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Coronavirus live news: Trump rally attendees told they cannot sue if they contract Covid-19
Britain's GDP falls 20.4% in April as economy is paralysed by lockdown
BA, easyJet and Ryanair begin court action over UK quarantine rules
Global report: WHO warns of accelerating Covid-19 infections in Africa
Zoom admits cutting off activists' accounts in obedience to China
Brexit: UK drops plans for full border checks on goods from EU
Five-year-old's fatal plunge provokes hard questions about Brazil's racism
First Nations chief shown being punched by Canadian police in video
JK Rowling: MPs condemn Sun front page as enabling domestic abusers
City of Hamilton in New Zealand removes statue of British naval captain
Amsterdam plants mini-gardens around bins in drive to cut littering
Climate crisis to blame for $67bn of Hurricane Harvey damage – study
No future benefit in Kim's relationship with Trump, says North Korea
Canadian conservation officer fired for refusing to kill bear cubs wins legal battle
Capturing the cry for change: photographers on the BLM protests
Novichok TV drama's makers: 'A deadly, invisible threat – it resonates now'
Belgium forced to reckon with Léopold's legacy and its colonial past
US ‘Caesar Act' sanctions could devastate Syria’s flatlining economy
Trump campaign asks supporters to sign coronavirus waiver ahead of rally
Apple removes two podcast apps from China store after censorship demands
Coronavirus Australia latest: at a glance
Herbal cures and no sanitation: the Lima residents battling Covid alone – in pictures
Musicians hit hard by festival cancellations in southern Africa
Racism is at the heart of fast fashion – it's time for change | Kalkidan Legesse
England: are coronavirus cases falling or rising near you?
Chris Lilley's Jonah is not from Tonga, I am. It's time to dismantle racist brownface stereotypes | Seini F Taumoepeau
Statue of British naval captain John Hamilton taken down in New Zealand – video
Joining Trump church photo op 'a mistake', says Gen Mark Milley – video

Coronavirus live news: Trump rally attendees told they cannot sue if they contract Covid-19

Posted: 12 Jun 2020 06:03 AM PDT

Tulsa rally Trump's first since lockdown; deaths in Delhi could be twice as high as reported, official says; German health minister warns nation against 'carefree' attitude

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Britain's GDP falls 20.4% in April as economy is paralysed by lockdown

Posted: 12 Jun 2020 02:06 AM PDT

Latest figures reflect many businesses closing down and workers on placed on furlough

Britain's economy shrank by a record 20.4% in April as the first full month of the coronavirus lockdown triggered an economic crash three times greater than the 2008 financial crisis.

Revealing the scale of the downturn, the official figures for gross domestic product (GDP) from the Office for National Statistics showed no area of the economy was left unscathed as the government imposed tight controls on business and social life to limit the spread of the disease.

BA, easyJet and Ryanair begin court action over UK quarantine rules

Posted: 12 Jun 2020 01:29 AM PDT

Airlines seeking urgent judicial review of policy that they say could cost thousands of jobs

Britain's three biggest airlines have filed papers in the high court to seek an urgent judicial review of the government's quarantine laws, which they say are having a devastating effect on tourism and the wider economy.

British Airways, easyJet and Ryanair say the rules, which came into effect on Monday and require passengers arriving from abroad to self-isolate at a single address for 14 days, are flawed and will cost thousands of jobs.

Global report: WHO warns of accelerating Covid-19 infections in Africa

Posted: 11 Jun 2020 10:40 PM PDT

Continent is seeing more cases spread to the provinces; Trump supporters can't sue over catching Covid-19 at rallies; Brazil confirms 30,000 new cases

The World Health Organization has warned that the coronavirus pandemic is accelerating in Africa, after the continent hit 200,000 cases earlier this week.

Speaking at a video briefing hosted by the UN press association in Geneva on Thursday, Doctor Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO's regional director for Africa, said, "It took 98 days to reach the first 100,000 cases, and only 18 days to move to 200,000 cases." Africa has so far recorded 5,635 deaths.

Zoom admits cutting off activists' accounts in obedience to China

Posted: 12 Jun 2020 02:20 AM PDT

Meetings on Tiananmen Square massacre and Hong Kong crisis were taken down because Communist government complained

Zoom has admitted it suspended the accounts of human rights activists at the behest of the Chinese government and suggested it will block any further meetings that Beijing complains are illegal.

