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- Starmer: Labour will work with PM to fight Covid-19 in national interest
- Major drug-gang shootout leaves 19 dead in northern Mexico
- Trump 'decapitating' intelligence leadership amid coronavirus crisis – Schiff
- 'Shameless': anger as China quarantines freed human rights lawyer 400km from home
- French reality show seeks to turn around lives of 'dunce' pupils
- Bernie Sanders' campaign still 'assessing' but focusing on a more pressing issue: coronavirus
- Marianne Faithfull hospitalised with coronavirus
- Titus Trust settles with abuse victims at Christian holiday ‘bash camps’
- Sean Hannity defends Fox News against claims of coronavirus misinformation: 'I never called it a hoax’
- Shakespeare’s secret co-writer finally takes a bow … 430 years late
- Claire Danes on the end of Homeland: 'It was so nice to play such a badass'
- Scotland's chief medical officer seen flouting lockdown advice
- Coronavirus live news: Trump tells Americans to expect 'a lot of death' as US cases pass 310,000
- The Observer view on coronavirus, a tragedy for poorer nations
- Whether in the UK or the developing world, we're not all in coronavirus together
- Front Row at the Trump Show review: Jonathan Karl's pre-pandemic warning
- Australia’s coronavirus victims: Covid-19 related deaths across the country
- Germany's devolved logic is helping it win the coronavirus race
- Can a face mask protect me from coronavirus? Covid-19 myths busted
- We are fighting a 21st-century disease with 20th-century weapons
- NHS heroes ... and targets of racists
- Matt Hancock tells sunbathers: 'You are putting lives at risk' – video
- Coronavirus: trekkers climb height of Everest at home – video
- Andrew Cuomo thanks China for ventilators as New York prepares for coronavirus peak – video
- French orchestra play 'together' in coronavirus lockdown – video
| Starmer: Labour will work with PM to fight Covid-19 in national interest Posted: 04 Apr 2020 02:06 PM PDT New Labour chief calls Johnson after election victory as new coronavirus cases fall but death toll rises by 708 Keir Starmer has vowed to work with Boris Johnson "in the national interest" to guide Britain through the mounting coronavirus outbreak, after the prime minister published a letter urging leaders of opposition parties to "work together" with the government. In a phone call with the prime minister after being elected Labour leader, Starmer offered to work constructively with the prime minister and not provide "opposition for opposition's sake". However, with pandemic experts warning this weekend about the difficult route out of the lockdown, Starmer said he would "call out" the government over failings in its strategy. Continue reading... |
| Major drug-gang shootout leaves 19 dead in northern Mexico Posted: 04 Apr 2020 06:09 PM PDT The bloody battle broke out in the border state of Chihuahua, where the Sinaloa and Juarez cartels have been at war A major shootout between rival drug gangs has killed 19 people in the northern Mexico border state of Chihuahua, officials say. The state prosecutors' office said on Saturday that 18 corpses, two grenades, vehicles and guns were found at the scene of the clash in the hamlet of Chuchuichupa the township of Madera. Continue reading... |
| Trump 'decapitating' intelligence leadership amid coronavirus crisis – Schiff Posted: 04 Apr 2020 03:32 PM PDT President says someone should 'sue the ass off' whistleblower whose complaint fired official relayed Donald Trump is "decapitating the leadership of the intelligence community in the middle of a national crisis", senior Democrat Adam Schiff has charged, after the president fired the inspector general of the US intelligence community late on Friday night. Related: Donald Trump fires intelligence watchdog who sparked impeachment process Continue reading... |
| 'Shameless': anger as China quarantines freed human rights lawyer 400km from home Posted: 04 Apr 2020 11:15 PM PDT Wang Quanzhang released from jail but sent far from his wife and son in Beijing Prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang, who was jailed for four and a half years for subversion, has been released from prison but barred from reuniting with his wife and son in Beijing amid the coronavirus pandemic. His wife, Li Wenzu, fears that the authorities are using the pandemic as an excuse to hold him under de facto house arrest indefinitely. She said Wang has been released from prison but authorities had sent him to his home town, Jinan, in the north-eastern province of Shandong (400km south of Beijing) for quarantine. Continue reading... |
| French reality show seeks to turn around lives of 'dunce' pupils Posted: 05 Apr 2020 12:38 AM PDT Les Cancres (The Dunces) features pupils coached by celebrities who also struggled at school French schoolchildren learn an early lesson that failure in the classroom is likely to mean failure in life. Pupils are encouraged to compete for the best marks and grades that will allow them to study at prestigious grandes écoles and subsequently become part of France's professional or political elite. Continue reading... |
