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- Global report: South Korea has Covid-19 second wave as Israel ponders new lockdown
- Why doctors say UK is better prepared for a second wave of coronavirus
- UK factories suffer worst quarter on record amid coronavirus lockdown - business live
- Coronavirus live news: WHO reports record daily global case increase as known infections pass 8.9m
- Brad Parscale faces Trump 'fury' after Tulsa comeback rally flops
- Israeli spyware used to target Moroccan journalist, Amnesty claims
- Dutch football captains lead boycott of TV show over racist remarks
- Reading terror suspect had PTSD and other mental health issues
- John Bolton calls Trump incompetent as president plans Phoenix speech amid pandemic – live
- 'Factually impossible': Justin Bieber denies sexual assault allegation
- Syrian doctor arrested in Germany for alleged crimes against humanity
- Anne Sacoolas did not have diplomatic immunity in Dunn case, says ex-minister
- German payments firm Wirecard says missing €1.9bn may not exist
- Vast neolithic circle of deep shafts found near Stonehenge
- US v China: is this the start of a new cold war?
- African countries unite to create 'one stop shop' to lower cost of Covid-19 tests and PPE
- Windrush lawyer Jacqueline McKenzie: 'The Home Office is treating people with contempt'
- Coalition unveils $86m for primary producers as Eden-Monaro contest heats up
- ‘It would spread quickly in those cells’: Covid-19 imperils packed Egypt prison
- Delhi to transform 25 luxury hotels into Covid-19 care centres
- Coronavirus in England: are cases falling or rising near you?
- Victoria's coronavirus spike: is this a second wave, and what's causing the clusters?
- What black America means to Europe – podcast
- Riots erupt in Stuttgart after police drug checks – video
| Global report: South Korea has Covid-19 second wave as Israel ponders new lockdown Posted: 22 Jun 2020 05:46 AM PDT New infections in and around Seoul; Spain reports 36 new outbreaks; New Zealand strengthens borders Authorities in South Korea have said the country is experiencing a second wave of the coronavirus in and around Seoul, and warned that stronger physical-distancing measures will be reimposed if the daily increase in infections does not come down. Confirmation of the new wave came as the Israeli government said a lockdown could be reintroduced amid a sharp rise in cases, and a team of contact tracing experts prepared to deploy to the Australian state of Victoria to tackle a new outbreak in Melbourne. Continue reading... |
| Why doctors say UK is better prepared for a second wave of coronavirus Posted: 22 Jun 2020 04:01 AM PDT Drug research, well-practised NHS staff and greater awareness of dangers give reasons for hope When a deluge of coronavirus cases threatened to overwhelm the NHS in March, Covid-19 was a brand new and little-understood disease, causing panic as well as deaths. Hospitals under huge pressure did all they could. Next time round, if, as everyone supposes, there is a next time, it will be different. In a second wave, or even localised spikes across the nation, the health service will know more about what it is dealing with – and will be better able to help people recover and send them home, say doctors. Continue reading... |
| UK factories suffer worst quarter on record amid coronavirus lockdown - business live Posted: 22 Jun 2020 06:44 AM PDT Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news
The US stock market has dipped in early trading, as investors weighed up the recent increase in Covid-19 cases in some American states. While the number of new COVID-19 cases is noticeably higher in the southeast regions, that is being attributed to reopening before seeing their cases come down to low levels. Despite the surge in new cases, risk appetite is holding up because confidence is higher with how doctors can treat the virus and now that the virus is working its way through younger individuals. If the seven states that hit record highs with daily cases continues to grow exponentially, that should start to weigh on risk appetite.
