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- Israel-Gaza conflict: attacks ease after Biden calls for ‘significant de-escalation’
- Brexit: UK travellers to France and Spain may need proof of accommodation
- World’s largest iceberg, nearly four times size of New York City, forms in Antarctica
- Climate disasters ‘caused more internal displacement than war’ in 2020
- China skyscraper wobble due to ‘winds, rail lines and warmer weather’ – reports
- Breast implant victims should get payouts, Paris court rules
- Colonial Pipeline confirms it paid $4.4m ransom to hacker gang after attack
- Bytedance CEO stands aside to do more ‘daydreaming’ about the future
- ‘We have our differences’: Blinken and Lavrov polite but firm in first face-to-face encounter
- Everyone Is Awesome: Lego to launch first LGBTQ+ set
- Stench of death pervades rural India as Ganges swells with Covid victims
- Coronavirus live news: authorised vaccines effective against all known variants, says WHO; EU orders 1.8bn more Pfizer doses
- ‘People die in less than a week’: Covid wave catches Argentina off-guard
- British tourists to EU may have to quarantine even if vaccinated
- ‘A united nations of crime’: how Marbella became a magnet for gangsters
- ‘Take it easy, nothing matters in the end’: William Shatner at 90, on love, loss and Leonard Nimoy
- Mafia mussel: the fight to save a mollusc from the mob
- Who moved my cheese? The silent battle between vegetarians and vegans
- An avenue to other worlds: Auditorial, a new idea for accessible storytelling
- Hanif Kureishi: ‘I’d like to see a British Muslim Sopranos’
- Windrush scandal: 21 people have died before receiving compensation
- ‘Can you postpone nightfall?’ Every call from Gaza with my family could be the last | Samiha Olwan
- Migrant boy swims to beach in Spain's Ceuta with plastic bottles to stay afloat – video
- How mercury sneaks into the most vulnerable communities in US and Canada
- Ardern makes good on child poverty promise, but a long road lies ahead
- Parliament culture review launches; NSW ambulance officers strike over pay – as it happened
- Putting economics over ethics is a dismal vaccination strategy – Bulgaria shows why | Luba Kassova
- Irene Owens obituary
- Belarus blocks top news site in ‘full-scale assault’ on free press
- ‘Pray for Myanmar’: Miss Universe pageant gets political
- ‘We went to the dark side’: horror film shows reality of Mexico’s migrant trail
- Investigate the Capitol attack? Republicans prefer to back the big lie
- South Korea’s balancing act will test Biden’s plan to get tough with China
- 'Slap in the face': Congressman rails against Republicans as House approves Capitol probe – video
- 'I still smell smoke and see fire': Tulsa massacre survivor, 107, testifies to US Congress – video
- How Australia's vaccination ad campaign compares with the rest of the world – video
- Israel-Palestine crisis explained: why has the violence escalated again? – video
| Israel-Gaza conflict: attacks ease after Biden calls for ‘significant de-escalation’ Posted: 19 May 2021 11:09 PM PDT Lull in violence on Thursday as efforts to secure a ceasefire this week appear to gather momentum Israel and Palestinian militants halted their fire for several hours early on Thursday as efforts to reach a truce appeared to gather momentum, a day after Joe Biden called publicly for progress towards a ceasefire. It was not immediately clear if the eight-hour quiet – the longest since the attacks began 11 days ago – was part of an agreement or a temporary lull in the violence. Continue reading... |
| Brexit: UK travellers to France and Spain may need proof of accommodation Posted: 20 May 2021 12:55 AM PDT People in France hosting non-EU nationals need to submit £26 form to their town hall as part of post-Brexit changes British visitors to France and Spain may be asked to show proof of their accommodation, including an official certificate obtained in advance if they are staying with friends or family, once Covid travel restrictions are lifted. According to the French government's website, anyone in France hosting non-EU nationals is expected to complete an attestation d'accueil (accommodation certificate) form and submit it for approval to their town hall, a process taking up to a month. Continue reading... |
| World’s largest iceberg, nearly four times size of New York City, forms in Antarctica Posted: 19 May 2021 06:42 PM PDT The 4,320 square kilometre slab of ice dubbed A-76 broke off Ronne shelf and is floating in Weddell sea A giant slab of ice almost four times the size of New York City has sheared off from the frozen edge of Antarctica into the Weddell Sea, becoming the largest iceberg afloat in the world, according to the European Space Agency. Related: Global heating pace risks 'unstoppable' sea level rise as Antarctic ice sheet melts Continue reading... |
| Climate disasters ‘caused more internal displacement than war’ in 2020 Posted: 19 May 2021 09:30 PM PDT Refugee organisation says 30m new displacements last year were due to floods, storms or wildfires Intense storms and flooding triggered three times more displacements than violent conflicts did last year, as the number of people internally displaced worldwide hit the highest level on record. There were at least 55 million internally displaced people (IDPs) by the end of last year, according to figures published by the Norwegian Refugee Council's Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). Continue reading... |
