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- South Africa may be entering fifth Covid wave earlier than expected
- ‘Head coach wants to play’: the US drug sting that led to BVI premier’s arrest
- China says Nato has ‘messed up Europe’ and warns over role in Asia-Pacific
- Solomon Islands PM suggests Australia’s reaction to China security deal is hysterical and hypocritical
- ‘They’re so sneaky’: New Zealand homeowners battle plague of smelly cluster flies
- Climate crisis – not China – is biggest threat to Pacific, say former leaders
- Scott Morrison suggests ‘remarkable similarity’ between China and Solomon Islands rhetoric – as it happened
- Independent MP drops threat to withdraw supply to Perrottet’s minority government
- Man accused of raping Brittany Higgins loses bid to delay Canberra trial
- Victorian Covid-19 lockdowns saw jump in people seeking mental health help, inquiry told
- Election preference deals and strategies that could benefit Pauline Hanson and One Nation
- ‘I am taking this personally’: Victorian crossbencher Fiona Patten bemused by federal Labor preference deal
- Moscow confirms attack on Kyiv during UN chief’s visit
- Russia-Ukraine war: Putin tried to humiliate UN with Kyiv attack, says Zelenskiy; British aid volunteers reported missing – live
- Deutsche Bank HQ in Frankfurt raided over suspected money laundering
- Head of EU border agency Frontex resigns amid criticisms
- Russian intelligence behind poisoning of Nobel-laureate editor, says US
- Eurozone growth slips as Russia-Ukraine war pushes up energy costs
- Israeli police and Palestinians clash at al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem
- Panic at Israeli airport as US family packs unexploded bombshell for flight home
- Labour has biggest lead over Tories for 10 years as best party for taxation, poll suggests – UK politics live
- Thousands of domestic abuse survivors denied help after legal aid cuts, study finds
- Moths declining faster in British woods than farmland or cities
- Constable painting of Waterloo Bridge ‘transformed’ by conservation work
- Rebekah Vardy suggests her agent leaked Coleen Rooney stories to Sun
- Barrister was discriminated against for gender-critical views, tribunal hears
- US women of color increasingly seeking alternatives to hospital births – study
- ‘Democrats can’t catch a break’: election maps setback spells midterms trouble
- Elon Musk sells almost $4bn-worth of Tesla shares after Twitter deal
- Anthony Fauci says the US is not in a ‘pandemic phase’. What does that mean?
- Loud boom and streaking fireball stirs panic in three US states
| South Africa may be entering fifth Covid wave earlier than expected Posted: 29 Apr 2022 02:42 AM PDT Rise in infections appears to be driven by Omicron sub-variants, say health officials South Africa may be entering a fifth Covid wave earlier than expected after a sustained rise in infections over the past 14 days that seems to be driven by the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron sub-variants, health officials and scientists have said. The country that has recorded the most coronavirus cases and deaths on the African continent only exited a fourth wave around January and had predicted a fifth wave could start in May or June, early in the southern hemisphere winter. Continue reading... |
| ‘Head coach wants to play’: the US drug sting that led to BVI premier’s arrest Posted: 29 Apr 2022 05:20 AM PDT Andrew Fahie is due in court on drug charges in Miami after arrest following months-long DEA operation In mid-October, as Sir Gary Hickinbottom's commission of inquiry into the government of British Virgin Islands led by the premier, Andrew Fahie, was taking laborious public oral evidence for a 44th day, a US Drug Enforcement Administration informant was, according to court papers, meeting some self-proclaimed Lebanese Hezbollah operatives on the BVI island of Tortola to discuss how to shift cocaine through the territory en route to Puerto Rico, Miami and New York. Hickinbottom was taking mind-numbingly dull evidence on how to apply for BVI citizenship, and whether the process was open to manipulation. Continue reading... |
| China says Nato has ‘messed up Europe’ and warns over role in Asia-Pacific Posted: 28 Apr 2022 10:49 PM PDT In response to British foreign secretary's warning that Beijing must 'play by the rules', ministry of foreign affairs says Nato is stirring conflict China's ministry of foreign affairs has accused Nato of messing up Europe and stirring up conflicts in the Asia-Pacific region, after the UK's foreign secretary told China it should "play by the rules". In a speech at Mansion House in London on Wednesday, Liz Truss renewed calls to boost Nato in the wake of the Ukraine war, and said the coordinated moves to isolate Russia from the world economy proved that market access to democratic countries was no longer a given. Truss also delivered a direct warning to China. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 28 Apr 2022 10:22 PM PDT Manasseh Sogavare says he wasn't told about Aukus pact until it was public while Scott Morrison accuses counterpart of parroting China's lines The prime minister of Solomon Islands has accused the Australian government of hypocrisy over his country's security deal with China, saying the Aukus pact was far from transparent but he "did not become theatrical and hysterical". Manasseh Sogavare said Solomon Islands and other countries in the region "should have been consulted to ensure that this Aukus treaty is transparent since it will affect the Pacific family by allowing nuclear submarines in Pacific waters". Continue reading... |
