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- House Capitol attack committee votes to recommend Steve Bannon prosecution
- IAEA chief: Aukus could set precedent for pursuit of nuclear submarines
- China’s Evergrande crisis: clock ticking as crucial debt default deadline looms
- Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand – report
- Charge Bolsonaro with murder over Covid toll, draft Brazil senate report says
- Bomb attack on army bus in Damascus leaves 14 dead
- Brexit and UK immigration policy ‘increasing risks to trafficking victims’
- Lawyers to submit Yemen war crimes dossier to UK police
- ‘Like snow’: freak hail storms batter Australia’s east coast
- ‘Smoking kills’ could be printed on every cigarette under new proposals
- Coronavirus live: Singapore opens up travel amid record cases; Israel reports first case of AY.4.2 variant of Delta
- Without Covid-19 jab, ‘reinfection may occur every 16 months’
- Deaths among the double vaccinated: what is behind the Australian statistics?
- ‘He cared when no one did’: Filipino human rights lawyer Chito Gascón dies of Covid
- ‘My friends called him PC Perv’: the police officers who prey on crime victims for sex
- Jane Goodall on fires, floods, frugality and the good fight: ‘People have to change from within’
- Comedian Bridget Christie: ‘I see my flasher’s penis all the time. But I can make horrible things amusing’
- How did The Morning Show become the messiest show on TV?
- Apple iPhone 13 mini review: still the boss of small phones
- A moment that changed me: ‘My mother taught me to face impossible tasks – and so I carried the coffin at her funeral’
- Watchdog looks at protecting MPs by cutting details from expenses
- Plight of migrant workers on Irish fishing boats exposed
- Damascus: charred wreckage of bus after bombing kills 14 – video
- Credit Suisse fined £350m over Mozambique ‘tuna bonds’ loan scandal
- Millions in US hope plan to expand dental care survives cuts to Biden’s bill
- ‘Haitians are kidnapped every day’: missionary abductions shed light on growing crisis
- Government defeats Labor push to refer Christian Porter to privileges committee over trust
- Trump's actions posed 'unique and existential threat to our democracy,' says Jen Psaki – video
- Indian couple float to wedding in cooking pot after floods in Kerala – video
| House Capitol attack committee votes to recommend Steve Bannon prosecution Posted: 19 Oct 2021 04:57 PM PDT
The House select committee investigating the Capitol attack voted on Tuesday to recommend the criminal prosecution of Donald Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon, after he defied a subpoena relating to their inquiry into the 6 January insurrection. The select committee approved the contempt of Congress citation unanimously, sending the report to the Democratic-controlled House, which is expected on Thursday to authorize the panel to go to court to punish Bannon for his non-compliance. Continue reading... |
| IAEA chief: Aukus could set precedent for pursuit of nuclear submarines Posted: 19 Oct 2021 04:38 PM PDT Special taskforce convened by IAEA to look into Aukus deal as Iran hints at fresh pursuit of its 2018 naval nuclear propulsion program The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog has said other states could follow Australia's example and seek to build nuclear-powered submarines, raising serious proliferation and legal concerns. Rafael Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said during a visit to Washington that he had sent a special team to look into the safety and legal implications of the Aukus partnership announced last month, in which the US and UK will help Australia build a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines. Continue reading... |
| China’s Evergrande crisis: clock ticking as crucial debt default deadline looms Posted: 19 Oct 2021 09:30 PM PDT A default by the property giant could have far-reaching consequences for China and global economy The rescue of embattled Chinese property company Evergrande appears to have stalled, leaving the developer on the brink of default and threatening to unleash contagion through the country's giant real estate sector, home prices and the economy. The problems enveloping Evergrande, which has eyewatering total debts of $305bn, have hung over global financial markets in recent weeks and helped curb China's post-pandemic recovery. Continue reading... |
| Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand – report Posted: 19 Oct 2021 09:43 PM PDT Rebrand could position tech giant's social media app as one of many products under a parent company which oversees the likes of Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus Social media giant Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name next week, the Verge reported on Tuesday, citing a source with direct knowledge of the matter. Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about the name change at the company's annual Connect conference on 28 October, but it could be unveiled sooner, the Verge report said. Continue reading... |
