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- Xi Jinping to lay out vision for China’s future – and past – at key meeting
- Outrage as Singapore prepares to execute man with learning disabilities over drugs charges
- Cop26 legitimacy questioned as groups excluded from crucial talks
- Astroworld: questions over why Travis Scott played on as crush developed
- Tesla shares fall after Elon Musk’s Twitter poll backs sell-off plan
- Christchurch mosque shooter claims guilty plea obtained under duress, expected to appeal
- Nigeria unlikely to reach ‘impossible’ 40% Covid vaccine target
- Cabinet minister says no need for PM to attend sleaze debate, but he is likely to watch on TV – UK politics live
- Teenager rescued after showing domestic violence hand signal to passing motorist, police say
- Australia shark attack: British victim hailed as ‘wonderful father’
- ‘We saw everyone drop’: bee swarm stops play in New Zealand cricket match
- Coronavirus live: Germany sees highest ever seven-day Covid incidence rate; Auckland lockdown set to end
- ‘How long can you maintain it?’ Cost of Taiwan’s pursuit of Covid zero starts to show
- Ted Cruz condemns Big Bird for advocating Covid vaccines for kids
- Gardens of Eden: the church forests of Ethiopia – a photo essay
- The big idea: Should we leave the classroom behind?
- ‘I was always scared’: inmate who exposed systemic Russian prisoner abuse
- A new start after 60: ‘I was in a bleak hole of grief – then I found love, horse riding and confidence’
- ‘When I lose it, I lose it in a dangerous way’: Arsène Wenger on sweat, suffering and selfishness
- King Richard: ‘super surreal’ lives of Williams sisters is stuff of Hollywood films
- Untapped, unsigned and frequently unhinged: a deep dive into TV TikTok
- Huge mission to rescue man trapped in Brecon Beacons cave for two days
- Dark things are happening on Europe's borders. Are they a sign of worse to come? | Daniel Trilling
- Drone attack by militants on Iraqi PM ‘marks escalation’ in power struggle
- Republicans’ Cop26 hopes undermined by colleagues’ climate disdain
- ‘Environmental defenders are being killed’: living on the frontline of global heating
- Tuvalu minister to address Cop26 knee deep in seawater to highlight climate crisis
- ‘A moment in history’: making a perilous sea-crossing with refugees – photo essay
- Front-line chaplains: emergency services for the soul
- Australia’s commitment to coal is directly responsible for climate crisis in the Pacific | Anote Tong
| Xi Jinping to lay out vision for China’s future – and past – at key meeting Posted: 07 Nov 2021 09:29 PM PST Plenum of political elite will produce a resolution on the history of the Communist party for only the third time in 100 years A meeting of hundreds of members of China's political elite, which is expected to further consolidate the power of President Xi Jinping, has opened in Beijing. The closed-door, four-day meeting of the ruling Chinese Communist party's central committee, known as the sixth plenum, is expected to produce a resolution on the history of the party, which analysts say will shape domestic politics and society for decades to come. Continue reading... |
| Outrage as Singapore prepares to execute man with learning disabilities over drugs charges Posted: 07 Nov 2021 09:35 PM PST Decision to execute Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam widely condemned by rights groups Rights groups have urged the Singapore government to halt the execution this week of a man convicted for smuggling heroin, stating that he has learning disabilities and the sentence is a cruel violation of international law. Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam, a Malaysian national, was arrested in April 2009, when he was 21, for attempting to smuggle 43 grams of heroin into Singapore. The drugs had been strapped to his thigh. He was sentenced to death the following year and, having spent more than 12 years on death row, is now facing execution on 10 November. Continue reading... |
| Cop26 legitimacy questioned as groups excluded from crucial talks Posted: 07 Nov 2021 10:00 PM PST Communities and groups say being shut out of key negotiations will have dire consequences for millions The legitimacy of the Cop26 climate summit has been called into question by civil society participants who say restrictions on access to negotiations are unprecedented and unjust. As the Glasgow summit enters its second week, observers representing hundreds of environmental, academic, climate justice, indigenous and women's rights organisations warn that excluding them from negotiating areas and speaking to negotiators could have dire consequences for millions of people. Continue reading... |
