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- EU agrees new sanctions against Belarus over border crisis
- Austrian police carry out routine checks as unvaccinated enter lockdown
- Ratchets, phase-downs and a fragile agreement: how Cop26 played out
- Liverpool Women’s hospital blast: UK threat level increased to severe after terrorist incident – live updates
- Black boy in stop and search ‘30 times’ accuses Met police of racist profiling
- Concerns grow for Chinese tennis star who accused ex-vice-premier of assault
- Researchers identify 102 students who died at Native American school in Nebraska
- Xi Jinping expected in talks to tell Joe Biden to ‘step back’ on Taiwan
- Priti Patel apologises to man falsely described as extremist hate preacher
- UK calls on France to do more to stop migrants crossing Channel
- Sacré bleu: French flag changes colour – but no one notices
- Covid live news: Belgium to accelerate plan for tighter measures; concern over rising Irish cases
- Covid booster jabs extended to people aged 40 to 49, says JCVI
- Children back at school in Philippines after 20 months of home study
- UK Covid booster jabs policy: what has changed?
- Rob Delaney on love, loss and married life: ‘No, my wife is not having an affair with her karate teacher’
- ‘They could be the visionaries of our world’: do ‘overemotional’ people hold the key to happiness?
- Jeffrey Epstein’s shadow looms over start of Ghislaine Maxwell’s US trial
- The Charlatans: how we made The Only One I Know – ‘I’m still not sure which bit’s the chorus’
- Weight loss, deadlifts and divorce: what we learned from Adele’s One Night Only special
- iPhone 13 Pro Max review: Apple’s heavyweight super phone
- ‘A mirror of now’: the Valencian Nazis who inspired Óscar Aibar’s new film
- Australian women to sue Qatar over invasive strip-search ordeal
- Stop talking, start acting, says Africa’s first extreme heat official
- Steve Bannon surrenders over contempt charges for defying Capitol attack subpoena – live
- We need a new observatory of democracy in the Americas | David Adler and Guillaume Long
- Australian deputy PM mocks Alok Sharma’s emotional reaction at Cop26
- Rising humidity could be linked to increase in suicides, report finds
- Palm oil land grabs ‘trashing’ environment and displacing people
- Floods, sewage and crocodiles: the crisis of the Gambia’s sinking city
| EU agrees new sanctions against Belarus over border crisis Posted: 15 Nov 2021 04:14 AM PST Sanctions to target 'people, airlines, travel agencies and everyone involved in this illegal push of migrants' The European Union has agreed on new sanctions against Belarus targeting "everyone involved" in facilitating the transport of people to Belarus's border with Poland, where thousands are stuck in makeshift camps in freezing weather. The EU accuses Alexander Lukashenko's regime of waging a "hybrid attack" against the bloc by allowing people from the Middle East who are desperate to reach the EU to fly into Minsk then head for the Polish border. Continue reading... |
| Austrian police carry out routine checks as unvaccinated enter lockdown Posted: 15 Nov 2021 03:45 AM PST Experts warn rules will be hard to enforce, as country records highest Covid infection rate in western Europe Police in Austria have begun carrying out routine checks on commuters to ensure compliance with a nationwide "lockdown for the unvaccinated", as the Alpine country tries to get on top of one of the most rapidly rising infection rate in Europe. The restrictions, which came into effect on Monday morning, will affect almost 2 million Austrian citizens aged 12 and older who have so far declined to get a jab against Covid-19, of which the 356,000 people who have been vaccinated only once can be released from lockdown if they can show a negative PCR test. Continue reading... |
| Ratchets, phase-downs and a fragile agreement: how Cop26 played out Posted: 14 Nov 2021 10:00 PM PST Last-minute hitch on coal almost reduced Alok Sharma to tears as Glasgow climate pact made imperfect progress As weary delegates trudged into the Scottish Event Campus on the banks of the Clyde on Saturday, few realised what a mountain they still had to climb. The Cop26 climate talks were long past their official deadline of 6pm on Friday, but there were strong hopes that the big issues had been settled. A deal was tantalisingly close. The "package" on offer was imperfect – before countries even turned up in Glasgow they were meant to have submitted plans that would cut global carbon output by nearly half by 2030, to limit global heating to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. Although most countries submitted plans, they were not strong enough and analysis found they would lead to a disastrous 2.4C of heating. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 15 Nov 2021 07:14 AM PST The UK terrorism threat level increased to severe following hospital blast on Sunday, meaning attack is 'highly likely'
