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- Pelosi says House will proceed with efforts to remove Trump 'with urgency'
- Indonesia plane crash: divers to retrieve black boxes from Sriwijaya Air flight 182
- Coronavirus live news: France should consider closing borders, says adviser; WHO team to arrive soon, says China
- Campaigners condemn killing of minke whale trapped in nets in Japan
- Vogue's Kamala Harris cover photos spark controversy: 'Washed out mess'
- 'Don't look dishevelled': anger over Seoul city's advice to pregnant women
- Six gorilla rangers killed in ambush at DR Congo's Virunga national park
- Paris agrees to turn Champs-Élysées into 'extraordinary garden'
- Three killed and four wounded in apparently random Chicago shootings
- Baby shark! Newborn megalodons larger than humans, scientists say
- Sex and the City to return for new series, stars confirm
- One in five in England have had Covid, modelling suggests
- China agrees to let in WHO team investigating Covid origins
- 'Everywhere you look, people are infected': Covid's toll on California Latinos
- Salim Abdool Karim: 'None of us are safe from Covid if one of us is not. We have mutual interdependence'
- 'Agent of foreign interests': Museveni lashes out at Uganda election rival
- Olly Alexander on success, sanity and It's a Sin: 'All those hot guys. I loved it!'
- Agnes Keleti: Olympic great who fled Nazis and Soviets smashes 100 barrier | Sean Ingle
- Anywhere but Washington: an eye-opening journey in a deeply divided nation
- 'There is no noise': inside the controversial Bhasan Char refugee camp – a photo essay
- Nigeria cattle crisis: how drought and urbanisation led to deadly land grabs
- Tell us: how has the pandemic affected Newham?
- Vaccine scepticism in France reflects 'dissatisfaction with political class’
- From Yemen to the UK: Noor's story
- Aid spending in Africa must be African-led – it needs a Black Lives Matter reckoning | Dedo Baranshamaje and Katie Bunten-Wamaru
- Democrats to pressure Pence to remove Trump using 25th amendment – live updates
- Relief in sight for Melbourne after hottest day in almost a year
- Nuclear stand-off: can Joe Biden avert a new arms race?
- New Zealand's 'public secret': house prices won't come down until we really want them to | Iain White
- Divers search for black boxes in debris of Sriwijaya Air crash – video
- Republican congresswoman Mary Miller quotes Hitler during rally – video
- Police officer crushed in doorway by rioters during Capitol breach – video
- All UK adults will be offered Covid vaccine by autumn, says Matt Hancock – video
| Pelosi says House will proceed with efforts to remove Trump 'with urgency' Posted: 10 Jan 2021 05:40 PM PST House will first try to force Mike Pence to oust president by invoking 25th amendment and then move forward with impeachment The House is prepared to launch impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump as early as this week if Vice President Mike Pence and the cabinet refuse to remove him from office for his role in inciting a mob that carried out a deadly assault on the seat of American government. The House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, delivered the ultimatum in a letter to colleagues on Sunday night that described the president as an urgent threat to the nation. Continue reading... |
| Indonesia plane crash: divers to retrieve black boxes from Sriwijaya Air flight 182 Posted: 10 Jan 2021 08:39 PM PST Authorities located data recorders on Sunday from jet that crashed off Jakarta carrying 62 people Indonesian divers will try to retrieve the data recorders of a Sriwijaya Air jet on Monday after it plunged into the sea two days ago with 62 people on board minutes after take off from Jakarta's main airport. Flight SJ182 was headed to Pontianak on Borneo island, about 740 km (460 miles) from Jakarta, on Saturday before it disappeared from radar screens four minutes after take-off and crashed into the Java sea. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 11 Jan 2021 02:26 AM PST France should consider closing borders with countries that have strong presence of UK variant; China says WHO Covid-19 inquiry team to arrive 14 January
A World Health Organization investigation team is unlikely to reach any conclusions on the origins of the pandemic as a result of its trip to China this month, a health expert affiliated with the body has said. Dr Dale Fisher told the Reuters Next conference: I would be inclined to set the expectations of a conclusion very low for this visit. I think it's an important meeting but it shouldn't be overrated in terms of an outcome this time.
