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- Coronavirus live news: Italy to reopen bars and restaurants; Spain to quarantine overseas travellers
- UK coronavirus death toll passes 40,000, official figures say
- France bans drinking by the Seine following lockdown ease
- Russian hospital fire kills coronavirus patients attached to ventilators
- Malnutrition leading cause of death and ill health worldwide – report
- Gunmen attack Kabul hospital where MSF runs clinic
- Man charged over alleged racial abuse of BBC journalist
- BBC's Andrew Cotter commentates penguin parade on Australia's Phillip Island
- Interpol issues red notice for 'fugitive' Anne Sacoolas
- Elon Musk reopens California Tesla factory in defiance of lockdown order
- Sazae-san, the world’s longest-running cartoon, put on hold by coronavirus
- Nova Scotia shooting: police launch ‘psychological autopsy’ of gunman for clues
- Humans and Neanderthals 'co-existed in Europe for far longer than thought'
- Coronavirus: Bryan Adams attacks China as 'bat eating, virus making' source
- Twiggy: 'I don't think high fashion will ever move completely away from slimness'
- UK rail worker dies of coronavirus after being spat at while on duty
- First Thing: Is the US holding up the search for a coronavirus vaccine?
- Labor and the Greens push to extend eligibility for jobkeeper scheme
- Just the tonic: app helps Iraqi patients locate vital medicines
- Refugee families reunited in UK after rescue flight from Greece
- ‘We depend on God’: gravediggers on frontline of Kano's Covid-19 outbreak
- Women are on the Covid-19 frontline – we must give them the support they need | Mark Lowcock and Natalia Kanem
- 'Finally, at last': vulnerable migrants to leave Greece for UK
- Politics and Porgera: why Papua New Guinea cancelled the lease on one of its biggest mines
- 'He is failing': Putin's approval rating slides as Covid-19 grips Russia
- The country is being run by a second-rate ad agency. No wonder we feel vulnerable | Suzanne Moore
- Lockdown easing: have other leaders fared better than Boris Johnson?
- Our Iranian lockdown: how coronavirus changed one couple’s life - documentary
- 'You know what the crime is': Trump stumped on 'Obamagate' details – video
- 'You should ask China': Trump terminates press conference after clash with reporters – video
- Coronavirus vaccine 'by no means guaranteed', says Boris Johnson – video
- Noam Chomsky: Trump is culpable in deaths of Americans - video
- Coronavirus: what are Boris Johnson's new lockdown rules? - video explainer
| Coronavirus live news: Italy to reopen bars and restaurants; Spain to quarantine overseas travellers Posted: 12 May 2020 03:07 AM PDT Trump walks out of press conference; White House staff ordered to wear masks; WHO urges 'extreme vigilance' as lockdowns end
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| UK coronavirus death toll passes 40,000, official figures say Posted: 12 May 2020 02:56 AM PDT Almost 10,000 care home residents included in latest update on fatalities from ONS The UK death toll from Covid-19 has surpassed 40,000, according to official figures, with almost 10,000 care home residents now having died from coronavirus. The Office for National Statistics said on Tuesday that 35,044 deaths involving Covid-19 were registered in England and Wales up to 9 May. Adding the latest figures for Scotland and Northern Ireland and more up to date fatalities announced daily by the government that occurred in NHS settings, the total official UK death toll now stands at 40,011. Continue reading... |
| France bans drinking by the Seine following lockdown ease Posted: 12 May 2020 02:54 AM PDT On Monday crowds gathered in Paris to celebrate easing of coronavirus lockdown Parisians have been banned from drinking alcohol on the banks of the Saint-Martin canal and the Seine river after police were forced to disperse crowds just hours after an eight-week coronavirus lockdown was eased. Many city dwellers stuck in flats without balconies, terraces or gardens for almost two months turned out on Monday evening to celebrate. Photos quickly circulated of unmasked revellers gathering by the water in the French capital. Continue reading... |
| Russian hospital fire kills coronavirus patients attached to ventilators Posted: 12 May 2020 01:46 AM PDT Five people have died and 150 evacuated after blaze at St George hospital in St Petersburg A fire at a hospital in St Petersburg has killed coronavirus patients who had been attached to ventilators. A source in Russia's emergencies ministry source said five patients had died and 150 were evacuated after the blaze broke out early on Tuesday morning on the sixth floor of St George hospital. Continue reading... |
