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- Coronavirus spreads further as WHO expert warns world 'not ready' for pandemic
- Delhi protests: death toll climbs amid worst religious violence for decades
- Syria: 21 dead as targets including schools and nurseries bombed in Idlib
- Labour leadership: Sadiq Khan backs Starmer, saying he's best person to unite party and defeat Tories - live news
- Bernie Sanders faces onslaught from rivals in chaotic South Carolina debate
- Lie-flat beds in economy class: Air New Zealand unveils bunks for budget travellers
- Pop star Duffy says she was raped, drugged and held captive
- Rio Tinto announces $1bn spend to reach net zero emissions by 2050
- 'Electronic nose' could smell breath to warn about higher risk of oesophageal cancer
- Users would tell Facebook their bank balance for $8.44 a month
- ‘I heard the signal – and threw my flour bombs’: why the 1970 Miss World protest is still making waves
- Towns near rising River Severn in flooding danger
- Coronavirus: Lufthansa imposes hiring freeze as Diageo profits suffer
- Set them free! The judge who liberates Nigerians forgotten in jail
- Democrat challengers face fall-out from rowdy TV debate - live updates
- Evangelical Christians in Brazil resolve to ‘bring Jesus’ to carnival revelers
- Will coronavirus trigger a global recession? | Jeffrey Frankel
- Bob Brown Foundation activist ban on protesting in Tasmanian forest lifted by court
- Uganda's 'locust commander' leads the battle against a new enemy
- Coronavirus in a war zone: Afghanistan braces for outbreak after first case
- 'No justice' for Tanzanian journalist freed after seven months in jail
- Messy Democratic debate leaves lack of clarity and benefits Trump
- Why are New Zealanders still not allowed to know the identity of Grace Millane's killer? | Andrew Geddis
- The era of 'whites-only' elections in America has returned | Carol Anderson
- Malaysia's political turmoil: everything you need to know
- African-Mexican carnival of Coyolillo – in pictures
- Harvey Weinstein: how the Hollywood mogul's undoing unfolded – video explainer
- Hosni Mubarak: the rise and fall of the Egyptian dictator – video obituary
- Taj Mahal posers through the years – in pictures
- Inside Italy's coronavirus 'red zone' – video diary
| Coronavirus spreads further as WHO expert warns world 'not ready' for pandemic Posted: 26 Feb 2020 12:36 AM PST More cases in South Korea while first suspected infection is recorded in Latin America Coronavirus has spread further around the world as a World Health Organisation expert warned that countries outside China are "simply not ready" for a pandemic. The virus has proliferated in parts of Asia, Europe and the Middle East in recent days, with the death toll rising in Iran, infections in South Korea passing 1,200 and the first suspected case recorded in Latin America – even as the number of deaths and fresh cases decline at the disease's centre in China. Covid-19 has now reached dozens of countries with Austria, Croatia and Switzerland the latest to declare cases. Continue reading... |
| Delhi protests: death toll climbs amid worst religious violence for decades Posted: 26 Feb 2020 01:45 AM PST Calls for army to be deployed as clashes between Hindu and Muslim groups show no sign of abating The death toll from the worst religious violence in Delhi in decades has risen to 21, as Muslims fled from their homes and several mosques in the capital smouldered after being attacked by Hindu mobs. The deathly clashes between Hindu and Muslim groups that began on Sunday showed no sign of abating on the third consecutive day, with reports of early morning looting on some Muslim homes which had been abandoned out of fear. Continue reading... |
| Syria: 21 dead as targets including schools and nurseries bombed in Idlib Posted: 26 Feb 2020 03:06 AM PST Six schools and two nurseries reported targets of airstrikes by Assad regime and Russia Eight school facilities have been bombed in Syria's Idlib province in a single day as the battle for control of the country's last opposition stronghold intensifies. The attacks come despite warnings that the violence has already led to the worst humanitarian crisis in the Syrian war to date. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 26 Feb 2020 03:10 AM PST Rolling coverage of the day's political developments as they happen, including Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn at PMQs and Michel Barnier's Brexit speech
George Eustice, the environment secretary, held a press conference at the National Farmers' Union conference in Birmingham where he was speaking this morning. As ITV's Daniel Hewitt reports, Eustice defended the PM's decision not to visit areas recently flooded, even though he did visit flood victims during the general election campaign last year. Eustice said the PM felt he had to get involved last year because the purdah period in force during the election meant that, without his intervention, Whitehall was slow to get a grip on the crisis. When asked by @DanielHewittITV why the PM has not visited flood-hit communities unlike during the election period, the Environment Secretary defended Boris Johnson and said his visit would not have made 'any difference'https://t.co/azaEL8CmCt pic.twitter.com/Kdjo2P6pT9 Me: Why did PM go to Yorkshire in the election but not now? "That is why the PM felt he needed to get involved at that point to get a grip of the situation and that is why he convened COBRA. But that's basically because there was a general election but not for the reasons some people have alleged." Me: Would it not help you if he went now?
