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- All suspects in Daphne Caruana Galizia murder arrested, says police chief
- Saudi heir complicit in Khashoggi murder, US assessment reportedly finds
- Pfizer Covid vaccine 94% effective, study of 1.2m people finds
- Facebook and Instagram ban Myanmar military as first pro-coup rally takes place
- Biden reverses Trump actions on green cards, architecture and 'anarchist jurisdictions'
- GameStop shares surge more than 100% as trading frenzy returns
- Princess Latifa letter urges UK police to investigate sister's Cambridge abduction
- 'Unique' petrified tree up to 20m years old found intact in Lesbos
- Black-browed babbler found in Borneo 180 years after last sighting
- Kelsey Grammer to return as Frasier in reboot of hit comedy
- Coronavirus live news: Finland announces lockdown plan; Ukraine registers 40% jump in new cases
- Nearly half with cancer symptoms in the UK did not see GP in first wave of pandemic
- ‘A huge relief’: families welcome priority vaccination for those with learning disabilities
- Key Biden aide said pandemic was 'best thing that ever happened to him', book says
- Claudette Colvin: the woman who refused to give up her bus seat – nine months before Rosa Parks
- Hunting the men who kill women: Mexico’s femicide detective
- Not a sprint: endurance experts on how to make it through lockdown
- A bath for your brain: why French drama Torn is perfect pandemic TV
- Turkey's mobsters step out of shadows and into public sphere
- ‘The base is solidly behind him’: Trumpism expected to thrive at CPAC
- From dealing drugs to delivering food: Pastor Mick on Burnley's Covid crisis – video report
- Coventry family wins legal battle for Irish wording on gravestone
- Malawi MPs debate bill to liberalise abortion laws as churches oppose
- Biden urged to back water justice bill to reverse decades of underinvestment
- Man leaves church and reunites with family after years in sanctuary from deportation
- Number of Hong Kong residents moving to Taiwan nearly doubles in 2020
- PM dodges question over Peter Dutton describing Brittany Higgins rape allegation as 'she said, he said'
- Ghanaian LGBTQ+ centre closes after threats and abuse
- Calls for mandatory Covid jabs conflict with Britons' right to say no
- Baarack the sheep shorn of 35kg fleece after being found roaming in rural Australia – video
- Ghana receives 600,000 vaccines in first Covax delivery – video
| All suspects in Daphne Caruana Galizia murder arrested, says police chief Posted: 24 Feb 2021 03:38 PM PST Angelo Gafa says all those who masterminded killing of Maltese journalist now apprehended or charged Every person involved in the 2017 murder of the anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has been apprehended, Malta's national police chief has declared. Commissioner Angelo Gafa was speaking before a court hearing on Wednesday evening at which two new suspects were arraigned. Continue reading... |
| Saudi heir complicit in Khashoggi murder, US assessment reportedly finds Posted: 24 Feb 2021 06:48 PM PST Reuters reports that intelligence assessment of murder of journalist will find that Mohammed bin Salman was complicit Joe Biden is expected to call Saudi Arabia's King Salman, as his administration prepares to release a declassified intelligence assessment that will reportedly name the royal's son and heir as complicit in the grisly murder of Jamal Khashoggi. The White House confirmed on Wednesday that Biden's call to the 85-year-old ruler would take place "soon" and that the declassified report on Khashoggi's murder was being readied for release. Biden, who said he has read the report, is insisting that he speak only to the king. Continue reading... |
| Pfizer Covid vaccine 94% effective, study of 1.2m people finds Posted: 24 Feb 2021 05:13 PM PST A major study of data from Israel showed Pfizer shot cut symptomatic cases drastically across all age groups The first major real-world study of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to be independently reviewed shows the shot is highly effective at preventing Covid-19, in a potentially landmark moment for countries desperate to end lockdowns and reopen economies. Until now, most data on coronavirus vaccines has come under controlled conditions in clinical trials, leaving an element of uncertainty about how the results would translate into the real world. Continue reading... |
| Facebook and Instagram ban Myanmar military as first pro-coup rally takes place Posted: 24 Feb 2021 11:06 PM PST Junta banned from all Facebook and Instagram pages, including all commercial entities linked to the military The Myanmar military has been banned from Facebook and Instagram with immediate effect, as the first pro-military rally took place in Yangon. In a blog post, Facebook said: "Events since the February 1 coup, including deadly violence, have precipitated a need for this ban," adding: "We believe the risks of allowing the Tatmadaw (Myanmar army) on Facebook and Instagram are too great." Continue reading... |
