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- Pence claims ‘remarkable progress’ as Covid-19 cases hit new record in US
- EU to restrict most US residents from visiting amid pandemic, reports say
- 'People were abandoned': injustices of pandemic laid bare in Brent
- Coronavirus live news: India passes 500,000 cases as Australian state of Victoria reports surge
- Six seriously injured in Glasgow attack and suspect killed by police
- Angela Merkel: UK must live with consequences of weaker ties to EU
- 'We've bought the wrong satellites': UK tech gamble baffles experts
- Robert Jenrick admits Israeli billionaire in donor row is family friend
- Violence by far-right is among US’s most dangerous terrorist threats, study finds
- Judge orders US to free migrant children from family detention, citing virus spread
- Poles set to vote in postponed presidential election
- US restricts visas for Chinese officials over Hong Kong freedoms
- Huge oil discovery off Guyana raises the stakes in election fraud case
- The Simpsons stops using white actors to voice non-white characters
- Ready, steady... oh: Olympics, Glastonbury and Euro 2020 stars on the summer we’ve lost
- What next for the UK's deserted public transport network?
- The week in wildlife - in pictures
- Open-air art museum: will Oakland's protest murals have a life beyond the street?
- 'Either we change or we die': the radical farming project in the Amazon
- Coronavirus Australia: Victoria reports jump of 41 cases and sends emergency alerts to hotspots
- Combining diplomacy and development will make UK aid's work even better | Anne-Marie Trevelyan
- Fury in Colombia as soldiers admit rape of 13-year-old indigenous girl
- Emanuel Gomes died just hours after his cleaning shift. Why was he working?
- MoJ failed to investigate potential Covid-19 cluster among cleaners
- Afghan government backtracks over rule forcing media to reveal sources
- No going back to normal after the pandemic? Don't bet on it | Gaby Hinsliff
- Voting is our most fundamental right – let's make sure it's open to everyone | Terri Sewell and Vanita Gupta
- Coronavirus UK: are cases rising or falling near you?
- Mike Pence hails 'truly remarkable progress' as US sees record new coronavirus cases – video
- Clashes near Naples as cluster of Covid-19 cases puts five buildings in lockdown – video
- How 'white fragility' reinforces racism – video explainer
| Pence claims ‘remarkable progress’ as Covid-19 cases hit new record in US Posted: 26 Jun 2020 11:39 AM PDT US reports 40,000 new coronavirus cases in previous 24 hours, the highest daily total of the pandemic Mike Pence on Friday hailed "truly remarkable progress" in America's battle with the coronavirus pandemic, despite the US reporting a record 40,000 new cases in the previous 24 hours, the highest daily total of the outbreak. With new cases rising in a majority of states in the last few days after swift moves to reopen for business, especially across the south and west, the vice-president sought to deliver encouraging news as the head of the White House coronavirus taskforce as the body offered its first public briefing in two months. Continue reading... |
| EU to restrict most US residents from visiting amid pandemic, reports say Posted: 26 Jun 2020 05:05 PM PDT Officials draw up 'safe list' of countries whose residents can visit, with Russia and Brazil also excluded The European Union is set to restrict most US residents from visiting the region when travel restarts due to concerns about the coronavirus, according to multiple reports. EU officials are in the process of settling on a final "safe list" of countries whose residents could travel to the bloc in July, but the US, Brazil and Russia are set to be excluded, Reuters reported. With coronavirus continuing to spread in the US at alarming rates, the possibility of allowing American tourists into the EU is not even part of the ongoing discussion, six diplomats familiar with the talks told the Washington Post. Continue reading... |
| 'People were abandoned': injustices of pandemic laid bare in Brent Posted: 27 Jun 2020 12:00 AM PDT At least 36 people have died in Church End, a neighbourhood dealing with housing pressures, in-work poverty and racial inequalities Rhoda Ibrahim had been excited to celebrate International Women's Day. The community leader, 57, has spent three decades championing the rights of Somali and minority ethnic women in the north-west London borough of Brent. After going to a council event in the early afternoon – the theme was "Each for Equal" – she headed to the local Queens Park community school. Her organisation, the Somali Advice and Forum of Information, had helped to arrange for a barrister, who had come to the UK as a child refugee and been raised on benefits in the local community, to speak about the many barriers to social mobility in the UK. Ibrahim was pleased with how the day had gone. Her friend Hassan Farah, a local teacher widely credited for helping four British-Somali students from Brent get into Oxbridge – a first for the community – offered to drive her home. "He was not just a teacher, he was an incredibly kind man, a role model, a mentor and a father figure for children like mine. I have three boys and I couldn't have raised them without him," Ibrahim said of Farah. She waved goodbye as his car drove away, not realising it would be the last time she saw him. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus live news: India passes 500,000 cases as Australian state of Victoria reports surge Posted: 27 Jun 2020 03:04 AM PDT US records highest daily new infections; Brazil records nearly 47,000 new cases; Covid cases with unknown source rise in Melbourne. Follow the latest
