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- Coronavirus live news: UK aviation industry warns of impact of travel corridor curbs; India begins world's largest vaccination drive
- Donald Trump appeal says government should defend E Jean Carroll lawsuit
- Nancy Pelosi says lawmakers who aided in Capitol attack may be prosecuted
- Former Spanish king's ex-lover says she was threatened by spy chief
- Left stranded: US military sonar linked to whale beachings in Pacific, say scientists
- Mahmoud Abbas announces first Palestinian elections in 15 years
- Dustin Higgs becomes 13th and final federal prisoner executed under Trump
- Partner of Norwegian ex-minister jailed over faked attacks on home
- Simon Rattle decries Brexit as he applies for German citizenship
- India begins world's biggest Covid vaccination programme
- Washington and state capitols brace for violence from armed Trump supporters
- Australian Open players locked down as two test positive for Covid-19 after flight from US
- Covid vaccine: 72% of black people unlikely to have jab, UK survey finds
- One in three Los Angeles residents has been infected with Covid, scientists say
- ‘I’m grateful for our intense lockdown split’: what has the pandemic done to our relationships?
- Can Joe Biden make America great again?
- Blind date: ‘I asked if he would sing to me. He refused’
- Tim Dowling: I missed the dry January deadline. Wine it is, then
- 'Technophobe' Camilla clicks with Zoom and finds favour under Covid
- Germany: Angela Merkel's party chooses Armin Laschet as leader
- Ice flies African asylum seekers to Nairobi in last-minute deportation push
- What next for Trump's trusty New Zealander?
- Family fear for dying Australian man stranded in Ireland as Emirates cancels flights
- Give families cash to feed their children, there's overwhelming evidence it works | Arthur Potts Dawson
- Questions will be asked over timing of closing UK travel corridors
- Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine says he and wife fear for lives – video
- Nancy Pelosi: lawmakers could face prosecution for aiding Capitol attack – video
- All UK travel corridors to be closed, says Boris Johnson – video
- Brazil's president casts doubts on Covid vaccine as second wave hits – video
| Posted: 16 Jan 2021 02:33 AM PST
Police in Wales have fined a woman £500 for organising protests over the death of a young black man hours after he was released from police custody. The family of Mohamud Hassan allege that he was beaten by South Wales police and had a number of serious injuries at the time of his death. The police have referred the case to the Independent Office for Police Conduct. South Wales police can confirm that on Thursday, one woman was reported for summons for breaching Covid-19 regulations by organising an outdoor event, namely protests in Cardiff Bay on Tuesday and Wednesday, at which more than 30 people were in attendance. She now has the opportunity to either pay a £500 fixed penalty notice or request a court hearing.
The medicines regulator in Switzerland is set to approve AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine this month, according to a local media report. The NZZ newspaper on Saturday cited two unnamed sources as saying that the watchdog, Swissmedic, will hold a meeting at the end of the month to confirm its approval of the vaccine. Continue reading... |
| Donald Trump appeal says government should defend E Jean Carroll lawsuit Posted: 15 Jan 2021 07:49 PM PST Justice department puts itself in between president and writer who sued after Trump dismissed 1990s rape allegation as bookselling ploy The US justice department has said Donald Trump should not be forced to defend himself against a defamation lawsuit by the author E Jean Carroll, who accused him of raping her, and that the government itself should be substituted as the defendant. In a filing with the 2nd US circuit court of appeals in Manhattan, the department said Trump qualified as a typical "employee of the government" entitled to immunity under federal law from Carroll's claims, and was also shielded because he spoke about her in his capacity as president. Continue reading... |
| Nancy Pelosi says lawmakers who aided in Capitol attack may be prosecuted Posted: 15 Jan 2021 01:36 PM PST House speaker's comments come after a congresswoman said she saw colleagues leading 'reconnaissance' tours before the riot The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, has said it is possible that members of Congress could face prosecution if found to have "aided and abetted" the violent attack on the Capitol earlier this month that left five people dead. "Justice is called for as we address insurrection perpetrated against the Capitol last week," the Democratic speaker told reporters on Friday. Continue reading... |
| Former Spanish king's ex-lover says she was threatened by spy chief Posted: 15 Jan 2021 09:30 AM PST Corinna Larsen tells court 'chilling' warning to her and her children came on the orders of King Juan Carlos The ex-lover of Spain's former king Juan Carlos has told a court in Madrid of the "chilling" moment when she claimed the head of the country's intelligence services threatened her and her children on the monarch's orders. Corinna Larsen told the court Félix Sanz Roldán met her in London after her relationship with the king had ended to warn her that if she did not follow his instructions he could not guarantee her safety. She claimed she later returned to her home in Switzerland where she discovered a book about the death of Princess Diana and subsequently received a cryptic phone call about tunnels, which she took to be an allusion to the princess's fatal accident in 1997. Continue reading... |
