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- Trolls exploit Zoom privacy settings as app gains popularity
- Tackle climate crisis and poverty with zeal of Covid-19 fight, scientists urge
- Joseph Lowery, American civil rights leader, dies at 98
- Hague court orders Dutch state to pay out over colonial massacres
- Libya fighting intensifies as rival forces defy UN call for global ceasefire
- RT loses challenge against claims of bias in novichok reporting
- Survey of thousands of Home Office staff revives bullying row
- Wildlife rescue centres struggle to treat endangered species in coronavirus outbreak
- Lyra McKee's last article: ‘We were meant to be the generation that reaped the spoils of peace’
- Chennai Six member says Johnson did 'nothing' to secure release
- Lockdown living: how Europeans are avoiding going stir crazy
- Uganda's crackdown on public gatherings ruled unconstitutional
- #WhereIsJoe: Biden campaign tries to stay relevant amid coronavirus
- Coronavirus live news: Cases in Italy overtake China, US infections pass 100,000
- Australia records 3,400 cases of Covid-19 with median age of 48 – as it happened
- Back poor countries fighting Covid-19 with trillions or face disaster, G20 told
- Three weeks of lockdown in Italy has given us vital perspective – and crumbs of comfort
- One day we will tell stories of the virus, a time when we held our breath passing people in the street | David Marr
- 'There is a lot of Covid-19 in Westminster': how politicians fell ill
- After the coronavirus, Australia and the world can never be the same again | Katharine Murphy
- Donald Trump: the first thing Boris Johnson said to me is 'we need ventilators' - video
- British man describes 'gut-wrenching pain' of losing mother to coronavirus – video
- Michael Gove: rate of coronavirus infection in UK doubling every three to four days – video
- 'I shook hands with everybody,' says Boris Johnson weeks before coronavirus diagnosis – video
- Pregnant coronavirus patient pleads for public to stay home - video
| Trolls exploit Zoom privacy settings as app gains popularity Posted: 27 Mar 2020 05:23 AM PDT 'Zoombombers' broadcast explicit imagery or abuse other users in video hangouts Working and socialising from home has brought new risks to everyday life, as webcam meetings and chatroom cocktail hours contend with privacy invasions, phishing attacks and "zoombombings" – uninvited guests abusing the popular video service to broadcast shocking imagery to all. Public Zoom hangouts have become a popular way to spend time for isolated remote workers, who are joining calls with names such as "WFH Happy Hour" to spend time in the company of others. Continue reading... |
| Tackle climate crisis and poverty with zeal of Covid-19 fight, scientists urge Posted: 28 Mar 2020 01:00 AM PDT Actions taken to suppress coronavirus reveal what measures are possible in an emergency, say experts Government responses to climate breakdown and to the challenges of poverty and inequality must be changed permanently after the coronavirus has been dealt with, leading scientists have urged, as the actions taken to suppress the spread of the virus have revealed what measures are possible in an emergency. The Covid-19 crisis has revealed what governments are capable of doing and shone a new light on the motivation for past policies and their outcomes, said Sir Michael Marmot, professor of epidemiology and public health at University College London, and chair of the commission of the social determinants of health at the World Health Organisation. Continue reading... |
| Joseph Lowery, American civil rights leader, dies at 98 Posted: 27 Mar 2020 10:59 PM PDT Reverend helped start the influential Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King Jr The American civil rights movement leader Joseph Lowery died on Friday at the age of 98, his family said. A charismatic and fiery preacher, Lowery helped the Rev Martin Luther King Jr to fight against racial discrimination and led the Southern Christian Leadership Conference for two decades – restoring its financial stability and pressuring businesses not to trade with South Africa's apartheid-era regime. He retired in 1997. Continue reading... |
| Hague court orders Dutch state to pay out over colonial massacres Posted: 27 Mar 2020 05:05 AM PDT Indonesian man forced to watch his father's execution is among those who will get compensation An Indonesian man forced to watch his father's summary execution by a Dutch soldier when he was 10 years old has spoken of his gratitude after a court in The Hague ordered the Dutch state to pay compensation to victims of colonial massacres in the 1940s. Andi Monji, 83, who travelled to the Netherlands to tell his story to the court, was awarded €10,000 (£9,000) while eight widows and three children of other executed men, mainly farmers, were awarded compensation of between €123.48 and €3,634 for loss of income. Continue reading... |
