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LA's Covid-19 'explosion': overwhelmed hospitals, struggling workers, shuttered restaurants
Irish pubs reopened: 'It’s different but it’s nice to be back'
'I'm cautiously optimistic': Imperial's Robin Shattock on his coronavirus vaccine
Prince Andrew under pressure after arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell
Coronavirus live news: Belgrade declares state of emergency; South Africa cases surge after lockdown lifted
Hong Kong journalists and lawyers scramble to adapt to security law
Copenhagen's Little Mermaid branded 'racist fish' in graffiti attack
Édouard Philippe replaced with Jean Castex as prime minister of France
St Paul's bomb-plotter Safiyya Amira Shaikh given life sentence
Heatwaves have become longer in most of the world since 1950s – study
Twenty Saudi officials go on trial in absentia over Khashoggi killing
China's stock market closes at highest level in five years
Trial collapses of three Britons accused of aiding man to go to fight in Syria
Jay-Z's Team Roc call for prosecution of police officer who shot and killed 3 men
'The pinnacle of storytelling': reader reviews of The Last of Us Part II
Ghislaine Maxwell follows her family's footsteps into the dock
Bolivia in danger of squandering its head start over coronavirus
Coronavirus Australia latest: the week at a glance
Priti Patel accused of 'shameful' bid to deport girl at risk of FGM
Alarm bells ring over aid spending amid lack of clarity on DfID merger
Refugee victims of Tajoura bombing still lie in unmarked graves one year on
‘I saw so much killing’: the mental health crisis of South Sudan refugees
Coronavirus UK: are Covid-19 cases rising or falling near you?
Ghislaine Maxwell arrest throws spotlight back on Prince Andrew
Britain's citizenship offer to Hong Kong: how China could respond
How we can truly repay our frontline health workers: clear their debts | Alissa Quart, Astra Taylor And Brittany M Powell
A history of Fourth of July protests in America – in pictures
How a small Spanish town became one of Europe's worst Covid-19 hotspots – podcast
New York man ignites his own house after shooting illegal firework through window – video
How one neighbourhood in London lost 36 residents to Covid-19 – podcast
Trump declares US economy is 'roaring back', despite record Covid-19 cases – video
Ghislaine Maxwell charged over role in Epstein sexual exploitation – video
Why is coronavirus still surging in the US? – video explainer

LA's Covid-19 'explosion': overwhelmed hospitals, struggling workers, shuttered restaurants

Posted: 03 Jul 2020 03:00 AM PDT

The county has brought back restrictions, compounding challenges for the region's most vulnerable residents

Los Angeles is facing an alarming rise in Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations as the region backtracks on reopening before a major holiday weekend.

LA county broke records in recent days with worrying coronavirus outbreaks and fatality rates – the county reported three straight days of more than 2,100 new cases.

Irish pubs reopened: 'It’s different but it’s nice to be back'

Posted: 02 Jul 2020 09:00 PM PDT

Ireland eased restrictions this week and drinkers have been getting used to the new normal

They had had to book a table, restrict their group to four people, sanitise their hands, shun the bar, not sing, and leave after 105 minutes, but Johnny Knox and Tommy Flannery were not complaining.

After three months of lockdown, Ireland eased restrictions this week and the pair were back in the pub, sinking pints and talking up a storm. "The first pint? Absolutely brilliant," said Knox, 64, working his way through another Tuborg.

'I'm cautiously optimistic': Imperial's Robin Shattock on his coronavirus vaccine

Posted: 02 Jul 2020 10:00 PM PDT

Team is using new approach that could be cheap and scalable and become the norm within five years

Prof Robin Shattock would have liked slightly longer to develop the revolutionary approach to vaccines that he is pretty sure will not only save lives in the Covid-19 pandemic but become the norm for vaccine development within five years.

His team at Imperial College were working on Ebola and Lassa fever vaccines using new technology but had not got as far as human trials when a novel coronavirus started to kill thousands of people in Wuhan, China.

Prince Andrew under pressure after arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell

Posted: 02 Jul 2020 09:59 PM PDT

Royal 'bewildered' after US attorney asks him to come forward following arrest of his friend over alleged sex crimes

Pressure on Prince Andrew to speak to FBI investigators was mounting after his friend Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested on charges of sex trafficking and perjury as part of its ongoing inquiry into the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

At a press conference in New York in which prosecutors detailed the allegations facing Maxwell, they urged the Prince to come forward.

