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- Revealed: the Facebook loophole that lets world leaders deceive and harass their citizens
- France to ban some domestic flights where train available
- Baftas 2021: Nomadland wins big as Promising Young Woman and Anthony Hopkins surprise
- Union in peril as PM ‘speaks for England alone’, former civil servant warns
- Protests near Minneapolis after fatal police shooting at traffic stop
- Attack on Natanz nuclear plant ‘will set back Iran’s programme by nine months’
- Hideki Matsuyama masters Japan’s golfing nerves to lift pre-Olympic spirits
- Ecuador election: former banker Lasso ahead after 90% of vote counted
- Boris Johnson told to get grip of UK climate strategy before Cop26
- Security services and police to face questions over London Bridge attacker
- Police warn of ‘all-out war’ as tribal violence in Papua New Guinea kills 19
- Coronavirus live news: India sees record case rise, overtaking Brazil; Germany and Denmark push on with vaccine drives
- Spring cold snap hits as England relaxes Covid lockdown restrictions
- Ardern tells New Zealand border staff: get Covid vaccine now or be redeployed
- Gordon Brown calls for G7 to act on Covid vaccine ‘apartheid’
- Moby on fame and regret: ‘I was an out-of-control, utterly entitled drink and drug addict’
- ‘Aphrodisiac’ of the ocean: how sea cucumbers became gold for organised crime
- The healthy child who wouldn’t wake up: the strange truth of ‘mystery illnesses’
- From Naked Attraction to Love Is Blind: The couples who found lasting love on wild TV dating shows
- How Facebook let fake engagement distort global politics: a whistleblower's account
- ‘It hides this dark interior’: Promising Young Woman’s weaponisation of feminine style
- ‘Out of Trump playbook’: UK accused of ‘abandoning’ women with cuts to aid
- ‘We’re not taught to speak out’: Asian Americans find their voice amid rise in hate
- Andrew Laming changes his mind and wants to recontest next federal election
- Paint, Easter eggs and watermelons – Myanmar’s creative protests in pictures
- Streets coated with ash after Caribbean volcano eruption – video
- ‘Accident’ at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility – video
| Revealed: the Facebook loophole that lets world leaders deceive and harass their citizens Posted: 12 Apr 2021 01:00 AM PDT A Guardian investigation exposes the breadth of state-backed manipulation of the platform Facebook has repeatedly allowed world leaders and politicians to use its platform to deceive the public or harass opponents despite being alerted to evidence of the wrongdoing. The Guardian has seen extensive internal documentation showing how Facebook handled more than 30 cases across 25 countries of politically manipulative behavior that was proactively detected by company staff. Continue reading... |
| France to ban some domestic flights where train available Posted: 12 Apr 2021 02:34 AM PDT MPs vote to suspend internal flights if the trip can be completed by train within two and a half hours instead French MPs have voted to suspend domestic airline flights that can be made by direct train in less than two and a half hours, as part of a series of climate and environmental measures. After a heated debate in the Assemblée Nationale at the weekend, the ban, a watered-down version of a key recommendation from President Emmanuel Macron's citizens' climate convention, was adopted. Continue reading... |
| Baftas 2021: Nomadland wins big as Promising Young Woman and Anthony Hopkins surprise Posted: 12 Apr 2021 12:21 AM PDT Diverse nominees translate into fairly traditional winners, with Emerald Fennell's directorial debut taking best British film and Hopkins becoming oldest ever male acting winner Nomadland, Chloé Zhao's elegiac drama about the life of ageing van-dwellers in America, has confirmed its position as Oscars frontrunner with four wins at the 74th Bafta awards, including best film. Zhao took best director, making her only the second woman – following Kathryn Bigelow in 2010 – to pick up the award. Nomadland also won cinematography and leading actress for Frances McDormand. Continue reading... |
| Union in peril as PM ‘speaks for England alone’, former civil servant warns Posted: 11 Apr 2021 11:00 PM PDT Philip Rycroft says PM's 'muscular brand of unionism' has deepened divisions between four nations The pandemic has seeded the idea of a prime minister "who speaks for England alone" as relations between the four nations of the UK deteriorate amid "deep-rooted complacency", a senior former civil servant has warned. There is widespread ignorance towards the union, meaning ministers can be kept in the dark about major reforms with little consideration for the four nations, Philip Rycroft, the permanent secretary to the Brexit department until 2019, says in a report. Continue reading... |
