World news and comment from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk |
- US House delivers article of impeachment against Donald Trump to Senate
- Violent clashes as Indian farmers storm Delhi's Red Fort
- EU threatens to block Covid vaccine exports amid AstraZeneca shortfall
- Netherlands shaken by third night of riots over Covid curfew
- China mine rescue: nine miners found dead two weeks after blast
- New York Times fires editor targeted by rightwing critics over Biden tweet
- Ghislaine Maxwell asks to throw out case over Epstein plea deal
- Giuseppe Conte to quit as Italy's PM in tactical move
- Egypt’s political prisoners ‘denied healthcare and subject to reprisals’
- Invasion Day: thousands attend vigils before 26 January protests and marches
- You can teach an old dog new words, researchers find
- Coronavirus live news: Germany backs limits on EU vaccine exports; South African president decries 'vaccine nationalism'
- Covid in the UK: how first cases exposed flaws in response
- Wuhan doctor: China authorities stopped me sounding alarm on Covid
- 'No system is perfect': Siouxsie Wiles on New Zealand's fight against Covid complacency
- The stolen children of Chile
- 'Cancer made me pull my life together': Zandra Rhodes on fun, fashion and Freddie Mercury
- The Capote Tapes: inside the scandal ignited by Truman's explosive final novel
- Keira Knightley: I won't shoot any more sex scenes directed by men
- Invasion Day protests across Australia – in pictures
- Manchester Arena inquiry hears of 'unacceptable' security failures
- Biden to sign new executive orders on his racial equity agenda– live updates
- Mexico authorities attempt to identify 19 charred corpses found near US border
- Australian government MPs push for protectionism in China trade war
- Teenage boy dies in hospital a day after being pulled from NSW's Hawkesbury River
- Covid 'imperils family planning in poorest countries', says global project
- Mexico president rebuked for careless response to Covid after testing positive
- Adil Ray, Moeen Ali and Meera Syal among BAME celebrities to lambast vaccine misinformation – video
| US House delivers article of impeachment against Donald Trump to Senate Posted: 25 Jan 2021 05:28 PM PST Senate trial will be the first-ever of a former US president, however the chances that Republicans will convict him are slim The US House delivered its article of impeachment against Donald Trump to the Senate on Monday evening, setting the stage for the first ever Senate trial of a former US president. For the second time in just over a year, nine House impeachment managers carried an impeachment charge against Trump in a ceremonial procession across the US Capitol, where just a few weeks ago a violent mob laid siege to the building in a deadly assault on the seat of American government. Continue reading... |
| Violent clashes as Indian farmers storm Delhi's Red Fort Posted: 26 Jan 2021 02:15 AM PST Farmers protesting against new agriculture laws enter grounds of historic fort as violence breaks out Farmers protesting against new agriculture laws in India have broken through police barricades around the capital, Delhi, and entered the grounds of the city's historic Red Fort, in chaotic and violent scenes that overshadowed Republic Day celebrations. Police hit protesters with batons and fired teargas to try to disperse the crowds after hundreds of thousands of farmers, many on tractors or horses, marched on the capital on Tuesday. One protester was confirmed to have died in the clashes, and dozens were injured. Continue reading... |
| EU threatens to block Covid vaccine exports amid AstraZeneca shortfall Posted: 25 Jan 2021 10:10 AM PST Bloc may receive only half of purchased 100m doses in first quarter of the year The EU has threatened to block exports of coronavirus vaccines to countries outside the bloc such as Britain, after AstraZeneca was accused of failing to give a satisfactory explanation for a huge shortfall of promised doses to member states. The pharmaceutical company's new distribution plans were said to be "unacceptable" after it "surprisingly" informed the European commission on Friday that there would be significant shortfalls on the original schedule. Continue reading... |
| Netherlands shaken by third night of riots over Covid curfew Posted: 26 Jan 2021 01:36 AM PST About 150 anti-lockdown protesters arrested after shops looted and cars set alight in several towns and cities A third night of rioting has shaken the Netherlands as protesters rampaged through towns and cities around the country after government introduced a night-time curfew. About 150 people were arrested on Monday in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, where shops were vandalised and looted, and the mayor, Ahmed Aboutaleb, issued an emergency decree giving police broader powers of arrest. Continue reading... |
