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- Coronavirus live news: Hong Kong bars, gyms and cinemas reopen; 20m Americans lost jobs in April
- Coronavirus could 'smoulder' in Africa for several years, WHO warns
- UK scientists condemn 'Stalinist' attempt to censor Covid-19 advice
- 20m Americans lost their jobs in April in worst month since Great Depression
- VE Day 2020: Britain toasts second world war heroes as Red Arrows flypast marks 75th anniversary – live
- 'His head wasn't in the world of reality': how the plot to invade Venezuela fell apart
- Revealed: major anti-lockdown group's links to America's far right
- Rohingya refugees arrive at 'de facto detention island' in Bangladesh
- Sea levels could rise more than a metre by 2100, experts say
- Isis suspect who defied coronavirus lockdown in Barcelona arrested
- Hong Kong parliament in chaos as politicians fight for chair
- Bangladeshi journalist is jailed after mysterious 53-day disappearance
- Naming of Pinochet's great-niece as Chile women's minister sparks outrage
- Brian May taken to hospital after tearing buttock muscles while gardening
- Fifty Shades of Sligo: Normal People poses a challenge for Irish tourism
- Manchester police refer Taser incident of man with child to IOPC
- Lonely death of Grup Yorum bassist highlights Turkey hunger strikes
- Coronavirus US live: Mike Pence staffer tests positive for Covid-19 – live
- Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case postponed over Covid-19 and national security concerns
- 'Separation by sex': gendered lockdown fuelling hate crime on streets of Bogotá
- 'There is no future': the refugees who became pawns in Erdoğan’s game
- Trouble brewing for tea producers as coronavirus lockdown hits harvests
- Europeans and Russians should remember what bound them together: anti-fascism | Kirill Medvedev
- 'Mixed messages': UK government's strategy fuels fears of rule-breaking
- India's chemical plant disaster: another case of history repeating itself
- Brawl erupts between Hong Kong politicians in fight for chair - video
- Royals and politicians observe two-minute silence to mark 75th VE Day anniversary - video
- Red Arrows fly over London to mark 75th anniversary of VE Day - video
- Latin American photographers document the pandemic – in pictures
- 'Somebody was stupid': Trump pushes Wuhan coronavirus lab claim - video
- How Covid-19 contact tracing can help beat the pandemic
- Dancing in the streets: VE Day celebrations in 1945 - in pictures
| Coronavirus live news: Hong Kong bars, gyms and cinemas reopen; 20m Americans lost jobs in April Posted: 08 May 2020 09:02 AM PDT WHO says 190,000 could die in Africa; Russian cases overtake Germany and France; international tourism to plunge by 80%
Dr Michael Ryan says that he and his colleagues also long to see and hug their families, but that social distancing is important to "protect those we love and to make sure we end this as quickly as possible". He says the WHO is looking at the whole selection of measures that have been introduced in different countries and then lifted, and they will examine the epidemiology of each of those. "A careful and measured return of those kind of normal activities of work and school - especially when they are done with density reduction" seems to work, he says, but mass gatherings are much more tricky. Through solidarity we will win the fight and nobody is safe until everybody is safe.