| Astroworld: questions over why Travis Scott played on as crush developed Posted: 07 Nov 2021 02:36 PM PST Two investigations launched after eight people killed at event in Houston on Friday night Organisers of what turned out to be one of the deadliest live music events in US history are facing mounting questions about why the rapper Travis Scott continued performing when first responders were already dealing with a mass casualty event. Eight people ranging in age from 14 to 27 were killed and dozens were injured at the Astroworld festival in Houston on Friday night, when fans were crushed against the stage. Continue reading... |
| Tesla shares fall after Elon Musk’s Twitter poll backs sell-off plan Posted: 08 Nov 2021 12:16 AM PST Majority of billionaire's 62.5 million followers vote that he should sell 10% of his stock in electric car firm Tesla's Frankfurt-listed shares fell about 9% in early trading on Monday as investors prepared for the chief executive Elon Musk's proposed sale of about a tenth of his holdings in the electric carmaker after his Twitter poll. Musk, the world's richest person, tweeted on Saturday that he would offload 10% of his stock if users of the social media network approved the proposal. Continue reading... |
| Christchurch mosque shooter claims guilty plea obtained under duress, expected to appeal Posted: 07 Nov 2021 07:39 PM PST Imam says killer is 'grandstanding' and should not be allowed to re-traumatise New Zealanders The Christchurch mosque terrorist has filed complaints alleging that his treatment in New Zealand custody – including the refusal to refer to him by name – constituted a violation of his human rights, and that his guilty pleas were obtained under duress. Brenton Tarrant, an Australian white supremacist who murdered 51 people in an attack on two Christchurch mosques in March 2019, said via a memorandum from his lawyer Dr Tony Ellis that his guilty pleas were obtained under duress due to mistreatment in custody. He was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole in August 2020. Ellis told local media outlets that he expected the gunman, Tarrant, to file an appeal against his convictions. Continue reading... |
| Nigeria unlikely to reach ‘impossible’ 40% Covid vaccine target Posted: 08 Nov 2021 01:49 AM PST Lack of doses and a reluctant public make government programme unfeasible, say health experts, with malaria and conflict posing greater risk to life It will be "impossible" for Nigeria to meet its target of vaccinating 40% of its population by the end of the year because Covid is not being taken seriously, health experts have warned. Fewer than 1.5% of the country's 206 million population has been fully vaccinated. But with more people killed in conflict last year and substantially more recorded deaths from malaria than Covid in Nigeria, experts believe it is further down the list of concerns for many in the country. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 08 Nov 2021 01:47 AM PST Latest updates: international development secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan says there is no need for Boris Johnson to attend sleaze debate
And here are some more lines on the topic of sleaze/standards from Anne-Marie Trevelyan's interview round this morning interview round. I think the question of whether MPs having jobs that involve lobbying, I think, perhaps should be looked at again. We should never rule out completely second jobs [for MPs] ... The question is, are we looking at second jobs or specifically some types of consultancy. Personally, I think we should look at that. I'm very comfortable with looking at that. The standards system that we have looks into individual situations where they come up, and those have been dealt with, and, indeed, the debate this afternoon will continue again. I don't consider that there's a need for an inquiry into something. Why? Because I don't think there is a wider problem here. Continue reading... |
| Teenager rescued after showing domestic violence hand signal to passing motorist, police say Posted: 07 Nov 2021 08:00 PM PST Gesture used to indicate distress has become popular on social media platform TikTok A missing teenage girl was rescued in the US after using a hand gesture that signals distress or domestic violence to capture the attention of a passing driver. The 16-year-old was spotted travelling inside a silver Toyota near London, Kentucky, about 150 miles south-east of Louisville, on 4 November. Continue reading... |