| Left stranded: US military sonar linked to whale beachings in Pacific, say scientists Posted: 15 Jan 2021 12:00 PM PST Islands surrounded by US military study area, including Guam and Saipan, call for activity that harms the whales to stop In the midst of the western Pacific, flanked by the world's deepest ocean trench, the waters off the Mariana Islands are home and habitat to whales, dolphins, and countless other marine mammals as they breed and feed. It's also where they encounter the might of the US military. Continue reading... |
| Mahmoud Abbas announces first Palestinian elections in 15 years Posted: 15 Jan 2021 05:52 PM PST Legislative polls to be held in May, presidential election set for July The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, has announced parliamentary and presidential elections, the first in 15 years, in an effort to heal long-standing internal divisions. The move is widely seen as a response to criticism of the democratic legitimacy of Palestinian political institutions, including Abbas's presidency. Continue reading... |
| Dustin Higgs becomes 13th and final federal prisoner executed under Trump Posted: 15 Jan 2021 10:36 PM PST
The 13th and last execution of a federal inmate under Donald Trump's presidency has taken place in Terre Haute, Indiana. Related: US executes Corey Johnson for 1992 Virginia murders Continue reading... |
| Partner of Norwegian ex-minister jailed over faked attacks on home Posted: 15 Jan 2021 07:24 AM PST Laila Anita Bertheussen denied trying to get sympathy for family by blaming theatre group for incidents The partner of Norway's former justice minister has been found guilty of threatening democracy and sentenced to 20 months in prison in a case involving faked attacks on her family home and the torching of her car. Laila Anita Bertheussen, 56, had pleaded not guilty to all charges and rejected the prosecution's claim that she had sought to generate sympathy for the family by blaming an anti-racist theatre group for the incidents. Continue reading... |
| Simon Rattle decries Brexit as he applies for German citizenship Posted: 16 Jan 2021 01:34 AM PST Conductor laments impact on UK musicians' careers and describes application as 'absolute necessity' The conductor Simon Rattle, who announced this week that he was cutting short his tenure at Britain's leading orchestra to return to Germany, has applied for German citizenship after Brexit. The Liverpool-born musician lamented the barriers thrown up by Britain's departure from the European Union to the careers of young musicians who had grown used to performing freely to the continent's music-hungry public. Continue reading... |
| India begins world's biggest Covid vaccination programme Posted: 16 Jan 2021 12:57 AM PST Country of 1.3 billion people hopes to vaccinate 300 million citizens by August India has begun one of the world's biggest Covid-19 vaccination programmes, the first major developing country to roll out the vaccine, marking the beginning of an effort to immunise more than 1.3 billion people. The first dose was administered to a health worker at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi, after the prime minister, Narendra Modi, kickstarted the campaign with a national televised speech. Continue reading... |
| Washington and state capitols brace for violence from armed Trump supporters Posted: 15 Jan 2021 10:26 AM PST
Washington DC and capitols across the US are bracing for violence this weekend after law enforcement officials warned that armed pro-Trump insurrectionists are planning to swarm the cities in the days before President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration Related: Donald Trump will fly to Florida hours before Biden inauguration, reports say Continue reading... |
| Australian Open players locked down as two test positive for Covid-19 after flight from US Posted: 15 Jan 2021 07:38 PM PST Victoria Azarenka, Sloane Stephens and Kei Nishikori confined to hotel rooms after two people on chartered flight test positive
Two-time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka is believed to be among a group of players who will be confined to their hotel rooms for the next 14 days after two people on the charter flight QR7493 from Los Angeles tested positive to Covid-19 on arrival in Melbourne. A leaked email from Tennis Australia, which was sent to all players and officials who were aboard the flight and was posted on social media by Mexican world No 155 Santiago González, said players on the flight must isolate in their rooms for two weeks. This means they have no ability to train in the vital days leading up to the competition. Continue reading... |
| Covid vaccine: 72% of black people unlikely to have jab, UK survey finds Posted: 15 Jan 2021 11:00 PM PST Sage voices concern at BAME uptake and says more must be done to increase trust in vaccine Advisers from the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) have raised fresh concerns over Covid vaccine uptake among black, Asian and minority ethnic communities (BAME) as research showed up to 72% of black people said they were unlikely to have the jab. Historical issues of unethical healthcare research, and structural and institutional racism and discrimination, are key reasons for lower levels of trust in the vaccination programme, a report from Sage said. Continue reading... |