Business owners at France's Chamonix ski resort, their earnings slashed because of the lockdown, are worried they might not be able to welcome back skiers at all before the snows melt and the season ends. French ski resorts were prevented from opening their cable cars and ski lifts at the start of the season, driving away the large portion of their visitors who come for downhill skiing. If we have to close to the end of season, that's going to cost us several billion euros. The economic impact will be catastrophic. Continue reading... |
| Campaigners condemn killing of minke whale trapped in nets in Japan Posted: 10 Jan 2021 11:54 PM PST Animal killed with what appeared to be exploding harpoon, after one 'half-hearted' attempt to free it Animal welfare campaigners have condemned the killing of a trapped minke whale off the coast of Taiji, a town in Japan best known for its annual dolphin cull. The young whale, which had been trapped inside nets since 24 December, was killed with what appeared to be an exploding harpoon early on Monday morning before being taken ashore wrapped in blue tarpaulin, according to the Humane Society International (HSI). Continue reading... |
| Vogue's Kamala Harris cover photos spark controversy: 'Washed out mess' Posted: 10 Jan 2021 12:48 PM PST First woman of color elected vice-president is February cover star but users complain about lighting Vogue magazine became embroiled in a "whitewashing" controversy on Sunday when it tweeted photographs of its February cover star, Kamala Harris. Continue reading... |
| 'Don't look dishevelled': anger over Seoul city's advice to pregnant women Posted: 10 Jan 2021 09:36 PM PST Government guidelines give tips on how to avoid putting on weight and how to prepare food for men who are 'unaccustomed to cooking' The Seoul city government has sparked anger for offering advice to pregnant women that includes ensuring their husbands have clean clothes and enough to eat while they are in hospital giving birth. The guidelines, posted on a government-run website, included tips for expectant South Korean mothers at different stages of their pregnancy. Continue reading... |
| Six gorilla rangers killed in ambush at DR Congo's Virunga national park Posted: 10 Jan 2021 04:35 PM PST Previous attacks against rangers blamed on militias fighting to control land and natural resources Armed men have killed at least six rangers and wounded several others in an ambush in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga national park, a sanctuary for endangered mountain gorillas, the park said. The identity of the assailants was not immediately clear, said Olivier Mukisya, a Virunga spokesman. Previous attacks against the rangers have been blamed on various militias who fight to control land and natural resources in eastern Congo. Continue reading... |
| Paris agrees to turn Champs-Élysées into 'extraordinary garden' Posted: 10 Jan 2021 07:37 AM PST Mayor Anne Hidalgo gives green light to £225m-scheme to transform French capital's most famous avenue The mayor of Paris has said a €250m (£225m) makeover of the Champs-Élysées will go ahead, though the ambitious transformation will not happen before the French capital hosts the 2024 Summer Olympics. Anne Hidalgo said the planned work, unveiled in 2019 by local community leaders and businesses, would turn the 1.9 km (1.2 mile) stretch of central Paris into "an extraordinary garden". Continue reading... |
| Three killed and four wounded in apparently random Chicago shootings Posted: 10 Jan 2021 01:26 PM PST
A man who police say killed three people and wounded four in a series of shootings in and around Chicago posted nonsensical and expletive-laced videos in the days and hours leading up to the attacks. Investigators were trying to determine a motive for the Saturday afternoon attacks in which police say 32-year-old Jason Nightengale apparently chose victims at random. Continue reading... |
| Baby shark! Newborn megalodons larger than humans, scientists say Posted: 10 Jan 2021 09:00 PM PST Creatures that patrolled the oceans 3m years ago were about two metres long at birth, researchers find Enormous megatooth sharks, or megalodons, which patrolled the world's oceans more than three million years ago, gave birth to babies larger than most adult humans, scientists say. Researchers made the unsettling discovery when they X-rayed the vertebra of a fossilised megalodon and found that it must have been about two metres (6.5 ft) long when it was born. Continue reading... |
| Sex and the City to return for new series, stars confirm Posted: 10 Jan 2021 05:25 PM PST The rebooted show will be called And Just Like That... and will feature the original stars, apart from Kim Cattrall Sex and the City will be given a 2021 makeover, US streaming service HBO Max has announced. Long-swirling rumours that the video-on-demand arm of the prestige TV brand was considering commissioning a revival of the 90s and 00s show were confirmed on Sunday night US time when three of the four stars of the original show, Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, and Kristin Davis, shared a trailer for the series on social media platforms. Continue reading... |
| One in five in England have had Covid, modelling suggests Posted: 10 Jan 2021 10:56 AM PST Analysis shows 12.4 million people infected since start of pandemic, against 2.4 million detected by test and trace One in five people in England may have had coronavirus, new modelling suggests, equivalent to 12.4 million people, rising to almost one in two in some areas. It means that across the country as a whole the true number of people infected to date may be five times higher than the total number of known cases according to the government's dashboard. Continue reading... |
