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- ‘Reality check’: Global CO2 emissions shooting back to record levels
- ‘It’s incredible’: HPV vaccine saves thousands of women from cervical cancer, UK study shows
- Cleo Smith update: West Australian police charge Terence Kelly, 36, over alleged abduction
- ‘We need to be much clearer’: leading Democrat questions US strategy on defending Taiwan
- Two boys arrested after police attacked at Northern Ireland protocol protest
- MPs’ standards commissioner should consider quitting, suggests Kwarteng
- Venezuela faces landmark ICC investigation over alleged crimes against humanity
- Top Hong Kong court rules against government bid to expand riot prosecutions
- Ex-Nato head says Putin wanted to join alliance early on in his rule
- ‘Give yourself a hand’: Queensland Health encourages masturbation in cheeky social media post
- Vaccine certificates-for-sale scam undermines Lesotho’s Covid effort
- Coronavirus live: Germany and Ukraine set new daily case records; India celebrates Diwali amid Covid concerns
- Bill Gates call for huge global effort to prepare for future pandemics
- ‘He was adamant he didn’t want it’: the pro-vax parents with vaccine-hesitant kids
- ‘I’ve always aimed big’: Vietnamese tycoon behind £155m Oxford donation
- The high cost of living in a disabling world
- Sopranos star Michael Imperioli: ‘I thought they were going to fire me’
- ‘I am Asian, not what people expect’: Derby woman to trek solo to south pole
- Madness in her method: Did Lady Gaga really stay in character for 18 months?
- Where the wild things are: a trip to Romania’s southern mountains
- EU scientists demand bloc finalise UK’s membership of £80bn programme
- Iran sets date to resume talks on nuclear deal after five-month gap
- Noma: the hidden childhood disease known as the ‘face of poverty’
- A deadly parasite, faulty sewage systems, and the sisters fighting for their small US community
- Nicaraguan exiles see vote as step on Ortega’s road to dictatorship
- They stayed to fight the Taliban. Now the protesters are being hunted down
- US blacklisting of NSO Group shows view of major technology company as a grave threat
- Biden says 'people are upset' after Democrat loss in Virginia – video
| ‘Reality check’: Global CO2 emissions shooting back to record levels Posted: 03 Nov 2021 05:01 PM PDT Fossil fuels are surging in post-pandemic recovery as scientists warn 1.5C emission limits will be reached in 11 years Global carbon emissions are shooting back to the record level seen before the coronavirus pandemic levels, new analysis has shown. Scientists said the finding is a "reality check" for the world's nations gathered at the Cop26 climate summit. The emissions driving the climate crisis reached their highest ever levels in 2019, before global coronavirus lockdowns saw them fall by 5.4%. However, fossil fuel burning has surged faster than expected in 2021, the international research team said, in stark contrast to the rapid cuts needed to tackle global heating. Continue reading... |
| ‘It’s incredible’: HPV vaccine saves thousands of women from cervical cancer, UK study shows Posted: 03 Nov 2021 10:17 PM PDT Rates have fallen 62% in women offered the HPV jab between the age of 14 and 16, and 34% for older teenagers The NHS vaccination programme to prevent cervical cancer has so far stopped thousands of women from developing the disease and experiencing pre-cancerous changes to cells, a study has found. In the first proof that the programme launched in England 13 years ago is saving lives, the Cancer Research UK-funded study found that cervical cancer rates in women offered the vaccine between the ages of 12 and 13 (now in their 20s) were 87% lower than in an unvaccinated population. Continue reading... |
| Cleo Smith update: West Australian police charge Terence Kelly, 36, over alleged abduction Posted: 04 Nov 2021 02:46 AM PDT Carnarvon local charged with forcible abduction and other offences after four-year-old girl was allegedly taken from WA camping site West Australian police have charged a 36-year-old man in relation to the alleged abduction of Cleo Smith after the four-year-old was found alive and well 18 days after she disappeared. Terence Darrell Kelly appeared before a magistrate in Carnarvon on Thursday afternoon. Continue reading... |
| ‘We need to be much clearer’: leading Democrat questions US strategy on defending Taiwan Posted: 03 Nov 2021 10:40 PM PDT Intelligence committee chief Adam Schiff says US and allies must make it clear to China 'what a significant cost it would pay were it to use force' Adam Schiff, the US chair of the influential House intelligence committee, has called for the US to be less ambiguous about its defence plans for Taiwan, amid Pentagon warnings that China's military has made stunning advances. Speaking at the Aspen Security Forum, Schiff, a leading Democrat, said the US and its international partners needed "to make it abundantly clear to China what a significant cost it would pay were it to use force to try to invade and take over Taiwan". Continue reading... |