Coronavirus live news: Belgrade declares state of emergency; South Africa cases surge after lockdown lifted

Posted: 03 Jul 2020 06:35 AM PDT

Nigeria lifts lockdown in Kano; Philippines reports largest single-day increase in cases; cases worldwide close to 11m

2.15pm BST

The European commission has given conditional approval for the use of antiviral remdesivir in severe Covid-19 patients following an accelerated review process, making it the region's first therapy to be authorised to treat the virus.

The move comes just a week after the European Medicines Agency (EMA) gave its go-ahead for the drug, produced by Gilead Sciences, to be used in patients aged 12 and above who are also suffering from pneumonia and require oxygen support.

1.55pm BST

A fresh state of emergency has been declared in Belgrade, with a number of restrictions restored after a new increase in coronavirus infections in the Serbian capital, according to Reuters.

People will be required to wear masks in indoor public spaces or on public transport, opening hours of clubs and cafes will be shortened, and gatherings will be limited to 100 people indoors or 500 outdoors.

Hong Kong journalists and lawyers scramble to adapt to security law

Posted: 03 Jul 2020 05:55 AM PDT

Protective measures taken and social media erased as both question how they can operate

Journalists and lawyers in Hong Kong are scrambling to adapt as Chinese authorities set up the apparatus to enforce a controversial national security law, including appointing a hardline party official to head a new security agency.

Zheng Yanxiong, who is best known for tackling protests on the mainland, is to run the office established under the law that empowers mainland security agents to operate in Hong Kong openly and unbound for the first time. China's authoritarian leaders say its series of powers will restore stability after a year of protests.

Copenhagen's Little Mermaid branded 'racist fish' in graffiti attack

Posted: 03 Jul 2020 05:16 AM PDT

Expert on Hans Christian Andersen says it is 'hard to see what is racist' about fairytale

The statue of the Little Mermaid in the entrance to Copenhagen harbour has been daubed with the words "racist fish".

The 107-year-old statue has often been vandalised by protesters, ranging from pro-democracy activists to anti-whaling campaigners. As recently as January, "Free Hong Kong" was scrawled on the rock on which the 1.65-metre bronze sits.

Édouard Philippe replaced with Jean Castex as prime minister of France

Posted: 03 Jul 2020 03:55 AM PDT

Popular Philippe out as Emmanuel Macron gambles on government reshuffle to reset troubled presidency

Édouard Philippe has been replaced as prime minister after seeing France through the coronavirus crisis, as President Emmanuel Macron embarked on a high-stakes reshuffle to "set a new course" for the last two years of his mandate.

Macron named Jean Castex, 55, a career civil servant from the centre-right of French politics who coordinated France's successful exit from lockdown and is widely known as "Monsieur Déconfinement", as Philippe's successor. The Elysée Palace said Castex would form the next government.

St Paul's bomb-plotter Safiyya Amira Shaikh given life sentence

Posted: 03 Jul 2020 04:54 AM PDT

Isis supporter and Muslim convert had admitted preparing terrorist acts

A Muslim convert and supporter of Islamic State, who plotted to bomb St Paul's Cathedral at Easter, has been sentenced to life in prison.

Safiyya Amira Shaikh, 37, from Hayes, west London, admitted preparing terrorist acts and disseminating terrorist publications that encouraged others to launch similar attacks. She had been under police and MI5 surveillance.

Heatwaves have become longer in most of the world since 1950s – study

Posted: 03 Jul 2020 03:26 AM PDT

Frequency of heatwaves and cumulative intensity has risen through the decades, research finds

Heatwaves have increased in both length and frequency in nearly every part of the world since the 1950s, according to what is described as the first study to look at the issue at a regional level.

The study found the escalation in heatwaves varied around the planet, with the Amazon, north-eastern Brazil, west Asia (including parts of the subcontinent and central Asia) and the Mediterranean all experiencing more rapid change than, for example, southern Australia and north Asia. The only inhabited region where there was not a trend was in the central United States.

