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- Haitians heartbroken as deadly quake heaps misery on crisis-hit nation
- ‘You follow the government’s agenda’: China’s climate activists walk a tightrope
- US could see 200,000 Covid cases a day again: ‘Unvaccinated are sitting ducks’
- Florida issues tropical storm warning for Panhandle region as Fred approaches
- Malaysian prime minister resigns but remains interim leader
- CFA-led study shows climate change causing longer bushfire season
- Spain launches inquiry after dams drained for profit during drought
- Trudeau calls for snap election in hopes of winning back voters
- Coronavirus live news: Japan set to extend state of emergency as Sydney records deadliest pandemic day
- Gordon Brown hits out at EU’s ‘neocolonial approach’ to Covid vaccine supplies
- Three, two, win? How to adapt to hybrid home and office working
- ‘The US should be held accountable’: Guantánamo survivor on the war on terror’s failure
- ‘We always see sex from the man’s view’: Cammie Toloui, the peep show performer who peeped back
- ‘Hidden pandemic’: Peruvian children in crisis as carers die
- ‘Let them be kids!’ Is ‘free-range’ parenting the key to healthier, happier children?
- Joan Rivers and Barbra Streisand: the myth of their lesbian play
- The last nomad hippies – a photo essay
- Kevin Clarke death: police watchdog reopens investigation
- Taliban declare ‘war is over’ as Kabul falls | First Thing
- Coalition accused of being too slow to organise evacuation mission to Afghanistan
- Simon Bridges’ memoir reveals the candid, funny, vulnerable person behind the stiff exterior | Steve Braunias
- Taliban’s Abdul Ghani Baradar is undisputed victor of a 20-year war
- Defeat amid anxious bureaucracy of western evacuation from Afghanistan
- A tale of two armies: why Afghan forces proved no match for the Taliban
- Kabul falls to the Taliban as thousands of Afghans try to flee – video report
- Afghanistan: western leaders react to Taliban takeover of Kabul – video
- Chaos at Kabul airport as Taliban seize control of Afghan capital – video
- Haiti: drone footage shows devastation after deadly earthquake
| Haitians heartbroken as deadly quake heaps misery on crisis-hit nation Posted: 15 Aug 2021 11:50 AM PDT Aftershocks sow fear, hospitals swamped and aid workers race to provide food as tropical storm looms Winnie Hugot Gabriel was presenting her Saturday morning radio show when a 7.2-magnitude earthquake ripped through southern Haiti, sending terrified listeners racing into the streets. "Even here in Port-au-Prince you could feel it. It was strong," said the 32-year-old journalist from the Magik 9 station, who abandoned her microphone and sprinted outside after the tremor. Continue reading... |
| ‘You follow the government’s agenda’: China’s climate activists walk a tightrope Posted: 15 Aug 2021 07:59 PM PDT The IPCC's alarming report has Chinese environmentalists wondering how to push a government that brooks no criticism into taking more action In the wake of the IPCC's alarming warning last week that human induced climate change is affecting every corner of the planet, China's environmental activists were left wondering what they could do to push their government into taking more action. Having prioritised rapid economic development for decades, China is responsible for a long list of environmental disasters and concerns, and produces around a third of the world's carbon emissions. It has made ambitious pledges to hit peak emissions by 2030 and be carbon neutral by 2060, but still drawn warnings that it may not be possible under their current trajectory. Continue reading... |
| US could see 200,000 Covid cases a day again: ‘Unvaccinated are sitting ducks’ Posted: 15 Aug 2021 01:06 PM PDT Director of National Institutes of Health pleads with Americans to get their shots as Delta variant ravages the country The US could soon see Covid-19 cases return to 200,000 a day, a level not seen since among the pandemic's worst days in January and February, the director of the National Institutes of Health warned on Sunday. While the US currently is seeing an average of about 129,000 new infections a day – a 700% increase from the beginning of July – that number could jump in the next couple weeks, Dr Francis Collins said on Fox News Sunday. Continue reading... |
