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- Biden wins backing of former rivals Klobuchar and O'Rourke at Dallas rally
- Israel election: Benjamin Netanyahu claims victory but remains short of majority
- Support for Eurosceptic parties doubles in two decades across EU
- Indonesia's most active volcano spews massive ash cloud 6,000m into the air
- EU member states call for 2030 climate target
- Russia committed war crimes in Syria, finds UN report
- Labour demands independent inquiry into Priti Patel bullying claims
- Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $2.6m in damages over vaginal mesh implants
- Ethiopia detains 13 Canadians accused of improperly practising medicine
- US supreme court blocks lawsuit by family of Mexican boy slain at border
- European love stories: the readers who have crossed the continent for romance
- Two men arrested in connection with attack on prison officer
- Coronavirus live updates: fifth of UK workforce could be absent from work at peak of epidemic, government warns
- ‘I can see’: the mobile team saving sight in the Kenyan bush - in pictures
- US briefing: Super Tuesday, Washington state deaths and Netanyahu
- 'Health workers are too scared to enter': the fight to treat HIV in a São Paulo favela
- What is coronavirus and what should I do if I have symptoms?
- Scott Morrison wants the nation to trust him – but how can we after sports rorts?
- 'Yellow bindis' mean high-risk: India's new health map for women and children
- Anti-slavery tsar calls for councils to take on child trafficking cases
- Explained: UK's coronavirus action plan
- The crisis of the centre-right could rot the European Union from within | Jan-Werner Müller
- Elbow-bumps and footshakes: the new coronavirus etiquette
- The first economic modelling of coronavirus scenarios is grim for the world | Warwick McKibbon and Roshen Fernando for the Conversation
- 'We are prepared': Australia's chief medical officer issues coronavirus warning – video
- Greek coastguards in altercation with migrant dinghy as Turkey opens border – video report
- Mike Bloomberg: four issues that could derail his White House bid – video
- Bigger than Trump: John Legend's guide to what matters in the US election – video
- Boris Johnson says coronavirus is 'likely to spread' – video
- South Korea sect leader asks for forgiveness over coronavirus surge – video
- Europeans: Neanderthal by Marius von Mayenburg, starring Robert Beyer
| Biden wins backing of former rivals Klobuchar and O'Rourke at Dallas rally Posted: 02 Mar 2020 09:34 PM PST Fellow moderates join Buttigieg in endorsing ex-vice-president before Super Tuesday in bid to unify against Sanders With just hours to go before Super Tuesday, the moderate wing of the Democratic party attempted to unite as a group of former candidates flocked to Texas and endorsed Joe Biden over his main rival, the progressive frontrunner Bernie Sanders. At a raucous campaign rally in Dallas, Amy Klobuchar and Beto O'Rourke offered their backing to the former vice-president. Hours earlier, outside a fast food restaurant in the same city, Pete Buttigieg also offered his endorsement. Continue reading... |
| Israel election: Benjamin Netanyahu claims victory but remains short of majority Posted: 03 Mar 2020 02:12 AM PST Prime minister set for comeback despite upcoming criminal corruption trial Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed victory in Israel's third election within a year, even as the country looked set for further political deadlock after early counts suggested he was still short of securing a historic fifth term. By Tuesday morning, with 90% of the votes counted, the prime minister's Likud party appeared to be ahead with 36 seats, with a total of 59 for his rightwing alliance. Continue reading... |
| Support for Eurosceptic parties doubles in two decades across EU Posted: 02 Mar 2020 11:15 AM PST Research reveals one in three voters now back parties that are critical of or hostile to the bloc The paradox at the heart of Europe is revealed today in new research that shows that the vote share for Eurosceptic parties has more than doubled in two decades, even though support for the EU remains at record highs. The sharp increase in the electoral success of Eurosceptic parties is laid bare in research conducted by academic experts in populism and radicalism across the EU who shared their work with the Guardian. Continue reading... |
| Indonesia's most active volcano spews massive ash cloud 6,000m into the air Posted: 02 Mar 2020 09:40 PM PST Eruption of Mount Merapi coated nearby communities with grey dust and forced an airport closure Indonesia's most active volcano Mount Merapi erupted on Tuesday, shooting a massive ash cloud some 6,000m (20,000ft) in the air which coated nearby communities with grey dust and forced an airport closure. Ash mixed with sand rained down on towns as far as 10km (six miles) from the belching crater near Indonesia's cultural capital Yogyakarta. Continue reading... |