| Biden reverses Trump actions on green cards, architecture and 'anarchist jurisdictions' Posted: 24 Feb 2021 07:11 PM PST Move undoes actions that blocked many immigrants from entering the US and sought to cut funding to cities Trump deemed 'lawless' Joe Biden has formally reversed a series of executive actions taken by Donald Trump, including a proclamation that blocked many green card applicants from entering the United States. Continue reading... |
| GameStop shares surge more than 100% as trading frenzy returns Posted: 24 Feb 2021 08:32 PM PST Investors are puzzled about why the stock favoured by home-based investors soared by 104%, and then 85% after hours GameStop shares more than doubled in afternoon trading on Wednesday, surprising those who thought the video game retailer's stock price would stabilise after a fierce rally and steep dive that upended Wall Street in January. The shares soared nearly 104% during the session in which trading was halted several times, then jumped another 85% after hours. Continue reading... |
| Princess Latifa letter urges UK police to investigate sister's Cambridge abduction Posted: 25 Feb 2021 01:01 AM PST Latifa says in letter passed to police 'your help and attention on her case could free' Princess Shamsa Princess Latifa, a daughter of Dubai's ruler who claims to have been held in captivity by her father since 2018, has asked UK police to re-investigate the kidnapping more than 20 years ago of her sister, Princess Shamsa, according to a letter reported by the BBC. The BBC reported that in a letter handwritten in 2019 – but passed to Cambridgeshire police on Wednesday – Latifa says the police may be able to free Shamsa, who was abducted on the orders of her father when she was 19. Continue reading... |
| 'Unique' petrified tree up to 20m years old found intact in Lesbos Posted: 24 Feb 2021 09:00 PM PST Discovery of 19.5-metre tree with roots, branches and leaves is unprecedented, say experts First came the tree, all 19.5 metres of it, with roots and branches and leaves. Then, weeks later, the discovery of 150 fossilised logs, one on top of the other, a short distance away. Nikolas Zouros, a professor of geology at the University of the Aegean, couldn't believe his luck. In 25 years of excavating the petrified forest of Lesbos, he had unearthed nothing like it. Continue reading... |
| Black-browed babbler found in Borneo 180 years after last sighting Posted: 24 Feb 2021 10:00 PM PST Exclusive: Stuffed specimen was only proof of bird's existence until discovery in rainforest last year In the 1840s, a mystery bird was caught on an expedition to the East Indies. Charles Lucien Bonaparte, the nephew of Napoleon, described it to science and named it the black-browed babbler (Malacocincla perspicillata). The species was never seen in the wild again, and a stuffed specimen featuring a bright yellow glass eye was the only proof of its existence. But now the black-browed babbler has been rediscovered in the rainforests of Borneo. Continue reading... |
| Kelsey Grammer to return as Frasier in reboot of hit comedy Posted: 25 Feb 2021 01:01 AM PST Actor is 'gleefully anticipating' the return of the comedy, which is being rebooted after 17 years The hit 90s TV comedy Frasier, starring Kelsey Grammer as a snobbish radio advice-show host, is to return to television nearly two decades after it last aired. Grammer said he would reprise his role in a revival of the series, which ran for 263 episodes between 1993 and 2004. Frasier, a spin-off of the TV series Cheers, was one of the most successful shows of the 90s and 00s, winning five consecutive Emmy awards for outstanding comedy series and running for 11 seasons. The series followed Grammer's character, who returns to Seattle to care for his elderly father, with his pretentious psychiatrist brother, Niles Crane. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus live news: Finland announces lockdown plan; Ukraine registers 40% jump in new cases Posted: 25 Feb 2021 02:28 AM PST Finnish PM announces three-week lockdown from 8 March; Ukraine registered 8,147 cases on Wednesday; EU leaders to debate certificates for people who had Covid jabs
More from the World Health Organization news conference (tune in to the video at the top of the page): Long covid is thought to result from the persistence of the virus in some parts of the body that are sheltered from the immune system, for instance in the brain, said Martin Mackee, professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Coronavirus is continuing to spread at high rates across Europe, with two variants posing the greatest threat, according to Dr Hans Henri Kluge, the World Health Organization's director for Europe. One in 10 Covid-19 sufferers remain unwell after 12 weeks, and many for longer, he added. He advised health authorities to listen to the symptoms of long Covid sufferers in order to better understand the condition. This is a priority for the WHO, and should be for every health authority, he said. Continue reading... |
