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- Carbon emissions to soar in 2021 by second highest rate in history
- Millions at risk of famine without urgent help, governments warned
- Judge orders two Proud Boys leaders held in custody over Capitol attack
- Oppression of journalists in China ‘may have been factor in Covid pandemic’
- UK government may legislate to stop European Super League, says minister
- Amnesty International has culture of white privilege, report finds
- Derek Chauvin jury begins deliberations as America braces for verdict
- Germany’s CDU backs Armin Laschet as chancellor candidate in September poll
- Montana guide mauled to death in grizzly bear attack outside Yellowstone
- Walter Mondale, former US vice-president and celebrated liberal, dies aged 93
- Tyrannosaurs may have hunted in packs like wolves, new research has found
- Indian expansion of Covid vaccine drive may further strain supplies
- Coronavirus live news: EU to rule on J&J vaccine safety; India records nearly 1.6m cases in a week
- Joven Flores worked long hours in a care home. Was he too rundown to survive Covid?
- Ontario shifts strategy as it scrambles to combat worsening Covid outbreak
- The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea
- ‘It blew our minds’: the surfers who braved sharks to ride Africa’s mightiest wave
- Places of Mind by Timothy Brennan review – a generous and heartfelt biography of Edward Said
- ‘It would be glorious’: hopes high for Biden to nominate first Black woman to supreme court
- Can Cher save the world’s loneliest elephant?
- Byron Bay residents call on Netflix to scrap Byron Baes TV series
- Brexit: Johnson says UK trying to cut ‘ludicrous’ Northern Ireland checks
- ‘I was alone, I had nothing’: from child refugee to student nurse in Athens
- Hundreds join Minneapolis high school walkouts: ‘Police don’t care about us’
- Canada stimulus budget pledges funding for childcare and Covid-19 relief
- Woman found dead with burn injuries in Gold Coast backyard identified
- Myanmar military junta arrests prominent trade union leader
- New Zealand National MPs should stop their intrigues, changing the leadership won’t help right now | Liam Hehir
- Derek Chauvin trial: prosecution and defence make closing arguments – video
- Maxine Waters expresses support for protesters against police brutality - video
- Tesla car crashes in Texas with 'no one in driver's seat' – video report
| Carbon emissions to soar in 2021 by second highest rate in history Posted: 19 Apr 2021 10:00 PM PDT Global economies forecast to pour stimulus money into fossil fuels as part of Covid recovery Carbon dioxide emissions are forecast to jump this year by the second biggest annual rise in history, as global economies pour stimulus cash into fossil fuels in the recovery from the Covid-19 recession. The leap will be second only to the massive rebound 10 years ago after the financial crisis, and will put climate hopes out of reach unless governments act quickly, the International Energy Agency has warned. Continue reading... |
| Millions at risk of famine without urgent help, governments warned Posted: 19 Apr 2021 10:15 PM PDT Open letter backing UN call to action says Covid has exacerbated problems of conflict, climate crisis and inequality World leaders are facing a call to act immediately to stop multiple famines breaking out, exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic and caused by conflict, climate crisis and inequality. On Tuesday, hundreds of groups working to combat inequality appealed to governments to respond to increasing levels of hunger caused by "an acute food insecurity situation" around the world. Continue reading... |
| Judge orders two Proud Boys leaders held in custody over Capitol attack Posted: 19 Apr 2021 12:36 PM PDT Ethan Nordean and Joseph Biggs charged with conspiring to stop 2020 election certification and leading Proud Boys to Capitol A federal judge has ordered two leaders of the far-right Proud Boys group to be detained in jail pending trial for their involvement in the 6 January attack on the Capitol in Washington DC. Both were indicted in one of many Proud Boys conspiracy cases to stem from the investigation into the assault on the building that followed a pro-Donald Trump rally. Continue reading... |
| Oppression of journalists in China ‘may have been factor in Covid pandemic’ Posted: 19 Apr 2021 09:00 PM PDT China placed 177th in Press Freedom Index, with warning that persecution of reporters can have international impact Persecution of journalists in China may have contributed to the global coronavirus outbreak by stopping whistleblowers coming forward in the early days of the pandemic, according to the press freedom group Reporters Without Borders. China ranks 177th out of 180 countries on the organisation's annual Press Freedom Index, with the organisation warning that persecution of journalists in totalitarian regimes affects citizens in western democracies. Continue reading... |
| UK government may legislate to stop European Super League, says minister Posted: 20 Apr 2021 01:29 AM PDT 'Whole range of sanctions' under consideration as PM to meet FA, Premier League and fans The government could impose sanctions or introduce legislation in order to prevent the breakaway new European Super League, a senior cabinet minister has said. The comments came as Boris Johnson is to meet officials from the Football Association, the Premier League and fans to discuss proposals for the European Super League on Tuesday. Continue reading... |
