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- How coronavirus is reshaping Europe's tourism hotspots
- UK secures deals for 90m doses of coronavirus vaccine
- ‘I feel helpless’: three people on their grueling Covid-19 recoveries
- Cheap, popular and it works: Ireland's contact-tracing app success
- EU leaders in bitter clash over Covid-19 recovery package
- UK expected to suspend Hong Kong extradition treaty as China relations sour
- Trump refuses to commit to accepting election result as Biden enjoys poll lead
- God, abortion and better acoustics: Kanye West launches campaign with chaotic rally
- China blows up dam on Yangtze river tributary to ease flooding
- Uber drivers to launch legal bid to uncover app's algorithm
- UAE successfully launches Hope probe, Arab world's first mission to Mars
- Human Rights Watch criticises Japan after report reveals abuse of athletes
- 'New Zealand is not that big a place': the nine-month, $20,000 search for two lost dogs
- ‘They use our culture’: the Black creatives and fans holding K-pop accountable
- Police search for organisers of 3,000-strong illegal rave near Bath
- In Nigeria, colonial thinking affects everyone. It is time we found new heroes | Eniola Anuoluwapo Soyemi
- Coronavirus sheds light on Canada's poor treatment of migrant workers
- Howey Ou: China's first school climate striker – video profile
- Covid-19 commission should focus on carbon-neutral manufacturing projects, not just gas – ACTU
- Women's health organisation accused of 'institutional racism and bullying'
- Africa can become a renewable energy superpower – if climate deniers are kept at bay
- Coronavirus near me: are UK Covid-19 cases rising or falling in your area?
- Willpower v kindness: could Judith Collins crush Jacinda Ardern at the New Zealand election? | Grant Duncan for the Conversation
- Bitter coronavirus summit exposes trust deficit among EU leaders
- Great outdoors: life moves outside during pandemic - in pictures
- Five strange moments from Trump's Fox News interview – video
- China's ambassador denies abuse of Uighurs in Xinjiang during Andrew Marr interview – video
| How coronavirus is reshaping Europe's tourism hotspots Posted: 19 Jul 2020 09:00 PM PDT The collapse of visitor numbers amid the pandemic offers cities a new opportunity to rethink their business model Barely a year ago the graffiti on the walls of Barcelona read Tourists Go Home. Now that they have gone, the city – along with others that are heavily dependent on the tourist trade – fears an economic meltdown and is hastily drawing up plans to lure visitors back while placating tourist-weary residents. Trade associations predict at least 15% of businesses and one in four restaurants in Barcelona city centre will close permanently as a result of coronavirus and the outlook is similarly grim in other urban tourist destinations, with tens of thousands of jobs at risk. Continue reading... |
| UK secures deals for 90m doses of coronavirus vaccine Posted: 20 Jul 2020 02:11 AM PDT Government says agreements ensure Britain has best chance of protecting those at risk
The UK government is investing millions to secure two more experimental vaccines against Covid-19, increasing the chances of obtaining a vaccine that works for the population. The agreement is to buy 90m doses of two vaccines, which would be enough to immunise frontline health workers and care staff, who will be the priority. The government is effectively hedging its bets – the two vaccines work in a different way from the Oxford vaccine, of which it has already bought 100m doses. Continue reading... |
| ‘I feel helpless’: three people on their grueling Covid-19 recoveries Posted: 20 Jul 2020 02:30 AM PDT For 'long-haulers', a negative coronavirus test doesn't signal the start of normal life, but an uncharted road to recovery with lingering symptoms For some, coronavirus recovery is fraught with long-term complications. They are known as "long-haulers" because of their constellation of lingering symptoms with no discernible pattern. Preliminary data suggests recovery typically takes about two weeks for mild Covid-19 cases and three to six weeks for severe or critical cases. Related: How quickly will there be a vaccine? And what if people refuse to get it? Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Cheap, popular and it works: Ireland's contact-tracing app success Posted: 19 Jul 2020 10:00 PM PDT Irish-made app has more than 1.3m downloads, in stark contrast to the UK's efforts A government minister once compared Ireland's health care system to Angola – a political minefield of dysfunction, bureaucracy, waste and inefficiency. The nickname stuck. Yet this morass has just produced a shiny success: a Covid-19 contact-tracing app that is popular and appears to work. Continue reading... |
