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- ‘Accident’ at Iran’s Natanz nuclear plant as new uranium enrichment starts
- Colombia’s cartels target Europe with cocaine, corruption and torture
- Prince Charles remembers ‘dear papa’ as details of funeral emerge
- Covid live: India administers 100m doses of coronavirus vaccine; England prepares to ease restrictions
- Britain risks damaging reputation by keeping Julian Assange in jail, says partner
- Yemeni journalists call for release of colleagues held by Houthi rebels
- Boris Johnson refuses calls for summit on violence in Northern Ireland
- Facebook ‘still too slow to act on groups profiting from Covid conspiracy theories’
- Mystery over origins of Howard Hodgkin’s Indian art collection could see it lost to UK
- Husband walks in on wife being allegedly sexually assaulted at Sydney aged care home
- Janet Jackson to sell personal treasures in celebrity auction
- Is vaccinating against Covid enough? What we can learn from Chile and Israel
- China considers mixing Covid vaccines to give greater protection
- Virus hotspots could lead to third Covid wave in UK, scientists warn
- How big are the blood-clot risks of the AstraZeneca jab? | David Spiegelhalter and Anthony Masters
- ‘They’re old but they’re still guilty’: last Nazi hunter in a race against time
- Making sense of conspiracy theorists as the world gets more bizarre
- Me and my ‘she shed’: women on the joys of their garden retreats
- ‘Excited delirium’: the controversial defense that could be used in the Chauvin trial
- The dream ticket: sleeper trains could soon run from London to Europe’s cities
- Drugged, sexually abused, swindled… Maria Callas’s tormented life revealed
- UK is in ‘national mourning’ for Prince Philip – what does that mean?
- Despair fuels the flames of young loyalist anger in Northern Ireland
- ‘Negotiating with your worst enemy’: Biden in risky talks to pay Brazil to save Amazon
- Cyclone Seroja ‘threat to lives and homes’ as WA communities told to shelter
- ‘People don’t want any of them’: Peru election sees unpredictable contest
- How an arcane budget provision could let Democrats advance their agenda
| ‘Accident’ at Iran’s Natanz nuclear plant as new uranium enrichment starts Posted: 10 Apr 2021 10:57 PM PDT Spokesman says accident hit the Natanz electrical distribution grid, a day after Iran switched on new centrifuges A spokesman for Iran's civilian nuclear programme said an "accident" struck the electrical distribution grid of the Natanz nuclear facility, a day after the government announced it was starting up new uranium enrichment centrifuges. Behrouz Kamalvandi announced the accident on Sunday, saying there were no injuries and no pollution. A mysterious explosion in July 2020 damaged Natanz's advanced centrifuge facility, with Iran later calling the incident sabotage. Continue reading... |
| Colombia’s cartels target Europe with cocaine, corruption and torture Posted: 10 Apr 2021 11:45 PM PDT Armed Belgian police raids have lifted the lid on a sinister new front in the drugs war At 5am on a chilly Tuesday morning last month, 1,600 police officers and balaclava-wearing special forces, bristling with arms and battering rams, were ordered into action around the Belgian port city of Antwerp. More than 200 addresses were raided in what was the largest police operation ever conducted in the country and potentially one of the most significant moves yet against the increasingly powerful narco-gangs of western Europe. Continue reading... |
| Prince Charles remembers ‘dear papa’ as details of funeral emerge Posted: 10 Apr 2021 11:39 AM PDT Service to be held at Windsor on 17 April and include Duke of Edinburgh's request that his coffin be borne on a Land Rover Prince Charles has paid tribute to his "dear papa" as details of the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral plans emerged, including Prince Philip's special request that his coffin be borne on a Land Rover. Speaking at Highgrove, the Prince of Wales said: "My dear papa was a very special person who I think above all else would have been amazed by the reaction and the touching things that have been said about him." Continue reading... |
| Posted: 11 Apr 2021 02:30 AM PDT India hits vaccination milestone as European rollout picks up speed and England prepares to open non-essential retail and outdoor areas of pubs
China has administered 164.47 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines as of Saturday, the National Health Commission said on Sunday. Reuters reports: This represents around 24.5 million doses in the past six days, as the country's vaccine rollout continues to accelerate. Last week a Chinese official said the country is expected to produce around 3 billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines by the end of the year.