Assistant Chief Constable Russ Jackson, from counter-terrorism policing north-west, said the arrested men were believed to be "associates" of the taxi passenger, PA Media reports. Here's the full report on what we know about the situation so far, from three Guardian reporters, Jamie Grierson, Vikram Dodd and Maya Wolfe-Robinson. |
| Black boy in stop and search ‘30 times’ accuses Met police of racist profiling Posted: 15 Nov 2021 05:02 AM PST Inquiry launched after 14-year-old and his mother from south London lodge complaint against force A 14-year-old black schoolboy has accused the Metropolitan police of racist targeting after claiming he has been stopped by police about 30 times in the last two years. He has not been charged with or convicted of any offence. The boy, who lives in south London with his 41-year-old mother, and hopes to train as an engineer, says he has been stopped and searched so many times by the police that he has become fearful of leaving home. Continue reading... |
| Concerns grow for Chinese tennis star who accused ex-vice-premier of assault Posted: 15 Nov 2021 03:02 AM PST Peng Shuai has not been publicly heard from since she made accusation online on 2 November A growing movement including Chinese feminist groups and international tennis stars is raising concern over the whereabouts of the former Chinese doubles pro Peng Shuai after she accused a senior government figure of sexual assault. Peng, one of China's biggest sporting stars, has not been publicly heard from since a Weibo post on 2 November, in which she alleged the former vice-premier Zhang Gaoli coerced her into sex and that they had an intermittent affair. Continue reading... |
| Researchers identify 102 students who died at Native American school in Nebraska Posted: 15 Nov 2021 05:30 AM PST School was operated by the federal government between 1884 and 1934 and was known for brutal punishments and hard labour Researchers say they have identified more than 100 students who died at a harsh residential school for Native Americans in Genoa, Nebraska. The search for the cemetery where many are believed to be buried continues. The Genoa US Indian School was operated by the federal government between 1884 and 1934. Brutal punishments and hard labour were commonplace for students, large numbers of whom were removed from their families and homelands against their will, prohibited from speaking tribal languages and forced to convert to Christianity in an effort to subdue or eliminate Indian culture. Continue reading... |
| Xi Jinping expected in talks to tell Joe Biden to ‘step back’ on Taiwan Posted: 15 Nov 2021 02:53 AM PST War of words begins before leaders' meeting, with US president warned Taiwan is China's 'ultimate red line' China's president, Xi Jinping, is expected to warn his US counterpart, Joe Biden, to "step back" on the Taiwan issue in their first virtual meeting on Monday evening Washington time, according to Chinese state media. State media outlets such as China Daily are briefed by authorities on important issues such as China-US relations and have been accurate in reflecting the priorities of Chinese leaders. Continue reading... |
| Priti Patel apologises to man falsely described as extremist hate preacher Posted: 15 Nov 2021 02:50 AM PST Dr Salman Butt wins compensation for being described in 2015 press release as someone who legitimises terrorism The home secretary, Priti Patel, has apologised to a Muslim man after the government falsely described him as an extremist hate preacher. Dr Salman Butt, the chief editor of the Islam21c website, was named in a 2015 press release entitled: PM's Extremism Taskforce: tackling extremism in universities and colleges top of the agenda, as someone who legitimises terrorism. When he took legal action against the government, it initially attempted to defend the libel claim by using a defence of "honest opinion". But it has now agreed to delete his name from the press release and pay him compensation and his legal costs. Continue reading... |
