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- Israel-Gaza conflict: world leaders hail ceasefire after 11 days of attacks
- UK like an ‘enemy state’ to EU nationals detained by Border Force
- ‘Not a lot of trust’: Taiwan wrestles with home working in wake of Covid surge
- Government considers BBC shake-up after damning Diana report
- Spanish aid volunteer abused online for hugging Senegalese migrant
- UK accused of a ‘abandoning’ Rohingya with ‘catastrophic’ 40% aid cut
- Apple v Epic: Tim Cook set to testify as star witness in high-stakes trial
- US no longer wants to buy Greenland, Blinken confirms
- Elderly man has wrong leg amputated at Austrian clinic
- Japan bullet train driver disciplined for leaving controls to go to toilet
- Big cats seized by US authorities from Tiger King zoo in Oklahoma
- England test-and-trace glitch blamed for spread of India Covid variant
- EU decision to add UK to travel ‘white list’ to be delayed due to Covid variant
- Coronavirus live news: EU delays travel ‘white list’ decision; WHO says global death toll has ‘significant undercount’
- Duran Duran: ‘Almost everybody in a situation like ours sabotages themselves’
- From Beyoncé to David Bowie: 10 of the best Glastonbury sets ever
- ‘People are looking for something more serious’: the Hinge CEO on the pandemic dating boom
- Reese? Tiffany? Kelly? Who might replace Ellen?
- ‘They killed my best friend for supper!’ Gunda, the farmyard film that could put you off eating meat for ever
- Hilary Mantel on adapting The Mirror and the Light for stage
- Palestinians greet ceasefire with celebrations on the streets of Gaza – video
- Amid the Covid pandemic, Senegal women find renewed hope in fishing
- ‘We live here too’: Tahanie Aboushi bids to become New York’s top prosecutor
- ‘Brazil is a global pariah’: Lula on his plot to end reign of ‘psychopath’ Bolsonaro
- Shark attack injures diver in Broome – as it happened
- Myanmar doctors sound Covid warning as neighbours see record cases
- UK civil servants given just days to prepare £2.9bn aid cuts in 2020
- Britain in talks to waive Covid vaccine patents to improve global access to jabs
- New Zealand’s budget needed to allocate more than small change to the climate crisis | Robert McLachlan and Paul Callister
- Want more international students? Look to the Pacific | Edward Cavanough
- Both sides in Israel-Gaza conflict lay groundwork for victory narratives
- Four weeks of protests in Colombia – in pictures
- Girl, 11, smears blue slime on would-be kidnapper to help police identify him – video
- Biden hails Gaza ceasefire as a 'genuine opportunity to make progress' – video
| Israel-Gaza conflict: world leaders hail ceasefire after 11 days of attacks Posted: 20 May 2021 08:29 PM PDT Joe Biden hails 'genuine opportunity to make progress' as Palestinians in Gaza celebrate in the streets World leaders have hailed a ceasefire that took hold in the early hours of Friday morning, and vowed to help rebuild Gaza after an Israeli bombing campaign that killed more than 230 people and Palestinian rocket attacks that killed 12 in Israel. The United Nations secretary general urged Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers to observe the ceasefire and called on global leaders to develop a reconstruction package "that supports the Palestinian people and strengthens their institutions". Continue reading... |
| UK like an ‘enemy state’ to EU nationals detained by Border Force Posted: 20 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT Confused over regulations, Home Office border staff meet legitimate visitors and workers with suspicion EU citizens living and working in the UK have revealed how they are being met with suspicion and threats that they will be refused entry at the UK border for the first time in their lives, fuelling fresh fears that Border Force officials have not been trained in the new Brexit rules. Wolfgang, a German national who runs an IT business, was detained at Heathrow airport despite having proof of settled status, indefinite leave to remain and a British passport on the way. Continue reading... |
