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- Coronavirus live news: US officials question AstraZeneca trial; Merkel backs EU chief on vaccine exports
- Colorado shooting: police officer among multiple people killed at Boulder supermarket
- Israelis vote in fourth national election in two years
- Cern experiment hints at new force of nature
- Nicola Sturgeon accused of misleading parliament over Alex Salmond
- Open season in Sudan as trophy hunters flock to shoot rare ibex
- Polish writer charged for calling president a 'moron'
- Rio Tinto pledges to protect cultural heritage after Juukan Gorge disaster
- China bomb attack kills four in suspected protest over development
- 'We made a mistake': Dark Mofo pulls the plug on 'deeply harmful' Indigenous blood work
- 'I've lost who I was': UK pauses to reflect on year of Covid
- Coming of age in a pandemic: 24 photography exhibition 2021 – in pictures
- Alone in Oman: Covid worsens abuse for trafficked women
- Dexamethasone hailed as lifesaver for up to a million Covid patients worldwide
- Liquid gold: beekeepers defying Yemen war to produce the best honey
- Chariots of steel: Barcelona's hidden army of scrap recyclers
- Beyond the Snyder cut: the other mythical films we're curious to see
- Can anyone become an NFT collector? I tried it to find out
- Serpentwithfeet: ‘Nobody can take my joy. Not the government, not a random white person'
- These animated graphs show how extreme NSW's record-breaking flooding and rainfall is
- 'I couldn't help anybody': Colorado witnesses describe terror as shots rang out
- Young mothers pin hopes on the American dream – in pictures
- Warning to Google after advertiser used search engine to mislead investors
- Targeting New Zealand's property speculators is popular, but won't fix the housing crisis
- I had a narrow escape from Fred West. Knowing you're prey is an ever-present fear for women | Sally J Morgan
- Can the UK avoid a third wave of Covid?
- Covid-19: what happens next? – podcast
- Colorado shooting: Multiple fatalities at Boulder supermarket – video
| Posted: 23 Mar 2021 01:53 AM PDT US health officials say AstraZeneca may have provided incomplete efficacy data from latest Covid-19 trial; WHO criticises Covid vaccine gap as a 'moral outrage'; Merkel supports AstraZeneca export ban threat
Russia and China have rejected accusations they are using coronavirus vaccines to project their influence around the world. AFP reports: Speaking to reporters after talks with Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov insisted that both countries were guided by principles of "humanity" rather than geopolitical interests. "Russia and China have been models of openness, cooperation, and mutual assistance," Lavrov said in the southern Chinese city of Guilin in comments released by his ministry.
The Covax vaccine-sharing scheme will set aside 5% of the vaccine doses it procures to be used as a "buffer" in humanitarian settings or in the case of severe outbreaks. Reuters reports: The GAVI Alliance said that amounts to up to 100m vaccine doses by the end of 2021. Continue reading... |
| Colorado shooting: police officer among multiple people killed at Boulder supermarket Posted: 22 Mar 2021 08:27 PM PDT
A shooting at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, has killed 10 people, including one police officer, authorities said on Monday. The Boulder police chief, Maris Herold, announced the death toll at a news conference Monday night, fighting back tears. Continue reading... |
| Israelis vote in fourth national election in two years Posted: 22 Mar 2021 10:00 PM PDT Netanyahu's Likud party is ahead in polls, but predictions are unreliable as many voters remain undecided Israelis are voting in their fourth national election in two years, the result of an unprecedented political deadlock that has seen the country's longest-serving leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, face off against multiple rivals. This time round, the prime minister is hoping that voters will credit him for a world-beating coronavirus vaccination campaign that has seen Israel reopen shops, bar and restaurants while simultaneously pushing down infection rates. Continue reading... |
