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- Coronavirus live news: no widespread vaccination until mid-2021, says WHO; Berlusconi hospitalised in Milan
- UK coronavirus live: north-east England could face new lockdown restrictions as cases rise
- Silvio Berlusconi admitted to hospital with coronavirus
- ‘I could get sick looking at four walls’: older Americans left out in the new normal
- Biden warns Trump ‘legitimizes dark side of human nature’ in Kenosha visit
- White US professor admits she has pretended to be Black for years
- Japan coastguard says second person found from capsized cattle ship has died
- Ian McKellen joins condemnation of Tony Abbott trade role
- Possible sign of life detected under Beirut rubble weeks after blast
- Government secrecy hindered Brexit plans, watchdog says
- 'War on plastic' could strand oil industry's £300bn investment
- Hong Kong security law 'may break international laws'
- Pro-democracy boycott of Disney's Mulan builds online via #milkteaalliance
- Pacific nation of Palau invites US to build a military base to counter China
- 'Anyone else smell fish?': residents across Sydney and coastal NSW report strong salty odour
- Why Marc Bolan was 'the perfect pop star', by Elton John, U2 and more
- Kent fire crews tackle blaze after 'big, big explosion' near Rochester
- UK government flip-flopping over quarantine list devastates Portuguese tourist industry
- Rwanda dissidents suspect Paul Rusesabagina was under surveillance
- 'It's not the same': How Trump and Covid devastated an Arizona border town
- WA only state not to agree to open borders by Christmas while Queensland has 'hotspot' concerns
- 'A race against time': the new law putting Somalia's children at risk of marriage
- James Shaw's mea culpa on school funding exposed his lack of political nous | Claire Robinson
- Test and trace in the UK: how well are we doing?
- 'This gentleman': Alexei Navalny, the name Putin dares not speak
- France's 'big green recovery plan' not big enough for campaigners
- Voter suppression: how Trump is undermining the US election – video explainer
- Trump attacks Nancy Pelosi over 'Salongate' – video
- Joe Biden praises Jacob Blake's resilience after meeting family – video
- Daughter of Daniel Prude says death was caused by 'police brutality and racism' – video
- Anti-government protesters clash with Bulgarian police in Sofia – video
| Posted: 04 Sep 2020 02:51 AM PDT 'We need to see how safe it is,' WHO stresses; Italy's former PM not in intensive care; India closes in on Brazil as second most affected nation
Thailand is racing ahead with contact tracing after detecting its first domestic coronavirus infection in over three months, health officials have said, with tests conducted on nearly 200 people with possible exposure to the new case. Thailand reported its first non-imported case in after over 100 days on Thursday, after a prisoner a day earlier had tested positive for the coronavirus during a mandatory test for new inmates.
Indonesia reported 3,269 new coronavirus infections, bringing the overall tally to 187,537, according to data from the country's health ministry. It was the third consecutive day of new infections above 3,000 and followed Thursday's record-high 3,622 new cases. Continue reading... |
| UK coronavirus live: north-east England could face new lockdown restrictions as cases rise Posted: 04 Sep 2020 02:59 AM PDT News updates: cases rise in South Tyneside, Middlesbrough and Gateshead, putting them in government 'red zone'
Health bosses in Caerphilly, south Wales, have expressed concern over a cluster of Covid-19 cases. Dr Rhianwen Stiff, consultant in communicable disease control for Public Health Wales, said: There has been a significant rise in positive coronavirus cases in Caerphilly in the past week, and our investigations indicate that a lack of social distancing by a small group of people of all age groups, in a range of different locations has resulted in the spread of the virus to other parts of the population. It appears that as lockdown restrictions have eased, people have taken advantage of the greater possibilities for activities, but they seem to have forgotten the importance of social distancing – resulting in possible transmission in the wider community.