| ‘Not a lot of trust’: Taiwan wrestles with home working in wake of Covid surge Posted: 20 May 2021 09:00 PM PDT Work culture of presenteeism sees some staff told to switch on GPS location tracking by distrustful managers When Amanda asked a colleague to bring her laptop home from their tech-company office, anticipating that Taipei was about to join the ranks of global cities suddenly working remotely, managers refused to release it. She told him to grab it anyway, and soon enough the Taiwanese capital was placed under restrictions amid a shock coronavirus outbreak. Her company soon sent an office-wide email saying that 50% of staff would be staying home. "But it still had reminders that working from home means you are working at home and your equipment must be connected at all times, and you're expected to work eight hours and this is not a holiday," she says. Continue reading... |
| Government considers BBC shake-up after damning Diana report Posted: 21 May 2021 01:35 AM PDT Ministers to mull governance overhaul after inquiry condemns Martin Bashir's 1995 Panorama interview Damning findings about Martin Bashir's Panorama interview with Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1995 means the governance of the BBC and how it operates will have to be examined, according to a senior government minister. John Dyson's report into how a BBC interview with Diana and the "very striking" reactions of her sons to its findings had raised "some very serious questions" for the broadcaster, said Robert Buckland, the secretary of state for justice. Continue reading... |
| Spanish aid volunteer abused online for hugging Senegalese migrant Posted: 20 May 2021 08:32 AM PDT Luna Reyes targeted by far-right supporters after footage of gesture goes viral The image captured the raw humanity of the moment: a Red Cross volunteer tenderly consoling a Senegalese man moments after he stepped foot in Spain's north African enclave of Ceuta. Hours after the footage went viral, however, Luna Reyes set her social media accounts to private after she was targeted by a torrent of abuse from supporters of Spain's far-right Vox party and others incensed by the unprecedented arrival of 8,000 migrants in Ceuta. Continue reading... |
| UK accused of a ‘abandoning’ Rohingya with ‘catastrophic’ 40% aid cut Posted: 20 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT Children in overcrowded Cox's Bazar settlement likely to suffer most from reduced humanitarian spending, say campaigners The government has been accused of abandoning Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh after cutting aid to the humanitarian response by more than 40%. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) pledged £27.6m to the humanitarian sector's joint response plan launched this week, compared with £47.5m last year. Continue reading... |
| Apple v Epic: Tim Cook set to testify as star witness in high-stakes trial Posted: 20 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT The Fortnite maker, the most popular game in the world, claims the way Apple runs its App Store amounts to a monopoly Tim Cook, the chief executive of Apple, is set to testify on Friday as the star witness in a high-stakes case against Epic Games that could upend Apple's business model. The trial stems from an antitrust lawsuit filed last year by Epic Games, the maker of the wildly popular video game Fortnite. The game became the most popular in the world in recent years, generating more than $9bn total for Epic in 2018 and 2019. Continue reading... |
| US no longer wants to buy Greenland, Blinken confirms Posted: 20 May 2021 05:46 PM PDT US Secretary of State rules out any plans to buy the Danish autonomous territory US secretary of state Antony Blinken has confirmed that America no longer wants to buy Greenland. Blinken visited the Danish autonomous territory as he ended a four-day trip that included a meeting of the foreign ministers of countries bordering the Arctic. Continue reading... |
| Elderly man has wrong leg amputated at Austrian clinic Posted: 20 May 2021 05:40 PM PDT Freistadt Clinic apologises for 'tragic mistake' which local media said the patient did not initially recognise because of his illness An Austrian hospital amputated the wrong leg of a patient, it said on Thursday, blaming human error for what it called a "tragic mistake". The elderly patient was suffering from many illnesses, the Freistadt Clinic, in a town of the same name near the Czech border, said in a statement. Previous sicknesses have affected his legs, to the point that his left leg required amputation. Continue reading... |
| Japan bullet train driver disciplined for leaving controls to go to toilet Posted: 20 May 2021 10:19 PM PDT A conductor, who was not qualified to drive the train, sat in the driver's seat during his three-minute absence, in breach of the rules A driver on one of Japan's shinkansen bullet trains is facing disciplinary measures after he abandoned his cab to go to the toilet while the train was carrying passengers and travelling at 150km/h. The 36-year-old driver, who has not been named, reportedly had a stomachache and asked a conductor to take his place while he went to the toilet. Continue reading... |