| Cern experiment hints at new force of nature Posted: 23 Mar 2021 01:05 AM PDT Experts reveal 'cautious excitement' over unstable particles that fail to decay as standard model suggests Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva have spotted an unusual signal in their data that may be the first hint of a new kind of physics. The LHCb collaboration, one of four main teams at the LHC, analysed 10 years of data on how unstable particles called B mesons, created momentarily in the vast machine, decayed into more familiar matter such as electrons. Continue reading... |
| Nicola Sturgeon accused of misleading parliament over Alex Salmond Posted: 23 Mar 2021 01:05 AM PDT Holyrood committee highly critical of Scottish first minister's accounts of meeting with former mentor Nicola Sturgeon has been accused of misleading the Scottish parliament over her dealings with Alex Salmond, but not knowingly, in a highly critical report by MSPs. A specially convened Holyrood committee voted by a 5-4 margin to find the first minister had misled parliament over her accounts of a meeting with Salmond, her former mentor, in April 2018. Continue reading... |
| Open season in Sudan as trophy hunters flock to shoot rare ibex Posted: 23 Mar 2021 12:30 AM PDT Conservationists fear for endangered Nubian ibex in Sudan as westerners sold permits to hunt Sudanese conservationists have accused trophy hunters of exploiting the country's political transition to hunt the country's unprotected rare animals. Photographs posted online of westerners posing with the body of a rare Nubian ibex angered Sudanese wildlife campaigners this week. They called for Facebook to remove the pages of tour groups promoting such hunts. Continue reading... |
| Polish writer charged for calling president a 'moron' Posted: 23 Mar 2021 01:22 AM PDT Jakub Żulczyk faces possible prison term for insulting Andrzej Duda over his comments on Biden election win A Polish writer faces a possible prison sentence for insulting President Andrzej Duda by calling him a "moron" over comments the latter made about Joe Biden's US election victory. Jakub Żulczyk, the screenwriter behind the popular TV series Blinded by the Lights and Belfer, said prosecutors had charged him under an article in the criminal code for insulting the head of state in a Facebook post. Continue reading... |
| Rio Tinto pledges to protect cultural heritage after Juukan Gorge disaster Posted: 23 Mar 2021 12:02 AM PDT Chief executive Jakob Stausholm says he will make heritage protection be 'felt in the hearts and minds' of his employees Rio Tinto chief executive Jakob Stausholm has pledged to make protecting cultural heritage an issue which is "felt in the hearts and minds" of his employees in an effort to avoid another Juukan Gorge-style disaster. The mining company on Tuesday announced it would publicly report to investors on its progress on improving cultural heritage systems and renewing trust with traditional owners, as it attempts to rebuild its shattered social capital. Continue reading... |
| China bomb attack kills four in suspected protest over development Posted: 22 Mar 2021 11:49 PM PDT Attack at office that makes decisions on land use comes after officials gave 270 acres to a developer, prompting the relocation of farmers Four people were killed when a man detonated a homemade bomb in a village government office in southern China, authorities said, in a rare act of violent social protest. A 59-year-old man suspected of being responsible for the explosive device was also killed in the explosion, local police said on their official Weibo account, adding that five people were wounded in the blast. Continue reading... |
| 'We made a mistake': Dark Mofo pulls the plug on 'deeply harmful' Indigenous blood work Posted: 22 Mar 2021 08:47 PM PDT The Tasmanian festival renowned for pushing artistic boundaries has admitted that this time it may have gone too far Tasmania's Dark Mofo festival has cancelled one of the key works planned for the June event and apologised, after a social media backlash led by Indigenous artists around Australia. On Tuesday afternoon organisers of the winter festival, which is run by the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona), announced that the work by Spanish artist Santiago Sierra – in which he planned to immerse a Union Flag into the donated blood of Indigenous people, as a statement "against colonialism" – would no longer go ahead. Continue reading... |
