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- America mourns on 20th anniversary of 9/11 terror attacks
- At least four killed in Taliban crackdown on protests, says UN
- ‘This girl means serious business’: the making of Emma Raducanu
- Morocco’s king appoints billionaire Akhannouch to head government after election win
- Myanmar: reports of 15 or more killed after nationwide uprising call
- Cocaine haul of 1,500kg seized in British and Australian operation
- Prince Andrew served with lawsuit from Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre
- News Corp Australia won’t muzzle commentators as it ramps up climate coverage
- Revealed: Google illegally underpaid thousands of workers across dozens of countries
- Russian minister complains to US about role of ‘digital giants’ in election
- Coronavirus live news: masks could return in England if cases surge in winter; Russia reports 796 Covid deaths
- Against all odds: how New Zealand is bending the Delta curve
- France’s former health minister charged over handling of Covid crisis
- Scientists’ egos are key barrier to progress, says Covid vaccine pioneer
- ‘I’m the face of it’: the people whose images came to define 9/11 reflect on the day
- ‘Every message was copied to the police’: the inside story of the most daring surveillance sting in history
- The Guardian University Guide 2022 – the rankings
- ‘I knew I was pushing buttons’: Kacey Musgraves on breaking country music taboos
- Why is this clean hybrid car taxed at almost the same rate as a Ferrari?
- Blind date: ‘I was mid-prosecco swig when he told me he didn’t drink’
- ‘I miss it’: how fire left a swathe of north-east England with no telly
- The Collini Case review – Nazi courtroom drama tackles postwar guilt and racism
- Israel catches four of six Palestinian militants who escaped from jail
- The disappeared in Mexico, Afghan female footballers and a giant puppet: human rights this fortnight in pictures
- Boris Johnson says 9/11 failed to undermine freedom and democracy
- Replacing Suga as prime minister will do little to resolve Japan’s political crisis | Paul O'Shea and Sebastian Maslow
- The Taliban are not the only threat to Afghanistan. Aid cuts could undo 20 years of progress
- Criticism of animal farming in the west risks health of world’s poorest | Emma Naluyima Mugerwa and Lora Iannotti
- Afghans protesters reportedly killed during Taliban crackdown on demonstrations, says UN – video
- Moulin Rouge gets ready for reopening – in pictures
| America mourns on 20th anniversary of 9/11 terror attacks Posted: 10 Sep 2021 10:00 PM PDT Joe Biden to attend ceremonies in New York, Pennsylvania and at Pentagon in memory of the 2,977 killed by al-Qaida hijackers America is mourning the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington that killed nearly 3,000 people and helped shape the 21st century. Joe Biden is due this morning to join families of the victims at three separate locations in what he may have hoped would prove a rare moment of national unity. But anger at the US president's recent botched withdrawal from Afghanistan is still raw. Continue reading... |
| At least four killed in Taliban crackdown on protests, says UN Posted: 10 Sep 2021 05:22 AM PDT Human rights official says group conducting house-to-house searches and threatening journalists The Taliban's violent crackdown on protests against their hardline rule has already led to four documented deaths, according to a UN human rights official who said the group had used live ammunition, whips and batons to break up demonstrations. Ravina Shamdasani, the UN's rights spokesperson, told a briefing in Geneva that it had also received reports of house-to-house searches for those who participated in the protests. Continue reading... |
| ‘This girl means serious business’: the making of Emma Raducanu Posted: 10 Sep 2021 12:00 PM PDT Even from a young age, those around the latest British tennis star suspected she had something special Emma Raducanu's unprecedented run to the US Open final so soon after committing to the sport is not the first time she has burst through and demanded attention. In November 2015, only three days after her 13th birthday, which meant she could finally compete in international under-18 tournaments, Raducanu travelled up to Liverpool for the Nike Junior International tournament. Five matches later, she had won the event. Continue reading... |
| Morocco’s king appoints billionaire Akhannouch to head government after election win Posted: 10 Sep 2021 09:05 PM PDT King Mohammed VI asks businessman to form government after his RNI party trounced the long-ruling Islamists Morocco's King Mohammed VI has named businessman Aziz Akhannouch to lead a new government after his liberal RNI party thrashed the long-ruling Islamists in parliamentary elections. The king appointed Akhannouch "head of the government and tasked him with forming a new government", following Wednesday's polls, a statement from the palace said on Friday. Continue reading... |
