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- China frees detained Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, Trudeau says
- German election too close to call as polls find SPD has lost its lead
- Global climate strike: thousands join coordinated action across world
- ‘Free and open’: Quad leaders call for ‘stable’ Indo-Pacific in veiled China dig
- China clamps down on cartoons in latest morality move
- ‘He knows he lost’: Georgia Republican braces for Trump rally in Perry
- Canada’s Catholic bishops apologise for abuses in residential schools
- Prince Andrew accepts he has been served in US sexual assault lawsuit
- Notorious gangster gunned down in Indian courtroom
- Andrew Neil ‘almost had breakdown’ at GB News
- ‘Rudy is really hurt’: Giuliani reportedly banned from Fox News
- Coronavirus live news: Covid cases in South Korea top 3,000; Northern Ireland to ease travel rules
- ‘People are tired’: Chris Hipkins, the New Zealand minister battling to eliminate Covid
- Fraudulent ivermectin studies open up new battleground between science and misinformation
- Greta Thunberg: ‘I really see the value of friendship. Apart from the climate, almost nothing else matters’
- Amanda Gorman: ‘I wanted my words to re-sanctify the steps of the Capitol’
- Bernardine Evaristo on a childhood shaped by racism: ‘I was never going to give up’
- The great sperm heist: ‘They were playing with people’s lives’
- Wole Soyinka: ‘This book is my gift to Nigeria’
- Dining across the divide: ‘She didn’t call me an insensitive buffoon – but I was armed and ready’
- Boy, 12, dies after suffering serious injuries at indoor ski centre
- The Man Who Sold His Skin review – tattooed refugee story offers up art-world satire
- Haitians fleeing and Hotel Rwanda case: human rights this fortnight – in pictures
- Victoria has record number of cases and police swarm St Kilda protesters – as it happened
- Cop26: Women must be heard on climate, say rights groups
- Philippines’ youth call for systemic change at climate protest
- ‘We couldn’t be more inconsistent’: discordant Democrats imperil Biden’s agenda
- ‘A bit of a mystery’: why hospital admissions for Covid in England are going down
- Mismatch of mindsets: why the Taliban won in Afghanistan
- 'People will pay' for harsh treatment of migrants at Texas border, says Biden – video
| China frees detained Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, Trudeau says Posted: 24 Sep 2021 06:21 PM PDT The men, who were detained by Beijing in 2018, were released hours after Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou was freed in Canada Two Canadian citizens who were detained by Beijing for more than 1,000 days have left Chinese airspace and will arrive back in Canada early on Saturday, prime minister Justin Trudeau told reporters. A plane carrying Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor left Chinese airspace around 7.30pm Ottawa time, just hours after US authorities reached an agreement allowing Chinese Huawei executive, Meng Wanzhou, to return to China in exchange for admitting wrongdoing in a fraud case. Shortly before Trudeau spoke, Meng boarded a chartered flight organised by the Chinese government to Shenzhen, Chinese state media reported. Zhao Lijian, ministry of foreign affairs spokesperson, said her return was enabled by the "unremitting efforts of the Chinese government". Continue reading... |
| German election too close to call as polls find SPD has lost its lead Posted: 24 Sep 2021 09:55 AM PDT A coalition appears inevitable after two surveys suggest almost equal support for CDU and former favourite The race to succeed Angela Merkel as German chancellor remains completely open two days before western Europe's most populous country goes to the polls, with the latest predictions showing the leading parties almost neck and neck. Two leading polls published on Friday ahead of Sunday's election indicate the Social Democrats (SPD) have lost their lead over the Christian Democrats (CDU). One, carried out by Civey for the broadcaster ZDF, showed the SPD to be stable on 25%, but the CDU to have risen to 23%. A poll released later in the day for the polling institute Allensbach for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung showed the race to be even tighter, with the SPD on 26%, the CDU on 25%. Continue reading... |
| Global climate strike: thousands join coordinated action across world Posted: 24 Sep 2021 08:02 AM PDT Rally to demand government action on climate crisis is first worldwide since start of pandemic Hundreds of thousands of people in 99 countries have taken part in a coordinated global climate strike demanding urgent action to tackle the ecological crisis. The strike on Friday, the first worldwide climate action since the coronavirus pandemic hit, is taking place weeks before the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow, UK. Continue reading... |
