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- Refugees told 'Europe is closed' as tensions rise at Greece-Turkey border
- Saudi Arabia detains three royal family members in latest crackdown
- Coronavirus: Trump hurls insults as 21 cases confirmed on cruise ship
- Hachette cancels plan to publish Woody Allen memoir
- Harvey Weinstein sentence should reflect 'lifetime of abuse' – prosecutors
- Fiji police search for British woman missing for eight days
- Police to review inquiry into 2000 disappearance of Dubai ruler's daughter
- Ronaldinho arrested in Paraguay over fake passport row
- Boeing's 'culture of concealment' led to fatal 737 Max crashes, report finds
- CS Lewis’s lost letters reveal how wife’s death tested his faith
- Volodymyr Zelenskiy: ‘My White House invitation? I was told it’s being prepared’
- Will Europe’s museums rise to the challenge of decolonisation? | Dan Hicks
- 'I like the numbers being where they are': Trump remarks on Grand Princess passengers – video
- 'This is our feminist spring': millions of Mexican women prepare to strike over femicides
- Coronavirus live updates: Australia traces patients treated by sick doctor as US cruise ship cases rise
- 'It isn't Mad Max': Police warning after shoppers brawl over toilet paper in Sydney
- Coronavirus: nine reasons to be reassured
- With its heavy-handed response to the border crisis, Europe is making a bad situation worse | Daniel Trilling
- Europe’s cities are leading the fight against xenophobia and the climate crisis | Ada Colau
- 'I was unable to breathe', says Briton who contracted coronavirus in Wuhan – video
- Can my dog or cat spread coronavirus? – video explainer
- 'It's all fake!': Chinese official heckled by residents on visit to Wuhan – video
| Refugees told 'Europe is closed' as tensions rise at Greece-Turkey border Posted: 06 Mar 2020 10:05 AM PST Teargas fired by both sides amid political standoff over people displaced by war in Syria The EU has told migrants in Turkey that Europe's doors are closedas Greek and Turkish police fired teargas at their shared border amid growing tensions over the plight of Syria's refugees. In a blunt message, the EU's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said: "Don't go to the border. The border is not open. If someone tells you that you can go because the border is open … that is not true. Continue reading... |
| Saudi Arabia detains three royal family members in latest crackdown Posted: 06 Mar 2020 07:55 PM PST Royal relatives accused of plotting to oust King Salman and successor Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Saudi authorities have detained three royal family members including two senior princes, according to US media reports, signalling the crown prince is further tightening his grip on power. Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, a brother of King Salman, and the monarch's nephew Prince Mohammed bin Nayef were taken from their homes early on Friday by royal guards after being accused of treason, the Wall Street Journal reported citing unnamed sources. The pair were allegedly plotting to oust King Salman and the son he has designated to succeed him, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, it reported. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus: Trump hurls insults as 21 cases confirmed on cruise ship Posted: 06 Mar 2020 07:00 PM PST
Donald Trump used a freewheeling press conference on Friday, intended to provide updates on the coronavirus, as an opportunity to attack Democrats, praise his own intelligence, lash out at CNN and spread false and misleading information about the status of the outbreak, as a slew of new cases were confirmed aboard a cruise ship off the California coast. Speaking at the Centers for Disease Control's (CDC) main campus in Atlanta, Georgia, while wearing his red "Keep America Great" re-election campaign hat, the president went on a rant criticizing Washington state's governor, Jay Inslee, as a "snake" and saying he disagreed with his vice-president's complimentary remarks toward the Democrat. Inslee, who ran for president last year, is overseeing the response to the most serious outbreak in the US. Continue reading... |
| Hachette cancels plan to publish Woody Allen memoir Posted: 06 Mar 2020 02:08 PM PST
