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- Coronavirus live news: doctor clears Trump to return to public events on Saturday; record global case rise
- Covax: Covid vaccine global effort gets China's support
- Coronavirus: Scotland’s drinking ban in chaos over meaning of cafe
- Why Edinburgh University's lockdown study is not all it seems
- Donald Trump plans Florida rally on Saturday amid Covid test secrecy
- UN's World Food Programme wins Nobel peace prize
- Six people charged in plot to kidnap Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer
- 'Terrible day': anger as pictures show Varosha beach in Cyprus opening after 46 years
- North Korea plans biggest ever military parade for party anniversary – report
- 1MDB scandal: former Trump fundraiser charged with allegedly lobbying US to drop inquiry
- India's tea workers strike as government fails to deliver wage increase
- Gang violence erupts in Bangladesh Rohingya camps forcing families to flee
- Spain's deputy PM says call for inquiry is part of attempt to discredit him
- Surfer missing after suspected shark attack at Western Australia beach
- Kevin Bacon: 'I couldn't care less about being heroic or handsome'
- London Stock Exchange to sell Milan arm to Euronext for €4.3bn
- Iran: prominent human rights activist released over health concerns
- Last French hostage in the world released by jihadists in Mali
- Trump and Pelosi set for 25th amendment battle over president's 'mental and physical capacity' – live news
- 'Total destruction': why fires are tearing across South America
- Telstra denies Victoria police requested Graham Ashton’s phone records for hotel quarantine inquiry
- UN accused over failure to investigate 'war on drugs' killings in the Philippines
- Pubs and restaurants: do scientists think Covid closures and curfews work?
- Europe's migration 'crisis' isn't about numbers. It's about prejudice
- Northern Cyprus reopens Varosha beach for the first time in 46 years – video
- Nancy Pelosi suggests future 25th Amendment discussion on Donald Trump's fitness for office – video
- Biden blasts Trump for not condemning Gretchen Whitmer kidnap plot – video
- Blaze engulfs 33-storey apartment block in Ulsan, South Korea – video
- Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer slams Trump in response to kidnapping plot – video
- Donald Trump says he will not participate in virtual debate with Joe Biden – video
- Mike Pence and Kamala Harris spar on Covid, race and climate in VP debate – video highlights
| Posted: 09 Oct 2020 02:15 AM PDT DC health department asks White House staff and guests at super-spreader event to take tests; WHO reports nearly 340,000 new cases
Telstra denies Victoria police requested Graham Ashton's phone records for hotel quarantine inquiry. Phone records of former police chief considered crucial in investigation to determine who made the decision to use private security guards.
Authorities in Moscow were considering closing bars and nightclubs to halt a second coronavirus wave as the number of new daily cases surged on Friday to the highest it has been since the pandemic began. Russia reported 12,126 new infections, Reuters has said, pushing the overall total to 1,272,238. The previous record daily rise was 11,656 cases on May 11, when strict lockdown measures were in force across most of the vast country. Continue reading... |
| Covax: Covid vaccine global effort gets China's support Posted: 08 Oct 2020 09:57 PM PDT Beijing joins initiative against 'vaccine nationalism' in contrast to US, which is not part of alliance China has officially joined a global vaccine initiative for distributing 2bn doses of Covid-19 vaccines around the world by the end of next year, according to the ministry of foreign affairs. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Friday that Beijing had joined the initiative known as Covax, making China the largest economy to join to coalition aimed at countering so-called "vaccine nationalism". Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus: Scotland’s drinking ban in chaos over meaning of cafe Posted: 09 Oct 2020 02:13 AM PDT Nicola Sturgeon's 16-day ban called 'dysfunctional' after contradictory statements Scotland's nationwide crackdown on indoor drinking descended into chaos on Thursday evening, less than 24 hours before strict new regulations on hospitality are due to come into force. Many business owners in central Scotland, where a 16-day shutdown of pubs, restaurants and cafes that serve alcohol was announced by Nicola Sturgeon on Wednesday, claimed that they were still uncertain whether they were expected to close at 6pm on Friday as trade bodies described the Scottish government's behaviour as "dysfunctional". Continue reading... |
| Why Edinburgh University's lockdown study is not all it seems Posted: 08 Oct 2020 08:53 AM PDT Commentators have used study as evidence government was too quick to impose full lockdown but conclusions not so clear While it has been widely accepted that the closure of UK schools in March was bad for the life chances of its children, a research paper from the University of Edinburgh has gone as far as to say that the move could have contributed to a higher Covid-19 death toll. The study, published in the British Medical Journal, suggested lockdown restrictions were the most effective way of reducing peak demand for intensive care unit beds, but argued they were also likely to prolong the epidemic because, once lifted, they left a large population susceptible to the virus. Continue reading... |
