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Xi Jinping vows Taiwan’s ‘reunification’ with China will be fulfilled
Biden overrules Trump effort to keep White House files from 6 January panel
Hong Kong University orders removal of Tiananmen Square massacre statue
Texas’ restrictive abortion law temporarily reinstated one day after being blocked
US to hold talks with Taliban over easing evacuations
Germany investigates possible ‘sonic weapon attack’ against US embassy staff
Progressive Democrats draw strength from muscle-flexing in Congress
Air India: Tata Sons conglomerate seals $2.4bn takeover deal
Cambridge colleges accused of exploiting ‘gig economy’ tutors
Saudi aide accused of directing Khashoggi murder edges back to power
Coronavirus news: Brazil passes 600,000 deaths; Covid dramatically worsened global mental health – study
Could the global Covid death toll be millions higher than thought?
Study finds Covid-19 pandemic worsened mental health around the world
‘They told me I was grown up enough to keep a secret’: exclusive extract from Silverview, John le Carré’s final novel
The silence of Donald Trump: how Twitter’s ban is cramping his style
Netflix’s Squid Game owes its popularity to anxieties of modern life
‘Welcome to the party’: five past tech whistleblowers on the pitfalls of speaking out
Jodie Comer: ‘I’ve had to know my own worth. ’Cos there’ll always be someone to question that’
Roger Taylor: ‘My most treasured possession? A massive statue of Freddie’
TfL granted injunction against Insulate Britain protesters after arrests
Aeroflot: a history of the Soviet airline – in pictures
Five migrants shot dead at Libyan detention centre amid mass escape
Angeliena review – car park worker dreams of getaway in cartoonish South African drama
Mexico police intercept 652 Central American migrants in three cargo trucks
In Rodrigo Duterte’s war on press freedom, Maria Ressa stands up for the truth | Rachel Obordo
Victoria reports record cases and Virgin Australia crew member tests positive – as it happened
Turkey’s border wall and deported Haitians: human rights this fortnight – in pictures
Zimbabwean who cleared Falklands mines urges rethink on 75% cut to clearance programmes
Moment Maria Ressa learns of Nobel peace prize win during Zoom call – video
Nobel peace prize winner Maria Ressa: 'A world without facts means a world without truth' – video
Thai restaurant makes waves as customers flock for flood dining – video

Xi Jinping vows Taiwan’s ‘reunification’ with China will be fulfilled

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 10:51 PM PDT

Chinese president says island's 'independence separatism' is a 'danger to national rejuvenation' following a week of tension

China's president, Xi Jinping, has vowed to realise "reunification" with Taiwan, without mentioning the use of force, after a week of tensions.

Taiwan responded shortly after by calling on Beijing to abandon its coercion, reiterating that only Taiwan's people could decide their future.

Biden overrules Trump effort to keep White House files from 6 January panel

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 03:07 PM PDT

The National Archives told to give documents to House committee despite ex-president's attempt assert executive privilege

Joe Biden has blocked an attempt by former US president Donald Trump to withhold documents from Congress related to the 6 January insurrection at the US Capitol.

Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, said Biden authorized the National Archives, a government agency that holds records from Trump's time in office, to turn over an initial batch of documents requested by a House of Representatives select committee investigating the riot.

Hong Kong University orders removal of Tiananmen Square massacre statue

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 06:12 PM PDT

Pillar of Shame to be taken down amid China-imposed crackdown, with its Danish sculptor 'shocked' at plan to 'desecrate' memorial

The University of Hong Kong has ordered the removal of a statue commemorating protesters killed in China's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.

The 8-metre-high (26ft) copper statue was the centrepiece of Hong Kong's candlelit vigils on 4 June to commemorate those killed when Chinese troops backed by tanks opened fire on unarmed pro-democracy campaigners in Beijing.

Texas’ restrictive abortion law temporarily reinstated one day after being blocked

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 07:26 PM PDT

A New Orleans-based appeals court quickly granted the state's request to set aside a suspension until the case is reviewed

A federal appeals court on Friday night allowed Texas to temporarily resume banning most abortions, just one day after clinics across the state began rushing to serve patients again for the first time since early September.

