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Fauci says states with surging Covid-19 cases should pause reopening efforts
Helen Clark: WHO coronavirus inquiry aims to 'stop the world being blindsided again'
Tokyo pays clubs and hostess bars to close after spike in coronavirus cases
New Zealand: man cuts through fence to escape Covid-19 quarantine and buy alcohol
Coronavirus live news: new outbreak prompts Hong Kong to close all schools; new spike in Melbourne
Police interrogate five Australian Al Jazeera journalists accused of sedition in Malaysia
'This is intolerable': fearful Australians in Hong Kong hasten plans to leave city
New York City mayor helps paint 'Black Lives Matter' outside Trump Tower
US imposes sanctions on senior Chinese officials over Uighur abuses
Trump’s taxes may be released to Manhattan grand jury, supreme court rules
Park Won-soon: Seoul mayor found dead after being reported missing
Top US general vows response if military confirms reports of Russian bounties
Trump's ex-fixer Michael Cohen back in custody over early-release rule breach
Bodies donated to science 'left to be eaten by rats at Paris centre'
Ellie Goulding: 'I was made to feel vulnerable, like a sexual object'
Treasures found by the British public – in pictures
Sex traffickers left thousands of women to starve during Italy lockdown
UK accused of 'empty talk' as Bahrain activists face death penalty
Security video shows Naya Rivera and son renting boat in California – video
Mexicans dying of Covid-19 in US face burial far from home and loved ones
Philippine lawmakers vote for shutdown of top broadcaster
Coronavirus Australia latest: the week at a glance
Chile’s indigenous communities face new challenges amid pandemic
'A drastic loss': Satellite imagery reveals Mali's farmers forced off land by militias
The world's poorest women and girls risk being biggest losers in DfID merger
Zimbabwe health minister facing coronavirus corruption charge sacked
Coronavirus near me: are UK Covid-19 cases rising or falling in your area
Bolivia's president Jeanine Añez says she has tested positive for coronavirus – video
'Work out to help out': gyms, sports clubs and swimming pools to reopen in England – video
Serbian protesters clash with police over government handling of coronavirus – video report

Fauci says states with surging Covid-19 cases should pause reopening efforts

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 11:58 AM PDT

Public health expert made remark after US set world record for most new Covid-19 cases reported in one day

As the US set a world record for most Covid-19 cases in one day, with 60,000 reported on Wednesday, Dr Anthony Fauci, a senior member of the White House coronavirus taskforce, said states needed to pause reopening efforts.

Helen Clark: WHO coronavirus inquiry aims to 'stop the world being blindsided again'

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 11:00 PM PDT

Former New Zealand prime minister says WHO director general said during early days he was 'screaming every day but no one is listening'

A former prime minister of New Zealand whose leadership was defined by stability and thoroughness has been appointed to investigate if the World Health Organization failed to adequately warn of the coronavirus pandemic.

In global circles, Helen Clark became known as a "fighter" and has described the WHO investigation as "exceptionally challenging" and a "very tough gig", given the review would be conducted in the midst of a pandemic. Speaking to the Guardian from her home in Auckland, Clark said she had to start immediately – "before another pandemic is upon us".

Tokyo pays clubs and hostess bars to close after spike in coronavirus cases

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 08:57 PM PDT

City authorities, which cannot legally force closures, offer incentives after Japan capital reports a record 224 new cases

Nightclubs and hostess bars in Tokyo are to be paid to close after the Japanese capital recorded 224 coronavirus cases on Thursday, the highest daily tally since the pandemic began.

Authorities had previously refused to give nightlife businesses economic support during the pandemic, but have changed tack after 80% of Thursday's infections were among people in their 20s and 30s. Many of them were identified after more than 3,000 tests were carried out in Tokyo entertainment districts, including Shinjuku and Ikebukuro.

New Zealand: man cuts through fence to escape Covid-19 quarantine and buy alcohol

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 07:46 PM PDT

Man in his 50s is the third person to abscond during quarantine, as the nation battles with influx of returning citizens

New Zealand's government has revealed that a third person has absconded from a managed isolation facility, saying a man cut through a fence so that he could go to buy some alcohol.

On Wednesday a man, aged in his 30s absconded from his managed quarantine hotel in central Auckland to visit a supermarket and later tested positive for coronavirus. It came after a woman jumped over a hedge to get out of quarantine. Later, she got lost and asked a passing policeman for directions back to her hotel.