| Big cats seized by US authorities from Tiger King zoo in Oklahoma Posted: 20 May 2021 11:55 PM PDT Animal park that featured in 2020 Netflix series investigated in possible violation of Endangered Species Act US authorities have seized 68 big cats from an Oklahoma animal park that featured in the 2020 Netflix series Tiger King, the Department of Justice has said. In an affidavit of more than 50 pages, prosecutors said they believed a jaguar, seven lions, 46 tigers and 15 lion-tiger hybrids owned by Jeffrey Lowe and his wife, Lauren Lowe, had been sold, purchased or transported, which would be a violation of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Continue reading... |
| England test-and-trace glitch blamed for spread of India Covid variant Posted: 20 May 2021 07:54 AM PDT No 10 confirms delay in tracking cases in eight areas – including Blackburn with Darwen, where B.1.617.2 has surged A glitch in the government's £37bn test-and-trace system may have helped fuel the spread of a highly-transmissible Covid variant in one of the UK's worst-hit towns, it has emerged. The software error meant that more than 700 infected people and their close contacts were not promptly passed on to local health teams, allowing them to potentially spread the disease further. Continue reading... |
| EU decision to add UK to travel ‘white list’ to be delayed due to Covid variant Posted: 21 May 2021 01:05 AM PDT Rising number of UK cases of India variant to push back Brussels decision by two weeks A decision in Brussels to add the UK to an EU "white list" of countries from where tourists will be welcome this summer is to be delayed, it is understood, due to concerns over the Covid variant first identified in India. EU diplomats were expected to use a new lower threshold of infection cases to extend the list of countries at a meeting on Friday but sources said that the decision will be put back by two weeks. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 21 May 2021 01:50 AM PDT Concern over Indian variant delays EU decision on UK travel; Spain says will accept UK tourists without a test; WHO estimates 1.2m deaths last year more than officially reported
A quick snap from Reuters here that Spain will allow travellers from Britain and Japan into the country without a negative PCR test for Covid-19 from 24 May, according to an order published this morning in the state gazette. Spain is on the UK's "amber" list, so UK restrictions still require travellers returning to Britain from Spain to isolate upon arrival. Ministers have said that people should not travel to "amber" list countries for holidays.
The Scottish Government is expected to announce later today whether there will be any changes to the current restrictions and what it will mean for East Renfrewshire and Glasgow, and also Moray which is the only other area currently in Level 3. Lucinda Cameron reports for PA that Professor Devi Sridhar, of the University of Edinburgh has said that moving East Renfrewshire back up to Level 3 of coronavirus restrictions could help get the surge in cases under control quicker despite being "painful" for the community. Continue reading... |
| Duran Duran: ‘Almost everybody in a situation like ours sabotages themselves’ Posted: 20 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT Forty years on from their debut album, the new romantics have teamed with Giorgio Moroder and Graham Coxon for a new LP. They discuss their wild heyday, ageing with grace – and which vaccine they would rather have "It's hard to believe that this was the last place Ziggy Stardust ever stood," says Nick Rhodes, keyboardist and founding member of Duran Duran, striding to the point, front and centre stage at Hammersmith Apollo, where David Bowie laid his beloved persona to rest. We look out across the hundreds of empty seats. A pigeon flutters around the rafters. It is Tuesday afternoon, and as we wait for his fellow band members to arrive, Rhodes and I make our way up to the empty backstage bar. He is in black suit, T-shirt, trainers, carrying a faint whiff of eyeliner, and makes for amiable company. As we walk, he notes the tour posters that line the venue walls, shares tales of Kate Bush and Kylie and Lou Reed, and divulges his unexpected preference regarding Covid vaccinations. "Normally, I like very modern things," he says, with a nod towards the more recently approved Johnson & Johnson and Moderna jabs. "But with the vaccine, I wanted the AstraZeneca, because it's old school." Continue reading... |
