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- Historians having to tape together records that Trump tore up
- Poison squad stalked Alexei Navalny on 40 flights, says Bellingcat investigator
- Mahatma Gandhi's killer venerated as Hindu nationalism resurges in India
- Two female judges shot dead in Kabul as wave of killings continues
- Revealed: Tory MPs and commentators who joined banned app Parler
- Shock Brexit charges are hurting us, say small British businesses
- 'Grave military implications': Iran making uranium metal alarms Europe
- 'This is not justice': supreme court liberals slam Trump's federal executions
- 'Hell to pay': Church of Satan mourns arson at New York 'Halloween House'
- Wheelchair climber hauls himself 250 metres up Hong Kong skyscraper for charity
- Major NRA donor to challenge gun group's bankruptcy over alleged fraud
- Coronavirus live: UK 'considering all measures' including quarantine hotels; Sydney struggles to quash cluster
- First fruits of vaccine rollout 'should be seen in weeks'
- The free-market gamble: has Covid broken UK universities?
- Australian Open records fourth Covid case as tennis player warned for breaking quarantine rules
- America is broken – can Biden and Harris put it back together?
- Marcus Rashford: the making of a food superhero
- Joan Bakewell: ‘The world is full of such interesting people’
- Phoebe Dynevor: 'Bridgerton's come at a moment when people need it'
- We're on the verge of breakdown: a data scientist's take on Trump and Biden
- Asa Butterfield: 'Sex Education reassures people they’re not weird or alone'
- No true ‘city of culture’ should dishonour the bold ideals of its postwar rebirth
- Unscrupulous and aggressive, Pompeo plans to be the next Trump – but smarter
- Many Ugandans are desperate for change but now it seems nothing will shift Museveni | Patience Akumu
- Trump heads for new life in Florida, marking end of an era in New York
- Tropical cyclone forms in far-north Queensland as more storms forecast for state's south-east
- 'I feel wronged': US Capitol rioter asks Donald Trump for pardon after arrest – video
- 'I yelled out that I have kids': police officer describes attack by Capitol rioters – video
| Historians having to tape together records that Trump tore up Posted: 16 Jan 2021 07:24 PM PST Implications for public record and legal proceedings after administration seized or destroyed papers, notes and other information The public will not see Donald Trump's White House records for years, but there is growing concern the collection will never be complete – leaving a hole in the history of one of America's most tumultuous presidencies. Trump has been cavalier about the law requiring that records be preserved. He has a habit of ripping up documents before tossing them out, forcing White House workers to spend hours taping them back together. Continue reading... |
| Poison squad stalked Alexei Navalny on 40 flights, says Bellingcat investigator Posted: 16 Jan 2021 11:15 PM PST As Russian opposition leader returns to Moscow, flight records show how Kremlin agents have been following him for years Less than five months after an apparent novichok poisoning put him in a coma, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was planning to fly into Moscow on Sunday, defying threats by Russian officials that he would be arrested and jailed immediately on arrival. "Russia is my country, Moscow is my city. I miss it," wrote Navalny in an Instagram post. Continue reading... |
| Mahatma Gandhi's killer venerated as Hindu nationalism resurges in India Posted: 16 Jan 2021 09:00 PM PST Nathuram Godse rehabilitated from traitor to patriot for many, as Gandi's vision of secular India eroded by ruling BJP Last Sunday, in a nondescript building in the India city of Gwalior, 200 miles south of Delhi, a large crowd of men gathered. Most wore bright saffron hats and scarves, a colour evoking Hindu nationalism, and many held strands of flowers as devotional offerings. They were there to attend the inauguration of the Godse Gyan Shala, a memorial library and "knowledge centre" dedicated to Nathuram Godse, the man who shot Mahatma Gandhi. The devotional yellow and pink flowers were laid around a black and white photograph of Godse, the centrepiece of the room. Continue reading... |
| Two female judges shot dead in Kabul as wave of killings continues Posted: 17 Jan 2021 02:01 AM PST Assassination of supreme court judges follows months of increased violence in Afghanistan Gunmen shot dead two Afghan women judges working for the country's supreme court in an early-morning ambush in Kabul on Sunday, officials said, as a wave of assassinations continued to rattle the nation. Violence has surged across Afghanistan in recent months despite continuing peace talks between the Taliban and government, especially in Kabul, where a new trend of targeted killings of high-profile figures has sown fear in the city. Continue reading... |
