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- US and China commit to cooperating on climate crisis
- Jailed Putin critic Alexei Navalny could die at any minute, doctors warn
- Royal family say farewell to Prince Philip at Windsor Castle funeral
- Revealed: Lord Byron’s £4,000 cheque that helped create modern Greece
- Could Marine Le Pen finally triumph with her third tilt at French presidency?
- Boeing board under pressure as families of 737 Max crash victims push reform at the top
- Tokyo 2021: Olympic chief to visit Japan to approve safety amid Covid cases surge
- Czech police hunt two men with names matching Skripal suspects over blast
- Helen McCrory swore friends to secrecy about cancer diagnosis
- Lava in a cold climate: Icelanders rush to get wed at volcano site
- Eyewitnesses urged to come forward after dingo mauls toddler on Fraser Island
- Coronavirus live news: Israel ends outdoor mask-wearing; UK cabinet minister defends Hancock over NHS contracts
- The obscure maths theorem that governs the reliability of Covid testing
- Family of three contract Covid from infected neighbours in hotel quarantine in Sydney
- Press play for Petflix: boom in gadgets for pandemic puppies as owners return to work
- Facebook and fear in Manila: Maria Ressa’s fight for facts
- Rapper Little Simz: ‘I don’t hold back – I feel super free’
- Nigella Lawson: ‘I can be ecstatically happy with just bread and cheese’
- I worry constantly about the safety of my grown-up daughters | Dear Mariella
- ‘Being trans is not something you put on and take off. It’s part of who you are’
- The US is pulling out of Afghanistan. But it will never leave those of us who served there
- New York deserves better than Andrew Cuomo’s towering folly Rowan Moore
- Groundswell review – the fight against fracking in Ireland
- Shadow warrior: Benjamin Netanyahu takes a dangerous gamble with Iran
- US orders non-essential personnel out of Chad over fears of rebel attacks on capital
- She survived Hurricane Sandy. Then climate gentrification hit
- Daniel Andrews to miss Victorian budget as back injury recovery takes longer than expected
- If Jacinda Ardern wants to end period poverty she needs to take some lessons from abroad | Jacinta Gulasekharam
- Derek Chauvin trial: officer’s brief defense could reflect confidence ... or lack of credibility
- US and Japan present united front against China over Asia Pacific – video
| US and China commit to cooperating on climate crisis Posted: 17 Apr 2021 08:45 PM PDT World's biggest polluters release joint commitment to climate action following John Kerry visit to Shanghai The US and China have "committed to cooperating" on the pressing issue of climate change, the two sides said in a joint statement on Saturday, following a visit to Shanghai by US climate envoy John Kerry. "The United States and China are committed to cooperating with each other and with other countries to tackle the climate crisis, which must be addressed with the seriousness and urgency that it demands," said the statement from Kerry and China's special envoy for climate change, Xie Zhenhua. Continue reading... |
| Jailed Putin critic Alexei Navalny could die at any minute, doctors warn Posted: 17 Apr 2021 04:29 PM PDT Russian opposition politician 'at risk of cardiac arrest' after going on hunger strike in penal colony Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny risks cardiac arrest at "any minute" as his health has rapidly deteriorated, doctors warned Saturday, urging immediate access to Russia's most famous prisoner. On 31 March, Vladimir Putin's most prominent opponent went on hunger strike to demand proper medical treatment for back pain and numbness in his legs and hands. Continue reading... |
| Royal family say farewell to Prince Philip at Windsor Castle funeral Posted: 17 Apr 2021 08:40 AM PDT Social distancing, face masks and only 30 mourners at service for the Duke of Edinburgh When future historians come to retell the story of the pandemic, the image of the Queen sitting alone, masked and in mourning, will surely rank among the most poignant. The Duke of Edinburgh's final farewell at St George's Chapel was like no other royal funeral. And though not a family like any other, with mourners limited to 30 and only the pallbearers not socially distanced, it was in no small way symbolic. Continue reading... |
| Revealed: Lord Byron’s £4,000 cheque that helped create modern Greece Posted: 17 Apr 2021 10:30 PM PDT The poet's generosity 200 years ago helped to pave the way to independence, and he is still seen as a hero Racked by fever, prone to fits of delirium, consumed by his last great passion – the liberation of Greece – Lord Byron lay on his sickbed. It was 18 April 1824. The great Romantic poet would be dead the next day. "I have given her [Greece] my time, my means, my health," he is recorded as saying in a moment of lucidity. "And now I give her my life! What could I do more?" Continue reading... |
