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- Myanmar police fire rubber bullets in crackdown on anti-coup protesters
- Coronavirus live news: WHO team gives briefing in Wuhan following investigation
- Donald Trump's second impeachment trial set to begin in US Senate
- 'Invisible killer': fossil fuels caused 8.7m deaths globally in 2018, research finds
- Outcry as more than 20 babies and children deported by US to Haiti
- Mary Wilson, co-founder of the Supremes, dies aged 76
- Olympics volunteers resign over president's remarks about women
- Twitter concerned for staff in India after row over account removals
- Robinhood sued by family of stock trader who killed himself
- Climate crisis pushing great white sharks into new waters
- Squawking bird blows the whistle on fake video trying to tilt Ecuador election
- Muslim families complain to UN over Sri Lankan Covid cremations
- UK Covid live: Hancock set to announce compulsory tests for travellers isolating after arrival in country
- A third of Covid patients put on ventilator report PTSD symptoms
- Facebook bans misinformation about all vaccines after years of controversy
- Brazilian butt lift: behind the world's most dangerous cosmetic surgery
- ‘I thought buying things would make me feel better. It didn’t’: The rise of emotional spending
- 'I will never give up': Egypt's exiles still dream of democracy
- It’s time to start talking about kink – and take the shame away from it
- The fabulous folly of Madagascar's Pangalanes canal
- I've spent most of my life in extreme poverty. I really want to see change
- Mutation of Kent Covid variant discovered in Manchester
- Yorkshire lobster exporter says Brexit costs have forced it to close
- Sydney officer was driving at 135km/h without siren or police lights before crash, court told
- 'We're double-dipping': Trudeau pressured to speed vaccine distribution amid Covax backlash
- Rise in child abuse online threatens to overwhelm UK police, officers warn
- Autism in India: how a pioneering jobs scheme is opening up opportunities
- Trump prosecutors pitch to the public in made-for-TV impeachment trial
- Matt Hancock almost blows it with a mention of borders and quarantine
- The phallic necktie is a symbol of outdated white male supremacy in our parliament | Claire Robinson
- Myanmar protesters defy ban on gatherings to demonstrate against coup – video
- Senate leaders announce Trump impeachment trial rules – video
- South African Covid variant case numbers in UK 'very small' – video
- Storm Darcy brings heavy snow and travel disruption to Europe – video
- Myanmar coup protests grow – in pictures
| Myanmar police fire rubber bullets in crackdown on anti-coup protesters Posted: 09 Feb 2021 01:06 AM PST Teargas and water cannon also deployed on fourth day of protests against last week's coup Police in Myanmar have fired rubber bullets and used teargas against protesters defying a ban on large gatherings, in an escalation of the military government's response to demonstrations against last week's coup. Witnesses in Naypyidaw, the remote capital purpose-built by the previous military regime, said police fired rubber bullets at protesters after earlier blasting them with water cannon. A doctor at a clinic in the city told Reuters three people were being treated for suspected rubber bullet wounds. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus live news: WHO team gives briefing in Wuhan following investigation Posted: 09 Feb 2021 02:19 AM PST WHO investigators brief media from Wuhan; WHO says don't dismiss AstraZeneca shot after South Africa delays jabs
Embarek says the team did not find evidence of large outbreaks that could be related to Covid-19 prior to December 2019 in Wuhan or elsewhere. The team found evidence of wider circulation outside the Huanan market cluster in December 2019, he adds.