| Bernie Sanders' campaign still 'assessing' but focusing on a more pressing issue: coronavirus Posted: 04 Apr 2020 09:00 PM PDT The Sanders campaign has repurposed its efforts to helping fight the pandemic – is it possible he'll succeed in his decades-long battle to remake US society? Bernie Sanders is not done running for president and he's tired of saying so. Related: The US presidential election is frozen in time – can it survive? Continue reading... |
| Marianne Faithfull hospitalised with coronavirus Posted: 04 Apr 2020 03:41 PM PDT Star described by her representatives as being 'stable and responding to treatment' Marianne Faithfull has been hospitalised in London with coronavirus. The singer, who became famous during the "swinging London" scene of the 1960s and has had a respected (and occasionally troubled) career since, is said to be stable and responding to treatment, according to her representatives. Continue reading... |
| Titus Trust settles with abuse victims at Christian holiday ‘bash camps’ Posted: 04 Apr 2020 11:25 PM PDT Boys' lives were blighted after sadistic beatings by John Smyth at Iwerne Trust more than 40 years ago, successor group admits A Christian organisation whose forerunner ran holiday camps at which boys were beaten sadistically has reached a settlement with three men and acknowledged that "lives have been blighted". The Titus Trust has expressed "profound regret" for the abuse carried out by John Smyth QC and has apologised for "additional distress" caused by the way the trust responded to the allegations. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 04 Apr 2020 07:37 AM PDT Hannity responds to open letter signed by 74 journalism professors and leading journalists claiming Fox News spread false statements Fox News host Sean Hannity has hit back against intense criticism of the conservative network's coronavirus coverage, even claiming in a new interview he was ahead of most media in taking Covid-19 seriously. Related: How science finally caught up with Trump's playbook – with millions of lives at stake Continue reading... |
| Shakespeare’s secret co-writer finally takes a bow … 430 years late Posted: 04 Apr 2020 11:05 PM PDT Thomas Watson recognised by literary scholars as the Bard's forgotten 16th-century collaborator He was one of the most celebrated English playwrights of the 16th century, yet none of his plays survived, and today the name of Thomas Watson is virtually unknown. Now the writer, poet and pioneer of the English madrigal – who also saved the life of the playwright Christopher Marlowe in a street brawl – is being seen in a new light. Watson has been identified as the most likely primary author of Arden of Faversham, the first domestic tragedy in English, which was published anonymously in 1592. Many scholars believe that five of the play's scenes were co-authored with William Shakespeare. Continue reading... |
| Claire Danes on the end of Homeland: 'It was so nice to play such a badass' Posted: 05 Apr 2020 02:00 AM PDT A landmark of 21st-century TV drama is about to finish its 10-year run. Its star reflects on how playing Carrie Mathison – and learning from real spies – has shaped her view of politics Perhaps the defining image of Homeland, one of the most ambitious US drama series of the past decade, is Claire Danes's character, Carrie Mathison, a mercurial CIA officer, staring at a video screen and displaying a sixth sense for the vital clue. So it is fitting that Danes appears to this interviewer not in person but via FaceTime. "Let me just get on to my wifi," she says, as the signal flickers, "I thought I was. OK, that should be better." Continue reading... |
| Scotland's chief medical officer seen flouting lockdown advice Posted: 05 Apr 2020 12:56 AM PDT Photos show Dr Catherine Calderwood visiting second home over an hour's drive away Scotland's chief medical officer (CMO) has been photographed visiting her family's second home in Fife during the coronavirus pandemic, despite herself issuing advice to stay at home. Photos of Dr Catherine Calderwood and her family near a coastal retreat in Earlsferry were published in the Scottish Sun late on Saturday. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus live news: Trump tells Americans to expect 'a lot of death' as US cases pass 310,000 Posted: 05 Apr 2020 02:39 AM PDT Global deaths approach 65,000; Spain infections overtake Italy; US deploys military personnel
The first confirmed case of Covid-19 has been recorded in South Sudan, one of the world's poorest states where decades of war and hunger have already devastated infrastructure. The news was announced by Riek Machar, one of the country's vice presidents, Reuters reports.