| Could Marine Le Pen finally triumph with her third tilt at French presidency? Posted: 17 Apr 2021 10:45 PM PDT Next year's Élysée race looks like a battle between a fading Emmanuel Macron and the far-right leader. And some believe she might win this time In Paris's symbolic Place de la République, under the watchful gaze of France's allegorical figurehead Marianne, the skateboarders are not in the mood to discuss politics. For the young here, as everywhere, life has been paused during a pandemic that has halted studies, jobs, socialising and parties. What they want is their lives back, not to talk about an election. Continue reading... |
| Boeing board under pressure as families of 737 Max crash victims push reform at the top Posted: 17 Apr 2021 11:00 PM PDT More directors could be pushed off next week as aerospace firm tries to recover its reputation after 737 Max problems and Covid downturn Two more top-level directors could be ousted from Boeing's board of directors next week as family members of the victims of two fatal crashes of its 737 Max jets join shareholders to push for further high-level reforms at the aerospace giant. Related: Denver plane engine fire consistent with metal fatigue in fan blade, say investigators Continue reading... |
| Tokyo 2021: Olympic chief to visit Japan to approve safety amid Covid cases surge Posted: 17 Apr 2021 10:13 PM PDT Thomas Bach expected to give Japan the all-clear to host the Games, as PM secures extra vaccine doses from Pfizer to fight new virus wave See all our coronavirus coverage The head of the Olympic movement will visit Japan in May as the nation struggles to contain a surge in Covid-19 cases before the start of the Games, with Pfizer agreeing to supply extra vaccine doses to the country. Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, will attend a torch relay ceremony in the western city of Hiroshima on 17 May and meet prime minister Yoshihide Suga the next day, Kyodo News agency said on Saturday, citing sources close to the matter. Continue reading... |
| Czech police hunt two men with names matching Skripal suspects over blast Posted: 17 Apr 2021 02:17 PM PDT Officers say they are looking for two Russians in connection with 2014 explosion that killed two people Czech police have said they are seeking two Russian men in connection with a 2014 blast that killed two people. The men, they said, hold passports used by the suspects in the attempted poisoning of Sergei Skripal. The names match those used by the two men accused of poisoning Skripal and his daughter Yulia with the Soviet-era nerve agent novichok in the English city of Salisbury in 2018. Russia denied involvement in the poisoning, but about 300 diplomats were sent home in subsequent tit-for-tat expulsions. Continue reading... |
| Helen McCrory swore friends to secrecy about cancer diagnosis Posted: 17 Apr 2021 09:11 AM PDT Actor did not want her professional or charitable work overshadowed by illness in final weeks, says friend Helen McCrory, the Peaky Blinders actor who died from cancer on Friday, "swore friends to secrecy" as she underwent treatment, her friend Carrie Cracknell has revealed. Cracknell, who directed McCrory in a 2014 production of Medea, said the performer did not want her illness overshadowing her family and professional life. McCrory's husband, Damian Lewis, announced the news that his wife died peacefully at home aged 52. Continue reading... |
| Lava in a cold climate: Icelanders rush to get wed at volcano site Posted: 18 Apr 2021 12:45 AM PDT The 'quiet' eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula lets scientists, the public and even marrying couples enjoy the spectacle close up It was not the wedding they planned when they got engaged in 2017. But for Sumarliði and Jón, their ceremony in front of neon orange lava erupting from a volcano in Iceland was "weird, gorgeous and terrifying all at the same time". The grooms hiked for more than two hours through snow and wind to reach the spot on the Reykjanes peninsula. "I thought I might freeze to death at my own wedding," Sumarliði told the Observer. Continue reading... |
| Eyewitnesses urged to come forward after dingo mauls toddler on Fraser Island Posted: 17 Apr 2021 07:31 PM PDT Two-year-old boy who was attacked after he wandered away from family 'lucky not to sustain more injuries', paramedics say Rangers investigating the savage mauling of a toddler by a dingo on Fraser Island have called for eyewitnesses to the attack to come forward. The two-year-old boy has wounds all over his body but will recover after a lone dingo repeatedly bit him early on Saturday. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 18 Apr 2021 02:08 AM PDT Israel now has 54% of population fully vaccinated; George Eustice defends health secretary over shares in company approved as potential supplier
Dr Susan Hopkins also said that there was not enough information about the Indian variant of coronavirus to classify it as a "variant of concern", but that scientists were investigating. "We have seen a couple of cases (of the Indian variant) that haven't arisen from travel but we're still trying to undergo the investigations to look in great detail at where they might have acquired it from," she said.
