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- Brussels urges unity over AstraZeneca jab to boost public confidence
- Myanmar celebrity model arrested as military targets public figures
- Northern Ireland executive to meet after sixth night of unrest
- Biden restores $200m in US aid to Palestinians slashed by Trump
- Biden to tackle gun violence with executive actions on ‘ghost guns’ and pistols
- Amanda Gorman says she has declined around $17m in deals since inauguration
- Thinking inside the box: the Welsh teen who tried to post himself home from Australia
- RAF engaged in 10-day attack on Isis in Iraq this spring
- Scale of onboard fire revealed as damaged Antarctic ship MPV Everest tries to avoid rough weather
- Mother of all book deals: Mike Pence signs seven-figure deal for memoirs
- Thai cave rescue, the sequel: Meditating monk saved from flooded cave after four days
- Among the Covid sceptics: ‘We are being manipulated, without a shadow of a doubt’
- Twelve months of trauma: more than 3,600 US health workers died in Covid’s first year
- New Zealand suspends travel from India after jump in Covid-19 cases
- ‘Think of others’: elderly people in Zimbabwe dispel scepticism on Covid vaccine
- Elizabeth Perkins on luck, sexism and Big’s love scene: ‘It would not be acceptable today’
- Snared: catching poachers to save Italy’s songbirds
- Ted Brown: the man who held a mass kiss-in and made history
- ‘It has never been more pertinent’ – Margaret Atwood on the chilling genius of Laurie Anderson’s Big Science
- Google Nest Hub (2nd gen) review: wearable-free sleep tracking smart display
- Holy waters: the spiritual journey of African migrants – in pictures
- Living in Northern Ireland: share your reaction to the current situation
- Australia to consider EU and UK findings over AstraZeneca Covid vaccine and blood clots
- West Virginia Republicans seek to criminalize removal of Confederate statues
- Ontario declares one-month lockdown as it battles surge of Covid cases
- Beijing colour-codes buildings to show workers’ Covid vaccination rates
- Australia news live: Scott Morrison to update on AstraZeneca Covid vaccine after health regulator meeting
- Hidden human rights crises threaten post-Covid global security – Amnesty
- India carries out record 4.3m daily Covid jabs as cases continue to rise
- Thai monk rescued from flooded cave after four days – video
- MPV Everest fire: fireball engulfs Antarctic supply ship – video
- Ursula von der Leyen left without a seat at Erdoğan meeting – video
| Brussels urges unity over AstraZeneca jab to boost public confidence Posted: 07 Apr 2021 03:57 PM PDT EU governments divided over whether and what restrictions if any should be imposed on its use The EU's 27 member states have been urged by Brussels to bolster public confidence by coming up with a unified response to the finding by regulators that blood clots are a rare side-effect of the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab. At a meeting of health ministers and officials from the European medicines agency (EMA), which announced the finding about the Covid vaccine while also insisting it vaccine should still be widely used, the EU's governments were divided over what restrictions if any should be imposed on its use. Continue reading... |
| Myanmar celebrity model arrested as military targets public figures Posted: 07 Apr 2021 10:56 PM PDT Social media accounts of Paing Takhon, who has a huge online following, are taken down following anti-coup comments One of Myanmar's most popular celebrities, the model and actor Paing Takhon, has been arrested by a military that is increasingly targeting celebrities who have criticised the coup. Paing Takhon, who has a huge online following, was detained at 5am on Thursday, and is the latest of thousands of people to be held since the February coup. Continue reading... |
| Northern Ireland executive to meet after sixth night of unrest Posted: 07 Apr 2021 09:11 PM PDT A bus was torched in Belfast, stones thrown at police and press photographer assaulted in attack condemned by all sides The Northern Ireland executive will meet on Thursday morning to be briefed on the ongoing unrest, after a bus was hijacked and set on fire in Belfast during a sixth consecutive night of violence. The vehicle was set alight at an intersectional area between nationalist and unionist communities, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said. Stones were thrown at police while a press photographer was assaulted during the course of their work on Wednesday evening on the junction of Lanark Way and Shankill Road in West Belfast. Continue reading... |
| Biden restores $200m in US aid to Palestinians slashed by Trump Posted: 08 Apr 2021 12:36 AM PDT Former US president had gradually cut virtually all US money to Palestinian aid projects The US will restore more than $200m (£145m) in aid to Palestinians, reversing massive funding cuts under the Trump administration that left humanitarian groups scrambling to keep people from plunging into poverty. "[We] plan to restart US economic, development, and humanitarian assistance for the Palestinian people," the secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said in a statement. Continue reading... |