| Myanmar: reports of 15 or more killed after nationwide uprising call Posted: 10 Sep 2021 07:31 PM PDT Villagers report school students mong those killed amid fighting with government troops near Gangaw township Fifteen to 20 villagers, including several teenagers, have been killed in some of Myanmar's deadliest fighting since July between government troops and resistance forces, a villager and reports by independent media said. The fighting near Gangaw township in the north-western Magway region started on Thursday, two days after a call for a nationwide uprising was issued by the National Unity Government, an opposition organisation that seeks to coordinate resistance to military rule. Continue reading... |
| Cocaine haul of 1,500kg seized in British and Australian operation Posted: 10 Sep 2021 11:24 PM PDT National Crime Agency, Border Force and Australian Federal Police seize drugs worth £120m on yacht off Plymouth Six men including a Briton have been arrested off the coast of Plymouth after authorities seized more than two tonnes of cocaine worth about £160m. Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA) said an operation involving its personnel as well as the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Border Force arrested the British man from Stockton-on-Tees and five Nicaraguans aboard a Jamaican-flagged yacht 80 miles out to sea. Continue reading... |
| Prince Andrew served with lawsuit from Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre Posted: 10 Sep 2021 12:01 PM PDT A US court document showed paperwork was filed at Royal Lodge and a response is due by 17 September Prince Andrew has been served with an affidavit for a lawsuit say lawyers for Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who alleges she was forced to have sex with the royal when she was 17 years old. A document filed in a US court on Friday showed that paperwork for Giuffre's lawsuit was filed at Andrew's home, Royal Lodge, in Windsor on 27 August. The affidavit was accepted by a Metropolitan police officer at the gates of the property at 9.30am, after the agent filing the document had been turned away the previous day, according to the documents. Continue reading... |
| News Corp Australia won’t muzzle commentators as it ramps up climate coverage Posted: 10 Sep 2021 01:00 PM PDT Newspapers to cover 'all views' and 'not just the popular ones', indicating the Murdoch empire may continue its pattern of climate science denial News Corp Australia has confirmed it will ramp up its company-wide coverage of climate change next month but says its stable of commentators won't be "muzzled". The executive chairman of News Corp Australasia, Michael Miller, says the mastheads will cover "all views" and "not just the popular ones", indicating the Murdoch empire may continue its pattern of climate science denial and ridicule towards climate action. Continue reading... |
| Revealed: Google illegally underpaid thousands of workers across dozens of countries Posted: 10 Sep 2021 10:13 AM PDT Documents show company dragged feet to correct disparity after learning it was failing to comply with laws in UK, Europe and Asia Google has been illegally underpaying thousands of temporary workers in dozens of countries and delayed correcting the pay rates for more than two years as it attempted to cover up the problem, the Guardian can reveal. Google executives have been aware since at least May 2019 that the company was failing to comply with local laws in the UK, Europe and Asia that mandate temporary workers be paid equal rates to full-time employees performing similar work, internal Google documents and emails reviewed by the Guardian show. Continue reading... |
| Russian minister complains to US about role of ‘digital giants’ in election Posted: 10 Sep 2021 02:05 PM PDT Sergei Ryabkov's claim of interference in Duma vote believed to be reference to anti-Putin apps on Apple and Google The Russian foreign ministry has summoned the US ambassador, John Sullivan, to complain about alleged interference by "American digital giants" in Russia's upcoming parliamentary election. According to a ministry statement on Friday, the deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, claimed Russia "possesses irrefutable evidence of the violation of Russian legislation by American digital giants in the context of the preparation and conduct of elections to the state Duma". Continue reading... |
| Posted: 11 Sep 2021 02:13 AM PDT Boris Johnson's winter plan could involve reintroducing restrictions including masks and social distances; Canberra said it may order snap lockdown
China has reported 25 new Covid-19 cases on the mainland for 10 September up from 17 a day earlier, the national health authority has said. One of the new infections was locally transmitted while the rest were imported, the National Health Commission said.