Abortion providers in Texas had been bracing for the 5th US court of appeals to act quickly, even as they booked new appointments and reopened their doors during a brief reprieve from the law known as Senate Bill 8, which bans abortions once cardiac activity is detected, usually around six weeks.

US to hold talks with Taliban over easing evacuations

Posted: 09 Oct 2021 12:48 AM PDT

Focus of talks in Qatar will be allowing foreigners and at-risk Afghans to leave Afghanistan, says US official

US officials will meet senior Taliban figures this weekend for talks aimed at easing the evacuation of foreign citizens and at-risk Afghans from Afghanistan, a US official said.

The focus of talks on Saturday and Sunday in Doha, Qatar, would be holding Afghanistan's Taliban leaders to commitments that they would allow Americans and other foreign nationals to leave, along with Afghans who once worked for the US military or government and other Afghan allies, the official said.

Germany investigates possible ‘sonic weapon attack’ against US embassy staff

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 12:22 PM PDT

Police have been investigating possible cases of 'Havana Syndrome' associated with the diplomatic mission since August

German police are investigating an "alleged sonic weapon attack" against staff of the US embassy in Berlin, in the latest in a growing number of incidents of "Havana syndrome" around the world.

The police statement, which said the investigation had been under way since August, was issued on Friday in response to a report in Der Spiegel, which said the inquiry into at least two cases had been opened on the basis of evidence handed over by the US embassy.

Progressive Democrats draw strength from muscle-flexing in Congress

Posted: 09 Oct 2021 01:45 AM PDT

The left of the party is celebrating holding firm on insisting on both parts of Biden's domestic agenda over centrist objections

When House Democrats were forced to delay their planned vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill earlier this month, the reaction from progressives was a bit surprising considering it is a key part of Joe Biden's domestic agenda.

Rather than lamenting the delay of the vote, progressive groups praised the Democratic lawmakers who had demanded the scheduling change.

Air India: Tata Sons conglomerate seals $2.4bn takeover deal

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 07:24 PM PDT

Same group founded airline in 1932 before it was nationalised in 1953 and since fell into heavy debt

India's oldest and largest conglomerate, Tata Sons, will take over the country's debt-laden national carrier Air India.

Its winning bid of 180bn rupees ($2.4bn) beat India's SpiceJet chief, Ajay Singh, who offered 151bn rupees.

Cambridge colleges accused of exploiting ‘gig economy’ tutors

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 10:00 PM PDT

Nearly half of undergraduate tutorials are delivered by staff who lack proper contracts, research shows

Colleges at the University of Cambridge have been accused of using overworked and underpaid gig economy workers to provide the institution's famous one-on-one tutoring system.

Research by members of the University and College Union found nearly half of undergraduate tutorials, or "supervisions" as they are known, are delivered by precariously employed staff who lack proper contracts. One-third of supervisors are postgraduate students or freelancers, including those who have recently completed their PhDs.

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Saudi aide accused of directing Khashoggi murder edges back to power

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 10:29 AM PDT

Saud al-Qahtani, aide to Mohammed bin Salman, hailed as patriot on pro-government social media

Three years after the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi royal court adviser accused of directing the murder is being quietly reintroduced by pro-government influencers as a patriotic figure who has served his country well.

Social media accounts that back the Saudi leadership have in recent months been posting tributes to Saud al-Qahtani, a chief aide to crown prince and Saudi Arabia's effective leader, Mohammed bin Salman, in a move that is seen as marking his gradual return to the seat of Saudi power. Qahtani vanished from public view in the aftermath of the gruesome killing in Istanbul that shocked the world and almost derailed his boss's path to the throne.

Coronavirus news: Brazil passes 600,000 deaths; Covid dramatically worsened global mental health – study

Posted: 09 Oct 2021 02:11 AM PDT

Brazil's average daily death toll has been about 500 for a month; study finds cases of anxiety and depression increased in 2020

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A data scientist and economics student joined forces in search of the real pandemic death toll – and the results are startling

The government is considering scrapping free Covid-19 tests in the UK to save money, it has been reported.

Could the global Covid death toll be millions higher than thought?