Twenty Saudi officials go on trial in absentia over Khashoggi killing

Posted: 03 Jul 2020 02:16 AM PDT

Fiancee of late journalist hopes Istanbul trial will reveal circumstances of death and location of remains

Twenty Saudi officials are on trial in absentia in Turkey accused of the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, almost two years after his disappearance in Istanbul shocked the world and irreparably tarnished the image of Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman as a liberal reformer.

Khashoggi's Turkish fiancee, Hatice Cengiz, and the UN special rapporteur Agnès Callamard waited for the judges to arrive in a courtroom at the imposing courthouse complex in Istanbul's Çağlayan neighbourhood before the trial began on Friday. Both women are hoping it will shed more light on the grim circumstances of the journalist's death and reveal what happened to his remains.

China's stock market closes at highest level in five years

Posted: 03 Jul 2020 04:17 AM PDT

Caixin/Markit PMI continues to recover from February trough when coronavirus lockdown was most severe

China's stock market has closed at its highest level in five years after the latest data from the world's second biggest economy showed the service sector expanding at its fastest pace in a decade.

Shares in Shanghai were boosted by news that the Caixin/Markit purchasing managers' index had continued to recover from the trough reached in February, when the coronavirus lockdown was at its most severe.

Trial collapses of three Britons accused of aiding man to go to fight in Syria

Posted: 03 Jul 2020 05:16 AM PDT

Judge directs court in terror trial to enter not guilty verdicts on all charges against men

A controversial terror trial of three Britons accused of helping a fourth to travel to Syria to fight with the Kurdish YPG has collapsed at the Old Bailey after the Crown Prosecution Service abandoned the case.

Had the three men – a man, his son and a former paratrooper – been convicted it would have been the first time any Briton would have been guilty of terror offences relating to the YPG, which fought alongside the UK against Islamic State in Syria's civil war.

Jay-Z's Team Roc call for prosecution of police officer who shot and killed 3 men

Posted: 03 Jul 2020 02:26 AM PDT

Officer Joseph Mensah was found to have acted in self-defence in two of the shootings, with another currently under review

Jay-Z's social justice initiative Team Roc has called for a Wisconsin police officer to be fired and prosecuted, after he shot and killed three people while on duty.

Joseph Mensah, of Milwaukee suburb Wauwatosa, killed Alvin Cole, Antonio Gonzales and Jay Anderson in three separate incidents between 2015 and 2020. He is under review for the most recent killing, of Cole, but the earlier two were deemed self-defence and he did not face charges.

'The pinnacle of storytelling': reader reviews of The Last of Us Part II

Posted: 03 Jul 2020 03:30 AM PDT

'A phenomenal follow-up' or 'a boring slog'? Guardian readers have their say about the hit video games sequel

Warning: spoilers ahead

Beyond being one of the most visually and technically stunning games, the story forces the player to face the consequences of choices made in the first game and refuses to shy away from the pain of those choices. The main character and the player come to the realisation that a cycle of perpetual violence is the result of vengeance and only forgiveness can help us heal. While focusing on issues like transgender rights and homophobia, PTSD, loyalty, and survival, the game also gives representation to a multitude of different women, with varying personalities, motives, and dimensions. A phenomenal follow-up to its iconic original. Erin McDonagh, 26, student and retail associate, Toronto

Ghislaine Maxwell follows her family's footsteps into the dock

Posted: 03 Jul 2020 05:56 AM PDT

Older brothers Ian and Kevin were acquitted of alleged conspiracy to defraud in 1990s

Ghislaine is not the first of the Maxwell clan to face criminal charges.

Her older brothers, Ian and Kevin, found themselves in the dock after their father's death in 1991 when a £460m hole was discovered in the Mirror Group pension fund.

Bolivia in danger of squandering its head start over coronavirus

Posted: 03 Jul 2020 02:15 AM PDT

Despite imposing an early lockdown, containment may be unravelling amid poverty, an underprepared health system and a bitter political standoff

When Pedro Flores and a group of fellow doctors arrived in the Beni, Bolivia's tropical northern province, at the end of May, they knew the crisis caused by coronavirus would be severe. But what they found still left them shaken.

"The health system, public and private, collapsed," said Flores. Many doctors in the regional capital of Trinidad fell ill. Other medical staff, terrified, locked themselves in at home or fled to remote farmhouses. As critically ill patients multiplied, the death toll began to climb.

