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- Member states back WHO after renewed Donald Trump attack
- Coronavirus live news: Canada-US border to remain closed; Barcelona beaches to reopen
- Mexico: coronavirus puts sudden stop to search for thousands missing
- MPs hear why Hong Kong had no Covid-19 care home deaths
- Lockdowns trigger dramatic fall in global carbon emissions
- Afghan hospital attack: 'I thought my baby had died and I would be next'
- Chinese man abducted as toddler 32 years ago reunited with parents
- EasyJet reveals cyber-attack exposed 9m customers' details
- EU plan for 3bn trees in 10 years to tackle biodiversity crisis
- Exclusive: Police tried to tase Ahmaud Arbery in 2017 incident, video shows
- Millions of US farm animals to be culled by suffocation, drowning and shooting
- Republican attorneys general back Barr's bid to drop case against Flynn
- Belgium confirms inquiry into Malta-China spy threat
- 'Yeah, I’m in trouble': man who rescued whale calf caught in Queensland nets faces $27,000 fine
- Silly Billy: what the Ikea bookcase tells us about the true cost of fast furniture
- UK gambling addiction much worse than thought, says survey
- ‘It’s done its job’: Dan Tehan flags end of free childcare under weight of increasing demand
- ‘My angel’: man who became face of India’s stranded helped home by stranger
- Tanzania's president shrugs off Covid-19 risk after sending fruit for 'tests'
- Exclusive: 12 die as Malta uses private ships to push migrants back to Libya
- McDonald’s accused over 'systemic sexual harassment' of employees worldwide
- Coronavirus map of the US: latest cases state by state
- Democrats feel tide turning their way in battle to flip US Senate
- 'The end of an era': oil price collapse may force Saudis to rein in arms spending
- Italian cities reopen after two months of coronavirus lockdowns – video
- 'If it was me, they would do it': Trump reacts to dismissed 'Obamagate' investigation – video
- Exclusive: police fail in attempt to tase Ahmaud Arbery in 2017 incident – video
- Coronavirus: Trump claims he takes hydroxychloroquine despite FDA warnings – video
- Norwegian politicians film physically distanced dance for national day – video
- Xi Jinping defends China's handling of coronavirus and backs review of global response – video
| Member states back WHO after renewed Donald Trump attack Posted: 19 May 2020 06:24 AM PDT US president claimed WHO too willing to accept Chinese explanations over coronavirus outbreak Member states have backed a resolution strongly supportive of the World Health Organization, after Donald Trump issued a fresh broadside against the UN body, giving it 30 days to make unspecified reforms or lose out on US funding. A resolution that backed the WHO's leadership and said there needed to be an investigation into the global response to the coronavirus pandemic won endorsement at the WHO's annual ministerial meeting on Tuesday. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus live news: Canada-US border to remain closed; Barcelona beaches to reopen Posted: 19 May 2020 08:25 AM PDT Spain death toll below 100 for third consecutive day; Afghanistan sees biggest one-day rise in new infections
Eighty-three people have died from the coronavirus in Spain over the past 24 hours, making Tuesday the third consecutive day on which the death toll has been below 100, writes Sam Jones, the Guardian's Madrid correspondent. However, the latest figures from the health ministry show that the majority of the latest deaths were in some of the hardest-hit areas of the country: 31 in the Madrid region; 25 in Catalonia, and seven were in Castilla y León.