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 03:21 AM PDT

A data scientist and economics student joined forces in search of the real pandemic death toll – and the results are startling

For the past 18 months, hunkered down in his Tel Aviv apartment, Ariel Karlinsky has scoured the web for data that could help him calculate the true death toll of Covid-19.

Study finds Covid-19 pandemic worsened mental health around the world

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 03:30 PM PDT

Estimated 76m extra cases of anxiety and 53m extra cases of depression during pandemic, say researchers

Cases of anxiety and depression around the world increased dramatically in 2020, researchers have found, with an estimated 76m extra cases of anxiety and 53m extra cases of major depressive disorder than would have been expected had Covid not struck.

The study is the latest to suggest the pandemic has taken a serious toll on mental health, and that women and young people are more likely to be affected than men or older people.

‘They told me I was grown up enough to keep a secret’: exclusive extract from Silverview, John le Carré’s final novel

Posted: 09 Oct 2021 01:45 AM PDT

Morals and duty clash in le Carré's tale of a bookseller caught in a spy leak

• Fintan O'Toole on the last twist in le Carré's tale

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The silence of Donald Trump: how Twitter’s ban is cramping his style

Posted: 09 Oct 2021 02:00 AM PDT

The ex-president once had a direct line to 8 million followers – now he's suing to get back on the platform he made his own

It was just like old times. On Wednesday alone, Donald Trump issued pronouncements on a potential war with China, what Congress should do about the debt ceiling, false claims of a stolen election and his Fox News ally "the great Sean Hannity".

But how many people noticed?

Netflix’s Squid Game owes its popularity to anxieties of modern life

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 11:00 PM PDT

It's the first South Korean drama to top the US TV charts and its core message is 'can I ever repay this debt?'

Squid Game, a Netflix series made in Korea by Hwang Dong-hyuk, was released on 17 September and within 10 days was the platform's highest ranking show in 90 countries. It's the first time a Korean drama has ever been at the top of the US charts; 95% of the viewers are outside Korea, capsizing the idea that the younger generation won't read subtitles. I managed to kid myself the other day that my 12-year-old daughter had watched so many episodes in a single session she was effectively reading a book.

The premise: 456 people are catastrophically in debt, and they're competing for untold riches in a series of feats that are sometimes whimsical, sometimes terrifying, usually both. They might have to carve round a honeycomb shape with a pin, or stay stock still while a giant robot shouts "red light" at them. Two downsides – if you lose, you get shot in the head. And there can be only one winner.

‘Welcome to the party’: five past tech whistleblowers on the pitfalls of speaking out

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 10:00 PM PDT

Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower, joined a growing list of Silicon Valley former employees to call out company policies

When Frances Haugen revealed she was the Facebook whistleblower who supplied internal documents to Congress and the Wall Street Journal, she joined a growing list of current and former Silicon Valley employees who've come forward to call out military contracts, racism, sexism, contributions to climate crisis, pay disparities and more in the industry.

In the past days, the Guardian spoke with five former employees of Amazon, Google, and Pinterest who've spoken out about their companies' policies. The conversations revealed Haugen's experience has been singular in some respects. Few of them received the international praise bestowed upon her. Some of them said they have faced termination, retaliation, harassment and prolonged litigation.

Jodie Comer: ‘I’ve had to know my own worth. ’Cos there’ll always be someone to question that’

Posted: 09 Oct 2021 12:00 AM PDT

From Killing Eve's assassin to Help's broken care worker, the home-grown superstar has proved she can do anything. As she hits Hollywood, can she keep it real?

Fist bump? Quick, slappy handshake? Standoffish salute? After a brief hesitation, the actor Jodie Comer abandons 18 months of professional caution around hellos, spreads wide her arms, and gathers me in for a big, swaying bear-hug. We've never met or spoken before. "But I'm quite a tactile person," says Comer, who grew up in a suburb of Liverpool and whose scouse accent, which can sharpen or soften depending on the circumstances and her level of comfort, is in full, glorious evidence this afternoon.