| Malnutrition leading cause of death and ill health worldwide – report Posted: 11 May 2020 10:01 PM PDT Coronavirus highlights weakness of food and health systems, as Global Nutrition Report finds one in nine of world's population is hungry An overhaul of the world's food and health systems is needed to tackle malnutrition, a "threat multiplier" that is now the leading cause of ill health and deaths globally, according to new analysis. The Global Nutrition Report 2020 found that most people across the world cannot access or afford healthy food, due to agricultural systems that favour calories over nutrition as well as the ubiquity and low cost of highly processed foods. Inequalities exist across and within countries, it says. Continue reading... |
| Gunmen attack Kabul hospital where MSF runs clinic Posted: 12 May 2020 02:32 AM PDT At least eight killed and dozens evacuated during attack by people wearing police uniforms Gunmen have attacked a hospital in Kabul where the international humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) runs a maternity clinic, killing at least eight people. Several people were also wounded in the attack on the Dasht-e-Barchi hospital, according to a ministry of interior official, and dozens of people were being evacuated. Continue reading... |
| Man charged over alleged racial abuse of BBC journalist Posted: 11 May 2020 11:30 PM PDT Sima Kotecha was to broadcast from Leicester on the weekend when alleged event happened A man has been charged with public order offences after an incident involving a BBC reporter, police said. Leicestershire police said the man would appear at court on Tuesday morning over the incident, which occurred on Sunday. The force did not disclose his name or age. Continue reading... |
| BBC's Andrew Cotter commentates penguin parade on Australia's Phillip Island Posted: 11 May 2020 05:49 PM PDT Voiceover narrates fairy penguin's high-stakes waddle from shoreline to burrows in parade that used to attract thousands of visitors nightly With live sport now a scarce resource, BBC commentator Andrew Cotter has lent his distinctive voice to the fairy penguins of Phillip Island. He has narrated the birds' nightly waddle back to their burrows, turning Victoria's famous penguin parade into a high-stakes, long-distance race. Continue reading... |
| Interpol issues red notice for 'fugitive' Anne Sacoolas Posted: 11 May 2020 12:22 PM PDT Suspect in UK death of teenager Harry Dunn fled to US claiming diplomatic immunity An Interpol notice has been circulated worldwide making Anne Sacoolas in effect a fugitive from justice if she sets foot outside her native United States. Sacoolas was charged in the UK with causing the death by dangerous driving of a 19-year-old motorcyclist, Harry Dunn, last August. Continue reading... |
| Elon Musk reopens California Tesla factory in defiance of lockdown order Posted: 11 May 2020 02:35 PM PDT CEO announces electric carmaker will begin production on Monday after company sues county over Covid-19 restrictions Elon Musk announced on Twitter that Tesla would resume production at its northern California factory on Monday afternoon, in defiance of a local public health order designed to slow the spread of coronavirus. "Tesla is restarting production today against Alameda County rules," the billionaire CEO tweeted. "I will be on the line with everyone else. If anyone is arrested, I ask that it only be me." Continue reading... |
| Sazae-san, the world’s longest-running cartoon, put on hold by coronavirus Posted: 11 May 2020 05:19 PM PDT Re-runs of famous Japanese cartoon bring broadcast until further notice, in first interruption in 45 years Production of the world's longest-running cartoon has been interrupted by the coronavirus, forcing the broadcast of re-runs for the first time in decades. Sazae-san, a mainstay of the Japanese weekend that first aired in 1969, revolves around a typical Tokyo family consisting of Mrs Sazae, who lives with her parents, husband, son, brother and sister. Continue reading... |
| Nova Scotia shooting: police launch ‘psychological autopsy’ of gunman for clues Posted: 11 May 2020 09:37 AM PDT Technique involving in-depth interviews with friends, family and colleagues to understand what led gunman to kill 22 people Police investigating last month's mass shooting in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia have launched a psychological analysis of the deceased gunman, in the hope of better understanding what led him to kill 22 people over a 12-hour period. The Royal Canadian Mounted police said on Monday that they were carrying out a "psychological autopsy" on Gabriel Wortman, who carried out the worst shooting in the country's history. Continue reading... |