| Protests near Minneapolis after fatal police shooting at traffic stop Posted: 11 Apr 2021 10:26 PM PDT Twenty-year-old Minnesota man Daunte Wright was shot by police in state already on edge over Chauvin trial Police in the Minneapolis area shot and killed a man in the city of Brooklyn Center on Sunday afternoon, sparking clashes between hundreds of protesters and police officers in an area already on edge during the murder trial of former officer Derek Chauvin. Family members at the scene of the shooting identified the victim as 20-year-old Daunte Wright, who is Black. According to Brooklyn Center police, the incident occurred shortly before 2pm when an officer pulled over a vehicle due to an alleged traffic violation. Police stated that the driver re-entered the vehicle as officers attempted to take him into custody and one officer opened fire. Continue reading... |
| Attack on Natanz nuclear plant ‘will set back Iran’s programme by nine months’ Posted: 12 Apr 2021 02:39 AM PDT US intelligence sources believe Israel was behind Saturday's cyber-attack on heavily guarded facility Iran's foreign ministry has blamed Israel for an attack on a nuclear plant, as US intelligence sources claimed the incident would set back Tehran's nuclear programme by nine months. Israel has not confirmed it was behind a cyber-attack on the heavily guarded Natanz facility, but its security officials have done little to dispel the notion. Continue reading... |
| Hideki Matsuyama masters Japan’s golfing nerves to lift pre-Olympic spirits Posted: 12 Apr 2021 01:16 AM PDT TV commentators 'could hardly speak' as 29-year-old becomes first Japanese man to win a major Hideki Matsuyama has recorded one of Japan's greatest international sporting successes after winning the US Masters golf , months before Tokyo is scheduled to host the summer Olympics. His compatriots were preparing for work, perhaps pausing to catch glimpses of the last few holes on TV, when the 29-year-old secured a one-shot victory over the American Will Zalatoris at Augusta National in Georgia. Continue reading... |
| Ecuador election: former banker Lasso ahead after 90% of vote counted Posted: 11 Apr 2021 09:36 PM PDT Voters in presidential race appeared to have rebuffed a leftist movement, favouring the conservative over Andrés Arauz Voters in Ecuador appeared to turn to a conservative businessman in Sunday's presidential runoff election, rebuffing a leftist movement that held the presidency for over a decade marked by an economic boom and then a years-long recession Results released by the Electoral Council showed former banker Guillermo Lasso with about 53% of votes and leftist Andrés Arauz at 47%, with just over 93% of votes counted. The agency has not yet declared an official winner in the contest to replace President Lenín Moreno next month. Continue reading... |
| Boris Johnson told to get grip of UK climate strategy before Cop26 Posted: 12 Apr 2021 01:14 AM PDT 'Worrisome' policy decisions could undermine UK leadership and the talks themselves, say senior climate experts Boris Johnson must urgently take control of the UK's presidency of vital UN climate talks, amid a shower of green policy setbacks and growing concern over the lack of a coherent all-government climate strategy, senior international figures have said. The Cop26 climate summit is viewed as one of the last chances to put the world on track to meet the goals of the 2015 Paris climate agreement, of holding global heating well below 2C, and preferably no more than 1.5C, above pre-industrial levels. There are just over six months left before the crunch talks are scheduled to begin in Glasgow in November. Continue reading... |
| Security services and police to face questions over London Bridge attacker Posted: 11 Apr 2021 10:20 PM PDT Inquest will ask if deaths of Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones at hands of convicted terrorist Usman Khan could have been prevented The security services and police are to face questions over whether they missed the chance to stop a convicted terrorist out on licence with an electronic tag who stabbed two people to death. On Monday, the inquests open into the deaths of Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, who were killed in the November 2019 attack at Fishmongers hall, near London Bridge at a prisoner rehabilitation conference. Continue reading... |
| Police warn of ‘all-out war’ as tribal violence in Papua New Guinea kills 19 Posted: 11 Apr 2021 08:38 PM PDT High-powered weapons, as well as a hand grenade, were used in fighting near Kainantu Town in Eastern Highlands province Police are warning a "all-out war" could erupt in Eastern Highlands province in Papua New Guinea, after 19 people were killed in tribal violence late last week. High-powered weapons, as well as a hand grenade, were used in fighting on Thursday and Friday near Kainantu Town in the east of the country, causing 19 deaths, with many more people unaccounted for, and properties destroyed. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 12 Apr 2021 03:12 AM PDT Australia scraps Covid vaccination timeline; India becomes second-worst affected country worldwide after US;
That is it from me, Martin Belam, for today. I will be back again tomorrow morning. Nadeem Badshah will be along just now to take you through the next few hours. If you prefer your Covid news with a distinctly UK focus, then Jedidajah Otte has that over here.
