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- Myanmar: Dozens reported killed after military says protesters could be 'shot in the head'
- Suez Canal: Biden offers help as some vessels head for Cape of Good Hope
- 'Jim Crow in the 21st century': Biden denounces Georgia Republicans over new voting law
- Much-feared asteroid Apophis won't hit Earth for at least 100 years, Nasa says
- France claims UK will struggle to source second Covid jabs
- Australia threatens to take China to WTO and backs Boris Johnson's stance on Uighur abuses
- Joe Biden invites 40 world leaders to virtual summit on climate crisis
- Mozambique: 180 workers trapped in hotel amid insurgent attack
- Editor of top US medical journal put on leave amid outcry over racism podcast
- Russian conservationists hail rare sighting of Amur leopard with cubs
- French monks locked down with 2.8 tonnes of cheese pray for buyers
- Coronavirus live news: UK over-70s could start getting booster jabs in September, Czech government extends state of emergency
- 'Vaccine prince': the Indian billionaire set to make Covid jabs for the UK
- Forgotten how to socialise? Here's your post-lockdown primer
- 'It's impossible': Spain's flamenco bars face an existential threat
- Charlotte Rampling: ‘I am prickly. People who are prickly can’t be hurt any more’
- 'India's soul at stake': Bengalis vote in divisive election
- Blind date: ‘Describe him in three words? Better suited elsewhere’
- Maggie O'Farrell: ‘Severe illness refigures you – it’s like passing through a fire’
- Protests at 'inhumane' export of live horses to Japan for food
- Scandal! Horror! Biden's press-briefing notes prompt rightwing outrage
- Met police investigate abuse reports from anti-rape culture website
- 'The earlier you act, the more impact': how Seattle tech industry led on Covid
- Queensland Covid hotspots: list of Brisbane and regional Qld coronavirus case locations
- Covid third wave may overrun Africa's healthcare, warns WHO
- 'Bangladesh has come a long way': people of Dhaka on half a century of independence
- The making of a megacity: how Dhaka transformed in 50 years of Bangladesh
- Capitol insurrection charges highlight white supremacists in US military
- 'Look at the children': Dozens killed in train crash in southern Egypt – video
- Raab: Chinese sanctions will not stop UK 'speaking up' on abuse of Uighurs – video
| Myanmar: Dozens reported killed after military says protesters could be 'shot in the head' Posted: 26 Mar 2021 11:35 PM PDT Demonstrators defy threats from the military to turn out on Saturday as the country's generals mark Armed Forces Day Myanmar's security forces have shot and killed at least 50 people across the country, local media reported, as the leader of the ruling junta said the military would protect the people and strive for democracy. Protesters against the 1 February military coup came out on the streets of Yangon, Mandalay and other towns on Saturday, defying a warning that they could be shot "in the head and back" as the country's generals celebrated Armed Forces Day. Continue reading... |
| Suez Canal: Biden offers help as some vessels head for Cape of Good Hope Posted: 26 Mar 2021 09:34 PM PDT US president offers US equipment to help free the Ever Given, as shipping company Maersk begins rerouting cargo Joe Biden has said the US is looking at what it can do to help free the 400-metre container ship Ever Given from its position blocking the Suez canal as the trade route crisis stretched into a fifth day. "We have equipment and capacity that most countries don't have. And we are seeing what help we can be," the US president said on Friday in Delaware. His comments came after a US official said the navy was prepared to send a team of dredging experts to the canal, but was awaiting approval from local authorities. Continue reading... |
| 'Jim Crow in the 21st century': Biden denounces Georgia Republicans over new voting law Posted: 26 Mar 2021 12:32 PM PDT President says new law represents 'blatant attack on the constitution' as voting rights activists vow to keep up the fight Joe Biden lambasted a new law in Georgia that imposes sweeping new voting restrictions, calling it "un-American" and "Jim Crow in the 21st century". He said in a statement: "Instead of celebrating the rights of all Georgians to vote or winning campaigns on the merits of their ideas, Republicans in the state instead rushed through an un-American law to deny people the right to vote. This law, like so many others being pursued by Republicans in statehouses across the country, is a blatant attack on the constitution and good conscience." Continue reading... |
