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- Secret group of US military trainers has been in Taiwan for at least a year
- Nobel peace prize 2021: journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov win – live
- China orders coalmines to raise production to address power crunch
- US nuclear-powered submarine hits submerged object in South China Sea
- Polish court rules EU laws incompatible with its constitution
- Senate approves short-term deal to raise debt ceiling and avert economic crisis
- China’s noisy ‘dancing grannies’ silenced by device that disables speakers
- Nevada judge recommends dismissal of Cristiano Ronaldo rape case
- Reports of physical and sexual violence as Libya arrests 5,000 migrants in a week
- ‘It was a nice break from everything’: two men rescued after 29 days lost at sea
- Coronavirus report warned of impact on UK four years before pandemic
- Coronavirus live: UK government aims to replace PCR tests with lateral flow tests for international travel
- Ministers criticised for ‘haphazard’ Covid jab rollout for teenagers in England
- ‘I’d like to get my daughter vaccinated soon – I fear she will be next to get Covid’
- ‘If there is a God, this is what he put us on Earth to do’: the unlikely return of Tears for Fears
- Manila’s newly homeless tell of survival in lockdown – photo essay
- You be the judge: ‘Can I ask my tenant to stop working out on the front porch?’
- Experience: I was shot by a sniper
- ‘Total loss of confidence’: Franco-British relations plumb new depths
- A new start after 60: ‘I had the most dishonest dark hair imaginable. So at 65 I shaved it all off’
- Sewage could leave Windermere lake ‘ecologically dead’
- Tenant organizers poised to secure significant protections for US renters
- Canada invited Chelsea Manning to country just so she could be thrown out
- Tony Abbott raises fears China ‘could lash out disastrously’ as Taiwan tensions grow
- Covid vaccine booster shots: why are third jabs needed and who in Australia is eligible?
- England’s last ‘red list’ restrictions confound South Americans
- Saudi-backed Newcastle takeover as much about status as sportswashing
- Stranded Britons call for urgent evacuation from Afghanistan – video
| Secret group of US military trainers has been in Taiwan for at least a year Posted: 07 Oct 2021 11:07 AM PDT Small contingent of US special forces and marines training local forces in latest sign of rising US-China tensions The US has been secretly maintaining a small contingent of military trainers in Taiwan for at least a year, according to a new report, the latest sign of the rising stakes in US-China rivalry. About two dozen US special forces soldiers and an unspecified number of marines are now training Taiwanese forces, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The trainers were first sent to Taiwan by the Trump administration but their presence had not been reported until now. Continue reading... |
| Nobel peace prize 2021: journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov win – live Posted: 08 Oct 2021 02:29 AM PDT Nobel committee awards the 2021 peace prize to journalists from Philippines and Russia for 'efforts to safeguard freedom of expression' The 2021 Nobel peace price has been awarded to the journalists and free speech activists Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia. The committee chair, Berit Reiss-Andersen, says the awards have been made for "their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace." Continue reading... |
| China orders coalmines to raise production to address power crunch Posted: 08 Oct 2021 12:36 AM PDT Record high prices and shortages of electricity have crippled industrial output Chinese officials have ordered more than 70 mines in Inner Mongolia to increase coal production by almost 100m tonnes, with the country battling its worst power crunch and coal shortages in years. The move is the latest attempt by Chinese authorities to boost coal supply amid record high prices and shortages of electricity that have led to power rationing across the country, crippling industrial output. Continue reading... |
| US nuclear-powered submarine hits submerged object in South China Sea Posted: 07 Oct 2021 04:29 PM PDT Attack class submarine USS Connecticut hit an unknown object on routine operations and is in a 'safe and stable' condition, US navy says A nuclear powered US navy attack submarine has struck an object while submerged in international waters in the South China Sea, officials have said. Eleven sailors were hurt – two suffered moderate injuries and the rest had minor scrapes and bruises, officials said. All were treated on the sub. Continue reading... |
| Polish court rules EU laws incompatible with its constitution Posted: 07 Oct 2021 11:18 AM PDT Country takes big step towards 'legal Polexit' against backdrop of rows between ruling nationalists and Brussels Poland's constitutional tribunal has ruled that some EU laws are in conflict with the country's constitution, taking a major step towards a "legal Polexit" with far-reaching consequences for Warsaw's funding and future relations with the bloc. The tribunal, whose legitimacy is contested after multiple appointments of judges loyal to the ruling nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party, said some provisions of EU treaties and EU court rulings clashed with Poland's highest law, adding that EU institutions "act beyond the scope of their competences". Continue reading... |
