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- Fumio Kishida set to be new Japanese PM after winning party election
- Canary Islands volcano lava reaches ocean, raising fears of toxic gas
- China’s new aircraft carrier underlines need for the Aukus pact
- Canada grants asylum to four people who hid Edward Snowden in Hong Kong
- Indigenous traditional owners win back Daintree rainforest in historic deal
- US Afghanistan withdrawal a ‘logistical success but strategic failure’, Milley says
- Australia reveals it raised case of Julian Assange with US, amid ‘kidnap plot’ claim
- North Korea says it fired new hypersonic missile into sea
- YouTube deletes RT’s German channels over Covid misinformation
- ‘Heard the final bell’: Manny Pacquiao announces retirement from boxing
- New Zealand kea can use touchscreens but can’t distinguish between real and virtual worlds
- Covid tests and superbugs: why the deep sea is key to fighting pandemics
- Covid live news: vitamin A trial to treat loss of smell; Spain lifts restrictions to allow 100% capacity in outdoor venues
- Covid: 37% of people have symptoms six months after infection
- Covid can infect cells in pancreas that make insulin, research shows
- ‘Living in a cave is no life’: Pakistani villagers trapped by Taliban and poverty
- Dita Von Teese: ‘Even when I was a bondage model, I had big-time boundaries’
- Low pay, long hours, broken dreams: working at Europe’s biggest meat exporter
- No Time to Die review – Daniel Craig dispatches James Bond with panache, rage – and cuddles
- Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen review – a fine start to a family trilogy
- Britney vs Spears review – Netflix doc is schlocky, trashy and deeply uncomfortable
- Wayne Couzens ‘used police ID to kidnap Sarah Everard’
- Libya: credible elections – or another failed bid at nation-building?
- The California region where Covid ‘just isn’t slowing down’
- Campervan fans conquer Covid restrictions in Japan – in pictures
- NSW schools to reopen a week earlier than scheduled
- Gail Omvedt: US sociologist who ‘lived by her principles’ among India’s poor
- ‘Humbled and heartbroken’: WHO finds its Ebola staff abused women and girls
- Blame-shifting over US withdrawal ignores deeper failings in Afghanistan
- Jacinda Ardern needs to speak out on Aukus – her tacit approval allows a dangerous military build-up | Bryce Edwards
| Fumio Kishida set to be new Japanese PM after winning party election Posted: 28 Sep 2021 11:51 PM PDT Former foreign minister to face off against Taro Kono after Yoshihide Suga announced he would step down Fumio Kishida, a former foreign minister with a reputation as a consensus builder, is set to become Japan's prime minister after winning the ruling Liberal Democratic party's presidential election in a runoff against the vaccination minister, Taro Kono. The LDP-led coalition holds a majority in both chambers of parliament, meaning Kishida is practically assured of the prime ministership at an extraordinary parliamentary session on Monday. Continue reading... |
| Canary Islands volcano lava reaches ocean, raising fears of toxic gas Posted: 28 Sep 2021 09:50 PM PDT Residents near the coast warned to stay at home as inhalation of acid plumes can cause skin irritation and breathing difficulties Lava from an erupting volcano in the Canary Islands has reached the ocean, volcanologists said, raising fear of toxic gases being released as the lava hits the sea water. The regional government of the Spanish archipelago had already declared an exclusion zone of two nautical miles around where the lava was expected to enter the Atlantic and asked nearby residents to stay at home. Continue reading... |
| China’s new aircraft carrier underlines need for the Aukus pact Posted: 28 Sep 2021 09:00 PM PDT Analysis: As the world's largest navy tries to push it back in the Pacific, the US requires allies in the region In the dockyards of Shanghai, the next step in China's naval expansion is taking shape: a 315-metre aircraft carrier, whose construction progress was revealed by satellite photography in May this year. China has the world's largest navy and the largest shipbuilding industry, but the Type 003 is the latest step up: a vessel the same size as the latest US Ford class with a matching electromagnetic catapult for launching jets. Continue reading... |
| Canada grants asylum to four people who hid Edward Snowden in Hong Kong Posted: 28 Sep 2021 07:25 PM PDT Charity helping the refugees says they are happy with the result but urges Ottawa to expedite asylum of remaining 'Guardian Angel' Canada granted asylum to four people who hid former NSA contractor Edward Snowden in their tiny Hong Kong apartments when he was on the run after stealing a trove of classified documents. The four – Supun Thilina Kellapatha, Nadeeka Dilrukshi Nonis and their children Sethumdi and Dinath – landed in Toronto on Tuesday and were due to go on to Montreal to "start their new lives", non-profit For the Refugees said in a statement. Continue reading... |