Russia reports 796 deaths from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours and 18,891 newcases have been reported. Continue reading... |
| Against all odds: how New Zealand is bending the Delta curve Posted: 10 Sep 2021 03:43 PM PDT The country's goal of eliminating Covid transmission looks within reach – but health experts' optimism is cautious Less than a month ago, New Zealanders disappeared into their homes, retracting from the public domain like spilled water into a dry sponge. The motorways and city streets stood mostly empty, shops closed, schools and playgrounds were deserted. A single case of the highly contagious Delta variant had been detected and the government called a snap level-4 lockdown, introducing some of the strictest restrictions in the world. It was a new threat for a country whose Covid-zero pandemic response had been ranked one of the best globally. New Zealand had never faced a Delta outbreak before, and no one knew if its past strategies would prove up to the task. Continue reading... |
| France’s former health minister charged over handling of Covid crisis Posted: 10 Sep 2021 12:34 PM PDT Agnès Buzyn accused of 'endangering the lives of others' after early statements minimised risk of pandemic France's former health minister Agnès Buzyn has been charged over her handling of the Covid-19 pandemic after investigators at a special court in Paris concluded there were grounds to prosecute her. Buzyn has been charged with "endangering the lives of others", according to the prosecutor in a special court that deals with ministerial accountability. A second possible offence of "failure to stop a disaster" was not brought. Continue reading... |
| Scientists’ egos are key barrier to progress, says Covid vaccine pioneer Posted: 10 Sep 2021 04:46 AM PDT Prof Katalin Karikó of BioNTech says she endured decades of scepticism over her work on mRNA vaccines Scientists would make swifter progress in solving the world's problems if they learned to put their egos aside and collaborate better, according to the leading researcher behind the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid vaccine. Prof Katalin Karikó, the senior vice-president for RNA protein replacement therapies at BioNTech in Germany, endured decades of scepticism over her work and was demoted and finally kicked out of her lab while developing the technology that made the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines possible. Continue reading... |
| ‘I’m the face of it’: the people whose images came to define 9/11 reflect on the day Posted: 10 Sep 2021 11:00 PM PDT Their faces were on front pages across the world in the days after the World Trade Center collapsed. Here's how they, and their families, look back on those terrifying hours Continue reading... |
| Posted: 11 Sep 2021 02:00 AM PDT Billed as the most secure phone on the planet, An0m became a viral sensation in the underworld. There was just one problem for anyone using it for criminal means: it was run by the police The rain pattered lightly on the harbour of the Belgian port city of Ghent when, on 21 June 2021, a team of professional divers slipped below the surface into the emerald murk. The Brazilian tanker, heavy with fruit juice bound for Australia, had already crossed the Atlantic Ocean, but its journey wasn't halfway done as the divers felt their way along the barnacled serration of its hull. They were looking for the sea chest, a metallic inlet below the water line, through which the ship draws seawater to cool its engines. Tucked inside, they found what they were looking for: three long sacks, each wrapped in a thick black plastic bag and trussed with black and white striped nautical rope. The sacks were heavy. Each one weighed as much as a sheep and, shaped like a body bag, could feasibly have contained one. As the Belgian police opened the first bag, a stack of crimson bricks slid out. Had this cargo reached Australia, where high demand and meagre supply has pushed the price of a kilo of cocaine to eight times its equivalent cost in North America, the haul would have been worth more than A$64m (£34m). Continue reading... |
| The Guardian University Guide 2022 – the rankings Posted: 11 Sep 2021 12:00 AM PDT Find a course at one of the top universities in the country. Our league tables rank them all subject-by-subject, as well as by student satisfaction, staff numbers, spending and career prospects Continue reading... |