| Senate approves short-term deal to raise debt ceiling and avert economic crisis Posted: 07 Oct 2021 05:49 PM PDT Agreement would extend US borrowing authority into December but larger disputes remain The US Senate has approved a deal to extend the government's borrowing authority into December. The compromise between Republican and Democratic leaders would temporarily avert an unprecedented federal default that experts say would have devastated the economy. With a 50-48 vote, senators agreed to increase the borrowing limit by $480bn, sufficient to prevent the US government from defaulting by keeping debt payments up until 3 December. Continue reading... |
| China’s noisy ‘dancing grannies’ silenced by device that disables speakers Posted: 07 Oct 2021 09:20 PM PDT Many people are too scared to confront the groups of middle-aged and older women who take over public parks and sports grounds to exercise along to music Across China's public parks and squares, in the early hours of the morning or late in the afternoon, the grannies gather. The gangs, made up mostly of middle-aged and older women who went through the Cultural Revolution, take to a corner of a local park or sporting ground and dance in unison to Chinese music. Loud music. Continue reading... |
| Nevada judge recommends dismissal of Cristiano Ronaldo rape case Posted: 07 Oct 2021 01:58 PM PDT
A magistrate judge in Nevada has sided with Cristiano Ronaldo's lawyers against a woman who sued the footballer after saying he raped her in Las Vegas in 2009. In a scathing recommendation to the judge hearing the case, magistrate judge Daniel Albregts on Wednesday blamed Kathryn Mayorga's attorney, Leslie Mark Stovall, for basing the case on leaked and stolen documents that Albregts said were privileged communications between Ronaldo and his lawyers. Continue reading... |
| Reports of physical and sexual violence as Libya arrests 5,000 migrants in a week Posted: 07 Oct 2021 11:00 PM PDT Raids by the security forces leave at least one man dead, as official observers decry 'inhumane' detention conditions More than 5,000 refugees and migrants have been arrested by the Libyan authorities in the past week with some allegedly subjected to severe physical and sexual violence, before being held in increasingly "inhumane conditions" in detention centres in Tripoli. Many of those arrested escaped wars or dictatorships across Africa, and have already undergone years of detention. They were intercepted at sea trying to reach Europe by the EU-supported Libyan coastguard. Continue reading... |
| ‘It was a nice break from everything’: two men rescued after 29 days lost at sea Posted: 07 Oct 2021 09:33 PM PDT Surviving on oranges they'd packed, coconuts from the sea and rainwater they collected, they floated about 400km in the Solomon Sea before being rescued Two men from Solomon Islands who spent 29 days lost at sea after their GPS tracker stopped working have been rescued off the coast of Papua New Guinea – 400 kilometres away from where their journey began. Livae Nanjikana and Junior Qoloni set out from Mono Island, in Western province, Solomon Islands, on the morning of the 3 September in a small, single 60 horsepower motorboat. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus report warned of impact on UK four years before pandemic Posted: 07 Oct 2021 12:32 PM PDT Exclusive: Report from planning exercise in 2016 alerted government of need to stockpile PPE and set up contact tracing system Senior health officials who war-gamed the impact of a coronavirus hitting the UK, warned four years before the onset of Covid-19 of the need for stockpiles of PPE, a computerised contact tracing system and screening for foreign travellers, the Guardian can reveal. The calls to step up preparations in areas already identified as shortcomings in the government's response to Covid, emerged from a previously unpublished report of a health planning exercise in February 2016 that imagined a coronavirus outbreak. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 08 Oct 2021 02:25 AM PDT Change anticipated to be in place before half-term holidays; Biden says the unvaccinated have 'put our economy at risk'; Papua New Guinea hospitals hit by worst Covid wave yet
In the UK, transport minister Grant Shapps has been on the BBC this morning, and given a little more detail on what the government are expecting people to do in order to travel internationally once testing rules are downgraded from having to take a PCR test to taking a lateral flow test. PA report he told BBC Breakfast said: "If it's positive, you'll automatically receive a PCR test, you'll be in the NHS system, as with the normal test and trace, so you'll get the PCR without having to do anything further, and of course, be asked to isolate. Continue reading... |
| Ministers criticised for ‘haphazard’ Covid jab rollout for teenagers in England Posted: 07 Oct 2021 10:00 PM PDT Parents raise the alarm as Nadhim Zahawi admits he has no idea how many 12- to 15-year-olds have been vaccinated Ministers have been accused of losing a grip on the Covid vaccination programme for teenagers with headteachers and parents describing a "haphazard" and "incredibly slow" rollout that is causing disruption in schools in England. They raised the alarm as Nadhim Zahawi, the education secretary, admitted he had no idea how many 12- to 15-year-olds had had their jabs, with early figures suggesting the government has little hope of hitting its target of vaccinating them all by half-term Continue reading... |