| Libya fighting intensifies as rival forces defy UN call for global ceasefire Posted: 27 Mar 2020 10:08 AM PDT Factions step up offensives while international actors distracted by coronavirus pandemic Libyan armed factions have defied a UN call for a "global ceasefire" by escalating fighting across the country, with forces loyal to eastern warlord Gen Khalifa Haftar claiming to have gained control of a string of towns in the north-west. A spokesman for Haftar said his forces, the Libyan National Army (LNA), had also repulsed an offensive by the UN-backed government of national accord designed to capture its key airbase – the failure of which will increase the fragility of the Tripoli government and its dependence on its Turkish backers. Continue reading... |
| RT loses challenge against claims of bias in novichok reporting Posted: 27 Mar 2020 08:32 AM PDT Kremlin-backed channel fails to overturn Ofcom ruling that also related to Syria coverage The Kremlin-backed news channel RT has lost a high court challenge to overturn a ruling by the UK media regulator that it broadcast biased programmes relating to the novichok poisoning in Salisbury and the war in Syria. Ofcom fined RT £200,000 after determining that seven programmes, including two presented by the former MP George Galloway, were in breach of UK broadcasting rules relating to due impartiality regarding matters of political controversy. Continue reading... |
| Survey of thousands of Home Office staff revives bullying row Posted: 27 Mar 2020 06:48 AM PDT Poll highlights issues such as excessive control shortly after furore surrounding Priti Patel Thousands of Home Office employees claim they have been discriminated against, bullied or harassed at work, according to the results of a staff survey. The Home Office people survey, which was conducted in autumn 2019 and was completed by 21,095 employees, is part of a civil service-wide assessment. Continue reading... |
| Wildlife rescue centres struggle to treat endangered species in coronavirus outbreak Posted: 28 Mar 2020 01:00 AM PDT Shortages in funds, medicines and masks threaten charity work around the world Last Thursday morning Louisa Baillie drove down the five-kilometre dirt track that connects her jungle home in the Amazon rainforest to the main road. At the junction, she parked, hiking the rest of the way into Mera, a town of about 8,000 people. After filling her backpack with fruit and vegetables from local sellers, she grabbed some leaves and set about plucking termites off trees along the roadside, stuffing them into a bucket containing small fragments of the insects' nests. Baillie works as a veterinarian at Merazonia, a wildlife rescue centre in Ecuador. The termites were dinner for Andy the anteater, a baby recently confiscated at a police checkpoint. Continue reading... |
| Lyra McKee's last article: ‘We were meant to be the generation that reaped the spoils of peace’ Posted: 28 Mar 2020 03:00 AM PDT The reporter was a 'ceasefire baby' who grew up in Northern Ireland in the 90s. This is the essay she was working on at the time of her murder last year They call my generation the "Ceasefire babies", though I've always hated that name. I hated the mocking tone in which it was usually said, as if growing up in the 90s in Belfast was a stroll. There were still soldiers on the street when I was a kid. I remember them – in uniforms and maroon berets, at checkpoints, on pavements, crouching down on one knee, as if ducking out of sight of an enemy the surrounding civilians couldn't see. I remember walking past one with my sister, then aged about 16, after she had picked me up from school. "Do they wear hats on their heads to stop them from getting cold?" I'd asked. "Yes," she'd replied, smiling, and the pale-skinned recruit I'd gestured to had smiled as well. He looked barely older than her, perhaps 18. That was around the time I learned that the toy gun I used for games of cowboys and Indians could not be brought outside, in case a passing patrol saw it and mistook it for a real one. It didn't matter that it was silver with an orange trumpet-top on the end of the barrel. It had happened, my mother assured me, to a little boy, on the same street where I'd seen the teen soldier. I was never sure if this was urban legend, but the only time I took the gun outside, to the back yard – which was surrounded by a 10ft concrete wall – I'd had the arse smacked off me. The helicopters were out; what if they'd seen it with their cameras, my mother said, and thought it was real? The scenario seemed unlikely to me: that a helicopter, thousands of feet up in the air, would spot a kid playing with a toy and send a patrol to our house. But my mother wasn't taking any chances. Continue reading... |
| Chennai Six member says Johnson did 'nothing' to secure release Posted: 28 Mar 2020 01:00 AM PDT Nick Dunn was arrested while working as a security guard on an anti-piracy ship in 2013 A former British serviceman who spent four years in an Indian prison has said he was let down by the UK government and that Boris Johnson did "nothing" as foreign secretary to secure their release. Nick Dunn, 34, was one of six British men who were detained while working as security guards on the MV Seaman Guard Ohio, an anti-piracy vessel, in the Indian Ocean in 2013. Continue reading... |
