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- Coronavirus live news: face masks become mandatory in Paris, WHO to review emergency alert rules
- Global report: India sets new national daily case record
- Unborn twin baby dies after delay approving mother's Queensland-NSW border exemption
- UK to give emergency approval to any Covid vaccine breakthrough
- RNC: Trump paints Biden as a 'radical' candidate and a danger to America
- Japan PM Shinzo Abe quits over health concerns
- 'We've all had enough': Kenosha in anguish over Jacob Blake shooting
- UN secretary general urges India to swiftly turn away from coal
- South African conservationist killed by lions he reared
- Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean
- Hurricane Laura brings 150mph winds to Louisiana with more 'catastrophic conditions' to come
- 'Fear of failure' giving UK children lowest happiness levels in Europe
- Treble Dutch: £13m old master painting stolen for a third time
- Twelve arrested at sea while trying to flee to Taiwan from Hong Kong
- Will Jerry Falwell Jr’s fall from grace end his influence over Trump voters?
- Gatwick airport hit by £343m loss as passenger numbers fall
- Trump unleashes diatribe of falsehoods and baseless attacks in RNC finale
- Venezuela using coronavirus as cover to crack down on dissent, report claims
- Experience: I thought I’d never meet my newborn son
- Coronavirus Australia latest: the week at a glance
- It’s tempting to think only charities can end abuse in aid. But we need state backup | Frances Longley
- Covid turns tide on India's Ganesh festival traditions
- Boss vows to tackle misconduct claims at UN Green Climate Fund
- The Christchurch shooter's sentence will consign him to nothingness | Steve Braunias
- Falling care home demand since Covid poses threat to UK
- Donald Trump slams Joe Biden in Republican nomination acceptance speech – video
- Trump puts women 'on equal footing' with men, say female advisers at RNC – video
- 'Your design was to divide ... you failed': Christchurch gunman jailed for life – video
| Coronavirus live news: face masks become mandatory in Paris, WHO to review emergency alert rules Posted: 28 Aug 2020 02:18 AM PDT New rules in French capital in effect since 8am this morning; Spanish children over six to wear masks at school; Tour de France in doubt
French President Emmanuel Macron has renewed his calls for France to have sovereignty in the areas of healthcare and industry, as the country steps up plans to deal with a likely second wave of Covid-19. Nous devons relocaliser et recréer des forces de production sur nos territoires. La souveraineté sanitaire et industrielle sera l'un des piliers du plan de relance.
Officials in Peru, which has one of the world's highest Covid-19 caseloads and death rates, have insisted the alarming figures are down to the government being more "transparent" in its reporting than other countries. Statistics from John Hopkins University show that Peru's virus death rate is the second highest in the world, with 88 deaths per 100,000 people. The microstate of San Marino in Italy has the highest rate. I do not know any other country apart from Peru that, during the pandemic, is being transparent with the number of deaths. There are a number of suspected Covid [deaths] that have been added [to the official tally], and that elevates it on a global level." Continue reading... |
| Global report: India sets new national daily case record Posted: 27 Aug 2020 10:48 PM PDT Parisian pedestrians must wear face coverings from Friday; Spain says school children over six must wear masks; China goes 12 days without local case India has set a new national record of daily coronavirus infections, reporting more than 77,000 cases in 24 hours, just shy of the global one-day record tally held by America. India's health ministry reported 77, 266 new cases on Friday. The largest ever one day rise is 78,427, reported by the US on 25 July. India also recorded more than 1,000 new deaths taking total fatalities, to 61,529, the fourth highest total in the world, behind the US, Brazil and Mexico. Continue reading... |
| Unborn twin baby dies after delay approving mother's Queensland-NSW border exemption Posted: 27 Aug 2020 09:30 PM PDT Case prompts Queensland's chief health officer to call the sheer volume of medical applications 'unsustainable' Queensland's top health official says the sheer number of people applying for medical exemptions to enter her state is "unsustainable" following the death of an unborn twin in NSW. Dr Jeannette Young granted an exemption to a Ballina woman pregnant with twins who required emergency surgery on Thursday, but it came only after the expectant mother had waited 16 hours and then flown to Sydney. Continue reading... |
| UK to give emergency approval to any Covid vaccine breakthrough Posted: 28 Aug 2020 02:05 AM PDT Legal change will enable population to be immunised as quickly as possible Any new and effective Covid vaccine will be given emergency approval for use in the UK and an expanded workforce will be trained to administer the treatment to enable as much of the population as possible to be immunised quickly, the government has said. A change in the law will allow the UK regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), to grant temporary approval for a vaccine before it has been given a licence by the European authorities, which is the normal procedure. Continue reading... |