| China skyscraper wobble due to ‘winds, rail lines and warmer weather’ – reports Posted: 19 May 2021 09:59 PM PDT Preliminary verdict in Shenzhen suggests combination of factors led to shaking, and finds no safety problems The wobbling of a skyscraper in the Chinese city of Shenzhen was likely caused by a combination of winds, underground rail lines, and fluctuating temperatures, according to preliminary findings reported by local media. The near-300m-high (980ft) SEG Plaza first began shaking on Tuesday afternoon, prompting an evacuation of people inside while pedestrians looked on in horror. Continue reading... |
| Breast implant victims should get payouts, Paris court rules Posted: 20 May 2021 02:01 AM PDT Case was brought by 2,700 women over implants made by French company and certified as safe by German firm Thousands of victims of defective breast implants manufactured by a French company and certified as safe by the German firm TÜV Rheinland should receive compensation, a Paris court of appeal has ruled. The case was brought by 2,700 women who said they had suffered long-term physical and mental health problems after receiving the implants filled with cheap, industrial-grade silicone not cleared for human use. Continue reading... |
| Colonial Pipeline confirms it paid $4.4m ransom to hacker gang after attack Posted: 19 May 2021 06:07 PM PDT The company's CEO authorized the payment as a means to restart the pipeline's systems quickly and safely The operator of the nation's largest fuel pipeline confirmed it paid $4.4m to a gang of hackers who broke into its computer systems. Colonial Pipeline said Wednesday that after it learned of the 7 May ransomware attack, the company took its pipeline system offline and needed to do everything in its power to restart it quickly and safely, and made the decision then to pay the ransom. Continue reading... |
| Bytedance CEO stands aside to do more ‘daydreaming’ about the future Posted: 19 May 2021 10:57 PM PDT Zhang Yiming will change role after saying he lacks the right skills to manage and prefers 'reading and daydreaming' The Chinese boss of TikTok's parent company has said he is leaving the role because he lacks managerial skills and preferred "reading and daydreaming" to running the tech giant. Zhang Yiming, the co-founder of Bytedance – which created the popular short video TikTok app – said on Thursday that he will step down as chief executive and trainsition to a new role by the end of the year focusing on "long-term strategy". Continue reading... |
| ‘We have our differences’: Blinken and Lavrov polite but firm in first face-to-face encounter Posted: 19 May 2021 05:38 PM PDT US secretary of state tells Russian foreign minister he will defend American interests against any aggression from Moscow The US secretary of state and Russia's foreign minister have sparred politely in Iceland in their first face-to-face encounter, which came as ties between the nations have deteriorated sharply in recent months. Antony Blinken and Sergey Lavrov spoke frankly but calmly of their differences as they held talks on the sidelines of an Arctic Council meeting in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik, a city with deep history in US-Russian relations. Continue reading... |
| Everyone Is Awesome: Lego to launch first LGBTQ+ set Posted: 19 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT Toy company's designer says he was inspired to support the community with rainbow-themed creation In the "spraying room" at Lego HQ, tiny figurines are layered with bright, glossy paint before being placed on a rainbow-esque arch. The result, a waterfall of colour with 11 brand new minifigures striding purposefully towards an imagined brighter future, is the Danish toymaker's inaugural LGBTQIA+ set, titled Everyone Is Awesome. The colours of the stripes were chosen to reflect the original rainbow flag, along with pale blue, white and pink representing the trans community, and black and brown to acknowledge the diversity of skin tones and backgrounds within the LGBTQIA+ community. Continue reading... |
| Stench of death pervades rural India as Ganges swells with Covid victims Posted: 19 May 2021 05:00 PM PDT Stigma and cost of wood leave families with no choice but to immerse their dead in river There was a time before when the Ganges was "swollen with dead bodies". In 1918, when the great flu pandemic swept through India and killed an estimated 18 million people, the water of this river – upon which so many lives depended – was filled with the stench of death. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 20 May 2021 02:45 AM PDT WHO Europe chief says jabs have proved effective against all Covid-19 variants; EU requires production and ingredient sourcing to be in the EU
Uki Goñi reports for us from Buenos Aires: With both the Brazilian and UK variants circulating widely in Argentina, the patients intensive care doctor Vanina Edul is now seeing at the Fernández public hospital in Buenos Aires are dying faster, and younger: one recent victim was just 42 when he died. Related: 'People die in less than a week': Covid wave catches Argentina off-guard