| Lockdown living: how Europeans are avoiding going stir crazy Posted: 28 Mar 2020 02:00 AM PDT People across Europe are finding increasingly inventive ways to protect themselves against the psychological risks of isolation In Italy they are singing and sharing recipes. In France, humour is saving the day. In Spain, communal staircases have become the new running tracks, and in Germany, ordinarily disorderly hackers are busy coding corona-busting apps. As hundreds of millions of Europeans languish in lockdown, people are finding increasingly inventive ways to keep themselves entertained – and to counter what the continent's psychologists warning are the very real risks of confinement. Continue reading... |
| Uganda's crackdown on public gatherings ruled unconstitutional Posted: 28 Mar 2020 02:00 AM PDT Swipe at lawmakers as judge says only 'undemocratic and authoritarian regimes' seek to ban peaceful protests Government opponents and human rights activists have welcomed a decision by Uganda's constitutional court to overturn legislation that gave police "supernatural powers" to stop public gatherings and protests. "It is only in undemocratic and authoritarian regimes that peaceful protests and public gatherings of a political nature are not tolerated," said Justice Cheborion Barishaki in a ruling on Thursday. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| #WhereIsJoe: Biden campaign tries to stay relevant amid coronavirus Posted: 28 Mar 2020 02:00 AM PDT The Democratic frontrunner faces an unprecedented political challenge as he seeks traction while working from home Video conferences from a basement, glitchy internet and bouts of restlessness. Joe Biden, like the rest of America, is working from home. The former vice-president's confinement began abruptly on 10 March, when he touched down in Cleveland for a primary-night campaign event only to learn that the state's governor had called for all major indoor events to be canceled as the nation slowly grasped the seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus live news: Cases in Italy overtake China, US infections pass 100,000 Posted: 28 Mar 2020 03:44 AM PDT Trump invokes Defence Production Act; Syria introduces travel restrictions; The UK, Spain, Italy see biggest daily rise in deaths. Follow the latest updates
Saudi Arabian Airlines has agreed to operate exceptional commercial flights to repatriate British nationals, Reuters reports. The airline will operate flights in the week starting 29 March from Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam to London's Heathrow Airport and additional flights if required, according to a British embassy message sent by e-mail late on Friday.
Authorities in Finland have restricted movement out of Uusimaa, the region encompassing the capital, Helsinki, to curb the spread of coronavirus. Restrictions came into force at midnight and are due to remain in force until 19 April, Yle Uutiset reports. They prevent people from entering or leaving Uusimaa, except to work, return home or care for a vulnerable person. Continue reading... |
| Australia records 3,400 cases of Covid-19 with median age of 48 – as it happened Posted: 28 Mar 2020 01:40 AM PDT New South Wales on the brink of new restrictions with only essential services to remain open as department store Myer stands down 10,000 staff and closes all its stores from Sunday. This blog is now closed
With that, we'll be leaving the blog for tonight. We'll be back tomorrow to pick it all up again. Today:
Voting has just closed in Queensland for 77 local councils, and two byelections for state parliament. But the results may not be known for some time, given over 570,000 people applied for postal votes due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, overall turnout is expected to be very low, which could speed the physical vote counting process. Continue reading... |
| Back poor countries fighting Covid-19 with trillions or face disaster, G20 told Posted: 27 Mar 2020 05:25 AM PDT Experts warn leaders of huge social and economic consequences of failing to support developing states against 'unprecedented threat' Economists and global health experts have called on G20 leaders to provide trillions of dollars to poorer countries to shore up ailing healthcare systems and economies, or face a disaster that will rebound on wealthier states through migration and health crises. Twenty experts, among them four Nobel prizewinners, including Joseph Stiglitz, Lord Nicholas Stern and seven chief economists of the World Bank and other development banks, have written to G20 leaders to warn of "unimaginable health and social impacts" as coronavirus rips through the developing world, taking overburdened healthcare systems beyond breaking point, and causing economic and social devastation. Continue reading... |