Coronavirus live news: new outbreak prompts Hong Kong to close all schools; new spike in Melbourne

Posted: 10 Jul 2020 02:41 AM PDT

Bolivia leader and Venezuelan Socialist party boss test positive; Tokyo pays nightclubs to close; global cases reach 12.3m

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Very sad story about Mexicans dying of Covid-19 in US facing burial far from home and loved ones.

More than 1,500 Mexican immigrants have died in the US and families face hurdles as they seek to return their loved ones' remains

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Our own Hannah Devlin has worked up this exhaustive guide to what kind of face mask gives the best protection against Covid-19, answering questions like:

Police interrogate five Australian Al Jazeera journalists accused of sedition in Malaysia

Posted: 10 Jul 2020 02:31 AM PDT

Journalists ordered to be questioned after broadcast of documentary about migrant workers in Kuala Lumpur during Covid-19 pandemic

Six journalists including five Australians are being interrogated by Malaysian authorities who have accused them of sedition and defamation after the broadcast of a documentary about migrant workers in Kuala Lumpur during Covid-19.

A week after the broadcast of the Al Jazeera English documentary in Malaysia, the journalists were ordered to attend the police station for questioning on Friday morning.

'This is intolerable': fearful Australians in Hong Kong hasten plans to leave city

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 05:20 PM PDT

Expats say they feel insecure about living somewhere 'where the walls have ears'

• Australia's Hong Kong intervention was hardly strident but that didn't matter to China

Australian expats in Hong Kong are feeling jittery about their future after Beijing imposed a new national security law that could lead to foreigners being arbitrarily detained. They say the move has hastened their plans to leave the financial hub amid calls from their government for its citizens to "reconsider" their need to stay there.

The national security law passed in Beijing and enacted in Hong Kong on 1 July punishes crimes of secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces with up to life in prison. It applies to permanent residents and non-residents in Hong Kong who breach the law in the territory, along with anyone accused of violating the law regardless of their nationality and where the alleged crime took place – so foreigners could be arrested on arrival in Hong Kong. National security cases can also be sent to Chinese courts for trial.

New York City mayor helps paint 'Black Lives Matter' outside Trump Tower

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 03:40 PM PDT

Slogan painted on Fifth Avenue a week after president tweeted it would be 'a symbol of hate'

New York City's mayor, Bill de Blasio, took part in painting "Black Lives Matter" in front of Trump Tower in Manhattan on Thursday, a week after Donald Trump tweeted it would be "a symbol of hate".

De Blasio was flanked by his wife, Chirlane McCray, and the Rev Al Sharpton as he helped paint the racial justice rallying cry in giant yellow letters on Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower. Activists watching chanted: "Whose streets? Our streets!"

US imposes sanctions on senior Chinese officials over Uighur abuses

Posted: 10 Jul 2020 01:48 AM PDT

Mike Pompeo says US 'will not stand idly by' over abuses of ethnic minorities in China's western region of Xinjiang

The United States has imposed sanctions on three senior officials of the Chinese Communist party, including a member of the ruling politburo, for alleged human rights abuses targeting ethnic and religious minorities in the western part of the country.

Secretary of state Mike Pompeo said in a statement: "The United States will not stand idly by as the Chinese Communist party carries out human rights abuses targeting Uighurs, ethnic Kazakhs and members of other minority groups in Xinjiang, to include forced labor, arbitrary mass detention, and forced population control, and attempts to erase their culture and Muslim faith."

Trump’s taxes may be released to Manhattan grand jury, supreme court rules

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 09:34 AM PDT

Court also rules in a separate decision that the president does not have to turn over his financial records to Congress

The supreme court has ruled that a Manhattan grand jury may have access to some of Donald Trump's financial documents, dealing a major blow to the president in his fight to keep his tax records secret – although the records were not expected to become public ahead of the November election.

Prosecutors in New York had sought the documents as part of an investigation into whether Trump had improperly handled hush payments, including one to the pornographic film actor star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Park Won-soon: Seoul mayor found dead after being reported missing

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 11:49 AM PDT

Body found as local reports say Park had been subject of sexual harassment complaint

The missing mayor of Seoul, who had reportedly been accused of sexual harassment, has been found dead more than half a day after leaving a message for his daughter that was "like a will".

Police said rescue dogs found Park Won-soon's body near a restaurant in wooded hills in northern Seoul, more than seven hours after they launched a search for him.

Top US general vows response if military confirms reports of Russian bounties

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 03:38 PM PDT

Gen Mark Milley tells lawmakers Pentagon is investigating reports Russia paid for attacks on US soldiers in Afghanistan

America's top general has said military intelligence agencies are working to corroborate reports of Russia paying Taliban fighters bounties for killing US soldiers and vowed a response if they were confirmed.

