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Germany urges unity as crisis worsens for migrants at Poland-Belarus border

Posted: 09 Nov 2021 02:45 AM PST

German interior minister says Poland needs support to deal with 'hybrid threat' of politically organised migration

Germany needs to get the "whole of the democratic world" on board to support orderly immigration to Europe, its interior minister has said, amid a worsening crisis at the Poland-Belarus border.

Horst Seehofer accused Belarus and Russia of exploiting refugees and migrants in an attempt to destabilise the west, and said EU countries must stand together in the face of a "hybrid threat" posed by "politically organised migration".

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At least a quarter of Tory MPs have second jobs, earning over £4m a year

Posted: 08 Nov 2021 10:00 PM PST

More than 90 Tory members do paid work on the side compared with very few Labour politicians, finds analysis

More than a quarter of Tory MPs have second jobs with firms whose activities range from gambling to private healthcare, making more than £4m in extra earnings in a year, Guardian analysis has found.

The register of MPs' interests shows that more than 90 out of 360 Tories have extra jobs on top of their work in parliament, compared with three from Labour. They are overwhelmingly older and 86% are men. The highest earners were all former cabinet ministers.

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Cop26: 1bn people will suffer extreme heat at just 2C heating – day nine live

Posted: 09 Nov 2021 02:50 AM PST

Climate crisis is driving up deadly combination of temperature and humidity, says study released at Cop26
Tuvalu minister gives Cop26 speech while standing in the sea – video

The ripple effects of Cop26 are being felt right across Glasgow as businesses seek to boost their green credentials in light of the event.

In its own unique take on renewable energy, Glaswegian nightclub SWG3 is hoping to become the first in the world to create a heating system powered by the body heat of dancers. The human body emits 100 watts of heat when resting, and more when exercising.

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California women gave birth to each other’s babies after IVF mix-up

Posted: 09 Nov 2021 01:22 AM PST

Couples to sue clinic after raising girls for months that were not theirs, says lawsuit, before babies were swapped back

Two California couples gave birth to each other's babies after a mix-up at a fertility clinic and spent months raising children that were not theirs before swapping the infants, according to a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles.

Daphna Cardinale said she and her husband, Alexander, had immediate suspicions that the girl she gave birth to in late 2019 was not theirs due to the child's darker complexion.

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Greek minister urges victims to ‘speak up’ amid wave of domestic violence

Posted: 09 Nov 2021 02:15 AM PST

New campaign will encourage survivors to access help and support in response to spate of femicides and rise in reports of abuse

Greece is to launch a public campaign urging victims of domestic violence to "speak up" after a spate of femicides whose ferocity has stunned the nation.

The country has seen a rise in domestic violence cases so far in 2021, accentuated by multiple cases of brutal murders of women that have dominated media coverage as people from the arts and sports worlds – including the Olympic gold medallist Sofia Bekatourou – have come forward with allegations of sexual abuse.

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Rust shooting: Alec Baldwin calls for police to monitor gun safety on film sets

Posted: 08 Nov 2021 07:24 PM PST

Actor urges extra safety measure amid increased scrutiny of an often overlooked corner of the film industry

Alec Baldwin has urged film and TV productions to hire police officers to monitor weapons and ensure guns used in filming are safe in the wake of the fatal shooting during filming of the western movie Rust.

Baldwin accidentally shot and killed the cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on 21 October after being told the gun he was rehearsing with on the film set in New Mexico was "cold", or safe to use, according to the Santa Fe county sheriff's office.

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Myanmar military build-up ‘mirrors’ movements before Rohingya atrocities, says UK

Posted: 08 Nov 2021 10:00 PM PST

Deputy ambassador to UN draws comparison to 2017 genocide, as UN aid chief says more than 3 million people need life-saving aid

Britain's deputy UN ambassador has voiced concerns a military build-up in Myanmar's north-west bears similarities to the Rohingya genocide of 2017.

