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- Boris Johnson ‘betraying his red wall voters’ over lockdown cash
- Would herd immunity stop the spread of coronavirus?
- Scott Morrison casts gloom on Australia's prospects for quarantine-free travel with Europe and US
- Can we trust Chinese Covid-19 science?
- Global report: Trump no longer a Covid transmission risk, says doctor; India passes 7m cases
- Mexico asks Pope Francis for apology for church's role in Spanish conquest
- Republicans express fears Donald Trump will lose presidential election
- Greta Thunberg: ‘Only people like me dare ask tough questions on climate’
- Thailand bus crash: at least 17 killed in collision with train
- Man shot dead in Denver during rival left and rightwing protests
- Revealed: Soviet spies targeted George Orwell during Spanish civil war
- Spain becomes cannabis hub as criminals fill tourism void
- Missing boy wakes up outside Perth home after Morley carjacking
- Lindsey Graham says Black people can 'go anywhere' in South Carolina if conservative
- Wreck of the world’s oldest slave ship at risk of destruction
- 'There is no hope': the slow disintegration of Lebanon
- Scotland’s oldest miniature steam railway finally runs out of puff
- ‘I heard the doctor was drunk, and my world fell apart,’ says grieving mother
- The Texas electorate is changing – but could Biden really flip the state?
- China’s reckless ambition could be the biggest threat to a Biden victory
- 'He became a hero': Bolsonaro sees popularity surge as Covid-19 spreads
- Wildfires erupt in Mount Lebanon area after heatwave hits country – video
- Lebanon: fuel tank explodes in basement of Beirut building – video
| Boris Johnson ‘betraying his red wall voters’ over lockdown cash Posted: 11 Oct 2020 12:06 AM PDT Northern mayors threaten legal action over what Andy Burnham describes as 'an active choice to level down' Mayors of some of the UK's biggest city regions were threatening legal action against the government last night as they went into open revolt against "grossly unfair" financial support for workers in northern England facing new local lockdowns. As No 10 desperately tried to win over council leaders before announcing new lockdown rules for the north-west and north-east on Monday, Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester and former health secretary, said Boris Johnson was leaving himself open to court action on grounds of discrimination, particularly against people in low-paid hospitality jobs across the north. Continue reading... |
| Would herd immunity stop the spread of coronavirus? Posted: 10 Oct 2020 11:00 PM PDT Even if achievable, the strategy would kill too many people, say scientists Like the Covid-19 virus itself, the idea of herd immunity has surged back into public life having been suppressed for months. It was initially touted as a way to hold back the pandemic – by allowing sufficient numbers of infections to occur and so reduce numbers of non-immune potential hosts for the virus. The disease would then stop spreading, it was argued. The notion quickly fell out of favour when researchers highlighted the high death toll that would have to occur in the UK before herd immunity was achieved. Nevertheless, the idea has now bubbled back and is again making headlines. Continue reading... |
| Scott Morrison casts gloom on Australia's prospects for quarantine-free travel with Europe and US Posted: 10 Oct 2020 10:41 PM PDT PM says Australia must move 'very cautiously' to open up to all but a handful of low-risk Covid countries Scott Morrison has confirmed Australia will move "very cautiously" to reopen quarantine-free travel with a "handful" of countries, raising the prospect Europe and the United States will be excluded until 2022 unless a Covid vaccine is available. Morrison made the comments at a doorstop in Redbank, campaigning with Queensland's Liberal National party leader, Deb Frecklington, and targeting the Labor premier Annastacia Palaszczuk over the state's reluctance to remove its state border travel ban. Continue reading... |
