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- US visitors set to remain banned from entering EU
- Covid-19 intensifies elder abuse globally as hospitals prioritise young
- No evidence that vitamin D prevents coronavirus, say experts
- China passes controversial Hong Kong national security law
- Scale of torture and deaths in Yemen's unofficial prisons revealed
- Coronavirus live updates: New Zealand PM dismisses calls to open borders; UK locks down city of Leicester
- 'Russian bounties' intelligence was in Trump written daily briefing – reports
- Koalas will be driven to extinction before 2050 in NSW, major inquiry finds
- New swine flu with pandemic potential identified by China researchers
- Cape Cod issues great white shark warning ahead of 4 July holiday
- ‘War on drugs’ blamed for deaths of at least 122 children in Philippines
- Johnny Mandel, Oscar-winning composer behind M*A*S*H theme, dies aged 94
- Global markets post best quarter in a decade as China's factories strengthen - business live
- Physical play with fathers may help children control emotions, study finds
- Earth's final frontier: the global race to map the entire ocean floor
- Leicester lockdown extension will mean change in law, Hancock says
- 'My day starts at 3am': coronavirus fuels gruelling Harare commutes – in pictures
- They shut his water off over an unpaid bill – and then a fire broke out
- The latest figures are a wake-up call: the global Covid-19 crisis isn't close to over | Adam Tooze
- From London I watch the crisis engulfing my beloved Hong Kong, and I despair | Jessie Lau
- ‘Deeply hurtful’ claims of Australian jobseekers turning down work are based on scant evidence
- Cooking up a solution to Uganda’s deforestation crisis with mud stoves
- Coronavirus map of the US: latest cases state by state
- 'Swim happy!': family save bear found swimming with a plastic jar on its head – video
- Dr Fauci: 'Anti-science, anti-authority, anti-vaccination feeling' could thwart Covid effort – video
- White House: 'Dissenting opinions' from intelligence community on Russian bounty reports – video
- Riot police confront peaceful violin vigil for Elijah McClain with pepper spray – video
- 'Not even close to being over': WHO chief urges testing and isolation of Covid-19 cases – video
| US visitors set to remain banned from entering EU Posted: 29 Jun 2020 09:20 AM PDT Agreed shortlist of permitted countries also excludes Russia, Brazil and India Most visitors from the US are set to remain banned from entering the European Union because of the country's rising infection rate in a move that risks antagonising Donald Trump. In an attempt to save the European tourism season, a list of 15 countries from where people should be allowed into the EU from 1 July has been agreed by representatives of the 27 member states. Continue reading... |
| Covid-19 intensifies elder abuse globally as hospitals prioritise young Posted: 29 Jun 2020 11:15 PM PDT Older patients turned away or left untreated, while domestic abuse is also rising, leading charity reports When Souzi Bondeko's grandfather started showing symptoms of Covid-19 and was struggling to breathe, she took him to a hospital in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's capital, Kinshasa, where he was put on a ventilator. She dashed home to get some food and returned to be told by a member of staff that he had been taken off the machine as it it was needed elsewhere. Continue reading... |
| No evidence that vitamin D prevents coronavirus, say experts Posted: 29 Jun 2020 10:12 AM PDT Nice says topic is under review, but still advises taking supplements for bone health No evidence exists to support taking vitamin D supplements to prevent Covid-19, UK public health experts have found. A rapid review of evidence for claims that the so-called sunshine vitamin could reduce the risk of coronavirus was launched amid concerns about the disproportionate number of black, Asian and minority ethnic people contracting and dying from the disease. Higher levels of melanin in the skin lead to less absorption of vitamin D from sunlight. Continue reading... |
| China passes controversial Hong Kong national security law Posted: 29 Jun 2020 08:00 PM PDT Critics say the measure, which criminalises secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces, erodes Hong Kong's autonomy Beijing has passed a sweeping national security law for Hong Kong that critics fear will crush political freedoms and pave the way for China to cement its control over the semi-autonomous territory. Less than 40 days after Chinese lawmakers first proposed imposing an anti-sedition law on Hong Kong, the standing committee of the National People's Congress, on Tuesday approved the measure, according officials and multiple media reports. Continue reading... |
