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- Global report: South Africa cases pass 200,000 as Kenya plans 'phased reopening'
- UK coronavirus live: Boris Johnson accused of cowardice over care home comments
- Melbourne residents in 'hard lockdown' say they pleaded for more help three months ago
- Coronavirus live news: Australian city of Melbourne to re-enter lockdown as India deaths pass 20,000
- Hong Kong police given sweeping powers under new security law
- Zimbabwe spends millions on officials' luxury cars as country goes hungry
- Melania Trump's former aide to release 'explosive' memoir – report
- Exiled Uighurs call on ICC to investigate Chinese 'genocide' in Xinjiang
- China travel warning: Australians told they may be at risk of arbitrary detention
- Tory ministers from 1980s fear return to mass unemployment
- US politics: Delaware and New Jersey vote as coronavirus cases approach 3 million - live updates
- Johnny Depp's reputation on line as libel trial set to begin
- Russia cracks down on marmot hunting after suspected bubonic plague cases
- Replace or reclaim: progressive Brazil divided on fate of famous yellow shirts
- A nurse, a taxi driver, a schoolchild: six UK lives lost to Covid-19 in June
- What's in a name? Berlin wrestles with past in metro station row
- ‘Yazidi women are strong’: Kurdistan's female landmine clearance teams
- Why are the UK and US still downplaying the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda? | Linda Melvern
- A physician who wrote poems, a nurse who longed for children: US healthcare workers who died from Covid-19
- Mexico's president pushes ahead with Trump trip – but is it worth the risk?
- Coronavirus Victoria: what you need to know about Melbourne's lockdown
- Boris Johnson accused of misleading parliament over DfID merger
- What's next for Ghislaine Maxwell – and will she cooperate with prosecutors?
- Being childfree: five women on why they chose not to have kids – video
- Flooding and landslides in Japan leaves scores dead on Kyushu – video
- White House aid backs Trump's claim 99% of Covid-19 cases are 'harmless' – video
- White House says US is 'a leader' in fighting coronavirus, despite rising infections – video
- White House repeatedly refuses to take stance on Confederate flag – video
- ‘Prince Andrew should be panicking,’ says Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre – video
- 'Our heart will never die': Hongkongers raise blank paper in protest against security law - video
| Global report: South Africa cases pass 200,000 as Kenya plans 'phased reopening' Posted: 06 Jul 2020 09:20 PM PDT South Africa is the worst-affected African nation; Australian state of Victoria sees spike in community transmission; US daily cases drop below 50,000 Latest coronavirus updates South Africa's coronavirus cases have passed 200,000, the highest total in Africa, as Kenya's leadership announced that it was pressing on with plans to ease the country's lockdown despite a steep increase in cases. There are currently 205,721 cases and 3,310 deaths in South Africa, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker, which relies on official government data, making it the 15th worst-affected country worldwide. Continue reading... |
| UK coronavirus live: Boris Johnson accused of cowardice over care home comments Posted: 07 Jul 2020 02:40 AM PDT Charity boss says blaming care sector for repeated government mistakes is unacceptable
More analysis from the ONS on coronavirus deaths. Every week the ONS has been charting the tragic death toll of the coronavirus pandemic. As we pass the midway point in the year, Sarah Caul looks back on what has happened so far in 2020 and, using trends from previous years, gives her view on what could happen next. Of the three scenarios she sketches out for the remainder of 2020, Caul says a second peak of COVID-19 could return death registrations above the five-year average.