| EU member states call for 2030 climate target Posted: 03 Mar 2020 02:49 AM PST Dozen member states hope letter will focus minds before Glasgow UN talks this year A dozen countries have called for an EU climate target for 2030 to be drawn up "as soon as possible", if the bloc is to galvanise the rest of the world before vital UN talks in Glasgow later this year. In a letter to the EU's top official on climate action, Frans Timmermans, the dozen EU member states say "the EU can lead by example and contribute to creating the international momentum needed for all parties to scale up their ambition" by adopting a 2030 EU greenhouse gas emissions reduction target "as soon as possible and by June 2020 at the latest". Continue reading... |
| Russia committed war crimes in Syria, finds UN report Posted: 02 Mar 2020 03:30 PM PST The country was also blamed for indiscriminate attacks in civilian areas without 'a specific military objective' A UN investigation into atrocities committed in Syria has for the first time accused Russia of direct involvement in war crimes for indiscriminate bombing of civilian areas. The latest report from the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria focuses on events of July 2019 to January this year, and in particular attacks by "pro-government forces" on civilian targets like medical facilities, driving 700,000 civilians from their homes. Continue reading... |
| Labour demands independent inquiry into Priti Patel bullying claims Posted: 03 Mar 2020 12:31 AM PST Diane Abbott says Cabinet Office inquiry not impartial enough to restore public trust The Labour party has called for the home secretary, Priti Patel, to stand down while a lawyer-led "genuinely independent" inquiry is carried out into bullying allegations against her. Diane Abbott, the shadow home secretary, suggested the Cabinet Office-led inquiry announced by Boris Johnson into Patel's behaviour was not sufficiently impartial to restore public trust in the relationship between the government and the civil service. Continue reading... |
| Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $2.6m in damages over vaginal mesh implants Posted: 03 Mar 2020 01:16 AM PST Federal court orders pharmaceutical giant to pay costs and damages to three lead applicants in Australian class action Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson has been ordered by the federal court to pay out almost $2.6m in damages to three women who received faulty pelvic mesh implants. Justice Anna Katzmann last year ruled that Johnson & Johnson and two subsidiaries had acted negligently over the defective vaginal implants that left hundreds in debilitating pain. Continue reading... |
| Ethiopia detains 13 Canadians accused of improperly practising medicine Posted: 02 Mar 2020 11:43 AM PST Canadian Humanitarian members deny distributing expired medication or acting without approval Authorities in Ethiopia have detained 13 Canadian healthcare workers and volunteers, alleging the group were improperly practising medicine in the country. Canadian Humanitarian, a non-profit organisation based in the province of Alberta, confirmed the detentions but denied allegations it had distributed expired medication or was offering medical services without prior approval. Continue reading... |
| US supreme court blocks lawsuit by family of Mexican boy slain at border Posted: 02 Mar 2020 08:45 AM PST Ruling marks the second involving cross-border incidents preventing cases by foreign nationals in US federal courts The US supreme court has thrown out a lower court's ruling that had let the family of a slain 16-year-old Mexican boy pursue a civil rights lawsuit against a US border patrol agent who shot the teenager from across the border in Arizona. The justices took the action in light of their ruling last Tuesday in a similar case in which they decided on a 5-4 vote to bar a lawsuit against another border patrol agent for fatally shooting a 15-year-old Mexican boy from across the border in Texas. Continue reading... |
| European love stories: the readers who have crossed the continent for romance Posted: 03 Mar 2020 02:00 AM PST We've had 50 happy years of cross-Channel relationships. What's in store for pan-European couples? In July 1974 I kissed a girl for the first time. She was called Martine and she lived next door to my French exchange partner, Pascal, in the half-timbered town of Chalon-sur-Saône in southern Burgundy. I was as in love as a teenager can be, albeit less (I later realised) with Martine than with being 14, English, and in France for the first time, doing things I'd never done before: staying up past 9pm; smoking Gitanes sans filtre; listening to Françoise Hardy. Continue reading... |
| Two men arrested in connection with attack on prison officer Posted: 02 Mar 2020 04:48 PM PST Pair held on suspicion of conspiracy to murder and preparation of a terrorist act Two men have been arrested in connection with an attack on a prison officer at HMP Whitemoor on 9 January, the Metropolitan police have said. Both men were detained using powers under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984. The men remain in custody at a London police station and enquiries continue, police said. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 03 Mar 2020 02:52 AM PST Hong Kong charters plane to bring 500 people back from Wuhan as China infections and deaths drop
There is a question to Johnson and the health service civil servants flanking him about whether the virus will get bigger than efforts to contain it. The answer is that it's too early to say, replies Johnson.
