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- Global report: India's coronavirus cases pass 5 million
- Cut out karaoke to help Covid fight, urges Philippines governor
- What we actually know about Covid-19
- 'Why wait for it?' How to predict a pandemic
- Coronavirus live news: Trump says Covid-19 will 'go away' because of 'herd mentality'
- Nearly two-thirds of US young adults unaware 6m Jews killed in the Holocaust
- UAE, Bahrain and Israel sign historic accords at White House event
- Prestigious US science journal breaks with tradition to back Biden
- Trump attacks WTO after it says US tariffs on China broke global trade rules
- Dalits bear brunt of India's 'endemic' sexual violence crisis
- World fails to meet a single target to stop destruction of nature – UN report
- Barbados revives plan to remove Queen as head of state and become a republic
- Yoshihide Suga confirmed as Japan prime minister as Abe defends 'proud' legacy
- Wooden Melania Trump statue replaced with bronze after arson attack
- How about Jeffrey? Canada town of Asbestos reveals shortlist for new name
- Cynthia Nixon: 'Will Donald Trump leave quietly? I don't know'
- Thames tunnel will cost nearly £2bn over 30 years, TfL figures show
- Sweden spared European surge as coronavirus infections stay low
- Historical bluster glosses over realities of Trump's Middle East diplomacy show
- George Bizos obituary
- He buried treasure in the mountains, and someone found it. Or did they?
- Victoria records eight deaths and 42 new coronavirus cases, with 10 in NSW – as it happened
- Uganda calls in troops as violence flares between refugees and locals
- Andrzej Krauze on Boris Johnson's latest Brexit manoeuvre – cartoon
- Breonna Taylor family receive $12m settlement – video
- 'It's going to be peace in the Middle East': Trump on historic accords – video
- Burned homes, thick smoke, shattered lives: wildfires' aftermath – in pictures
| Global report: India's coronavirus cases pass 5 million Posted: 15 Sep 2020 10:11 PM PDT Concerns India figures don't give full picture; Trump says Covid-19 will 'go away' because of 'herd mentality'; pandemic only beginning, says WHO India's total coronavirus cases passed 5 million on Wednesday, health ministry data showed, as the pandemic extended its grip on the vast country at an ever faster rate. With its latest million cases recorded in just 11 days, a world record, India now has 5.02 million infections. Only the United States has more, with 6.59 million. Continue reading... |
| Cut out karaoke to help Covid fight, urges Philippines governor Posted: 15 Sep 2020 11:01 PM PDT Leader of Cavite province sets up hotline for noise complaints, saying good sleep is essential in fighting disease Across the world, coronavirus lockdowns have transformed city streets into eerie ghost towns, empty of noise and disruption. But in the Philippine province of Cavite, an unbearable din has been echoing through some areas, as residents turn to karaoke to pass away the hours spent under curfew. The racket caused by karaoke, a favourite pastime in the country, has prompted the governor of the province to urge residents to report noisy neighbours through a special hotline. Continue reading... |
| What we actually know about Covid-19 Posted: 16 Sep 2020 02:00 AM PDT Scientists and doctors pulled together in an unprecedented effort to explore the virus As the world battled the first wave of coronavirus infections, scientists and doctors pulled together in an unprecedented global effort to explore the virus, the illness it causes, and the drugs and vaccines that might bring it under control. But as many countries face a resurgence in cases, what have we found out about Covid-19? Continue reading... |
| 'Why wait for it?' How to predict a pandemic Posted: 16 Sep 2020 01:32 AM PDT Strides are being made towards an open access atlas that could predict where dangerous animal-borne viruses will next appear How do you predict where a deadly tropical disease such as Ebola, possibly the most virulent in the world, will appear next? Since it first emerged in a small town on the edge of a Congolese forest, it has broken out in seven other African countries, often thousands of miles apart. Sometimes it has spilled out of remote rainforest and then disappeared for years. Other times it has turned up in cities, baffling world bodies and governments that can only try to respond as fast as possible. But actually, given good data, the notoriously unpredictable zoonotic – or animal-borne – disease, which is passed to humans via primates and probably bats, may actually be quite predictable, believes David Redding, a researcher at the ZSL Institute of Zoology in London. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus live news: Trump says Covid-19 will 'go away' because of 'herd mentality' Posted: 16 Sep 2020 02:48 AM PDT 'It would go away without the vaccine,' Trump claims; India's total cases pass 5 million; virus death toll linked to Maine wedding grows to seven
Passengers flying between Rome and Milan will from Wednesday have to present negative results for coronavirus as part of an experiment by the Lazio region that could be rolled out on international flights. Travellers leaving either city will have to take a rapid test for coronavirus at the airport before boarding the so-called 'Covid-free' flights or within 72 before departure.
