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- Global coronavirus deaths pass 1m with no sign rate is slowing
- Coronavirus live news: one million deaths worldwide; warning that Germany faces 19,200 cases a day
- One million coronavirus deaths: how did we get here?
- UK coronavirus news: Johnson faces backlash over 'chaotic' announcement of latest local lockdown
- Amnesty to halt work in India due to government 'witch-hunt'
- Trump reels from taxes bombshell as he gets set for crunch debate with Biden
- Demoralised but defiant, Hong Kong's spirit of resistance endures
- UN to hold emergency talks on Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict
- Global Microsoft outage brings down Teams, Office 365 and Outlook
- Breonna Taylor: Kentucky attorney general agrees to release grand jury recordings
- Brexit: warnings for care sector in pandemic as freedom of movement ends
- Protests flare in Papua as students demand independence referendum
- A quarter of adopted UK children affected by drinking during pregnancy
- Salty ponds may be under Mars' icy surface, raising prospect of Martian life
- Robots and magnetic soap: scientists rethink oil spill clean-ups
- Inside the airline industry's meltdown
- Manchester Arena bombing victim not evacuated for over 40 minutes, inquiry told
- Iraqi PM rallies allies to stop US closing embassy after Pompeo threats
- 'I felt unwanted': Zodwa Nyoni on the immigration tales behind Nine Lives
- Troubled Florida, divided America: will Donald Trump hold this vital swing state? - video
- The new centre of dissent: Britain becomes hub for Hong Kong activists
- Queensland government approves $1bn coking coalmine in the Galilee Basin
- 'Any focus on them is good': can a new scheme help Delhi's missing children?
- Most countries failing women and girls with Covid response, UN finds
- 'Frail' people like me shouldn't be denied lifesaving Covid care | Patience Owen
- New Zealand must match its Covid 'in this together' rhetoric with action on basic services | Max Harris
- Boris Johnson's Covid-19 policy critics: who says what?
- The US supreme court ruled against my voting rights. As an ex-felon, my scarlet letter is back | Raquel Wright
- Hongkongers find creative ways to voice dissent – in pictures
- Armenia and Azerbaijan clash over disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region – video report
- Trump 'paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017' – video report
| Global coronavirus deaths pass 1m with no sign rate is slowing Posted: 28 Sep 2020 05:45 PM PDT Johns Hopkins University data points to rises in countries that seemed to have slowed spread
The number of people who have died from Covid-19 has exceeded 1 million, according to a tally of cases maintained by Johns Hopkins University, with no sign the global death rate is slowing and infections on the rise again in countries that were thought to be controlling their outbreaks months ago. The milestone was reached early on Tuesday morning UK time, nine months since authorities in China first announced the detection of a cluster of pneumonia cases with an unknown cause in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. The first recorded death, that of a 61-year-old man in a hospital in the city, came 12 days later. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus live news: one million deaths worldwide; warning that Germany faces 19,200 cases a day Posted: 29 Sep 2020 02:33 AM PDT Global death toll passes one million; Angela Merkel says new action is needed in Germany; New York test positivity rate climbs
Germany could face up to 19,200 new coronavirus infections per day by Christmas unless it finds new ways to slow down the spread of the virus during the cold season, chancellor Angela Merkel has warned ahead of a summit with state premiers today. The country's disease control agency recorded 2,089 new infections in the last 24 hours, but Merkel believes Germany could find itself in a similar situation to France or Spain by the end of the year.
