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- Canada election result: Trudeau wins third term after early vote gamble
- Russia responsible for Alexander Litvinenko death, European court rules
- ‘The challenge for us now is drought, not war’: livelihoods of millions of Afghans at risk
- Aukus: French minister bemoans lack of trust in British alliance
- Hong Kong leader defends election after single opposition figure makes it to 1,500-strong committee
- Sudan coup attempt has failed, state media reports
- Universal Music chief predicts billions of dollars of growth from digital listening
- Prince Andrew’s US attorney served with sexual assault lawsuit, Virginia Giuffre’s lawyers claim
- Top Thai union leader ‘targeted’ with jail for rail safety campaign
- Sarah Dash, member of Lady Marmalade trio Labelle, dies aged 76
- Coronavirus live news: UK welcomes end of US travel ban; American Covid death toll passes 1918-19 flu pandemic
- Melbourne descends into chaos as police arrest 44 and fire rubber pellets at anti-lockdown protesters
- Frustration for New Zealand returnees as Covid quarantine waiting list hits 30,000
- US to lift Covid travel ban for vaccinated passengers from UK and most of EU
- The duo who created Drag Race: ‘We saw RuPaul in a loincloth and went, “Oh my God!”’
- The bias that blinds: why some people get dangerously different medical care
- Tiger trafficking: the murky world of America’s big-money big cat trade
- David Squires on … his favourite football cartoon panels
- Religious rehab centres fill gap as Nigeria grapples with soaring drug use
- Guardians of the Sea: Cape Verde’s ‘fish detectives’ try to keep extinction at bay
- School ‘devastated’ by suspected murder of teacher in south London
- A Black town’s water is more poisoned than Flint’s. In a white town nearby, it’s clean
- Canada election 2021: full results
- Australia Covid live news update: Daniel Andrews condemns Melbourne protesters; NSW records 1,022 cases, 10 deaths; Victoria records 603 cases
- Ten women and girls killed every day in Mexico, Amnesty report says
- ‘The Taliban will have no mercy’: LGBTQ+ Afghans go into hiding
- ‘It’s heartbreaking’: Steve McCurry on Afghan Girl, a portrait of past and present
- How the refugee crisis created two myths of Angela Merkel | Daniel Trilling
- La Palma’s Cumbre Vieja volcano erupts – in pictures
| Canada election result: Trudeau wins third term after early vote gamble Posted: 20 Sep 2021 10:42 PM PDT Justin Trudeau says voters have given him 'clear mandate', but his Liberal party is expected to remain as a minority government Justin Trudeau has won a third term as Canada's prime minister, with his Liberal party set to capture the most votes in the snap election, a result he called a "clear mandate" to get the country through the pandemic. With results still trickling in late Monday night, Trudeau was on track for another minority government, meaning he will once again need to work with other parties to pass legislation. Continue reading... |
| Russia responsible for Alexander Litvinenko death, European court rules Posted: 21 Sep 2021 02:06 AM PDT ECHR also finds ex-KGB bodyguard Andrei Lugovoy and another Russian, Dmitry Kovtun, carried out assassination The European court of human rights has ruled that Russia was responsible for the 2006 killing of Alexander Litvinenko, who died an agonising death after he was poisoned in London with Polonium 210, a rare radioactive isotope. "Russia was responsible for assassination of Aleksander Litvinenko in the UK," the court said in a statement on its ruling. Continue reading... |
| ‘The challenge for us now is drought, not war’: livelihoods of millions of Afghans at risk Posted: 21 Sep 2021 02:36 AM PDT After years caught in the crossfire between the Taliban and security forces, farmers in Kandahar face a new threat, as water sources dry up The war in Afghanistan might be over but farmers in Kandahar's Arghandab valley face a new enemy: drought. It has hardly rained for two years, a drought so severe that some farmers are questioning how much longer they can live off the land. Continue reading... |
| Aukus: French minister bemoans lack of trust in British alliance Posted: 21 Sep 2021 02:23 AM PDT Clément Beaune says Brexit fallout and secret defence pact have undermined Franco-British relations The British-French alliance lacks trust, France's EU affairs minister has said, citing Downing Street's approach to the post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland and the secretly negotiated defence agreement with the US and Australia. Clément Beaune, a close ally of the French president, Emmanuel Macron, said that while the two problematic issues should not be mixed, together they highlighted the flaw in the relationship. Continue reading... |