Europe's vaccination campaign, painfully slow in the first quarter, is finally starting to pick up as supplies increase, with a rolling seven-day average of injections per 100 people approaching, and sometimes surpassing, that of the UK. Both Spain and Germany are currently administering more daily shots than Britain, whose seven-day vaccination rate has plunged from 0.89 per 100 people on 21 March to 0.5, according to OurWorldinData, due to temporary supply shortages. Continue reading... |
| Spring cold snap hits as England relaxes Covid lockdown restrictions Posted: 12 Apr 2021 12:09 AM PDT Snowfall in some areas dampens hopes of businesses reopening their doors for first time in months The lifting of lockdown restrictions to allow people in England to use pub beer gardens and dine in the outdoor areas of restaurants is being met by snowfall, as a spring cold snap hits. The inclement weather will come as a blow to thousands of businesses that were hoping to welcome back customers on Monday after months of restrictions. Continue reading... |
| Ardern tells New Zealand border staff: get Covid vaccine now or be redeployed Posted: 11 Apr 2021 05:56 PM PDT Prime minister's comments come after border worker diagnosed last week said to have missed two vaccine appointments Border workers have until the end of April to be vaccinated before being moved to lower risk roles, the prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has said after a third worker from Auckland's Grand Millenium managed isolation facility tested positive for Covid-19. "We want everyone to be vaccinated on our frontline," she told TVNZ's Breakfast on Monday. Continue reading... |
| Gordon Brown calls for G7 to act on Covid vaccine ‘apartheid’ Posted: 11 Apr 2021 10:00 PM PDT Former prime minister says group should commit to global vaccine drive and slams UK's foreign aid cut
Preventing poor countries suffering from vaccine "apartheid" will require the G7 group of rich nations to commit $30bn (£22bn) a year to a global immunisation drive, Gordon Brown has said. The former Labour prime minister said the UK should use June's G7 summit in Cornwall to rekindle the moral purpose of the Make Poverty History campaign of 2005, paying for its share of the new fund by reversing the government's "misguided" cut to the foreign aid budget. Continue reading... |
| Moby on fame and regret: ‘I was an out-of-control, utterly entitled drink and drug addict’ Posted: 11 Apr 2021 10:00 PM PDT He declared his intention to go away for a while after pointed criticism of his second memoir. But now the musician is back with a new album - and a visceral documentary Moby is considering the question he is often asked in interviews: "Do I think I've been treated unfairly?" muses the 55-year-old musician, who, let's face it, is hardly a stranger to terrible press. "Honestly, I don't think I have been. I'm sure there are times when I've been portrayed badly and it was accurate. And even with some of the bad stuff I've been through, I don't have any right to complain. When you look at the 8 billion people on the planet, a reasonably affluent caucasian cis-gendered male public figure musician is not necessarily the first person you think of as having valid criticisms about how they're being treated." Moby is upbeat today – "I can't think of many things to complain about besides baldness and mortality" – which is perhaps surprising given that the last time he was in the public eye, it involved rather a lot of the aforementioned terrible press. To summarise: in among the shocking confessions, rampant addiction and grotty sex of his second memoir, 2019's Then It Fell Apart, was the claim that the "beautiful actress" Natalie Portman had asked him out when she was 20, at which point he would have been in his mid-30s. Continue reading... |