| Much-feared asteroid Apophis won't hit Earth for at least 100 years, Nasa says Posted: 26 Mar 2021 08:30 PM PDT Chunk of space rock was once the 'poster child for hazardous asteroids' but it will be a while before humans need to worry about it again Nasa has given Earth the all clear on the chances of an asteroid called Apophis hitting our planet any time in the next century, having worried space scientists for over 15 years. The 340-metre (1,100ft) chunk of space rock hit the headlines in 2004 after its discovery led to some worrying forecasts about its orbit. It became a "poster child for hazardous asteroids", according to one Nasa expert. Continue reading... |
| France claims UK will struggle to source second Covid jabs Posted: 26 Mar 2021 10:19 AM PDT EU will not be blackmailed over Oxford/AstraZeneca doses, says foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian The war of words with the EU over vaccines has escalated as France's foreign minister claimed Britain will struggle to source second Covid jabs but that Brussels would not be "blackmailed" into exporting doses to solve the problem. Jean-Yves Le Drian, a close political ally of the French president, Emmanuel Macron, claimed that the UK's success had been built on driving forward with first jabs without having secured the second doses necessary for full vaccination. Continue reading... |
| Australia threatens to take China to WTO and backs Boris Johnson's stance on Uighur abuses Posted: 26 Mar 2021 08:51 PM PDT Scott Morrison says China's 116.2% to 218.4% levies on Australia's wine imports are 'retaliation' Australia's trade minister threatened to take China to the World Trade Organization on Saturday over its "unjustifiable" decision to increase duties on Australian wine imports for up to five years. Related: Australia and New Zealand welcome sanctions on China over Uighur abuses but impose none of their own Continue reading... |
| Joe Biden invites 40 world leaders to virtual summit on climate crisis Posted: 26 Mar 2021 07:09 PM PDT Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin among invitees as US heralds return to forefront of climate fight Joe Biden has invited 40 world leaders to a virtual summit on the climate crisis, the White House said in a statement on Friday. Heads of state, including Xi Jinping of China and Russia's Vladimir Putin, have been asked to attend the two-day meeting meant to mark Washington's return to the front lines of the fight against human-caused climate change, after Donald Trump disengaged from the process. Continue reading... |
| Mozambique: 180 workers trapped in hotel amid insurgent attack Posted: 26 Mar 2021 03:50 PM PDT Military tries to airlift people to safety from strategic port town of Palma, near Total gas project More than 180 people, including expatriate workers, have been trapped inside a hotel in a northern Mozambique town under attack by insurgents for three days. The military was trying on Friday to airlift the workers to safety from Palma town which is situated near the multibillion-dollar gas site on the Afungi peninsula in Cabo Delgado province, according to the trapped workers. Continue reading... |
| Editor of top US medical journal put on leave amid outcry over racism podcast Posted: 26 Mar 2021 10:28 AM PDT Jama's Howard Bauchner replaced by interim editor after 'offensive' remarks by deputy on podcast about structural racism The editor-in-chief of Jama, the Journal of the American Medical Association, has been placed on leave amid controversy over comments about structural racism made on a podcast by one of his deputies. The New York Times reported that the American Medical Association told staff on Thursday Dr Howard Bauchner would be replaced by an interim editor while an investigation was carried out. Continue reading... |
| Russian conservationists hail rare sighting of Amur leopard with cubs Posted: 26 Mar 2021 09:27 AM PDT Sighting in Primorye region said to show success of fight against poachers and steps to boost species population Russian conservationists have hailed a rare sighting of an Amur leopard mother with three cubs in the far-eastern region of Primorye as proof of the efficiency of the country's efforts to boost the population of the endangered species. Scientists in a Russian national park in Primorye on the border with China obtained the images using a remote camera trap. The video footage shows the feline family standing on top of a hill in the Land of the Leopard national park. Continue reading... |