| Hong Kong leader defends election after single opposition figure makes it to 1,500-strong committee Posted: 20 Sep 2021 10:46 PM PDT Carrie Lam rejects criticism over the lack of opposition figures in the election committee, saying 'non-patriots' may undermine Hong Kong Hong Kong's chief executive, Carrie Lam, has defended the weekend's election of a powerful committee to appoint senior leaders, after just one non-establishment candidate was elected among the 1,500 positions. Under an overhauled electoral system, dubbed "patriots rule Hong Kong", fewer than 5,000 people were eligible to vote on Sunday, choosing from candidates who had already been vetted for political loyalty and cleared of being a national security threat. Continue reading... |
| Sudan coup attempt has failed, state media reports Posted: 21 Sep 2021 01:51 AM PDT Government and military sources say a group of officers had tried to occupy state media building A coup attempt in Sudan has failed, state media has reported, as the country grapples with a fragile transition since the 2019 ousting of the longtime president Omar al-Bashir. Top military and government sources said on Tuesday the attempt involved a group of officers who were "immediately suspended" after they failed to take over the state media building. Continue reading... |
| Universal Music chief predicts billions of dollars of growth from digital listening Posted: 20 Sep 2021 10:00 PM PDT Record firm's €40bn flotation is just beginning of new wave of music consumption, says Sir Lucian Grainge The chief executive of Universal Music has said the hotly anticipated €40bn flotation of the world's largest record company this week does not mark the peak of the streaming-led recovery of the music industry, with billions of dollars of growth yet to come from a new wave of digital listening on devices such a smart speakers, connected cars and services such as TikTok. Sir Lucian Grainge, who stands to make a transaction bonus of at least $170m when the label behind artists such as Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber goes public in Amsterdam on Tuesday, said the listing provided the opportunity to build Universal into the "next generation music company". Continue reading... |
| Prince Andrew’s US attorney served with sexual assault lawsuit, Virginia Giuffre’s lawyers claim Posted: 20 Sep 2021 05:29 PM PDT Papers delivered to office of royal's lawyer in Los Angeles after his legal team contested first serving of proceedings on 10 September The Duke of York has been served with a sexual assault lawsuit after the relevant paperwork was delivered to his US lawyer, his accuser's legal team said on Monday. Virginia Giuffre is seeking damages after alleging she was forced to have sex with Andrew when she was 17 at the home of socialite Ghislaine Maxwell in London and at properties owned by disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. The prince vehemently denies the claims. Continue reading... |
| Top Thai union leader ‘targeted’ with jail for rail safety campaign Posted: 20 Sep 2021 10:00 PM PDT Case is 'major blow' in country with weak workers' rights and puts trade deals in question, says Human Rights Watch One of Thailand's most prominent union leaders is facing three years in prison for his role in organising a railway safety campaign, in a case described as the biggest attack on organised labour in the country in decades. Rights advocates say the case involving Sawit Kaewvarn, president of the State Railway Union of Thailand, will have a chilling effect on unions and threatens to further weaken workers' rights in the country. Continue reading... |
| Sarah Dash, member of Lady Marmalade trio Labelle, dies aged 76 Posted: 21 Sep 2021 01:45 AM PDT New Jersey-born singer had a US No 1 hit with the R&B trio, and later worked with the Rolling Stones Sarah Dash, member of R&B trio Labelle who had a US No 1 hit with Lady Marmalade, has died aged 76. No cause of death has been given, though she had reportedly told family she was feeling unwell in recent days. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 21 Sep 2021 02:28 AM PDT US lifts ban for vaccinated UK and EU passengers; Covid has killed more than 675,000 Americans as average daily deaths reach levels last seen in March
Coronavirus was the third leading cause of death in England in August, the Office for National Statistics has said. It marks a big jump from July, when it was the ninth leading cause of death, and is the highest ranking for Covid-19 since March, when it was also the third leading cause.
