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- China flies record 38 planes over Taiwan defence zone in national day show of force
- How the SPD relied on young rebels to win in north-east Germany
- NZ opposition leader says US and UK ‘left door open’ for China in Indo-Pacific
- Emergency visa scheme extended in major U-turn by Boris Johnson
- Donald Trump asks Florida judge to force Twitter to reinstate account
- ‘We’re going to get it done’: Biden vows to break impasse after Capitol Hill talks
- Australia told French submarine firm it didn’t have green light to proceed hours before deal cancelled
- Doctors in Lithuania find kilo of nails and screws in man’s stomach
- ‘I’m overjoyed’: Canadian Michael Spavor speaks out after China release
- Media startup Ozy shuts down after New York Times report raises concerns
- Secretary of Nazi concentration camp told judge she wouldn’t attend trial
- Coronavirus live: global deaths pass 5m; UK care home workers refusing jab told to ‘get another job’
- How Melbourne’s ‘short, sharp’ Covid lockdowns became the longest in the world
- ‘Clearly not working’: How New Zealand’s consensus on striving for Covid zero is finally cracking
- ‘His rage, his pain, his shame, they’re all mine’: Jeremy Strong on playing Succession’s Kendall Roy
- Blind date: ‘I thought she might ditch me for the waiter’
- Colm Tóibín: will the Brexit fallout lead to a ‘united Ireland’?
- ‘Sun-powered orgasms are fantastic’: why I went to live in a desert cave
- Jeffrey Wright: ‘There’s a relentless, grotesque debasement of language in the US’
- Dining across the divide: ‘He said: don’t go there. So I was like, we’ll definitely go there’
- Sexual offences: when women report them, what happens?
- Ethiopia expels ‘meddling’ UN staff as famine deepens in Tigray without aid
- ‘They stole from us’: the New York taxi drivers mired in debt over medallions
- Record cases in Victoria and NSW residents warned against grand final gatherings – as it happened
- Drone footage shows path of devastation from La Palma's Cumbre Vieja volcano – video
| China flies record 38 planes over Taiwan defence zone in national day show of force Posted: 01 Oct 2021 10:49 PM PDT Taipei says Chinese jets and bombers crossed zone as Beijing marked the anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic A record 38 Chinese military jets crossed into Taiwan's defence zone as Beijing marked the founding of the People's Republic of China, officials in Taipei have said. The show of force on China's national day on Friday near the self-ruled democratic island, which Beijing claims as part of its territory, came in the same week it accused Britain of sending a warship into the Taiwan strait with "evil intentions". Continue reading... |
| How the SPD relied on young rebels to win in north-east Germany Posted: 01 Oct 2021 10:00 PM PDT A left-behind Baltic Sea state took revenge on Angela Merkel's CDU, which had done too little for too long to help the region Less than four years ago, Erik von Malottki's main objective was to keep the party he loved as far away from political power as possible. Inspired by young activist grassroots movements in the US and the UK, the trade unionist was one of a band of young Social Democratic Party (SPD) members who in January 2018 urged delegates to vote against joining another coalition with Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats. Yet this week, the now 35-year-old and a band of similarly aged delegates propelled the German centre-left to an unlikely election victory. While the British Labour party remains entrenched in factionalism, the SPD has constructively channelled the energy of its youthful rebels, edging ahead in Sunday's vote through a seismic shift in the country's north-east. Continue reading... |
| NZ opposition leader says US and UK ‘left door open’ for China in Indo-Pacific Posted: 01 Oct 2021 07:05 PM PDT Judith Collins criticises America as 'foolish' for walking away from free trade agreements New Zealand's opposition leader has hit out at the US and UK over China, saying their failure to adopt free trade agreements was "foolish" and increased Chinese dominance in the Indo-Pacific. "If any criticism comes to New Zealand, as it often does about this close relationship with China and trade, my answer to everybody – whether they're the US or UK – is: 'So where's our free trade agreement?'," Judith Collins, leader of the centre-right National party, said in an interview with the Guardian on Friday. Continue reading... |
| Emergency visa scheme extended in major U-turn by Boris Johnson Posted: 01 Oct 2021 02:00 PM PDT Threat of Christmas being ruined by driver shortages forces ministers to expand range and duration of visas Boris Johnson's government has made a dramatic U-turn in an attempt to save Christmas – with a raft of extended emergency visas to help abate labour shortages that have led to empty shelves and petrol station queues. New immigration measures will allow 300 fuel drivers to arrive immediately and stay until the end of March, while 100 army drivers will take to the roads from Monday, the government announced late on Friday. Continue reading... |
| Donald Trump asks Florida judge to force Twitter to reinstate account Posted: 01 Oct 2021 10:15 PM PDT The request follows the former president suing Twitter, Facebook and Google in July accusing them of censoring conservative voices Donald Trump, the former US president, has asked a federal judge in Florida to force Twitter to reinstate his account. In July Trump sued Twitter, Facebook and Google, as well as their chief executives, alleging they unlawfully silence conservative viewpoints. Continue reading... |