We'll have more on this in due course, but there's a briefing this morning from the World Health Organization about the situation in Europe, and one of the top lines to emerge is the confirmation that the currently authorised vaccines on the continent are said to be effective against all known Covid-19 variants. #BREAKING Authorised vaccines effective against all known Covid-19 variants: WHO Europe chief pic.twitter.com/Y74uEj5pM9 Continue reading... |
| ‘People die in less than a week’: Covid wave catches Argentina off-guard Posted: 20 May 2021 02:30 AM PDT Cases have risen from a daily total of about 5,000 in early March to a record 35,000 this week amid relaxed restrictions and a low vaccination rate It is 1am and intensive care doctor Vanina Edul is trying vainly to remember the names of all the Covid patients who have died on her watch. The 47-year-old physician still remembers the first patient she saw die of Covid last year. "He was 60 years old and we were surprised because that was young for that long-ago time. We thought only old people died. How wrong we were," she says. Continue reading... |
| British tourists to EU may have to quarantine even if vaccinated Posted: 19 May 2021 07:13 AM PDT UK could also face travel block due to India variant and own incoming rules if altered EU policy stands Fully vaccinated Britons could still be told to quarantine at their EU holiday destination due to concerns over the Covid variant first detected in India and a failure to allow Europeans to visit Britain freely, according to a policy agreed in Brussels. Representatives of the 27 member states on Wednesday provisionally approved a change of the policy under which anyone from a non-EU country could travel if they were able to prove they had been fully vaccinated. Continue reading... |
| ‘A united nations of crime’: how Marbella became a magnet for gangsters Posted: 19 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT The new international crime organisations have made Marbella their centre of operations. And as violence rises, the police lag far behind One morning last autumn, a dozen or so locals were eating breakfast at a cafe under a clear Marbella sky, in front of the offices of the Special Organised Crime Response Unit (Greco), on the Costa del Sol. The property is nondescript – an unobtrusive building in a working-class neighbourhood – and only someone with a sharp eye for detail might notice the two security cameras monitoring the front entrance. The cafe's regulars drank coffee and ate toast, unaware that only 24 hours earlier, in another part of the city, Greco agents had rescued a man from a garage, alive, but with holes drilled through his toes. It was the latest local case of amarre, or kidnapping, to settle a score between criminal gangs. That afternoon, in Puerto Banús, the wealthiest and most extravagant area of the city, a young British man with ties to organised crime walked out of a Louis Vuitton store and found himself surrounded by a crew of young Maghrebis, "soldiers" from one of the Marseille clans. "They didn't want anything specific," he said. "They just stared me down and said: 'What's up?' They were looking for trouble. Things like this have been happening for a while now. It's getting really dangerous here," he said, with no apparent sense of the irony of a criminal complaining about criminality. Continue reading... |
| ‘Take it easy, nothing matters in the end’: William Shatner at 90, on love, loss and Leonard Nimoy Posted: 19 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT His career has taken him from Shakespeare to Star Trek – and soon he will be swimming with sharks on TV. He discusses longevity, tragedy, friendship and success I think I'm arriving good and early for my interview with William Shatner when I click on our video chat link 10 minutes ahead of time. But Shatner has arrived even earlier: there he is, as soon as my Zoom screen opens, poking away at his computer. "I like to get in early to ease my mind. But it's OK, I can meditate afterwards," he says. His tone is often heavily ironical, as if he is daring you to accuse him of playing a joke on you. This has led to much discussion from fans about "the Shatner persona", although Shatner scoffs at the phrase. "I don't know what that even is," he says. I think they think you play up to their expectations, I say. Continue reading... |
| Mafia mussel: the fight to save a mollusc from the mob Posted: 19 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT As poaching of date mussels wrecks Naples' reefs, police joined biologists to find the gangs behind it After a three-year investigation into two organised crime groups in Italy's Campania region that included wire taps, surveillance and nearly 100 suspects, police cracked down with a dozen arrests in March – not for offences linked to drugs or prostitution, but for the illegal harvesting of a small mollusc. Known as date mussels, Lithophaga lithophaga are cigar-shaped shellfish that make their homes inside limestone, secreting an acid that slowly carves out a tunnel in the rock. They take decades to grow – anywhere from 18 to 36 years to reach just 5cm in length – and can live for more than 50 years. Continue reading... |