For the latest UK politics news, please follow Andrew Sparrow's liveblog which is now up and running: Continue reading... |
| Posted: 21 Sep 2021 02:14 AM PDT It started with construction workers opposing compulsory vaccinations but grew into a broader 'freedom' rally which shut down freeways and bridges Police have fired pepper balls and stinger grenades at violent anti-Covid lockdown protesters on the streets of Melbourne as Australia's second-largest city – under stay-at-home orders for the 233rd day in total – descended into chaos. Protesters dressed as construction workers clashed with police for the second consecutive day on Tuesday, assaulting officers, smashing police car windows, throwing bottles and stones, and damaging property. Continue reading... |
| Frustration for New Zealand returnees as Covid quarantine waiting list hits 30,000 Posted: 20 Sep 2021 04:55 PM PDT Demand for MIQ spaces is vastly outstripping supply, with spots snapped up in just two hours Overseas New Zealanders trying to return home are facing a queue tens of thousands of people long, as the country reopens bookings to cross the border. The country's borders have been strictly controlled since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic – only citizens, permanent residents and a handful of essential workers can enter, and all of them must make a booking to spend two weeks in government-controlled quarantine (MIQ). Continue reading... |
| US to lift Covid travel ban for vaccinated passengers from UK and most of EU Posted: 20 Sep 2021 07:31 PM PDT UK and airlines welcome news that US will lift Covid-19 travel restrictions from early November The US will lift Covid-19 travel restrictions to allow fully vaccinated passengers from the UK and most European Union (EU) countries to travel into the country from early November, the White House has announced. Related: Airline shares soar on US plans to relax Covid travel rules Continue reading... |
| The duo who created Drag Race: ‘We saw RuPaul in a loincloth and went, “Oh my God!”’ Posted: 20 Sep 2021 10:00 PM PDT They took RuPaul from obscurity to global fame – inventing The Adam and Joe Show along the way. As Drag Race UK returns to the BBC, we talk to Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato More than 20 years before Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato launched RuPaul's Drag Race under the banner of their World of Wonder production company, they spotted the future drag superstar in the lobby of the Marriott hotel in Times Square, New York. It was the mid-1980s, and the 6ft 4in RuPaul Charles was sporting football shoulder pads, thigh-high waders, a loincloth and a mohican. "We were, like: 'Oh my God,'" says Bailey. "There was simply nowhere else you could look." Continue reading... |
| The bias that blinds: why some people get dangerously different medical care Posted: 20 Sep 2021 10:00 PM PDT Medical research and practice have long assumed a narrow definition of the 'default' human, badly compromising the care of anyone outside that category. How can this be fixed? I met Chris in my first month at a small, hard-partying Catholic high school in north-eastern Wisconsin, where kids jammed cigarettes between the fingers of the school's lifesize Jesus statue and skipped mass to eat fries at the fast-food joint across the street. Chris and her circle perched somewhere adjacent to the school's social hierarchy, and she surveyed the adolescent drama and absurdity with cool, heavy-lidded understanding. I admired her from afar and shuffled around the edges of her orbit, gleeful whenever she motioned for me to join her gang for lunch. After high school, we lost touch. I went east; Chris stayed in the midwest. To pay for school at the University of Minnesota, she hawked costume jewellery at Dayton's department store. She got married to a tall classmate named Adam and merged with the mainstream – became a lawyer, had a couple of daughters. She would go running at the YWCA and cook oatmeal for breakfast. Then in 2010, at the age of 35, she went to the ER with stomach pains. She struggled to describe the pain – it wasn't like anything she'd felt before. The doctor told her it was indigestion and sent her home. But the symptoms kept coming back. She was strangely tired and constipated. She returned to the doctor. She didn't feel right, she said. Of course you're tired, he told her, you're raising kids. You're stressed. You should be tired. Frustrated, she saw other doctors. You're a working mom, they said. You need to relax. Add fibre to your diet. The problems ratcheted up in frequency. She was anaemic, and always so tired. She'd feel sleepy when having coffee with a friend. Get some rest, she was told. Try sleeping pills. Continue reading... |