The number of deaths involving Covid-19 registered in England and Wales has risen for the second week in a row. A total of 139 deaths registered in the week ending 18 September mentioned Covid-19 on the death certificate, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).This is up from 99 deaths in the week to 11 September, and 78 deaths in the week to 4 September. Continue reading... |
| One million coronavirus deaths: how did we get here? Posted: 28 Sep 2020 05:56 PM PDT Milestone is known toll of months of Covid pandemic that has changed everything, from power balances to everyday life Though an inevitable milestone for months, its arrival is still breathtaking. Deaths from Covid-19 exceeded 1 million people on Tuesday, according to a Johns Hopkins University database, the known toll of nine relentless months of a pandemic that has changed everything, from global balances of power to the mundane aspects of daily life. Continue reading... |
| UK coronavirus news: Johnson faces backlash over 'chaotic' announcement of latest local lockdown Posted: 29 Sep 2020 02:41 AM PDT Live updates: PM gives speech about post-18 education as part of 'levelling up' agenda but faces backlash from council leaders in north east England over new restrictions
In an interview with BBC News Martin Gannon, the leader of Gateshead council, went beyond what he told the Today programme about the government's handling of the latest restrictions being "a bit chaotic". (See 9.15am.) He said they should not have been necessary. The national lockdown earlier this year got the virus under control. But the government then refused to give councils what they needed to do contact tracing locally, he said. We could have controlled [the virus]. We have the expertise here. We have the pathology labs and the technology. We have the resources, we have the people there able to do the work. All we needed was the reagents and the kits supplied to us, rather than being sent away to national contractors. God only knows what they are doing with them. So it's been the government's failure, in terms of test, trace and trace, which is getting us to this place, which means we're now back in a situation where the virus is out of control. And, frankly, that makes me absolutely furious.
The Office for National Statistics has published its weekly death figures for England and Wales. Here are the key points. Continue reading... |
| Amnesty to halt work in India due to government 'witch-hunt' Posted: 29 Sep 2020 01:23 AM PDT Authorities froze bank accounts after criticism of government's human rights record Amnesty International has been forced to shut down operations in India and lay off all staff after the Indian government froze its bank accounts. The Indian enforcement directorate, an agency that investigates economic crimes, froze the accounts of Amnesty's Indian arm this month after the group published two reports highly critical of the government's human rights record. Continue reading... |
| Trump reels from taxes bombshell as he gets set for crunch debate with Biden Posted: 28 Sep 2020 11:06 AM PDT
Donald Trump heads into the first US presidential debate against Joe Biden on Tuesday night trailing in opinion polls and now reeling from dramatic newspaper revelations detailing his chronic financial losses and years of tax avoidance. Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes in 2016, the year he ran for and won election, the New York Times reported. In 2017, he paid only $750 again. And he paid no federal income tax at all in 10 out of the previous 15 years. Continue reading... |
| Demoralised but defiant, Hong Kong's spirit of resistance endures Posted: 28 Sep 2020 05:30 PM PDT Security law has largely stamped out anti-government protests, but the opposition is finding new ways to fight Tony Chung spends his days in fear and solitude. For the 19-year-old activist, who became the first political figure to be arrested under Hong Kong's national security law, the spectre of prison looms large. Chung was arrested in late July with three other former members of the pro-independence group Studentlocalism – which he founded at the age of 15 – on suspicion of inciting secession under the law. Continue reading... |
| UN to hold emergency talks on Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict Posted: 28 Sep 2020 10:56 PM PDT Meeting on Tuesday follows two days of fighting over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh Explainer: why is there fighting and what are the implications? The UN security council will hold emergency talks behind closed doors on the ethnic Armenian region of Nagorno-Karabakh, where fighting continued overnight on Monday. The meeting will be held at 5.00pm ET (2100 GMT) on Tuesday. Belgium formally requested the session, after France and Germany had led a push for it to be placed on the agenda. Continue reading... |
| Global Microsoft outage brings down Teams, Office 365 and Outlook Posted: 29 Sep 2020 12:17 AM PDT Microsoft says a recent update has affected the processing of authentication requests, making cloud-based services inaccessible Microsoft has said it is investigating an outage that brought down Microsoft's cloud-based office services including the meetings software, Teams, worldwide. Microsoft reported issues with authentication for its cloud services at around 9.25pm UTC, meaning people were having issues logging into the online services Teams, Outlook and Office. Continue reading... |
