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- Coronavirus: Japan braces for hundreds more cases as Hubei lockdown continues
- Caroline Flack: politicians condemn press intrusion after presenter's death
- Italian man, 95, resident in UK for 68 years, told to prove it
- Costa Rica's largest drugs bust nets five tonnes of cocaine bound for Netherlands
- Shipping pollution regulations 'could harm food chain'
- RFS denies sacking volunteer firefighter Paul Parker, who swore at Scott Morrison
- Families of Troubles victims warn against amnesty for soldiers
- French ski resort moves snow with helicopter in order to stay open
- Human composting could be the future of deathcare
- Woman's ring lost 47 years ago in US is unearthed in a forest in Finland
- 'They've abandoned us': Srebrenica survivors still living in camps
- Storm Dennis: cars swept away by flooding in Wales – video
- Unexploded bombs pose rising threat to civilians in Libya
- Ocasio-Cortez faces 13 challengers – but can anyone unseat her?
- Venezuela: a year on from the failed uprising
- Coronavirus latest updates: China says it might postpone annual congress - live news
- Australia needs to join the emissions technology revolution, Liberal Katie Allen says
- Reform urged in Malaysia after disabled man is jailed for attempted suicide
- British woman repeatedly trafficked for sex after Home Office failures
- 'Westlessness': is the west really in a state of peril?
| Coronavirus: Japan braces for hundreds more cases as Hubei lockdown continues Posted: 16 Feb 2020 11:42 PM PST Diamond Princess evacuations begin as Japan warns outbreak 'entering new phase' Japan is bracing for the possibility of hundreds of additional cases of the coronavirus onboard the stricken Princess Diamond, as experts warned the country was still in the "early stages" of the outbreak. The passengers evacuated from the ship face further uncertainty too, with the US and Australian citizens set for a further two weeks of quarantine after arriving homeHundreds of American passengers have flown back to the US and Australia said it would follow suit on Wednesday. Continue reading... |
| Caroline Flack: politicians condemn press intrusion after presenter's death Posted: 17 Feb 2020 01:39 AM PST ITV says Sunday's Love Island will not be broadcast as calls mount for regulation of traditional and social media Politicians have condemned press intrusion, calling for more regulation of both traditional and social media after the death of TV presenter Caroline Flack. The former Love Island presenter is understood to have taken her own life on Saturday at her home in Islington, London. She had been charged with assaulting her partner and was due to stand trial in several weeks' time. Continue reading... |
| Italian man, 95, resident in UK for 68 years, told to prove it Posted: 16 Feb 2020 11:00 PM PST Antonio Finelli, a UK state pension recipient for 32 years, was asked for proof when he applied to stay post-Brexit A 95-year-old Italian man who has been in the UK for 68 years has been asked to prove he is resident in the country by the Home Office in order to remain after Brexit, despite receiving the state pension for the past 32 years. Antonio Finelli came to the country in 1952 when he answered an appeal for immigrant labour as part of the reconstruction effort after the second world war ended. Continue reading... |
| Costa Rica's largest drugs bust nets five tonnes of cocaine bound for Netherlands Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:57 PM PST Authorities found tonnes of cocaine stashed inside a shipping container of decorative canopy plants Police in Costa Rica seized more than five tonnes of cocaine bound for the Dutch port of Rotterdam in the country's largest ever drugs bust, officials said. Authorities on Saturday found the cocaine in Costa Rica's Caribbean port of Limon, stashed inside a shipping container of decorative canopy plants bound for the Netherlands. Continue reading... |
| Shipping pollution regulations 'could harm food chain' Posted: 16 Feb 2020 10:00 PM PST Use of 'scrubbers' to cut air pollution increases pollutants pumped into sea, UN report says New shipping pollution regulations introduced earlier this year could harm humans by contaminating fish and crustaceans with toxins, according to an internal report compiled by the International Maritime Organization and obtained by the Guardian. In the report the IMO, the United Nations agency responsible for regulating shipping, says that there is insufficient "toxicity data" to be able to assess the risk to humans caused by the increased use of exhaust gas cleaning systems, which are also known as "scrubbers". Continue reading... |
| RFS denies sacking volunteer firefighter Paul Parker, who swore at Scott Morrison Posted: 16 Feb 2020 07:31 PM PST In an interview on Channel Ten's The Project, Parker said he had been told to leave RFS leading to the hashtag #IStandWithPaulParker trending in Australia The Rural Fire Service is investigating claims that a volunteer firefighter who told the prime minister to "get fucked from Nelligen" in a viral news clip was "sacked'"by his local brigade. Paul Parker told Channel Ten's The Project on Sunday that he was chastised by the RFS for directing the expletive toward Scott Morrison and that he had been booted from the organisation, contrary to reports from the time that he had been stood down due to exhaustion. Continue reading... |