| China agrees to let in WHO team investigating Covid origins Posted: 10 Jan 2021 10:16 PM PST Experts to arrive on 14 January country's national health authority says, but it's unclear if they will get access to Wuhan A World Health Organization team of international experts tasked with investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic will arrive in China on 14 January, China's national health authority has said. The team was initially aiming to enter China in early January but China blocked their arrival, saying visas had not yet been approved, even as some members of the group were on their way. Continue reading... |
| 'Everywhere you look, people are infected': Covid's toll on California Latinos Posted: 11 Jan 2021 02:00 AM PST Amid vast income inequality, a community that makes up 39% of the state accounts for the majority of positive cases When William Sanchez and eleven of his family members contracted Covid-19 around Thanksgiving, his toddler's temperature spiked, his nephew vomited for days, and his diabetic mom's blood sugar moved like a rollercoaster. "Everything you hear on the news about, you know, this virus, and how bad it is… everything they say about it, it's like 10 times worse," Sanchez said. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 10 Jan 2021 09:00 AM PST The face of South Africa's Covid science on why Africa has been hit less hard than Europe, the new variant in the region, and the danger of vaccine nationalism The epidemiologist Salim Abdool Karim could be considered South Africa's Anthony Fauci. As co-chair of the South African Ministerial Advisory Committee on Covid-19, he is the government's top adviser on the pandemic and has become the country's face of Covid-19 science. He also sits on the Africa Task Force for Novel Coronavirus, overseeing the continent's response to the global crisis. Karim, who directs the Durban-based Centre for the Aids Programme of Research in South Africa and is a professor at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, has long advocated for science and speaking truth to power. For three decades, along with his wife and scientific collaborator, Quarraisha Abdool Karim, he has been at the forefront of the fight against South Africa's substantial HIV and tuberculosis epidemics and in the early 2000s was one of the scientists who spoke out against the government's Aids denialism. Continue reading... |
| 'Agent of foreign interests': Museveni lashes out at Uganda election rival Posted: 10 Jan 2021 09:00 PM PST Presidential challenger Bobi Wine has been protesting against corruption and youth unemployment As Uganda readies for an election on Thursday, President Yoweri Museveni is doubling down on his main rival and preparing himself for a sixth term in office. After 35 years in power, he faces a powerful opponent, the popular singer Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, 38, known by his stage name Bobi Wine, who has captured the hearts of a new generation by protesting against corruption and youth unemployment. Continue reading... |
| Olly Alexander on success, sanity and It's a Sin: 'All those hot guys. I loved it!' Posted: 10 Jan 2021 10:00 PM PST The Years & Years frontman is starring in Russell T Davies' new drama about the Aids crisis. He talks about bulimia, his 'dark' clubbing days – and how he learned to enjoy filming sex scenes Olly Alexander was so certain he was destined for success that he saw a therapist to help him prepare for his future fame. It was 2014 and his band Years & Years had just signed to Polydor when he visited the shrink. "I said: 'The album's coming out and I really want it to be successful,' and he said: 'What happens if it isn't?' I said: 'Well, that's not an option because I have planned it in my diary since I was a teenager.'" Continue reading... |
| Agnes Keleti: Olympic great who fled Nazis and Soviets smashes 100 barrier | Sean Ingle Posted: 11 Jan 2021 12:00 AM PST The world's oldest Olympic champion survived the Holocaust and the Soviet clampdown on Hungary – and fizzes with energy If a Hollywood scriptwriter had come up with the extraordinary story of Agnes Keleti – the world's oldest Olympic champion, who celebrated her 100th birthday on Saturday – as a piece of fiction, they surely would have been told to rein it in. Fleeing the Nazis, surviving the Holocaust with a false ID, and later escaping the Soviet clampdown on Hungary? Competing in a first Olympic Games aged 31 before going on to win more medals than anyone else in Melbourne four years later? And then, just for good measure, passing her century bursting with a rare energy and unquenchable zest for life? It sounds like magical realism. Yet it was all true. "These 100 years felt to me like 60," Keleti said, as she celebrated with a cake with fireworks fizzing from it and a smile so wide it could have lit up Budapest. It served as an instant pick-me-up, especially in these grim and monochrome times. Continue reading... |
| Anywhere but Washington: an eye-opening journey in a deeply divided nation Posted: 11 Jan 2021 12:00 AM PST The team behind the series tell how they covered the most important, emotionally charged and divisive election for a generation Oliver Laughland, US southern bureau chief: It was somewhere along the 700-mile night-time drive from Tampa, Florida, to my home in New Orleans that I realized filming the Anywhere But Washington series was becoming one of the hardest assignments in my career. Hours earlier, my colleague Tom Silverstone and I had interviewed a conservative radio host spreading baseless conspiracy theories about Covid-19 to a crowd of at-risk, Donald Trump-supporting senior citizens. We had been forced to make a sharp exit, and got caught in the middle of a powerful thunderstorm that drenched us through. Thankfully, we'd managed to keep the camera dry and preserve the footage, but the whole day became a precursor to the rest of our two and half month long trip through America. Continue reading... |