| Breonna Taylor: Kentucky attorney general agrees to release grand jury recordings Posted: 28 Sep 2020 09:41 PM PDT Juror had sued to release transcripts, saying 'absolute truth of how this matter was handled' should be published Kentucky's attorney general has said he will release a recording of the grand jury proceedings in the Breonna Taylor case, after a judge ordered they be filed in court by noon on Wednesday. It follows an anonymous juror suing for them to be made public. Attorney general, Daniel Cameron, said in a statement: "The Grand Jury is meant to be a secretive body. It's apparent that the public interest in this case isn't going to allow that to happen." Continue reading... |
| Brexit: warnings for care sector in pandemic as freedom of movement ends Posted: 29 Sep 2020 02:13 AM PDT Wages should rise to make jobs more attractive to UK staff say government advisers The end of freedom of movement will increase pressure on the social care sector in the midst of a pandemic unless ministers make jobs more attractive to UK workers by increasing salaries, government advisers have warned. The Migration Advisory Committee (Mac) has warned of the "stark consequences" of low wages in social care with most frontline role ineligible for the post-Brexit skilled worker immigration route or on the official list for job shortages in the UK. Continue reading... |
| Protests flare in Papua as students demand independence referendum Posted: 28 Sep 2020 06:56 PM PDT Police fire shots as crowds of demonstrators demand a vote on secession from Indonesia Unrest has flared in the restive Indonesian region of Papua with police firing shots during a protest by hundreds of university students in the provincial capital, Jayapura. The group was demonstrating against plans to extend a special autonomy law that protestors say has not done enough to help people in one of the country's poorest regions. Continue reading... |
| A quarter of adopted UK children affected by drinking during pregnancy Posted: 28 Sep 2020 04:01 PM PDT Survey by Adoption UK finds 17% of adopted children are suspected of having foetal alcohol spectrum disorder One in four adopted children are either diagnosed with or suspected to have a range of conditions caused by drinking in pregnancy, according to a recent survey of nearly 5,000 adopters in the UK. Among the adopters surveyed by the charity Adoption UK, 8% of children had a diagnosis, and a further 17% were suspected by their parents to have foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), the neurodevelopmental condition characterised by difficulty with impulse control, as well as behavioural and learning difficulties. Continue reading... |
| Salty ponds may be under Mars' icy surface, raising prospect of Martian life Posted: 28 Sep 2020 04:08 PM PDT Italian scientists provide further evidence of underground lake and smaller bodies of water in study A network of salty ponds may be gurgling beneath Mars' south pole alongside a large underground lake, raising the prospect of tiny, swimming Martian life. Italian scientists reported their findings Monday, two years after identifying what they believed to be a large buried lake. They widened their coverage area by a couple hundred miles, using even more data from a radar sounder on the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter. Continue reading... |
| Robots and magnetic soap: scientists rethink oil spill clean-ups Posted: 28 Sep 2020 11:00 PM PDT Incidents such as tanker stranding in Mauritius stress need for quick and effective solutions Special sponges, magnetic soap and autonomous robots are among the latest wave of inventions aimed at tackling oil spills. Incidents such as the tanker stranding in Mauritius in August can devastate the environment and threaten communities who rely on the sea or tourism for their livelihoods. They often take months or years to clean up. Continue reading... |
| Inside the airline industry's meltdown Posted: 28 Sep 2020 10:00 PM PDT Coronavirus has hit few sectors harder than air travel, wiping out tens of thousands of jobs and uncountable billions in revenue. While most fleets were grounded, the industry was forced to reimagine its future When an airline no longer wants a plane, it is sent away to a boneyard, a storage facility where it sits outdoors on a paved lot, wingtip to wingtip with other unwanted planes. From the air, the planes look like the bleached remains of some long-forgotten skeleton. Europe's biggest boneyard is built on the site of a late-30s airfield in Teruel, in eastern Spain, where the dry climate is kind to metallic airframes. Many planes are here for short-term storage, biding their time while they change owners or undergo maintenance. If their future is less clear, they enter long-term storage. Sometimes a plane's limbo ends when it is taken apart, its body rendered efficiently down into spare parts and recycled metal. In February, Patrick Lecer, the CEO of Tarmac Aerosave, the company that owns the Teruel boneyard and three others in France, had one eye cocked towards China. Lecer has been in aviation long enough to remember flights being grounded during the Sars epidemic in 2003. This year, when the coronavirus spread beyond Asia, he knew what was coming. "We started making space in our sites, playing Tetris with the aircraft to free up two or three or four more spaces in each," he told me. Continue reading... |
