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- US-led meeting to set out framework for Taliban cooperation
- Hong Kong: police arrest senior members of group that organised Tiananmen vigils
- ‘Like Game of Thrones’: how triple crisis on China’s borders will shape its global identity
- Britney Spears’ father files to shut down conservatorship that controls his daughter’s life
- Mexico hit by powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake, killing at least one
- New Zealand to rethink plan to reopen borders amid Delta outbreak
- Texas abortion ‘whistleblower’ website forced offline
- Fire at prison in Indonesia kills at least 40 people
- Jewellery worth €10m stolen in heist at Bulgari store in Paris
- ‘I don’t care’: text shows modern poetry began much earlier than believed
- ‘Hunger was something we read about’: lockdown leaves Vietnam’s poor without food
- Coronavirus live: UK health secretary ‘not considering’ October firebreak; New Zealand rethinks opening borders
- Covid vaccine boosters could get go-ahead within days, says Javid
- Melbourne clinic offers ivermectin despite it not being approved as a Covid treatment
- ‘I was sliding towards the drop and couldn’t stop’ – the writer who fell from a mountain
- A moment that changed me: my teacher said my work was trite rubbish – and totally destroyed me
- Kareena Kapoor Khan on breaking pregnancy taboos: ‘No one wants to talk about belching and swollen feet!’
- ‘They came for my daughter’: Afghan single mothers face losing children under Taliban
- Parental burnout: how juggling kids and work in a global pandemic brought us to the brink
- ‘I’d rather be alone’: the influencers pushing for ‘relationship minimalism’
- Footage of Grenfell Tower meetings before fire to be shown for first time
- Israel prison break: escape allegedly took place while guard slept
- Egypt accused of widespread state-sanctioned killings of dissidents
- Taliban name all-male Afghan cabinet | First Thing
- Yakuza Princess review – stylish gangster tale makes its kills count
- NSW says western Sydney to stay in harsher lockdown; Victoria to bring back ‘ring of steel’ as 221 cases recorded; Hunt dismisses ALP’s Pfizer claimes
- ‘Deeply rooted tradition’: one man’s long fight to end illegal dowries in India
- Cop26 will be ‘rich nations stitch-up’ if poorer countries kept away by Covid
- Afghanistan services collapsing and aid about to run out, says UN
- US airstrikes killed at least 22,000 civilians since 9/11, analysis finds
- Biden vowed to make racial justice the heart of his agenda – is it still beating?
- The US strategy to counter China in the Pacific could be a $1bn misstep | Gerard Finin and Terence Wesley-Smith
- Thousands turn out for pro and anti-Bolsonaro protests on Brazilian Independence Day – video
- 'This is code red': Biden sounds alarm on climate crisis as he tours New York damage – video
- Giant panda at Madrid’s Zoo Aquarium gives birth to twins – video
| US-led meeting to set out framework for Taliban cooperation Posted: 08 Sep 2021 12:33 AM PDT Talks involving up to 20 nations come as militants ignore calls to form inclusive government in Afghanistan The US is convening an expanded group of western nations to set a framework for cooperation with the new Taliban government, amid fears that isolating the militant group could backfire. The meeting on Wednesday, chaired by the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, and the German foreign minister, Heiko Maas, faces an all-male, Pashtun-dominated caretaker government that has ignored calls to form an inclusive administration. Continue reading... |
| Hong Kong: police arrest senior members of group that organised Tiananmen vigils Posted: 07 Sep 2021 07:11 PM PDT Chow Hang-tung, a barrister and organiser of the Hong Kong Alliance, wrote on Twitter 'Any farewell words for me?' before she was detained Hong Kong police have arrested senior members of the group that organised the city's annual Tiananmen Square massacre vigil, after it was accused of foreign collusion. The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China said police arrived at the offices or residents of several members early on Wednesday morning. The arrests come amid increasing crackdown on political, professional and civil society groups, which the government has accused of unpatriotic conduct or national security offences. Continue reading... |
| ‘Like Game of Thrones’: how triple crisis on China’s borders will shape its global identity Posted: 07 Sep 2021 05:04 PM PDT Analysis: China's handling of troubles in Afghanistan, Myanmar and North Korea will differ to the west, and mould its identity as a global power First it was North Korea. Then came Myanmar. Now it is Afghanistan. The three ongoing crises in China's neighbourhood seem to have little in common. But for Beijing they pose the same question: how to deal with strategically important yet failing states on its border, and how will China's response define its identity as a global power. For many years China watchers in the west have been looking for clues to how a rising power will exercise its influence on the world stage through its involvement in Africa or its relations with the US. But the way China approaches the three neighbouring countries may provide a clearer picture. Continue reading... |