| French monks locked down with 2.8 tonnes of cheese pray for buyers Posted: 26 Mar 2021 08:52 AM PDT Raw-milk product normally sold only to restaurants or visitors to Cîteaux Abbey is marketed online A French monastery in the heart of Burgundy has launched an emergency online sale to get rid of thousands of its artisanal cheeses, which are languishing in its cellars as Covid-19 keeps buyers away. The Cîteaux Abbey, just south of Dijon, birthplace of the Cistercian Catholic order, usually sells its raw-milk, semi-soft discs only to restaurants or visitors to its on-site shop. But a drop in demand since the coronavirus crisis erupted last year has left the abbey's 19 Trappist monks with 4,000 cheeses too many, a 2.8-tonne problem. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 27 Mar 2021 02:10 AM PDT Vaccines minister says first booster doses will go to the top four priority groups, which includes care home staff, NHS workers and clinically extremely vulnerable
Ministers should use "slightly more measured language" to encourage people to come out of lockdown rather than "flipping from one extreme to the other", infectious diseases expert Dr Mike Tildesley has said after the UK chancellor urged people to "get out there" when hospitality reopens. Dr Tildesley, a member of the Spi-M modelling group which advises the government, compared Rishi Sunak's latest comment with the "eat out to help out" scheme, which may have caused a sixth of new Covid case clusters over the summer. We need to be really careful with this, we had it similarly with the Eat Out To Help Out - there was a big switch last summer from 'it is your duty to stay at home' all of a sudden to it being your duty to go to the pub. I totally understand the need to reinvigorate the economy, but I think we need slightly more measured language here, to encourage people to do that, but to do it within the rules, to make sure that we observe social distancing.
Russia has recorded 8,885 new coronavirus cases over 24 hours, including 1,551 new cases in Moscow, and 387 deaths nationwide, Reuters reports. This compares with 9,548 infections and 386 deaths reported last Saturday. Continue reading... |
| 'Vaccine prince': the Indian billionaire set to make Covid jabs for the UK Posted: 27 Mar 2021 01:00 AM PDT Serum Institute boss Adar Poonawalla has rented a Mayfair mansion for £50,000 a week The AstraZeneca vaccine has made Prof Sarah Gilbert – who led the Oxford team that created it – one of the UK's most famous modern scientists and turned the Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company into a household name. But almost half of all the AstraZeneca shots, destined for the arms of hundreds of millions of people around the world, are being produced by a 40-year-old Indian billionaire with a penchant for private jets and Picassos. Continue reading... |
| Forgotten how to socialise? Here's your post-lockdown primer Posted: 27 Mar 2021 12:00 AM PDT Six ways to bring some pizzazz to those first socially distanced interactions as restrictions are lifted From Monday in England, people from two households will be permitted to meet outdoors in groups of up to six, including in private gardens. While this is exciting, it may also be a little daunting – many of us will have forgotten how to socialise normally during the long months of lockdown. Here's a quick refresher course on the art of making conversation under current guidelines: Continue reading... |
| 'It's impossible': Spain's flamenco bars face an existential threat Posted: 27 Mar 2021 01:00 AM PDT Plummeting audience numbers fuel calls for government assistance as famed tablaos struggle to survive A little after 7.30pm on Wednesday night, a small crowd gathered in a dark, brick-lined bar in central Madrid to sit at candlelit, socially-distanced tables and lose themselves for an hour in the sweat, shouts and blurred hands, hems and heels of a flamenco show. The 16 people in the audience at the Cardamomo tablao, or flamenco venue, were in luck – but then so were the eight performers on stage. Neither flamenco's iconic place in Spanish culture nor its global status as part of Unesco's list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity has spared it the pains and penalties of the Covid pandemic. Continue reading... |
| Charlotte Rampling: ‘I am prickly. People who are prickly can’t be hurt any more’ Posted: 27 Mar 2021 01:00 AM PDT She's best known for her dark, difficult roles, and doesn't suffer fools gladly. The actor talks about swinging in the 60s, family tragedy – and why she's still got It 'That photoshoot was such fun," Charlotte Rampling says. "I was pinging." "You were pinging?" Continue reading... |