| RNC: Trump paints Biden as a 'radical' candidate and a danger to America Posted: 27 Aug 2020 11:00 PM PDT President accepts Republican presidential nomination in event staged at White House, raising ethical concerns Against a backdrop of a global pandemic, heightened racial tensions, and widespread unemployment, Donald Trump framed his Democratic rival Joe Biden as the real danger to the country's safety and economic welfare in his address to the Republican convention on Thursday. Accepting the party's presidential nomination ahead of November's elections, Trump argued for more than an hour that his administration had accomplished everything it had set out to do and warned that a Biden presidency could be ruinous. Continue reading... |
| Japan PM Shinzo Abe quits over health concerns Posted: 28 Aug 2020 01:35 AM PDT Abe says return of bowel condition means he cannot continue in his position Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has said he will resign over his declining health, telling a shocked country that the return of a chronic bowel condition had left him unable to steer it through the coronavirus pandemic. "Poor health should not influence political decisions, and as long as I'm unable to meet the expectations of the Japanese people, I have decided that I cannot stay on as prime minister and will step down," Abe told a televised news conference on Friday. Continue reading... |
| 'We've all had enough': Kenosha in anguish over Jacob Blake shooting Posted: 27 Aug 2020 07:55 AM PDT Communities have been left to come to terms with the setback for race relations, a frayed relationship with police and the damage that has upended daily life Antwainnetta Edwards is a new mom. Just weeks ago she had a baby girl and worked hard preparing herself to raise a child during a coronavirus pandemic and the related economic crisis. Now, as she stood on the porch of her home in Kenosha, rocking her newborn back and forth, she reflected on the last four days and nights that have shaken the small Wisconsin city since, once again in America, a white police officer shot a Black man during an interaction that went out of control, severely wounding Jacob Blake on Sunday. Continue reading... |
| UN secretary general urges India to swiftly turn away from coal Posted: 27 Aug 2020 11:00 PM PDT António Guterres tells country to stop building coal-fired power stations for sake of climate India must swiftly and permanently turn away from coal despite its need for cheap energy, the UN secretary general has urged, aiming to revive global action on the climate crisis as the world begins to emerge from the coronavirus pandemic. António Guterres told a virtual audience on Friday morning that coal use must be phased out in India, with no new coal-fired power stations after this year, and that fossil fuel subsidies must be ended. Continue reading... |
| South African conservationist killed by lions he reared Posted: 27 Aug 2020 06:34 PM PDT West Mathewson was attacked without warning by lions during one of their regular walks A South African conservationist has been killed by lions he hand-reared. West Mathewson, 69, was walking two white lionesses on Wednesday when one of the animals attacked and killed him without warning, his family said on Thursday. The incident took place on the premises of the family-owned Lion Tree Top Lodge, in South Africa's northern Limpopo province. Continue reading... |
| Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean Posted: 27 Aug 2020 09:30 AM PDT Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities The British street artist Banksy has financed a boat to rescue refugees attempting to reach Europe from north Africa, the Guardian can reveal. The vessel, named Louise Michel after a French feminist anarchist, set off in secrecy on 18 August from the Spanish seaport of Burriana, near Valencia, and is now in the central Mediterranean where on Thursday it rescued 89 people in distress, including 14 women and four children. Continue reading... |
| Hurricane Laura brings 150mph winds to Louisiana with more 'catastrophic conditions' to come Posted: 27 Aug 2020 10:14 PM PDT Six fatalities recorded in Louisiana, including a teen girl who died after a tree fell on her home and a man who died of carbon monoxide poisoning Hurricane Laura, the most powerful hurricane to strike the US this year, moved across Louisiana on a northerly path on Thursday, after threatening an "unsurvivable storm surge" on the coast and tropical force weather as far as Tennessee. The storm slammed into western Louisiana overnight with gusts of up to 150mph and could cause "catastrophic conditions", the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. Not until 11 hours after landfall did it finally weaken. Continue reading... |
| 'Fear of failure' giving UK children lowest happiness levels in Europe Posted: 27 Aug 2020 04:01 PM PDT More than a third of UK 15-year-olds scored low in the annual Good Childhood Report Children in the UK have the lowest levels of life satisfaction across Europe, with "a particularly British fear of failure" partly to blame, according to a major report into childhood happiness. More than a third of UK 15-year-olds scored low on life satisfaction, the annual Good Childhood Report from the Children's Society found. They also fared badly across happiness measurements including satisfaction with schools, friends and sense of purpose compared to children in other European countries. Continue reading... |
| Treble Dutch: £13m old master painting stolen for a third time Posted: 27 Aug 2020 09:25 AM PDT Two Laughing Boys by Frans Hals seized in overnight raid at museum It's nothing to smile about for lovers of Dutch art. Police have reported that Two Laughing Boyswith a Mug of Beer, by the old master Frans Hals, has been stolen for a third time. The Golden Age work, painted in 1626-7, was snatched from a small museum in the town of Leerdam, near the city of Utrecht, early on Wednesday morning. Continue reading... |
