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- Trump and first lady Melania test positive for coronavirus
- Trump's positive Covid test was a surprise that many saw coming
- Belarus officials to face EU sanctions but leaders stop short of Lukashenko
- China confirms death of Uighur man whose family says was held in Xinjiang camps
- After Hong Kong: China sets sights on solving 'the Taiwan problem'
- Coronavirus live news: Poland reports new infections record; Russia sees most cases since May
- Boris Johnson to speak to EC chief on Saturday in last-ditch Brexit talks
- Wildfires tear through drought-racked Paraguay amid record heat
- Delphine Boël: Belgian king's daughter wins right to call herself princess
- Rights groups appalled as Trump cuts US refugee admissions to record low
- Almost 20,000 Amazon workers in US test positive for Covid-19
- Russia says it and Turkey urge end to hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh
- Bottlenose whales shepherded out of Scottish loch ahead of Nato drills
- Sunday best: 17 expert tips for the perfect roast dinner, from brining the chicken to bashing the potatoes
- Global stock markets slide after Trump's Covid diagnosis
- Sheikh Sabah al-Sabah, emir of Kuwait obituary
- Journalist Hopewell Chin’ono speaks out over brutal Zimbabwe prison conditions
- Donald Trump tests positive for Covid and goes into quarantine – live updates
- Canada: questions abound after grisly tales of 'Isis killer' exposed as a hoax
- Coronavirus Australia latest: the week at a glance
- Fears for Obamacare if Amy Coney Barrett confirmed to supreme court
- The Māori party's policy for land rights and self-governance is not to be ignored | Claire Robinson
- The rise of the Covid robots – in pictures
- Burned bottles and scorched vines: wineries hit hard by California fires – in pictures
- 'We had minutes': California Glass wildfire rips through wine country – video report
| Trump and first lady Melania test positive for coronavirus Posted: 02 Oct 2020 02:03 AM PDT US election in disarray as president and first lady begin quarantine after aide contracts virus
The US presidential election has been plunged into disarray after Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, tested positive for coronavirus following weeks in which the US president sought to suggest that the worst of the pandemic was over. Trump announced his positive test in a tweet at 1am, prompting US television networks to go to live coverage of the 74-year old president's health, and his election campaign cancelled a planned event in the key battleground state of Florida. Continue reading... |
| Trump's positive Covid test was a surprise that many saw coming Posted: 02 Oct 2020 01:40 AM PDT The president has been cavalier throughout the coronavirus pandemic. Now, a month before the election, this changes everything
It is likely to go down as the biggest "October surprise" in the history of US presidential elections. Yet anyone who was paying attention could have seen it coming. Donald Trump tested positive for the coronavirus after claiming "it will disappear", telling the journalist Bob Woodward he was downplaying it deliberately, failing to develop a national testing strategy, refusing to wear a face mask for months, floating the idea of injecting patients with bleach, insisting to one of his many crowded campaign rallies that "it affects virtually nobody" and, at Tuesday's debate, mocking his rival Joe Biden: "He could be speaking 200 feet away and he shows up with the biggest mask I've ever seen." Continue reading... |
| Belarus officials to face EU sanctions but leaders stop short of Lukashenko Posted: 01 Oct 2020 06:54 PM PDT Move comes after late-night talks ended a standoff with Cyprus, which insisted the bloc take action over Turkey European Union leaders agreed early on Friday to impose sanctions on dozens of senior officials in Belarus accused of falsifying presidential election results and leading a crackdown on peaceful protesters, after unblocking a veto by one of the EU's smallest member countries. In an embarrassing standoff, Cyprus had insisted that its EU partners take action against Turkey for its energy exploration work in disputed waters off the Mediterranean island nation's coast before it would agree to the Belarus sanctions. Continue reading... |
| China confirms death of Uighur man whose family says was held in Xinjiang camps Posted: 01 Oct 2020 09:22 PM PDT Beijing formally confirmed death to UN but man's daughter disputes suggestion he died of 'pneumonia and tuberculosis' in 2018 The Chinese government has taken the rare step of formally confirming to the UN the death of a Uighur man whose family believe had been held in a Xinjiang internment camp since 2017. More than one million people from the Uighur and Turkic Muslim communities in the far western region of Xinjiang are believed to have been detained in camps since 2017, under a crackdown on ethnic minorities which experts say amounts to cultural genocide. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has repeatedly refused requests by international bodies to independently visit and investigate the region, despite growing international backlash. Continue reading... |
