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- New Zealand stabbings: police made repeated attempts to curb ‘highly paranoid’ man
- Joe Biden tells FBI to release files on 9/11 investigation – and possible Saudi links
- Evidence contradicts Taliban’s claim to respect women’s rights
- Tearful Naomi Osaka questions future after US Open loss to Leylah Fernandez
- New York floods: calls for action after 11 die in basement apartments
- Iranian fuel tanker heading for Syria poses test for US sanctions
- Second Afghan evacuee boy dies in Poland after eating toxic mushrooms
- PM’s ex-aide blames Whitehall staff for Covid ‘mixed messages’
- Republicans in six states rush to mimic Texas anti-abortion law
- US Capitol rioter photographed wearing horns pleads guilty
- Coronavirus live news: UK continues debate over jabs for children; Australia records highest daily cases
- Vaccines on horseback: Fiji doctors take long and muddy road to protect remote villages from Covid
- Stress test: how ‘burnout breaks’ are helping staff recover from pandemic
- Italy could soon make Covid-19 vaccines mandatory, says PM
- Angelina Jolie: ‘I just want my family to heal’
- Life, death and gabagool: how The Sopranos explains everything
- Amyl and the Sniffers’ Amy Taylor: ‘I wanna punch stuff and yell ... but not all the time’
- Legends of the fall: the 50 biggest books of autumn 2021
- Blind date: ‘We disagreed about whether aliens existed’
- Venice film festival 2021 week one roundup – serious firepower
- Hilary Mantel: I am ashamed to live in nation that elected this government
- ‘People try to stop us speaking up’: Angelina Jolie’s lessons from young activists
- Bruised Biden tries to turn the page after US debacle in Afghanistan
- Cuba review: American history of island neighbor is telling and timely
- Where’s Edelyn? The search for the Filipina maid who vanished in Saudi Arabia
- Grim day with record numbers in NSW and ACT and rising Victorian cases – as it happened
- ‘My homeland, my only love’: fleeing Afghans embrace 1998 song
- ‘Monsters at the door’: migrant workers trapped in UN Afghan compound
- Covid jabs for UK children: a very tight decision that could be overruled
- Fijian doctors trek up and down mountains to reach remote village with Covid vaccines – video
- 'You've never faced these choices': Jen Psaki tells reporter on anti-abortion question – video
- NZ shooting: PM Ardern stresses individual not a faith behind 'despicable' attack – video
| New Zealand stabbings: police made repeated attempts to curb ‘highly paranoid’ man Posted: 03 Sep 2021 09:00 PM PDT As number of victims updated from six to seven, police say 'every legal avenue' was explored to try to contain threat of attack Seven people were injured in the Islamic State-inspired terror attack in New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern has said, updating initial reports that only six people had been hurt. Speaking at a media conference in Wellington on Saturday, New Zealand's prime minister said that of the seven injured, five were in hospital, and three of them were in a critical condition. Continue reading... |
| Joe Biden tells FBI to release files on 9/11 investigation – and possible Saudi links Posted: 03 Sep 2021 02:23 PM PDT • Order responds to call by victims' families suing Riyadh • Full record to be released over six months after review Joe Biden has announced the wholesale review and declassification of files from the investigation into the 9/11 attack, in response to intense pressure from Congress and victims' families currently suing Saudi Arabia. Related: 'A horn blew when human remains were found': Wim Wenders' six hours in the hell of Ground Zero Continue reading... |
| Evidence contradicts Taliban’s claim to respect women’s rights Posted: 03 Sep 2021 09:00 AM PDT There are signs of a return to something worryingly close to the hardline restrictions of the past across Afghan life When Taliban fighters moved into Herat city in western Afghanistan last month, one thing mattered more to some of them than the battle itself. As gunmen faced off around the governor's office, a group of militants came to Shogofa's* workplace and ordered all the women home. "They hadn't even taken all the city, but they came to our headquarters. The manager called an emergency meeting and they told all the women to leave," she said. Continue reading... |
| Tearful Naomi Osaka questions future after US Open loss to Leylah Fernandez Posted: 03 Sep 2021 10:40 PM PDT
Naomi Osaka's defense of her US Open championship is in tatters and her immediate future on the women's professional tennis tour in doubt after a shocking third-round defeat to the unseeded Leylah Annie Fernandez, a Canadian teenager ranked 74th in the world. The third-seeded Osaka, a four-time major champion and the best hard-court player in the world by some distance, lost her composure while serving for the match, came apart during the ensuing tiebreaker and couldn't right the ship in the third during a 5-7, 6-7 (2), 6-4 loss in 2hr 4min on Friday night. Continue reading... |