Dr Michael Ryan says Russia is experiencing a "delayed epidemic" and could learn lessons from what has happened in asian countries and countries in western Europe. He says the country has increased its testing and and that that could be part of the reason for the increased number of cases, but that they have also seen increased deaths. Ryan says the Russian government has shifted its approach, introducing strict social distancing rules. He says that the country is struggling, as many countries have struggled, with introducing "systematic contact tracing" when cases begin to rise very rapidly. One of the few countries to manage to do this to get on top of a big outbreak has been South Korea, says Ryan. But you need a "coherent, very well resourced and very well trained public health work force" for that. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus could 'smoulder' in Africa for several years, WHO warns Posted: 07 May 2020 09:00 PM PDT 190,000 people could die on the continent in the coming 12 months, agency says The Covid-19 pandemic could "smoulder" in Africa for several years after killing as many as 190,000 people in the coming 12 months, the World Health Organization has said. The WHO warned last month that there could be 10m infections on the continent within six months, though experts said the pandemic's impact would depend on governments' actions. Continue reading... |
| UK scientists condemn 'Stalinist' attempt to censor Covid-19 advice Posted: 08 May 2020 06:26 AM PDT Exclusive: report criticising government lockdown proposals heavily redacted before release Government scientific advisers are furious at what they see as an attempt to censor their advice on government proposals during the Covid-19 lockdown by heavily redacting an official report before it was released to the public, the Guardian can reveal. The report was one of a series of documents published by the Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (Sage) this week to mollify growing criticism about the lack of transparency over the advice given to ministers responding to the coronavirus. Continue reading... |
| 20m Americans lost their jobs in April in worst month since Great Depression Posted: 08 May 2020 06:06 AM PDT Unemployment rate rose to 14.7% from just 4.4% in March as the coronavirus pandemic shuttered the global economy More than 20 million people in the US lost their jobs in April and the unemployment rate more than trebled as the coronavirus pandemic shuttered the world's largest economy, triggering a financial crisis unseen since the Great Depression. The Department of Labor announced Friday that the US unemployment rate rose to 14.7% from just 4.4% in March and a near 50-year low of 3.5% in February before the US was hit by the virus. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 08 May 2020 09:14 AM PDT Latest updates as Europe marks 75 years since official surrender of Nazi Germany to Allied forces
Seventy-five years ago, crowds gathered in the streets of Europe, singing and dancing as their leaders announced the end of six years of bloody war on the continent. On Friday, the streets were empty, and leaders stood alone in silence at places of commemoration to mark the heroics of the war generation in the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic.
What does the second world war mean to millennials in Europe? We asked for their views. We are forgetting the lessons of 1945 Related: 'We're forgetting the lessons of 1945': young people on VE Day Continue reading... |
| 'His head wasn't in the world of reality': how the plot to invade Venezuela fell apart Posted: 07 May 2020 11:00 PM PDT Deeply flawed from the start, the audacious plan to overthrow Nicolás Maduro unravelled spectacularly As get-rich-quick schemes go it was unusually complicated. Invade a foreign country you know little about. Abduct its president to the US. Collect a $15m bounty from the US government – and maybe an even bigger payoff from the people who then seize power. The plan to overthrow Venezuela's president, Nicolás Maduro, and bundle him off to Florida to face drug trafficking charges seemed foolproof to a former US army staff sergeant, Jordan Goudreau, as he mapped it out in a luxury Miami apartment in late 2019. The 43-year-old Canadian-American was certain his years as a green beret in Iraq and Afghanistan had prepared him for the task. Continue reading... |
| Revealed: major anti-lockdown group's links to America's far right Posted: 08 May 2020 08:55 AM PDT American Revolution 2.0, which presents itself as bipartisan, has been assisted by far-right individuals – some with extremist links Leaked audio recordings and online materials obtained by the Guardian reveal that one of the most prominent anti-lockdown protest groups, American Revolution 2.0 (AR2), has received extensive assistance from well-established far-right actors, some with extremist connections. Related: Armed protesters demonstrate against Covid-19 lockdown at Michigan capitol Continue reading... |
| Rohingya refugees arrive at 'de facto detention island' in Bangladesh Posted: 08 May 2020 07:12 AM PDT Rights groups decry relocation of people picked up at sea after fleeing camps in Cox's Bazar Hundreds of Rohingya Muslims, including children, have arrived at "a de facto detention island" in Bangladesh after being stranded at sea for weeks. Rights groups had warned that the refugees, who had been turned away from other countries in the region, were at risk of starvation and abuse by people traffickers. It is believed that other boats remain adrift. Continue reading... |
| Sea levels could rise more than a metre by 2100, experts say Posted: 08 May 2020 03:16 AM PDT Oceans rising faster than previously thought, according to survey of 100 specialists Sea-level rise is faster than previously believed and could exceed 1 metre by the end of the century unless global emissions are reduced, according to a survey of more than 100 specialists. Based on new knowledge of climate sensitivity and polar ice melt, the experts say coastal cities should prepare for an impact that will hit sooner than predicted by the United Nations and could reach as high as 5 metres by 2300. Continue reading... |
