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- Global report: worldwide Covid-19 cases near 10m as US again hits record daily rise
- 'Escape the pandemic in paradise': Fiji opens its borders seeking billionaires
- Only 13% of UK working parents want to go back to ‘the old normal’
- Coronavirus live news: US cases pass 2.5m as Australia considers new lockdown in Melbourne
- Israel's cabinet meets to finalise annexation plans
- Far-right thugs exploit Black Lives Matter movement, warns UK anti-extremism chief
- Glamour, glitz and artificially light skin: Bollywood stars in their own racism row
- Voting begins in Poland presidential election as race tightens
- German far right infiltrates green groups with call to protect the land
- China criticises Canada for 'irresponsible remarks' over two men charged with spying
- Black teenager on London charity cycle ride injured during ‘aggressive’ arrest
- Bannon aims to make a comeback in circle of Trump influencers ahead of election
- France's oldest nuclear reactor to finally shut down
- Poetic justice: black lives and the power of poetry
- Everyone loses from Netanyahu’s territorial ambitions
- Opposition wins rerun of Malawi's presidential election in historic first
- 'Ethnicity is authenticity': how America got addicted to racist branding
- New Zealand's Covid-19 isolation facilities under 'extreme stress', review finds
- Coalition plays down reports of permanent $75 rise in jobseeker payment
- If Donald Trump's down, how dirty will he fight to win?
- Coronavirus map of the US: latest cases state by state
- Coronavirus UK: are cases rising or falling near you?
- Thousands join Black Trans Lives Matter protest in London – video
| Global report: worldwide Covid-19 cases near 10m as US again hits record daily rise Posted: 27 Jun 2020 10:56 PM PDT Global milestone expected on Sunday; lockdowns reintroduced in some countries; NZ quarantine system 'under stress' Global coronavirus cases are expected to tip over 10 million on Sunday, marking a major milestone in the spread of the disease that has so far killed almost 500,000 people in seven months. The figure is roughly double the number of severe influenza illnesses recorded annually, according to the World Health Organisation. Continue reading... |
| 'Escape the pandemic in paradise': Fiji opens its borders seeking billionaires Posted: 27 Jun 2020 05:12 PM PDT Prime minister looks to attract 'VIPs' to help restore country's battered economy which is heavily dependent on tourism After months of strict Covid-19 lockdowns and resolutely closed borders, Fiji is open – for billionaires. The prime minister, Frank Bainimarama, has announced the country is looking to attract "VIPs" to help restore Fiji's paralysed tourism-dependent economy. Continue reading... |
| Only 13% of UK working parents want to go back to ‘the old normal’ Posted: 27 Jun 2020 11:12 PM PDT Survey shows people want to continue with more fulfilling and family-friendly work environments Whatever the new normal is post Covid-19, we don't want it to be anything like the old one. At least, when it comes to earning a living. Lockdown has given people a chance to sample new ways of balancing their jobs and family lives and they have concluded that something must change. Just 13% want to go back to pre-pandemic ways of working, with most people saying they would prefer to spend a maximum of three days in the office. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus live news: US cases pass 2.5m as Australia considers new lockdown in Melbourne Posted: 28 Jun 2020 02:59 AM PDT Cases approach 10m; new Covid-19 clusters across world spark fear of second wave; UK NHS will take four years to recover. Follow the latest updates
Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen is believed to have gatecrashed a US gun rally in disguise and pranked attendees into joining him in a sing-a-long about injecting scientists and politicians with the "Wuhan flu". Footage circulating on social media shows a bearded man in dungarees and a cowboy hat taking the stage at the March for our Rights rally in Olympia, Washington, on Sunday. Sacha Baron Cohen infiltrated the Washington militia event in Olympia today.