| Florida issues tropical storm warning for Panhandle region as Fred approaches Posted: 15 Aug 2021 10:28 AM PDT
Florida's governor declared a state of emergency for the state's Panhandle region as Tropical Storm Fred moved through the Gulf of Mexico early on Sunday and parts of the Caribbean were preparing for the impact from Tropical Storm Grace. Fred was forecast to move across the Gulf before reaching the coast Monday night or Tuesday morning, forecasters said. They said people from Alabama to the central Florida Panhandle should monitor the system's progress. Continue reading... |
| Malaysian prime minister resigns but remains interim leader Posted: 16 Aug 2021 01:33 AM PDT Muhyiddin Yassin offers resignation to king after months of political instability but elections put on hold Malaysia's embattled prime minister, Muhyiddin Yassin, has resigned but will stay on as interim premier, the royal palace has said, as the country struggles with its deadliest Covid outbreak yet. Muhyiddin offered his resignation to the king on Monday morning after holding a special meeting with his cabinet. His resignation follows months of political instability that led to the loss of his majority in parliament. Continue reading... |
| CFA-led study shows climate change causing longer bushfire season Posted: 16 Aug 2021 02:46 AM PDT Victorian fire agency's research finds state faces increase in number of extreme fire danger days Research led by Victoria's Country Fire Authority has found the climate crisis is increasing the number of high-risk fire days and could result in "significant change" in the timing of the state's bushfire season. The state's volunteer fire agency worked with researchers from Monash University and US institutes, on the research which projected a rise in both the average fire danger and the number of extreme fire danger days across the state. Continue reading... |
| Spain launches inquiry after dams drained for profit during drought Posted: 15 Aug 2021 05:29 AM PDT Firm used water to generate cheap electricity while price to customers in grip of heatwave is at record high The Spanish government has launched an inquiry after it emerged that a power company drained two reservoirs during a heatwave and drought in order to profit from exceptionally high electricity prices. Iberdrola, the country's second biggest producer, drained the dams in Zamora and Cáceres provinces in western Spain over a period of a few weeks to produce cheap hydroelectricity while the price to consumers is at a record high. Continue reading... |
| Trudeau calls for snap election in hopes of winning back voters Posted: 15 Aug 2021 08:41 AM PDT Polling suggests Canadian PM's Liberals are in the position to capture close to the 170 seats needed for majority government Canada's prime minister, Justin Trudeau, has called a snap election, gambling that voters will reward his administration's handing of the coronavirus pandemic with a parliamentary majority as he pulls the plug on a two-year minority government. On Sunday morning, Trudeau met with Governor General Mary Simon to request she dissolve parliament — a request she approved. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 16 Aug 2021 03:19 AM PDT Japan is reportedly set to extend it state of emergency in Tokyo and other regions while Sydney has reported seven deaths over the past 24 hours
A traditionalist Catholic cardinal who expressed scepticism over social distancing and obligatory vaccination schemes has been placed on a ventilator as he fights Covid-19. Raymond Leo Burke, a staunch critic of Pope Francis, told his Twitter followers last week that he had "recently" tested positive for the virus. Cardinal Burke has been admitted to the hospital with COVID-19 and is being assisted by a ventilator. Doctors are encouraged by his progress. H.E. faithfully prayed the Rosary for those suffering from the virus. On this Vigil of the Assumption, let us now pray the Rosary for him.