| Biden to tackle gun violence with executive actions on ‘ghost guns’ and pistols Posted: 07 Apr 2021 05:01 PM PDT President will also nominate a gun control advocate to direct the ATF, and encourage Democrats in Congress to pass more reforms The Biden administration has unveiled several executive actions designed to curb gun violence, in the aftermath of the mass shootings in Atlanta and Boulder. The administration is also planning to nominate David Chipman, a former federal agent and gun control advocate, to direct the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Continue reading... |
| Amanda Gorman says she has declined around $17m in deals since inauguration Posted: 07 Apr 2021 03:08 PM PDT The American poet will grace Vogue's May issue and spoke about being conscious of 'taking commissions that speak to' her Amanda Gorman, the 23-year-old American poet who drew widespread acclaim for her reading at Joe Biden's presidential inauguration, has revealed she has turned down millions in endorsements because the companies do not "speak to" her. The poet signed with IMG Models days after her high-profile Washington appearance and told Vogue that she had since said no to "around" $17m worth of deals. Continue reading... |
| Thinking inside the box: the Welsh teen who tried to post himself home from Australia Posted: 07 Apr 2021 07:46 PM PDT Homesick and unable to afford the airfare, Brian Robson embarked on a crate escape to Wales. Now he's looking for the two Irish men who nailed it shut A Welsh man has issued a public call to help find two Irish men who helped him return home from Australia in 1965 by packing him up and mailing him in a crate. Brian Robson, a 75-year-old from Cardiff, is looking for two men he only knew as Paul and John. Continue reading... |
| RAF engaged in 10-day attack on Isis in Iraq this spring Posted: 07 Apr 2021 04:01 PM PDT Typhoon planes and cruise missiles used in biggest air raid against group in two years, 'probably killing dozens' says force RAF and other coalition planes last month engaged in the biggest air raids against Isis in two years, in a 10-day mission that attacked up to 100 cave hideouts in Iraq and is likely to have caused dozens of casualties. The attacks concluded on 22 March, the Ministry of Defence said. Continue reading... |
| Scale of onboard fire revealed as damaged Antarctic ship MPV Everest tries to avoid rough weather Posted: 07 Apr 2021 10:51 PM PDT Captain heads for Fremantle at reduced speed after blaze engulfs supply ship's port engine room and destroys two inflatable boats onboard Dramatic images have revealed the scale of a fire that erupted on the Antarctic supply ship MPV Everest on Monday while the ship was days away from returning to Australia. No one was injured but the captain changed course for the closest Australian port at Fremantle, Western Australia, after the fire engulfed the port engine room and destroyed two inflatable rubber boats stored on the deck. Continue reading... |
| Mother of all book deals: Mike Pence signs seven-figure deal for memoirs Posted: 07 Apr 2021 03:02 PM PDT
Mike Pence has signed a two-book deal for his memoir that is reported to be worth millions of dollars, making him one of the first of former president Donald Trump's inner circle to announce such a lucrative arrangement. Pence's autobiography, currently untitled, is scheduled to come out in 2023. CNN reported that the former vice-president's deal is worth seven figures, somewhere between $3m and $4m. Continue reading... |
| Thai cave rescue, the sequel: Meditating monk saved from flooded cave after four days Posted: 07 Apr 2021 06:40 PM PDT Buddhist Phra Ajarn Manas was fitted with a diving mask to help him swim out of flooded cave he visited in order to meditate Thai rescue workers have freed a meditating Buddhist monk who was trapped inside a flooded cave for four days . The monk, identified by rescuers as 46-year-old Phra Ajarn Manas, was on a pilgrimage from another province and had gone into the Phra Sai Ngam cave in Phitsanulok on Saturday to meditate. Continue reading... |
| Among the Covid sceptics: ‘We are being manipulated, without a shadow of a doubt’ Posted: 07 Apr 2021 10:00 PM PDT Who are the people who have come to follow wild conspiracy theories about Covid-19? When the pandemic hit in March 2020, Anna, a young woman from Bradford, was waiting for surgery for endometriosis. The surgery was cancelled, leaving her in excruciating pain. She was forced to close her business, a small tattoo studio that she had opened two years earlier, at the age of 24. She could no longer pay for the weekly counselling that had been helping her deal with her troubled childhood. Her partner lost his job. Anna was convinced that if she caught Covid, she would die. "I was in a terrified bubble, having the news on constantly, crying, worrying, panicking," she told me. For weeks, she waited anxiously for news about support for shuttered businesses. The cash grant, when it finally came, fell far short. Other business expenses – insurance, bills – went on her credit card. She considered suicide. Feeling abandoned by the government and frustrated by the daily press briefings, Anna and her partner researched the virus online. On Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, they came across theories about the origins of coronavirus that the mainstream media weren't talking about – that it was engineered in a lab in China, say, or that it had been artificially spliced with HIV. Some of it seemed implausible to Anna, but it was enough to convince her that the media wasn't telling the full story. "Loads of people were saying 'even if you die from a heart attack, they'll put it down as a Covid death'. I was looking into that, and how many people who died had pre-existing health conditions," she said. "It was to make me feel better, so I wouldn't be as scared." Continue reading... |