James Kariuki told reporters before heading into a closed-doors meeting with the UN security council on Monday: "We are concerned that this rather mirrors the activity we saw four years ago ahead of the atrocities that were committed in Rakhine against the Rohingya [Muslim minority]"

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Bitcoin price surges to record high of more than $68,000

Posted: 09 Nov 2021 12:22 AM PST

Other cryptocurrencies such as ethereum also reach records as investors hedge against inflation

The bitcoin price has reached a new record high, breaking through $68,000 (£50,000), and analysts predict that the world's best-known cryptocurrency will rise further in the coming weeks.

This beats the previous record high set in late October, when bitcoin reached nearly $67,700 before falling back again when investors discovered a new cryptocurrency, shiba inu. Other cryptocurrencies have also risen to record highs, such as ethereum, which soared to $4,837.

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SpaceX capsule splashes down after astronauts’ six months onboard ISS

Posted: 08 Nov 2021 10:27 PM PST

Endeavour parachutes into sea after a fiery re-entry through Earth's atmosphere broadcast live by Nasa on web

Four astronauts strapped inside a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule have splashed down safely in the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida coast, ending a six-month Nasa mission onboard the International Space Station and a daylong flight home.

The Dragon vehicle, dubbed Endeavour, parachuted into the sea as planned just after 10:30pm EST on Monday, after a fiery re-entry descent through Earth's atmosphere broadcast live by a Nasa webcast.

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Malawian campaigner makes history as country’s first elected MP with albinism

Posted: 08 Nov 2021 10:31 PM PST

Overstone Kondowe's election hailed as 'giant step forward' in continent where people with albinism face stigma and attacks


The first Malawian with albinism to become an elected MP took his seat in the new parliament on Monday, making history in the southern African country. It also marks a significant milestone in a continent where people with the hereditary lack of pigmentation in the skin, hair and eyes face severe discrimination and physical attacks.

Overstone Kondowe, the 42-year-old son of a teacher, grew up in a village without any help to ease the pain in his sun-sensitive skin or glasses to aid his poor eyesight.

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New Zealand finally welcomes godwit two months after it was blown 2,000km back to Alaska

Posted: 08 Nov 2021 08:18 PM PST

The bird has failed to complete the non-stop, 12,200km journey three times in the past year

A plucky migrating godwit that captured New Zealand's attention after it was forced to make a dramatic U-turn back to Alaska after 33 hours of non-stop flight has finally touched down in the country.

Every year, the Eastern bar-tailed godwits, or kuaka in Māori, make one of the longest avian migration flights in the world, travelling from their breeding ground in the Arctic, across the Pacific, to New Zealand.

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Covid news live: up to 100,000 NHS England staff unvaccinated; thousands protest over New Zealand’s vaccine mandates

Posted: 09 Nov 2021 02:49 AM PST

Speculation mounts UK government will announce NHS vaccine mandate today; anti-vaccination mandate protesters descend on Wellington

Chris Hopson, the chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents NHS trusts, said he was expecting an announcement on a deadline for mandatory vaccination for NHS staff today.

PA Media quotes him telling BBC Radio 5 Live: "That's what we're expecting today – that there will be a mandatory vaccination deadline."

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New vaccine campaigns target rural Americans to address disparities

Posted: 09 Nov 2021 02:00 AM PST

Rural residents are older and poorer, are less likely to be vaccinated – and twice as likely to die of Covid as city dwellers

In the United States, there is a renewed campaign to vaccinate rural Americans due to the stark difference in Covid-19 cases and deaths among those living in less-populated areas compared with towns and cities.

Rural residents are now twice as likely to die from Covid-19 as Americans in metropolitan areas. Yet rural areas tend to lag at least 10% behind metropolitan areas when it comes to vaccination – and this hesitancy is exacerbating already existing health issues.