| Charge Bolsonaro with murder over Covid toll, draft Brazil senate report says Posted: 19 Oct 2021 01:19 PM PDT Draft text says neglect, incompetence and opposition to science fueled 'stratospheric' death toll The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, should face murder charges for his role in the country's "stratospheric" coronavirus death toll, a draft report from a senate inquiry into Brazil's Covid crisis has recommended. The 1,078-page document, published by Brazilian media on Tuesday afternoon, is not due to be voted on by the commission until next week and could yet be modified by senators. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Bomb attack on army bus in Damascus leaves 14 dead Posted: 20 Oct 2021 01:11 AM PDT Assad's forces kill eight in Idlib strikes following bombing in heart of Syrian capital A bomb attack on an army bus in Damascus has killed 14 people, the deadliest attack in the Syrian capital in four years, the Sana state news agency reported. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the bombing but moments later shelling by government forces killed eight people in the Idlib region, which is controlled by groups that have claimed to have carried out such attacks in the past. Continue reading... |
| Brexit and UK immigration policy ‘increasing risks to trafficking victims’ Posted: 19 Oct 2021 10:01 PM PDT Damning report highlights greater risk of EU worker exploitation and vulnerability of undocumented migrants A damning new report on trafficking in the UK has warned that Brexit and the Home Office's new plan for immigration are increasing the risks to trafficking victims. The report has also found links between terrorism and trafficking in cases involving families from the UK ending up with Islamic State in Syria and an increase in the recruitment of trafficking victims via social media. Continue reading... |
| Lawyers to submit Yemen war crimes dossier to UK police Posted: 19 Oct 2021 09:00 PM PDT Key figures in Saudi Arabia and UAE accused of crimes against humanity include investors in Britain A group of human rights lawyers will on Wednesday file a legal complaint in the UK accusing key figures in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates of being involved in war crimes relating to the war in Yemen. They plan to submit a dossier to British police and prosecutors alleging that about 20 members of the political and military elite of the two Gulf nations are guilty of crimes against humanity, and call for their immediate arrest should they enter the UK. Continue reading... |
| ‘Like snow’: freak hail storms batter Australia’s east coast Posted: 20 Oct 2021 12:11 AM PDT Coffs Harbour cops a hammering as shopping centre ceiling collapses; Australia records its largest ever hailstone Freak storms across the east coast of Australia have damaged buildings and pounded cities with hail the size of grapefruit. The largest hailstone ever to fall in Australia – a whopping 16cm in diameter – was recorded in Queensland after heavy storms hammered the Mackay region on Tuesday afternoon. Continue reading... |
| ‘Smoking kills’ could be printed on every cigarette under new proposals Posted: 19 Oct 2021 10:00 PM PDT MPs propose raft of tough new measures aimed at getting more people to stop smoking Individual cigarettes could have "smoking kills" printed on them under a raft of tough measures proposed by MPs to encourage more people to quit the deadly habit. MPs have submitted an amendment to the health and care bill going through parliament which would allow the health secretary to make graphic health warnings mandatory. Raise the legal age for buying cigarettes from 18 to 21. Stop e-cigarette makers using tactics that might entice children to try them, such as sweet flavourings and cartoon characters. Make it illegal to give e-cigarettes away free as sampler products, as some manufacturers have done. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 20 Oct 2021 01:55 AM PDT 3,994 cases as travellers from UK, US and elsewhere welcomed to Singapore; Israel confirms first case of variation in Delta variant
Chief executive of the NHS confederation Matthew Taylor has been on Sky News in the UK, and he had a strong message in support of the government taking steps towards "plan B" and take some action to avert a healthcare crisis over the winter. He said The question is do we need to act? And I would say the overwhelming evidence is we do need to act, and then the question is, is it better to act early and take measures which don't stop the economy working – but I recognise they are inconvenient – or do we wait, wait for things to get worse, and possibly risk having to take more severe measures. So, the elements of plan B enable us to carry on with our lives, carry on with the economy, but to do so in a way which produces the risk. And after all, most of the measures in plan B are measures that other countries in Europe are continuing to enact, and they have lower infection rates than we do. The government said that the criteria for determining whether or not we enacted elements of plan B was the position of the health service, and the health service is facing a perfect storm. Winter is always tough for the health service for various reasons. We have got thousands of Covid patients in hospital, and it looks like those numbers are rising in line with the rising infection rate. And we've also got the huge pent-up demand that's built up over the last 18 months. Continue reading... |