| Scale of torture and deaths in Yemen's unofficial prisons revealed Posted: 30 Jun 2020 01:12 AM PDT Human rights group says all sides in long war responsible for shocking abuse The scale of abuse suffered by Yemenis in unofficial detention centres and prisons has been revealed in a report, which shows how extrajudicial detentions and killings have rocketed during the five-year-long conflict. Between May 2016 and April 2020, Mwatana, a leading Yemeni human rights group, documented 1,605 cases of arbitrary detention, 770 cases of enforced disappearance, and 344 cases of torture carried out by all of Yemen's warring parties, according to research published on Tuesday. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 30 Jun 2020 02:46 AM PDT Broadway theatres to stay closed until January 2021; Iran reports record daily deaths
As Spain prepares to reopen its borders tomorrow to countries in the Schengen group, the country's health authorities are keeping a close eye on 11 fresh outbreaks of Covid-19, the most worrying of which are in Lleida in Catalonia and Huesca in Aragón. Local authorities in Lleida say it is difficult to isolate people with the virus as many are migrant agricultural workers with no fixed address. Overall, Catalonia has reported 621 new cases over the past seven days. Fernando Simón, the head of medical emergencies in Madrid, said localised lockdowns, such as that imposed on Leicester, would be the best way of containing outbreaks, adding that he didn't believe any one the current outbreaks were serious enough to warrant such measures.
Here is a vivid, thought-provoking piece of photojournalism from Cynthia R Matonhodze – charting the commuting lives of frontline workers in Harare, Zimbabwe during Covid-19. Related: 'My day starts at 3am': coronavirus fuels gruelling Harare commutes – in pictures Continue reading... |
| 'Russian bounties' intelligence was in Trump written daily briefing – reports Posted: 29 Jun 2020 10:26 PM PDT
Donald Trump was given a written briefing months ago about intelligence suggesting Russia offered bounties for attacks on US forces in Afghanistan, multiple US media have reported on Monday night. The president said on Sunday he was not told of the allegations because the information was not "credible". The New York Times quoted two sources as saying details were included in a daily intelligence briefing the president received in late February. CNN said an official with direct knowledge told them it was included in the briefing – a written document – briefing "sometime in the spring". Continue reading... |
| Koalas will be driven to extinction before 2050 in NSW, major inquiry finds Posted: 29 Jun 2020 07:15 PM PDT State parliamentary investigation finds biggest threat to the species' survival is habitat loss – but logging and clearing has continued Koalas will become extinct before 2050 in NSW unless there is urgent government intervention to prevent habitat loss, a year-long inquiry has found. The NSW parliamentary inquiry also finds that a government estimate that there are 36,000 koalas in the state is outdated and unreliable. Continue reading... |
| New swine flu with pandemic potential identified by China researchers Posted: 29 Jun 2020 06:16 PM PDT G4 strain has already infected 10% of industry's workers in China but no evidence yet that it can be passed from human to human Researchers in China have discovered a new type of swine flu that is capable of triggering a pandemic, according to a study in the US science journal PNAS. Named G4, it is genetically descended from the H1N1 strain that caused a pandemic in 2009. Continue reading... |
| Cape Cod issues great white shark warning ahead of 4 July holiday Posted: 29 Jun 2020 05:43 PM PDT Sharks found in nearly every part of the cape, and are gathering there in summer in increasing numbers Cape Cod's beaches and towns may be quieter because of the coronavirus pandemic, but officials are reminding visitors ahead of the 4 July holiday that the famous Massachusetts destination remains a popular getaway for other summertime travellers: great white sharks. Great whites have been coming to the Cape in greater numbers each summer to prey on the region's large seal colonies. Most tend to favour the Atlantic ocean-facing beaches where seals tend to congregate, but researchers have found them off nearly every part of the Cape. Continue reading... |