| Donald Trump plans Florida rally on Saturday amid Covid test secrecy Posted: 08 Oct 2020 09:09 PM PDT The US president, who is still recovering from Covid-19, refuses to say if he has tested negative as he aims to revive his election campaign Donald Trump, who is still recovering from Covid-19, has suggested he might organize a rally in Florida on Saturday, while continuing to ignore questions on whether he has yet tested negative for the disease. On Thursday night, Trump said: "I think I'm going to try doing a rally on Saturday night if we can, if we have enough time to put it together. Continue reading... |
| UN's World Food Programme wins Nobel peace prize Posted: 09 Oct 2020 02:04 AM PDT Organisation wins prestigious award for efforts to combat hunger in war-hit areas The World Food Programme (WFP) has won the 2020 Nobel peace prize for its efforts to combat hunger and to improve conditions for peace in conflict areas. The chairwoman of the Norwegian Nobel committee, Berit Reiss-Andersen, revealed the 2020 laureate at the Nobel Institute in Oslo, where coronavirus restrictions drastically reduced the usual throng of reporters in attendance. Continue reading... |
| Six people charged in plot to kidnap Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer Posted: 08 Oct 2020 03:36 PM PDT FBI said plot involved contacting members of a militia who 'talked about murdering tyrants or taking a sitting governor' Six people have been charged with a plot to kidnap the Michigan governor, Gretchen Whitmer, that involves links to a rightwing militia group, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced. Another seven people were charged with plotting to target law enforcement and attack the state capitol building. The state attorney general, Dana Nessel, announced additional charges under Michigan's anti-terrorism law. Seven men, all in custody, are linked to the militia group Wolverine Watchmen. Continue reading... |
| 'Terrible day': anger as pictures show Varosha beach in Cyprus opening after 46 years Posted: 08 Oct 2020 05:31 PM PDT Greek Cypriots who fled area when troops invaded in 1976 among those embittered by Turkish move For the first time in 46 years the public have been permitted to access the beach of Varosha in the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north of Cyprus, in a contentious move unveiled by its internationally unrecognised premier who is running in an election on Sunday. Hundreds filed through a gate manned by Turkish Cypriot police on Thursday to walk on a freshly paved asphalt road leading to the beach that was the jewel of what was once a premier tourist resort in Famagusta. The road was flanked by police tape to keep pedestrians out of windowless homes and rusting business, some swallowed up by decades-old undergrowth. Continue reading... |
| North Korea plans biggest ever military parade for party anniversary – report Posted: 08 Oct 2020 09:04 PM PDT Satellite images suggest show of strength will feature thousands of troops and missile hardware paraded before Kim Jong-un Speculation is building that North Korea will unveil its latest weaponry at a huge parade this weekend to mark the 75th anniversary of the ruling Workers' party. The event, which will be keenly watched for signs of improvements in the regime's nuclear and missile capabilities, is expected to be the biggest of its kind in the country's history. Continue reading... |
| 1MDB scandal: former Trump fundraiser charged with allegedly lobbying US to drop inquiry Posted: 08 Oct 2020 05:38 PM PDT Elliott Broidy allegedly asked the US president to play golf with now disgraced Malaysian PM Najib Razak as part of effort to end investigation A former leading fundraiser for president Donald Trump has been indicted on a charge that he illegally lobbied the US government to drop its probe into the Malaysia 1MDB corruption scandal and to deport an exiled Chinese billionaire. Elliott Broidy was charged in Washington federal court with one count of conspiracy to act as an unregistered foreign agent after allegedly agreeing to take millions of dollars to lobby the Trump administration. Continue reading... |
| India's tea workers strike as government fails to deliver wage increase Posted: 08 Oct 2020 10:30 PM PDT Unions warn of further action over non-payment of rise agreed in 2018, as hundreds of Assam tea estates close Over 400,000 workers on Indian tea plantations that supply the world's largest tea companies have gone on strike over the government's failure to implement a promised daily wage increase from £1.70 to £3.70 a day. The past week has seen around 250 tea estates across the Assam region close, with the partial closure of a further 20. Continue reading... |