When coronavirus first emerged in Wuhan and rapidly spread around the globe, it was described as the great leveller. But in a small neighbourhood in north London, the brutal injustice of Covid-19 was laid bare. At least 36 residents have died in Church End, a small, deprived estate in north Brent with a large British-Somali population. Locals believe the cluster, which is the second worst in England and Wales, according to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics, does not account for the true scale of the devastation, as it does not factor in people who work in Church End but live nearby. Related: 'People were abandoned': injustices of pandemic laid bare in Brent
The Swiss pharmaceutical firm Roche is unable to meet demand for molecular tests to identify active Covid-19 infections, its chairman told the Swiss daily Tagesanzeiger. Reuters reports: 'The demand exceeds our production,' Christoph Franz was quoted as saying in Saturday's paper. The decision on where tests were shipped to depended, among other things, on infection rates and the availability of diagnostic equipment. Demand for its antibody tests, which determine whether people have ever been infected with the coronavirus, can be met as Roche has been boosting production, he said. Continue reading... |
| Six seriously injured in Glasgow attack and suspect killed by police Posted: 26 Jun 2020 10:35 AM PDT Two teenagers and a police officer in hospital after man went on attack at hotel Six people including a police officer and two teenagers were seriously injured, and the alleged perpetrator shot dead by police, after multiple stabbings at a hotel in central Glasgow. Police Scotland said David Whyte, a 42-year-old constable, was in a "critical but stable condition" in hospital with five other men – aged 17, 18, 20, 38 and 53 – seriously injured, after a lone man went on the attack shortly before 1pm at the Park Inn hotel on West George Street. Continue reading... |
| Angela Merkel: UK must live with consequences of weaker ties to EU Posted: 26 Jun 2020 08:00 AM PDT German leader signals trade compromise less likely as she hardens tone on no-deal Brexit
The UK will have to "live with the consequences" of Boris Johnson ditching Theresa May's plan to maintain close economic ties with the EU after Brexit, Angela Merkel has said, hardening her tone over the prospect of a no-deal scenario at the end of the year. After more than three years in which the German chancellor repeatedly emphasised her openness to a deal that would maintain the UK's current flows of trade with the bloc, she suggested the door leading to such a compromise had now closed. Continue reading... |
| 'We've bought the wrong satellites': UK tech gamble baffles experts Posted: 26 Jun 2020 09:23 AM PDT Bid for 20% of OneWeb to replace Galileo after Brexit 'looks like nationalism trumping industrial policy' The UK government's plan to invest hundreds of millions of pounds in a satellite broadband company has been described as "nonsensical" by experts, who say the company doesn't even make the right type of satellite the country needs after Brexit. The investment in OneWeb, first reported on Thursday night, is intended to mitigate against the UK losing access to the EU's Galileo satellite navigation system. Continue reading... |
| Robert Jenrick admits Israeli billionaire in donor row is family friend Posted: 27 Jun 2020 02:00 AM PDT Tory minister under pressure over meeting with Idan Ofer while considering rival mine project Labour has called on the beleaguered housing secretary, Robert Jenrick, to explain a ministerial meeting with a "family friend" who had a financial interest in the future of a rival mining project that Jenrick was overseeing. The Guardian revealed this week that Jenrick met the Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer while the then exchequer secretary to the Treasury was considering a request for financial support from Sirius Minerals for a mining project that would have rivalled Ofer's own firm Cleveland Potash. Continue reading... |