Hachette has dropped plans to publish a memoir by Woody Allen, the Oscar-winning film director who has been accused of sexually abusing his daughter. "We take our relationships with authors very seriously, and do not cancel books lightly," the publishing company said in a statement. Continue reading... |
| Harvey Weinstein sentence should reflect 'lifetime of abuse' – prosecutors Posted: 06 Mar 2020 04:59 PM PST
Harvey Weinstein's record of sexual attacks and harassment against women dates back to the 1970s in a "lifetime of abuse" in which he "trapped women into his exclusive control and assaulted or attempted to assault them", according to New York prosecutors. In a note to the New York supreme court released on Friday ahead of Weinstein's sentencing next week, the lead prosecutor at his rape trial essentially threw the book at the fallen movie mogul. Without providing the state's desired sentence, Joan Illuzzi-Orbon urged Judge James Burke to impose "a sentence that reflects the seriousness of [his] offenses, his total lack of remorse for the harm he has caused, and the need to deter him and others from engaging in further criminal conduct". Continue reading... |
| Fiji police search for British woman missing for eight days Posted: 06 Mar 2020 10:36 PM PST Lydia O'Sullivan has been missing on the island of Fiji after travelling there from New Zealand A British woman has gone missing on the south Pacific island nation of Fiji. Lydia O'Sullivan, 23, has not been seen or heard from, for the past eight days. Fiji police have set up a task force and released the following statement: "We have managed to confirm her last sighting in a hotel in the Western Division and that she already checked out, and as of today no missing person's report has been lodged at any police station around Fiji." Continue reading... |
| Police to review inquiry into 2000 disappearance of Dubai ruler's daughter Posted: 06 Mar 2020 10:55 AM PST Family court ruled this week that Sheikha Shamsa al-Maktoum was probably abducted by her father The lapsed investigation into the disappearance of the ruler of Dubai's daughter from the streets of Cambridge 20 years ago is to be reviewed, police have said. Confirmation that detectives could revive their criminal inquiries follows a damning family court judgment that found – on the balance of probabilities – that Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum orchestrated the abduction of two of his daughters, Sheikha Shamsa in 2000 and her sister, Sheikha Latifa, who was seized off a yacht in the Indian Ocean in 2018. Continue reading... |
| Ronaldinho arrested in Paraguay over fake passport row Posted: 06 Mar 2020 06:44 PM PST Football star detained in police station in Asunción shortly before planned flight back to home town of Rio Football star Ronaldinho has been arrested in a hotel in Paraguay's capital after authorities said he entered the country with falsified documents. The 39-year-old Brazilian and his brother, Roberto Assis, were taken to a police station in Asunción shortly before 10pm local time on Friday, Paraguay's prosecutors office said in a statement. Continue reading... |
| Boeing's 'culture of concealment' led to fatal 737 Max crashes, report finds Posted: 06 Mar 2020 11:21 AM PST Preliminary findings conclude Boeing 'jeopardized the safety of the flying public' in its attempts to get Max approved by regulators A "culture of concealment", cost cutting and "grossly insufficient" oversight led to two fatal crashes of Boeing 737 Max aircraft that claimed 346 lives, a congressional report has concluded. The preliminary findings, issued by Democrats on the House transportation committee, conclude that Boeing "jeopardized the safety of the flying public" in its attempts to get the Max approved by regulators. Continue reading... |
| CS Lewis’s lost letters reveal how wife’s death tested his faith Posted: 07 Mar 2020 02:25 AM PST During the final weeks of his life, the Narnia author wrote to a US academic about his struggle with grief and theology The great tragedy of CS Lewis's life was the loss of his wife, Joy Davidman, to cancer in 1960. Her death tested the faith of the Chronicles of Narnia author, who was also a prominent Christian thinker. Now a cache of previously unpublished letters from Lewis, written in the months before his own death, reveal the extent to which his grief remained raw, even as he confronted his own physical decline and mortality. Continue reading... |
