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- Canada puts sanctions on Russian media tycoon Alexander Lebedev
- France and Spain swelter as Cyclone Yakecan wreaks havoc in South America
- Biden and South Korean president mull expanding joint military exercises
- Australia federal election 2022: Birmingham says Liberals have lost touch with heartland; Coalition unlikely to be able to form majority government – live updates
- Federal election seat counts: what we know so far
- Western United down Melbourne Victory to reach first ALM grand final
- Federal court orders removal of anti-Labor signs in three Victorian electorates
- Scott Morrison breaks own rule against commenting on ‘on-water matters’ to confirm asylum boat intercepted
- ‘Caught unawares’: Covid is preventing Australians in hospital from voting
- Ukraine-Russia war: Biden signs $40bn aid package; newspaper owner Alexander Lebedev hit with Canada sanctions – live
- Only diplomacy can end Ukraine war, says Volodymyr Zelenskiy
- Trump shares CPAC Hungary platform with notorious racist and antisemite
- Cambridge University astrophysicist loses space project role amid Brexit row
- Russia halts gas supplies to Finland as payments row with the west escalates
- Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 87 of the invasion
- India’s wheat farmers count cost of 40C heat that evokes ‘deserts of Rajasthan’
- Monkeypox could significantly disrupt UK sexual health services, expert says
- ‘It’s ridiculous’: shock as some UK grocery prices rise by more than 20%
- ‘We’ve been inundated’: UK housing market frenzy shows no signs of slowing
- Harry Kane exhibition aims to spur children on to success
- Black social worker Tasered by City of London police treated like ‘wild animal’
- Statue of fossil-hunting pioneer Mary Anning to be unveiled in Dorset
- Move over, Florida: Georgia the new battleground as Trump goes all in
- ‘Any number of rights could be next’ if Roe v Wade goes, says Buttigieg
- Rents are soaring across the US – in some cities as much as 30% in just one year
- Boeing’s Starliner capsule docks for first time with International Space Station
- Elon Musk denies he sexually harassed attendant on private jet in 2016
- Judge blocks Biden plan to lift Trump-era restrictions on asylum seekers
| Canada puts sanctions on Russian media tycoon Alexander Lebedev Posted: 21 May 2022 03:55 AM PDT Oligarch with links to Boris Johnson among 14 businessmen and associates of Vladimir Putin targeted Canada has put sanctions on Alexander Lebedev, the former KGB agent who little more than a decade ago bought the Evening Standard and the Independent. The Russian billionaire was named in a fresh wave of sanctions against Vladimir Putin's regime announced on Friday that also included a ban on the import of Russian vodka, diamonds and caviar, according to the Globe and Mail. Continue reading... |
| France and Spain swelter as Cyclone Yakecan wreaks havoc in South America Posted: 20 May 2022 10:00 PM PDT Analysis: Another week of extremes with peaks pushing 40C in Spain and a rare subtropical cyclone in Uruguay and Brazil Unseasonably high temperatures have been affecting both Iberia and France over recent days. Temperatures have been about 10-15C above average thanks to a southerly flow of very warm and dry air from north Africa. On 17 May, temperatures across much of Spain, as well as southern and central France, widely exceeded 30C. A top temperature of 35.5C was recorded in the southern Spanish province of Huelva, with a provisional high of 32.9C recorded in the French commune of Montélimar. La Hague near the Channel hit 26.6C, beating the May record for this location set 100 years ago. Continue reading... |
| Biden and South Korean president mull expanding joint military exercises Posted: 21 May 2022 03:18 AM PDT US president willing to meet Kim Jong-un, while Seoul says deployment of US 'strategic assets' was discussed Joe Biden and his South Korean counterpart, Yoon Suk-yeol, have said they are considering expanding joint military exercises in response to the "threat" posed by North Korea, a move that is expected to enrage the regime as speculation builds that it could conduct a nuclear test. Speaking in Seoul on the second day of his visit to South Korea, Biden said he was willing to meet North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, but only if he was "sincere and serious" about dismantling his nuclear and ballistic missile programmes. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 21 May 2022 04:39 AM PDT Simon Birmingham says Liberal party has lost touch with heartland seats; Zoe Daniel claims victory in Goldstein; Coalition unlikely to be able to form majority government; Allegra Spender wins Wentworth from Dave Sharma; Zali Steggall wins Warringah. Follow the latest news from tonight's election as the vote count starts at 6pm AEST and results come in
I'm a fairly big footy fan, but not sure how much all these analogies mean to the rest of voters (and I believe kicking into the wind can actually be an advantage in rugby union sometimes?) On Weekend Today, Scott Morrison managed to turn a question about whether he has BBQ sauce on his democracy sausage into a stump speech about jobkeeper and co-funding the hospital system during the pandemic. We can't fault him - those are more important issues than what he was asked. Continue reading... |