| Britney Spears’ father files to shut down conservatorship that controls his daughter’s life Posted: 07 Sep 2021 05:50 PM PDT Jamie Spears, conservator of the pop singer's estate since 2008, says 'recent events' called the arrangement into question Britney Spears' father has filed an unexpected request to terminate the controversial conservatorship that has controlled the singer's life for 13 years. In a stunning move, Jamie Spears, who is the conservator of his daughter's estate, said "recent events" called into question whether she still needed a court to oversee her personal affairs and finances. Continue reading... |
| Mexico hit by powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake, killing at least one Posted: 07 Sep 2021 10:19 PM PDT A man was killed and buildings were damaged in the resort city of Acapulco, and the quake was also felt in Mexico City A powerful earthquake has struck south-west Mexico near the beach resort of Acapulco, killing at least one man who was crushed by a falling post, and causing rock falls and damaging buildings. The US Geological Survey (USGS) said a 7.0 magnitude quake struck 11 miles (18km) north-east of the resort of Acapulco, Guerrero, in the early hours of Wednesday sending people running into the street for safety. Continue reading... |
| New Zealand to rethink plan to reopen borders amid Delta outbreak Posted: 07 Sep 2021 08:40 PM PDT Despite a fifth day of falling cases, planned reopening early next year will be changed to grade countries by vaccination and case numbers See all our coronavirus coverage New Zealand's plans to reopen its borders to the world early next year will have to undergo a complete reworking, the government has warned, as the country races to stamp out an outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant. The nation recorded 15 new cases of coronavirus in the community on Wednesday, bringing the total number in the outbreak to 855. Continue reading... |
| Texas abortion ‘whistleblower’ website forced offline Posted: 07 Sep 2021 04:47 PM PDT Site was removed from GoDaddy before being censored by new host Epik, known for providing services to far-right groups Troubles are mounting for a Texas website used to report violators of the state's extreme anti-abortion legislation after the site was forced offline by two different web hosting platforms. The site ProLifeWhistleblower.com was removed from its original web host by the provider GoDaddy on Friday before being suspended by its new host, an agency known for providing services to far-right groups. Continue reading... |
| Fire at prison in Indonesia kills at least 40 people Posted: 07 Sep 2021 07:34 PM PDT Kompas TV showed footage of firefighters trying to put out huge flames from the top of a building in Banten province in western Java A fire at a jail in Indonesia has killed 40 people, authorities have said. The fire in the prison in Banten province broke out at some time between 1am and 2am on Wednesday morning, a spokesperson for the prison department of the law and human rights ministry said. Continue reading... |
| Jewellery worth €10m stolen in heist at Bulgari store in Paris Posted: 07 Sep 2021 12:36 PM PDT Two armed robbers are in custody after a police chase, with a hunt under way for remaining suspects A group of thieves have struck the Bulgari store on the Place Vendôme in Paris, making off with about €10m (£8.6m) in jewellery. They then led police on a high-speed chase during which two of the suspects were captured, sources have told AFP. Three individuals, wearing sharp suits and armed with guns, robbed the recently revamped boutique on the Place Vendôme in central Paris, where the Ritz hotel is located, shortly before midday on Tuesday, police said. Continue reading... |
| ‘I don’t care’: text shows modern poetry began much earlier than believed Posted: 08 Sep 2021 02:00 AM PDT Academic finds that lines widely reproduced in the eastern Roman empire are 'stressed' in a way that laid the foundations for what we recognise as poetry For Taylor Swift, the "haters gonna hate", but she'll just "shake it off". Now research by a Cambridge academic into a little-known ancient Greek text bearing much the same sentiment – "They say / What they like / Let them say it / I don't care" – is set to cast a new light on the history of poetry and song. The anonymous text, which concludes with the lines "Go on, love me / It does you good", was popular across the eastern Roman empire in the second century, and has been found inscribed on 20 gemstones and as a graffito in Cartagena, Spain. Continue reading... |
