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- Coronavirus live news: thousands turn out for Belarus VE Day parade, as Russia infections near 200,000
- Two-week quarantine for travellers to UK would 'devastate' aviation industry
- The US recovery from the pandemic lags way behind Europe – even as states reopen
- IMF warns of further drop in global growth due to Covid-19
- Police watchdog investigates London stun gun shooting
- Could Assad row with cousin tear down Syrian regime?
- ‘Every stone will be uncovered’: how Georgia officials failed the Ahmaud Arbery case
- 'It happened all at once': Tara Reade details assault claim against Joe Biden in Megyn Kelly interview
- 'Never give up, never despair': the Queen's VE Day message
- Potentially fatal bouts of heat and humidity on the rise, study finds
- Astronomers capture new images of Jupiter using 'lucky' technique
- 'Colour allows us to understand in a deeper sense': Hitler, Churchill and others in a new light
- Cyclist, 16, critically injured after being hit by two cars in south London
- Brazil's President Bolsonaro must 'drastically change course' on Covid-19, says The Lancet
- China says it will update disease control measures in wake of coronavirus
- Coronavirus news Australia: evacuation flights for stranded citizens in India as some states ease Covid-19 restrictions – as it happened
- US job losses have reached Great Depression levels. Did it have to be that way?
- Britain was led by Churchill then – it’s led by a Churchill tribute act now
- 'There is a path out': WHO's Dr Michael Ryan warns nations to stay vigilant – video
- UK marks 75th anniversary of VE Day – in pictures
- Lockdown walks, miraculous recoveries and flypasts: the week’s most uplifting clips – video
| Posted: 09 May 2020 05:09 AM PDT Belarus leader holds parade prompting safety concerns as other nations curb WW2 events; Russia records 10,000 new Covid-19 cases; Spain's daily death toll continues to fall. Follow the latest updates
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| Two-week quarantine for travellers to UK would 'devastate' aviation industry Posted: 09 May 2020 02:59 AM PDT Stringent measures to be announced with visitors and returning Britons to be asked to self-isolate A 14-day quarantine period for all travellers coming to Britain would have a devastating impact on the UK aviation industry and wider economy, a trade body has said. The government is expected to announce the quarantine on Sunday as part of measures to prevent a second peak of the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading... |
| The US recovery from the pandemic lags way behind Europe – even as states reopen Posted: 08 May 2020 04:19 AM PDT While countries such as Spain and Italy that are lifting restrictions have forced the trend of infections down, in the US cases are rising The US may be moving to loosen social distancing restrictions around the same time as several European countries but it remains in a far different, and worse, stage of the coronavirus pandemic. While infections and deaths from Covid-19 quickly raced to terrifying peaks in Italy and Spain, both countries have managed to arrest the increase and are now forcing the key trends downwards. Continue reading... |
| IMF warns of further drop in global growth due to Covid-19 Posted: 08 May 2020 11:05 PM PDT Monetary fund warns the US and China against continuing trade war, saying it could damage coronavirus recovery The head of the International Monetary Fund has signalled a possible downward revision of global economic forecasts, and warned the United States and China against rekindling a trade war that could weaken a recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. Kristalina Georgieva, the IMF's managing director, told an online event hosted by the European University Institute that recent economic data for many countries was coming in below the fund's already pessimistic forecast for a 3% contraction in 2020. Continue reading... |
| Police watchdog investigates London stun gun shooting Posted: 09 May 2020 12:03 AM PDT Concerns raised about 'disproportionate' use of force after young black man is seriously injured The police watchdog is investigating after a black man in his 20s was left with a life-changing injury after he was shot with a stun gun by officers in north London. Police on patrol in Haringey chased the man on Monday after he ran away from them following an approach, it is understood. They used the stun gun as he jumped over a wall and he fell, suffering serious back injuries which his family fear could leave him at least partially paralysed. Continue reading... |
| Could Assad row with cousin tear down Syrian regime? Posted: 08 May 2020 09:00 PM PDT Power struggle between Bashar al-Assad and first cousin sparks rare family fissure and leaves public aghast A defiant tyrant and his ruthless wife square up against the family oligarch, with the spoils of a nation at stake. It could be standard Ramadan television fare, but not this year. Instead, all the intrigue of Syria's ruling family has been laid out in a spectacular real-life drama that has gripped the country and the region. Leading the cast is the Syrian leader, Bashar al-Assad, and Syria's first lady, Asma al-Assad, but star billing has so far been taken by the president's first cousin, Rami Makhlouf, who last week took to Facebook to do the unthinkable: air the normally inscrutable family's dirty laundry. Continue reading... |
