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- DRC orders evacuation of Goma after Nyiragongo volcano erupts
- Coronavirus live news: Pfizer and AstraZeneca jab offer protection against India Covid variant, PHE finds
- Civil war, ruin, raging poverty... but Assad is guaranteed to win Syria’s fake election
- We don’t recognise our own city: Israeli barrage redraws the map of Gaza
- Greek plan for mandatory neutering to tackle strays hits opposition
- Washington toughens stance to fight atrocities in Ethiopia
- Far-right attack inevitable, warns informant who identified London nail bomber
- Iran says it will end UN watchdog’s access to nuclear sites
- Twenty-one dead as extreme weather hits ultramarathon in China
- BBC interview did not harm Diana, claims Martin Bashir
- Bob Dylan at 80 – a little Minnesota town celebrates its famous son
- GPs stricken by long Covid ‘shocked and betrayed’ at being forced from jobs
- CDC studying reports of heart inflammation in young Covid vaccine recipients
- Mount Everest Covid outbreak has infected 100 people at base camp, says guide
- Pandemic holds mirror to who Australians really are – and it’s not who we think
- Do you have a fear of returning to the office?
- Down at heel Black Sea resort pins its hopes on Russian staycations
- ‘I allowed myself to feel guilty for a very long time’: the teenage cashier who took George Floyd’s $20 bill
- Boycotts and sanctions helped rid South Africa of apartheid – is Israel next in line?
- When rich people divorce: what does the future hold for Bill and Melinda Gates?
- How Britons are cutting stress in half: throw an axe in it
- More money needed to tackle inequality, says Merseyside police chief
- From the river to the sea, Jews and Arabs must forge a shared future | Kenan Malik
- Police records show threats to kill lawmakers in wake of Capitol attack
- ‘A ticking time bomb’: Timor-Leste begins to reckon with alleged Catholic church sex abuse
- The Nationals’ victory in Upper Hunter byelection may owe more to Berejiklian and Hanson than John Barilaro | Anne Davies
- Rise of Isis means Boko Haram’s decline is no cause for celebration
- Thousands march in London pro-Palestine demonstration – video
| DRC orders evacuation of Goma after Nyiragongo volcano erupts Posted: 22 May 2021 03:57 PM PDT Thousands of people head towards border with Rwanda as lava approaches outskirts of city A river of flaming lava that poured out of the erupting Nyiragongo volcano in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has reached the suburbs of Goma, an eastern city of nearly 2 million people. Officials said on Sunday that the molten stream had reached the airport on the outskirts of the city, but witnesses said the flow appeared to have halted later in the morning. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 23 May 2021 02:14 AM PDT Latest updates: Pfizer vaccine 88% effective against symptomatic disease from the India variant after second dose, AstraZeneca jab 60% effective
A leading Bangladesh journalist critical of the government's pandemic response has been granted bail, after her detention sparked nationwide protests. AFP has the story: Rozina Islam, 42, an investigative reporter for the country's largest Bengali daily Prothom Alo, was arrested by police on Monday under the Official Secrets Act. She was later charged with stealing health ministry documents. Islam was granted bail after being ordered to surrender her passport and pay a bail bond of 5,000 taka ($60) by the chief metropolitan magistrate of the capital Dhaka, her lawyer said.
