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- Coronavirus live news: China builds quarantine centre for 4,000 people; California passes 3m cases
- Uganda accuses US of subversion after envoy tries to visit Wine's house
- Lights go out on Trump's reality TV presidency but dark legacy remains
- EU border force head faces calls to quit over allegations he 'misled' MEPs
- Electric car batteries with five-minute charging times produced
- Amal Clooney decries 'legal charade' after journalist Maria Ressa charged again with libel
- Fighting climate crisis made harder by Covid-19 inequality, says WEF
- French ex-PM Édouard Balladur goes on trial over alleged kickbacks
- Almost 30% of Covid patients in England readmitted to hospital after discharge – study
- Greek president praises Sofia Bekatorou for reporting alleged sexual assault
- Michelin awards star to vegan restaurant for the first time in France
- Global Covid report: Biden camp rejects Trump changes to travel restrictions
- One in eight people had Covid antibodies in England in December
- Space out and cover up: how to make travelling by car more Covid-safe
- Covid-19: how do you tweak a vaccine?
- 'We weren't intimidated': A diary of Cori Bush's first two weeks in the House
- Galaxy Buds Pro review: Samsung's AirPods Pro-beating earbuds
- Russia: the spectre that loomed over Trump's presidency
- The WA cops rounding up Indigenous kids: a 'toxic and racist environment'
- The day my voice broke: what an injury taught me about the power of speech
- 'The system is rigged': Seun Kuti on reviving Fela's political party
- Met chief 'baffled' by lack of Covid vaccines for police
- Closure of an iconic Paris bookshop alarms French bibliophiles
- Saudi Arabia's blockade of Qatar is over – but my father is still in jail for opposing it | Abdullah Alaoudh and Abderrahmane Amor
- Simple change to fishing gear saves thousands of birds in Namibia
- Pink seesaws across US-Mexico border named Design of the Year 2020
- Hospitals in Japan close to collapse as serious Covid cases soar
- Melbourne gangland lawyer Joe Acquaro gave police information on former client
- Landlocked Lesotho faces food crisis amid Covid border closures
- Dominican Republic activists fear total abortion ban banishes women to the dark ages
- Coroner's Covid findings stoke calls for inquiry into pandemic policy
- How Biden era could kickstart coordinated approach to Russia
- Melania Trump says 'past four years have been unforgettable' in recorded farewell speech – video
- Java's ring of fire rumbles on: Indonesian volcanoes erupt – in pictures
- US Capitol on security lockdown ahead of Biden inauguration – video
- I feel like a martyr: Capitol rioter says she was following orders of Trump – video
- Vaccine inequity puts world on brink of 'catastrophic moral failure', says WHO chief – video
- Navalny calls his arrest 'lawlessness of the highest order' – video
- Miners in China trapped by explosion send note to rescuers – video
| Coronavirus live news: China builds quarantine centre for 4,000 people; California passes 3m cases Posted: 19 Jan 2021 03:03 AM PST China builds Covid-19 quarantine centre for Shijiazhuang; California cases have left hospitals overwhelmed
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Daily case counts of Covid have nearly tripled in Dubai in the past month but in the face of a growing economic crisis, the city won't lock down, Reuters is reporting. "Dubai's economy is a house of cards," said Matthew Page, a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "Its competitive advantage is being a place where rules don't apply." Continue reading... |
| Uganda accuses US of subversion after envoy tries to visit Wine's house Posted: 19 Jan 2021 12:34 AM PST US ambassador blocked from seeing opposition leader, who is under house arrest since voting in disputed poll Uganda has accused the US of trying to subvert last week's presidential elections after the US ambassador attempted to visit an opposition leader being held under house arrest. The military surrounded the home of pop star-turned-legislator Bobi Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, shortly after he cast his ballot in Thursday's presidential elections. Continue reading... |
| Lights go out on Trump's reality TV presidency but dark legacy remains Posted: 18 Jan 2021 11:00 PM PST For four years the outrages piled up so high they were hard to keep track of but the coronavirus pandemic proved to be one crisis he couldn't bluster away In a cold, sombre, damp Washington four years ago this Wednesday, Donald Trump took the oath of office as the 45th president of the United States and delivered an inaugural address now remembered for two words: American carnage. Continue reading... |
