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- Scottish bailout means Trump's golf resorts in line for £1m tax rebate
- EU says China behind 'huge wave' of Covid-19 disinformation
- Coronavirus live news: Africa passes 200,000 confirmed cases after Burundi president dies of suspected Covid-19
- Fauci: coronavirus pandemic that ‘took over the planet’ is far from over
- CrossFit CEO Greg Glassman resigns after offensive George Floyd and coronavirus tweets
- Mike Pompeo criticises HSBC for 'corporate kowtow' to China
- Swedish prosecutors to close Olof Palme murder inquiry
- Prince Philip celebrates 99th birthday with Queen in splendid isolation
- Taylor Swift: 'Racial injustice has been ingrained in US state government'
- Huge fire breaks out at India gas well blowout
- Outrage as Guatemalan Maya spiritual guide is tortured and burned alive
- William Callaghan, autistic teenager missing for two nights in Victoria, found alive
- Remains of earliest purpose-built playhouse found in east London
- 'Like a Stephen King movie': feral chickens return to plague New Zealand village
- 'The older I get, the less I fear': meet the Italian Larry David
- Black Lives Matter protests: George Floyd's brother to testify in Washington – live
- Coronavirus Australia: Concetta Fierravanti-Wells crosses Senate floor over inquiry into relations with China – as it happened
- Nigeria to cut healthcare spending by 40% despite coronavirus cases climbing
- Few venture out as lockdown eases in India
- 'What does the UN stand for?': anger follows memo on anti-racism protests
- ‘Are you immune?’ The new class system that could shape the Covid-19 world
- After 15 stunning days of anti-racist protests … what happens next?
- Minneapolis has vowed to defund its police. New Zealand needs to have that conversation | Julia Amua Whaipooti
- To be Black is to suffer perpetual wounds. Here's how you can make a difference
- Calls for justice as George Floyd's life celebrated at funeral in Houston – video
- Rev Al Sharpton: I have seen grandchildren of slave masters tear down slave master statues - video
- Statue of 18th-century slave owner Robert Milligan taken down in London - video
- Hong Kong riot police descend on protesters marking movement anniversary – video
- ‘Call it out!’: global voices from George Floyd protests – video
| Scottish bailout means Trump's golf resorts in line for £1m tax rebate Posted: 10 Jun 2020 03:00 AM PDT Exclusive: tax expected to be waived as part of emergency coronavirus funding Donald Trump's Scottish golf courses are expected to get a tax rebate of nearly £1m as part of a government bailout for tourism businesses hit by the coronavirus crisis, the Guardian can reveal. The Trump Organization's golf resorts in Aberdeenshire and Turnberry will benefit from emergency funding from the Scottish government worth £2.3bn, which includes waiving the property taxes paid by hospitality, leisure and retail businesses this year. Continue reading... |
| EU says China behind 'huge wave' of Covid-19 disinformation Posted: 10 Jun 2020 03:16 AM PDT Brussels shifts position by accusing Beijing for first time of running false campaigns China has been accused by Brussels of running disinformation campaigns inside the European Union, as the bloc set out a plan to tackle a "huge wave" of false facts about the coronavirus pandemic. The European commission said Russia and China were running "targeted influence operations and disinformation campaigns in the EU, its neighbourhood, and globally". While the charge against Russia has been levelled on many occasions, this is the first time the EU executive has publicly named China as a source of disinformation. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 10 Jun 2020 04:18 AM PDT Asylum applications in Europe fall to lowest level for a decade as borders closed; world faces worst food crisis in 50 years
As traumatised US farmers continue to cull their animals in response to the slaughterhouse crisis, an Iowan pig producer has developed an on-farm method which he believes is quicker and more humane than other available options, writes Sophie Kevany for the Guardian's Animals Farmed project. The coronavirus crisis has hit US meat plants particularly hard. As a result there is a lack of slaughter capacity, and farmers are being forced to cull or "depopulate" their animals on-farm. Related: US producers 'in tears' at having to cull livestock on their farms
Airlines are set to lose $84bn (£65.9bn) as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) forecast on Tuesday, according to Reuters. With most of the world's airliners currently parked, IATA said revenue would likely halve, falling from $419bn from $838bn last year. "Every day of this year will add $230 million to industry losses," the IATA's director general, Alexandre de Juniac, said. Continue reading... |