| Two boys arrested after police attacked at Northern Ireland protocol protest Posted: 04 Nov 2021 02:30 AM PDT Boys aged 12 and 15 arrested on suspicion of riotous behaviour after violence in Belfast on Wednesday Two boys aged 12 and 15 have been arrested on suspicion of riotous behaviour after police came under attack after a protest against the Northern Ireland Brexit protocol in Belfast. Police described the scenes on Wednesday as "disgraceful", with officers subjected to a volley of missiles and fireworks close to the site of previous violence in April. Three police vehicles were damaged. Continue reading... |
| MPs’ standards commissioner should consider quitting, suggests Kwarteng Posted: 04 Nov 2021 02:30 AM PDT 'Difficult to see future' of Kathryn Stone, says business secretary after Tories vote to tear up system amid Owen Paterson row
The business secretary has suggested parliament's standards commissioner should consider quitting, after the government voted to tear up the independent system for combating sleaze among MPs. Kwasi Kwarteng said he "doesn't feel shame at all" and insisted the move would restore probity in public servants, in the face of a huge backlash over the move to rescue the former cabinet minister Owen Paterson from a 30-day Commons suspension and possible byelection. Continue reading... |
| Venezuela faces landmark ICC investigation over alleged crimes against humanity Posted: 03 Nov 2021 09:23 PM PDT Inquiry opened into claims of torture and extrajudicial killings under Maduro's rule, a first for a Latin American country The international criminal court (ICC) is opening a formal investigation into allegations of torture and extrajudicial killings committed by Venezuelan security forces under President Nicolás Maduro's rule, the first time a country in Latin America is facing scrutiny for possible crimes against humanity from the court. The opening of the probe was announced Wednesday by ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan at the end of a three-day trip to Caracas. Continue reading... |
| Top Hong Kong court rules against government bid to expand riot prosecutions Posted: 03 Nov 2021 11:48 PM PDT Lawyers say ruling is 'highly significant' and likely to impact future prosecutions amid intensifying national security crackdown Hong Kong's top court has quashed attempts by the city's government to prosecute people for rioting or illegal assembly even without being present at the scene – a ruling lawyers described as a landmark. The five-judge panel in Hong Kong's court of final appeal, headed by chief justice Andrew Cheung, unanimously rejected an earlier ruling by a lower appeal court that people, such as supporters, could be criminally liable without being actually present under the common law doctrine of "joint enterprise". Continue reading... |
| Ex-Nato head says Putin wanted to join alliance early on in his rule Posted: 03 Nov 2021 10:00 PM PDT George Robertson recalls Russian president did not want to wait in line with 'countries that don't matter' Vladimir Putin wanted Russia to join Nato but did not want his country to have to go through the usual application process and stand in line "with a lot of countries that don't matter", according to a former secretary general of the transatlantic alliance. George Robertson, a former Labour defence secretary who led Nato between 1999 and 2003, said Putin made it clear at their first meeting that he wanted Russia to be part of western Europe. "They wanted to be part of that secure, stable prosperous west that Russia was out of at the time," he said. Continue reading... |
| ‘Give yourself a hand’: Queensland Health encourages masturbation in cheeky social media post Posted: 03 Nov 2021 09:09 PM PDT Spokesperson says aim of message was to reduce stigma and normalise healthy conversations especially among young people Queensland authorities surprised their Facebook followers with some "pleasurable" health advice on Thursday. On its official Facebook page, Queensland Health shared a post about masturbation, which was accompanied by brightly coloured infographics detailing its health benefits. Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading... |
| Vaccine certificates-for-sale scam undermines Lesotho’s Covid effort Posted: 03 Nov 2021 11:30 PM PDT The documents, necessary for entry into bars and sporting venues, are being sold by unscrupulous health workers for less than £20 The Lesotho government's plans to implement a Covid passport system this week are being undermined by widespread fraud involving certificates being sold to unvaccinated people. Covid-19 vaccination certificates are being sold for less than £20 by unscrupulous health workers to the largely vaccine-averse population in Lesotho, where there has been little positive campaigning around the jabs. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 04 Nov 2021 02:42 AM PDT Germany reports 33,949 new cases as Ukraine's infections go past 3m; India experts warn that festival season could bring renewed spike in cases