| Indigenous traditional owners win back Daintree rainforest in historic deal Posted: 28 Sep 2021 10:30 AM PDT The world's oldest rainforest will join landmarks like Uluru and Kakadu, where First Nations people are custodians of world heritage sites
The Daintree national park is part of 160,108 hectares (395,467 acres) of land that will be handed back to the traditional owners at a ceremony on Wednesday at Bloomfield, north of Wujal Wujal. Continue reading... |
| US Afghanistan withdrawal a ‘logistical success but strategic failure’, Milley says Posted: 28 Sep 2021 11:44 AM PDT
The withdrawal from Afghanistan and the evacuation of Kabul was "a logistical success but a strategic failure," the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff has told the Senate. Gen Mark Milley gave the stark assessment at an extraordinary hearing of the Senate armed services committee to examine the US departure, which also became a postmortem on the 20-year war that preceded it. Continue reading... |
| Australia reveals it raised case of Julian Assange with US, amid ‘kidnap plot’ claim Posted: 28 Sep 2021 06:33 PM PDT Foreign minister Marise Payne discussed WikiLeaks founder with US counterpart in Washington DC, a spokesperson says Australia's foreign minister, Marise Payne, raised the case of the WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange with the US secretary of state during her visit to Washington DC this month, the government has revealed. But Australian parliamentarians who support Assange say the government should demand his immediate release, after a US news report this week claimed CIA officials during the Trump administration had discussed abducting and even assassinating the Australian citizen. Continue reading... |
| North Korea says it fired new hypersonic missile into sea Posted: 28 Sep 2021 11:02 PM PDT Latest of several launches within a month signals further ramp-up of hostility towards neighbours North Korea has fired what it described as a hypersonic missile towards the sea off its east coast, as Pyongyang repeated a call for Washington and Seoul to scrap their "hostile policy" to restart talks. On Wednesday, North Korea said it was a newly developed hypersonic missile. The official KCNA news agency said the launch was of "great strategic significance", as the North seeks to increase its defence capabilities a "thousand-fold". Continue reading... |
| YouTube deletes RT’s German channels over Covid misinformation Posted: 28 Sep 2021 04:35 PM PDT Russian state-backed broadcaster was found to have breached YouTube's rules on coronavirus coverage YouTube has deleted Russian state-backed broadcaster RT's German-language channels, saying they had breached its Covid misinformation policy. "YouTube has always had clear community guidelines that outline what is allowed on the platform," said a spokesperson. Continue reading... |
| ‘Heard the final bell’: Manny Pacquiao announces retirement from boxing Posted: 28 Sep 2021 10:05 PM PDT
Boxing star Manny Pacquiao, who is planning to run for president of the Philippines in the 2022 elections, said on Wednesday he was retiring from boxing to focus on the biggest fight of his political career. Pacquiao, a Philippines senator who has been dividing his time between politics and fighting, made the announcement in a 14-minute video posted on his official Facebook page. "I just heard the final bell. Boxing is over," said an emotional Pacquiao. "I never thought this day would come as a I hang up my boxing gloves." Continue reading... |
| New Zealand kea can use touchscreens but can’t distinguish between real and virtual worlds Posted: 28 Sep 2021 08:25 PM PDT Study finds the intelligent endangered alpine parrot can be trained to use electronic devices with their tongues
The kea, an endangered New Zealand parrot, is clever enough to use touchscreens but doesn't appear to be able to tell the difference between the real and virtual worlds, according to a new study. Researchers taught six kea at the Willowbank Wildlife Reserve in Christchurch to operate touchscreens. The birds were presented with a series of tasks that were either entirely physical, entirely on-screen or a mixture of both. Continue reading... |
| Covid tests and superbugs: why the deep sea is key to fighting pandemics Posted: 28 Sep 2021 10:30 PM PDT As scientists explore how life in the abyss could generate new medicines, deep-sea mining is threatening to wipe it out More in this series It has been 30 years since the last new class of antibiotic was introduced to the market. All the existing drugs are essentially variations on a theme: they kill bacteria, in similar ways. Some burst cells walls, others block DNA replication. But the bacteria are swiftly evolving to survive those chemical attacks – and as they survive, they become virulent superbugs. Without new antibiotics, by 2050 the death toll from drug-resistant infections is projected to reach 10 million people a year, making the coronavirus pandemic seem almost quaint. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 29 Sep 2021 03:00 AM PDT UK study to test if vitamin A can help those losing sense of smell after Covid; crowds can return at 100% capacity outdoors and 80% indoors in Spain