| 'India's soul at stake': Bengalis vote in divisive election Posted: 26 Mar 2021 10:52 AM PDT Tensions between Muslims and Hindus high as Modi's BJP shows it could win state of West Bengal for first time In the sleepy, swampy surroundings of Nandigram, West Bengal, where mango and coconut trees grow in abundance, bicycles meander down dusty lanes and ponds fester with green algae, a vicious political showdown has been brewing. West Bengal, one of India's most populous states, will begin voting in its elections on Saturday to elect its state government. The significance of the poll, however, spreads far beyond the state's borders. "The soul of not just Bengal but India is at stake," said Malay Tewari, a Bengali social activist. Continue reading... |
| Blind date: ‘Describe him in three words? Better suited elsewhere’ Posted: 26 Mar 2021 11:00 PM PDT Nicki, 26, charity worker, meets Kris, 29, musician What were you hoping for? |
| Maggie O'Farrell: ‘Severe illness refigures you – it’s like passing through a fire’ Posted: 27 Mar 2021 02:00 AM PDT The Women's prize winner reflects on the life‑threatening virus that shaped her writing, the superstitions that held her back, and why her prize-winning novel Hamnet speaks to our times Maggie O'Farrell found the prospect of writing the central scenes of her prize-winning novel Hamnet, in which a mother sits helplessly by the bedside of her dying son, so traumatic that she couldn't write them in the house. Instead, she had to escape to the shed, and "not a smart writing shed like Philip Pullman's", she says, "but a really disgusting, spidery, manky potting shed, which has since blown down in a gale". And she could only do it in short bursts of 15 or 20 minutes before she would have to take a walk around the garden, and then go back in again. The novel, a fictionalised account of the death of Shakespeare's only son from the bubonic plague (his twin sister Judith survived) and an at times almost unbearably tender portrayal of grief, was first published a year ago. An interlude halfway through, which follows the journey of the plague in 1595 from a flea on a monkey in Alexandria to a cabin boy back to London and eventually to Stratford, was referred to by an American journalist as "the contact tracing chapter". "It certainly wasn't conceived as that when I wrote it," the author says of the extraordinary coincidence of her novel, set more than 400 years ago, landing in the middle of the pandemic, not least because she delayed writing it for decades. Continue reading... |
| Protests at 'inhumane' export of live horses to Japan for food Posted: 27 Mar 2021 12:00 AM PDT Activists seek ban on flying horses to Japan with thousands sent every year from Canada and France Tens of thousands of horses are being subjected to long-haul flights, confined in crates with no food or water, to meet demand for horsemeat in Japan. Since 2013, about 40,000 live horses have been flown to Japan from airports in western Canada. Under Canadian regulations, the journey can stretch up to 28 hours, during which the animals are allowed to go without food, water or rest. Continue reading... |
| Scandal! Horror! Biden's press-briefing notes prompt rightwing outrage Posted: 26 Mar 2021 11:31 AM PDT Fox News got exercised about the president taking cues on Thursday – but there's nothing wrong with being prepared Joe Biden's first press conference has caused some strong reactions from the conservative side of the aisle after he was caught … reading notes. On Thursday night, Fox News dedicated considerable time covering just how long Biden took to hold his first press conference – 49 days! Continue reading... |
| Met police investigate abuse reports from anti-rape culture website Posted: 27 Mar 2021 01:59 AM PDT Force receives multiple reports of offences after reviewing testimonies on Everyone's Invited website The Metropolitan police has said it has received multiple reports of offences after reviewing a website featuring anonymous submissions of "misogyny, harassment, abuse and assault". Scotland Yard said it has reviewed testimonies on the Everyone's Invited website, a site where people can anonymously share their experiences of abuse. Continue reading... |