| ‘I knew I was pushing buttons’: Kacey Musgraves on breaking country music taboos Posted: 11 Sep 2021 12:00 AM PDT She's already broken out of Nashville to become an unconventional pop superstar. Now she's stretching the limits of country again – with the help of psychedelics and a four-poster bed in her studio It is mid-morning in Nashville and Kacey Musgraves is padding around her new home, looking in the fridge and checking on her dogs while she talks. She moved in in April, after spending a year having it renovated. From what I can see on Zoom, the results of her renovations are exceptionally tasteful, in a very upmarket boutique hotel way: everything – walls, furniture, the floor – seems to be in shades of muted, natural off-white. As with the breakfast she's just finished – which involved a very specific kind of rosemary sourdough, an equally specific kind of slow-cultured, grass-fed butter "from this place in Atlanta" and a "pretty fucked-up" Japanese machine that steams bread – it seems to suggest someone doing very well for themselves, which indeed Musgraves is. In 2018, her fourth album, Golden Hour, finally broke through, fulfilling the line about her that people had used from the start: "The country star for people who hate country music." It went platinum in the US, made the top 10 in the UK, topped umpteen end-of-year critics' lists and won four Grammys, including album of the year. It's not unknown for a country artist to receive the latter award – the [Dixie] Chicks won it in 2007, as did Taylor Swift in the days when she was still country's brightest young star rather than an all-conquering pop behemoth, and Glen Campbell in 1969 – but it doesn't happen often. Continue reading... |
| Why is this clean hybrid car taxed at almost the same rate as a Ferrari? Posted: 11 Sep 2021 01:00 AM PDT A retired bishop faces a bigger tax bill after swapping his old diesel VW for an environmentally friendly vehicle A retired bishop who replaced a polluting diesel car with a much greener plug-in hybrid model has described the government's environmental policies as "completely mad" after his road tax rose from zero to £480 a year. The Rev Robert Paterson, who lives near Evesham in Worcestershire, was hit with the bill after switching to a secondhand BMW 330e plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), which claims a maximum fuel economy of 200 miles per gallon, and emits only 32g of CO2 per km, according to its official rating. It cost about £33,000. Continue reading... |
| Blind date: ‘I was mid-prosecco swig when he told me he didn’t drink’ Posted: 10 Sep 2021 10:00 PM PDT Johnny, 24, artist, meets Gen, 23, postgraduate student What were you hoping for? |
| ‘I miss it’: how fire left a swathe of north-east England with no telly Posted: 10 Sep 2021 11:00 PM PDT Fears loneliness among older people could be exacerbated with signal still down after mast blaze They might live in one of the most picturesque areas of the country but residents of the small village of West Witton in the Yorkshire Dales are having to deal with the loss of a different sort of view: their TV signal stopped working a month ago after a fire. "The wife's not happy," said Eddie Hammond, a retired haulier, sitting in the Fox and Hounds pub. "She hasn't seen Emmerdale in weeks. Mind you, one of the actors lives in the village so at least she gets to see him walk past the house sometimes." Continue reading... |
| The Collini Case review – Nazi courtroom drama tackles postwar guilt and racism Posted: 11 Sep 2021 01:09 AM PDT This adaptation of Ferdinand von Schirach's thriller about a grandfather with a murky past is let down by conventional storytelling and clunky acting "We need to know about the evil," said the German lawyer-turned-bestselling-novelist Ferdinand von Schirach. "That's the only way we can live with it." His grandfather was head of the Hitler Youth and his grandmother served as Hitler's secretary. Now, Von Schirach's thriller about the legacy of Nazism featuring a grandfather with a murky past has been adapted into a watchable if sluggish and dated courtroom drama – let down by cliched storytelling and clunky acting that drains the movie of tension. Elyas M'Barek plays newly qualified public defender Caspar Leinen, who is constantly being reminded that his Turkish heritage puts him on the outside of the establishment. Three months into the new job, he lands the case of his career, representing an Italian man accused of murdering a well-known business tycoon. The evidence leaves no doubt as to what happened: Fabrizio Collini (Franco Nero) shot Hans Meyer (Manfred Zapatka) in the head three times and stamped on his face with such force that brain matter was found on his shoe. But Collini isn't talking and the central mystery of the movie is his motive, which has it roots in wartime events revealed in sepia flashback so conventional they sometimes feel close to parody. Continue reading... |