| ‘Hunger was something we read about’: lockdown leaves Vietnam’s poor without food Posted: 08 Sep 2021 12:00 AM PDT Vietnam was a Covid success story but the latest lockdown, with people unable to leave the house even for food, is leaving tens of thousands hungry When the strictest lockdown to date was imposed in Ho Chi Minh City, Tran Thi Hao*, a factory worker, was told that the government would keep her and her family well fed – but for two months they have eaten little more than rice and fish sauce. She was put on unpaid leave from her job in July, while her husband, a construction worker, has not worked for months. They are behind on their rent, with another payment due soon. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 08 Sep 2021 03:05 AM PDT Sajid Javid says he 'hasn't even thought about' snap lockdown if cases rise; New Zealand battles new Delta outbreak
A very quick snap from Reuters on Germany here. Lothar Wieler, the head of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious disease, has said that the country could see a "massive momentum" in new Covid cases in autumn if the vaccination rate does not increase. He told a press conference "It is still in our hands", adding it was very important to intensify the vaccination campaign. Continue reading... |
| Covid vaccine boosters could get go-ahead within days, says Javid Posted: 08 Sep 2021 01:35 AM PDT Health secretary also says decision imminent on jabs for 12- to 15-year-olds, with children allowed final say The Covid vaccine booster programme and jabs for 12- to 15-year-olds could be given the go-ahead within days, Sajid Javid has said, as he confirmed that young people will have the right to overrule their parents on whether to be vaccinated. The health secretary said he expected to hear from the UK's four chief medical officers in the coming days on their views as to whether there should be a mass rollout of vaccines to 12- to 15-year-olds. Continue reading... |
| Melbourne clinic offers ivermectin despite it not being approved as a Covid treatment Posted: 07 Sep 2021 11:03 PM PDT The clinic, which set up an online page to book $85 consultations for the drug, has been listed as a coronavirus exposure site
A medical clinic in Melbourne's eastern suburbs has been offering patients off-label prescriptions for the anti-parasite drug ivermectin to treat Covid-19, despite a lack of evidence for its use in treating the virus. The clinic set up a dedicated online page to apply for a consultation to be prescribed the drug to treat Covid-19 on its website after receiving an "influx of ivermectin inquiries". Continue reading... |
| ‘I was sliding towards the drop and couldn’t stop’ – the writer who fell from a mountain Posted: 08 Sep 2021 12:00 AM PDT It is every climber's worst nightmare. In this extract from his thrilling book about the glorious – and treacherous – Cuillin Ridge on Skye, Simon Ingram recalls the day its wild peaks almost took his life I had been out of signal for most of the day, so when my phone suddenly stirred in my pocket, I decided to have a look. Remembering a climbing maxim – "Don't try to do two things at once" – I shouted for my friend Kingsley to hang on, stopped and took out my mobile. The message was junk, but I took the opportunity to send some that weren't and then check my voicemail. Wandering absent-mindedly to where a boulder jutted off into the mist, I noticed Kingsley moving down the path. Shouting to alert him that I'd stopped, I brought the handset up to my ear and looked out at the cloud hanging off the Cuillin Ridge, waiting for the phone to connect. I took another step, just a small one to the left. And then everything went wrong. Continue reading... |
| A moment that changed me: my teacher said my work was trite rubbish – and totally destroyed me Posted: 08 Sep 2021 01:56 AM PDT I thought I had unleashed the full force of my student intellect in a history essay. The formidable Betty Behrens let me know I did not understand what scholarship was I held them in awe. My supervisors at Newnham College, Cambridge, in the 50s were of the generation who had served in the war: Bletchley Park, the Board of Trade, that kind of thing. They were fiercely intelligent in a way my schoolteachers had not been. I was brimming with admiration and fear. It was why I had studied hard to be there, to pit my wit against the finest in the land. But I was to come a cropper severely. In the end, it served me well enough. But the pain remains. I had studied economics in my first year. My supervisor was Ruth Cohen, who sat on the floor in dishevelled tweeds, her legs wide and an ashtray between, to catch the ash from her continual smoking. Needless to say, she was brilliant. Soon she would be made college principal, take herself off for a makeover and emerge, neat, tidy, almost smart, to lead the college with style. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 08 Sep 2021 02:00 AM PDT One of Bollywood's most bankable actors has written a revolutionary pregnancy book that lifts the lid on libido, caesareans and more. She discusses power, pay and the reality behind the glamour Days after giving birth to her first child – an emergency caesarean after the cord had wrapped itself around the baby's neck – Kareena Kapoor Khan stood undressed and alone in front of a mirror in her bedroom. "There I was: scarred, chubby, puffy, tired," she recalls of that moment in 2016. "I saw the baby bulge, the dark circles, the dressing bandage of my C-incision. I cannot describe how I felt." Nonetheless, 20 years in the limelight has not stopped Kapoor Khan being open about parts of her life that most celebrities keep hidden. This has always set her apart in Bollywood and it is this approach that she has brought to her most recent project. Continue reading... |
| ‘They came for my daughter’: Afghan single mothers face losing children under Taliban Posted: 07 Sep 2021 11:00 PM PDT Life for single mothers in Afghanistan has always been marred by stigma and poverty. Now with the Taliban in control, what few protections they had have disappeared The day after Mazar-i-Sharif, the provincial capital of Balkh province, fell to the Taliban on 14 August, gunmen came for Raihana's* six-year-old daughter. Widowed when her husband was murdered by Taliban forces in 2020, Raihana had been raising her child as a single mother. After her husband's death she had fought her in-laws for custody of her daughter and won, thanks to the rights she had under Afghan civil law – which state that single women can keep their children if they can provide for them financially. Continue reading... |
| Parental burnout: how juggling kids and work in a global pandemic brought us to the brink Posted: 07 Sep 2021 10:00 PM PDT The past 18 months have left many parents and carers feeling overwhelmed, irritable and wrung bone dry. Can balance ever be restored? "I'm tired of how blurred the lines are between home and work," Julia Thomas tells me as her two boys repeatedly ask for snacks in the background. Thomas lives in London with her husband, twin 11-year-old boys and a daughter, seven. She is a civil servant, but says she is feeling so burned out by childcare that she's considering quitting her job completely. She isn't sleeping properly, her back and hips ache from sitting at a desk all day and her constant to-do list makes life feel chaotic. "Quitting my job feels like a big deal. I feel guilty, as if I'm letting the sisterhood down – but this situation is untenable," she says. "The children are downstairs, while my husband and I are upstairs on Zoom meetings. We can still hear the sibling fights, even when we're working, and when it gets bad they bring the problem to you." Continue reading... |
| ‘I’d rather be alone’: the influencers pushing for ‘relationship minimalism’ Posted: 08 Sep 2021 01:00 AM PDT A group of young people are not only eschewing excess material items, but also meaningless relationships and 'emotional clutter' Ronald L Banks was just 21 when he stood in front of his closet containing 60 pairs of jeans, a huge collection of shoes, and a wardrobe full of T-shirts and thought, "this has to stop". He took out each item of clothing, examining them closely. Inspired by the Marie Kondo method, he asked himself the meaning that each held – and if he couldn't answer, he donated them. Banks, a prominent YouTuber, has a channel of 130,000 fans. He broadcasts from his apartment in Wisconsin – which is pristine. His furniture consists of a sofa, a TV, a wood table and four chairs, some houseplants and paintings. He just has enough basics to get by. He chooses to live with this little, he explains, because "minimalism is living with more of what matters by choosing to want less of what doesn't," he says in a video. Continue reading... |
| Footage of Grenfell Tower meetings before fire to be shown for first time Posted: 07 Sep 2021 04:01 PM PDT Channel 4's Grenfell: The Untold Story will include previously unseen recordings of pleas to former MP and landlord executive Previously unseen footage of Grenfell Tower residents pleading with their MP and landlord to end their mistreatment in the months before the 2017 disaster is to be broadcast for the first time. Recordings of acrimonious meetings with Victoria Borwick, the then Conservative MP for the area, and Peter Maddison, the council landlord's senior executive in charge of works at the time, shed fresh light on how the concerns of residents were handled in the run-up to the fire on 14 June 2017. Continue reading... |