| Revealed: Tory MPs and commentators who joined banned app Parler Posted: 16 Jan 2021 11:30 PM PST Nadine Dorries, James Cleverly and Michael Gove joined the platform favoured by Trump supporters At least 14 Conservative MPs, including several ministers, cabinet minister Michael Gove and a number of prominent Tory commentators joined Parler, the social media platform favoured by the far right that was forced offline last week for hosting threats of violence and racist slurs. Parler was taken offline after Amazon Web Services pulled the plug last Sunday, saying violent posts and racist threats connected to the recent attack on the US Capitol violated its terms. Continue reading... |
| Shock Brexit charges are hurting us, say small British businesses Posted: 16 Jan 2021 10:45 PM PST Levies to cover the increase in red tape, VAT and customs declarations are hitting trade to the European Union Government ministers describe the post-Brexit headaches that British exporters have suffered since 1 January as mere "teething problems". But Alex Paul, who jointly runs a successful family business that features in the Department for International Trade's list of national "export champions", disagrees. And he wants the real story to be told. Two weeks into the supposed golden era of global Britain, Paul and many other British entrepreneurs, large and small, are running into very serious problems. Continue reading... |
| 'Grave military implications': Iran making uranium metal alarms Europe Posted: 16 Jan 2021 06:43 PM PST Britain, France and Germany say Tehran has 'no credible civilian use' for fuel that it previously pledged not to produce European powers have voiced deep concern over Iran's plans to produce uranium metal, warning that Tehran has "no credible civilian use" for the element. "The production of uranium metal has potentially grave military implications," the foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany said in a joint statement on Saturday. Continue reading... |
| 'This is not justice': supreme court liberals slam Trump's federal executions Posted: 16 Jan 2021 02:47 PM PST
The supreme court justices Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer have excoriated the Trump administration for carrying out its 13th and final federal execution days before the president leaves office. Related: Dustin Higgs becomes 13th and final federal prisoner executed under Trump Continue reading... |
| 'Hell to pay': Church of Satan mourns arson at New York 'Halloween House' Posted: 16 Jan 2021 01:12 PM PST
Members of the Church of Satan are grieving the destruction of a historic "Halloween House" north of New York City that authorities say was set ablaze by an unidentified arsonist. Related: Hell freezes over: how the Church of Satan got cool Continue reading... |
| Wheelchair climber hauls himself 250 metres up Hong Kong skyscraper for charity Posted: 16 Jan 2021 10:50 PM PST Lai Chi-wai spent 10 hours pulling himself up the tower to raise money for spinal cord patients Lai Chi-wai has become the first in Hong Kong to climb more than 250 metres of a skyscraper while strapped into a wheelchair, as he pulled himself up for more than 10 hours on Saturday to raise money for spinal cord patients. The 37-year-old climber, who was paralysed from the waist down in a car accident 10 years ago, could not make it to the top of the 300 metre-tall Nina Tower on the Kowloon peninsula. Continue reading... |
| Major NRA donor to challenge gun group's bankruptcy over alleged fraud Posted: 16 Jan 2021 12:54 PM PST Complaint could stop top NRA executives from discharging a substantial portion of the organisation's debts A major donor to the National Rifle Association is poised to challenge key aspects of the gun group's bankruptcy filing, in an attempt to hold executives accountable for allegedly having defrauded their members of millions of dollars to support their own lavish lifestyles. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 17 Jan 2021 02:10 AM PST Dominic Raab says UK needs to respond to variants from Brazil and South Africa; New South Wales records six new cases
While people over 75 living at home will be able to get vaccinated from Monday in France, there are concerns in the field that there are not enough doctors, Le Monde reports today. Jacques Battistoni, president of MG France, a trade union for general practitioners, said: "We expect tensions and a difficult start to the week."
