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- Kumbh Mela: how a superspreader festival seeded Covid across India
- Phone intercepts shine more light on Jordanian prince’s alleged coup attempt
- Tens of thousands of Brazilians march to demand Bolsonaro’s impeachment
- Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds reportedly marry in secret ceremony
- GPs warn over plans to share patient data with third parties in England
- Chelsea win Champions League after Kai Havertz stuns Manchester City
- Boris Johnson plans to sink £200m into new ship of state
- Chinese cargo craft docks with future space station in orbit
- Gavin MacLeod, The Love Boat’s Captain Stubing, dies aged 90
- Nasa releases new image that shows Milky Way’s energized ‘downtown’
- Keir Starmer: Boris Johnson’s chaos could hit June plan to lift lockdown
- Covid live news: UK considering compulsory vaccination for NHS staff; Malaysia to increase immunisation efforts
- Anti-vaccine passport protesters storm Westfield mall in London
- Why is the new Covid variant spreading? | David Spiegelhalter and Anthony Masters
- ‘They didn’t talk about it’: how a historian helped Tulsa confront the horror of its past
- I can’t find a partner. How can I learn to love my single life?
- ‘My parents still have no clue what I’m doing’: Lupin star Omar Sy on Hollywood, fame and fighting racism
- ‘I wasn’t what you’d call sensible’: a walk on the wild side with Call My Agent’s Liliane Rovère
- Lionel Shriver: ‘A chosen death is an authorial act – I’ve never cared for stories that end on ellipses’
- More boats on canals and rivers than in 18th century as thousands opt for life afloat
- Trevor Phillips: ‘Battles over history make everything about white people and their guilt’
- From Minsk to Hong Kong, people power just isn’t working any more | Will Hutton
- Vaccine inequality exposed by dire situation in world’s poorest nations
- American uprising: three US cities cracked down on protesters – their histories tell us why
- 'No to dictatorship': thousands of Brazilians rally against Bolsonaro – video
- China forces pace of vaccinations with persuasion … and some cash
- Victoria takes aim at ‘disgraceful’ lack of federal financial support during lockdown
- Anti-vaccine protesters temporarily close Westfield shopping centre in London – video
| Kumbh Mela: how a superspreader festival seeded Covid across India Posted: 29 May 2021 05:00 PM PDT From across India, millions of Hindu pilgrims came to take a ritual dip in the Ganges, then returned home carrying Covid-19. Here are their stories On 12 April, as India registered another 169,000 new Covid-19 cases to overtake Brazil as the second-worst hit country, three million people gathered on the shores of the Ganges. They were there, in the ancient city of Haridwar in the state of Uttarakhand, to take a ritual dip in the holy river. The bodies, squashed together in a pack of devotion and religious fervour, paid no visible heed to Covid protocols. Continue reading... |
| Phone intercepts shine more light on Jordanian prince’s alleged coup attempt Posted: 29 May 2021 09:00 PM PDT Discussions took place before Prince Hamzah was put under house arrest Aides to the former Jordanian heir Prince Hamzah sought pledges of allegiance on his behalf from tribal leaders and former military officers in the weeks before he was detained, conversations caught on phone intercepts and listening devices suggest. The recordings are key pieces of evidence in the Jordanian government's case against two men accused of acting as proxies for Hamzah in a failed attempt to oust his half-brother, King Abdullah, as monarch. Both men – Bassem Awadallah, a former envoy to Saudi Arabia, and Sharif Hassan bin Zaid, a cousin of the king – are expected to stand trial in Amman starting on Monday. Continue reading... |
| Tens of thousands of Brazilians march to demand Bolsonaro’s impeachment Posted: 29 May 2021 10:59 AM PDT Protests in over 200 cities and towns in Brazil sparked by president's handling of the Covid pandemic Tens of thousands of protesters have poured on to the streets of Brazil's largest cities to demand the impeachment of President Jair Bolsonaro over his catastrophic response to a coronavirus pandemic that has claimed nearly half a million Brazilian lives. The demonstrators turned out in more than 200 cities and towns for what is the biggest anti-Bolsonaro mobilisation since Brazil's Covid outbreak began Continue reading... |
| Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds reportedly marry in secret ceremony Posted: 29 May 2021 01:39 PM PDT Pair exchanged vows at Westminster Cathedral on Saturday, according to newspapers Boris Johnson has married Carrie Symonds at Westminster Cathedral in a ceremony planned in strict secrecy, according to newspapers. The pair exchanged vows in front of a small group of close friends and family on Saturday, the Mail on Sunday and the Sun newspaper reported. Continue reading... |