I'm handing over now to my colleague Clea Skopeliti who will have the Covid news for the rest of the day Here's a summary of this mornings news
A "significant" proportion of people infected with Covid will have symptoms for months afterwards, research suggests. Research out today from Oxford University states that 37% of people had at least one long-Covid symptom diagnosed in the three- to six-month period after Covid-19 infection. The most common symptoms were breathing problems, abdominal symptoms, fatigue, pain and anxiety/depression. Related: Covid: 37% of people have symptoms six months after infection Continue reading... |
| Covid: 37% of people have symptoms six months after infection Posted: 28 Sep 2021 11:03 AM PDT A large study reveals the scale of long Covid, with symptoms affected by sex, age and severity of infection One in three people infected with coronavirus will experience at least one symptom of long Covid, a new study suggests. Much of the existing research into the condition – a mixture of symptoms reported by people often months after they were originally ill with Covid-19 – has been based either on self-reported symptoms or small studies. Continue reading... |
| Covid can infect cells in pancreas that make insulin, research shows Posted: 28 Sep 2021 04:01 PM PDT Results of two studies may explain why some people develop diabetes after catching the virus Covid-19 can infect insulin-producing cells in the pancreas and change their function, potentially explaining why some previously healthy people develop diabetes after catching the virus. Doctors are increasingly concerned about the growing number of patients who have developed diabetes either while infected with coronavirus, or shortly after recovering from it. Continue reading... |
| ‘Living in a cave is no life’: Pakistani villagers trapped by Taliban and poverty Posted: 28 Sep 2021 11:00 PM PDT Seven years after fleeing army clashes with militants, 100 families eking out an existence on a hillside near the Afghan border are unable to return home "Don't talk to me about the government. They don't help." Ninety-year-old Shah Mast is angry. He has been living in the cave he calls home for seven years, ever since an offensive by the Pakistan army against the Islamist militant group Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) destroyed his home. Continue reading... |
| Dita Von Teese: ‘Even when I was a bondage model, I had big-time boundaries’ Posted: 28 Sep 2021 10:00 PM PDT As the star dives into a giant glass of fizz for her first online extravaganza, she talks about this new golden age for burlesque, why the French Strictly gives her costume problems – and how #MeToo has changed her Dita Von Teese is looking divine. Her lips are that signature red, she's wearing 1950s cat eye glasses, and her black hair falls in a thick wave across a Snow White skin – and all this on the unglamorous stage of a glitchy Zoom call. Only knowing Von Teese from her femme fatale image, her teasingly aloof burlesque performances, and her time in the tabloids as former wife of goth rocker Marilyn Manson, you might expect an icy demeanour, an impermeable mystique. So it's surprising to discover quite how normal she is: chatty, self-deprecating, not very vampish. It's easy to see traces of Heather Sweet, the "super shy" girl from small-town Michigan who transformed into Von Teese. |
| Low pay, long hours, broken dreams: working at Europe’s biggest meat exporter Posted: 29 Sep 2021 03:00 AM PDT Temporary staff at meat plants in the Netherlands share none of the success of the booming industry as agencies withhold pay and threaten eviction Read more: 'The whole system is rotten': life inside Europe's meat industry In October last year, Lucian Roșu found himself unemployed and homeless in Boxtel, a town in the southern Netherlands. "I went to the railway station and slept there in the cold and the rain," he says. A few hundred metres away, on the other side of the train tracks, was the headquarters of one of Europe's biggest meat companies, where he had worked a few days before on the production line. Continue reading... |
| No Time to Die review – Daniel Craig dispatches James Bond with panache, rage – and cuddles Posted: 28 Sep 2021 04:01 PM PDT The long-awaited 25th outing for Ian Fleming's superspy is a weird and self-aware epic with audacious surprises up its sleeve The standard bearer of British soft power is back, in a film yanked from cinemas back in the time of the toilet roll shortage, based on a literary character conceived when sugar and meat rationing was still in force, and now emerging in cinemas as Britons are fighting for petrol in the forecourts. Bond, like Norma Desmond, is once again ready for his closeup – and Daniel Craig once again shows us his handsome-Shrek face and the lovable bat ears, flecked with the scars of yesterday's punch-up, the lips as ever pursed in determination or disgust. Continue reading... |
| Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen review – a fine start to a family trilogy Posted: 28 Sep 2021 11:30 PM PDT This simmering 70s-set domestic drama is warm, expansive and funny – a pure pleasure to read The times are a-changing in solid, respectable New Prospect, Illinois, where Christmas 1971 arrives in a whirl of sex, drugs and folk music, while the Vietnam war grinds on off stage. Inside the First Reformed church, the worshippers are attempting to ride out the storm, casting about for something rock solid and true. This might be God or family or a fresh myth to believe in, a 20th-century pursuit-of-happiness tale, self-authored if need be. New Prospect is in a state of flux but Jonathan Franzen remains reliably, defiantly Franzen-esque, tending to his faltering flock in fair weather or foul, and whatever the ructions in the country at large. Crossroads, his splendid sixth novel, comes billed as the first part of a proposed trilogy, A Key to All Mythologies, named after Edward Casaubon's absurd, unfinished tract in Middlemarch. But, in the best possible way, it feels less like a beginning than like the latest yield of a familiar crop, or a newly discovered branch of a big midwestern family. Continue reading... |
| Britney vs Spears review – Netflix doc is schlocky, trashy and deeply uncomfortable Posted: 28 Sep 2021 07:25 AM PDT Certainly not in the pop star's best interests, this disturbing film gives redemption stories to controversial figures from Britney's past. Nothing about this feels right What is in Britney Spears' best interests? It's a question that has been discussed and dissected by those around the pop star for 13 years, often abstractly, or with feigned concern, in the press or in court documents. It has been that way since she was placed in a controversial conservatorship, presided over by her father, Jamie, in 2008. It's a question also posed by film-makers, whose narrative arcs often involve picking at the scabs before reaching for the plasters. In February, the New York Times documentary Framing Britney Spears recast her career through a post-#MeToo lens, via familiar shots of Spears shaving her head and distressing images from 2008 of her in the back of an ambulance prior to being involuntarily committed to a psychiatric ward. A month after it aired, Spears said on Instagram that she was "embarrassed by the light they put me in" and that "she cried for two weeks". In May, Spears called the BBC documentary The Battle for Britney: Fans, Cash and a Conservatorship hypocritical. "I think the world is more interested in the negative !!!!" she said. In this context, Netflix's Britney vs Spears – directed and narrated by fan and film-maker Erin Lee Carr – feels uncomfortable. Conceived two and half years ago as an insight into "[Spears'] artistry and her media portrayal", the film was hastily retooled after Framing Britney Spears and Spears' explosive testimony at a conservatorship hearing in July. Oddly, the documentary chooses not to place Spears' own words – a rarity for so long – at the start of the film. Rather it follows a standard chronological narrative, zipping through the successes of the early years before homing in on troubled times. It pores over Spears' divorce from Kevin Federline in a way that feels tabloid-y, while dramatic instrumental music hums underneath. It often has the feel of a schlocky true crime documentary, with Carr and the journalist Jenny Eliscu shown riffling through papers, or sticking name tags on pictures showing the main protagonists. Any time Jamie Spears is mentioned we get a slow zooming shot of his face. Continue reading... |
| Wayne Couzens ‘used police ID to kidnap Sarah Everard’ Posted: 29 Sep 2021 03:00 AM PDT Sentencing hearing told serving Met officer used warrant card and Covid training to deceive 33-year-old Wayne Couzens used police equipment, including his warrant card and training about Covid rules, to deceive Sarah Everard into getting into a car with him before he raped and murdered her, a court has heard. Opening a two-day sentencing hearing, Tom Little QC said Everard, a 33-year-old marketing executive, was seized from a south London street in March 2021, with Couzens driving her to Kent where he killed her. Continue reading... |
