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- India's invisible catastrophe: fears over spread of Covid-19 into poor rural areas
- UK coronavirus: calls for U-turn over exam grading crisis intensify – live news
- Jared Kushner will 'absolutely' send his children to school despite Covid-19 risks
- From giving up gambling and getting fit to coping with grief: how our lives changed in lockdown
- Belarus opposition calls for general strike after biggest protests yet
- ‘It will be different’: virtual Democratic convention kicks off with emphasis on unity
- Coronavirus live news: US death toll passes 170,000, New Zealand postpones election
- British spy's account sheds light on role in 1953 Iranian coup
- Experts and volunteers scramble to save Mauritius's wildlife after oil spill
- Death Valley temperature rises to 54.4C – possibly the hottest ever reliably recorded
- Google giving far-right users' data to law enforcement, documents reveal
- Israel and UAE open phone link after historic deal
- Dominic Cummings urged to release data to disprove claim of second lockdown trip
- Lego piece falls out of New Zealand boy's nose after being stuck for two years
- 'We will win': vast Belarus rally adamant Lukashenko must go
- Northern Ireland pupils to be awarded GCSE grades based on teacher predictions
- Mozambique army surrounds port held by Isis-linked insurgents
- US politics: virtual Democratic Convention to start amid unprecedented coronavirus crisis – live updates
- La Caravana del Diablo: a migrant caravan in Mexico – photo essay
- Housing industry forecasts 'bloodbath' ahead as Labor criticises Coalition's homebuilder scheme
- I've seen first-hand the toxic racism in international women's rights groups
- In Poland we've become spectators at the dismantling of democracy | Karolina Wigura and Jarosław Kuisz
- Jacinda Ardern postpones New Zealand election due to coronavirus – video
- Tens of thousands gather in Minsk for biggest protest in Belarus history – video
- Belarus protesters gather for biggest ever opposition rally – in pictures
| India's invisible catastrophe: fears over spread of Covid-19 into poor rural areas Posted: 16 Aug 2020 04:14 PM PDT Country is entering a dangerous new phase of rising infections in small towns and villages with limited access to healthcare Where better to seek sanctuary from a virus roaring through a crowded metropolis than a remote mountainside with views of the Himalayas? This was the reasoning that prompted Lalit Upreti, 34, to leave the Indian capital, Delhi, where he works as a cook, two months ago to return to his hamlet Khankari in Uttarakhand, near the country's border with Nepal. Here, he thought, his family would be safe. Continue reading... |
| UK coronavirus: calls for U-turn over exam grading crisis intensify – live news Posted: 17 Aug 2020 03:17 AM PDT Follow the latest on the coronavirus outbreak in the UK as the government faces pressure over the A-levels and GCSEs exam grading crisis in England and its plans to scrap Public Health England
The Cabinet Office minister Penny Mordaunt says she has "made my views known" on the exams fiasco to her colleagues in the Department for Education. In a series of tweets, Mordaunt said she was "seeking a further meeting today" with education ministers after speaking with students and parents. She added: This group of young people have lost out on so much already, we must ensure that bright, capable students can progress on their next step. Delaying a year won't be an option, and it shouldn't be an option. For many it will mean falling out of education...I have also made my views on GCSE results known to DfE. Will be posting updates later today. Been in touch with a large number of students and parents re exam results. Seeking a further meeting today with the Minister. I will be supporting colleges in their appeals, working to ensure those who have the grades on appeal can go to Uni this year if that is what they want.. ...am in touch with colleges and will be speaking to those particularly affected later today. Also made my views on the option to sit exams clear, including that there cannot be a fee.... ...If you are affected by this and from Portsmouth North, it is helpful to know your college, what you were planning on going on to do, what communication you have had from UCAS or the Uni you were going to.