| Humans and Neanderthals 'co-existed in Europe for far longer than thought' Posted: 11 May 2020 08:20 AM PDT Cave objects suggest modern humans and Neanderthals shared continent for several thousand years Modern humans were present in Europe at least 46,000 years ago, according to new research on objects found in Bulgaria, meaning they overlapped with Neanderthals for far longer than previously thought. Researchers say remains and tools found at a cave called Bacho Kiro reveal that modern humans and Neanderthals were present at the same time in Europe for several thousand years, giving them ample time for biological and cultural interaction. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus: Bryan Adams attacks China as 'bat eating, virus making' source Posted: 12 May 2020 02:39 AM PDT Canadian pop-rocker conflates various unproven theories about source of disease in expletive-filled rant on Instagram Bryan Adams has made an expletive-filled attack on Chinese people over coronavirus, in the week he was due to start a concert residency at the Royal Albert Hall, London, that was cancelled due to the outbreak. Introducing an acoustic performance of the song Cuts Like a Knife on his Instagram page, the Canadian singer wrote: Continue reading... |
| Twiggy: 'I don't think high fashion will ever move completely away from slimness' Posted: 11 May 2020 10:00 PM PDT As a model, she was the face of the 60s, and went on to have a busy acting career. She discusses her new podcast, and life in swinging London So enduring is that image of Twiggy – side-swept hair, heavy eyes, delicate neck – that it's strange to think she was a model for only four years. But Twiggy is an expert at reinvention (or "branching out" as her joke goes). The schoolgirl known as Lesley Hornby became Twiggy, the face of the 1960s, recognised then and now by a single name. At 21, she became the all-singing, all-dancing star of Ken Russell's 1971 film The Boy Friend, which won her two Golden Globes. She has performed on Broadway, recorded albums and been a TV presenter. In her 60s, she turned fashion designer, with several collections for Marks & Spencer. Last year, she was given a damehood. Continue reading... |
| UK rail worker dies of coronavirus after being spat at while on duty Posted: 12 May 2020 03:02 AM PDT Investigation launched into death of Belly Mujinga, a station ticket officer in London A railway ticket office worker has died of coronavirus after being spat at while on duty. Belly Mujinga, 47, was on the concourse of Victoria station in south-west London in March when a member of the public who said he had Covid-19 spat and coughed at her and a colleague. Within days of the assault, both women fell ill with the virus. Continue reading... |
| First Thing: Is the US holding up the search for a coronavirus vaccine? Posted: 12 May 2020 03:03 AM PDT The White House has turned its back on the global coalition. Plus, what Trump can learn about the power of a heartfelt team talk Good morning, Continue reading... |
| Labor and the Greens push to extend eligibility for jobkeeper scheme Posted: 12 May 2020 03:07 AM PDT Bids to broaden scheme come as Liberal backbenchers debate ending it early and employers and unions unite in warning against cuts
Two controversial changes to the jobkeeper program that excluded university workers and entities owned by foreign governments are under challenge in the Senate, where Labor and the Greens hope to overturn the rules limiting eligibility for the $130bn wage subsidy. The bids to extend the jobkeeper payment come as Liberal backbenchers debate whether to end the six-month wage subsidy program early and employers and unions unite in warning against cuts. Continue reading... |
| Just the tonic: app helps Iraqi patients locate vital medicines Posted: 12 May 2020 03:00 AM PDT In Mosul, sourcing essential medication can be an expensive struggle – but entrepreneur Ameen Heeded may have found the solution When Ameen Heeded's father had heart surgery in 2015, the tricky part was not the operation but finding the drugs to aid his recovery. The clinic had no medicine, so Heeded was told to hustle around his home city Mosul to find the prescriptions. It took hours and cost a small fortune, as he visited store after store. Continue reading... |
| Refugee families reunited in UK after rescue flight from Greece Posted: 11 May 2020 09:46 AM PDT Vulnerable people from Greek refugee camps reunited with close family at Heathrow Some 47 highly vulnerable migrants have arrived in the UK on an "unprecedented" family reunion flight from Greece. British refugees travelled to Heathrow to greet nephews, brothers, husbands and wives after Monday's flight brought people from Syria, Somalia and Afghanistan to join close family in the UK. The reunion was the result of two months of intense lobbying by the campaign group Safe Passage and the British peer Alf Dubs. Continue reading... |