| Violence by far-right is among US’s most dangerous terrorist threats, study finds Posted: 27 Jun 2020 02:00 AM PDT Center for Strategic and International Studies analysis of domestic terrorist incidents found majority have come from far right Violence by far-right groups and individuals has emerged as one of the most dangerous terrorist threats faced by US law enforcement and triggered a wave of warnings and arrests of people associated with those extremist movements. The most recent in-depth analysis of far-right terrorism comes from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Continue reading... |
| Judge orders US to free migrant children from family detention, citing virus spread Posted: 26 Jun 2020 09:56 PM PDT The judge denounced the Trump administration's prolonged detention of families in immigration centres A federal judge in the United States has ordered the release of children held with their parents in US immigration jails and denounced the Trump administration's prolonged detention of families during the coronavirus pandemic. US district judge Dolly Gee's order on Friday applies to children held for more than 20 days at three family detention centre's in Texas and Pennsylvania operated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Some have been detained since last year. Continue reading... |
| Poles set to vote in postponed presidential election Posted: 26 Jun 2020 09:00 PM PDT Incumbent Andrzej Duda expected to face run-off against liberal mayor of Warsaw Poles will vote on Sunday in a postponed presidential election that will determine whether the ruling rightwing populist party continues to have full control over the country's political system. Andrzej Duda, an ally of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, is standing for re-election in a crowded field of candidates, with the closest challenger expected to be Rafał Trzaskowski, the liberal mayor of Warsaw. Continue reading... |
| US restricts visas for Chinese officials over Hong Kong freedoms Posted: 26 Jun 2020 08:21 PM PDT Secretary of state Mike Pompeo says visa restrictions apply to 'current and former' communist party officials, but does not name them The US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has said Washington will impose visa restrictions on Chinese officials responsible for restricting freedoms in Hong Kong, but he did not name any of those targeted. The move on Friday comes ahead of a three-day meeting of China's parliament from Sunday, which is expected to enact new national security legislation for Hong Kong that has alarmed foreign governments and democracy activists. Continue reading... |
| Huge oil discovery off Guyana raises the stakes in election fraud case Posted: 26 Jun 2020 09:00 PM PDT If discredited president refuses to accept imminent ruling over March vote, investors likely to be scared off Allegations of mass vote fiddling in the former British colony of Guyana may lead to the country's discredited government being ostracised unless a court hearing next week can resolve a bitter dispute over election results. The political stakes in Guyana have risen massively since May 2015 when Exxon Mobil discovered oil reserves potentially worth more than $100bn (£80bn) 200km (124 miles) off the coast – a find big enough to transform a Latin American country of fewer than 1 million people with a GDP of $3bn largely based on sugar, timber, molasses and bauxite. Its current income of $5,250 per head is projected to rise to above $10,000 next year alone. Continue reading... |
| The Simpsons stops using white actors to voice non-white characters Posted: 26 Jun 2020 06:39 PM PDT Move comes amid widespread reckoning for American pop culture following mass protests after George Floyd's death The Simpsons is ending the use of white actors to voice characters of colour, the show's producers have said. "Moving forward, 'The Simpsons' will no longer have white actors voice non-white characters," they said in a statement on Friday. Continue reading... |
| Ready, steady... oh: Olympics, Glastonbury and Euro 2020 stars on the summer we’ve lost Posted: 27 Jun 2020 01:00 AM PDT From the medallist to the festival star, what happens when your best-laid summer plans come undone? Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Harry Kane, Mabel and others share their might-have-beens. Interviews by Joe Stone, Zoe Williams and Sam Wolfson Olympic Games, postponed from July to July 2021 Continue reading... |
| What next for the UK's deserted public transport network? Posted: 27 Jun 2020 02:00 AM PDT Train and bus firms urgently need to find a route back to viability amid the Covid-19 crisis Since the fall of Mussolini, few politicians can have declared quite so unselfconsciously as Grant Shapps that: "I just want to make the trains run on time." But, as the transport secretary ruefully told MPs this week: "I didn't expect to see that happen by having a fraction of people using it." More than 98% of services ran punctually in April, underscoring the old rail industry joke that it would all work fine if it wasn't for the passengers. Yet the trains are only continuing to run due to an extraordinary level of subsidy after coronavirus forced most of the population to stay home. Continue reading... |
