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- Democrats pass Joe Biden’s $1tn infrastructure bill after chaotic day
- Women’s rights activist shot dead in northern Afghanistan
- Brexit: EU warns of ‘serious consequences’ if UK invokes article 16
- Astroworld Festival concert crush leaves at least eight dead
- Eight police officers injured in clashes with protesters in Parliament Square
- China regime says Taiwan independence backers will be blacklisted
- Hyenas at Denver zoo catch Covid in world first
- Fremantle shark attack: search for missing man off Port Beach
- Deserters: Spanish police end escaped camels’ night on the town
- Sally Rooney novels pulled from Israeli bookstores after translation boycott
- Police investigate people taking partially nude photos near Russian landmarks
- Coronavirus live: England speeds up booster jab rollout, Ukraine reports record daily death toll
- New Zealand hits Covid case record but Ardern says ‘better times coming’
- Huma Abedin on Anthony Weiner: ‘He ripped my heart out and stomped on it over and over again’
- Blind date: ‘When I asked if we could meet at a different restaurant, he joked that I was a diva’
- Succession-style feud gripping Canada settled as court sides with Edward Rogers
- ‘Get shit done’: how Republican dog-whistles beat Democratic inaction
- Cleo Smith: Carnarvon breathes a sigh of relief after a tense 18 days
- Go with the (lateral) flow: how Covid has changed the work Christmas party
- Courtney Barnett on being forced to stop: ‘I felt myself opening up in a different way’
- Activists from across the globe rally for Fridays for Future at Cop26 – video
- Madagascar paying price for cheap European flights, says climate minister
- ‘If Hillary Clinton loses this election, it will be because of you and me’ – an exclusive extract from Huma Abedin’s memoir
- Victoria and NSW record 10 deaths and Australia reaches 80% vaccination target – as it happened
- Nigerian police brutality and shelling in Myanmar: human rights this fortnight – in pictures
- Kenya’s water crisis leaves villagers at risk of violence and disease – in pictures
- Joe Biden calls on 'every House member' to support economic agenda – video
| Democrats pass Joe Biden’s $1tn infrastructure bill after chaotic day Posted: 05 Nov 2021 10:36 PM PDT Intense lobbying helped break an impasse between progressives and moderates House Democrats have passed a $1tn bill to rebuild the nation's ageing infrastructure after months of delay, delivering Joe Biden a long-awaited legislative victory that he boasted would put the US "on a path to win the economic competition for the 21st century". Applause filled the chamber as a bipartisan group of lawmakers gave final passage to the measure late on Friday night, sending it to Biden's desk. The vote was 228 to 206, with 13 Republicans supporting the bill and six leftwing Democrats opposing it. Continue reading... |
| Women’s rights activist shot dead in northern Afghanistan Posted: 05 Nov 2021 04:05 PM PDT Frozan Safi, 29, is believed to be the first women's rights defender to be killed since Taliban return to power A 29-year-old activist and economics lecturer, Frozan Safi, has been shot and killed in northern Afghanistan, in what appears to be the first known death of a women's rights defender since the Taliban swept to power almost three months ago. Frozan Safi's body was identified in a morgue in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif after she went missing on 20 October. "We recognised her by her clothes. Bullets had destroyed her face," said Safi's sister, Rita, who is a doctor. Continue reading... |
| Brexit: EU warns of ‘serious consequences’ if UK invokes article 16 Posted: 05 Nov 2021 06:55 AM PDT Maroš Šefčovič says Brussels has seen no concessions from UK side in Northern Ireland protocol dispute Britain and the EU appear on the brink of a trade war after Brussels accused Boris Johnson of lacking sincerity in negotiations over Northern Ireland's future and warned of "serious consequences" if Downing Street suspended the post-Brexit deal. As he emerged from his latest tense meeting with the UK's Brexit minister, the EU commissioner Maroš Šefčovič said that despite Brussels' attempts to find a compromise, "we have seen no move at all from the UK side". Continue reading... |