| Libya: credible elections – or another failed bid at nation-building? Posted: 28 Sep 2021 10:00 PM PDT Parliamentary and presidential votes were due at the end of the year, but there are fears the interim government hopes to stay in power Libya's hopes of ending a decade of political chaos with credible elections at the end of this year for a president and new unified parliament have reached a defining moment, with the US insisting the vote should go ahead but some European diplomats fearing divisions are too entrenched for the result ever to be accepted as legitimate. The elections are due to take place on 24 December, but no agreement has been reached within the country on laws governing the election. There are also signs that the populist interim government, theoretically appointed by the UN to manage services ahead of the elections, might seek to capitalise on the impasse to stay in power indefinitely. Thousands of foreign troops, mainly funded by Turkey and Russia, are still in place. Continue reading... |
| The California region where Covid ‘just isn’t slowing down’ Posted: 29 Sep 2021 03:00 AM PDT The state has the country's lowest case rate. But in the vaccine-resistant Central Valley and rural north, healthcare workers are pushed to the limit California has the lowest coronavirus case rate in the country. But within the state, the agricultural Central Valley and rural north remain overwhelmed. Resistance to vaccines and public health mandates, combined with the advance of the Delta variant, have triggered an explosion of cases that are pushing already strained public health systems to the brink. In some counties, the case rate per 100,000 people is three or more times that of the state. Continue reading... |
| Campervan fans conquer Covid restrictions in Japan – in pictures Posted: 29 Sep 2021 12:00 AM PDT With travel restrictions in place, campervans provide a way of travelling with the family and are currently very popular in Hidaka of Saitama prefecture, a suburb to the west of Tokyo Continue reading... |
| NSW schools to reopen a week earlier than scheduled Posted: 29 Sep 2021 02:30 AM PDT Kindergarten, year 1 and year 12 students will return on 18 October, the government is expected to announce on Thursday School students in NSW will head back to class earlier than expected with the government bringing forward start dates by one week. The new timetable, agreed to by the state's crisis cabinet on Wednesday, means kindergarten, year 1 and year 12 students will return on 18 October. Continue reading... |
| Gail Omvedt: US sociologist who ‘lived by her principles’ among India’s poor Posted: 29 Sep 2021 12:30 AM PDT The respected academic, who has died aged 80, was a leading anti-caste campaigner and fought tirelessly for women's rights At the village of Kasegaon, in India's rural western region of Maharashtra, huge crowds turned up for the funeral in August of a US-born, white sociologist whom many local people saw as one of their own. Most of the mourners were Dalits, who belong to the lowest caste in Indian society, previously deemed "untouchables". Continue reading... |
| ‘Humbled and heartbroken’: WHO finds its Ebola staff abused women and girls Posted: 28 Sep 2021 08:35 AM PDT Inquiry commissioned by WHO details sexual abuse, including rape allegations, during DRC outbreak The World Health Organization has described itself as "heartbroken" after an independent inquiry it commissioned said scores of women and girls were sexually abused by aid workers during the devastating 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The findings were described as "harrowing reading" by the WHO's director general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, while its regional director for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti, said she was "humbled, horrified and heartbroken". Continue reading... |
| Blame-shifting over US withdrawal ignores deeper failings in Afghanistan Posted: 28 Sep 2021 03:52 PM PDT Analysis: Senators' questions to military leadership a contest in sharing out responsibility for failures The deeply partisan US Congress is rarely a conducive place for national introspection and Tuesday's Senate hearing on the Afghanistan withdrawal did not provide an exception. In the midst of the point-scoring and blame-shifting on display in the senators' questions to the nation's military leadership, it was clear that it was a contest to apportion shares in failure. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 28 Sep 2021 01:00 PM PDT New Zealand's prime minister has essentially turned a blind eye to the pact – she knows taking the moral high ground leads to punishment New Zealand defence hawks reacted to the announcement of the anglophone security pact Aukus this month by complaining this country had been sidelined. In order to stay close to traditional allies, the hawks suggest New Zealand needs to either increase defence spending to compensate, or overturn New Zealand's long-held ban on nuclear-powered vessels. On the opposing side, there have been plenty of doves celebrating that New Zealand isn't involved in Aukus. For example, editorials from the three biggest newspapers all took this stance, which probably reflects the general view of most New Zealanders. Continue reading... |
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