Here's a reminder of the latest picture of case numbers across Europe. You can see the surge of cases in the east of the continent, but also a concerning change of colour from recent days for Germany and Denmark, as Belgium and the Netherlands seem to be in the foothills of their next Covid wave. The prevalence of cases per 1 million people in Ireland and in the UK has dipped slightly. The Lesotho government's plans to implement a Covid passport system this week are being undermined by widespread fraud involving certificates being sold to unvaccinated people. Continue reading... |
| Bill Gates call for huge global effort to prepare for future pandemics Posted: 03 Nov 2021 05:01 PM PDT Microsoft founder says research and development budgets should focus on weaknesses exposed by rapid spread of Covid A global research effort worth tens of billions of dollars is needed to ensure the world is better prepared for the next pandemic, which could be far worse than Covid, Bill Gates has said. The Microsoft founder said the "completely horrific" death toll and economic damage inflicted by coronavirus should drive funding into projects aimed at improving vaccines, treatments and diagnostic tests that will be needed to contain the next pandemic more effectively. Continue reading... |
| ‘He was adamant he didn’t want it’: the pro-vax parents with vaccine-hesitant kids Posted: 03 Nov 2021 11:00 PM PDT Among under-18s, vaccine uptake is low, and there is a growing issue with misinformation spread on social media and at school. Is there anything a concerned caregiver can do? Throughout the pandemic, Anna has worked for the NHS. She has seen the effects of Covid-19 first-hand and, although she worked remotely because she was in a vulnerable group, other colleagues – she is a physiotherapist – were deployed to Covid wards at the height of hospital admissions. "At the trust I work for, they're setting up a long-Covid service," she says. She comes home and her son Sam, 16, listens to her talk about it – and yet he is adamant that the coronavirus isn't happening or that, if it is, it's not serious. "You know: 'Covid is a load of rubbish – it's all about control'," she says. "It's all very conspiracy theory, a lot of his stuff." He was adamant from the start that he wouldn't be having the vaccine if and when it became available for his age group, and he has stuck to it. "He is very resistant," says Anna. "He is pretty determined not to conform anyway. Part of it, I think, is him being a teenager, and the other bit of it is conspiracy theory: 'It's all a big con.'" His main source of information since the start of the pandemic has been social media, says Anna. "He watches a lot of YouTube." Just over a month ago, YouTube announced it would remove videos that spread misinformation about all vaccines, and would ban the accounts of anti-vax activists; it had already banned content with false claims about Covid vaccines last year. Facebook did the same in February this year, though a quick search reveals misinformation is still easy to find (one post I found within minutes claimed 80% of vaccinated women had miscarriages). On TikTok, "unvaxxed" content racks up hundreds of thousands of views. Last month, NewsGuard, an organisation that rates the credibility of news organisations and monitors misinformation, found Covid conspiracy theories were being viewed by millions on TikTok, and, in its research, children under 13 – the lower age limit – were able to access the app. Continue reading... |
| ‘I’ve always aimed big’: Vietnamese tycoon behind £155m Oxford donation Posted: 03 Nov 2021 11:00 PM PDT Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao has gone from importing fax machines as a student in Moscow to name-changing billionaire Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao began her business career as a sideline importing fax machines and latex rubber into the then Soviet Union while studying economic management at D Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology in Moscow. Before she had turned 21 – or graduated – she had made her first million. Phuong Thao, who is popularly known as Madam Thao, is now Vietnam's first and only female billionaire with an estimated $2.7bn (£2bn) fortune made from VietJet, the airline she founded and runs, alongside a vast property empire that stretches from skyscrapers in Ho Chi Minh City to five star beach resorts across the country as well as offshore oil and gas exploration and fossil fuel financing. Continue reading... |