| ‘Aphrodisiac’ of the ocean: how sea cucumbers became gold for organised crime Posted: 11 Apr 2021 10:00 PM PDT Overfishing and smuggling of this crucial animal are affecting biodiversity and the livelihood of local fishers in Sri Lanka It's after sunset in Jaffna when Anthony Vigrado dives into the waters of Palk Bay, scanning the seafloor to collect what seems to be prized treasure. What he comes back with are sea cucumbers – long, leathery-skinned creatures that are increasingly valuable and the source of his income for the past 12 years. But after a 10-hour search, his harvest is only a fraction of what it used to be, as the shores of northern Sri Lanka and southern India have become a prime spot for exploitation. Continue reading... |
| The healthy child who wouldn’t wake up: the strange truth of ‘mystery illnesses’ Posted: 12 Apr 2021 01:00 AM PDT Dizzy diplomats, twitching schoolgirls, children in comas ... psychosomatic illnesses are not always as unexplainable as they seem, writes neurologist Suzanne O'Sullivan I cannot resist a news headline that refers to a mystery illness and there is no shortage to keep me interested. "Mystery of 18 twitching teenagers in New York"; "Mysterious sleeping sickness spreads in Kazakhstani village"; "200 Colombian girls fall ill with a mysterious illness"; "The Mystery of the Havana Syndrome". One medical disorder seems to attract this description more than any other: psychosomatic illness. That the body is the mouthpiece of the mind is evident in our posture, in the smiles on our faces, in the tremor of our nervous hands. But, still, when the body speaks too explicitly, when the power of the mind leads to physical disability, it can be hard to understand why. This perplexity is most apparent when psychosomatic disorders affect groups, spreading from person to person like a social virus, in a phenomenon often referred to as mass hysteria. We are currently caught in a pandemic. We have been ordered to hide and to search our bodies for symptoms. If there was ever a time for a psychosomatic disorder to spread through anxiety and suggestion, this is it. The threat of a virus can affect health in more ways than one. Since 2018 I have been visiting communities affected by suspected contagions of psychosomatic illness. I have seen what fear can do to our physical health. I have also seen the curative effect of hope. Continue reading... |
| From Naked Attraction to Love Is Blind: The couples who found lasting love on wild TV dating shows Posted: 12 Apr 2021 02:00 AM PDT These series rely on gimmicks - whether contestants are required to take off all their clothes or get married at first sight. But romance can flourish regardless After a half-century of dating shows, the genre has grown increasingly outlandish. Naked dating, marrying complete strangers, secret cameras – it can't be long before singletons are blasted into space in one of Elon Musk's rockets to find love. But behind all the gimmicks, do any of these shows lead to long-lasting love? We spoke to four couples. Continue reading... |
| How Facebook let fake engagement distort global politics: a whistleblower's account Posted: 12 Apr 2021 01:00 AM PDT The inside story of Sophie Zhang's battle to combat rampant manipulation as executives delayed and deflected Shortly before Sophie Zhang lost access to Facebook's systems, she published one final message on the company's internal forum, a farewell tradition at Facebook known as a "badge post". "Officially, I'm a low-level [data scientist] who's being fired today for poor performance," the post began. "In practice, in the 2.5 years I've spent at Facebook, I've … found multiple blatant attempts by foreign national governments to abuse our platform on vast scales to mislead their own citizenry, and caused international news on multiple occasions." Continue reading... |
| ‘It hides this dark interior’: Promising Young Woman’s weaponisation of feminine style Posted: 12 Apr 2021 12:05 AM PDT Carey Mulligan's character in this Oscar-nominated drama utilises the 'good girl' look to get revenge. Costume designer Nancy Steiner explains why the wardrobe packs such a punch At one point in Emerald Fennell's debut film, Promising Young Woman, Cassie Thomas (Carey Mulligan) goes to lunch with a former college classmate, Madison McPhee (Alison Brie). Madison, who is a stay-at-home mother, gets – as she calls it – "afternoon drunk" and proceeds to give her thoughts on gender politics. "All guys want the same thing," she slurs. "A good girl." This desire – and Cassie's subversion of it – is spelled out in what she wears. Cassie's clothes are the epitome of the "good girl" type – pink, floral and fluffy. There is a baseball shirt with a unicorn on the front. A sweater with daisies. A midi dress, softly flowing in sky blue. Her clothes are sweet – as sweet as the cupcakes on display in the coffee shop where she works. Continue reading... |