| China mine rescue: nine miners found dead two weeks after blast Posted: 25 Jan 2021 02:54 PM PST The death toll from the disaster at a gold mine in Shandong province rises to 10 Chinese rescuers have found the bodies of nine workers killed in explosions at a gold mine, raising the death toll to 10. Eleven others were rescued a day earlier after being trapped underground for two weeks at the mine in Shandong province. One person was still missing, officials said on Monday. Continue reading... |
| New York Times fires editor targeted by rightwing critics over Biden tweet Posted: 25 Jan 2021 09:56 AM PST Lauren Wolfe was let go two days after tweeting she had 'chills' at seeing Joe Biden's plane land at Joint Base Andrews A row has broken out over accusations that a New York Times journalist was fired after being targeted by rightwing critics for tweeting she had "chills" at seeing Joe Biden's plane land at Joint Base Andrews. Lauren Wolfe, who had been working as an editor at the Times, posted the message on 19 January, as Biden arrived ahead of his inauguration as president the next day. Continue reading... |
| Ghislaine Maxwell asks to throw out case over Epstein plea deal Posted: 26 Jan 2021 12:32 AM PST Briton's lawyers say she should be protected by financier's 2008 agreement Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite charged with recruiting teenage girls for the US financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse in the 1990s, has asked a judge to dismiss the case on multiple grounds, including that a deal years ago not to prosecute Epstein and others should shield her from prosecution. Lawyers for Maxwell said the indictment against her was obtained unjustly and did not allege crimes specific enough to bring before a jury. Continue reading... |
| Giuseppe Conte to quit as Italy's PM in tactical move Posted: 25 Jan 2021 01:31 PM PST Resignation expected to be handed in to president Sergio Mattarella on Tuesday morning Italy's prime minister Giuseppe Conte will resign on Tuesday in a tactical move aimed at maximising his chances of leading a new government. Conte will hold a cabinet meeting at 9am CET before officially handing in his resignation to president Sergio Mattarella, his office announced in a statement. Continue reading... |
| Egypt’s political prisoners ‘denied healthcare and subject to reprisals’ Posted: 25 Jan 2021 11:15 PM PST International community must put pressure on Egypt to prevent prison deaths, warns Amnesty International A decade after the uprising that overturned politics in Egypt, political prisoners are being targeted inside the country's overcrowded prison system. Egypt's prisons hold at least twice the number of people they were built for, with prisoners of conscience targeted by security forces and denied healthcare, according to Amnesty International. Prisoners of all kinds risk dying in custody because of the profound lack of basic care by the authorities, said the human rights organisation. Continue reading... |
| Invasion Day: thousands attend vigils before 26 January protests and marches Posted: 25 Jan 2021 02:55 PM PST Dawn vigils reflect on impact of colonialism and celebrate Indigenous life before First Fleet
As the sun rose on 26 January, thousands gathered in the rain and cold to pay tribute to elders, past and present, at the annual Invasion Day vigils. Physically distanced crowds gathered in Barangaroo Reserve in Sydney from dusk until dawn to reflect on the impact of colonisation, and celebrate what life was like for Indigenous communities before the First Fleet arrived. Continue reading... |
| You can teach an old dog new words, researchers find Posted: 26 Jan 2021 02:00 AM PST Canines in Hungarian study appear to pick up unfamiliar terms through play Whether you can teach an old dog new tricks might be a moot point, but it seems some canines can rapidly learn new words, and do so through play. While young children are known to quickly pick up the names of new objects, the skill appears to be rare in animals. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 26 Jan 2021 02:13 AM PST German health minister says EU must ensure its fair share amid production delays; Ramaphosa calls on rich countries to stop hoarding jabs
Sweden has stopped vaccine payments to Pfizer amid a disagreement over the number of doses of vaccine in each vial delivered by the drug company, according to a report in the Swedish press. Reuters has the story: Sweden is seeking clarification on the number of doses it has been billed after Pfizer charged for six doses in each vial. It originally was thought only five doses could be extracted from each vial and Sweden now want the EU Commission and Pfizer to reach an agreement on how many doses there are in each vial. "Until then, we have told the company that we must wait with the invoices that are available until we get clarity on what applies," chief epidemiologist Anders Tegnell told Dagens Nyheter.