| Fauci: coronavirus pandemic that ‘took over the planet’ is far from over Posted: 09 Jun 2020 03:04 PM PDT US's top infectious disease expert calls virus his 'worst nightmare' as 7 million people have been infected and 400,000 have died The US's top infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci warned on Tuesday that the coronavirus pandemic was far from over, calling Covid-19 his "worst nightmare". "In a period of four months, it has devastated the whole world," Fauci said, speaking to executives at a conference of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization. "And it isn't over yet." Continue reading... |
| CrossFit CEO Greg Glassman resigns after offensive George Floyd and coronavirus tweets Posted: 09 Jun 2020 08:11 PM PDT Fitness program lost key partnerships, endorsements and the business of hundreds of affiliated gyms around the world after Glassman tweets The founder of the US fitness brand CrossFit will step down from his position as CEO following a disastrous few days that have seen the fitness program lose key partnerships, endorsements and the business of hundreds of affiliated gyms around the world. The move comes after a pair of offensive tweets by Greg Glassman. On Saturday, in response to a tweet from the research centre Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, which stated "Racism is a public health issue", Glassman tweeted "It's FLOYD-19", in reference to the police killing of George Floyd, whose death has sparked a global protest movement. Continue reading... |
| Mike Pompeo criticises HSBC for 'corporate kowtow' to China Posted: 10 Jun 2020 12:34 AM PDT US secretary of state chides UK bank for backing Beijing move to end Hong Kong's autonomy The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, has criticised the British bank HSBC for supporting China's move to end Hong Kong's autonomy, calling it a "corporate kowtow". Pompeo said the US was ready to assist Britain with whatever it needed after Beijing reportedly threatened to punish HSBC and break its commitments to build nuclear power plants in the country if the UK did not allow the Chinese technology firm Huawei to build its 5G network. Continue reading... |
| Swedish prosecutors to close Olof Palme murder inquiry Posted: 10 Jun 2020 01:02 AM PDT Case being closed because main suspect in killing of prime minister in 1986 died in 2000 Swedish prosecutors are to close the investigation into the unsolved 1986 murder of the Social Democrat prime minister, Olof Palme. The case's chief prosecutor, Krister Petersson, said the case was being closed because the main suspect, Stig Engström, had died in 2000. Continue reading... |
| Prince Philip celebrates 99th birthday with Queen in splendid isolation Posted: 10 Jun 2020 03:26 AM PDT Buckingham Palace releases photograph of royal couple locked down in Windsor Castle Like most nonagenarians who have survived the UK's coronavirus pandemic, Prince Philip's birthday celebrations on Wednesday will be home-based and distinctly low-key. But unlike many other 99-year-olds, the Queen's husband will blow his candles out not in a care home or a modest bungalow, but in a castle with a 13-acre garden. No visits are expected from the rest of the royal family, with Prince Charles saying they had been getting by with Zoom calls. Continue reading... |
| Taylor Swift: 'Racial injustice has been ingrained in US state government' Posted: 10 Jun 2020 01:41 AM PDT Pop star urges fans to vote for candidates committed to fighting police brutality, and shares Barack Obama essay Taylor Swift has accused local and state governments in the US of harbouring institutional racism, and has called on her fans to elect candidates committed to fighting police brutality. The pop star told her 86 million Twitter followers: "Racial injustice has been ingrained deeply into local and state governments, and changes MUST be made there. In order for policies to change, we need to elect people who will fight against police brutality and racism of any kind. #BlackLivesMatter." Continue reading... |
| Huge fire breaks out at India gas well blowout Posted: 09 Jun 2020 05:10 PM PDT Fire has reportedly spread to homes near well that has been leaking 'uncontrollably' for two weeks A massive fire has broken out at an oil field in north-eastern India, after gas that had been leaking for two weeks ignited, sending plumes of smoke and flames into the sky, and reportedly setting fire to nearby homes. Five deaths in the area are being investigated for potential links to the gas well, which has been leaking "uncontrollably" for two weeks, according to Oil India, the state-owned company managing the oil field. Continue reading... |