| Nearly half with cancer symptoms in the UK did not see GP in first wave of pandemic Posted: 24 Feb 2021 11:01 PM PST People avoided seeking medical help during first lockdown because they did not want to burden NHS Almost half of those who had a potential symptom of cancer during the pandemic's first wave did not see a GP, even when they coughed up blood or developed a lump, a new study shows. People held off seeking medical help because they did not want to waste health professionals' time, add to the pressure on the NHS or go to hospital in case they caught Covid-19. Continue reading... |
| ‘A huge relief’: families welcome priority vaccination for those with learning disabilities Posted: 24 Feb 2021 12:22 PM PST Three families react to government's U-turn to prioritise their loved ones for coronavirus inoculation On Wednesday, the government announced that all individuals on the learning disabilities register will be prioritised for a coronavirus vaccine. The move came after an outpouring of public outrage when DJ Jo Whiley revealed that she was invited for a vaccine before her sister Frances, who has a genetic disorder and lives in residential care. Frances Whiley was later hospitalised for the virus, but has since returned home. Three families whose loved ones have a learning disability spoke about what the change means for them. Continue reading... |
| Key Biden aide said pandemic was 'best thing that ever happened to him', book says Posted: 24 Feb 2021 04:40 AM PST
A senior adviser to Democrat Joe Biden in his campaign for president believed "Covid is the best thing that ever happened to him", a new book reports. Related: Ruling on Trump tax records could be costliest defeat of his losing streak Continue reading... |
| Claudette Colvin: the woman who refused to give up her bus seat – nine months before Rosa Parks Posted: 24 Feb 2021 10:00 PM PST It was a spring afternoon in 1955 when a teenager's spontaneous act of defiance changed US history. Why did it take 40 years for her to get any credit? It was 2 March 1955, and an unusually humid spring day when students at Booker T Washington high school, a segregated school in the heart of the Jim Crow south, had been let off early to make their way home. A group boarded a segregated public bus, which wound through segregated neighbourhoods gradually filling up with passengers. A 15-year-old gifted Black student, with aspirations to become a civil rights attorney, took a window seat near the exit door. She gazed outdoors until the white driver instructed her to give up her seat for a white passenger standing nearby. Continue reading... |
| Hunting the men who kill women: Mexico’s femicide detective Posted: 24 Feb 2021 10:00 PM PST Although femicide is a recognised crime in Mexico, when a woman disappears, the authorities are notoriously slow to act. But there is someone who will take on their case On the night of 30 October 2019, as many Mexicans were preparing to celebrate the Day of the Dead, the family of Jessica Jaramillo stood in the pouring rain watching two dozen police search a house on the outskirts of Toluca, the capital of Mexico State. At about 9pm, the authorities carried out a dead dog, followed by two live ones and a cat. Then they pulled out a woman's body. Jessi, a 23-year-old psychology student at a local university, had gone missing a week earlier. On 24 October, she hadn't appeared at the spot where her parents usually picked her up after class. Within a few minutes, she called her mother to say she was going out, abruptly hung up, then texted to add, "Don't worry, I'm with Óscar". Continue reading... |
| Not a sprint: endurance experts on how to make it through lockdown Posted: 25 Feb 2021 02:00 AM PST Marathon runner Eddie Izzard, solo sailor Pip Hare and explorer Levison Wood explain what they have learned about enduring the seemingly unendurable It just goes on and on, doesn't it? Despite the millions of vaccinations, and Boris Johnson's "roadmap" for easing the lockdown, this pandemic is feeling increasingly like an endurance test – a marathon, followed by another marathon, followed by another. Or trudging for miles and miles across the desert for day after day. Or sailing alone around the world, battling storms and loneliness. How do you keep going? There are people who know a thing or two about that – keeping going, endurance, deserts and storms. Perhaps they might even have some advice. Continue reading... |