Good morning. It's Josh Halliday here taking over from Matt Weaver for the next few hours. Stay with us as the pressure builds on the government over the exams fiasco and its reported plans to scrap Public Health England. It could be a bumpy day. Continue reading... |
| Jared Kushner will 'absolutely' send his children to school despite Covid-19 risks Posted: 16 Aug 2020 02:00 PM PDT Donald Trump's son-in-law and White House adviser does not believe coronavirus poses serious risk to younger students White House adviser and son-in-law of the president Jared Kushner has said he will "absolutely" send his children back to school when classes reopen, despite widespread concerns that in-person learning puts children, faculty and their families at risk from Covid-19. The Trump administration has pushed for schools across the country to reopen, despite the concerns. One public school district in Arizona was forced to cancel plans to reopen on Monday after more than 100 teachers and other staff members called in sick. Continue reading... |
| From giving up gambling and getting fit to coping with grief: how our lives changed in lockdown Posted: 16 Aug 2020 06:00 AM PDT This year's isolation has been painful, but in some cases it has also provided a valuable chance to pause, reflect and take decisions that seemed unthinkable before. Here, six readers describe how lockdown inspired them to turn their lives around As soon as he heard about the impending lockdown, Alex Harrison, 34, drove to his local casino in Liverpool and asked them to ban him for life. In the manager's office, his photograph was taken and his details were recorded on an iPad. To his surprise, the manager congratulated him. Harrison has battled with a gambling addiction for 10 years. When he walked into the casino that day, he owed around £1,000 to friends, family and payday lenders. Occasionally, he would gamble his entire month's salary on the day he was paid. Continue reading... |
| Belarus opposition calls for general strike after biggest protests yet Posted: 17 Aug 2020 01:50 AM PDT Industrial action began on Friday in further sign of weakening support for Alexander Lukashenko The Belarus opposition has called for a general strike from Monday after tens of thousands of protesters gathered in the capital, Minsk, for the biggest rally in the country's recent history, in a further sign that the regime of President Alexander Lukashenko is fast losing support. The opposition's call for a strike follows industrial action on Friday by thousands of workers at state-controlled factories, a traditional support base for Lukashenko. Continue reading... |
| ‘It will be different’: virtual Democratic convention kicks off with emphasis on unity Posted: 16 Aug 2020 11:15 PM PDT Four-day event where Biden will formally accept the presidential nomination begins today and will take place from remote locations The Democratic national convention begins on Monday with a star-studded lineup and heavy emphasis on unity aimed at presenting Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as the US's best hope for healing a deeply divided nation reckoning with the parallel crises of a global pandemic and racial injustice. Related: From Oakland to the White House? The rise of Kamala Harris Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus live news: US death toll passes 170,000, New Zealand postpones election Posted: 17 Aug 2020 03:14 AM PDT Australia records deadliest day 25 deaths; India death toll passes 50,000; Japan GDP falls at annual rate of 27.8%; Italy closes nightclubs. Follow latest updates
Hi, this is Archie Bland taking over from Caroline Davies. With criticism rising in Japan of the government's handling of the coronavirus outbreak, and news today that Japan has been hit by its biggest economic contraction in 40 years, questions have been raised over prime minister Shinzo Abe's decision not to hold press conferences. But AFP reports that Abe's own ill-health may be behind his absence. Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose first term in office ended in part for health reasons, sparked fresh speculation Monday about his well-being with an unexpected, hours-long hospital visit. Abe emerged from the Tokyo hospital where he was previously treated for ulcerative colitis more than seven hours after he entered, and left by car without saying anything, according to TV footage of local media.
Hi. That's all from me, Caroline Davies. Handing over to my colleague Archie Bland now. Thank you for your time. Continue reading... |
| British spy's account sheds light on role in 1953 Iranian coup Posted: 17 Aug 2020 01:40 AM PDT Interview given by MI6 officer in 1980s was discovered in research for new documentary A first-hand account of Britain's role in the 1953 coup that overthrew the elected prime minister of Iran and restored the shah to power has been published for the first time. The account by the MI6 officer who ran the operation describes how it took British intelligence years to persuade the US to take part in the coup. Meanwhile, MI6 recruited agents and bribed members of Iran's parliament with banknotes transported in biscuit tins. Continue reading... |
| Experts and volunteers scramble to save Mauritius's wildlife after oil spill Posted: 16 Aug 2020 10:14 AM PDT Grounded carrier has split in half and poor conditions make removal of ship's remaining oil risky International experts and thousands of local volunteers were making frantic efforts on Sunday to protect Mauritius's pristine beaches and rich marine wildlife after hundreds of tonnes of oil was dumped into the sea by a Japanese tanker in what some scientists called the country's worst ecological disaster. Related: Grounded carrier off Mauritius breaks apart risking ecological disaster Continue reading... |