That's it from me, Robyn Vinter. I'm now handing over to Mattha Busby. Here's a quick summary of what's been happening so far: Continue reading... |
| Gordon Brown hits out at EU’s ‘neocolonial approach’ to Covid vaccine supplies Posted: 15 Aug 2021 09:00 PM PDT Former UK prime minister calls on western leaders to convene summit to address Africa's vaccine deficit Gordon Brown has accused the EU of adopting a "neocolonial approach" to the supply of Covid-19 vaccines and demanded rich western nations relinquish their stranglehold on pandemic treatments. The former UK prime minister has called on Joe Biden, Boris Johnson and Mario Draghi to convene a special summit to coincide with next month's UN general assembly in New York to address Africa's vaccine deficit. Continue reading... |
| Three, two, win? How to adapt to hybrid home and office working Posted: 15 Aug 2021 10:00 PM PDT Experts offer their advice on how companies and staff can move to a more flexible model of work Working 3:2, what a way to make a living – but a new way that may take a little getting used to, according to experts. As coronavirus restrictions lift, many companies whose staff have worked from home for 18 months are asking those workers to dust off their bras and smart trousers and return to the office part-time. Continue reading... |
| ‘The US should be held accountable’: Guantánamo survivor on the war on terror’s failure Posted: 16 Aug 2021 12:00 AM PDT After 20 years during which he was routinely tortured, Mansoor Adayfi, who now lives in Serbia, asks: 'What if that had been American boys?' When a shackled Mansoor Adayfi was lumped on to a heap of shivering, naked bodies in the pitch black, a hood over his head and muffs around his ears, he assumed he was going to die. He had just been conducting research in Afghanistan, and was expecting to begin college at the end of the year. Instead, he was accused of being an al-Qaida leader, kidnapped by Afghan warlords and handed over to the CIA. Continue reading... |
| ‘We always see sex from the man’s view’: Cammie Toloui, the peep show performer who peeped back Posted: 15 Aug 2021 10:00 PM PDT Turning her camera on her customers, the sex worker and photojournalist exposed the male gaze to itself – and opened up a world of shame and desire "As a rebellious preteen, I sat down and made a list of my life goals," writes Cammie Toloui in her photobook 5 Dollars for 3 Minutes. "It was pretty simple: 1. Sex. 2. Drugs. 3. Rock'n'roll." Born in the San Francisco Bay Area in the Summer of Love, Toloui was in the right place to hit these targets, and by 1990 was a member of a feminist punk band, Yeastie Girlz, and working at the Lusty Lady strip club. Stripping was part-rebellion and part-necessity because Toloui was studying photojournalism at San Francisco State University and the Lusty Lady paid well, but when she was given an assignment to shoot her own life, it also became a project. Deciding not to photograph herself or her colleagues, because female nudes have been seen so many times before, she trained her camera on the customers. Continue reading... |
| ‘Hidden pandemic’: Peruvian children in crisis as carers die Posted: 15 Aug 2021 10:00 PM PDT With 93,000 children in Peru losing a parent to Covid, many face depression, anxiety and poverty When Covid-19 began shutting down Nilda López's vital organs, doctors decided that the best chance of saving her and her unborn baby was to put her into a coma. Six months pregnant, López feared she would not wake up, or that if she did, her baby would not be there. Continue reading... |
| ‘Let them be kids!’ Is ‘free-range’ parenting the key to healthier, happier children? Posted: 16 Aug 2021 02:00 AM PDT Now more than ever, children are cooped up indoors and monitored 24/7. But how can they build confidence and social skills if adults never let them out of their sight? She describes herself as having been a "fairly cautious" parent before the pandemic, but Shannon now worries about her children's safety more than ever. "The pandemic has made me more paranoid and fearful of other people," she says. She has two sons, aged seven and four, and she's anxious about them falling ill "because they are too young to get vaccinated". When her elder son's school reopened last year, she kept him at home. "We don't go inside other people's houses, and, if we have play dates, we do them outside," she says. As a hospital chaplain in Indiana, Shannon has seen people dying of Covid, so her fear is understandable. There have been benefits – her sons are closer than ever – but she acknowledges the downsides. "That social aspect of their development is something I'm definitely worried about. There's a part of me that's like: 'Let them be kids,' and there's a part of me that's like: 'I need to keep them safe.'" Continue reading... |