| Who moved my cheese? The silent battle between vegetarians and vegans Posted: 20 May 2021 12:00 AM PDT When there's only space for one meat-free option on the menu, chefs often now ditch dairy for vegan alternatives. Is this the end of veggie dining? The recent explosion in vegan food has not been without pushback. Mainly from bolshily indignant meat-eaters who take it as a personal affront. But could a far more peaceable group, vegetarians, also be finding all that vegan energy a bit, well, irritating? Anecdotally, their beef (now seitan) is that the current zeitgeisty cool surrounding plant-based food is increasingly pushing vegetarian options off menus. Vegetarians are asking: who moved my cheese? They are seeing their halloumi burgers, sour cream-dressed burritos or blue cheese and mushroom wellingtons removed in favour of vegan meat-free dishes. There is low-level grumbling at this new dairy-free landscape, talk of being "screwed" by vegans and, as one Guardian colleague describes it, "a little silent war" developing between the rival groups. Continue reading... |
| An avenue to other worlds: Auditorial, a new idea for accessible storytelling Posted: 20 May 2021 12:00 AM PDT The Guardian has launched an experimental feature format on World Accessibility Awareness Day, in partnership with Google and the Royal National Institute of Blind People Audio storytelling is an avenue into other worlds. So when the Guardian was approached to take part in an experimental project to make journalism more accessible to low-vision and blind users, it felt like an opportunity we couldn't turn down. Audio has always been about making stories more accessible, and this was an opportunity to push that even further. The result is a storytelling website called Auditorial, created to showcase the possibilities of accessible stories for blind and low-vision audiences. The story is our own, paired with Google technology and the invaluable accessibility user-testing and expert advice provided by the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) – an example of what can be done when inclusive design and thinking are at the forefront from the start. Continue reading... |
| Hanif Kureishi: ‘I’d like to see a British Muslim Sopranos’ Posted: 19 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT As his new play The Spank opens in Italy, the writer talks about the power of ludicrous ideas, the crisis facing the middle class – and why he can't get white liberals off his phone Hanif Kureishi has been reflecting on toxic masculinity. He has heard a lot about it in the past year and it has entered the fiction he has been writing over lockdown – at quite a rate by the sound of it – and sparked stories about predation, sexual misdemeanour and "what's going on between men and women". But he is just as interested in the benign, everyday dynamic between male friends. Most of the men he knows are good people, he says, who get together to talk about music and books, tease each other and chew the cud about life. He misses them now, locked away in his study in west London, although he has grownup sons up the road for company (they live with their mother). There's the dog, too, which they take to the park together most days. Continue reading... |
| Windrush scandal: 21 people have died before receiving compensation Posted: 19 May 2021 01:47 PM PDT More than 500 people have been waiting more than a year for claim to be handled, Home Office data shows The Home Office has revealed that 21 people have died while waiting for Windrush compensation claims to be paid, amid continuing concern that the scheme is taking too long to make payments to elderly people affected by the scandal. The number has more than doubled since November, when figures showed that nine people had died without receiving the redress they had applied for. Continue reading... |
| ‘Can you postpone nightfall?’ Every call from Gaza with my family could be the last | Samiha Olwan Posted: 20 May 2021 12:02 AM PDT As the days pass, it gets harder to stay in touch. My friends send me photos of their children sleeping under tables, covering their ears and eyes against death I haven't seen my younger brother, Abdallah, in person for more than four years. It takes a few minutes to end our video calls these days. With a shaky voice and a reluctant smile, he blinks away his tears to reassure me he is strong, despite the constant explosions that rock his home. When I ask if there is anything I can do, he answers: "Can you postpone nightfall?" I conceal my anxiety as I say "Goodbye!" and "Take care!" again and again. I prolong the conversation because I am terrified this could be the last time I speak to him. Two days later, 5am in Perth, midnight in Gaza, I message him frantically. I've learned over the past few days that this is about the time Israeli bombing intensifies. Bombs raze buildings to the ground while residents are trying to sleep inside. I urge him and my other younger brother to move to where my older brother is staying in Khan Younis, in the southern part of Gaza which seems to be hit less frequently. I think if they stick together under one roof then they can console each other as the bombs fall. Continue reading... |