| Manchester Arena bombing victim not evacuated for over 40 minutes, inquiry told Posted: 28 Sep 2020 11:16 AM PDT John Atkinson arrived at hospital 90 minutes after terror attack and later died of blood loss A victim of the Manchester Arena attack who had to wait more than 40 minutes after the bombing to be evacuated from the scene told a paramedic: "I'm going to die, aren't I?", a public inquiry has heard. John Atkinson, 28, was not taken from the blast site for 46 minutes, before being carried on a cardboard advertising hoarding to a casualty clearing station. Continue reading... |
| Iraqi PM rallies allies to stop US closing embassy after Pompeo threats Posted: 28 Sep 2020 01:27 PM PDT US warned Mustafa al-Kadhimi it will withdraw diplomats if Baghdad fails to prevent rocket attacks Iraq's prime minister has rallied allies to help stop the US from closing its embassy in the country after the Trump administration threatened to withdraw its diplomats if Baghdad fails to stop persistent rocket attacks. The ultimatum was delivered over the weekend by the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, to Mustafa al-Kadhimi, and was followed by a small-scale evacuation from the fortified mission in what officials saw as a statement of intent. Continue reading... |
| 'I felt unwanted': Zodwa Nyoni on the immigration tales behind Nine Lives Posted: 28 Sep 2020 06:08 AM PDT The playwright's monologue, staged at the Bridge theatre, reflects the anger and pain of refugees and asylum seekers My family migrated from Zimbabwe to England in the late 90s. Most of my teens and all of my 20s were shaped by applying for residency. I spent a lot of time feeling unwanted despite giving back to communities and to the arts, representing the UK at international poetry festivals and exchanges, and contributing to the landscape of British theatre. In 2014, I was commissioned to write a play for Leeds Playhouse and Glasgow's Òran Mór as part of the series A Play, a Pie and a Pint. I wrote Nine Lives, a one-man show about Ishmael, a gay Zimbabwean asylum seeker who is dispersed to Leeds while he awaits the Home Office's decision on his case. Continue reading... |
| Troubled Florida, divided America: will Donald Trump hold this vital swing state? - video Posted: 29 Sep 2020 01:59 AM PDT Donald Trump's presidency has changed American society. With six weeks until the most important election in a generation, Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone are crossing the US to uncover the fault lines that underpin American politics. In the vital swing state of Florida, where disinformation on Covid-19 has spread unchecked, the race for the White House is tightening by the day
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| The new centre of dissent: Britain becomes hub for Hong Kong activists Posted: 28 Sep 2020 11:00 PM PDT Longstanding cultural ties and a newly welcoming government have led to prominent exiles choosing London as their base The UK has become an international hub for Hong Kong dissidents as China's harsh new security law leads to an exodus of pro-democracy politicians, campaigners and protesters, who now face jail terms for their activism. Longstanding cultural ties, a newly welcoming government and Covid-era travel restrictions that have in effect closed off other potential destinations, such as Canada and Australia, have boosted the number of new arrivals to Britain. Continue reading... |
| Queensland government approves $1bn coking coalmine in the Galilee Basin Posted: 29 Sep 2020 02:36 AM PDT Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says Pembroke Resources can now hire the 500 workers needed to build the Olive Downs mine The Queensland government has given final approval to a $1bn coalmine in the state's Galilee Basin. Pembroke Resources has been granted mining leases for its 25,000-hectare Olive Downs coking coal project by the state government following federal environmental approval in May. Continue reading... |
| 'Any focus on them is good': can a new scheme help Delhi's missing children? Posted: 28 Sep 2020 11:15 PM PDT With 17 children missing every day, the city's police commissioner hopes a promise of fast-track promotion will inspire officers to reunite more families New Delhi Police Commissioner SN Srivastava was particularly troubled over the 17 children who went missing in his city every day. So he decided to light a fire in the belly of his force and came up with a new approach. If any officer could find 50 missing children in a year their promotion would be fast-tracked. It usually takes constables at least five years to be promoted to head constable, and meeting the target would dramatically speed that up. Continue reading... |
| Most countries failing women and girls with Covid response, UN finds Posted: 28 Sep 2020 10:00 PM PDT Global gender tracker assesses how governments address violence, strengthen women's economic security and support unpaid caring Most countries are failing to adequately protect women and girls during the fallout from Covid-19, according to a new UN database that tracks government responses to the pandemic. The global gender tracker has looked at how 206 countries and territories address violence against women and girls, support unpaid care workers and strengthen women's economic security. Continue reading... |