| Twelve arrested at sea while trying to flee to Taiwan from Hong Kong Posted: 27 Aug 2020 02:48 PM PDT Chinese coastguard stopped a speedboat on Sunday suspected of an illegal border crossing More than 10 Hong Kong residents, including an activist charged under the city's punitive national security law, have been detained by China's coastguard while trying to flee to Taiwan, according to reports. China's coastguard released a statement on Weibo saying that on Sunday at 9am, authorities in Guangdong tracked down a speedboat suspected of an illegal border crossing. The notice, posted on Wednesday evening, said more than 10 people had been arrested including two suspects surnamed Li and Tang. Continue reading... |
| Will Jerry Falwell Jr’s fall from grace end his influence over Trump voters? Posted: 28 Aug 2020 01:53 AM PDT Sex scandal surrounding ex-head of Liberty University could weigh on president's white evangelical fanbase in run-up to election "Every human being is a sinner. We're all imperfect, we're all flawed, and we're redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ." When Jerry Falwell Jr, the US evangelical leader, president of the country's premier conservative Christian university and close associate of Donald Trump, told me this in his spacious office in Lynchburg, Virginia, almost two years ago, it was in response to a question about the morality of the US president. Continue reading... |
| Gatwick airport hit by £343m loss as passenger numbers fall Posted: 28 Aug 2020 12:30 AM PDT Revenues plunge by 61%, with Covid-19 continuing to take toll on aviation industry Gatwick airport has reported a £343m loss after passenger numbers plummeted by two-thirds in the first half of the year as the coronavirus takes a heavy toll on the aviation industry. Britain's second-busiest air hub, which earlier this week announced plans to cut 600 jobs, said revenues plunged by 61% in the first half from £372m to £144m. Continue reading... |
| Trump unleashes diatribe of falsehoods and baseless attacks in RNC finale Posted: 27 Aug 2020 11:39 PM PDT Trump portrayed Biden as a creature of the Washington swamp, beat the drum of law and order and said little about racial injustice You write him off at your peril. Donald Trump stood at one of America's most hallowed spaces on Thursday – the White House – and bent it to his will, just as he has bent the Republican party and swaths of America. Related: RNC: Trump paints Biden as a 'radical' candidate and a danger to America Continue reading... |
| Venezuela using coronavirus as cover to crack down on dissent, report claims Posted: 27 Aug 2020 09:01 PM PDT Human Rights Watch says it has found a 'very, very disturbing' pattern of intimidation and persecution of government critics Venezuelan security forces are using the coronavirus pandemic as cover to wage a disturbing "full force" campaign against dissenters, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch. The New York-based human rights group said that dozens of journalists, health professionals, human rights lawyers and government opponents had been arbitrarily detained and prosecuted since President Nicolás Maduro declared a Covid-19 state of emergency in mid-March. Continue reading... |
| Experience: I thought I’d never meet my newborn son Posted: 28 Aug 2020 02:00 AM PDT Our baby was on the way when Thailand banned commercial surrogacy. Clinics were raided. Calls and emails went unanswered My husband and I were on holiday in Greece when the email arrived to tell us we were having a baby. Our surrogate was pregnant after the first embryo transfer. This was the news Bill and I had dreamed of; it was our final attempt at parenthood, whatever the outcome. We had been trying to have a baby for nine years, and I had experienced five miscarriages. We were emotionally and physically drained. A couple of weeks before the news came, we had flown from our home in Australia to Bangkok. My eggs were collected and Bill made his contribution. Later, an embryo was transferred into the Thai surrogate's womb. I was 37 by then, and surrogacy was not a decision we had taken lightly. I had done a lot of research to find the right country with the right laws and an ethical clinic; surrogates there had completed their own families and were not financially pressured. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus Australia latest: the week at a glance Posted: 28 Aug 2020 02:15 AM PDT A summary of the major developments in the coronavirus outbreak across the country Here are all the latest developments in the coronavirus pandemic in Australia. This is Mostafa Rachwani and it's Friday 28 August. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 27 Aug 2020 11:30 PM PDT The UK government has gone quiet on global safeguarding. The new FCDO must work with NGOs to hold abusers accountable When stories of sexual abuse, harassment and exploitation in the aid sector surfaced in February 2018, a firestorm of blame and recrimination broke out across British NGOs. Household names were vilified, and the secretary of state for international development publicly declared that we had lost our moral compass. Stories from victims and survivors were horrific and needed to be heard. NGOs were ashamed that abuse was still happening on our watch. We apologised, made promises of improvement and change. We came together as a sector and rapidly acted. Policies, processes and training were improved across hundreds of organisations and thousands of staff around the globe. Continue reading... |