| EU border force head faces calls to quit over allegations he 'misled' MEPs Posted: 19 Jan 2021 01:13 AM PST Frontex director Fabrice Leggeri accused over failure to appoint officers to protect people's rights, with home affairs commissioner calling for 'clarity' The head of the EU's border force is under growing pressure to stand down after being accused by the European commission of acting unlawfully and giving misleading evidence to MEPs. The allegations against Fabrice Leggeri, the executive director of Frontex, relate to the agency's failure to recruit any of the 40 officers it is obliged to employ to protect the rights of people crossing into Europe. Continue reading... |
| Electric car batteries with five-minute charging times produced Posted: 18 Jan 2021 10:30 PM PST Exclusive: first factory production means recharging could soon be as fast as filling up petrol or diesel vehicles Batteries capable of fully charging in five minutes have been produced in a factory for the first time, marking a significant step towards electric cars becoming as fast to charge as filling up petrol or diesel vehicles. Electric vehicles are a vital part of action to tackle the climate crisis but running out of charge during a journey is a worry for drivers. The new lithium-ion batteries were developed by the Israeli company StoreDot and manufactured by Eve Energy in China on standard production lines. Continue reading... |
| Amal Clooney decries 'legal charade' after journalist Maria Ressa charged again with libel Posted: 18 Jan 2021 11:07 PM PST High-profile barrister says 10th arrest warrant for Duterte critic showed the Philippines was trying to silence Ressa Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney has accused the Philippine government of an "increasingly transparent campaign" to silence Maria Ressa after the journalist was charged with cyber libel for the third time. Ressa, one of the Philippines' most prominent journalists, already faces a series of legal charges that could lead to about 100 years in prison. Continue reading... |
| Fighting climate crisis made harder by Covid-19 inequality, says WEF Posted: 19 Jan 2021 01:43 AM PST Environmental issues are biggest danger in coming years, says international organisation Tackling the existential risk posed by the climate crisis will be made harder by the growing gap between rich and poor triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Economic Forum has said. The body that organises the annual gathering of the global elite in the Swiss town of Davos said warning signs of the threat posed by infectious disease had been ignored for the past 15 years, with disastrous results. Continue reading... |
| French ex-PM Édouard Balladur goes on trial over alleged kickbacks Posted: 18 Jan 2021 09:00 PM PST Politician, 91, accused of financing failed 1995 presidential campaign with illegal kickbacks in 'Karachi affair' Former French prime minister Édouard Balladur will go on trial on Tuesday accused of financing his failed 1995 presidential campaign with illegal kickbacks from international arms deals. The 91-year-old rightwing politician is the latest high-ranking French politician to find himself in the dock over the so-called Karachi affair that has poisoned the country's political life for more than 25 years. Continue reading... |
| Almost 30% of Covid patients in England readmitted to hospital after discharge – study Posted: 18 Jan 2021 09:05 AM PST Readmission rate for Covid patients 3.5 times greater, and death rate seven times higher, than for other hospital patients Nearly a third of people who were discharged from hospitals in England after being treated for Covid-19 were readmitted within five months – and almost one in eight died, a study suggests. The research, which is still to be peer-reviewed, also found a higher risk of problems developing in a range of organs after hospital discharge in those younger than 70 and ethnic minority individuals. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Greek president praises Sofia Bekatorou for reporting alleged sexual assault Posted: 18 Jan 2021 01:22 PM PST
Greece's president, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, has praised the Olympic sailing champion Sofia Bekatorou for dissolving a potential "conspiracy of silence" by reporting a historic allegation of sexual assault by a sports official. Bekatorou, who won a gold medal at the Athens Games in 2004, told the Greek edition of Marie Claire last month that she suffered the assault in 1998, when she was 21. Sakellaropoulou met Bekatorou on Monday and said her courage offered hope to other women in her situation. Continue reading... |
| Michelin awards star to vegan restaurant for the first time in France Posted: 18 Jan 2021 04:43 PM PST Restaurant ONA in the city of Ares rewarded after initially struggling to get funding to open its doors A vegan restaurant in south-west France has won a Michelin star, the first for an establishment serving only animal-free products in France. Claire Vallee runs the restaurant ONA – which stands for Origine Non Animale – in the city of Ares, near Bordeaux, which she launched in 2016 thanks to crowdfunding from supporters and a loan from a green bank. Continue reading... |