| ‘Every stone will be uncovered’: how Georgia officials failed the Ahmaud Arbery case Posted: 09 May 2020 05:03 AM PDT Systemic flaws within Glynn county's district attorney offices led to a lack of action against the men involved in this 'modern lynching' In the days and weeks after Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed, multiple Glynn county law enforcement officials failed to thoroughly investigate his death and, in one case, refused to allow police officers to make arrests, the Guardian has learned. Related: Ahmaud Arbery is dead because Americans think black men are criminals | Benjamin Dixon Continue reading... |
| Posted: 08 May 2020 07:13 PM PDT Former staffer discusses allegation in in-depth interview with the former Fox News and NBC host Tara Reade repeated her allegations of sexual assault against Joe Biden in an in-depth interview with Megyn Kelly released on Friday, answering questions on who she shared her story with and why she supported the former vice president publicly in the past. Reade has accused Biden of sexually assaulting her in 1993, when she worked as an aide in his Senate office. She told Kelly, a former Fox News and NBC host who memorably sparred with Trump during the 2016 campaign over his treatment of women, that Biden pushed her against the wall in a Senate hallway and digitally penetrated her against her will. Continue reading... |
| 'Never give up, never despair': the Queen's VE Day message Posted: 08 May 2020 01:00 PM PDT Televised broadcast includes extracts from Churchill's historic victory speech The Queen led tributes to the wartime generation on Friday night, recalling the "never give up, never despair" message of VE Day as the country marked the 75th anniversary of victory in Europe. In a special broadcast, on a unique day of remembrance, reflection and celebration taking place during the coronavirus lockdown, she said: "Today it may seem hard that we cannot mark this special anniversary as we would wish. Instead we remember from our homes and our doorsteps. Continue reading... |
| Potentially fatal bouts of heat and humidity on the rise, study finds Posted: 08 May 2020 11:00 AM PDT Scientists identify thousands of extreme events, suggesting stark warnings about global heating are already coming to pass Intolerable bouts of extreme humidity and heat which could threaten human survival are on the rise across the world, suggesting that worst-case scenario warnings about the consequences of global heating are already occurring, a new study has revealed. Related: One billion people will live in insufferable heat within 50 years – study Continue reading... |
| Astronomers capture new images of Jupiter using 'lucky' technique Posted: 08 May 2020 10:02 AM PDT Detailed pictures of planet glowing through clouds were taken with telescope in Hawaii Astronomers have captured some of the highest resolution images of Jupiter ever obtained from the ground using a technique known as "lucky imaging". The observations, from the Gemini North telescope on Hawaii's dormant volcano Mauna Kea, reveal lightning strikes and storm systems forming around deep clouds of water ice and liquid. The images show the warm, deep layers of the planet's atmosphere glowing through gaps in thick cloud cover in a "jack-o-lantern"-like effect. Continue reading... |
| 'Colour allows us to understand in a deeper sense': Hitler, Churchill and others in a new light Posted: 09 May 2020 03:00 AM PDT The story of global conflict is all the more powerful when it isn't seen in black and white. Artist Marina Amaral explains her latest work On a stretcher lies a patient; his ashen face protrudes from under a green blanket, eyes closed. Two uniformed women carry the stretcher, wearing face masks. It looks as if it's a lovely day: the sun is shining, the shadows dark, the sky blue. But this is not a happy picture. Is the casualty even alive, or has he already been taken by the killer virus that has wrapped itself around our planet like a python, squeezing the life from it? The photograph was taken at an ambulance station in Washington DC. Within the past couple of months? It could have been, if it weren't for the uniforms (I don't think today's nurses wear lace-up leather boots) and the stretcher. In fact, it was taken more than a century ago, in 1918, during the Spanish flu epidemic, which killed so many millions. The photographer is unknown, forgotten. But the black and white picture was recently "colourised" by Marina Amaral. Continue reading... |
| Cyclist, 16, critically injured after being hit by two cars in south London Posted: 09 May 2020 05:07 AM PDT Teenager remains in hospital as two men are arrested after collision in Streatham High Road A 16-year-old cyclist is in a life-threatening condition after being hit by two cars in south London. The boy was critically injured in the collision in Streatham High Road shortly before 11.20pm on Friday. Continue reading... |