| 'There is no noise': inside the controversial Bhasan Char refugee camp – a photo essay Posted: 11 Jan 2021 12:30 AM PST Amid concern from charities and NGOs, Bangladesh is relocating Rohinghya refugees to a remote island. One resident describes his new life there I wanted to come here. No one forced me, and my wife also agreed in a snap. To be honest, though, I didn't tell my brother. He lives where I used to live – Kutupalong camp. He is very against this island for some reason. He might have tried to stop me coming if I dared to discuss the topic. So I didn't. I only told him after I arrived. I was amazed that he didn't yell at me. Continue reading... |
| Nigeria cattle crisis: how drought and urbanisation led to deadly land grabs Posted: 10 Jan 2021 11:00 PM PST The death toll of animals and humans is mounting as herders seeking dwindling reserves of pasture clash with farmers In February last year, Sunday Ikenna's fields were green and lush. Then, one evening, a herd of cattle led into the farm by roving pastoralists crushed, ate, and uprooted the crops. "I lost everything. The situation was sorrowful, watching another human being destroy your farm," says Ikenna, a father of 10 who farms in Ukpabi-Nimbo in Enugu state, southern Nigeria. "I farmed a smaller portion this year because I am still scared of another invasion." Continue reading... |
| Tell us: how has the pandemic affected Newham? Posted: 11 Jan 2021 01:52 AM PST We're looking to speak to people who live or work in Newham as part of our investigation into the recent surge of positive coronavirus cases The east London borough of Newham has had more than 4,000 people test positive for the coronavirus during the past week. The council stated that more than a fifth of all known cases to date occurred in just the last week. The sharp increase of coronavirus cases has left residents with a terrible sense of deja vu; in May, the borough recorded the worst Covid-19 mortality rate in England and Wales. The Guardian is keen to talk to those on the front line – NHS workers, teachers and support staff, transport workers, shopkeepers and those working in supermarkets, food bank volunteers – to investigate the reasons behind the surge of cases. Continue reading... |
| Vaccine scepticism in France reflects 'dissatisfaction with political class’ Posted: 11 Jan 2021 12:48 AM PST Past medical scandals involving big pharma and public officials have made many suspicious of vaccines In France, every child is now obliged to have 11 vaccinations. If parents want their children to attend school, or take part in many extracurricular activities, they must accept. There is no opt-out or concessions made to vaccine doubters. On Monday France's government and health authorities are speeding up the country's Covid-19 vaccine drive – a process complicated by widespread scepticism about the inoculation that has encompassed the usual global conspiracy theories. Continue reading... |
| From Yemen to the UK: Noor's story Posted: 10 Jan 2021 07:00 PM PST A women's rights activist tells the extraordinary story of how she fled Yemen after her life was threatened, and her devastation at having to leave her four children behind. She describes her terrifying journey to the UK, where she faces an uncertain future Anushka Asthana talks to Noor*, 29, who escaped from Yemen when her life was threatened because of her work as a human rights campaigner focusing on girls' rights to education and the right for children not to be forced into marriage. Noor was forced into marriage at the age of 14, but later managed to divorce her husband. She travelled alone with only smugglers and other desperate migrants for company on a terrifying eight-month journey to Britain. Noor was determined to flee not only because her own life was in danger, but also in the hope of rescuing her four children from the Yemen civil war once she had reached safety, and because her children's lives would be at risk if she remained in the country. She describes the devastating impact of leaving them behind. Her oldest daughter is at risk of child marriage in Yemen, and she says time is running out to bring her children to safety. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 10 Jan 2021 11:15 PM PST If we use this pivotal moment to shift funding to grassroots groups we could unlock transformational change While the US continues to reckon with its long-simmering struggle against racial injustice, it is important to remember that racism is not just a homegrown problem – we are also exporting it. As we begin 2021, global philanthropy has an opportunity to address this. Continue reading... |
| Democrats to pressure Pence to remove Trump using 25th amendment – live updates Posted: 11 Jan 2021 02:29 AM PST Pelosi faces Republican opposition to action over president's incitement of assault on Capitol
With Trump now finally accepting he will leave office, the future leadership of his movement is increasingly up for grabs, with a ragtag band of senators, congressman, Trump family members – and Trump himself – already jostling for the position. Whether anyone apart from the president is able to successfully ride the tiger of racism, nihilism and grievance politics that carried Trump to near-re-election after four years of American chaos and hundreds of thousands of preventable pandemic deaths is an open question. It also might be an irrelevant question, if Trump decides to stage a 2023-24 stadium tour doubling as a new presidential campaign. Related: Republican civil war: what's the party's future after the US Capitol attack?