The British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, is outlining the UK's plans for coronavirus. There are four strands: contain, delay, research and mitigate He says that it will be a mild disease for most people but he "understands" the concern and admits that it is highly likely there will be a spread of the disease. Continue reading... |
| ‘I can see’: the mobile team saving sight in the Kenyan bush - in pictures Posted: 03 Mar 2020 01:00 AM PST Trachoma is the most common infectious cause of blindness in the world. Kenya aims to eliminate the disease in four years, helped by teams who traverse desert and bushland to reach scattered communities •Photographs by Tommy Trenchard Continue reading... |
| US briefing: Super Tuesday, Washington state deaths and Netanyahu Posted: 03 Mar 2020 02:44 AM PST Tuesday's top story: Moderates endorse Biden in bid to unify Democrats against Sanders. Plus, why Covid-19 conspiracy theories spread faster than the virus Good morning, I'm Tim Walker with today's essential stories. Continue reading... |
| 'Health workers are too scared to enter': the fight to treat HIV in a São Paulo favela Posted: 02 Mar 2020 11:00 PM PST Young people with HIV in Brazil's poorest favelas often have no support, but in Boi Malhado, one team is determined to provide vital help Words and photographs by Sarah Johnson On a hill overlooking a middle-class neighbourhood and a hospital lies one of São Paulo's slums – home to about 300 families trying to eke out a living in the largest city in Brazil. Here in Boi Malhado, ramshackle dwellings built with planks of wood and corrugated iron are perched precariously on the hillside. Only recently, one house belonging to a mother and her newborn baby collapsed. Both survived but the remains are there for everyone to see. Children run up and down narrow passageways between laundry lines and live electric wires; sewers are a hole in the ground covered by a piece of wood; and water access is sporadic – it's common for the community to go without for days. "Our government is very unfair," says resident Mariangela Ferreira, 35. "We pay our taxes and we don't even have the basics." Continue reading... |
| What is coronavirus and what should I do if I have symptoms? Posted: 03 Mar 2020 01:24 AM PST What are the symptoms caused by the virus from Wuhan in China, how does it spread, and when should you call a doctor? It is caused by a member of the coronavirus family that has never been encountered before. Like other coronaviruses, it has come from animals. Many of those initially infected either worked or frequently shopped in the Huanan seafood wholesale market in the centre of the Chinese city. Continue reading... |
| Scott Morrison wants the nation to trust him – but how can we after sports rorts? Posted: 03 Mar 2020 12:15 AM PST The prime minister has presented himself and his office as bystanders, but all the evidence points to their deep involvement Given the intricacies of the sports rorts controversy can be bamboozling, let's keep this really simple. Scott Morrison has spent the weeks since the Australian National Audit Office completely eviscerated his government's administration of the $100m sports grants program presenting himself and his office as a bunch of breezy feedback brokers, just lurking about periodically to give the sport minister a hand. Continue reading... |
| 'Yellow bindis' mean high-risk: India's new health map for women and children Posted: 02 Mar 2020 11:00 PM PST Pioneering Rajasthan initiative helps health workers reach families in greatest need first, increasing identification of malnutrition and issues in pregnancy It's 10am and time for the first home visit of the day. After consulting a colour-coded map on the wall of the village centre, the three female health workers make their way through the winding lanes of a remote village in Jhalawar district, Rajasthan, where the rice has been harvested and garlic is being planted, to the home of Nirmala. The yellow bindi (dot) on the map indicates that Nirmala and her children are highly likely to become malnourished without the proper care, which means the family is a priority for health services. Continue reading... |
| Anti-slavery tsar calls for councils to take on child trafficking cases Posted: 02 Mar 2020 11:06 AM PST Expert calls for Home Office to lose powers but councils say they are struggling to cope The UK's independent anti-slavery commissioner has called for decision-making on child trafficking cases to be taken away from the Home Office. Sara Thornton told the Independent that local authorities should take over the powers because they are better placed to provide subsequent support for the child. Continue reading... |
| Explained: UK's coronavirus action plan Posted: 03 Mar 2020 02:41 AM PST What the government's measures to fight the spread of Covid-19 mean in practice Publicity will be increased about the need for good hygiene measures (handwashing and "catch it, bin it, kill it") and for workers to stay at home for the full duration of their illness. Continue reading... |