| Amnesty International has culture of white privilege, report finds Posted: 19 Apr 2021 10:00 PM PDT Exclusive: Workers allege systemic bias and racist language by senior staff including N-word and P-word Amnesty International has a culture of white privilege with incidents of overt racism including senior staff using the N-word and micro-aggressive behaviour such as the touching of black colleagues' hair, according to an internal review into its secretariat. It came as eight current and former employees of Amnesty International UK (AIUK) described their own experiences of racial discrimination and issued a statement calling on senior figures to stand down. Continue reading... |
| Derek Chauvin jury begins deliberations as America braces for verdict Posted: 19 Apr 2021 02:55 PM PDT
The Derek Chauvin murder trial heard closing arguments on Monday before the jury began considering a verdict over the death of George Floyd that is anxiously awaited by millions of Americans. Related: Daunte Wright and George Floyd: another chapter in America's recurring tragedy Continue reading... |
| Germany’s CDU backs Armin Laschet as chancellor candidate in September poll Posted: 20 Apr 2021 12:08 AM PDT State premier for North Rhine-Westphalia wins support over rival Markus Söder in bid to succeed Angela Merkel Armin Laschet has won the backing of senior party members of Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) to run as the conservative candidate to succeed Angela Merkel in September's federal election. Laschet, who has been party leader since January, gained the support of 77.5% of the party board – 31 members. Continue reading... |
| Montana guide mauled to death in grizzly bear attack outside Yellowstone Posted: 19 Apr 2021 06:30 PM PDT Charles Mock, 40, died of scalp and facial wounds after managing to call 911 for help A Montana backcountry guide has died after he was mauled by a large grizzly bear that was probably defending a nearby moose carcass just outside Yellowstone national park, officials said Monday. Charles "Carl" Mock, 40, who lived in the park gateway community of West Yellowstone, died Saturday, two days after he was attacked while fishing alone in a forested area along the Madison River several miles north of West Yellowstone, said a Gallatin county sheriff's office spokesperson, Christine Koosman. Continue reading... |
| Walter Mondale, former US vice-president and celebrated liberal, dies aged 93 Posted: 19 Apr 2021 07:39 PM PDT Former senator and ambassador lost one of the most lopsided US elections in history to Ronald Reagan Walter F Mondale, the former vice-president and liberal leader who lost to Ronald Reagan in one of the most lopsided presidential elections, has died at the age of 93. A towering figure in the Democratic party who resolutely put humility and honesty before the glitz of mass communication, Mondale's death marked something of an end of an era in US politics. He was described by a biographer as the last major American politician to resist the allure of television. Continue reading... |
| Tyrannosaurs may have hunted in packs like wolves, new research has found Posted: 19 Apr 2021 03:45 PM PDT Paleontologists say a mass grave in Utah shows the dinosaurs may not have always been solitary predators as previously thought Tyrannosaur dinosaurs may not have been solitary predators as long envisioned but more like social carnivores such as wolves, new research announced on Monday has found. Paleontologists developed the theory while studying a mass tyrannosaur death site found seven years ago in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah, one of two monuments that the Biden administration is considering restoring to their full size after former president Donald Trump shrank them. Continue reading... |
| Indian expansion of Covid vaccine drive may further strain supplies Posted: 19 Apr 2021 09:21 AM PDT All adults to be eligible from 1 May, making jab available to at least 400 million more people India has announced it will soon open its vaccination programme to every adult in response to soaring Covid-19 infections – a measure that could further strain supplies in parts of the world reliant on Indian-made vaccines for their own campaigns. From 1 May, Indian states will be free to administer doses to anyone aged older than 18, the central government announced on Monday as part of a package of policies to tackle a second wave that has overwhelmed hospitals and led to oxygen shortages across the country. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus live news: EU to rule on J&J vaccine safety; India records nearly 1.6m cases in a week Posted: 20 Apr 2021 01:34 AM PDT EU drug regulator to make ruling on Tuesday; India government says all adults to be eligible for vaccine in May as cases skyrocket; US ships vaccines for all overseas workforce
My colleague Andrew Sparrow has launched our UK covid and politics news live blog for today – so if you are after UK news, that is where you can head…
