refugees – in pictures
| Tokyo 2020 Olympics: tennis, rugby sevens, gymnastics and more – live! Posted: 29 Jul 2021 02:53 AM PDT
Shooting:Those of us old enough to remember Malcolm Cooper won't be surprised that GB have won a shooting bronze, courtesy of Matt Coward-Holley. Related: Matt Coward-Holley wins bronze for Great Britain in men's trap shooting
Rugby sevens: What a match! What a comeback from NZ! From 21-0 down, they stormed back to win 26-21 and it'll take a special effort to stop them seizing the gold. But that was a really good effort from GB, a team thrown together a few months ago, and they'll know that if the they meet again, they've got a proper chance. Continue reading... |
| Denmark could face legal action over attempts to return Syrian refugees Posted: 28 Jul 2021 10:30 PM PDT Activists fear a 'dangerous precedent' being set as Copenhagen uses a report that deems Damascus safe to deny residency status Denmark's attempt to return hundreds of Syrians to Damascus after deeming the city safe will "set a dangerous precedent" for other countries to do the same, say lawyers who are preparing to take the Danish government to the European court of human rights (ECHR) over the issue. Authorities in Denmark began rejecting Syrian refugees' applications for renewal of temporary residency status last summer, and justified the move because a report had found the security situation in some parts of the country had "improved significantly". About 1,200 people from Damascus currently living in Denmark are believed to be affected by the policy. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 29 Jul 2021 02:46 AM PDT Japan facing most serious situation since the pandemic began, says Covid health adviser; Cambodia's lockdown bans most people from leaving their homes, gathering in groups and conducting business
More on Malaysia, prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin is facing calls to resign after the King's public criticism of the government's handling of the pandemic. Here's the latest from Reuters: Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin faced calls to resign on Thursday from the opposition and the biggest bloc in the ruling coalition, after a rebuke by the king over the government's handling of emergency ordinances. Muhyiddin's government said earlier this week that on July 21 it had revoked all ordinances that had come into effect since a national state of emergency was imposed in January.
The Japanese government is considering putting Osaka and three prefectures around Tokyo under a state of emergency, reports Reuters. It comes after a surge of infections nationwide (see 10:12 and 09:15). Continue reading... |
| Vote Leave chief awarded £580k Covid deal after call from Dominic Cummings Posted: 29 Jul 2021 02:15 AM PDT Former No 10 adviser pressed for appointment to be hurried through, saying he had 'ordered it' from PM Dominic Cummings personally called a former colleague on the Vote Leave Brexit campaign and asked if his company would work for the government on its response to the Covid pandemic, leading to the award of a £580,000 Cabinet Office contract with no competitive process. In an email on 20 March 2020, Boris Johnson's former chief adviser asked the most senior civil servant responsible for contracts to sign off the budget immediately, and that if "anybody in CABOFF [the Cabinet Office] whines", to tell them Cummings had "ordered it" from the prime minister. Continue reading... |
| New Zealand rated best place to survive global societal collapse Posted: 28 Jul 2021 03:00 PM PDT Study citing 'perilous state' of industrial civilisation ranks temperate islands top for resilience New Zealand, Iceland, the UK, Tasmania and Ireland are the places best suited to survive a global collapse of society, according to a study. The researchers said human civilisation was "in a perilous state" due to the highly interconnected and energy-intensive society that had developed and the environmental damage this had caused. Continue reading... |
| Jared Kushner set to move away from politics and launch investment firm Posted: 28 Jul 2021 04:33 PM PDT
Jared Kushner, a top adviser to former Donald Trump, plans to launch an investment firm in coming months, a move that will take him away from politics for the foreseeable future, sources familiar with the plan said on Wednesday. Kushner, the former chief executive of Kushner Companies, who served as the Republican president's senior adviser in the White House, is in the final stages of launching an investment firm called Affinity Partners that will be headquartered in Miami. Continue reading... |
| CEOs told to ‘think before they tweet’ after Just Eat spat with Uber Posted: 28 Jul 2021 11:00 PM PDT Boss's Twitter rant against Uber Eats risks backfiring, as experts warn online outbursts can damage companies' reputation Chief executives are being warned to "think twice before they tweet" after the boss of takeaway company Just Eat Takeaway was told his Twitter spat with Uber threatened to undermine the firm's reputation. Jitse Groen this week became the latest in a growing list of chief executives to be rebuked by customers, investors and even regulators over ill-judged tweets. Continue reading... |