| Outrage as Guatemalan Maya spiritual guide is tortured and burned alive Posted: 10 Jun 2020 02:14 AM PDT
Police in Guatemala have arrested four men on suspicion of murder after a respected indigenous Maya spiritual guide was tortured, doused in gasoline and burned to death after being accused of witchcraft. Domingo Choc Che, 55, an expert on traditional herbal medicine who had worked with researchers from University College London, was seized from his home in the village of Chimay on Saturday night by a group of men. Continue reading... |
| William Callaghan, autistic teenager missing for two nights in Victoria, found alive Posted: 10 Jun 2020 12:46 AM PDT 14-year-old, who has non-verbal autism, found near summit of Mount Disappointment on third day of search A teenager with non-verbal autism who was missing in the Victorian bush for two freezing nights has been found alive. Just under 48 hours after 14-year-old William Callaghan went missing while bushwalking with his family on Mount Disappointment, he was located near the mountain's summit just before midday on Wednesday. Continue reading... |
| Remains of earliest purpose-built playhouse found in east London Posted: 09 Jun 2020 10:00 PM PDT Location of the Red Lion, which predated the Globe, has been subject of debate for years Archaeologists believe they have found remains of one of the most elusive of all known Elizabethan structures – the earliest purpose-built playhouse in Britain and a prototype for a theatre that staged plays by a young William Shakespeare. The Red Lion is thought to have been built around 1567 and probably played host to travelling groups of players. Its precise location has been the subject of conjecture and debate for a number of years, but archaeologists are as certain as they can be that they have found its remains at a site in the East End of London where a self-storage facility once stood. Continue reading... |
| 'Like a Stephen King movie': feral chickens return to plague New Zealand village Posted: 09 Jun 2020 10:48 PM PDT Lockdown may have vanquished Covid-19, but it has enabled the birds to make an unwanted comeback Their raucous clucking deprives residents of sleep. They leave the neighbourhood "wrecked". And food left out for them attracts "rats the size of cats" to an otherwise peaceful, leafy suburb. New Zealand's national lockdown to quell the spread of Covid-19 appears to have vanquished the virus, but it has had one unintended consequence: the re-emergence of a plague – not of frogs or locusts but of feral chickens, a flock of which is once again menacing an area of west Auckland. Continue reading... |
| 'The older I get, the less I fear': meet the Italian Larry David Posted: 10 Jun 2020 12:00 AM PDT A decade after his two much-loved comedies about the vicissitudes of ageing, director Gianni Di Gregorio explains why, against his own expectations, he had to make another In 2000, after a decade of caring for his ailing mother in her large flat in Rome, Gianni Di Gregorio wrote a comedy about a bloke called Gianni who looks after his 93-year-old mother in a large flat in Rome. No one was interested in the story, in which the unemployed bachelor ends up running around after a cohort of old ladies whose spirit and vigour remain undimmed despite various ailments. Everyone thought he was crazy: who would be interested in a funny film about four old women and a middle-aged bloke? Related: Gianni Di Gregorio: The incidental director Continue reading... |
| Black Lives Matter protests: George Floyd's brother to testify in Washington – live Posted: 10 Jun 2020 04:17 AM PDT House Judiciary Committee will hold an oversight hearing on policing practices, with Philonise Floyd called to speak
One of the keys to whether the death of George Floyd will make a long-lasting change to policing in the US will be getting at least some elements of the Republican party on board to get legislation passed - both at state and federal levels. There's an interesting piece from The Hill this morning looking at just whether that is going to happen. Yesterday Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said: "None of us have had the experience of being an African American in this country and dealing with this discrimination, which persists here some 50 years after the 1964 civil rights bill and the 1965 civil rights bill. We're still wrestling with America's original sin. We try to get better but every now and then it's perfectly clear we're a long way from the finish line."