| Isis suspect who defied coronavirus lockdown in Barcelona arrested Posted: 08 May 2020 03:16 AM PDT 'Profoundly radicalised' man was apparently scouting for targets to attack, police say Spanish police working with the FBI and the Moroccan intelligence officers say they have arrested a "profoundly radicalised" Islamic State follower who was apparently scouting for targets to attack in Barcelona during the country's strict coronavirus lockdown. The Guardia Civil said the man, a Moroccan citizen, was arrested in the Catalan capital following a surveillance operation. Continue reading... |
| Hong Kong parliament in chaos as politicians fight for chair Posted: 08 May 2020 02:59 AM PDT Pro-Beijing and pro-democracy lawmakers clash over who will control house committee Hong Kong's legislative council descended into extraordinary scenes on Friday, with opposing lawmakers throwing placards and scrambling over each other to take control of a house committee that has been unable to elect a new chairperson. The scuffles began after an earlier meeting ended and legislators rushed to take the empty seat, more than an hour before the house committee session was due to start. The incumbent committee chair, Starry Lee, reached the seat first and was surrounded by security guards. Continue reading... |
| Bangladeshi journalist is jailed after mysterious 53-day disappearance Posted: 08 May 2020 06:58 AM PDT Campaigners warn Shafiqul Islam Kajol faces a lengthy sentence as his family worries about his exposure to Covid-19 in prison Fifty-three days after he disappeared, Bangladeshi journalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol turned up on Sunday in police custody at a border town 150 miles from where he had last been seen. "I am alive," he told his son by phone, the first time the family had heard his voice since his disappearance in early March, a day after a case was filed against him and 31 others under the country's controversial new Digital Security Act. Continue reading... |
| Naming of Pinochet's great-niece as Chile women's minister sparks outrage Posted: 08 May 2020 02:00 AM PDT Macarena Santelices has praised the 'good side' of the 1973-90 dictatorship in which over 300 women were raped under torture Chile's rightwing president, Sebastián Piñera, has prompted a firestorm of criticism after naming an open supporter of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship as the country's new minister for women's rights and gender equality. Controversy over the appointment of Macarena Santelices – who is also the dictators's great-niece – has focused on a 2016 interview in which she praised the "good side" of the 1973-90 dictatorship in which more than 3,000 people were murdered or disappeared by security forces and many thousands more imprisoned and tortured. Continue reading... |
| Brian May taken to hospital after tearing buttock muscles while gardening Posted: 08 May 2020 12:51 AM PDT Queen guitarist says 'I won't be able to walk for a while' after injury during lockdown and lambasts Boris Johnson over coronavirus Brian May has complained of "relentless pain" after he was taken to hospital following a gardening injury that tore muscles in his buttocks – and, while in recovery, made a sustained attack on Boris Johnson's preparedness for coronavirus. Writing on Instagram, the Queen guitarist said: "I managed to rip my gluteus maximus to shreds in a moment of overenthusiastic gardening. So suddenly I find myself in a hospital getting scanned to find out exactly how much I've actually damaged myself. Turns out I did a thorough job – this is a couple of days ago – and I won't be able to walk for a while … or sleep, without a lot of assistance, because the pain is relentless." Continue reading... |
| Fifty Shades of Sligo: Normal People poses a challenge for Irish tourism Posted: 08 May 2020 06:31 AM PDT The travel industry has sifted through the BBC show's many sex scenes to showcase shots of Ireland's landscape Promoting Ireland as a tourism destination used to be straightforward – just showcase the bucolic landscape and put a slogan on the end – but that was before Normal People turned a chunk of the Atlantic coast into Fifty Shades of Sligo. The television adaptation of Sally Rooney's novel features beautiful shots of Sligo's beaches and mountains, plus Trinity College Dublin, but there is also sex. Lots of sex. Continue reading... |
| Manchester police refer Taser incident of man with child to IOPC Posted: 08 May 2020 07:26 AM PDT Video of officers shooting Desmond Ziggy Mombeyarara with stun gun circulated online Greater Manchester police have said they are investigating an incident in which a man was Tasered by officers in front of his young child, after a video circulated on social media. A video of the incident, which happened at a petrol station in Stretford at approximately 11pm on Wednesday, shows Desmond Ziggy Mombeyarara, 34, being confronted by two GMP officers while carrying the boy. Continue reading... |
| Lonely death of Grup Yorum bassist highlights Turkey hunger strikes Posted: 08 May 2020 09:06 AM PDT Second member of banned folk group dies in country where few political protest options remain İbrahim Gökçek died at an Istanbul hospital after almost a year on hunger strike protesting against the detention of his wife, Sultan. She was still in prison, rather than at his side, when he died in intensive care on Thursday, two days after abandoning his strike. Gökçek, a bass guitarist, is the second member of the banned left-wing folk music band Grup Yorum to die in just over a month after launching hunger strikes over the Turkish state's treatment of their band: 28-year-old Helin Bölek, a singer, died on 3 April after 288 days of fasting. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus US live: Mike Pence staffer tests positive for Covid-19 – live Posted: 08 May 2020 08:58 AM PDT
Just before Air Force Two was to be wheels up to Iowa one of Vice President Mike Pence's aides tested positive for coronavirus. Several staffers were forced to exit the plane, which is taking Pence, a Trump Cabinet member, and two GOP Senators to the Hawkeye State, Raw Story reports. The positive test comes just two days after Donald Trump's personal valet tested positive for the virus that causes Covid-19. Another Pence staffer tested positive back in late March. A member of VP Pence's staff has tested positive for COVID-19, per an administration official. The staffer is not with Pence on Air Force 2, which is en route to Iowa right now.