| Joan Rivers and Barbra Streisand: the myth of their lesbian play Posted: 16 Aug 2021 12:00 AM PDT Before they were superstars, Joan Rivers kissed and tried to kill a young Barbra Streisand on stage – or so she claimed. Now her tall tale has inspired drama The Funny Girls In the late 1950s, a 25-year-old struggling actor named Joan Molinsky – later to become better known as the acerbic comedian Joan Rivers – landed a small part as a lesbian stalker in an off-off-Broadway play called Seaweed. "The primary qualification for being cast," her biographer Leslie Bennetts later wrote, seemed to be "that she had lots of relatives who would come see her in a play". The significance of Seaweed from a historical point of view is that she was starring opposite another superstar-in-waiting, whom she described in her memoir Enter Talking as "a skinny high school girl with a large nose and a pin that said, 'Go Erasmus!'". This was 17-year-old Barbra Streisand, who played her unlucky victim. Rivers recalled "a big love scene in which I told Barbra I loved her very much and she rejected me and I had a knife in my hand and tried to kill her and then myself". It's delicious to imagine these two future divas in a clinch in some airless New York attic in front of an audience "sitting there in overcoats … coughing, like a tubercular ward", as Rivers put it. Continue reading... |
| The last nomad hippies – a photo essay Posted: 15 Aug 2021 11:00 PM PDT The hippy movement may have been in decline since its 1960s heyday, but there are still Europeans who choose an alternative lifestyle. During the pandemic, when many people are considering whether there might be a different way to live rather than returning to old ways, journalist Roberto Palomo journeys through Portugal with some of those who are living outside established society The pandemic disrupted so many people's plans, including mine. As a freelance reporter, my scheduled trip through South America in search of stories disappeared and I had to look for alternatives. In spite of everything, I got a job during lockdown in a logistics warehouse and was able to save some money. Once the restrictions began to relax, I bought an old van and, with the help of some friends, adapted it to make it my new home for the next months. I am from Badajoz, a small city in the south-west of Spain a few kilometres from the Portuguese border. I have been visiting Portugal since I was a child but I never had the opportunity to explore the neighbouring country in more depth. With the world paralysed, this was my chance. Continue reading... |
| Kevin Clarke death: police watchdog reopens investigation Posted: 16 Aug 2021 02:25 AM PDT Mentally ill man was heard saying 'I can't breathe' while being restrained by Met officers in London The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has reopened its investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Kevin Clarke, a mentally ill black man who could be heard saying the words "I can't breathe" while he was being restrained by police shortly before he died. The watchdog has admitted the words heard on police body-cam footage were not explored with the police officers when they were interviewed by IOPC officials. Continue reading... |
| Taliban declare ‘war is over’ as Kabul falls | First Thing Posted: 16 Aug 2021 03:00 AM PDT Desperate crowds converge on airport in Afghanistan's capital, plus how the 1996 Olympics inspired a generation of female athletes Good morning. The final collapse of the 20-year western mission to Afghanistan took only a single day as Taliban gunmen entered the capital, Kabul, on Sunday, President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, and the US and other coalition countries abandoned their embassies in panic. Continue reading... |
| Coalition accused of being too slow to organise evacuation mission to Afghanistan Posted: 16 Aug 2021 03:13 AM PDT Australia sends 250 troops for rescue mission but ex-defence force chief says 'we've just left it far too late' The Australian government has been accused of waiting far too long to organise a military evacuation mission to Afghanistan, as it sends 250 defence force personnel to the region in a last-ditch bid to help people flee the Taliban. Amid shock at the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, the Australian government promised to "continue to work with key partners in the days ahead" to seek the safe passage of more than 130 Australians in the country, along with Afghan nationals who worked alongside its troops and diplomats, and humanitarian visa holders. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 15 Aug 2021 06:58 PM PDT After being ousted as New Zealand opposition leader, Simon Bridges has returned to himself – a likeable maverick He walked in the door at the same time as my cat, which heightened the impression that he looked like something the cat dragged in. It was the day after Simon Bridges had been rolled as leader of the National Party. I'd sent him a friendly text and he replied that he was in my neck of the woods the next day so maybe a cup of tea might be in order. I put on the jug. The occasion deserved a whiskey or something, but neither of us are social drinkers, or even very social. Related: Resolutions but no revolution as National ends its annual conference as divided as ever Continue reading... |