| Can we trust Chinese Covid-19 science? Posted: 10 Oct 2020 11:00 PM PDT The west has been wary of China's rise as a scientific superpower, but the pandemic has made it impossible to ignore It started badly, with gag orders, cover-ups and ignored offers of help from overseas, but then the Chinese government seized the narrative. It reined in the burgeoning epidemic of Covid-19 at home, and started exporting its rapidly accumulating scientific knowledge of the disease to the rest of the world. Chinese science has often been marginalised and even mistrusted in the west. But will the pandemic change its standing in the world? "China has moved from student to teacher," says Kate Mason, an anthropologist at Brown University in Rhode Island and author of Infectious Change, an account of how the 2002-3 epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) in China transformed the way the country managed public health. After Sars, she says, western experts went to China to help it put in place an evidence-based health system that was informed by international research. That system now exists, with its most visible symbol being the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Beijing, and this time it has been Chinese experts giving instruction abroad. "It has been a good year for China," Mason says. Continue reading... |
| Global report: Trump no longer a Covid transmission risk, says doctor; India passes 7m cases Posted: 10 Oct 2020 11:06 PM PDT White House doctor doesn't say if president is negative; Ireland sees record daily infections The White House doctor says Donald Trump is no longer at risk of transmitting the coronavirus, but has not said whether the US president has tested negative for it. In a memo released by the White House, Dr Sean Conley said Trump met the Center for Disease Control and Prevention criteria for safely discontinuing isolation and that by "currently recognised standards" he was no longer considered a transmission risk. Continue reading... |
| Mexico asks Pope Francis for apology for church's role in Spanish conquest Posted: 10 Oct 2020 05:56 PM PDT Mexico's president says the Vatican should apologise for 'reprehensible atrocities' in colonisation 500 years ago Mexico's president has written to Pope Francis to ask for an apology for the Catholic church's role in the oppression of indigenous people in the Spanish conquest 500 years ago. The request was made in a two-page letter that also asked the Vatican to temporarily return several ancient indigenous manuscripts held in its library, ahead of next year's 500-year anniversary of the Spanish conquest of Mexico. Continue reading... |
| Republicans express fears Donald Trump will lose presidential election Posted: 11 Oct 2020 12:10 AM PDT Ted Cruz says he's afraid of 'bloodbath of Watergate proportions' as John Cornyn slams Trump for 'creating confusion' over Covid Ted Cruz fears an election "bloodbath". His fellow top Republican senator Thom Tillis is talking in terms of a Joe Biden presidency. And even Mitch McConnell, the fiercely loyal Senate majority leader, won't go near the White House over Donald Trump's handling of coronavirus protocols. Individually, they could arguably be seen as off-the-cuff comments from Trump's allies attempting to rally support for the US president just days ahead of a general election that opinion polls increasingly show him losing. Continue reading... |
| Greta Thunberg: ‘Only people like me dare ask tough questions on climate’ Posted: 10 Oct 2020 11:30 PM PDT The activist discusses a new film that follows her life and the role autism played in her journey from troubled child to eco champion For a teenager who first became famous for skipping school, Greta Thunberg has come a long way. The 17-year-old from Stockholm is today a global champion of the environment movement and the uncompromising scourge of climate crisis deniers. In the process, she has earned the disdain of Donald Trump and the plaudits of figures including the pope and David Attenborough. For good measure, Time made her the magazine's Person of the Year for 2019. It is an astonishing journey that will be brought to our screens this week with the release of I am Greta, a 97-minute documentary that follows the activist, who has autism, on trips round the world as she raises the banners of green concern among young campaigners. Continue reading... |
| Thailand bus crash: at least 17 killed in collision with train Posted: 10 Oct 2020 09:50 PM PDT Officials say 65 people were on board the bus when it was hit by a train two hours east of Bangkok At least 17 people were killed and more than dozen injured when a bus collided with a train in Thailand, officials said. The bus passengers were on their way to a temple in Chachoengsao province for a ceremony to mark the end of Buddhist Lent and were about two hours east of the capital, Bangkok, when the accident occurred. Continue reading... |
| Man shot dead in Denver during rival left and rightwing protests Posted: 10 Oct 2020 08:15 PM PDT A television station security guard has been arrested after the incident outside the city's art museum A man has been shot dead during rival protests by leftwing and rightwing groups in the US city of Denver. Police arrested a suspect who NBC News affiliate, KUSA-TV, said was working as a security guard to protect the station's crew, according to its website. Continue reading... |