Moving vaccines from the UK to parts of the world which are still in crisis may even be a useful way to protect children in this country, Prof Adam Finn, of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, suggested He told BBC Breakfast: This is a global crisis and we do need to think globally and not just domestically. It may well be better for children in this country if vaccines are used to stop outbreaks like the massive outbreak in India which then get imported into this country and provide a threat to them and their schooling. I think we need to wait and see on that. It is not clear at this point whether we will actually need to vaccinate children in order to get that population immunity that we have to get. People keep talking about 'time to vaccinate the whole population', but that is misguided. There's going to be no vaccination of people under 18. It's an adult-only vaccine, for people over 50, focusing on health workers and care home workers and the vulnerable. We're not fundamentally using the vaccine to create population immunity, we're just changing the likelihood people will get harmed or hurt. It will be strategic. Continue reading... |
| Civil war, ruin, raging poverty... but Assad is guaranteed to win Syria’s fake election Posted: 23 May 2021 12:00 AM PDT The sham election this week is designed to give the president a veneer of legitimacy at home and abroad The last time Syria held presidential elections, in 2014, there was no question over whether President Bashar al-Assad would win – but with opposition forces in control of the country's cities, as well as the suburbs of Damascus, his future was still far from certain. Seven years later, after the regime's Russian and Iranian allies intervened and turned the tide of the war, most of Syria is now back under Assad's grip. On Wednesday, his citizens will return to the polling booths for a sham democratic display designed to give the president a veneer of legitimacy both at home and abroad. Continue reading... |
| We don’t recognise our own city: Israeli barrage redraws the map of Gaza Posted: 22 May 2021 10:41 AM PDT A ceasefire is finally in force, but traumatised families have little hope as they recall collapsing buildings and deaths of loved ones As they emerge from hiding, people living in Gaza City have had to adapt their memories. So deformed is this small place on the coast that a mental map of its roads and landmarks from two weeks ago is largely useless today. Shortcuts to avoid traffic may no longer work, as craters dot back streets and rubble blocks roads. Locally famous high-rises no longer exist. Eleven days of bombardment have buckled the city. Air attacks shook the ground so violently that some bomb sites appear as if buildings have been pulled into the earth rather than hit from above. Continue reading... |
| Greek plan for mandatory neutering to tackle strays hits opposition Posted: 23 May 2021 02:05 AM PDT Proposed compulsory sterilisation seeks to improve animal welfare but raises concerns about pure breeds Greece's perennial problem of stray cats and dogs has been brought into sharp focus by outrage from vets and breeders over proposed legislation that seeks to make animal neutering mandatory. The country has one of the largest stray feline and canine populations in the world, with the problem becoming ever more acute during the country's prolonged debt crisis. Animal rights activists estimate that Athens alone may have as many as 2 million street cats and dogs. Management of strays falls to local municipalities. Continue reading... |
| Washington toughens stance to fight atrocities in Ethiopia Posted: 23 May 2021 01:30 AM PDT Joe Biden's administration increases pressure on government of prime minister Abiy Ahmed to end human rights abuses Senior Ethiopian officials may face restrictions on their travel to the US, as Washington increases pressure on the government of prime minister Abiy Ahmed amid growing global concern about atrocities and famine caused by conflict in the northern region of Tigray. Though visa restrictions are likely to target only a small number of individuals, the move signals President Joe Biden's administration is shifting to a more direct strategy to force Ahmed to end continuing human rights abuses in Tigray and allow free flow of much-needed humanitarian aid. Continue reading... |
| Far-right attack inevitable, warns informant who identified London nail bomber Posted: 22 May 2021 11:15 PM PDT Undercover agent who identified 1999 attacker says police are failing to keep pace with online spread of extreme ideology An undercover informant who identified the man behind Britain's deadliest far-right attack has warned that a similar atrocity is inevitable due to the spread of extreme ideology online. The mole, codenamed "Arthur", told his handler, who then informed the police, that David Copeland was behind a series of attacks that killed three and injured more than 100 over a bombing campaign lasting less than two weeks in 1999. Continue reading... |