| UK calls on France to do more to stop migrants crossing Channel Posted: 15 Nov 2021 06:44 AM PST No 10 responds after French minister's comments that UK is using France as a 'punchbag' in crisis Downing Street has called on the French government to do more to stem the number of people travelling across the Channel in small boats amid a growing diplomatic row over who bears greater responsibility. It follows an intervention from France's interior minister Gérald Darmanin, who claimed that his country is being treated like a "punchbag" by a UK government which has failed to sort out its unregulated labour market. Continue reading... |
| Sacré bleu: French flag changes colour – but no one notices Posted: 15 Nov 2021 05:01 AM PST Blue part of flags flying around Élysée Palace was made darker in July last year but change went largely unnoticed Emmanuel Macron's office has darkened the blue in the French flags flying around the Élysée Palace to bring the tricolore in line with how it looked after the French revolution. Presidential aides said the change happened in July last year, but nobody appears to have noticed until now. Continue reading... |
| Covid live news: Belgium to accelerate plan for tighter measures; concern over rising Irish cases Posted: 15 Nov 2021 06:52 AM PST Belgium to act amid rising cases and hospital admissions; Irish cabinet 'extremely concerned' by rise in cases after lockdown ended
In the UK, Conservative party chairman Oliver Dowden has backed AstraZeneca's controversial announcement that it is moving to seek a profit from its Covid vaccine sales. Britain's biggest pharma firm late last week said it expects the vaccine to move to "modest profitability" as new orders are received. This morning on Sky News, asked about it, Dowden said: Well, I think the drug companies like AstraZeneca, who invested huge amounts of money into the vaccine programme, are entitled to have a profit from their investment. Actually, if you look at the Oxford AstraZeneca model, and contrast it to others around the world, the number of very, very low cost doses that are made available particularly to developing countries is an exemplary model. If we look at his year, compared with where we were last year, of course it's not just the overall number of cases, hospital admissions and deaths we need to look at, but also the trends. If we look at that, we can see that although there has been quite a lot of variation over the past few weeks, and we're still reporting very high numbers of cases, the total number of daily hospitalisations and the total number of deaths are quite long way below where we were in November last year, which should give us some level of confidence. If we look at the situation in Germany, for example, over the past couple of weeks cases have been rising in a really concerning way. And that's the really key thing in terms of whether we need to react in response to what's going on in Europe. When we already have a high number of cases, it doesn't necessarily mean we need more restrictions to prevent what might come in from Europe, but really what it actually is, is a message that really shows us how important it is to get vaccinated so that we do prevent cases starting to rise again and of course that's spilling over into hospital admissions. I think there's some really tough decisions that have to be made actually over the next few weeks. When it gets to younger people what they have to look at is the benefits and the risks to the individual. And the thing with very young children is generally they don't get very sick. But by vaccinating them it protects the rest of the population indirectly, so that's the decision that the government guided by Joint Committee for Vaccinations and Immunisations are going to have to make over the next few weeks Continue reading... |
| Covid booster jabs extended to people aged 40 to 49, says JCVI Posted: 15 Nov 2021 05:52 AM PST Extension approved by government's vaccine watchdog as well as second doses for 16- and 17-year-olds Covid booster vaccines can be extended to those aged between 40 and 49 in the UK after being approved by the government's vaccines watchdog, which also gave approval for teenagers aged 16 and 17 to receive second jabs. While such decisions are devolved, all devolved nations tend to accept JCVI guidance. Ministers in England, Scotland and Wales have already said they would extend boosters. Continue reading... |
