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- California announces strict rules that will keep most schools closed
- How prepared is Boris Johnson for a winter resurgence of coronavirus?
- Desperate Bolivians seek out toxic bleach falsely touted as Covid-19 cure
- Coronavirus symptoms fall into six different groupings, study finds
- Coronavirus live news: Sage member says normality 'a long way off'; Rouhani says Iran may have 25m infections
- German police capture 'Black Forest Rambo' after six-day manhunt
- John Lewis, US civil rights hero and Democratic congressman, dies at 80
- French firefighters tackle blaze at Nantes cathedral
- Meghan blames ‘intrusive’ UK tabloids for falling-out with father
- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan: Bollywood star taken to hospital with Covid-19
- Trump clashes with Fox News interviewer over false claim about Biden
- Canada police investigate vandalism of monument to Nazi troops as hate crime
- Jamaal Bowman wins New York congressional seat in major victory for progressives
- Ex-officer accused of human rights crimes in Argentina found living in Berlin
- 'Get off my neck': London police officer suspended after arrest incident
- ‘Like putting out a fire with a colander of water’: my life as an antisocial behaviour officer
- Coronavirus: UK plans millions of antibody tests after trial success - report
- John Lewis: from civil rights titan to Black Lives Matter
- Global report: coronavirus infections in India pass 1m as outbreaks flare globally
- Coronavirus Australia: Victoria records three more Covid-19 deaths and 217 new cases as PM postpones parliament
- Labour abuses happening 'at scale' far beyond Leicester, warn rights groups
- Paraguay: indigenous girl's murder fires public outrage at child sexual abuse
- Face mask fashion: politicians step out in statement masks
- Trump's campaign reshuffle shows he's figured out he's losing
- Capt Tom Moore knighted by Queen for coronavirus fundraising – video
- Elbow bumps and bows: masked EU leaders start physically distanced summit – video
- Prayers and comets: Friday's best photos
- Party and protest: the radical history of gay liberation, Stonewall and Pride – podcast
| California announces strict rules that will keep most schools closed Posted: 17 Jul 2020 01:48 PM PDT Governor Gavin Newsom said public schools will not be allowed to hold in-person classes if their county is on a monitoring list California's governor has announced strict rules for school reopening that would prevent the vast majority of students from returning to classrooms in the fall as coronavirus cases hit their highest levels yet in the state. Governor Gavin Newsom announced the new guidance on Friday, which mandates that public schools in California counties that are on a monitoring list for rising coronavirus infections cannot hold in-person classes, and will have to meet rigorous criteria for reopening. Continue reading... |
| How prepared is Boris Johnson for a winter resurgence of coronavirus? Posted: 17 Jul 2020 09:32 AM PDT The prime minister says he is hoping for the best but planning for the worst. We look at key areas of concern Boris Johnson's approach to a winter wave of Covid-19 is to hope for the best but plan for the worst, he said on Friday. The worst-case scenario was spelled out earlier in the week by the Academy of Medical Sciences: as many as 120,000 hospital patients dead. Avoiding that will depend on the state of preparations in many areas. Continue reading... |
| Desperate Bolivians seek out toxic bleach falsely touted as Covid-19 cure Posted: 17 Jul 2020 11:39 AM PDT
Long lines form every morning in one of the Bolivian cities hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic as desperate people wait to buy small bottles of chlorine dioxide, a toxic bleaching agent that has been falsely touted as a cure for Covid-19 and myriad other diseases. The rush in the city of Cochabamba to buy a disinfectant known to cause harm to those who ingest it comes even after the Bolivian health ministry warned of its dangers and said at least five people had been poisoned after taking chlorine dioxide in La Paz, the capital. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus symptoms fall into six different groupings, study finds Posted: 17 Jul 2020 04:31 AM PDT Exclusive: Findings could give medics advance warning for hospital care and respiratory support Symptoms of Covid-19 appear to fall into six different groupings, researchers have revealed, in work they say could help to predict whether a patient will end up needing a ventilator or other breathing support. The team say the findings could give healthcare providers several days advanced warning of demand for hospital care and respiratory support. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 18 Jul 2020 02:25 AM PDT Prof John Edmund says virus will 'come back very fast' if normal behaviour resumes too soon; confirmed global cases pass 14m. Follow all the developments live
The UK government has announced a £266 million housing fund to find long-term accommodation for those given emergency shelter during the coronavirus pandemic. The Next Steps Accommodation Programme will make the funds available for local councils to cover property costs and support new tenancies support 15,000 people.