According to the Associated Press, the border between Canada and the US will remain closed to non-essential travel until 21 June. Ahead of the announcement by Justin Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister (see last post), the agency spoke to a senior government official who confirmed the extension of the agreement, which had been set to expire this week. Continue reading... |
| Mexico: coronavirus puts sudden stop to search for thousands missing Posted: 19 May 2020 07:02 AM PDT Families forced to halt hunt for nearly 62,000 who've vanished since 'war on drugs' began in 2006: 'We can't go out and search' For nearly five full years, Virginia Peña Zamudio has been searching: trawling prisons, markets and forensic records for the slightest trace of her missing son. Rosendo Vazquez Peña was kidnapped from a car repair shop in Mexico's Veracruz state in September 2015 and has not been seen here since. Continue reading... |
| MPs hear why Hong Kong had no Covid-19 care home deaths Posted: 19 May 2020 07:00 AM PDT Prof Terry Lum tells of strict infection control measures that were ignored in the UK Hong Kong has recorded zero deaths in care homes from Covid-19 by employing strict infection control measures that were ignored in the UK, MPs were told on Tuesday as the death toll from the virus in English and Welsh care homes reached almost 15,000. Despite sharing a border with China, Prof Terry Lum, the head of social care policy at Hong Kong University, told the UK parliament's health and social care select committee that Hong Kong treated the outbreak like Sars, the killer virus that hit Asia in 2003, and saved lives. Continue reading... |
| Lockdowns trigger dramatic fall in global carbon emissions Posted: 19 May 2020 08:00 AM PDT Responses to coronavirus crisis cause sharpest drop in carbon output since records began
Carbon dioxide emissions have fallen dramatically since lockdowns were imposed around the world due to the coronavirus crisis, research has shown. Daily emissions of the greenhouse gas plunged 17% by early April compared with 2019 levels, according to the first definitive study of global carbon output this year. Continue reading... |
| Afghan hospital attack: 'I thought my baby had died and I would be next' Posted: 19 May 2020 08:10 AM PDT Nineteen-year-old Soraya had just given birth when gunmen stormed the ward. She recounts her escape – and the desperate search for her daughter Soraya's premature baby daughter had been whisked off to an incubator and the new mother was lying down, exhausted and sore from her stitches, when the shooting started. Gunmen – dressed in police uniforms – had stormed the maternity ward of a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, where Soraya had just given birth. She was bundled into a safe room, with a woman next to her in labour, , but her baby was outside. Continue reading... |
| Chinese man abducted as toddler 32 years ago reunited with parents Posted: 19 May 2020 06:13 AM PDT Mao Yin was taken in Xi'an while walking home from nursery with his father in 1988 A Chinese man who was stolen from his family as a toddler has been reunited with his parents after 32 years. Mao Yin was snatched in 1988 when he was walking home from nursery with his father, aged just two and half. His parents finally embraced him again on Monday afternoon, in the western city of Xi'an, where he was born. Continue reading... |
| EasyJet reveals cyber-attack exposed 9m customers' details Posted: 19 May 2020 04:13 AM PDT Airline apologises after credit card details of about 2,200 passengers were stolen EasyJet has revealed that the personal information of 9 million customers was accessed in a "highly sophisticated" cyber-attack on the airline. The company said on Tuesday that email addresses and travel details were accessed and it would contact the customers affected. Continue reading... |
| EU plan for 3bn trees in 10 years to tackle biodiversity crisis Posted: 19 May 2020 05:44 AM PDT Concern that new strategy, which also includes protecting primeval forests, 'lacks tools' The European commission will launch a sweeping effort to tackle the global biodiversity crisis on Wednesday, including a call for 3bn trees to be planted in the EU by 2030 and a plan to better protect the continent's last primeval forests. The draft policy document, published online by an environmental NGO, admits that to date in the EU, "protection has been incomplete, restoration has been small-scale, and the implementation and enforcement of legislation has been insufficient". Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Exclusive: Police tried to tase Ahmaud Arbery in 2017 incident, video shows Posted: 18 May 2020 03:45 PM PDT
Police attempted to use a Taser on Ahmaud Arbery, the slain Georgia jogger, after questioning why he was sitting alone in his car in a park one morning in November 2017, according to records and a police video obtained by the Guardian. Related: Ahmaud Arbery: new focus on district attorney's flawed prosecutions of black women Continue reading... |
| Millions of US farm animals to be culled by suffocation, drowning and shooting Posted: 19 May 2020 02:47 AM PDT Closure of meat plants due to coronavirus means 'depopulation' of hens and pigs with methods experts say are inhumane, despite unprecedented demand at food banks More than 10 million hens are estimated to have been culled due to Covid-19 related slaughterhouse shutdowns. The majority will have been smothered by a water-based foam, similar to fire-fighting foam, a method that animal welfare groups are calling "inhumane". The pork industry has warned that more than 10 million pigs could be culled by September for the same reason. The techniques used to cull pigs include gassing, shooting, anaesthetic overdose, or "blunt force trauma". Continue reading... |