| ‘They’re so sneaky’: New Zealand homeowners battle plague of smelly cluster flies Posted: 28 Apr 2022 10:20 PM PDT Changing climate means infestations of pesky insects could become more common, experts say They smell like sweet meat, destroy vacuum cleaners and are wreaking havoc across rural New Zealand. An unusually wet summer has brought joy to farmers and grief to residents, as a plague of cluster flies descends on homes in the Canterbury and Wairarapa regions. Continue reading... |
| Climate crisis – not China – is biggest threat to Pacific, say former leaders Posted: 28 Apr 2022 07:29 PM PDT Pacific Elders Voice group says military tension 'created by China and the US and its allies' are secondary to rising seas and catastrophic cyclones Growing military tensions in the Pacific between China, the US and Australia do not address the most significant security threat to the region – climate change – former leaders of Pacific nations have warned. In a statement on Friday, the Pacific Elders Voice group, which includes former leaders of the Marshall Islands, Palau, Kiribati and Tuvalu, as well as Dame Meg Taylor, the former secretary general of the Pacific Islands Forum secretariat, said that "the primary security threat to the Pacific is climate change", rather than geo-strategic tensions. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 29 Apr 2022 03:11 AM PDT Prime minister responds after Solomon Islands PM says he heard about Aukus pact through media; Labor leader heads to Perth after week in Covid isolation as deputy Richard Marles tests positive; at least 26 coronavirus deaths recorded. This blog is now closed
I'm not sure if voters care about all this debate about debates, but it goes on: Anthony Albanese agreed to debate Scott Morrison anytime. Morrison wants a debate on Seven and on Nine. The ABC has been cut out, as has the National Press Club. Well, I think the national broadcaster can have a role here as well and the prime minister thinks that he is the only person who has a say in this. The national secretaries of the Liberal party and Labor party should sit down, work these issues through, like adults. I'm up for more debates. ... But I'm not up for the prime minister deciding when, who, how that all occurs. We both need to be involved in this process and the Labor party needs to be engaged so I'm certainly up for more debates. Well, it's all relative, I guess, in in terms of what I have to do. So today, this morning, I've got a round of interviews. Just the doctor's advice that when I'm feeling tired – which he advises, and others [are] telling me is the case, that I'll continue to feel tired and a bit fatigued, particularly over the next week – that I need to be conscious about that, I need to rest when I can and just be a bit sensible. It's no use not looking after your health. There's still three and a bit weeks to go in this campaign. He's advised that each and every day, if I get that rest, I'll feel better, and I certainly feel much better today than I did yesterday. Continue reading... |
| Independent MP drops threat to withdraw supply to Perrottet’s minority government Posted: 29 Apr 2022 02:57 AM PDT Sydney MP Alex Greenwich says he will continue work with NSW government after meeting with premier and transgender advocates
Sydney independent MP Alex Greenwich has dropped a threat to withdraw supply from the New South Wales government, which is dependent on the crossbench for support. Greenwich had threatened to leave the minority government out in the cold as a public debate over transgender people's participation in sport dragged on. Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading... |
| Man accused of raping Brittany Higgins loses bid to delay Canberra trial Posted: 29 Apr 2022 12:30 AM PDT Bruce Lehrmann, who is pleading not guilty, wanted a temporary or permanent stay on proceedings but the trial is scheduled for June The man accused of raping Brittany Higgins has lost his bid to delay the ACT supreme court trial. On Friday, Chief Justice Lucy McCallum rejected an application by Bruce Lehrmann for a temporary or permanent stay, along with his bid to have media articles about the alleged sexual assault taken down. Continue reading... |
| Victorian Covid-19 lockdowns saw jump in people seeking mental health help, inquiry told Posted: 28 Apr 2022 11:57 PM PDT BeyondBlue chief executive tells Victorian Covid inquiry lockdown led to more demand for services 'regardless of where it was'
Victoria's Covid-19 lockdowns led to a spike in mental health service presentations not only locally, but in other parts of Australia too, an inquiry has heard. Spikes weren't as high, but there was an uplift in every state and territory, BeyondBlue's chief executive told a Victorian parliamentary inquiry into the state's pandemic orders. Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading... |
| Election preference deals and strategies that could benefit Pauline Hanson and One Nation Posted: 28 Apr 2022 11:52 PM PDT Analysis: Preference deals can have political benefits, but they can also cause some broader problems for parties