| Families of Troubles victims warn against amnesty for soldiers Posted: 16 Feb 2020 10:26 AM PST Emmett McConomy, whose 11-year-old brother died in 1982, said cases 'not going away' A man whose 11-year-old brother was killed by a soldier in Northern Ireland nearly 40 years ago has warned that victims' families "were not going to go away" if the British government tried to introduce an amnesty for military personnel. Emmett McConomy, whose older brother Stephen was shot in the back of the head with a plastic bullet, said the new Northern Ireland secretary, Brandon Lewis, needed to understand the strength of feeling among families who had not yet seen cases involving British soldiers come to court. Continue reading... |
| French ski resort moves snow with helicopter in order to stay open Posted: 16 Feb 2020 06:48 AM PST Local council leaders said they were forced into 'exceptional' move to protect jobs A French ski resort has angered ecologists by using a helicopter to move snow from higher up the mountains after exceptionally mild weather left its slopes bare. Officials at Luchon-Superbagnères in the Pyrenees authorised the "exceptional" emergency operation overnight on Friday. Continue reading... |
| Human composting could be the future of deathcare Posted: 16 Feb 2020 11:00 AM PST Washington becomes first US state to legalise practice as interest in green burials surges in UK It is viewed as a fitting end for a banana skin or a handful of spent coffee grounds. But now people are being urged to consider human composting and other environmentally friendly "deathcare" options. Speaking before a talk at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Seattle on Sunday, Lynne Carpenter-Boggs, a professor of soil science and sustainable agriculture at Washington State University, said: "Death certainly isn't the biggest environmental impact we have in our life process. But we can still look for new alternatives." Continue reading... |
| Woman's ring lost 47 years ago in US is unearthed in a forest in Finland Posted: 16 Feb 2020 06:45 PM PST Debra McKenna, who misplaced the ring in Maine in 1973, received it in the post after it was dug up by a metal detectorist An American woman's high school class ring that was lost in Maine in 1973 has been found in a forest in Finland. Debra McKenna, 63, lost the ring in Portland when she was a student at Morse high school, the Bangor Daily News reported. She said the ring was largely forgotten until a metal detectorist found it buried under 20cm (8in) of soil in a forested Finnish park 47 years later. Continue reading... |
| 'They've abandoned us': Srebrenica survivors still living in camps Posted: 16 Feb 2020 10:33 PM PST Families feel forgotten in what were meant to be temporary homes and many struggle for work When Mujo Hrustanovic was transferred in 1997 to the Jezevac refugee camp in Bosnia, he thought he would stay for just a few months. That was what the government had told him. But more than two decades on, he is still there. The 75-year-old shares a 30 sq metre apartment with his wife, son, daughter-in-law and their two children in one of the 50 white homes in in the camp built by international organisations near the city of Tuzla. Such apartments, intended as a temporary solution, have instead become a permanent home for hundreds of survivors of the genocide in Srebrenica, Europe's worst atrocity since the second world war. Continue reading... |
| Storm Dennis: cars swept away by flooding in Wales – video Posted: 17 Feb 2020 01:25 AM PST Cars were swept away by flooding in the town of Hay-on-Wye as Storm Dennis brought heavy rain and winds to the UK on Sunday. Footage posted on social media showed vehicles half-submerged and floating away after a nearby river burst its banks Continue reading... |
| Unexploded bombs pose rising threat to civilians in Libya Posted: 17 Feb 2020 01:00 AM PST Rights groups and UN warn of rapidly accelerating danger as banned cluster weapons are deployed The threat posed by unexploded bombs is rising exponentially in wartorn Libya, experts have warned, with the use of banned cluster weapons a source of particular concern. The UN's Mine Action Service (Unmas) said that even parts of the country previously cleared of explosive material had been recontaminated following a surge in fighting since April last year, when the warlord Khalifa Haftar launched a campaign to seize the capital, Tripoli. Continue reading... |
| Ocasio-Cortez faces 13 challengers – but can anyone unseat her? Posted: 17 Feb 2020 01:00 AM PST Eight Republicans and five Democrats are vying to take on AOC – but many voters in the district are voicing support for the congresswoman Democratic leftist superstar Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has risen to national – and even global – fame from an unlikely position as a young first-time congresswoman from New York. Related: 'Try to keep up': how Ocasio-Cortez upended politics in her first year in office Continue reading... |