| Israel catches four of six Palestinian militants who escaped from jail Posted: 10 Sep 2021 11:35 PM PDT Two men were found hiding in a truck carpark after two others were caught earlier in northern Israel Israeli police have caught two of the six Palestinians who escaped a maximum-security prison this week in a daring prison break that has captured the country's attention. Police said the two were caught in northern Israel on Friday night. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 10 Sep 2021 11:30 PM PDT A roundup of the coverage of the struggle for human rights and freedoms from Thailand to Texas Continue reading... |
| Boris Johnson says 9/11 failed to undermine freedom and democracy Posted: 11 Sep 2021 01:55 AM PDT The Queen, Keir Starmer and the PM send messages marking the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks The 9/11 terrorists failed to undermine the faith of "free peoples" around the world in open societies, Boris Johnson has said. In a defiant message to be played a memorial event at the Olympic Park in east London on Saturday, the prime minister said the threat of terrorism remained but people refused to live their lives in "permanent fear". Continue reading... |
| Posted: 11 Sep 2021 12:00 AM PDT Despite its unpopularity, the ruling LDP party looks unassailable. The country is stagnating because of it Japan will soon have a new prime minister. Not because there is a general election coming up – although there is – but because the leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic party (LDP), the deeply unpopular Yoshihide Suga, abruptly resigned last week. Following a series of local election defeats, an Olympics staged against the public will, and a related fifth Covid wave that has pushed Japan's medical system into "disaster mode", Suga's approval rating had plummeted to its lowest since the LDP's return to power in 2012. Resignation was surely a wise decision, one that put the party first. Given how disastrous the last few months have been, one might imagine that Suga's replacement – almost certainly a man – would have his work cut out to avoid catastrophe in the general election. But that's not how Japanese democracy works. Continue reading... |
| The Taliban are not the only threat to Afghanistan. Aid cuts could undo 20 years of progress Posted: 11 Sep 2021 12:00 AM PDT The most vulnerable people will bear the cost of sanctions, as services and the economy collapse Watching Afghanistan's unfolding trauma, I've thought a lot about Mumtaz Ahmed, a young teacher I met a few years ago. Her family fled Kabul during Taliban rule in the late 1990s. Raised as a refugee in Pakistan, Ahmed had defied the odds and made it to university. Now, she was back in Afghanistan teaching maths in a rural girls' school. "I came back because I believe in education and I love my country," she told me. "These girls have a right to learn – without education, Afghanistan has no future." Continue reading... |
| Posted: 10 Sep 2021 03:35 AM PDT In the developing world most people are not factory farming and livestock is essential to preventing poverty and malnutrition The pandemic has pushed poverty and malnutrition to rates not seen in more than a decade, wiping out years of progress. In 2020, the number of people in extreme poverty rose by 97 million and the number of malnourished people by between 118 million and 161 million. Recent data from the World Bank and the UN shows how poverty is heavily concentrated in rural communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America where people are surviving by smallholder farming. This autumn there will be two key events that could rally support for them. Continue reading... |
| Afghans protesters reportedly killed during Taliban crackdown on demonstrations, says UN – video Posted: 10 Sep 2021 02:15 PM PDT The UN's rights spokesperson, Ravina Shamdasani, received reports of house-to-house searches for Afghan demonstrators during the Taliban's violent crackdown on protests against their rule that has already led to four documented deaths. The UN has said Taliban officers used live ammunition – reportedly fired into the air – whips and batons to break up demonstrations and have since formally banned protests against the regime Continue reading... |
| Moulin Rouge gets ready for reopening – in pictures Posted: 09 Sep 2021 11:00 PM PDT Moulin Rouge performed a full dress rehearsal two days ahead of the reopening of the cabaret following an 18-month closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Moulin Rouge and Le Lido, emblems of the crazy Parisian nights since 1889, will open again on 10 September. Continue reading... |
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