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- Coronavirus live news: Greta Thunberg says 'green recovery' from coronavirus won't be enough
- From celebration to dismay: the week Covid-19 re-emerged in New Zealand
- Nearly 1,500 deaths in one day: UK ministers accused of downplaying Covid-19 peak
- Anxiety in Beijing as officials battle new coronavirus outbreak
- US attorney behind inquiries into Trump allies refuses to resign despite Barr announcement
- Call for watchdog to investigate Met after video emerges of black man being kneed in face
- Surfing on Hitler's show grounds: new plan for Berlin's Olympic Park
- Rare 'ring of fire' solar eclipse to cast shadow over Africa and Asia
- North Korea to send 'leaflets of punishment' over border as tensions with South rise
- Mike Pompeo blasts China's 'coercion' of Australia as cyber-attack likened to Parliament House hack
- EU demands release of Chinese human rights lawyer jailed for four years
- Climate crisis threatens future of global sport, says report
- John Bolton memoir reveals UK's fragile relations with Trump
- Katie Hopkins permanently removed from Twitter
- The great escape: 50 brilliant books to transport you this summer
- Jeremy Corbyn's brother charged with breaching Covid lockdown rules
- Last chance for the Persian leopard: the fight to save Iraqi Kurdistan’s forests
- Australia's Covid-19 restrictions and coronavirus lockdown rules explained: how far can I travel, and can I have people over?
- Brazilian mayor censured over 'racist' coronavirus ban
- Croatian police officers arrested over beating of Afghan asylum seeker
- 'White faux feminism': Women Deliver investigate internal racism allegations
- ‘Boats arrive, people disappear’: one Greek's search for missing refugees
- There weren't enough stories about people who looked like me. So I wrote my own | Coco Khan
- England: are coronavirus cases falling or rising near you?
- 'Protesters will make America great': Al Sharpton condemns Trump at Juneteenth celebration – video
- 'No justice, no peace': protesters mark Juneteenth across US – video
- Juneteenth celebrations across America – in pictures
- Gavin Williamson: all children in England to return to school in September – video
- ‘I'm very aware I’m mixed race here’: organising a rural UK Black Lives Matter protest – video
- Democrats and Republicans react to John Bolton's bombshell book on Trump – video
- Is this the end for colonial-era statues? – video
| Coronavirus live news: Greta Thunberg says 'green recovery' from coronavirus won't be enough Posted: 20 Jun 2020 02:16 AM PDT Climate activist says 'necessary force' needed to treat climate change with similar urgency as Covid-19 globally; Australia struggles with new cases; Brazil passes 1 million infections
French protesters on Saturday doused the country's health ministry with red paint, to symbolise the blood of those who died from Covid-19 and to demonstrate against poor working conditions for public sector healthcare workers.
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| From celebration to dismay: the week Covid-19 re-emerged in New Zealand Posted: 19 Jun 2020 11:00 AM PDT Gaps in the country's coronavirus defences have taken the shine off its triumphant story It had been a triumphant story of national unity and political leadership combining to vanquish a virus that still plagues most nations on the planet. But just a week after New Zealanders celebrated having rid the country of Covid-19 and the government lifted all restrictions on daily life except controls on entering the country, the one vulnerability in its defences – its borders – was dramatically laid bare. The failure to test returning travellers before they left quarantine, and reports of slipshod standards at the hotels where they are placed in government-managed isolation, threatened political fallout for Jacinda Ardern's government, which was heralded worldwide for having flattened the Covid-19 infection curve with a swift, early lockdown of the country. Continue reading... |
| Nearly 1,500 deaths in one day: UK ministers accused of downplaying Covid-19 peak Posted: 19 Jun 2020 09:00 AM PDT Official toll passed a thousand on 22 consecutive days – far more than daily briefings said
Ministers have been accused of playing down the gravity of the coronavirus pandemic after it emerged that more than 1,000 people died every day in the UK for 22 consecutive days – in stark contrast with daily tolls announced by the government. According to an analysis of official figures, the darkest day came on 8 April as the country prepared for Easter under lockdown, when a record 1,445 people died from Covid-19 in 24 hours. Continue reading... |
| Anxiety in Beijing as officials battle new coronavirus outbreak Posted: 19 Jun 2020 05:27 AM PDT Chinese capital abruptly imposes lockdowns after fresh cases threaten official narrative of success Zhang Le, 25 has been waiting for more than two hours outside a car park to be tested for coronavirus. Police officers stand behind a cordon, futilely shouting through loudspeakers for people not to gather in groups. When they are not looking, two women duck under the tape and jump the queue. An officer tells Zhang and his colleagues, restaurant workers in a shopping mall, to go to the other entrance to the testing centre, set up on the outskirts of a park. They trudge over there only to be turned away again. Nearby, people stand or sit in groups as police try to herd them away. Continue reading... |