| Death Valley temperature rises to 54.4C – possibly the hottest ever reliably recorded Posted: 16 Aug 2020 11:08 PM PDT The United States National Weather Service's automated station at Furnace Creek in California hit the extreme high at 3:41pm on Sunday A temperature of 54.4C – or 129.9F – has been recorded in Death Valley, California, in what some extreme weather watchers believe could be the hottest reading ever reliably recorded on the planet. The United States National Weather Service's automated weather station at Furnace Creek near the border with Nevada hit the extreme high at 3:41pm on Sunday afternoon, a statement said. Continue reading... |
| Google giving far-right users' data to law enforcement, documents reveal Posted: 17 Aug 2020 03:00 AM PDT Exclusive: in some cases Google did not necessarily ban users who were often threatening violence or expressing extremist views A little-known investigative unit inside search giant Google regularly forwarded detailed personal information on the company's users to members of a counter-terrorist fusion center in California's Bay Area, according to leaked documents reviewed by the Guardian. But checking the documents against Google's platforms reveals that in some cases Google did not necessarily ban the users they reported to the authorities, and some still have accounts on YouTube, Gmail and other services. Continue reading... |
| Israel and UAE open phone link after historic deal Posted: 16 Aug 2020 05:52 PM PDT Connection of phone service represents the first concrete sign of the agreement made last week to establish diplomatic ties A telephone service between the United Arab Emirates and Israel has begun working as the two countries opened diplomatic ties, part of a deal brokered by the US that required Israel to suspend its contentious plan to annex the West Bank. UAE foreign minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan called his Israeli counterpart, Gabi Ashkenazi, in what Israel hailed as an important step. Continue reading... |
| Dominic Cummings urged to release data to disprove claim of second lockdown trip Posted: 16 Aug 2020 01:00 PM PDT Ex-regional chief prosecutor calls on PM's chief aide to reveal mobile phone and vehicle tracking information Dominic Cummings has been asked to hand over mobile phone and vehicle tracking data to disprove claims that he made a second lockdown trip to Durham at the height of the pandemic. The request was made by Nazir Afzal, the former chief prosecutor for north-west England, who is leading a campaign for a full investigation into Cummings' movements during the lockdown. Continue reading... |
| Lego piece falls out of New Zealand boy's nose after being stuck for two years Posted: 16 Aug 2020 08:54 PM PDT Sameer Anwar's parents thought the lost piece of Lego was long gone – until their son took a great big sniff of a plate of cupcakes A missing piece of Lego has dropped out of a child's nose two years after he pushed it up. Seven-year-old Sameer Anwar of Dunedin, in the south of New Zealand, inserted a tiny piece of Lego up his nose in 2018. Sameer's father, Mudassir, and his wife became alarmed when their son told them he had lost a piece of Lego up his nose, and couldn't find it. Continue reading... |
| 'We will win': vast Belarus rally adamant Lukashenko must go Posted: 16 Aug 2020 11:33 AM PDT As many as 100,000 people attend biggest protest in country's history in defiant and euphoric mood Looking out across the vast crowd, the protesters could not quite believe it. Was this really Belarus? How had their country changed so quickly? A week ago in the same spot, riot police had used batons and rubber bullets to terrorise those protesting against Alexander Lukashenko's rigged election victory. Yet despite thousands of arrests and the shocking violence meted out to so many of them, the mood in the country has turned from despair to resilience to euphoria as the week progressed. Continue reading... |
| Northern Ireland pupils to be awarded GCSE grades based on teacher predictions Posted: 17 Aug 2020 01:59 AM PDT Minister scraps Ofqual model as a former chief inspector of schools in England says country should follow suit GCSE students in Northern Ireland are to be awarded the grades predicted by their teachers, Stormont's education minister has announced. Days before the results are due to be published on Thursday, Peter Weir has scrapped a plan that would have meant grades being calculated using a mathematical model that took into account the past performance of schools. Continue reading... |
| Mozambique army surrounds port held by Isis-linked insurgents Posted: 16 Aug 2020 06:06 AM PDT Militants seized the Mocímboa da Praia site, which is near gas projects worth £45bn, last week Government troops are taking up positions outside a port in the far north of Mozambique which was captured by Islamist extremists last week in the latest escalation of the insurgency in the southern African country. Hundreds of reinforcements have been rushed into position around the port in the town of Mocímboa da Praia. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 17 Aug 2020 03:07 AM PDT
A riot was declared in Oregon's biggest city again last night as protesters demonstrated outside a law enforcement building early Sunday. It was the 81st continunous night of protest. Earlier, demonstrators had been addressed by the mother of Patrick Kimmons, a 27-year-old man fatally shot by Portland police in 2018. Local media report that Letha Winston has led demonstrations in the city in the past. She told the crowd: We need to continue to keep marching. We need to continue to keep chanting. We need to continue to keep running. We need to continue to keep screaming. We need to stand tall through it all. Do not ever let anyone discourage you from getting justice.... A change is going to come.