Coronavirus Australia latest: the week at a glance

Posted: 03 Jul 2020 02:47 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 Josh Taylor and Calla Wahlquist and it's Friday 3 July.

Priti Patel accused of 'shameful' bid to deport girl at risk of FGM

Posted: 03 Jul 2020 04:15 AM PDT

Barrister says Home Office's unwillingness to protect 11-year-old makes a mockery of FGM protection orders

Human rights lawyers have launched a scathing attack on the Home Office for failing to grant asylum to an 11-year-old girl found by judges to be at high risk of female genital mutilation if removed from Britain.

The girl, who is thriving at school and only speaks English, was brought to the UK in 2012 by her mother, herself a victim of what is known as type 3 FGM whose two sisters died after being cut in their native Sudan.

Alarm bells ring over aid spending amid lack of clarity on DfID merger

Posted: 02 Jul 2020 11:30 PM PDT

NGOs warn of rising uncertainty over programmes to tackle poverty and Covid-19 despite assurances from ministers

The government's plans to merge the Department for International Development (DfID) with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office have been criticised for a chaotic lack of clarity as NGOs are told to cut aid programmes.

DfID said it was due to review its aid spending because of a fall in gross national income, but stressed no decisions had been made. However, experts in the aid sector say there are already signs of cuts among programmes tackling poverty and Covid-19.

Refugee victims of Tajoura bombing still lie in unmarked graves one year on

Posted: 02 Jul 2020 10:30 PM PDT

Coronavirus thwarts plan by survivors to light candles for dozens of detainees who died in airstrike on detention centre during Tripoli fighting

One year on from the migrant detention centre bombing in Tajoura, eastern Tripoli, dozens of refugees and migrants who died have never been formally identified.

At least 53 people were killed and 130 injured on the night of 2 July 2019, according to the UN, after an airstrike by a foreign aircraft supporting eastern warlord Khalifa Haftar's forces hit a hall where migrants and refugees were locked up.

‘I saw so much killing’: the mental health crisis of South Sudan refugees

Posted: 01 Jul 2020 11:00 PM PDT

Therapy is helping some of the thousands forced over the border to Uganda to cope, but funding shortfalls mean resources are becoming scarcer

As darkness fell, Rebecca closed the door to her makeshift home. The day was over.

The 29-year-old, who had been uprooted from South Sudan to a north Ugandan refugee settlement, sat on the bed where her four children slept and, at around 10pm, tried to take her own life. "By then I didn't care about anything – not myself, not even my kids. The pain was too extreme," she says. Her children awoke and their cries brought help from neighbours.

Coronavirus UK: are Covid-19 cases rising or falling near you?

Posted: 02 Jul 2020 11:37 PM 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.

Ghislaine Maxwell arrest throws spotlight back on Prince Andrew

Posted: 02 Jul 2020 11:25 AM PDT

Little respite for Duke of York over friendship with British socialite and Jeffrey Epstein

The arrest by the FBI of the British woman Ghislaine Maxwell on multiple charges related to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein throws an uncomfortable spotlight once more on the Duke of York.

It comes less than one month after a bad-tempered war-of-words between Prince Andrew's lawyers and US prosecutors over the royal's cooperation – or alleged lack of it – over their investigation into the late billionaire.

Britain's citizenship offer to Hong Kong: how China could respond

Posted: 02 Jul 2020 09:02 AM PDT

China said UK will 'bear all consequences', raising possibility of retaliation

China has responded angrily to a UK promise to offer nearly 3 million residents of Hong Kong with British national overseas status (BNO), the right to settle in the UK.

China's foreign ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, said Britain would "bear all consequences", and China's ambassador to the UK later said that Beijing "reserve[d] the right to take corresponding measures".

How we can truly repay our frontline health workers: clear their debts | Alissa Quart, Astra Taylor And Brittany M Powell

Posted: 02 Jul 2020 03:00 AM PDT

Many of the workers risking their lives amid the pandemic are burdened with student debt. We owe them more than just applause

Every day at 7pm, New Yorkers have cheered, applauded and banged pots and pans for frontline workers. One of those they have cheered for is Shana-Kay Henry, a physician assistant in the city, who, like thousands of others, is praised as a hero for her brave caretaking efforts during the pandemic.