| ‘We depend on God’: gravediggers on frontline of Kano's Covid-19 outbreak Posted: 11 May 2020 05:36 AM PDT Outbreak in northern Nigerian city highlights difficulties faced by authorities in detecting and controlling the virus Musa Abubakar used to dig two or three graves a day at the main cemetery in the northern Nigerian city of Kano. Then overnight it became 40. "I have never witnessed mass deaths like this," the 75-year-old said, his white kaftan muddied from his work at the Abbatuwa cemetery, where he has dug graves for 60 years. "From the first day of Ramadan to date, over 300 people have been buried." Continue reading... |
| Posted: 11 May 2020 05:15 AM PDT An effective response to the pandemic means tackling the violence and inequality faced by women After a week in which people in some parts of the world have been given cause for optimism that they may have passed the peak of the pandemic, we have seen how extraordinary actions of individuals can change the trajectory for a whole nation. Retired doctors putting themselves back on the frontline, nurses making their own face masks, parents voluntarily separated from their children so they can care for the sick. Continue reading... |
| 'Finally, at last': vulnerable migrants to leave Greece for UK Posted: 11 May 2020 03:50 AM PDT Group including teenagers Walid and Mustafa will be reunited with relatives after grim odyssey Until last week, Walid and Mustafa had never met. Owing to their disparate backgrounds, they might not have had anything in common, bar their age: both turned 18 this year. But the fresh-faced, bright-eyed teenagers have been brought together by a common desire to escape danger in their respective homelands – Syria and Somalia – and rebuild lives shattered by war. Continue reading... |
| Politics and Porgera: why Papua New Guinea cancelled the lease on one of its biggest mines Posted: 11 May 2020 06:48 PM PDT The announcement not to renew the goldmine lease is fraught but part of an attempt to 'take back PNG' Late in April, in the middle of a global pandemic and slow-boiling domestic economic crisis, the government of Papua New Guinea made the surprising announcement not to extend the mining lease on a goldmine that contributes roughly 10% of the country's total exports. The announcement not to renew the special mining lease for the Porgera mine was a shock, not least to the mine's operator, Barrick Gold, and their joint venture partner Zijin Mining. Continue reading... |
| 'He is failing': Putin's approval rating slides as Covid-19 grips Russia Posted: 11 May 2020 10:06 AM PDT Backseat president announces easing of lockdown on day of record high infection numbers A day of record high coronavirus infection numbers is an odd time to announce a route out of lockdown, but that is what Vladimir Putin did on Monday as he announced that the "non-working days" imposed by the Kremlin at the end of March would come to an end from Tuesday. "We have a long and difficult process ahead of us with no room for mistakes," said Putin by video link from his residence outside Moscow on a day when the country registered more than 11,000 new infections. Russia now has the second fastest rate of infections in the world after the US. The prime minister, Mikhail Mishustin, is among those in hospital with the virus. Continue reading... |
| The country is being run by a second-rate ad agency. No wonder we feel vulnerable | Suzanne Moore Posted: 11 May 2020 09:26 AM PDT We are told to 'stay alert', but if alertness could conquer this virus, we would all be fine. The message is about shifting responsibility away from the government and on to the public Someone won Sunday night's Numberwang, but it wasn't any of us. What we can do, and who we can do it with, has been turned into some sort of fake algebra with a red-and-blue PowerPoint hump. Boris Johnson, all clenched fists and lockdown hairdo, was resolute about, er, stuff. Ours is not to reason why, his is not to understand how the other half lives. He talked of a world of golf, tennis, garden centres and people who can go to work in their own cars or on their Bromptons. England in repose. Where, apparently, no one has to think about childcare. The reality is that it is the construction workers, bus drivers and security guards (mostly middle-aged men) who are dying of Covid-19 at an alarming rate, as well as NHS staff and carers. These people are called low-skilled. Many of them are his voters. He risks losing them, so must frame the back-to-work instruction as a matter of personal choice. For now. Continue reading... |