| Tiger trafficking: the murky world of America’s big-money big cat trade Posted: 21 Sep 2021 01:00 AM PDT US backyards are home to more tigers than India with experts drawing a line between the popularity of cubs as pets and the market in tiger products for traditional Chinese medicine The first red flag was the shiny Chevy Camaro with no license plate. "Anything to declare?" asked the US Customs and Border Protection officer. Continue reading... |
| David Squires on … his favourite football cartoon panels Posted: 21 Sep 2021 02:00 AM PDT Two Arsenal legends, an unpublished gem, Poppies and more – our cartoonist talks us through some memorable drawings The Guardian have granted me a week off from the back-breaking physical labour of drawing football cartoons, so I'm afraid you'll have to wait another week to read my searing analysis of Ralph Hasenhüttl's waistcoat game. However, as punishment, I've been asked to scour my back catalogue and pick out 10 panels from the last few years that I hate the least. Usually when I'm away from my drawing board, a huge story breaks, so feel free to dip in and out of this selection as you wait for the liveblog to refresh with updates on Pep Guardiola's shock move to Chippenham Town. Continue reading... |
| Religious rehab centres fill gap as Nigeria grapples with soaring drug use Posted: 21 Sep 2021 12:00 AM PDT With poverty deepening, state services are failing to cope with rising rates of addiction Kola* was in secondary school in Nigeria when he started smoking cigarettes. He soon graduated to cannabis, heroin and eventually to crack cocaine. Access to drugs was easy and he felt the pressure of friends to participate. In 2002, when he was 39, he was introduced to a private drug rehabilitation centre in Ibadan, in the south-west of the country, where he spent 90 days weaning himself off his addiction. Continue reading... |
| Guardians of the Sea: Cape Verde’s ‘fish detectives’ try to keep extinction at bay Posted: 20 Sep 2021 10:30 PM PDT As boats from bigger islands flock to fish off Maio, locals take turns to safeguard their pristine waters Older fishermen such as Boaventura Martins, 60, have noticed the fish have not only become more scarce, but smaller. Some species have disappeared, he says. On a good day, Martins will catch 10kg (22lb) of fish, which is barely enough to cover his fuel costs. When he began fishing 40 years ago, he would bring home hundreds of kilos – enough to give away part of his catch to his community on the island of Maio in the Cape Verde archipelago, off the west African coast. He would throw back the small fish. Continue reading... |
| School ‘devastated’ by suspected murder of teacher in south London Posted: 21 Sep 2021 01:31 AM PDT Body of Sabina Nessa, 28, was found near community centre in Kidbrooke on Saturday A south-east London primary school has been left "devastated" by the suspected murder of one of its teachers after her body was found near a community centre on Saturday. The Metropolitan police named the victim as Sabina Nessa, 28, from Kidbrooke, and said her death was being treated as murder. A man in his 40s who was arrested on suspicion of killing her has been released under further investigation. Continue reading... |
| A Black town’s water is more poisoned than Flint’s. In a white town nearby, it’s clean Posted: 21 Sep 2021 02:00 AM PDT Activists in Benton Harbor say it's been an uphill battle getting the city, county and state to take action Bobbie Clay first realized something was wrong a few years ago. The water at her Benton Harbor, Michigan, home had started coming out of the tap looking "bubbly and whitish". When she filled a glass with it, she could see matter floating around inside. "I became very concerned," she recalled in a recent interview. Continue reading... |
| Canada election 2021: full results Posted: 21 Sep 2021 12:10 AM PDT Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau will stay in power but has not won the majority he hoped for after calling a snap election Canada's prime minister, Justin Trudeau, will continue in office, but has not won a hoped-for majority in a snap election. Preliminary results suggest the new House of Commons will look very much like the old one. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 21 Sep 2021 02:37 AM PDT Victoria police say 1,000-2,000 people attended second day of protests in Melbourne CBD; NSW cases back over 1,000 as kids allowed to meet in friend bubbles for school holidays; Tweed, Byron Bay and Kempsey LGAs to lockdown from 5pm; Qld records no new local cases; Victoria's highest number of cases for this outbreak. Follow all the day's news live
Victoria Police chief commissioner Shane Patton has just stepped up to give an update.