Embarek says the focus of the study is whether Covid-19 had a "previous history" and was circulating earlier than December 2019. Continue reading... |
| Donald Trump's second impeachment trial set to begin in US Senate Posted: 08 Feb 2021 10:15 PM PST
The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump will begin in the US Senate on Tuesday, with the former president facing a charge of "incitement of insurrection" after his supporters stormed the US Capitol last month and engaged in clashes that left five people dead. Continue reading... |
| 'Invisible killer': fossil fuels caused 8.7m deaths globally in 2018, research finds Posted: 09 Feb 2021 12:00 AM PST Pollution from power plants, vehicles and other sources accounted for one in five of all deaths that year, more detailed analysis reveals Air pollution caused by the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil was responsible for 8.7m deaths globally in 2018, a staggering one in five of all people who died that year, new research has found. Countries with the most prodigious consumption of fossil fuels to power factories, homes and vehicles are suffering the highest death tolls, with the study finding more than one in 10 deaths in both the US and Europe were caused by the resulting pollution, along with nearly a third of deaths in eastern Asia, which includes China. Death rates in South America and Africa were significantly lower. Continue reading... |
| Outcry as more than 20 babies and children deported by US to Haiti Posted: 08 Feb 2021 03:21 PM PST Ice accused of sending 'defenseless babies into the burning house' as deportations of 72 carried out in apparent breach of Biden order US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) deported at least 72 people to Haiti on Monday, including a two-month-old baby and 21 other children, in an apparent flagrant breach of the Biden administration's orders only to remove suspected terrorists and potentially dangerous convicted felons. The children were deported to Haiti on Monday on two flights chartered by Ice from Laredo, Texas to the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince. The removals sent vulnerable infants back to Haiti as it is being roiled by major political unrest. Continue reading... |
| Mary Wilson, co-founder of the Supremes, dies aged 76 Posted: 09 Feb 2021 01:02 AM PST Singer with Motown band whose hits included Where Did Our Love Go? dies in Las Vegas Mary Wilson, the co-founder of the Motown band the Supremes, has died age 76. Wilson's publicist said she died suddenly at her Las Vegas home. No cause of death was given. The Motown founder, Berry Gordy, said he was "extremely shocked and saddened to hear of the passing of a major member of the Motown family". Continue reading... |
| Olympics volunteers resign over president's remarks about women Posted: 09 Feb 2021 01:25 AM PST Yoshiro Mori of Tokyo organising committee under growing pressure to step down as anger grows Hundreds of people who signed up to volunteer at the Tokyo Olympic Games have resigned in protest against derogatory remarks about women made by the Games' organising committee president, Yoshiro Mori. Mori is under increasing pressure to resign over his comments, which have prompted widespread anger and frustrated Tokyo's attempts to convince the world it can host the Games safely amid a global pandemic. Continue reading... |
| Twitter concerned for staff in India after row over account removals Posted: 09 Feb 2021 02:08 AM PST Company refused government request to remove more than 1,000 accounts linked to farmer protests Twitter has expressed concern for the safety of its employees in India after the company's refusal to comply with a demand from the Indian government to remove more than 1,000 accounts connected to the farmer protests in the country. In a statement, Twitter said it had reached out to the Indian government for a "formal dialogue" after the ministry of information and technology requested the removal of 1,178 listed Twitter handles it alleged were illicitly connected to Pakistan or the Sikh separatist Khalistan movement and spreading propaganda and misinformation. Continue reading... |
| Robinhood sued by family of stock trader who killed himself Posted: 09 Feb 2021 02:16 AM PST Alex Kearns ran in front of a train after being told of $730,000 loss he thought family would have to repay The family of a 20-year-old stock trader who killed himself have sued the broker Robinhood for his death, citing its "misleading communications" that caused their son to panic over what he wrongly believed were huge market losses. Robinhood notified Alex Kearns in June of what he thought was a $730,000 loss on a trade, and when he was unable to communicate with anyone at the company, the college student was thrown into a highly distressed mental state, the lawsuit stated. Continue reading... |