| EU leaders in bitter clash over Covid-19 recovery package Posted: 19 Jul 2020 11:42 PM PDT Orbán accuses Netherlands' Rutte of 'communist' tactics on tense third day of talks Hungary's prime minister, Viktor Orbán, accused his Dutch counterpart of using the same methods as his country's former communist leaders on Sunday, as EU leaders publicly clashed during tense and acrimonious negotiations over the terms of a proposed €1.8tn budget and recovery package for the bloc. A third difficult day of a summit of the EU's 27 heads of state and government – the first in person for five months – saw movement towards agreement as talks stretched deep into the night, but laid bare the deep splits between north and south, and east and west. Continue reading... |
| UK expected to suspend Hong Kong extradition treaty as China relations sour Posted: 19 Jul 2020 05:34 PM PDT Foreign secretary Dominic Raab to announce results of review on Monday amid tensions over Beijing's imposition of new national security law The UK is expected to suspend its extradition treaty with Hong Kong, according to multiple reports, amid a package of measures to be unveiled by foreign secretary Dominic Raab on Monday. It follows similar moves by the US, Canada and Australia in response to China's imposition of a tough new national security law on Hong Kong and amid growing tensions with Beijing. Continue reading... |
| Trump refuses to commit to accepting election result as Biden enjoys poll lead Posted: 19 Jul 2020 10:28 AM PDT
Joe Biden leads Donald Trump by 15% among registered voters nationally and holds a 20-point lead when it comes to who Americans trust to handle the coronavirus pandemic, according to a major poll out on Sunday. Related: Trump equates support for Confederate flag with Black Lives Matter Continue reading... |
| God, abortion and better acoustics: Kanye West launches campaign with chaotic rally Posted: 19 Jul 2020 08:58 PM PDT Rapper's rambling and emotional address – which included an apparent $1m for new mothers – was almost drowned out by a rowdy crowd in Charleston Kanye West has launched his campaign tour for the US presidential election in chaotic fashion at an event in Charleston, South Carolina, delivering a rambling address that touched on theology, homelessness, corporate power, and involved a long debate with an audience member about abortion. West also suggested that women should be given $1m when they have a baby. The rapper took to the stage at the event wearing a bulletproof vest, and "2020" shaved into his head. Without a mic, he proceeded to address a rowdy audience of a few hundred people, asking for complete silence before asserting that future events "will be in rooms where the acoustics will be incredible because I will be involved with the design". Continue reading... |
| China blows up dam on Yangtze river tributary to ease flooding Posted: 19 Jul 2020 08:50 PM PDT Explosives used to destroy Chu river dam in central Anhui province in bid to bring water levels down Authorities in central China have blasted a dam to release surging waters behind it amid widespread flooding that has claimed scores of lives. The dam on the Chu river in Anhui province – a tributary of the Yangtze river – was destroyed with explosives on Sunday morning, state broadcaster CCTV reported, after which the water level was expected to drop by 70cm (2ft). Continue reading... |
| Uber drivers to launch legal bid to uncover app's algorithm Posted: 19 Jul 2020 09:00 PM PDT Union wants ride-sharing firm to increase transparency and disclose how data is used Minicab drivers will launch a legal bid to uncover secret computer algorithms used by Uber to manage their work in a test case that could increase transparency for millions of gig economy workers across Europe. Two UK drivers are demanding to see the huge amounts of data the ride-sharing company collects on them and how this is used to exert management control, including through automated decision-making that invisibly shapes their jobs. Continue reading... |
| UAE successfully launches Hope probe, Arab world's first mission to Mars Posted: 19 Jul 2020 06:31 PM PDT A rocket carrying the unmanned probe, known as Al-Amal in Arabic, joins China and US in race to red planet The first Arab space mission to Mars has blasted off aboard a rocket from Japan, with its unmanned probe – called Al-Amal, or Hope – successfully separating about an hour after liftoff. A live feed of the launch showed the rocket carrying the probe lifting off from the Tanegashima Space Centre in southern Japan at 6.58am (9.58pm GMT). Continue reading... |
| Human Rights Watch criticises Japan after report reveals abuse of athletes Posted: 19 Jul 2020 10:00 PM PDT
A damning new study of sport in Japan has found child athletes have routinely suffered physical, sexual and verbal abuse from their coaches, which led several to take their own lives. Released in the week the 2020 Olympics were due to begin in Tokyo, the report by Human Rights Watch includes testimonies from Japanese athletes competing in more than 50 sports who have reported abuses that included being assaulted and sexually abused or harassed, with many suffering from depression, physical disabilities and lifelong trauma as a result. Continue reading... |