Turning back to the budget, here are three budget-related stories from today's papers. Eighteen MPs from the blue collar group of Conservative MPs caucus - 14 of whom were elected for the first time in 2019 in north and midlands of England- wrote to the Chancellor Rishi Sunak expressing "deep concern" the fuel duty freeze will be scrapped. A small increase would raise an extra £4billion worth of funding for the Treasury. Fuel duty could rise by up to two pence which will see overall petrol and diesel costs increase, according to reports. The chancellor is shifting more of the cost of meeting climate change targets from consumers to business as he finalises the budget, say allies. They suggest that he is cooling on ending the ten-year freeze on fuel duty amid a mounting backlash from Tory MPs. Instead, he is preparing new environmental taxes, including heavy restrictions on the use of so-called red diesel. The Sun understands the chancellor is mulling closing two tax reliefs rich families use to funnel money through ghost companies and farmland before they die. Rich Brits cut down the amount of inheritance tax they have to pay by setting up a business or buying land, which can be passed on to their family after death. Continue reading... |
| Bernie Sanders faces onslaught from rivals in chaotic South Carolina debate Posted: 25 Feb 2020 08:52 PM PST Candidates bickered and shouted over each other in sharp exchanges in debate before Super Tuesday contests The Democratic presidential candidates engaged in a series of chaotic and fiery exchanges on Tuesday night, in the final debate before the critical South Carolina presidential primary and Super Tuesday contests that could represent a make-or-break moment. Senator Bernie Sanders, the frontrunner who cruised to victory in Nevada last week, bore the brunt of criticism from a number of his centrist rivals, including the former vice-president Joe Biden, the ex-New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg, and Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana. Continue reading... |
| Lie-flat beds in economy class: Air New Zealand unveils bunks for budget travellers Posted: 25 Feb 2020 05:25 PM PST Airline which operates some of world's longest flights is considering 'Skynest' sleep pods with pillows, sheets and blankets Air New Zealand has announced it could have flat beds in economy for some of its long-haul flights, but it will be more than a year before customers could get the chance to sleep in one of the new pod beds. Continue reading... |
| Pop star Duffy says she was raped, drugged and held captive Posted: 26 Feb 2020 02:06 AM PST Welsh singer made statement on Instagram saying she was held captive for several days Aimee Duffy, the Welsh pop singer known as Duffy who retreated from the public eye following her hugely successful debut album Rockferry, has said she was drugged, held captive and raped by an unidentified person. In a statement on her official Instagram account she said: "The truth is, and please trust me I am OK and safe now, I was raped and drugged and held captive over some days. Of course I survived. The recovery took time. There's no light way to say it. But I can tell you in the last decade, the thousands and thousands of days I committed to wanting to feel the sunshine in my heart again, the sun does now shine." Continue reading... |
| Rio Tinto announces $1bn spend to reach net zero emissions by 2050 Posted: 25 Feb 2020 11:47 PM PST World's second biggest miner says it will reduce emissions by 15% by 2030, but 'will not set targets for our customers' Mining giant Rio Tinto says it wants its globe-spanning operations to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and will spend US$1bn over the next five years to reduce its carbon footprint. The second biggest miner in the world has also committed to reducing its emissions by 15% by 2030. Continue reading... |
| 'Electronic nose' could smell breath to warn about higher risk of oesophageal cancer Posted: 25 Feb 2020 03:30 PM PST Current diagnostic method for Barrett's oesophagus relies on invasive and costly endoscopy An electronic device that "sniffs" breath may offer a new way to identify people with a condition that can lead to cancer of the oesophagus, researchers have revealed. Recent figures suggest there are about 9,000 new cases of oesophageal cancer, or cancer of the food pipe, every year in the UK. Continue reading... |