| Federal election seat counts: what we know so far Posted: 21 May 2022 04:18 AM PDT The Coalition seems certain to lose government, but Labor has not achieved a big swing, with the Greens and teal independents jubilant as they seem set to grab numerous seats
Here is what we know so far after early counting on Saturday night in the Australian federal election. Continue reading... |
| Western United down Melbourne Victory to reach first ALM grand final Posted: 21 May 2022 04:15 AM PDT
Serbian striker Aleksandar Prijovic scored twice and added an assist as Western United advanced to the A-League Men grand final with a 4-1 win over Melbourne Victory at AAMI Park. United made the season decider in just their third season and ended Victory's club-record 16-match unbeaten run with a 4-2 aggregate win in a pulsating match on Saturday. Continue reading... |
| Federal court orders removal of anti-Labor signs in three Victorian electorates Posted: 20 May 2022 10:26 PM PDT Labor sought urgent injunction to remove misleading campaign material in Higgins, McEwen and Hawke that used Greens colours and read 'For our future, put Labor last'
The federal court has ordered the removal of anti-Labor campaign material appearing across three electorates in Victoria, including the ultra marginal seat of Higgins. Labor on Saturday sought an urgent injunction to remove campaign material appearing in Higgins, McEwen and Hawke, which used the Greens' party colours and read "For our future, put Labor last". Continue reading... |
| Posted: 20 May 2022 10:22 PM PDT PM says Australians 'need to vote Liberal and Nationals' so he can stop future boats, despite Labor's identical policy on boat turnbacks
Scott Morrison has breached his own rule against commenting on "on-water matters", confirming an asylum seeker boat from Sri Lanka has been intercepted. In a last-ditch pitch to voters on election day, Morrison told Australians they "need to vote Liberal and Nationals" for him to be there to stop future boats, despite Labor having an identical policy to intercept and turn back boats where safe to do so. Continue reading... |
| ‘Caught unawares’: Covid is preventing Australians in hospital from voting Posted: 20 May 2022 08:45 PM PDT Mobile polling in health facilities was stopped amid the pandemic and patients in hospital unexpectedly have no way to cast their ballot
Australians unexpectedly admitted to hospital before the election are struggling to cast their vote due to a decision to abort mobile polling in health facilities due to Covid. The Australian Electoral Commission announced before the campaign that it would not be sending mobile teams into hospitals to take votes in the lead-up to polling day, in an attempt to balance voting access with the risk of spreading Covid in vulnerable settings. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 21 May 2022 04:31 AM PDT Russia's Gazprom halts gas exports to Finland; Canada sanctions package targets oligarchs including Alexander Lebedev, owner of the Evening Standard and the Independent in UK
I am now handing over the blog to my colleague Geneva Abdul in London. Thanks for following along Bosnian Serb nationalist leader Milorad Dodik has told European Council President Charles Michel that Bosnia needs to maintain neutrality and will not join EU sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. Continue reading... |
| Only diplomacy can end Ukraine war, says Volodymyr Zelenskiy Posted: 21 May 2022 04:29 AM PDT Country's president emphasises need for talks to resume with Russia after previous negotiations stalled Ukraine's president has said the war can only be resolved through diplomacy, despite the current suspension of negotiations. "Discussions between Ukraine and Russia will undoubtedly take place," Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in an interview with a Ukrainian television channel. Continue reading... |
| Trump shares CPAC Hungary platform with notorious racist and antisemite Posted: 21 May 2022 03:30 AM PDT Hungarian talkshow host who has called Jews 'stinking excrement' and Roma 'animals' addresses rightwing conference A notorious Hungarian racist who has called Jews "stinking excrement", referred to Roma as "animals" and used racial epithets to describe Black people, was a featured speaker at a major gathering of US Republicans in Budapest. Zsolt Bayer took the stage at the second day of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Hungary, a convention that also featured speeches from Donald Trump, Fox News host Tucker Carlson, and Trump's former White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows. Continue reading... |