New research shows that half of British workers do not want to go back to pre-Covid working environments. As workplaces reopen, a quarter of Britons say their employer hasn't explored any flexible working options to help them return to work. • Two-thirds of working Britons – 65% – do not feel comfortable commuting to work via public transport any more and think it will be one of the most stressful parts of their day. • 57% of people do not want to go back to the normal way of working in an office environment with normal office hours. Continue reading... |
| Melbourne residents in 'hard lockdown' say they pleaded for more help three months ago Posted: 06 Jul 2020 10:30 AM PDT Authorities 'failed to listen' to several calls for cleaning and resources
Residents and relatives of people living in the Melbourne public housing blocks placed into "hard lockdown" by the Victorian government say they pleaded months ago for more cleaning and resources to help keep the virus out of their homes but authorities failed to listen. About 3,000 people in nine housing blocks in North Melbourne and Flemington have been banned from leaving under any circumstances for at least five days in a move government said was needed to stop the spread of the virus. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus live news: Australian city of Melbourne to re-enter lockdown as India deaths pass 20,000 Posted: 07 Jul 2020 02:55 AM PDT South Africa's cases pass 200,000; Kenya emerges from lockdown; Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro tested again for coronavirus
Ireland has launched a tracing app to track and contact potential cases of Covid-19 infection. The health minister, Stephen Donnelly, said downloads jumped from 50,000 to 100,000 in an hour on Tuesday morning. "This is a really good news story. This is a powerful tool in the fight against Covid," he told RTE. The COVID Tracker app is now available to download. It will help in the fight against coronavirus. Download the COVID Tracker app here: https://t.co/CUrWQ9QVvj
Here's a list of the key global coronavirus developments this morning. Continue reading... |
| Hong Kong police given sweeping powers under new security law Posted: 07 Jul 2020 01:44 AM PDT Officers able to conduct raids without warrants and secretly monitor suspects Hong Kong police have been granted sweeping new powers, including the ability to conduct raids without a warrant and secretly monitor suspects, after controversial security laws were imposed on the city by the Chinese central government. The powers allow for the confiscation of property related to national security offences, and allow senior police to order the takedown of online material they believe breaches the law. The city's chief executive can grant police permission to intercept communications and conduct covert surveillance. Penalties include HKD$100,000 (£10,300) fines and up to two years in prison. Continue reading... |
| Zimbabwe spends millions on officials' luxury cars as country goes hungry Posted: 07 Jul 2020 02:45 AM PDT Diplomatic staff given Range Rovers while ordinary people struggle amid inflation of 785% The government of Zimbabwe has spent millions of dollars on luxury cars for senior officials despite a deepening economic collapse that has plunged its people into profound hardship. The new cars, including dozens of Range Rovers and Toyota pick-up trucks worth more than $40,000, were distributed to ambassadors and senior civil servants. Analysts say the move constitutes a new effort to shore up support for the government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who took power after the military coup that ousted Robert Mugabe in 2017. Continue reading... |
| Melania Trump's former aide to release 'explosive' memoir – report Posted: 06 Jul 2020 04:18 PM PDT Book by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former unpaid adviser to the first lady, will detail their 15-year friendship A former senior aide to Melania Trump who helped oversee Donald Trump's inauguration has written an "explosive" memoir detailing her 15-year friendship with the first lady, according to reports. Related: Mary Trump's book to be published early amid 'extraordinary interest' Continue reading... |
| Exiled Uighurs call on ICC to investigate Chinese 'genocide' in Xinjiang Posted: 06 Jul 2020 10:20 PM PDT Activist group submits evidence to international court accusing Xi Jinping and other Beijing officials of crimes against humanity A group of Uighurs in exile has submitted evidence to the international criminal court, calling for an investigation into senior Chinese officials, including Xi Jinping, for genocide and crimes against humanity. The submission made on Monday by lawyers based in London on behalf of two activists groups marks the first time advocates have attempted to use international law against China over allegations of widespread human rights violations in Xinjiang, the far north-western territory of China where Uighur and other minority groups are detained and surveilled en masse. Continue reading... |
| China travel warning: Australians told they may be at risk of arbitrary detention Posted: 07 Jul 2020 12:53 AM PDT Updated advice comes after Beijing accused Australia of waging 'espionage offensive' Australia has updated its travel advice for China to warn that authorities have detained foreigners on alleged national security grounds and that Australians may be at risk of arbitrary detention. Amid increasing tensions in the relationship between the two countries, Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs revised the travel advice on Tuesday to include the phrase: "Authorities have detained foreigners because they're 'endangering national security'. Australians may also be at risk of arbitrary detention." Continue reading... |
| Tory ministers from 1980s fear return to mass unemployment Posted: 06 Jul 2020 11:00 PM PDT Lords King and Fowler say local and national leaders must learn from policies of Thatcher era Two grandees of the Thatcher era have urged the government to learn lessons from the mass unemployment of the 1980s, as the Treasury draws up plans to limit a collapse in the jobs market caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Tom King, who was employment secretary in 1983 when the grim milestone of 3 million unemployed people was reached, told the Guardian that ministers should be prepared to consider propping up potentially viable companies wherever possible, mindful that the economic crisis is a global one and thus harder to resolve. Continue reading... |
