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- Sanders' minimum-wage effort looks doomed as Covid bill hits roadblocks
- Pope Francis arrives in Baghdad for risky, historic Iraq tour
- Free rapid Covid tests available for all businesses in England; Tibetan leader Dalai Lama gets vaccine shot
- 'It's not fair!' Capitol suspect who put feet on Pelosi's desk has court outburst
- Tesla share price plunge knocks $267bn off market value
- Australia’s largest law firm in uproar after taking Christian Porter as client
- Perseverance Mars rover: Nasa releases first-drive review
- Cows might fly: Ireland to jet calves to Europe to cut travel time
- Melissa Caddick case: police end search for missing conwoman off Sydney coast
- MI5 involvement in drone project revealed in paperwork slip-up
- Otto Dix’s ‘apocalyptic’ depictions of life on western front up for auction
- 'There’s a lot of nasty stuff': the people living with long Covid
- Anger grows at offer of 1% pay rise for NHS staff
- Covid: Bolsonaro tells Brazilians to stop 'whining' as deaths top 260,000
- Italy says decision to block 250,000 doses of Covid vaccine from Australia was 'not a hostile act'
- The very private life of Sir Chris Hohn - the man paid £1m a day
- Blind date: ‘The best thing about him? His shirt’
- Discussing Doomsday with Kim Dotcom, I felt ashamed I'd seen him as a ridiculous figure
- Marieke Lucas Rijneveld writes poem about Amanda Gorman furore
- Tim Dowling: an unsettling force has upset my equilibrium… hope
- 'I don't want to upset people': Tom Cruise deepfake creator speaks out
- 'Young people need help now': Britons want more from 2021 budget
- Hong Kong activists and plight of the Uighurs: human rights this week in photos
- Israel's military courts for Palestinians are a stain on international justice | Sahar Francis
- 'So much trauma': Mozambique conflict sparks mental health crisis
- California’s wildfire smoke could be more harmful than vehicle emissions, study says
- Barnaby Joyce says some of Christian Porter's colleagues want his 'head on a plate'
- Jair Bolsonaro tells Brazilians to stop 'whining' about Covid – video
- Mystery person with Brazil variant found thanks to dogged determination, says Matt Hancock – video
- Myanmar's deadliest week as terror inflicted on protesters – video report
| Sanders' minimum-wage effort looks doomed as Covid bill hits roadblocks Posted: 05 Mar 2021 03:55 PM PST Biden's $1.9tn relief package struggles through Senate but majority leaders vows passage 'however long it takes' A fiery speech and last-ditch effort by Bernie Sanders to secure a place for a federal minimum wage hike in the $1.9tn coronavirus relief package appeared as good as doomed on Friday, following a day that saw the flagship legislation hit grinding delays in the Senate. Senate leaders and moderate Democratic senator Joe Manchin struck a deal late on Friday over emergency jobless benefits, breaking a nine-hour logjam that had stalled the bill. Continue reading... |
| Pope Francis arrives in Baghdad for risky, historic Iraq tour Posted: 05 Mar 2021 11:32 PM PST Pontiff, 84, continues visit amid tight security and concerns about rising Covid infection rates Pope Francis has had a symbolic meeting with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, one of the most senior clerics in Shia Islam, in Iraq's holy city of Najaf. The historic meeting in Sistani's home was months in the making, with every detail painstakingly discussed and negotiated between the ayatollah's office and the Vatican. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 06 Mar 2021 02:01 AM PST Contradictory death figures in Russia; WHO warns against relaxing guard due to vaccines
The next few weeks are going to be crucial for keeping coronavirus infections down in the UK as schools reopen, according to an infectious disease expert. Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of the UK government's SPI-M modelling advisory panel, has told Times Radio that children going back to classrooms would cause a rise in the reproductive number – or R value – of the virus while more vaccinations would cause it to reduce. We do need to get this balancing act correct and we need to open up at the rate of vaccinations and keep the R number in check, as it were. Definitely, things are moving in the right direction but the next few weeks are going to be crucial for us to monitor what happens when schools open. Hopefully, we can keep everything down and most importantly we can prevent seeing a rise in hospitalisations. Just because you're not in the home with your young children don't use it as an excuse to go out and mix with other people that you otherwise wouldn't have done. It's possible that, with schools open, we can keep the R number below one but if we are going to achieve that we all need to keep following all the other rules. I think most of the reason the numbers are going in the right direction now is still due to lockdown. I think we haven't quite seen the impact of vaccinations, [that will] probably start to come in round about now and have a little bit of an effect. But most of the effect thus far actually is probably the fact we have been under severe restrictions since the start of January.