| Australia shark attack: British victim hailed as ‘wonderful father’ Posted: 08 Nov 2021 01:05 AM PST Perth police have called off search for Paul Millachip, 57, saying it is apparent that attack was fatal The wife of a man who is believed to have been killed by sharks off Australia's west coast has paid tribute to a "wonderful father" . Paul Millachip, 57, who is understood to have been from the UK, was last seen in the water on Saturday by two teenagers who witnessed what they believed was a shark attack off Port Beach in North Fremantle, Perth. Continue reading... |
| ‘We saw everyone drop’: bee swarm stops play in New Zealand cricket match Posted: 07 Nov 2021 04:14 PM PST Players and umpires dropped like flies as bees descended on a Plunket Shield match between Wellington and Canterbury It's usually rain that stops play in New Zealand, but on Sunday it was the unfamiliar sight of a swarm of bees that brought a halt to the cricket being played at Wellington's Basin Reserve. Players and umpires dropped like flies as they took cover from the descending bees on the relative safety of the oval's turf on the opening day of the Plunket Shield match between Wellington and Canterbury. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 08 Nov 2021 01:32 AM PST Germany's Robert Koch Institute records incidence rate of 201.1; Lockdown of New Zealand's largest city likely to end this month
Dozens of crossings at the Mexico-US border reopened to non-essential travel on Monday after a 20-month closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Lizbeth Diaz reports for Reuters from Tijuana that ahead of the reopening, hundreds of cars formed lines stretching back kilometres from the border, while queues at pedestrian crossings grew steadily. Continue reading... |
| ‘How long can you maintain it?’ Cost of Taiwan’s pursuit of Covid zero starts to show Posted: 07 Nov 2021 06:13 PM PST The island, once a pandemic success story, is effectively closed off to the world and despite the toll on tourism, trade and lifestyle there is no plan to reopen At a beachside bar at the southern tip of Taiwan, a handful of visitors in swimwear and bare feet mill around the open air deck, enjoying the warm midweek night, cheap beer, lack of crowds, and zero Covid. The bar's owner, in between serving drinks, says domestic tourism to the surf village of South Bay, is booming, but the custom is concentrated on the weekends. There are no international visitors to fill tables during the week, let alone to make up for a difficult three months of forced shutdown during the summer outbreak of Covid. Continue reading... |
| Ted Cruz condemns Big Bird for advocating Covid vaccines for kids Posted: 07 Nov 2021 06:08 AM PST
The Texas senator Ted Cruz led conservatives in condemnation of a prominent public figure for advocating Covid-19 vaccinations for children. Big Bird. This week saw final US approval for five- to 11-year-olds to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Sesame Street, which has offered Covid advice before, duly deployed its popular characters to encourage parents to protect their children. Continue reading... |
| Gardens of Eden: the church forests of Ethiopia – a photo essay Posted: 07 Nov 2021 11:00 PM PST Seen by their guardians as sacred, Ethiopia's church forests are protected and cared for by their priests and their communities. Photographer Kieran Dodds has brought together his images of these oases and the story of the country's spiritually driven conservation movement in a new book, The Church Forests of Ethiopia South of the Sahara, and just north of the Great Rift Valley in landlocked Ethiopia, the Blue Nile flows from Lake Tana, the largest lake in the country. Radiating out from the sacred source is a scattering of forest islands, strewn across the dry highlands like a handful of emeralds. At the heart of each circle of forest, hunkered down under the ancient canopy and wrapped in lush vegetation, are saucer-shaped churches – otherworldly structures that almost seem to emit a life force. And in a sense they do. Ethiopia is one of the fastest expanding economies in the world today and the second most populous country in Africa. The vast majority of people live in rural areas, where the expansion of settlements and agriculture is slowly thinning the forest edge by cattle and plough. Continue reading... |