The BBC are reporting that sandwich chain Pret a Manger could cut jobs early next month, after suffering a slump in sales under the lockdown. A leaked video revealing how sales have plunged at Pret a Manger during the coronavirus crisis has raised fears about job cuts at the sandwich chain. Boss Pano Christou told staff in a recent online meeting that an announcement about the "job situation" would be made on 8 July. Pret a Manger job cut fears as sales plunge https://t.co/1P6kh7lNzI Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus live news: WHO reports record daily global case increase as known infections pass 8.9m Posted: 22 Jun 2020 06:44 AM PDT China halts imports from US food plant where 481 test positive for Covid-19; UK PM to unveil lockdown easing on Tuesday; Brazil deaths pass 50,000
A paper on Vietnam's success in suppressing Covid-19 using strict quarantining and widespread testing has been penned by experts including Vietnamese officials and staff from Oxford University's clinical research unit in Ho Chi Minh City. They list lessons which are applicable to other states, including:
French movie fans ventured back into cinemas today for the first time since the Covid-19 lockdown, helped by a new safety feature: Minions placed at intervals in the seats to ensure social distancing is observed. Stuffed toy versions of the yellow, pill-shaped characters were deployed at the MK2 cinema in the south of Paris for a showing of the 2015 movie "Minions", a spinoff from the Despicable Me franchise that made them famous. They love cinema. It's much less risky spending two hours in a cinema than travelling on public transport or taking a train. Continue reading... |
| Brad Parscale faces Trump 'fury' after Tulsa comeback rally flops Posted: 21 Jun 2020 12:03 PM PDT
Donald Trump's campaign manager, Brad Parscale, was under pressure on Sunday after claiming hundreds of thousands of people had applied for tickets to the president's return to the campaign trail in Tulsa, only for the rally to attract a sparse crowd. Related: Trump 'played' by K-pop fans and TikTok users who disrupted Tulsa rally Continue reading... |
| Israeli spyware used to target Moroccan journalist, Amnesty claims Posted: 21 Jun 2020 03:00 PM PDT Amnesty alleges phone of Omar Radi in Morocco was infected by NSO's Pegasus software As NSO Group faced mounting criticism last year that its hacking software was being used illegally against journalists, dissidents and campaigners around the world, the Israeli spyware company unveiled a new policy that it said showed its commitment to human rights. Now an investigation has alleged that another journalist, Omar Radi in Morocco, was targeted with NSO's Pegasus software and put under surveillance just days after the company made that promise. Continue reading... |
| Dutch football captains lead boycott of TV show over racist remarks Posted: 22 Jun 2020 03:14 AM PDT Virgil van Dijk and Sari van Veenendaal hit out at pundit and say 'enough is enough' The captains of the Dutch men's, women's and youth national football teams are boycotting a leading sports TV programme over the racist comments of a longstanding pundit, warning: "Enough is enough." The Liverpool centre-back Virgil van Dijk, and the Atlético Madrid goalkeeper Sari van Veenendaal have led the way after years of the behaviour of Johan Derksen on the Veronica Inside show being explained away as straight-talking humour. Continue reading... |
| Reading terror suspect had PTSD and other mental health issues Posted: 22 Jun 2020 06:29 AM PDT Official documents show Khairi Saadallah had been diagnosed with various conditions The suspect in the Reading terror attack was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and an emotionally unstable personality disorder, the Guardian understands. Khairi Saadallah, 25, who is being detained under terrorism powers after the stabbings on Saturday that left three people dead, was granted asylum in Britain after fleeing the Libyan civil war. Continue reading... |
| John Bolton calls Trump incompetent as president plans Phoenix speech amid pandemic – live Posted: 22 Jun 2020 06:35 AM PDT
This is Joan Greve in Washington, taking over for Martin Pengelly. Both chambers of Congress will vote on police reform bills this week, but Senate Republicans' proposal might be quashed before it even gets taken up for debate. The Democrat House wants to pass a Bill this week that will destroy our police. Republican Congressmen & Congresswomen will hopefully fight hard to defeat it. We must protect and cherish our police, they keep us safe! "I'm not all that crazy about @SenatorTimScott's bill," @DougJones. "The thing we haven't done is sat down and have the dialogues where we can find common ground on the bills to put something on the Senate floor that we know can pass with bipartisan support." pic.twitter.com/XvT35daC5K
More from NPR's talk with John Bolton, which touches on an area the president discussed with Axios in an interview published on Sunday: North Korea, China and Trump's attitude to and fondness for dictators and authoritarian rulers. Asked why he compares Trump's courtship of Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, to the president's dating life, Bolton said: "Well, he said that he always, back in the day, as they say, he always wanted to be the one who broke up with the girl first. He didn't want the girl to break up with him. And he used that to describe whether he would cancel the summit with Kim Jong-un first or whether we would risk the North Koreans canceling it. Related: Trump held off China sanctions over Xinjiang to protect trade deal Continue reading... |