Donald and Melania Trump are at the World War II memorial in Washington, DC, right now. It's a chilly and windy day. There are current military personnel and WW2 vets well up in their nineties at the solemn event, with everyone standing well apart. The event marks the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe day. Continue reading... |
| Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case postponed over Covid-19 and national security concerns Posted: 08 May 2020 04:32 AM PDT Victoria Cross recipient's suit against Nine newspapers can't be held until in-person hearings resume after coronavirus The highly anticipated defamation trial brought by Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith against the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald will not go ahead next month after the federal court ruled a remote hearing under Covid-19 rules may breach national security. The delay in the case came as justice Anthony Besanko said he had to consider whether to delay the trial despite a submission that Roberts-Smith and his family are suffering from the ongoing publication of articles by the Nine newspapers. Continue reading... |
| 'Separation by sex': gendered lockdown fuelling hate crime on streets of Bogotá Posted: 08 May 2020 12:05 AM PDT While men and women can go out on alternate days, trans people in the Colombian capital face increasing risk of violent attacks A policy of making men and women leave their homes on alternate days during lockdown in Bogotá is fuelling violence towards the transgender community by the police and the public, activists say. The mayor of the Colombian capital, Claudia López, announced last month that women were permitted to go outdoors for essential tasks on even-numbered days and men on odd-numbered days, in an effort to limit numbers on the streets. Continue reading... |
| 'There is no future': the refugees who became pawns in Erdoğan’s game Posted: 07 May 2020 11:15 PM PDT First the asylum seekers were used to further Turkey's regional ambitions, now they are made to suffer in quarantine camps At the beginning of March, thousands of refugees gathered in the shadow of the Pazarkule border gate in Turkey after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said he would "open the gate" to Europe. The move was a reaction to the killing of 33 Turkish soldiers in Idlib province on 28 February and designed to exert pressure on the EU and Nato to support its military operation in northern Syria. Continue reading... |
| Trouble brewing for tea producers as coronavirus lockdown hits harvests Posted: 07 May 2020 07:26 PM PDT India's 'champagne of teas' among those affected as country's tea board estimates output could drop 9%, amid strain in China and Sri Lanka Trouble is brewing for the world's tea producers as the coronavirus lockdown shut down the harvest in several important regions, including the picking of India's "champagne of teas". Despite forecasts of increased demand from drinkers stuck at home across the world, producers have become frustrated by the enforced quarantining of their workforce, with India's output expected to drop by 9% in 2020. Continue reading... |
| Europeans and Russians should remember what bound them together: anti-fascism | Kirill Medvedev Posted: 08 May 2020 07:10 AM PDT Russian media pours scorn on Europe, but the only progressive way forward for our common continent is together In the early 1990s Russia used to have a strong sense of belonging in Europe. This began to change: the post-Soviet shock therapy reforms were a punishing transition to a free-market society, when a kilogram of sausage cost about the same as a monthly pension and many families experienced malnutrition and hunger. The sudden shift to a more "westernised" way of running the economy left many impoverished, which was eventually capitalised on – after the oligarchic power wars – by a new political leader who embraced a conservative, nationalist rhetoric: Vladimir Putin. Today, Russian television presenters feed us stories about a European continent in decay, where "aggressive migrants" run amok, where social services take children away from their parents for being "slapped", where "sexual minorities" destroy traditional families. Continue reading... |