The Queensland Liberal National party's decision to direct Senate preferences to Pauline Hanson's One Nation party has raised surprisingly few objections. In the past, such a move has proved political poison. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 28 Apr 2022 11:40 PM PDT Reason party leader to reconsider her support for state government after being put below Derryn Hinch's Justice party on how-to-vote cards
The Victorian state crossbench MP Fiona Patten says she will re-evaluate her relationship with the Andrews government after federal Labor placed Derryn Hinch's Justice party and the Liberal Democrats above her party on Senate how-to-vote cards. Labor's how-to-vote card for the Senate in Victoria instructs supporters to place the Greens second on their ballot paper, followed by Derryn Hinch's Justice party, the Liberal Democrats, the Animal Justice party and the Reason party, of which Patten is leader. Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading... |
| Moscow confirms attack on Kyiv during UN chief’s visit Posted: 29 Apr 2022 06:07 AM PDT Kremlin admits airstrike as Ukraine acknowledges heavy losses from Russian attack in east Moscow has confirmed it carried out an airstrike on Kyiv during a visit by the UN secretary general, António Guterres, as Ukraine acknowledged heavy losses from Russia's attack in the east but said the invader's casualties were "colossal". The defence ministry in Moscow said in its daily briefing on Friday that two "high-precision, long-range air-based weapons" had destroyed the production buildings of the Artyom missile and space enterprise in the Ukrainian capital on Thursday night. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 29 Apr 2022 05:59 AM PDT Ukraine's president says attack on the city during the UN general secretary's visit showed 'Russian leadership's efforts to humiliate the UN'
A checkpoint at the Russian village of Krupets in the Kursk region came under fire, according to Kursk's governor Roman Starovoyt. The RIA news agency reports he said there were no casualties, and fire was returned. Krupets is close to the Ukrainian border, near the Sumy region in the north-east of the country. The UK's international trade minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan has been interviewed on Sky News in the UK. She stressed again that the UK government did not support British people going over to Ukraine to fight. The Foreign Office is working very closely with those in Ukraine, both to make sure that, you know, the identification is correct. And indeed to work with local authorities and to support families here. As we've set out right from the beginning, we don't want British nationals to go and fight. But there are many, many ways in which so many people, and I think the heartfelt, genuinely heartfelt, anxiety and appalment that Putin has illegally invaded and is now continuing to bombard those areas where he had stepped away from, is something that quite rightly horrifies the British public. Continue reading... |
| Deutsche Bank HQ in Frankfurt raided over suspected money laundering Posted: 29 Apr 2022 05:49 AM PDT Officers from financial regulator, federal police and public prosecutor's office launch raid on German bank German authorities have raided Deutsche Bank's headquarters in Frankfurt over suspected money laundering at the country's largest lender. Officers from the financial regulator BaFin, the federal police, and the Frankfurt public prosecutor's office launched a raid on the bank's glass-panelled offices – known locally as the "twin towers" – on Friday morning after securing a search warrant from the local court. Continue reading... |
| Head of EU border agency Frontex resigns amid criticisms Posted: 29 Apr 2022 05:16 AM PDT Fabrice Leggeri under fire over agency's human rights record and anti-fraud investigation The head of the EU border agency Frontex has filed his resignation following excoriating criticism of its human rights record and an anti-fraud investigation. Fabrice Leggeri, who was censured by the European parliament last year, announced his resignation in a letter to the agency's management board. "I give my mandate back to the management board as it seems that the Frontex mandate on which I have been elected and renewed in June 2019 has silently but effectively been changed," Leggeri wrote in a letter seen by the Guardian. Continue reading... |
| Russian intelligence behind poisoning of Nobel-laureate editor, says US Posted: 29 Apr 2022 05:05 AM PDT US officials say unnamed Russian spy services launched chemical attack on investigative journalist Dmitry Muratov on Moscow train Russian intelligence was behind a chemical attack on Dmitry Muratov, the Nobel peace prize-winning editor of the Russian independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, US officials have said. Muratov has previously said he boarded a train on 18 April heading from Moscow to the city of Samara when he was splashed with red paint containing acetone by an attacker who told him: "Muratov, this is for you from our boys." Continue reading... |