Scotland's chief medical officer (CMO) has been photographed visiting her family's second home in Fife during the coronavirus pandemic, despite herself issuing advice to stay at home. Photos of Dr Catherine Calderwood and her family near a coastal retreat in Earlsferry were published in the Scottish Sun late on Saturday. Scotland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Catherine Calderwood flouts lockdown rule by visiting holiday home on the Fife coast with her family. @ScottishSun on Sunday exclusive by @olnorton https://t.co/Di3imKBNBM Continue reading... |
| The Observer view on coronavirus, a tragedy for poorer nations Posted: 04 Apr 2020 10:00 PM PDT If Europe, the US and China are struggling to contain it, what chance for millions of people in less developed countries? It is a terrible thing to see a disaster in the making and be unable to prevent it. Yet this is the prospect confronting us if we dare to look beyond the walls and parapets of a Britain besieged by the coronavirus invader. Tens of millions of people in poorer, less developed countries across the world face a looming catastrophe that appears as unstoppable as it is potentially lethal. The moment has not quite arrived. But an axe is poised to fall on untold numbers of largely defenceless heads, a massacre almost too appalling to contemplate. As the relatively wealthy countries of the northern hemisphere engage in a noisy struggle to repulse Covid-19, alarm bells are ringing from south Asia to the Middle East and Africa. Mostly they have not yet been heard. Continue reading... |
| Whether in the UK or the developing world, we're not all in coronavirus together Posted: 05 Apr 2020 01:30 AM PDT In the slums of Delhi or Lagos, social distancing is a dream while social exclusion is all too real and pernicious 'The virus does not discriminate," suggested Michael Gove after both Boris Johnson and the health secretary, Matt Hancock, were struck down by Covid-19. But societies do. And in so doing, they ensure that the devastation wreaked by the virus is not equally shared. We can see this in the way that the low paid both disproportionately have to continue to work and are more likely to be laid off; in the sacking of an Amazon worker for leading a protest against unsafe conditions; in the rich having access to coronavirus tests denied to even most NHS workers. Continue reading... |
| Front Row at the Trump Show review: Jonathan Karl's pre-pandemic warning Posted: 04 Apr 2020 10:00 PM PDT The ABC News White House correspondent first met the 45th president in tabloid New York. His book is a cautionary tale At a White House coronavirus briefing late last month, Donald Trump became visibly annoyed. Jonathan Karl, ABC's chief White House correspondent, had pressed him about ventilator availability. The president snapped back with "don't be a cutie-pie" and don't act like a "wise guy". This was not the pair's first rodeo. Their paths first crossed back in the mid-1990s. Related: 'It's an exhausting story': Jonathan Karl on his up-close view of Trump Continue reading... |
| Australia’s coronavirus victims: Covid-19 related deaths across the country Posted: 04 Apr 2020 06:09 PM PDT As the number of cases rises, so does the number of those who have died. Here is a state-by-state list of virus-related fatalities
The Australian death toll from Covid-19 related illnesses stands at 34, as of 4 April. This story will be updated as further deaths are confirmed and Australia's coronavirus victims are identified. Continue reading... |
| Germany's devolved logic is helping it win the coronavirus race Posted: 05 Apr 2020 01:17 AM PDT With 400 public health offices forging ahead with testing, the country is a model for others to emulate As the coronavirus crisis tests the resilience of democracies around the globe, Germany has gone from cursing its lead-footed, decentralised political system to wondering if federalism's tortoise versus hare logic puts it in a better position to brave the pandemic than most. Under German federalism – which has roots going back to the Holy Roman Empire but was entrenched after the Nazi era to weaken centralised rule – key policy areas, such as health, education and cultural affairs, fall under the jurisdiction of the country's 16 states, or Länder. Continue reading... |
| Can a face mask protect me from coronavirus? Covid-19 myths busted Posted: 05 Apr 2020 12:48 AM PDT The truth about how you can catch coronavirus, who is most vulnerable and what you can do to avoid infection