| The high cost of living in a disabling world Posted: 03 Nov 2021 11:00 PM PDT For all the advances that have been made in recent decades, disabled people cannot yet participate in society 'on an equal basis' with others – and the pandemic has led to many protections being cruelly eroded At times, it feels as if the disability rights movement won. After years of groundwork, 1981 was declared the International Year of Disabled Persons. I was born that year, in Oslo, Norway, and though I did not receive my first diagnosis of muscular dystrophy until I was a toddler, the coincidence is apt enough: I was born into a world that was, at last, beginning to recognise this aspect of my being in it. Then, from 1983 to 1992, came the United Nations' Decade of Disabled Persons. And the Americans With Disabilities Act, the UK's Disability Discrimination Act and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The turn of the millennium was marked by a litany of good intentions and disavowals of unequal treatment – by an endorsement, as the first article of the UN convention has it, of disabled people's right to "full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others". Continue reading... |
| Sopranos star Michael Imperioli: ‘I thought they were going to fire me’ Posted: 03 Nov 2021 11:00 PM PDT He played trigger-happy, heroin-addicted gangster Christopher Moltisanti. As Michael Imperioli takes the TV classic on tour, he remembers the time he almost killed the leading man There's a scene in Goodfellas in which gangster Tommy DeVito, played by Joe Pesci, shoots dead a young bartender called Spider who had unwisely told him to "go fuck yourself". Pesci won an Oscar for the film – and while Spider the bartender was a small role for the then little-known Michael Imperioli, it was to be his big break. "I wanted that job at all costs," Imperioli says. "It was Martin Scorsese – he'd made some of my favourite movies. I was all in." Continue reading... |
| ‘I am Asian, not what people expect’: Derby woman to trek solo to south pole Posted: 04 Nov 2021 12:00 AM PDT Preet Chandi – or Polar Preet – hopes to inspire others by becoming the first woman of colour to voyage unsupported across Antarctica When she returned from a trek across Greenland last year, Preet Chandi had a mild case of frostbite on her nose. "I remember somebody saying to me they've never seen an injury like that on somebody of my colour skin before," she said. "I am an Asian woman, I'm not the image that people expect to see out there." Later this month Chandi, a 32-year-old army physiotherapist, hopes to become the first woman of colour to complete a solo unsupported trek across Antarctica to the south pole. Continue reading... |
| Madness in her method: Did Lady Gaga really stay in character for 18 months? Posted: 03 Nov 2021 08:05 AM PDT Lady Gaga inhabited her role in upcoming drama House of Gucci off screen and on for a year and a half. Was the 'psychological difficulty' she suffered as a result worth it? A Star Is Born was both a blessing and a curse for Lady Gaga. A blessing because it put her at the centre of a commercially successful, Oscar-nominated film, thereby rocketing her to the top of a profession of which she had very little experience. A curse, too, because she was essentially just playing herself; a singer who went from performing in drag bars to commanding huge stages in very little time. Quick, without looking, tell me the name of the character Lady Gaga played in A Star Is Born. You can't, can you? You've always just called her Lady Gaga. This means that she ultimately had two options after A Star Is Born. She could abandon her movie career in the knowledge that she had blurred the line between character and performer more successfully than any actor working today, or she could find another role. A role not so heavily steeped in her own biography. A role that would finally prove to the world that she was an actor of the highest calibre. Continue reading... |
| Where the wild things are: a trip to Romania’s southern mountains Posted: 04 Nov 2021 12:00 AM PDT The reintroduction of bison to the Carpathians is a boon for nature – and local communities – as our writer discovers on a hiking break "From this pile of logs onwards, we need to be completely silent," says Georg Messerer, our guide through Romania's southern Carpathians. His head cocks 45 degrees as a bird starts chirping. "Nuthatch," he whispers, reaching for his binoculars. "And two red deer." Georg directs our gaze to a row of apple trees, where sure enough, two deer are grazing. Georg is an environmental encyclopedia. Give him a fresh footprint or dropping and he can tell you what the animal was and when it was there. Born in Germany, but with extensive guiding experience in Southern Africa, Georg has been guiding here, in the remote hills of Rusca in the Țarcu Mountains, near the villages of Armeniș, for more than five years – ever since the reintroduction of free-roaming bison to the area began. Continue reading... |
| EU scientists demand bloc finalise UK’s membership of £80bn programme Posted: 04 Nov 2021 02:34 AM PDT Researchers fear Horizon Europe programme is collateral damage in UK-EU political dispute More than 1,000 universities and 50 academies of science across Europe have called on the EU to "immediately" finalise the UK's membership of its flagship £80bn research programme and end the 10-month delay to the ratification process. In a letter to the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, they say the lengthy delay is "endangering current and future plans for collaboration" and any further delay will "result in a major weakening of our collective research strength". Continue reading... |