| After Hong Kong: China sets sights on solving 'the Taiwan problem' Posted: 01 Oct 2020 09:00 PM PDT An invasion may not be imminent but experts say armed forces could have capacity to mount one by the end of the decade Soon after China imposed the new national security law that effectively ended Hong Kong's limited autonomy, a hawkish legal academic in Beijing spelt out a warning to Taiwan. The law was not just about ending a year of protests in Hong Kong, Tian Feilong said in an interview with DW News, it was also sending a message to Taipei – and to Washington, which has recently approved new arms sales and high-level visits by US officials to self-rule Taiwan. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus live news: Poland reports new infections record; Russia sees most cases since May Posted: 02 Oct 2020 03:25 AM PDT Poland records nearly 3,000 daily cases; Donald Trump has Covid-19; confirmed cases in Russia near 1.2m
Tunisia recorded 1,308 new confirmed coronavirus cases on Wednesday, a record since the start of the pandemic, the Tunisian health ministry said on Friday. The rise prompted the government to impose a night curfew in two coastal areas, Sousse and Monastir, amid fears that hospitals will be unable to cope because of the shortage of intensive care beds.
Face masks will have to be worn at all times outdoors in the Italian capital Rome and the surrounding Lazio region, local authorities ruled on Friday. Italy on Thursday registered more than 2,000 new coronavirus cases for the first time since the end of April. Lazio accounted for some 265 of those cases and has been increasingly concerned by the growing contagion. Continue reading... |
| Boris Johnson to speak to EC chief on Saturday in last-ditch Brexit talks Posted: 02 Oct 2020 02:27 AM PDT Prime minister and Ursula von der Leyen will 'take stock and discuss next steps', says No 10 Boris Johnson and the European commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, will speak on Saturday afternoon for the first time since June, it has been announced, in an eleventh-hour attempt to find common ground on a trade and security deal. After the latest and last scheduled round of negotiations in Brussels, a Downing Street spokesman said the prime minister would "take stock of negotiations and discuss next steps" with the commission president. Continue reading... |
| Wildfires tear through drought-racked Paraguay amid record heat Posted: 02 Oct 2020 02:00 AM PDT Country faces more than 5,000 fires, with yellow smoke reaching the capital as neighbouring Brazil and Argentina face blazes Devastating wildfires have broken out across across Paraguay, as drought and record high temperatures continue to exacerbate blazes across South America. A total of 5,231 individual wildfires broke out across the country on 1 October – up 3,000 on the previous day. Most of were concentrated in the arid Chaco region in the west of the country, but thick yellow smoke had reached as far as the capital, Asunción. Continue reading... |
| Delphine Boël: Belgian king's daughter wins right to call herself princess Posted: 01 Oct 2020 12:21 PM PDT Artist whose mother had affair with former king Albert II wins the right to use royal title and father's surname An artist who successfully fought a seven-year legal battle to prove she was the daughter of the former king of Belgium, Albert II, has won the right to be recognised as a princess. The Brussels Court of Appeal has ruled that Delphine Boël, 52, had the right to her Royal father's surname after a bitter battle for acknowledgement. Continue reading... |
| Rights groups appalled as Trump cuts US refugee admissions to record low Posted: 01 Oct 2020 03:34 PM PDT US state department says cap of 15,000 reflects priority of 'safety and wellbeing of Americans, especially in light of Covid-19' Donald Trump's administration has announced plans to let only 15,000 refugees resettle in the United States in the 2021 fiscal year that began on Thursday, setting another record low in the history of the modern refugee program and prompting outrage from civil rights groups. Related: Trump's war on refugees is tearing down US's life-changing resettlement program Continue reading... |
| Almost 20,000 Amazon workers in US test positive for Covid-19 Posted: 02 Oct 2020 02:59 AM PDT Tech company has faced criticism for keeping warehouses open Amazon has revealed that almost 20,000 of its workers in the US have contracted Covid-19 after months of demands for public disclosure from activists. The US tech company has been one of the biggest corporate winners during the pandemic, with people across the world switching to online shopping during lockdowns. However, Amazon has faced criticism from some labour campaigners who alleged that the company put employees in danger by keeping warehouses open. Continue reading... |