| ‘I’d like to get my daughter vaccinated soon – I fear she will be next to get Covid’ Posted: 07 Oct 2021 10:00 PM PDT Parents worry as cancelled jabs and a dearth of information hit the UK Covid jab plan for 12- to 15-year-olds "In my daughter's school there are no signs of vaccines so far. No consent forms received either," said Arancha Bueno, who lives in Kent and has two children. She is not alone. Many parents who contacted the Guardian in response to a call-out about the Covid vaccine programme for 12- 15-year-olds were still waiting to hear when their child might be vaccinated, their schools left often in the dark too. Continue reading... |
| ‘If there is a God, this is what he put us on Earth to do’: the unlikely return of Tears for Fears Posted: 07 Oct 2021 10:00 PM PDT When personal tragedy struck Roland Orzabal, he found solace returning to a band with its own fractious history. Now, with their first album in 17 years, he and Curt Smith say they've come full circle Some years ago, Curt Smith, the singer and songwriter best known as one half of Tears for Fears, found himself in Vancouver. He was filming one of several guest spots he made on the US TV detective series Psych, and after work that day he joined the rest of the cast at a local karaoke bar. There, before the stage, Smith was struck by the idea to get up and sing one of his band's most famous hits, 1985's UK platinum-selling Everybody Wants to Rule the World. How hilarious it would be, he thought, when people clocked that he was the actual singer of the song. "And no one paid a blind bit of attention," he says now. "No one! They didn't realise it was me." Continue reading... |
| Manila’s newly homeless tell of survival in lockdown – photo essay Posted: 07 Oct 2021 10:30 PM PDT As Covid hit, thousands of Filipinos were left trapped in the capital without work. Many ended up on the street and are still waiting to rebuild their lives Like so many others before her, Michelle Sicat, a 28-year-old single mother from the province of Nueva Ecija, had come to Metro Manila to get a job to support her family. She left her daughter with her parents so she could work as a shop assistant in one of the city's busiest commercial districts. Sicat's sacrifice was one that many Filipinos from rural areas have to make. Despite missing home, Sicat was happy to have a job. But then the Covid-19 pandemic struck. The Philippine government placed the entire island of Luzon – where the Metro Manila region is located – under the strictest level of lockdown. The restrictions forced most businesses to close. Most people were ordered to stay at home. For many living on the streets, there is no shelter from the elements Continue reading... |
| You be the judge: ‘Can I ask my tenant to stop working out on the front porch?’ Posted: 08 Oct 2021 12:00 AM PDT In our new column, we air both sides of a domestic disagreement – and ask you to deliver a verdict. My lodger works out on our front porch, but it's on a well-lit road and draws a lot of attention Continue reading... |
| Experience: I was shot by a sniper Posted: 08 Oct 2021 02:00 AM PDT The road below was lined with tanks rolling out. Troops flooded the streets. The roof started shaking The third of October 1993 was a beautiful day in Moscow. The sky was blue, the streets were busy and the air was chilly. I was a US paralegal living my best 23-year-old life, with a head full of dreams and a job at an international law firm. I grew up in New Jersey, then rural Pennsylvania. At university I did politics and Russian studies, and took a class in US and Soviet relations. I was fascinated by these two countries at odds. Continue reading... |
| ‘Total loss of confidence’: Franco-British relations plumb new depths Posted: 07 Oct 2021 10:00 PM PDT Analysis: insiders say French belief that No 10 cannot be trusted has intensified amid Brexit, Covid, migration and Aukus The British embassy in Paris held a splendid James Bond soiree this week, guests in black tie and evening dress sipping Bollinger and Martinis shaken, not stirred, playing blackjack and admiring the gleaming Aston Martin DB5 in the courtyard. As projections of British soft power go, it was as potent as any could wish for. Except, as one experienced observer said: "There don't seem to be many French policy people about." Another wondered: "Were they not invited – or didn't they come?" Continue reading... |
| A new start after 60: ‘I had the most dishonest dark hair imaginable. So at 65 I shaved it all off’ Posted: 07 Oct 2021 10:00 PM PDT When her daughter's hair began to turn grey, Marsha Coupé decided she had to say goodbye to her own dyed locks. It was like being reborn For her first 65 years, Marsha Coupé had dark hair. She wore it in a blunt pageboy style, with red lipstick. She was wedded to her look, she says. Six weeks ago, she got a No 1 shave. Afterwards, she looked at the floor of the salon in her home town of Davis, California. Seeing the black locks scattered, she put her hands to her head. "I could not believe how good it felt. Like a baby's head," she says, rubbing her scalp as she speaks. "Almost like you're a baby who just got born." It was Coupé's daughter, Antoinette, 48, who suggested the cut. "She said: 'Mom, hair is an accessory. Women make too big a deal. Every woman should shave her head at least once,'" Coupé says. Tell us: has your life taken a new direction after the age of 60? Continue reading... |