| Without Covid-19 jab, ‘reinfection may occur every 16 months’ Posted: 19 Oct 2021 11:21 AM PDT Reports grow of repeat infection as experts warn prevalence among school pupils puts older people at risk As Covid-19 infections surge in England, people are increasingly reporting catching Sars-CoV-2 for a second or even third time. New analysis has suggested that unvaccinated individuals should expect to be reinfected with Covid-19 every 16 months, on average. Continue reading... |
| Deaths among the double vaccinated: what is behind the Australian statistics? Posted: 19 Oct 2021 08:16 PM PDT A small number of people become severely unwell with Covid even if they are fully vaccinated, but the data suggests they mostly suffer from other conditions as well On Tuesday, there were 356 Covid-19 patients being treated in intensive care wards throughout Australia. Of those, 25 were fully vaccinated. While the data points to the extraordinary efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines in preventing people from becoming severely unwell, being hospitalised and dying, it does raise the question: why do a small number of people become seriously ill and, in rare cases, die, despite being fully vaccinated? Continue reading... |
| ‘He cared when no one did’: Filipino human rights lawyer Chito Gascón dies of Covid Posted: 19 Oct 2021 11:01 PM PDT Gascón, who frequently clashed with Rodrigo Duterte over his 'war on drugs', has been hailed as a 'true hero' of democracy José Luis Martín C Gascón used a walking stick to carry out his duties as the Philippines' "courageous" human rights lawyer, a result of living with with diabetes and the wound it left on his right foot. But in the words of his brother, Miguel Gascón, who confirmed his death on Facebook earlier this month, "of all the battles you fought, we had to lose you to Covid-19". Continue reading... |
| ‘My friends called him PC Perv’: the police officers who prey on crime victims for sex Posted: 20 Oct 2021 02:00 AM PDT Nicola Brookes was groomed by a senior officer she trusted and she is not alone – 2,000 police officers have been accused of sexual misconduct in four years. In the wake of Sarah Everard's murder, what can be done? Nicola Brookes was at the lowest point of her life when she turned to the police for help. By the time she met Inspector Anthony Lumb, she had suffered years of online abuse – including death threats, letters sent to her house and relentless trolling. Her problems began in November 2011, when she sent an innocuous message of support to an X Factor contestant on Facebook. The contestant was being trolled online and Brookes wrote: "Keep your friends and your family close. They'll move on to someone else soon." Within hours, she had received hundreds of abusive messages. Brookes was stunned – she was called an "insane old crone", a "demented witch". A cloned Facebook account was created in her name, suggesting she was a paedophile and a drug dealer. Her address was even published online. Then the campaign spread to multiple Twitter and Facebook accounts, blogs, online radio and video channels. Continue reading... |
| Jane Goodall on fires, floods, frugality and the good fight: ‘People have to change from within’ Posted: 19 Oct 2021 10:00 PM PDT The climate emergency has been a wakeup call to everyone, and the ethologist and environmentalist is working as hard as ever to defeat it. She discusses horror, hope and heroism in her late 80s In Jane Goodall's new book, there is a vivid description of her "deep bond" with a beech tree in the garden of her childhood home in Bournemouth. She would climb into its branches to read, hauling books and her homework up in a basket, and persuaded her grandmother to bequeath her the tree, named just Beech, in her will. She called the tree, as alive to her as any person or animal, "one of my closest childhood friends". "There's Beech," she says now, pointing to the handsome tree, its leaves glowing in the morning sun, from the front doorstep. The house, which first belonged to Goodall's grandmother, is large and lovely, but modest, perhaps little changed from when Goodall lived here as a child; there are various animal feeding bowls in the living room, comfortingly cluttered, where we sit, with big windows that look out on to the garden. Her sister, Judy, and her family live here, and it's home to Goodall when she's not travelling the world, spreading her message of hope, and demanding action. Goodall was on her way to give a talk for Compassion in World Farming in Brussels last March, the taxi leaving the driveway, when Judy came rushing out to say it had been called off, and she has been grounded here since, mainly working from her attic bedroom. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 19 Oct 2021 10:00 PM PDT The comic has come blazing out of lockdown fearless and on full throttle, buying a motorbike for her 50th birthday and turning the menopause – along with an incident in a park – into comedy gold 'I must tell you how old I'm going to be when I die," says Bridget Christie, whipping out her phone to show me a small cartoon gravestone bearing the date of her demise. Fittingly, we're sitting in a churchyard near her home in London, not far from some actual gravestones. According to the app, Christie, who recently turned 50, has 34 years left. As one of the many people who lost loved ones to Covid-19, death has been on her mind during the pandemic, and her thoughts on ageing have been exacerbated by the arrival of the menopause. In lockdown, preoccupied by the passage of time, she decided to look at the moon every night: "I thought about how many moons I've got left to see. I was like, 'We're not here for very long – what are you going to leave behind?'" Her thoughts coalesced into her BBC Radio 4 series Mortal, which tackled birth, life, death and the afterlife. Working with BBC Radio Theatre, where she'd previously recorded standup, she decided to try something different. Whispered monologues, surreal characters (Zeus, the Grim Reaper and dead Bridget among them) and real telephone conversations are stitched together into something quite intimate. Although she got their permission, she didn't tell her dad, sister Eileen and friend Ashley exactly when she'd be recording their phone calls, lending a naturalness to the chats. Continue reading... |
| How did The Morning Show become the messiest show on TV? Posted: 19 Oct 2021 10:14 PM PDT In its second season, the star-studded Apple TV drama is a chaotic, uneven and ham-fisted yet compulsively watchable rumination on workplace ethics amid the pandemic Watching The Morning Show, Apple TV+'s messy, star-studded morning news drama whose second season premiered this fall, is for me a very vocal experience – the road from concept to execution so bumpy and the choices so chaotic as to provoke several guffaws an episode. The biggest "NO" comes in the beginning of the second season's third episode: Daniel Henderson, co-anchor of the fictional Morning Show on the fictional UBA network, is quarantining in Beijing after exposure to a novel coronavirus in January 2020. On-air, he explains the concept of "social distancing" to the fake-cheery anchor Bradley Jackson (Reese Witherspoon, now sans bad first-season brown wig), who cracks: "What? I feel like my family's been 'social distancing' for a long time." I rolled my eyes so hard my head hurt. The Morning Show has, since its release in September 2019, been an intriguing misfire, bolstered and blunted by its interest in recent events. In the first season, its handling of the cascading #MeToo movement at what seemed to be a lightly fictionalized NBC was bumbling, opaque, and perhaps unforgivable – in the season finale, the suicide of the producer Hannah (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), struggling years after she was pressured into sex by the star anchor Mitch Kessler (Steve Carell), was at best mishandled, at worst exploited for shock. But watching a show even attempt to wrestle with the bramble of workplace ethics and cultures of complicity was baseline compelling. As in real life, none of the characters handled those conversations well, but at least they were trying. Continue reading... |
| Apple iPhone 13 mini review: still the boss of small phones Posted: 19 Oct 2021 11:00 PM PDT Mini model trounces competition with great camera and performance, but isn't the best iPhone for the year The iPhone 13 mini takes what's great about the full-size iPhone 13 and squeezes it into a body not much larger than the iPhone 5S without cutting back on features or power. The smallest of Apple's 2021 lineup costs £679 ($699/A$1,199), sitting above the £389 iPhone SE and below the £779 iPhone 13. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 19 Oct 2021 11:00 PM PDT From an early age, she encouraged me to be strong, physically and mentally. Those gifts helped me through the day we buried her My mum was a PE teacher and coach. One of her early gifts was to help me feel like a physically capable female. For the couple of years before she died, my body had taken a battering, with illness and major surgery, then pregnancy and the aftermath, so I wasn't feeling at all hale. Carrying a coffin is not something a woman necessarily plans to do – usually men perform this task; assumed to be stronger bearers. It's a frightening, demanding duty. Regardless of the epic December weather, there were absent people who might have come in support – of me, if not my mother. At the time, my marriage was breaking down and my daughter was only 16 months old. Mum had been sick with cancer for a year and I lived six hours away from her and Dad. I was in the eye of a personal storm, too. |
| Watchdog looks at protecting MPs by cutting details from expenses Posted: 19 Oct 2021 11:00 PM PDT Exclusive: Ipsa plans to reduce publication of claims for travel and venue hire after killing of David Amess The UK's parliamentary spending watchdog has begun redacting parts of MPs' expenses to protect their safety since the killing of Sir David Amess. After the veteran MP was stabbed to death at a constituency surgery on Friday, some colleagues raised concerns with the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) over the amount of information released about their claims for travel and venues hired for surgeries under transparency requirements. Continue reading... |