| ‘We’re going to get it done’: Biden vows to break impasse after Capitol Hill talks Posted: 01 Oct 2021 05:03 PM PDT
Joe Biden has made a rare visit to Capitol Hill to meet privately with House Democrats amid a stalemate that has put his sprawling domestic agenda in jeopardy. Pledging to "get it done" after days of frantic negotiations that saw the party fail to strike an internal deal on a scaled-back version of Biden's $3.5tn social and environmental policy overhaul, the president hoped to break an impasse even as hopes of compromise before the weekend faded. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 01 Oct 2021 07:48 PM PDT Letter, sent to Naval Group on 15 September, is at the heart of diplomatic rift between France and Australia Australia cautioned the French contractor – hours before the $90bn submarine deal was cancelled – that its achievement of a key contractual milestone did "not provide any authorisation to continue work". The letter, sent to Naval Group on 15 September, is at the heart of an extraordinary diplomatic rift between France and Australia, with the French foreign minister telling a parliamentary hearing this week that "someone lied". Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading... |
| Doctors in Lithuania find kilo of nails and screws in man’s stomach Posted: 01 Oct 2021 07:37 PM PDT The man started swallowing metal objects, some measuring 10cm long, when he gave up alcohol, hospital official says Doctors in Lithuania have removed more than a kilogram of nails and screws from the stomach of a man who started swallowing metallic objects after quitting alcohol. The man, who was not identified for reasons of patient confidentiality, was admitted to hospital in the Baltic port city of Klaipeda with severe abdominal pain. Continue reading... |
| ‘I’m overjoyed’: Canadian Michael Spavor speaks out after China release Posted: 01 Oct 2021 06:23 PM PDT Businessman Spavor reunites with family after his release last week from detention along with former diplomat Canadian citizen Michael Spavor has expressed joy at being reunited with his family after being released from jail in China last week. "I'm overjoyed to be finally reunited with my family. It's humbling as I begin to understand the continued support that we've received from Canadians and those around the world, thank you," Spavor said on Friday in a first statement since his release. Continue reading... |
| Media startup Ozy shuts down after New York Times report raises concerns Posted: 01 Oct 2021 04:52 PM PDT Ozy faced questions about its viewership figures and claims that its co-founder impersonated a YouTube executive on a call with Goldman Sachs Ozy, a digital media startup, is shutting down less than a week after a New York Times column raised questions about the organization's claims of millions of viewers and readers, while also pointing out a potential case of securities fraud. The story triggered canceled shows, an internal investigation, investor concern and high-level departures at the company. Continue reading... |
| Secretary of Nazi concentration camp told judge she wouldn’t attend trial Posted: 01 Oct 2021 10:26 AM PDT Irmgard Furchner, 96, was arrested after failing to turn up at court and absconding from retirement home A 96-year-old woman who was arrested on Thursday after failing to turn up for the start of her trial in Germany on charges of aiding and abetting the murder of thousands of concentration camp prisoners had warned the judge in advance that she would not show up. Irmgard Furchner was discovered about 38 miles from the courtroom after escaping her retirement home in a taxi, which dropped her off at an underground station in the early hours of the morning. She had written to the judge that to "avoid embarrassment" and due to her "advanced age and physical impediments" she would not be attending the trial. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus live: global deaths pass 5m; UK care home workers refusing jab told to ‘get another job’ Posted: 02 Oct 2021 01:56 AM PDT Delta strain continues to ravage unvaccinated countries; UK health secretary hits out at unvaccinated care home workers The UK health secretary, Sajid Javid, has said care home workers who are not prepared to get the Covid vaccine should "get out and get another job". Javid said he is not prepared to "pause" the requirement for care home staff to be fully vaccinated by 11 November, amid concerns significant numbers are reluctant to get the jab. If you work in a care home you are working with some of the most vulnerable people in our country and if you cannot be bothered to go and get vaccinated, then get out and go and get another job. If you want to look after them (care home residents), if you want to cook for them, if you want to feed them, if you want to put them to bed, then you should get vaccinated. This lack of clarity is causing a huge amount of stress, anxiety and frustration amongst thousands of kidney patients. This group are returning to work and public places with no specific national advice or support. While a decision on when to get a third jab remains a decision between a patient and their clinician who know about their ongoing care and treatment, all hospitals have been asked to identify and offer a jab to those who are eligible, by the end of next week. Where vaccines cannot be administered at the same site, patients and their GP will be written to shortly so they can arrange their jab at their local practice or vaccine centre. Continue reading... |