| Global Covid report: Biden camp rejects Trump changes to travel restrictions Posted: 18 Jan 2021 06:47 PM PST Incoming US administration criticises move to remove entry bans as independent panel criticises WHO for not declaring emergency until 30 January The Trump and Biden camps have clashed over future Covid travel restrictions with less than two days to go before the handover of power in Washington. It comes as an independent panel said Chinese officials could have applied public health measures more forcefully a year ago, and criticised the World Health Organization (WHO) for delays in declaring an international emergency. In the US, a political row is brewing after Donald Trump announced he would rescind Covid entry bans on most non-US citizens arriving from Brazil and much of Europe, including the UK, effective 26 January, two officials briefed on the matter told Reuters. Continue reading... |
| One in eight people had Covid antibodies in England in December Posted: 19 Jan 2021 02:57 AM PST ONS data shows 12.1% of population would have tested positive, meaning most still at risk About one in eight people in the community in England would have been expected to test positive for coronavirus antibodies in December, data suggests, revealing the majority of the population are still at risk from Covid-19. According to antibody data collected by the Office for National Statistics as part of its coronavirus infection survey, an estimated 12.1% of people in England aged 16 or over – about 5.4 million people – would have tested positive for antibodies in December. Continue reading... |
| Space out and cover up: how to make travelling by car more Covid-safe Posted: 18 Jan 2021 10:00 PM PST If sharing a car is unavoidable, there are a few ways to reduce the risk of transmission While the UK is under lockdown, travel for work and other exemptions is still allowed. We take a look at how to stay safer when cooped up together, whether in a taxi or a private car: Continue reading... |
| Covid-19: how do you tweak a vaccine? Posted: 18 Jan 2021 09:00 PM PST The emergence of more infectious variants of Sars-CoV-2 has raised questions about just how long our vaccines will remain effective for. Although there is little evidence that the current vaccines won't work against the new variants, as the virus continues to mutate scientists are preparing themselves for having to make changes to the vaccines in response. Speaking to Dr Katrina Pollock, science correspondent Linda Geddes asks how we can tweak the vaccines against new variants, and how likely it is we'll end up in a game of cat and mouse with the virus Continue reading... |
| 'We weren't intimidated': A diary of Cori Bush's first two weeks in the House Posted: 19 Jan 2021 03:00 AM PST The freshman congresswoman talks about what it was like to be in the Capitol during the attack, getting booed for denouncing white supremacy, and the Republicans who mistook her for Breonna Taylor The first two weeks of Cori Bush's freshman week in Congress couldn't have been more turbulent. Three days after the Missouri representative was sworn in, the Capitol was stormed by white supremacists looking to overturn the election. She gave her first criticisms of the Biden administration, saw her Twitter following grow by 185,000 and, last but not least, voted to impeach the president. And she did all of it without a paycheck, as one of the very few representatives that was neither a millionaire nor a career politician before joining the House of Representatives. The Guardian caught up with her to discuss her first fortnight in the House. Continue reading... |
| Galaxy Buds Pro review: Samsung's AirPods Pro-beating earbuds Posted: 18 Jan 2021 11:00 PM PST Great sound, solid noise-cancelling, decent battery, comfortable fit and small case are potent combination Samsung's latest Galaxy Buds Pro earbuds add noise-cancelling, virtual surround and improved sound, making them a challenger to Apple's AirPods Pro. At £219, they are the new top-of-the-range earbuds from Samsung, sitting above the £179 Galaxy Buds Live and £159 Galaxy Buds+. Continue reading... |
| Russia: the spectre that loomed over Trump's presidency Posted: 19 Jan 2021 01:00 AM PST Much of the Trump-Russia story is still unknown, but the relationship left the US estranged from its allies and facing deepening domestic strife When historians look back at Donald Trump's presidency they are likely to pick out two defining themes. One is the coronavirus pandemic. It dominated his last year in office, and saw the president become the virus's most celebrated victim cum White House super-spreader. The other is Russia, a subject that consumed American public life for four long years. The question first came up when Trump was a long-shot candidate for president. In a Republican party that had once regarded Vladimir Putin as a cold-eyed KGB killer, why was Trump's behaviour towards Russia's leader so ingratiating? Continue reading... |
| The WA cops rounding up Indigenous kids: a 'toxic and racist environment' Posted: 18 Jan 2021 08:30 AM PST The police stories: Two former Western Australian and NSW officers speak out about what they saw during their time in uniform