Gen Mark Milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, told the House armed services committee, that the Pentagon was committed to discovering whether Russian military intelligence had paid for attacks on American soldiers in Afghanistan.

Trump's ex-fixer Michael Cohen back in custody over early-release rule breach

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 03:40 PM PDT

Bureau of Prisons says Cohen, who was released in May over coronavirus concerns, 'refused conditions of home confinement'

Donald Trump's former personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, was returned to federal prison on Thursday, after balking at certain conditions of the home confinement he was granted because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Bodies donated to science 'left to be eaten by rats at Paris centre'

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 11:10 AM PDT

Inquiry to examine claims remains were found strewn around and dismembered

Authorities in France will investigate claims that human corpses donated for science were left to rot and be eaten by rats at a university research facility, the Paris prosecutor's office has said.

An investigation into "violations of the integrity of a corpse" was handed over to magistrates by prosecutors who handled the initial phase of the investigation after l'Express magazine reported the scandal last November.

Ellie Goulding: 'I was made to feel vulnerable, like a sexual object'

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 10:00 PM PDT

Knocked off course by anxiety and an album she didn't believe in, the singer is back after five years away with a bold new sound – and an urge to speak out

Ellie Goulding has spent the coronavirus lockdown holed up in what is essentially the world's nicest student house. Her art dealer husband Caspar Jopling is studying an MBA at Oxford University – he is on the boat race team, Clark Kentishly nerd-handsome and ripped – and she has been at his lovely old cottage in the surrounding countryside. You get the feeling the only noodles to have crossed the threshold are wholewheat udon rather than Super or Pot.

When I arrive, she ushers me back out, desperate for a constitutional. As we turn off the road on to a deserted footpath, she pulls her hood down perhaps unconsciously: the celebrity leaving incognito mode. We tramp up and down a lane of brambles and bushes, chatting about TikTok.

Treasures found by the British public – in pictures

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 11:00 PM PDT

The British public have discovered hundreds of thousands of archaeological objects, and the British Museum has revealed that the number recorded by its Portable Antiquities Scheme has hit a milestone 1.5m. These finds have radically transformed what we know about life through time on the British Isles

Sex traffickers left thousands of women to starve during Italy lockdown

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 11:30 PM PDT

Revealed: Gangs abandoned trafficked Nigerian women without access to food or funds amid coronavirus pandemic

Thousands of Nigerian women forced into prostitution were left to starve by sex traffickers during the Covid-19 pandemic in Italy, the Guardian can reveal.

According to the UN's International Office for Migration (IOM), more than 80% of the tens of thousands of Nigerian women who arrived in Italy from Libya in recent years were victims of highly organised sex trafficking gangs. The women are forced into prostitution to pay off debts of up to €40,000 (£36,000) and controlled through violence and fear of "juju" black magic rituals they are made to undergo before their journey to Europe.

UK accused of 'empty talk' as Bahrain activists face death penalty

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 11:21 AM PDT

Calls intensify for withdrawal from security arrangement with kingdom over human rights

The British government has been accused of "empty talk" over human rights as two pro-democracy campaigners in Bahrain face the death penalty.

The UK has provided security advice to the island nation in the Persian Gulf for five years and funds a body that examines allegations of police mistreatment.

Security video shows Naya Rivera and son renting boat in California – video

Posted: 10 Jul 2020 02:03 AM PDT

Authorities have released footage of the former Glee star and her son renting a boat before she went missing on 7 July.

The search for Rivera has turned from a rescue to a recovery mission, with authorities saying they presumed she drowned while boating on a lake north of Los Angeles.

Rivera, 33, who played high school cheerleader Santana Lopez in the television series Glee until 2015, went missing after renting a boat on Lake Piru with her four-year-old son.

Naya Rivera: Glee star feared dead after son found alone in boat at lake

Mexicans dying of Covid-19 in US face burial far from home and loved ones

Posted: 10 Jul 2020 02:15 AM PDT

More than 1,500 Mexican immigrants have died in the US and families face hurdles as they seek to return their loved ones' remains

Medel Huesca liked to dance, play cumbia music, and host backyard cookouts at the house he shared with relatives in Valley Stream, New York. He was deeply loyal, and kept close ties to his family in Veracruz, Mexico, despite having been away for twenty years.

He worked two jobs – at a supermarket and for a meat supplier – to support his wife and six children back home; he provided uniforms to his youngest daughter's baseball team, and he called home nearly every day.