| Astroworld Festival concert crush leaves at least eight dead Posted: 06 Nov 2021 12:55 AM PDT Officials in Texas say several others injured when crowd surged towards the stage during show in Houston Officials in Texas say at least eight people are dead and several others injured in a crowd surge at the Astroworld Festival. A compression of the crowd toward the stage occurred just after 9pm Friday while rapper Travis Scott was performing, Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peña told reporters at a news conference. Continue reading... |
| Eight police officers injured in clashes with protesters in Parliament Square Posted: 05 Nov 2021 04:03 PM PDT Anti-establishment Million Mask March group gathered to let off fireworks and demonstrate against the government Eight police officers have been injured after clashing with hundreds of anti-establishment protesters in Parliament Square on Bonfire Night. Demonstrators wearing Guy Fawkes-style masks had gathered at nearby Trafalgar Square at the annual Million Mask March with some throwing fireworks at officers. Continue reading... |
| China regime says Taiwan independence backers will be blacklisted Posted: 06 Nov 2021 12:26 AM PDT Island's foreign minister and premier among people to be stopped from entering mainland and Hong Kong China has said it will hold those who support "Taiwan independence" criminally liable for life, provoking anger and ridicule from the island at a time of heightened tension between the neighbours. For the first time, China has spelled out the punishment that awaits people deemed to back independence for Taiwan – top officials of the self-ruled island among them. Continue reading... |
| Hyenas at Denver zoo catch Covid in world first Posted: 05 Nov 2021 10:57 PM PDT Pair aged 22 and 23 expected to make full recovery, as 11 lions and two tigers at the zoo also test positive Two hyenas at the Denver zoo have tested positive for Covid-19, the first confirmed cases among the animals worldwide. Samples from a variety of animals at the zoo, including the spotted hyenas, were tested after several of its lions became ill, according to the National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL). The hyena samples tested presumptive positive at a lab at Colorado State University and were confirmed by the national lab. Continue reading... |
| Fremantle shark attack: search for missing man off Port Beach Posted: 05 Nov 2021 09:10 PM PDT WA police say actions of witnesses were 'heroic' after incident reportedly involving tiger shark and great white shark Emergency services are searching for a man who is believed to have been attacked by a shark off Port Beach in North Fremantle, Western Australia, on Saturday morning. WA police said that water police, police air wing, Surf Life Saving and the Surf Rescue helicopter responded to reports of a shark attack off Port Beach at 10.10am Saturday morning. Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading... |
| Deserters: Spanish police end escaped camels’ night on the town Posted: 05 Nov 2021 10:27 AM PDT Eight camels and a llama took to streets of Madrid overnight after escaping from a nearby circus Eight camels and a llama were loose on the streets of Madrid overnight after escaping from a nearby circus, Spanish police have said. The animals were spotted at about 5am wandering around the southern district of Carabranchel close to the circus's current location. Quiros Circus, which owns them, blamed sabotage by animal rights activists. Continue reading... |
| Sally Rooney novels pulled from Israeli bookstores after translation boycott Posted: 05 Nov 2021 09:14 AM PDT Following the acclaimed author's decision not to have Beautiful World, Where Are You translated by an Israeli publisher, two major retailers have removed her work from their shelves Books by Sally Rooney will no longer be sold in two Israeli bookshop chains, after the acclaimed writer's decision not to sell translation rights for her most recent novel to an Israeli publisher. Rooney's novels were previously available from Steimatzky and Tzomet Sefarim, but the books have now been removed from their websites, and will be pulled from physical shops too. The retailers have more than 200 branches between them. Continue reading... |