| Revealed: Soviet spies targeted George Orwell during Spanish civil war Posted: 11 Oct 2020 01:30 AM PDT Newly unearthed files reveal that the author and his wife were under Soviet surveillance while fighting in civil war They had a common enemy in General Franco's fascist-backed army, but that did not stop legions of communists, revolutionaries and anarchists in 1930s Spain warring among themselves, fuelled by internecine rivalries and paranoia. Now, new evidence has emerged that one of the most famous international fighters on the Republican side of the Spanish civil war was under surveillance by communist military intelligence. Continue reading... |
| Spain becomes cannabis hub as criminals fill tourism void Posted: 11 Oct 2020 12:00 AM PDT With high profit margins and low risk of long jail time, Catalonia is now the marijuana capital of Europe, police warn The decor is nightclub chic meets Turkish opium den. The lighting, soft pink and electric blue. And, were it not for the sweet waft of marijuana, it could be the lobby of a Las Vegas boutique hotel. In fact, it's one of Barcelona's 156 cannabis clubs, known as asociaciónes. The idea was a quiet place where you could buy and smoke marijuana, often grown by members, and only on the premises, but many are now businesses and, police say, fronts for drug mafias. With the collapse of tourism, the cannabis business is one of very few thriving in Catalonia, but beyond the low lights and chilled vibe of the associations, darker forces are in play. An internal report by the Mossos d'Esquadra, the Catalan police, claims "Catalonia is the epicentre of Europe's illegal marijuana market" and has become a net exporter of cannabis to other European countries. Continue reading... |
| Missing boy wakes up outside Perth home after Morley carjacking Posted: 10 Oct 2020 11:14 PM PDT Seven year old was inside four-wheel drive when it was stolen on Saturday night A seven-year-old boy has woken up unharmed outside a Perth home after a carjacker stole an SUV with him inside it. The boy was inside the four-wheel drive when it was stolen from Napier Street in Morley in the city's northeast on Saturday night. Continue reading... |
| Lindsey Graham says Black people can 'go anywhere' in South Carolina if conservative Posted: 10 Oct 2020 12:46 PM PDT Republican senator made comment in televised 'conversation' with his rival, Jaime Harrison, who is Black In a televised campaign event US senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said African Americans and immigrants can "go anywhere" in his home state but they " just need to be conservative". Graham made the comment in a televised "conversation" with his political rival, former South Carolina Democratic party chair Jaime Harrison, the first African American to serve in the role. Continue reading... |
| Wreck of the world’s oldest slave ship at risk of destruction Posted: 11 Oct 2020 12:15 AM PDT BBC documentary shows fragile sunken vessel in which enslaved Africans died is being destroyed by trawlers A 17th-century English shipwreck, the world's earliest vessel linked to the transatlantic slave trade, is facing complete destruction by 21st-century fishing trawlers. The 1680s Royal African Company trader – seen as a burial ground of slaves who perished on its final voyage – lies on the seabed about 40 miles south of Land's End. It is being "pounded into oblivion" by "bulldozers of the deep", claimed a leading British marine archaeologist. Continue reading... |
| 'There is no hope': the slow disintegration of Lebanon Posted: 10 Oct 2020 11:00 PM PDT After civil war, decades of corruption and then the blast that ripped through Beirut this summer, things could hardly get any worse. But they have In early September, Mohammed Khaldoon sold a necklace his sister had given him and scrounged what he could from friends and family. He gave the sum total, $400, to a smuggler in his hometown of Tripoli, northern Lebanon, and took to sea, with 49 others in a rickety boat headed for Cyprus. "He left without saying goodbye," said Fatima Mohammed, who gave him the necklace. "The boat was small but the smuggler said it was only needed for a 200-metre trip and then they would move to a bigger one. He took all their food, water and bags and left them with nothing." Continue reading... |