| Eurozone growth slips as Russia-Ukraine war pushes up energy costs Posted: 29 Apr 2022 04:31 AM PDT France's economy stalls and Italy's shrinks but Germany rebounds from contraction Warning lights are flashing in the eurozone economy, with first-quarter growth in France stalling and shrinking in Italy, as Russia's war in Ukraine drives up energy costs across the continent. Figures from Eurostat, the EU's statistics body, showed growth in GDP across the single currency area slipped to 0.2% in the first three months of 2022, down from 0.3% in the final quarter of 2021, when Omicron weighed on activity. Continue reading... |
| Israeli police and Palestinians clash at al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem Posted: 29 Apr 2022 02:16 AM PDT Red Crescent says at least 42 injured at site revered by Muslims and Jews as police fire rubber bullets at youths throwing rocks Israeli police have fired rubber bullets and stun grenades towards Palestinian youths throwing rocks in the latest outbreak of violence at Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque, a site revered by Muslims and Jews. At least 42 Palestinians were injured in the early morning clashes on Friday at Islam's third-holiest site, the Palestine Red Crescent said. Continue reading... |
| Panic at Israeli airport as US family packs unexploded bombshell for flight home Posted: 28 Apr 2022 06:56 PM PDT Passengers scramble in Ben Gurion's departure hall after tourists show 'souvenir' collected in Golan Heights An American family set off a bomb scare at Israel's main airport when they showed security inspectors an unexploded shell that they found while visiting the Golan Heights and had packed for their return trip, authorities said. Video circulated on social media showed panicked passengers scattering at Ben Gurion Airport's departure hall near Tel Aviv on Thursday. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 29 Apr 2022 06:09 AM PDT Latest updates: new poll by Ipsos MORI shows Labour has lead over Tories on taxation but Conservatives most trusted to run economy
Students of newspaper hyperbole will be reading with admiration today the Daily Mail's "damning six-page dossier" about Labour and lockdown breaches. For obvious reasons, the Conservatives are keen to suggest that Boris Johnson was not the only senior politician to have broken Covid rules (although he is the only one to have been fined by the police) and today the Mail has gone in all guns blazing with a report implying Keir Starmer's attacks on Boris Johnson over Partygate have been hypocritical. The main story focuses on the incident where Starmer was photographed drinking beer in an office with Labour staffers when they were campaigning in the run-up to the Hartlepool byelection in April 2021. Starmer says they were just having a meal break, the Durham police has said no Covid rules were broken. Keir Starmer was in the workplace, meeting a local MP in her constituency office and participating in an online Labour party event. They paused for food as the meeting was during the evening. No rules were broken. There is simply no comparison between standing in a kitchen having something to eat between meetings, with multiple, flagrant rule-breaking drinks parties at the heart of government, dismissed by lies at the despatch box and resulting in an apology to the Queen. There is little credibility in any argument that the UK government either did not anticipate the implications of what it had agreed, or was constrained and unable to choose any other option. The facts and choices had been spelt out clearly over the whole period from 2016 onwards and the detail of the provisions (notably most of the applicable EU law contained in annex 2 to the protocol) were known at latest in autumn 2018. Continue reading... |
| Thousands of domestic abuse survivors denied help after legal aid cuts, study finds Posted: 29 Apr 2022 06:00 AM PDT Exclusive: Research calculates proportion of domestic abuse cases funded by legal aid has fallen from 75% to 47% in 10 years Tens of thousands of domestic abuse survivors have been "forced to continue living under the shadow of their abusers" in the decade since access to legal aid was scaled back, research suggests. About 34,000 people are estimated to have been denied support allowing them to seek orders to help remove attackers out of the family home or prevent them from returning at will. Continue reading... |
| Moths declining faster in British woods than farmland or cities Posted: 29 Apr 2022 05:58 AM PDT Insect's forest populations have halved over past half-century despite increased woodland habitat Moths have declined faster in British woods over the last half-century than on farmland or in cities, despite woodlands having increased and moths being shielded from chemical and light pollution by the trees. Forest populations of moths halved between 1968 and 2016 compared with average national losses of a third, according to a study. Continue reading... |
| Constable painting of Waterloo Bridge ‘transformed’ by conservation work Posted: 29 Apr 2022 05:51 AM PDT National Trust puts artist's largest work on display at Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire after removal of yellowed varnish Layers of yellowed varnish have been painstakingly removed from a John Constable painting of Waterloo Bridge to reveal new detail of the early 19th-century Thames skyline and a bright blue sky. The painting – the largest created by Constable – "has been dramatically transformed by the conservation treatment", said Sarah Maisey, senior remedial conservator for paintings at the National Trust, which undertook the work. Continue reading... |