The number of confirmed deaths from Covid-19 in Afghanistan has risen by 34 to 737, as the western province of Badghis recorded its worst day of the crisis while violence rages on across the country. Local officials have said that the actual number of deaths is much higher than these official figures, which were released by the health ministry on Sunday. My baby sister, my child was taken from me in this car. I told her to come back to Afghanistan, I told her this country needs her. How I will ever forgive myself? I am sure she was not hurt, I am hoping she didn't feel the pain of the blast @TOLOnews https://t.co/NcPbHYNk71 Continue reading... |
| Israel's cabinet meets to finalise annexation plans Posted: 27 Jun 2020 10:00 PM PDT Calls for sanctions are intensifying as the cabinet meets and Netanyahu awaits US approval The Israeli cabinet will meet on Sunday to finalise plans to annex parts of the West Bank amid growing international opposition and calls for sanctions to be imposed if the proposal is implemented. Related: Lisa Nandy urges ban on imports of West Bank goods Continue reading... |
| Far-right thugs exploit Black Lives Matter movement, warns UK anti-extremism chief Posted: 27 Jun 2020 11:40 PM PDT Home Office commissioner Sara Khan reveals surge in online hate material since death of George Floyd The Black Lives Matter movement has been aggressively exploited by the UK's far right, which has recruited and radicalised people on the back of its success, the government's chief adviser on extremism has warned. Sara Khan, Britain's first counter-extremism commissioner, said far-right activists had used the death of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter (BLM) to propagate white supremacist narratives online. Continue reading... |
| Glamour, glitz and artificially light skin: Bollywood stars in their own racism row Posted: 27 Jun 2020 11:57 PM PDT India's film-makers accused of hypocrisy for supporting Black Lives Matter while keeping silent on bias for fair complexions The Bollywood film industry is a global phenomenon built on glitz and glamour. But it has also faced accusations of being among the biggest purveyors of racism for glorifying fair complexions in its hyperbolic love stories and catchy songs. Now, amid anger over what some consider Bollywood's hypocritical stance on Black Lives Matter, the industry has finally been forced to confront one of its most enduring taboos. Bollywood has witnessed considerable liberalisation in recent years. But while taboos such as same-sex relationships have been relegated to a past in which stars hid behind a rose bush to steal a kiss, the industry's determination to cling to colourism – prejudice against people of your own race on the basis of skin colour – has become a cause of anger and dismay. Continue reading... |
| Voting begins in Poland presidential election as race tightens Posted: 28 Jun 2020 02:54 AM PDT Conservative incumbent Andrzej Duda faces main challenge from liberal mayor of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski Voting is under way in Poland's presidential election, with the incumbent, Andrzej Duda, up against a field of challengers including the liberal mayor of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski. Duda, who campaigned on a deeply conservative social agenda that was often laced with homophobia, is allied with Poland's ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, which since coming to power in 2015 has clashed with Brussels over eroding the country's rule of law. Opponents hope that if Duda is defeated, the legislative agenda of PiS could be stymied by presidential veto, and a new era of Polish politics would begin. Continue reading... |
| German far right infiltrates green groups with call to protect the land Posted: 28 Jun 2020 12:47 AM PDT Extremists exploit rural nostalgia and farmers' anger at globalisation to smuggle in ideology The poster advertising the evening of debate and organic canapés in Halle's university district looked familiar to environmentally conscious Germans: a rugged pair of hands, cupping fertile brown soil, underneath the slogan "Farms instead of agricultural factories", written in a font mimicking that of a popular biodynamic food brand. The only hint the event wasn't organised by sandal-wearing good-lifers but a local group of far-right nationalists was in the subtitle: "Let's chase the globalists off our acres!" Continue reading... |
| China criticises Canada for 'irresponsible remarks' over two men charged with spying Posted: 27 Jun 2020 07:49 PM PDT Beijing denounces 'megaphone diplomacy' over jailed Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, and arrest of Huawei executive China has sharply criticised Canada over its comments about two Canadians charged with spying, blaming its leaders for "irresponsible" statements and calling on Ottawa to end its "megaphone iplomacy". Chinese prosecutors this month charged Canadians Michael Kovrig, a former diplomat, and Michael Spavor, a businessman, over allegations of espionage and providing state secrets. Continue reading... |