| Three weeks of lockdown in Italy has given us vital perspective – and crumbs of comfort Posted: 28 Mar 2020 12:00 AM PDT With scarce resources instilling a spirit of togetherness, Italians have quickly learned to cherish what we once took for granted We're about to enter our fourth week of lockdown in Italy, our sixth of home-schooling, and we've begun to glimpse minor positives. It's as if we're all at that stage of musical chairs when the music has stopped. The loud, relentless run-around is over. We've passed the point of the nervous scramble to get what we need. And now – even if we're not where, with whom or with all we want – that is just where we're at. We know the music isn't starting up again for a long time. And that subtly changes your attitude towards who's alongside you. Barely-known neighbours have come to seem like comrades in the trenches. There's something profound about what is happening in our small palazzo. Giorgio delivers us a newspaper every day. Silvia gives our son an old tablet (studiously wiped clean with alcohol) so he can do his online classes. Massimo delivers sheet music for our daughter. We, in turn, distribute food and offer free, online English lessons. We're all looking out for each other. The exchanges are announced by text message, like drug drops ("rice outside door") and with money hidden here and there. We never get close, and yet we've never been closer. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 27 Mar 2020 02:48 PM PDT Coronavirus has us all waiting. We have so little idea when and where this story will take us. Its arc is a mystery I've been on to my solicitor to draft a certificate setting out why I should be saved when the Great Triage comes. I can't think of a single reason off the top of my head but he'll come up with something. He's good. He's expensive. I want the document on me when I'm wheeled into ICU. Continue reading... |
| 'There is a lot of Covid-19 in Westminster': how politicians fell ill Posted: 27 Mar 2020 12:02 PM PDT Were Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock practising what they have been preaching? Prof Neil Ferguson was the first to sound the alarm – and perhaps provide a clue as to how the prime minister, the health secretary and the chief medical officer all became victims of the coronavirus pandemic. Ferguson is the scientist whose research at London's Imperial College led to the government's dramatic pivot in its handling of the outbreak. Continue reading... |
| After the coronavirus, Australia and the world can never be the same again | Katharine Murphy Posted: 27 Mar 2020 12:00 PM PDT In a deeply ingrained reflex, Australians have looked to government in this crisis. Will it prove its worth? We are all off balance. From the moment I open my eyes in the morning, I feel the discomfiting sensation of being suspended between the set of propositions that existed before the pandemic and the set of propositions that exist now. I suspect everybody is encountering this out of kilter sensation frequently in normal life. Thousands and thousands of Australians were employed last week but aren't today. Businesses have gone bust, or teeter on the brink. Kids are not at school. Socialising is curtailed. Unless you are young and sanguine enough to believe coronavirus is either a beat-up or a "boomer remover" and therefore it's business as usual, you are either ill or deeply anxious about getting ill and infecting others. Continue reading... |
| Donald Trump: the first thing Boris Johnson said to me is 'we need ventilators' - video Posted: 27 Mar 2020 04:20 PM PDT Donald Trump said on Friday that he had a conversation with Boris Johnson, who has tested positive for coronavirus, and 'the first thing he said to me is: "We need ventilators"'. Trump mentioned Johnson 'asking for ventilators today' twice during the Coronavirus Task Force briefing Continue reading... |
| British man describes 'gut-wrenching pain' of losing mother to coronavirus – video Posted: 27 Mar 2020 11:15 AM PDT Stuart Hamlin urges people to stay inside in an emotional video filmed hours after his mother died from the coronavirus. He describes his pain just four days after Tracy was admitted to hospital with Covid-19 symptoms. 'Losing someone is hard enough, but not being able to hold your family close when you do is the most gut-wrenching pain I've ever felt in my life,' he says. Continue reading... |
| Michael Gove: rate of coronavirus infection in UK doubling every three to four days – video Posted: 27 Mar 2020 11:08 AM PDT Michael Gove has said the rate of coronavirus infections in the UK is doubling every three to four days. The Conservative politician gave the update during the government's daily Covid-19 briefing after Boris Johnson was diagnosed with the virus Continue reading... |
| 'I shook hands with everybody,' says Boris Johnson weeks before coronavirus diagnosis – video Posted: 27 Mar 2020 10:43 AM PDT Boris Johnson said he was shaking hands with coronavirus patients just weeks before he tested positive for Covid-19. The prime minister confirmed he had entered self-isolation on Friday 27 March. Early this month, he insisted that people would be 'pleased to know' that the virus would not stop him greeting hospital patients with a handshake
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| Pregnant coronavirus patient pleads for public to stay home - video Posted: 27 Mar 2020 05:41 AM PDT A heavily pregnant woman with coronavirus has begged the public to stop going out in an emotional video from her hospital bed. Karen Mannering, 39, said she had pneumonia in both lungs and had been ill for two weeks. 'I'm fighting for me and my baby,' she said. 'I've got three kids at home and a husband I can't see. Just don't go out, it's not worth it.' Continue reading... |
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