| Plight of migrant workers on Irish fishing boats exposed Posted: 20 Oct 2021 02:00 AM PDT Study prompts call for reforms to safeguard conditions of fishers from countries including the Philippines, Egypt, Ghana and Indonesia Racist insults, verbal abuse, long working hours with few breaks and pay below the legal minimum wage are "common workplace experiences" of migrant workers in the Irish fishing sector, says a new study. The report, conducted by Maynooth University's Department of Law, comes four months after a damning assessment by the US state department over Ireland's failure to combat human trafficking, which stated that undocumented workers on Irish vessels are vulnerable to trafficking and forced labour. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Damascus: charred wreckage of bus after bombing kills 14 – video Posted: 20 Oct 2021 02:00 AM PDT A bomb attack in Damascus has killed 14 people and left three injured, Syrian state TV Sana reported, releasing video of emergency services searching the charred remains of a bus. Two bombs targeted the military bus on Wednesday morning, the deadliest attack in the Syrian capital since a bombing claimed by Islamic State at the Justice Palace in March 2017 that killed at least 30. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the bus bombing but soon after the attack shelling by government forces killed eight people in Idlib region, which is controlled by groups that have claimed to have carried out such attacks in the past Continue reading... |
| Credit Suisse fined £350m over Mozambique ‘tuna bonds’ loan scandal Posted: 19 Oct 2021 02:24 PM PDT Bank also pleads guilty to wire fraud and forgives hundred of millions of dollars of debt owed by country Credit Suisse has been fined nearly £350m by global regulators, pleaded guilty to wire fraud, and agreed to forgive hundreds of millions of dollars worth of debt owed by Mozambique in an attempt to draw a line under the long-running "tuna bonds" loan scandal. The Swiss banking company had been accused of "serious" failings in its financial crime controls by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), and has entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the US Department of Justice that will put the bank under heavy monitoring for three years after having "defrauded US and international investors". Continue reading... |
| Millions in US hope plan to expand dental care survives cuts to Biden’s bill Posted: 20 Oct 2021 02:00 AM PDT Build Back Better plan wants to expand Medicare to include oral coverage for millions of older and disabled Americans Dory Adams, 67, who lives outside Atlanta, was diagnosed with osteoradionecrosis due to radiation treatment she received in 1999 for oral cancer. Effectively, the radiation weakened the bone in her jaw. "I have endured hours and hours of trauma and pain in the dental chair, and paid thousands of dollars, only to find out that I have lost my battle to osteoradionecrosis," said Adams. "I live with pain every single day with every single bite. My jaw creaks and pops when I talk and chew. It constantly reminds me, relentlessly, that I am scarred." Continue reading... |
| ‘Haitians are kidnapped every day’: missionary abductions shed light on growing crisis Posted: 20 Oct 2021 02:00 AM PDT Kidnappings of 16 Americans and a Canadian in Port-au-Prince come as hundreds of local residents face similar targeting, with at least 628 abductions so far this year Firel Joseph was driving through Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, one evening this year when he noticed a white Toyota Land Cruiser with official license plates trailing close to his rear bumper. Assuming the other driver wanted to overtake him, the 44-year-old development worker gave way. Then things took a hellish turn. The car skidded to a halt in front of Joseph, while another vehicle appeared behind, boxing him in. Six men, wearing flak jackets and armed with rifles, piled out of the Land Cruiser, moving with military discipline. Continue reading... |
| Government defeats Labor push to refer Christian Porter to privileges committee over trust Posted: 20 Oct 2021 01:58 AM PDT Speaker Tony Smith agrees 'prima facie case' to examine whether former attorney general breached disclosure rules but Coalition votes down referral The Morrison government has blocked Labor's bid to refer Christian Porter to the privileges committee over his declaration that part of his defamation legal fees were paid by a blind trust with funds from an unknown source. The Speaker of the house, Tony Smith, on Wednesday agreed there was a "prima facie case" Porter should be investigated for a possible breach of disclosure rules, but the government voted down the referral, the first time that's happened since federation. Continue reading... |
| Trump's actions posed 'unique and existential threat to our democracy,' says Jen Psaki – video Posted: 19 Oct 2021 01:32 PM PDT White House press secretary Jen Psaki responded to a question from a reporter about the former president filing a lawsuit to try to shield White House documents from subpoenas issued by the House select committee investigating the Capitol insurrection. Psaki said Trump had attempted to subvert the peaceful transfer of power. Continue reading... |
| Indian couple float to wedding in cooking pot after floods in Kerala – video Posted: 19 Oct 2021 04:53 AM PDT A bride and groom use an aluminium vessel to reach a temple in the village of Thalavady. 'It has turned into a wedding that we never imagined,' the bride told local news channel Asianet Continue reading... |
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