| ‘War on drugs’ blamed for deaths of at least 122 children in Philippines Posted: 29 Jun 2020 10:15 PM PDT Activists claim young people are deliberately targeted and call for UN to investigate human rights record of Duterte regime At least 122 children, including a one-year-old, have been killed during President Rodrigo Duterte's "war on drugs" in the Philippines, according to a report that concluded some children have been deliberately shot at and targeted as proxies. The study, by the World Organisation Against Torture, adds to growing calls for the UN human rights council to establish an independent investigation into abuses committed under Duterte. Rights groups estimate that tens of thousands of people may have died as a result of unlawful killings during anti-drug operations launched after his election in 2016. Continue reading... |
| Johnny Mandel, Oscar-winning composer behind M*A*S*H theme, dies aged 94 Posted: 30 Jun 2020 02:08 AM PDT Musician, composer and arranger who also won five Grammys hailed by Michael Bublé as 'a genius, a beast' Johnny Mandel, the Oscar and Grammy-winning composer behind the theme from M*A*S*H and more, has died aged 94. Details of his death have not been released. The news was announced by musician and friend Michael Feinstein, who said: "A dear friend and extraordinary composer arranger and all-around brilliant talent Johnny Mandel just passed away. The world will never be quite the same without his humour, wit and wry view of life and the human condition. He was truly beyond compare, and nobody could write or arrange the way he did. Lord will we miss him. Let's celebrate him with his music! He would like that." Continue reading... |
| Global markets post best quarter in a decade as China's factories strengthen - business live Posted: 30 Jun 2020 02:40 AM PDT Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as China's manufacturers and services companies report growth in June
Air cargo demand remained extremely weak in May, according to the latest data from industry body IATA. IATA reports that cargo tonne-kilometres (a measures of how much stuff was flown around the world) slumped by 20.3% last month compared to the previous year. #Aircargo continues to feel the effect of #COVID19
The last six months have been pretty grim for savers. The emergency cut in UK interest rates, to just 0.1%, has prompted banks and building societies to slash their own rates - meaning income on savings is extremely thin. These rate cuts should be more than enough reason to give savers a push to switch their deal if they are getting a poor return on their hard-earned cash. Indeed, on an easy access account, savers could be earning as little as 0.01%, such as with NatWest, but the best rate on the market pays 1.15% from National Savings and Investments (NS&I) – on a £20,000 deposit, that is a difference in interest over 12 months of £228. If savers were looking to lock their cash away over the next 18 months, then the best deal comes from Bank of London and The Middle East (BLME), paying 1.15% as an expected profit rate, which is 0.44% more than the average rate today. "If savers are looking for a decent return but do not wish to lock their money away for a year or more, then a notice account could be a good bridge between fixed and easy access accounts. One example of a deal with a short notice term is ICICI Bank UK's 45-day notice account, which pays 1.24% gross monthly and is available through Raisin UK. Continue reading... |
| Physical play with fathers may help children control emotions, study finds Posted: 29 Jun 2020 10:00 PM PDT Research suggests father-child play at an early age could benefit children as they get older Children whose fathers spend time playing with them at a very early age may find it easier to control their behaviour and emotions, which has a beneficial impact as they get older and start school, according to a new study. Research carried out by Cambridge University's faculty of education and the LEGO Foundation looked at how mothers and fathers play with children aged 0 to 3 years and how it affects child development. Continue reading... |
| Earth's final frontier: the global race to map the entire ocean floor Posted: 30 Jun 2020 12:30 AM PDT An ambitious project to chart the seabed by 2030 could help countries prepare for tsunamis, protect marine habitats and monitor deep-sea mining. But the challenge is unprecedented On a wall facing Vicki Ferrini's desk hangs a giant map of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. At 6ft by 8ft, it's the largest size available on the printer at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, where she works as a geoinformatics researcher. "I of course want it even bigger," she says. The map is busier than a usual world map. Rather than showing featureless, flat blue ocean, here the seafloor bursts with detail: mountains, canyons, channels and plains that resemble the texture of land. Ferrini encourages her staff to print pictures of the seafloor features they're researching and tack them to the map. One example off the coast of Argentina shows ripples in the seafloor reaching a hundred metres high. The map has a distinctly Sherlock Holmes-about-to-break-a-big-case look to it. "I'm trying to see the scale of the ocean," she explains. "The big picture – but also the fine details." Continue reading... |