| US attorney behind inquiries into Trump allies refuses to resign despite Barr announcement Posted: 19 Jun 2020 08:55 PM PDT William Barr said Geoffrey Berman had stepped down, a fact denied by the influential attorney involved in investigations of Rudy Giuliani and Michael Cohen US attorney general William Barr announced the resignation on Friday of an influential attorney who oversaw key prosecutions of allies of President Donald Trump and an investigation into Rudy Giuliani – but it appears the attorney in question has other ideas. "I have not resigned, and have no intention of resigning," said Geoffrey Berman, adding he learned of his apparent departure as attorney for the Southern District of New York in a Justice Department press release. Continue reading... |
| Call for watchdog to investigate Met after video emerges of black man being kneed in face Posted: 19 Jun 2020 11:00 PM PDT New London case follows police referral to IOPC for another arrest where man pepper-sprayed while in cuffs The Metropolitan police force is under pressure to refer itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct after footage emerged of a black man being kneed in the face while handcuffed during a stop and search by two officers in Hackney, east London. It comes after the Met referred itself to the police watchdog for a separate incident, where another black man was pepper-sprayed in nearby Greenwich at close range while in cuffs on the ground during lockdown, footage also released to the Guardian showed. Continue reading... |
| Surfing on Hitler's show grounds: new plan for Berlin's Olympic Park Posted: 20 Jun 2020 12:00 AM PDT City considers €150m scheme to turn Nazi-era park into hotspot particularly for new Olympic sports For Adolf Hitler, the Berlin Olympiapark was a gallery to showcase his taste in art and architecture, the ultimate aesthetic expression of his totalitarian political ambition, and the setting for the propaganda coup of the 1936 Nazi Olympics. But since the complex was handed back to the German capital's senate in 1994, the city has struggled to find an acceptable use for the most ideologically overburdened of the remaining Third Reich relics. Continue reading... |
| Rare 'ring of fire' solar eclipse to cast shadow over Africa and Asia Posted: 20 Jun 2020 01:55 AM PDT Event will be visible across a narrow band from Congo-Brazzaville to southern China Skywatchers along a narrow band from west Africa to the Arabian peninsula, India and southern China will witness the most dramatic "ring of fire" solar eclipse in years on Sunday. Annular eclipses occur when the moon passes between Earth and the sun, but not quite close enough to our planet to completely obscure the sun's light. Continue reading... |
| North Korea to send 'leaflets of punishment' over border as tensions with South rise Posted: 19 Jun 2020 09:38 PM PDT Regime creating piles of propaganda in retaliation for similar campaign from South amid worsening relations North Korea is gearing up to send propaganda leaflets over its southern border, denouncing North Korean defectors and South Korea, its state media said on Saturday, the latest retaliation for leaflets from the South as bilateral tensions rise. The North's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported: "The enraged people across the country are actively pushing forward with the preparations for launching a large-scale distribution of leaflets to pour the leaflets of punishment upon those in South Korea who are bereft of even elementary morality." Continue reading... |
| Mike Pompeo blasts China's 'coercion' of Australia as cyber-attack likened to Parliament House hack Posted: 19 Jun 2020 08:48 PM PDT Australian Strategic Policy Institute stands by claim the attacks were '95% or more' likely to have been launched from China The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, has said he raised China's "coercion" of Australia during a frank, six-hour meeting with China's top diplomat in Hawaii. It comes as experts say some of the same computer code and tactics used in cyber-attacks revealed by the Australia prime minister, Scott Morrison, on Friday were also used in a February 2019 hack into Parliament House, which was also blamed on China. Continue reading... |
| EU demands release of Chinese human rights lawyer jailed for four years Posted: 19 Jun 2020 07:27 PM PDT European Union says Yu Wensheng's right to a fair trial was not respected and also calls China national security laws in Hong Kong an 'assault' on freedom The EU has demanded the immediate release of a Chinese human rights lawyer sentenced to four years in jail, saying his right to a fair trial was not respected. Yu Wensheng was sentenced on Wednesday, after two years in detention, on charges of "inciting subversion of state power", after penning an open letter calling for constitutional reforms. Continue reading... |
| Climate crisis threatens future of global sport, says report Posted: 19 Jun 2020 04:01 PM PDT Study says heatwaves, fires and floods, and rising sea levels pose major threat over coming years The rapidly accelerating climate crisis threatens the future of major sports events around the world, according to a report that also says the global sporting industry is failing to tackle its own emissions. The study found that in the coming years nearly all sports – from cricket to American football, tennis to athletics, surfing to golf – will face serious disruption from heatwaves, fires, floods and rising sea levels. Continue reading... |