| ‘Free and open’: Quad leaders call for ‘stable’ Indo-Pacific in veiled China dig Posted: 24 Sep 2021 07:40 PM PDT Joe Biden meets leaders of Australia, India and Japan in latest effort to cement US leadership in Asia US president Joe Biden and the leaders of Australia, India and Japan highlighted their Quad group's role in safeguarding a stable, democratic Indo-Pacific in a veiled dig at rival China. The first in-person summit of the Quad held on Friday marked Biden's latest effort to cement US leadership in Asia in the face of a rising China. Continue reading... |
| China clamps down on cartoons in latest morality move Posted: 24 Sep 2021 11:00 PM PDT Entertainment industry told to uphold 'truth, goodness and beauty' and remove vulgar and violent content China's broadcasting regulator said it will encourage online producers to create "healthy" cartoons and clamp down on violent, vulgar or pornographic content, as Beijing steps up efforts to bring its thriving entertainment industry to heel. The National Radio and Television Administration said in a notice posted late on Friday that children and young people were the main audience for cartoons, and qualified agencies need to broadcast content that "upholds truth, goodness and beauty". Continue reading... |
| ‘He knows he lost’: Georgia Republican braces for Trump rally in Perry Posted: 24 Sep 2021 11:00 PM PDT Top voting official Brad Raffensperger dismayed that the former president uses his lies to fundraise The top election official in Georgia, a Republican, said Donald Trump unequivocally lost the state in 2020, a day before a rally there on Saturday night at whih Trump is set to repeat baseless accusations of voter fraud. Related: Arizona Republican 'audit' finds even bigger lead for Biden in 2020 election Continue reading... |
| Canada’s Catholic bishops apologise for abuses in residential schools Posted: 24 Sep 2021 08:43 PM PDT Church leaders express 'profound remorse' for suffering caused to indigenous children amid silence from the Vatican High-ranking Catholic bishops in Canada have officially apologised for their role in the country's notorious residential school system for the first time, after refusing to do so for years despite public pressure. The organisation expressed "profound remorse" and apologised unequivocally along with all Catholic entities that were directly involved in the operation of the schools, according to a statement issued on Friday by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops. Continue reading... |
| Prince Andrew accepts he has been served in US sexual assault lawsuit Posted: 24 Sep 2021 02:40 PM PDT Issue of whether royal had been notified about the case had previously been contested The Duke of York has received court papers relating to a sexual assault lawsuit, US officials have confirmed. The complainant, Virginia Giuffre, is seeking damages after alleging Prince Andrew sexually assaulted her, a claim he vehemently denies. Continue reading... |
| Notorious gangster gunned down in Indian courtroom Posted: 24 Sep 2021 08:38 AM PDT Attackers dressed as lawyers opened fire and killed Jitendra 'Gogi' Maan before police shot them dead One of India's most notorious gangsters has been shot dead in a Delhi courtroom after members of a rival gang disguised themselves in lawyers' cloaks and opened fire. The shooting took place as Jitendra Maan, alias Gogi", previously one of Delhi's most wanted men, entered the court to face murder and extortion charges. Police returned fire, according to officials, killing two gunmen. Continue reading... |
| Andrew Neil ‘almost had breakdown’ at GB News Posted: 24 Sep 2021 03:18 PM PDT Veteran presenter, who quit after eight shows, says technical faults and other problems 'would have killed him' if he had carried on Andrew Neil has revealed that he came close to having a breakdown while at GB News and believes "it would've killed me to carry on" due to the technical problems at the channel. The veteran broadcaster, 72, resigned last week from his role as the rightwing network's lead presenter and chairman after weeks of speculation about his future. Continue reading... |
| ‘Rudy is really hurt’: Giuliani reportedly banned from Fox News Posted: 24 Sep 2021 08:41 AM PDT Trump ally learned of his expulsion on the eve of the 20th anniversary of 9/11, according to Politico Rudy Giuliani has reportedly been banned from Fox News. Related: House committee on Capitol attack subpoenas Trump's ex-chief of staff and other top aides Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus live news: Covid cases in South Korea top 3,000; Northern Ireland to ease travel rules Posted: 25 Sep 2021 02:02 AM PDT Further 3,273 infections added to South Korea's tally; fully vaccinated travellers in Northern Ireland will no longer need pre-departure test from 4 October
Salvadoran health workers, vulnerable and elderly people will be offered a booster shot, President Nayib Bukele has said. The central American nation of roughly 6.4 million people has obtained 12m vaccines since February, Reuters reports.