| From Beyoncé to David Bowie: 10 of the best Glastonbury sets ever Posted: 21 May 2021 01:00 AM PDT Ahead of a livestreamed version of the festival, here are some of the biggest and best performances from years gone by Continue reading... |
| ‘People are looking for something more serious’: the Hinge CEO on the pandemic dating boom Posted: 21 May 2021 12:00 AM PDT Justin McLeod, boss of the dating app, talks about its massive rise in users, his difficult romantic past – and why people are now ditching their partners and looking for someone new The whiteboard on the living room wall behind Justin McLeod's sofa frames his head like a halo. But it is also symbolic of the chasm between good intentions and reality that many of us may have experienced recently. This high-achieving CEO says that, while working from home, he was "going to write a lot on that", but didn't. He turns to look at its blank expanse. It's comforting for those of us who also haven't used this change of pace for vast plans and self-improvement. Which is not to say that McLeod has had a quiet year – far from it. Isolating at home, without the usual options of meeting people, he saw a 63% rise in the number of people downloading Hinge, his dating app. And revenues tripled. McLeod seems grounded and realistic – a romantic who doesn't believe in "the one", a tech founder with a concern about what tech is doing to us and a husband with a romcom-worthy story about how he met his wife, but who also admits to weekly couples' counselling. The pandemic has had a big impact on the dating landscape, he says. People switched to video dating, for a start. It was moving that way anyway, he says, but the "pandemic accelerated it". Continue reading... |
| Reese? Tiffany? Kelly? Who might replace Ellen? Posted: 20 May 2021 10:36 PM PDT As the daytime titan prepares to step down after a swirl of controversy, a host of big names have been thrown into the mix as her successor With Ellen DeGeneres preparing to leave her talk show in order to focus on something more "challenging" – which, if reports are true, will hopefully include creating a work environment where everybody on the payroll isn't permanently cowed and miserable – a void will soon appear right at the heart of daytime. The question is: what will fill it? Related: The end of Ellen's show signifies how celebrity culture has shifted | Adrian Horton Continue reading... |
| Posted: 21 May 2021 12:00 AM PDT A sow, two cows and a one-legged chicken are the stars of Victor Kossakovsky's unique documentary, which Hollywood's most famous vegan, Joaquin Phoenix, has helped to get the audience it deserves When Victor Kossakovsky was four, his parents sent him from St Petersburg to stay with his uncle's family in the countryside. "It was a cold winter," he says, brrr-ing over Zoom. "Minus 30 degrees." Warmth came from the boy's friendship with a one-month-old piglet named Vasya. They were inseparable – until she became cutlets for New Year's Eve supper. Continue reading... |
| Hilary Mantel on adapting The Mirror and the Light for stage Posted: 20 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT Mantel had to collaborate remotely with actor Ben Miles to transform latest book into stage production Yes they are fiction and yes historians get irritated that students read them as incontrovertible fact, but Dame Hilary Mantel maintains that you won't go far wrong in understanding Tudor intrigue if you read her bestselling Wolf Hall trilogy. "I have to say, I think I've given Thomas Cromwell a better audience, a better airing, a better public than historians have managed to do through the ages," she told the Guardian. Continue reading... |
| Palestinians greet ceasefire with celebrations on the streets of Gaza – video Posted: 21 May 2021 12:50 AM PDT Palestinians poured on to the streets after Israel and Palestinian militants agreed to a ceasefire. The truce comes after an 11-day conflict that killed more than 230 people in Gaza and 12 in Israel. Cars packed the streets of Gaza, with flags waving from the windows while mosque loudspeakers hailed a 'victory'