| Russia says it and Turkey urge end to hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh Posted: 01 Oct 2020 11:15 AM PDT Russia says two countries' foreign ministers have found common ground after French journalists injured during shelling Russia and Turkey's foreign ministers have agreed to the need for an immediate cessation of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh, according to a Russian statement, opening the door to a possible end to fighting in the breakaway region. The potential breakthrough was at odds with an earlier statement by the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who hours earlier had called for a full Armenian withdrawal from the area – which is legally Azerbaijani territory but administered by ethnic Armenians – and condemned international efforts to resolve the conflict. Continue reading... |
| Bottlenose whales shepherded out of Scottish loch ahead of Nato drills Posted: 01 Oct 2020 06:39 PM PDT Rescue boats had begun 'gently moving' pod of three whales towards the mouth of the River Clyde Rescuers shepherded a pod of three northern bottlenose whales from a Scottish loch on Thursday before a major international military exercise. The British Divers Marine Life Rescue group said a first group of boats had begun "gently moving" the deep-diving mammals from Loch Long towards the mouth of the River Clyde. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 02 Oct 2020 03:30 AM PDT It's the crowning glory of any weekend – but the stakes are high and soggy veg or claggy gravy could ruin everything. Here are the hacks to try – and the corners not to cut Few meals retain a capacity for disappointment like the classic British roast dinner. Expectations are usually high, and there is just so much that can go wrong: tough meat, soggy veg, claggy gravy, ill-advised departures from traditional methods and ingredients. Most of us have probably had more bad ones than good. With so much work involved, the temptation to cut corners is strong. But resist! Instead limit your ambitions, resign yourself to some hard work and follow the tips below. A better roast dinner is within your grasp. Continue reading... |
| Global stock markets slide after Trump's Covid diagnosis Posted: 02 Oct 2020 03:03 AM PDT FTSE 100 in London drops by 0.6% and Europe-wide Stoxx 600 index loses 0.3% European stock markets slid on Friday after Donald Trump announced that he had tested positive for the coronavirus just over a month before the US presidential election. Every major stock market index in Europe fell after the news broke. The falls follow those in Asia, as investors moved money away from perceived riskier assets. The FTSE 100 in London dropped by 0.6% to about 5,486 points in morning trading, while the Europe-wide Stoxx 600 index lost 0.3%. Continue reading... |
| Sheikh Sabah al-Sabah, emir of Kuwait obituary Posted: 01 Oct 2020 10:10 AM PDT Ruler of Kuwait for 14 years who was known as 'the dean of Arab diplomacy' The emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, who has died aged 91, ruled his country for 14 years and acquired a reputation for being committed to peaceful dialogue and unity among other Gulf states known for their divisive quarrels in recent times. Discreet, mild-mannered and valuing his personal links with fellow monarchs, Sabah was known as "the dean of Arab diplomacy". Since 2017, however, when the younger, more assertive leaders of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates boycotted their rival Qatar, he found it increasingly hard to play the role of regional mediator, but was still credited with having forestalled potentially disastrous military action. The war in Yemen, scene of the world's worst humanitarian crisis, was another nightmarish situation. Continue reading... |
| Journalist Hopewell Chin’ono speaks out over brutal Zimbabwe prison conditions Posted: 01 Oct 2020 11:15 PM PDT The recently freed documentary maker says jails are inhumane, overcrowded and present a massive coronavirus risk Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin'ono, jailed for 45 days and charged with inciting violence, has spoken of the appalling abuse and prison conditions he witnessed. Chin'ono, a prominent documentary maker who was released on bail last month, said he saw inmates at Chikurubi high security prison assaulted by guards for minor offences. Continue reading... |
| Donald Trump tests positive for Covid and goes into quarantine – live updates Posted: 02 Oct 2020 03:24 AM PDT President to quarantine days after taking part in TV debate and campaign rally in Minnesota
The news that Donald Trump has tested positive for coronavirus appears to have had an immediate effect on the world's stock markets. In the US, the future contracts for both the S&P 500 and the Dow industrials dropped nearly 2%, and were trading around 1.2% lower several hours later. Oil prices tumbled about 3%. Related: Global markets retreat after Trump tests positive for Covid-19 – business live