One of the main set-pieces we are expecting in the diary today is the European Medicines Agency preparing to present the conclusions of their investigation into possible links between the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine and very rare cases of unusual clotting disorders detected in the US. Maria Cheng tees it up for Associated Press, noting that last week, Johnson & Johnson halted its European rollout of its one-dose vaccine after the US Food and Drug Administration recommended officials pause its use while the rare blood clot cases are examined. Officials identified six cases of the highly unusual blood clots among nearly 7 million people who were immunised with the shot in the US. Continue reading... |
| Joven Flores worked long hours in a care home. Was he too rundown to survive Covid? Posted: 19 Apr 2021 10:00 PM PDT He came to the UK from the Philippines to create a good life for his family, but his job was demanding and relentless. Should he and other migrant workers have been better protected? For most of his life, all Joven Flores did was work. Back-to-back shifts as a chef, working weekends, overtime. Uncomplainingly, Joven tossed, marinated, sliced, kneaded, ordered produce, wiped down worktops and stacked plastic food boxes. On his occasional days off, Joven would prepare meals so that his family wouldn't have to cook during the week. Then he'd collapse on the sofa. Then TV, sleep, an early morning drive through deserted streets and more work. Joven was born in the village of Patimbao, in the province of Laguna in the Philippines. Growing up, he lived in a simple house, made of wood and concrete. Joven's father died when he was young. His mother, Mely, worked as a housekeeper for a middle-class family, and also sold fruit and vegetables in the market to support Joven and his three sisters. Money was tight. Sometimes, Mely would have to beg for credit at the shop to buy a sack of rice. In adulthood, if one of his children spilled food on the floor, Joven would get upset, and tell them: "When I was young, my mother didn't have enough money to buy us rice." Continue reading... |
| Ontario shifts strategy as it scrambles to combat worsening Covid outbreak Posted: 19 Apr 2021 09:16 AM PDT Province announces plans to make coronavirus vaccines more accessible in response to public pressure Canada's most populous province has announced plans to make coronavirus vaccines more accessible and the federal government pledged emergency aid as authorities scramble to combat a worsening outbreak in Ontario. The shift in strategy comes after the premier, Doug Ford, was forced into a U-turn over deeply unpopular new restrictions announced on Friday. Continue reading... |
| The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea Posted: 19 Apr 2021 10:00 PM PDT Before the 17th century, people did not think of themselves as belonging to something called the white race. But once the idea was invented, it quickly began to reshape the modern world In 2008, a satirical blog called Stuff White People Like became a brief but boisterous sensation. The conceit was straightforward, coupling a list, eventually 136 items long, of stuff that white people liked to do or own, with faux-ethnographic descriptions that explained each item's purported racial appeal. While some of the items were a little too obvious – indie music appeared at #41, Wes Anderson movies at #10 – others, including "awareness" (#18) and "children's games as adults" (#102), were inspired. It was an instant hit. In its first two months alone, Stuff White People Like drew 4 million visitors, and it wasn't long before a book based on the blog became a New York Times bestseller. The founder of the blog was an aspiring comedian and PhD dropout named Christian Lander, who'd been working as an advertising copywriter in Los Angeles when he launched the site on a whim. In interviews, Lander always acknowledged that his satire had at least as much to do with class as it did with race. His targets, he said, were affluent overeducated urbanites like himself. Yet there's little doubt that the popularity of the blog, which depended for its humour on the assumption that whiteness was a contentless default identity, had much to do with its frank invocation of race. "As a white person, you're just desperate to find something else to grab on to," Lander said in 2009. "Pretty much every white person I grew up with wished they'd grown up in, you know, an ethnic home that gave them a second language." Continue reading... |
| ‘It blew our minds’: the surfers who braved sharks to ride Africa’s mightiest wave Posted: 19 Apr 2021 10:00 PM PDT Forget the blond California stereotypes. New book Afrosurf captures Africa's overlooked surf culture – and celebrates its heroes, who'd ride colossal waves at beaches they were often banned from To surf Africa's biggest wave, which rises to 50ft and crashes down on waters filled with great white sharks, you first need to take a boat out into the clashing currents of Cape Town's Hout Bay. Then you jump into the maelstrom, paddle like crazy towards the deafening roar of breakwater, and suddenly it's right there under your bracing, twitching legs: Dungeons, as this terrifying colossus is called, propelling you towards the shore. "It blew our minds," says Cass Collier, one of the first surfers to trace a line down this notorious wave's surging facade. "We felt like babies." It was the late 1990s and Collier's parents, although South African-born, were of Indian heritage, which meant the apartheid regime classified him as "coloured". But in brutal heavy surf, he says, all racial differences ceased to matter. "You've got to have a clear mind and a clear conscience – and know that your fellow surfer in the water with you is your brother. If anything happens, he's the one who's going to help you." Continue reading... |