Here's more from Jon Henley, the Guardian's Europe correspondent, on the latest night of rioting to hit cities in the Netherlands, where mostly young people are railing against the imposition of a nighttime curfew. About 150 people were arrested on Monday in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, where shops were vandalised and looted, and the mayor, Ahmed Aboutaleb, issued an emergency decree giving police broader powers of arrest. "These people are shameless thieves, I cannot say otherwise," he said. "I had to threaten them with the use of teargas – a far-reaching measure. I find that sad, because I have never had to do that in my entire career as mayor." But trouble also flared in smaller centres around the country such as Den Bosch, Zwolle, Amersfoort, Alkmaar, Hoorn, Gouda – where several cars were set on fire – and Haarlem, where police were attacked with stones. Officials said the rioters, who reportedly used social media apps to organise, were overwhelmingly teenagers, and questioned the extent to which they were motivated by opposition to the 9pm curfew, which came into force on Saturday. Related: Netherlands shaken by third night of riots over Covid curfew Continue reading... |
| Covid in the UK: how first cases exposed flaws in response Posted: 26 Jan 2021 01:19 AM PST Handling of earliest cases early last year provided ominous foretaste of things to come
The handling of the first two cases of Covid in the UK a year ago this week provided an ominous foretaste of the country's response to the pandemic, according to those caught up in the incident. On 30 January last year the official threat level from coronavirus was moved from "low" to "moderate", as rescue flights were organised for 273 people stranded in Wuhan in China's Hubei province, where the outbreak began. Continue reading... |
| Wuhan doctor: China authorities stopped me sounding alarm on Covid Posted: 25 Jan 2021 04:01 PM PST Medic at heart of original outbreak tells BBC documentary staff were not allowed to wear masks despite concern about human transmission A doctor from the Wuhan hospital hit hardest by the Covid-19 epidemic has said he and colleagues suspected the virus was highly transmissible in early January last year, weeks before Chinese authorities admitted it, but were prevented from warning anyone. The doctor's testimony – in a new BBC documentary on the 54 days between the first known case of coronavirus and the Wuhan lockdown – adds to mounting evidence of Beijing's early attempts to cover up the virus outbreak, and intimidate healthworkers into staying quiet. Continue reading... |
| 'No system is perfect': Siouxsie Wiles on New Zealand's fight against Covid complacency Posted: 25 Jan 2021 04:18 PM PST The country's most visible scientist worries Kiwis aren't doing their bit when it comes to preventing another mass outbreak On Christmas morning, Siouxsie Wiles got a call from her father-in-law. He he had woken up feeling fluey after attending an event a few days before. As he spoke, Wiles looked up his closest Covid-19 testing centre on her phone. "I recommend you give them a call," she told him, "because you are not coming for Christmas dinner." Continue reading... |
| Posted: 25 Jan 2021 10:00 PM PST At two months old, Maria Diemar was flown to Sweden to be adopted. Years later, she tracked down her birth mother, who said her baby had been taken against her will. Now investigations are showing that she was one of thousands stolen from their parents For as long as she can remember, Maria Diemar has known she was adopted. Her Swedish parents were always open about her Chilean heritage, and growing up in Stockholm in the 1970s and 80s with brown skin and dark hair, it was impossible not to notice she was different. When she was 11, Diemar's parents showed her the papers that arrived with her in Sweden as a two-month-old baby in 1975. The file on her parentage offered a brief, unflattering portrait of a teenage mother who sent her newborn girl to be raised by strangers on the other side of the world. "They said she was a live-in maid, that she had a son who lived with her parents, and that she was poor," recalled Diemar. Continue reading... |