Authorities in Myanmar are racing to build a field hospital to cope with a surge of coronavirus infections that doctors fear could overwhelm the country's fragile health system. The Southeast Asian nation reported 307 new cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday, its highest daily toll since the start of the pandemic in March, and another 134 on Wednesday morning, taking the total to 3,636 cases and 39 deaths. Continue reading... |
| Nearly two-thirds of US young adults unaware 6m Jews killed in the Holocaust Posted: 15 Sep 2020 09:01 PM PDT According to survey of adults 18-39, 23% said they believed the Holocaust was a myth, had been exaggerated or they weren't sure Almost two-thirds of young American adults do not know that 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust, and more than one in 10 believe Jews caused the Holocaust, a new survey has found, revealing shocking levels of ignorance about the greatest crime of the 20th century. According to the study of millennial and Gen Z adults aged between 18 and 39, almost half (48%) could not name a single concentration camp or ghetto established during the second world war. Continue reading... |
| UAE, Bahrain and Israel sign historic accords at White House event Posted: 15 Sep 2020 11:39 AM PDT Trio establish formal relations at ceremony viewed as image boost for Trump and Netanyahu Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain have signed agreements to establish formal relations, ending a decades-old taboo in Arab diplomacy as power and priorities shift in the Middle East. "Today's signing sets history on a new course," Donald Trump told a crowd outside the White House where the deal was signed. "This an incredible day for the world," he said. Continue reading... |
| Prestigious US science journal breaks with tradition to back Biden Posted: 16 Sep 2020 01:44 AM PDT Scientific American says Trump has damaged US 'because he rejects evidence and science' In a break with its 175-year tradition, the prestigious US magazine Scientific American has for the first time endorsed a candidate in a US presidential election – the Democratic party nominee, Joe Biden. The magazine has taken the line because, it says, "Donald Trump has badly damaged the US and its people – because he rejects evidence and science." Continue reading... |
| Trump attacks WTO after it says US tariffs on China broke global trade rules Posted: 15 Sep 2020 05:13 PM PDT President says he has to 'do something' about the body after it rules that duties on $200bn worth of Chinese goods breached regulations The United States has described the World Trade Organization as "completely inadequate" after it criticised the Trump administration's tariffs on China. The WTO said on Tuesday that the US breached global trading rules by imposing levies on more than $200bn of Chinese goods in the opening salvo of president Donald Trump's trade war with Beijing two years ago. Continue reading... |
| Dalits bear brunt of India's 'endemic' sexual violence crisis Posted: 15 Sep 2020 06:00 PM PDT Girls in Uttar Pradesh targeted in assaults aiming to reinforce caste and gender hierarchies, say activists A spate of brutal rapes and murders of young girls in a single district of India over the past month has provoked outrage and exposed the ongoing use of sexual violence as a tool of oppression and revenge against lower caste communities. Over the past month, the Lakhimpur Kheri district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has witnessed four incidents of girls being raped and brutally murdered. At least two of the girls were Dalits, the lowest caste in the Hindu system of social hierarchy, who were previously referred to as "untouchables" and cast out from society. Continue reading... |
| World fails to meet a single target to stop destruction of nature – UN report Posted: 15 Sep 2020 06:15 AM PDT 'Humanity at a crossroads' after a decade in which all of the 2010 Aichi goals to protect wildlife and ecosystems have been missed The world has failed to meet a single target to stem the destruction of wildlife and life-sustaining ecosystems in the last decade, according to a devastating new report from the UN on the state of nature. From tackling pollution to protecting coral reefs, the international community did not fully achieve any of the 20 Aichi biodiversity targets agreed in Japan in 2010 to slow the loss of the natural world. It is the second consecutive decade that governments have failed to meet targets. Continue reading... |
| Barbados revives plan to remove Queen as head of state and become a republic Posted: 15 Sep 2020 06:09 PM PDT The Caribbean island's leader says its people want a 'Barbadian head of state' and aim to achieve the goal by November 2021 Barbados has announced its intention to remove the Queen as its head of state and become a republic by November 2021. A speech written by its prime minister, Mia Mottley, quoted a warning by the Caribbean island nation's first premier, Errol Barrow, against "loitering on colonial premises". Continue reading... |