| Rebekah Vardy suggests her agent leaked Coleen Rooney stories to Sun Posted: 29 Apr 2022 05:44 AM PDT About-turn comes on eve of libel trial over information from Rooney's private Instagram account Rebekah Vardy has suggested her agent may have leaked stories about Coleen Rooney to the Sun, in a last-minute change of approach on the eve of the looming "Wagatha Christie" libel trial. The two women are locked in an expensive and increasingly messy libel battle over accusations Vardy passed information from Rooney's private Instagram account to the tabloid. Continue reading... |
| Barrister was discriminated against for gender-critical views, tribunal hears Posted: 29 Apr 2022 05:23 AM PDT Allison Bailey says Garden Court chambers and Stonewall wrongly treated her gender-critical views as transphobic A barrister was unlawfully discriminated against by her chambers, which, encouraged by Stonewall, wrongly treated her gender-critical views as transphobic and bigoted, an employment tribunal has been told. Allison Bailey is suing Garden Court chambers and Stonewall after she was asked by her chambers to delete two tweets criticising the LGBTQ+ charity's position on trans rights and which Stonewall had complained about. Continue reading... |
| US women of color increasingly seeking alternatives to hospital births – study Posted: 29 Apr 2022 04:00 AM PDT Severe maternal morbidity has also increased in recent years, especially among people of color, according to NPWF report A growing number of non-white women are resorting to alternatives to hospitals for labor and delivery in the US, a new report has revealed. According to the National Partnership for Women and Families, a nonprofit organization that focuses on public policies surrounding women and families, community births – births carried out at home or in community birthing centers – increased by 20% from 2019 to 2020, with the spike largely situated among communities of color. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| ‘Democrats can’t catch a break’: election maps setback spells midterms trouble Posted: 29 Apr 2022 03:00 AM PDT New York ruling that 26 congressional districts were illegally distorted deals major blow to party's quest to retain House New York's highest court on Wednesday dealt national Democrats a major setback in their quest to keep control of the US House, when it struck down the state's 26 congressional districts because they were illegally distorted in favor of Democrats. New York is critical for Democrats in the decennial process of redrawing congressional districts. The state's 26 seats offer the party one of the richest opportunities to use mapmaking power to their advantage. Democrats currently have a 19-8 advantage in the congressional delegation, but drew a map that gives them three additional seats, increasing their advantage to 22-4 (New York is losing a congressional seat because of population loss). It would give the party 85% of the congressional seats in a state Joe Biden won with about 61% of the vote. Continue reading... |
| Elon Musk sells almost $4bn-worth of Tesla shares after Twitter deal Posted: 29 Apr 2022 12:00 AM PDT Carmaker's shares fell this week over concerns CEO would offload stock to help fund takeover of platform Elon Musk has sold almost $4bn-worth (£3.2bn) of Tesla shares since securing his $44bn deal to take control of Twitter. Musk, the electric carmaker's chief executive, sold the stock on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to a regulatory filing. Continue reading... |
| Anthony Fauci says the US is not in a ‘pandemic phase’. What does that mean? Posted: 29 Apr 2022 12:00 AM PDT With funds for anti-virals and other measure dwindling, some experts are concerned the US is too sanguine about future surges The US has left the "pandemic phase" at least for now, chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci said this week, at the same time that the White House presses for urgently needed Covid-19 funding. But as cases continue mounting around the globe, the pandemic shows no signs of ending yet – and conflicting pictures offered by top health officials may hamper the renewal of critical Covid funds and efforts like vaccination campaigns. In an interview on Tuesday, Fauci painted an optimistic, if mixed, picture. "We are certainly, right now in this country, out of the pandemic phase," he said, before adding, "Pandemic means a widespread, throughout the world, infection that spreads rapidly among people." Continue reading... |
| Loud boom and streaking fireball stirs panic in three US states Posted: 28 Apr 2022 04:21 PM PDT The bolide, which disintegrated in Louisiana, was also reportedly spotted in Arkansas and Mississippi A loud boom prefaced a streaking fireball spotted in three Southern states, scientists confirmed Thursday. More than 30 people in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi reported seeing the exceptionally bright meteor in the sky around 8am Wednesday after hearing loud booms in Claiborne county, Mississippi, and surrounding areas, Nasa reported. It was first spotted 54 miles (87 km) above the Mississippi River, near Alcorn, Mississippi, officials said. Continue reading... |
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