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Donald Trump attacks Fox News: 'They forgot the golden goose'
Belarus tells banks to seize money raised to help out protesters
Dominic Cummings to leave Downing Street role by Christmas
Peter Sutcliffe, Yorkshire Ripper, dies aged 74
Governments urged to go beyond net zero climate targets
Aung San Suu Kyi's party returns to power in Myanmar
Mark Zuckerberg defends not suspending Steve Bannon from Facebook
Asylum seekers crossing Channel face 'inhumane treatment', observers say
Chinese retailer faces backlash after calling large clothing sizes 'rotten'
Nasa poised to return to crewed spaceflight with SpaceX capsule launch
Madrid surrealism show offers escape from pandemic reality
SeaDream 1: five passengers test positive for Covid-19 on Caribbean cruise ship
Is the new Covid vaccine our way back to normality? - video explainer
Covid test for mass UK screening could miss up to half of cases, say scientists
'It came in a locked box': UK Covid vaccine volunteers – in pictures
The impossible return of AC/DC: 'You could feel the electricity in the air'
macOS 11 Big Sur review: the Mac, iPad-ified for the future
World heritage status for Scottish peat bogs could help UK hit net zero goals
‘It was just a bunch of thugs’: how Collective uncovered a web of state corruption in Romania
'It's not over yet, right?' Trump voters back president's refusal to concede
A guided walk of Tolkien's original Shire, in Birmingham
Coronavirus live news: US tops 140,000 daily cases as world suffers record death toll
More than 110 migrants die in Mediterranean in three days
‘I need money for school’: the children forced to pan for gold in Zimbabwe
Who might figure in Joe Biden's cabinet? Six names tipped for top jobs
'Overwhelming': Central America braces for new storms in wake of Hurricane Eta
Typhoon Vamco hits the Philippines – in pictures
National cabinet endorses national vaccination policy – as it happened
UK homeless charities call for suspension of ‘reckless’ eviction of asylum seekers
Joe Biden ignores Trump obstruction to press ahead with cabinet selection
Europe's Muslims are European. Stop outsourcing their plight to foreign leaders | Shada Islam
Despite her mandate, Ardern's agenda will be resolutely middle of the road | Tova O'Brien
'Sex is not a crime': the women protesting Poland's new abortion law
Dr Anthony Fauci says US in 'very difficult situation' as Covid infections continue to grow – video
Nancy Pelosi accuses Republicans of 'refusing to accept reality' of election result – video
Turkmenistan leader reveals golden monument to favourite dog breed – video
Dr Anthony Fauci warns against violent anti-science feeling in polarised US – video
'Great expectations': how world leaders reacted to Biden and Harris's election win – video

Donald Trump attacks Fox News: 'They forgot the golden goose'

Posted: 12 Nov 2020 07:26 PM PST

President turns to right-wing network Newsmax for support after Fox warned viewers Trump's election victory claims were false

Donald Trump has unleashed a torrent of tweets denouncing Fox News, accusing the network of having forgotten "what made them successful, what got them there".

"They forgot the Golden Goose," Trump wrote in a tweet posted at midday on Thursday:

Belarus tells banks to seize money raised to help out protesters

Posted: 12 Nov 2020 09:00 PM PST

Money frozen in accounts of people who were hoping to use it for treatment or to pay fines

Authorities in Belarus have ordered banks to seize money raised in small donations and paid out as compensation to victims of a police crackdown on protesters.

The funds were transferred to people who were beaten or fined after taking part in ongoing demonstrations against the regime of Alexander Lukashenko.

Dominic Cummings to leave Downing Street role by Christmas

Posted: 12 Nov 2020 11:15 PM PST

Adviser repeats that he wants to be 'largely redundant' by end of 2020, after departure of Lee Cain

Boris Johnson's most senior adviser, Dominic Cummings, is to leave his Downing Street position by the end of this year in a signal of a major change of direction for the government.

Whitehall sources confirmed he will follow Johnson's communications director, Lee Cain, in leaving No 10.