The chief medical adviser for NHS Test and Trace said it appears to be possible to become reinfected with a different strain of coronavirus, and that there had been cases of this happening. "We have seen some people who have had their first dose of vaccine who have had the South African variant and the variant that arose in Kent," Dr Susan Hopkins told BBC's Andrew Marr show. "That's to be expected, we know that these vaccines aren't 100% protecting you against infection and that's why we ask people to take caution. Continue reading... |
| The obscure maths theorem that governs the reliability of Covid testing Posted: 17 Apr 2021 11:00 PM PDT There's been much debate about lateral flow tests – their accuracy depends on context and the theories of a 18th-century cleric Maths quiz. If you take a Covid test that only gives a false positive one time in every 1,000, what's the chance that you've actually got Covid? Surely it's 99.9%, right? No! The correct answer is: you have no idea. You don't have enough information to make the judgment. Continue reading... |
| Family of three contract Covid from infected neighbours in hotel quarantine in Sydney Posted: 17 Apr 2021 06:58 PM PDT NSW Health reclassifies three coronavirus cases to locally-acquired after testing showed they shared same viral sequence as infected family next door The NSW health department is investigating how three members of a family acquired Covid-19 while in hotel quarantine in Sydney. They were staying next door to a family with the virus at the Adina Apartment hotel. Continue reading... |
| Press play for Petflix: boom in gadgets for pandemic puppies as owners return to work Posted: 17 Apr 2021 10:15 PM PDT The realities of ownership are dawning as the UK's lockdown eases and the dogs left at home need to be looked after Pet cameras and activity trackers are flying off the shelves. Demand for anti-chew sprays, automatic feeders and water fountains for pets has rocketed, and dog walkers and sitters are being inundated with inquiries. As lockdown restrictions ease, dog owners are snapping up products and services that will enable them to monitor and care for their pets while they are out at work. Continue reading... |
| Facebook and fear in Manila: Maria Ressa’s fight for facts Posted: 17 Apr 2021 10:00 PM PDT Ex-CNN reporter and founder of the news site Rappler on life under the relentless social media assault of the Duterte regime As terrible as the events were that played out on Capitol Hill on 6 January, Maria Ressa admits to feeling "a small amount of relief" about them. An ex-CNN bureau chief, and now the founder of her own news organisation, Rappler, she had spent the past two years sounding a warning about what she'd seen happen in her native country, the Philippines. There, a Facebook-fuelled tsunami of lies had assisted an authoritarian into power. And she had seen where that had led: to opponents of the state being killed in their homes or turning up dead in ditches. As a Filipino American with a foot in both countries – she calls herself "the first of the CNN hybrids" – she was perfectly positioned to warn America about what happens when a populist president is allowed to spread out-of-control lies across a vast, unregulated tech platform. "A lie told a million times becomes a fact," she repeated again and again. Continue reading... |
| Rapper Little Simz: ‘I don’t hold back – I feel super free’ Posted: 18 Apr 2021 01:00 AM PDT She is as well known for her dizzying talent (Stormzy hailed her as a 'legend') as she is for her privacy. So, as Little Simz releases her fourth album, why is she finally opening up? It's a drab afternoon on an industrial estate in London and I'm sitting, somewhat awkwardly, in the back of a parked car with Little Simz. The British-Nigerian rapper-singer-actor, 27, has spent the morning doing a photoshoot. The combination of closed cafés (England is still in lockdown) and persistent March drizzle has meant we've ended up in the car, an enormous 4x4 with TV screens built into the seats. Still wearing full makeup from the shoot, Simz is swaddled in comfortable grey sweatpants and a black, shiny puffer jacket. "People think I'm rude, or antisocial, or awkward, because I'm not chatty," she says. Simz, full name Simbiatu Ajikawo, doesn't waste her words. When she talks, she is purposeful, precise, politely withholding. Yet from its overture, her fourth studio album, Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, reveals an interior world of cinematic proportions. "I'm definitely not the greatest at opening up," she says today. But there are two Simz: the one that is by nature reticent and the Simz who wants to show you her universe. Continue reading... |
| Nigella Lawson: ‘I can be ecstatically happy with just bread and cheese’ Posted: 18 Apr 2021 12:00 AM PDT In an exchange of emails for Observer Food Monthly's 20th anniversary, the broadcaster and writer explains how Twitter helped her through lockdown and what she eats on a night off What were you doing 20 years ago this month? What were you mostly cooking then? |