| Sewage could leave Windermere lake ‘ecologically dead’ Posted: 08 Oct 2021 02:20 AM PDT Campaigners say combination of waste from local plant as well as private septic tanks to blame Windermere could become "ecologically dead" because of the amount of sewage being pumped into its waters, campaigners have warned. Pictures show algal blooms across the surface of the lake. Campaigners say there is also evidence of dead fish and invertebrates, indicating the waters are not healthy. Continue reading... |
| Tenant organizers poised to secure significant protections for US renters Posted: 08 Oct 2021 02:00 AM PDT Pandemic housing crisis brought new attention to need for eviction protection and affordable housing Ever since Faith Plank's family was evicted from North Fork mobile home park in Morehead, Kentucky in March, the 17-year-old has been balancing school and work to help her mom afford the $825 increase in rent at their new apartment. In late September, the teenager's packed schedule grew to include another pressure-filled event: she chaired a meeting with the White House about pandemic evictions as part of a tenant delegation in Washington. Continue reading... |
| Canada invited Chelsea Manning to country just so she could be thrown out Posted: 07 Oct 2021 09:34 AM PDT Bizarre request made ahead of immigration hearing for Manning, whose previous attempts to enter Canada have been denied Canadian government lawyers recently invited US whistleblower Chelsea Manning to travel to a hearing in Montreal – so that border agents could then physically remove her from the country. The bizarre request, which was eventually denied by an adjudicator, was made ahead of an immigration hearing set to begin on Thursday for Manning, whose previous attempts to enter Canada have been denied. This article was amended on 7 October 2021 to correct a city name that was misspelled. Continue reading... |
| Tony Abbott raises fears China ‘could lash out disastrously’ as Taiwan tensions grow Posted: 08 Oct 2021 01:02 AM PDT The former Australian prime minister uses a speech in Taipei to call on Beijing to 'scale back the aggression' The former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott has raised fears Beijing "could lash out disastrously very soon" amid growing tensions over the future of Taiwan – and argued the US and Australia could not stand idly by. Delivering a keynote address to a regional forum in Taipei on Friday, Abbott dismissed claims that Australian officials were beating the "drums of war", while calling on Beijing to "scale back the aggression". Continue reading... |
| Covid vaccine booster shots: why are third jabs needed and who in Australia is eligible? Posted: 08 Oct 2021 02:01 AM PDT Australia will offer vaccine booster doses to severely immunocompromised people after a recommendation from the regulator Severely immunocompromised Australians will be able to get Covid-19 vaccine boosters from Monday, after Australia's vaccine regulatory body approved the jab for the vulnerable section of the community. In advice released on Friday, the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (Atagi) recommended the third vaccine dose for all people aged above 12 who either have conditions that severely weaken their immune defences, as well as patients receiving cancer treatment and other therapies. Continue reading... |
| England’s last ‘red list’ restrictions confound South Americans Posted: 07 Oct 2021 03:35 PM PDT Lingering quarantine rules anger would-be travellers from seven targeted countries England's decision to maintain strict Covid travel rules for seven South American and Caribbean countries has prompted further fury and confusion in the nations which remain on the "red list". Ministers announced on Thursday that restrictions would be lifted for 47 countries – including Brazil, South Africa and Thailand – allowing travellers to enter England without being subject to draconian and expensive quarantine restrictions. Continue reading... |
| Saudi-backed Newcastle takeover as much about status as sportswashing Posted: 07 Oct 2021 11:41 AM PDT Riyadh will hope acquisition can not only improve kingdom's image but also serve as a highly conspicuous display of wealth From heavyweight boxing to horse racing, from wrestling events to a grand prix; Saudi Arabia's association with sport has become an integral, and contentious, part of its efforts to rebrand. But its latest play – taking a majority stake in Newcastle United Football Club – is the kingdom's boldest move yet, placing it firmly on the world's sporting stage, and squarely in the crosshairs of its critics. Continue reading... |
| Stranded Britons call for urgent evacuation from Afghanistan – video Posted: 07 Oct 2021 09:03 AM PDT A group of 20 men hold British passports and call for help for themselves and their families to leave Afghanistan in a recorded message aimed at UK officials. More than 60 British nationals stranded in Afghanistan have criticised the UK government for abandoning them in an increasingly dangerous situation Continue reading... |
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