| Volodymyr Zelenskiy: ‘My White House invitation? I was told it’s being prepared’ Posted: 07 Mar 2020 12:00 AM PST The TV comic turned maverick Ukrainian leader on Putin, power and Trump's impeachment What's the difference between playing a president on screen and being one in real life? Not much, according to Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the man who's done both. "It's very similar," he says, his compact frame engulfed by a green leather armchair in his opulent presidential office. Then he changes his mind: in fact, the real job lasts a whole five years, and comes with far greater challenges than can fit into one season of a television show. "It's true there are more problems. They are catastrophic. They appear, I'm sorry to say, like pimples on an 18-year-old kid. You don't know where they will pop up, or when." The 42-year-old speaks in his native Russian, his expressive face switching from boyish amusement to tortured concern in a flash. Continue reading... |
| Will Europe’s museums rise to the challenge of decolonisation? | Dan Hicks Posted: 07 Mar 2020 02:00 AM PST With new museums opening in Africa, and calls for restitution increasing, old institutions are being forced to address the legacies of empire Anthropology and archaeology were among the most important of the colonial disciplines. They derived their power from the trick of collapsing time and space. In his classic 1983 book Time and the Other, Amsterdam-based anthropologist Johannes Fabian described how this illusion operated. It was as if the further the colonial explorer travelled from the metropolis, the further back in time they went – until they found themselves, whether in Africa, Tasmania, or Tierra del Fuego, no longer in the present, but in the Stone Age. Anthropology museums – which hold "world culture" collections – first developed in Europe, especially Germany and Britain, in the late 19th century. They were designed to realise these exoticising time-warps. In these places, the racist ideologies that sought to justify and naturalise European imperialism were institutionalised, helping create the idea of a distinction between "primitive art" and "civilisation". Today the colonial mindset of European anthropology museums is being questioned and rethought – and we should all be paying attention. Continue reading... |
| 'I like the numbers being where they are': Trump remarks on Grand Princess passengers – video Posted: 07 Mar 2020 02:21 AM PST The US president has said he would rather have people remain onboard a cruise ship, which was denied entry to San Francisco over coronavirus concerns. Trump conceded on Friday that he would let others decide whether to allow the passengers to leave the Grand Princess, where 35 people have reported flu-like symptoms. Trump appeared to explicitly acknowledge his political concerns about the outbreak, saying: 'I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault' Continue reading... |
| 'This is our feminist spring': millions of Mexican women prepare to strike over femicides Posted: 07 Mar 2020 01:00 AM PST As the country grapples with a worsening crisis, the revolt among a new generation of feminists is picking up steam: 'It's our last resort' Dalilah Loza is 15 and dreams of being an orthodontist, or an economist - perhaps even a photographer. But most of all she wants to be the voice of her mother. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 07 Mar 2020 02:35 AM PST Two victims were in their 70s and had travelled overseas, say state authorities, as cruise ship off San Francisco reports 21 cases and Hong Kong advises against non-urgent travel
As the number of confirmed cases in Spain rose to 401 on Monday, according to the Johns Hopkins tracker, the outbreak has prompted Barcelona city council to postpone the Catalan capital's marathon, which was due to take place on 15 March. The event will now be staged on 25 October. Meanwhile, a prison worker at a facility in Aranjuez, 50km south of Madrid, has tested positive for the virus, and health authorities are investigating a cluster of cases that appear to be related to a funeral held in Vitoria, in the Basque country, two weeks ago. As many as 60 people who attended the funeral are reported to have picked up the virus.