| GPs warn over plans to share patient data with third parties in England Posted: 30 May 2021 01:36 AM PDT Doctors say NHS Digital's proposals could erode the relationship between them and their patients Doctors have warned that plans to pool medical records on to a database and share them with third parties could erode the relationship between them and patients. It came as the Royal College of GPs wrote to NHS Digital urging it to better communicate with the public about the plans and their options for opting out. Continue reading... |
| Chelsea win Champions League after Kai Havertz stuns Manchester City Posted: 29 May 2021 01:57 PM PDT When Thomas Tuchel was given the job of reviving Chelsea at the end of January, he wanted to return them to next season's Champions League via a top-four Premier League finish. The notion that he might actually win the thing for only the second time in the club's history was ludicrous. Not any more. On a night of glory for him and his team, the manager applied the final brush strokes to his renaissance masterpiece, out-manoeuvring his friend and rival, Pep Guardiola, and watching Kai Havertz score the decisive goal just before half-time. Continue reading... |
| Boris Johnson plans to sink £200m into new ship of state Posted: 29 May 2021 06:32 PM PDT PM says national flagship, a successor to the Royal Yacht Britannia, would promote British trade and industry around the world A new national flagship, the successor to the Royal Yacht Britannia, will promote British trade and industry around the world, Boris Johnson has said. The vessel would be used to host trade fairs, ministerial summits and diplomatic talks as the UK seeks to build links and boost exports following Brexit. It would be the first national flagship since Britannia, which was decommissioned in 1997, but the new vessel would be a ship rather than a luxury yacht. Continue reading... |
| Chinese cargo craft docks with future space station in orbit Posted: 29 May 2021 08:05 PM PDT Mission comes after China was rebuked for uncontrolled crash of rocket that launched the station itself A Chinese cargo spacecraft carrying equipment and supplies has successfully docked with the core module of the country's future space station, according to state media. A Long March 7 rocket carrying the Tianzhou-2 cargo craft – loaded with essentials such as food, equipment and fuel – blasted off late on Saturday from the Wenchang launch site on the tropical southern island of Hainan, the Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday. Continue reading... |
| Gavin MacLeod, The Love Boat’s Captain Stubing, dies aged 90 Posted: 29 May 2021 05:30 PM PDT MacLeod, also known for the Mary Tyler Moore Show, died at his home in California Gavin MacLeod, the actor who achieved fame as sardonic TV news writer Murray Slaughter on the Mary Tyler Moore Show and cheerful Captain Stubing on The Love Boat, has died aged 90. MacLeod died early Saturday at his home in Palm Desert, California, said Stephanie Steele Zalin, his stepdaughter. She attributed his death to his age, saying he had been well until very recently. Continue reading... |
| Nasa releases new image that shows Milky Way’s energized ‘downtown’ Posted: 29 May 2021 09:31 AM PDT The picture is a composite of 370 observations made over the past two decades and depicts billions of stars and black holes Nasa has released a stunning new picture of our galaxy's violent, super-energized "downtown". Related: Manhattenhenge: miserable Memorial Day weather mars biannual fiery display Continue reading... |
| Keir Starmer: Boris Johnson’s chaos could hit June plan to lift lockdown Posted: 29 May 2021 12:00 PM PDT Labour leader slams Tory 'civil war' and says prime minister is 'unfit for office after errors' Labour leader Keir Starmer today warns that plans to lift almost all Covid-19 restrictions on 21 June are at risk because of serial incompetence and "civil war" inside Boris Johnson's government. In his strongest attack for months on the prime minister's handling of the pandemic, Starmer says that the huge death toll in the second wave of cases from last autumn, in which more than 80,000 lives were lost, was "avoidable and unforgivable" and the result of a failure to learn lessons from the early stages of the crisis. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 30 May 2021 02:33 AM PDT Latest updates: UK government considering mandatory jabs for health workers; Malaysia to set up more mega vaccination centres
The UK government is waiting for the latest data on June 14 before deciding whether to proceed with easing the lockdown on June 21, vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi said. Asked whether that step could be taken if cases were still increasing, he told BBC1's Andrew Marr Show: What I'm saying to you is we have to be cautious. We have to look at the data and share it with the country. Are we still vaccinating at scale? Big tick. Are the vaccines working? Yes. But are infection rates too high for us to then not be able to proceed because there are too many people getting into hospital? I don't know the answer to it.
