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- Brazil’s coronavirus death toll passes 4,000 a day for first time
- Arkansas is first state to ban gender-affirming treatments for trans youth
- Iranian ship thought to be used as military base attacked, says Tehran
- Taiwan train crash: new footage released as experts piece together last moments
- Hong Kong activists plead guilty but say ‘history will absolve us’
- China’s vast bitcoin mining empire risks derailing its climate targets, says study
- Knee on subdued suspect’s neck not allowed, police trainer tells Chauvin trial
- Twelve crew rescued from cargo ship adrift in huge seas off Norway
- Croatian border police accused of sexually assaulting Afghan migrant
- Miss Papua New Guinea stripped of her crown for TikTok twerking video
- Coronavirus live news: EU drug agency to respond to AstraZeneca blood clot concerns; Delhi imposes curfew
- One in three survivors of severe Covid diagnosed with mental health condition
- EU drug agency denies already finding causal link between AstraZeneca vaccine and blood clots
- ‘Full of emotions’: trans-Tasman travel bubble to let families finally grieve, rejoice and hug
- The horror safari: why was Francis Bacon so triggered by dead elephants?
- Gandalf the red: confusing and cheap, but Soviet Lord of the Rings is curiously charming
- ‘Sometimes, it’s shocking’: Raoul Peck on his bold new colonialism series
- ‘When I woke, the house was full of water’: daunting cleanup follows Timor-Leste floods
- Uncovering the hidden history of bestselling video games
- Terrawatch: cities that change the shape of the planet
- Welsh patients to be first in UK to receive Moderna Covid vaccine
- The first modern Olympics begin in Athens – archive, April 1896
- Back in business - how Israel beat Covid: inside the 9 April Guardian Weekly
- How Republicans are trying to prevent people from voting after ‘stop the steal’
- Dash-cam footage shows seconds before Taiwan train crash – video
- Victorian coroner backs pill testing after inquest into deaths of four men and a boy
- UK's 'headlong rush into abandoning human rights' rebuked by Amnesty
- 'Narcos are looking for me': deadly threats to Peru's indigenous leaders
- Best served chilled: green tech keeps the cool on India's dairy farms – photo essay
- Cutting aid will damage UK leadership of G7 and Cop26 summit, PM told
- AstraZeneca Covid vaccine: weighing up the risks and rewards
- The UK needs a robust border policy, but right now we can’t see if it is working
- Israel and Chile both led on Covid jabs, so why is one back in lockdown?
- UK Covid passports – who's for and who's against?
- Cargo ship crew in dramatic rescue after vessel loses power in rough seas off Norway – video
- Dog interrupts live weather report in Moscow, borrowing journalist's microphone – video
- Jacinda Ardern announces ‘trans-Tasman travel bubble’ with Australia in pandemic milestone – video
- Bat catchers fight the next pandemic – in pictures
- Netanyahu's corruption trial resumes as political future remains unclear – video
| Brazil’s coronavirus death toll passes 4,000 a day for first time Posted: 06 Apr 2021 11:48 PM PDT Covid crisis 'out of control', says expert as president Jair Bolsonaro continues to resist lockdown Brazil's coronavirus catastrophe has deepened further after more than 4,000 daily deaths were reported for the first time since the outbreak began in February last year. At least 4,195 people were reported to have lost their lives on Tuesday, taking Brazil's total death toll – the world's second highest after the US – to nearly 337,000. Continue reading... |
| Arkansas is first state to ban gender-affirming treatments for trans youth Posted: 06 Apr 2021 05:06 PM PDT Lawmakers overrode the governor's veto despite criticism that the measure would harm an already vulnerable community Arkansas has become the first state to ban gender-affirming treatments and surgery for transgender youth, after lawmakers overrode the governor's objections to enact the ban on Tuesday. The state's governor, Asa Hutchinson, had vetoed the bill on Monday following pleas from pediatricians, social workers and the parents of trans youth who said the measure would harm a community already at risk for depression and suicide. The ban was opposed by several medical and child welfare groups, including the American Academy of Pediatrics. Continue reading... |
| Iranian ship thought to be used as military base attacked, says Tehran Posted: 07 Apr 2021 12:45 AM PDT Israel suspected of planting explosives on MV Saviz anchored in Red Sea An Iranian cargo ship believed to be a base for the paramilitary Revolutionary Guards and anchored for years in the Red Sea off Yemen has been attacked, Iranian state television has acknowledged. The state TV acknowledgement, citing foreign media, marks the first Iranian comment on the mysterious incident on Tuesday involving the MV Saviz, suspected to have been carried out by Israel. Continue reading... |