Saudi Arabia will end most restrictions on Sunday, including resuming indoor dining, reopening cinemas and resuming entertainment activities and events, the state news agency SPA said on Saturday. Some activities will remain banned, including weddings and corporate meetings. Social gatherings will continue to be limited to a maximum of 20 people, SPA said, citing an interior ministry source. Continue reading... |
| 'It's not fair!' Capitol suspect who put feet on Pelosi's desk has court outburst Posted: 05 Mar 2021 09:14 AM PST Richard Barnett, charged over January attack, complains after judge rules he must remain in jail until next court date in May Of all the pictures that were taken during the insurrection at the US Capitol on 6 January, one of the most famous is of a man sitting on a chair with one foot on the desk of the US House speaker, Nancy Pelosi. That man, Richard Barnett, was told by a judge on Thursday that he is to remain in jail until his next court date in May. Continue reading... |
| Tesla share price plunge knocks $267bn off market value Posted: 05 Mar 2021 09:41 AM PST Decline wipes billions off Elon Musk's fortune as investors fear firm is vastly overvalued A sharp decline in Tesla's share price has wiped more than $250bn (£193bn) off the value of the electric car company, and dragged down the value of an Edinburgh-based investment fund that is one of Tesla's biggest backers. The shares dropped by 7.5% in early trading in the US on Friday to $575 – setting them on course to close down 16% this week and 35% below their record peak of $883 on 26 January. Continue reading... |
| Australia’s largest law firm in uproar after taking Christian Porter as client Posted: 05 Mar 2021 12:58 PM PST MinterEllison's chief, Annette Kimmitt, reportedly sent an all-staff email in which she apologised for 'pain' caused by representing attorney general The chief executive of the law firm representing Christian Porter is under fire after reportedly sending an all-staff email critical of the lawyer who took the case. On Friday the Australian Financial Review reported that Annette Kimmitt, the chief executive of Australia's largest law firm, MinterEllison, had sent an email to the firm's more than 2,500 staff saying she was sorry for any "pain" caused by the decision to take the attorney general as a client. Continue reading... |
| Perseverance Mars rover: Nasa releases first-drive review Posted: 05 Mar 2021 05:33 PM PST Vehicle had no problem going 6.5 metres, turning and backing up, then photographed its own wheel marks on planet's surface Nasa's Mars rover Perseverance has taken a short drive two weeks after touching down, mission managers have said. The six-wheeled, car-sized probe went 6.5 metres (21.3 feet) during a half-hour test within Jezero crater, an ancient lake bed and river delta. Continue reading... |
| Cows might fly: Ireland to jet calves to Europe to cut travel time Posted: 05 Mar 2021 11:00 PM PST Expanding dairy herds have seen surplus male calves shipped to the continent for veal, but there is unease over welfare conditions Irish authorities have announced plans to fly unweaned dairy calves from Ireland to other EU destinations from May, in an effort to address growing unease about the length of the journeys made by thousands of animals shipped each year to mainland Europe. The Irish government has been subject to sustained scrutiny over live calf exports and the decision to experiment with flights, which will significantly cut travel time, comes as a European parliament committee of inquiry examines alleged failures across Europe in enforcing rules on protecting transported animals. Continue reading... |
| Melissa Caddick case: police end search for missing conwoman off Sydney coast Posted: 05 Mar 2021 05:16 PM PST NSW police suspend search for Caddick's remains in waters around her Dover Heights neighbourhood The search for missing Sydney conwoman Melissa Caddick's remains in waters around her Dover Heights neighbourhood has been called off. Police divers were on Thursday forced to postpone the search in waters off Dover Heights in Sydney's east due to hazardous conditions. Continue reading... |
| MI5 involvement in drone project revealed in paperwork slip-up Posted: 05 Mar 2021 11:00 PM PST Exclusive: Document produced by university cited agency as secret funder of research For an agency devoted to secrecy and surveillance, it is an embarrassing slip-up. An inadvertent disclosure on a university document has revealed that MI5 is partly behind what was meant to be a covert bug and drone research project. Ostensibly, Imperial College's research was to create a quadcopter system for charging remote agricultural sensors – but MI5's participation has emerged because somebody involved stated it was the secret second funder of the programme. Continue reading... |