| Police investigate people taking partially nude photos near Russian landmarks Posted: 05 Nov 2021 06:44 AM PDT Young people jailed for posting online sexually suggestive pictures taken in Moscow, St Petersburg and elsewhere Police have launched a wave of investigations against young people, mainly women, in recent weeks for taking partially nude or sexually suggestive photographs next to Russian landmarks. At least four cases have been reported over the past week of police detaining, investigating or jailing Russians for photographs that have been posted online in front of the Kremlin walls, St Basil's Cathedral, St Isaac's Cathedral in St Petersburg and an "eternal flame" dedicated to the history of the second world war. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus live: England speeds up booster jab rollout, Ukraine reports record daily death toll Posted: 06 Nov 2021 01:48 AM PDT People in England will be able to book their Covid-19 booster jab a month before they are eligible from Monday Mainland China reported 55 new COVID-19 cases on 6 November, down from 78 a day earlier, the country's national health authority said on Saturday. The National Health Commission said in its daily bulletin that 40 of the new cases were locally transmitted, down from 68 the previous day, with 16 in the northeast border province of Heilongjiang. Continue reading... |
| New Zealand hits Covid case record but Ardern says ‘better times coming’ Posted: 05 Nov 2021 07:21 PM PDT 200 daily cases for the first time as PM says it is on track to have 'amongst the highest vaccination rates in the world' New Zealand has passed 200 daily cases of Covid-19 for the first time in the pandemic, placing it on a worrying trajectory for the summer and raising expert concerns that the growing outbreak could overwhelm the health system. On Saturday there were 206 cases announced – 200 based in Auckland, the city at the centre of the outbreak. There were 73 people in hospital with the virus, seven in intensive care. Continue reading... |
| Huma Abedin on Anthony Weiner: ‘He ripped my heart out and stomped on it over and over again’ Posted: 06 Nov 2021 01:00 AM PDT She was Hillary Clinton's aide and the wife of a star politician when a sexting scandal sent him to prison, destroyed their marriage – and derailed her boss's bid to become president. How did she cope? Walk of shame, huh? I'll take it," says Huma Abedin, reading the name of the lipstick on the makeup artist's table. It is a bright, cool day in Manhattan and we are at a photographer's studio, where Abedin is having her photo taken for this interview. Having watched her from afar for so long, first as Hillary Clinton's elegant, silent assistant, then as the mostly silent and increasingly unhappy spouse of the former congressman Anthony Weiner, I had expected her to be quiet, anxious and guarded, but Abedin, 45, is none of those things. Someone so beautiful could come across as imperious, but with her big, open-mouthed laugh and "Oh gosh, you know better than me!" air, she veers closer to goofy. After 25 years of working for Clinton, she has a politician's knack for making those around her feel comfortable. She leans forward keenly when spoken to, and makes sure to use everyone's name when talking to them. She tells us, twice, that she ate "so much comfort food over the weekend at the hospital", where she waited while Bill Clinton was being treated for a urological infection; he was discharged the day before our interview. "Just burgers and fries, burgers and fries. Food is my weakness," she says rolling her eyes at herself. Everyone is instantly disarmed. But then she picks up that lipstick and at the word "shame" the makeup artist and I look down awkwardly and Abedin becomes – as she has been for so long, she tells me later over lunch – "the elephant in the room again". "I lived with shame for a very, very long time," as she puts it. The question Abedin hears most is: why? Why did she stay with Weiner after he accidentally tweeted a photo of his crotch while sexting women online in 2011, leading to his resignation from Congress? Why, when he ran for New York City mayor in 2013, did she assure voters that she had "forgiven him"? And why did she stay with him when it then emerged he was still sending women photos of the contents of his trousers? Why did she only separate from him but not divorce him when, in 2016, he sent a woman a photo of himself aroused while lying in bed next to his and Abedin's toddler son, Jordan? And why were there official emails between her and Hillary on Weiner's laptop, thereby prompting the then director of the FBI, James Comey, to announce the fateful reopening of the investigation into Clinton's emails days before the 2016 election? Continue reading... |
| Blind date: ‘When I asked if we could meet at a different restaurant, he joked that I was a diva’ Posted: 05 Nov 2021 11:00 PM PDT Will, 25, medical student, meets Kate, 26, PhD student Will on Kate What were you hoping for? |