Israel is going ahead with its campaign to administer third doses to over-12s, encouraged by the US rolling out booster shots to more vulnerable patients. The AP news agency reports that Israeli officials attributes the suppression of its third wave to the booster shot rollout, and expects the US and others to expand their campaign in coming months. The decision reinforced our results that the third dose is safe," said Dr Nadav Davidovitch, head of the school of public health at Israel's Ben-Gurion University. "The main question now is of prioritisation." Continue reading... |
| ‘People are tired’: Chris Hipkins, the New Zealand minister battling to eliminate Covid Posted: 24 Sep 2021 01:00 PM PDT As the country's much-lauded pandemic policy reaches a critical moment, Hipkins insists it remains committed to elimination It's New Zealand's 1pm Covid press conference, and Chris Hipkins is eyeballing a room of journalists. He stands, sanitising his hands, and takes a moment to look around. "We'll start with some good news," he begins. Continue reading... |
| Fraudulent ivermectin studies open up new battleground between science and misinformation Posted: 24 Sep 2021 01:00 PM PDT Studies suggesting ivermectin is an effective Covid treatment relied on evidence 'that has substantially evaporated under close scrutiny', fresh research shows
Dr Carlos Chaccour ran into difficulty when he and his colleagues began recruiting patients in Peru for their study to determine the effect of a daily dose of the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin on people infected with Covid-19. "We would call the patient and say, 'You have just been diagnosed with Covid and you're eligible for this study. Are you taking ivermectin?'" he says. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 25 Sep 2021 12:00 AM PDT The world's most famous teen activist opens up about how she's been transformed since she started her school climate strike in 2018 Continue reading... |
| Amanda Gorman: ‘I wanted my words to re-sanctify the steps of the Capitol’ Posted: 25 Sep 2021 02:00 AM PDT The youngest presidential inaugural poet in US history on Toni Morrison, the power of language and her debut children's book My earliest reading memory The book that influenced me growing up |
| Bernardine Evaristo on a childhood shaped by racism: ‘I was never going to give up’ Posted: 25 Sep 2021 01:45 AM PDT My creativity can be traced back to my heritage, to the skin colour that defined how I was perceived. But, like my ancestors, I wouldn't accept defeat When I won the Booker prize in 2019 for my novel Girl, Woman, Other, I became an "overnight success", after 40 years working professionally in the arts. My career hadn't been without its achievements and recognition, but I wasn't widely known. The novel received the kind of attention I had long desired for my work. In countless interviews, I found myself discussing my route to reaching this high point after so long. I reflected that my creativity could be traced back to my early years, cultural background and the influences that have shaped my life. Not least, my heritage and childhood Through my father, a Nigerian immigrant who had sailed into the Motherland on the "Good Ship Empire" in 1949, I inherited a skin colour that defined how I was perceived in the country into which I was born, that is, as a foreigner, outsider, alien. I was born in 1959 in Eltham and raised in Woolwich, both in south London. Back then, it was still legal to discriminate against people based on the colour of their skin, and it would be many years before the Race Relations Acts (1965 and 1968) enshrined the full scope of anti-racist doctrine into British law. Continue reading... |
| The great sperm heist: ‘They were playing with people’s lives’ Posted: 24 Sep 2021 10:00 PM PDT Paul was in his 80s when someone called to say she was his daughter, conceived in a fertility clinic with his sperm. The only problem? He'd never donated any For 40 years, Catherine Simpson thought she knew who she was: a nurse, a mother of three, a daughter and a sister. She looked like her mother, Sarah, but had the same temperament as her father, George: calm, unflustered, kind. Then her father died. There was a dispute over his will, and that led her mother to call and tell her something that made the ground dissolve beneath her feet. George had had a vasectomy long before Catherine was born. She and her brother had been donor conceived in Harley Street using the sperm of two different anonymous men. George was not her biological father. Continue reading... |