| Iran says it will end UN watchdog’s access to nuclear sites Posted: 22 May 2021 11:22 PM PDT A deal allowing the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect images of nuclear facilities won't be renewed Iran's parliament speaker has said that a three-month monitoring deal between Tehran and the UN nuclear watchdog has expired, escalating tensions amid diplomatic efforts in Vienna to save Tehran's atomic accord with world powers. Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf's comments, aired by state TV, further underscored the narrowing window for the US and others to reach terms with Iran. Continue reading... |
| Twenty-one dead as extreme weather hits ultramarathon in China Posted: 22 May 2021 10:04 PM PDT Hail, freezing rain and high winds hit runners at high-altitude, 100km race in Yellow River stone forest in Gansu province Twenty-one people have died after hail, freezing rain and high winds hit runners taking part in a 100km (62-mile) ultramarathon in a mountainous part of northern China. More than 700 rescuers and army personnel used thermal-imaging drones and radar detectors to try to find runners caught by the storm in the race in Yellow River stone forest near Baiyin in north-western Gansu province, officials said. Continue reading... |
| BBC interview did not harm Diana, claims Martin Bashir Posted: 22 May 2021 04:35 PM PDT Journalist defends 1995 Panorama special saying he and Diana stayed friends after the broadcast Martin Bashir has said he "never wanted to harm" Diana, Princess of Wales with the Panorama interview, adding: "I don't believe we did." The journalist's reputation is in tatters following Lord Dyson's report that he used "deceitful behaviour" to land his world exclusive 1995 interview. Continue reading... |
| Bob Dylan at 80 – a little Minnesota town celebrates its famous son Posted: 23 May 2021 12:30 AM PDT Hibbing, the birthplace of the musician, is paying tribute with a year of special events Bob Dylan's debut 1962 single began: "I got mixed-up confusion; man, it's a-killin' me". It hasn't yet – he turns 80 on Monday, and the pre-eminent custodian of American roots music, with its storytelling and protest traditions, is set to be celebrated by a public avalanche of events, programmes and tributes. The occasion will be marked in his birthplace of Hibbing, Minnesota – where, inspired by the sounds of country and blues music drifting up from the south on AM radio, he wrote in his high-school yearbook that his ambition was to join Little Richard. St Louis county, in which Hibbing sits, has issued a proclamation declaring a "Year of Dylan Celebration". Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| GPs stricken by long Covid ‘shocked and betrayed’ at being forced from jobs Posted: 22 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT Unions demand fair compensation for dozens of doctors now unable to work because of debilitating symptoms Family doctors are being forced out of their jobs after developing long Covid, prompting demands for the government to compensate NHS staff with the debilitating condition who cannot work. GPs struggling with the condition have told the Observer they felt "shocked and betrayed" when their colleagues removed them from their posts because of prolonged sick leave. Continue reading... |
| CDC studying reports of heart inflammation in young Covid vaccine recipients Posted: 22 May 2021 06:55 PM PDT Health agency says the rates of myocarditis are not higher than expected and no causal link has been found to mRNA jabs Some teenagers and young adults who received Covid-19 vaccines have experienced heart inflammation, a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory group said, recommending further study of the rare condition. In a statement dated 17 May, the CDC's advisory committee on immunisation practices said it had looked into reports that a few young vaccine recipients, predominantly male adolescents and young adults, developed myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle. Continue reading... |
| Mount Everest Covid outbreak has infected 100 people at base camp, says guide Posted: 22 May 2021 09:53 PM PDT Austrian expedition leader Lukas Furtenbach says the real number could be 200, despite official Nepali denials See all our coronavirus coverage A coronavirus outbreak on Mount Everest has infected at least 100 climbers and support staff, a mountaineering guide said, giving the first comprehensive estimate amid official Nepalese denials that the disease has spread to the world's highest peak. Lukas Furtenbach of Austria, who last week halted his Everest expedition due to virus fears, said on Saturday one of his foreign guides and six Nepali Sherpa guides had tested positive. Continue reading... |
| Pandemic holds mirror to who Australians really are – and it’s not who we think Posted: 22 May 2021 07:28 PM PDT Widespread compliance with rules contradicts notion that we are anti-authoritarian, expert on national identity says If Ned Kelly was still around he'd probably be an anti-vaxxer, yet no doubt find himself in the minority. That's the view of Monash University's Professor Graeme Davison, one of Australia's leading experts on the elusive notion of national identity. Continue reading... |
