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- Coronavirus live news: Iran records over 3,000 new cases; Wuhan doctor is China's first Covid-19 fatality in weeks
- China withheld data on coronavirus from WHO, recordings reveal
- ‘We can’t relax’: Europeans face up to life after lockdown
- Fauci says his contact with Trump has 'dramatically decreased'
- Mark Zuckerberg criticised by civil rights leaders over Donald Trump Facebook post
- Football pitch-sized area of tropical rainforest lost every six seconds
- Rape and murder of student in church sparks outrage across Nigeria
- US may take in Hongkongers ahead of China security laws, Pompeo suggests
- Ryanair staff in France accuse airline of 'redundancy blackmail'
- Yemen's hidden migrants risk conflict and coronavirus in fight for survival
- Stocks shrug off US unrest, China tensions amid easing of Covid-19 lockdowns - business live
- Sydney police officer under investigation after slamming Indigenous boy face-first on to pavement
- Tiger King's Carole Baskin handed control of Joe Exotic's zoo
- Isaac Newton proposed curing plague with toad vomit, unseen papers show
- 'There's a romanticism about nighthawking, but it's theft': when metal detectorists go rogue
- John Sentamu: I would join George Floyd protests
- George Floyd protests: violence escalates overnight after Trump's threat to deploy army – live
- Voice of defiance: the Mexican radio journalist who refused to be silenced
- Water-bombing pilots 'consistently tasked too late' when fighting bushfires, royal commission hears
- ‘Stigmatized, segregated, forgotten’: Colombia’s poor being evicted despite lockdowns
- 'The water will come back': why Kenya's struggle against flooding is far from over
- Pakistan polio fears as Covid-19 causes millions of children to miss vaccinations
- Lockdown in Dhaka: where social distancing is an illusion
- Is Bolivia's 'interim' president using the pandemic to outstay her welcome?
- 'Words of a dictator': Trump's threat to deploy military raises spectre of fascism
- In 1919, the state failed to protect black Americans. A century later, it's still failing | Carol Anderson
- K number: what is the coronavirus metric that could be crucial as lockdown eases?
- America's seniors ebb away from Trump as coronavirus response disappoints
- Picturing lockdown: Historic England's archive of isolation – in pictures
- Trump threatens to deploy military against protesters – video
- 'Let’s do this another way': George Floyd’s brother calls for peace – video
- 'It's about time we stand up': the voices of the George Floyd protests – video
- Maps show UK pavements not wide enough for social distancing - in pictures
- 'These cops love you': Michigan sheriff joins George Floyd protesters in Flint – video
- Coronavirus: millions shielding in England can go outside from Monday, says Robert Jenrick – video
| Posted: 02 Jun 2020 04:31 AM PDT Wuhan doctor who worked with whistlebower dies; Abu Dhabi closes borders; Dr Fauci says he hasn't spoken to Trump in two weeks
The International Rescue Committee has warned that Afghanistan faces a humanitarian disaster as coronavirus spreads undetected and confirmed cases rose 684% in May, Akhtar Mohammad Makoii reports from Herat. IRC said in a statement that Afghan the health ministry has the capacity to test 2,000 suspected patients each day, but are receiving between five and 10 times as many samples.