| Leicester lockdown extension will mean change in law, Hancock says Posted: 30 Jun 2020 02:01 AM PDT City is first place in England to reintroduce measures to try to stop spread of coronavirus Enforcing an extension to the Leicester lockdown will mean changes to the law, Matt Hancock has said. The city is the first place in England to reintroduce restrictive measures to try to stop the spread of coronavirus after 950 cases were reported in a two-week period. Continue reading... |
| 'My day starts at 3am': coronavirus fuels gruelling Harare commutes – in pictures Posted: 30 Jun 2020 02:30 AM PDT Lockdown measures have meant getting to work is fraught with risk for those manning essential services in Zimbabwe's capital. Three frontline staff reveal how they are coping with erratic buses, exhaustion and danger
It's a dark, nippy June morning before dawn and a queue is forming at Glen View 8 bus stop. A dozen or so people, mostly men, are there as 41-year-old Mairevei Mupombwi and her friend arrive at 4.43am carrying fleece blankets. The two women spread cloths on the ground to sit on and cover themselves with their blankets to keep warm. Mupombwi starts dozing. Continue reading... |
| They shut his water off over an unpaid bill – and then a fire broke out Posted: 30 Jun 2020 02:08 AM PDT Shut-offs are one of the worst impacts of America's water poverty crisis. Can Baltimore show another way? Albert Pickett returned to live in his childhood home after his mother died of Alzheimer's, and discovered that she'd got behind with water bills during the last few years of her life. Pickett, 60, inherited the debts and applied to get on to a repayment plan, but the water department refused as he didn't have the money, several hundred dollars, required as a deposit. Continue reading... |
| The latest figures are a wake-up call: the global Covid-19 crisis isn't close to over | Adam Tooze Posted: 30 Jun 2020 12:00 AM PDT A coordinated response to the crisis in the Americas, India and Africa must be led by countries that have suppressed the virus It took more than three months for the world to record 1 million cases of Covid-19. The latest 1 million cases were clocked up in a week, taking the total to more than 10 million. On Sunday 28 June, the world recorded more than 190,000 new cases in a single day, a new record. Don't fixate on the precise numbers. We are testing more than ever so we find more cases. What matters is the big picture and it is drawn in stark relief: the crisis is not yet over. Far from it. Even as east Asia and Europe begin to experience recovery, the momentum of the disease at the global level is building. Nor is this the famous "second wave". This is still the first wave spreading out across the world's 7.8 billion inhabitants. Continue reading... |
| From London I watch the crisis engulfing my beloved Hong Kong, and I despair | Jessie Lau Posted: 30 Jun 2020 01:38 AM PDT Watching from afar as Beijing passes the security law that tightens its grip on the territory, I feel grief and helplessness Nowadays, I have trouble sleeping. I do everything I can to lull myself into a sedative state: drink chamomile tea, wear an eye mask, take melatonin. Above all, I fight the urge to check my phone. Because as my day ends in London, morning begins in Hong Kong – and at a certain point, I won't be able to keep from checking the endless news updates from back home; a sort of masochistic ritual that has become second nature after a year of following the city's protests from afar. Last night, sleep was impossible. Beijing has just passed a sweeping national security law that will criminalise "secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign or external forces", drastically curbing dissent in Hong Kong. The legislation – which allows mainland Chinese officials to operate in Hong Kong, and in some cases could supersede the local legal system – could pose the most serious threat to the territory's cherished civil and political freedoms since its handover from Britain to China in 1997. Continue reading... |