| Gang violence erupts in Bangladesh Rohingya camps forcing families to flee Posted: 08 Oct 2020 11:15 PM PDT Fighting leaves seven dead as rival factions fight for control of drugs trade and terrorise vulnerable refugees Fighting between rival gangs in the Rohingya refugee settlements in Bangladesh has forced hundreds of people to leave their shelters in a week where at least seven have died. "When it is night, it becomes hell. When you try to sleep you hear a lot of firing, you hear a lot of bullets, people are screaming, people are fleeing from home," said a Rohingya refugee who lives close to where the fighting has taken place. Continue reading... |
| Spain's deputy PM says call for inquiry is part of attempt to discredit him Posted: 08 Oct 2020 10:00 PM PDT Remarks follow request for supreme court to investigate Podemos leader's actions in spying case Spain's deputy prime minister, the Podemos leader, Pablo Iglesias, has dismissed speculation that he may be investigated by the country's supreme court, describing it as part of a long-running campaign to discredit him and his party, and to topple the leftwing coalition government and thwart its reforms. A judge at Spain's highest criminal court, the audiencia nacional, sent a written request to the supreme court this week asking it to look into Iglesias' actions in relation to a tangled and long-running spying case. Continue reading... |
| Surfer missing after suspected shark attack at Western Australia beach Posted: 08 Oct 2020 09:47 PM PDT A surfboard was recovered from the water at Wylie Bay but the male surfer has not been located, a police spokesman says A surfer is missing following what authorities have called "a serious shark bite" at a beach near Esperance in Western Australia. WA Police confirmed on Friday that several witnesses including other surfers had watched as a man was attacked at Kelp Beds beach in Wylie Bay on Friday morning, before a surfboard with "obvious signs of shark attack" was recovered a short time later. Continue reading... |
| Kevin Bacon: 'I couldn't care less about being heroic or handsome' Posted: 08 Oct 2020 10:00 PM PDT Having broken through off Broadway with Sean Penn and Val Kilmer, it's no surprise that the actor has spent 35 years striving to put being a teen idol behind him. 'I'm drawn to dark things,' he says Alarm bells would ring for most couples if one partner suggested marriage as the perfect subject for a horror movie. Kevin Bacon does not seem perturbed, though, that his latest film, You Should Have Left, was inspired by just such an idea that his wife, the actor Kyra Sedgwick, came up with. "I'm drawn to dark things," he says down the phone from their farm in Connecticut. "On some level, it's therapeutic. I have a marriage that works and I didn't have a tremendous amount of trauma as a child and yet I feel all human beings have darkness in their souls. Fear and anger and doubt live within us. Part of what I like about my job is tapping into those demons. I became an actor because I wanted to explore all sides of the human condition. Being heroic or handsome or winning the big game – I couldn't care less about those things! But to go into the darker corners of a man's psyche is an interesting thing to do." Continue reading... |
| London Stock Exchange to sell Milan arm to Euronext for €4.3bn Posted: 09 Oct 2020 02:03 AM PDT Borsa Italiana deal clears way for LSE purchase of financial data provider Refinitiv The London Stock Exchange Group has agreed to sell the Milan stock exchange to the rival group Euronext for €4.3bn (£3.9bn) in cash, clearing the way for the LSE's purchase of the financial data provider Refinitiv. The LSE and Euronext, which owns several European stock exchanges including the Paris bourse, began exclusive talks over the Borsa Italiana deal in September. Continue reading... |
| Iran: prominent human rights activist released over health concerns Posted: 08 Oct 2020 11:38 AM PDT Narges Mohammadi suffers from neurological condition and was initially sentenced to 10 years in prison The most prominent human rights activist imprisoned in Iran, Narges Mohammadi, has been released from jail after her sentence was reduced amid renewed fears for her health. Iran has been hit by a third wave of coronavirus that has seen the daily numbers of new infection break records, with a new high of 4,392 on Thursday. Continue reading... |
| Last French hostage in the world released by jihadists in Mali Posted: 08 Oct 2020 02:59 PM PDT Authorities confirm release of Sophie Pétronin along with two Italian captives and Malian politician Authorities in Mali have confirmed the release of an elderly French aid worker, two Italian captives and a top Malian politician, all believed to have been held by jihadists. A tweet on Thursday said that French woman Sophie Pétronin, 75, and Soumaïla Cissé, 70, were on their way to the capital Bamako. Continue reading... |
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NBC News report that the families of Jackie Robinson and Martin Luther King Jr. have blasted the Trump campaign for using pictures of the civil rights icons in a new campaign ad. Dareh Gregorian reports: The families of Jackie Robinson and Martin Luther King Jr. are blasting the Trump campaign for using the civil rights icons pictures in a new campaign ad. "The Trump campaign is in opposition to all that Jackie Robinson stood for and believed in. We're insulted and demand that his image be removed!" Robinson's daughter, Sharon Robinson, tweeted on Thursday.