| Succession-style feud gripping Canada settled as court sides with Edward Rogers Posted: 05 Nov 2021 05:58 PM PDT The fight for Rogers Communications has riven one of Canada's richest families – and began with an accidental butt dial For weeks, Canadians have been gripped by a messy public feud splintering one of the country's richest families. Kicked off by an accidental pocket dial that revealed an executive-level coup attempt, the battle has pitted mother against son, ensnared Toronto's mayor and drawn comparisons to the HBO show Succession. Two separate groups of directors have proclaimed themselves the rightful stewards of Rogers Communications, a sprawling C$30bn telecommunications and entertainment empire with interests in media, professional hockey, basketball, baseball, football and soccer. Continue reading... |
| ‘Get shit done’: how Republican dog-whistles beat Democratic inaction Posted: 05 Nov 2021 11:00 PM PDT Glenn Youngkin won the Virginia governor's race by playing dirty over CRT – and the Democrats had no answer No film director could have choreographed it better. At the very moment Joe Biden emerged from his helicopter into a cold, dark night on the White House south lawn, a new adversary was delivering his victory speech before a hot-blooded crowd in northern Virginia. The cable news split screen took place just after 1am on Wednesday. The president, a Democrat, was returning from G20 and Cop26 summits in Europe. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, was celebrating a stunning victory in the race for governor of Virginia. The message from voters was emphatic. Continue reading... |
| Cleo Smith: Carnarvon breathes a sigh of relief after a tense 18 days Posted: 05 Nov 2021 06:00 PM PDT The spotlight will now turn from the West Australian town, but that doesn't mean all of its problems are solved It is the town in a far-flung corner of Western Australia whose name is now as well recognised in London as it is in Sydney. Carnarvon, a coastal community that's home to 5,500 people at the mouth of the Gascoyne River, has had the type of searing spotlight shone on it that normally comes with events of global importance – earthquakes and other such disasters. Continue reading... |
| Go with the (lateral) flow: how Covid has changed the work Christmas party Posted: 06 Nov 2021 12:00 AM PDT Suppressed partygoers prepare to ramp up the glamour, offset by an emphasis upon Covid-compliant celebrations For anyone who dreads the thought of the work Christmas party, it will come as welcome news: this year's office party vibe is intimate, more lavish, with no dancing – and it might not even be in December at all. But early indications are that despite – or maybe because of – almost two years working from home in elasticated waistbands and slippers, suppressed partygoers are preparing to ramp up the glamour: Very.co.uk has had a 937% increase in online searches for party dresses since last year, a 637% increase in scouting for sequinned dresses and a 212% increase in the perennial hunt for the perfect LBD (little black dress). Continue reading... |
| Courtney Barnett on being forced to stop: ‘I felt myself opening up in a different way’ Posted: 05 Nov 2021 12:00 PM PDT A breakup, a pandemic and a homecoming left the singer with time to sit and think. Her new album radiates the calmness and kindness she sought At the beginning of 2020, while her home country burned and the rest of the world was waking up to a global pandemic, Courtney Barnett was in Los Angeles. She'd just completed an American tour; her plan was to find herself an apartment and stick around a little longer to work on songs. Then – after "it all got really wild" – she came home to Melbourne. For maybe the first time in six years – since her 2016 hit Avant Gardener turned her into the newest "New Dylan" – Barnett finally had time to sit and think. Continue reading... |
| Activists from across the globe rally for Fridays for Future at Cop26 – video Posted: 05 Nov 2021 03:37 PM PDT Youth climate activists appeared sceptical about how genuine the political will to change is when they spoke at the Fridays for Future protest in Glasgow discussing youth empowerment. Campaigners and pressure groups have been underwhelmed by the commitments made by governments during the Cop26 conference's first week, many of which are voluntary or set deadlines decades away Continue reading... |