Despite a "stabilising" of infections in some parts of England, there is still an increase in infections among people over the age of 60 elsewhere, the chief executive of Britain's National Health Service has said. Simon Stevens also said in an interview on BBC 1 that despite "promising signs" of a steadying of infection rates they were still far too high and were on the up in some places. Continue reading... |
| First fruits of vaccine rollout 'should be seen in weeks' Posted: 16 Jan 2021 11:45 PM PST Experts agree that the impact of the jab will vary regionally and among different groups Analysts are involved in an urgent effort to gauge the impact of Britain's mass Covid-19 vaccine campaign and to pinpoint dates when lockdown measures can be eased. More than 3 million people – most of them elderly or vulnerable individuals or health workers – have already been given jabs. Now researchers are trying to establish when the first fruits of the mass vaccination programme may be seen as the government heads towards its target of immunising more than 13 million people by 15 February. Continue reading... |
| The free-market gamble: has Covid broken UK universities? Posted: 16 Jan 2021 11:00 PM PST The pandemic has exposed the impact of 20 years of turning higher education into a marketplace and students into increasingly dissatisfied customers In 2018-19 Manchester City FC had revenues of £535.2m. Manchester United had £627m. The University of Manchester made more than £1bn – not far short, in other words, of the combined income of the city's two global sporting brands. This is in many ways a cause for celebration, a sign of the economic power of higher education, of British success in attracting foreign students and the high fees that they pay, of the contribution that universities can make to the prosperity of their host cities. But, for a billion-pound business, you might have expected better than their handling of the pandemic. Last summer, as students tried to decide whether to stay at home or go to the campus for the first term of the academic year, they were told they would receive "blended learning", a combination of online and in-person teaching. They were offered the "hope" as one student says, "that everything would be as normal as possible". They didn't need much encouragement, especially all those first-years for whom arrival at university was the pinnacle and goal of their education to date, and they went. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Australian Open records fourth Covid case as tennis player warned for breaking quarantine rules Posted: 16 Jan 2021 09:13 PM PST Authorities say player 'opened his door' to have conversation with friends as players in strict isolation say they risk injury if not allowed to train An Australian Open tennis player has been warned for breaching strict isolation rules by "opening his door" to talk to his friends, as players complain about "insane" quarantine requirements ahead of the tournament. Four people have now tested positive for Covid-19 on charter planes bringing players in for the competition, which has forced 47 players into strict isolation where they cannot train for 14 days. Continue reading... |
| America is broken – can Biden and Harris put it back together? Posted: 17 Jan 2021 12:00 AM PST The US is riven with stark inequalities, rising white supremacist terror and large numbers who believe the election was stolen. The new administration faces a truly daunting challenge In another age, Joe Biden's promise to heal the nation might have been regarded as the kind of blandishment expected from any new leader taking power after the divisive cut and thrust of an American election. Related: Biden must find words for a wounded nation in inauguration like no other Continue reading... |
| Marcus Rashford: the making of a food superhero Posted: 17 Jan 2021 12:00 AM PST Coaches, charity workers – and the footballer himself – reveal what drives the man who twice tackled Boris Johnson on child hunger and won Show me the child at seven and I will show you the man, the old wisdom says. But in football terms, you never know, not really, which kids are going to make it as players at that age and which are not. Still, looking back at his memories of Marcus Rashford, Dave Horrocks, his first football coach, does remember one thing about him very clearly. Rashford had first come along to Horrocks's community club, Fletcher Moss Rangers, as a scrawny five-year-old. From the beginning, Horrocks recalls, he was the kid who left absolutely every atom of energy out on the pitch. Whenever the coach gave him a lift home from training, Rashford would get in the back of the car and – unlike other livewire boys – immediately fall into a deep sleep. When the car pulled up outside his house, Rashford would then jump out, refreshed, pick up a ball, and start practising some more on the patch of grass outside. Continue reading... |