| US politics: Delaware and New Jersey vote as coronavirus cases approach 3 million - live updates Posted: 07 Jul 2020 02:58 AM PDT
Good morning, welcome to our live coverage of US politics for the day. Here's a catch-up on the key points from yesterday and overnight, and a little of what we can expect today Continue reading... |
| Johnny Depp's reputation on line as libel trial set to begin Posted: 06 Jul 2020 10:00 PM PDT Actor to face ex-wife Amber Heard in UK court during case against publisher of the Sun newspaper The long-anticipated showdown between the Hollywood stars Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard opens in a British courtroom on Tuesday in a libel trial that will subject his international reputation to forensic legal scrutiny. Highly embarrassing allegations about the former couple's private lives have already spilled out during bitter pre-trial hearings in which the Pirates of the Caribbean actor tried to stop Heard from attending court until she is due to give evidence. Continue reading... |
| Russia cracks down on marmot hunting after suspected bubonic plague cases Posted: 06 Jul 2020 05:36 PM PDT Possible outbreaks in China and Mongolia have brought bans on hunting and eating the rodents, which can carry the disease Russia has stepped up patrols to stop people hunting marmots near its border with China and Mongolia after the countries reported possible cases of bubonic plague, which can be carried by the animals. Authorities in Bayan Nur, a city in the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia, issued a warning on Sunday after a hospital reported a suspected case of the deadly disease. Continue reading... |
| Replace or reclaim: progressive Brazil divided on fate of famous yellow shirts Posted: 06 Jul 2020 10:00 PM PDT Adoption of football jersey by Jair Bolsonaro's radical right has inspired a campaign for new colours It is the most recognisable symbol of Brazilian identity: the iconic canary yellow jersey in which footballing giants such as Pelé and Rivaldo have helped the nation win a record five World Cups. But the world-famous shirt has also become the emblem of President Jair Bolsonaro's radical right, and a group of sport lovers are now demanding it be abolished and replaced with a less partisan kit. Continue reading... |
| A nurse, a taxi driver, a schoolchild: six UK lives lost to Covid-19 in June Posted: 06 Jul 2020 10:00 PM PDT Healthcare workers and an 11-year-old girl were among the victims of the virus last month Although the death rate from Covid-19 in the UK has fallen from its peak, there continue to be hundreds of deaths from the virus every week. The victims are young and old, and include people with underlying medical conditions and others without. Here are the stories of six people who died of the coronavirus in June, including frontline healthcare workers, a taxi driver and an 11-year-old child. Continue reading... |
| What's in a name? Berlin wrestles with past in metro station row Posted: 07 Jul 2020 12:27 AM PDT Transit authority to rename slavery-linked Mohrenstrasse after an antisemitic Russian composer Authorities in Berlin are discovering how hard it can be to close one problematic chapter of the city's tumultuous history without opening another. In the wake of a worldwide reckoning with the deep-seated legacies of historical racism, Berlin's public transit authority BVG announced on Friday that it would rename the Mohrenstrasse ("Moor Street") stop on the U2 metro line. Continue reading... |
| ‘Yazidi women are strong’: Kurdistan's female landmine clearance teams Posted: 06 Jul 2020 10:30 PM PDT Isis planted mines across Sinjar and displaced the Yazidi community. Now a group of women are clearing the way for the return of their people Behind Hana Khider is a large grey wall map, with the minefields her team have been clearing marked in green. "This is the place where Yazidis lived together," she says. "It's where I lived in my childhood; I have so many memories here, it's very important to me." The place is Sinjar, or Shingal as Yazidis know it, on Iraq's north-western border with Syria. Khider, 28, is speaking via video call from her office in the region. Continue reading... |
| Why are the UK and US still downplaying the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda? | Linda Melvern Posted: 07 Jul 2020 03:00 AM PDT Decades after the 1994 genocide, the countries have contested the wording of a UN resolution to remember its victims As the bodies piled up in the streets of Rwanda 26 years ago, no amount of spin could disguise the crime. There were no sealed camps; the massacres were in broad daylight. Yet in the UN security council the UK and US governments avoided the question of mass killing and saw only a civil war. This bolstered arguments that nothing – they thought – could be done. It was scandalous, the Czech Republic's ambassador Karel Kovanda told them, not to recognise that a genocide reminiscent of the Nazi Holocaust was under way. Kovanda remembers a friendly arm taking him aside as UK diplomats told him such inflammatory language outside the council would be "unhelpful". Continue reading... |
| Posted: 07 Jul 2020 03:00 AM PDT We are documenting the lives of every US medical worker who dies helping patients during the pandemic. These are just a few of hundreds of cases Lost on the frontline is a collaboration between the Guardian and Kaiser Health News that aims to document the lives of healthcare workers in the US who die from Covid-19, and to understand why so many are falling victim to the pandemic. Each week, we're documenting new cases of healthcare workers who have died on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic. Here are their stories: Continue reading... |