| Climate crisis pushing great white sharks into new waters Posted: 09 Feb 2021 02:00 AM PST Shift is caused by the heating of the oceans and other wildlife is suffering more attacks The climate crisis is pushing great white sharks into new waters where they are causing populations of endangered wildlife to plunge, new research has shown. Heating of the oceans, which reached a record level in 2020, has led young great white sharks to move 600km (373 miles) northwards off the coast of California since 2014, into waters that were previously too cold. Over that time there was a dramatic rise in sea otters killed by white sharks, with the number in Monterey Bay dropping by 86%. Continue reading... |
| Squawking bird blows the whistle on fake video trying to tilt Ecuador election Posted: 09 Feb 2021 02:00 AM PST A widely shared video appeared to show Colombian guerrillas backing a candidate – but an ornithologist spotted something awry An attempt to influence the Ecuadorian elections with a fake video purportedly showing leftwing guerrillas endorsing one of the candidates was thwarted by a ground-dwelling bird and a keen-eared ornithologist. In the video, shared on social media before the election's first round on Sunday, three masked and armed men stood before the red and black flag of the ELN – Colombia's largest remaining guerrilla force – and expressed their support for the leftist candidate Andrés Arauz. Continue reading... |
| Muslim families complain to UN over Sri Lankan Covid cremations Posted: 08 Feb 2021 09:00 PM PST Muslim Council of Great Britain brings case against policy preventing burials on unproven health grounds A group of Muslim families are launching a complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) about Sri Lanka's policy of enforced cremation of all those confirmed or suspected to have died with Covid, saying it breaches their religious rights and is causing "untold misery". The case seeking interim relief is being brought on behalf of the families by the Muslim Council of Great Britain and with the support of the British law firm Bindmans. It is alleged that the Sri Lankan government is enforcing hundreds of cremations despite international and Sri Lankan medical experts saying there is no evidence that Covid-19 is communicable from dead bodies. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 09 Feb 2021 02:15 AM PST Latest updates: health secretary expected to make a statement to MPs saying passengers arriving in UK must have two tests during isolation
Almost half the deaths registered in England in the week to 29 January were due to Covid, the highest proportion of any week since the pandemic began. Deaths involving Covid accounted for 46.2% of all deaths in England, according to the latest figures published by the Office for National Statistics this morning.
In interviews this morning George Eustice, the environment secretary, insisted that hotels would be ready for the introduction of the hotel quarantine rule for arrivals from high-risk countries from Monday next week - even though Downing Street said yesterday no contracts had yet been signed. He told the Today programme: My understanding is that officials in the Department for Health are in discussion with a range of operators about procuring those hotels, and they are confident that they will get the capacity needed for the policy to start next week. I don't really accept that. I think, ever since December when we started to see these other strains arriving, we have been incrementally strengthening our approach to the border. Continue reading... |
| A third of Covid patients put on ventilator report PTSD symptoms Posted: 08 Feb 2021 10:00 PM PST One in five admitted to hospital but with no ventilation had symptoms such as flashbacks, study finds One in three Covid patients put on a ventilator experience extensive symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, according to research, which adds to mounting evidence of the virus's impact on mental health. The study of 13,049 patients with confirmed or suspected coronavirus, by Imperial College London and the University of Southampton, found that one in five who were admitted to hospital but did not require a ventilator also experienced extensive symptoms of PTSD. Continue reading... |
| Facebook bans misinformation about all vaccines after years of controversy Posted: 08 Feb 2021 03:44 PM PST Company will remove posts with false claims and groups with repeated violations will be shut down Facebook has banned misinformation about all vaccines following years of harmful, unfounded health claims proliferating on its platform. As part of its policy on Covid-19-related misinformation, Facebook will now remove posts with false claims about all vaccines, the company announced in a blogpost on Monday. Continue reading... |