| New York floods: calls for action after 11 die in basement apartments Posted: 03 Sep 2021 11:00 PM PDT Tens of thousands of New Yorkers, many immigrants or people of color, live in basements vulnerable to extreme weather Most people killed in New York City in a record-breaking storm this week lived in basement apartments. Walls of water crashed into their homes, trapping them inside and blocking efforts to help. Related: 'People did extraordinary things': Ida rescuers lauded for heroic efforts Continue reading... |
| Iranian fuel tanker heading for Syria poses test for US sanctions Posted: 03 Sep 2021 08:53 AM PDT Contents will be trucked to Lebanon to ease energy crisis, a plan that could challenge US resolve towards two foes An Iranian tanker carrying fuel bound for Lebanon was at anchor in the Red Sea on Friday ahead of the final leg of a voyage to Syria, which is set to pose the biggest test yet to US sanctions imposed on two arch regional foes. The tanker is expected in the Syrian port of Baniyas early next week, in defiance of US sanctions that prevent oil exports from Iran and imports to Syria, which have both been subject to stringent US-imposed restrictions on trade. The imminent arrival is being hailed by the Lebanese militant group turned political bloc, Hezbollah, as a sanctions-busting solution for an energy crisis that has brought Lebanon to a standstill and led to widespread blackouts. Continue reading... |
| Second Afghan evacuee boy dies in Poland after eating toxic mushrooms Posted: 03 Sep 2021 06:46 PM PDT Six-year-old pronounced dead a day after his younger brother also died after eating soup made from death cap mushrooms A second child of an Afghan family evacuated from Kabul to Poland has died after eating soup containing death cap mushrooms, which the family had unknowingly gathered in a forest outside their quarantine centre. The six-year-old boy received an emergency liver transplant but doctors were unable to save him. His five-year-old brother died on Thursday at Poland's main children's hospital in Warsaw, where both were treated. Continue reading... |
| PM’s ex-aide blames Whitehall staff for Covid ‘mixed messages’ Posted: 03 Sep 2021 04:01 PM PDT Lee Cain says pandemic exposed a communications system ill equipped for the 21st century Boris Johnson's former director of communications has blamed a lack of expertise in Whitehall for the government's struggle to get its message across in the early days of the Covid crisis. Lee Cain was a key adviser to Johnson, who boasted about shaking hands on a hospital visit, claimed the government could "turn the tide" within 12 weeks, and said it would be "inhuman" to cancel Christmas, days before ordering millions of people to spend the festive season at home. Continue reading... |
| Republicans in six states rush to mimic Texas anti-abortion law Posted: 03 Sep 2021 10:14 AM PDT North Dakota, South Dakota, Mississippi, Indiana, Arkansas and Florida eye similar measures to new Texas ban after six weeks Republican leaders in as many as six US states are rushing to follow the lead of Texas in adopting an extreme abortion ban that critics, including Joe Biden, have slammed as unconstitutional and built to encourage vigilantism among the public. Abortion rights advocates are bracing to resist a flurry of initiatives from Florida to North Dakota in the wake of the new Texas law, the most extreme in the US, which the conservative majority on the supreme court refused to block. Continue reading... |
| US Capitol rioter photographed wearing horns pleads guilty Posted: 03 Sep 2021 11:14 AM PDT Jacob Chansley, of Phoenix, Arizona, pleaded guilty to obstructing an official proceeding when he took part in insurrection The man who was photographed inside the US Capitol during the 6 January insurrection shirtless, wearing a horned headdress and furs, and heavily tattooed, pleaded guilty on Friday to obstructing an official proceeding when he took part in the assault by extremist supporters of then president Donald Trump. Related: Capitol riot inquiry to investigate whether Trump's White House was involved in attack Continue reading... |
| Posted: 04 Sep 2021 02:13 AM PDT Sage expert responds to UK watchdog's decision not to recommend vaccine for 12- to 15-year-olds; 1,756 infections in Australia on Saturday
The Formula 1 racing car driver Kimi Raikkonen will miss this weekend's Dutch grand prix after testing positive for Covid-19, the race organisers and his Alfa Romeo team have announced. Following the latest round of testing conducted in advance of the #DutchGP, driver Kimi Räikkönen has tested positive for COVID-19.