| Taiwan train crash: new footage released as experts piece together last moments Posted: 06 Apr 2021 10:18 PM PDT Train hit vehicle at more than 120km/h, about a minute after the truck rolled onto the tracks, crash experts say The runaway truck that caused Taiwan's worst rail disaster in decades slid onto the train tracks just over a minute before an express train came through at more than 120km/h, investigators have said, as newly released footage revealed the drivers' attempts to brake. At least 50 people were killed and around 200 injured on Friday last week when the eight-car train hit a construction vehicle that had rolled down an embankment, derailing the carriages as they entered a stretch of tunnel just outside the east coast city of Hualien. Continue reading... |
| Hong Kong activists plead guilty but say ‘history will absolve us’ Posted: 07 Apr 2021 02:43 AM PDT Lee Cheuk-yan says he and fellow accused Jimmy Lai and Yeung Sum did nothing wrong A prominent Hong Kong activist, Lee Cheuk-yan has declared "history will absolve" those on trial, after he pleaded guilty with media mogul Jimmy Lai to taking part in an unauthorised assembly. The two were facing charges alongside former Democratic party chairman Yeung Sum over a pro-democracy protest on 31 August 2019, which was not authorised by police. Continue reading... |
| China’s vast bitcoin mining empire risks derailing its climate targets, says study Posted: 06 Apr 2021 06:54 PM PDT China powers nearly 80% of the global cryptocurrencies trade, but the energy required could jeopardise its pledge to peak carbon emissions by 2030 China's electricity-hungry bitcoin mines that power nearly 80% of the global trade in cryptocurrencies risk undercutting the country's climate goals, a study in the journal Nature has said. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies rely on "blockchain" technology, which is a shared database of transactions, with entries that must be confirmed and encrypted. The network is secured by individuals called "miners" who use high-powered computers to verify transactions, with bitcoins offered as a reward. Those computers consume enormous amounts of electricity. Continue reading... |
| Knee on subdued suspect’s neck not allowed, police trainer tells Chauvin trial Posted: 06 Apr 2021 11:38 AM PDT
A Minneapolis police trainer who instructed Derek Chauvin in the use of force told the former officer's murder trial on Tuesday that placing a knee on a suspect's neck when they are already subdued "is not authorised". Related: Chauvin's use of force on George Floyd was 'in no way' policy, says police chief Continue reading... |
| Twelve crew rescued from cargo ship adrift in huge seas off Norway Posted: 06 Apr 2021 06:42 PM PDT Four crew jump off stern as Dutch ship listed dangerously, while remaining eight airlifted off deck A Dutch cargo ship is adrift in the Norwegian Sea after all of its crew members were airlifted, with some having to jump into the rough waters to be rescued. The Eemslift Hendrika, which was carrying several smaller boats from Bremerhaven in Germany to Kolvereid in Norway, made a distress call Monday, reporting a heavy list after stormy weather displaced some of its cargo. Continue reading... |
| Croatian border police accused of sexually assaulting Afghan migrant Posted: 06 Apr 2021 11:15 PM PDT Asylum seeker says she was threatened at knifepoint in latest in string of reports of violent pushbacks on Bosnia–Croatia border A woman from Afghanistan was allegedly sexually abused, held at knifepoint and forced to strip naked by a Croatian border police officer, during a search of a group of migrants on the border with Bosnia. The European commission described it as a "serious alleged criminal action'' and urged the Croatian authorities "to thoroughly investigate all allegations, and follow up with relevant actions". Continue reading... |
| Miss Papua New Guinea stripped of her crown for TikTok twerking video Posted: 06 Apr 2021 05:10 PM PDT Lucy Maino faced intense online harassment over clip in incident that critics say highlights misogyny in PNG Miss Papua New Guinea has been stripped of her crown after sharing a video of herself twerking on TikTok, with critics saying the incident reveals a deep-seated culture of misogyny in the country. Lucy Maino, 25, who has also served as co-captain of Papua New Guinea's women's football team, faced intense online harassment after she shared a video of herself twerking on the video-sharing app TikTok. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 07 Apr 2021 02:48 AM PDT Drug agency denies already finding causal link between AstraZeneca jab and blood clots; Australia says EU asked it to withdraw Covid vaccine export permit applications; Delhi night curfew in place until 30 April
Czech prime minister Adrej Babis will replace the health minister today, bringing in a fourth health sector manager since the start of the pandemic, which has hit the central European country hard amid rows over how to respond. Reuters report that Jan Blatny took the job in October just as Covid-19 infections were spiking, and three peaks of the pandemic since have claimed more than 27,000 lives and put the country of 10.7 million at the top of global rankings for deaths per capita, according to the Our World in Data website.