| Children back at school in Philippines after 20 months of home study Posted: 15 Nov 2021 05:39 AM PST Pilot scheme launched in what is thought to be the last country to reopen schools since March 2020 Thousands of children have returned to their classrooms after more than 18 months of home study in the Philippines, thought to be the last country to reopen schools since the start of the pandemic. On Monday morning, 120 schools began on-site lessons through a pilot project. Footage by the broadcaster ABS CBN showed children at a school in Alaminos line up outside to take their temperatures, complete a health form and wash their hands before entering class. Continue reading... |
| UK Covid booster jabs policy: what has changed? Posted: 15 Nov 2021 07:01 AM PST JCVI changes guidance on boosters for people aged 40-49 and second jabs for 16- and 17-year-olds Until now, Covid booster jabs were only being offered to adults aged 50 and older, and those in at-risk groups. This is now being extended to include all adults aged 40 to 49, with England, Wales and Scotland so far saying they would enact the new policy and Northern Ireland expected to follow suit. This third jab will be given six months or more after the second dose. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 14 Nov 2021 10:00 PM PST The star of Catastrophe and Home Sweet Home Alone answers your questions on everything from family tragedy to the value of comedy Rob Delaney – comedian, actor, writer, tweeter, activist – co-wrote and co-starred in the Channel 4 sitcom Catastrophe with Sharon Horgan. Now he has a starring role in the film Home Sweet Home Alone. He has also written and spoken movingly about the death of his two-year-old son, Henry. Here, he answers questions from readers about all of this, as well as being an American in London – and how he keeps his hair looking so great. When you were offered the role in Home Sweet Home Alone, did you hesitate and think that maybe another remake of a successful movie would be pointless? Bernard Hautecler, Brussels, Belgium Continue reading... |
| ‘They could be the visionaries of our world’: do ‘overemotional’ people hold the key to happiness? Posted: 15 Nov 2021 02:00 AM PST One in five of us struggle to cope with everyday smells, sounds and images. Rather than a weakness, this extreme sensitivity could be a strength in everything from the pandemic to the climate crisis "I feel I'm too sensitive for this world," says Lena, who can't cope with crowds or bright lights. Melissa gets her husband to watch films before her to see if she will be able to handle any violence, gore or scariness. When their grownup children bring the grandchildren round, she has to retreat to another room because their "loud laughter, the talking over each other, their swearing and their smells overwhelm me". Lucia says she can feel "each and every fibre of her clothes" and it feels very ticklish or uncomfortable at times. Sometimes, she has to stop during sex with her partner because it becomes "too ticklish". Lena, Melissa and Lucia would all describe themselves as highly sensitive, a label that could be applied to up to 20% of us, according to the US-based psychologist Elaine Aron, who started studying high sensitivity in the early 90s, and published her influential book The Highly Sensitive Person in 1996. Continue reading... |
| Jeffrey Epstein’s shadow looms over start of Ghislaine Maxwell’s US trial Posted: 14 Nov 2021 10:00 PM PST Arrested in New Hampshire last year, Maxwell is charged with alleged sex crimes, conspiracy and perjury related to Epstein When jury selection starts in earnest on Tuesday for British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking trial in Manhattan federal court, many observers might think that they will finally learn the full truth about the crimes of her consort, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein – and any subsequent cover-ups. On the surface, this conjecture makes sense: Epstein killed himself in jail more than two years ago, while awaiting his own sex trafficking trial, leaving many to wonder whether there would ever be justice for victims. Continue reading... |
| The Charlatans: how we made The Only One I Know – ‘I’m still not sure which bit’s the chorus’ Posted: 15 Nov 2021 07:01 AM PST 'I came up with it on the way to the garage to get fags. I had to pelt back to my mum and dad's to get my Dictaphone before I forgot it' I was in a band called the Electric Crayons and we managed to get a gig supporting the Charlatans. They had a different singer, Baz Ketley, then. I ended up jumping on stage and singing one of their songs. Shortly after that, I got a call from the band. They didn't ask me to audition. It was more a case of: "Would you like to come down to Wednesbury in the Midlands and hang out?" Continue reading... |