The 28-year-old has knocked off early from rehearsals for season four of TV drama Killing Eve, in which she plays a chameleonic assassin called Villanelle. She recently got back from an Italian film festival where her second proper Hollywood movie (an epic called The Last Duel) had its premiere. Her first proper Hollywood movie (a knockabout comedy called Free Guy) is still playing in cinemas, an ad for it plastered on the side of the bus I rode in to meet her today. By choosing a cafe quite close to her rented London flat, we've managed to confound her numerous competing obligations and come together for an actual tea and biscuit, instead of the video call that was originally planned by her diary-keepers.

Roger Taylor: ‘My most treasured possession? A massive statue of Freddie’

Posted: 09 Oct 2021 01:30 AM PDT

The Queen drummer and singer-songwriter on former girlfriends, forgetting lyrics and liking red wine

Born in Norfolk, Roger Taylor, 72, is an original member of the band Queen, which formed in 1970. Their hits include Bohemian Rhapsody, We Will Rock You and Radio Ga Ga. Taylor's new solo album is Outsider, and he is currently on tour in the UK. The Queen + Adam Lambert's Rhapsody European tour takes place next year. Taylor is married, has five children and lives in Surrey and Cornwall.

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When I first heard one of our records on the radio.

TfL granted injunction against Insulate Britain protesters after arrests

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 11:46 AM PDT

Civil banning order applies to 14 locations around London after police arrest 35 climate activists

London's transport network has been granted a high court injunction against Insulate Britain protesters aimed at preventing them from obstructing traffic.

Transport for London (TfL) said the civil banning order, granted on Friday afternoon, applies to 14 locations around the capital including some of its busiest roads and it follows several previous injunctions against members of the group.

Aeroflot: a history of the Soviet airline – in pictures

Posted: 09 Oct 2021 01:00 AM PDT

The story of one of the world's oldest carriers is told through photographs, posters and ephemera in Bruno Vandermueren's book Aeroflot – Fly Soviet, published by FUEL

Five migrants shot dead at Libyan detention centre amid mass escape

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 01:58 PM PDT

Facility in Tripoli overcrowded after 5,000 migrants arrested in the country in past week

At least five migrants have been shot dead at a Tripoli detention centre amid a mass escape from the overcrowded facility.

Libyan security forces have detained more than 5,000 migrants, refugees and asylum seekers mostly from sub-Saharan Africa in a crackdown over the past week, housing them in crowded, unsanitary detention centres, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR has said.

Angeliena review – car park worker dreams of getaway in cartoonish South African drama

Posted: 09 Oct 2021 01:01 AM PDT

Thin characterisation and a superficial critique of wealth inequality post-apartheid keep Uga Carlini's fiction in first gear

The colourful opening of Uga Carlini's Angeliena suggests a giddy ride awaits: the camera follows a suitcase plastered with travel stickers moving along a conveyor belt at an airport. But such vibrant detail only points up the film's lack of emotional substance. A parking attendant for a posh hospital in South Africa, Angeliena (Euodia Samson) dreams of travelling the world, she adorns her little shack with tourist posters from faraway lands. At work, Angeliena brings a glow to the austere parking lot, pinning red roses that she grows herself to the windscreen wipers of fancy SUVs.

Such sweet-natured actions are presumably intended to endear Angeliena to us, yet reduce her to a unidimensional worker with a heart of gold. The thinness of the characterisation is made more pronounced by the cartoonishly evil Dr Mitchell (Colin Moss), the hospital owner and Angeliena's antagonist, a spewer of Trumpian one-liners. Ludicrously, the film takes a tone-deaf turn when Angeliena is revealed to be suffering from an unnamed muscular atrophy that motivates her to finally embark on her world trip. Out of the blue, she develops facial tics. The only affecting sequences are the few-and-far-between gatherings between Angeliena and her eccentric female friends.

Mexico police intercept 652 Central American migrants in three cargo trucks

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 12:01 PM PDT

Discovery is one of biggest of US-bound migrants, with 90% Guatemalans and nearly 200 unaccompanied minors

Police in northern Mexico have discovered more than 600 Central American migrants hiding in three long cargo trucks headed to the United States, in one of the biggest roundups of US-bound migrants by Mexican authorities in years.

Video released by police showed officers prying off a lock from a truck's rear door late on Thursday, and opening it to find migrants in heavy coats and hoods huddled close together on the floor, nearly all of them wearing face masks.