Poland will extend its Covid-19 restrictions until 18 April, Health Minister Adam Niedzielski has said, as the health system struggles to cope with a third wave of infections. Reuter reports that kindergartens, shopping centres, hotels, cinemas and theatres will remain closed under the restrictions. Continue reading... |
| One in three survivors of severe Covid diagnosed with mental health condition Posted: 06 Apr 2021 10:00 PM PDT Study finds 34% developed psychiatric or neurological conditions after six months One in three people who were severely ill with coronavirus were subsequently diagnosed with a neurological or psychiatric condition within six months of infection, a study has found. The observational research, which is the largest of its kind, used electronic health records of 236,379 patients mostly from the US and found 34% experienced mental health and neurological conditions afterwards. The most common being anxiety, with 17% of people developing this. Continue reading... |
| EU drug agency denies already finding causal link between AstraZeneca vaccine and blood clots Posted: 06 Apr 2021 05:56 AM PDT European Medicines Agency says review ongoing after head of vaccines spoke of 'clear' association Europe's drug regulator has denied it has already established a causal connection between the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine and a rare blood clotting syndrome, after a senior official from the agency said there was a link. In a statement to Agence France-Presse, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Tuesday it had "not yet reached a conclusion and the review is currently ongoing", adding that it expected to announce its findings on Wednesday or Thursday. Continue reading... |
| ‘Full of emotions’: trans-Tasman travel bubble to let families finally grieve, rejoice and hug Posted: 06 Apr 2021 08:36 PM PDT Some have missed the heartbreak of a funeral, others the joy of a pregnancy, but all are celebrating Australia-New Zealand travel
For Nicole Haines, it's a chance to begin the grieving process. In June last year, her mother in Sydney died suddenly and unexpectedly of a brain aneurysm. "It was just heart-wrenching," says Haines, an Australian based in Christchurch for the past 10 years. With two children and an elderly aunt living with her, she couldn't afford the time and cost of staying two weeks in quarantine on the return trip. Continue reading... |
| The horror safari: why was Francis Bacon so triggered by dead elephants? Posted: 06 Apr 2021 10:00 PM PDT When the great painter died, 200 macabre photographs of elephant carcasses were found in his studio. They were by Peter Beard – and they propelled the artist into the heart of darkness If you look into the eyes of a portrait, especially a self-portrait, by Rembrandt, you seem to see a "soul". Such religious ideas and readings have shaped the story of art from its very beginnings and continue to seduce us today. But Francis Bacon was the first artist to paint people as animals. His subjects are rendered without souls, as flesh and bone, as blood and brain – in short, as animated meat. This ruthless Darwinian vision of the struggle of life makes him one of the most unnerving of artists. And his radical eye for humankind's natural history gives a certain resonance to his friendship with one of the most brilliant wildlife photographers of the 20th century. After the Irish-born British painter died in 1992, more than 200 photographs of dead elephants were found in his London studio. They were given to him by Peter Beard, who took many of them from an aeroplane flying low over the grasslands of Kenya. The two would converse avidly about Beard's images of these great, grey giants slowly rotting into monuments of white bone and ivory in the African sun. They inspired some of Bacon's most pungent thoughts about art and life. "I would say the photographs of elephants," he said, "are naturally suggestive." What he saw was "a trigger – a release". Continue reading... |