| Weight loss, deadlifts and divorce: what we learned from Adele’s One Night Only special Posted: 14 Nov 2021 09:45 PM PST In her TV concert special, the singer got personal in an interview with Oprah Winfrey about her dreams of a nuclear family, fixation with her weight loss and how much she can deadlift Adele opened up about the pain of her divorce, losing the dream of a nuclear family, commentary over her weight and her strained relationship with her late father in a candid, ranging interview with Oprah Winfrey. During the sit-down in Winfrey's rose garden, recorded prior to her first concert in more than four years for the CBS special Adele One Night Only, the singer revealed she felt "embarrassed" that she couldn't make her marriage to Simon Konecki "work". Continue reading... |
| iPhone 13 Pro Max review: Apple’s heavyweight super phone Posted: 14 Nov 2021 11:00 PM PST Top-priced, big screen, two-day battery life and cracking cameras – but just too heavy to beat the best Apple's latest super-sized smartphone is a beast in all directions, but is bigger really better? The iPhone 13 Pro Max is Apple's most expensive smartphone, starting at £1,049 ($1,099/A$1,849) – at least £100 more than other models. With the same chips, software, design and camera as the regular sized 13 Pro, size is the key differentiator. Screen: 6.7in Super Retina XDR with ProMotion (120Hz OLED) (458ppi) Processor: Apple A15 Bionic RAM: 6GB Storage: 128, 256, 512GB or 1TB Operating system: iOS 15.1 Camera: Triple 12MP rear cameras with OIS, 12MP front-facing camera Connectivity: 5G, wifi 6, NFC, Bluetooth 5, Lightning, ultra wideband and GNSS Water resistance: IP68 (6 metres for 30 mins) Dimensions: 160.8 x 78.1 x 7.7mm Weight: 240g Continue reading... |
| ‘A mirror of now’: the Valencian Nazis who inspired Óscar Aibar’s new film Posted: 14 Nov 2021 10:00 PM PST El sustituto based on 'Germans from Dénia' who sought refuge in Spain after the second world war Óscar Aibar's latest film, a thriller anchored in grotesque historical fact, owes its existence to a random holiday meal a decade or so ago. The Spanish director was in Valencia for the summer when he looked up from his plate to study the pictures of famous people on the restaurant walls. Continue reading... |
| Australian women to sue Qatar over invasive strip-search ordeal Posted: 14 Nov 2021 08:47 PM PST Women on 10 Qatar Airways flights, including 13 Australians, were subjected to compulsory intimate searches in October 2020 A group of women subjected to invasive gynaecological searches at Doha airport will sue Qatari authorities, seeking redress for an ordeal that sparked global condemnation, their lawyer said on Monday. Women on 10 Qatar Airways flights from Doha, including 13 Australians, were subjected to the examinations late last year as authorities searched for the mother of a newborn found abandoned in an airport bathroom. Continue reading... |
| Stop talking, start acting, says Africa’s first extreme heat official Posted: 15 Nov 2021 12:01 AM PST Rising temperatures are already killing people in Sierra Leone's Freetown, says Eugenia Kargbo, who is planning how best to protect the hundreds of thousands living in informal settlements When she was growing up, Eugenia Kargbo could have a leisurely stroll, jog or cycle around the streets of Freetown. But that easy life no longer exists in Sierra Leone's capital for her two children. The city is so swelteringly hot that children run the constant risk of sunburn or heat rashes if they are outdoors for very long. "Over the past 10 years, there has been a dramatic change," says Kargbo, 34, who has been appointed as Freetown's chief heat officer – the first such post in Africa and only the third globally, after Athens and Miami. Continue reading... |
| Steve Bannon surrenders over contempt charges for defying Capitol attack subpoena – live Posted: 15 Nov 2021 07:13 AM PST
Steve Bannon, a close ally and onetime senior advisor to Donald Trump, surrendered to federal authorities on Monday after being charged with contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena request from the House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. Bannon, who served for a time as White House chief strategist, was indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of contempt of Congress on Friday. The two counts are related to his refusal to appear for a congressional deposition and his refusal to provide documents to the committee. Continue reading... |