Peter Sutcliffe, Yorkshire Ripper, dies aged 74

Posted: 13 Nov 2020 01:30 AM PST

Serial killer was serving 20 life terms for murder of 13 women across north of England in late 1970s

Peter Sutcliffe, the serial killer known as the Yorkshire Ripper, has died in hospital, a Prison Service spokesman said.

Sutcliffe, 74, was serving 20 life terms at Frankland prison in County Durham for murdering 13 women and attempting to kill seven more in the late 1970s.

Governments urged to go beyond net zero climate targets

Posted: 12 Nov 2020 11:00 PM PST

Leading scientists and campaigners say cutting emissions alone is not enough

Leading scientists, academics and campaigners have called on governments and businesses to go beyond "net zero" in their efforts to tackle the escalating climate and ecological crisis.

The former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and the leading climate scientist Michael Mann are among a group of prominent environmentalists calling for the "restoration of the climate" by removing "huge amounts of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere".

Aung San Suu Kyi's party returns to power in Myanmar

Posted: 12 Nov 2020 08:00 PM PST

Election result is likely to further entrench divisions within the country, particularly resentment within minority communities

Aung San Suu Kyi's party will return to power for another five year term after securing a widely predicted victory in what is the country's second general election since the end of full military rule.

According to the Union Election Commission, Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy has won 346 of the 412 seats declared so far, a result driven by her continued status as an icon of democracy in the country – despite international outrage at her treatment of the Rohingya.

Mark Zuckerberg defends not suspending Steve Bannon from Facebook

Posted: 12 Nov 2020 05:32 PM PST

CEO told staffers Bannon had not violated enough policies to justify ban when he called for beheading of Anthony Fauci

Mark Zuckerberg told Facebook staffers on Thursday that former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon had not violated enough of the company's policies to justify his suspension from the platform when he called for the beheading of two US officials and the posting of their heads outside the White House as a "warning".

Asylum seekers crossing Channel face 'inhumane treatment', observers say

Posted: 12 Nov 2020 11:00 PM PST

Independent monitors say migrants arriving at Dover are moved with untreated injuries amid serious documentation errors

Asylum seekers who have crossed the Channel in small boats are being subjected to "inhumane treatment", independent monitors have said, with individuals moved between detention centres with untreated broken bones, burns and cancer.

Evidence collated by four separate independent monitoring boards, which scrutinise prisons and immigration detention facilities, found that people arriving at Dover were being kept in crowded conditions – with no social distancing – and that serious errors were being included in their documentation.

Chinese retailer faces backlash after calling large clothing sizes 'rotten'

Posted: 12 Nov 2020 10:50 PM PST

Customers 'shocked' by descriptions of larger items in RT-Mart, prompting apology for 'inappropriate' sign

A major Chinese retailer has been forced to apologise after one of its stores classified small clothing sizes as "beautiful" and large sizes as "rotten".

The signs inside the RT-Mart superstore depicted a size chart with small to medium sizes described as "slim" and "beautiful", with larger sizes as "rotten" and "horrible".

Nasa poised to return to crewed spaceflight with SpaceX capsule launch

Posted: 13 Nov 2020 12:45 AM PST

Public-private partnership with Elon Musk's company to send four astronauts to international space station on Saturday

In a rocket ship perfectly named for the year of a global pandemic, three American astronauts and one from Japan are scheduled to blast off from Florida on Saturday evening as Nasa finally returns to the business of routine crewed spaceflight.

The 7.49pm launch of the SpaceX capsule Resilience from the Kennedy Space Center, a mission officially designated as Crew 1, will be the first time since the final flights of the space shuttle fleet in 2011 that the US space agency has its own operational rotating program of sending humans to the international space station.

Madrid surrealism show offers escape from pandemic reality

Posted: 12 Nov 2020 09:00 PM PST

Exhibition explores how surrealist movement influenced culture and design in 20th century

Anyone tiring of the many mundane strictures of the new normality can, in Madrid at least, escape temporarily into a world where hands serve as chairs, tables spin on bicycle wheels and horses obligingly proffer lamps from their heads.

An exhibition in the Spanish capital examines the countless ways in which the surrealist movement has influenced culture and design over the past century, from the sofa Salvador Dalí modelled on Mae West's lips, to the music videos of Björk.