| I worry constantly about the safety of my grown-up daughters | Dear Mariella Posted: 17 Apr 2021 10:00 PM PDT The dangers women face make your anxiety understandable, says Mariella Frostrup. However, you must – as we all must – keep worries to a minimum in order to live life The dilemma I have four lovely children, all now adults and left home. I rarely worry about my sons, but I constantly, constantly fret about my daughters, who both live in shared houses in distant cities. They are very good about keeping in touch, and sympathetic to my anxiety, but it is reaching unmanageable proportions. For example, if I look at WhatsApp, I might see that one daughter was on it, say, 30 minutes ago, but the other hasn't been on it all day. I will then look to see when they were last active on Facebook. If she hasn't been active on Facebook either, I will telephone her. Continue reading... |
| ‘Being trans is not something you put on and take off. It’s part of who you are’ Posted: 18 Apr 2021 12:00 AM PDT Rowan Moore's son Felix came out as transgender to his family seven years ago, when he was 19. Here they address some of the significant themes in the discussion about trans rights today Felix Moore Upon his death in 1989, retired jazz singer Billy Tipton, who lived as a man for more than 50 years, was discovered to be transgender. His story generated sensationalist press attention, but it also drew the notice of the trans community. "Men like Billy," trans activist Lou Sullivan wrote at the time, "prove that we as FTMs [female to males] are not a bizarre recent phenomenon." Here I am as a trans man today, still having to explain and justify my identity. Growing up, I couldn't have been less like the popular idea of a trans man. I played with Sylvanian Families, not monster trucks. I loved sparkly dresses and anything purple. I was a girly child who grew into a girly man. People sometimes expect trans people to embody a stereotypical image of their gender identity, but in my experience trans people are much more likely to be creative and unconventional in how we express gender. This is even more true among people I know who are both autistic and trans, myself included. Continue reading... |
| The US is pulling out of Afghanistan. But it will never leave those of us who served there Posted: 17 Apr 2021 11:00 PM PDT Historians will judge America's longest war. Now, the sounds of helicopters over my home take me back to Losano Ridge, Gardez, the men I fought for and those who did not return I am one of more than 800,000 American military veterans who have served in Afghanistan since 2001. Tens of thousands more served in other capacities, from intelligence and diplomacy to aid and development. It's fair to ask whether the end of the war affects how one views his or her own small role in the effort. If we didn't "win", whatever winning means in a war like this, did we matter? Were the sacrifices in vain? Related: Damned either way, Biden opts out of Afghanistan as US tires of 'forever wars' Continue reading... |
| New York deserves better than Andrew Cuomo’s towering folly Rowan Moore Posted: 17 Apr 2021 11:15 PM PDT The state governor seems determined to give the city's famous skyline a lumpy revamp Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York state, is currently resisting calls to resign over allegations of sexual harassment. So what better way to prove that he is definitely not a phallocratic bully than to "ram through", as one outlet puts it, a super-tall tower called Penn 15, and a vast development around it? It's not just that its name reads like the personalised licence plate of an inadequate and not-literate male. It is also that this lumpy object will compete on the New York city skyline with the nearby Empire State Building – Penn 15 would be bulkier than its famous neighbour and almost as tall. It is part of the Penn District, a proposed "campus" that will rip up several city blocks and replace them with what, on the available evidence, looks like further big lumps swathed in bland and generic design. Continue reading... |
| Groundswell review – the fight against fracking in Ireland Posted: 18 Apr 2021 01:52 AM PDT Johnny Gogan's documentary highlights the misconceived plans of corporations that hoped to avoid protesters In 2010, the American film-maker Josh Fox released something that in retrospect looks like one of the most influential and original documentaries of recent times: GasLand. It was about something new to many at the time: fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, under the earth to release natural gas from shale rock, at the risk of polluting the water table and turning areas of natural beauty into sludge dumps – and that is aside from the existing larger implications of gas consumption. The film alerted many to a new environmental menace, and it plays its historic role in this new film from Johnny Gogan about the anti-fracking campaign in Ireland, often by people who were energised by seeing GasLand and determined to resist what one campaigner calls the new way of "scraping the bottom of the fossil-fuel barrel". Exactly so. The coronavirus pandemic has, understandably, diverted many people's attention from the climate crisis. But there is no vaccination for climate change. Continue reading... |