Around half of pupils had mixed feelings about returning to school, an ONS survey suggests. This morning the ONS published its latest report on the social impacts of coronavirus, based on survey responses from more than 1,500 people in England and Wales, and one finding was that half (46%) of parents said the oldest child in their household had mixed feelings about returning to school or college. More than half (52%) adults in England and Wales with children of school age in the next term reported that they were very worried or somewhat worried about the oldest school age child in their returning to school or college as the new term begins. The main concern (58%) reported by adults with children of school age in the next term, is that they are worried about the oldest age child in their household catching the coronavirus (Covid-19) at school or college. Continue reading... |
| Silvio Berlusconi admitted to hospital with coronavirus Posted: 04 Sep 2020 02:07 AM PDT Former Italian PM hospitalised as a precautionary measure after testing positive for Covid Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is being treated in hospital for Covid-19. Berlusconi, who is 84 this month, was taken to the San Raffaele hospital in Milan on Thursday night as a precautionary measure. He has not been admitted to intensive care. Continue reading... |
| ‘I could get sick looking at four walls’: older Americans left out in the new normal Posted: 04 Sep 2020 02:45 AM PDT Vulnerable groups like senior citizens face the possibility of being left behind – as fears of the coronavirus remain for them Marion Coleman walks six long blocks from her Athens, Georgia, home to a nearby McDonald's several times a week. While Coleman, 73, likes the sausage biscuits and other breakfast items, her outings to this fast-food restaurant are very much about feeding her soul, not her body. Like many other US senior citizens, Coleman has been avoiding most social activity because of Covid-19. Going to McDonald's on foot means she can see friends without riding a bus. Coleman, who believes "strongly" in wearing a mask, recognizes the risk – but fears there's also danger in staying home. Continue reading... |
| Biden warns Trump ‘legitimizes dark side of human nature’ in Kenosha visit Posted: 03 Sep 2020 03:30 PM PDT Joe Biden said he sought common ground while Trump, he said, stoked division and was actively obstructing racial progress Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Thursday warned that Donald Trump's behavior "legitimizes the dark side of human nature". He made the remarks during a visit to Wisconsin, where he spoke by phone to Jacob Blake, a Black man whose shooting by a white police officer renewed nationwide protests against systemic racism. Related: Joe Biden meets privately with Jacob Blake's family amid protests over shooting Continue reading... |
| White US professor admits she has pretended to be Black for years Posted: 03 Sep 2020 01:02 PM PDT Jessica Krug, an activist who teaches African American history, writes Medium post apologizing for false identity A seasoned activist and professor of African American history at George Washington University has been pretending to be Black for years, despite actually being a white woman from Kansas City. In a case eerily reminiscent to Rachel Dolezal, Jessica A Krug took financial support from cultural institutions such as the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture for a book she wrote about fugitive resistance to the transatlantic slave trade. But according to a Medium post allegedly written by Krug herself, her career was rooted in a "toxic soil of lies". Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Japan coastguard says second person found from capsized cattle ship has died Posted: 03 Sep 2020 09:59 PM PDT Rescuers search for more than 40 crew from ship carrying 6,000 cattle that went down en route from New Zealand to China A second survivor from a cargo ship carrying 6,000 cattle that capsized off southwest Japan has died after being pulled from the water unconscious on Friday. The Japanese coast guard said the man had been unresponsive when he was found about 120 km (75 miles) north-northwest of Amami Oshima island and transferred to a hospital. Continue reading... |
| Ian McKellen joins condemnation of Tony Abbott trade role Posted: 04 Sep 2020 01:21 AM PDT Prominent rights groups sign open letter telling UK not to appoint ex-Australian PM Pressure is increasing on the UK government to rethink the potential appointment of Tony Abbott as a trade envoy after leading LGBTQ+ and environmental activists, including Sir Ian McKellen, criticised his misogynistic and homophobic comments, and dismissal of the climate crisis. An open letter, also signed by the Doctor Who screenwriter Russell T Davies and almost two dozen others, said ministers should not appoint the former Australian prime minister to the Board of Trade. Continue reading... |