| Gandalf the red: confusing and cheap, but Soviet Lord of the Rings is curiously charming Posted: 07 Apr 2021 01:50 AM PDT Could this ramshackle 1991 Russian adaptation of The Fellowship of the Ring be the best adaptation of Tolkien's work? People used to say that The Lord of the Rings was unfilmable. The scale of Tolkien's books, the sprawl of them, their unyielding density, made it almost impossible to compress them into a more simplistic form for the screen. Of course, Peter Jackson proved this theory wrong in 2001. But now it turns out that Leningrad Television proved it wrong a full decade earlier. This weekend without warning, a Russian television channel uploaded Khraniteli, a 1991 adaptation of The Fellowship of the Ring, to its YouTube channel. Despite not speaking Russian, I have now watched all two hours of Khraniteli, and it isn't an exaggeration to say that it's now my favourite Lord of the Rings story made in any medium ever. Continue reading... |
| ‘Sometimes, it’s shocking’: Raoul Peck on his bold new colonialism series Posted: 06 Apr 2021 11:19 PM PDT The Oscar-nominated film-maker behind I Am Not Your Negro returns with Exterminate All the Brutes, a dense new HBO docuseries about a horrifying history Truly, what else was there left to say about race in America after the words of James Baldwin? This is what Raoul Peck found himself contemplating after the success of his 2016 documentary, I Am Not Your Negro, which was nominated for an Academy Award and won an Emmy, a Bafta and a César award. He was confounded and disappointed to realize that some audiences, particularly in Europe, weren't fully comprehending the work of what he calls "one of the best, if not the best analyst of what racism is", believing it to be primarily an American concern. Related: 'We're all part of the story': behind Will Smith's 14th amendment docuseries Continue reading... |
| ‘When I woke, the house was full of water’: daunting cleanup follows Timor-Leste floods Posted: 06 Apr 2021 07:41 PM PDT At least 150 people killed in Indonesia and Timor-Leste after tropical cyclone Seroja hit region In Tasitolu, a suburb in the west of the capital, Dili, Batista Elo balances his young daughter on his hip as he stands in flood waters that reach up his thighs. "I saved my family first and after that just got into the belongings, but there were some things that didn't get saved," recalls Batista of the wild Saturday night when his home was suddenly flooded. Continue reading... |
| Uncovering the hidden history of bestselling video games Posted: 07 Apr 2021 01:30 AM PDT Hundreds of rare PlayStation 2 demos have been uncovered and archived, revealing how favourite games were developed If you worked on video game magazines in the 90s, there was one sight you got used to pretty quickly. On every desk, in every drawer, there were dozens of DVD-R discs with the titles of games scrawled on them with Sharpies. These were the prerelease versions of games that were sent to us by developers to preview and review. We'd play them on debug consoles (the machines used by developers to build and test games), write our thoughts, then chuck the discs in a pile, or a bin. Fast forward two decades and game players now realise that such early and unreleased versions of games have genuine historical value. Celebrating its 15th anniversary next month, the website Hidden Palace is a collective dedicated to tracking down and archiving video game prototypes, source code and other overlooked artefacts from the development process. Last month, the site made headlines across the video game world when it announced it had secured more than 700 PlayStation 2 demo and prototype discs – all provided by a single anonymous source. The site staff have logged each disc, digitised the builds and worked with the Internet Archive to make them available. Continue reading... |
| Terrawatch: cities that change the shape of the planet Posted: 06 Apr 2021 10:00 PM PDT The weight of buildings in dense urban areas can lead to subsidence, with effects particularly marked by the coast It's well known that ice sheets are heavy enough to bend the underlying rocks, but what about cities? Are some cities capable of reshaping the bit of planet they sit on? By 2050 around 70% of Earth's population are projected to live in cities. This set Tom Parsons, a geophysicist with the United States Geological Survey, to wondering if the associated redistribution of mass into concentrated urban areas is capable of causing subsidence. Using the San Francisco Bay region (7.75 million people) as a case study, Parsons estimated the weight of all the buildings and their contents to be around 1.6 trillion kg – comparable to the weight of water behind a dam. Taking into account the underlying geology of San Francisco, Parsons modelled the pressure that the city exerts and showed that San Francisco's buildings are responsible for between 5 and 80mm of subsidence. The findings are reported in the journal AGU Advances. Continue reading... |