Ministers are considering extending plans to impose "vaccine passports" in England on to football matches, music concerts and business conferences, despite mounting opposition in the Conservative party, a report claims. The government has already in July outlined plans for such passports as a condition of entry to nightclubs. But according to a report in the Daily Mail, the requirement is now set to be extended to a range of other mass events. Everyone understands the concerns around freedoms but we may be in a situation this winter where the alternative is more closures and economic damage to sectors that have suffered hugely already Continue reading... |
| Vaccines on horseback: Fiji doctors take long and muddy road to protect remote villages from Covid Posted: 03 Sep 2021 01:00 PM PDT A team of medics hiked in the mountains for hours to take supplies to the small village of Nakida To reach Nakida village in the highlands of Fiji, Dr Losalini Tabakei and her colleagues hiked for hours, up and down mountains, through forests, down muddy slopes, across rivers and along treacherous ridges with steep slopes of bamboo forest on either side. Their supplies – clothing, medical equipment and, crucially, the Covid-19 vaccines they were bringing to administer to the remote community of just 60 people – were sent separately on horseback; the vaccines in refrigerated boxes, the rest in bags wrapped in plastic. The horses took the longer but flatter route to the town along the river. Continue reading... |
| Stress test: how ‘burnout breaks’ are helping staff recover from pandemic Posted: 03 Sep 2021 05:05 AM PDT Businesses are becoming increasingly aware that exhaustion is a ticking timebomb This week, staff at Nike's headquarters in Oregon breathed a prolonged sigh of relief, after learning that they were getting a week off to de-stress and recover from the pressures of the Covid-19 pandemic. In an open message to staff posted on LinkedIn, Nike's senior manager of global marketing science, Matt Marrazzo, told staff: "In a year (or two) unlike any other, taking time for rest and recovery is key to performing well and staying sane." Continue reading... |
| Italy could soon make Covid-19 vaccines mandatory, says PM Posted: 03 Sep 2021 09:06 AM PDT Mario Draghi's announcement sparks row in country where protests and violence from anti-vaxxers are on the rise Italy's prime minister has announced his government could make Covid-19 vaccines mandatory, sparking a row in the country that has seen a recent rise in protests and violence from anti-vaxxers. During a press conference on Thursday, Mario Draghi said all Italians of eligible age could soon be obliged to get a shot, as soon as the European Medicines Agency (EMA) gives its conditional approval for four vaccines. Continue reading... |
| Angelina Jolie: ‘I just want my family to heal’ Posted: 04 Sep 2021 01:00 AM PDT The actor opens up about why her divorce from Brad Pitt is a human rights issue, escaping Harvey Weinstein and what young activists have taught her • 'People try to stop us speaking up' – Jolie meets inspirational young campaigners Angelina Jolie sits at a desk, back straight as a rule and rather regal. Her features are cartoonishly beautiful – straight black hair, vertiginous cheekbones, huge blue eyes and lips like a plumped red sofa. She is talking on Zoom to four young activists. It is a horribly apt day to be discussing human rights – the Taliban has just captured Ghazni city on its approach to Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. If this were a movie, you might suspect Jolie was playing a divine leader addressing the fortunate few. Yet it soon becomes apparent that things aren't quite as they seem. The actor and film director is the one in awe, not the activists. The young people talk about the work they have done raising awareness of the carnage in Syria, the environmental crisis, trans rights and food poverty. Jolie hangs on their every word. She tells them they have inspired her children who follow their work, warns them against burnout, apologises for the failings of her generation and says how honoured she is to meet them. Continue reading... |