| Yoshihide Suga confirmed as Japan prime minister as Abe defends 'proud' legacy Posted: 16 Sep 2020 01:39 AM PDT MPs approve Suga as PM, as outgoing leader promises support for successor who vowed to continue his policies Yoshihide Suga has been installed as Japan's prime minister and promised a "reform-minded, hard-working" cabinet as the outgoing leader, Shinzo Abe, defended his record. The 71-year-old Suga, who served as Abe's right-hand man for almost eight years, has promised to leave economic policy largely unchanged as he attempts to steer Japan out of a deep recession and bring the coronavirus pandemic under control less than a year before Tokyo is hoping to host a postponed summer Olympics. Continue reading... |
| Wooden Melania Trump statue replaced with bronze after arson attack Posted: 15 Sep 2020 12:28 PM PDT Original carving near US first lady's hometown in Slovenia was badly damaged in fire A bronze statue of the US first lady, Melania Trump, has been unveiled near her hometown in Slovenia, to replace a wooden carving of her that was burnt in an arson attack two months ago. The new work – like the original – is a collaboration between Brad Downey, a Berlin-based artist from Louisville, Kentucky, and a local craftsman, Ales "Maxi" Zupevc, who have invited residents of Melania's hometown of Sevnica to see the work in nearby Rozno, south-eastern Slovenia. Continue reading... |
| How about Jeffrey? Canada town of Asbestos reveals shortlist for new name Posted: 15 Sep 2020 05:09 PM PDT Contenders to help the mostly French-speaking town in Quebec move on from its past include Phénix, Trois-Lacs and ... Jeffrey A town in Quebec named after the deadly substance that was for years mined there – asbestos – has narrowed down to four a list of new names as it prepares to adopt a new identity. The Canadian town's four finalists, chosen from a list of 1,000 suggestions, include Phénix for the mythical bird reborn from fire (though asbestos exposure is often a concern after major fires). Another option is Apalone, after a species of turtle, or Trois-Lacs (three lakes), after a neighbourhood in the town. The final contender is simply "Jeffrey", the name of what was until recently the town's largest asbestos mine, the establishment of which was funded in 1880 by a W H Jeffrey, according to a local history website. Residents aged 14 or over are allowed to vote. Continue reading... |
| Cynthia Nixon: 'Will Donald Trump leave quietly? I don't know' Posted: 15 Sep 2020 10:00 PM PDT The actor who once ran to be governor of New York is political to her bones, passionate about trans rights, Black Lives Matter and the future of the left. She discusses the rise of Trump – and why she's still optimistic Cynthia Nixon Zooms on to my screen from some decking in Long Island. The blue-grey sky is dramatically ominous, a sea breeze blows her hair into photogenic chaos and she is, of course, pretty damn famous – especially to those of us of the Sex and the City generation. So the overall effect is of watching a film, but one that is talking straight to you. Yet, within what feels like barely five seconds, we are discussing the end of democracy, with only the briefest detour to cover the impact wrought on her New York home by coronavirus. "When you're in New York City, what it reminds me of is the time right after September 11th. It was, in a way, less terrifying than it looked to people watching from the outside, just as it's strangely less scary to have cancer than to watch someone you love have cancer." Continue reading... |
| Thames tunnel will cost nearly £2bn over 30 years, TfL figures show Posted: 16 Sep 2020 01:51 AM PDT Critics say new figure shows cost of Silvertown tunnel is spiralling out of control A controversial four-lane road tunnel under the River Thames will cost nearly £2bn over the next three decades if it goes ahead, according to accounts published by Transport for London. The figure – which includes the construction, maintenance and operation of the tunnel as well as interest payments on the debt – is more than twice the original estimate for building the tunnel. Continue reading... |
| Sweden spared European surge as coronavirus infections stay low Posted: 16 Sep 2020 12:48 AM PDT Chief epidemiologist puts low number of cases down to light-touch 'sustainable' approach While many European countries are seeing new cases surge to levels not seen since the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, Sweden – whose light-touch approach has made it an international outlier – has one of the continent's lowest infection rates. According to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the Scandinavian country's 14-day cumulative total of new cases was 22.2 per 100,000 inhabitants on Tuesday, against 279 in Spain, 158.5 in France, 118 in the Czech Republic, 77 in Belgium and 59 in the UK, all of which imposed lockdowns this spring. Continue reading... |