A group of current and former world leaders on Tuesday called on the G20 to convene an urgent summit to provide a "strongly coordinated global response" to the coronavirus pandemic, AFP reports. The collective of more than 230 former world leaders, and top global health experts and economists said the G20 must unite around a multi-trillion dollar plan to face what they said was an "unprecedented global crisis". Continue reading... |
| China withheld data on coronavirus from WHO, recordings reveal Posted: 02 Jun 2020 03:58 AM PDT Complaints by officials at odds with body's public praise of Beijing's response to outbreak The World Health Organization struggled to get needed information from China during critical early days of the coronavirus pandemic, according to recordings of internal meetings that contradict the organisation's public praise of Beijing's response to the outbreak. The recordings, obtained by the Associated Press, show officials complaining in meetings during the week of 6 January that Beijing was not sharing data needed to evaluate the risk of the virus to the rest of the world. It was not until 20 January that China confirmed the coronavirus was contagious and 30 January that the WHO declared a global emergency. Continue reading... |
| ‘We can’t relax’: Europeans face up to life after lockdown Posted: 02 Jun 2020 01:08 AM PDT From Spain to Denmark, even those who have coped with coronavirus are aware the world has changed dramatically Her customers may be back and there are, miraculously, more of them. Spring is here; the sun is out. No one wants to dwell on what happened; everyone wants to pick up their lives again, same as before. "But still," says Sophie Fornairon, "things have changed." Continue reading... |
| Fauci says his contact with Trump has 'dramatically decreased' Posted: 01 Jun 2020 06:35 PM PDT Comments likely to raise fears he is being squeezed out of White House as coronavirus continues to ravage US Anthony Fauci, the government's top public health expert and a member of the national coronavirus taskforce, said on Monday that he was no longer in frequent contact with Donald Trump, which is likely to spark fresh fears that he is being frozen out of the White House. The pandemic continues to ravage communities across the United States, where the death toll on Monday had reached 105,000, and last month Fauci warned the US Congress during a hearing that the virus was not yet under control. Continue reading... |
| Mark Zuckerberg criticised by civil rights leaders over Donald Trump Facebook post Posted: 02 Jun 2020 04:35 AM PDT Activists say Facebook boss's decision to leave 'shooting threat' up sets dangerous precedent Civil rights leaders have criticised Mark Zuckerberg's decision to take no action against a Facebook post from Donald Trump appearing to threaten to start shooting "looters", after a Monday night meeting with the company's executives ended in acrimony. "We are disappointed and stunned by Mark's incomprehensible explanations for allowing the Trump posts to remain up," Vanita Gupta, Sherrilyn Ifill and Rashad Robison said in a statement. "He did not demonstrate understanding of historic or modern-day voter suppression and he refuses to acknowledge how Facebook is facilitating Trump's call for violence against protesters. Continue reading... |
| Football pitch-sized area of tropical rainforest lost every six seconds Posted: 01 Jun 2020 09:00 PM PDT Report also warns Australia will experience more extreme fire seasons due to climate crisis The amount of pristine tropical rainforest lost across the globe increased last year, as the equivalent of a football pitch disappeared every six seconds, a satellite-based analysis has found. Nearly 12m hectares of tree cover was lost across the tropics, including nearly 4m hectares of dense, old rainforest that held significant stores of carbon and had been home to a vast array of wildlife, according to data from the University of Maryland. Continue reading... |
| Rape and murder of student in church sparks outrage across Nigeria Posted: 02 Jun 2020 02:35 AM PDT Brutality of 22-year-old Vera Uwaila Omozuwa's killing has shocked the country amid a chorus of demands for justice Vera Uwaila Omozuwa, a 22-year-old microbiology student, sought the quiet of her empty church in Benin City, southern Nigeria, as a place to study. Hours later she was raped and killed in a crime that has sparked outrage across Nigeria. Last Wednesday evening, a church security guard found Uwa, as she is known, unconscious in a pool of blood, according to her family. Continue reading... |
| US may take in Hongkongers ahead of China security laws, Pompeo suggests Posted: 01 Jun 2020 08:57 PM PDT Secretary of state says he is considering immigration option similar to move announced last week by UK The US is considering letting people who no longer "feel comfortable" in Hong Kong move to the US, secretary of state Mike Pompeo has suggested. The comments, made in a conversation with the American Enterprise Institute on Friday, come amid worsening relations between the two countries over China's moves to impose national security laws on the semi-autonomous region. Continue reading... |
| Ryanair staff in France accuse airline of 'redundancy blackmail' Posted: 02 Jun 2020 04:05 AM PDT Budget carrier is imposing 20% pay cuts for flight crew and 10% for cabin staff French flight crew have accused Ryanair of blackmailing them into taking pay cuts or losing their jobs. The Irish airline, which has warned it may cut up to 3,000 jobs in Europe, told staff in France it was imposing 20% salary cuts for flight crew and 10% for attendants. Those who are already on legal minimum wages will have their hours reduced. Continue reading... |
| Yemen's hidden migrants risk conflict and coronavirus in fight for survival Posted: 02 Jun 2020 12:30 AM PDT Refugees face violence and disease as they travel across the Red Sea hoping to find work in the Gulf states Yellow and purple headscarves and patterned dresses made a jarring contrast with the camouflage uniforms worn by soldiers milling around a bullet-ridden checkpoint in the southern Yemeni city of Aden. It was 8am, and the sun was already hot. The family of six – four women and two men from Ethiopia, across the Red Sea – had already walked eight miles (13km) so far that morning. They stopped to ask the soldiers for water before continuing on their journey. Continue reading... |
| Stocks shrug off US unrest, China tensions amid easing of Covid-19 lockdowns - business live Posted: 02 Jun 2020 04:07 AM PDT Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as tensions simmer across the US and Hong Kong
Time for a quick market update. European stock markets have all extended their gains after a positive start at the open. Germany is leading the pack, up 3.9% at around 12,030 points. That pushes it to levels not seen since early March, when stock markets started to react to the pandemic's migration to Europe.