| Possible sign of life detected under Beirut rubble weeks after blast Posted: 03 Sep 2020 11:57 AM PDT Search renewed after pulsing signal that may be heartbeat heard under collapsed building A pulsing signal has been detected from under the rubble of a building that collapsed in the Beirut port explosion last month, raising faint hopes that there may be a survivor there. A sniffer dog belonging to a Chilean search and rescue team first detected something in rubble of a building that had previously been searched. The team then used audio equipment to listen for a possible heartbeat, and detected what could be a pulse of 18 to 19 beats per minute. Continue reading... |
| Government secrecy hindered Brexit plans, watchdog says Posted: 03 Sep 2020 10:00 PM PDT National Audit Office study also highlights failure to get to grips with scale of challenge Excessive secrecy about the government's Brexit negotiating objectives and a failure to get to grips with the scale of the challenge hindered preparations for the UK's exit from the EU, according to Whitehall's spending watchdog. Departments issued non-disclosure agreements when discussing plans that were meant to inform the public and the business community, the National Audit Office said. More than 22,000 workers were deployed across Whitehall departments on the preparations, which cost £4.4bn. Continue reading... |
| 'War on plastic' could strand oil industry's £300bn investment Posted: 03 Sep 2020 10:00 PM PDT Major oil firms plan to grow plastic supply to counter impact of shift against fossil fuels The war on plastic waste could scupper the oil industry's multi-billion dollar bet that the world will continue to need more fossil fuels to help make the petrochemicals used in plastics, according to a new report. Major oil companies, including Saudi Aramco and Royal Dutch Shell, plan to spend about $400bn (£300bn) to help grow the supply of virgin plastics by a quarter over the next five years, to compensate for the impact of electric vehicles and clean energy technologies on demand for fossil fuels. Continue reading... |
| Hong Kong security law 'may break international laws' Posted: 04 Sep 2020 02:02 AM PDT UN experts call on China to explain apparent breaches of human rights obligations Hong Kong's national security law risks breaching multiple international laws and the declaration of human rights, a coalition of United Nations human rights experts has said. The rare and stinging communique (pdf) from seven different working groups and special rapporteurs warned the Chinese government that the law infringed on fundamental rights, lacked precision, and may not meet international thresholds of "necessity, proportionality, and non-discrimination". Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Pro-democracy boycott of Disney's Mulan builds online via #milkteaalliance Posted: 03 Sep 2020 11:09 PM PDT Liu Yifei, who stars as Chinese heroine, has voiced support for Hong Kong police during suppression of protests Calls to boycott Disney's live-action remake of Mulan have been reignited ahead of its release on Friday, with Thai pro-democracy activists joining those vowing to shun the film. Controversy over Mulan erupted last year, when its star, Liu Yifei, voiced support for police in Hong Kong, who have been accused of using excessive force against protesters. Continue reading... |
| Pacific nation of Palau invites US to build a military base to counter China Posted: 03 Sep 2020 09:53 PM PDT Move follows a visit by US defense secretary Mark Esper, who accused Beijing of 'malign influence' across the region The western Pacific nation of Palau has urged the United States military to build bases on its territory – in the heart of a region where Washington is pushing back against growing Chinese influence. US defense secretary Mark Esper visited the island nation last week as part of a Pacific tour, accusing Beijing of a "malign influence" and "ongoing destabilising activities" across the region. Continue reading... |
| 'Anyone else smell fish?': residents across Sydney and coastal NSW report strong salty odour Posted: 03 Sep 2020 08:09 PM PDT Bureau of meteorology says strong south-easterlies could be sending the smell of the sea across the suburbs A salty smell has wafted over Sydney and coastal New South Wales, as residents who live kilometres from the coast reported a strong sea aroma on Friday morning. On a drizzly morning ahead of forecast thunderstorms, residents from Sydney's beaches to its inner suburbs and down to coastal towns like Thirroul have woken to the strong smell of petrichor – the smell of the soil or ground after rain – tinged with salt. Continue reading... |
| Why Marc Bolan was 'the perfect pop star', by Elton John, U2 and more Posted: 03 Sep 2020 10:00 PM PDT The T Rex singer captivated generations with his strutting music and hyper-sexual charisma. As a tribute album is released, stars explain why he is glam's greatest icon In early 1971, a nine-year-old called David Evans was sitting at home in the suburbs of Dublin watching Top of the Pops. He was already a Beatles fan, but, by his own admission, he was completely unprepared for what was about to happen on screen. "It was kind of challenging," says Evans – better known as U2's guitarist the Edge – of T Rex's celebrated appearance performing Hot Love, frontman Marc Bolan sporting glitter under his eyes, the ground-zero moment for glam rock. "Marc Bolan was magical, but also sexually heightened and androgynous, with this glitter and makeup. It's funny, the go-go dancers of the era were the legendary Pan's People – he was way more intriguing sexually than they were. I'd never seen anything like it: 'What the hell is this? Real lads are not into this kind of stuff – this is clearly music for girls.' But when I picked up a guitar a year later, Hot Love was the first song I learned to play." Continue reading... |