| Shadow warrior: Benjamin Netanyahu takes a dangerous gamble with Iran Posted: 17 Apr 2021 11:00 PM PDT Israel's prime minister is creating a climate of fear and crisis as his best hope for holding on to power In a region famous for warmongers and tyrants, who is the most dangerous man in the Middle East right now? Not Bashar al-Assad, the isolated gauleiter of Damascus. Not disgraced Mohammed bin Salman, the princely Saudi executioner. Not even Turkey's misogynist-in-chief, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the local neighbourhood bully. Step forward Benjamin Netanyahu, easily the most convincing contender for the "danger man" title. Israel's prime minister has outdone himself of late, threatening war with Iran, ordering one-off attacks, assassinating a top scientist, sabotaging international fence-mending, and defying the US, his country's indispensable ally. Continue reading... |
| US orders non-essential personnel out of Chad over fears of rebel attacks on capital Posted: 17 Apr 2021 06:06 PM PDT As long-serving president Idriss Deby seems set for election win, fighting has broken out between army and rebels in country's north The US has ordered its non-essential diplomats out of Chad over fears of insurgent attacks on the capital, as early election results show president Idriss Deby is poised to continue his three-decade rule of the African nation. With armed groups appearing to be advancing on the capital, N'Djamena, the US State Department on Saturday ordered non-essential diplomats and families of American personnel to leave the country. Continue reading... |
| She survived Hurricane Sandy. Then climate gentrification hit Posted: 18 Apr 2021 02:00 AM PDT Kimberly White Smalls needed her coastal home rebuilt, but like other Black residents of New York's Far Rockaway neighborhood, she was moved instead Sitting beside her two grandchildren, Kimberly White Smalls recounted what it was like to flee from her family home as Hurricane Sandy hit the edge of New York City. "It was a complete disaster," said Smalls, who lives on the Rockaway peninsula in Queens. "When we came back the next day, I [had] lost three cars, a scooter, and the house was destroyed." Continue reading... |
| Daniel Andrews to miss Victorian budget as back injury recovery takes longer than expected Posted: 17 Apr 2021 10:48 PM PDT The premier had intended to take six weeks off after breaking his ribs and fracturing a vertebra, but now expects to return to work in June Victorian premier Daniel Andrews has delayed until June his return to work after a serious back injury and will now miss next month's state budget. Andrews suffered broken ribs and a fractured T7 vertebra after slipping on wet stairs at a holiday home on the Mornington Peninsula on 9 March. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 17 Apr 2021 01:00 PM PDT When it rolls out free period products in schools the government should think about sustainability and educating boys As Labour tries to fulfil its many election promises, there is one area it could score an easy win – the period product rollout scheduled for June. And if New Zealand's prime minister, Jacinda Ardern is serious about ending period poverty, she needs to take a good look at England and Scotland. Continue reading... |
| Derek Chauvin trial: officer’s brief defense could reflect confidence ... or lack of credibility Posted: 17 Apr 2021 04:00 AM PDT After a dramatic final week, all that is left is closing statements and jury decisions The prosecution took 10 days to lay out its case against Derek Chauvin. The former Minneapolis police officer's defense to the charges of murdering George Floyd barely lasted two. The relative brevity of Chauvin's case might reflect a confidence on the part of the defense that the evidence against him is easily picked apart or at least shaky enough to raise reasonable doubt with the jury. Continue reading... |
| US and Japan present united front against China over Asia Pacific – video Posted: 17 Apr 2021 03:16 AM PDT Joe Biden and Japan's prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, have presented a united front to counter an increasingly assertive China. The two leaders made statements at the US president's first face-to-face White House summit since taking office. Biden said 'we committed to working together to take on the challenges from China and on issues like the East China Sea' Continue reading... |
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