| Extreme weather will be the norm and UK is not prepared, scientists warn Posted: 28 Jul 2021 04:01 PM PDT Last year was first to be in top 10 for heat, rain and sunshine, as scientists say UK's mild climate is at an end Extremes of weather will strike the UK more frequently owing to the climate crisis, scientists said after data showed that last year was one of the warmest, as well as one of the wettest and sunniest, on record. Last year was the first to figure in the top 10 for heat, rain and hours of sunshine, in records stretching back more than a century, as moderate British weather is rapidly becoming a thing of the past, according to a report from the Met Office and climate scientists. Continue reading... |
| At least six Rohingya refugees killed as floods hit camps in Bangladesh Posted: 28 Jul 2021 10:00 PM PDT Shelters swept away as activists say people stuck in Cox's Bazar are highly vulnerable to the 'rapidly changing climate' At least six Rohingya refugees were killed by landslides or drowned in flooding after rain inundated refugee camps in Bangladesh over recent days, deepening the despair among those living there. Knee-deep waters coursed through the camps, battering fragile shelters made of bamboo and tarpaulin and making at least 5,000 people homeless, according to the UN's refugee agency (UNHCR). Continue reading... |
| Belgium opens manslaughter investigation over flood deaths Posted: 28 Jul 2021 04:43 PM PDT A magistrate will look at whether possible failings in the alert system led to the country's worst floods in decades A Belgian judge has opened an investigation for possible manslaughter over floods there that claimed 38 lives, the prosecutors office in the city of Liege announced. The investigating magistrate has the task of identifying who might be responsible for "involuntary homicide by lack of foresight or precaution" the prosecutors office said in a statement on Wednesday. Continue reading... |
| Arthur, children’s animated TV series, to end after 25 years Posted: 28 Jul 2021 09:04 PM PDT The final season of the longest running animated series in the US will air in 2022 Arthur, the longest running children's animated series in the US, will soon come to an end. PBS Kids plans to end the beloved television show after 25 seasons, said an original developer of the show during a podcast released on Wednesday. The final season will air in 2022. Continue reading... |
| Japan urges young people to get jabs and stay in amid Tokyo Covid surge Posted: 29 Jul 2021 02:27 AM PDT Health experts say surge in cases amid Olympics could overload hospitals unless action taken Health experts in Japan have warned that a recent surge in coronavirus cases in Tokyo, six days into the Olympics, could put hospitals under severe strain unless young people stop socialising at night and get vaccinated. Tokyo reported 3,865 daily coronavirus cases on Thursday, up from 3,177 on Wednesday, as rising infections in the capital cast a shadow over the Olympics. Wednesday was the first time cases in Tokyo had exceeded 3,000 since the start of the pandemic. Continue reading... |
| Vaccine passport plan intended to coax young to have jabs, says Raab Posted: 29 Jul 2021 02:20 AM PDT Foreign secretary says government will not 'hold country back' because some are not getting vaccinated The government is using the threat of domestic vaccine passports to coax and cajole people into getting fully vaccinated, the foreign secretary has admitted. Dominic Raab said ministers did not want to "hold the country back" just because some individuals were not coming forward to get inoculated, confirming publicly what many suspected about Boris Johnson's sudden decision to throw his weight behind certification for nightclubs. Continue reading... |
| Thailand: Bangkok warehouse turned into 1,800-bed hospital as Covid crisis worsens Posted: 28 Jul 2021 10:51 PM PDT A cargo facility at the capital's airport will care for patients with moderate Covid symptoms as Thailand sees record cases A cargo warehouse at Bangkok's Don Muang Airport has been turned into an 1,800-bed field hospital, as the country struggles with its most severe outbreak since the start of the pandemic. Hospitals in the capital Bangkok, where the outbreak concentrated, have been overwhelmed by patients, and forced to turn people away. On Thursday, the country reported a record 17,669 new cases and 165 deaths. Continue reading... |
| City of Nanjing isolated as China fights worst Covid outbreak in months Posted: 28 Jul 2021 11:05 PM PDT Flights have reportedly been cancelled and checkpoints set up to verify travellers' health status amid Delta Health authorities in China have set up checkpoints and reportedly suspended flights in the eastern city of Nanjing in the country's worst coronavirus emergency in months. More than 170 people have been diagnosed with the Delta variant in the past 10 days. The main outbreak is centred on Nanjing, in Jiangsu province, but connected cases have reportedly been identified in Beijing and other provinces including Anhui, Liaoning, Sichuan and Guangdong. Continue reading... |