| 'Factually impossible': Justin Bieber denies sexual assault allegation Posted: 21 Jun 2020 10:30 PM PDT The pop star says he will be taking legal action, after a woman tweeted an allegation from March 2014 Justin Bieber has denied allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman in March 2014, sharing a series of tweets he believes prove that "this story is factually impossible", and saying that he will be "working with Twitter and authorities to take legal action". The singer was accused by a woman who identified herself as Danielle and withheld her last name. In a Tweet dated 20 June, which has since been deleted – along with the account – she claimed that she met Bieber when she was 21, and he was 20, at a music event in Austin. Continue reading... |
| Syrian doctor arrested in Germany for alleged crimes against humanity Posted: 22 Jun 2020 05:37 AM PDT Suspect accused of torturing man in prison run by Syrian intelligence service in 2011 A Syrian doctor living in Germany has been arrested on suspicion of crimes against humanity in his country of origin, prosecutors have said, in the latest German move against suspected war crimes in Syria. The suspect, identified as Alaa M, is accused of having "tortured a detainee ... in at least two cases" at a prison run by the Syrian intelligence service in the city of Homs in 2011, according to German federal prosecutors. Continue reading... |
| Anne Sacoolas did not have diplomatic immunity in Dunn case, says ex-minister Posted: 21 Jun 2020 10:00 PM PDT Tony Baldry, who signed immunity deal at RAF Croughton in 1995, says it applied to staff not dependents US claims that the American Anne Sacoolas had diplomatic immunity when she drove into the British motorcyclist Harry Dunn last August have been rejected by the former Conservative minister who signed the agreement covering the base where her husband worked. In court papers, the former Foreign Office minister Tony Baldry said the diplomatic immunity deal reached in 1995 was intended specifically to exclude dangerous driving cases, or indeed any actions not related to the work of the staff at the base. Continue reading... |
| German payments firm Wirecard says missing €1.9bn may not exist Posted: 22 Jun 2020 04:00 AM PDT Company thought money was in two Asian banks but search hits dead end in Philippines Wirecard has said that €1.9bn (£1.7bn) in funds missing from its bank accounts may not exist, as the accounting scandal at the German payments company deepens. The firm processes tens of billions of euros in credit and debit transactions each year and is a former darling of Germany's tech sector. It had previously said it believed the money was held in escrow accounts at two Asian banks. Continue reading... |
| Vast neolithic circle of deep shafts found near Stonehenge Posted: 21 Jun 2020 10:00 PM PDT Exclusive: prehistoric structure spanning 1.2 miles in diameter is masterpiece of engineering, say archaeologists A circle of deep shafts has been discovered near the world heritage site of Stonehenge, to the astonishment of archaeologists, who have described it as the largest prehistoric structure ever found in Britain. Four thousand five hundred years ago, the Neolithic peoples who constructed Stonehenge, a masterpiece of engineering, also dug a series of shafts aligned to form a circle spanning 1.2 miles (2km) in diameter. The structure appears to have been a boundary guiding people to a sacred area because Durrington Walls, one of Britain's largest henge monuments, is located precisely at its centre. The site is 1.9 miles north-east of Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain, near Amesbury, Wiltshire. Continue reading... |
| US v China: is this the start of a new cold war? Posted: 22 Jun 2020 04:50 AM PDT Coronavirus has brought the rivalry to a head sooner than expected – and the scope for non-alignment is narrowing George Kennan, the US charge d'affaires in Moscow at the end of the second world war and the author of the famous Long Telegram in 1946, captured in his memoir how quickly perceptions in international relations can change. The man widely seen as the intellectual author of the cold war recalled that if he had sent his telegram on the nature of the Soviet threat six months earlier, his message "would probably have been received in the state department with pursed lips and raised eyebrows. Six months later, it probably would have sounded redundant, a preaching to the converted." Continue reading... |
| African countries unite to create 'one stop shop' to lower cost of Covid-19 tests and PPE Posted: 22 Jun 2020 12:30 AM PDT Online marketplace for medical supplies will allow continent to buy in bulk and lower costs, says South Africa's president African countries have pulled together to set up a one-stop shop to give the continent a fairer chance in the international scramble for Covid-19 test kits, protective equipment and any vaccines that emerge. The Africa Medical Supplies Platform will work like eBay or Amazon, unlocking access to supplies across the continent, and could save billions of pounds. Continue reading... |