A history of Fourth of July protests in America – in pictures

Posted: 03 Jul 2020 05:00 AM PDT

'This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn,' Frederick Douglass lamented 13 years before Reconstruction. Since the 19th century, abolitionists, suffragists and civil rights activists have seized the Fourth of July as an occasion to protest injustices sustained by those omitted from the founding fathers' vision. In the 20th century, the civil rights movement and Vietnam war brought to light legacies of slavery, imperialism and sexism that continue to challenge the narrative of 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness'. Today, the potency of Black Lives Matter has established civil disobedience as an unwavering American tradition

How a small Spanish town became one of Europe's worst Covid-19 hotspots – podcast

Posted: 03 Jul 2020 04:00 AM PDT

In the northern region of La Rioja, one medieval town has suffered a particularly deadly outbreak. And in such a tight-knit community, suspicion and recrimination can spread as fast as the virus. By Giles Tremlett

• Read the text version here

New York man ignites his own house after shooting illegal firework through window – video

Posted: 02 Jul 2020 08:33 PM PDT

New York City man Damien Bend was arrested for arson in connection with a house fire ignited by illegal fireworks in Brooklyn, NY. The house was his own. Video released by Fire Department New York shows a firework shot from Bend's hand enter the house through an open window, unseen by Bend and two others. Bend then re-enters the house to retrieve and let off more fireworks, before the blaze inside is out of control. The vision was released as New York City clamps down on a rise in illegal fireworks

How one neighbourhood in London lost 36 residents to Covid-19 – podcast

Posted: 02 Jul 2020 07:00 PM PDT

Guardian reporter Aamna Modhin meets residents from Church End, a small, deprived neighbourhood in Brent, north London. She examines how housing pressures, in-work poverty and racial inequalities contributed to the deaths of 36 residents from Covid-19

The Guardian journalist Aamna Modhin tells Rachel Humphreys about reporting from Church End, a small neighbourhood in Brent, north London, which has a large Somali population. In early March, residents began to fall ill from coronavirus, eventually resulting in 36 deaths. Locals believe the cluster, which is the second worst in England and Wales according to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics, does not account for the true scale of the devastation, as it does not factor in people who work in Church End but live nearby.

Aamna met Rhoda Ibrahim, a 57-year old community leader who has been left devastated by the deaths of so many people she knew. The virus thrived on the structural inequalities that Ibrahim has spent much of her life fighting against. It flourished in a housing crisis that was 40 years in the making, stark in-work poverty that left many struggling to put food on the table, and deeply entrenched racial inequalities. The council leader, Muhammed Butt, believes the government's failure to provide tailored support to communities such as those in Brent worsened the situation, and that the country should have gone into lockdown earlier.

Trump declares US economy is 'roaring back', despite record Covid-19 cases – video

Posted: 02 Jul 2020 06:51 PM PDT

Donald Trump has declared the US economy is 'roaring back' after news of a fall in unemployment nationwide. The results come as states across the country have been gradually lifting Covid-19 restrictions. While 4.8m jobs were added in June, parts of the country have also experienced record numbers of new coronavirus cases

Trump administration has no regrets about reopening push, says Mnuchin

Ghislaine Maxwell charged over role in Epstein sexual exploitation – video

Posted: 02 Jul 2020 10:49 AM PDT

Ghislaine Maxwell, the close friend of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has been charged over her 'critical role' in helping the now late billionaire groom underage victims and for lying under oath.

Maxwell was accused by many women of recruiting them to give Epstein massages, during which they were pressured into sex.

Maxwell arrested by FBI on charges related to Jeffrey Epstein

Why is coronavirus still surging in the US? – video explainer

Posted: 02 Jul 2020 07:08 AM PDT

The US recorded a new all-time daily high of 52,000 new Covid-19 cases on 1 July, according to Johns Hopkins University figures, as Donald Trump repeated his belief the virus would 'just disappear'.

America has now had more than 2.7 million confirmed cases - more than double that of Brazil, the second most-affected country. Dr Anthony Fauci, the US's top infectious disease expert, has said the country is 'going in the wrong direction', infections could more than double and the subsequent death toll 'is going to be very disturbing'.

The Guardian's Ed Pilkington looks at why a patchwork approach to lifting lockdowns, as well as the president's mixed messages on wearing a mask, have led to confusion across the country and why some states are having to clamp down

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