Good morning, welcome to our live coverage of US politics today. Here's a quick catch-up of where we are, and what can we expect from today. Continue reading... |
| La Caravana del Diablo: a migrant caravan in Mexico – photo essay Posted: 16 Aug 2020 11:00 PM PDT Photojournalist Ada Luisa Trillo has won the Guardian's Portfolio Review award at Format photography festival this year. Her powerful piece of work on the migrant caravan follows the people who left Central American countries to reach the US In January 2020, fleeing violence and poor economic conditions, a group of Hondurans organised a huge migrant caravan that travelled through Guatemala into Mexico. After travelling for eight days, the caravan crossed the Suchiate River into Mexico and were met by the recently established Guardia Nacional composed of former federal, military and naval police. Continue reading... |
| Housing industry forecasts 'bloodbath' ahead as Labor criticises Coalition's homebuilder scheme Posted: 17 Aug 2020 02:53 AM PDT Master Builders Australia is calling for an extra $5.1bn in support as it expects new housing construction to plummet 27% Labor has seized on new housing industry forecasts of construction activity to argue the Morrison government's homebuilder scheme isn't enough to stop a "bloodbath" in the sector. Master Builders Australia on Monday revealed it expects new house construction to plummet 27% from 170,000 in 2019-20 to 125,000 in 2020-21, and called for an extra $5.1bn in economic supports. Treasury estimates, released on Friday, forecast a drop to 140,000 new homes in 2020-21. Continue reading... |
| I've seen first-hand the toxic racism in international women's rights groups Posted: 16 Aug 2020 11:15 PM PDT White European and American practitioners have not taken charges of discrimination seriously. It's time to do our homework and learn to change We are long overdue a reckoning around race in gender and development work. The number of women who have recently issued public claims of racism or discrimination against global women's rights organisations is testament to that. The Nobel Women's Initiative is the latest to come under fire with allegations of toxic workplace practices, joining the International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC) and Women Deliver, among others. (I've previously been employed by IWHC and Women Deliver.) Continue reading... |
| Posted: 17 Aug 2020 01:00 AM PDT A disturbing future awaits the country after Andrzej Duda's campaign, which merged politics, populism and entertainment The political and ideological project being implemented by Poland's populist governing party, Law and Justice (PiS), has a long way to run. The re-election of the party's candidate Andrzej Duda to the presidency last month has merely ushered in a new chapter and it will be even more demanding for liberals than what went before. International attention may be focused on Belarus, but in Poland, ministers have just announced an autumn agenda which involves a simultaneous attack on the judiciary and the independent media. It coincides with intensifying pressure on the LGBT+ community in the form of verbal assaults from PiS figures. Demonstrations in cities across the country against the pre-trial jailing of an LGBT+ activist have led not to dialogue, but to the heavy-handed arrests of dozens more. Continue reading... |
| Jacinda Ardern postpones New Zealand election due to coronavirus – video Posted: 17 Aug 2020 12:45 AM PDT Jacinda Ardern has postponed the New Zealand general election by four weeks, to 17 October, but ruled out delaying it any further, as the country tackles a new outbreak of the coronavirus. The outbreak centres on New Zealand's biggest city, Auckland, after the country had been free of coronavirus cases for 102 days Continue reading... |
| Tens of thousands gather in Minsk for biggest protest in Belarus history – video Posted: 16 Aug 2020 12:15 PM PDT Belarusians assemble en masse in Minsk as an extraordinary week of rising sentiment comes to a close. 'I made my choice and my vote was thrown in the bin, so I'll keep coming out until our president leaves,' said one demonstrator. Seven days after the country's authoritarian ruler, Alexander Lukashenko, claimed to have secured 80% of the vote in a presidential election, his legitimacy is in tatters and his regime faces its biggest crisis since he came to power 26 years ago Continue reading... |
| Belarus protesters gather for biggest ever opposition rally – in pictures Posted: 16 Aug 2020 07:49 AM PDT Opposition protesters turned out in their tens of thousands in Minsk, while supporters of Alexander Lukashenko also held rallies Continue reading... |
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