| Life, death and gabagool: how The Sopranos explains everything Posted: 04 Sep 2021 12:00 AM PDT Ahead of the release of prequel The Many Saints of Newark, a look at how David Chase's classic mob drama saw the world in a grain of parmigiano In 1999, a 40-year old Italian-American man started a course of therapy and created a new template for prestige television. The Sopranos, David Chase's smash-hit TV series, was about the nasty inner workings of the DiMeo crime family. It was also about a mafioso's midlife crisis, his children and his marriage, his debilitating anxiety and lurid nightmares. Related: The Guide: Staying In – sign up for our home entertainment tips Continue reading... |
| Amyl and the Sniffers’ Amy Taylor: ‘I wanna punch stuff and yell ... but not all the time’ Posted: 04 Sep 2021 02:00 AM PDT Having blazed a trail with raucous gigs, the Melbourne punk band's singer deepens her oft-caricatured image on their new album There is a moment at the end of Amyl and the Sniffers' music video for Guided by Angels that sees frontwoman Amy Taylor quiet and alone, for once. After ripping down freeways and tunnels in the back of a Mitsubishi Lancer, her tiny body hanging halfway out of the back window, diving into the sea and dancing between the stationary Sniffers – drummer Bryce Wilson, guitarist Dec Martens and bassist Gus Romer – Taylor walks down a dark footpath, sits in the car's front seat, laughs briefly and is suddenly still. Related: The Guide: Staying In – sign up for our home entertainment tips Continue reading... |
| Legends of the fall: the 50 biggest books of autumn 2021 Posted: 04 Sep 2021 12:00 AM PDT From new novels by Sally Rooney and Colson Whitehead to Michel Barnier's take on Brexit, Bernardine Evaristo's manifesto and diaries from David Sedaris – all the releases to look out for Continue reading... |
| Blind date: ‘We disagreed about whether aliens existed’ Posted: 03 Sep 2021 10:00 PM PDT Cam, 26, consultant, meets Ash, 29, police analyst What were you hoping for? |
| Venice film festival 2021 week one roundup – serious firepower Posted: 04 Sep 2021 12:00 AM PDT With big-hitters from returning heroes Jane Campion, Pedro Almodóvar and Paolo Sorrentino, plus an electrifying return from maverick Paul Schrader, it's a heck of a starting bill at the Lido This time last year, the film world raised a collective glass of prosecco to Venice. It was the first film festival to happen during that brief, sweet interlude between European lockdowns, and the organisation pulled off the Covid protocols magnificently – spaced seating, strict mask wearing, online ticketing. All that is still in place, and the gardens of the Casino compound remain a leafy oasis of calm. But this year things aren't quite so simple. For a start there are many more people attending, and the booking system has been unpredictable. Tickets for each screening become available exactly 74 hours in advance, some selling out within minutes, which means people are waking to book tickets at 6.30am, then spending the day anxiously trying to think ahead in three-day cycles. Add to this frustratingly long queues to get into the Casino area via temperature checks and bag checks, and only two days in – at time of writing – nerves are beginning to fray. Continue reading... |