You're going to be hearing the phrase "25th amendment" a lot today. Here's a reminder of what section 4 of it says: Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President. Continue reading... |
| 'Total destruction': why fires are tearing across South America Posted: 08 Oct 2020 11:30 PM PDT Wildfires, mostly caused by land clearing for cattle grazing and soya production, have set four nations ablaze Primatologist Martin Kowalewski is measuring the scale of the fires raging across Latin America not in satellite images, but in the number of caraya monkeys (black-and-gold howlers) that have succumbed to the flames. "Of the 20 family groups that we used to trace in the wild, each group consisting of seven or eight monkeys, at least five groups were burned alive," he tells the Guardian. Other animals have also perished at San Cayetano, a nature reserve in Argentina's northeastern province of Corrientes. "Carpinchos (giant South American rodents), otters, two species of fox, guazú deer, yacaré caimans, turtles, snakes. Birds are better at escaping the fire, but that was before all the deforestation. Now they have nowhere to go because there is nowhere else. The forest is so fragmented that they have nowhere to nest." Continue reading... |
| Telstra denies Victoria police requested Graham Ashton’s phone records for hotel quarantine inquiry Posted: 09 Oct 2020 01:57 AM PDT Phone records of former police chief considered crucial in investigation to determine who made the decision to use private security guards Victoria police never formally requested Telstra provide ex-police chief Graham Ashton's phone records to help the hotel quarantine inquiry uncover who made the decision to use private security guards in the botched program, Guardian Australia can reveal. On Wednesday, a spokesperson for Victoria police told Guardian Australia that police "did contact Telstra and request incoming call data for the former chief commissioner's phone". Continue reading... |
| UN accused over failure to investigate 'war on drugs' killings in the Philippines Posted: 08 Oct 2020 03:45 AM PDT Human rights groups calling for a probe into president Rodrigo Duterte's anti-narcotics crackdown say abuses continue The UN human rights council has been accused of a "collective failure" over its decision not to call for an investigation into the tens of thousands of killings alleged to have occurred under Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte's "war on drugs". Human rights groups and UN experts had repeatedly called for an inquiry into the anti-narcotics crackdown, launched by the president after he won the 2016 election on a promise to rid the country of drugs. Continue reading... |
| Pubs and restaurants: do scientists think Covid closures and curfews work? Posted: 08 Oct 2020 06:22 AM PDT While virus can spread easily in crowded indoor venues, 10pm cut-off is questionable Pubs, bars and restaurants in Scotland will be banned from serving alcohol to customers indoors for more than two weeks, while pubs in northern England face the possibility of tighter restrictions. But what does the science say? Continue reading... |
| Europe's migration 'crisis' isn't about numbers. It's about prejudice Posted: 08 Oct 2020 05:07 AM PDT Reforming the EU's inhumane refugee policy also means confronting Orbán's view of Europe as a superior, white Christian club Fortress Europe is being redesigned – but it is no easy task. European Union home affairs ministers on Thursday began the process of repairing the bloc's broken migration policy, just weeks after the tragic devastation of the Moria refugee camp on Lesbos. Expect no quick changes, however. The 27 countries are deeply divided over proposals for a new "pact" on asylum and migration. The European commission's plan calls for faster pre-entry screening and quick returns of those who fail to quality for asylum. The focus is on ending sometimes deliberately slow, inhumane and inefficient border management procedures, which lead to squalid, overcrowded camps such as Moria, where people can be left in limbo for years. The return of those denied asylum could be managed with a newly appointed "EU returns coordinator". EU data shows that on average approximately 370,000 applications are rejected each year, but only a third of people are expelled. Continue reading... |