| 'Frail' people like me shouldn't be denied lifesaving Covid care | Patience Owen Posted: 28 Sep 2020 11:30 PM PDT A frailty index is rationing treatment for older and disabled people who catch coronavirus. We are not sacrificial lambs Lockdown was easy for me, it has become my daily state more frequently throughout my life. I have a debilitating connective tissue disorder that keeps me indoors most days. It was a relief I no longer had to go out and pretend to be normal when wracked with ill-health and hidden pain. Like thousands of others with rare conditions, I'm already in a minority within a minority, marginalised by our NHS, battling increasing disability day by day. So, while many fear a second lockdown over the winter months, I haven't gone out more often since the first one was lifted because I risk a double jeopardy – catching Covid, then being a low priority for medical care. Back in March, without consultation and days before the first lockdown, the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS), a worldwide tool used to swiftly identify frailty in older patients to improve acute care, was adapted by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice). It asked NHS staff in England to score the frailty of Covid patients. Rather than aiming to improve care, it seems the CFS – a fitness-to-frailty sheet using scores from one to nine – was used to work out which patients should be denied acute care. Nice's new guidelines advised NHS trusts to "sensitively discuss a possible 'do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation' decision with all adults with capacity and an assessment suggestive of increased frailty". Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Posted: 28 Sep 2020 07:52 PM PDT If the country is to honour the pandemic's spirit of collective solidarity there must be a genuine commitment to healthcare and education New Zealand's response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been a master-class in inclusive communication. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described the country as a "team of six million". The top public health official, Ashley Bloomfield, said: "The virus is the problem, not people ... people are the solution". But the policies arising out of the pandemic, especially in the run-up to New Zealand's election on 17 October, have not always been as inclusive as the communication. There's a mismatch between universalist rhetoric in the pandemic response, and policy offerings that seem to give up on universalism in public services. Continue reading... |
| Boris Johnson's Covid-19 policy critics: who says what? Posted: 28 Sep 2020 10:35 AM PDT A selection of comments from across the political divide on PM's handling of pandemic The brewing rebellion among Tory backbenchers over the lack of scrutiny afforded to parliament on Covid-19 restrictions – as well as concerns about their impact – has left Boris Johnson facing criticism from within and outside his party. Here are some of the more pointed comments levelled against the prime minister and his policies from across the political divide. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 28 Sep 2020 07:00 AM PDT The supreme court ruled in favor of Florida Republicans trying to take away the voting rights of people with felony convictions. We will continue to fight this This month, the supreme court ruled in favor of Florida Republicans in their quest to take away the voting rights of people with felony convictions – people like me. Related: San Francisco could soon allow 16-year-olds to vote. The country should follow | Isabel Hope Continue reading... |
| Hongkongers find creative ways to voice dissent – in pictures Posted: 28 Sep 2020 08:08 PM PDT From holding up blank sheets of paper to baking messages into mooncakes, people are devising new ways to protest amid repressive security law Continue reading... |
| Armenia and Azerbaijan clash over disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region – video report Posted: 28 Sep 2020 12:29 PM PDT Dozens have been killed in clashes between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces over a disputed area in the south Caucasus region, with international calls mounting for an immediate ceasefire. Tensions between the countries have been growing for months over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, an enclave legally considered to be part of Azerbaijan, but which has been run by ethnic Armenians since it declared independence in 1991. Fighting was reported overnight on 27 September and throughout the following day, with both sides accusing each other of using heavy artillery, targeting civilians and deploying foreign mercenaries Continue reading... |
| Trump 'paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017' – video report Posted: 28 Sep 2020 07:53 AM PDT A New York Times report into Donald Trump's tax records has revealed he paid just $750 in federal income tax in his first year as president. Trump, who in 2016 suggested reports of tax avoidance showed he was 'smart', denounced the findings as 'completely fake news'. The New York Times said that of the 18 years its reporters examined, Trump had paid no income tax at all in 11 of them.
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