| Iran sets date to resume talks on nuclear deal after five-month gap Posted: 03 Nov 2021 03:06 PM PDT Western countries and especially US are keen for sessions beginning on 29 November to reach quick result Iran has agreed to resume talks with world powers on reviving a nuclear deal on 29 November after a five-month gap, with the US urging a quick resolution. The announcement of indirect negotiations in Vienna comes as pressure mounts on Iran, with western nations warning that Tehran's nuclear work is advancing to dangerous levels and Israel threatening to attack. Continue reading... |
| Noma: the hidden childhood disease known as the ‘face of poverty’ Posted: 04 Nov 2021 01:00 AM PDT This little known and preventable disease disfigures those it does not kill – and a new campaign hopes to raise awareness and eradicate it entirely Warning: this article includes graphic images some readers may find disturbing Fidel Strub was three when the inside of his cheek started to itch. After a few days, it felt like it was burning, then it began to smell as if it was rotting. A splitting headache came next before his whole body started to feel uncomfortably hot. "I remember darkness came," he says. "I had a hammering headache and a burning body. When I opened my eyes, any light stung them and it burned like hell. It was easier to close my eyes for less pain. I could do nothing but lie on the floor." Continue reading... |
| A deadly parasite, faulty sewage systems, and the sisters fighting for their small US community Posted: 04 Nov 2021 02:00 AM PDT What researchers found in the Reyes Ibarras' home was shocking. What's worse, the sisters say, is no one's helping When the letter arrived with the logo of a noted university in the corner, Veronica Reyes Ibarra expected good news. She called her boyfriend, her mom and her sisters over: "You guys, look what I got, I think it's a scholarship." But as she scanned the page, she suddenly wasn't sure she had the courage to read it out to them. Continue reading... |
| Nicaraguan exiles see vote as step on Ortega’s road to dictatorship Posted: 04 Nov 2021 02:00 AM PDT Many Nicaraguans, including the ruling couple's estranged daughter, see unhappy parallels with the fight against Somoza half a century ago As her childhood home was used to plot one of the 20th century's most storied revolutions, Zoilamérica Ortega Murillo told playmates she was Guatemalan – lest the neighbours detect the very Nicaraguan conspiracy unfolding next door. "The little friends I used to play ball with came in to drink water once and wandered into the room where the guns were kept," said the 54-year-old sociologist as she stood outside the peach-coloured villa where she lived as a nine-year-old girl. Continue reading... |
| They stayed to fight the Taliban. Now the protesters are being hunted down Posted: 04 Nov 2021 12:00 AM PDT Women's rights activists fear for their lives as Afghanistan's new rulers infiltrate, detain, beat and torture groups of protesters A month ago, Reshmin was busy organising protests against Taliban rule in online groups of hundreds of fellow women's rights activists. Now the 26-year-old economics graduate must operate clandestinely, dressing in disguise and only demonstrating with a select few. "If things continue like this, there will be no future for women in Afghanistan. It's better if the future never arrives," says Reshmin, who spoke to the Guardian using only her first name, which means "silk" in Farsi, out of security concerns. "Each time we go out, we say farewell because we might not make it back alive." Continue reading... |
| US blacklisting of NSO Group shows view of major technology company as a grave threat Posted: 03 Nov 2021 11:57 AM PDT Analysis: The question now is what effect the US move will have on Israel and on foreign governments who use NSO's spyware The US commerce department's blacklist is usually reserved for America's worst enemies, such as Chinese companies that have been accused of aiding human right abuses, and Russians who proliferate biological and chemical weapons programmes. But on Wednesday, Israel's NSO Group joined their ranks, marking a rare decision by the Biden administration to include a major technology company that is closely regulated by the Israeli government on its list of entities that threaten US national security. Continue reading... |
| Biden says 'people are upset' after Democrat loss in Virginia – video Posted: 03 Nov 2021 06:54 PM PDT Joe Biden said "people are upset and uncertain about a lot of things" after Democrats suffered the loss of a gubernatorial seat in Virginia. Republican Glenn Youngkin defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe one year after the party took control of the White House and Congress. Biden won Virginia by 10 points in 2020 before the victory of political newcomer Youngkin. Continue reading... |
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