| Brazil's President Bolsonaro must 'drastically change course' on Covid-19, says The Lancet Posted: 08 May 2020 08:59 PM PDT British medical journal's editorial says the Brazilian president's disregard for lockdown measures is damaging The biggest threat to Brazil's ability to successfully combat the spread of the coronavirus and tackle the unfolding public health crisis is the country's president, Jair Bolsonaro, according to the British medical journal The Lancet. In an editorial, The Lancet said his disregard for and flouting of lockdown measures was sowing confusion across Brazil, which reported a record number of Covid-19 deaths on Friday, and is fast emerging as one of the world's coronavirus hot spots. Continue reading... |
| China says it will update disease control measures in wake of coronavirus Posted: 09 May 2020 01:19 AM PDT Senior health official says virus exposed 'weak links' in way country manages epidemics China will reform its disease prevention and control system to address weaknesses exposed by the coronavirus outbreak, a senior health official has said. China has been criticised domestically and abroad for being initially slow to react to the outbreak, which started in Wuhan. The virus has now infected almost 4 million people around the world, and almost 250,0000 people have died from the Covid-19 disease it causes. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 09 May 2020 02:55 AM PDT The Australian government has arranged four additional Qantas flights to Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai in the coming fortnight. This blog has now closed
To recap, this afternoon there were 6,929 Covid-19 cases in Australia, with the death toll at 97. There had been 16 new cases in the last 24 hours, four of which were related to the Cedar Meats cluster in Victoria. Related: Coronavirus Australia latest: at a glance
There are just two people in South Australia considered to be active cases of Covid-19. No further cases were recorded when the state health department released updated statistics on Saturday, with South Australia's total tally remaining at 439. We want people to get out and explore our fabulous regions. It is safe for regional travel in South Australia. Continue reading... |
| US job losses have reached Great Depression levels. Did it have to be that way? Posted: 09 May 2020 02:00 AM PDT The US and Europe have taken different approaches to tackling pandemic-induced unemployment but which is best long term? In two, terrible, months the coronavirus pandemic has driven unemployment in the US to levels unseen since the 1930s Great Depression. Did it have to be this way? Covid-19 has cost more than 33 million Americans their jobs in the last seven weeks – 10% of the entire US population. The official unemployment rate had shot up from 4.4% to 14.7% on Friday – a figure that probably wildly underestimates the true scale of job losses. Continue reading... |
| Britain was led by Churchill then – it’s led by a Churchill tribute act now Posted: 08 May 2020 04:16 PM PDT With coronavirus lockdown subduing VE Day, contrasts with 75 years ago were many and varied Somehow the quiet made it louder. By rights, marking the 75th anniversary of VE Day in the midst of a pandemic that has confined us to our homes – forcing us to keep our distance from one another, denying us the right to gather in crowds – should have muffled this commemoration. A celebration in private would surely feel like no celebration at all. Katherine Jenkins singing to an empty Albert Hall, streets with no street parties and the pubs all shut: how could that add up to anything other than a damp squib? And yet Friday's marking of the end of the second world war struck a deeper chord than it might, had it been just another sunny bank holiday. Yes, the usual rituals had to be suspended. There could be no wreath-laying at local memorials; instead, Prince Charles and Camilla laid two small wreaths on their own, in a crowdless corner of Balmoral, watched by a lone piper. There could be no veterans' parades, no reunions for those who had served, no grateful handshakes from the politicians: 102-year-old former staff sergeant Ernie Horsfall had to make do with a Zoom call from Boris Johnson. And there were limited opportunities for silliness: the Winston Churchill impersonators were all dressed up with nowhere to go, forced to perform their cigar-and-V-sign shtick online. Continue reading... |
| 'There is a path out': WHO's Dr Michael Ryan warns nations to stay vigilant – video Posted: 08 May 2020 11:21 AM PDT Dr Michael Ryan, the director of the WHO health emergencies programme, has said there is a way out of the Covid-19 pandemic for communities, adding that 'a careful and measured return' to workplaces and schools with the right precautions could work, but that concerts and other mass gatherings were much more difficult. He predicted a significant change to lifestyles until a vaccine or effective treatments were found.
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| UK marks 75th anniversary of VE Day – in pictures Posted: 08 May 2020 10:06 AM PDT People including veterans observe Victory in Europe Day amid lockdown Continue reading... |
| Lockdown walks, miraculous recoveries and flypasts: the week’s most uplifting clips – video Posted: 08 May 2020 08:54 AM PDT As the lockdown days wear on, it can be hard to find hope amid the gloom. But people across the world are finding reasons to keep their spirits up – from lockdown charity walks and miraculous recoveries, to virtual graduation wishes from celebrities and socially distanced block parties
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