| Black teenager on London charity cycle ride injured during ‘aggressive’ arrest Posted: 28 Jun 2020 01:02 AM PDT Calls for investigation after 13-year-old and his father are wrongly detained by officers investigating stabbing Huugo Boateng was taking part in a charity bike ride with his father along the River Lea in north London when he says he was grabbed from his bike by a plainclothes police officer, threatened with a stun gun and fell face first into thorny bushes. The 13-year-old told the Observer: "I'd turned around to see if my dad had caught up behind me, and suddenly this man came out of nowhere. He was crazy angry and shouting. I got scared because I thought he might be mugging me or trying to give me corona so I ran, but there was nowhere to go but in the bushes." Continue reading... |
| Bannon aims to make a comeback in circle of Trump influencers ahead of election Posted: 28 Jun 2020 02:00 AM PDT Trump fired him in 2017, but recently Bannon praised his former boss on Fox News and Trump is rumored to have spoken positively of him in return As an election approaches, Steve Bannon and his allies are trying to return the former chief White House strategist to media circles known to influence the president's thinking. An investment banker who became chairman of Breitbart News and led Donald Trump's campaign in 2016, Bannon has extensive links to global far-right nationalist movements. Continue reading... |
| France's oldest nuclear reactor to finally shut down Posted: 27 Jun 2020 11:34 PM PDT Environmentalists have welcomed news that the 43-year-old Fessenheim reactor will close, nine years after it was first planned France's oldest nuclear power plant will shut down on Tuesday after four decades in operation, to the delight of environmental activists who have long warned of contamination risks, but stoking worry for the local economy. The Fessenheim plant, opened in 1977 and already three years over its projected 40-year life span, became a target for anti-nuclear campaigners after the catastrophic meltdown at Fukushima in Japan in 2011. Continue reading... |
| Poetic justice: black lives and the power of poetry Posted: 28 Jun 2020 12:00 AM PDT Leading black British poets including Linton Kwesi Johnson, Grace Nichols and Raymond Antrobus share their thoughts on protest, change and the trailblazers who inspired them. Introduction by Kadish Morris Performance poetry revolutionised me. When I was 13, my mother invited me to a group called Leeds Young Authors, which she co-ran with founder and poet Khadijah Ibrahiim. Together, along with visiting poets, they ran writing workshops for teenagers. The selling point was that I would get the chance to travel to the US to compete in a poetry slam festival, but the excitement of getting on an aeroplane was soon overshadowed by what I can only describe as enlightenment. Poems performed at the festival taught me about police brutality, gentrification and climate change before I even owned a computer. Performance poetry immersed me in a world of critical thinking, but also, a community of black poets. I shared stages, shook hands and was taught by some of the greatest black British and African American poets before the age of 20. From Sonia Sanchez to Saul Williams to Lemn Sissay and Jackie Kay. Black British history and literature are intrinsically connected. Poems such as Linton Kwesi Johnson's Five Nights of Bleeding explored the 1981 Brixton riots, while Benjamin Zephaniah's The Death of Joy Gardner lamented on the killing of a Jamaican student who died in 1993 after being detained during a police immigration raid at her home. Literature was a forum for idea-sharing, community-building and support too. The Caribbean Artists Movement, founded by Barbadian poet Kamau Brathwaite, Trinidadian publisher John La Rose and Panamanian-Jamaican writer Andrew Salkey in London in 1966, set about promoting the work of marginalised Caribbean artists, writers and poets. More than 50 years later, black writers are yet to be fully absorbed into the mainstream. A 2018 study found that only 7% of work published in poetry journals were by people from BAME backgrounds. Black voices have often felt like guests in UK literature, despite being routinely summoned during political events. "No one leaves home unless / home is the mouth of a shark" – a line from Home by the British-Somali poet Warsan Shire – was a prominent slogan of the migrant crisis in 2015. Continue reading... |
| Everyone loses from Netanyahu’s territorial ambitions Posted: 28 Jun 2020 12:53 AM PDT The land grab in the West Bank will damage the region, the international community and Israel itself It was always about land. Arabs possessed it, Jews claimed it. Both believed they were in the right. Since the 1930s, when the flight from fascism in Europe trebled the Jewish population of Palestine to 33%, this elemental, foundational struggle has intensified inexorably – with Israelis gaining ground time after time. Now Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister and co-leader of a powerful 74% Jewish majority state, wants to finish the job. Netanyahu's plan is to annex large parts of the West Bank and the Jordan valley, but his starting date of 1 July may slip amid disagreements with the US and internally over its scope and pace. Last week, Jordan's King Abdullah described annexation as "unacceptable" and threatened to slash diplomatic ties. Hamas militants in Gaza called the plan a "declaration of war". Continue reading... |