SeaDream 1: five passengers test positive for Covid-19 on Caribbean cruise ship

Posted: 12 Nov 2020 05:00 PM PST

SeaDream carrying 53 passengers, majority from US, and 66 crew
Ship ends cruise early after passenger became sick on Wednesday

One of the first cruise ships to ply through Caribbean waters since the pandemic began ended its trip early after five passengers tested positive for Covid-19.

The SeaDream is carrying 53 passengers and 66 crew, with the majority of passengers hailing from the US, according to Sue Bryant, a cruise ship reporter who is aboard the ship.

Is the new Covid vaccine our way back to normality? - video explainer

Posted: 13 Nov 2020 02:09 AM PST

The news this week that the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine was effective on more than 90% of trial recipients is of huge importance. The efficacy is significantly higher than hoped for and so far there appear to be no safety concerns.

The Guardian's health editor, Sarah Boseley, explains that, while this is a major breakthrough, there are still several hurdles to overcome, and restrictions, such as wearing masks, social distancing and remote working, must remain in place for the time being

Covid test for mass UK screening could miss up to half of cases, say scientists

Posted: 12 Nov 2020 11:00 PM PST

Some trials of lateral flow test from US firm Innova found it was much less accurate than the government said it was

The lateral flow test bought by the UK government for mass testing in Liverpool, and potentially the whole country, could miss up to half of those who have Covid-19, according to experts.

The government has great expectations of the Innova test, having signed two contracts with the California-based company behind it. Innova told the Guardian it was now shipping more than one million tests a day to the UK.

'It came in a locked box': UK Covid vaccine volunteers – in pictures

Posted: 12 Nov 2020 10:00 PM PST

Thousands of ordinary people around Britain volunteered to take part in the Imperial College London coronavirus vaccine trial. Who are they, what motivated them to take part, and what's it been like?

These portraits were taken for Team Halo, an initiative that goes behind the scenes with the scientists trying to develop a Covid vaccine

The impossible return of AC/DC: 'You could feel the electricity in the air'

Posted: 12 Nov 2020 10:00 PM PST

The bassist quit, the singer lost his hearing, the drummer was under house arrest and founder member Malcolm Young died from dementia. But somehow AC/DC are back (in black)

At the end of an AC/DC show, Angus Young has a routine. After a couple of hours of perpetual motion in his schoolboy outfit, he heads straight for the shower and then, because he hasn't been able to eat since noon – you can't do an AC/DC show on a full stomach – he looks for food. "The first thing that enters my head is: I'm starving."

When he left the stage of the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on 20 September 2016 – the last night of the Rock or Bust tour – he might have been running through that routine for the last time in the band's then 43-year history. The final 23 shows had been completed with Axl Rose as singer (brilliantly, it must be said), after hearing problems had forced Brian Johnson to retire from the road; he could no longer find his pitch onstage, and every show made his hearing worse. That summer, their bassist Cliff Williams had said he, too, would be leaving the band.

macOS 11 Big Sur review: the Mac, iPad-ified for the future

Posted: 12 Nov 2020 11:00 PM PST

Apple's big update adds colour, iPhone-like icons, settings and apps, ready for new and old Macs alike

Apple has just released Big Sur as a free update, marking the biggest redesign for macOS in years. The core system of every Mac computer is now equal parts traditional desktop computer and features many will be used to seeing from the iPad and iPhone.

Big Sur marks the end of an era for the Mac's software in more ways than one. For years Apple has been slowly blending the design and operation of its desktop and mobile software, bringing features from the iPhone or iPad to the Mac and vice versa. With Big Sur comes a significant step toward the goal of merging the two.

World heritage status for Scottish peat bogs could help UK hit net zero goals

Posted: 13 Nov 2020 02:00 AM PST

Hopes rise that the Flow Country, the world's largest carbon store, could become first peatland to win the status

Andrew Coupar has crouched down by a small pool, its surface peppered with the small stalks of bogbean. In autumn its dark green oval leaves echo the muted browns, greens and ochres of the surrounding peatland.

In spring, however, the bogbean's pink-fringed white flowers put on a remarkable display, carpeting the cluster of pools that mirror the blue skies and light clouds above and, along the horizon to west, the mountains of Sutherland.