| 'I've lost who I was': UK pauses to reflect on year of Covid Posted: 22 Mar 2021 10:00 PM PDT Twelve months after the first lockdown, bereaved relatives and long Covid survivors on how things can never be the same A year to the day since the UK went into a historic lockdown to combat a frightening and deadly new pandemic, the nation looks back in disbelief and horror. One hundred and twenty six thousand dead. A decimated economy. The reckoning will take decades to pick over. Tuesday's day of reflection, organised by the cancer charity Marie Curie and backed by over 110 organisations, will be observed across the nation. A minute's silence at midday is followed by a doorstep vigil at 8pm. Boris Johnson, Keir Starmer, Nicola Sturgeon and Mark Drakeford are expected to mark the occasion. Prominent buildings and national landmarks will be illuminated in yellow, to commemorate the dead. Continue reading... |
| Coming of age in a pandemic: 24 photography exhibition 2021 – in pictures Posted: 23 Mar 2021 12:00 AM PDT Eighteen years ago, 24 photographers agreed to document New Year's Day for 24 years. Each was allocated one hour of the day to record what was going on around them and each moves forward one hour every year. Here is a selection of their work, which will be displayed in Soho Square, London, from 24 March until 16 April at one of the first exhibitions to reopen in the UK after a series of coronavirus lockdowns Continue reading... |
| Alone in Oman: Covid worsens abuse for trafficked women Posted: 23 Mar 2021 01:30 AM PDT Women from Sierra Leone tricked into servitude find themselves sold on under Gulf's kafala system Isha knew she was in trouble when her passport was snatched from her hands. The 27-year-old from Sierra Leone had just arrived in the Omani capital, Muscat, believing she was to start a well-paid job at a restaurant. Instead, her recruitment agent bundled her into a car and drove her to a house where she was told she would be working as a live-in maid. "My agent told me he could take my passport because he had bought me," she says. "I was confused. How can you buy a human being?" Continue reading... |
| Dexamethasone hailed as lifesaver for up to a million Covid patients worldwide Posted: 22 Mar 2021 05:01 PM PDT Results of Recovery drug trial also credited with successful treatment of 22,000 people in the UK, says NHS England Dexamethasone – the inexpensive steroid that quickly emerged as a highly effective Covid therapy thanks to a large drug testing programme pioneered by UK scientists – has so far saved the lives of an estimated million people globally, including 22,000 in the UK, according to NHS England. Called Recovery, the world's largest randomised Covid-19 drug trial commenced in March 2020 to evaluate the suitability of a suite of different drugs to help hospitalised Covid patients. The study has since been carried out by thousands of doctors and nurses on tens of thousands of patients in hospitals across Britain. Continue reading... |
| Liquid gold: beekeepers defying Yemen war to produce the best honey Posted: 22 Mar 2021 10:00 PM PDT Despite the dangers, more Yemenis are turning to the sector as an alternative means of income According to the Qur'an a lone sidr tree, or jujube, marks the highest boundary of heaven. On earth, amid the harshness of the Yemeni desert, the sweetness of sidr honey is cherished as a symbol of perseverance. Yemen has long been renowned for producing some of the best honey in the world, often compared to Mānuka honey from New Zealand. Some of the highest quality, and purest, comes from bees fed exclusively on the flowers of the sidr, producing a pale coloured honey with a fiery, almost bitter aftertaste. Continue reading... |
| Chariots of steel: Barcelona's hidden army of scrap recyclers Posted: 23 Mar 2021 01:00 AM PDT Thousands of migrants play a key role in collecting Catalonia's waste but must live on the margins They are everywhere and yet they are almost invisible, living below the social radar as they crisscross the city pushing supermarket trolleys piled with metal tubing, old microwaves and empty beer cans. The chatarreros are Barcelona's itinerant scrap-metal collectors, and there are thousands of them. Most are undocumented migrants and so there is no official census, but Federico Demaria, a social scientist at the University of Barcelona who is conducting a study of the informal recyclers in Catalonia, believes there are between 50,000 and 100,000 in the region. About half are from sub-Saharan Africa; the rest are from eastern Europe, elsewhere in Africa and Spain. Continue reading... |