| The big idea: Should we leave the classroom behind? Posted: 08 Nov 2021 12:00 AM PST The pandemic has driven a great leap forward in digital learning. Is there any point in looking back? My 21-year-old goddaughter, a second-year undergraduate, mentioned in passing that she watches video lectures offline at twice the normal speed. Struck by this, I asked some other students I know. Many now routinely accelerate their lectures when learning offline – often by 1.5 times, sometimes by more. Speed learning is not for everyone, but there are whole Reddit threads where students discuss how odd it will be to return to the lecture theatre. One contributor wrote: "Normal speed now sounds like drunk speed." Education was adapting to the digital world long before Covid but, as with so many other human activities, the pandemic has given learning a huge shove towards the virtual. Overnight, schools and universities closed and teachers and students had to find ways to do what they do exclusively via the internet. Naturally there were problems, but as Professor Diana Laurillard of University College London's Knowledge Lab explains, they essentially pulled off an extraordinary – and global – experiment. "It can't return to the way it was," she says. "The cat is out of the bag." Continue reading... |
| ‘I was always scared’: inmate who exposed systemic Russian prisoner abuse Posted: 07 Nov 2021 11:55 PM PST Sergei Savelyev, now seeking asylum in France, spent years secretly storing videos of rape and torture The videos from the Russian prison hospital are almost too horrific to describe. In the worst, the victims are tied down while other inmates rape or penetrate them with metal objects, the screams and abuse recorded in bodycam footage that was later used as blackmail. Sergey Savelyev says he spent two of his years as an inmate secretly copying hundreds of videos of rape and other abuse, taking them from an internal network in a prison hospital that activists call one of the country's most notorious torture chambers. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 07 Nov 2021 10:00 PM PST After her husband's death in 2015, Khadija Mackenzie felt there was no light at the end of the tunnel. Then she tried a sport that gave her freedom and a deep connection to nature As a child, Khadija Mackenzie saw a horse only if she happened to pass the polo club. "It's very urbanised in Singapore," she says. "We don't have much wildlife … I think every Singaporean would associate horse-riding with a certain demographic." Yet horses rescued her from a deep slump. In 2015, Mackenzie's husband, David, died suddenly of a heart attack. "There was no time for goodbye … I felt very bleak. There was no light at the end of the tunnel." Three years passed. She realised: "Either you are going to dig a deeper hole or you are going to find a way out." Tell us: has your life taken a new direction after the age of 60? Continue reading... |
| ‘When I lose it, I lose it in a dangerous way’: Arsène Wenger on sweat, suffering and selfishness Posted: 07 Nov 2021 10:00 PM PST The former Arsenal manager has lived the best and worst of football. He discusses self-destruction, single-mindedness and the toll his job took on his life Arsène Wenger knows that his love for the beautiful game is actually an all-consuming addiction. For the 34 years he spent managing football teams – 22 of them at his beloved Arsenal – he was possessed by the need to win. Little else mattered. At times this devotion produced magnificent results. At others, self-destruction. "Competition is something that eats slowly at your life and it makes of you a little monster," he says, video calling from his office at Fifa's Zurich headquarters, where he has worked since 2019. "That's what I became, yes. I spent my whole life in top-level competition and it makes you slowly somebody who is psychologically obsessed and one-dimensional, someone who kicks out everything on the road that is not winning the next game." Continue reading... |
| King Richard: ‘super surreal’ lives of Williams sisters is stuff of Hollywood films Posted: 08 Nov 2021 12:00 AM PST Will Smith stars as the father of the precocious tennis talents in a movie depicting their improbable journey The story of Venus and Serena Williams' rise to greatness, two legendary tennis careers propelled by the foresight of their father, has often been likened to a Hollywood movie. Now, with the release of King Richard on 19 November, it will be. Will Smith stars as Richard Williams, the sisters' father, in a film depicting how he guided his two daughters from the public courts of Compton, California, to becoming two of the most accomplished tennis players in the history of the sport. Continue reading... |