| Republican attorneys general back Barr's bid to drop case against Flynn Posted: 19 May 2020 06:20 AM PDT
Fifteen Republican state attorneys general have filed a legal brief telling a federal judge they support the justice department's attempt to drop its case against the former national security adviser Michael Flynn. The move comes after almost 2,000 former justice department figures condemned the move to drop the case. Continue reading... |
| Belgium confirms inquiry into Malta-China spy threat Posted: 19 May 2020 04:28 AM PDT Investigation centres on claims Beijing has spied on EU from Malta's embassy in Brussels Malta's ties to China have come under the spotlight after Belgium's intelligence services confirmed they have been investigating suspicions that Beijing has been spying from the country's embassy opposite the European commission's headquarters in Brussels. A spokesman for Belgium's homeland security service, the Veiligheid van de Staat, made the unusual disclosure about the existence of the inquiry after the French newspaper Le Monde reported on the suspected espionage by the Chinese state. Continue reading... |
| 'Yeah, I’m in trouble': man who rescued whale calf caught in Queensland nets faces $27,000 fine Posted: 19 May 2020 01:21 AM PDT Rescuer hailed a hero on social media but risks penalty for interfering with shark controls A man who rescued a whale calf trapped in nets off the Gold Coast from a small boat may face a fine of almost $27,000. The man rescued the stricken animal on Tuesday morning as officials took more than two hours to respond. Continue reading... |
| Silly Billy: what the Ikea bookcase tells us about the true cost of fast furniture Posted: 18 May 2020 10:00 PM PDT A Billy bookcase is made every three seconds. But with a third of people admitting to throwing away furniture that they could have sold or donated, does the cheap furniture boom have a heavy environmental price? Jo Jackson remembers the day when it was clear that nothing was going to be the same for a while. It was mid-March and Made.com, an online purveyor of millennial-friendly furniture, had big plans for growth in the year of its 10th anniversary. Continue reading... |
| UK gambling addiction much worse than thought, says survey Posted: 18 May 2020 04:01 PM PDT Research also warns that half of those with a problem are not getting the help they need Gambling addiction rates may be much higher than previously thought, according to research that also warns nearly half of those with a problem are not getting any help. Related: Isolation will fuel gambling addiction. We must protect those at risk | Carolyn Harris Continue reading... |
| ‘It’s done its job’: Dan Tehan flags end of free childcare under weight of increasing demand Posted: 19 May 2020 03:16 AM PDT Education minister claims scheme a success but says old system was effective as more parents set to return to work Dan Tehan has suggested the days of free childcare are numbered, as a return to the old subsidy model will be needed to keep centres viable as Australians return to work. The education minister told Radio National on Tuesday a new report on the free model showed it had "done its job" during the Covid-19 pandemic but will need to change. Continue reading... |
| ‘My angel’: man who became face of India’s stranded helped home by stranger Posted: 18 May 2020 11:30 PM PDT Image captured the plight of the millions of migrant labourers left unable to return home in the pandemic A photograph of a migrant labourer, his face contorted with anguish as he sits on the roadside in Delhi speaking to his wife about their sick baby boy, has come to symbolise the ordeal of India's daily wage workers; penniless, and unable to get home to their families because of the lockdown. Rampukar Pandit, a construction worker in the Indian capital, had heard that his 11-month-old son was seriously unwell. With no public transport to reach his home in Begusarai in Bihar, 1,200 km (745 miles) away, he started walking. He reached Nizamuddin Bridge where, exhausted and hungry, he could go no further. Continue reading... |
| Tanzania's president shrugs off Covid-19 risk after sending fruit for 'tests' Posted: 18 May 2020 11:15 PM PDT Magufuli caused alarm by branding lab tests a 'dirty game' and hailing natural remedies. Now he is calling for country to open up Tanzania's divisive president John Magufuli has said the economy is "more important than the threat posed by coronavirus", adding that he wants to reopen the country for tourism despite warnings that Africa could face the next wave of the disease. The comments by Magufuli, who has modelled his populist response on that of Donald Trump and Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro – in repeatedly denying the risk of the pandemic to his country – come amid mounting alarm among Tanzania's neighbours over his approach. Continue reading... |
| Exclusive: 12 die as Malta uses private ships to push migrants back to Libya Posted: 18 May 2020 10:10 PM PDT Survivor reveals further evidence to Guardian and La Repubblica of Malta's deadly strategy to intercept migrants crossings Further evidence of Malta's strategy to push migrants back to the conflict zone of Libya has been revealed by a woman who survived a Mediterranean crossing in which 12 people died. A series of voice messages obtained by the Guardian have provided confirmation of the Maltese government's strategy to use private vessels, acting at the behest of its armed forces, in order to intercept migrant crossings and return refugees to Libyan detention centres. Continue reading... |