| The crisis of the centre-right could rot the European Union from within | Jan-Werner Müller Posted: 03 Mar 2020 01:00 AM PST From Hungary to the UK, mainstream conservatives have capitulated to the authoritarianism of the far right If there is one thing on which Brussels insiders and Eurosceptics can agree, it's that the EU has experienced a decade of crises. The eurozone crisis and the subsequent enforcement of fiscal austerity exposed the coercive underside of Brussels. The arrival of refugees in 2015 tested the limits of European liberalism. Brexit, the first time a member state has handed back its EU membership, wounded the self-image of the EU as an ever-expanding bloc. But as serious as these challenges are, none of them threatens to shake European integration like the entrenchment of the far right in two member-state governments. Europe's real tumult lies in the failure of its centre-right parties to avert the rise of the far right. In Hungary, the prime minister, Viktor Orbán, who is about to celebrate his 10th year in office, has developed a rule book for how to stealthily undermine democratic institutions and the rule of law while still appearing to follow legal procedures. For the last decade, his Fidesz party has had a large enough majority in parliament to change the constitution according to its autocratic whims. It has transformed the electoral system such that a real turnover in power is now virtually impossible. Last year, the widely respected democracy watchdog Freedom House downgraded Hungary's status to a "partly free" country – the first time this has happened from within the EU. Continue reading... |
| Elbow-bumps and footshakes: the new coronavirus etiquette Posted: 02 Mar 2020 10:00 PM PST Virus means handshakes, cheek-kisses, hugs may not be welcome When the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, extended her hand to her interior minister, Horst Seehofer, at a meeting on Monday, he refused her handshake and waved her away. Pre-coronavirus, his gesture would have been the epitome of bad manners. But, with 150 cases now confirmed in Germany, a smiling Merkel immediately held up her hands and said: "That was the right thing to do." Continue reading... |
| Posted: 02 Mar 2020 06:24 PM PST Global expert Warwick McKibbon, who modelled Sars and Mers epidemics, says all countries likely to experience sharp hit to growth The Covid-19 coronavirus is spreading across the world. Initially the epicentre was China, with reported cases either in China or in travellers from China. There are now at least four further epicentres: Iran, Italy, Japan and South Korea. Although the World Health Organization believes the number of cases in China has peaked and should fall, case reports are climbing from countries previously thought to be resilient due to stronger medical standards and practices. Continue reading... |
| 'We are prepared': Australia's chief medical officer issues coronavirus warning – video Posted: 02 Mar 2020 03:06 PM PST Prof Brendan Murphy updates the media in Canberra on Australia's plans in response to the 'significant' spread of the coronavirus outside China. 'It is no longer possible to absolutely prevent new cases coming in, given the increasing changes in epidemiology around the country,' the chief medical officer says
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| Greek coastguards in altercation with migrant dinghy as Turkey opens border – video report Posted: 02 Mar 2020 11:57 AM PST Greek coastguards had been filmed pushing away a dinghy with poles and opening fire into water in an effort to block migrants from entering the country. Thousands of people have been trying to enter Greece by land and by sea after Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced Turkey would no longer stop migrants from crossing into Europe through the Turkish-Greek border Continue reading... |
| Mike Bloomberg: four issues that could derail his White House bid – video Posted: 02 Mar 2020 09:57 AM PST Billionaire Mike Bloomberg has launched one of the most audacious campaigns for the US presidency in modern times – pouring almost half a billion dollars of his vast fortune into creating the most expensive nomination bid in US history. But the former mayor of New York is under intense scrutiny: here's a look at the key issues that could derail his race to the White House Continue reading... |
| Bigger than Trump: John Legend's guide to what matters in the US election – video Posted: 02 Mar 2020 09:19 AM PST This year's election is not just about the president. From police brutality to vote-rigging, the singer and activist John Legend lays out what's at stake Continue reading... |
| Boris Johnson says coronavirus is 'likely to spread' – video Posted: 02 Mar 2020 07:30 AM PST The prime minister has said it is likely that coronavirus will spread in the UK after the number of cases in the country rose to 40 on Monday. Boris Johnson said the government was well prepared to deal with the disease and added that people 'should go about business as usual' Continue reading... |
| South Korea sect leader asks for forgiveness over coronavirus surge – video Posted: 02 Mar 2020 06:31 AM PST Lee Man-hee, the reclusive founder of the Shincheonji Church at the centre of South Korea's coronavirus outbreak, has apologised over the virus's spread. The church became the target of public anger after one of its members, known as Patient 31, tested positive for the virus and infected many others. Lee said the church had tried to prevent the spread of the virus among its members. He spoke a day after the Seoul city government asked prosecutors to begin a murder investigation into him Continue reading... |
| Europeans: Neanderthal by Marius von Mayenburg, starring Robert Beyer Posted: 02 Mar 2020 03:04 AM PST 'What lies ahead is the past.' A Neanderthal walks us through the passage of time to predict the future using the lessons of the past Filmed at the Schaubühne Theatre, Berlin Continue reading... |
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