| Man v food: is lab-grown meat really going to solve our nasty agriculture problem? Posted: 28 Jul 2021 10:00 PM PDT If cellular agriculture is going to improve on the industrial system it is displacing, it needs to grow without passing the cost on to workers, consumers and the environment Americans will eat about 2bn chicken nuggets this year, give or take a few hundred million. This deep-fried staple is a way of profiting off the bits that are left after the breast, legs and wings are lopped off the 9 billion or so factory-farmed chickens slaughtered in the US every year. Like much else that is ubiquitous in contemporary life, the production of nuggets is controlled by a small group of massive companies that are responsible for a litany of social and ecological harms. And, like many of the commodities produced by this system, they are of dubious quality, cheap, appealing and easy to consume. Nuggets are not even primarily meat, but mostly fat and assorted viscera – including epithelium, bone, nerve and connective tissue – made palatable through ultra-processing. As the political economists Raj Patel and Jason Moore have argued, they are a homogenised, bite-size avatar of how capitalism extracts as much value as possible from human and nonhuman life and labour. But if chicken nuggets are emblematic of modern capitalism, then they are ripe for disruption. Perhaps their most promising challenger is a radically different sort of meat: edible tissue grown in vitro from animal stem cells, a process called cellular agriculture. The sales pitch for the technology is classic Silicon Valley: unseat an obsolete technology – in this case, animals – and do well by doing good. Continue reading... |
| Mental health memes are everywhere – can they offer more than comic relief? Posted: 29 Jul 2021 02:00 AM PDT Relatable jokes about trauma can help people feel less alone, but questions remain over how therapeutic they can truly be When, more than a decade ago, I was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, I turned to the internet to learn more about my condition. Back then, the effects of trauma weren't exactly unknown, but they weren't making headlines, either. Most of the information I found was on psychology websites, but it wasn't until I went to the doctor and received my diagnosis that I fully understood what was happening to me. Public awareness of the condition was low – or at least, it wasn't something that people spoke openly about. I felt very alone. Continue reading... |
| ‘It messes with you mentally’: the fear, swelling and stress of life with lymphoedema Posted: 29 Jul 2021 02:00 AM PDT The inflammatory condition causes swelling of the limbs and affects more people in the UK than Parkinson's or MS. For years it has been overlooked, but now awareness is finally growing Five weeks after being diagnosed with cervical cancer, Corinne Singleton was declared to be in remission. She skipped out of the oncology ward that day, ready to make the most of her retirement. Little did she know that her health challenges were far from over. "To be honest," says Singleton, five years later, "the cancer was a breeze compared with the lymphoedema." About a month into her recovery, Singleton, 60, noticed some unusual swelling of her upper thigh. "I just thought I must have banged it," she says. When it persisted after two weeks, she realised, with a sinking feeling, what was the likely cause. She had learned about lymphoedema early on in her treatment for cancer, as a possible side effect of radiotherapy. "I remembered thinking: 'I hope I don't get that one'," she says. Continue reading... |
| The truth about fast fashion: can you tell how ethical your clothing is by its price? Posted: 28 Jul 2021 10:00 PM PDT To find out the true production cost of a garment is a tortuous process. Here is what you need to know to buy clothes with a clear conscience What is the true cost of a Zara hoodie? In April 2019, David Hachfeld of the Swiss NGO Public Eye, along with a team of researchers and the Clean Clothes Campaign, attempted to find out. They chose to analyse a black, oversized top from Zara's flagship Join Life sustainability line, which was printed with lyrics made famous by Aretha Franklin: "R-E-S-P-E-C-T: find out what it means to me". It was an apt choice, because the idea was to work out whether any respect had been paid to the workers involved in the garment's production, and how much of the hoodie's average retail price, €26.66 (£22.70), went into their pockets. This was no simple assignment. It took several people six months, involved badgering Zara's parent company, Inditex, over email, slowly getting limited information in return, and interviewing dozens of sources on the ground in Izmir, Turkey, where the garment was made. The researchers analysed financial results and trading data, and consulted with experts in pricing and production. It was, Hachfeld says on the phone, with dry understatement, "quite a huge project". Continue reading... |