| How Melbourne’s ‘short, sharp’ Covid lockdowns became the longest in the world Posted: 01 Oct 2021 01:00 PM PDT Australia's second-largest city's strategy has left it economically and psychologically depressed after initially succeeding in reducing case numbers to zero It has been a long 19 months in Melbourne. As of Tuesday 5 October, Australia's second-largest city will have been in lockdown for 246 days – overtaking Buenos Aires as the city that has spent the most cumulative days under stay-at-home orders. By the time Melbourne's current lockdown lifts at the end of the month, it will have spent 267 days in lockdown – 45% of the time since the coronavirus pandemic was declared on 12 March 2020. Continue reading... |
| ‘Clearly not working’: How New Zealand’s consensus on striving for Covid zero is finally cracking Posted: 01 Oct 2021 12:00 PM PDT As Auckland grapples with Delta outbreak, opposition leaders dare to break with Jacinda Ardern on pandemic plan "Things have changed," Judith Collins declares, sitting in her Beehive government office. New Zealand's National party leader is fresh off launching her alternative pandemic response plan, marking the first time the main opposition has significantly diverged from prime minister Jacinda Ardern's largely popular elimination strategy. The arrival of the Delta variant in New Zealand two months ago, causing an outbreak that the government is struggling to stamp out, has shown that elimination is "clearly not working," Collins says. Continue reading... |
| ‘His rage, his pain, his shame, they’re all mine’: Jeremy Strong on playing Succession’s Kendall Roy Posted: 02 Oct 2021 12:00 AM PDT Strong's role as the self-destructive media heir takes commitment – and the actor goes all in • Plus: inside the Succession writers' room Earlier this year, Jeremy Strong left his apartment in Brooklyn, walked across the bridge to Manhattan and headed towards the far west side of the island, where he was filming the third season of the feverishly adored and heavily accoladed HBO series Succession. Strong plays Kendall, the alternately bullied and rebellious son of the vilified, Murdoch-esque media tycoon Logan Roy, played by Brian Cox, and Succession follows the jostling among the patriarch's four children for his affection and respect, both of which he generally withholds. None of them is as visibly crushed by this as Kendall, who bears more than a slight resemblance to James Murdoch, even down to the dabblings in hip-hop. With every timid step Strong makes on screen, every apologetic dip of his chin when he starts to talk, he captures the pain of a son who knows he has failed to live up to his father's expectations from the first time he cried. He won an Emmy last year for the role, beating, among others, Cox, in neatly Freudian style. Strong likes to walk while learning his lines, so on that day in New York as he was walking he was also talking, reciting a speech he would soon be saying to Cox, in which Kendall tries to curry favour with his father, but also to be seen as his own man. "Suddenly, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a ghost-grey Tesla rolling to a stop, so I looked in it, and there was James Murdoch," Strong says when we meet in a London hotel. "He looked at me and I looked at him, and there was a flicker between us. Then he was gone. So we had a moment." Continue reading... |
| Blind date: ‘I thought she might ditch me for the waiter’ Posted: 01 Oct 2021 10:00 PM PDT Lottie, 26, influencer marketing manager, meets Amber, 30, corporate events manager Lottie on Amber What were you hoping for? |
| Colm Tóibín: will the Brexit fallout lead to a ‘united Ireland’? Posted: 02 Oct 2021 01:00 AM PDT With negotiations souring an already uneasy relationship to England, the Irish novelist surveys the mood of his nation, and considers the prospect of unification In late 2010, I sat in a discreet space in the lounge of a Dublin hotel with two British diplomats who were planning the first state visit of Queen Elizabeth to Ireland the following May and were consulting widely. The questions were the basic ones: What should she say? What should she not say? Where should she go? Where should she not go? When I said she should visit a stud farm and get to see some horses, the diplomats were uneasy. Would that not seem too posh? I explained that following horses in Ireland was part of ordinary life. And also, if she didn't see some horses, people would think that she was not enjoying herself, and, oddly enough, despite 700 years of strife, most people in Ireland would want the Queen to enjoy her visit. Continue reading... |
| ‘Sun-powered orgasms are fantastic’: why I went to live in a desert cave Posted: 02 Oct 2021 01:45 AM PDT Armed with only a solar charger, a vibrator and some marijuana gummy bears, I rode out the pandemic – and my fear of spiders – in a California commune When Jesus was in the desert for 40 days, the devil tried to lure him off track by tempting him to turn stones into bread. This seems a bit tame on the devil's part. Lying around in my cave in the Mojave desert, California, at three in the afternoon in 38C (100F) heat, my food fantasies revolve around fish and chips and roasted meat. Other afternoon activities include gazing at the boulder that looks like a dinosaur with a cheeseburger for a mouth that stands opposite the entrance to my cave. And orgasms. My $99 (£70) solar panel does a great job at recharging my phone and my vibrator. Sun-powered orgasms in a prehistoric cave – as rabbits hop past and lizards scuttle across rocks – are fantastic, especially if you've eaten a marijuana gummy bear beforehand. Continue reading... |