| Twelve months of trauma: more than 3,600 US health workers died in Covid’s first year Posted: 07 Apr 2021 11:00 PM PDT Lost on the Frontline, a year-long investigation by the Guardian and KHN to count healthcare worker deaths, ends today. This is what we learned in a year of tracing the lives of those who made the ultimate sacrifice More than 3,600 US healthcare workers perished in the first year of the pandemic according to Lost on the Frontline, a 12-month investigation by the Guardian and Kaiser Health News (KHN) to track such deaths. Continue reading... |
| New Zealand suspends travel from India after jump in Covid-19 cases Posted: 07 Apr 2021 09:55 PM PDT PM Jacinda Ardern said the government would look at risk management measures during suspension New Zealand has temporarily suspended entry for all travellers from India, including its own citizens, for about two weeks following a high number of positive coronavirus cases arriving from the South Asian country. The move comes after New Zealand recorded 23 new positive coronavirus cases at its border on Thursday, of which 17 were from India. Continue reading... |
| ‘Think of others’: elderly people in Zimbabwe dispel scepticism on Covid vaccine Posted: 08 Apr 2021 01:00 AM PDT While younger generations remain suspicious, growing numbers of senior citizens are taking up the jab They may be old, frail, and vulnerable but they are the foot soldiers at the front of Zimbabwe's Covid vaccination drive. Amid widespread scepticism among the younger population, it is elderly people who are coming out to lead by example. The queues at the vaccination centres in the capital, Harare, are dominated by older people. At Wilkins Hospital, Felda Mupemhi, 85, grasps her walking stick as she trudges toward a white tent, where nurses are administering the Sinopharm vaccine. Continue reading... |
| Elizabeth Perkins on luck, sexism and Big’s love scene: ‘It would not be acceptable today’ Posted: 08 Apr 2021 02:00 AM PDT The star of hit films in the 80s and 90s has since moved into TV. She discusses life with 10 siblings, #MeToo and why she couldn't ask for a better life Veering from horror to joy and back again, Elizabeth Perkins is contemplating what it would be like if her adult children moved back home. "The thing is, you miss them so much, then they'll come back for a holiday and within a week there's dirty dishes everywhere, there's wet towels on the floor, they've eaten all the food. After a couple of weeks, you're like: 'Will they ever leave?'" This is the timely theme of Perkins' show The Moodys, the first season of which, in 2019, saw three grownup children return home to Chicago for Christmas. Perkins plays Ann Moody, their mother; Denis Leary plays her husband. In the new season, all three children are living at the family home, with predictably messy consequences. "It really explored that dichotomy of: you love them to death, but, man, they get on your nerves," says Perkins. Continue reading... |
| Snared: catching poachers to save Italy’s songbirds Posted: 07 Apr 2021 11:30 PM PDT With five million birds a year illegally caught in Italy, activists in Brescia are teaming up with local police to trap the hunters After two hours of scouring the mountains of Brescia, Stefania Travaglia finally finds what she is looking for. Among the remote farmhouses of an alpine hamlet, a spring-net trap is partially hidden behind a grassy embankment and a few trees. Tangled in the wire mesh, an exhausted fieldfare thrush sits silent and unmoving. Travaglia sets to work quickly and quietly, hiding two motion-sensor cameras next to the trap. Clear evidence of wrongdoing is needed to catch a poacher. "You have to see everything: you have to see the trap; you have to see the person; and if there is a bird in it," she says. Continue reading... |
| Ted Brown: the man who held a mass kiss-in and made history Posted: 07 Apr 2021 10:00 PM PDT After a tumultuous childhood, he helped organise the UK's first Gay Pride in 1972 – going on to battle against homophobic media, in a lifetime devoted to change On 1 July 1972 Ted Brown walked through central London, stopped at Trafalgar Square for a kiss – and made history. He was at the event he had helped to organise, the UK's first official Gay Pride, in which more than 2,000 people marched through the capital before holding a mass kiss-in. Half a century later, his memories of the day are euphoric. "It was amazing," he says. "I felt that we were continuing the legacy of the civil rights march." That day he took photographs of buoyant butch lesbians and men in drag, crowding around the