| Beyond the Snyder cut: the other mythical films we're curious to see Posted: 22 Mar 2021 11:27 PM PDT From an R-rated Mrs Doubtfire to an ultra-violent Event Horizon, film history is littered with rumours of cuts that may or may not exist Snyder Cut fever has taken over America, with streaming viewers responding to the reinstatement of one man's unchecked vision over the mucking-about from interferers at the studio. The shifting fate of Justice League retells an old showbiz narrative – talent v industry – with a heartening victory for the David of the dynamic, as the global conglomerate yields to the ceaseless requests of a vast and ardent fanbase. But more frequently, the money-men win out and get their way in edits, wresting control from the creators for the sake of marketability. Below, we've surveyed eight of the most prominent stories in this vein, tales of mythical cuts without an army of devotees to force them into release. Tinkered with for the sake of length, profit and taste both good and bad, they're playing in an exclusive engagement in the public imagination. Continue reading... |
| Can anyone become an NFT collector? I tried it to find out Posted: 23 Mar 2021 02:00 AM PDT This year non-fungible tokens burst into the mainstream after several digital images and animations sold for absurd amounts – so I entered the world of NFTs myself For years, I've kept an ever-growing record of interesting pictures I discover online in a folder entitled Images on my desktop: a fox sauntering through an art gallery; a pixelated rendering of a Tokyo streetscape; Jon Bon Jovi doing yoga. They're sentimental reminders of things I've seen online, but I am under no illusion that I somehow own these images. They come from the internet and can be copied, shared and experienced by many people all at once. My collection really is worthless to anyone but me. Related: Art, amulets and cryptokitties: the new frontier of cryptocurrencies Continue reading... |
| Serpentwithfeet: ‘Nobody can take my joy. Not the government, not a random white person' Posted: 23 Mar 2021 02:00 AM PDT With his new album, Deacon, the US singer-songwriter has finally left heartbreak and anger behind. It's been a journey Across the long stretch of the pandemic, with formal face-to-face interviews replaced by cosy conversations over phones and laptops, we have become used to images of kitchens, living rooms and carefully selected bookshelves. For today's conversation, though, singer-songwriter Serpentwithfeet has offered up a far more novel setting in the current locked-down climate: an airport. After struggling to connect, he appears, most of his face covered with a mask, his neck tattoos just visible through the compressed video image. "Can you hear me?" he asks, before a disembodied voice interrupts to announce that a flight is now boarding. Related: The Guide: Staying In – sign up for our home entertainment tips Continue reading... |
| These animated graphs show how extreme NSW's record-breaking flooding and rainfall is Posted: 22 Mar 2021 06:08 PM PDT Here, you can see the flooding and rainfall in context with historical data, with some areas breaking longstanding records for river heights Flooding in NSW has forced the evacuation of at least 18,000 people, with areas on the mid-north coast receiving as much as 890mm of rain in the past week. The flooding on the mid-north coast is the worst since 1929, according to the emergency services minister, David Elliot. Continue reading... |
| 'I couldn't help anybody': Colorado witnesses describe terror as shots rang out Posted: 22 Mar 2021 11:40 PM PDT Store customers describe heartache of not being able to help some of the victims Shoppers and staff have described their terror as they fled for their lives when a gunman opened fire in a Colorado supermarket. Sarah Moonshadow, 42, a customer and resident of Boulder, was in the store with her son, Nicholas, on Monday and recounted scenes of pandemonium as gunfire rang out. Continue reading... |
| Young mothers pin hopes on the American dream – in pictures Posted: 23 Mar 2021 12:00 AM PDT Dozens of families pass daily through the Brownsville immigration depot in Texas, nearly all women with small children, telling the same story. They make their way north from Central America through Mexico hoping for jobs in the US that are often on the bottom rung of the economic ladder, but better than anything back home, and leaving leaving behind endemic violence. Paul Handley documents their plight Continue reading... |