| Historical bluster glosses over realities of Trump's Middle East diplomacy show Posted: 16 Sep 2020 01:54 AM PDT The 'Abraham accords' merely make public once-furtive friendships between Israel and Gulf monarchies, while bigger problems remain The White House was festooned with the flags of four nations. There were trumpet blasts, multiple signatures on various pieces of paper, and much weighty talk about blood and history – everything you might expect from a peace deal. And not just any peace deal. The agreements signed in Washington on Tuesday were titled the Abraham Accords, implying a epochal reconciliation between Judaism, Islam and Christianity, three faiths with shared Middle East ancestry. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 15 Sep 2020 09:26 AM PDT Human rights lawyer in apartheid South Africa who represented Nelson Mandela at the Rivonia trial George Bizos, who has died aged 92, was the best known lawyer in South Africa. To many, his stout and slightly rumpled figure represented all that was best about the law, a man who was seemingly always there, attack or defence, when a wrong had been committed or human rights trampled on. His most famous client was Nelson Mandela. At the Rivonia trial of 1963-64– in which the leadership of the African National Congress were tried for sabotage, a capital offence – Bizos made a small, but significant intervention, which may have saved Mandela's life. It came when Mandela was preparing his famous statement from the dock with the help of lawyers and others. The statement ended with the words "it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die". Continue reading... |
| He buried treasure in the mountains, and someone found it. Or did they? Posted: 16 Sep 2020 02:00 AM PDT Forrest Fenn, an eccentric millionaire, liked to engage with those seeking his hoard but left more questions than answers In 2010, a millionaire called Forrest Fenn self-published a memoir containing clues to a treasure hunt in the Rocky Mountains. Fenn had buried a chest full of items from his antiquities collection – including jewelry, jade carvings and plenty of gold coins deemed worth between $1m and $3m – hoping to give people the Indiana Jones type of adventure that had defined his life. He had conceived of the hunt, he said, "for every redneck out there with a pickup truck, six kids, [who has] just lost his job, his wife, and lacks adventure." To see people scrambling to find it gave him great satisfaction. Continue reading... |
| Victoria records eight deaths and 42 new coronavirus cases, with 10 in NSW – as it happened Posted: 16 Sep 2020 02:08 AM PDT South Australia opens up to ACT and Brett Sutton gives evidence at Victoria's hotel quarantine inquiry. Follow all today's developments
That's it for our live coverage of coronavirus news and other developments in Australia. Thanks to Amy Remeikis for the earlier coverage. She'll be back in the morning. You can follow our global coverage here and there is a lot to follow. Outside Australia, the second wave is well and truly surging.
Australia's cricket coach Justin Langer says he could "see the blood draining out of their faces" when his players were told about the quarantine periods in store for them in the coming months. AAP reports the team was given the rundown ahead of tonight's ODI series decider against England in Manchester. Continue reading... |
| Uganda calls in troops as violence flares between refugees and locals Posted: 15 Sep 2020 04:22 AM PDT Tensions between locals and South Sudanese refugees have left at least 10 dead as authorities act to prevent escalation Uganda has sent security troops to its north-west region where tensions are on the rise following deadly attacks on refugees by local people. More than 10 South Sudanese refugees were killed, including a teenage girl and a 25-year-old woman and her baby, and 19 others were seriously wounded in clashes at a water point in Madi-Okollo district last week. Continue reading... |
| Andrzej Krauze on Boris Johnson's latest Brexit manoeuvre – cartoon Posted: 16 Sep 2020 12:00 AM PDT The UK, with an inflated view of its negotiating power, is threatening to renege on the EU withdrawal agreement Continue reading... |
| Breonna Taylor family receive $12m settlement – video Posted: 15 Sep 2020 02:13 PM PDT The family of Breonna Taylor has reached a $12m settlement with the city of Louisville, Kentucky, in a civil suit stemming from the fatal shooting by police of the 26-year-old inside her apartment in March. The civil rights lawyer Ben Crump called it a 'landmark step on the journey to justice' but called for charges to be brought immediately against the police officers who killed Breonna Taylor. |
| 'It's going to be peace in the Middle East': Trump on historic accords – video Posted: 15 Sep 2020 02:06 PM PDT A historic agreement signed between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain at the White House will, according to Donald Trump, 'be peace to the Middle East.' They signed agreements to establish formal relations, ending a decades-old taboo in Arab diplomacy as power and priorities shift in the region. |
| Burned homes, thick smoke, shattered lives: wildfires' aftermath – in pictures Posted: 15 Sep 2020 08:21 AM PDT At least 35 people have died and hundreds of structures have burned in serious wildfires in Oregon, California and Washington. Democratic governors of all three states say the fires are a consequence of climate change Continue reading... |
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