| Climate crisis: what one month of extreme weather looks like – video Posted: 29 Jul 2021 01:01 AM PDT In the last month, devastating weather extremes have hit regions across the world. From flash floods in Belgium to deadly temperatures in the US, from wildfires in Siberia to landslides in India, it has been an unprecedented period of chaotic weather. Climate scientists have long predicted that human-caused climate disruption would lead to more flooding, heatwaves, droughts, storms and other forms of extreme weather, but even they have been shocked by the scale of these scenes
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| When shame kills: why do so many mothers in Senegal feel forced to murder their babies? Posted: 28 Jul 2021 11:30 PM PDT Photographer Maroussia Mbaye spoke to women who said crushing social stigma, poverty and lack of traditional support systems had left them with no choice but to commit infanticide Mbeubeuss is one of the biggest rubbish tips in Africa and Senegal's largest open cemetery for murdered children. In the past three years, the bodies of 32 infants have been recovered from the site by the waste-pickers who work there. Looking at the high rate of infanticide in Senegal, it seems the main reasons for it are shame about pregnancy outside marriage and a loss of traditional support for young women. Continue reading... |
| Two women struck by lightning on summit of Snowdon Posted: 29 Jul 2021 02:00 AM PDT Women flown to hospital, with one 'falling in and out of consciousness', after incident in north Wales Two women have been taken to hospital after being struck by lightning at the top of Snowdon in Wales. Volunteers from Llanberis mountain rescue team (MRT) were called to the incident on the 1,085-metre (3,560ft) summit by North Wales police at about 1.30pm on Wednesday. Continue reading... |
| Fighting Siberia’s wildfires – in pictures Posted: 29 Jul 2021 12:50 AM PDT Fuelled by summer heatwaves, wildfires have swept through more than 1.5m hectares of Yakutia's swampy coniferous taiga, with more than a month still to go in Siberia's annual fire season Continue reading... |
| US Senate votes to advance infrastructure deal after bipartisan breakthrough Posted: 28 Jul 2021 05:32 PM PDT Agreement, which follows months of talks between Democrats and Republicans, was hailed by Biden as 'historic' The US Senate voted on Wednesday to begin work on a $1.2tn bipartisan infrastructure deal after negotiators reached agreement on the major components of the package that is a key priority of Joe Biden. Related: Americans are paying more for gas, hotels and cars – will Biden pay the price of inflation? Continue reading... |
| Blaxploitation salvation: film directors’ children on rescuing their fathers’ lost movies Posted: 28 Jul 2021 10:00 PM PDT Melvin Van Peebles and Perry Henzell made seminal 70s films – now their kids have recovered their fathers' would-be classics Justine Henzell and Mario Van Peebles both know what it's like to grow up on movie sets as the child of a groundbreaking director. Henzell was six in 1972 when her father, Perry, finished The Harder They Come, Jamaica's first full-length feature, starring the reggae legend Jimmy Cliff as a fugitive whose musical success coincides with his criminal notoriety. Van Peebles even starred in his father Melvin's third film, the 1971 underground hit Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, which is credited with inspiring the Blaxploitation genre. As adults, each of them has now had a hand in rescuing and restoring great movies by their fathers that might otherwise have been lost or neglected: Henzell's more ruminative second feature No Place Like Home, which was lost for more than 20 years, and Van Peebles's stylish, Nouvelle Vague-tinged 1967 debut The Story of a Three-Day Pass, overlooked at the time and later overshadowed by the more incendiary Sweetback. Henzell laughs when I remark on her father's momentum in getting started on his second feature so quickly after the first. "He may have had momentum but he had no money," says the 55-year-old, the ocean lapping at the Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica, shoreline behind her. "The film was shot in fits and starts as the cash came in. He was completely broke after The Harder They Come. He'd been carrying those cans around the world himself trying to sell it. The film still hadn't repaid its investors and here he was making something even more experimental." Continue reading... |
| Five weeks into the greater Sydney lockdown, the rules are eye-glazingly complicated | Anne Davies Posted: 29 Jul 2021 02:31 AM PDT Different restrictions for different local government areas leads to confusion – and that's a disaster for compliance
Suddenly Sydneysiders are paying attention to what local government area we live in. LGAs will now determine whether we can go outdoors without a mask and how far we can stray from our homes to shop or exercise. Continue reading... |
| UNHCR’s seven decades of work with refugees – in pictures Posted: 27 Jul 2021 11:00 PM PDT As refugees in the UK mark the 70th anniversary of the signing of the UN refugee convention, we look at the work of the UNHCR around the world since the 1950s Continue reading... |
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