| Northern Cyprus reopens Varosha beach for the first time in 46 years – video Posted: 08 Oct 2020 10:40 PM PDT The beachfront of Varosha has been opened to the public on Thursday for the first time in 46 years in a move by the Turkish-backed government of Northern Cyprus. Hundreds of people descended on the beach in the former resort town that was abandoned when Varosha's Greek Cypriot inhabitants fled as Turkish troops advanced in 1974. The area was placed under the control of the Turkish military before it was cordoned off and left to the elements for nearly five decades. The move to reopen the area has been criticised by Cyprus's president amid concerns of rising tensions between Turkey and EU members, Greece and Cyprus Continue reading... |
| Nancy Pelosi suggests future 25th Amendment discussion on Donald Trump's fitness for office – video Posted: 08 Oct 2020 08:21 PM PDT Nancy Pelosi teased a discussion about the 25th amendment, which pertains to the president's removal from office if found unfit, which she said would be held tomorrow. The House speaker also spoke about Trump calling himself a 'perfect physical specimen'. She said the president owed it to the American people to share when he tested positive for Covid-19 after the White House refused to provide a timeline of the president's testing before he was admitted to the hospital
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| Biden blasts Trump for not condemning Gretchen Whitmer kidnap plot – video Posted: 08 Oct 2020 06:54 PM PDT Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has slammed Donald Trump for not condemning right-wing militias following the foiled kidnapping plot against Michigan's governor, Gretchen Whitmer. Speaking from his campaign in Arizona, Biden criticised the president for not watching his words after Trump previously tweeted 'Liberate Michigan' in response to the state's Covid restrictions. 'You saw what the head of the FBI said a couple of days ago. He said the greatest terrorist threat in America is from white supremacists,' Biden said. 'Why can't the president just say, stop, stop, stop, stop, and we will pursue you if you don't" Continue reading... |
| Blaze engulfs 33-storey apartment block in Ulsan, South Korea – video Posted: 08 Oct 2020 05:14 PM PDT A large fire has spread throughout a 33-storey apartment block in the South Korean city of Ulsan. The fire began on the 12th floor before spreading across the building that houses 136 apartments. Seventy-seven people had been treated for smoke inhalation, the fire department said, and the blaze has now been extinguished. The blaze, which broke out at about 11pm on Thursday, was fanned by strong winds. Continue reading... |
| Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer slams Trump in response to kidnapping plot – video Posted: 08 Oct 2020 01:51 PM PDT Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer called for unity and condemned Donald Trump for stoking division during the coronavirus outbreak during a press conference in which she addressed a plot to kidnap her. Members of two domestic terrorist groups have been charged with Whitmer's attempted kidnap, which she said she 'never could have imagined' when she took office. Referencing the first presidential debate, when Trump told far-right group the Proud Boys to 'stand back and standby', the governor said he is 'rallying' groups such as the ones that plotted her kidnap
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| Donald Trump says he will not participate in virtual debate with Joe Biden – video Posted: 08 Oct 2020 09:36 AM PDT The US president made his announcement in a Fox Business interview, moments after the commission that oversees the presidential election debates said the next event would be conducted from remote locations after Trump's Covid-19 diagnosis. The White House has refused to say when the president's last negative test for the virus was and, as a result, it is unclear how long he has been positive. The next debate is scheduled for 15 October
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| Mike Pence and Kamala Harris spar on Covid, race and climate in VP debate – video highlights Posted: 08 Oct 2020 03:58 AM PDT Mike Pence and Kamala Harris met in Utah for the only vice-presidential debate of the election, separated by Plexiglass barriers as a protection against coronavirus. From the pandemic to healthcare and race to the supreme court, via a fly, here are some of the key moments
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