| 'The earlier you act, the more impact': how Seattle tech industry led on Covid Posted: 27 Mar 2021 02:00 AM PDT Technology companies rallied to apply their expertise as King county went from the US center of the pandemic to one of the country's lowest death rates Last year, four days after the first recorded Covid-19 death in the United States was reported in Kirkland, Washington, just east of Seattle, Microsoft leaders jumped into action – recommending that their employees in the area work from home. Two days later, Amazon made a similar declaration. Combined, their announcements affected more than 100,000 employees in this Pacific north-west tech hub and came days before the Washington state governor's first major Covid mandate and more than a week before the US president declared an emergency for Covid. Continue reading... |
| Queensland Covid hotspots: list of Brisbane and regional Qld coronavirus case locations Posted: 26 Mar 2021 11:35 PM PDT Here are the current coronavirus hotspots and case locations in Queensland and what to do if you've visited them Queensland authorities have released a list of hotspots where Covid-positive people have visited while infectious. Any individuals who have been in the below locations during the relevant times are considered close contacts and asked to immediately home quarantine (for 14 days), even if you receive a negative result, and complete the contact-tracing self-assessment or call 13HEALTH (13 43 25 84): Continue reading... |
| Covid third wave may overrun Africa's healthcare, warns WHO Posted: 26 Mar 2021 06:22 AM PDT Leap of 50% in cases in three months and just 7m jabs across continent 'infecting 11 health workers an hour' Rising cases of coronavirus in Africa threaten to overrun fragile healthcare systems and test the continent's much-touted resilience to the disease, according to the World Health Organization's regional office for the continent. The global health body stated that infections were on the rise in at least 12 countries in Africa including Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya and Guinea. Continue reading... |
| 'Bangladesh has come a long way': people of Dhaka on half a century of independence Posted: 26 Mar 2021 05:46 AM PDT A rickshaw rider, a domestic worker, a student and a photographer on how their lives have changed Habibur Rahman, 48, rickshaw rider Continue reading... |
| The making of a megacity: how Dhaka transformed in 50 years of Bangladesh Posted: 26 Mar 2021 05:45 AM PDT In the half century since independence, the capital has grown from peaceful town to economic hub. But does it live up to the dreams of those still flocking to work there? On the banks of the Buriganga, Old Dhaka's boatmen only ever rest a moment before making their return journey, endlessly ferrying passengers back and forth across the river. They pick them up at the Sadarghat docks, the historical trading hub that helped build the city, and row them towards the sprawling suburbs that have crept across what used to be open farmland two decades ago. Continue reading... |
| Capitol insurrection charges highlight white supremacists in US military Posted: 26 Mar 2021 11:00 PM PDT Analysis: About one in five of those charged are current or former members of the armed forces and the Pentagon has warned that white nationalism is a threat within its ranks If the moustache, trimmed narrowly in the style of Adolf Hitler, don't give it away, then the antisemitic YouTube rants, the testimony of 34 colleagues and the neo-Nazi reading material certainly do. Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, a US army reservist, is – according to court documents – an "avowed white supremacist and Nazi sympathizer". Continue reading... |
| 'Look at the children': Dozens killed in train crash in southern Egypt – video Posted: 26 Mar 2021 10:08 AM PDT 'We need an official to come see what has happened. They can't remove the people from underneath the trains, it's a shame, look at the children,' an unidentified man yelled from a site where two trains collided in central Egypt on Friday. At least 32 people were killed and 100 injured, health ministry officials said. Unknown individuals triggered the emergency brakes on one of the trains causing it to stop, the rail authority said Continue reading... |
| Raab: Chinese sanctions will not stop UK 'speaking up' on abuse of Uighurs – video Posted: 26 Mar 2021 07:59 AM PDT China has imposed sanctions on 10 UK organisations and individuals, including the former leader of the Conservative party Iain Duncan Smith, over what it called the spreading of 'lies and disinformation' about human rights abuses in Xinjiang. The foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, has said the government stands 'in total solidarity' and it will not stop it addressing 'industrial-scale human rights abuses' Continue reading... |
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