| Migrant boy swims to beach in Spain's Ceuta with plastic bottles to stay afloat – video Posted: 19 May 2021 10:47 PM PDT A boy using plastic bottles tied to himself and his clothes to keep afloat has arrived at Spain's north African territory of Ceuta after swimming across the Spain-Morocco border. The child was spotted in the water by soldiers on El Tarajal beach before he attempted to climb the wall into the city. The migration attempt comes as an estimated 8,000 people - including 2,000 minors - made it to the Spanish territory in recent days before the majority were sent back. Spain has accused Morocco of disrespect for the European Union and willingness to risk the lives of children and babies in a diplomatic row between the countries Continue reading... |
| How mercury sneaks into the most vulnerable communities in US and Canada Posted: 20 May 2021 12:00 AM PDT The harmful chemical has a unique quality: it can build up in our river systems over time |
| Ardern makes good on child poverty promise, but a long road lies ahead Posted: 19 May 2021 10:47 PM PDT Analysis: the PM has spent big on tackling social issues, but it will still take New Zealand only halfway to meeting her child poverty goal When she came to power, the prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, grabbed international headlines for her commitments to national wellbeing and solving social issues such as child poverty, homelessness and the mental health crisis. Until now, progress on many of those hallmark issues has been plodding – or at times non-existent – making critics sceptical of whether the rhetoric on wellbeing had lined up with reality. The budget will be welcomed by progressives, as evidence the government is following through on assistance for the country's most vulnerable. A multibillion-dollar income boost for impoverished families was a headline item in the country's new budget, announced on Thursday. Ardern's government looked to harness the momentum of a better-than-expected Covid recovery to spend big on social problems. Continue reading... |
| Parliament culture review launches; NSW ambulance officers strike over pay – as it happened Posted: 20 May 2021 01:13 AM PDT Sex discrimination commissioner set to report back with review's recommendations by November; Qantas announces job cuts to international crew; experts alarmed at Covid vaccination rates. This blog is now closed
That's where I will leave you for this evening. Thanks as always for reading. Here's what we learned today:
Suicide Prevention Australia has welcomed the Victorian government's decision to establish a Suicide Prevention and Response Office in the state budget handed down today. It comes ahead of an impending national agreement with states and territories scheduled for November this year. It is very encouraging to see that now both the federal and Victorian governments have committed to Suicide Prevention Offices. Suicide Prevention Australia has called for a whole of government approach to suicide prevention in every jurisdiction and a coordinating office is a key part of achieving that. We look forward to seeing further details on the scope and role of the new Victorian Suicide Prevention and Response Office. Continue reading... |
| Putting economics over ethics is a dismal vaccination strategy – Bulgaria shows why | Luba Kassova Posted: 19 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT Bulgaria focused on protecting the economy over saving older people from Covid. Ultimately, it will achieve neither April will forever be in my memory as a month of painful unfairness: it is when I had my first Covid-19 vaccine in the UK and my unvaccinated father died of the virus in Bulgaria. I'm a middle-aged, healthy woman. My father was a vulnerable 85-year-old with underlying health conditions. I have a pile of letters from the NHS that arrived for my father since January, inviting him to get a vaccination in London, the city he left for his native Bulgaria six months before. With sadness and disquiet, I wonder why Bulgaria did not protect my father in his old age while the UK's NHS has made every endeavour to do so. Why have I been protected in my middle age while about 90% of Bulgarians over 80 have not? Continue reading... |
| Posted: 19 May 2021 10:15 AM PDT My friend Irene Owens, who has died aged 102, was a typist, switch-board operator, air-raid warden, nursery nurse and one-woman aid provider to Zimbabwe after she befriended Sally Mugabe, the president's wife. Irene, known as Renie to her friends, first visited Zimbabwe in 1980 for a conference with the Moral Re-Armament movement (MRA), of which she was a member. Continue reading... |
| Belarus blocks top news site in ‘full-scale assault’ on free press Posted: 19 May 2021 06:41 AM PDT Widely read Tut.by news site taken offline in latest attack on media freedom, say human rights groups A leading news site in Belarus has been taken offline and its journalists interrogated by government officials in what human rights campaigners are calling a "full-scale assault" on the right to freedom of expression in the country. Tut.by, a news site read by more than 40% of Belarusian internet users, has been blocked and its editors questioned after their offices and houses were raided by authorities. Continue reading... |