| Lockdown easing: have other leaders fared better than Boris Johnson? Posted: 11 May 2020 07:58 AM PDT Guardian writers report on how various European countries have managed the process Boris Johnson has been heavily criticised for failing to show Britain a clear route out of lockdown. Easing a nation out of two months of confinement is a complicated business, and some degree of confusion is almost inevitable. Here, Guardian correspondents look at how other European leaders have managed the process. Spain's lockdown exit strategy – known formally as the Plan for the Transition Towards the New Normality – was outlined by the prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, during a televised press conference on the evening of 28 April. Sánchez said the country's four-phase de-escalation initiative would be "gradual and asymmetric", adding that the first stage – dubbed phase 0 – would come into effect on 4 May. Continue reading... |
| Our Iranian lockdown: how coronavirus changed one couple’s life - documentary Posted: 12 May 2020 02:41 AM PDT A rare glimpse into the lives of a young couple in lockdown in Iran. Filmed over several weeks in quarantine, Sara and Mohammad Reza attempt to process the devastating loss of a family member to Covid-19. The news of coronavirus spreading in Tehran is the backdrop to their lives indoors, they see the outside world from their window, neighbours setting off fireworks and street musicians playing for spare change. As they approach Persian new year, usually a time of family reunion, the couple find hope and happiness in the traditional rituals that mark the spring equinox. |
| 'You know what the crime is': Trump stumped on 'Obamagate' details – video Posted: 11 May 2020 06:02 PM PDT Days after tweeting about 'Obamagate' and accusing his predecessor, Barack Obama, of committing crimes, US president Donald Trump was asked to specify what those exactly were. He replied: 'Obamagate, it's been going on for a long time, it's being going on from even before I got elected and it's a disgrace that it's gone on.' He continued: 'some terrible things happened and it should never be allowed to happen in our country again.' When he is again asked what the crime is, Trump says: 'You know what the crime is.' Continue reading... |
| 'You should ask China': Trump terminates press conference after clash with reporters – video Posted: 11 May 2020 03:32 PM PDT Donald Trump's press conference on coronavirus testing ended abruptly after a terse exchange with two female reporters. Asked by CBS's Weijia Jiang about his focus on international comparisons rather than US deaths, Trump snapped: 'Don't ask me, ask China that question'. After being asked by Jiang, who is Asian-American, why he had directed the remark at her, Trump cut off the CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins as she asked a question and walked away from the podium Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus vaccine 'by no means guaranteed', says Boris Johnson – video Posted: 11 May 2020 02:38 PM PDT There is 'no guarantee' of a Covid-19 vaccine to end lockdown measures, Boris Johnson has admitted. Noting the lack of a vaccine for SARS 18 years on, Johnson said the world may be living with the virus 'for a long time to come'
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| Noam Chomsky: Trump is culpable in deaths of Americans - video Posted: 11 May 2020 11:58 AM PDT Donald Trump is culpable in the deaths of thousands of Americans by using the coronavirus pandemic to boost his electoral prospects and line the pockets of big business, Prof Noam Chomsky has said. In an interview with the Guardian's economic correspondent, Richard Partington, the radical intellectual argued the US president was stabbing average Americans in the back while pretending to be the country's saviour during the worst health crisis in at least a century Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus: what are Boris Johnson's new lockdown rules? - video explainer Posted: 11 May 2020 09:58 AM PDT The prime minister's address to the nation on Sunday about new coronavirus lockdown measures for England was met with confusion by some. On Monday, speaking in the House of Commons, Johnson delivered a 60-page document clarifying the rules put in place to ease the country out of lockdown and limit the damage caused by Covid-19. Guardian political correspondent Kate Proctor is here to explain what the new rules are
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