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| Amid the Covid pandemic, Senegal women find renewed hope in fishing Posted: 20 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT More than a thousand women in Bargny, and many more in the other villages dotting Senegal's sandy coast, process fish – performing a crucial role in one of the country's largest exports Since her birth on Senegal's coast, the ocean has always given Ndeye Yacine Dieng life. Her grandfather was a fisher, and her grandmother and mother processed fish. Like generations of women, she now helps support her family in the small community of Bargny by drying, smoking, salting and fermenting the catch brought home by male villagers. They were baptised by fish, these women say. But when the pandemic struck, boats that once took as many as 50 men out to sea carried only a few. Many residents were too terrified to leave their houses, let alone fish, for fear of catching the virus. When the local women did manage to get their hands on fish to process, they lacked the usual buyers, as markets shut down and neighbouring landlocked countries closed their borders. Without savings, many families went from three meals a day to one or two. Continue reading... |
| ‘We live here too’: Tahanie Aboushi bids to become New York’s top prosecutor Posted: 21 May 2021 02:00 AM PDT The standout progressive is the underdog for district attorney, but she's confident she can win – and change the system Tahanie Aboushi was 13 when police barged into her home and arrested her parents. At 14, her father, a shop owner in Brooklyn's Sunset Park, was sentenced to 22 years in prison for charges relating to untaxed cigarettes and stolen goods. Her mother was acquitted of all charges. Related: New York attorney general opens criminal investigation into Trump Organization Continue reading... |
| ‘Brazil is a global pariah’: Lula on his plot to end reign of ‘psychopath’ Bolsonaro Posted: 21 May 2021 02:05 AM PDT Brazil's former leftist leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva left no doubt he was planning a finale to a dramatic political career Brazil can be rescued after being turned into a Covid-stricken global outcast by its "psychopath" president Jair Bolsonaro, the politician best placed to defeat him in next year's presidential election has insisted. In an interview with the Guardian, Brazil's former leftist leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – who is widely tipped to challenge Bolsonaro for the presidency after regaining his political rights – stopped short of explicitly confirming he would run. But Lula, who rose from rural poverty to become Brazil's first working-class president, left no doubt he was plotting an extraordinary finale to one of the world's most enduring and dramatic political careers. Continue reading... |
| Shark attack injures diver in Broome – as it happened Posted: 21 May 2021 01:48 AM PDT School climate strikers call on federal government to do more on climate change; Scott Morrison says this is 'worst time' for Victoria to lift taxes; some Covid vaccination sites reportedly operating at less than a quarter of capacity. This blog is now closed
And that's where we will wrap things up for the evening. Here are the day's main events:
Victoria's chief health officer, Brett Sutton, has issued a statement urging residents of, or people who visited, the outer Melbourne suburb of Epping to monitor for any symptoms of Covid-19. It comes after the Department of Health picked up traces of Covid-19 in the wastewater around the Epping and Wollert area and after the wrong supermarket was identified as an exposure site linked to a confirmed Covid-19 case nearly two weeks ago. Continue reading... |
| Myanmar doctors sound Covid warning as neighbours see record cases Posted: 21 May 2021 01:59 AM PDT The potential arrival of a highly transmissable variant could overwhelm health systems already struggling after military coup Doctors in Myanmar have warned the country would be unable to cope with a major outbreak of Covid-19 as hospitals and medical facilities struggle to function in the aftermath of February's military coup. Fears are growing about the potential impact of a highly transmissible variant as neighbouring countries, chiefly India but also Thailand and Laos, battle record numbers of Covid cases. Continue reading... |
| UK civil servants given just days to prepare £2.9bn aid cuts in 2020 Posted: 20 May 2021 08:40 AM PDT Cuts were agreed on the basis of a forecast shown five days later to be too pessimistic, report finds UK civil servants were given five to seven working days to prepare 30% cuts in the overseas aid budget last summer, including a £730m cut to bilateral aid that it later emerged was unnecessary. The cuts were agreed in July 2020 on the basis of a single forecast reduction in the size of the UK economy, which was shown to be too pessimistic five days after the cuts package was signed off. Continue reading... |