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Singapore to start charging Covid patients who are ‘unvaccinated by choice’

Posted: 08 Nov 2021 10:38 PM PST

Authorities say unvaccinated people make up a 'sizeable majority' of those needing the most intensive care

Singapore will no longer pay the Covid-19 medical bills for people "unvaccinated by choice", the government said, as the country grapples with a surge in cases.

The government currently covers the full Covid medical costs for all Singaporeans, as well as permanent residents and long-term visa holders, unless they test positive soon after returning home from overseas.

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‘I can’t wait to hold him’: onboard flight BA001 as US opens to UK visitors

Posted: 08 Nov 2021 10:46 AM PST

Anticipation and celebration are in the air as passengers look forward to reunions, holidays and business

Nearly 20 months after the US introduced a travel ban, British travellers were allowed into the country on Monday.

The UK was one of more than 30 countries, including Mexico and Canada, that saw an easing of the travel restrictions that have kept families apart for nearly two years.

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‘He drives me mad!’ Why don’t we dump toxic friends?

Posted: 09 Nov 2021 02:00 AM PST

According to psychologists, 'ambivalent' relationships can cause us more stress than being with people we actively dislike. Is it time to let go – or can these friendships be salvaged?

Roger and Jim have been friends for more than 30 years. When they were younger they were in a band together, and their friendship was forged over a shared love of music and beer. Even now, despite family commitments on both sides, they manage to catch up every couple of months. "Even though he drives me mad," says Roger.

It is Jim who leaps to Roger's mind at the mention of toxic friendships. Every time they meet, Roger says, they "tend to have the same conversation", because Jim never listens to what he says.

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‘Dignified, strong, beautiful’: the year’s best portrait photography – in pictures

Posted: 08 Nov 2021 11:00 PM PST

From reclining, topless men to survivors of the war in Azerbaijan, here are the best images from the Taylor Wessing photographic portrait prize 2021

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‘I will never get my eyes back’: the Chilean woman blinded by police who is running for senate

Posted: 09 Nov 2021 02:00 AM PST

Fabiola Campillai was shot in the face by a teargas canister as she walked to work in 2019 amid nationwide protests against social inequality. Now she is running for office as an independent

On a November evening two years ago, Fabiola Campillai stepped out into the fading sunshine to head for her night shift at a food processing plant.

For weeks, Chile had been racked by a wave of mass protests against social inequality, but there were few signs of demonstrators in Cinco Pinos, the quiet neighbourhood on the outskirts of Santiago where Campillai lives.

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What lies beneath: the secrets of France’s top serial killer expert

Posted: 08 Nov 2021 10:00 PM PST

An intrepid expert with dozens of books to his name, Stéphane Bourgoin was a bestselling author, famous in France for having interviewed more than 70 notorious murderers. Then an anonymous collective began to investigate his past

One night in the early 1990s, at a dinner party at his home in Paris, Stéphane Bourgoin, an author and bookseller then of no particular renown, began to hold forth on the matter of serial killing. The topic was, at the time, quite novel. As a cultural trope, the string of mysterious homicides had of course been a fixture around the world since at least the time of Jack the Ripper, and the French more specifically had been acquainted with the idea since as early as the 15th century, when the nobleman Gilles de Rais was found to have kidnapped, tortured and ritualistically murdered nearly 150 young children. But these people had not been understood as "serial killers". That phrase, and the notion that such criminals were a breed apart, impelled by a special, sexualised depravity, really entered into the popular imagination only in the 1970s, and then mostly in the US, where the FBI had established a unit of so-called "profilers" to catch them. The serial killer was not yet a cultural vogue in France, much less the cliche it was already becoming elsewhere. Bourgoin's guests were barely familiar with the concept at all. They listened, as millions of other French-speakers would listen in the decades to come, horrified, nauseated and rapt.