| Places of Mind by Timothy Brennan review – a generous and heartfelt biography of Edward Said Posted: 19 Apr 2021 11:00 PM PDT An intimate portrait of the public intellectual by a former student underlines Said's mastery of several fields and, 20 years after his death, his contemporary relevance "Long after his death in 2003, Edward W Said remains a partner in many imaginary conversations." The opening line of Tim Brennan's biography of Said is true - it's hard to come up with another thinker who remains so present in his absence. Some 50 or so books have been written about him. His writings are taught in universities across the world. Look on social media and you'll find him constantly referred to, in easy, familiar terms, by the young across the globe. His portrait is on the walls of the old cities of Palestine, in the company of the martyrs. The events of the past years, not least the Arab uprisings and the counter-revolutionary triumphs that followed them, have been for many of us occasions where we turned to his ideas and his example. Said bestrode not just one world, but several. Just as he was at the same moment a New Yorker and a Palestinian brought up in Egypt, he was also a literary critic, a theorist, a political activist, a musician and more. And if this led to him being "not quite right" in any one world, his genius was to transmute this condition into the engine of ideas around which a considerable part of the intellectual and political life of these worlds came to revolve. Continue reading... |
| ‘It would be glorious’: hopes high for Biden to nominate first Black woman to supreme court Posted: 19 Apr 2021 11:00 PM PDT Activists welcome stated intent to fulfil campaign promise and finally elevate a judge 'that really understands racism' Joe Biden's promise to nominate an African American woman to the supreme court for the first time holds broad symbolic significance for Darlene McDonald, an activist and police reform commissioner in Salt Lake City, Utah. Related: Biden faces pressure to end practice of rewarding allies with plum foreign posts Continue reading... |
| Can Cher save the world’s loneliest elephant? Posted: 19 Apr 2021 10:28 PM PDT In a new documentary, the singer and actor proves an unlikely saviour of an elephant in need of a new home There seems to be a never-ending glut of conservation documentaries, where a group of fearless men and women work tirelessly to get sad animals rehomed in the wild. However, chances are you haven't seen any of them, because you made a deal with yourself as a child to only watch conservation documentaries that contain scenes where traumatised animals are serenaded at close proximity by the popular singer and actor Cher. Related: Cher at 74: 'There are 20-year-old girls who can't do what I do' Continue reading... |
| Byron Bay residents call on Netflix to scrap Byron Baes TV series Posted: 19 Apr 2021 10:30 AM PDT Locals fear 'docu-soap' about social media influencers will gloss over issues including the environment and lack of housing Residents and business owners in the New South Wales beachside town of Byron Bay have held an emergency meeting over the proposed Netflix original series, Byron Baes, and called on the streaming platform to cancel the show. Locals, including the owners of the Byron establishments the Byron Bay General Store and No Bones restaurant, gathered on Friday night to discuss what could be done to protect the community. Continue reading... |
| Brexit: Johnson says UK trying to cut ‘ludicrous’ Northern Ireland checks Posted: 20 Apr 2021 01:40 AM PDT PM says he is 'sandpapering' protocol signed with EU, which he says has been misinterpreted Boris Johnson has said he is trying to get rid of the "ludicrous" Brexit border checks in Northern Ireland by "sandpapering" the protocol he signed with the EU in January 2020. In a TV interview in Northern Ireland he also said the protocol had been misinterpreted and border checks were supposed to be light touch. Continue reading... |
| ‘I was alone, I had nothing’: from child refugee to student nurse in Athens Posted: 19 Apr 2021 11:00 PM PDT Ahtisham Khan arrived in Greece, aged 16, after fleeing Pakistan. A new initiative is helping children like him find a safe home where they can start to rebuild their lives At some point in his journey to a freer place, Ahtisham Khan came to a fork in the road. Fifty days of travel from his native Pakistan to the plains of northern Greece had been unexpectedly frightening and exhausting. "We had a lot of dreams," he says, recalling why he and his brother, Zeeshan, left their village close to the city of Haripur in Pakistan. "We were teenagers … we didn't know what we were embarking on. We did what we had to do to survive." Continue reading... |