| Covid turns tide on India's Ganesh festival traditions Posted: 27 Aug 2020 10:30 PM PDT Thousands of ritual statues are dunked into the sea off Mumbai each year – but coronavirus and pollution concerns are forcing change In the quiet housing estate of Angrewadi in the heart of Girgaon in south Mumbai, people are celebrating the 100th consecutive year of the Ganesh Chaturthi, the Hindu festival of the elephant-headed god of new beginnings. Statues of Lord Ganesh are brought into homes and put on display for offerings and prayers. On the 11th and final day of the festival, the ritual of Ganesh Visarjan takes place – falling this year on 1 September. The statues, normally made of soluble plaster of paris, are traditionally carried in a public procession with music and chanting, and are then immersed in either a river or the sea. Here, they slowly dissolve in a ceremony that dramatises the Hindu view of the ephemeral nature of life – but also causes widespread pollution. Continue reading... |
| Boss vows to tackle misconduct claims at UN Green Climate Fund Posted: 27 Aug 2020 10:52 AM PDT Yannick Glemarec responds to FT report of 40 complaints including racism and sexism The head of the UN's climate finance body has pledged to tackle complaints of misconduct at the organisation "as a matter of urgency", after such claims against unidentified staff members were published. Yannick Glemarec, the executive director of the Green Climate Fund, told the Guardian: "We need to continue working on building the culture of the organisation. Trust is key for our organisation." Continue reading... |
| The Christchurch shooter's sentence will consign him to nothingness | Steve Braunias Posted: 27 Aug 2020 01:00 PM PDT Justice has been seen to be done and the stories of his victims and those left behind will live on They called him a mouse. A sheep. A coward. A loser. A peasant. A terrorist. A nothing. The latter two accusations made against Brenton Tarrant in the high court of Christchurch this week were the most factual; convicted of 51 counts of murder and an act of terrorism, his sentence of life without parole has consigned him to the void. He will cease to exist. Good. He was bad rubbish, sentenced with all the beautiful and solemn efficiency of English law as practised in New Zealand, but the thing everyone will remember about the past few days is the testimony from those who survived the attack and the families of the victims. Continue reading... |
| Falling care home demand since Covid poses threat to UK Posted: 27 Aug 2020 09:00 AM PDT Financial effect of pandemic may seriously erode ability to look after the most vulnerable
There is a graph circulating in the care home industry that should send chills down the spine of the health and social care secretary, Matt Hancock. It predicts, under a worst-case scenario, a plunge in the demand for care homes by the end of 2021 that would leave 180,000 beds empty. The forecast by consultants Knight Frank is not good news based on a healthier aged population, but rather is based on fresh waves of coronavirus killing thousands more people in the community and in care homes, creating a flight from the sector. Continue reading... |
| Donald Trump slams Joe Biden in Republican nomination acceptance speech – video Posted: 27 Aug 2020 11:04 PM PDT Donald Trump formally accepted the Republican party's nomination for re-election in front of the White House on Thursday night. 'This is the most important election in the history of our country,' Trump said after he 'profoundly' accepted his party's nomination. Trump went on to excoriate the Democratic party and argue that the choice for voters is between a president who has a record of unmatched accomplishments and an opposition party and candidate eager to tear down the country.
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| Trump puts women 'on equal footing' with men, say female advisers at RNC – video Posted: 27 Aug 2020 04:57 AM PDT A strong female contingent was out in force during the third day of the Republican national convention, with Trump's advisers attempting to paint a picture of a compassionate, open-minded president in an apparent attempt to win over female voters. Kayleigh McEnany recounted how the president called her after her mastectomy, the White House adviser Kellyanne Conway applauded Trump for putting women 'on equal footing with the men' and his daughter-in law, Lara Trump, described the Trump family as 'warm and caring'. The president's advisers ignored the dozens of sexual misconduct allegations against Trump (which he denies) and his history of referring to women as 'dogs' and 'fat pigs'. Continue reading... |
| 'Your design was to divide ... you failed': Christchurch gunman jailed for life – video Posted: 27 Aug 2020 02:30 AM PDT The Australian man who killed 51 Muslim worshippers in two mosques in Christchurch has received a life sentence without parole sentence. It is the first time under current New Zealand law that a sentence of life without the possibility of parole has been imposed. Outside the court Muslims and non-Muslims gathered together to mark the end of three days of emotional victim impact statements during which more than 90 of those bereaved or wounded in the attacks addressed the court. Many asked Mander to bar the gunman from ever walking free from jail. Continue reading... |
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