Bourgoin told his invitees of the FBI programme, of the traits of the typical killer, and of some of the more awful American specimens. "We were utterly captivated," Carol Kehringer, who was among Bourgoin's guests that night, recalled recently. Kehringer was then in her 20s, starting out as a television producer. "I started asking him all sorts of questions," she said, "and the more he spoke, the more I thought to myself: 'We've got to do a film!'"

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Grayson Perry on art, cats – and the meaning of life: ‘If you don’t have self doubt, you’re not trying hard enough’

Posted: 08 Nov 2021 10:00 PM PST

The Turner winning artist takes a break from his live tour to answer readers' questions on everything from class and gender identity to whether he can still make controversial art

Grayson Perry hasn't, he reports apologetically, dressed up specifically for our Zoom call, but for an event he will be attending afterwards. "I wanted to look like a lady who lunched," says Perry, who is wearing mauve silk, bright red lipstick, giant specs and Thatcherite hair. Since winning the Turner prize in 2003, Perry – with his alter ego Claire – has become one of the UK's most recognisable and admired artists. He is known primarily for his ceramics, but his other work includes tapestries and a house in Essex. He is also a curator, writer and broadcaster – and his Channel 4 show Grayson's Art Club, presented with his wife, the writer and psychotherapist Philippa Perry, was a lockdown highlight. Currently on tour with A Show for Normal People, Perry takes a break to answer Guardian readers' questions on art, life and cats.

How do you classify "normal" people? (Amy, London)
I'm interested in those things that hover in our unconsciousnesses – class, gender, identity – until we have to think about them for whatever reason. So normal is whatever's normal for you, until it's not. Everybody's got their own version that's constructed by their background and history.

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Decaying but beloved, Tokyo’s Capsule Tower faces uncertain future

Posted: 08 Nov 2021 06:11 PM PST

When it was built in 1972, it was the capital's only example of the metabolism architectural movement – but time has caught up with the structure

It is an architectural curiosity that attracts admirers from around the world, an asymmetric stack of identical concrete boxes in a neighbourhood dominated by the gleaming glass edifices of corporate Japan.

But after occupying a corner of Tokyo's Ginza district for almost half a century, the Nakagin Capsule Tower faces an uncertain future.

Stacks of asymmetric concrete cubes make up the Nakagin Capsule Tower exterior in Tokyo, Japan.

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A strangely alluring cocktail of dad dancing and traffic chat: architecture on TikTok

Posted: 08 Nov 2021 10:00 PM PST

From rants about famous buildings to unabashed property porn, TikTok is full of riffs on architecture and design. Our man enters a world of eccentric carpeting, lurid mansions and in-depth pavement analysis

One minute, he's sitting in a fast-food restaurant in a three-piece suit, twirling his moustache and miming popping a glock to the sounds of Polo G and Lil Tjay. The next, he's standing at a traffic intersection, extolling the virtues of protected bicycle lanes. This is Mr Barricade, the social media persona of California traffic engineer Vignesh Swaminathan, who introduces niche topics with succinct panache to audiences that might never have stopped to consider the radius of a curb or the racial history of pedestrian crossings. His strangely alluring cocktail of dad dancing and traffic chat has garnered more than 30m likes. Or maybe it's all thanks to that magnificent moustache.

The worlds of architecture, design and urbanism on TikTok can be confusing places to the uninitiated. Users swerve between educational explainer videos, interior design advice, and "Hey guys, here's a cool building I found on the internet" monologues, along with thoughtful criticism and unbridled ranting. Plus there's oodles of property porn to sate your Through the Keyhole desires.

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Caving safer ‘than watching TV’, says rescuer after Brecon Beacons incident

Posted: 09 Nov 2021 02:03 AM PST

Steve Thomas says injured man who spent two days trapped underground is 'doing well … he'll be good'

One of the rescuers who extricated an injured man from a cavern deep beneath the Brecon Beacons has argued that sitting on a sofa watching television is more dangerous than caving.

The injured man, who is in his 40s, is said to be doing well after being rescued from the cave, where he was trapped for more than two days at least 300 metres beneath the surface.