| Windrush lawyer Jacqueline McKenzie: 'The Home Office is treating people with contempt' Posted: 22 Jun 2020 04:42 AM PDT The lawyer representing 200 victims of the Windrush scandal says systemic racism is at the root of the problem For the past three months, Jacqueline McKenzie says her front room has been covered with Windrush compensation files. Since lockdown, she has stopped going to the offices of the law firm she co-founded in 2010 and has been working from home. But her study is too small to accommodate the huge amount of paperwork that goes with the 200 separate claims she is filing on behalf of people affected by the Home Office citizenship scandal, during which thousands of people were wrongly classified as illegal immigrants because they could not prove they were British citizens. "I think they are treating people with contempt," she says. She is frustrated at the slow progress towards paying compensation to people who lost their jobs or their homes, were denied healthcare or the right to travel, or who were, in extreme cases, detained and deported. Part of the problem, she says, lies with the structure of the scheme, which requires claimants to gather large amounts of documentary proof of the losses they have incurred as a result of being miscategorised as unlawful residents (a problem that often arose because those affected were unable to gather the large amounts of documentary proof required to show that they had been living legally in the UK since the 1960s). Continue reading... |
| Coalition unveils $86m for primary producers as Eden-Monaro contest heats up Posted: 22 Jun 2020 05:30 AM PDT Package to aid bushfire and Covid-19-impacted communities frustrated at slow pace of disaster recovery The Morrison government will unveil $86m for primary producers hit by the summer bushfires and the coronavirus pandemic as the byelection contest in Eden-Monaro accelerates into the closing fortnight. The package to be unveiled by the Coalition on Tuesday includes a $31m grant fund, with payments of $120,000 a hectare available for bushfire-impacted apple growers. Continue reading... |
| ‘It would spread quickly in those cells’: Covid-19 imperils packed Egypt prison Posted: 21 Jun 2020 11:30 PM PDT Families of prisoners at notorious Tora complex concerned publicised efforts to contain virus are purely cosmetic Fears are mounting over the safety of prisoners in Egypt's notorious Tora prison, as rights groups say parts of the complex have been cordoned off to quarantine those diagnosed with coronavirus. Families of those held inside the huge compound south of Cairo, which houses at least eight individual prisons, including two maximum security wings, say the authorities' attempts to combat the spread of Covid-19 inside Tora are at best cosmetic. "Things have been erratic since they banned visits in March," said Mona Seif, whose brother, the activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, has been detained in at the prison since September. Continue reading... |
| Delhi to transform 25 luxury hotels into Covid-19 care centres Posted: 21 Jun 2020 07:00 PM PDT Fearful hotel workers asked to take on role of hospital support staff as cases in Delhi rise Staff at luxury hotels in Delhi are to start welcoming guests not with traditional garlands but with a medical gown. Amid growing concerns that there are not enough hospital beds to cope with the rising number of cases, the Delhi government has become the first in the country to requisition its hotels. Starting this week, 25 establishments will be repurposed as emergency Covid-19 care centres for patients with mild to moderate symptoms. In a sign of how overwhelmed medical staff are becoming, hotel employees are being trained in case they have to administer some of the care. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus in England: are cases falling or rising near you? Posted: 22 Jun 2020 03:09 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... |
| Victoria's coronavirus spike: is this a second wave, and what's causing the clusters? Posted: 22 Jun 2020 01:26 AM PDT The state took swift action to contain Covid-19 but it is the site of 83% of Australia's new cases. We examine why
While Victoria took swift action to contain the spread of Covid-19, the state is experiencing a concerning increase in virus cases. This is despite restrictions such as school closures and limits on the numbers of people in venues continuing longer than most other jurisdictions. In the past week, 116 of Australia's new cases – 83% of them – were reported in Victoria. It has also placed pressure on testing in some of the most affected council areas including Hume, Brimbank, Moreland, Darebin, Cardinia and Casey. Almost one in five Victorians live across these areas. For almost one week, new cases in double digits have been reported in the state, with the department of health on Monday announcing 16 new cases overnight. Continue reading... |
| What black America means to Europe – podcast Posted: 22 Jun 2020 04:45 AM PDT Many have attempted to claim that 'things are better here' for black people than in the US. This ignores both Europe's colonial past and its own racist present. By Gary Younge Continue reading... |
| Riots erupt in Stuttgart after police drug checks – video Posted: 21 Jun 2020 10:39 AM PDT Police in the German city of Stuttgart have said 20 people were arrested and four police officers injured after a drugs check in the city centre sparked attacks on officers and police vehicles and widespread vandalism of stores. The disturbance started as an apparent reaction to the police's search for drugs, as groups of people partied in a central park late on Saturday night. According to German TV reports, people then attacked store fronts in a nearby shopping street, tearing up paving stones and smashing store windows Continue reading... |
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