‘It was just a bunch of thugs’: how Collective uncovered a web of state corruption in Romania

Posted: 13 Nov 2020 12:00 AM PST

A tenacious team of sports journalists and a persistent whistleblower turn this documentary into a newsroom drama as thrilling as All the President's Men

Collective begins with profoundly upsetting footage filmed by clubbers on their phones of the fire that broke out in 2015 at a crowded Bucharest nightclub, Colectiv. A Romanian band is singing angrily – "Fuck all your wicked corruption. It's been there since our inception" – before stopping abruptly to ask if anyone has a fire extinguisher. What appeared to be a striking firework display above the heads of the musicians turns out to be a fire, and within seconds flames have engulfed the building and teenagers are running for their lives.

It is a shocking sequence, but it is not the most disturbing element of an extraordinary documentary that reveals a staggering degree of corruption running through Romania's health system. The fire left 27 dead and 180 injured, but in the weeks that followed another 37 people died from wounds that should not have been life-threatening, many killed by infections picked up in hospital.

'It's not over yet, right?' Trump voters back president's refusal to concede

Posted: 12 Nov 2020 11:00 PM PST

Loyalty from president's base remains undimmed, amid belief that political establishment is colluding to deny him victory

The red and blue political bunting and yard signs planted on suburban lawns are mostly gone and with them the outward signs of America's fiercely oppositional election. But in other respects, the tensions of the 2020 contest remain as acute as they were on polling day for many Trump supporters.

"Not many care about people as much as Trump," said tow-truck driver Vinny Nolan as he took a rest at a highway truck stop near Hackensack, New Jersey. "The [Russia] collusion bullshit was a set-up. He gave everyone money while we iron this virus situation then they announce a vaccine two days after the election. Why didn't they do that a week ago? He would have won."

A guided walk of Tolkien's original Shire, in Birmingham

Posted: 12 Nov 2020 10:30 PM PST

It's there and back again for our writer, who takes in Hobbiton, the mill, the Old Forest and the author's childhood home – all in the suburb of Sarehole

'It was kind of a lost paradise," JRR Tolkien told the Guardian in an interview in 1966. "There was an old mill that really did grind corn, with two millers, a great big pond with swans on it, a sandpit, a wonderful dell with flowers, a few old-fashioned village houses and, further away, a stream with another mill."

Four miles south of central Birmingham in the Hall Green area lies the inspiration for Tolkien's Shire – the former hamlet of Sarehole. Tolkien lived here from 1896, between the ages of four and eight. "I loved it [Sarehole] with an intense love," he said. "I took the idea of the Hobbits from the village people and children."

Coronavirus live news: US tops 140,000 daily cases as world suffers record death toll

Posted: 13 Nov 2020 02:41 AM PST

France's lockdown extended by two weeks; German infection surge may be easing; Russia says its Sputnik-V vaccine is 92% effective

10.39am GMT

Russia has reported a record 21,983 new coronavirus infections on Friday as Moscow prepared to close restaurants and bars overnight in an effort to contain the Covid pandemic, Reuters is reporting.

Despite a recent surge, Russian authorities have resisted reimposing the lockdown restrictions of earlier this year, stressing instead the importance of hygiene, social distancing and bringing in targeted measures in certain regions.

10.34am GMT

SeaDream Yacht Club has halted a cruise in the Caribbean after several passengers tested positive for coronavirus, the company said in a statement on Friday.

The SeaDream I vessel has returned to port in Barbados and all passengers are being re-tested, the privately owned company said.

More than 110 migrants die in Mediterranean in three days

Posted: 12 Nov 2020 11:13 AM PST

Bodies of 74 people wash up on beach in western Libya as baby boy dies on rescue boat

Four shipwrecks in the space of three days have claimed the lives of more than 110 people in the Mediterranean, including at least 70 people whose bodies have washed up on the beach of al-Khums, in western Libya.

According to the UN migration agency (IOM), that boat was reported to be carrying more than 120 people, including women and children. Forty-seven survivors had been brought to shore by the coastguard and fishermen, while the bodies of at least 74 people were floating near the water's edge on Thursday.