| Warning to Google after advertiser used search engine to mislead investors Posted: 23 Mar 2021 01:18 AM PDT Australians deceived into risking nest eggs after clicking on Mayfair 101 sponsored links, court rules The corporate regulator has warned Google to carefully consider the implications of a court decision that found people were misled into tipping money into high-risk investments after following sponsored links in search results. In a decision handed down on Tuesday, the federal court judge Stewart Anderson found the search ad campaign formed part of a broader pattern of misleading and deceptive conduct by Mayfair 101, an investment company best known for buying Queensland's Dunk Island. Continue reading... |
| Targeting New Zealand's property speculators is popular, but won't fix the housing crisis Posted: 22 Mar 2021 11:02 PM PDT Jacinda Ardern's announcement will hit investors hard, but more needs to be done Property speculators have become public enemy number one in New Zealand's rampant housing affordability crisis. Those buying, selling and renting out multiple properties have become wealthy at the expense of those in the middle and at the bottom of the market, who are paying high rents and struggling to afford to buy decent housing. It is no surprise therefore that the housing announcement by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her colleagues on Tuesday was firmly focused on reigning in those investors driving up the prices – with the most significant elements of the package designed to hit investors with increased tax responsibilities. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 22 Mar 2021 12:00 PM PDT Young women quickly come to realise that our world is a very different place from that of our male friends Creatures that are hunted need survival strategies. I watched a video clip of a cat seeing off a black bear. Despite the ridiculous size difference, the cat flies at the bear – all ferocity and flashing claws. Small animals turn fear into rage, and sometimes – only sometimes – rage saves them. These thoughts come to me in the quiet garden of my Wellington home. Sexual assaults have increased in this city by 50% over the past five years. In the news, I read about an appalling killing in London. Women protesting, holding vigils and being beaten by the police as "activists". Continue reading... |
| Can the UK avoid a third wave of Covid? Posted: 22 Mar 2021 11:05 AM PDT Analysis: as lockdown restrictions ease, the country now faces a race between vaccination and infection Britain's latest lockdown has dramatically reduced cases of coronavirus, and the number of people being admitted to hospital and dying from the disease. What the country faces now is essentially a race between vaccination and infection: can we protect people faster than the virus spreads as restrictions are eased? This was always going to be a balancing act. The UK vaccination strategy of prioritising the most vulnerable people and moving down the age groups is intended to save lives first and slow transmission second. This means that as the country unlocks, infections are likely to rise, primarily in younger people who have more social contacts and have not yet been vaccinated. Hospitalisations and deaths are expected to rise too, though not as sharply: even though vaccine coverage has been high in vulnerable groups and older people, not everyone has the vaccine and it will not protect all those who do. Continue reading... |
| Covid-19: what happens next? – podcast Posted: 22 Mar 2021 10:00 PM PDT On 23 March 2020, the UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, announced the first lockdown in response to the growing number of cases of Covid-19. At the same time, countries around the world began to close their schools, restaurants, and offices and ask citizens to physically distance from one another. In the 12 months since, more than 2 million people have died, viral variants have emerged, and we have developed safe and effective vaccines. One year into the pandemic, Science Weekly is asking: what happens next? Ian Sample talks to the professors Martin Landray, Mike Tildesley, and Deborah Dunn-Walters about Covid treatments, vaccines and what the next 12 months may hold Continue reading... |
| Colorado shooting: Multiple fatalities at Boulder supermarket – video Posted: 22 Mar 2021 09:14 PM PDT A gunman has killed at least 10 people including a police officer at a supermarket in Colorado on Monday 22 March 2021. Commander Kerry Yamaguchi of the Boulder police department addresses the media, saying the shooter is being held in custody and was injured. Continue reading... |
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