| Opposition wins rerun of Malawi's presidential election in historic first Posted: 27 Jun 2020 02:39 PM PDT Defeat of Peter Mutharikais marks first time an incumbent African leader has lost after being forced to restage vote The historic rerun of Malawi's presidential election has been won by the opposition, the first time a court-overturned vote in Africa has led to the defeat of an incumbent leader. Lazarus Chakwera's victory was a result of months of determined street protests and a unanimous constitutional court decision that the May 2019 vote had widespread irregularities and could not stand. Continue reading... |
| 'Ethnicity is authenticity': how America got addicted to racist branding Posted: 28 Jun 2020 03:00 AM PDT As brands like Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben face an overhaul, Jason Chambers sheds light on why it took so long How do we make advertising and branding less racist? For Jason Chambers, an associate professor of advertising at the University of Illinois, this question has driven his life's work. As reckonings around racism in the US grow, a new focus has emerged: decolonizing the American supermarket. Last week, a bevy of multinational food and drink conglomerates, including PepsiCo (which owns Aunt Jemima) and ConAgra Foods (which owns Mrs Butterworth's), announced major changes to brands that many shoppers have long felt uncomfortable supporting. These include Aunt Jemima, who many have long argued is a racist "mammy figure", the "happy black cook" figurehead on Uncle Ben's rice (owned by Mars Inc), and the perceived racist packaging of Mrs Butterworth's. Cream of Wheat has also announced a review of its mascot. Continue reading... |
| New Zealand's Covid-19 isolation facilities under 'extreme stress', review finds Posted: 27 Jun 2020 09:12 PM PDT Country records biggest coronavirus case jump in two months after four returning travellers diagnosed A review of New Zealand's managed isolation and quarantine facilities has found that the system is under "extreme stress" as more and more Kiwis return home. It came as four more returnees tested positive to Covid-19 in the biggest one-day jump in cases in two months. The review found "resources required to support the managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) function have failed to keep pace with the increased volume of returnees". Continue reading... |
| Coalition plays down reports of permanent $75 rise in jobseeker payment Posted: 27 Jun 2020 07:49 PM PDT Social services minister says any talk of permanent change in unemployment payment will be for after coronavirus
The Australian government insists it is focused on the next phase of "short-term measures" to support people through the coronavirus pandemic amid reports it is considering a permanent $75 per week lift in unemployment benefits. The government has been coming under increasing pressure over the drop-off in economic supports due in September, with the Qantas announcement last week of a further 6,000 job cuts adding to expectations of extended economic pain. Continue reading... |
| If Donald Trump's down, how dirty will he fight to win? Posted: 28 Jun 2020 12:07 AM PDT Protest and pandemic are hurting the US president in the polls. His inability to gauge the national mood could be his undoing Looked at objectively, it's an odd choice. On 3 November, the American public, whose median age is around 38 and whose makeup is increasingly ethnically and racially diverse, will be asked to pick one of two elderly white men, each well into his 70s, to run the country for the next four years. |
| Coronavirus map of the US: latest cases state by state Posted: 27 Jun 2020 06:45 PM PDT With countries all over the world affected by the coronavirus pandemic, the US has emerged as a global hotspot. The Trump administration has been criticized for being slower to act than other countries. The US currently leads the world in both confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths according to Johns Hopkins University. It's important to point out that the actual death toll is believed to be far higher than the tally compiled from government figures. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus UK: are cases rising or falling near you? Posted: 27 Jun 2020 09:55 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... |
| Thousands join Black Trans Lives Matter protest in London – video Posted: 27 Jun 2020 12:11 PM PDT Thousands of protesters marched in central London to celebrate the black trans community and demonstrate against potential changes to the Gender Recognition Act Continue reading... |
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