| Madagascar paying price for cheap European flights, says climate minister Posted: 06 Nov 2021 12:00 AM PDT Politician says droughts and climate-induced famine in the country are a result of the behaviours of rich nations More than a million people facing the first climate-included famine in Madagascar are paying the price for cheap flights in Europe and appliances such as gas heaters, the country's environment minister has said. For several years now, the south of Madagascar has suffered successive droughts of increasing severity, and the situation has deteriorated sharply over the last few months. In August, the UN said the country was facing the world's first climate change famine. On Tuesday, a World Food Programme representative spoke of a "heartbreaking" visit to the country with more than one million people facing famine. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 06 Nov 2021 01:00 AM PDT The presidential candidate's right-hand woman was looking forward to the last push in the 2016 campaign, and her son starting school. Then her husband, Anthony Weiner, broke the news … • Read an interview with Huma Abedin here If there was a single night I truly believed Hillary Clinton would become president, it was 28 July 2016, when she took to the floor in her white Ralph Lauren suit to formally accept the nomination. As a blizzard of confetti and a hundred thousand red, white and blue balloons descended from the cavernous ceiling, the song Stronger Together, written and recorded for that evening, echoed through the hall, competing with the deafening sounds of fifty thousand supporters clapping and cheering for the woman in white on stage. Once HRC accepted the nomination, she began tossing giant blue balloons emblazoned with white stars out to the audience; to Tim Kaine, her running mate; to Chelsea, who had spoken so eloquently to introduce her mother; to her husband, who had given his own moving tribute to her on the second night of the convention and now looked exuberant as he waded through the waist-high drift of balloons that rained down. Afterwards, our delegation of about 20 Clinton/Kaine family members, campaign staff and officials made its way through the balloons to the small backstage hold area, and Tim Kaine surprised me by leading the rest of our group in an impromptu singing of Happy Birthday. It was my 41st birthday. This new decade was turning out to be pretty extraordinary. Or so it seemed. Continue reading... |
| Victoria and NSW record 10 deaths and Australia reaches 80% vaccination target – as it happened Posted: 06 Nov 2021 12:11 AM PDT Victoria records 1,268 new cases, NSW 270, ACT 18 and Northern Territory and and Queensland one each. This blog is now closed
Nationals MP Darren Chester and Labor MP Amanda Rishworth were on ABC 24 earlier, being asked whether Scott Morrison had "shamed Australia on the global stage" at the Cop26 summit and worsened tensions with French president Emmanuel Macron. The following exchange took place. Chester: I know it's a spring racing carnival and Labor wants an each-way bet on everything, but the Labor party has supported the Aukus deal. The Labor party has spoken in positive terms ... The Labor party has been very bipartisan on the Aukus deal but to say the prime minister has handled this anything but appallingly would be an understatement. There's no doubt the French were upset, but even President Biden admitted that perhaps this whole thing was handled clumsily. Rather than the [Australian] prime minister work on his diplomatic relationships there, what he's done is he's doubled down and allegedly his office has leaked private text messages. And then we've had government ministers criticising the press for asking questions. This really goes to the character of our prime minister. Continue reading... |
| Nigerian police brutality and shelling in Myanmar: human rights this fortnight – in pictures Posted: 06 Nov 2021 12:30 AM PDT A roundup of the struggle for human rights and freedoms, from Hong Kong to Khartoum Continue reading... |
| Kenya’s water crisis leaves villagers at risk of violence and disease – in pictures Posted: 05 Nov 2021 05:23 AM PDT As rivers run dry, the desperate search for water has led to a rise in domestic abuse, conflict and illness All photos by Cyril Zannettacci/Agence Vu for Action Against Hunger Continue reading... |
| Joe Biden calls on 'every House member' to support economic agenda – video Posted: 05 Nov 2021 10:15 AM PDT Joe Biden called on 'every House member' to support the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the $1.75tn reconciliation package, as some centrist Democrats raise concerns about the latter. The president argued that the reconciliation package would provide American families with 'just a little more breathing room' by lowering their healthcare and childcare costs Continue reading... |
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