| Taliban’s Abdul Ghani Baradar is undisputed victor of a 20-year war Posted: 15 Aug 2021 11:51 AM PDT Return to power of movement's co-founder embodies Afghanistan's inability to escape history of conflict Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban leader freed from a Pakistani jail on the request of the US less than three years ago, has emerged as an undisputed victor of the 20-year war. While Haibatullah Akhundzada is the Taliban's overall leader, Baradar is its political chief and its most public face. He was said to be on his way from his office in Doha to Kabul on Sunday evening. In a televised statement on the fall of Kabul, he said the Taliban's real test was only just beginning and that they had to serve the nation. Continue reading... |
| Defeat amid anxious bureaucracy of western evacuation from Afghanistan Posted: 15 Aug 2021 10:04 AM PDT Analysis: The speed of the fall of the country to the Taliban leaves many questions unanswered This is what defeat looks like. Embassy burn bins blazing through day and night. The president fleeing. Helicopters and armoured SUVs shuttling foreigners to the airport, amid the anxious bureaucracy of evacuation with its queues and "go" bags at the airport, the few items that you keep packed for when you have to flee. The speed of the fall of Afghanistan leaves many questions unanswered, not least whether the devastating humiliation for the Afghan government, its military forces and its western backers was in any way avoidable. Continue reading... |
| A tale of two armies: why Afghan forces proved no match for the Taliban Posted: 15 Aug 2021 07:10 AM PDT Poorly led and riddled with corruption, the Afghan army was overrun in a matter of weeks The Taliban have 80,000 troops in comparison with a nominal 300,699 serving the Afghan government, yet the whole country has been effectively overrun in a matter of weeks as military commanders surrendered without a fight in a matter of hours. It is a tale of two armies, one poorly equipped but highly motivated ideologically, and the other nominally well-equipped, but dependent on Nato support, poorly led and riddled with corruption. Continue reading... |
| Kabul falls to the Taliban as thousands of Afghans try to flee – video report Posted: 15 Aug 2021 11:06 PM PDT The Taliban has declared that Afghanistan is under their control after they took over the presidential palace just hours after president Ashraf Ghani fled the country. The Islamist militants encountered no resistance as they took back power two decades after they were overthrown by a US-led invasion. Chaotic scenes erupted at Hamid Karzai International Airport with thousands flooding the tarmac desperate the get a flight out of the country.
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| Afghanistan: western leaders react to Taliban takeover of Kabul – video Posted: 15 Aug 2021 08:21 PM PDT Leaders from the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada have reacted to the news that the Taliban has begun taking control of Kabul after a 20-year mission to Afghanistan led by western countries. UK prime minister Boris Johnsons said, 'we don't want anybody bilaterally recognising the Taliban', while New Zealand's prime minister Jacinda Ardern said conversations over how the new regime is treated will be for some time in the future. US secretary of state Antony Blinken blamed 'the inability of Afghan security forces to defend their country' for the quick takeover while Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau said he was 'heartbroken' at the news. Australian prime minister Scott Morrison said that fighting for freedom is 'always worth it whatever the outcome.'
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| Chaos at Kabul airport as Taliban seize control of Afghan capital – video Posted: 15 Aug 2021 03:47 PM PDT Crowds have packed the tarmac at Kabul airport in a bid to flee the Afghan capital as Taliban insurgents began taking over the city. Insurgents took control of the presidential palace. Al Jazeera showed footage of what it said were Taliban commanders in the palace with dozens of armed fighters. President Ashraf Ghani left Afghanistan. Many Afghans attempted the flee via road or via the airport. Continue reading... |
| Haiti: drone footage shows devastation after deadly earthquake Posted: 15 Aug 2021 10:25 AM PDT Aerial footage shows the extent of destruction in Haiti following a 7.2-magnitude earthquake. The quake struck the south-western part of the country on Saturday, almost razing some towns and triggering landslides that hampered rescue efforts in two of the hardest-hit communities. The death toll has climbed sharply, with at least 724 dead and 2,800 injured, according to the latest figures from Haiti's office of civil protection. People in the Caribbean nation rushed into the streets to seek safety and to help rescue those trapped in the rubble of collapsed homes, hotels and other buildings Continue reading... |
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