| Cambridge University astrophysicist loses space project role amid Brexit row Posted: 21 May 2022 12:00 AM PDT Nicholas Walton gives up leadership of €2.8m pan-European research after dispute over Northern Ireland protocol A Cambridge University astrophysicist studying the Milky Way and hoping to play a major part in the European Space Agency's (Esa) next big project has been forced to hand over his coordinating role on the scheme after the row over Northern Ireland's Brexit arrangements put science in the firing line. Nicholas Walton, a research fellow at the Institute of Astronomy, reluctantly passed his leadership role in the €2.8m pan-European Marie Curie Network research project to a colleague in the Netherlands on Friday. Continue reading... |
| Russia halts gas supplies to Finland as payments row with the west escalates Posted: 20 May 2022 10:51 PM PDT Russia cut off gas to Bulgaria and Poland last month amid an energy payments dispute sparked by Putin's invasion of Ukraine Russia has halted providing natural gas to neighbouring Finland, which has angered Moscow by applying for Nato membership, after the Nordic country refused to pay supplier Gazprom in roubles. Gazprom Export has demanded that European countries pay for Russian gas supplies in roubles because of sanctions imposed over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, but Finland refuses to do so. Continue reading... |
| Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 87 of the invasion Posted: 20 May 2022 06:18 PM PDT Last group of Ukrainian soldiers in Azovstal steelworks surrendered, Russia's defence ministry said late Friday Continue reading... |
| India’s wheat farmers count cost of 40C heat that evokes ‘deserts of Rajasthan’ Posted: 20 May 2022 05:00 PM PDT The ban on wheat exports highlights the effect a rapidly warming planet has on food security – and livelihoods It was his buffaloes that he was first worried about. As temperatures in the small village of Baras, deep in the Indian state of Punjab, began to soar to unseasonably hot levels in April, farmer Hardeep Singh Uppal noticed that his two buffaloes, essential for his family's livelihood, became feverish and unwell. A few weeks later and the buffaloes now seem fine, flicking their tails leisurely as an icy breeze blows down from an air conditioning unit, a luxury that once sat in Uppal's parents house but now has been installed in an otherwise run-down cowshed, running all day at great expense. "The vet told me I need to keep them cool in this heatwave otherwise they will die so this is the only way," said Uppal. Continue reading... |
| Monkeypox could significantly disrupt UK sexual health services, expert says Posted: 21 May 2022 03:57 AM PDT President of British Association for Sexual Health and HIV says infection could have 'massive impact' as staff are forced to isolate Monkeypox could have a "massive impact" on access to sexual health services, a leading doctor has warned. Dr Claire Dewsnap, the president of the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV, has voiced concern about how the viral infection could affect services as staff who come into contact with sufferers are forced to isolate. Continue reading... |
| ‘It’s ridiculous’: shock as some UK grocery prices rise by more than 20% Posted: 20 May 2022 11:12 PM PDT Which? analysis finds cereal, mushrooms and cheese among the items to have risen the most At Sainsbury's in Whitechapel, east London, the rising cost of food has forced Petra Emmanuel to change her shopping habits. "Coupled with my utilities bill, it's ridiculous," the 51-year-old teacher said. "Even though I don't buy branded foods, it's the simplest items that have seemed to have gone up. Continue reading... |
| ‘We’ve been inundated’: UK housing market frenzy shows no signs of slowing Posted: 20 May 2022 11:00 PM PDT Buyers face bidding wars to snare homes despite soaring inflation, cost of living crisis and fears of property crash It took less than a week to sell a two-bedroom garden flat in north London, with a guide price of £950,000. Featuring a large patio, garden, oak floorboards and underfloor heating, it is in a mixed area on the outskirts of Islington and Camden. "We've been inundated with people wanting to see it," says Andrew Groocock, a regional partner at the estate agents Knight Frank, which helped organise 23 viewings. "It ticks the boxes of exactly what's hot in the market at the moment. It's still an incredibly buoyant market. The last two years have been remarkable." Continue reading... |
| Harry Kane exhibition aims to spur children on to success Posted: 20 May 2022 11:00 PM PDT Family photos, personal items and sporting memorabilia to go on display at Museum of London Never-before-seen family photos, personal items and sporting memorabilia highlighting the England captain Harry Kane's journey from grassroots football to professional player are to go on display at the Museum of London, with the hope of inspiring young people. The exhibition will celebrate Kane, who grew up in east London just a few miles from Tottenham Hotspur's stadium in north London. Continue reading... |
| Black social worker Tasered by City of London police treated like ‘wild animal’ Posted: 20 May 2022 11:00 PM PDT Edwin Afriyie, 36, is suing the force after suffering a head injury and suicidal thoughts following the incident A black social worker who was Tasered and knocked unconscious during a roadside stop says police treated him like a "wild animal." Edwin Afriyie, 36, is suing City of London police after suffering a head injury and suicidal thoughts following the incident. Continue reading... |