Indonesia has recorded 1,752 new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number to 84,882, the health ministry has announced. The country recorded a further 59 deaths on Saturday, taking the total to 4,016. Continue reading... |
| German police capture 'Black Forest Rambo' after six-day manhunt Posted: 17 Jul 2020 10:42 AM PDT Yves Rausch had been on run after allegedly pulling gun on police last Sunday German police have captured a heavily armed suspect accused of stealing officers' weapons, after a six-day manhunt for the "Black Forest Rambo". The man, named by police as Yves Rausch, had been on the run since last Sunday morning after holding up four officers and stealing their firearms in what his mother claims was a moment of "panic". Continue reading... |
| John Lewis, US civil rights hero and Democratic congressman, dies at 80 Posted: 17 Jul 2020 11:09 PM PDT Lewis helped Martin Luther King organise the March on Washington in 1963 and once suffered a broken skull at the hands of state troopers John Lewis, the civil rights hero and US Democratic congressman, has died at the age of 80. Lewis, the son of sharecroppers from Alabama, became a prominent leader of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. A founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, he became its chair in 1963, and helped organise the March on Washington, when Martin Luther King Jr delivered his "I have a dream" speech. Continue reading... |
| French firefighters tackle blaze at Nantes cathedral Posted: 18 Jul 2020 01:37 AM PDT Local fire service battles to extinguish flames engulfing 15th-century building Firefighters are battling a fire that broke out on Saturday morning inside a cathedral in the western French city of Nantes. TV images showed smoke coming out of the 15th-century Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul Cathedral. The blaze comes just over a year after a large fire at the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, which destroyed its roof and main spire. Continue reading... |
| Meghan blames ‘intrusive’ UK tabloids for falling-out with father Posted: 18 Jul 2020 12:31 AM PDT Details of father/daughter financial relationship disclosed as part of Mail on Sunday lawsuit The Duchess of Sussex has blamed British tabloids for destroying her relationship with her father, claiming he received "significant payments" for providing quotes to newspapers and commentators. Meghan's lawyers said she and Thomas Markle "had a very close father/daughter relationship throughout her childhood and remained close until he was targeted three years ago by intrusive UK tabloid media". Continue reading... |
| Aishwarya Rai Bachchan: Bollywood star taken to hospital with Covid-19 Posted: 18 Jul 2020 02:23 AM PDT Former Miss World and daughter admitted to same Mumbai unit as her husband and father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan as India's pandemic worsens Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, the Bollywood star and former Miss World, has been moved to a hospital in Mumbai along with her eight-year-old daughter nearly a week after they were revealed to have the coronavirus, media reports said. Her husband, actor Abhishek Bachchan, and her superstar father-in-law, Amitabh Bachchan, are already in the same hospital with Covid-19, the highest-profile personalities to have been infected in India, which has now recorded more than one million cases in the pandemic. Continue reading... |
| Trump clashes with Fox News interviewer over false claim about Biden Posted: 17 Jul 2020 06:40 PM PDT
Donald Trump has clashed with a Fox News interviewer after the president was challenged about a false claim that Joe Biden wants to defund police. In a clip of Chris Wallace's Fox News Sunday interview with Trump released on Friday, the president said that his likely opponent in November's presidential election supported the movement to defund police forces. Continue reading... |
| Canada police investigate vandalism of monument to Nazi troops as hate crime Posted: 17 Jul 2020 12:37 PM PDT
Graffiti spray-painted on a monument to Nazi soldiers in a small Canadian city is being investigated by police as a hate crime – a move that has prompted disbelief among human rights advocates. Around 21 June, the words "Nazi war monument" were spray-painted on to a cenotaph commemorating soldiers in the 14th SS Division in an Ontario cemetery, the Ottawa Citizen reported. Continue reading... |
| Jamaal Bowman wins New York congressional seat in major victory for progressives Posted: 17 Jul 2020 04:33 PM PDT The former teacher, who earned the support of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Elizabeth Warren, ousted 16-term Eliot Engel Jamaal Bowman, a former teacher endorsed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Elizabeth Warren, has ousted the 16-term Democratic congressman Eliot Engel in the race for New York's 16th district, marking a major win for the party's progressive wing. Bowman had been leading Engel and candidate Christopher Fink since the 6 July primary but the race had not been called by the Associated Press until Friday. In the end Bowman defeated Engel with 55% of the vote, a margin of roughly 12,000 votes, when the race was called. Bowman had declared victory earlier in the month when in-person voting had concluded. Continue reading... |