| Wole Soyinka: ‘This book is my gift to Nigeria’ Posted: 25 Sep 2021 01:00 AM PDT The Nobel laureate has produced plays, poems, essays and even inspired a pop duo but he hasn't written a novel for nearly half a century - until now At 87, Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian icon. His plays have been performed around the world, his poems anthologised, his novels studied in schools and universities, while his nonfiction writing has been the scourge of many a Nigerian dictator. He was imprisoned for 22 months during the Nigerian civil war in the late 1960s for attempting to broker peace; his activism led him again into exile two decades later during the era of General Sani Abacha, military ruler of Nigeria, when the environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa was hanged. In 1986, he was awarded the Nobel prize in literature and became the first African laureate, but his status in Nigerian letters was secured long before then. For a generation of young Nigerian writers, his work has been transformative. It has inspired artists, too – in Lagos, many display their skill by painting famous faces, his among them. There was even a musical duo called Soyinka's Afro. Continue reading... |
| Dining across the divide: ‘She didn’t call me an insensitive buffoon – but I was armed and ready’ Posted: 24 Sep 2021 11:00 PM PDT Two strangers, on opposite sides of the left-right political divide and with very different lives – can they find common ground over dinner? Abby, 45, London Continue reading... |
| Boy, 12, dies after suffering serious injuries at indoor ski centre Posted: 25 Sep 2021 12:39 AM PDT Ambulance crew called to SnowDome in Tamworth on Friday evening but was unable to save boy's life A 12-year-old boy has died after being seriously injured at an indoor ski centre. West Midlands ambulance service and Staffordshire police were called to reports of the child being seriously injured during an activity in the SnowDome in Tamworth at around 6.35pm on Friday. Continue reading... |
| The Man Who Sold His Skin review – tattooed refugee story offers up art-world satire Posted: 25 Sep 2021 01:31 AM PDT Serious themes are undercut by the flippant tone of this story about a Syrian refugee who becomes a conceptual art object Here is a muddled caper of movie that doesn't know what it wants to say; it doesn't work as a satire of the international art market, nor as a commentary on the racism of white European culture. And its attitude to Syria is undermined by a silly and unconvincing ending that leaves a strange taste in the mouth. It is inspired by the Belgian conceptual artist Wim Delvoye and his human artwork called Tim: in 2008, Delvoye tattooed an elaborate punk-crucifixion scene on the back of a Zurich tattoo parlour owner named Tim Steiner, who in return for a cash payment agreed to sit still with his tattooed back on show in galleries for a certain number of times a year and have his tattooed skin surgically removed and put on display after his death. And of course it is this macabre destiny that lends fascination to the ongoing live events. This movie from writer-director Kaouther Ben Hania imagines a Syrian man, Sam Ali (Yahya Mahayni) in love with a well-born woman Abeer (Dea Liane). But when he is wrongfully arrested by the tyrannical Assad government, Abeer's family pressures her into marrying a smooth diplomat, Ziad (Saad Lostan), who takes her to live with him in Brussels where he is an embassy attache. Sam Ali manages to escape from police custody (the least of the film's implausibilities) and get over the border into Lebanon where, hungry and hard up, he gatecrashes art exhibitions and gobbles the free canapes. And this is where he is approached by a preeningly arrogant artist, Jeffrey Godefroi (Koen De Bouw), who looks like Roger De Bris, the theatre director in Mel Brooks's The Producers. If Sam will agree to the humiliation of having a massive "Schengen visa" tattooed on his back, then Jeffrey will be legally able to transport him to Brussels as a conceptual art object rather than a human being, as part of a show about the commodification of humanity, and Sam will be able to see Abeer. Continue reading... |
| Haitians fleeing and Hotel Rwanda case: human rights this fortnight – in pictures Posted: 24 Sep 2021 11:30 PM PDT A roundup of the struggle for human rights and freedoms, from Myanmar to Germany Continue reading... |
| Victoria has record number of cases and police swarm St Kilda protesters – as it happened Posted: 25 Sep 2021 01:01 AM PDT Western Australia upgrades travel ban against Victoria to 'extreme risk', the same category as NSW. This blog is now closed
This is where we'll leave our live coverage of news for today. You can follow our live coverage of the AFL grand final here and our coverage of the NRL preliminary final here. But first, let's recap the day. Related: AFL 2021 grand final: Melbourne Demons v Western Bulldogs – live!