| Otto Dix’s ‘apocalyptic’ depictions of life on western front up for auction Posted: 05 Mar 2021 06:52 AM PST Der Krieg portfolio among extensive collection created by first world war veteran and anti-war artist One of the most extensive collections of prints by Otto Dix is to be offered at auction this month in which the German artist's unique perspective of fighting in the first world war and coping with its aftermath is given expression in some of the most poignant images of 20th-century Europe. The works – which include Dix's early prints and rare, complete portfolios from drypoint etchings to to wood cuts and aquatints – are considered valuable rarities, having been produced only in limited runs. Continue reading... |
| 'There’s a lot of nasty stuff': the people living with long Covid Posted: 05 Mar 2021 10:00 AM PST Sufferers say they have had little specialist help despite NHS England setting up dedicated clinics "It's not that I feel I have been abandoned, I think that is perfectly obvious," says Rachel Pope. "If you speak to any long Covid patient, they have been abandoned." Until exactly a year ago – 5 March 2020 – Pope was "an incredibly fit woman". A senior lecturer in European prehistory at the University of Liverpool, her work and lifestyle were very active. But after falling ill to Covid, she spent four months unable to walk, then three more when she could manage little more than "a sort of shuffle". Continue reading... |
| Anger grows at offer of 1% pay rise for NHS staff Posted: 05 Mar 2021 04:00 PM PST Nurses leaders set up industrial action fund as Tory MPs fear another U-turn by the government Ministers are on a collision course with millions of NHS staff as they insisted the country could not afford a more than 1% pay rise for health workers even as nurses leaders raised the prospect of strike action. The health secretary, Matt Hancock, on Friday insisted the decision to recommend such a small increase was due to an assessment of "what's affordable as a nation" after the economic toll taken by the coronavirus crisis. Continue reading... |
| Covid: Bolsonaro tells Brazilians to stop 'whining' as deaths top 260,000 Posted: 05 Mar 2021 07:42 AM PST
The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, has triggered a wave of revulsion by telling citizens to stop "whining" about a coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 260,000 people. The far-right populist made the inflammatory declaration on Thursday, as Brazil's already dire Covid situation deteriorated and its average daily death toll rose above that of the United States. Continue reading... |
| Italy says decision to block 250,000 doses of Covid vaccine from Australia was 'not a hostile act' Posted: 05 Mar 2021 03:14 PM PST Foreign affairs minister says Europe 'ravaged' by coronavirus and Italy is working according to EU regulation
Italian officials say the decision to block a shipment of 250,000 doses of AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine destined for Australia was "not a hostile act". The comments came as Victoria recorded another day of zero local transmission of Covid-19 and one new case in a returned traveller in hotel quarantine on Saturday. New South Wales and Queensland also recorded zero cases of community transmission and there were three new cases in hotel quarantine in each of those states. Continue reading... |
| The very private life of Sir Chris Hohn - the man paid £1m a day Posted: 05 Mar 2021 10:03 AM PST The hedge fund manager earns Britain's biggest salary. He also avoids meat, likes yoga and supports Extinction Rebellion Hedge fund manager Sir Chris Hohn once made a point of telling a high court judge that he was an "unbelievable moneymaker". This week Hohn proved his point – definitively – when it was revealed that he paid himself just shy of £1m-a-day last year. Hohn collected $479m (£343m) in annual dividend payments from his The Children's Investment (TCI) fund in the biggest ever personal payday in the UK after doubling profits at his Mayfair hedge fund, run from an office a couple of doors down from Louis Vuitton's flagship store. Continue reading... |
| Blind date: ‘The best thing about him? His shirt’ Posted: 05 Mar 2021 10:00 PM PST Robyn, 32, credit controller, meets Danny, 36, radio presenter/DJ What were you hoping for? |