Trafalgar Square lions and fountains, draping them with banners and demanding liberation for all. Organised by the UK branch of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF), the London march followed the Stonewall riots and first Pride parade in the US. "The basic principle of the GLF was that one should come out to show people who we actually are," says Brown. His work with the GLF, his efforts to improve the treatment and representation of LGBT people in the media, and his battle against abusive policing make him a key figure in both British civil rights history and LGBT history. He was one of the few Black faces in the first Pride march, and remembers it being composed of "mostly young people, mostly white, inevitably, and mostly hippies. It was only five years after 1967, the Summer of Love and the peak of the hippy movement." Continue reading... |
| Posted: 07 Apr 2021 10:00 PM PDT The seminal album, with its extraordinary hit single O Superman, was unlike anything the writer had ever heard. As Big Science returns, Atwood pays tribute to its prophetic dissection of 80s America Here come the planes. They're American planes! Musicologists and the less young will recognise those lines, which are from Laurie Anderson's 1981 unlikely voice-synthesiser hit O Superman. This song, if it is one – try humming it in the shower – led to Anderson's first multi-song album, 1982's Big Science. Big Science is being reissued at a very timely moment: America is reinventing itself again. It's a self-rescue mission, and just in time: democracy, we have been led to believe, has been snatched from the jaws of autocracy, maybe. A New Deal, leading to a fairer distribution of wealth and an ultimately liveable planet, is on the way, possibly. Racism dating back centuries is being addressed, hopefully. Let's hope these helicopters don't crash. Continue reading... |
| Google Nest Hub (2nd gen) review: wearable-free sleep tracking smart display Posted: 07 Apr 2021 11:00 PM PDT Radar-based gesture and sleep tracking turns top smart assistant into a great alarm clock too Google's second-generation Nest Hub smart display now comes with radar-based sleep tracking as it attempts to keep Amazon's Alexa at bay. The new Nest Hub costs £89.99 on launch, which makes it cheaper than its predecessor and slightly undercuts competitors of a similar size. Continue reading... |
| Holy waters: the spiritual journey of African migrants – in pictures Posted: 07 Apr 2021 11:00 PM PDT Nicola Lo Calzo's images celebrate migrants in the Mediterranean and the veneration of the 16th-century Sicilian Saint Benedict the Moor, the first black saint in modern history Continue reading... |
| Living in Northern Ireland: share your reaction to the current situation Posted: 08 Apr 2021 01:33 AM PDT We would like to hear from people in Northern Ireland and their thoughts about the recent unrest and violence Northern Ireland saw a sixth consecutive night of violence after a bus was hijacked and set on fire in Belfast on Wednesday evening. There has been violence in parts of the country, including Derry, Belfast and parts of county Antrim, since last Friday. If you live in Northern Ireland, we would like to hear your reaction to the recent unrest and violence. What is your view on the protests? Are there any issues you feel need to be addressed? What are your concerns? Continue reading... |
| Australia to consider EU and UK findings over AstraZeneca Covid vaccine and blood clots Posted: 08 Apr 2021 12:46 AM PDT Review follows a UK decision to offer people under 30 an alternative jab following formal link to rare blood clots • Follow the Australia liveblog Australian authorities will review the findings of British and European regulators over concerns about the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine – but continue to emphasise that the benefits outweigh the risks. The review follows a decision in the United Kingdom to offer healthy adults aged under 30 an alternative to the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab following concerns over rare blood clots. Continue reading... |
| West Virginia Republicans seek to criminalize removal of Confederate statues Posted: 08 Apr 2021 02:00 AM PDT Bill would protect removing or renaming monuments unless first approved by state's historic preservation center Nearly 158-years after its founding West Virginia – a state forged from the fires of America's civil war – remains stuck between north and south. Now lawmakers are considering a bill that would protect Confederate monuments from removal or renaming. Supporters claim they are protecting everyone's history. Opponents call the bill "traumatic and mentally exhausting". At a moment of national reckoning on race, the debate is fierce. "We were the Union. West Virginia was born out of seceding from Virginia, if i'm not mistaken," said Delegate Sean Hornbuckle, one of the state's few Black lawmakers. "We're advocating for people who wanted to kill us." Continue reading... |