| Hilary Mantel: I am ashamed to live in nation that elected this government Posted: 03 Sep 2021 10:00 PM PDT Double Booker prize winner tells La Repubblica she may take Irish citizenship to feel European again Hilary Mantel has said she feels "ashamed" by the UK government's treatment of migrants and asylum seekers and is intending to become an Irish citizen to "become a European again". In a wide-ranging interview with La Repubblica, the twice Booker prize-winning novelist also gave her view on the monarchy, told how endometriosis has "devastated my life", and how Boris Johnson "should not be in public life". She also addresses the criticism of JK Rowling and her stance on transgender rights. Continue reading... |
| ‘People try to stop us speaking up’: Angelina Jolie’s lessons from young activists Posted: 04 Sep 2021 01:00 AM PDT The actor's latest project is a book to teach teenagers their rights. Here, she sits down with four young people to hear what they're fighting for • Read an interview with Jolie here Angelina Jolie How do you feel the older generation are handling things? Christina Adane, 17, a British anti-poverty campaigner, originally from Ethiopia If you'd asked me a year ago, I'd have said they had failed us and left us with a bunch of problems. I still feel that way at times, but I think cross-generational communication is crucial when fighting issues like racial and climate justice. It's easy to fall into the mentality of us v them, youth v old people in power. But loads of older people want to help us. So it's about connecting with decision-makers and ensuring they are listening, so they can represent us where we are not represented – in government, at meetings at the top of companies. We need to work with the older generation. Continue reading... |
| Bruised Biden tries to turn the page after US debacle in Afghanistan Posted: 03 Sep 2021 11:00 PM PDT After a hellish month, the president wants to focus on domestic matters – but Republicans won't let Afghanistan drop from the radar Once again Joe Biden found himself talking about nation-building, the fragility of democracy and the threat that religious extremists pose to women's rights. But the president's interventions on Thursday were focused on America, not Afghanistan, as domestic events gave him an unexpected assist in his effort to turn the page on the ignominious retreat from Kabul. Continue reading... |
| Cuba review: American history of island neighbor is telling and timely Posted: 03 Sep 2021 11:00 PM PDT As Ada Ferrer writes, 'Cuba – its sugar, its slavery, its slave trade – is part of the history of American capitalism' In July, the eruption of unexpected protests in Cuba, sparked by food shortages and growing frustration with the government, unsurprisingly met with a corresponding flood of commentary from its opinionated neighbour. Related: Forget the Alamo review: dark truths of the US south and its 'secular Mecca' Continue reading... |
| Where’s Edelyn? The search for the Filipina maid who vanished in Saudi Arabia Posted: 03 Sep 2021 11:00 PM PDT Mired in debt, the mother of three left to work as part of the Gulf's kafala labour system. She was last heard from in 2015 and her family want answers Edelyn Eborda Astudillo wanted a better life for her three children. The 36-year-old from Mariveles in the Philippines, and her husband, Crisanto, had been unemployed for six years and things were getting desperate. So, in early 2015, Edelyn made the decision to travel to the Middle East to get a job as a domestic worker. After applying to a Philippine recruitment agency, Manumoti Manpower, Edelyn was soon on a flight abroad. She was placed in a house to work for a couple in Taif, in the west of Saudi Arabia. Continue reading... |
| Grim day with record numbers in NSW and ACT and rising Victorian cases – as it happened Posted: 04 Sep 2021 01:09 AM PDT Moderna vaccine gets green light for over-12s; more than 1,000 families asked to isolate after Queensland girl tests positive. This blog is now closed
Before we wrap up the live blog, let's recap the main events of today. It's been another grim day. The NSW and ACT reported record case numbers. Victoria has warned of a NSW-style growth in its numbers.
