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- Belarus KGB believed to be on plane forced to land in Minsk, says Ryanair CEO
- Fewer, bigger, more intensive: EU vows to stem drastic loss of small farms
- South-east Asian countries battle Covid resurgence amid lack of vaccines
- BLM activist Sasha Johnson in critical condition after gunshot to the head
- Dowden: BBC needs far-reaching change after Diana scandal
- Princess Latifa: new Instagram image appears to show Dubai ruler’s daughter
- At least 15 die in lava flows after volcano erupts in Democratic Republic of Congo
- Influential investor joins shareholder rebellion over Shell’s climate plan
- Accusations of treason as Samoan MPs hold swearing-in ceremony outside parliament and declare new PM
- Myanmar rebels claim police killings as Aung San Suu Kyi appears in court
- Moscow’s oldest cinema reopens after seven-year renovation
- WHO and global faith leaders call for fair access to Covid vaccines
- Britons should not be holidaying in Spain yet, says UK minister
- Tokyo Olympics: anger in Japan at IOC call to make ‘sacrifices’
- Faster than a PCR test: dogs detect Covid in under a second
- ‘I’m way older, but I’m still doing it’: Tony Hawk on his skateboarding legacy
- My favourite Dylan song – by Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull, Tom Jones, Judy Collins and more
- Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency review – how energy use shapes our world
- The 20 best easy cake recipes
- My kids can shoot up a climbing wall – but real rocks were a big challenge
- ‘It was like a horror film’: Sophie Walker on her stalking nightmare – and how the police failed her
- Mary Queen of Scots’ rosary beads stolen in £1m raid on Arundel castle
- Abandoned by governments, Palestinians rely on the kindness of strangers | Nesrine Malik
- At home with the Batwa people of Uganda – a photo essay
- Luckless Lake Charles: Louisiana city battered by extreme weather – again
- Thousands rally at ‘obscene’ motorcade for Jair Bolsonaro
- In Japan most people want to cancel the Olympics, but the government won’t listen | Koichi Nakano
- Kneejerk change of leadership may not be the answer for shellshocked NSW Labor
- Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro leads motorcade rally in Rio amid coronavirus surge – video
- Italian investigators assess wrecked cable car that crashed to ground – video
- DR Congo volcano: thousands flee as Mount Nyiragongo lava flows destroy homes – video
| Belarus KGB believed to be on plane forced to land in Minsk, says Ryanair CEO Posted: 24 May 2021 02:05 AM PDT Michael O'Leary made comments as EU, US and UK consider action against act of 'air piracy' Ryanair's CEO has said he believes that agents of the Belarusian KGB were travelling on the plane that was diverted to Minsk on Sunday, as EU leaders prepared to meet to discuss what action to take against Belarus. Belarusian police arrested opposition blogger Roman Protasevich and his girlfriend, Sofia Sapega, after forcing their Ryanair flight to land in the Belarusian capital, sparking outrage from European leaders, who have called the plane's grounding a hijacking and act of "air piracy". Continue reading... |
| Fewer, bigger, more intensive: EU vows to stem drastic loss of small farms Posted: 23 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT Guardian analysis shows intensification in farming across the EU with a rise in livestock numbers while millions of farms disappear The EU is to introduce sweeping reforms of farming subsidies this week to try to halt the decline of small farms and protect them from the intensification of agriculture fostered by decades of previous policies. Janusz Wojciechowski, the EU agriculture commissioner, said: "My intention is that this process of disappearing small farms should be stopped. The European food sector in the past was based on small farms, and it should be in the future as well." Continue reading... |
| South-east Asian countries battle Covid resurgence amid lack of vaccines Posted: 23 May 2021 09:00 PM PDT Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and Singapore race to contain clusters as experts warn jabs must be distributed more evenly South-east Asian countries, including nations that managed to control the coronavirus last year, are struggling to contain recent outbreaks as new variants and vaccine shortages leave populations exposed. Thailand's cumulative caseload has more than quadrupled since 1 April, rising to almost 130,000, after infections spread in its cramped prisons, densely populated areas of the capital and construction sites. Continue reading... |
| BLM activist Sasha Johnson in critical condition after gunshot to the head Posted: 23 May 2021 02:00 PM PDT Shooting in Southwark, London came after numerous death threats, says her Taking the Initiative party The Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson is in a critical condition after sustaining a gunshot wound to her head in an incident in south London, her affiliated group, Taking the Initiative party, has announced on social media. In a statement on the group's Facebook page, the party said the incident happened in the early hours of Sunday and followed "numerous death threats". Continue reading... |