| Users would tell Facebook their bank balance for $8.44 a month Posted: 25 Feb 2020 04:40 PM PST Study of people across six countries finds German users would charge most for sharing personal data German Facebook users would want the social media platform to pay them about $8 per month for sharing their contact information, while US users would only seek $3.50, according to a study of how people in various countries value their private information. The study by US-based thinktank the Technology Policy Institute (TPI) is the first that attempts to quantify the value of online privacy and data. It assessed how much privacy is worth in six countries by looking at the habits of people in the United States, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, Columbia and Argentina. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 26 Feb 2020 03:00 AM PST It was the year feminists wreaked havoc on the beauty contest. Now their story has been made into a film starring Keira Knightley. They look back at that dramatic moment It was the most dramatic feminist event since Emily Davison threw herself under the king's horse in 1913 in the name of women's suffrage. Now, the 1970 Miss World protests – during which feminist activists dramatically flour-bombed the stage – is getting a Hollywood makeover. The film Misbehaviour will document the period of fizzing excitement and possibility marked by the demonstrations. "Miss World epitomised everything I believed was wrong," says one of the protesters, Jenny Fortune. "It felt as if we were stopping the patriarchy in its tracks." "We all believed in revolution back then," says Jo Robinson, another one of the activists who hurled flour and old vegetables at the host, Bob Hope, that night. "We all believed the world could be changed, and we all believed we could do it." Continue reading... |
| Towns near rising River Severn in flooding danger Posted: 26 Feb 2020 01:02 AM PST Defences breached or shifted as river's water level approaches record high Householders and businesspeople are bracing themselves for more severe flooding as water levels on stretches of the River Severn continue to rise towards record levels. Flood defences have been breached and in one case moved by the weight of the water racing downstream, and police and Environment Agency officials have pleaded with people to steer clear of the river. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus: Lufthansa imposes hiring freeze as Diageo profits suffer Posted: 26 Feb 2020 02:05 AM PST Airline offers unpaid leave, beverage firm fears £200m hit and Danone also voices concern Lufthansa has announced a hiring freeze and is offering employees unpaid leave as part of a range of cost-saving measures to attempt to limit the financial impact of the spread of the coronavirus. The German airline, which has already cancelled all flights to China until the end of March, also said it will expand part-time work options and cancel flight attendant and other personnel training courses from April onwards. Those that are already on courses will not be hired. The company said it aimed to offer affected trainees "employment contracts in the long term". Continue reading... |
| Set them free! The judge who liberates Nigerians forgotten in jail Posted: 25 Feb 2020 11:30 PM PST Ishaq Usman Bello is shaking the conscience of the courts – and nearly 4,000 wrongly detained prisoners are grateful for it In a crowded prison courtyard in Suleja, Nigeria, a judge flipped through a battered folder detailing the case against a young woman who stood quietly before him in a faded pink dress. She was charged with "issuing a dud cheque", a crime that carries a maximum sentence of two years in prison. But she'd already spent three years in prison awaiting the outcome of her trial. Continue reading... |
| Democrat challengers face fall-out from rowdy TV debate - live updates Posted: 26 Feb 2020 03:19 AM PST
"I'm hearing my name mentioned a little bit tonight," Sanders joked during the debate: "I wonder why." With a lead going into Saturday's South Carolina primary, Sanders needed a good debate performance to keep his momentum going under the concentrated fire of the other challengers. Opinion - as you'd expect - is divided as to how he managed.