Civil liberties groups have criticised a lack of safeguards and primary legislation accompanying an app being trialled in South Australia that uses facial recognition and geolocation data to enforce home quarantine. SA is trialling the app, which the government developed, on a small number of volunteers who have returned from interstate. It requires them to answer a message within 15 minutes, using facial recognition and geolocation to verify their identity and location. If they fail to do so, the app alerts police. It's the usual thing, it's done in a very half-baked way, and without all the necessary provisions about what you actually do with the information you're collecting. Continue reading... |
| ‘My homeland, my only love’: fleeing Afghans embrace 1998 song Posted: 03 Sep 2021 08:10 AM PDT Lyrics to My Homeland strike powerful chord with new generation of refugees from war-torn country As yet another generation of Afghans fled their homeland over the past fortnight, one song has resonated as a poignant anthem for the exodus. My Homeland – Sarzamin i Man in Farsi – was written in 1998 by the singer Dawood Sarkhosh, who himself had to leave Afghanistan in the civil war that erupted following the Soviet withdrawal. Continue reading... |
| ‘Monsters at the door’: migrant workers trapped in UN Afghan compound Posted: 03 Sep 2021 05:08 AM PDT Security contractors among hundreds from the Philippines, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka stuck without clear plans for evacuation When Taliban fighters started to kick at the door of a UN compound in a northern province 250 miles (400km) from the Afghan capital, Kabul, Rajesh* was certain he was going to be killed. The Taliban had taken control of the area on that day. Rajesh, a UN security contractor from India, hurried with his colleagues into an emergency steel-doored room. Before they sealed themselves in, they saw a group of seven or eight heavily armed men. Continue reading... |
| Covid jabs for UK children: a very tight decision that could be overruled Posted: 03 Sep 2021 11:11 AM PDT Analysis: The JCVI would not back vaccination of all 12 to 15-year-olds, but the impact on schools will now have to be considered It was, the scientists said, a very finely balanced decision. On the one hand, Covid vaccines undoubtedly help to reduce infection and illness. On the other, Covid vaccines – like every other vaccine in medical history – are not without their risks. In children aged 12 to 15, the threat of serious Covid is tiny, but so is the risk of serious side-effects from the vaccine. After much deliberation, the government's independent vaccine advisers concluded that, on the strength of evidence so far, there was a marginal benefit to vaccinating healthy children aged 12 to 15 years old. But that benefit was deemed so very marginal the advisers would not give the green light to mass vaccination of healthy children in the age group. Continue reading... |
| Fijian doctors trek up and down mountains to reach remote village with Covid vaccines – video Posted: 03 Sep 2021 01:00 PM PDT The medical team hiked for five hours in 'horrendous' terrain to reach village and deliver just 25 vaccines to small community, as Fiji battles devastating outbreak of Covid-19, with more than 5% of the country's population having tested positive for the virus. Continue reading... |
| 'You've never faced these choices': Jen Psaki tells reporter on anti-abortion question – video Posted: 03 Sep 2021 05:24 AM PDT The White House press secretary, Jen Psaki, made an earnest retort to a journalist questioning Joe Biden's support for abortion. The US president condemned the supreme court decision not to consider a Texas law that in effect bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. 'It's a woman's body and it's her choice. I know you've never faced those choices, nor have you ever been pregnant,' said Psaki adding that the president believed a woman's choices should be respected Continue reading... |
| NZ shooting: PM Ardern stresses individual not a faith behind 'despicable' attack – video Posted: 03 Sep 2021 12:09 AM PDT New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern says a man who allegedly attacked six people in an Auckland supermarket on Friday was a 'violent extremist' who was being monitored by police. In a press conference following the attack, she said police shot him dead within 60 seconds of the attack starting. Three people were in a critical condition. Ardern said: 'What happened today was despicable. It was hateful, it was wrong, it was carried out by an individual, not a faith, not a culture, not an ethnicity, but an individual person who was gripped by ideology that is not supported here by anyone or any community. He alone carries the responsibility for these acts' Continue reading... |
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