| McDonald’s accused over 'systemic sexual harassment' of employees worldwide Posted: 18 May 2020 01:57 PM PDT Complaint filed by international coalition of labor unions lists numerous incidents of harassment, including attempted rape An international coalition of labor unions has filed a complaint against McDonald's, alleging systemic sexual harassment of its employees around the world. The complaint, filed at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's offices in the Netherlands, lists numerous incidents of harassment, including attempted rape and indecent exposure in the United States, a promotion in exchange for sexual acts in Brazil, and a hidden cellphone camera installed in the women's changing room in France. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus map of the US: latest cases state by state Posted: 18 May 2020 06:59 PM PDT
With countries all over the world affected by the coronavirus pandemic, the US has emerged as a global hotspot. The Trump administration has been criticized for being slower to act than other countries. The US currently leads the world in both confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths according to Johns Hopkins University. It's important to point out that the actual death toll is believed to be far higher than the tally compiled from government figures. Continue reading... |
| Democrats feel tide turning their way in battle to flip US Senate Posted: 18 May 2020 02:00 AM PDT The electoral map does not favor Republicans and the pandemic has helped put them on defense in states they once thought safe Just three months ago, centrist Democrats were panicking. After strong performances in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, the Vermont senator Bernie Sanders appeared poised to sail away with the nomination for president. Some in the party feared the self-identified democratic socialist would wreak havoc down the ballot. Related: Could Susan Collins' vote for Kavanaugh help the Democrats flip the Senate in 2020? Continue reading... |
| 'The end of an era': oil price collapse may force Saudis to rein in arms spending Posted: 17 May 2020 09:00 PM PDT The world's fifth largest weapons buyer is eating up its reserves - and its political clout Saudi Arabia may be forced to forego new weapons contracts and delay already-agreed weapons purchases as a financial crisis grips the kingdom, experts predict. The expected delay of new weapons deals could have long-term political repercussions for the country under the rule of Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince and de facto ruler who has waged a bloody war with neighbouring Yemen. Continue reading... |
| Italian cities reopen after two months of coronavirus lockdowns – video Posted: 18 May 2020 10:39 PM PDT Italy has started easing coronavirus lockdown restrictions and some shops, restaurants and museums have reopened for the first time in two months. Physical distancing remains but people in Rome were able to enjoy a drink or visit mass. In Venice, stores and restaurants reopened, though without the usual crowds of tourists around Continue reading... |
| 'If it was me, they would do it': Trump reacts to dismissed 'Obamagate' investigation – video Posted: 18 May 2020 10:36 PM PDT After US attorney general William Barr dismissed the possibility of investigating 'Obamagate', president Donald Trump responded 'If it was me, they would do it'. The president has called 'Obamagate': "The biggest political crime in American history, by far!" However Trump has failed to detail his exact accusations Continue reading... |
| Exclusive: police fail in attempt to tase Ahmaud Arbery in 2017 incident – video Posted: 18 May 2020 03:46 PM PDT Police attempted to use a Taser on Ahmaud Arbery, the slain Georgia jogger, after questioning why he was sitting alone in his car in a park one morning in November 2017, according to records and a police video first obtained by the Guardian. The video comes to light as law enforcement in the area faces scrutiny after Arbery was shot dead by two white men while out for a run in February. Police did not initially arrest Gregory and Travis McMichael, who chased down and killed the unarmed Arbery, and a prosecutor assigned to the case wrote a lengthy memo explaining why the killing was legally justified. In a joint statement to the Guardian, lawyers working for the Arbery family described the video as a clear depiction of 'a situation where Ahmaud was harassed by Glynn county police officers'
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| Coronavirus: Trump claims he takes hydroxychloroquine despite FDA warnings – video Posted: 18 May 2020 02:21 PM PDT Donald Trump claimed he has been taking hydroxychloroquine to prevent Covid-19, despite no compelling evidence that the drug is effective against the coronavirus. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned against using hydroxychloroquine or a related compound, chloroquine, for treating or preventing Covid-19 unless under medical supervision in a hospital or as part of a clinical trial
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| Norwegian politicians film physically distanced dance for national day – video Posted: 18 May 2020 11:54 AM PDT The prime minister, Erna Solberg, and her colleagues filmed the dance during the coronavirus pandemic. It was aired on 17 May on NRK. Mass gatherings and parades are not permitted until at least mid-June to try and slow the spread of Covid-19 in the country |
| Xi Jinping defends China's handling of coronavirus and backs review of global response – video Posted: 18 May 2020 06:41 AM PDT The Chinese president is backing calls for an independent review of the global response to the Covid-19 pandemic, but only after the virus is under control. Xi voiced his support in a video message to a virtual meeting of the World Health Organization's decision-making body, the World Health Assembly. He defended China's handling of the pandemic and pledged $2bn (£1.64bn) over two years to help with the response. Continue reading... |
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