Keisha N Blain and Tom Zoellner have written for us today about how every time Black people challenge the established power structure they are characterized as criminals or radicals. They look back to how contemporaries wrote about the Haitian revolution and Sam Sharpe's revolt in Jamaica, as well as Donald Trump description of the recent protests as "rioting" by an "angry mob". These words are often used to delegitimize and dismiss Black movements – to make them appear too far removed from civil society to be taken seriously. While many politicians and pundits have attempted to dismiss the current uprisings as "riots" – intimating that they are mere free-for-alls that lack purpose – that could not be further from the truth. Many of the uprisings that white Americans and Europeans have historically termed "riots" were, in fact, concentrated efforts to overturn systems of oppression in the United States and across the globe. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 10 Jun 2020 02:41 AM PDT Government senator supports motion for investigation, while three new cases of Covid-19 were all from overseas travellers and Queensland court calls bid to access border closure documents 'a fishing expedition'. This blog is now closed
We're going to leave things here for the evening. To sum up today's events:
The Greens' motion to repeal changes which effectively exclude universities from JobKeeper has been defeated in the Senate 31 votes to 30 Continue reading... |
| Nigeria to cut healthcare spending by 40% despite coronavirus cases climbing Posted: 09 Jun 2020 11:15 PM PDT Nurses say they have been left without promised compensation as £75m set aside for renovation of parliament buildings Plans by Nigeria's government to cut healthcare spending risk undermining the country's coronavirus response and severely impacting already strained services, health and transparency groups have warned. Funding for local, primary healthcare services will be cut by more than 40% this year in a revised budget expected to be passed into law in the coming weeks. Continue reading... |
| Few venture out as lockdown eases in India Posted: 09 Jun 2020 06:10 AM PDT Shops, banks, cafes and restaurants remain quiet as fear of the pandemic holds sway in New Delhi Many shops and restaurants are still deserted as India begins emerging from lockdown this week. Radha Dhongre, an economist, described going out for a coffee with her daughter on Monday in Khan Market in New Delhi, the Indian capital, the day the lockdown was eased as an experiment. Her trip was motivated by curiosity and a desire to see if it was feasible. Continue reading... |
| 'What does the UN stand for?': anger follows memo on anti-racism protests Posted: 09 Jun 2020 05:26 AM PDT Secretary general has clarified staff are 'not banned' from demonstrations after previous guidance warned support for action on George Floyd killing risked reputational damage The UN's secretary general, António Guterres, sought to defuse a row over guidance to staff suggesting they should not participate in protests triggered by the police killing of George Floyd. He clarified that staff were "not banned" from joining anti-racism demonstrations, as long as it was in an "entirely private capacity". In a letter to staff that followed public pushback from the UN's own special rapporteur on freedom of assembly, Guterres insisted that a memo from its ethics board did not mean that staff were required to "remain neutral or impartial in the face of racism". Continue reading... |
| ‘Are you immune?’ The new class system that could shape the Covid-19 world Posted: 10 Jun 2020 02:30 AM PDT Experts suspect – but there is no proof – that antibodies will confer immunity. The implications could be wide-ranging Scrolling through Airbnbs in Brooklyn, one listing stands out. "IMMUNE HOST," claims the heading in caps. Among photos of rooftop sunsets and interiors, lies something else unexpected – a picture of a positive antibody test. Related: Is it safe to protest during a pandemic? Experts answer our questions Continue reading... |
| After 15 stunning days of anti-racist protests … what happens next? Posted: 10 Jun 2020 02:00 AM PDT Can the phenomenal response to the police killing of George Floyd be channeled to secure lasting political change? The New Yorker writer Jelani Cobb captured best the sense of wonder at what is happening on the streets of America. He posted a tweet from Mitt Romney, the Republican senator from Utah, which showed the former presidential candidate marching alongside demonstrators under the banner Black Lives Matter. "Ladies and gentleman," Cobb remarked. "This is what you call uncharted territory." Continue reading... |