| Do you have a fear of returning to the office? Posted: 23 May 2021 12:00 AM PDT If they want us back, will we go? And how can managers make workplaces more enticing? Emma Beddington wonders if office life will ever be the same again My husband is standing in the kitchen, asking me if his shirt is stained. He looks different: clean-shaven, sharper. I like it. "I think it's just the light," I say. "It's fine." He changes anyway, then comes in again, looking preoccupied. "I don't know whether these trousers work," he says. "What would you usually wear?" I ask. "My Japanese jeans," he replies. "But I've been wearing them every day for about six months." "No, not those," I agree. "Have you found an Oyster card?" He's heading back to the office. It's not even his own, but a client's – his regular co-working space was another casualty of Covid. He went into an office on an almost daily basis for 20-plus years, but now doing so has the intimidating aura of a polar expedition. Will he get blisters wearing proper shoes? Can he locate a respectable notebook? Will he know what to say when he gets there? Continue reading... |
| Down at heel Black Sea resort pins its hopes on Russian staycations Posted: 23 May 2021 12:45 AM PDT The seaside town of Anapa hopes foreign travel ban will bring holidaymakers back It is not yet peak season on Anapa's Black Sea coast so there is still space to spread out on its sandy beach, the pride of a resort town that may be one of the best chances many Russians get to visit the seaside this year. Wander through the streets beyond the waterfront and you'll find a sprawl of knick-knack shops, amusement and water parks, shashlik stands and carnival games that make up what is, this year, Russia's resort of last resort. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 22 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT A year ago, Christopher Martin took an allegedly counterfeit bill. The police were called, and shortly after, Floyd would be dead Christopher Martin lived above a bricked grocery store in south Minneapolis, with a maroon awning and bold red signage that reads Cup Foods. So when a cashier's position came up last year, he took it without thinking. He quickly learned the regulars' orders by heart, their specific tobacco preferences, their favored snacks. The job was more than just a paycheck. "A family, community base," he remembered. "A lot of jokes and laughs." Continue reading... |
| Boycotts and sanctions helped rid South Africa of apartheid – is Israel next in line? Posted: 22 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT The comparison rankles supporters of Israel but the growing Palestinian Boycott, Disinvestment and Sanctions movement draws on the struggle to isolate racist South Africa Ask an older generation of white South Africans when they first felt the bite of anti-apartheid sanctions, and some point to the moment in 1968 when their prime minister, BJ Vorster, banned a tour by the England cricket team because it included a mixed-race player, Basil D'Oliveira. After that, South Africa was excluded from international cricket until Nelson Mandela walked free from prison 22 years later. The D'Oliveira affair, as it became known, proved a watershed in drumming up popular support for the sporting boycott that eventually saw the country excluded from most international competition including rugby, the great passion of the white Afrikaners who were the base of the ruling Nationalist party and who bitterly resented being cast out. Continue reading... |
| When rich people divorce: what does the future hold for Bill and Melinda Gates? Posted: 22 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT The pair's split has been the subject of fevered press scrutiny – and claims of Bill's links to Jeffrey Epstein has fed the frenzy The announcement that Bill and Melinda Gates were to divorce was amicable enough, suggesting a smooth split between the famous couple who turned a billion-dollar software fortune into a driving force for global philanthropy. Related: Bill Gates 'left Microsoft board amid inquiry into relationship with employee' Continue reading... |
| How Britons are cutting stress in half: throw an axe in it Posted: 22 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT Forget bowling nights and bar-hopping – the thud of metal in wood is the new way of letting off steam On a blustery Thursday evening, the sound of deep thuds and high shrieks can be heard along the canal in east London's Hackney Wick. They emanate from axe-throwing venue Skeeters, named after the famous native American axe and knife thrower. It might sound unnerving, but head inside and the fairy lights – plus colleagues enjoying a work social – soon put you at ease. "It's been a stressful year at work so it seemed like a good work social," says Gemma Sutton, a 27-year-old product designer who tonight tried axe throwing for the first time. "It was fun. Most things you do as work socials involve going to a bar – it was nice to do something a bit different." Continue reading... |