| Britain in talks to waive Covid vaccine patents to improve global access to jabs Posted: 20 May 2021 05:05 AM PDT Pressure growing for UK and others to follow Biden's lead at WTO to avoid 'moral and public health failure' The UK government is in talks about a plan to waive Covid-19 vaccine patents to boost the production of shots in low and middle-income countries, the Guardian can reveal. The discussions come amid growing calls for Britain and other European countries to follow the US in supporting the proposal put before the World Trade Organization (WTO). Continue reading... |
| Posted: 20 May 2021 06:55 PM PDT Climate politics is a long game but people must see more positive changes to really appreciate the benefits of ending fossil fuels The New Zealand emissions trading scheme (ETS), now in its fourteenth year of operation and much criticised for (so far) failing to cut emissions, is the centrepiece of the government's climate action. Judging from Budget 2021, it will remain that way for years to come. Auctioning of emissions units began in March, and 2022 will see the introduction of a falling cap on net emissions of long-lived greenhouse gases. (The precise level of the cap will be announced later in the year.) Continue reading... |
| Want more international students? Look to the Pacific | Edward Cavanough Posted: 20 May 2021 04:35 PM PDT Instead of just bringing in Pacific Islanders to pick fruit, the government should focus on tertiary education In a budget filled with winners, there were a few notable losers. There was our university sector. Already languishing, the government dealt our unis the twin blows of a sustained "fortress Australia" – prohibiting a revival of the international student market – and a reduction in funding. Continue reading... |
| Both sides in Israel-Gaza conflict lay groundwork for victory narratives Posted: 20 May 2021 09:35 AM PDT Analysis: flare-up regarded by some as example of domestic politics driving violent escalation As a ceasefire begins between Israel and Palestinian fighters in Gaza, the longtime foes are poised to turn their attention away from military action and on to constructing competing narratives of victory. Already, the groundwork is being laid. Unnamed Israeli defence officials are being quoted in local media as saying they are satisfied with the damage inflicted. And a militant source in Gaza said: "For us, the battle achieved its goals." Continue reading... |
| Four weeks of protests in Colombia – in pictures Posted: 20 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT A wave of anti-government protests entered their fourth week on Wednesday as unions, student groups and others demand social change amid intermittent talks between the government and strike organisers Continue reading... |
| Girl, 11, smears blue slime on would-be kidnapper to help police identify him – video Posted: 20 May 2021 06:57 PM PDT An 11-year-old girl in Florida fought off an attempted kidnapper and smeared the blue slime she had been playing with on his arms so police could identify him. Security camera video shows Alyssa Bonal, of Pensacola, waiting for the school bus when a white van passes her. The van returned a minute later and stopped before the driver jumped out and ran at the girl, dragging her back toward the van. When police later arrested a suspect, his arms were still streaked with blue dye Continue reading... |
| Biden hails Gaza ceasefire as a 'genuine opportunity to make progress' – video Posted: 20 May 2021 05:30 PM PDT US president, Joe Biden, hailed a ceasefire reached between Israel and Palestinian militants, pledging humanitarian aid to Gaza. Speaking from the White House, Biden said the US would also replenish Israel's Iron Dome missile-defence system. Biden said he was in contact with the Israeli prime ministe,r Benjamin Netanyahu, during the 11 days of violence as well as Egyptian president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi. 'I believe the Palestinians and Israelis equally deserve to live safely and securely, and enjoy equal measures of freedom, prosperity, and democracy. My administration will continue our quiet, relentless diplomacy towards that end,' he said
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