| Brazilian butt lift: behind the world's most dangerous cosmetic surgery Posted: 08 Feb 2021 10:00 PM PST The BBL is the fastest growing cosmetic surgery in the world, despite the mounting number of deaths resulting from the procedure. What is driving its astonishing rise? The quest was simple: Melissa wanted the perfect bottom. In her mind, it resembled a plump, ripe peach, like the emoji. She was already halfway there. In 2018, she'd had a Brazilian butt lift, known as a BBL, a surgical procedure in which fat is removed from various parts of the body and then injected back into the buttocks. Melissa's bottom was already rounder and fuller than before, and she was delighted by the effect, with how it made her feel and how it made her look. But it could be better. It could always be better. On a recent afternoon, Melissa visited the British aesthetic surgeon Dr Lucy Glancey for a consultation. Glancey had performed Melissa's first BBL at her clinic on the Essex-Suffolk borders, a suite of rooms boasting shining white cupboards, a full-length mirror and drawers stuffed with syringes. As she waited for Melissa to arrive, Glancey showed me a picture of Melissa on the beach in Dubai, wearing a palm-print bikini and posing in a kind of provocative crouch – arms, breasts, thighs and buttocks all arranged for optimum effect. "Look how good she looks," said Glancey, admiring Melissa and her own work. "I said to her, I don't see what else we can do." Continue reading... |
| ‘I thought buying things would make me feel better. It didn’t’: The rise of emotional spending Posted: 09 Feb 2021 02:00 AM PST Many of us are living for the buzz of the doorbell – spending billions we can't afford on stuff we don't need. Here is how to recognise the problem and regain control In the past fortnight, I have bought the following items online: a hideous cat tree that takes up most of my living room, a lavender pillow spray, two scarves, a pair of gloves, two candles, a sheet mask, a pair of fleece-lined jogging bottoms (so comfy!), a card-holder and an under-eye brightening cream. None of these purchases were essential. Many I haven't even taken out of the packaging, leaving them in a pile by the front door. Ten months into the pandemic, I know the rhythms of the courier networks better than I know my menstrual cycle. Royal Mail in the morning; DPD and Hermes in the afternoon. Amazon comes any time, including late at night. DPD couriers insist on taking a photo of you with the package, mortifyingly. I wonder where these photos go: me in a food-stained tracksuit, dirty-haired, holding an armful of packages I can't remember ordering with an abashed smile. I pray they never see the light of day. Continue reading... |
| 'I will never give up': Egypt's exiles still dream of democracy Posted: 08 Feb 2021 09:00 PM PST Those who rose up against dictatorship believe their example will inspire another generation Ten years ago they were overthrowing Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak. Now they are in exile in Britain, under threat of imprisonment by the military regime. For Cairo's revolutionaries, it has been a long journey of high hopes and broken dreams. "I was part of a historical moment," says Sayed, 39. He was working in the Middle East in December 2010 when Mohamed Bouazizi, a street vendor in Tunisia, set himself on fire in a protest against his treatment by local officials. Fuelled by social media coverage, the incident sparked protests around the region, including in Egypt, where crowds flocked to Tahrir Square in Cairo demanding the overthrow of Mubarak. Continue reading... |
| It’s time to start talking about kink – and take the shame away from it Posted: 09 Feb 2021 01:00 AM PST It wasn't long ago that kink was so forbidden as to go largely unmentioned. We hope our book will help in the work of destigmatizing kink by making it more visible It started in the fall of 2017. I was staying at an artists' residency in New Hampshire, and I was thinking about what it can mean to be afraid of one's own desires, to feel ashamed of what the body wants. I had just published a story in Playboy, Safeword, about a couple arranging a first-time session with a professional dominatrix. By then, I'd published short fiction for almost a decade, but the story was by far the most sexually explicit piece of fiction I'd written, and I'd tried to brace myself for the odd, hostile notes I would surely receive from titillated strangers. As it turned out, I did hear from a lot of readers, but the notes weren't hostile – instead, for the most part, people thanked me. The story had helped them feel less alone, they said. Continue reading... |
| The fabulous folly of Madagascar's Pangalanes canal Posted: 08 Feb 2021 10:30 PM PST In the late 19th century, French colonialists embarked on a madcap project to dig a channel eight times longer than the Panama Canal. These days it's a wild and weird home for the birds During this strange, cloistered year, I've been finishing off a book on Madagascar. With no view and no space, my mind has often wandered back to that island's gigantic landscapes. At nearly 1,000 miles long, the island has left me with a rich cache of memories: cactus deserts, long pale beaches, vast cathedral-like limestone formations (tsingys in Malagasy), and forests that plunge from 1,000 metres down to the sea. Continue reading... |