| Joan Bakewell: ‘The world is full of such interesting people’ Posted: 17 Jan 2021 12:00 AM PST Joan Bakewell had been a broadcasting pioneer for more than half a century. And she's still as forthright as ever. Here, she talks to Sophie Heawood about the empowerment of women, her newly streamlined life and why Boris has got it all wrong about the virus Joan Bakewell writes in her memoir, The Centre of the Bed, about the moment she became an adult. It was 1949 and she was 17, a hard- working grammar schoolgirl from the industrial north, when her frustrated, depressive mother found a photograph of Joan kissing a boy and set fire to it in front of her eyes. Joan felt deep shame, but the shame began to transmogrify. "Suddenly I was savagely and tremblingly angry," she writes. "I was being forged in some bitter fire of my mother's will, and I must survive the moment and emerge as myself. That was the end of innocence, not the loss of virginity or any fumbling that fell short of it. It was when I crossed into adulthood, knew my own mind and was sure of who I was." Soon afterwards she left for university, where she joyfully discovered the world of ideas, as well as the one of sex, even though, as a student of the Cambridge women's college Newnham, such things were banned. Continue reading... |
| Phoebe Dynevor: 'Bridgerton's come at a moment when people need it' Posted: 17 Jan 2021 01:00 AM PST The actor on hitting her stride as the spirited star of the Regency romp. Still, she says, she can't let her grandparents see her steamiest scenes… It was the gift you never knew you needed, and might even have spurned if you had been offered it in advance: an eight-part Regency romance, set in a candy-coloured England where the wisteria forever blooms around the colonnades of pretty much every stately home you've ever seen on film. But it's estimated that 63 million viewers around the world will have tuned into Bridgerton in its first four weeks on Netflix – and it is a success owing, in no little part, to the on-off love affair between a brooding duke and the pearl of the season's debutantes. In its on phases, this is so steamy and intimate that you'd do well to have one of the series's many feathered fans to hand. Continue reading... |
| We're on the verge of breakdown: a data scientist's take on Trump and Biden Posted: 16 Jan 2021 10:30 PM PST Peter Turchin, an entomologist-turned-historian, offers insight into the battle between elites Peter Turchin is not the first entomologist to cross over to human behaviour: during a lecture in 1975, famed biologist E O Wilson had a pitcher of water tipped on him for extrapolating the study of ant social structures to our own. It's a reaction that Turchin, an expert-on-pine-beetles-turned-data-scientist and modeller, has yet to experience. But his studies at the University of Connecticut into how human societies evolve have lately gained wider currency; in particular, an analysis that interprets worsening social unrest in the 2020s as an intra-elite battle for wealth and status. Continue reading... |
| Asa Butterfield: 'Sex Education reassures people they’re not weird or alone' Posted: 17 Jan 2021 01:30 AM PST The actor on filming the third series of the hit Netflix comedy, being taught cinema history by Scorsese – and the perils of toilet-training his cat Asa Butterfield, 23, was born in London and started his acting career aged seven. He landed the lead roles in Holocaust drama The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas at 10 and Martin Scorsese's Hugo at 13. Other film credits include Journey's End, X+Y, Greed, Son of Rambow and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. He stars as teenager Otis Milburn in the hit Netflix comedy Sex Education and is currently filming its third season. How is shooting going on Sex Education? |
| No true ‘city of culture’ should dishonour the bold ideals of its postwar rebirth Posted: 17 Jan 2021 12:45 AM PST Plans for the centre of Coventry claim to offer a sense of place, but ignore its pioneering mid-century reconstruction Coventry is UK City of Culture 2021, a title that focuses attention on its contribution to the cultural life of the nation: 1980s two-tone music, the legend of Lady Godiva, and its role in the development of the bicycle and car industries. And, high on this list, the fact that it was the pre-eminent example of reconstruction after wartime bombing. Among the most devastated cities, Coventry was also one of the most determined and thoughtful in its reconstruction. This was partly expressed by its new cathedral, which brought together leading art and architecture, and connected movingly with the ruins of its predecessor. It was also expressed by the city centre, rebuilt as a series of human-scaled, pedestrian-friendly precincts. Here, too, the idea was for art and architecture to work together. Continue reading... |