| John Bolton memoir reveals UK's fragile relations with Trump Posted: 19 Jun 2020 11:09 AM PDT Former US national security adviser reveals series of tensions and pressure points Donald Trump dashed British hopes that he would take a tougher line on Hong Kong, including by refusing to condemn the Tiananmen Square massacre, according to John Bolton's book about his time as the US president's national security adviser. In one of many episodes in the book that reveal the fragile nature of the UK's relations with the Trump administration, Bolton writes that the president said Tiananmen Square was decades ago and he did not want to jeopardise a potential trade deal with Beijing. Continue reading... |
| Katie Hopkins permanently removed from Twitter Posted: 19 Jun 2020 11:21 AM PDT Rightwing commentator's account suspended for violating 'hateful conduct' policy The controversial rightwing commentator Katie Hopkins has had her Twitter account permanently suspended for violating the platform's "hateful conduct" policy. Hopkins, who has been repeatedly retweeted by the US president, Donald Trump, and had more than 1.1 million followers, was removed to "keep Twitter safe", according to the social media platform. Continue reading... |
| The great escape: 50 brilliant books to transport you this summer Posted: 20 Jun 2020 01:00 AM PDT A vampire in Shanghai, artists on Hydra, and identical twins run away to New Orleans... dazzling novels plus the best politics, history,and memoir to take you away from lockdown The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel |
| Jeremy Corbyn's brother charged with breaching Covid lockdown rules Posted: 20 Jun 2020 12:58 AM PDT Piers Corbyn, 73, faces two charges after attending protests in central London last month Piers Corbyn, the brother of the ex-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, has been charged with two counts of breaching coronavirus regulations after attending protests in central London, the Metropolitan police said. Corbyn, 73, of Southwark, south London, was pictured at a protest over 5G in Hyde Park on 16 May, while he has also been charged in relation to a protest on 30 May. Continue reading... |
| Last chance for the Persian leopard: the fight to save Iraqi Kurdistan’s forests Posted: 20 Jun 2020 01:15 AM PDT Minefields left over from the Iran-Iraq war are one of the last bastions against illegal logging and poaching In the spring, the Pirmagrun mountain, one of the world's last refuges for the endangered Persian leopard, towers over the surrounding countryside in Iraqi Kurdistan, its rocky snow-capped peaks fading into an ancient oak forest that starts out sparsely before running into narrow, densely-wooded valleys. As recently as the 1980s, the forest covered the slopes of the mountain – also known as Birah Magrun – as well as the surrounding area, and the leopard was commonly seen by hunters. But intensive illegal logging means the forest now ends abruptly halfway down the mountainside, where it runs into a barren land studded by tree stumps and grazed by herds of goats. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 20 Jun 2020 12:59 AM PDT How far can you drive and what are the travel restrictions in NSW, Queensland and Victoria? How many people can you have over at your house in Tasmania, ACT, SA, WA or NT? Untangle Australia's Covid-19 laws and guidelines with our guide
Australians have been slowly emerging from Covid-19 lockdowns since the federal government announced a three-stage plan in May to ease restrictions across the country. It is up to each state and territory to decide when and how far they will relax restrictions. Continue reading... |
| Brazilian mayor censured over 'racist' coronavirus ban Posted: 19 Jun 2020 12:51 PM PDT Fredson de Silva, mayor of Pau d'Arco, issued decree locking down only indigenous people Local authorities in the Brazilian Amazon have been accused of racism after locking down a string of indigenous villages and banning indigenous people from entering a local town because of a coronavirus outbreak. Federal prosecutors on Friday called for the mayor of Pau D'Arco in the Amazon state of Pará – population 6,000 – to revoke the decree, which he said had been issued to protect public health. Continue reading... |
| Croatian police officers arrested over beating of Afghan asylum seeker Posted: 19 Jun 2020 07:31 AM PDT Arrest follows series of complaints of abuse and torture by Croatian law enforcement against those crossing from Bosnia Two Croatian police officers were arrested on Thursday over the beating of an asylum seeker, as the UN urged the country to immediately investigate reports of excessive use of force against migrants. The police in Karlovac, 35 miles south-west of Zagreb, announced the two officers had been charged after an Afghan man who crossed the border from Bosnia was injured, 24sata, a leading daily newspaper in Croatia, reported. Continue reading... |
| 'White faux feminism': Women Deliver investigate internal racism allegations Posted: 19 Jun 2020 05:12 AM PDT Move follows previous and current staff complaining of toxic working environment at global advocacy group The global advocacy group for gender equality Women Deliver has launched an investigation into allegations of racism and discrimination within the organisation. Its CEO, Katja Iversen, a G7 advisor on gender equality, has issued an apology and taken a leave of absence until the conclusion of the investigation. Continue reading... |