| The week in wildlife - in pictures Posted: 26 Jun 2020 09:02 AM PDT The pick of the world's best flora and fauna photos, including a perky grasshopper and a sleepy turtle Continue reading... |
| Open-air art museum: will Oakland's protest murals have a life beyond the street? Posted: 27 Jun 2020 03:00 AM PDT The local arts community wants to secure a future for powerful works that sprung up amid reckoning over systemic racism In Oakland, the boarded-up shop windows have been covered with the faces of George Floyd, Tony McDade and Breonna Taylor. If you walk along Telegraph Avenue or Broadway in the city's downtown, you are surrounded by vividly colored Black Power fists, protest slogans such as "no justice, no peace" or "power to the people" and the names of Oscar Grant and other victims of police violence immortalized in brightly colored spray paint. Continue reading... |
| 'Either we change or we die': the radical farming project in the Amazon Posted: 26 Jun 2020 11:00 PM PDT A growing movement for sustainable agriculture in Brazil has taken on new urgency with the coronavirus pandemic The cumaru trees could have been planted elsewhere in this Amazon reserve, where they had better chances of flourishing. Instead, they were planted in harsh, sandy soil in the dry savannah that breaks up the forest. Jack beans, guandu peas and other crops were planted in straw around them with cut savannah grass, for moisture and compost. "We call it the cradle," says agronomist Alailson Rêgo. "It protects them." The hope is that if these Amazon-native trees – whose seeds can be used in cosmetics – thrive on this sandy soil and a nearby patch of deforested, burned land, they can regenerate abandoned pasture elsewhere. In the Amazon, more land is cleared for cattle than anything else. It's easier enough to clear – chop down a few trees, light a few fires. But restoring the forest? Bringing back the life and the greenness? That is far, far harder. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus Australia: Victoria reports jump of 41 cases and sends emergency alerts to hotspots Posted: 27 Jun 2020 12:46 AM PDT New South Wales makes Covid-19 tests mandatory for returned travellers and reports six new cases
Victoria has reported another Covid-19 jump with 41 new cases reported on Saturday as the Australian state was experiencing a potential second wave of the virus. Victoria's deputy chief health officer, Dr Annaliese van Diemen, said the state had tested almost 22,000 people across several outbreak clusters in the previous 24 hours. Continue reading... |
| Combining diplomacy and development will make UK aid's work even better | Anne-Marie Trevelyan Posted: 27 Jun 2020 12:00 AM PDT Concerns have been raised about the plan to merge the Foreign Office and DfID. Here's why I am confident it will help us lead the way on aid
I have seen the enormous difference made by UK aid during my time as international development secretary. The UK is rightly respected and admired around the world for this work, which saves and changes lives in developing countries every day. The power of our commitment to spend 0.7% of our gross national income on aid – and our expertise in this field – will not diminish when the Department for International Development (DfID) merges with the Foreign Office in September. The prime minister has made it crystal clear that UK aid's mission to reduce poverty will be central to the new department's mission. Continue reading... |
| Fury in Colombia as soldiers admit rape of 13-year-old indigenous girl Posted: 26 Jun 2020 07:13 AM PDT Seven soldiers confessed to raping child from the Emberà tribe Outrage has been sparked in Colombia after a 13-year-old girl was gang-raped by seven soldiers from the country's army last weekend. On Thursday, seven soldiers confessed to raping the child from the indigenous Emberá tribe, who went missing from her rural reserve in northern Colombia on Sunday. She was found the next day at a nearby school. News of the horrific crime shocked much of the South American nation, which has long reckoned with violence against indigenous women and girls. Continue reading... |
| Emanuel Gomes died just hours after his cleaning shift. Why was he working? Posted: 26 Jun 2020 04:30 AM PDT Like many other migrant workers in the UK, Gomes knew he couldn't live on statutory sick pay. So despite illness, he kept working Emanuel Gomes spent the last day of his life cleaning an office in the Ministry of Justice (M0J). It was late April, at the height of the Covid-19 outbreak and most of the civil servants had been sent home. Gomes and his colleagues were told that as essential workers they should keep coming into work in the central London offices. On 24 April, Gomes became so sick at work that a colleague, Amadou (not his real name), had to help him to get home. Amadou says: "In the last few days he was really ill. He lost his appetite, he had phlegm and he seemed to have a fever. I helped him home … by the time we got to Victoria station he was so sick he didn't know where he was." Continue reading... |