Qatar Airways chief executive Akbar Al Baker has been speaking to Reuters and said that it will keep the airline's fleet of A380s grounded until mid to late 2021. He also said that the airline may end up laying off around less than 20% of group staff and it wasn't clear when the airline would return to profitability due to the pandemic. Continue reading... |
| Sydney police officer under investigation after slamming Indigenous boy face-first on to pavement Posted: 02 Jun 2020 01:31 AM PDT Constable placed on restricted duties after footage emerged on Facebook showing him tripping up 16-year-old during arrest in NSW, Australia A New South Wales police officer has been placed on "restricted duties" and professional standards command is investigating after a video posted to social media showed the officer tripping an Indigenous teenager while arresting him, slamming the boy face-first on to bricks. The arrest occurred about 5.30pm on Monday in the inner Sydney suburb of Surry Hills. Continue reading... |
| Tiger King's Carole Baskin handed control of Joe Exotic's zoo Posted: 02 Jun 2020 02:30 AM PDT Baskin, whose rivalry with Exotic was documented in the Netflix hit, is now the owner of the Oklahoma premises following court proceedings Beleaguered zoo owner Joe Exotic, subject of Netflix's hit documentary series Tiger King, has now suffered the indignity of rival Carole Baskin gaining control of what was once his zoo. Baskin, a self-styled conservationist and owner of the Big Cat Rescue facility in Hillsborough County, Florida, has been given control of the Wynnewood, Oklahoma premises by courts, after Exotic failed to pay her $1m in copyright and trademark suits. Exotic – real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage – is currently in prison, having been found guilty of 17 counts of animal abuse and a murder-for-hire plot against Baskin, and sentenced to 22 years. Continue reading... |
| Isaac Newton proposed curing plague with toad vomit, unseen papers show Posted: 02 Jun 2020 03:49 AM PDT Notes made in the shadow of a devastating outbreak show the great scientist sketching out some distinctly queasy remedies It is not as bad as suggesting injections of disinfectant. Isaac Newton's 17th-century prescription for plague – which blended powdered toad with toad vomit to form "lozenges" to drive away the contagion – has been revealed. Two unpublished pages of Newton's notes on Jan Baptist van Helmont's 1667 book on plague, De Peste, are to be auctioned online by Bonham's this week. Newton had been a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, when the university closed as a precaution against the bubonic plague, which killed 100,000 people in London in 1665 and 1666. Continue reading... |
| 'There's a romanticism about nighthawking, but it's theft': when metal detectorists go rogue Posted: 02 Jun 2020 04:15 AM PDT Anyone who digs up valuable treasure is supposed to report the find, not hang on to it or sell it to the highest bidder. But even under lockdown, crime continues If you had seen them, you might have thought they were ramblers or dog walkers – locals snatching some fresh air as the nation hunkered indoors during lockdown. Only their equipment would have given them away: metal detectors, a shovel and a spade, that they humped uncomfortably up a vertiginous path. They turned off the main road and drove a quarter of a mile down a single track dark with trees, past the occasional house and fields of rolling countryside. It was probably early morning when the car pulled up at a wooden fence, on which were carved the words "GRAY HILL, COMPTON". From here, it is a stiff, scrambling climb up Gray Hill, towards a cluster of ancient standing stones that loom out of scrubland like broken teeth. Here, if the weather is clear, you can look out towards the Severn estuary. Continue reading... |
| John Sentamu: I would join George Floyd protests Posted: 02 Jun 2020 03:29 AM PDT Retiring archbishop says demonstrations should not involve violence and criticises Donald Trump The archbishop of York has said he would join protests over the death of George Floyd but violence should not be part of the action. John Sentamu, the most senior black leader in the Church of England, who retires on Sunday, said he was shielding at present, but added: "I certainly would want to join [the protests]. But at the moment it turns to violence, I wouldn't be there because I don't believe violence is the same as going out and protesting. Continue reading... |