| I've spent most of my life in extreme poverty. I really want to see change Posted: 08 Feb 2021 11:15 PM PST Anthony Kalulu, a farmer in Uganda, says he has reason to doubt will to help the world's poorest after the pandemic Being poor, black and from sub-Saharan Africa is the hardest thing you can ever be. But that is what I am. Before Covid-19 came, extreme poverty had largely become a problem of only one part of the world – sub-Saharan Africa. According to the World Bank in 2018, the region was projected to host more than 90% of the world's extreme poor by 2030. Continue reading... |
| Mutation of Kent Covid variant discovered in Manchester Posted: 09 Feb 2021 01:29 AM PST Surge testing begins in parts of city after four cases of mutation found in two households in Moss Side Surge coronavirus testing will begin in parts of south Manchester on Tuesday after four cases of a mutation of the more transmissible Kent variant were detected in two unconnected households in the Moss Side area. Enhanced community testing will begin in parts of Hulme, Moss Side, Whalley Range and Fallowfield to try to limit the number of people exposed to the mutation and understand its spread. Continue reading... |
| Yorkshire lobster exporter says Brexit costs have forced it to close Posted: 08 Feb 2021 09:47 AM PST Government has not been straight with fishing industry, says Sam Baron of Baron Shellfish in Bridlington A lobster exporter who is winding up his 60-year-old family business has blamed the government for failing to be honest about Brexit red tape and hidden costs. Sam Baron, who worked alongside his father to set up Baron Shellfish in Bridlington, east Yorkshire, said the government had failed to be straight with the fishing industry. Continue reading... |
| Sydney officer was driving at 135km/h without siren or police lights before crash, court told Posted: 09 Feb 2021 01:01 AM PST Harry Thomas Little has pleaded not guilty to dangerous driving after his patrol car smashed into a grandmother's Mercedes A Sydney police officer was allegedly driving at 135km/h in a 70km/h zone without his siren or coloured lights on just before he crashed into a grandmother's car, leaving her with a severe brain injury, his trial has heard. Harry Thomas Little, 42, has pleaded not guilty to dangerous driving occasioning grievous bodily harm after his highway patrol car slammed into the driver's side of Sydney woman Gai Vieira's Mercedes in September 2018. Continue reading... |
| 'We're double-dipping': Trudeau pressured to speed vaccine distribution amid Covax backlash Posted: 09 Feb 2021 02:00 AM PST Government faces accusations it is taking Covid-fighting supplies intended for developing countries Justin Trudeau is facing growing pressure to speed up Canada's sluggish distribution of the coronavirus vaccine, as the country fends off accusations that it is taking supplies of the drug meant for developing countries. The federal government drew sharp criticism last week when it announced that it would draw on Covax, a mechanism created to fairly distribute Covid-19 around the world, for its supply of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Continue reading... |
| Rise in child abuse online threatens to overwhelm UK police, officers warn Posted: 09 Feb 2021 12:00 AM PST Exclusive: Sheer quantity of abusive material hindering detection while Facebook move to greater encryption is a further blow The vast, and growing, volume of child abuse material being created and shared online is threatening to overwhelm police efforts to tackle it, senior officers have told the Guardian. And the situation is likely to worsen, National Crime Agency (NCA) child abuse lead Rob Jones warned, if social media sites such as Facebook press ahead with further encryption of messaging services. Continue reading... |
| Autism in India: how a pioneering jobs scheme is opening up opportunities Posted: 08 Feb 2021 10:30 PM PST Company says adapting recruitment processes for neurodiverse groups disproportionately affected by unemployment has led to increased innovation Talking to people can be difficult for Rishabh Birla, but his last job demanded he did a lot of it. He has autism and finds making eye contact uncomfortable. For Birla, the rules of conversation are puzzling and he sometimes veers off course, alarming the other person. A 25-year-old postgraduate, Birla had been working at a cosmetics startup in Thane, not far from Mumbai. "The job involved communicating with different clients to keep track of their orders. It was exhausting to interact with so people every day," he says. Continue reading... |
| Trump prosecutors pitch to the public in made-for-TV impeachment trial Posted: 08 Feb 2021 11:02 PM PST Democrats hope harrowing audio and video from Capitol attack will make plain what no legal argument might deny The lethal Capitol invasion by Donald Trump supporters that is at the heart of the former president's second impeachment trial happened more than a month ago. But Democrats leading the prosecution of Trump are counting on an element of surprise. Surprise, the impeachment prosecutors are calculating, because while most Americans understand the broad outlines of what happened during the 6 January attack on the Capitol, relatively few have come to grips with the shocking audio and video footage from that day – portraying a cauldron of violence, vandalism, bloodlust and fear. Continue reading... |