On the possible compulsory vaccination of NHS staff in the UK, Labour's shadow cabinet minister Thangam Debbonaire, said "threatening" NHS staff to have the vaccine was not a good idea. The shadow commons leader told Sky News: Given we have got a recruitment crisis in parts of the NHS I think it's far more important we try and work with staff rather than against them. Threatening staff, I don't think is a good idea." I would like to see the Government work with the NHS and social care staff. Continue reading... |
| Anti-vaccine passport protesters storm Westfield mall in London Posted: 29 May 2021 03:00 PM PDT Shopping centre in Shepherd's Bush had to shut after hundreds of marchers arrived chanting 'no more lockdowns' Hundreds of anti-vaccine passport protesters invaded the Westfield shopping centre in Shepherd's Bush on Saturday evening at the culmination of a mass march that drew many thousands and snaked miles through central and west London. There were tussles with police who tried to block access through one entrance to the shopping centre at about 6pm, before protesters quickly realised that another door just yards away was unguarded. Continue reading... |
| Why is the new Covid variant spreading? | David Spiegelhalter and Anthony Masters Posted: 30 May 2021 12:00 AM PDT The virus is now in a race with the vaccines and the victor is increasingly uncertain The UK's fine performance in sequencing Sars-CoV-2 genomes allows Public Health England to publish detailed analyses on the progress of variants and the latest report represents the changing of the guard. The B.1.1.7 lineage, first identified in Kent, had been dominant in the UK, but the B.1.617.2 lineage, first identified in India, comprised 58% of the most recent sequences, up from 44% the week before. There are strong regional differences, with under 10% of cases in Yorkshire and the Humber being the Indian-identified variant, while in north-west England that share is over 60%. The main concern is about increased risk of transmission and reports also include estimates of what is known as the "secondary attack rate" (SAR), which simply means the proportion of an infected person's contacts who also get infected. Using NHS test-and-trace data for recent non-travel cases, the estimated SAR for the B.1.1.7 variant was 8.1% (+/- 0.2%), while for the variant identified in India it was substantially higher at 13.5% (+/- 1.0%) – although these are likely to understate the true values due to the limitations of contact tracing. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| ‘They didn’t talk about it’: how a historian helped Tulsa confront the horror of its past Posted: 29 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT In 1921, a white mob attacked Tulsa's Black Wall Street, killing an estimated 300 people, but it wasn't talked about until recently There was no memorial to it in town. Teachers made no mention of it, not even during a half-semester devoted to local history. The white schoolboy Scott Ellsworth of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was left to wonder what the city's darkest secret could be. Related: The Ground Breaking review: indispensable history of the Tulsa Race Massacre Continue reading... |
| I can’t find a partner. How can I learn to love my single life? Posted: 29 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT We don't have to live like swans, mating for life with one partner, says Mariella Frostrup. And be of good heart, someone nice may come along The dilemma I am a 48-year-old single woman with a full and independent life. I'm close to my family and have a 15-year-old daughter. I have a good group of friends and several hobbies. I've had struggles with mental health in the past, but am doing better now than ever. I'd also love to be in a relationship, but it's something I'm just not able to find success in. I've had relationships, but I've spent the majority of my time single. I've been online dating for many years, but it seems to bring out the absolute worst in men. It's such a cliché, but it seems that everyone is married and there are no parties or natural social occasions (including before Covid) that allow for meeting someone in a natural way. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 30 May 2021 12:00 AM PDT After a decade in Hollywood, French actor Omar Sy returned home to star in Netflix's much-loved hit, Lupin. He talks about playing the charming thief, growing up with Arsenal's Nicolas Anelka and his battle with racism Actors, obliged to exhaustively market their wares, will pose for hours in front of posters of their latest film or TV show. They'll hop between city premieres, sit on dreary festival panels, tell rehearsed comic stories on night-time talkshows, then get up early to be on breakfast radio. Before meeting Omar Sy, a 43-year-old Frenchman who stars in the massively popular Netflix drama Lupin, I'd never heard of an actor picking up a bucket and brush to spend a day gluing up their own billboard posters on the Paris metro. Sy, who is 6ft 2in, born in a working-class Parisian suburb to West African parents, explains the thinking behind this unusual marketing stunt that took place just before the first series of Lupin debuted earlier this year. "A lot of people know me in Paris," begins Sy, who worked as a comedian in France through his 20s before becoming a film star there in his early 30s. "Because people in France have watched me in stuff for years, I'm used to meeting strangers who recognise me and who already have smiles on their faces." In Lupin, lightly adapted from the classic heist books by Maurice Leblanc, Sy plays a French-Senegalese man called Assane Diop, an anonymous Parisian who is used to being ignored and overlooked in his home town, but who is willing to use that to his advantage while robbing the city's jet-set blind. "The show is entertainment and we want to have fun with it," he says, "but at the same time we're talking about something very serious: that some people in France are simply not seen." Continue reading... |