| Welsh patients to be first in UK to receive Moderna Covid vaccine Posted: 07 Apr 2021 12:35 AM PDT Nation's mass rollout begins on Wednesday, while Scotland will administer first doses later this week Patients in Wales will from Wednesday become the first in the UK to receive the Moderna vaccine as part of a mass vaccination programme, with the first doses in Scotland set to come later this week. The initial jabs would be given at the West Wales general hospital in Carmarthen, the Welsh government said. Continue reading... |
| The first modern Olympics begin in Athens – archive, April 1896 Posted: 07 Apr 2021 02:05 AM PDT On 6 April 1896, the inaugural Games opened in the Greek capital. Over the next nine days, male athletes from 12 countries competed in sports ranging from running to rope-climbing. See how the Guardian reported events From a correspondent |
| Back in business - how Israel beat Covid: inside the 9 April Guardian Weekly Posted: 07 Apr 2021 01:00 AM PDT This week: Behind Israel's vaccination success story. Plus, Myanmar's mass exodus, and Britain's contentious race report. The northern hemisphere spring is well on the way: will it bring renewed grounds for optimism as the world wrestles with the Covid pandemic? Many nations still face difficult weeks ahead as cases surge and vaccination rates are slow. But in others, normality is returning fast as infection rates fall to negligible levels. This week's Guardian Weekly big story focuses on more successful efforts to tackle the pandemic. Oliver Holmes considers how Israel's trailblazing but controversial vaccine programme has forced Covid into retreat. From Auckland, Tess McClure reveals how New Zealand's tight virus controls helped it become a pioneer in Covid genome research. And we have a longer feature from England where, as shops are set to reopen after a three-month lockdown, Sarah Boseley talks to the scientific team who identified and tracked the outbreak of the UK variant. Continue reading... |
| How Republicans are trying to prevent people from voting after ‘stop the steal’ Posted: 07 Apr 2021 12:00 AM PDT Hundreds of bills nationwide target people of color whose full participation in future elections is seen by Republicans as a threat At campaign rallies, Donald Trump specialized in crafting political slogans whose catchiness obscured the lack of actual policy behind them: lock her up, America First, build the wall, drain the swamp. But there was one Trump slogan that turned out to have a shocking amount of policy behind it – hundreds of pieces of legislation nationwide in just the last three months, in fact, constituting the most coordinated, organized and determined Republican push on any political issue in recent memory. Continue reading... |
| Dash-cam footage shows seconds before Taiwan train crash – video Posted: 07 Apr 2021 01:39 AM PDT Recovered train dashboard footage shows a truck was already on the train track more than a minute before a crash that caused Taiwan's worst rail disaster in decades. The train's driver engaged the manual brakes to try to slow the train, which was travelling at 79mph (127km/h), officials concluded. At least 50 people were killed and about 200 injured last Friday when the eight-carriage train hit a construction vehicle that had rolled down an embankment, derailing the carriages as they entered a stretch of tunnel just outside the east coast city of Hualien
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| Victorian coroner backs pill testing after inquest into deaths of four men and a boy Posted: 07 Apr 2021 02:00 AM PDT Five people thought they were taking MDMA but instead swallowed lethal combination of synthetic hallucinogenic and stimulant A Victorian coroner investigating the deaths of five young men who consumed a potent psychoactive substance has called on the state government to introduce illicit drug testing and a warning program. The coroner, Paresa Spanos, said on Wednesday the men – aged between 17 and 32 – died in a six-month period starting in mid-2016. Continue reading... |