Children are just as likely to contract coronavirus as adults, according to a new Chinese study, countering the theory that kids are less susceptible to Covid-19. Research on community transmission of the virus showed a "sharply increasing proportion of infected children" as the outbreak has progressed. Continue reading... |
| 'It isn't Mad Max': Police warning after shoppers brawl over toilet paper in Sydney Posted: 06 Mar 2020 08:46 PM PST Police called to a western Sydney supermarket on Saturday over reports of a physical altercation NSW police had to be called to a western Sydney supermarket on Saturday morning after a fight broke out among three women over toilet paper. On Saturday afternoon NSW police asked the women involved to come forward, and warned shoppers to behave themselves. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus: nine reasons to be reassured Posted: 06 Mar 2020 09:00 PM PST Yes, Covid-19 is serious, but context is key and the world is well placed to deal with it The coronavirus epidemic plainly poses an exceptionally serious global problem: in a few short weeks, it has spread from China to more than 80 countries, infecting more than 100,000 people so far and causing more than 3,400 deaths. But as we are hit with minute-by-minute updates from around the world, experiencing the advance of Covid-19 in real time – news alerts, huge headlines, social media hysteria – there's a risk that we might lose some essential context. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 06 Mar 2020 05:51 AM PST Turkey's decision not to stop migrants crossing its borders will force politicians to reveal what they plan to do with them "April 4th, 1984. Last night to the flicks," runs a diary entry by Winston Smith, the protagonist of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. "One very good one of a ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere in the Mediterranean. Audience much amused by shots of a great huge fat man trying to swim away […] audience shouting with laughter when he sank." Orwell is so often reduced to cliche, but this quote has been stuck in my mind since footage was circulated online this week of a Greek coastguard boat apparently trying to capsize a migrant dinghy in the narrow strip of sea between Turkey and Greece's Aegean islands. Related: Turkey deploys 1,000 police at Greek border as tensions rise Continue reading... |
| Europe’s cities are leading the fight against xenophobia and the climate crisis | Ada Colau Posted: 06 Mar 2020 03:25 AM PST The EU is mired in a crisis of legitimacy – but municipal movements are rebuilding democracy from below Conservative politicians have long declared there is no alternative to capitalism. Many of capitalism's cruelties, from housing crises and crumbling public amenities to increasingly precarious forms of employment, are most visible in towns and cities. But it's also in these places that new movements are emerging and rebuilding politics from the bottom up. In cities such as Barcelona, Amsterdam, Berlin and Naples, local activists are defending human rights and public services against a rising tide of anti-immigrant xenophobia and fiscal austerity. We call these urban movements "municipalism". By achieving small victories around the world, municipalist movements are proving that there is another way of doing politics – one that begins in the places closest to us. It's thanks to this movement that someone such as me, a woman from a working-class family who began my political career as a housing activist, can today govern a city such as Barcelona. A tide of municipal movements connects cities across the world, creating networks of alliances and shared objectives. Together, we have put pressure on our national governments and demanded greater powers to fight gentrification, increase the stock of affordable housing, and safeguard our collective right to the city. Continue reading... |
| 'I was unable to breathe', says Briton who contracted coronavirus in Wuhan – video Posted: 06 Mar 2020 10:26 AM PST British man Connor Reed caught Covid-19 while working in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the centre of the coronavirus outbreak. The 25-year-old said the disease started with a common cold before progressing to pneumonia, where it got so bad he was waking up at night unable to breathe. He warned people living in the UK who might have symptoms to get checked out and to try to stay at home as much as possible
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| Can my dog or cat spread coronavirus? – video explainer Posted: 06 Mar 2020 08:43 AM PST The number of people worldwide infected with the new coronavirus has exceeded 100,000 and the disease is continuing to spread, but what role do pets - if any - have in the outbreak? After a dog in Hong Kong reportedly tested 'weak positive' for coronavirus, causing some alarm among pet owners, the Guardian's Helen Davidson answers some of the most pressing questions surrounding domestic animals and coronavirus
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| 'It's all fake!': Chinese official heckled by residents on visit to Wuhan – video Posted: 06 Mar 2020 02:24 AM PST A top Chinese official has been heckled by residents as she inspected the work of a neighbourhood committee tasked with taking care of quarantined residents. Vice-premier Sun Chunlan toured a residential community in the Qingshan district of Wuhan on Thursday while residents appeared to shout 'fake, fake' as well as 'it's all fake' and 'we protest' from their apartment windows. Since 12 February, all residential compounds in Wuhan have been put under lockdown, barring most residents from leaving their homes. Continue reading... |
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