| ‘Deeply hurtful’ claims of Australian jobseekers turning down work are based on scant evidence Posted: 30 Jun 2020 01:19 AM PDT Scott Morrison accused of amplifying anecdotal reports as Coalition prepares to cut coronavirus welfare payments Claims that Australian business owners are struggling to recruit staff because of a lack of applications are based on just a handful of responses from among 2,324 surveyed employers. Critics including Labor and the Greens have accused the Australian government of amplifying anecdotal reports about jobseekers turning down work in an apparent effort to lay the groundwork to cut government support payments. Kate Carnell, the small business ombudsman, also said the majority of people wanted to work. Continue reading... |
| Cooking up a solution to Uganda’s deforestation crisis with mud stoves Posted: 29 Jun 2020 03:46 AM PDT Badru Kyewalyanga's home-produced cooking devices use less wood and mean villagers are breathing cleaner air People are "constantly cutting down trees", says Badru Kyewalyanga, as he squelches his bare feet into a thick paste of mud in Mukono, central Uganda. "But they have nowhere else to get firewood. The deforestation rate here is very high." With only 10% of Uganda's rural population connected to the electrical grid, there is little option but to burn wood, leading to one of the worst deforestation rates in the world. Every year, 2.6% of the country's forests are cut down for fuel, agriculture, and to make way for population growth. If things stay as they are, Uganda will lose all its forest cover in less than 25 years, the country's National Environment Management Authority says. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 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... |
| 'Swim happy!': family save bear found swimming with a plastic jar on its head – video Posted: 30 Jun 2020 12:28 AM PDT A family were fishing on a lake in Wisconsin when they spotted a bear with a plastic jar stuck on its head. After several attempts at moving their boat next to the bear and removing the jar, they were finally able to free the animal. 'Never dreamt we would ever do this in our life time,' Tricia Hurt wrote on Facebook. 'Out on Marshmiller Lake yesterday with Brian Hurt and Brady Hurt when we spotted this poor bear. He made it to shore after all that' Continue reading... |
| Dr Fauci: 'Anti-science, anti-authority, anti-vaccination feeling' could thwart Covid effort – video Posted: 29 Jun 2020 08:35 PM PDT The US is 'unlikely' to achieve herd immunity to the coronavirus, according to the country's top public health expert, Dr Anthony Fauci. With the nation reaching record numbers of new Covid-19 cases last week, Fauci said a significant challenge for the government would be education around vaccinations, if one became available. He told CNN: "There is a general anti-science, anti-authority, anti-vaccine feeling among some people in this country – an alarmingly large percentage of people, relatively speaking." Continue reading... |
| White House: 'Dissenting opinions' from intelligence community on Russian bounty reports – video Posted: 29 Jun 2020 05:52 PM PDT White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany says there are dissenting opinions within the intelligence community on reports Russia offered a bounty for attacks on coalition forces in Afghanistan. US President Donald Trump denied being briefed on the alleged bounty program from Russia, later adding intelligence officials told him the threat was not 'credible'. He has since by contradicted by McEnany, who said there was no consensus among the intelligence community in a media briefing on Monday Continue reading... |
| Riot police confront peaceful violin vigil for Elijah McClain with pepper spray – video Posted: 29 Jun 2020 10:12 AM PDT Police in riot gear confronted protesters in Aurora, Colorado, who had gathered at a violin vigil for Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old known for his violin playing who died after he was put into a neck hold by police in suburban Denver last year. Aurora police department said officers did not use teargas on demonstrators but said pepper spray was used to make sure protesters were moving back.
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| 'Not even close to being over': WHO chief urges testing and isolation of Covid-19 cases – video Posted: 29 Jun 2020 09:55 AM PDT The head of the World Health Organization, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaks at a conference in Geneva almost exactly six months after the first reports of the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan, China. Tedros said test, trace and isolate was the best approach for governments, adding that in this way and without a vaccine or treatment countries have managed to keep the number of cases low
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