‘I need money for school’: the children forced to pan for gold in Zimbabwe

Posted: 13 Nov 2020 12:00 AM PST

Covid has closed schools and caused economic collapse – now children are taking up the dangerous work of prospecting

Children as young as 10 used to cool themselves from the sweltering heat in the Odzi River on their way back from school in mineral-rich Marange, a village 90km south of Mutare in eastern Zimbabwe.

Now, with the public education system collapsing and the pandemic taking a wrecking ball to their parents' economic opportunities, children are spending whole days at the river, panning for gold or fishing for an evening meal.

Who might figure in Joe Biden's cabinet? Six names tipped for top jobs

Posted: 13 Nov 2020 02:30 AM PST

Susan Rice, Michele Flournoy, Doug Jones, Lael Brainard, Vivek Murthy and Heidi Heitkamp are some of the most frequently mentioned in Washington

Cabinet appointment speculation is a time-honored tradition in Washington DC – and despite everything else going on is US politics at the moment, 2020 is no different.

'Overwhelming': Central America braces for new storms in wake of Hurricane Eta

Posted: 13 Nov 2020 02:13 AM PST

Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala worst affected with scores dead and more than 200,000 people evacuated from their homes

Central America is braced for further storms this weekend as the region reels from the devastation caused by Hurricane Eta, the Red Cross has warned.

Forecasters believe a weather front forming in the Caribbean has a 90% chance of becoming a cyclone, making it the 30th named Atlantic storm of 2020 in a record-breaking hurricane season, shattering the previous worst year of 28 storms in 2005.

Typhoon Vamco hits the Philippines – in pictures

Posted: 12 Nov 2020 11:00 PM PST

Typhoon Vamco has killed at least seven people and unleashed some of the worst flooding in years in the Philippines' capital, Manila

National cabinet endorses national vaccination policy – as it happened

Posted: 13 Nov 2020 12:04 AM PST

PM and premiers meet as Covid-19 cases plummet. This blog is now closed

8.04am GMT

The day is winding down so we are going to wrap up the blog. Here are the main events:

7.53am GMT

The rise of rightwing extremism has coincided with the emergence of social media "echo chambers" and easily formed online communities of interest, the head of home affairs has said.

Michael Pezzullo, the secretary of the department, appeared before a parliamentary hearing into social cohesion and nationhood this afternoon.

He was asked about recent testimony from the head of Asio that rightwing extremism now made up 30% to 40% of its priority counter-terrorism investigations. Labor committee chair Kim Carr wanted to know whether Pezzullo thought the trend coincided with the rise or rightwing populist groups in the US and Europe.

Domestically it would seem to me that the groups that are of most concern are those that would either promote or seek others to adhere to a philosophy or an ideology of extra-constitutional action, and worse of course extremist action, and worst of all violent action rather than moderating legitimately held differences of political, ideological, economic views through our democratic process.

UK homeless charities call for suspension of ‘reckless’ eviction of asylum seekers

Posted: 12 Nov 2020 11:15 PM PST

Growing numbers face a winter of destitution as the Home Office withdraws accommodation provided during first lockdown

Homeless charities are calling for evictions of asylum seekers to be suspended as growing numbers are being left destitute as winter approaches.

While many asylum seekers were temporarily accommodated and tested for Covid-19 during the first lockdown under the government's "everyone in" scheme, the Home Office restarted evictions in September. This group has no right to work and no recourse to public funds or statutory homelessness services.

Joe Biden ignores Trump obstruction to press ahead with cabinet selection

Posted: 13 Nov 2020 02:30 AM PST

The president-elect is likely to value Washington experience but must balance the wings of his party and a possibly hostile Senate

President-elect Joe Biden's team is pressing forward with preparations to take over the federal government when his term starts despite virtually no help from Donald Trump's outgoing administration.

Europe's Muslims are European. Stop outsourcing their plight to foreign leaders | Shada Islam

Posted: 13 Nov 2020 01:00 AM PST

For EU leaders to seek solutions abroad to end prejudice against millions of their own citizens is insulting and meaningless

Terror attacks in France and Austria have put Europe's 25 million Muslims back in the spotlight. The unwanted attention is familiar. Discussing Muslims as a security risk invariably reaches fever pitch after an Islamist-inspired terrorist act. This time the attackers came from Chechnya, Tunisia and North Macedonia. But never mind: anxiety over the Muslim "enemy within" goes deep.