| Discussing Doomsday with Kim Dotcom, I felt ashamed I'd seen him as a ridiculous figure Posted: 05 Mar 2021 11:00 AM PST In this book extract, Steve Braunias describes a visit to the New Zealand home of the German internet entrepreneur who is fighting extradition to the US This is the way the world ends: in a candy store. When I asked Kim Dotcom for his address in Queenstown so I could sit with him a while and interview him about his views on how to survive the coming apocalypse, he replied that he would send someone to collect me on a Thursday at 4pm at the Remarkables Sweet Shop on the main street in nearby Arrowtown. I got there early. It was a cold, fresh winter's day, with black ice and low snow, and birds shivered in the trees above the pretty Arrow River. Tourists filled the candy store. I stood there lurking among the trays of Aniseed Twists and Cola Fizzballs. As soon as I stepped onto the pavement, a big black Mercedes pulled up. It was four o'clock on the dot. The rendezvous had come about because Dotcom got in touch after reading a story I wrote for The New Zealand Herald about preparing for Doomsday. "The end of the world as we know it is coming," he emailed. "We are close, I think." I thought so, too. I wrote a year-long series of stories about end days; the subject occupied my mind day and night, I was sleepless, worried, a wreck, but I fancied that I was also practical and methodical, and kept busy by laying down provisions and supplies to protect my family when the world spiralled towards Hell in a fiery and terrifying hat. Continue reading... |
| Marieke Lucas Rijneveld writes poem about Amanda Gorman furore Posted: 05 Mar 2021 10:01 PM PST Exclusive: in Everything inhabitable, published in the Guardian, the Dutch writer responds to controversy over the decision to appoint a white translator to the black poet's book The International Booker winner Marieke Lucas Rijneveld has written a poem responding to the controversy that broke out after they withdrew from the job of translating Amanda Gorman's poetry into Dutch, writing that they took the decision because they were "able to grasp when it / isn't your place". Related: Everything inhabitable: a poem by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld Continue reading... |
| Tim Dowling: an unsettling force has upset my equilibrium… hope Posted: 05 Mar 2021 10:00 PM PST The sun is drying the dew off on the ivy. I can hear birds singing and children playing. It's too early A year ago, I was contending that as someone who had always worked from home I'd been in training for a global pandemic for 30 years: I'll do your lockdown standing on my head – bring it. That was a couple of lockdowns ago, but it's only recently that something has arrived to upset my mental equilibrium: hope. After months safely cloaked in the armour of despair, hope has suddenly left me unpeeled and paranoid: in my dreams, dark forces range against me, and the police are often involved. Continue reading... |
| 'I don't want to upset people': Tom Cruise deepfake creator speaks out Posted: 05 Mar 2021 07:38 AM PST Visual effects artist Christopher Ume reveals he made TikTok fakes with help from Cruise impersonator Joining TikTok has become something of a trend for Hollywood celebrities stuck at home like everyone else. So it wasn't necessarily surprising to see Tom Cruise on the app, sharing videos of himself playing golf and pratfalling around the house. But the strange thing is that Cruise never actually made the videos. And the account that posted them, DeepTomCruise, wore that on its sleeve: it was openly the work of a talented creator of "deepfakes", AI-generated video clips that use a variety of techniques to create situations that have never happened in the real world. Continue reading... |
| 'Young people need help now': Britons want more from 2021 budget Posted: 06 Mar 2021 01:00 AM PST A furloughed bar manager, a self-employed magician and a retired dancer tell us how Covid has affected their lives Wednesday's budget extended measures brought into to help people struggling during the Covid crisis, and introduced the idea of a green savings bond to help rebuild the economy. We asked people what they thought about Rishi Sunak's plans. Continue reading... |
| Hong Kong activists and plight of the Uighurs: human rights this week in photos Posted: 05 Mar 2021 11:30 PM PST A roundup of the coverage on struggles for human rights and freedoms, from Colombia to the Sahara Continue reading... |