One of the worst moments of Jim Taylor's eight-year career as a Western Australian police officer was the day he strip-searched a 10-year-old Aboriginal boy. Taylor, now 44, was working in Perth in the Juvenile Aid Group, or "Jag". He says he was driving around the city's central business district with his senior sergeant and two other officers when they came across a group of four young Aboriginal kids. They rounded them up and took them back to the station. Continue reading... |
| The day my voice broke: what an injury taught me about the power of speech Posted: 18 Jan 2021 10:00 PM PST When I damaged my vocal cords, I was forced to change the way I spoke – and discovered how much our voices reveal who we are Some years ago, I was invited by my then boss, Jann Wenner, the owner of Rolling Stone, to be the lead singer in a band he was putting together from the magazine's staff. I had just turned 41, and I jumped at the opportunity to sustain the delusion that I was not getting old. "Sign me up!" I said. My chief attributes as a singer included impressive volume and an ability to stay more or less in tune, but I was strictly a self-taught amateur. I had, for instance, never done a proper voice warmup, and had certainly never been informed that the delicate layers of vibratory tissue, muscle and mucus membrane that make up the vocal cords are as prone to injury as a middle-aged knee joint. So, on practice days, I simply rose from my desk (I was finishing a book on deadline and spent eight hours a day writing, in complete silence), rode the subway to our rehearsal space in downtown Manhattan, took my place behind the microphone and started wailing over my bandmates' cranked-up guitars and drums. Continue reading... |
| 'The system is rigged': Seun Kuti on reviving Fela's political party Posted: 18 Jan 2021 09:00 PM PST The musician and youngest son of the Afrobeat legend has been galvanised to act after police brutality in Nigeria "For 60 years nothing has really been solved in this country," Seun Kuti says. "Healthcare, education, electricity, transportation, welfare – nothing has been accomplished." Galvanised by the brutality meted out by Nigerian police against protesters in October last year, the 37-year-old Grammy-nominated musician and youngest son of the Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti resurrected his father's socialist political party, the Movement of the People. Against a backdrop of widespread and mounting frustration over how Nigeria is run, he hopes the MOP can be a vehicle for change in 2021. Continue reading... |
| Met chief 'baffled' by lack of Covid vaccines for police Posted: 19 Jan 2021 02:03 AM PST Cressida Dick calls on government to prioritise frontline officers after spate of spit attacks Britain's most senior police chief has said she is "baffled" by the government's decision not to prioritise frontline police officers for Covid vaccines despite her repeated requests to ministers. The Metropolitan police commissioner, Dame Cressida Dick, pointed out that in London almost 150 officers have been spat or coughed at by people who claimed they had Covid. Continue reading... |
| Closure of an iconic Paris bookshop alarms French bibliophiles Posted: 19 Jan 2021 02:00 AM PST Hit hard by the pandemic, the flagship Gibert Jeune store is closing its doors – one of many booksellers in the city feeling the strain of Covid-19 Paris, a great literary city, is losing one of its most celebrated bookshops. Gibert Jeune, a popular chain, has announced it will be closing its flagship shop in the Latin Quarter in March – the latest in a series of closures and appeals for help that threaten the future of the city's booksellers. Gibert Jeune once attracted long queues of students in search of cheap secondhand books before the start of each academic year; most students who have studied in Paris will have paid a visit to the six-floor shop at some point to find a book for their course. The family-owned company was founded in 1886 and started out as a bookstall on the banks of the Seine, quickly expanding into several shops in the fifth arrondissement, selling a mixture of new and secondhand books. Its bright yellow awnings along the Boulevard St Michel became a familiar landmark of the Latin Quarter, historically Paris's literary and intellectual neighbourhood, and home to the Sorbonne. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 19 Jan 2021 02:00 AM PST My father, the Islamic scholar Salman Alodah, is among the many prisoners of conscience languishing in Saudi jails The apparent end to the Saudi-led blockade of Qatar and a reconciliation among the states involved prompts the question: when will the Saudi government release the citizens who were caught up in the conflict and imprisoned during the three and a half-year crisis? In a breakthrough, it was announced on 4 January that Saudi Arabia had opened its land border with Qatar, paving the way for an easing of tensions that had led to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE and Bahrain severing diplomatic and trade ties with Qatar in mid-2017. On 5 January, the annual GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) summit took place in Saudi Arabia's north-western Al-Ula province. And for the first time since the blockade on Qatar was imposed, the Qatari emir attended. Continue reading... |