On Thursday the video conferencing platform was accused of disrupting or shutting down the accounts of three activists who held online events relating to the Tiananmen Square massacre anniversary or discussing the crisis in Hong Kong. None were given an explanation by Zoom.

Brexit: UK drops plans for full border checks on goods from EU

Posted: 11 Jun 2020 10:39 PM PDT

Government will take 'flexible' approach to help businesses cope with impact of coronavirus

The UK government has dropped plans for full border checks on goods coming in from the EU from 1 January 2021 over fears of the economic impact of coronavirus.

Ministers will unveil plans for Brexit borders on Friday afternoon that will represent a significant shift from the Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove's declaration in February that border checks would be inevitable for "almost everybody" who imports from the EU from next year.

Five-year-old's fatal plunge provokes hard questions about Brazil's racism

Posted: 12 Jun 2020 03:15 AM PDT

Miguel Otávio Santana da Silva fell nine storeys after being left alone by his mother's employer, one of many richer white Brazilians employing black domestic workers

Mirtes Santana weeps when she remembers finding her son dying on the pavement outside the luxury seaside apartment block where she worked in north-eastern Brazil.

"I can't bear it," said the 33-year-old domestic worker. "It breaks my heart."

First Nations chief shown being punched by Canadian police in video

Posted: 12 Jun 2020 04:36 AM PDT

Chief Allan Adam of Fort Chipewyan First Nation alleges police assaulted him in parking lot in March

Canadian police tackled and punched a prominent First Nations chief in the parking lot of a casino as they accused him of resisting arrest.

On Saturday, Chief Allan Adam of Fort Chipewyan First Nation in Alberta alleged he was assaulted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) during the incident in early March. It began over an allegation of an expired licence plate but quickly escalated into what Adam claims was a clearcut instance of excessive force.

JK Rowling: MPs condemn Sun front page as enabling domestic abusers

Posted: 11 Jun 2020 09:13 PM PDT

Newspaper's front page 'irresponsible and dangerous', says MSP, with others joining criticism

Anti-domestic violence campaigners have led criticism of the front page of Friday's Sun newspaper which has an interview with JK Rowling's first husband under the headline: "I slapped JK and I'm not sorry".

A sub-heading describes it as a "sick taunt". The paper's treatment of the story was condemned as giving voice to an alleged perpetrator of domestic abuse.

City of Hamilton in New Zealand removes statue of British naval captain

Posted: 11 Jun 2020 07:09 PM PDT

City council says memorial to Captain John Hamilton comes down after Māori elder calls him a 'murderer' and threatens to remove by force

A statue of a British naval captain has been removed by the city council in Hamilton, New Zealand after a local Māori elder threatened to take it down by force.

The statue of Captain John Hamilton, after whom the city in the central North Island is named, was gifted to the city by a local company in 2013.

Amsterdam plants mini-gardens around bins in drive to cut littering

Posted: 12 Jun 2020 02:12 AM PDT

Idea is being trialled at 17 sites after experiment with artificial grass reduced litter by half

Mini-gardens are being planted around street bins in Amsterdam in an experiment to test whether they will dissuade people from carelessly littering near them.

The trial will be conducted at 17 sites over the next three months. An earlier experiment using artificial grass at the base of 150 bins was a partial success, reducing the dumping of rubbish in the immediate vicinity by around half, but the plastic turf soon became tatty.

Climate crisis to blame for $67bn of Hurricane Harvey damage – study

Posted: 11 Jun 2020 10:00 PM PDT

Exclusive: new figure far higher than previous estimates of direct impact of global heating

At least $67bn of the damage caused by Hurricane Harvey in 2017 can be attributed directly to climate breakdown, according to research that could lead to a radical reassessment of the costs of damage from extreme weather.

Harvey ripped through the Caribbean and the US states of Texas and Louisiana, causing at least $90bn of damage to property and livelihoods, and killing scores of people.