| ‘Boats arrive, people disappear’: one Greek's search for missing refugees Posted: 19 Jun 2020 12:30 AM PDT When asylum seekers seen landing on Chios vanished, a local journalist's investigation put him at odds with authorities When Ioannis Stevis moved back to his native island of Chios after a long career in journalism he could not have imagined that his retirement project would eventually put him at odds with his own government. But the local online news service he created, Astraparis, ended up bearing witness to one of the most significant stories in recent European history: the ongoing refugee crisis. Continue reading... |
| There weren't enough stories about people who looked like me. So I wrote my own | Coco Khan Posted: 20 Jun 2020 01:00 AM PDT My contribution to The Good Immigrant prompted a stream of apology emails: forgive me, ethnic friend, for I have sinned Four years ago, I wrote an essay that appeared in a collection called The Good Immigrant. The story, based on an episode from my life, opens with a South Asian girl waking up in the bed of a (white) stranger after a one-night stand in the dark. Dawn is breaking, and as the light fills the room she notices something: he has flags. Union jack flags hanging all around the room. I won't spoil the story, but if you're beginning to panic, don't. No hate crime occurs (well, not there anyway), and the piece is a comedy. My reason for writing it was relatively simple. At the time, Britain was in the midst of a campaign to leave the EU. For us – the writers, the children of immigrants – it was urgent to counter the xenophobic rhetoric that reduced people who love, hurt, bleed and dream to £-signs. Continue reading... |
| England: are coronavirus cases falling or rising near you? Posted: 19 Jun 2020 04:19 AM PDT How has Covid-19 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. Continue reading... |
| 'Protesters will make America great': Al Sharpton condemns Trump at Juneteenth celebration – video Posted: 19 Jun 2020 08:19 PM PDT The Rev Al Sharpton condemns President Donald Trump while speaking at the Juneteenth celebration in Tulsa, Oklahoma Continue reading... |
| 'No justice, no peace': protesters mark Juneteenth across US – video Posted: 19 Jun 2020 03:44 PM PDT Tens of thousands of Americans marked the Juneteenth holiday commemorating the abolishment of slavery with anti-racism marches, peaceful rallies, bike rides and music parties celebrating blackness held across the country. The Juneteenth celebrations took place against a backdrop of unprecedented nationwide protests demanding racial justice sparked by the death of George Floyd, a black man in Minneapolis who was killed by a white police officer kneeling on his neck for almost nine minutes.
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| Juneteenth celebrations across America – in pictures Posted: 19 Jun 2020 02:10 PM PDT Tens of thousands of people in the US marked the Juneteenth holiday on Friday, which commemorates the end of slavery. Celebrations took place from from coast to coast, with the day taking on renewed significance as Americans confront the nation's legacy of police brutality and racial injustice Continue reading... |
| Gavin Williamson: all children in England to return to school in September – video Posted: 19 Jun 2020 10:44 AM PDT The education secretary has pledged that all children in all year groups in England will return to school in September. He said he understood parents' anxiety about the move, but that safety measures including protective bubbles would be in place to limit the risk of transmitting Covid-19 Continue reading... |
| ‘I'm very aware I’m mixed race here’: organising a rural UK Black Lives Matter protest – video Posted: 19 Jun 2020 05:32 AM PDT Small towns, as well as big cities, across the UK have been holding Black Lives Matter protests and continue to do so. Flora, 23, meets fellow activists Hannah, Annabel and Alex for the first time at the demo they are organising together in their home town of Yeovil, in Somerset. Flora, who is mixed race, moved to the area from south London when she was 10. She talks about the difficulties of living somewhere rural but also about how her parents don't have any regrets
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| Democrats and Republicans react to John Bolton's bombshell book on Trump – video Posted: 19 Jun 2020 03:22 AM PDT Political figures have criticised Donald Trump's former national security adviser, John Bolton, for his new book, The Room Where It Happened, which makes a series of explosive claims about the US president. Democrat speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, echoed Bolton in saying Trump was 'unfit' to be president but added that the Republican 'chose loyalty over patriotism'
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| Is this the end for colonial-era statues? – video Posted: 19 Jun 2020 02:37 AM PDT Statues of colonialists and brutal leaders have been toppled by protesters or removed by governments in recent weeks as campaigns to bring down monuments to historical figures tainted by racism and slavery spread around the world. In Belgium, during Black Lives Matter protests, numerous statues of King Leopold II, whose brutal rule of Congo caused an estimated 10 million deaths through murder, starvation and disease, were defaced and covered in red paint. While in the UK, Oxford University's Oriel College voted in favour of removing its statue of the Victorian imperialist Cecil Rhodes. In response to the latest action, the historian David Olusoga looks at the significance of these statues and examines the impact they have had on the victims of colonialists and imperialists, as well as the cost borne by their descendants
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