| Dowden: BBC needs far-reaching change after Diana scandal Posted: 24 May 2021 01:24 AM PDT Culture secretary accuses broadcaster of adopting 'we know best' attitude over Martin Bashir's interview The UK culture secretary, Oliver Dowden, has said the BBC needs far-reaching change, accusing the broadcaster of adopting a "we know best" attitude in the scandal surrounding its Panorama interview with Diana, Princess of Wales. Dyson, a former master of the rolls, found Bashir's actions were then covered up by a "woefully ineffective" internal investigation. Continue reading... |
| Princess Latifa: new Instagram image appears to show Dubai ruler’s daughter Posted: 23 May 2021 05:46 PM PDT Two images purportedly of Sheikha Latifa – who is believed to be held against her will – have appeared following UN demand for 'proof of life' A new image appearing to show Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, a daughter of the ruler of Dubai, has appeared on Instagram, three months after the BBC aired a video message in which she said she was being held captive in a barricaded villa. The image, if verified, would mark one of the few times Latifa has been photographed in public since shortly before she mounted a failed attempt three years ago to escape her father's control by boarding a yacht to sail across the Indian Ocean. Continue reading... |
| At least 15 die in lava flows after volcano erupts in Democratic Republic of Congo Posted: 23 May 2021 01:05 PM PDT More than 500 homes have been destroyed by the lava that has poured into villages, officials and survivors say At least 15 people died when torrents of lava poured into villages after dark in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, destroying more than 500 homes, officials and survivors said on Sunday. The eruption of Mount Nyiragongo on Saturday night sent about 5,000 people fleeing from the city of Goma across the nearby border into Rwanda, while another 25,000 others sought refuge to the north-west in Sake, the UN children's agency said on Sunday. Continue reading... |
| Influential investor joins shareholder rebellion over Shell’s climate plan Posted: 23 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT Legal & General Investment Management, Britain's biggest fund manager, piles pressure on oil firm Britain's biggest fund manager has piled pressure on Shell after joining a shareholder rebellion over the oil company's carbon-cutting plans, saying that they lack credibility and the ambition required to combat global heating. It has emerged that Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM), one of the oldest fund managers in the City of London, was among investors behind a significant shareholder vote against Shell's climate transition targets at the company's annual meeting on Tuesday. Continue reading... |
| Accusations of treason as Samoan MPs hold swearing-in ceremony outside parliament and declare new PM Posted: 23 May 2021 07:25 PM PDT Ad hoc ceremony occurred after government refused to convene parliament to allow a transition of power after tense election In dramatic scenes in the Pacific country of Samoa, MPs have convened an ad hoc swearing-in ceremony outside parliament and declared their party's leader the new prime minister. The move came after the caretaker government refused to convene parliament on Monday to allow a transition of power, locking the prime minister-elect and her supporters out of the parliament building. Continue reading... |
| Myanmar rebels claim police killings as Aung San Suu Kyi appears in court Posted: 24 May 2021 02:32 AM PDT People's Defence Force says at least 20 officers died and police station seized in fighting on Sunday Dozens of Myanmar security force members have been killed in fighting, rebel fighters have claimed, as Aung San Suu Kyi appeared in person at a court hearing for the first time since her government was overthrown by the military in February's coup. In one battle on Sunday, the People's Defence Force (PDF) – a civilian anti-junta movement that fights back against security forces with homemade weapons – said at least 20 police had died and a police station had been seized in the town of Moebyel in Shan state in the country's eastern fringe. Continue reading... |
| Moscow’s oldest cinema reopens after seven-year renovation Posted: 23 May 2021 09:00 PM PDT Imperial-era venue hosted some of the first screenings of Battleship Potemkin in 1926 While many cinemas around the world are shut and face difficulties in the coronavirus pandemic, one is bucking the trend: Moscow's Khudozhestvenny, a storied venue that hosted some of the first showings of Battleship Potemkin in 1926 and had Leo Tolstoy among in its audience. After a seven-year renovation, the imperial-era cinema, which first opened in 1909, is a testament to the refined tastes of urban Russian cinema buffs, though its grand opening last month came at an inauspicious moment for the film industry. Continue reading... |