No future benefit in Kim's relationship with Trump, says North Korea

Posted: 11 Jun 2020 05:08 PM PDT

Pyongyang says since summit two years ago US has appeared friendly but has instead sought regime change

North Korea sees no future benefit in maintaining a relationship between its leader, Kim Jong-Un, and Donald Trump, the country's state media has said on the two-year anniversary of the pair's first summit.

US policies prove Washington remains a long-term threat to the North Korean state and its people, foreign minister Ri Son Gwon said in a statement carried by state news agency KCNA.

Canadian conservation officer fired for refusing to kill bear cubs wins legal battle

Posted: 11 Jun 2020 10:20 AM PDT

Casavant shot mother black bear under province policy but was suspended and eventually fired for not killing cubs

A conservation officer in Canada who was fired for refusing to kill two black bear cubs has won a protracted legal battle over his termination.

"I feel like the black clouds that have hung over my family for years are finally starting to part," Bryce Casavant told the Guardian. "But the moment is bittersweet – my firing should have never happened in the first place."

Capturing the cry for change: photographers on the BLM protests

Posted: 12 Jun 2020 04:00 AM PDT

Since the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis a huge uproar of protests against racism and police brutality has swept through more than 750 cities and towns all across America. Four black photographers write about their experiences covering the Black Lives Matter demonstrations, and what the protests mean to them

Novichok TV drama's makers: 'A deadly, invisible threat – it resonates now'

Posted: 12 Jun 2020 05:23 AM PDT

Director Saul Dibb and producer Karen Lewis on their new BBC One drama The Salisbury Poisonings

An invisible killer that is passed through touch, homes and businesses in lockdown, desperate efforts to test, track and trace, community resilience in the face of tragedy.

It sounds very much like life in the time of Covid-19, but this is also the world depicted in a high-profile BBC One drama focusing on the aftermath of the nerve agent attack on the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Wiltshire.

Belgium forced to reckon with Léopold's legacy and its colonial past

Posted: 12 Jun 2020 02:26 AM PDT

African-Belgians are angered by what they see as country's refusal to engage with the issue

In just a few weeks, the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis has forced Europe's former colonial powers to reckon with the past, and few more so than Belgium. It has had some of the biggest anti-racism protests activists can remember: 10,000 people, many wearing masks, gathered in central Brussels on Sunday while smaller, physically distanced protests took place in other cities.

The target was King Léopold II, whose brutal rule of Congo from 1885 to 1908 caused an estimated 10 million Congolese deaths through murder, starvation and disease. Brussels city authorities are facing a petition to remove all statutes of the king by 30 June, the 60th anniversary of Congo's independence. By Friday, more than 75,000 people had signed it.

US ‘Caesar Act' sanctions could devastate Syria’s flatlining economy

Posted: 11 Jun 2020 09:05 PM PDT

Critics say legislation is being used for US strategy and could cause further problems for country and wider region

Its currency has plunged by 70% since April, more than half its people face food scarcity, and hopes of rebuilding a country shattered by war continue to ebb.

Syria seems barely able to absorb new shocks, but new US sanctions that take effect next week, could devastate what is left of its flatlining economy and amplify the gravest regional decline in decades.

Trump campaign asks supporters to sign coronavirus waiver ahead of rally

Posted: 12 Jun 2020 06:02 AM PDT

President is holding mass campaign event in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Governor welcomes rally that violates his own guidelines
C oronavirus – latest global updates

Donald Trump will hold a political rally in an indoor arena in Oklahoma next week – his first amid the coronavirus pandemic – prompting organizers to demand attendees sign a waiver that absolves the president's campaign of any liability from virus-related illnesses.

Trump is so keen to return to his cherished campaign format of fronting adoring crowds that he will hold a rally in Tulsa next Friday in the 19,000-seat BOK Center despite the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

Apple removes two podcast apps from China store after censorship demands

Posted: 12 Jun 2020 05:13 AM PDT

Pocket Casts says it refuses to restrict its content at request of Chinese authorities

Apple has removed two podcast apps from its Chinese app store, following government pressure to censor content.

Pocket Casts and Castro were both pulled from distribution in China after the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) demanded that the apps stop allowing content that breached the country's restrictive speech laws.