| We need a new observatory of democracy in the Americas | David Adler and Guillaume Long Posted: 15 Nov 2021 03:13 AM PST The Organization of American States is no longer credible. We need a new body if we are to protect democracy On 20 October, the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, traveled to Ecuador to set out a vision for democracy in the Americas. Over the past five years, the hemisphere has suffered an assault on its democratic institutions, as political leaders from Donald Trump to Jair Bolsonaro have adopted a new authoritarian playbook: lies, violence, repression, and more lies. Two-thirds of US citizens now believe that democracy is under threat, while a majority of Brazilians fear a military dictatorship will return to the country. "We find ourselves in a moment of democratic reckoning," announced Blinken. But the Biden administration continues to put the US on the wrong side of this reckoning. Consider Blinken's recent trip. In Quito, he lavished praise on President Guillermo Lasso in the same week that Lasso declared a nationwide state of emergency to intimidate critics of his government and distract from an investigation into alleged tax fraud following his appearance in the Pandora Papers leak. In Bogotá hours later, Blinken applauded the democratic credentials of the Colombian president, Iván Duque – "We have no better ally on the full range of issues that our democracies face in this hemisphere," Blinken said – while his government stands accused of targeting protesters and allowing an unprecedented number of assassinations of Indigenous, Black, and peasant leaders to take place under Duque's watch. Continue reading... |
| Australian deputy PM mocks Alok Sharma’s emotional reaction at Cop26 Posted: 15 Nov 2021 01:11 AM PST Barnaby Joyce takes a swipe at chair of the climate summit for trying to 'shut down industries in other people's countries' Australia's deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce has mocked the British chair of the UN climate summit for becoming emotional about the watering down of language on coal, and for attempting to "shut down industries in other people's countries". With the Australian government under pressure for first agreeing to a communique that flagged reviewing the current 2030 target before the Cop27 in Egypt – only to rule that same prospect out a few hours later – Barnaby Joyce on Monday went on the political offensive. Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading... |
| Rising humidity could be linked to increase in suicides, report finds Posted: 15 Nov 2021 03:54 AM PST Increasingly intense and frequent spells of humidity linked to global heating may exacerbate mental health conditions, with women and young people worst affected More frequent spells of intense humidity caused by the climate crisis are more likely than heatwaves to be linked to increased rates of suicide, according to new research. The study found that women and young people were particularly affected by levels of humidity, the intensity and frequency of which are increasing because of global heating. Continue reading... |
| Palm oil land grabs ‘trashing’ environment and displacing people Posted: 14 Nov 2021 11:30 PM PST Growing rush for land is destroying ecosystems and disrupting lives to satisfy global demand for goods, study warns Businesses and governments must stop the growing rush of commodities-driven land grabbing, which is "trashing" the environment and displacing people, says new research. Palm oil and cobalt were extreme risks for land grabs according to an analysis of 170 commodities by research firm Verisk Maplecroft published last week. It also warned that, alongside cobalt, other minerals used for "clean" technology, including silicon, zinc, copper, were high risk and undermined the sector's label. Continue reading... |
| Floods, sewage and crocodiles: the crisis of the Gambia’s sinking city Posted: 14 Nov 2021 11:00 PM PST Those living in Banjul's slums face the effects of a climate crisis they did little to cause – and will need more help than the Cop26 deal promises Yedel Bah would move home if she could, but she can't. With no income of her own, four children to feed and a husband who just about manages, her family lives from day to day, and from flood to flood, on the banks of a litter-strewn, stagnant canal. Every rainy season, the neighbourhood of Tobacco Road in the Gambian capital, Banjul, braces for downpours of such intensity that the canal overflows, spilling its murky, pungent depths into the slum-like homes that run alongside it. Continue reading... |
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