| Ontario declares one-month lockdown as it battles surge of Covid cases Posted: 07 Apr 2021 01:15 PM PDT Order comes less than a week after plans to reopen businesses reversed while vaccine teams will target high-risk workers Canada's most populous region has declared a one-month stay-at-home order and announced plans for mobile vaccine teams to target high-risk workers – including teachers and factory and warehouse workers – as it battles a surge of Covid-19 cases. Launching the measures on Wednesday, the Ontario premier, Doug Ford, pleaded with residents to remain at home. "The risks are greater and the stakes are higher," said Ford. Continue reading... |
| Beijing colour-codes buildings to show workers’ Covid vaccination rates Posted: 08 Apr 2021 01:10 AM PDT Chinese capital rolls out grading system as part of campaign to vaccinate 560m people by June Beijing authorities are colour-coding buildings to show the public the rates of vaccination among businesses' employees, as part of a campaign to vaccinate more than 560 million people by June. In recent weeks, green signs have appeared in the shopping centre in the Chinese capital's financial district. The circular design showed a health worker in full PPE, holding a giant syringe and a medieval knight-style shield, and text declaring the vaccination rate of workers in the area was more than 80%. Other buildings with rates of 40-80% were marked with a blue sign, while a rate below 40% was signposted red. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 08 Apr 2021 02:00 AM PDT PM to provide vaccine rollout update after meeting to discuss possible blood clotting link; NSW to keep border open to NZ despite new Auckland Covid case. Follow live updates
Good evening everyone. This is Luke Henriques-Gomes. We're re-opening the blog to bring you prime minister Scott Morrison's press conference, which is scheduled to begin at 7.15pm.
We'll leave it there for today. Thanks for tuning in. Here are today's main developments. Continue reading... |
| Hidden human rights crises threaten post-Covid global security – Amnesty Posted: 07 Apr 2021 10:00 PM PDT 'Crises will multiply' if escalating repression by governments under pretext of pandemic ignored, says secretary general Neglected human rights crises around the world have the potential to undermine already precarious global security as governments continue to use Covid as a cover to push authoritarian agendas, Amnesty International has warned. The organisation said ignoring escalating hotspots for human rights violations and allowing states to perpetrate abuses with impunity could jeopardise efforts to rebuild after the pandemic. Continue reading... |
| India carries out record 4.3m daily Covid jabs as cases continue to rise Posted: 07 Apr 2021 07:25 AM PDT Country reports 115,000 fresh infections in 24 hours, the highest single-day total anywhere in world India has carried out a record 4.3m daily vaccinations as its second wave of coronavirus continued its rapid spread, with 115,000 fresh infections in 24 hours – the highest single-day total anywhere in the world. While the vaccination rate, which had been been hovering at between 2-3m a day, was a triumph it was not enough to quell the sense of despondency over the sharp increase in cases. Continue reading... |
| Thai monk rescued from flooded cave after four days – video Posted: 08 Apr 2021 01:13 AM PDT A Buddhist monk who was trapped while meditating inside a flooded cave for four days has been freed. Phra Ajarn Manas, 46, was on a pilgrimage from another province and had gone into the Phra Sai Ngam cave in Phitsanulok, Thailand, on Saturday to meditate. Seventeen divers helped rescue him after an unseasonal rainstorm struck on Sunday and continued through to Tuesday, flooding parts of the cave while he was inside |
| MPV Everest fire: fireball engulfs Antarctic supply ship – video Posted: 07 Apr 2021 11:44 PM PDT Footage has been released showing a gigantic fireball engulfing the port engine of the Australian Antarctic program's resupply vessel, the MPV Everest. The ship faced the emergency on Monday and has continued travelling north using its starboard engine room Continue reading... |
| Ursula von der Leyen left without a seat at Erdoğan meeting – video Posted: 07 Apr 2021 04:21 AM PDT The president of the European commission, Ursula von der Leyen, was momentarily left without a seat as she met with the European council president, Charles Michel and Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in Ankara on Tuesday - triggering an avalanche of criticism. With only two chairs available, Von der Leyen, the sole attending female leader, sat on the sofa as Erdoğan and Michel sat on the chairs. "Ehm," she muttered, with a small gesticulation directed at the occupied seats. Michel, who had appeared to make a bee-line for the top spot next to Erdoğan as the party entered, offered little evidence of regret. A spokesperson for Von der Leyen said: "The important thing is that the president should have been seated in exactly the same manner as the President of the European Council and the Turkish President. But ... she decided to proceed nevertheless prioritising substance over protocol." The awkward scene was played out ahead of a three-hour meeting with Erdoğan where one of the issues raised by the EU leaders was women's rights in light of Turkey's withdrawal from a convention on gender-based violence. Continue reading... |
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