| A bath for your brain: why French drama Torn is perfect pandemic TV Posted: 25 Feb 2021 02:09 AM PST I was unmoved by the Provençal thriller when I first saw it, but it landed on All4 at a time when absurd escapism is needed It took me a while to warm to Walter Presents/All 4's French drama Torn. I first saw it in a cinema a couple of years ago, when I was on the jury for the French television festival Series Mania. Back then, its charms were not immediately apparent. It was – is – about a woman cheating on her husband with a chef in Provence; it felt as if the story was secondary to all the nice things on display. The cast members were all attractive and the characters lived in houses so beautiful that it made me angry. "That wasn't a drama," sniffed one of the other jurors as we filed out of the screening. "That was a tourism advert." Continue reading... |
| Turkey's mobsters step out of shadows and into public sphere Posted: 24 Feb 2021 07:00 PM PST After decades in hiding, in prison or keeping low profile, players from a bloody period in the country's history are now seen as 'folk idols' by the Turkish right At first glance, the photograph of two smartly dressed older Turkish men, posing for the camera in an office filled with flags, could be of any important figures in the country – but it is rare for a picture to say so much about both the past and the future. On the left is Devlet Bahçeli, an ultranationalist political dinosaur who has in the past few years become an influential coalition partner in the government of Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Continue reading... |
| ‘The base is solidly behind him’: Trumpism expected to thrive at CPAC Posted: 24 Feb 2021 11:00 PM PST Lineup at annual gathering features former president's allies – and Trump himself – suggesting his dominance is undiminished by his election loss Ronald Solomon spent five days making the 2,300-mile drive from Las Vegas, Nevada, to Orlando, Florida, where he will sell about 75 different hat designs, 15 types of flag, 10 T-shirt designs and a range of eight face masks. Solomon is the president of the Maga Mall, a retailer of Donald Trump and "Make America great again" merchandise. Undeterred by the former president's 2020 election defeat and disgrace, he expects to do brisk business when the biggest annual gathering of grassroots conservatives opens on Thursday. Continue reading... |
| From dealing drugs to delivering food: Pastor Mick on Burnley's Covid crisis – video report Posted: 25 Feb 2021 02:00 AM PST Pastor Mick Fleming has devoted all of his time in this lockdown to supporting the poorest communities in Burnley. But his life hasn't always been this way. He tells us how he swapped a life of crime for delivering food parcels seven days a week, holding funerals for free and counselling people through drug relapses. He says the suffering of the poorest people in his town should make society deeply uncomfortable Mick's Church on the Street charity: https://www.cots-ministries.com/
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| Coventry family wins legal battle for Irish wording on gravestone Posted: 24 Feb 2021 11:00 PM PST Church court had objected to loving tribute to Margaret Keane for fear of arousing political 'passions' A grieving family has won its battle to erect a gravestone with an inscription in Irish after overturning a church court ban issued on the grounds that it might arouse political "passions". The family of Margaret Keane, a Coventry dinner lady who died aged 73 in 2018, now hope a Celtic cross bearing the words "In ár gcroíthe go deo" – "in our hearts forever" – will be in place on her grave in the grounds of St Giles church in Exhall, near Nuneaton, in time for St Patrick's Day on 17 March. Continue reading... |
| Malawi MPs debate bill to liberalise abortion laws as churches oppose Posted: 24 Feb 2021 11:15 PM PST Law would widen strict rules in country where thousands suffer complications from unsafe terminations A bill to liberalise Malawi's abortion laws will be debated by MPs on Thursday in the face of opposition from faith groups. If passed, the termination of pregnancy bill would allow abortions when a woman's mental or physical health is in danger, in cases of rape and incest, and when there are serious foetal abnormalities. Continue reading... |
| Biden urged to back water justice bill to reverse decades of underinvestment Posted: 25 Feb 2021 02:00 AM PST Water Act proposes injection of federal dollars to overhaul ageing infrastructure, create jobs and address inequalities Democratic lawmakers and advocates are urging Joe Biden to back legislation proposing unprecedented investment in America's ailing water infrastructure amid the country's worst crisis in decades that has left millions of people without access to clean, safe, affordable water. Continue reading... |