| Simple change to fishing gear saves thousands of birds in Namibia Posted: 19 Jan 2021 01:55 AM PST Birds that became tangled in baited lines appear to be scared off by coloured pipes A cheap and simple change to the equipment used by Namibian fishing boats is saving tens of thousands of vulnerable seabirds annually, researchers have estimated. Some industrial fleets often use long lines fitted with thousands of baited hooks, which attract seabirds. In attempting to snatch away the bait, the birds can become tangled in the lines and die. Continue reading... |
| Pink seesaws across US-Mexico border named Design of the Year 2020 Posted: 18 Jan 2021 04:01 PM PST Creators say they hope the work encourages people to build bridges between communities A collection of bright pink seesaws that allowed people to interact over the US-Mexico border has won the prestigious Design of the Year award, with its creators saying they hoped the work encourages people to build bridges between communities. The Teeter Totter Wall, which bridged across El Paso in Texas and Ciudad Juárez in Mexico during a 40-minute session, was described as not only feeling "symbolically important" but also highlighting "the possibility of things" by the judging panel. Continue reading... |
| Hospitals in Japan close to collapse as serious Covid cases soar Posted: 19 Jan 2021 02:02 AM PST Experts warn fatalities could rise sharply and call for state of emergency to be extended Hospitals in Covid-hit regions of Japan are on the brink of collapse, medical experts have warned, as the country battles a third wave of infections that has caused record numbers of people to fall seriously ill. Japan reported more than 4,900 coronavirus infections on Monday, with serious cases rising to a record high of 973, local media reported. Continue reading... |
| Melbourne gangland lawyer Joe Acquaro gave police information on former client Posted: 19 Jan 2021 01:26 AM PST Victoria police says it never registered the murdered lawyer as an informant after a court reveals his role The slain gangland lawyer Joe Acquaro gave Victoria police information on his former client and convicted drug trafficker Francesco "Frank" Madafferi. The revelation, confirmed by Victoria's court of appeal on Tuesday, follows a lengthy fight by the force to keep the murdered lawyer's role secret. Continue reading... |
| Landlocked Lesotho faces food crisis amid Covid border closures Posted: 18 Jan 2021 11:15 PM PST Food price increases and economic impact of lockdowns have left a quarter of the kingdom's population reliant on food aid, UN warns Almost a quarter of Lesotho's population will require food aid between January and March as a result of Covid-19 restrictions, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned. More than 580,000 people out of a population of 2.2 million are estimated to be food insecure, despite predictions of normal to above average rains this year and the potential for above average cereal production. Continue reading... |
| Dominican Republic activists fear total abortion ban banishes women to the dark ages Posted: 18 Jan 2021 03:00 AM PST Scores of Dominican women die each year from botched attempts to end unwanted pregnancies As Argentina becomes the first major Latin American country to fully legalize abortion, activists in the Dominican Republic fear their own government is banishing its women to the dark ages by upholding a total ban first implemented in 1884. The Dominican Republic is one of four countries in Latin America – along with Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador – where abortion is illegal in all circumstances. Continue reading... |
| Coroner's Covid findings stoke calls for inquiry into pandemic policy Posted: 18 Jan 2021 08:46 AM PST Analysis: bereaved families concerned that lessons were not learned after first wave The failures and concerns highlighted by a senior coroner, Alison Mutch, following the deaths of two men, Anthony Slack and Leslie Harris, from Covid-19, have reinforced bereaved families' calls for a government inquiry into the handling of the pandemic, and for more inquests. Very few inquests have been held into deaths of people from coronavirus, following the then chief coroner's guidance in March that Covid-19 is "a naturally occurring disease" and inquests are not normally necessary unless a person died due to additional factors, for example neglect. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| How Biden era could kickstart coordinated approach to Russia Posted: 18 Jan 2021 06:33 AM PST Analysis: the west has been hampered by the fatal ambiguity of Trump's US policy towards Moscow Joe Biden's accession to the US presidency has spawned a huge body of literature about his intentions towards China, but in his four years out of office Biden has in fact made Russia his primary focus in combatting authoritarianism. Now, just days from coming into office, the arrest of the Russian dissident Alexei Navalny has suddenly presented him with a test case, which may also lead to friction with two of his closest allies: Germany and the UK. Continue reading... |