| Posted: 09 Jun 2020 06:36 PM PDT Dropping the armed police trial is a good step but we need transformational change to show black lives actually do matter "We honour him today because when he took his last breath, the rest of us were able to breathe." These were the words spoken at George Floyd's funeral that I felt directly in my bones, here, on my whenua, or land, of Aotearoa New Zealand. On Tuesday, the New Zealand police commissioner told the country a trial of Armed Response Teams (ARTs) – frontline officers who routinely carry guns – will not continue, and the teams will not be a part of the country's policing model in the future. The United States is 400-500 years deep in a history of colonisation and slavery. In Aotearoa New Zealand, we are 200 years into our colonial history, and the way in which colonisation functions here is also rooted in white supremacy. Colonial structures, by design, take powers away from indigenous people and people of colour, putting them into the hands of the colonisers. Continue reading... |
| To be Black is to suffer perpetual wounds. Here's how you can make a difference Posted: 09 Jun 2020 12:18 PM PDT I grew up facing attack after attack on myself and others. Today each of us has a role in the fight for Black lives I was nine when I was first called a n---- while walking to my mom's car after school. Ten when I watched the savage beating of Rodney King by the Los Angeles police department on television. Eleven when I saw the flames and ashes of a city burning after four police officers were found not guilty. Continue reading... |
| Calls for justice as George Floyd's life celebrated at funeral in Houston – video Posted: 09 Jun 2020 02:54 PM PDT George Floyd, the African-American man whose death in police custody roused worldwide protests against racism, was extolled on Tuesday as a symbol of the oppressed's struggle for justice at his funeral in his hometown of Houston, Texas. Family members and friends, most dressed all in white, stepped up to a microphone to describe Floyd as a loving, larger-than-life personality who deserved justice after his death while in the custody of Minneapolis police officers on 25 May
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| Rev Al Sharpton: I have seen grandchildren of slave masters tear down slave master statues - video Posted: 09 Jun 2020 02:18 PM PDT The Rev Al Sharpton gave an emotional eulogy at George Floyd's memorial service in Houston, Texas, on Tuesday. The civil rights activist celebrated the protests that have spread across the country and around the world in response to the police killing of Floyd. 'All over the world I've seen grandchildren of slave masters tearing down slave master statues,' Sharpton said and specifically referenced the statue of the slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol, England, which was torn down and thrown into Bristol harbour by Black Lives Matter protesters
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| Statue of 18th-century slave owner Robert Milligan taken down in London - video Posted: 09 Jun 2020 01:06 PM PDT A statue of 18th-century slave owner Robert Milligan has been removed from its place in London's docklands. The Canal and River Trust earlier said it was working with local authorities and a local museum to organise its safe removal.
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| Hong Kong riot police descend on protesters marking movement anniversary – video Posted: 09 Jun 2020 11:42 AM PDT Several demonstrators were arrested when thousands defied a police order and took to the streets of Hong Kong to mark a year of the 'million-person march' against an extradition bill in June 2019. Dozens of riot police descended on the crowds gathered in the city's business district Continue reading... |
| ‘Call it out!’: global voices from George Floyd protests – video Posted: 09 Jun 2020 10:38 AM PDT Floyd's death in Minneapolis has been the trigger for a global wave of activism against prejudice and police brutality that has spread to more than 50 countries, becoming a mirror for racism and inequality in societies around the world. In Australia people protested for Indigenous rights, as people took up the cry against injustices in New Zealand, Ghana, France, Germany and the UK
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