| Ex-officer accused of human rights crimes in Argentina found living in Berlin Posted: 17 Jul 2020 11:32 AM PDT Luis Esteban Kyburg, who allegedly oversaw deaths of at least 150 during dictatorship, escaped to Germany in 2013 A former naval officer, charged with human rights crimes during Argentina's bloody 1976-83 dictatorship, has been discovered living in Berlin – despite being the subject of an international arrest warrant. Luis Esteban Kyburg, the alleged commander of an elite navy unit believed responsible for the deaths of at least 150 people, was filmed by the Bild tabloidwalking down the streets of Berlin's trendy Friedrichshain district . Continue reading... |
| 'Get off my neck': London police officer suspended after arrest incident Posted: 17 Jul 2020 10:05 AM PDT Video appears to show Met officer applying pressure with his knee to suspect's neck area A Metropolitan police officer has been suspended after a video appeared to show him briefly applying pressure with his knee to a suspect's neck area during an arrest in London. The footage shows the suspect, who is handcuffed and on the ground, shouting, "Get off my neck." The Metropolitan police said the video was "extremely disturbing" and that they had suspended one officer and removed another from operational duty. Continue reading... |
| ‘Like putting out a fire with a colander of water’: my life as an antisocial behaviour officer Posted: 18 Jul 2020 02:00 AM PDT I lasted 18 years in the job – but working with heroin addicts, the terminally ill and nuisance neighbours nearly broke me One thing I've learned in my 18 years as an antisocial behaviour officer is that most people, even police officers or council staff with whom I work closely, have no idea what it is that I do. The best visual metaphor for my job would be an incredibly confusing Venn diagram, with circles of various sizes bumping up against squiggly shapes that look a bit like a pork scratching. These shapes represent the various agencies my job interacts with on a regular basis: social services, mental health teams, drug and alcohol rehabilitation, probation, police, the fire brigade, places of worship, youth offending teams, environmental health, counsellors, councillors, and dog wardens. Each shape has an edge where their responsibility for a problem begins to blur and, they could reasonably argue, disappears completely. This is the point at which they can invoke the magic mantra: Not My Job. Not My Job. Say it loud and there's music playing; say it soft and it's almost like praying, as Stephen Sondheim once wrote (about Maria in West Side Story, admittedly, and if I managed the estate where the Jets and the Sharks lived, I'd have them all on non-association injunctions and be asking Officer Krupke whether he was cut out for community policing). Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus: UK plans millions of antibody tests after trial success - report Posted: 18 Jul 2020 02:17 AM PDT The finger-prick tests were found to be 98.6% accurate in secret human trials held in June, according to the Daily Telegraph The UK government is planning to distribute millions of free coronavirus antibody tests after successful secret trials, according to reports. The finger-prick tests, which can tell within 20 minutes if a person has ever been exposed to the coronavirus, were found to be 98.6% accurate in human trials held in June, the Daily Telegraph reported. Continue reading... |
| John Lewis: from civil rights titan to Black Lives Matter Posted: 18 Jul 2020 01:57 AM PDT The late congressman's lifelong fight for equality mirrored the US's racial struggles He was the youngest speaker at the March on Washington in 1963. More than half a century later, he stood outside the White House surveying the words "Black Lives Matter" painted on a street. John Lewis's story was in many ways America's story and testament to its unfinished journey. Lewis, a titan of the civil rights movement, died on Friday at the age of 80, severing a vital link with the generation that rose in the 60s to resist the US's version of racial apartheid. The news was met with a depth of grief normally reserved for former presidents. Lewis transcended party politics and was truly admired and beloved. Continue reading... |