| George Floyd protests: violence escalates overnight after Trump's threat to deploy army – live Posted: 02 Jun 2020 04:37 AM PDT
At Axios, Jonathan Swan has two fascinating anonymous quotes from the Trump White House, about the decision to speak in the Rose Garden yesterday, and to order the gassing and beating of protesters in Lafayette Square so the president could walk to St John's church and be seen in public: One senior aide was exuberantly telling friends the photograph of him holding a Bible in front of the church that had been attacked by vandals was an "iconic" moment for the president. But a senior White House official told Axios that when they saw the tear gas clearing the crowd for Trump to walk to the church with his entourage: "I've never been more ashamed. I'm really honestly disgusted. I'm sick to my stomach. And they're all celebrating it. They're very very proud of themselves." Related: 'Words of a dictator': Trump's threat to deploy military raises spectre of fascism
Outside St John's, the Church of the Presidents, Trump stood with bible in hand. It caused widespread outrage and widespread quoting of a line about American fascism attributed to the novelist Sinclair Lewis. Here's American academic in London and Guardian contributor Sarah Churchwell, with a fascinating thread on who actually said it: Lots of people sharing the famous quotation from Sinclair Lewis today: "When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the flag and waving the cross." |
| Voice of defiance: the Mexican radio journalist who refused to be silenced Posted: 02 Jun 2020 03:30 AM PDT Carmen Arestegui's battle to stay on the airwaves is the subject of a film highlighting the risks of exposing corruption and crime When Mexican news anchor Carmen Aristegui was fired from a popular radio show after revealing a presidential scandal on air, it sparked an outpouring of anger and protests. For millions of listeners Aristegui is a trusted voice cutting through government spin and corruption, and her absence left a void. Continue reading... |
| Water-bombing pilots 'consistently tasked too late' when fighting bushfires, royal commission hears Posted: 02 Jun 2020 03:22 AM PDT Aircraft chief describes frustration at losing vital time while inquiry also told firefighter radios in different areas 'largely incompatible' Pilots flying water-bombing aircraft are "consistently tasked too late for fires" and sit idle on the tarmac until conditions worsen, the royal commission into national natural disaster arrangements has been told. The inquiry also heard that the radio networks used by firefighting agencies in each jurisdiction are "largely incompatible" with each other and the lack of national coordination meant that resources were not always used effectively. Continue reading... |
| ‘Stigmatized, segregated, forgotten’: Colombia’s poor being evicted despite lockdowns Posted: 02 Jun 2020 02:30 AM PDT Authorities are forcing people from homes they say were unlawfully built during a nationwide quarantine Don Pacho has been running from the rival factions of Colombia's civil war his whole life. Now, he's running from the police, as authorities in the country's capital push on with a wave of evictions despite a strict coronavirus lockdown. Hundreds of Bogotá's poorest residents are caught between two brutal forces: a nationwide quarantine that makes working impossible and authorities forcing people from homes they say were unlawfully built. Continue reading... |
| 'The water will come back': why Kenya's struggle against flooding is far from over Posted: 01 Jun 2020 11:00 PM PDT Record-breaking rainfall has devastated communities – and with thousands displaced and more rain predicted the picture is bleak Using a short piece of nylon line with a hook at one end and a long thin stick on the other, a mechanic and a nightclub doorman have only caught one small fish all day. "I've never been a fisherman before," says Erick Ochieng on the edge of a flooded creek in the port city of Kisumu on the banks of Lake Victoria. "I used to work as a bouncer but nightclubs have closed. Sometimes my family sleeps without eating." Continue reading... |