| ‘Out of Trump playbook’: UK accused of ‘abandoning’ women with cuts to aid Posted: 11 Apr 2021 10:15 PM PDT Charity warns of 22,000 additional deaths in poorest countries if Wish reproductive health programme ends The director of a leading sexual and reproductive health charity has accused the government of "abandoning" women and girls it promised to help, as aid cuts derail a leading Tory programme to reduce maternal deaths and prevent unsafe abortions in poor countries. The threat to the women's integrated sexual health (Wish) programme could mean 7.5m additional unintended pregnancies, 2.7m unsafe abortions and 22,000 maternal deaths over the next year, said Dr Alvaro Bermejo, director general of International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). Continue reading... |
| ‘We’re not taught to speak out’: Asian Americans find their voice amid rise in hate Posted: 12 Apr 2021 02:00 AM PDT A diverse community has come together and embraced activism in the face of a pandemic-linked upsurge in racism Natty Jumreornvong was outside Mount Sinai hospital on the Upper East Side of New York around 11am one morning in February when a man approached her. Related: 'Our community is bleeding': Asian American lawmakers say violence has reached 'crisis point' Continue reading... |
| Andrew Laming changes his mind and wants to recontest next federal election Posted: 12 Apr 2021 03:09 AM PDT Queensland MP had vowed to quit parliament after it was alleged he had harassed women online and taken an inappropriate photo Besieged Liberal MP Andrew Laming has "changed his mind" about not contesting the next election for the Queensland seat of Bowman and was to face a meeting of the state executive on Monday night that would determine his fate, party sources say. Following a series of reports about Laming's poor behaviour towards women, including an incident where he allegedly photographed a woman while she was bending over, the Queensland MP announced last month that he would "own those mistakes" and quit parliament. Continue reading... |
| Paint, Easter eggs and watermelons – Myanmar’s creative protests in pictures Posted: 12 Apr 2021 02:45 AM PDT Protesters in Myanmar have become creative in their opposition to military takeover in February Continue reading... |
| Streets coated with ash after Caribbean volcano eruption – video Posted: 11 Apr 2021 06:23 AM PDT Video from Georgetown, a community several kilometres away from La Soufrière volcano on the Caribbean island of St Vincent, shows buildings blanketed in a layer of ash after the volcano spectacularly erupted after decades of inactivity. The eruption of La Soufrière on Friday caused dark clouds of ash to blow about 10km into the air, prompting an evacuation request from the government. Assessing the thick ash covering parts of St Vincent, the disaster response team predicted things may not return to normal for a 'very long time' |
| ‘Accident’ at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility – video Posted: 11 Apr 2021 05:05 AM PDT Iran announced on Saturday that it had started up advanced uranium enrichment centrifuges at Natanz, in breach of its undertakings under a 2015 nuclear deal and days after the start of talks on rescuing the accord. The following day a spokesperson for Iran's civilian nuclear programme said an 'accident' had happened at the facility's electrical distribution grid. Behrouz Kamalvandi says the reason for the loss in power is unknown and will be investigated but there were no injuries and no contamination Continue reading... |
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