| MoJ failed to investigate potential Covid-19 cluster among cleaners Posted: 26 Jun 2020 04:30 AM PDT Cleaner was sacked while isolating with coronavirus symptoms as others fell ill
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and cleaning firm OCS have been accused of ignoring pleas to investigate a potential coronavirus outbreak among workers at the department after at four cleaners say they fell sick with suspected symptoms. The MoJ cleaning team, employed by cleaning firm OCS and sub-contractor PRS, were told at the start of lockdown that they were essential workers and were to continue to commute into central London. Continue reading... |
| Afghan government backtracks over rule forcing media to reveal sources Posted: 26 Jun 2020 02:45 AM PDT Amendments to country's media law revoked after outcry from press An outcry by the Afghan press over amendments to the country's media law has seen the government call off initially approved changes. The newly revoked amendments included a rule that would force media to reveal sources to the government without a court order. Continue reading... |
| No going back to normal after the pandemic? Don't bet on it | Gaby Hinsliff Posted: 26 Jun 2020 07:30 AM PDT After every crisis, great thinkers declare life will never be the same again. But don't underestimate the pull of old habits As the US army rolls into a newly liberated Paris, a woman sits serenely under the only working hairdryer in the city. The war photographer Lee Miller's iconic shot of a salon reopening amid the rubble in the summer of 1944 could easily have become an image of heartless vanity when Vogue published it. Who cares about a hairdo, when millions have died? Yet at the time it somehow managed to convey both ingenuity and hope, in a world far enough steeped in death to long for a little frivolity. The return of being able to care about something that doesn't actually matter must have come, in the circumstances, as a blessed relief. When Boris Johnson announced the reopening of British hairdressers this July, Miller's picture sprang to mind. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 26 Jun 2020 03:00 AM PDT The bill HR4 would put the teeth back into the Voting Rights Act. For the sake of racial progress, the Senate must pass it Over the past weeks, Americans across the spectrum of race, age, geographic location and gender, have begun to have difficult and complicated conversations about the nature of systemic racism and the long standing institutions that have permitted the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and so many other African Americans, without consequence. This idea of systemic racism – that racism is not simply the moral ineptitude of individual bad actors, but that it is in fact built into the very mechanisms that undergird our democracy – is evident around our society. We can see it in employment, our criminal legal system, policing, and prominently in our voting laws and practices. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus UK: are cases rising or falling near you? Posted: 26 Jun 2020 02:54 AM PDT Latest updates: 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... |
| Mike Pence hails 'truly remarkable progress' as US sees record new coronavirus cases – video Posted: 26 Jun 2020 12:55 PM PDT Amid the surge of new cases in the United States, the White House coronavirus task force, led by Mike Pence, held its first briefing in nearly two months, signalling a recognition that the administration can't ignore the alarming increases. The vice president took the opportunity to hail the 'remarkable progress' the Trump administration has had in dealing with the coronavirus outbreak as a surge across the South and West sent the number of confirmed new infections per day to an all-time high of 40,000 Continue reading... |
| Clashes near Naples as cluster of Covid-19 cases puts five buildings in lockdown – video Posted: 26 Jun 2020 09:06 AM PDT Residents have clashed in a coastal town near Naples after five large blocks of flats were put under a strict 15-day lockdown. More than 40 people living there had tested positive for Covid-19. The Italian army was deployed to the area in the small town of Mondragone after some people broke the lockdown to go to work. Residents also protested against the lack of information, and racism towards a Roma community involved in seasonal fruit-picking
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| How 'white fragility' reinforces racism – video explainer Posted: 26 Jun 2020 04:27 AM PDT Robin DiAngelo's bestselling book White Fragility has provoked an uncomfortable but vital conversation about what it means to be white. As protests organised by the Black Lives Matter movement continue around the world, she explains why white people should stop avoiding conversations about race because of their own discomfort, and how 'white fragility' plays a key role in upholding systemic racism |
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