| Global report: coronavirus infections in India pass 1m as outbreaks flare globally Posted: 17 Jul 2020 08:35 AM PDT Country becomes third in world to reach figure; alarming peak in French region of Brittany India has become the third country to record more than 1m coronavirus infections, following the US and Brazil, as it reported 34,956 new cases in the past 24 hours, taking the national total to 1,003,832. New peaks continue to appear around the world, including an alarming rise in the Brittany region of France. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 18 Jul 2020 01:13 AM PDT Australia's acting chief medical officer warns people in Sydney are not taking precautions 'as seriously' as in Melbourne Victoria has recorded 217 new cases of Covid-19 and three more deaths, as the prime minister, Scott Morrison, announced parliament would be postponed due to the health risks of MPs travelling to Canberra from Melbourne and south-western Sydney. Victoria's chief health officer, Brett Sutton, described the 217 cases as "a relief" following a record 428 new cases announced on Friday, and a then-record 317 new cases on Thursday. Continue reading... |
| Labour abuses happening 'at scale' far beyond Leicester, warn rights groups Posted: 17 Jul 2020 06:40 AM PDT Exploitation occurring in UK farming, construction, contract cleaning, fishing, recycling and domestic work, say labour organisations The labour abuses and sweatshop conditions reported in factories in Leicester are occurring "at scale" across the UK's garment, manufacturing and farming industries, campaigners warn. Reports of similar exploitative conditions and labour abuses alleged to be occurring in Leicester have also been linked to garment factories in Birmingham, Manchester and London, among other places. Continue reading... |
| Paraguay: indigenous girl's murder fires public outrage at child sexual abuse Posted: 17 Jul 2020 03:00 AM PDT The conservative South American country has high levels of sexual violence against minors and a shocking child pregnancy rate Human rights activists in Paraguay have led a wave of fierce public indignation after a series of alarming cases in which sexual violence towards young girls has culminated in murder and child pregnancy. The highly conservative South American country has long struggled with high levels of sexual violence towards children. Continue reading... |
| Face mask fashion: politicians step out in statement masks Posted: 17 Jul 2020 06:01 AM PDT From Nicola Sturgeon's tartan to Michael Gove's fog, politicians find masks to match their personality Nicola Sturgeon set the template for face mask diplomacy almost three weeks ago with a £10 tartan mask, which raised money for Shelter Scotland. Her endorsement sparked staggering sales and promoted Scottish culture, charity and business in one photo op, while making a clear message about public health. In other words, she played a blinder. Sturgeon also sparkled a trend of sorts, with Jackson Carlaw, the leader of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist party, wearing an even toastier-looking tartan face mask to pour himself a patriotic pint a few weeks later. Continue reading... |
| Trump's campaign reshuffle shows he's figured out he's losing Posted: 17 Jul 2020 05:18 AM PDT Trump's campaign has lurched from bad to worse, but will demoting Brad Parscale save it? Brad Parscale once memorably compared the Donald Trump re-election campaign to the planet-smashing Death Star from the Star Wars films. "In a few days we start pressing FIRE for the first time," he tweeted on 7 May. Now, Parscale resembles one of those hapless imperial officers, usually played by a British actor, lifted off his feet and choked by Darth Vader's distant but deadly grip as retribution for letting rebels escape. Continue reading... |
| Capt Tom Moore knighted by Queen for coronavirus fundraising – video Posted: 17 Jul 2020 08:51 AM PDT Capt Tom Moore, whose sponsored walks in his garden raised £33m for NHS charities, has been knighted in the Queen's first official engagement in person since lockdown. The 100-year-old war veteran attended a unique open-air ceremony at Windsor Castle on Friday to receive the honour
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| Elbow bumps and bows: masked EU leaders start physically distanced summit – video Posted: 17 Jul 2020 06:47 AM PDT The leaders of EU27 countries wore face masks as they greeted each other with elbow bumps, nods, bows and some variations at a summit to thrash out a deal on a multibillion coronavirus recovery fund for the bloc's economies. There were birthday gifts for the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, who turned 66, and the Portuguese prime minister, António Costa, who turned 59 Continue reading... |
| Prayers and comets: Friday's best photos Posted: 17 Jul 2020 06:37 AM PDT The Guardian's picture editors select highlights from around the world Continue reading... |
| Party and protest: the radical history of gay liberation, Stonewall and Pride – podcast Posted: 17 Jul 2020 04:00 AM PDT A police raid on a gay bar in New York led to the birth of the Pride movement half a century ago – but the fight for LGBTQ+ rights goes back much further than that. By Huw Lemmey Continue reading... |
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