| One in three Los Angeles residents has been infected with Covid, scientists say Posted: 15 Jan 2021 01:35 PM PST County has seen 898% increase in cases since surge began in November, with 1,125% increase in deaths, official says Los Angeles county scientists estimate that one in three residents in the county have been infected with Covid-19 at some point since the beginning of the pandemic, a reflection of how severely the virus has overtaken the most populous region in California. The new estimate by county scientists would mean that more than 3 million of the county's 10 million residents have been infected with coronavirus. As of Thursday, Los Angeles county had more than 975,000 total reported cases, with 17,323 new cases in the past 24 hours. Through the course of the pandemic, 13,234 people have died in LA county because of Covid-19, accounting for nearly half of California's total deaths. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| ‘I’m grateful for our intense lockdown split’: what has the pandemic done to our relationships? Posted: 16 Jan 2021 02:00 AM PST This period of enforced togetherness has broken some couples and turbocharged others Lexi can clearly recall the day she walked around the house looking for traces of her husband, Rob. Returning from her work as a dog groomer that Friday evening, as usual she went to put her shoes away in the drawer under the stairs. But opening it up, she noticed all his shoes were missing. She went to the bedroom and looked at his side of the wardrobe: empty. As she walked from room to room, the shock set in. The house had been picked clean of Rob's possessions; even his tools in the garage, the ones he had just got around to organising, were gone. The couple had been together for six years, married for two, and have a four-year-old child (Lexi also has a daughter from a previous relationship). In the early days of the pandemic, their marriage had seemed strong, but in May they went through a tough patch: Lexi miscarried, and by autumn Rob had become increasingly down, telling her more than once that the year had left him "emotionally drained". Even so, Lexi felt blindsided when he announced he wanted a divorce in mid-November. Two weeks later, he had gone. There has been no communication between them since. Lexi still has many questions about why Rob left, but she believes 2020 might have broken their marriage. Continue reading... |
| Can Joe Biden make America great again? Posted: 16 Jan 2021 01:00 AM PST His skills as a fixer are finely honed – but they cannot restore a pre-Trump normality. As president, Biden's private self, shadowed by loss, must come into its own Every year after 1975, Joe Biden, his second wife Jill, his sons Beau and Hunter and their growing families, would gather for Thanksgiving on Nantucket island off Cape Cod. Part of the annual ritual was that the Bidens would take a photograph of themselves in front of a quaint old house in the traditional New England style that stood above the dunes on their favourite beach. In November 2014, when Biden was serving as Barack Obama's vice-president, he found, where the house should have been, an empty space marked out by yellow police tape. The building, he wrote in his memoir Promise Me, Dad had "finally run out of safe ground and run out of time; it had been swept out into the Atlantic". Continue reading... |
| Blind date: ‘I asked if he would sing to me. He refused’ Posted: 15 Jan 2021 10:00 PM PST Hannah, 22, marketing executive, and Morgan, 22, customer service representative What were you hoping for? |
| Tim Dowling: I missed the dry January deadline. Wine it is, then Posted: 15 Jan 2021 10:00 PM PST 'I noticed you've just decided to press on,' says my wife. 'I'll probably give up for February instead,' I say. 'It's shorter.' Like a lot of people I usually give up alcohol for the month of January: privation is easier when everybody's on the same page. This year, I didn't bother. At first this was just a question of missing a deadline: 1 January came and went, along with a bottle of red wine left over from Christmas. But a week later, I was congratulating myself on my foresight. As many people are learning, this was the wrong January to give up drinking. Continue reading... |
| 'Technophobe' Camilla clicks with Zoom and finds favour under Covid Posted: 16 Jan 2021 01:00 AM PST From reading poetry to Strictly to Woman's Hour, the Duchess of Cornwall is tapping into wider audiences online From her Reading Room book club to her Strictly Come Dancing cameo, the profile of the Duchess of Cornwall has never been higher. During the coronavirus pandemic, Camilla, 73, has guest-edited BBC 5 live's Emma Barnett Show, filmed a SafeLives video on domestic violence, shared chocolate cake recipes on the Big Virtual Lunch, and coerced her rescue jack russell, Beth, into unveiling a Battersea Dogs & Cats Home plaque by pulling a sausage tied to the cord. Continue reading... |
| Germany: Angela Merkel's party chooses Armin Laschet as leader Posted: 16 Jan 2021 02:42 AM PST New leader of centre-right party will run for chancellor in September, or have a big say in who does The party of the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has chosen Armin Laschet as its new leader. Laschet defeated Friedrich Merz, a conservative and one-time Merkel rival, at an online convention on Saturday of the Christian Democratic Union. Continue reading... |