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‘We’re taking the man out of the myth’: the musical reclaiming Rumi from Instagram

Posted: 09 Nov 2021 02:06 AM PST

A new stage production aims to tell the Sufi poet's story beyond his aphorisms – and challenge assumptions about Islam and the Middle East in the process

He is everywhere and nowhere. The words of Jalal al-Din Rumi are found on sunset images pasted on Instagram and coffee mugs sold on Etsy; his poems have been featured in recordings from Madonna and Coldplay and he is reputed to be the bestselling poet in the US. Rumi's observations and aphorisms on life may be endlessly cited – "You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the entire ocean in a drop" – but few in the west know him as anything more than a bearded Sufi mystic.

"Rumi has become a mystical, almost deified figure," says Nadim Naaman. "The reality is that he was the opposite of an untouchable deity." Naaman, a British Lebanese singer, actor and writer, has collaborated with the Qatari composer Dana Al Fardan to create Rumi: The Musical. "Our approach was to take the man out of the myth," says Al Fardan, "and to present him as human being." This is the second time Naaman and Al Fardan have brought a beloved Middle Eastern poet to the London stage. Their 2018 show Broken Wings, which is returning to London in the new year, was based on a novel by the Lebanese poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. It was the success of that production that convinced them there may be an appetite for a musical that delved into the life of Rumi.

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A wealth of sorrow: why Nigeria’s abundant oil reserves are really a curse

Posted: 08 Nov 2021 11:31 PM PST

It is known as the resource curse: assets that should bring wealth and stability but instead lead to corruption and poverty. And for Nigeria, oil is the culprit

In Nigeria, oil has been more of a curse than a blessing. Weak institutions of state and poor governance in managing the vast revenues have led the country to fail to realise its full potential in a textbook example of what academics know as the "resource curse".

First coined by Prof Richard Auty in 1994, the term refers to the inability of nations to use their windfall wealth to improve their population's lot and bolster their economies. The rich natural resources bring corruption and poverty to a nation, rather than positive economic development and, counterintuitively, these countries end up with lower growth and development than those without natural resources.

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New Yorkers reject expanded voting access in stunning result

Posted: 09 Nov 2021 03:00 AM PST

Conservatives campaigned hard against proposed reforms while Democrats did little to promote the initiatives

Amid an array of discouraging election results for Democrats last week, there was one under-the-radar outcome that was especially perplexing. In New York, one of the country's most progressive states, voters overwhelmingly rejected initiatives that would have expanded voting access in future elections.

The vote, which came in a year when Republican-led states have passed dozens of laws to restrict voting access, left voting rights advocates stunned.

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Chinese city offers cash for clues as Covid outbreak declared a ‘people’s war’

Posted: 08 Nov 2021 09:11 PM PST

Authorities announced the 100,000 yuan ($15,640) rewards for residents in Heihe, saying illegal hunting or crossing the border should be reported

Residents of a Chinese city bordering Russia have been offered major cash rewards for tips on the continuing Delta outbreak, with local officials declaring a "people's war" on the virus.

Authorities announced the 100,000 yuan ($15,640) rewards for residents in Heihe, in the north-eastern Heilongjiang Province, as its total tally of cases in this outbreak reached 240.

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Australian corporations’ treatment of Indigenous customers to be investigated by inquiry

Posted: 09 Nov 2021 02:31 AM PST

String of scandals involving some of Australia's biggest business names prompts parliamentary probe

After a series of high-profile cases of corporate failures, the way big businesses in Australia treat Indigenous customers will be examined by a parliamentary inquiry.

The destruction of Juukan Gorge by Rio Tinto was one of the most recent inexcusable acts, but it is not alone. Woolworths was forced to abandon plans to build a liquor warehouse near three dry Aboriginal communities. Earlier this year, Telstra was fined $50m by the federal court which found it had exploited Indigenous customers by signing them up for phone contracts they could not understand or afford.