| Melania Trump says 'past four years have been unforgettable' in recorded farewell speech – video Posted: 19 Jan 2021 01:23 AM PST The US first lady thanked Americans on Monday for the 'greatest honour of my life' in a recorded video she posted on Twitter. Melania Trump said: 'The past four years have been unforgettable, as Donald and I conclude our time in the White House. I think of all of the people I have taken home in my heart and their incredible stories of love, patriotism and determination' Continue reading... |
| Java's ring of fire rumbles on: Indonesian volcanoes erupt – in pictures Posted: 18 Jan 2021 07:37 PM PST Volcanoes in Java continue to show worrying signs, with authorities closely monitoring seismic activity as they spew lava and ash many kilometres into the atmosphere. At 3,676 metres (12,060 feet), Mount Semeru in East Java is one of the highest volcanoes in Indonesia. Mount Merapi in central Java is a 2,929-metre (9,610-foot) active volcano with a hiking trail to its summit and a surrounding national park. Both continue to trouble authorities. On 16 January 2021, the Semeru volcano observatory issued a notice for aviation warning of an ash cloud moving to the north-east with an ash cloud top at around 5,676 metres (18,163 feet) above sea level, but it may be higher than what can be observed clearly. Here's a look at this month's eruptions |
| US Capitol on security lockdown ahead of Biden inauguration – video Posted: 18 Jan 2021 02:10 PM PST The tightest security measures in recent memory are in place in Washington, two days ahead of the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the US. 25,000 National Guard soldiers from across the east coast are stationed in the city. The streets around the Capitol remain eerily empty as all but the most determined protesters have stayed away after the pro-Trump riot at the Capitol on 6 January. The FBI has vetted all troops who are guarding the event because of fears of an insider attack at the inauguration. Continue reading... |
| I feel like a martyr: Capitol rioter says she was following orders of Trump – video Posted: 18 Jan 2021 10:36 AM PST A Texas real estate agent who was part of the pro-Trump mob that attacked the US Capitol has said she was just following the orders of Donald Trump, even as she faced federal charges for her part in the insurrection. Jenna Ryan, who flew to Washington on a private jet, hosted a Facebook live stream showing herself entering the Capitol, promoting her business and saying: 'We're going to fucking go in here. Life or death.' Ryan claimed on NBC News she had not been advocating aggression. She faces charges of disorderly conduct and knowingly entering a restricted area. Like other members of the mob, Ryan has asked Trump for a pardon, but said she would not hold it against Trump if no pardon were forthcoming Continue reading... |
| Vaccine inequity puts world on brink of 'catastrophic moral failure', says WHO chief – video Posted: 18 Jan 2021 08:59 AM PST The head of the World Health Organization has warned that as coronavirus vaccines are rolled out, the world faces a 'catastrophic moral failure' as richer countries administer the vaccine on a vast scale, while poor countries are left behind. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus highlighted that millions of doses had been given in higher-income countries while one of the world's poorest countries had administered only 25 doses Continue reading... |
| Navalny calls his arrest 'lawlessness of the highest order' – video Posted: 18 Jan 2021 04:49 AM PST Alexei Navalny has appeared in court for the first time following his arrest at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, amid growing international condemnation of the Russian opposition leader's detention. In a video Navalny asked why a court hearing was being held in a police station and described it as 'lawlessness of the highest order'. Continue reading... |
| Miners in China trapped by explosion send note to rescuers – video Posted: 18 Jan 2021 03:17 AM PST Workers trapped in a gold mine after an explosion at the site in eastern China on 10 January have sent a written note to the surface saying that 12 of the miners trapped underground are still alive. Twenty-two workers were trapped in the Hushan mine, in Shandong province. The condition of the other 10 is not known. It was not until 30 hours later that the accident was reported, however, leading to severe criticism of those responsible Continue reading... |
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