Coronavirus Australia latest: at a glance

Posted: 12 Jun 2020 05:08 AM PDT

A summary of the major developments in the coronavirus outbreak across Australia

Good evening, this is Lisa Cox and here are the latest developments on the coronavirus pandemic in Australia. This is the final Coronavirus at a glance daily summary. From next week we'll publish Coronavirus at a glance as a regular weekly summary, which you can also receive as an email. If weekly updates aren't enough, there are plenty of other great Guardian Australia emails to sign up to featured below.

Herbal cures and no sanitation: the Lima residents battling Covid alone – in pictures

Posted: 12 Jun 2020 12:30 AM PDT

Over 70% of the indigenous Peruvian community of Cantagallo Island have tested positive for coronavirus. This is how they are surviving lockdown

• All photographs by Florence Goupil, who received a grant from the Covid-19 National Geographic emergency fund for journalists

Musicians hit hard by festival cancellations in southern Africa

Posted: 11 Jun 2020 11:15 PM PDT

Coronavirus has forced events including AfrikaBurn and Bushfire to cancel, leaving performers without promotional platforms and income

In a region where live music is everything – both for audiences and for performers heavily reliant on live appearances to make a living – the widespread cancellation of festivals across southern Africa has hit the music business hard.

May should have seen the Bushfire festival in Eswatini (formerly known as Swaziland), Zakifo and Afrika Burn in South Africa, and Azgo in Mozambique. Next month would have been Zimfest in Zimbabwe. All have been cancelled – or replaced with online versions – along with dozens of smaller live events that have been growing in recent years, bringing in tourism, showcasing talent and culture, and boosting southern Africa's music industry.

Racism is at the heart of fast fashion – it's time for change | Kalkidan Legesse

Posted: 11 Jun 2020 08:27 AM PDT

The fashion industry makes huge profits from the exploitation of black and brown women. Now is the time to call it out

Of all the shocks that the past few weeks and months have brought to all our lives, one of the biggest for me as a black woman working in the fashion industry is that finally people are realising that racism is more than calling someone a derogatory name.

The killing of George Floyd while in police custody and the global outrage and protest that followed is bringing a dawning collective understanding that white supremacy relies on the exploitation of black and brown people.

England: are coronavirus cases falling or rising near you?

Posted: 12 Jun 2020 02:04 AM PDT

How has the disease progressed where you live?

The map shows local authorities where the number of cases has increased week-on-week and where it has fallen. Some of this is due to natural fluctuations, especially in areas where there are very few cases, and so a rise from 1 to 2 is a doubling. Increased testing also means that more cases may be being detected than previously, although the impact of this between one week and the next is likely to be slight.

Chris Lilley's Jonah is not from Tonga, I am. It's time to dismantle racist brownface stereotypes | Seini F Taumoepeau

Posted: 11 Jun 2020 05:50 PM PDT

Netflix was right to pull Lilley's shows. We have no need for him to whitesplain Tongan people for entertainment

When I first watched Summer Heights High, seeing the character of Jonah – a lazy, dumb, breakdancing, Tongan teenager – I was mortified and struck dumb by the fact that in 2007 brownface was allowed on Australian TV.

This week it was revealed that Netflix had quietly pulled four of Chris Lilley's television shows, specifically those that featured Lilley in black- or brownface portraying Tongan schoolboy Jonah Takalua and African American rapper S.mouse.

Statue of British naval captain John Hamilton taken down in New Zealand – video

Posted: 12 Jun 2020 03:22 AM PDT

A statue of a British naval captain has been removed by the city council in Hamilton, New Zealand, after a Māori elder threatened to take it down by force. The statue of Capt John Hamilton, after whom the city in the central North Island is named, was gifted to the city by a local company in 2013. The removal of the statue comes amid wider discussions about the future of New Zealand's colonial statues

City of Hamilton in New Zealand removes statue of British naval captain

Joining Trump church photo op 'a mistake', says Gen Mark Milley – video

Posted: 11 Jun 2020 02:16 PM PDT

Gen Mark Milley has said it was a mistake to have been present at Donald Trump's photo op in front of a church in Washington. 'I should not have been there,' he said in a pre-recorded video commencement address to the National Defense University.

Milley and the defense secretary, Mark Esper, were widely criticised for participating in the photo-op during George Floyd protests in Washington, with many former defence officials saying the two were helping Trump's efforts to politicise the military

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