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Hit $100bn target or poor countries face climate disaster, the Gambia tells Cop26

Posted: 08 Nov 2021 05:26 AM PST

West African nation's environment minister says richer countries must finally honour funding commitment made at Cop15 in 2009

Rich countries must hit their $100bn climate finance target in the last week of Cop26 or it will be catastrophic for the poorest nations suffering the most from the climate crisis, the Gambian environment minister has warned.

In an interview with the Guardian as he prepared to leave for Glasgow, Lamin B Dibba urged developed countries to finally honour the annual funding commitment that was made 12 years ago at the Copenhagen climate summit (Cop15) – but which has never been achieved.

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‘Like slave and master’: DRC miners toil for 30p an hour to fuel electric cars

Posted: 08 Nov 2021 04:00 AM PST

Congolese workers describe a system of abuse, precarious employment and paltry wages – all to power the green vehicle revolution

The names Tesla, Renault and Volvo mean nothing to Pierre*. He has never heard of an electric car. But as he heads out to work each morning in the bustling, dusty town of Fungurume, in the Democratic Republic of Congo's southern mining belt, he is the first link in a supply chain that is fuelling the electric vehicle revolution and its promise of a decarbonised future.

Pierre is mining for cobalt, one of the world's most sought-after minerals, and a key ingredient in the batteries that power most electric vehicles (EVs).

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Youngkin played the race card in Virginia, no Trump card needed | Michael Harriot

Posted: 09 Nov 2021 03:00 AM PST

Long before critical race theory, whiteness has been a legitimate political issue in US elections

Can you hear it?

That frantic cacophony of click-clacks is the sound of pundits, professors and politicos typing think pieces and Twitter posts dissecting the results of last week's gubernatorial election in Virginia. Less than a year ago, Democratic candidates won the only two statewide races by more than 10 points. So how did Republican Glenn Youngkin ride his critical race theory surfboard into Virginia's governor's mansion?

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Hacking of activists is latest in long line of cyber-attacks on Palestinians

Posted: 08 Nov 2021 08:22 AM PST

Analysis: while identity of hackers is not known in this case, Palestinians have long been spied on by Israeli military

The disclosure that Palestinian human rights defenders were reportedly hacked using NSO's Pegasus spyware will come as little surprise to two groups of people: Palestinians themselves and the Israeli military and intelligence cyber operatives who have long spied on Palestinians.

While it is not known who was responsible for the hacking in this instance, what is very well documented is the role of the Israeli military's 8200 cyberwarfare unit – known in Hebrew as the Yehida Shmoneh-Matayim – in the widespread spying on Palestinian society.

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Tensions rise as Belarus escorts migrants towards Polish border – video

Posted: 08 Nov 2021 09:08 PM PST

Polish authorities have accused Belarus of trying to spark a major confrontation as footage showed hundreds of migrants walking towards the Polish border. Belarusian State Border Committee shared drone footage of Polish police in riot gear guarding the Polish border as migrants were gathering on the Belarusian side, behind barbed wire. The US has called on the government of Belarus to immediately halt its campaign of orchestrating and coercing irregular migration flows across its borders.

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Flights from London to New York resume – in pictures

Posted: 08 Nov 2021 12:39 PM PST

British Airways flight BA001 and Virgin Atlantic flight VS3 performed a synchronised departure from Heathrow on Monday heading for New York JFK for the first time since the US travel ban was introduced due to pandemic

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Environmental photographer of the year 2021 – in pictures

Posted: 08 Nov 2021 05:11 AM PST

The winners have been announced in the environmental photographer of the year competition, organised by environmental and water management charity CIWEM and WaterBear, a free streaming platform dedicated to the future of our planet. The awards celebrate humanity's ability to survive and innovate, and showcase thought-provoking images that highlight our impact and inspire us to live sustainably

  • Vote for the people's choice award here
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