| Kent fire crews tackle blaze after 'big, big explosion' near Rochester Posted: 04 Sep 2020 01:43 AM PDT Firefighters called to scene after blaze tears through industrial building in Hoo A huge fire has torn through an industrial building near Rochester in Kent after a "big, big explosion". Onlookers reported a mushroom cloud and secondary explosion at the scene in Hoo as firefighters continued to battle the blaze. Continue reading... |
| UK government flip-flopping over quarantine list devastates Portuguese tourist industry Posted: 04 Sep 2020 02:37 AM PDT Although Portugal remains on the safe list, for English tourists at least, rumours to the contrary spark panic and holiday cancellations Noel Josephides sounds weary. Two weeks ago when the UK government added Portugal to the travel corridor list, the chairman of Sunvil issued a statement saying he was delighted to start selling holidays to Portugal again, "just in time for the last couple of weeks of the peak summer season, but also in time for the glorious autumnal months of September and October, right into November." By the beginning of this week the rumour was that the country's brief spell as a "safe destination" was about to come to an end as coronavirus cases in the country went above 20 per 100,000 people – the level at which the UK government considers triggering quarantine conditions. On Tuesday, the UK ambassador to Portugal fuelled speculation that the country would soon revert to the quarantine list when he warned that air bridges can "change quickly". The hint that the 20 August decision could be reversed was enough to unsettle British holidaymakers in Portugal and spark a rush to get back to the UK before the dreaded deadline. EasyJet sold out of all its flights from Faro, which serves the Algarve, to airports in Britain on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Continue reading... |
| Rwanda dissidents suspect Paul Rusesabagina was under surveillance Posted: 03 Sep 2020 06:58 AM PDT Movements of 'Hotel Rwanda hero' arrested in Kigali may have been closely tracked by spyware say supporters Rwandan dissidents say they suspect that Paul Rusesabagina, the inspiration behind the film Hotel Rwanda, was hacked or otherwise tracked using surveillance technology in the days before his arrest this week by the Rwandan government, raising questions about the country's alleged use of spyware. Rusesabagina, 66, who won international acclaim for saving 1,200 Rwandans during the country's genocide – who has been more recently a prominent critic of Rwanda's president, Paul Kagame, appears to have been apprehended by authorities while he was on a trip to Dubai and reportedly left the United Arab Emirates on a private jet last week. Continue reading... |
| 'It's not the same': How Trump and Covid devastated an Arizona border town Posted: 04 Sep 2020 03:00 AM PDT Nogales residents say the city is struggling amid the pandemic and after years of Trump painting the area as a 'war zone' When Francis Glad was a child growing up in Nogales, Arizona, the US-Mexico border near her home was nothing like it is now. "It was more like a neighbor fence, like you have at your house," she remembers. "It was very symbiotic. Just people coming back and forth." But today, a towering 30ft border wall, made of dizzying steel bollards, slices through the Nogales sister cities. Continue reading... |
| WA only state not to agree to open borders by Christmas while Queensland has 'hotspot' concerns Posted: 04 Sep 2020 02:51 AM PDT 'Not everyone has to get on the bus for the bus to leave the station,' Scott Morrison says, playing down dissent in national cabinet
Western Australia has refused to sign up to Scott Morrison's plan to reopen state borders by Christmas while Queensland has expressed reservations after the prime minister declared most states and territories had backed the goal. The prime minister emerged from a national cabinet meeting on Friday saying that WA was the only jurisdiction not to give in-principle support to the plan to ease restrictions – although he also conceded more work was needed on the definition of a coronavirus hotspot. Continue reading... |
| 'A race against time': the new law putting Somalia's children at risk of marriage Posted: 02 Sep 2020 11:15 PM PDT Child marriage in the country has increased during coronavirus – and now a newly-tabled bill would allow children as young as 10 to marry Fardowsa Salat Mohamed was 15 when her cousin asked her parents for her hand in marriage. Her father did not hesitate to say yes. When Mohamed objected, her father asked her to choose between "a curse and a blessing". "That was not a choice for me, I was basically forced," she says. "No girl would ever choose to be cursed by her parents so I had to accept the marriage," Continue reading... |