| 'New Zealand is not that big a place': the nine-month, $20,000 search for two lost dogs Posted: 19 Jul 2020 09:38 PM PDT Poodle Dice and fox terrier Weed went missing last October, but owners insist 'we can feel them out there' A couple living on the South Island's Otago Peninsula are not giving up hope of finding their beloved dogs – despite having spent $20,000 (£10,400) and nine months scouring the country for them, to no avail. Nine-year-old black poodle Dice and three-year-old fox terrier Weed went missing from Alan Funnell and Louisa Andrew's home in October last year. Continue reading... |
| ‘They use our culture’: the Black creatives and fans holding K-pop accountable Posted: 19 Jul 2020 10:00 PM PDT As K-pop grows, international fans and those writing and producing songs want the industry to to develop a more sensitive understanding of race On Tuesday 2 June, Grammy award-winning songwriter and music artist Tiffany Red returned home from a trip to her local mall, where she had encountered the national guard armed with large rifles, an experience that left Red "traumatized". Exactly one week before, George Floyd had been killed in Minneapolis, and tensions in the country were rising as hundreds of thousands took to the streets in protest. Tuesday 2 June was also #BlackoutTuesday, a global "social media moment" that grew out of the music industry's #TheShowMustGoOn, an initiative created to "hold the industry at large" – including major corporations and their partners who benefit from the efforts, struggles and successes of Black people – accountable. Continue reading... |
| Police search for organisers of 3,000-strong illegal rave near Bath Posted: 20 Jul 2020 02:18 AM PDT Police waited until next day to break up party after being alerted to a gathering on a disused airfield Police have said they are determined to track down the organisers of an illegal rave near Bath that was attended by more than 3,000 people and could be heard at least five miles away. Avon and Somerset police were not able to intervene to safely halt the rave on a disused airfield north of the city once it had got under way on Saturday night. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 20 Jul 2020 02:25 AM PDT True emancipation of the black mind means questioning every communal understanding we take for granted A few weeks ago, I sat in the paediatric ward of a private hospital in Lagos waiting on my then 10-week-old son's vaccinations. In the waiting room, all toys and loud crashing from US cartoons, I took in the sight of a Nigerian woman, her body tinged with the tell-tale redness of poisoned, bleached skin. Two beautiful babies sat, in car seats, at her feet. I exclaimed, "You had twins!" I recognised her from a few weeks before, each of us in the final throes of pregnancy. "I actually had triplets," she grinned. On cue, her Nigerian husband emerged from the doctor's office carrying their third child. Awestruck, my son in my arms, I congratulated her on her strength. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus sheds light on Canada's poor treatment of migrant workers Posted: 20 Jul 2020 02:45 AM PDT Covid-19 has surged on farms that employ foreign workers, aided by a lack of legal protections and shoddy oversight Early this year, months before the coronavirus outbreak had been declared a pandemic, Erika Zavala, 35, and Jesus Molina, 36, arrived in Canada. With few opportunities in Mexico, the couple had found jobs under a federal program for seasonal farm workers, and planned to send money home to their family. Related: Canada: three killed in glacier tour bus crash in Alberta Continue reading... |
| Howey Ou: China's first school climate striker – video profile Posted: 20 Jul 2020 01:55 AM PDT As the first young person in China to engage in Greta Thunberg-inspired Fridays for Future climate strikes, Howey Ou says she has become a target for the authorities who see that activism as a challenge to their control. The 17-year-old claims she has been told to ditch her climate activism as a condition for her restarting studies at Guangxi Normal University affiliated high school in Guilin, where she studied until late 2018. It is not necessarily her concerns for the climate that have sparked a pressure campaign from authorities, Kecheng Fang, an assistant professor at the school of journalism at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, told the Guardian. He said: 'Most importantly, because it is about collective action ... No matter what kind of collective action it is, it's considered highly sensitive' Continue reading... |
| Covid-19 commission should focus on carbon-neutral manufacturing projects, not just gas – ACTU Posted: 20 Jul 2020 01:25 AM PDT Union movement calls for $1bn fund for industrial uses of renewable energy and carbon-neutral projects Australian unions are concerned the National Covid-19 Coordination Commission's focus on gas is too narrow to achieve the energy transformation needed for sustainable manufacturing, Michele O'Neil said. The president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions made the comments on Monday when launching a policy paper on creating jobs through free childcare, subsidies for training places, and more investment in infrastructure and manufacturing. Continue reading... |