| Matt Hancock almost blows it with a mention of borders and quarantine Posted: 08 Feb 2021 12:16 PM PST The health secretary tries to stay upbeat despite the bad news about the South African variant It had all been going so well. The government was on track to vaccinate the top four priority groups within the timeframe it had promised. Something that had astonished even Matt Hancock, one of the most naturally optimistic members of the cabinet. But then had come the bad news. Initial trials had suggested the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine didn't appear to be that effective against the South African variant of the coronavirus and it turned out no one had actually yet got round to agreeing any contracts with hotel chains for quarantining arrivals from countries on the government's red list. So it was a somewhat subdued – brittle even – health secretary who fronted Monday's Downing Street press conference. Hancock tried to remain upbeat but he's beginning to look frayed around the edges. A year of trying to hold it together, of being that glass-half-full guy, appears to have taken its toll. Outwardly he still looks like one of the first contestants to be thrown off The Apprentice, but his eyes are the giveaway. They are almost dead. Empty hollows. I'm not sure how much longer he can keep this up. Even Tiggers have their breaking point. Continue reading... |
| The phallic necktie is a symbol of outdated white male supremacy in our parliament | Claire Robinson Posted: 08 Feb 2021 09:00 AM PST A piece of clothing that descends from the codpiece and is designed to promulgate white male power should be optional Last week it was reported that the Speaker of the House, Trevor Mallard, had decided to keep the requirement that male MPs wear neckties in the New Zealand parliament's debating chamber after asking members of parliament to write to him about what constitutes appropriate business attire in the House. If there was ever a year to change New Zealand's anachronistic parliamentary dress code, it should be 2021, when the new parliament is the most diverse and inclusive ever, including 48% women, 11% LGBTQ, 21% Māori, 8.3% Pacific, and 7% Asian New Zealand members. Continue reading... |
| Myanmar protesters defy ban on gatherings to demonstrate against coup – video Posted: 09 Feb 2021 12:08 AM PST Police in Myanmar have fired water cannon into crowds of protestors who have taken to the street to demonstrate against the 1 February coup that overthrew the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. It is the fourth straight day of mass protest, despite the military banning gatherings of more than five people. Continue reading... |
| Senate leaders announce Trump impeachment trial rules – video Posted: 08 Feb 2021 05:09 PM PST On the eve of Donald Trump's impeachment trial on a charge of inciting the deadly US Capitol attack, Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority and minority leaders, have laid out the framework for the trial. 'All parties have agreed to a structure that will ensure a fair and honest Senate impeachment trial of the former president,' Schumer said. Each side will have 16 hours to present their arguments and the trial will break on Friday afternoon and resume on Sunday afternoon Continue reading... |
| South African Covid variant case numbers in UK 'very small' – video Posted: 08 Feb 2021 11:56 AM PST Prof Jonathan Van-Tam has said that people should not be concerned about reports that early results suggest the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine has only 10% efficacy against the South African variant of coronavirus. Speaking at the Downing Street press conference on Monday, England's deputy chief medical officer said UK case numbers of the variant are 'very small', meaning it is unlikely to become dominant in the UK, and urged people to get vaccinated. Continue reading... |
| Storm Darcy brings heavy snow and travel disruption to Europe – video Posted: 08 Feb 2021 06:17 AM PST Authorities in the Netherlands declared a rare 'code red' emergency for the entire country as it was hit by its first proper snowstorm in more than a decade. In the UK, amber and yellow weather warnings for snow were issued by the Met Office with widespread travel problems expected
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| Myanmar coup protests grow – in pictures Posted: 08 Feb 2021 02:11 AM PST Huge crowds of protesters have marched in towns and cities across Myanmar in the largest show of popular defiance so far following the military coup a week ago Continue reading... |
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