| Mexico's president pushes ahead with Trump trip – but is it worth the risk? Posted: 07 Jul 2020 02:00 AM PDT Critics say Andrés Manuel López Obrador risks humiliation when he meets his US counterpart to toast new free-trade deal He presents himself as Mexico's low-budget president: a cost-cutting commander-in-chief who has taken the presidential jet out of service and drives a seven-year-old saloon car. But when Andrés Manuel López Obrador sets off – economy class – to Washington on Tuesday to meet Donald Trump many believe he will be making a high-stakes gamble, more characteristic of his casino-building host than Mexico's famously austere leader. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus Victoria: what you need to know about Melbourne's lockdown Posted: 07 Jul 2020 01:33 AM PDT Premier Daniel Andrews reimposes stage three lockdown across metropolitan Melbourne to last for six weeks
A record high of 191 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday has prompted the Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews, to reintroduce stage three restrictions across all of metropolitan Melbourne. "I think a sense of complacency has crept into us as we let our frustrations get the better of us," Andrews said. "I think that each of us know someone who has not been following the rules as well as they should have. Continue reading... |
| Boris Johnson accused of misleading parliament over DfID merger Posted: 07 Jul 2020 01:21 AM PDT PM claimed there had been 'loads' of consultations over department which faces a £2bn cut this year Boris Johnson has been accused of misleading parliament over who was consulted before the merger of the Department for International Development and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Sarah Champion, chair of the international development committee (IDC), said despite the prime minister's assurances that there had been "massive consultation" ahead of the announcement last month, evidence suggested there had not been. Continue reading... |
| What's next for Ghislaine Maxwell – and will she cooperate with prosecutors? Posted: 03 Jul 2020 03:46 PM PDT Avoiding a lengthy prison sentence is incentive to cooperate, but may be difficult given her high-up position While Ghislaine Maxwell's arrest Thursday in relation to her confidant Jeffrey Epstein's sex crimes answered some questions about her life – revealing, for example, that she hid at a sprawling, million-dollar New Hampshire estate, where she was picked up in a morning raid – still more questions arose about what's next for the mysterious British socialite. As she sits in custody, at the top of many minds was whether Maxwell – long accused of grooming underage victims for Epstein – will cooperate with prosecutors. Continue reading... |
| Being childfree: five women on why they chose not to have kids – video Posted: 07 Jul 2020 12:41 AM PDT As part of the Guardian's Childfree series, five women discuss why having children isn't for them – and how others perceive them as a result. 'There's no wrong way to be a woman,' says Sabrina, 25 Continue reading... |
| Flooding and landslides in Japan leaves scores dead on Kyushu – video Posted: 07 Jul 2020 12:32 AM PDT Torrential rain and floods in the southern island have left at least 50 people dead or missing. Rescue workers are still combing through the wreckage of houses hit by flooding and landslides in after extreme weather hit the region. The death toll on Kyushu is expected to climb further Continue reading... |
| White House aid backs Trump's claim 99% of Covid-19 cases are 'harmless' – video Posted: 06 Jul 2020 08:39 PM PDT White House chief of staff Mark Meadows defended Donald Trump's claim 99% of coronavirus cases are 'totally harmless'. Appearing on Fox News, Meadows said there were facts and statements to back up the claims. 'When you look at the deaths that we have, if you're over 80 years of age or if you have three what they call comorbidities – diabetes, hypertension, heart issues – then you need to be very, very careful. Outside of that, the risks are extremely low.' Meadows' comments come as US death toll tops 130,000 following surge of coronavirus cases. Continue reading... |
| White House says US is 'a leader' in fighting coronavirus, despite rising infections – video Posted: 06 Jul 2020 07:40 PM PDT Kayleigh McEnany says the US has been a leader in the fight against Covid-19, despite rising infections across the country. Its infection tally is nearing 3m cases, while there have been 130,000 deaths. Speaking at a press briefing, the White House press secretary added: 'No one wants to see anyone in this country contract coronavirus, which is why the administration has fought hard to make sure that's not the case with our historic response effort' Continue reading... |
| White House repeatedly refuses to take stance on Confederate flag – video Posted: 06 Jul 2020 12:09 PM PDT At a press briefing on Monday, reporters pressed Kayleigh McEnany on the meaning of Donald Trump's tweet about Nascar driver Bubba Wallace and the decision to ban Confederate flags at races. The White House press secretary repeatedly dodged questions on the White House's stance on flying the flag and claimed Trump 'has not given an opinion one way or another' Continue reading... |
| ‘Prince Andrew should be panicking,’ says Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre – video Posted: 06 Jul 2020 08:58 AM PDT Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein's accusers, has said Prince Andrew should be 'panicking at the moment' after the arrest of his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell last week. Prosecutors have asked a judge to schedule a court appearance in New York for Maxwell to face charges she helped Epstein recruit women to sexually abuse. Among the accusations was a claim by Giuffre that Maxwell arranged for her to have sex with Prince Andrew. Prince Andrew has denied all accusations
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| 'Our heart will never die': Hongkongers raise blank paper in protest against security law - video Posted: 06 Jul 2020 08:40 AM PDT Protesters have held up blank pieces of white paper to avoid using slogans banned under a new national security law in Hong Kong on Monday. The law, which was imposed by China after anti-government protests last year, has made it illegal to shout slogans or hold up banners and flags calling for the city's independence. Hong Kong police cleared the group of demonstrators who gathered in a shopping centre in the central business district
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