| UK's 'headlong rush into abandoning human rights' rebuked by Amnesty Posted: 06 Apr 2021 10:01 PM PDT Covid failings, crackdown on protest, police discrimination and resumed arms trade with Saudi Arabia all listed in annual report Amnesty International has published a stark rebuke of the UK government's stance on human rights, saying that it is "speeding towards the cliff edge" in its policies on housing and immigration, and criticising its seeming determination to end the legal right for the public to challenge government decisions in court. In its annual report on human rights around the world, Amnesty International says the UK's increasingly hostile attitude towards upholding and preserving human rights legislation raises "serious concerns". Continue reading... |
| 'Narcos are looking for me': deadly threats to Peru's indigenous leaders Posted: 06 Apr 2021 04:49 AM PDT Communities call for protection after string of killings linked to rush for land to grow coca, under cover of the pandemic "We're looking for you, dead or alive," is one of the daily threats that Herlín Odicio receives on his mobile phone. The leader of the indigenous Cacataibo people in Peru's central Amazon has been forced into hiding for standing up to drug traffickers trying to steal his land. "We've reported coca plantations on our land so many times and nothing has been done," Odicio said. Continue reading... |
| Best served chilled: green tech keeps the cool on India's dairy farms – photo essay Posted: 05 Apr 2021 10:30 PM PDT Photographer Prashanth Vishwanathan captured a network of community dairies helping off-grid farmers in Maharashtra keep milk fresh as temperatures rise. All pictures are from Climate Visuals and Ashden As global temperatures climb, a lack of refrigeration makes a big impact on people trying to make a living from farming. Especially dairy farms. There are more than 75 million smallholder dairy farmers in India. Most are in off-grid areas without refrigeration, or reliant on expensive and polluting diesel generators. This locks people out of national supply chains, and farmers have to spend hours transporting milk to markets, or sell at a lower price to middlemen. In Maharashtra, western India, a network of community dairies has been set up, using sustainable refrigeration technology, where people can bring their milk to be tested, chilled, and sold on. Continue reading... |
| Cutting aid will damage UK leadership of G7 and Cop26 summit, PM told Posted: 05 Apr 2021 07:33 AM PDT Ex-ministers and serving Tory MPs among those criticising decision to cut UK foreign aid by a third Boris Johnson has been told by a number of Tory former ministers and serving MPs that he risks jeopardising Britain's leadership at the G7 and the Cop26 climate summit this year if he goes ahead with plans to cut UK aid by a third over two years. Sir David Lidington, who was Theresa May's de facto deputy prime minister, will tell an Institute for Government conference on the G7 on Tuesday: "Sadly, the proposal to drop the UK's commitment to 0.7% [of gross national income] will make it harder to achieve the prime minister's ambitious objectives for both the G7 and the climate summit." Continue reading... |
| AstraZeneca Covid vaccine: weighing up the risks and rewards Posted: 06 Apr 2021 11:41 AM PDT Despite scientific advice to continue getting the jab, answers about fatal blood clots are urgently needed Vaccines have side-effects, as do all medicines. Most often, jabs cause sore arms, a headache or a bit of nausea – none of which would be very significant when weighed against the toll of a serious virus such as Covid-19. But sometimes the risk-benefit calculation may look less simple, as in the case of Oxford/AstraZeneca's Covid jab and cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST), the blood clots in the brain that have led to fatalities in the UK and Europe. Continue reading... |
| The UK needs a robust border policy, but right now we can’t see if it is working Posted: 06 Apr 2021 11:26 AM PDT Analysis: it is incredibly challenging to scrutinise the system because data on movement is so opaque The official response to coronavirus at the UK border has been problematic from the start. It was not until February this year that the government introduced mandatory hotel quarantine – some 11 months after coronavirus was first recorded the UK – despite it being used in countries such as New Zealand from the off. Even now with stricter requirements for arrivals in place, critics say the current border policy is seriously lacking. Reports claiming as many as 8,000 tourists a day are arriving in the UK have significantly fueled those concerns. Continue reading... |