| ‘I wasn’t what you’d call sensible’: a walk on the wild side with Call My Agent’s Liliane Rovère Posted: 30 May 2021 01:00 AM PDT The actor's remarkable life fed into the character of Arlette in the Netflix hit, from growing up Jewish in occupied France, via Left Bank jazz and a relationship with Chet Baker, to global fame in her 80s If you're an actor in the rare position of becoming internationally famous in your 80s, then it's rather fitting to achieve it with a role that ripely resembles you. In recent years the world has come to know the veteran French actor Liliane Rovère as Arlette Azémar, the seasoned "impresario" – as she prefers to be known – in the French TV series Dix Pour Cent, AKA Call My Agent!. The show has become a global hit on Netflix, and Arlette has struck a chord as everyone's ideal disreputable aunt with a repertoire of outrageous stories that she just might tell if the burgundy is flowing. She is the sly, sharp-tongued doyenne of top Paris talent agency ASK, who knows where the bodies are buried, and just when to dig them up. It is easy to imagine that Arlette is Rovère. You can just see Arlette reading Nietzsche while listening to Charlie Parker and smoking a joint – and if you dip into Rovère's 2019 memoir, La Folle Vie de Lili, you'll see that she depicts herself doing just that on the first page. Likewise, it came as no surprise in season two to learn that Arlette had supposedly had a youthful romance with jazz legend Chet Baker – a plotline that also came directly from Rovère's own "wild life". Continue reading... |
| Posted: 29 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT The author's new novel centres around an elderly couple bound in a suicide pact. Watching her parents age, the subject of dying with dignity is never far from her mind For those of us with elderly parents, countless news broadcasts of bewildered residents cruelly exiled in care homes during this pandemic have been especially raw. Even so, I can't be the only one who's thought reflexively: "That will never be me." My friend Jolanta in Brooklyn has made that vow official. Put through quite the medical ringer herself, she tended to a difficult mother through a drawn-out decline. Not long ago, she declared to me fiercely that she'd no interest in living beyond the age of 80. Dead smart and not given to whimsy, Jolanta was already about 60, the very point at which old age starts to seem like something that might actually happen. I couldn't help but wonder, should she indeed turn 80, will she take matters into her own hands – or not? Continue reading... |
| More boats on canals and rivers than in 18th century as thousands opt for life afloat Posted: 29 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT Rising house prices and restrictions on overseas travel are leading to a surge in popularity for houseboats Little more than six months ago, Paul and Anthony Smith-Storey were still living in a three-bedroom semi-detached house near St Helens in Merseyside. But now the couple – and their dog, Dexter – have traded it all in for a life afloat in a two-metre-wide narrowboat on Peak Forest Canal in Derbyshire. "We took the equity out of the house, bought the boat and thought we'd enjoy it while we were still alive," said Anthony, 48, an NHS sonographer. They are not the only ones. Continue reading... |
| Trevor Phillips: ‘Battles over history make everything about white people and their guilt’ Posted: 30 May 2021 02:30 AM PDT The writer discusses his role on the new Heritage Advisory Board set up to guide the national debate on Britain's past Trevor Phillips, the broadcaster and writer chosen to become one of the members of a controversial new Heritage Advisory Board set up by Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden, has revealed the priorities that will guide him as he helps to set a steadying course for the government through Britain's contested cultural history. Speaking to the Observer Phillips said: "I am not against things being changed. Things get changed all the time. That's what happens. But I want people to be honest about their motives." The broadcaster and writer said he does object though to the cultural "window dressing" of merely changing names and taking down statues. Phillips believes it is distraction from the real work of tackling less fashionable problems, such as the lack of opportunity and economic equality facing many Britons. Continue reading... |
| From Minsk to Hong Kong, people power just isn’t working any more | Will Hutton Posted: 30 May 2021 02:00 AM PDT Last week's detention of an activist in Belarus is only the latest of many signals that we must relearn how to defend our values The west's ineffectiveness in the face of the arrant use of torture, unlawful arrest, savage imprisonment without trial and flagrant abuse of international law, even close to home in Europe, is among the bleakest symptoms of our times. The people power we saw embodied in the strikes in the Gdańsk shipyards, the fall of the Berlin Wall and even the Arab spring has not presaged the new era of democracy we once hoped for. Instead, the 21st century is becoming defined as a new era of agile autocracy and vicious strong-man rule. As the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, prepared the UK's response to last Sunday's forced landing of a Ryanair jet by a Belarusian MiG-29 over its airspace to secure the trumped-up detention of a well-known democracy activist, Roman Protasevich, it must have crossed his mind that Britain's response would have been so much stronger within the EU. The UK is now a little Sir Echo, weakening the west. It is part of the reason why Belarus's president, Alexander Lukashenko, can act with impunity, as he refuses to acknowledge his loss of last's August presidential election. Continue reading... |