Poland recorded 24,856 fresh coronavirus cases and 749 further deaths over the past 24 hours to Saturday morning, against 28,487 cases reported on Friday, the health ministry said. First News reports: The healthcare system is now handling 34,167 Covid-19 hospitalisations, down from 34,550 recorded the day prior, including 3,373 patients on ventilators, against the total of 4,386 ventilators available, the health ministry said on Twitter. The health ministry also reported that 430,830 people are under quarantine. So far, 2,143,065 people have recovered. Continue reading... |
| Britain risks damaging reputation by keeping Julian Assange in jail, says partner Posted: 11 Apr 2021 02:01 AM PDT Stella Moris says Britain's continued detention of WikiLeaks founder is compromising its global standing Britain would be on stronger ground campaigning against authoritarian regimes if it pressed the Biden administration to drop its call to extradite Julian Assange on espionage charges, Stella Moris, Assange's partner, has told the Guardian. Moris – who has had two children by Assange – is trying to broaden the campaign of support for him by pointing to the global damage to the UK's reputation by keeping him in jail for so long. Continue reading... |
| Yemeni journalists call for release of colleagues held by Houthi rebels Posted: 11 Apr 2021 12:53 AM PDT Four journalists face death penalty after being charged with spying and 'collaborating with the enemy' A group of Yemeni journalists who survived years of torture in Houthi prisons are calling on the international community to pressure the rebels to free four of their colleagues facing the death penalty. Abdel-Khaleq Amran, Akram al-Walidi, Hareth Hamid and Tawfiq al-Mansouri were arrested along with six other journalists in raids in the capital, Sana'a, in the summer of 2015, shortly after the Saudi-led coalition intervened in Yemen's war. Continue reading... |
| Boris Johnson refuses calls for summit on violence in Northern Ireland Posted: 11 Apr 2021 01:00 AM PDT Irish government suggests talks after eight nights in which police have been attacked and cars torched Boris Johnson's government is resisting growing calls to hold a special crisis summit with Dublin to address rising tensions in Northern Ireland – amid growing international anxiety about a return to sectarian violence. The Observer has been told by senior sources that suggestions from Dublin to London that the crisis requires a high-level intergovernmental conference to help stabilise the situation have met with no enthusiasm on the British side. Continue reading... |
| Facebook ‘still too slow to act on groups profiting from Covid conspiracy theories’ Posted: 10 Apr 2021 10:45 PM PDT Over 100 Instagram accounts are promoting dangerous antivax views and selling 'detox' products, investigation finds Covid conspiracy theorists are seeking to profit from the millions of followers they have built up on Instagram during the pandemic by marketing health supplements, wellness courses and juicers to them. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has identified more than 100 Covid conspiracy accounts promoting products to an audience of almost 6 million people on Instagram, which is owned by Facebook. Continue reading... |
| Mystery over origins of Howard Hodgkin’s Indian art collection could see it lost to UK Posted: 11 Apr 2021 12:15 AM PDT Ashmolean in Oxford turned down chance to buy exquisite paintings and drawings, which may now go to New York Indian paintings and drawings had been his lifelong passion and, before his death in 2017, the artist Sir Howard Hodgkin hoped that his collection would be acquired by the Ashmolean in Oxford – only for the museum to reject his offer amid concerns that some of the works should never have left India. Now Britain's loss could be America's gain. Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York have discussed the possibility of acquiring works thought to be worth more than £7.2m. The collection contains more than 120 exquisite paintings and drawings dating from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Continue reading... |
| Husband walks in on wife being allegedly sexually assaulted at Sydney aged care home Posted: 10 Apr 2021 01:00 PM PDT José says he hasn't been able to sleep since alleged assault, which was described as 'cuddling' in incident report A man who walked in on his 70-year-old wife with dementia being allegedly sexually assaulted by a fellow resident at her Sydney aged care home has blamed under-staffing for failing to properly monitor residents. The 75-year-old man, José, said he has not been able to sleep properly since the alleged 20 March assault on his wife, Shannon, and that he wants answers about why his wife was able to wander off alone down a corridor and into the man's room. Continue reading... |
| Janet Jackson to sell personal treasures in celebrity auction Posted: 11 Apr 2021 02:15 AM PDT Jewellery, a wedding dress and tour outfits are among memorabilia up for grabs after the superstar decided on a cathartic clearout Intent on making sure her birthday weekend will be one to remember for fans across the world, Janet Jackson has finally agreed to auction more than 1,000 pieces from a career spanning four decades. The star, who has sold over 185 million records and remains the only female artist in history to score seven top-five singles from one album, has partnered with celebrity auctioneer Julien's to host the three-day sale in Beverly Hills from 14 May. Continue reading... |