| Hundreds join Minneapolis high school walkouts: ‘Police don’t care about us’ Posted: 19 Apr 2021 10:00 PM PDT Teens gather in Twin Cities to condemn the killings of Daunte Wright and George Floyd as Chauvin trial continues "National guard, go home!" hundreds of teenagers chanted in a heavily fortified Minneapolis on Monday, as part of statewide high school walkouts over the police killings of Daunte Wright and George Floyd. In neighboring Saint Paul, more than a hundred students took their grievances over police brutality to the capitol, where lawmakers inside the fenced-in statehouse could be seen peeking out through the curtains to look at protesters outside. Continue reading... |
| Canada stimulus budget pledges funding for childcare and Covid-19 relief Posted: 19 Apr 2021 02:34 PM PDT
Canada's federal government has put childcare and Covid-19 relief at the heart of the country's first pandemic budget, as the governing Liberals announced massive spending plans in an attempt to address growing inequality – and avert a snap election. Delivering her government's first budget in more than two years, the finance minister, Chrystia Freeland, on Monday framed the ambitious spending programme as both necessary to combat the disastrous "economic wounds" of the coronavirus pandemic and an opportunity to build a more equitable society. Continue reading... |
| Woman found dead with burn injuries in Gold Coast backyard identified Posted: 20 Apr 2021 01:03 AM PDT Officers are treating the death at Arundel as a homicide that may have been witnessed by her three young children The woman whose burned body was found in the backyard of a Gold Coast home has been identified as mother-of-three Kelly Wilkinson. Officers are treating the death of Wilkinson at a home in Spikes Court, Arundal on Tuesday morning as a homicide, with a man who also suffered burns arrested nearby. Continue reading... |
| Myanmar military junta arrests prominent trade union leader Posted: 19 Apr 2021 06:10 AM PDT Daw Myo Aye, labour organiser and a leader of civil disobedience protests, dragged from office by army One of Myanmar's leading trade union leaders has been arrested as part of escalating attacks on pro-democracy figures by the military junta. Daw Myo Aye, director of Solidarity Trade Union of Myanmar (STUM), one of Myanmar's largest independent unions, is a central figure in the movement for workers' rights. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 19 Apr 2021 07:03 PM PDT Judith Collins may trail badly in the polls, but MPs should only think about replacing her if a natural alternative leader emerges Followers of baseball in the US have a saying: winning fixes everything. A team can suffer player scandals and be beset by dysfunctional management. If they're hitting enough home runs, however, things don't tend to fall apart. The corollary of this would be that losing breaks everything. And while it's a bit trite to compare sports to politics, New Zealand's opposition National party resembles nothing if not a losing baseball team. Thumped in last year's general election, conceding a rare absolute parliamentary majority to Jacinda Ardern's Labour , nothing seems to have gone right for the party that was once called the natural party of government in New Zealand. Continue reading... |
| Derek Chauvin trial: prosecution and defence make closing arguments – video Posted: 19 Apr 2021 12:28 PM PDT The Derek Chauvin murder trial heard closing arguments on Monday before the jury was expected to begin considering a verdict over the death of George Floyd that is anxiously awaited by millions of Americans. The prosecutor Steve Schleicher told jurors the key to the case lay in video footage of Chauvin pressing his knee on to Floyd's neck, even as he pleaded for his life, right to his last words of 'I can't breathe'. The former Minneapolis police officer's attorney, Eric Nelson, told the jury that his client's actions followed the 'reasonable force' guidelines for police officers when considering all the factors that Chauvin had to take into account on the day of Floyd's death Continue reading... |
| Maxine Waters expresses support for protesters against police brutality - video Posted: 19 Apr 2021 07:26 AM PDT The Democratic representative Maxine Waters has come under criticism from the Republican house minority leader, after she expressed support for protesters against police brutality at a rally on Saturday in Brooklyn Center, the Minneapolis suburb where Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, was shot and killed by police last week. Waters said she would 'continue to fight in every way that I can for justice', prompting the Republican minority leader, Kevin McCarthy, to accuse Waters of 'inciting violence in Minneapolis' Continue reading... |
| Tesla car crashes in Texas with 'no one in driver's seat' – video report Posted: 19 Apr 2021 03:19 AM PDT Two men died after a Tesla vehicle believed to have been operating without anyone in the driver's seat crashed into a tree north of Houston. The victims were reportedly found in the front passenger seat and the back seat of the 2019 Tesla Model S Continue reading... |
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