| 'Cancer made me pull my life together': Zandra Rhodes on fun, fashion and Freddie Mercury Posted: 25 Jan 2021 10:00 PM PST One of Britain's greatest designers, she has dressed everyone from Princess Diana to Diana Ross. She discusses punk, pink hair and staying creative after serious illness Zandra Rhodes was doing a yoga session with a friend in the early weeks of the pandemic when she realised that something was wrong. "It's a funny story," she says. "We were lying on our lilac mats in my rainbow penthouse, and I was breathing deeply – and my stomach felt full. And I thought, why is it full? I haven't had a meal today." It turned out she had a tumour. "It was in the bile [duct] and going into whatever's near it," she says, vaguely. Treatment involved weeks travelling across a locked-down London for chemotherapy, followed by an immunotherapy regime that she is still on, even though she is happy to say that the tumour is in full remission. Her first thought after diagnosis was "to get my will in order with a power of attorney that included a do-not-resuscitate order. I was very lucky because I had no pain whatsoever. I just got very tired while I was having the chemo." Continue reading... |
| The Capote Tapes: inside the scandal ignited by Truman's explosive final novel Posted: 25 Jan 2021 10:00 PM PST He partied with high society America but caused outrage when he spilled their secrets. Ebs Burnough talks us through his new film about Answered Prayers – the 'smart, salacious' novel Capote never finished When Truman Capote died in 1984, he left the remains of a novel he had been hatching for nearly two decades, and talking about for almost as long. Answered Prayers, the story of a budding writer screwing his way through polite society, was intended to be Capote's most explosive achievement. He likened it to a deadly weapon. "There's the handle, the trigger, the barrel, and, finally, the bullet," he told People magazine. "And when that bullet is fired from the gun, it's going to come out with a speed and power like you've never seen – wham!" Having bragged about the book for years, all he had to do now was write it. A contract was signed in 1966, but advance chapters published in Esquire magazine nine years later proved to be far below the standard of his defining successes, Breakfast at Tiffany's and the "non-fiction novel" In Cold Blood. There was a cost to his social reputation as well as his literary one. As soon as the socialites and wealthy wives with whom he had mingled happily for years – including Slim Keith, Babe Paley and Gloria Vanderbilt, whom he called his "swans" – saw how casually he had spilled their most intimate secrets, those friendships were dead. Capote hadn't bitten the hand that fed him. He'd gnawed it off at the wrist. Continue reading... |
| Keira Knightley: I won't shoot any more sex scenes directed by men Posted: 25 Jan 2021 04:19 AM PST The actor says she feels very uncomfortable trying to portray the male gaze and says she's 'too vain' to shoot intimate scenes Keira Knightley has expressed her discomfort with shooting intimate scenes, saying that she will no longer do so if the film is directed by a man. In conversation with director Lulu Wang and writer-producer Diane Solway on the Chanel Connects podcast, Knightley credited the "male gaze" and her own personal vanity with the decision. Continue reading... |
| Invasion Day protests across Australia – in pictures Posted: 25 Jan 2021 07:44 PM PST Amid debates about abolishing the holiday, Australia Day honours and whether protests should go ahead at all, people have rallied in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Canberra to mark the day Continue reading... |
| Manchester Arena inquiry hears of 'unacceptable' security failures Posted: 25 Jan 2021 12:52 PM PST Lawyers point out series of failings in buildup to bombing that killed 22 and injured hundreds A series of "unacceptable and unjustified" security failures occurred before the Manchester Arena bombing, the public inquiry into the attack has been told. The inquiry heard lawyers' closing statements on chapter seven, relating to security at the venue. The arena is operated by SMG, who employed the company Showsec to provide security and stewarding services there. Continue reading... |
| Biden to sign new executive orders on his racial equity agenda– live updates Posted: 26 Jan 2021 02:20 AM PST President will give address on racial equality this afternoon after Senators are sworn in for Trump impeachment
My Pillow chief Mike Lindell has become the latest high profile person to be permanently suspended by Twitter for repeated violations of the company's policy on election misinformation, report Reuters. Lindell, a devout supporter of former president Donald Trump, financed post-election protest movements in a bid to overturn the election win of president Joe Biden.
Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite charged with recruiting teenage girls for the US financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse in the 1990s, has asked a judge to dismiss the case on multiple grounds, including that a deal years ago not to prosecute Epstein and others should shield her from prosecution. Lawyers for Maxwell said the indictment against her was obtained unjustly and did not allege crimes specific enough to bring before a jury. Related: Ghislaine Maxwell asks to throw out case over Epstein plea deal Continue reading... |
| Mexico authorities attempt to identify 19 charred corpses found near US border Posted: 25 Jan 2021 01:53 PM PST Authorities found the bodies late on Saturday in burning vehicles left beside a dirt road outside the town of Camargo Mexican authorities are attempting to identify 19 charred corpses which were found near a town across the Rio Grande from Texas, in an area that has seen violent territorial disputes between organized crime groups in recent years. Authorities found the bodies late on Saturday in two burning vehicles which had been left beside a dirt road outside the town of Camargo. All the victims had been shot, but shells were not found at the site, leading investigators to believe they were killed somewhere else. Continue reading... |
| Australian government MPs push for protectionism in China trade war Posted: 25 Jan 2021 10:41 PM PST Split emerges within Coalition as Nationals call for tariffs and subsidies while Liberals are keen to stick with free trade regime A split has emerged within the Australian government, with members of the junior Coalition partner pushing protectionist policies as a way of "fighting fire with fire" in the trade war with China. National party MPs have called on the government to consider imposing tariffs and expanding subsidies to protect domestic manufacturers, but Liberal backbenchers told Guardian Australia on Tuesday it would be against the national interest to abandon free and open trade. Continue reading... |
| Teenage boy dies in hospital a day after being pulled from NSW's Hawkesbury River Posted: 26 Jan 2021 01:44 AM PST Surf Life Saving NSW says enthusiasm for the water after a year dominated by Covid has resulted in a spike in drownings A teenage boy has died a day after he was pulled from the Hawkesbury River north-west of Sydney as the national summer drowning toll approaches 60. Emergency services were called to the river at Sackville on Monday about midday and the unresponsive 16-year-old was pulled from the water. Continue reading... |
| Covid 'imperils family planning in poorest countries', says global project Posted: 25 Jan 2021 10:30 PM PST Sixty million more girls and women using modern contraceptives due to global campaign, but pandemic recession threatens services Sixty million more women and girls in the world's poorest countries are now using modern contraceptives, after an eight-year global effort to expand family planning services. But the FP2020 global partnership, launched in London in 2012, warned that the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting financial crisis imperils further progress. Continue reading... |
| Mexico president rebuked for careless response to Covid after testing positive Posted: 25 Jan 2021 10:47 AM PST Andrés Manuel López Obrador tests positive day after saying crisis nearing the end and 'little lights' at end of tunnel could be seen Mexico's president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, declared at the weekend that his country was nearing the end of the coronavirus crisis, telling supporters that "little lights" at the end of the tunnel could already be seen. The next day he tested positive for Covid-19, throwing the country into tumult – and prompting fresh criticisms of his cavalier response to a disease that has killed nearly 150,000 citizens. Continue reading... |
| Adil Ray, Moeen Ali and Meera Syal among BAME celebrities to lambast vaccine misinformation – video Posted: 25 Jan 2021 08:32 AM PST A group of celebrities have released a video addressing vaccine misinformation in BAME communities. The group, including actors Adil Ray and Meera Syal, as well as cricketeer Moeen Ali and presenter Konnie Huq, appealed to black, Asian and ethnic minority communities in the UK to help address hesitancy around the Covid-19 vaccine. Coronavirus has disproportionately impacted minority ethnic communities, but these communities have also been subject to misleading information around the vaccine. 'Unfortunately we are now fighting another pandemic: misinformation,' Ray, who helped organise the video, explained. 'We all must do what we can and come together to fight this deadly virus. We hope this video can help dispel some of the myths and offer some encouragement for everyone to take the vaccine' Continue reading... |
| You are subscribed to email updates from World news | The Guardian. To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
| Google, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States | |
Posting Komentar