| Is vaccinating against Covid enough? What we can learn from Chile and Israel Posted: 11 Apr 2021 12:29 AM PDT Contrasting lessons from the two countries, both with high rates of inoculation against the virus, show the danger is not past A trio of countries stand out for the effectiveness of their Covid-19 vaccination programmes: Israel, Chile and the UK. All have managed to inoculate an impressively high percentage of their people but each has fared very differently in controlling the disease. Israel has done so well it is resuming university lectures, concerts and other mass gatherings and has opened up its restaurants and bars. By contrast, Chile is experiencing soaring levels of Covid cases and faces new lockdown restrictions. Continue reading... |
| China considers mixing Covid vaccines to give greater protection Posted: 11 Apr 2021 02:24 AM PDT Head of disease control admits Chinese vaccines 'don't have very high protection rates' China's top disease control official has admitted that the effectiveness of the country's domestically produced vaccines is low as it emerged the authorities are considering mixing them to try to offer greater protection against coronavirus. The rare admission of weakness on the part of Beijing's pandemic approach came from the director of the China Centres for Disease Control, Gao Fu, who said Chinese vaccines "don't have very high protection rates". Continue reading... |
| Virus hotspots could lead to third Covid wave in UK, scientists warn Posted: 11 Apr 2021 12:01 AM PDT Boris Johnson accused of dropping pledge to 'follow data not dates' and urged to wait for more vaccinations before easing restrictions Leading scientists have warned that the government is risking a third wave of Covid-19 by easing the lockdown at a time when official data still shows virus hotspots across many parts of the country. With the UK poised to lift many Covid restrictions on Monday, the scientists accuse ministers of abandoning their promises to "follow the data, not dates" in a rush to reopen society and the economy. Continue reading... |
| How big are the blood-clot risks of the AstraZeneca jab? | David Spiegelhalter and Anthony Masters Posted: 11 Apr 2021 12:28 AM PDT The risks of Covid outweigh the minimal risks from the vaccines Last Wednesday, the European Medicines Agency stated there was a plausible link between the Oxford/AstraZeneca (Vaxzevria) vaccine and rare types of blood clotting, which the MHRA estimates may happen in one in 100,000 young adults who get the vaccine. It is challenging to think of such low risks: when we have to count the zeros, all intuition goes. So what else has roughly a one in 100,000 chance for a young adult? We could choose from the risk of dying when under general anaesthesia, or in a skydiving jump, or, on the positive side, winning the Lotto jackpot if you bought 450 tickets, or guessing the last five digits of someone's mobile phone number. Continue reading... |
| ‘They’re old but they’re still guilty’: last Nazi hunter in a race against time Posted: 10 Apr 2021 11:30 PM PDT Efraim Zuroff watched the Adolf Eichmann trial on TV 60 years ago. It was the beginning of his long quest for justice He describes himself as "the only Jew who prays for the good health of Nazis". As the last Nazi hunter tracking down the last surviving Nazis from the Holocaust, Efraim Zuroff is in a race against time. Those who took part in the systematic murder of six million Jews in Europe are now over the age of 90, and almost all are frail or sick. Zuroff himself is 72 – born three years after the end of the war – and has been hunting former Nazis for more than 40 years. He is as committed to the task as ever. Continue reading... |
| Making sense of conspiracy theorists as the world gets more bizarre Posted: 11 Apr 2021 12:00 AM PDT It is 20 years since Jon Ronson wrote Them, his eye-popping investigation into conspiracy theorists. Now, in a world awash with tales of paedophile elites and puppet masters, is he any closer to understanding it all? In 1999 I sat in a Vancouver café with a group of anti-capitalist activists. They'd just returned from protesting the WTO in Seattle to find a new, far stranger foe in town – David Icke. He was there to lecture about how the ruling elite are actually child-sacrificing, blood-drinking paedophile lizards in human disguise. Nobody had ever suggested such a thing before, and the activists were working to get his books seized and destroyed. They were alarmed not just by the echoes of antisemitism but because something startling was happening. Icke was beginning to win over people who should have been on their side. I wrote back then that they were "seeing an omen of the blackest kind, the future of thought itself: a time when irrational thought would sweep the land". But this wasn't prophecy on my part. I thought they were probably being overdramatic. Continue reading... |
| Me and my ‘she shed’: women on the joys of their garden retreats Posted: 11 Apr 2021 02:00 AM PDT Move over man caves! Now women are discovering what a life-saver their own private sheds can be At the entrance to Angela Benjamin's shed is a copper sign that reads: "She Cave", and a deep purple clematis weaves its way through the letters. The shed is a simple wooden structure at the end of her garden in Ealing, west London that backs on to a cemetery – "so I don't disturb anyone when I'm working!" Continue reading... |
| ‘Excited delirium’: the controversial defense that could be used in the Chauvin trial Posted: 11 Apr 2021 02:00 AM PDT The disputed term is often used in fatal cases of police violence, but isn't recognized by some major medical bodies Throughout the first phases of the Derek Chauvin murder trial, the defense attorney Eric Nelson has made passing reference to the term "excited delirium" as he attempts to build a case for his client. Nelson referenced the phrase during opening arguments, has asked a number of witnesses about the term and may well explore it when the defense gets to present its case. Continue reading... |