| Ice flies African asylum seekers to Nairobi in last-minute deportation push Posted: 16 Jan 2021 02:00 AM PST Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stepped up removals of Africans and could send a final flight on Tuesday The Trump administration is continuing to deport African asylum seekers in its last few days before the inauguration of Joe Biden, who has promised a 100-day suspension of deportations, amid allegations of abuse of detainees, insufficient legal protections and inadequate precautions against Covid infection. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) confirmed a "removal flight" left Louisiana on Thursday bound for Nairobi. The charter plane believed to be carrying Somali, Ethiopian and Kenyan deportees made a refuelling stop in Sofia. Immigrant support activists believe the deportees were transferred to commercial planes in Nairobi for transfer to other countries. Continue reading... |
| What next for Trump's trusty New Zealander? Posted: 15 Jan 2021 12:00 PM PST Chris Liddell says he is staying for Trump's last days to help manage a 'volatile' time, but after Biden takes office he seems destined for a return home He is Trump's trusty New Zealander, his right-hand man, one of only a handful of advisers to have seen him through all four years of his presidency – not to mention, an "amazing friend" of the family. But being among the last Trump staffers standing after the siege of the Capitol seems sure to limit Chris Liddell's options as he oversees the presidential transition – and finds himself out of a job. Continue reading... |
| Family fear for dying Australian man stranded in Ireland as Emirates cancels flights Posted: 16 Jan 2021 12:05 AM PST John Jobber, who is suffering from end-stage renal failure, prostate cancer and dementia, had a ticket for a March flight home
It was John Jobber's dying wish to visit the UK, spend time with family and say his goodbyes before returning to Australia and entering palliative care. The trip was meant to last four weeks, but a year later he is stranded in Ireland, disoriented and getting progressively sicker, and his daughter, Samantha John, fears Emirates cancelling all flights to Australia's east coast, including his, will be a life sentence. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 16 Jan 2021 12:00 AM PST Vouchers and money to buy food bring families the dignity everyone deserves, as the World Food Programme has shown Dignity is not a word that you would normally associate with your weekly supermarket shop, or with planning how you might be going to feed your children each night. But right now, when families are under intense pressure to find enough money to keep food on the table and ensure their children have access to a healthy and nutritious diet, dignity is something we should all be demanding for those who depend on others for the means to feed their loved ones. Continue reading... |
| Questions will be asked over timing of closing UK travel corridors Posted: 15 Jan 2021 11:51 AM PST Analysis: poor implementation ends another week of shifting Covid policy by the government The announced closure of all international travel corridors to the UK marks the end of another week of changing policy, with the timing and implementation dismaying many. Travel corridors will be axed in effect from Monday morning. The corridors, which exempted inbound travellers from the requirement to quarantine for 10 days, may make little practical difference to the airline and travel industry in the current context. Continue reading... |
| Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine says he and wife fear for lives – video Posted: 15 Jan 2021 03:42 PM PST Bobi Wine, the Ugandan opposition leader, said soldiers were attacking his home. 'Our lives are in danger,' Wine said. 'Our only security is letting the world know what is happening.' Lt Col Deo Akiiki, Uganda's deputy military spokesperson, said the soldiers were at Wine's house to protect him Continue reading... |
| Nancy Pelosi: lawmakers could face prosecution for aiding Capitol attack – video Posted: 15 Jan 2021 02:48 PM PST The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, has said it is possible that members of Congress could face prosecution if found to have 'aided and abetted' the violent attack on the Capitol earlier this month that left five people dead Continue reading... |
| All UK travel corridors to be closed, says Boris Johnson – video Posted: 15 Jan 2021 12:55 PM PST The prime minister announced a dramatic tightening of the UK's borders, with all international arrivals to be forced to quarantine as well as demonstrate they have had a negative Covid test. The new restrictions will come into force at 4am on 18 January. The closure of travel corridors was to protect the UK from the risk of 'vaccine-busting' Covid variants coming into the country, Johnson added.
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| Brazil's president casts doubts on Covid vaccine as second wave hits – video Posted: 15 Jan 2021 07:34 AM PST Jair Bolsonaro, who has said he will personally refuse any Covid-19 vaccine, has cast doubt on the effectiveness and safety of a vaccination that will be rolled out in Brazil as the country's death toll passed 200,000 this week. Manaus, the capital of Brazil's largest state, Amazonas, has been put under a daily 11-hour curfew as it faces a health system breakdown with oxygen shortages and thousands of deaths Continue reading... |
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