| Israel's military courts for Palestinians are a stain on international justice | Sahar Francis Posted: 06 Mar 2021 02:00 AM PST I've defended people in this profoundly discriminatory judicial system. It needs dismantling – and the UK can help The overwhelming majority of Palestinians in the West Bank were born into, and have spent their entire lives under, an Israeli military occupation that violates their right to self-determination. A new report by the UK charity War on Want exposes how a core part of what sustains that occupation is a military judicial system characterised by violations of international law. The report – Judge, Jury and Occupier – is a deep dive into the diverse ways in which Palestinians' rights are being violated – from arrest, through interrogation, conviction and jail time. It reflects the experiences of Palestinian lawyers and human rights groups. The prisoners' rights organisation I lead, Addameer, was proud to contribute evidence. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 'So much trauma': Mozambique conflict sparks mental health crisis Posted: 06 Mar 2021 12:00 AM PST Aid groups warn of collapsed health system as traumatised people displaced by Islamist insurgency in Cabo Delgado seek help The insurgency in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province is causing a mental health crisis, with a quarter of the region's population now displaced. People are struggling with untreated trauma after witnessing extreme violence, including mass beheadings, said humanitarian groups concerned about the strain on those who have sheltered dozens of displaced people in their homes. Continue reading... |
| California’s wildfire smoke could be more harmful than vehicle emissions, study says Posted: 06 Mar 2021 02:00 AM PST Toxic particles spewed by wildfires resulted in 10 times as many respiratory-illness related hospitalizations as other types of pollution, researchers found The thick, grey wildfire smoke that shrouds California each autumn and winter could be more harmful to humans than pollution from cars and other sources, a new study has found. Coming at the heels of the state's worst wildfire season on record, the findings add to growing evidence that extreme fires, fueled by climate change, will have increasingly dire health consequences for residents in the western US. Continue reading... |
| Barnaby Joyce says some of Christian Porter's colleagues want his 'head on a plate' Posted: 05 Mar 2021 08:55 PM PST Nationals MP says attorney general should seek independent inquiry into rape allegations
Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce has made a plea for an independent inquiry into rape allegations against Christian Porter, saying many people, including some Liberal MPs, want his "head on a plate". Porter, the attorney general, is on mental health leave this week and has strongly denied raping a woman when they were both teenagers in 1988. Continue reading... |
| Jair Bolsonaro tells Brazilians to stop 'whining' about Covid – video Posted: 05 Mar 2021 02:25 PM PST The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, told citizens to stop 'whining' about Covid, despite the virus having killed more than 260,000 people in the country. The far-right populist made the inflammatory declaration on Thursday, as Brazil's already dire Covid situation deteriorated and its average daily death toll rose above that of the United States. 'Enough fussing and whining. How much longer will the crying go on?' Bolsonaro asked supporters in the midwestern state of Goiás, where nearly 9,000 people have died. Continue reading... |
| Mystery person with Brazil variant found thanks to dogged determination, says Matt Hancock – video Posted: 05 Mar 2021 12:45 PM PST A person who tested positive for the Brazilian variant of Covid has been tracked down to Croydon and appears not to have infected anyone else, the health secretary said. Matt Hancock said the effort took a team of 40 people and was launched in an attempt to prevent the mutation, which is believed to be more transmissible and have greater resistance to vaccines, from spreading Continue reading... |
| Myanmar's deadliest week as terror inflicted on protesters – video report Posted: 05 Mar 2021 08:56 AM PST Myanmar's security forces opened fire on peaceful anti-coup protesters in several towns and cities, in the worst week of violence since the military coup last month. At least 38 people were killed in one day, sparking international outrage
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