Anxious debates on the place of Islam in Europe and claims that European Muslims are footsoldiers in an existential confrontation between Europe and Islam and represent an impossible-to-integrate "other" have dogged Muslims across the continent for decades.

Despite her mandate, Ardern's agenda will be resolutely middle of the road | Tova O'Brien

Posted: 12 Nov 2020 11:00 AM PST

Labour's smart politics will come at the expense of its fundamental values, and be driven by its desire to stay in power

The prime minister of New Zealand has just begun a victory lap of the country, though Jacinda Ardern would prefer we think of it more as a "thank you" tour.

After a successful but gruelling six-week election campaign she is hitting the two-lane blacktop once again, deploying to the regions of New Zealand.

'Sex is not a crime': the women protesting Poland's new abortion law

Posted: 13 Nov 2020 02:08 AM PST

As Poland attempts to pass a new abortion law that amounts to a near-total ban on terminations, including in cases where a baby is sure to die soon after birth, the country's biggest protests in four decades have erupted, with Polish women challenging church as well as state. Karolina Więckiewicz is a lawyer with the charity Abortion Without Borders, which advises Polish women on abortions and helps them to avail of safe, legal procedures overseas. We follow her on to the streets as women of all ages rise up to demand rights over their own bodies, and an end to social stigma around sex and abortion

Dr Anthony Fauci says US in 'very difficult situation' as Covid infections continue to grow – video

Posted: 12 Nov 2020 07:31 PM PST

America's top infectious disease expert says the country faces a 'very difficult situation' as Covid-19 cases continue to surge. The US surpassed one million cases in the first 10 days of November as the overall coronavirus death toll reached 241,910. Fauci warned more needs to be done to control the spread of the virus, suggesting public health measures such as wearing masks and physical distancing, not lockdowns, would halt the spread

November on track to be worst month of pandemic so far in US as cases surge

Nancy Pelosi accuses Republicans of 'refusing to accept reality' of election result – video

Posted: 12 Nov 2020 09:45 AM PST

The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, and Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, held a press conference on Capitol Hill, calling on Republican lawmakers to accept the results of the presidential election.

Pelosi emphasised the need to pass another coronavirus relief bill, saying: 'Stop the circus and get to work on what really matters to the American people'

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Turkmenistan leader reveals golden monument to favourite dog breed – video

Posted: 12 Nov 2020 09:40 AM PST

Turkmenistan's leader, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, solemnly inaugurated a monument for his favourite breed of dog, the nationally revered alabai.

The gold-leaf six-metre statue of the central Asian shepherd dog is the centrepiece of a busy roundabout in the country's capital, Ashgabat.

Turkmenistan leader unveils giant gold statue of local dog

Dr Anthony Fauci warns against violent anti-science feeling in polarised US – video

Posted: 12 Nov 2020 07:43 AM PST

Dr Anthony Fauci says unprecedented 'polarisation' has intensified an anti-science feeling in the US and led people to threaten violence against him.

While the top infectious diseases expert commands respect among much of the public, he has received personal death threats as a result of his high-profile statements about the coronavirus pandemic.

The health expert Prof David Heymann, who joined Fauci in a Chatham House webinar, said science had become highly politicised to the point that a mask wearer was seen as a Democrat and a non-mask wearer as a Republican

Coronavirus – latest updates

'Great expectations': how world leaders reacted to Biden and Harris's election win – video

Posted: 12 Nov 2020 06:10 AM PST

Most world leaders rushed to congratulate Joe Biden on his election on Twitter, and spoke of 'hope' and 'expectation' in later statements.

Biden's key foreign policy priorities are cooperation in the fight against coronavirus, a commitment to rejoin the UN Paris climate agreement and, more broadly, to promise a change in tone toward traditional US allies.

Russia and China are yet to congratulate the president-elect, as the outgoing president, Donald Trump, is yet to concede defeat

Russia and China silence speaks volumes as leaders congratulate Biden

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