"You think the last four years has been chaotic divisive toxic exhausting. Imagine spending the better part of 2020 with Bernie Sanders vs Donald Trump" Pete Buttigieg seemed to be channelling the thoughts of what Bernie Sanders has dismissed as the 'Democratic establishment' with his attack on the Vermont senator at the debate last night. Continue reading... |
| Evangelical Christians in Brazil resolve to ‘bring Jesus’ to carnival revelers Posted: 26 Feb 2020 01:00 AM PST The group played a key role in the election of the country's far-right president and have become increasingly assertive With drummers pounding out samba rhythms through the rain, this might almost have been just another one of the hundreds of street parties of Rio's world-famous carnival. But nobody at the I'm Full of Love Samba Street Party on Copacabana Beach was drunk or in costume, few bystanders were dancing – and the group on the sound truck was singing about Jesus. Continue reading... |
| Will coronavirus trigger a global recession? | Jeffrey Frankel Posted: 26 Feb 2020 02:58 AM PST World economy's prospects look bleak because of Covid-19 outbreak and Donald Trump's trade policy At the start of this year, things seemed to be looking up for the global economy. True, growth had slowed a bit in 2019: from 2.9% to 2.3% in the US and from 3.6% to 2.9% globally. Still, there had been no recession and as recently as January, the International Monetary Fund projected a global growth rebound in 2020. The new coronavirus, Covid-19, has changed all of that. Early predictions about Covid-19's economic impact were reassuring. Similar epidemics – such as the 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars), another China-born coronavirus – did little damage globally. At the country level, GDP growth took a hit but quickly bounced back, as consumers released pent-up demand and firms rushed to fill back orders and restock inventories. Continue reading... |
| Bob Brown Foundation activist ban on protesting in Tasmanian forest lifted by court Posted: 26 Feb 2020 12:09 AM PST WorkSafe Tasmania last week issued a ban on the protesters over 'unsafe behaviours' and threatened fines of up to $500,000 Activists from the Bob Brown Foundation have been given the legal all-clear to protest in Tasmanian forests after a ban issued by the state's workplace safety regulator was lifted. WorkSafe Tasmania last week issued a ban on the protesters over "unsafe behaviours" and threatened fines of up to $500,000 if they didn't comply. Continue reading... |
| Uganda's 'locust commander' leads the battle against a new enemy Posted: 25 Feb 2020 11:00 PM PST The army has been called in to eliminate the insects swarming across Africa, but their mission is dangerous and unending
Sitting at a plastic table in the garden of Timisha hotel in Soroti, eastern Uganda, Major General Samuel Kavuma takes a drag of his cigarette and looks down at his phone, which has barely stopped ringing for the past hour. A military figure for nearly 40 years, Kavuma fought the Lord's Resistance Army insurgent group. Now, he's become the "locust commander", the man leading the fight against the country's worst locust outbreak in decades. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus in a war zone: Afghanistan braces for outbreak after first case Posted: 25 Feb 2020 10:00 PM PST Lone Kabul laboratory preparing to treat patients in the midst of political turmoil and tentative peace talks, as border with Iran closed Preparations for an outbreak of coronavirus were underway in Afghanistan as the country confirmed its first case in the western province of Herat, which borders Iran. Seven more suspected cases have been identified in Herat, and three cases in the nearby provinces of Farah and Ghor. Continue reading... |
| 'No justice' for Tanzanian journalist freed after seven months in jail Posted: 25 Feb 2020 06:27 AM PST Erick Kabendera, a known critic of the government, faces steep fine after pleading guilty to tax evasion charges in case widely seen as part of President Magufuli's media crackdown An investigative journalist known for holding the Tanzanian government to account has been released from prison after pleading guilty to charges widely discredited as politically motivated. Erick Kabendera, who has written for the Guardian and various other publications, was arrested by plainclothes police officers in July last year. This week he has been ordered to pay 275m Tanzanian shillings (£92,180) on charges of tax evasion and money laundering. Continue reading... |