| James Shaw's mea culpa on school funding exposed his lack of political nous | Claire Robinson Posted: 03 Sep 2020 05:20 PM PDT Green party leader came under fire from many quarters over the project, including supporters who asked how he could make such a mistake
When Green party leader, James Shaw, apologised for backing the use of public funds for a private school last week, he ventured down a well-trodden path of the political mea culpa to save his own skin before October's election. While he's not the first person to row back a policy in New Zealand politics, or during this Covid pandemic, whether he survives may have as much to do with how he manages the public's perception of him as a leader, as it does with the nature of his mistake. Continue reading... |
| Test and trace in the UK: how well are we doing? Posted: 03 Sep 2020 09:13 AM PDT Despite 2.43 people per 1,000 being tested for Covid-19 daily labs are stretched and people are slipping through the net Ministers say the UK has a greater testing capacity than other countries of its size, with 2.43 people tested each day for every 1,000 in the population. That compares with 1.15 in Germany and France, and one in Spain. Continue reading... |
| 'This gentleman': Alexei Navalny, the name Putin dares not speak Posted: 03 Sep 2020 09:03 AM PDT Russian president has used various tactics over the years to avoid voicing his critic's name Over the past two decades, Vladimir Putin has referred to Alexei Navalny as "a poor excuse for a politician" and "a certain political force". He has called him "the character you mentioned" and "this gentleman". He has never in public called him Navalny. Continue reading... |
| France's 'big green recovery plan' not big enough for campaigners Posted: 03 Sep 2020 06:51 AM PDT A third of €100bn post-Covid package to be used for greener future, but critics say it falls short Billed by the economy minister, Bruno Le Maire, as a "big green recovery plan", one-third of France's €100bn (£90bn) post-Covid economic stimulus package will be spent, in the government's words, on "ecological transition" and "greening the economy". Environmental groups said the plan, presented on Thursday by the prime minister, Jean Castex, and other cabinet members, marked a welcome first step – but criticised a missed opportunity to break decisively with a growth-driven, high-carbon economy. Continue reading... |
| Voter suppression: how Trump is undermining the US election – video explainer Posted: 04 Sep 2020 01:00 AM PDT Americans are increasingly encountering barriers to exercising their most fundamental of democratic rights during this 2020 presidential election – the right to vote. The Guardian's Sam Levine looks at how voter suppression has been unfolding across the US, four key tactics being used in attempts to block votes, and how president Donald Trump is trying delegitimize November's election
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| Trump attacks Nancy Pelosi over 'Salongate' – video Posted: 03 Sep 2020 11:15 PM PDT US president Donald Trump slammed House speaker Nancy Pelosi after the Democrat was filmed at an indoor hair salon with her face covering around her neck. Trump, a longtime critic of Pelosi, pounced on the opportunity to attack her over the incident. "I'll tell you what, she must have treated that beauty salon owner pretty badly. She uses the salon and the salon turned her in?" he said. "So I just put out that if she was set up, then she shouldn't be leading the House of Representatives. I want the salon owner to lead the House of Representatives." Continue reading... |
| Joe Biden praises Jacob Blake's resilience after meeting family – video Posted: 03 Sep 2020 04:10 PM PDT Joe Biden spoke about his meeting with the family of Jacob Blake, a Black man who was gravely wounded after a white police officer shot him in the back, on his way to visiting Kenosha, Wisconsin. 'He talked about how nothing was going to defeat him,' Biden said. 'How, whether he walked again or not, he was not going to give up.' Continue reading... |
| Daughter of Daniel Prude says death was caused by 'police brutality and racism' – video Posted: 03 Sep 2020 02:20 PM PDT The daughter of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died of asphyxiation in March after police put a 'spit hood' on his head and held his face into the ground, said his death was caused by racism in the police force. 'A racist police officer saw a black man in need and decided that he just didn't deserve to live,' Tashyra Prude, an 18-year-old college student in Tennessee, said. Daniel Prude died on 30 March after he was taken off life support, seven days after the encounter in Rochester. Continue reading... |
| Anti-government protesters clash with Bulgarian police in Sofia – video Posted: 03 Sep 2020 02:04 AM PDT Bulgarian protesters were confronted by riot police outside parliament in Sofia on Wednesday night in the largest demonstration in two months of anti-government demonstrations. More than 60 protesters were arrested in the capital as demonstrators threw bottles, eggs and firecrackers at police cordoning off the parliament building. The prime minister, Boiko Borisov, faces accusations of corruption as demonstrators demand the disbandment of government Continue reading... |
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