Wearing a face mask is certainly not an iron-clad guarantee that you won't get sick – viruses can also transmit through the eyes and tiny viral particles, known as aerosols, can penetrate masks. However, masks are effective at capturing droplets, which is a main transmission route of coronavirus, and some studies have estimated a roughly fivefold protection versus no barrier alone (although others have found lower levels of effectiveness). Continue reading... |
| We are fighting a 21st-century disease with 20th-century weapons Posted: 05 Apr 2020 12:11 AM PDT Better and faster joined-up data systems are key to coping with and preventing pandemics such as Covid-19 – as well as more everyday diseases Covid-19 has exposed the deficiencies of national disease detection and prevention systems in many countries of Europe, and in the United States. In the UK, contact tracing was abandoned early due to lack of capacity. Just three weeks ago the government was prepared to let thousands of Scots travel through England to Wales and back for a rugby match, and it has taken a month to develop a strategy for scaled-up testing. After a decade of austerity and decentralisation, we are trying to recover the lost muscle memory of the public health response. It will not be 100 years until the next pandemic. Population growth, human invasion of animal habitats and the resumption of fast travel between continents will take care of that. More urgently, we need a system in place after the lockdown to prevent a second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic being worse than the first. Continue reading... |
| NHS heroes ... and targets of racists Posted: 05 Apr 2020 12:03 AM PDT I cheered the role of BAME medics in the battle against Covid-19 – but I didn't expect the torrent of abuse that followed "Little China girl." "Paki doctor." "Black bitch." These are just some of the racist slurs directed at NHS nurses and doctors as they work on the frontline. I remember feeling sick when I first read an ITV report detailing these incidents at the end of last year. And it was at the front of my mind as I whooped in support of our carers on Thursday night. I returned to that report last week after posting what I thought was an uncontroversial tweet, noting the fact that all four doctors who had tragically lost their lives to coronavirus at that point were people of colour, and that it was a reminder of how much the NHS relies on BAME and migrant doctors and nurses. Just over four in 10 NHS medical staff are BAME, and almost one in three doctors are not from the UK. From the first Caribbean nurses who arrived after the second world war, the NHS has been built on the backs of both migrant and British workers; in the late 1960s, half of all doctors below consultant level were non-British. Continue reading... |
| Matt Hancock tells sunbathers: 'You are putting lives at risk' – video Posted: 05 Apr 2020 02:21 AM PDT The health secretary has said people should not go outside to sunbathe, even if they practise social distancing. Speaking to Sophy Ridge on Sky News, Matt Hancock said: 'We are absolutely clear that you should not leave your home unless it is for one of four reasons: for medical reasons, to buy food, to go to work if you can't work at home, or for exercise. We're crystal in the guidance on what people should do – that guidance is backed up by law. It is not a request, it is a requirement in law' Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus: trekkers climb height of Everest at home – video Posted: 04 Apr 2020 01:10 PM PDT Trail runner Rory Southworth launched a challenge to climb the height of Everest, an altitude of 5,364 metres, in five days in and about trekkers' homes. The virtual basecamp challenge was taken up by a team of about 30 climbers, who completed the task on the evening of 3 April. Southworth said: 'There was a lot of negativity among the outdoor community about being confined at home and I wanted to give people a reason to exercise indoors.' Continue reading... |
| Andrew Cuomo thanks China for ventilators as New York prepares for coronavirus peak – video Posted: 04 Apr 2020 09:44 AM PDT The New York governor said the Chinese government would facilitate a donation of 1,000 ventilators to arrive into JFK airport on Saturday. Cuomo said: 'This is a big deal and it's going to make a significant difference for us. We're not at the apex so we're still in the stage where we have the luxury – if you will – of gathering as much as we can.' |
| French orchestra play 'together' in coronavirus lockdown – video Posted: 04 Apr 2020 06:36 AM PDT The National Orchestra of France has been posting its performances to YouTube while players are confined to their homes under lockdown measures to stop the spread of coronavirus. Using video and audio technology, the musicians recorded themselves playing Bolero alone at home but together online |
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