| ‘Pray for Myanmar’: Miss Universe pageant gets political Posted: 19 May 2021 06:14 AM PDT Thuzar Wint Lwin, in dress of besieged Chin minority, highlights brutal repression since coup in Myanmar In the months leading up to the Miss Universe pageant, most contestants were busy making promotional films and rehearsing for their moment in the limelight. Thuzar Wint Lwin of Myanmar was on the streets of Yangon, protesting against the country's brutal army. As the military used increasingly deadly force to crush rallies opposing its February coup, she visited the relatives of those who had been killed, donating her savings. Online, she raised awareness of military violence, despite the risk of retaliation. Continue reading... |
| ‘We went to the dark side’: horror film shows reality of Mexico’s migrant trail Posted: 19 May 2021 04:00 AM PDT Mystical realism conveys real-life stories of brutal cartel violence in Fernanda Valadez's chilling directorial debut Two teenage boys wave goodbye to their mothers across a field in rural Mexico, leaving home in search of the American dream. The opening moments of the Mexican film-maker Fernanda Valadez's Identifying Features, available to stream from this week, reflects scenes played out every day across Mexico and Central America, as men, women and children journey north in search of safety and job opportunities. Valadez, 39, starts her directorial debut film in her home state of Guanajuato – a picturesque, once tranquil state in the centre of the country. In recent years Guanajuato has fallen victim to the evolving geography and relentless nature of Mexico's humanitarian crisis; it is now one of the most dangerous places in the country for those who live there and for people travelling through on the migrant trail. Continue reading... |
| Investigate the Capitol attack? Republicans prefer to back the big lie Posted: 19 May 2021 05:30 PM PDT The vast majority of House Republicans voted against a bipartisan, 9/11-style panel – no surprise from a party still in thrall to Trump "Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States." So begins the report of the 9/11 commission, which investigated the terrorist attacks 20 years ago with bipartisan support. Will there be a similarly limpid introduction to a similarly weighty (567 pages) study of the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol in Washington on 6 January 2021? Not if Republicans can help it. Continue reading... |
| South Korea’s balancing act will test Biden’s plan to get tough with China Posted: 19 May 2021 04:44 PM PDT Analysis: Seoul's navigation of geopolitical landscape in east Asia hints at limits of united front with US When the South Korean president goes to Washington DC on Friday, his discussions with Joe Biden about China will test the limits of the US president's rhetoric to "work with [its] allies to hold China accountable". It will also exhibit the dilemma faced by middle-sized powers such as South Korea. The White House spokesperson, Jen Psaki, said last month that Moon Jae-in's visit "will highlight the ironclad alliance between the United States and [South Korea], and the broad and deep ties between our governments, people and economies". Continue reading... |
| 'Slap in the face': Congressman rails against Republicans as House approves Capitol probe – video Posted: 19 May 2021 10:13 PM PDT The US House of Representatives has passed a bill that would create a 9/11-style commission to investigate the deadly attack on the Capitol in January. Thirty-five Republicans joined Democrats in passing the measure, with the vote largely falling along party lines. A total of 175 Republicans voted against the bill, with Democrat congressman Tim Ryan saying it was 'slap in the face to every rank and file cop in the United States'. Republicans in leadership have played down the violence of the Capitol riot that left five people dead |
| 'I still smell smoke and see fire': Tulsa massacre survivor, 107, testifies to US Congress – video Posted: 19 May 2021 11:26 AM PDT Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa, Oklahoma, massacre, was seven when a white mob attacked the city's 'Black Wall Street' in 1921, killing an estimated 300 African Americans. For decades, the atrocity on Greenwood Avenue was actively covered up. On Wednesday, Fletcher appeared before a House of Representatives judiciary subcommittee considering legal remedies. Fletcher, who was a domestic worker for most of her life, said she was seeking justice and referred to the 'daily horror' inflicted on Black people in the US Continue reading... |
| How Australia's vaccination ad campaign compares with the rest of the world – video Posted: 19 May 2021 10:30 AM PDT New Zealand has its metaphorical door to freedom. Singapore is leaning on disco. America has presidents and beer, while the UK is calling upon celebrity. As Covid-19 vaccination efforts continue around the globe, countries are calling on a wide array of communication methods and using humour and emotional connections to encourage people to get the jab. In contrast, Australia is playing a straight bat to reassure the population about vaccination • From free beer to celebrity endorsements: the creative approaches to promoting Covid vaccines Continue reading... |
| Israel-Palestine crisis explained: why has the violence escalated again? – video Posted: 19 May 2021 07:23 AM PDT The Guardian's Jerusalem correspondent Oliver Holmes examines the series of combustible events that coincided to trigger the worst violence in Israel and Gaza since 2014
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