| Israel prison break: escape allegedly took place while guard slept Posted: 07 Sep 2021 04:57 AM PDT Israeli media describe errors that allowed rare jail break for high security Palestinian prisoners The escape of six high security Palestinian prisoners from an Israeli prison took place amid a parade of farcical errors that included the reported availability of prison blueprints online and a sleeping guard in a watchtower. As hundreds of Israeli troops scoured villages and the countryside for the escapees from Gilboa prison, including five members of Islamic Jihad and a high-profile figure from Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, reports in the Israeli media detailed a series of bungles by the country's prison authority that allowed the rare jailbreak. Continue reading... |
| Egypt accused of widespread state-sanctioned killings of dissidents Posted: 07 Sep 2021 03:10 AM PDT Analysis of alleged anti-terrorist shootouts reveals security forces routinely suppressing opposition, claims Human Rights Watch Egyptian security forces engaged in an extended campaign of extrajudicial killings of detainees, routinely masked as shootouts with alleged terrorists, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch. The report details what it alleges are a pattern of extrajudicial assassinations between 2015 and last year, a period in which the Egyptian interior ministry said publicly that 755 people were killed in alleged exchanges of fire with security forces, while naming just 141. Continue reading... |
| Taliban name all-male Afghan cabinet | First Thing Posted: 08 Sep 2021 02:56 AM PDT The US is convening a meeting to discuss cooperation with new Afghan government plus, animals 'shapeshift' in response to climate crisis Good morning. The Taliban have announced an all-male caretaker government including an interior minister wanted by the FBI, on a day when at least two people were killed by violent policing of street protests against the new authorities. Continue reading... |
| Yakuza Princess review – stylish gangster tale makes its kills count Posted: 08 Sep 2021 02:00 AM PDT Story of a yakuza turf war survivor smuggled to Brazil has real style and a devil-may-care cheek Jonathan Rhys Meyers has turned up in some rum old places of late. He gave one of his best performances as a Gestapo officer in the Norwegian drama The 12th Man, largely overlooked in early 2019. Now the roaming Irishman can be seen playing second blade to the singer-actress Masumi in a thriller set among São Paolo's Japanese community, the most populous of its kind outside Japan. Vicente Amorim's film is fundamentally an exercise in shifting fistfuls of tropes – and cliches: beardy senseis, terse men named Takeshi, ambient Christopher Doyle lighting – halfway around the globe for the heck of it. Reheated 10,000 miles from source, these ingredients are presented medium-fresh. Like street-cart fusion cuisine, this film will fill a hole, if you have a particular hankering. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 08 Sep 2021 02:23 AM PDT Victoria to lift regional lockdown for most areas after 221 new coronavirus cases; NSW records nine deaths and 1,480 cases, says international quarantine period likely to be reduced for vaccinated travellers; Morrison throws support behind vaccine certificates for travel This blog is now closed
That's where I will leave you for today. Here's a wrap of what we learned:
ABC News is reporting that the Mid and North Coast, along the Riverina, will see lockdown restrictions lifted from tomorrow. The reports also indicate regional travel within NSW will resume when the state hits 70% double dosed. We'll bring you more as it will likely be announced at tomorrow's press conference. Continue reading... |
| ‘Deeply rooted tradition’: one man’s long fight to end illegal dowries in India Posted: 07 Sep 2021 10:00 PM PDT After 15 years campaigning, Satya Naresh believes it's time for government action to stop the custom that causes a woman to die every hour through murder or suicide For more than a decade, Satya Naresh has been trying to persuade India's men to stop a wedding custom that he sees as one of the country's worst social evils. He wants men to declare: "I don't want dowry". The line is the name of the website he set up in 2006 as part of his campaign. Naresh wants Indian men not to expect the money, motorbike, sofa, TV, iPhone, gold jewellery or fridge that a future wife is expected to come with. Continue reading... |
| Cop26 will be ‘rich nations stitch-up’ if poorer countries kept away by Covid Posted: 07 Sep 2021 01:50 PM PDT Environmental activists demand delay to Glasgow climate talks if costs and travel restrictions block attendance of those worst-hit The Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow should be postponed until the government can ensure that the talks won't be a "rich nations stitch-up", a diverse coalition of international organisations has said. With less than two months to go before the talks, the Climate Action Network (CAN), a global alliance of more than 1,500 civil society organisations, is warning that many delegates from the global south will be unable to attend due to vaccine inequity and prohibitive quarantine costs. Continue reading... |