| Messy Democratic debate leaves lack of clarity and benefits Trump Posted: 25 Feb 2020 10:34 PM PST Amid crosstalk and occasional shouting, a continuing lack of clarity over which candidate will emerge as the nominee Tuesday night's Democratic presidential debate was chaotic and messy, underscoring the continuing lack of clarity over which candidate could emerge as the nominee to take on Donald Trump in November's election. Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, a self declared Democratic socialist considered the current frontrunner after his win in Nevada last week, found himself the main target of attacks from more centrist contenders, but was closely followed by billionaire New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, who was pummelled again for his past statements on women and support for Republicans. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 25 Feb 2020 04:33 PM PST We have had a history of suppressing information about those facing trial, but it is unclear if it can survive in the era of Facebook, Google and Instagram British backpacker Grace Millane's murderer was last week sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum non-parole period of 17 years. However, the killer's identity has not been published in New Zealand. When convicting Millane's killer, Justice Simon Moore extended an existing suppression order that not only prohibits his naming, but also the reasons for making it. Continue reading... |
| The era of 'whites-only' elections in America has returned | Carol Anderson Posted: 25 Feb 2020 09:08 AM PST As we head back to South Carolina, the state that fought to protect the white primary until the 1950s, it's as if black voters don't matter – again In 1896, a moment marked by increased lynchings, violence and disfranchisement, South Carolina added to the woes and created the white primary. The law, which the rest of the one-party south would adopt throughout the Jim Crow era, said only white people could vote in the Democratic primary election. White people, mostly men, would alone choose who would go on to the general election in November. Then, and only then could African Americans and others, who had managed to squeeze through the array of voter suppression tactics such as the poll tax and the literacy test, cast their meaningless ballots. But make no mistake, the real contest was in the primary, and whites had already determined the ultimate winner. Continue reading... |
| Malaysia's political turmoil: everything you need to know Posted: 24 Feb 2020 09:52 PM PST Prime minister Mahathir Mohamad's resignation sets rival parties against each other and could result in a snap election The country's ruling alliance collapsed on Monday after the prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, the world's oldest leader, shocked the nation by announcing that he would be stepping down. The king accepted his resignation but asked for him to stay on as interim leader. The country is now in limbo as rival parties rush to strike deals and form a government. Continue reading... |
| African-Mexican carnival of Coyolillo – in pictures Posted: 26 Feb 2020 12:41 AM PST The carnival in Coyolillo, a town in the coastal state of Veracruz in Mexico, dates back more than 100 years. This non-religious festival includes parades, dances, music and feasting and is the heritage of sugar cane workers and slaves of African origin freed from farms. The event is known for the colourful robes, capes and animal masks – of bulls, deer, goats and cows – worn by participants. As such, the carnival is a unique expression of African-Mexican folk art Continue reading... |
| Harvey Weinstein: how the Hollywood mogul's undoing unfolded – video explainer Posted: 26 Feb 2020 12:24 AM PST Harvey Weinstein was one of Hollywood's most powerful men. But on Monday a New York jury found him guilty of rape and sexual assault against two women who had hoped he could help build their careers. How was the disgraced producer able to operate above the law for decades, and what does the verdict mean for the #MeToo movement and his dozens of accusers? Weinstein was acquitted of three further charges and his lawyer said he plans to appeal
In the US, Rainn offers support at 800-656-4673 or by chat at Rainn.org. In the UK, the rape crisis national freephone helpline is at 0808-802-9999. In Australia, support is available at 1800Respect (1800-737-7328) or 1800respect.org.au. Other international helplines can be found at Ibiblio.org Continue reading... |
| Hosni Mubarak: the rise and fall of the Egyptian dictator – video obituary Posted: 25 Feb 2020 10:13 AM PST Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's autocratic former president who ruled with an iron fist for three decades before being toppled during the Arab spring protests in 2011, has died aged 91. We look back at the life and legacy of one of Egypt's most notorious leaders, and the corruption, incompetence and human rights violations that took place under his rule Continue reading... |
| Taj Mahal posers through the years – in pictures Posted: 25 Feb 2020 05:01 AM PST The Trumps are not the first to succumb to the irresistible urge to pose in front of the 17th-century mausoleum – it has struck celebrities and world dignitaries alike for decades Continue reading... |
| Inside Italy's coronavirus 'red zone' – video diary Posted: 25 Feb 2020 03:13 AM PST Schoolteacher Marzio Toniolo describes life under lockdown in San Fiorano, one of the northern Italian towns under quarantine as coronavirus cases rise. Around 50,000 residents of 11 towns across Lombardy, where the outbreak emerged suddenly on Friday, and Veneto have been quarantined for at least the next 15 days as Italian authorities scramble to contain the worst outbreak of the virus in Europe and the third worst in the world.
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