In Rodrigo Duterte’s war on press freedom, Maria Ressa stands up for the truth | Rachel Obordo

Posted: 09 Oct 2021 02:00 AM PDT

As a fellow Filipino journalist, I was inspired by the news that the Rappler founder had won the Nobel peace prize

For the first time, a Filipino person, Maria Ressa, has been awarded the Nobel peace prize – "a win for Filipinos, for journalists, and for the global fight to uphold press freedom," as her colleague Lian Buan puts it.

Ressa, the co-founder and chief executive of the news site Rappler, shares the prize with the Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov in recognition of their individual activism and relentless fights for press freedom. She is a symbol of courage in light of the human rights situation in the Philippines. Since the president, Rodrigo Duterte, took office in 2016, even residents with no link to drugs have been touched by the thousands of extrajudicial killings that have taken place. According to Human Rights Watch, during the Covid lockdown between April and July 2020, the country saw the number of killings increase by more than 50%.

Rachel Obordo is a community journalist for the Guardian

Victoria reports record cases and Virgin Australia crew member tests positive – as it happened

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 11:56 PM PDT

NSW passes the 90% first-jab milestone for its 16-plus population and reports 580 new cases. This blog is now closed

Looks like there was another earthquake overnight near the Vic-SA border.

Not quite as large as the one in Victoria a few weeks ago.

Turkey’s border wall and deported Haitians: human rights this fortnight – in pictures

Posted: 09 Oct 2021 12:00 AM PDT

A roundup of the struggle for human rights and freedoms, from Kenya to France

Zimbabwean who cleared Falklands mines urges rethink on 75% cut to clearance programmes

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 09:32 AM PDT

Cuthbert Mutukwa fears disastrous consequences for home country if UK cuts go ahead as it nears 'mine-free' status

A Zimbabwean man who helped clear hundreds of landmines from the Falkland Islands has urged Britain not to go ahead with cuts that would see the government pull funding from his home country just as it nears "mine-free" status.

Cuthbert Mutukwa, 42, left his family in Zimbabwe to work for two years de-mining the Falkland Islands, the British overseas territory that was peppered with about 13,000 mines by Argentinian forces during the 1982 war.

Moment Maria Ressa learns of Nobel peace prize win during Zoom call – video

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 07:49 AM PDT

Maria Ressa, the journalist and founder of the Philippine news organisation Rappler, said she was 'speechless' after learning of her Nobel peace prize win while participating in a panel discussion on journalism in south-east Asia.

Ressa could be seen answering a call from the Norwegian Nobel committee informing her of her win on the event's live video feed. Reacting with visible shock, she briefly left the panel to continue the call.

'It's a recognition of how we're going to win the battle for truth,' she said, after returning to the discussion. 'We hold the line.'

Nobel peace prize winner Maria Ressa: 'A world without facts means a world without truth' – video

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 04:23 AM PDT

Maria Ressa, the journalist and founder of the Philippine news organisation Rappler, said 'we are fighting for facts' after she was announced the joint-winner of the 2021 Nobel peace prize with the Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov. 'This shows that the Nobel peace prize committee realised that a world without facts means a world without truth and trust,' she said.

Ressa, a former CNN bureau chief, founded Rappler in 2012. She and her organisation have faced threats of closure and arrest after publishing critical coverage of President Rodrigo Duterte's bloody war on drugs. Ressa was named a Time Person of the Year in 2018 for her work on press freedom.

Nobel peace prize 2021: journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov win

Thai restaurant makes waves as customers flock for flood dining – video

Posted: 08 Oct 2021 03:24 AM PDT

Riverside restaurant owner Titiporn Jutimanon was convinced a bout of flooding in Thailand could be the end of a business already struggling from the pandemic. But with the rising tide of the Chao Phraya River this week came an unexpected opportunity. Instead of closing for the floods, Titiporn's eatery is making waves in Thailand, staying open for customers who are revelling in shin-deep dining, and the thrill of avoiding the rush of water set off as boats go by

Thai restaurant rides wave of success as customers flock to dine in floodwaters

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