| The dream ticket: sleeper trains could soon run from London to Europe’s cities Posted: 11 Apr 2021 12:26 AM PDT An ambitious plan to take overnight services through the Channel tunnel reflects a growing interest in sustainable travel It is being hailed as the latest evidence of a new dawn for the European sleeper train. Citing changes in attitude wrought by the two crises of the climate emergency and the Covid pandemic, a new night service in 2022 was announced last week between Brussels and Prague, stopping at Amsterdam, Berlin and Dresden, with tickets expected to cost from €60 one way. But an even more ambitious project could deliver Britons to continental Europe via surely one of the most romantic modes of transport around, Elmer van Buuren, a co-founder of the European Sleeper cooperative, told the Observer. Continue reading... |
| Drugged, sexually abused, swindled… Maria Callas’s tormented life revealed Posted: 10 Apr 2021 11:45 PM PDT Unpublished letters detail famed soprano's painful relationships with husband, mother and Aristotle Onassis Her mother blackmailed her, her husband Giovanni Battista Meneghini stole from her, and shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis was violent and abandoned her for Jackie Kennedy. Soprano Maria Callas was adored by audiences worldwide but she never knew real love offstage, and her life was even more tragic than previously realised, according to research. In writing a new biography, Lyndsy Spence was given access to Callas's previously unpublished correspondence and other material, which casts light on the torment of her marriage, the abuse to which Onassis subjected her and sexual harassment by the director of one of the world's foremost conservatoires. Continue reading... |
| UK is in ‘national mourning’ for Prince Philip – what does that mean? Posted: 11 Apr 2021 02:18 AM PDT Union flags will fly at half-mast, public services will continue but some sports fixtures will be rescheduled The UK is in a period of national mourning following the death of the Duke of Edinburgh. It officially began on Friday, when Philip died, and will last up to and including his funeral on Saturday 17 April. Continue reading... |
| Despair fuels the flames of young loyalist anger in Northern Ireland Posted: 11 Apr 2021 01:30 AM PDT Let down by politicians and police, cultural symbols belittled ... unionist teenagers feel marginalised and are taking action For the schoolboy commander who stood on the grassy hill and gave his name only as Bob, the intricacies and compromises of politics, policing, Brexit and the Northern Ireland protocol could all be boiled down to this: his side was losing, and that had to stop. His side were the Protestants, unionists and loyalists, bulwarks of Britishness on the island of Ireland, and they needed to assert themselves, starting with the traffic roundabout at the bottom of O'Neill Road in Newtownabbey, outside Belfast. Continue reading... |
| ‘Negotiating with your worst enemy’: Biden in risky talks to pay Brazil to save Amazon Posted: 11 Apr 2021 01:00 AM PDT Activists fear billion-dollar climate deal will bolster Bolsonaro and reward illegal forest clearance – but US says action can't wait The US is negotiating a multi-billion dollar climate deal with Brazil that observers fear could help the reelection of president Jair Bolsonaro and reward illegal forest clearance in the Amazon. That is the concern of indigenous groups, environmental campaigners and civil society activists, who say they are being shut out of the most important talks on the future of the rainforest since at least 1992. Continue reading... |
| Cyclone Seroja ‘threat to lives and homes’ as WA communities told to shelter Posted: 11 Apr 2021 02:19 AM PDT Red alert called for 800km stretch of coast south of Carnarvon to Lancelin, as premier describes storm as 'like nothing we have seen before in decades' Residents in Western Australia's mid west have been told to take shelter during what their premier has described as a cyclone "like nothing we have seen before in decades". There was a "red alert" calling for an 800km stretch of coastline south of Carnarvon to Lancelin. Continue reading... |
| ‘People don’t want any of them’: Peru election sees unpredictable contest Posted: 10 Apr 2021 05:21 PM PDT About 28% of Peruvians wouldn't choose any of the candidates, poll shows ahead of Sunday's vote An ultra-conservative millionaire who admits to scourging himself daily to repress sexual desire is just one of an assortment of low-polling candidates who all have a shot at becoming Peru's next president. Rafael López Aliaga is technically tied with five other contenders in an unpredictable contest to make a runoff vote in June, including a former goalkeeper, a Sorbonne-educated socialist and the daughter of the country's jailed former leader Alberto Fujimori. Continue reading... |
| How an arcane budget provision could let Democrats advance their agenda Posted: 10 Apr 2021 03:00 AM PDT Senate parliamentarian's decision widens path for Democrats to enact Joe Biden's sprawling infrastructure plan A novel interpretation of an arcane parliamentary procedure has presented congressional Democrats with an unexpected – and tantalizing – new opportunity to advance some of their most ambitious legislative goals despite their slim majorities and fierce Republican opposition. Related: Biden urges Republicans to back $2tn infrastructure plan: 'Inaction is not an option' Continue reading... |
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