| WHO and global faith leaders call for fair access to Covid vaccines Posted: 23 May 2021 04:01 PM PDT Declaration warns that the world is at a turning point in saving poorer countries from devastation Global faith leaders and senior health and humanitarian figures are calling on countries to ensure the equitable distribution of Covid vaccines, warning that the world is "at a turning point". The signatories of an international declaration include Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization; Henrietta Fore, executive director of Unicef, the UN's children's agency; Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross; Filippo Grandi, United Nations high commissioner for refugees; Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury and leader of the global Anglican church; Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the grand imam of al-Azhar; and Christian and Jewish leaders. Continue reading... |
| Britons should not be holidaying in Spain yet, says UK minister Posted: 24 May 2021 02:33 AM PDT Anne-Marie Trevelyan urges people not to travel to country on coronavirus amber list 'unless you have to' Britons have been urged not to travel to Spain after the country opened its doors to tourists from the UK. Spain has lifted its restrictions on holidaymakers from the UK but the business minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan has urged people not to go there unless there is an urgent reason. Continue reading... |
| Tokyo Olympics: anger in Japan at IOC call to make ‘sacrifices’ Posted: 23 May 2021 11:07 PM PDT Senior Games figures John Coates and Thomas Bach criticised for attitude amid calls for event to be cancelled The International Olympic Committee's insistence that "sacrifices" must be made to ensure the Games go ahead in Tokyo regardless of the coronavirus situation in Japan has sparked a backlash and more calls for them to be cancelled. John Coates, an IOC vice president, drew criticism in Japan after saying the Games would proceed even if the host city was still under a state of emergency due to the coronavirus. "The answer is absolutely yes," Coates, who is overseeing preparations, said when asked on Friday if he thought they could be delivered despite the restrictions. Continue reading... |
| Faster than a PCR test: dogs detect Covid in under a second Posted: 23 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT Study in London used six enthusiastic dogs in a double-blind trial Faster than PCR and more accurate than lateral flow tests, the latest weapons against Covid-19 have four legs and a wet nose. A study published on Monday found that people who are infected with coronavirus give off a distinct odour, which these highly trained dogs can detect with pinpoint precision. Continue reading... |
| ‘I’m way older, but I’m still doing it’: Tony Hawk on his skateboarding legacy Posted: 24 May 2021 01:00 AM PDT He's the record-breaking skateboarder who took the sport mainstream. Here he reflects on how the sport has changed, and how he feels knowing he may never do a 720 again In January, after a few attempts the previous days, Tony Hawk landed a 720 – a skateboarding trick involving two full rotations mid-air. Hawk is widely understood to have invented the 720, a move he has performed many times during his career. But this time, as he wrote on Twitter, it "was a battle … I can't imagine doing any more". I'm speaking to Hawk from his car. He is on his way home to Encinitas, California, having just wrapped a skateboarding trip in Mammoth Mountain. It's not that he's physically incapable of performing the trick again, he says, but that "the risk" – think a broken pelvis and teeth knocked out – "versus the reward will not be worth it in years to come". Continue reading... |
| My favourite Dylan song – by Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull, Tom Jones, Judy Collins and more Posted: 23 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT Bob Dylan is 80 today. But what's his greatest song? Stars pick their favourite – and recall their own encounters, from Marianne Faithfull turning him down to Judy Collins whacking a policeman to get backstage Desolation Row (1965) Continue reading... |
| Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency review – how energy use shapes our world Posted: 24 May 2021 01:00 AM PDT Barnabas Calder's engaging study of construction and its environmental impact is at its best when it doesn't dwell on ancient masterpieces Consider the Georgian terrace, now a widely admired model of traditional city-building. Its most important material was not those of which it was ostensibly made, but coal: coal fired the kilns that made the bricks and the lime for the mortar; it helped make the glass for the large windows; it smelted and melted the iron for the railings and nails. It was burned in the fireplaces whose serried chimneys rose above the roofline, and was stored in the coal holes beneath the pavement, which were studded with the circular metal plates through which the fuel was poured. Without coal, these houses would have required impossible acreages of forest to supply the timber to generate the heat to manufacture these products. From the mid-18th to the mid-19th century, reports Barnabas Calder, pig iron production in Britain rose by a factor of about 65, which without coal would have required an area of woodland almost the size of England. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 24 May 2021 12:00 AM PDT From Nigella's birthday custard sponge to Meera Sodha's miso take on a classic brownie, simplicity is the star of these recipes I have a secret confession to make. I have (whisper it) yet to bake a cake. But now I have no excuse. Presenting 20 sublime, simple recipes to make you and me into a Prue or Paul. We have the buttercream of the cake-baking world: Jeremy Lee, Yotam Ottolenghi, Benjamina Ebuehi. There's Meera Sodha's salted miso brownies, Nigella Lawson's birthday custard sponge, Anna Jones's cardamom and carrot cake. There are cupcakes, sheet bakes, strawberry and cream cakes. And they are all, honestly, easy. I might have to buy an apron. It's nearly time for tea. Ready. Steady. Bake! Continue reading... |