| Women's health organisation accused of 'institutional racism and bullying' Posted: 19 Jul 2020 11:15 PM PDT Investigation launched into the International Women's Health Coalition following criticism of 'toxic' culture, weeks after Women Deliver CEO issues public apology A global women's health organisation has launched an independent investigation into claims that it operated a "paralysing" culture of racism and bullying. The International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC), which advocates for women and adolescent girls, will also conduct an internal review. Continue reading... |
| Africa can become a renewable energy superpower – if climate deniers are kept at bay Posted: 19 Jul 2020 10:30 PM PDT Nigel Lawson's thinktank is pushing dirty energy on the continent with the greatest capacity for creating clean fuel The power of climate science denial in the UK, thankfully, has been in retreat over the past decade. Nigel Lawson's Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) may still boast a prime Westminster address, but its influence has waned. In fact, its decline aptly mirrors the fortunes of the coal industry, including US titans such as Peabody Energy, which saw its share price plunge 99% between 2008 and 2016 before filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy. With countries rightly phasing coal out of their energy mix, the GWPF has turned its sights on Africa to peddle its misinformation about the merits of burning fossil fuels. It has published a new report, derisively titled Heart of Darkness: Why Electricity for Africa is a Security Issue, and launched a glossy website for "energy justice", which uses the language of climate justice campaigners to try to undermine renewable energy. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Coronavirus near me: are UK Covid-19 cases rising or falling in your area? Posted: 20 Jul 2020 01:06 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. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 19 Jul 2020 05:28 PM PDT Two months out from the polls, the new National leader is hoping to come from behind by painting her popular rival as all appearance and little substance The starting gates in New Zealand's 19 September election race are finally full. Labour's prime minister Jacinda Ardern is the bookies' favourite and the opposition took a long time to settle. All the same, punters may still want to hedge their bets. Continue reading... |
| Bitter coronavirus summit exposes trust deficit among EU leaders Posted: 19 Jul 2020 10:38 AM PDT Confrontation between 'frugals' and countries with dubious commitment to rule of law exposes the union's internal fissures Bad-tempered, late-running EU summits have hardly been unusual over the last decade of eurozone crisis and endless fights over migration. But the latest three-day gathering of EU leaders, with a €1.8tn (£1.6tn) financial plan at stake, may be one of the most acrimonious yet. After a friendly start, where EU leaders exchanged playful elbow bumps and birthday greetings, the temperature plummeted. Dinner on the first evening was "a bit surly" according to Dutch prime minister, Mark Rutte, after other leaders rounded on him over his insistence on being able to veto others' access to a €750bn coronavirus recovery fund, if their economic reforms were deemed inadequate. Bulgaria's prime minister, Boyko Borissov, accused Rutte of wanting to be "the police of Europe", while Poland's leader, Mateusz Morawiecki, called Rutte and his "frugal" north European allies "misers". Continue reading... |
| Great outdoors: life moves outside during pandemic - in pictures Posted: 19 Jul 2020 11:00 PM PDT From art to religion, coronavirus has forced educational, cultural and social life into the open air on an unprecedented scale across the world Continue reading... |
| Five strange moments from Trump's Fox News interview – video Posted: 19 Jul 2020 06:58 PM PDT Facing interviewer Chris Wallace, US president Donald Trump said polls showing him trailing Joe Biden were 'fake' and that identifying an elephant proved his mental capacity. The interview also included a claim not to care what the military has to say about renaming its bases, and boasting about the country's low Covid-19 mortality rates. Continue reading... |
| China's ambassador denies abuse of Uighurs in Xinjiang during Andrew Marr interview – video Posted: 19 Jul 2020 04:53 AM PDT China's ambassador to the UK has denied reports of abuse of the Uighur population in the Xinjiang region, as he was confronted with footage of shackled prisoners being herded on to trains. Appearing on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Liu Xiaoming said: 'I do not know where you get this videotape,' adding, 'sometimes you have a transfer of prisoners, in any country.' Xinjiang is home to China's Uighurs, a predominantly Muslim ethnic group that has been subjected to religious and ethnic persecution by Chinese authorities in recent years. Continue reading... |
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