In more fall-out from the pro-Trump assault on the Capitol, Associated Press report that the US army is investigating a psychological operations officer who led a group of people from North Carolina to the rally in Washington. Commanders at Fort Bragg are reviewing captain Emily Rainey's involvement in last week's events in the nation's capital, but she said she acted within military regulations and that no one in her group broke the law. |
| Relief in sight for Melbourne after hottest day in almost a year Posted: 11 Jan 2021 01:43 AM PST Tasmania and South Australia also experiencing high temperatures and winds, with a fire at Lucindale a threat to lives and homes Melbourne has experienced its hottest day in almost a year, as other states sweltered through temperatures up to 17C above average. The temperature in Melbourne hit 36.7C on Monday afternoon – the highest recorded temperature since 31 January last year – while Hopetoun, Swan Hill, Walpeup and Longerenong in the Wimmera were the hottest places in Victoria with temperatures reaching 39C. Continue reading... |
| Nuclear stand-off: can Joe Biden avert a new arms race? Posted: 10 Jan 2021 10:00 PM PST Analysis: new president will face threats on multiple fronts, including from Russia and Iran, and must decide future of US arsenal Joe Biden will have to make critical decisions on arms control in his first days in the White House that could determine whether a new nuclear arms race can be averted, and possibly reversed. When the new president takes the oath of office on 20 January, there will be 16 days left before the 2010 New Start treaty with Russia expires, and with it the last binding limit on the world's two biggest nuclear arsenals left standing in the wake of the Trump era. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 10 Jan 2021 09:57 PM PST Many of us express concern about the country's soaring house prices - but we also vote for policies that let them stay that way It was the anthropologist Michael Taussig who coined the term "public secret" – a collective social understanding, a truth generally accepted but not articulated. Public secrets, he argued, can be important to the functioning of institutions and societies: they allow the existence of seemingly contradictory positions, help maintain current power relations, and assist in reconciling the inevitable tensions of policy or complexities of politics. Continue reading... |
| Divers search for black boxes in debris of Sriwijaya Air crash – video Posted: 10 Jan 2021 10:03 PM PST Footage released by the Indonesian navy showed divers searching for the black boxes of Sriwijaya Air flight SJ 182 among debris from the crashed aircraft. Authorities pinpointed the area where the black boxes may be located after they lifted chunks of the Boeing 737-500 fuselage off the sea bed. Rescuers have also found human remains and personal effects Continue reading... |
| Republican congresswoman Mary Miller quotes Hitler during rally – video Posted: 10 Jan 2021 04:59 PM PST US Congresswoman Mary Miller of Illinois tells a crowd outside the US Capitol: Hitler was right on one thing – "Whoever has the youth has the future. Our children are being propagandised." Miller has since apologised for quoting the Nazi leader at the right-wing rally, issuing a statement on Twitter saying: "I sincerely apologize for any harm my words caused and regret using a reference to one of the most evil dictators in history"
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| Police officer crushed in doorway by rioters during Capitol breach – video Posted: 10 Jan 2021 11:24 AM PST This is the moment a police officer was crushed in a doorway after rioters stormed the US Capitol building. The clip captures the moment a large group of rioters heaved against police trying to prevent them from entering the Capitol building. Police have confirmed that more charges against rioters have been made. By Saturday, prosecutors had filed 17 cases in federal district court and 40 in District of Columbia superior court for offences ranging from assaulting police officers to entering restricted areas, stealing federal property and threatening lawmakers Continue reading... |
| All UK adults will be offered Covid vaccine by autumn, says Matt Hancock – video Posted: 10 Jan 2021 04:24 AM PST The health secretary promised vaccines would be offered to every adult in the UK 'by the autumn'. Speaking on the BBC's The Andrew Marr Show, Hancock said it was 'very, very important' that as many people as possible get a vaccine. More than 200,000 people are now being vaccinated each day, he added Continue reading... |
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