| Scotland’s oldest miniature steam railway finally runs out of puff Posted: 11 Oct 2020 01:45 AM PDT Kerr's half-mile line has delighted visitors to Arbroath for 85 years; with a last blast of nostalgia it has blown its last whistle "It's a bit excessive, but if you can do it, why not?" a train driver shouts to a crowd as he shovels extra coal into the firebox of a navy blue 1930s miniature steam engine. Children clap as the huge plume of steam engulfs them and the engine's whistle sounds. "It is the finale after all," shouts the driver as the train starts to move. The finale he refers to is the last outing of Scotland's oldest miniature railway – Kerr's, in Arbroath, north-east Scotland. Declining visitor numbers over recent years have left the family with no choice but to close their doors after 85 years, says John Kerr, whose grandfather Matthew built the railway in 1935. Continue reading... |
| ‘I heard the doctor was drunk, and my world fell apart,’ says grieving mother Posted: 11 Oct 2020 12:45 AM PDT Parents of Xynthia Hawke speak out after trial in France hears how anaesthetist botched ventilation during caesarean Hanging in Clare and Fraser Hawke's Somerset home is a photo of a group of people standing outside, eyes closed and faces tilted to the sun. "Every time I look at it, I think of Xynthia," says Clare. "She loved the sun, the sunset, the colours. She loved nature and being outdoors. Just before she was due to give birth, we went into the tiny hospital courtyard and stood like this, our faces to the sun." It is one of the last memories Clare has of her daughter. Shortly after this brief sunny interlude in 2014, Xynthia, 28, was on life support in an irreversible coma. She would never see her baby boy, delivered by emergency caesarean. Continue reading... |
| The Texas electorate is changing – but could Biden really flip the state? Posted: 11 Oct 2020 02:00 AM PDT The 24th district is a microcosm of political shifts in the state and a test of which vision of the suburbs is more accurate Texas's 24th congressional district is in many ways a microcosm for this entire election. An expansive sprawl of suburbia that connects the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth, it has for the past 15 years been dominated by conservative politics. The incumbent Republican congressman Kenny Marchant has held the district since 2004 but his retirement, announced to little fanfare last year, has sparked a political turf war that crystallizes Texas's rapid diversification and the bitter politics that underpin it. Continue reading... |
| China’s reckless ambition could be the biggest threat to a Biden victory Posted: 10 Oct 2020 10:45 PM PDT Donald Trump accuses his rival of being soft on China. If a crisis erupted over Taiwan he is not above exploiting it electorally How does Joe Biden lose? Dozens of national and swing-state polls dating back to the spring have consistently given him a winning lead. Nearly all now predict Biden will defeat Donald Trump handily on 3 November. Depending on how key states break, it could be a landslide – plus a Democratic clean sweep of Congress. Even if the polls are as wrong as they were in 2016, Biden, whose national lead is 10%, is still projected to win the popular vote by 7%. He still wins battleground states such as Pennsylvania, Florida and Arizona and, with them, the electoral college that was Hillary Clinton's undoing four years ago. All Trump's clumsy and divisive efforts to change the dynamic of the race have failed so far. His Covid-19 histrionics won him scant sympathy. It seems the die is cast. Continue reading... |
| 'He became a hero': Bolsonaro sees popularity surge as Covid-19 spreads Posted: 10 Oct 2020 03:00 AM PDT Emergency aid payments have helped Brazil's president win support despite the virus raging. But things could soon change Brazil's hard-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, dismissed Covid-19 as a "little flu", and said it should be faced "like a man, not a boy". He sneered that self-isolating was "for the weak" and raged against lockdown measures. He clashed with state governors, and his own former health minister savaged his handling of the pandemic. Continue reading... |
| Wildfires erupt in Mount Lebanon area after heatwave hits country – video Posted: 10 Oct 2020 08:04 AM PDT Firefighters in Lebanon have been battling fierce wildfires across the Mount Lebanon area and along the country's border with Israel. The Lebanese Civil Defense said rising temperatures and high wind speeds were contributing to the spread of the fires. Continue reading... |
| Lebanon: fuel tank explodes in basement of Beirut building – video Posted: 10 Oct 2020 04:13 AM PDT A fuel tank exploded inside a Beirut building on Friday night, killing four people and injuring several others, the Lebanese Red Cross said. The explosion came two months after a massive blast at Beirut's port killed nearly 200 people, injured at least 6,500 and caused billions of dollars worth of damage. Continue reading... |
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