| Vaccine inequality exposed by dire situation in world’s poorest nations Posted: 30 May 2021 02:15 AM PDT Analysis: the failings of the Covax programme, logistical issues and governments' own inadequacies are making a bad situation worse Only 1% of the 1.3 billion vaccines injected around the world have been administered in Africa – and that comparative percentage has been declining in recent weeks. It is a stark figure that underlines just how serious a problem global vaccine inequity has become. But the answer for the developing world is not as simple as delivering more vaccines. From Africa to Latin America, Asia and the Caribbean, the same issues have been replicated. On top of finding enough doses, there have been logistical difficulties with delivery, problems over healthcare infrastructure and, in some countries, public hesitancy towards vaccines. Continue reading... |
| American uprising: three US cities cracked down on protesters – their histories tell us why Posted: 30 May 2021 02:00 AM PDT In cities where police gassed protesters, investigation finds history of racial oppression and struggle to implement reforms One year ago, in the week after George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police, an uprising ripped across the country at a dizzying pace. As millions flooded the streets police used teargas against demonstrators in more than 100 cities, producing a sense that the nation teetered on the edge of chaos and revolution. Some of the cities were not large metropolitan areas, but medium-sized towns that exemplified political and social forces that have repressed Black communities for nearly 100 years. The Guardian examined three cities – Asheville, North Carolina; Wichita, Kansas; and Spokane, Washington – and found similar trends were at play. Continue reading... |
| 'No to dictatorship': thousands of Brazilians rally against Bolsonaro – video Posted: 29 May 2021 12:45 PM PDT Brazilians staged protests against President Jair Bolsonaro's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic in at least 200 cities and towns across the country on Saturday, carrying signs such as 'Out with Bolsonaro' and 'Impeachment now'. Bolsonaro's popularity has plummeted during the coronavirus crisis, which has killed more than 450,000 Brazilians as the far-right leader played down its severity, dismissed mask wearing and cast doubt on the importance of vaccines. Organised by leftist political parties, unions and student associations, Saturday's protests in the capital, Brasilia, and in Rio de Janeiro were peaceful but in the north-eastern city of Recife, police threw teargas and shot rubber bullets. Continue reading... |
| China forces pace of vaccinations with persuasion … and some cash Posted: 30 May 2021 01:00 AM PDT Two months ago, few had been inoculated. Now hundreds of millions have, after health warnings – and gifts Early in March, when the Covid vaccination rate in the UK had reached 30% of the population, China's top respiratory expert Zhong Nanshan revealed in a webinar that the figure in China was barely 3.56%. The low vaccination rate was worrying the country's leaders, as new variants continued to emerge across the world. By the end of February, only slightly more than 52m doses of Covid vaccines had been administered in China – a country with more than 1.4 billion people. Continue reading... |
| Victoria takes aim at ‘disgraceful’ lack of federal financial support during lockdown Posted: 30 May 2021 01:32 AM PDT James Merlino announces $250m support package for hard-hit businesses and says Canberra's lack of help is beyond disappointing Every Victorian business owner should be angry that the federal government rejected calls to provide additional financial support during the state's fourth lockdown, the state's acting premier says, as the cost to the economy was estimated to hit $700m. The acting premier, James Merlino, announced a $250m package on Sunday that included grants of up to $3,500 for as many as 900,000 businesses and specific support for event organisers. Continue reading... |
| Anti-vaccine protesters temporarily close Westfield shopping centre in London – video Posted: 29 May 2021 12:45 PM PDT Anti-vaccine and anti-lockdown protesters were forced back by police officers as they stormed Westfield shopping centre in Shepherd's Bush, west London. The incident occurred after a mass march snaking about 12 miles through London, starting in Parliament Square and reaching as far west as Hammersmith. The Metropolitan Police temporarily closed the Westfield shopping centre as a result of the protest. 'The 3rd demo is now at Westfield and is causing significant disruption to the local community and businesses,' The Metropolitan police event twitter account posted. 'The MPS strongly urge those who are taking part in this demo to go home. Failure to do so may result in enforcement action being taken' Continue reading... |
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