| Untapped, unsigned and frequently unhinged: a deep dive into TV TikTok Posted: 07 Nov 2021 10:00 PM PST There's Shakespeare the Roadman, life lessons from Grey's Anatomy, and everything Gemma Collins has ever said or done. In the first of a series in which Guardian critics unearth the best of TikTok, our writer takes on its TV-related content TikTok and telly go together like Ant and Dec before the drink-driving ban. Most obviously, TikTok is good for reliving highlights from daytime and reality shows past. Remember that iconic "Dear-lord-what-a-sad-little-life-Jane" moment from Come Dine With Me? Or that time an indignant Curtis from Love Island chose coffee-making over morning cuddles? Or everything Gemma Collins has ever said and done? All these have been faithfully chopped, churned, lip-synced and lauded by accounts such as Greatbritishmemes, Qualitybritishtelly and Loveofhuns. It makes the enforced ad breaks on All 4 and ITV Hub just whiz by. That's only the beginning of this sweet symbiosis however, because TikTok also provides a glimpse into TV's future. The outrageously talented Munya Chawawa has finally reached Channel 4, as co-host of Complaints Welcome, but his viral music parodies have long-threatened to spill out of the small(er) screen and into the mainstream. And since TikTok allows quality content to bypass the traditional gatekeepers and connect directly with an audience, there's plenty more where he came from. The likes of Bigmiko (if Shakespeare was a roadman …), Abi Clarke (relatable queen of banal office chat) and Harry Trevaldwyn (he's already been cast in the UK remake of Call My Agent) are shaping up to be the panel show regulars of tomorrow. Continue reading... |
| Huge mission to rescue man trapped in Brecon Beacons cave for two days Posted: 08 Nov 2021 01:34 AM PST Rescuers in Wales battle to free man who injured himself while exploring one of UK's longest caves A huge operation has been launched to rescue an injured man who has been trapped for two days in one of the UK's longest caves. More than 50 rescuers are trying to free the man, who is believed to have injured his back while exploring the caves under the Brecon Beacons in south Wales on Saturday. Continue reading... |
| Dark things are happening on Europe's borders. Are they a sign of worse to come? | Daniel Trilling Posted: 08 Nov 2021 12:00 AM PST With a disregard for people's lives, countries from the UK to Poland are toughening up, as if in preparation for climate displacement It is bad enough when states break their own rules and mistreat people – but it's when they start to change the rules that we really need to worry. Three recent stories, from three different corners of Europe, suggest that governments are crossing a new threshold of violence in terms of how they police their borders. These developments are harmful in their own right, but they also set a disturbing precedent for how countries in rich parts of the world might deal with future displacements of people – not just from war and persecution, but from the climate crisis as well. In the UK, the Home Office has quietly tried to amend its draconian nationality and borders bill, currently at committee stage, by introducing a provision that gives Border Force staff immunity from prosecution if they fail to save lives at sea. Priti Patel, the home secretary, claims this is an essentially benevolent measure: if boats in the Channel are turned around, it will eventually stop people attempting the dangerous trip in the first place. In fact, it undermines a key principle of international maritime law that makes it a duty to rescue people in distress. Continue reading... |
| Drone attack by militants on Iraqi PM ‘marks escalation’ in power struggle Posted: 07 Nov 2021 11:14 AM PST Officials see strike on premier's home as assassination attempt by Iran-backed groups trying to overturn election result Senior figures in Iraq believe a brazen drone attack on the home of Iraq's prime minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, marks an unprecedented escalation between the country's leaders and Iran-backed militant groups attempting to overturn last month's election. The overnight attack is seen by Iraqi officials as an assassination attempt, and the first of its kind against a prime minister since the US-led invasion to remove Saddam Hussein nearly 19 years ago. Continue reading... |