| Unscrupulous and aggressive, Pompeo plans to be the next Trump – but smarter Posted: 17 Jan 2021 01:15 AM PST The secretary of state has laid political booby traps for Biden in a diplomatic onslaught – with the aim of winning the White House While all eyes are on Donald Trump and his Capitol Hill mob, a would-be heir and successor is running riot all by himself, storming citadels, wagging the flag and breaking china. No, it's not Donald Jr, or Ivanka, or Ted Cruz, and certainly not poor, conflicted Mike Pence. Mike Pompeo may not strike many people as presidential material. But Trump lowered the bar. Make no mistake. America's snarly, bully-boy secretary of state is focusing not on Joe Biden's inauguration this week but on how to beat him or any other Democrat in 2024. Continue reading... |
| Many Ugandans are desperate for change but now it seems nothing will shift Museveni | Patience Akumu Posted: 17 Jan 2021 12:30 AM PST The president 'shut down' the internet as he won the election. You don't stay in power for 40 years by taking risks Days before Uganda's presidential election – voting took place last Thursday – the incumbent, 76-year-old Yoweri Museveni, ordered that social media be switched off. People found their way around that by using virtual private networks, bouncing back online with memes mocking the idea that anyone would think it possible to bar people from being on social media in this day and age. Then, the evening before elections, the internet in Uganda was totally shut down. The election that saw Museveni win with nearly 60% was shrouded in darkness. It is strange to move from social media's infinite flow of information to nothingness. Instead, just silence apart from the news the government wants you to hear. Media houses that dare not to toe the government's straight line risk being stopped from covering elections or even shut down. Continue reading... |
| Trump heads for new life in Florida, marking end of an era in New York Posted: 17 Jan 2021 02:00 AM PST The born-and-raised New Yorker seems ready to leave the city in which he made his name – and few will mourn his departure When Donald Trump leaves the White House on 20 January, reports indicate that he will not return to his home town of New York City but rather, reside at his Mar-a-Lago home in south Florida. Indeed, Trump formally changed his residency to the so-called Sunshine State in fall 2019. Related: Washington and state capitols brace for violence from armed Trump supporters Continue reading... |
| Tropical cyclone forms in far-north Queensland as more storms forecast for state's south-east Posted: 16 Jan 2021 11:33 PM PST Cyclone Kimi could rise to a category two system as residents in far north told to bunker down A tropical cyclone has formed off the coast of far-north Queensland, with residents told to prepare to bunker down for gale-force winds and heavy rain. The Bureau of Meteorology on Sunday declared the formation of tropical cyclone Kimi – a category one system – about 140km north-east of Cooktown. Continue reading... |
| 'I feel wronged': US Capitol rioter asks Donald Trump for pardon after arrest – video Posted: 16 Jan 2021 01:55 PM PST Jenna Ryan, a Texas real estate broker who took a private jet to Washington to join the attack on the US Capitol, pleaded with Donald Trump to pardon her after she was arrested by federal authorities. Ryan said she thought she was following what her president 'asked us to do' and that she had been 'displaying my patriotism' in travelling to Washington DC, where she filmed herself entering the Capitol building. 'I'm facing a prison sentence,' she told CBS 11 News at her home in Dallas. 'I do not deserve that'
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| 'I yelled out that I have kids': police officer describes attack by Capitol rioters – video Posted: 16 Jan 2021 03:51 AM PST A Washington DC police officer who tried to stop rioting Trump supporters from entering the Capitol building on 6 January has revealed that some shouted 'kill him with his own gun' as he lay injured on the ground. Michael Fanone told CNN he considered using his weapon as he was overwhelmed by the mob, but decided against it out of fear for his own life. 'I tried to appeal to their humanity,' Fanone said. 'I just remember yelling out that I have kids, and it seemed to work.' Continue reading... |
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