| Venezuela: a year on from the failed uprising Posted: 16 Feb 2020 07:00 PM PST Tom Phillips, the Guardian's Latin America correspondent, is back in Venezuela a year after the start of a dramatic, but so far unsuccessful, attempt to topple Nicolás Maduro. While conditions in Caracas appear slightly improved, outside the capital conditions in schools and hospitals are appalling – and getting worse. Also today: Jess Cartner-Morley on pockets A year ago, the crisis in Venezuela reached a new pitch as the politician Juan Guaidó led an attempt to overthrow the country's president, Nicolás Maduro. As the bulk of Venezuela's military remained loyal to the president, the attempt failed and Maduro maintained his grip on power. In the months since, he has boasted that Venezuela has enjoyed "the highest levels of nutrients and access to food". But outside of the capital Caracas, the story is very different. The Guardian's Tom Phillips tells Anushka Asthana of his journey through the crisis-hit country and how the worst effects are being felt by children. Hospitals are falling into disrepair, schools are being repeatedly looted and some parents have fled the country, leaving their children behind. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus latest updates: China says it might postpone annual congress - live news Posted: 17 Feb 2020 01:36 AM PST People who flout new order in Xiaogan city in central Hubei face detention for 10 days as global death toll reaches 1,775. Follow live news and latest updates
Japanese officials have confirmed a further 99 people have been infected by the new coronavirus aboard the quarantined cruise ship Diamond Princess, bringing the total to 454, the Health Ministry said Monday. AP reports: The ministry has been carrying out tests on passengers and crew on the ship, docked in Yokohama, a port city near Tokyo. The 14-day quarantine for those on the ship was due to end Wednesday.
Japan will close next month's Tokyo Marathon to all but elite professional runners. Organisers of the Tokyo Marathon said the 38,000 general participants who signed up for the race on 1 March will not be allowed to compete, a person with knowledge of the issue told Reuters. |
| Australia needs to join the emissions technology revolution, Liberal Katie Allen says Posted: 17 Feb 2020 12:59 AM PST The backbencher calls for a roadmap to net zero as 'an arms race' in low emissions technology drives transformation The Victorian Liberal Katie Allen has declared the world is approaching an "iPhone moment" when it comes to new technology lowering greenhouse gas emissions, and Australia needs to be part of the revolution, rather than being a technology "taker". Allen has joined fellow Liberal Trent Zimmerman in noting the Coalition's decision to sign the Paris agreement means Australia has already committed to achieving carbon neutrality by mid-century. But she said the government should not nominate a specific date to hit the milestone until it had developed a policy roadmap. Continue reading... |
| Reform urged in Malaysia after disabled man is jailed for attempted suicide Posted: 16 Feb 2020 11:00 PM PST Campaign groups unite in condemnation of 'grossly inhumane and incompassionate' verdict Human rights groups in Malaysia are calling for the repeal of a law that criminalises attempted suicide after a man with a physical disability was sentenced to six months in prison for trying to take his own life. Malaysia is one of the few countries where attempting suicide is illegal. Under existing legislation, people found guilty can be punished by up to a year in prison, a fine, or both. But the Malaysian government is now considering a change to the law, which advocates say cannot come soon enough. Continue reading... |
| British woman repeatedly trafficked for sex after Home Office failures Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:55 AM PST High court judge intervenes to prevent victim of county lines sex exploitation being made street homeless after refusal to find her safe housing A young and highly vulnerable British sex trafficking victim was re-trafficked by county lines drug gangs on multiple occasions after the Home Office repeatedly refused to fulfil its legal obligation to provide her with safe accommodation. A high court judge was forced to intervene to compel the Home Office to house the woman, who was about to become street homeless. Continue reading... |
| 'Westlessness': is the west really in a state of peril? Posted: 16 Feb 2020 06:37 AM PST Top diplomats disagreed over the global relevance of the west at the Munich security conference The chosen theme of the Munich security conference – once a party for Nato and now a Davos for the world's diplomats – was "westlessness". The organisers wanted to capture the fear that the west is now so divided and challenged by the rise of China its whole existence has become imperilled. It was not a concept that won universal acclaim. Margrethe Vestager, the EU vice-president, hit back in one session: "I never thought about 'westlessness' before. Are we here discussing our own depression and asking the rest of the world to join in as a sort of collective mindfulness exercise? I don't really don't get this." European values – the rule of law and the integrity of the individual – had spread across the world, she insisted. Continue reading... |
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