| Man leaves church and reunites with family after years in sanctuary from deportation Posted: 24 Feb 2021 02:44 PM PST Alex García from Honduras sought sanctuary in Missouri church in 2017 under threat of removal from US by Trump administration After three and a half years living inside a Missouri church to avoid deportation, a Honduran man has finally stepped outside, following a promise from Joe Biden's administration to let him be. Alex García, a married father of five, was slated for removal from the US in 2017, the first year of Donald Trump's administration. Days before he would have been deported, Christ Church United Church of Christ in the St Louis suburb of Maplewood offered sanctuary. Continue reading... |
| Number of Hong Kong residents moving to Taiwan nearly doubles in 2020 Posted: 24 Feb 2021 11:16 PM PST Wave of migration comes amid worsening crackdown on freedoms following the introduction of Beijing's national security law Taiwan issued nearly twice as many residence permits to Hongkongers in 2020 compared with the previous year, new government data have shown, further evidence of the continued exodus of people from the city that is under a worsening crackdown. Pro-democracy supporters and basic freedoms in Hong Kong have been under pressure since the introduction of a national security law by Beijing in late June. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 25 Feb 2021 02:22 AM PST Scott Morrison says alleged sexual assaults are 'serious and traumatic events for anyone to deal with' Scott Morrison has stepped around a question about whether he agrees with Peter Dutton's characterisation of Brittany Higgins' rape allegation as "she said, he said" as the home affairs minister defended his decision not to alert the prime minister to the potential reopening of the police investigation. Dutton's office earlier this week declined to answer questions from Guardian Australia and other media outlets about his contact with police but the home affairs minister finally confirmed on Wednesday the AFP told him about the allegation of sexual assault on 11 February. Continue reading... |
| Ghanaian LGBTQ+ centre closes after threats and abuse Posted: 24 Feb 2021 11:14 PM PST Founder says community centre in Accra was closed preemptively to protect its staff A community centre for LGBTQ+ people in Ghana has been closed, following a wave of protest against the rights of sexual minorities in the country. In recent weeks government ministers and religious groups had demanded the closure of the centre, intended to be a safe space for LGBTQ+ people to meet and find support. Yet since the opening in January of the centre in the capital, Accra, many people have received death threats and online abuse. Continue reading... |
| Calls for mandatory Covid jabs conflict with Britons' right to say no Posted: 24 Feb 2021 10:17 AM PST Analysis: idea is not as simple as it seems, due to the fact vaccination is not mandatory under UK law The UK government has always said there will be no compulsory Covid vaccination. It is only nervously dipping a toe in the waters of the vaccine passport issue, which could have implications for those who do not have one. But some employers appear prepared to dive straight in. "No jab, no job," says Charlie Mullins, who runs Pimlico Plumbers. He wants to be able to tell his customers they have nothing to fear from a visit to fix their leaking pipes. Care homes are understandably thinking hard about it too. They have vulnerable people to protect and the families on the outside will be more than anxious to know that an elderly mum or dad is being looked after by somebody who is fully vaccinated. Barchester Healthcare, the second-biggest care home provider in the UK, has spelled it out to its 17,000 staff that if they do not get vaccinated even though they are eligible, there will be no more shifts for them from the end of April, said the chief executive, Dr Pete Calveley. Continue reading... |
| Baarack the sheep shorn of 35kg fleece after being found roaming in rural Australia – video Posted: 24 Feb 2021 06:06 PM PST A rogue sheep found wandering in rural Victoria has been shorn of his heavily overgrown 35kg fleece. Nicknamed Baarack by his rescuers, the merino ram was taken to Edgar's Mission farm sanctuary, where the fleece was removed to save his life. 'He was in a bit of a bad way,' Kyle Behrend of the sanctuary said. 'He was underweight and, due to all of the wool around his face, he could barely see' Continue reading... |
| Ghana receives 600,000 vaccines in first Covax delivery – video Posted: 24 Feb 2021 08:47 AM PST Covax has delivered its first Covid-19 vaccine doses to Ghana as part of a programme to ensure equitable distribution to poorer countries. Anne-Claire Dufay, of Unicef, said it was 'an historic moment'. Covax aims to distribute enough vaccines over the next six months to inoculate 3% of the population of 145 countries and tens of millions more by the end of the year
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