| Afghanistan services collapsing and aid about to run out, says UN Posted: 07 Sep 2021 03:46 AM PDT Unicef says hundreds of children have been separated from their families in chaos of Kabul evacuation Access to food aid and other life-saving services in Afghanistan is close to running out, the United Nations has warned, as concern mounts that the country is facing a "looming humanitarian catastrophe". The grim assessment from the UN's Office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs [OCHA] came amid an appeal for an extra $200m (£145m) in emergency funding in Afghanistan after the Taliban's takeover sparked a host of new issues. Continue reading... |
| US airstrikes killed at least 22,000 civilians since 9/11, analysis finds Posted: 07 Sep 2021 03:14 AM PDT Figures based on reported number of US airstrikes highlight the human cost of the 20-year 'war on terror' US drone and airstrikes have killed at least 22,000 civilians – and perhaps as many as 48,000 – since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, according to new analysis published by the civilian harm monitoring group Airwars. The analysis, based on the US military's own assertion that it has conducted almost 100,000 airstrikes since 2001, represents an attempt to estimate the number of civilian deaths across the multiple conflicts that have comprised aspects of the "war on terror". Continue reading... |
| Biden vowed to make racial justice the heart of his agenda – is it still beating? Posted: 08 Sep 2021 12:00 AM PDT The president named one of the most diverse cabinets ever but efforts to reform voting rights and other priorities are bogged down by legislative and legal obstacles Defying the punishing August heat, the Rev Al Sharpton recently led a gathering thousands strong through the streets of the nation's capital on the 58th anniversary of the March on Washington, when Martin Luther King Jr delivered his immortal I Have a Dream speech on that day in 1963. Now, as then, there was an urgency to their march. In statehouses across the country, Republicans are proposing – and passing – new voter restrictions that activists say amount to the greatest erosion of voting rights since the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965, a crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 07 Sep 2021 11:00 AM PDT The US is proposing big spending, but initiatives are designed to undermine China rather than address actual needs on the islands After decades of ambivalence, the United States plans to expand its footprint in the Pacific islands region to dimensions larger than at any time since the second world war. But the Biden administration may be on the brink of embracing a flawed foreign policy initiative spanning almost one-third of the globe. Continue reading... |
| Thousands turn out for pro and anti-Bolsonaro protests on Brazilian Independence Day – video Posted: 07 Sep 2021 10:25 PM PDT Supporters and critics of Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro gathered in their thousands across cities throughout Brazil during the country's Independence Day. Supporters of the far-right President, dressed in the green and yellow of the Brazilian flag, in a show of support for his attacks on the country's Supreme Court. But Bolsonaro's detractors also took to the streets to voice their concerns on issues including the president's handling of the pandemic and Brazil's low vaccination rates.
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| 'This is code red': Biden sounds alarm on climate crisis as he tours New York damage – video Posted: 07 Sep 2021 06:08 PM PDT US president Joe Biden has emphasised the danger of the climate crisis after touring Hurricane Ida-impacted neighbourhoods. 'People are beginning to realise this is much, much bigger than anyone was willing to believe,' Biden said during a tour of Queens, New York. 'Even the climate skeptics are seeing that this really does matter.' Continue reading... |
| Giant panda at Madrid’s Zoo Aquarium gives birth to twins – video Posted: 07 Sep 2021 06:10 AM PDT A pair of squawking, thrashing, bald and violently pink twins arrived in the world in Madrid on Sunday. Much to the relief of their mother and all those working to ensure the giant panda population continues to claw its way back from the brink. Madrid's Zoo Aquarium announced the birth of the as-yet-unnamed cubs on Monday,. The siblings are the fifth and sixth cubs born in the zoo to Hua Zui Ba, a female panda, and her partner, Bing Xing, who are on loan from China. In an update on Tuesday, the zoo said the cubs had been weighed, clocking in at 0.171kg and 0.137kg respectively, and that their umbilical cords had been tied and disinfected. |
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