| Israel and Chile both led on Covid jabs, so why is one back in lockdown? Posted: 06 Apr 2021 07:34 AM PDT Analysis: contrasting national outcomes highlight how easily UK could blow its chances As mass vaccination programmes take hold around the world, some countries have begun to get on top of the virus while others have continued to struggle. Two countries that have streaked ahead with immunisations are Israel and Chile, but as Israel edges back to a new normal, Chile has been plunged back into lockdown. Can the UK and other countries repeat Israel's success and avoid the setbacks of Chile? Continue reading... |
| UK Covid passports – who's for and who's against? Posted: 06 Apr 2021 05:50 AM PDT Labour leftwingers and Tory libertarians oppose them, while Keir Starmer's position appears flexible One of the most significant political controversies of the coronavirus period is likely to be over the idea of Covid "passports" – app-based, biometric certificates that would allow people entry to potentially crowded spaces. While they are sometimes referred to as "vaccine passports", these would not just show vaccination status. Other ways people could prove they were safe to mingle would be a sufficiently recent test showing significant Covid antibodies, or a very recent negative test for the virus. These are distinct from the idea of a proof of vaccination to be allowed to enter overseas countries, which is less contentious. Continue reading... |
| Cargo ship crew in dramatic rescue after vessel loses power in rough seas off Norway – video Posted: 06 Apr 2021 05:52 PM PDT Footage posted by the Norwegian Coast Guard shows the rescue of 12 crew members of a stricken vessel in the North Sea. Crew onboard the Eemslift Hendrika made a distress call on Monday, reporting a heavy list after stormy weather displaced some of its cargo. Some of the crew had to jump into the water because the vessel was leaning so much. All of the 12 were brought to safety. The 111 metre (366 feet) Netherlands-registered ship, which was transporting smaller yachts, had lost power in its main engine and was now drifting towards land. Continue reading... |
| Dog interrupts live weather report in Moscow, borrowing journalist's microphone – video Posted: 06 Apr 2021 02:26 AM PDT A correspondent's live weather report was interrupted by a dog who snatched her microphone and ran off with it. Nadezhda Serezhkina, who works for the Russian-language broadcaster Mir TV, could then be seen running after the dog who still had the colourful microphone in its mouth. The dog, and the damaged microphone, later joined Serezhkina for the end of her live broadcast Continue reading... |
| Jacinda Ardern announces ‘trans-Tasman travel bubble’ with Australia in pandemic milestone – video Posted: 06 Apr 2021 01:01 AM PDT New Zealand's prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has announced details of a trans-Tasman travel bubble with Australia, meaning Australians will be able to travel to New Zealand without needing to quarantine. Though most Australian states have allowed quarantine-free visits from New Zealanders for months, New Zealand has continued with enforced isolation for arrivals from its neighbour, citing concern about small Covid-19 outbreaks. The move to allow cross-border travel is one of the first such agreements since the pandemic prompted countries to block foreign arrivals to stop the virus spreading Continue reading... |
| Bat catchers fight the next pandemic – in pictures Posted: 05 Apr 2021 11:00 PM PDT Researchers at the University of the Philippines Los Baños aim to catch thousands of bats to develop a Japanese-funded simulation model over the next three years that they believe could help avert potential pandemics. They hope the bats will help in predicting the dynamics of a coronavirus outbreak by analysing factors such as climate, temperature and ease of spread Continue reading... |
| Netanyahu's corruption trial resumes as political future remains unclear – video Posted: 05 Apr 2021 07:03 AM PDT The Israeli prime minister's efforts to remain in power face a double-pronged challenge, as he attends a Jerusalem courtroom for his corruption trial. Meanwhile critical talks on his political future were held after last month's inconclusive election. The witness testimony and evidence stage of a case assessing whether the 71-year-old leader is guilty of bribery, fraud and breach of trust – repeatedly delayed because of the pandemic - began on Monday morning Continue reading... |
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