| Statue of fossil-hunting pioneer Mary Anning to be unveiled in Dorset Posted: 20 May 2022 11:00 PM PDT A nine-year-old pointed out what was missing in Lyme Regis. Her long campaign has now borne fruit It all began with a curious nine-year-old and a question that she asked her mother. Where in their hometown of Lyme Regis was the statue of Mary Anning, the pioneering Victorian fossil hunter who, she had recently discovered, had lived and worked there? There wasn't one, Anya Pearson was forced to tell her indignant daughter. Anning's lifetime of discoveries – including finding the first ichthyosaur skeleton at the age of just 12 – may have profoundly shaped the emerging science of palaeontology, but in her own Dorset town and farther afield, she had been largely forgotten. Continue reading... |
| Move over, Florida: Georgia the new battleground as Trump goes all in Posted: 20 May 2022 11:00 PM PDT Georgia has obsessed the former president since losing it to Joe Biden – will his mega-Maga candidates come out on top? Greg Bump will not vote for Governor Brian Kemp because "he sold us out in the election". Todd Allinger is backing Kemp because "what he's done for the state of Georgia has been really positive". Teresa Richmond likes Kemp too but will "probably" vote for his rival, David Perdue, because of Donald Trump's endorsement. The views of Republican voters in Sugar Hill in the far northern Atlanta suburbs indicate that nothing can be taken for granted in Tuesday's primary elections in Georgia, a state that has arguably eclipsed neighboring Florida as the most pivotal battleground in American politics. Continue reading... |
| ‘Any number of rights could be next’ if Roe v Wade goes, says Buttigieg Posted: 20 May 2022 11:00 PM PDT US transportation secretary says supreme court's ruling could determine future generations' freedoms Pete Buttigieg, the US transportation secretary and the first openly gay member of a US administration, has expressed his worry that the expected overturning by the supreme court of the 1973 landmark decision which made abortion legal, may be the start of a series of eliminations of other groundbreaking rights and protections. Earlier this month a leaked document showed that five conservatives on the nine-justice supreme court had voted to reverse their predecessors' ruling in Roe v Wade nearly 50 years ago. The provisional ruling could lead to abortion being outlawed in more than half of US states unless it is changed substantially before becoming final. Continue reading... |
| Rents are soaring across the US – in some cities as much as 30% in just one year Posted: 20 May 2022 11:00 PM PDT Renters are cutting back on other essentials, falling behind on payments and facing eviction Andrew Amuso, a single father of a seven-year-old child in Phoenix, Arizona, has lived in the same apartment for eight years. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, his rent was about $900 a month. Last year, it was increased by $276 a month to $1,176 a month, and he has received a lease renewal this year with another large increase, to $1,585.65 a month. Continue reading... |
| Boeing’s Starliner capsule docks for first time with International Space Station Posted: 20 May 2022 08:08 PM PDT High-stakes test follows two years of delays in a program designed to give Nasa another vehicle for sending astronauts into orbit Boeing's new Starliner crew capsule has docked for the first time with the International Space Station, completing a major objective in a crucial test flight into orbit without astronauts aboard. The rendezvous of the gumdrop-shaped CST-100 Starliner with the orbital research outpost, currently home to a seven-member crew, occurred on Friday nearly 26 hours after the capsule was launched from Cape Canaveral US Space Force Base in Florida. Continue reading... |
| Elon Musk denies he sexually harassed attendant on private jet in 2016 Posted: 20 May 2022 05:45 PM PDT Billionaire says report is 'utterly untrue' after allegation he paid $250k in 2018 to settle claim Elon Musk has denied claims in a news report that he sexually harassed a flight attendant on a private jet in 2016, calling the accusations "utterly untrue". SpaceX, the rocket company founded by Musk, paid the female attendant $250,000 (£200,000) in a severance settlement after a sexual misconduct claim against the world's richest person, according to the news website Business Insider. Continue reading... |
| Judge blocks Biden plan to lift Trump-era restrictions on asylum seekers Posted: 20 May 2022 04:46 PM PDT Title 42, which cites the pandemic, is behind nearly 2m expulsions since March 2020 Pandemic-era restrictions on people seeking asylum on the southern border must continue, a judge ruled Friday in an order blocking the Biden administration's plan to lift them early next week. The ruling is just the latest instance of a court derailing the president's proposed immigration policies along the US border with Mexico. Continue reading... |
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