I imagine every news organisation in the world is scrambling journalists to go back through exactly what Trump did this week, including who he met and where. Elliot Hannan, at Slateargues that the White House deliberately put people at risk: It wasn't just Trump that carried on, potentially harming those around him, it was the rest of his staff too. And they knew about Hicks; they knew what was coming. Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who was also on the plane to Minnesota with Hicks, held a briefing with reporters without wearing a mask as if nothing was wrong. The utter carelessness of it all is staggering. And it obviously starts at the top with a president that derides mask-wearing as a sign of weakness. Continue reading... |
| Canada: questions abound after grisly tales of 'Isis killer' exposed as a hoax Posted: 02 Oct 2020 02:00 AM PDT Shehroze Chaudhry charged with inventing identity as a ruthless killer as saga prompts debate over repatriation and de-radicalization For months, unbeknown to his classmates and neighbours, a self-professed executioner was living freely in Canada's largest city. But in 2018, his exploits were made public on a blockbuster podcast produced by the New York Times, in which the man who called himself Abu Huzaifa al-Kanadi confessed to a string of grisly crimes as a member of the Islamic State's religious police. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus Australia latest: the week at a glance Posted: 02 Oct 2020 02:54 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 Naaman Zhou and it's Friday 2 October. Continue reading... |
| Fears for Obamacare if Amy Coney Barrett confirmed to supreme court Posted: 02 Oct 2020 02:00 AM PDT Case due before court seeks to strike down landmark Affordable Care Act – which could leave millions of Americans adrift This month, Congress is expected to begin confirmation hearings for Donald Trump's nominee for the supreme court, Amy Coney Barrett. If confirmed, she could be the decisive vote in a case being heard days after the election, which seeks to strike down the landmark Affordable Care Act – a move that could leave millions of Americans without healthcare in the middle of a pandemic. Related: Amy Coney Barrett: what will she mean for women's rights? Continue reading... |
| The Māori party's policy for land rights and self-governance is not to be ignored | Claire Robinson Posted: 01 Oct 2020 08:19 PM PDT The Mana Motuhake policy is a 25-year plan to improve the outcomes of whānau Māori that the mainstream major parties have failed to deliver on In an election campaign that has so far been largely a bidding contest over who can fund the most "shovel-ready projects", create the most jobs and support the most apprentices post-Covid, many commentators have bemoaned the absence of any visionary debate about the type of New Zealand we want to become. It was therefore refreshing to see the Māori party announce its Mana Motuhake policy this week. As far as timing goes, the policy hasn't gained a lot of media attention. The news has been dominated by the Serious Fraud Office's charging of two individuals in connection with the New Zealand First Foundation, a new poll and the second leaders' debate. Many also think the Māori party is inconsequential in 2020, sitting only on 1–1.5% party vote support in public opinion polls, and not looking like they are going to win back any electorate seats. Continue reading... |
| The rise of the Covid robots – in pictures Posted: 01 Oct 2020 11:00 PM PDT In an age of social distancing, machines are being used for everything from cleaning to taking temperatures Continue reading... |
| Burned bottles and scorched vines: wineries hit hard by California fires – in pictures Posted: 01 Oct 2020 11:00 PM PDT The Glass fire is sweeping through the famous wine regions of Napa and Sonoma in northern California. The wildfire, which erupted on 27 September, has damaged numerous wineries and vineyards, charring grapes and incinerating inventory. Tasting rooms and restaurants have also been hit. The effect on the industry has been described as "catastrophic". Several Napa Valley growers have said they will forgo a 2020 vintage altogether due to smoke contamination of their crop. The Glass fire has torched more than 50,000 acres and firefighters are battling to bring it under control. It has also destroyed dozens of homes and thousands of people remain under evacuation orders. Continue reading... |
| 'We had minutes': California Glass wildfire rips through wine country – video report Posted: 01 Oct 2020 02:45 PM PDT A destructive wildfire is being driven by strong winds through wine country north of San Francisco in California. The Glass fire burned through Napa and Sonoma counties burning down buildings including wineries in the area. The fire began Sunday as three fires merged and drove into vineyards and mountain areas, including part of the city of Santa Rosa. Around 70,000 people were under evacuation orders
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