| 'Mixed messages': UK government's strategy fuels fears of rule-breaking Posted: 07 May 2020 11:46 AM PDT Critics of No 10 warn U-turns undermining efforts to keep public safe from coronavirus First people were meant to stay at home to save lives, and then government sources raised the prospect of picnics with pals and sunbathing in the park just before a sunny bank holiday weekend. Boris Johnson told the nation that scientists thought face masks might help stop the spread of the disease, but no change was made to the government advice that they were not needed outside medical and care settings. Continue reading... |
| India's chemical plant disaster: another case of history repeating itself Posted: 07 May 2020 07:57 AM PDT Decades after Bhopal, lack of law enforcement and political will plagues Indian industry The gas leak at a chemical factory in Visakhapatnam will immediately remind many in India and beyond of the 1984 Bhopal disaster, widely considered the world's worst industrial disaster. So far, the scale of the tragedies are very different. Eleven people are confirmed to have died in Visakhapatnam – but with hundreds hospitalised and thousands affected, there are fears the toll will rise. In Bhopal, 4,000 people died within days of the toxic gas leak from a pesticide plant in the central Indian city, and thousands more in the following years. Continue reading... |
| Brawl erupts between Hong Kong politicians in fight for chair - video Posted: 08 May 2020 07:32 AM PDT The legislative council descended into chaos for more than an hour on Friday as opposing lawmakers threw placards and scrambling over each other to take control of a house committee. Politicians rushed to take the seat left empty after the house was unable to elect a new chairperson. The incumbent, Starry Lee, reached the seat first as pro-Beijing and pro-democracy members crowded in Continue reading... |
| Royals and politicians observe two-minute silence to mark 75th VE Day anniversary - video Posted: 08 May 2020 05:37 AM PDT Britain observed a two-minute silence on Friday to commemorate the 75th anniversary of VE Day, marking the end of the second world war. Charles, the Prince of Wales, and the Duchess of Cornwall led the ceremony from Balmoral in Scotland. Political leaders also paid silent tribute at 11am along with the rest of the nation. Nazi commanders surrendered to allied forces in a French schoolhouse 75 years ago to the day.
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| Red Arrows fly over London to mark 75th anniversary of VE Day - video Posted: 08 May 2020 03:30 AM PDT The RAF's display team colour the skies above London red, white and blue to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day. Nazi commanders surrendered to allied forces in a French schoolhouse 75 years ago on 8 May 1945, bringing the second world war in Europe to an end.
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| Latin American photographers document the pandemic – in pictures Posted: 08 May 2020 03:00 AM PDT One virus; 18 ways of seeing the world. Covid Latam is a collective project documenting the coronavirus pandemic as it unfolds across Latin America. Photographers – 9 men and 9 women – are working in 13 countries: Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Cuba and Mexico to document the unfolding story of the pandemic through the Covid Latam instagram account Continue reading... |
| 'Somebody was stupid': Trump pushes Wuhan coronavirus lab claim - video Posted: 08 May 2020 01:48 AM PDT Donald Trump has told reporters that 'something happened' when asked about the theory that the virus was released from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. 'Probably it was incompetence. Somebody was stupid,' he said during a meeting with the Texas governor, Greg Abbott. It comes after the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, claimed he had seen 'enormous evidence' that the virus had originated at the lab. No evidence has been produced. China has denied the claims. Continue reading... |
| How Covid-19 contact tracing can help beat the pandemic Posted: 08 May 2020 01:04 AM PDT If the UK government wants to start easing the country's lockdown restrictions, it needs to get contact tracing right. But what does that mean? What would successful contact tracing even look like? Josh Toussaint-Strauss tries to find out with a little help from Christophe Fraser, an Oxford professor and infectious disease epidemiologist, and Alex Hern, the Guardian's UK technology editor |
| Dancing in the streets: VE Day celebrations in 1945 - in pictures Posted: 07 May 2020 11:30 PM PDT A selection of archive photographs to mark the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day Continue reading... |
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