| Republicans’ Cop26 hopes undermined by colleagues’ climate disdain Posted: 07 Nov 2021 10:00 PM PST Delegation aims to portray party as engaged even as Republicans back home have downplayed and dismissed climate change A handful of Republican members of Congress have arrived at the UN climate talks in Glasgow in an attempt to portray the party as engaged on the climate crisis, with this message already badly undermined by colleagues back in the US who have downplayed and even dismissed the impacts of global heating during the summit. A delegation of five Republican lawmakers arrived at the talks, known as Cop26, on the weekend and will depart on Tuesday. Garret Graves, a Louisiana Republican, said that the politicians were "not going there just to drink" and will hold a number of meetings to stress a different approach to climate change than Joe Biden. Continue reading... |
| ‘Environmental defenders are being killed’: living on the frontline of global heating Posted: 07 Nov 2021 11:00 PM PST From extreme weather obliterating homes to rising sea levels ruining crops, climate breakdown is a terrifying daily reality for many Throughout the 2021 United Nations climate change conference, the Guardian will be publishing the stories of the people whose lives have been upended – sometimes devastated – by the climate breakdown. Continue reading... |
| Tuvalu minister to address Cop26 knee deep in seawater to highlight climate crisis Posted: 07 Nov 2021 10:57 PM PST Foreign minister Simon Kofe hopes the speech will demonstrate the reality for countries on the frontline Tuvalu's foreign minister has recorded a speech for the United Nations climate conference in Glasgow standing knee-deep in seawater to highlight how his low-lying Pacific Island nation is on the frontline of climate change. Images of Simon Kofe standing in a suit and tie at a lectern set up in the sea, with his trouser legs rolled up, have been shared widely on social media, drawing attention to Tuvalu's struggle against rising sea levels. Continue reading... |
| ‘A moment in history’: making a perilous sea-crossing with refugees – photo essay Posted: 07 Nov 2021 07:00 AM PST Ahead of a UK exhibition of her photo series Journey in the Death Boat, Güliz Vural describes travelling with Syrians being smuggled to Greece from Turkey Standing on a Turkish beach ready to join a group of Syrian refugees on an inflatable boat bound for Greece, the photojournalist Güliz Vural's biggest fear was that the people traffickers organising the illegal crossing would not let her onboard. If she had known that within a few hours of leaving Turkey she would be under arrest, accused of people trafficking herself, she would have thought twice about the journey. The migrants carry the inflatable boat they will travel in down to the beach. They had to leave all their possessions as they crammed themselves in. Nearly 50 Syrians made the crossing in a boat designed to carry 12 people, adding to the anxiety felt by the children in particular. Continue reading... |
| Front-line chaplains: emergency services for the soul Posted: 07 Nov 2021 04:00 AM PST Could you calm someone living in a war zone? Meet five counsellors facing up to terrible challenges I joined the Liverpool Fire Brigade in 1968 at the age of 16. I transferred to North Wales, before eventually joining South Wales Fire and Rescue Service nearly three decades later. I was brought up in a Christian home; my father was a minister right here in the valleys. For a long time, I never wanted to be involved, formally. Eventually, I trained for the ministry, jointly leading a church, and missions in Uganda. On one such trip, I found my calling. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 07 Nov 2021 03:47 PM PST Constant change in the climate policies of Australia and New Zealand has been a huge disappointment to Pacific island nations When I came into office as president of Kiribati in 2003, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had released its third assessment report and, like my predecessors, I believed the report's projected rise in sea levels posed a real threat to the survival for those of us on the frontline. Accordingly, in my first address at the UN General Assembly in 2004 I drew attention to the dangers posed by climate change, especially to small island nations like Kiribati and other Pacific island countries. The fact that no other leader made any reference to it in their statement worried me and I wondered whether I might be making a fool of myself, especially when the focus of international attention at the time was on more real and present threats like terrorism. Thankfully by the next assembly, in 2005, other Pacific island leaders had joined the call for action. This has gathered great momentum in the years since. Continue reading... |
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