A planned sixth day of protests in Melbourne was a flop but more are planned for tomorrow, AAP reports. Police have snuffed out a sixth day of anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine protests in Melbourne, dispersing and arresting would-be demonstrators. Hundreds of police lined St Kilda beach and arrested dozens of people on Saturday as protesters initially gathered at Luna Park. Continue reading... |
| Cop26: Women must be heard on climate, say rights groups Posted: 24 Sep 2021 11:00 PM PDT Those worst hit by global heating are left out of talks, says feminist coalition calling for systemic change Women must be enabled to play a greater role at the Cop26 summit, as the needs of women and girls are being overlooked amid the global climate crisis, a coalition of feminist groups has said. The Global Women's Assembly for Climate Justice has laid out a call for action at the UN general assembly, including demands that world leaders meeting at Cop26, in Glasgow this November, must end fossil fuel expansion and move to 100% renewable energy. Continue reading... |
| Philippines’ youth call for systemic change at climate protest Posted: 24 Sep 2021 09:09 AM PDT Protesters parading an effigy of Rodrigo Duterte in Manila call for policies that prioritise people and planet A monstrous effigy of Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte was paraded through the country's capital Manila on Friday as protesters joined a worldwide youth climate action. About a hundred young people wearing masks gathered in one of several socially distanced demonstrations around the country in support of the global climate strike by the international Fridays for Future movement. Continue reading... |
| ‘We couldn’t be more inconsistent’: discordant Democrats imperil Biden’s agenda Posted: 24 Sep 2021 11:00 PM PDT Divisions between progressives and moderates in Congress are threatening to scuttle a $3.5tn social spending program and a $1tn infrastructure bill Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez cannot have been surprised that wearing a "Tax the Rich" dress to New York's Met gala would trigger performative outrage from the right. But it also earned blowback from closer to home. Eric Adams, a Black police veteran who won the party's mayoral primary by appealing to its centre, argued that "when you talk about just blanketly saying 'tax the rich' in this city", it would potentially drive away firefighters, teachers and other taxpayers on whom the city depends. He advocated cutting wasteful spending instead. Continue reading... |
| ‘A bit of a mystery’: why hospital admissions for Covid in England are going down Posted: 24 Sep 2021 04:49 PM PDT Analysis: Experts say it is first time since start of pandemic that sustained decline is recorded out of lockdown In early September, outbreak modelling for the government's Sage advisers showed Covid hospitalisations had the potential to soar. If people rushed back to work and resumed all the socialising they had put on hold, the number of daily admissions in England could peak at 7,000 within six weeks. It was, in effect, a worst-case scenario, barring a dramatic waning of immunity or a troublesome new variant. The optimistic scenario looked very different. Assuming a more gradual return to normality, the modelling had daily Covid hospitalisations rising slowly and slightly, topping out at nearly 2,000, before falling again in November. Now, even that looks overly gloomy. Over the past fortnight, hospitalisations have fallen in England, even as schools and offices reopened. Continue reading... |
| Mismatch of mindsets: why the Taliban won in Afghanistan Posted: 24 Sep 2021 04:45 AM PDT Analysis: the west tried to impose its alien values and it is time to try a new approach, as Joe Biden has indicated Some years ago, in Afghanistan, the anthropologist Scott Atran asked a Taliban fighter what it would take to stop the fighting, because families on both sides were crying. The fighter replied: "Leave our country and the crying will stop." The crying may not have stopped, but the Taliban have taken control of Afghanistan without an air force, heavy arms or expensive training, against US-backed Afghan government forces that outnumbered them four to one. In doing so, they have taken an important step closer to realising their stated goal, which is the creation of an Islamic emirate governed according to their interpretation of sharia law. Continue reading... |
| 'People will pay' for harsh treatment of migrants at Texas border, says Biden – video Posted: 24 Sep 2021 02:03 PM PDT Joe Biden has said there will be repercussions for border patrol agents over their harsh treatment of Haitian migrants at the southern US border between Texas and Mexico, calling it an embarrassment to the nation. Images of agents on horseback corralling migrants in Del Rio as thousands tried to enter the US drew international attention. The president said he bears ultimate responsibility for the situation
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