Philippine lawmakers vote for shutdown of top broadcaster

Posted: 10 Jul 2020 02:05 AM PDT

ABS-CBN denied licence after repeatedly clashing with President Rodrigo Duterte

Lawmakers in the Philippines have voted against the renewal of a 25-year franchise for the nation's biggest broadcaster, ABS-CBN, ensuring a media conglomerate that has clashed with the country's firebrand president stays off the air indefinitely.

A legislative committee overwhelmingly supported a house working group's assessment that ABS-CBN was "undeserving of the grant of legislative franchise", a decision likely to anger activists who say media freedom has come under sustained attack during the rule of President Rodrigo Duterte.

Coronavirus Australia latest: the week at a glance

Posted: 10 Jul 2020 02:41 AM PDT

A summary of the major developments in the coronavirus outbreak across Australia

Good evening, here are the latest developments on the coronavirus pandemic in Australia. This is Hannah Ryan and it's Friday 10 July.

Chile’s indigenous communities face new challenges amid pandemic

Posted: 10 Jul 2020 02:00 AM PDT

Country's indigenous groups count for 12.8% of population but government response has been criticised as 'monocultural'

Away from the grey tower blocks and sprawling suburbs of Chile's capital, Santiago, the country's indigenous communities are facing new challenges during the pandemic.

The country's 10 indigenous groups account for 12.8% of the population, scattered from the southernmost tip of Patagonia to the dry plains of the Atacama Desert in the north, and remote Easter Island in the South Pacific.

'A drastic loss': Satellite imagery reveals Mali's farmers forced off land by militias

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 11:15 PM PDT

Attacks by Islamist groups and rising ethnic tension in the Mopti region have led to life-threatening disruption to farming practices

A surge in fighting in central Mali has forced hundreds of villagers from farmland they depend on and could leave them without enough food to survive this year, according to a study of satellite imagery by the UN's World Food Programme.

More than half the number of violent attacks by armed groups against Mali civilians last year were recorded in the Mopti region, largely targeting people who survive on land or livestock.

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The world's poorest women and girls risk being biggest losers in DfID merger

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 10:00 PM PDT

The department is a world leader in programmes based on gender equality. The government must show this will continue

News that the Department for International Development and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office are to merge raised many questions about the UK's commitment to supporting the world's poorest people. A key question for us is how the new department will support women and girls.

For more than 20 years, UK aid has saved and transformed the lives of women and girls in some of the world's poorest countries. In the past five years, 10 million women and girls have received humanitarian assistance and more than 6 million girls have been able to access quality education. Upwards of £25m has been invested to prevent violence against women and girls through the government's What Works programme, and a further £67m committed.

Zimbabwe health minister facing coronavirus corruption charge sacked

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 04:55 AM PDT

Obadiah Moyo has been charged with criminal abuse of office over the alleged awarding of a $60m contract for Covid-19 supplies

A Zimbabwean health minister charged with corruption in connection with the awarding of a multimillion dollar contract for Covid-19 medical supplies has been fired by the president.

Obadiah Moyo was sacked by Emmerson Mnangagwa this week for inappropriate conduct by a public official.

Coronavirus near me: are UK Covid-19 cases rising or falling in your area

Posted: 10 Jul 2020 12:56 AM PDT

Latest updates: how has Covid-19 progressed where you live? Check the week-on-week changes across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

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.

Bolivia's president Jeanine Añez says she has tested positive for coronavirus – video

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 10:47 PM PDT

Bolivia's President Jeanine Añez said on Thursday she has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Añez said in a tweet she was "well" and continuing to work while in isolation. "Together, we will come out of this," she said.

The Bolivian government confirmed that at least seven ministers, including its health minister, had tested positive and were either undergoing treatment or recuperating at home

Coronavirus live news: Bolivia leader tests positive as Australia limits returnees

'Work out to help out': gyms, sports clubs and swimming pools to reopen in England – video

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 10:33 AM PDT

The culture secretary has urged the nation to 'work out to help out' as he announced that gyms, sports clubs, swimming pools and leisure centres will be able to reopen this month. Oliver Dowden also said theatre companies and musicians would be able to perform in open-air venues

Serbian protesters clash with police over government handling of coronavirus – video report

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 08:00 AM PDT

Police have fired teargas to disperse protesters hurling flares and objects in Serbia's capital as violence erupted for the second day in a row during demonstrations against the president's handling of the country's coronavirus outbreak. The president, Aleksandar Vučić, backtracked on his plans to reinstate a coronavirus lockdown in Belgrade this week, but it did not stop people from firing flares and throwing stones while trying to storm the parliament building

Violence at Belgrade protest over government's handling of lockdown

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