| Pakistan polio fears as Covid-19 causes millions of children to miss vaccinations Posted: 01 Jun 2020 10:00 PM PDT Officials voice concern as coronavirus halts annual programme in country already struggling against resurgence in cases In April, almost 40 million children missed their polio drops in Pakistan after the cancellation of the nationwide vaccination campaign. Alongside Afghanistan, Pakistan is one of only two countries in the world where polio is still endemic. It was very close to becoming polio free, with only 12 cases in 2018, but last year the number of cases rose to 147. In the same year, Pakistan was accused of covering up the resurgence of the P2 strain of the virus, which was thought to have been eradicated in 2014. Continue reading... |
| Lockdown in Dhaka: where social distancing is an illusion Posted: 01 Jun 2020 03:03 AM PDT The Bangladeshi capital has had coronavirus restrictions since 26 March. Photographer Noor Alam, who lives in the city, has been documenting life in neighbourhoods where people can't afford to stay at home A deceptive calm has fallen over Dhaka. In this densely populated city of 21 million, the main roads are empty, the sounds of horns have disappeared and the polluted sky has cleared. But social distancing within our neighbourhoods is an illusion. We are all packed into the same bazaars and homes. Continue reading... |
| Is Bolivia's 'interim' president using the pandemic to outstay her welcome? Posted: 01 Jun 2020 02:15 AM PDT Jeanine Áñez has postponed elections, and her government, which mixes militarism with religious zeal, is accused of persecuting political opponents As locked-down Bolivians looked to the skies this Easter, they were met with an unusual sight. Cassock-wearing priests, some wielding statues of the apostles, sprinkled holy water and blessings over four cities from circling air force helicopters. The episode encapsulated the uneasy mix of militarism and religious zeal that has defined six months of the caretaker presidency of Jeanine Áñez. A little-known evangelical politician from Bolivia's tropical lowlands, Áñez was catapulted to power last November with one job: to hold new elections as soon as possible. Continue reading... |
| 'Words of a dictator': Trump's threat to deploy military raises spectre of fascism Posted: 02 Jun 2020 03:00 AM PDT The president suggested the US could use troops against Americans – true to the instincts of a man surrounded by sycophants "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross," goes an oft-quoted line of uncertain origin. On Monday evening, Donald Trump, with four US flags behind him, threatened to send in the military against the American people, then crossed the road to pose for a photo outside a historic church while clutching an upside-down Bible. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 02 Jun 2020 02:15 AM PDT There is something so wounded in American society that basic commitment to justice is not part of the operating code In 1919, as soldiers returned from the first world war, many white Americans saw African American men in military uniforms for the first time. That sight, and the challenge it posed to the political, social, and economic order, was deeply threatening to them. Groups of armed white men hunted down and slaughtered hundreds of black Americans across the country. The wave of lynchings and race riots came to be known as the Red Summer. The black community did its best to fight back, without protection from the state. In some cases, police actively participated in the lynchings. The US attorney general, A Mitchell Palmer, claimed that leftwing radicals were behind the uprisings – a false charge and one that further endangered African American lives. Palmer worked for President Woodrow Wilson, an ardent segregationist who screened Birth of a Nation in the White House and praised the Ku Klux Klan even as it deployed terrorism to keep blacks away from the voting booth. Wilson had been silent while whites slaughtered African Americans in East St Louis in 1917, and he did little to nothing in 1919 when they again attacked and killed black people, this time on an even more horrific and grisly scale. Continue reading... |
| K number: what is the coronavirus metric that could be crucial as lockdown eases? Posted: 01 Jun 2020 06:38 AM PDT The K value sheds light on how the transmission rate varies and can help identify clusters When deciding how and when lockdown restrictions will be lifted across the UK, the government has said the R value, denoting how many people on average one infected person will themselves infect, is crucial. But experts say another metric is becoming increasingly important: K. Continue reading... |