Need a quick run down of everything that went down at today's protest? Look no further than Josh Taylor's report here: Related: What do we know about the protests in Melbourne, and how did the numbers grow? Continue reading... |
| Ten women and girls killed every day in Mexico, Amnesty report says Posted: 20 Sep 2021 10:13 AM PDT Families often left to do their investigations into killings amid widespread indifference by authorities, report claims At least 10 women and girls are murdered every day in Mexico, according to a new report that says victims' families are often left to carry out their own homicide investigations. The scathing report, released on Monday by Amnesty International, documents both the scale of the violence and the disturbing lack of interest on the part of Mexican authorities to prevent or solve the murders. Continue reading... |
| ‘The Taliban will have no mercy’: LGBTQ+ Afghans go into hiding Posted: 20 Sep 2021 06:07 AM PDT Gay and trans people in Afghanistan already faced stigma, but now even a call from an unknown number sparks fear Laila, a transgender woman in Afghanistan, rubs her eyes to wipe tears away. "I am terrified. It's like a nightmare. I don't feel safe even in my room. I'm scared of the Taliban. When I see them I feel they will know who I am and they will come to beat me, kick me or send me to prison." After the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan in August, Laila is far from an isolated case. Rehmat, a gay man, said: "Our lives are in danger. We are afraid of having mobile phones. I get afraid when I receive calls from unknown numbers, worried that it might be the Taliban." Continue reading... |
| ‘It’s heartbreaking’: Steve McCurry on Afghan Girl, a portrait of past and present Posted: 20 Sep 2021 03:30 AM PDT The US photographer's image of Sharbat Gula captured the story of a country, its people and refugees across the world. Thirty six years on, another picture tells a similar tale – but also one of hope On 1 September, a young Afghan girl stood in line with her family at a US base in Sicily waiting to board a flight to Philadelphia. She is about nine years old and is one of more than 100,000 people evacuated from Kabul by allied forces after the Taliban took control of the country in August. Her photo, taken for the Guardian by Italian photojournalist Alessio Mamo and featured on the front page of the UK print edition, resembles the Afghan Girl by American photographer Steve McCurry. McCurry's portrait, of a Pashtun child, Sharbat Gula, which appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic, became the symbol, not only of Afghanistan, but of displaced refugees across the world. Continue reading... |
| How the refugee crisis created two myths of Angela Merkel | Daniel Trilling Posted: 21 Sep 2021 01:00 AM PDT The right says the German chancellor undermined EU security; Liberals say it was a triumph. But her legacy is far more mixed When Angela Merkel steps down as chancellor after Germany's elections later this month, the tributes will centre on her role as the figurehead of western liberalism; an island of stability, caution and openness in an era marked by turbulence and far-right reaction. She will be remembered "for serious work, stable leadership and having a gift for political compromise", wrote Ishaan Tharoor in the Washington Post last week. When she faced off against Donald Trump after his inauguration in 2017, some newspapers dubbed her the new "leader of the free world". Fundamental to this image is the intervention she made in late summer 2015, at the height of Europe's refugee crisis. "Wir schaffen das" – we'll manage this – was Merkel's public statement as thousands of people, mainly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, were making their way through Turkey, Greece and the Balkans to western Europe. By declaring Germany – and, by extension, Europe – open to refugees, she was making a bold, pragmatic statement of intent. Continue reading... |
| La Palma’s Cumbre Vieja volcano erupts – in pictures Posted: 20 Sep 2021 06:06 AM PDT A surge of lava has destroyed about 100 homes on Spain's Canary Islands a day after a volcano erupted, forcing 5,000 people to leave the area. Cumbre Vieja erupted on Sunday, sending vast plumes of thick black smoke into the sky and belching molten lava that oozed down the mountainside on the island of La Palma, one of the most westerly of the Atlantic archipelago off the coast of Morocco Continue reading... |
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