| More money needed to tackle inequality, says Merseyside police chief Posted: 23 May 2021 01:51 AM PDT Serena Kennedy sets out plan to look at 'the root causes of crime' rather than 'just locking up the bad people' More money needs to be ploughed into tackling inequality as a way to cut crime, Merseyside police's first female chief constable has said, arguing that "policing is a larger partner [in society] than just locking up the bad people". Serena Kennedy, who took over the role last month, said she agreed with her predecessor, who said that if he was given £5bn to reduce crime, he would put £1bn into law enforcement and £4bn into tackling poverty. Continue reading... |
| From the river to the sea, Jews and Arabs must forge a shared future | Kenan Malik Posted: 23 May 2021 01:30 AM PDT Each side in this bitter conflict needs to recognise the other's fears and aspirations 'From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," runs a Palestinian slogan. Originally a call for a secular state in historic Palestine between the river Jordan and the Mediterranean, it soon became a sectarian slogan, deeply inflected by antisemitism. In the hands of Hamas, it is a call for the driving out of all Jews from the region; at best, a demand for ethnic cleansing, at worst for genocide. The founding charter of Likud, Israel's leading centre-right party, and the party of the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, echoes the same words but from the opposite perspective: "Between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty". It has continually blocked any workable two-state solution. Continue reading... |
| Police records show threats to kill lawmakers in wake of Capitol attack Posted: 23 May 2021 02:00 AM PDT Leaked files show how police stepped up surveillance efforts after January insurrections for signs of violence from far-right groups Washington's Metropolitan police department recorded threats to lawmakers and public facilities in the wake of the 6 January attack on the Capitol, according to documents made public in a ransomware hack on their systems this month. Related: Trump Hotel raised prices to deter QAnon conspiracists, police files show Continue reading... |
| ‘A ticking time bomb’: Timor-Leste begins to reckon with alleged Catholic church sex abuse Posted: 22 May 2021 02:00 PM PDT The trial of defrocked priest Richard Daschbach, charged with sexual abuse of 14 girls, is dividing the small, deeply Catholic country Lita grew up in a poor family in a hamlet surrounded by the spectacular mountains of Oecusse in Timor-Leste. When she was 11 years old she went to live in Topu Honis shelter home, in the mountainous, forest-encircled village of Kutet. The shelter was run by Richard Daschbach, a now-defrocked 84-year-old US priest who founded the facility in 1992. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 22 May 2021 09:40 PM PDT More Labor voters prefer the premier than Jodi McKay, while One Nation's spirited campaign in the NSW seat doomed Shooters, Fishers and Farmers to electoral failure New South Wales Nationals leader John Barilaro has proclaimed "the Nationals are back" and all but declared victory for Dave Layzell in the coalmining and rural seat of Upper Hunter – but he should probably be thanking One Nation. For Labor too there will be some soul-searching and pressure on opposition leader, Jodi McKay, to consider her future. Speaking on Sunday afternoon, McKay said she was "devastated" that people did not vote for Labor and that the party was shocked that it had "failed to connect" with the voters of the Upper Hunter. Continue reading... |
| Rise of Isis means Boko Haram’s decline is no cause for celebration Posted: 21 May 2021 09:00 PM PDT Analysis: reported death of Boko Haram's leader will increase the influence of Islamic State affiliates For more than a decade, Nigerian security services and their international supporters have struggled to end Boko Haram's brutal reign of terror over north-eastern Nigeria. But few observers of the conflict are celebrating – even though it appears increasingly likely that Abubakar Shekau, the Islamist extremist movement's notoriously violent leader, is dead, its strongholds overrun and remaining fighters scattered. Continue reading... |
| Thousands march in London pro-Palestine demonstration – video Posted: 22 May 2021 10:44 AM PDT Thousands of people have gathered in central London in solidarity with the people of Palestine. Organisers estimated that more than 180,000 joined the protest on Saturday, and that it could be one of the largest pro-Palestine demonstrations in British history. The protest went ahead despite the announcement of a ceasefire on Friday morning after a 11-day Israeli bombing campaign, with organisers saying they wanted to demand that the UK government implement sanctions on Israel Continue reading... |
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