| My kids can shoot up a climbing wall – but real rocks were a big challenge Posted: 23 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT Climbing is more popular than ever. Ahead of half-term our writer takes her sons on their first outdoor course in East Sussex "I have no idea where to put my foot," says my 10-year-old son, his voice a mix of fret and frustration. He is stuck halfway up a six-metre rock face, looking down at us for assistance. I'm standing at the bottom holding his rope with our guide, Chris McCellan from Hatt Adventures, and my eight-year-old, who is groaning loudly about the wait and pulsing with impatience for his turn. "I can't tell you what to do," says Chris kindly to the older one. "It's like a puzzle, you have to try a few things out." Continue reading... |
| ‘It was like a horror film’: Sophie Walker on her stalking nightmare – and how the police failed her Posted: 23 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT In April 2020, Walker's home was subjected to repeated attacks that left her in fear for her life. And yet the police brought only two charges of criminal damage. She talks about her ordeal – and why the law must change It was a warm, sunny Saturday in May 2020 but Sophie Walker was locked inside her house in north London, in the dark, with her 10-year-old daughter. She had drawn all the curtains and was sitting well away from the windows, doing jigsaws, listening to the country singer Kacey Musgraves and counting down the hours until her husband came home from work. Walker, who was the founding leader of the Women's Equality party (WEP), had good reason to be fearful. The next morning her neighbour, whom she had asked to keep an eye on the house, would call to tell her his CCTV had captured a man hanging around outside her house at 4am. Later that day, she discovered the embers of a fire smouldering in her back garden. "Near the fire was a vodka bottle with petrol in it and a big pile of wood. The word 'cunt' was scrawled on the path in graffiti." Continue reading... |
| Mary Queen of Scots’ rosary beads stolen in £1m raid on Arundel castle Posted: 23 May 2021 10:37 PM PDT Other 'irreplaceable' treasures taken in the burglary include coronation cups given by Mary to the Earl Marshal A set of "irreplaceable" gold rosary beads carried by Mary Queen of Scots to her execution in 1587 are among historic treasures worth more than £1m stolen in a raid at Arundel castle. Other items taken in the burglary at the castle in West Sussex – home to the Dukes of Norfolk and their ancestors for 850 years – include coronation cups given by Mary to the Earl Marshal, as well as gold and silver items. Continue reading... |
| Abandoned by governments, Palestinians rely on the kindness of strangers | Nesrine Malik Posted: 23 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT The fight for justice has been left to individuals to champion – but we're growing in number There was a time when support for the Palestinian cause was fed to Arabs with their mothers' milk. I am of a generation that grew up in the shadow of the Camp David agreement and the assassination of the president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, for what was seen as a betrayal of the Palestinians. Until Camp David in 1978, Egypt had been Palestine's main ally and the strongest military power in the region after Israel. The peace treaty returned Sinai to Egypt in exchange for recognition of Israel. With that normalisation, Egypt closed the door to any sort of Arab military assistance to the Palestinians for ever. We inherited that era's bitter disappointment. Palestine had been such an integral part of Arab identity for so long that it came to be known as "the case" or "the file" – an urgent unresolved issue at the heart of our world. After the Camp David agreement, "the case" went from being a rousing call for solidarity to something more melancholy and scattered. Continue reading... |
| At home with the Batwa people of Uganda – a photo essay Posted: 23 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT The third photo essay in our series of work in collaboration with the Magnum Foundation focuses on the Batwa people in Uganda. The photojournalist Esther Mbabazi travelled to Bwindi national park and spent time photographing several families of the nomadic hunter-gatherers