| Jeffrey Wright: ‘There’s a relentless, grotesque debasement of language in the US’ Posted: 02 Oct 2021 12:00 AM PDT Cinema's classiest actor on being wooed by Wes Anderson for The French Dispatch, playing Bond's CIA buddy Felix and why he's fighting for thinkers in an age of vulgarity With his soulful gravitas, rich vocal tones and understated cool, Jeffrey Wright is one of those actors who brings dramatic heft to anything in which he appears. Which, these days, is an awful lot. He broke through on the New York stage, winning a Tony award for 1994's Angels in America, then on screen with his portrayal of Jean-Michel Basquiat in Julian Schnabel's 1996 biopic, and he has not stopped since. As well as voicing Marvel's animated series What If…? he will be seen in the coming months as James Bond's CIA buddy Felix Leiter in No Time to Die; in a new series of Westworld, and as James Gordon to Robert Pattinson's Batman. Meanwhile, Wright has joined the Wes Anderson Extended Universe with The French Dispatch, a characteristically intricate hymn to New Yorker-style journalism. As we speak, Wright is in Spain working on Anderson's next movie. "I feel I'm part of the travelling troupe now," he says over Zoom, at the end of a day's shooting So how did you join Anderson's troupe? I'm imagining an embossed invitation slipped under your hotel room door … |
| Dining across the divide: ‘He said: don’t go there. So I was like, we’ll definitely go there’ Posted: 01 Oct 2021 11:00 PM PDT Rights, royalty, relationships: can two strangers find common ground over dinner? Alex, 32, Isle of Wight Occupation Social worker Continue reading... |
| Sexual offences: when women report them, what happens? Posted: 02 Oct 2021 12:00 AM PDT Crimes such as indecent exposure can lead to more serious offences. Are the police and justice systems taking them seriously enough? The police's response to reports of sexual offences such as indecent exposure has come into sharp focus, following allegations that the Met failed to investigate an accusation of indecent exposure from 2015 that could have identified Wayne Couzens as a sexual threat to women - six years before the police officer murdered Sarah Everard. The fallout further damages trust in the police to take sexual offences seriously – an effect that can be clearly seen in statistics. |
| Ethiopia expels ‘meddling’ UN staff as famine deepens in Tigray without aid Posted: 01 Oct 2021 07:50 AM PDT Seven senior officials responsible for 'delivering lifesaving aid' told to leave amid de facto blockade of food, medicine and fuel The Ethiopian government has told seven senior UN officials to leave the country, accusing them of "meddling in internal affairs". A statement from the foreign ministry said the officials – who include staff from the UN humanitarian agency, the UN human rights office and the children's agency, Unicef – must leave Ethiopia within 72 hours. Continue reading... |
| ‘They stole from us’: the New York taxi drivers mired in debt over medallions Posted: 02 Oct 2021 02:00 AM PDT Once an asset that secured a comfortable retirement, the medallion's worth has plummeted, leaving drivers financially ruined. Here are some of their stories For more than a century, taxi drivers have transported busy New Yorkers to their jobs, to brunch, or home from a late night out. A symbol of the city made globally famous in countless Hollywood films, the drivers of these yellow cabs are majority immigrants and people of color. Driving a New York City cab has been a vital path for immigrants, and their families, to make a decent living. But in recent years all that has changed. Now, many are struggling under the burden of life-altering debt after investing in a taxi medallion. Continue reading... |
| Record cases in Victoria and NSW residents warned against grand final gatherings – as it happened Posted: 02 Oct 2021 01:18 AM PDT NSW reports 813 cases and 10 deaths while Victoria records 1,488 infections, ACT 52 and Queensland two. This blog is now closed
Queensland has recorded two new local cases of Covid. They are linked to the aviation cluster, and have both been in home quarantine. Queensland chief health officer Jeannette Young said they are children of a positive case who was announced yesterday – a man who had been infectious while on the Gold Coast. Continue reading... |
| Drone footage shows path of devastation from La Palma's Cumbre Vieja volcano – video Posted: 01 Oct 2021 02:04 PM PDT Drone footage captures the devastation wrought by the Cumbre Vieja volcano, which has been ejecting ash, smoke and lava over the Canary island of La Palma for more than 10 days. Since erupting on 19 September, the volcano has destroyed more than 800 buildings, as well as banana plantations, roads and other infrastructure. About 6,000 people have been evacuated and are yet to return to their houses, a local government spokesperson said. Continue reading... |
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