| America's seniors ebb away from Trump as coronavirus response disappoints Posted: 01 Jun 2020 03:00 AM PDT The country's most reliable voting bloc are also the most vulnerable to the virus, which looks to be benefiting Biden At a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden last week, a maskless Donald Trump appealed directly to a constituency that could determine his political fate in November's election: America's seniors. Related: Biden sets solemn tone as Trump waits 15 hours to mark Covid-19 milestone Continue reading... |
| Picturing lockdown: Historic England's archive of isolation – in pictures Posted: 01 Jun 2020 06:44 PM PDT Today, Historic England reveals 200 new images which have been added to their archive to form the Picturing Lockdown Collection. This follows a call-out asking the public to photograph their lockdown from 29 April to 5 May. The appeal was the first time the public have been asked to submit photographs for the archive since the Second World War. Continue reading... |
| Trump threatens to deploy military against protesters – video Posted: 01 Jun 2020 05:45 PM PDT US president Donald Trump has authorised the use of "heavily armed soldiers" to "dominate the streets" in a press conference held in the White House Rose Garden. A few hundred metres away on the streets of Washington DC, police used teargas to disperse crowds of protesters. Continue reading... |
| 'Let’s do this another way': George Floyd’s brother calls for peace – video Posted: 01 Jun 2020 01:01 PM PDT George Floyd's brother implores protesters to remain peaceful, urging people to go out and vote rather than turn to violence. 'Stop thinking our voice don't matter, and vote,' Terrence Floyd said, visiting the site of his brother's death. 'If I'm not over here wilding out, if I'm not over here blowing up stuff, if I'm not over here messing up my community, then what are y'all doing?' Continue reading... |
| 'It's about time we stand up': the voices of the George Floyd protests – video Posted: 01 Jun 2020 09:55 AM PDT Protests calling for justice for George Floyd, a black man who died after a police officer knelt on his neck for several minutes, have spread across the US. Thousands have taken to the streets to express their anger at the systemic racism black people continue to face across the country. As the protests become more forceful, with fires breaking out near the White House on Sunday evening, many have been calling for a return to peaceful demonstrations Continue reading... |
| Maps show UK pavements not wide enough for social distancing - in pictures Posted: 01 Jun 2020 09:19 AM PDT Spatial analysis by Esri UK has found that most pavements around the country are less than 3 metres wide, making it difficult for pedestrians to remain 2 metres apart and follow government guidelines for social distancing. Using measurements from Ordnance Survey, Esri UK has created a map of all pavement widths, discovering that only 30% of Great Britain's pavements are at least 3 metres wide, 36% are between 2 and 3 metres and 34% are less than 2 metres wide Continue reading... |
| 'These cops love you': Michigan sheriff joins George Floyd protesters in Flint – video Posted: 31 May 2020 10:30 AM PDT A sheriff in Michigan on Saturday was welcomed with cheers as he gave a rousing speech before joining demonstrators on a George Floyd protest. 'The only reason we're here is to make sure you have a voice, that's it' said Chris Swanson. 'I want to make this a parade, not a protest.' Swanson then joined the demonstrators after they chanted 'walk with us' at him Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus: millions shielding in England can go outside from Monday, says Robert Jenrick – video Posted: 31 May 2020 10:06 AM PDT Goverment guidance requiring 2.2 million people in at-risk groups to stay indoors is to be relaxed in England from Monday, the communities minister has announced. Robert Jenrick confirmed that people currently shielding will be able to spend time with their households or, if they live alone, with one person from another household. The full guidance will be posted on the gov.uk website. 'Now that we've passed the peak, the risk to those shielding is lower,' Jenrick said. Continue reading... |
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