In late March this year, Esther Mbabazi left behind Kampala, the chaotic capital of Uganda, and headed for the hills, forests, swamps and grasslands of Bwindi Impenetrable national park an eight-hour drive to the west. She went to find the communities of the Batwa people, who live on the park's green, rainy edges. Mbabazi, 26, had always been curious about the Batwa and wanted to find out how one of the most marginalised communities in east Africa had coped with the Covid-19 pandemic. In recent months she had been working on gruelling stories about human rights abuses following the disputed election in Uganda in January, and this new project, sponsored by the Magnum Foundation, was a welcome change. Continue reading... |
| Luckless Lake Charles: Louisiana city battered by extreme weather – again Posted: 24 May 2021 02:00 AM PDT Two big hurricanes, a paralyzing deep freeze, and now flooding rainfall – is Lake Charles' year an omen of a deepening crisis? As biblical rains pounded Lake Charles in Louisiana last week, beleaguered residents could be forgiven for thinking they have lived in the most unfortunate city in the United States over the past 14 months. Related: Can recycled glass help restore Louisiana's eroding coastline? Continue reading... |
| Thousands rally at ‘obscene’ motorcade for Jair Bolsonaro Posted: 23 May 2021 10:13 AM PDT After 450,000 Covid deaths, president parades through Rio in effort to reenergnise far right The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, has led a raucous column of motorcycle enthusiasts through the streets of Rio in an attempt to reenergise his flagging far-right movement as public anger grows over his handling of the country's Covid outbreak. Thousands of flag-waving Bolsonaristas gathered outside the Olympic Park in west Rio on Sunday morning for the two-wheeled show of support before roaring east towards the southern beach districts and city centre, with Bolsonaro near the front. Continue reading... |
| In Japan most people want to cancel the Olympics, but the government won’t listen | Koichi Nakano Posted: 24 May 2021 02:00 AM PDT Prime minister Yoshihide Suga risks playing host to a coronavirus spike if he doesn't check his Games hubris The Olympic torch is currently making its way across Japan in a live-streamed relay – at the time of writing, it had passed through 28 of all 47 prefectures in the country. The Games are scheduled to take place in two months. But whereas you might expect the national mood to be crackling with excitement, things are different, with more and more Japanese people reaching an uncomfortable conclusion: the Games need to be scrapped altogether. A recent poll shows more than 80% of the public want the Tokyo Olympics to be either cancelled or postponed again, an option the International Olympic Committee has ruled out. As the public see it, the Games are distracting the government from dealing with the Covid crisis head-on. They are also expected to drain medical and financial resources when they are needed most. About 80% of all Covid deaths in Japan have occurred since December. Many fear that the worst is yet to come. Continue reading... |
| Kneejerk change of leadership may not be the answer for shellshocked NSW Labor Posted: 24 May 2021 01:43 AM PDT Party sources say reports Jodi McKay will be asked to stand down come from opponents 'trying to engineer a leadership change' A shellshocked New South Wales Labor party is struggling to absorb the implications of the Upper Hunter byelection amid new rumblings over Jodi McKay's leadership and speculation she will soon face a challenge. However, a transition in the leadership is no longer simple in NSW Labor, once known for its particular brand of hard-arse politics. Continue reading... |
| Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro leads motorcade rally in Rio amid coronavirus surge – video Posted: 23 May 2021 09:05 PM PDT Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro has led a motorcade rally through Rio de Janeiro streets where thousands showed their support for the Brazilian leader, while COVID-19 infections surge and the death toll mounts across the South American country. Brazil has now registered 16 million cases since the pandemic began, and the official death toll stands at 448,208, according to ministry data Continue reading... |
| Italian investigators assess wrecked cable car that crashed to ground – video Posted: 23 May 2021 05:59 PM PDT Fourteen people, including a child, have died when a cable car linking Italy's Lake Maggiore with a nearby mountain in the Alps plunged to the ground. The cable car fell from the Stresa-Alpine-Mottarone line near Lake Maggiore in Stresa, smashing into the wooded area which does not have road access as it approached the station nearly a mile above the lake Continue reading... |
| DR Congo volcano: thousands flee as Mount Nyiragongo lava flows destroy homes – video Posted: 23 May 2021 09:07 AM PDT Thousands of residents abandoned their homes as the city of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was thrown into panic when a nearby volcano erupted. Lava from Mount Nyiragongo destroyed homes on the edge of Goma, which has a population of about 1 million people, but appeared to be slowing by midday on Sunday, giving hope that further damage could be avoided Continue reading... |
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