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- Coronavirus live: EU ‘ready to discuss’ vaccine patent waiver after WHO calls US move ‘heroic’; new India case record
- Hong Kong court jails three on riot charges despite no evidence of rioting
- UK sends gunboats to Jersey as 80 French vessels protest in St Helier
- Utah woman missing for five months found alive in tent in a canyon
- American students jailed for life for murder of police officer in Rome
- FBI raid exposes Giuliani and signals widening criminal search, experts say
- SpaceX finally launches and successfully lands its futuristic Starship
- New Zealand to spend millions weaning holiday towns off international tourism
- Global shortfall of nearly 1m midwives due to failure to value role, study finds
- Liechtenstein prince accused of shooting Romania’s largest bear
- More than 45,000 vie for one of 12 spots to help thin Grand Canyon bison herd
- Covid vaccines: what is patent waiving and will it solve the global shortage?
- Boost vaccine production or Covid won’t go until 2024 - French minister
- Fiji seals off major hospital and quarantines hundreds after Covid death
- Blackfeet tribe gives surplus vaccines to First Nations relatives in Canada
- ‘I seek a kind person’: the Guardian ad that saved my Jewish father from the Nazis
- Ruby Bridges: the six-year-old who defied a mob and desegregated her school
- Wetter the better: Gothenburg’s bold plan to be world’s best rainy city
- Hillary Clinton: ‘There has to be a global reckoning with disinformation’
- ‘MI5 were tapping our phones’: UB40 on starting out, falling out and losing millions
- Between two worlds: a Chinese American story
- Jersey row: fishing leader says French threats ‘close to act of war’
- Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid tasked with forming a government
- Dianne Morales: ‘I don’t think New York City is as progressive as we’d like to think’
- Citizen Penn review – Hollywood star’s vanity project lifts Haiti
- New Zealand suspends quarantine-free travel from NSW over two Sydney Covid cases
- Christian Porter moves to strike out major sections of ABC’s defamation defence
- ‘No food and no fuel’: Colombia torn by protests and violent crackdown
- Nepal reports 19 positive Covid tests at Dhaulagiri base camp
- Uganda passes bill criminalising same-sex relationships and sex work
- Son of the soil Pedro Castillo promises a presidency for Peru
- Judith Collins’ comments on Māori health policy are a diversion | Claire Robinson
- My father works for the company that sells weapons used in my partner’s homeland | Izzy Brown
- Facebook fudge potentially lets Trump live to lie another day
- Joe Biden: Republicans are in the midst of a 'mini-revolution' – video
- Colombia protests: what is driving the deadly unrest? – video report
- France threatens to cut Jersey's electricity over post-Brexit fishing rights – video
| Posted: 06 May 2021 01:57 AM PDT Von der Leyen says EU 'ready to discuss' vaccine patent proposals; WHO hails US move as 'heroic'; experts say India peak may not be reached for weeks
PA are highlighting some new statistics from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) about vaccine take-up in the UK by ethnicity. They report that around one in three people in England aged 50 and over identifying as black Caribbean are unlikely to have received at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccine.
The vast majority of Australia's 38-strong Indian Premier League contingent has departed for the Maldives, beginning their long and indirect journey home from the aborted Twenty20 tournament. Cricket Australia and the Australian Cricketers' Association confirmed on Thursday night that players, coaches, officials and commentators were en route from India to the Maldives. Related: Stranded Australian cricketers leave Covid-hit India for Maldives Continue reading... |
| Hong Kong court jails three on riot charges despite no evidence of rioting Posted: 06 May 2021 12:33 AM PDT Activist Joshua Wong separately sentenced over Tiananmen vigil protest in 2020 A court in Hong Kong has sentenced three people to years in jail on riot convictions, despite no evidence they were actually involved in rioting. In a separate case, the activist Joshua Wong and three others were also given jail terms over a Tiananmen massacre vigil held in breach of Covid restrictions. The three protesters, all in their 20s, were jailed by the district court judge En-nest Lin on Wednesday, for terms of up to four years and three months. Lin said even though there was no evidence the trio were involved in any rioting, their presence at the rally in October 2019 encouraged other protesters, RTHK reported. Continue reading... |
| UK sends gunboats to Jersey as 80 French vessels protest in St Helier Posted: 05 May 2021 11:48 PM PDT Downing Street dispatches navy ships to 'monitor situation' amid row over post-Brexit rules on fishing rights Two British naval gunboats have arrived off the coast of Jersey as about 80 French boats also gathered at the port in St Helier in protest over post-Brexit rules on fishing rights. HMS Severn and HMS Tamar were deployed a mile off the coast of Jersey while observing the French flotilla amassing at about 6am south of the Channel Island's capital before it headed into the port just before 7am. Continue reading... |
| Utah woman missing for five months found alive in tent in a canyon Posted: 05 May 2021 10:25 AM PDT
A Utah woman who disappeared in November was discovered alive in a tent at a campsite, having reportedly subsisted off of grass, moss and water from a nearby river for more than five months. The 47-year-old woman, who authorities did not identify, was first reported missing after US Forest Service employees preparing for seasonal canyon closures found her car abandoned in a trailhead parking lot about 50 miles (80km) south-east of Salt Lake City on 25 November. Continue reading... |
| American students jailed for life for murder of police officer in Rome Posted: 05 May 2021 03:25 PM PDT Jury convicts Finnegan Lee Elder, 21, and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, 20, over knife killing committed in 2019 Two American students have been sentenced to life in prison by a Rome court for the murder of Italian police officer Mario Cerciello Rega. After almost 13 hours of deliberation, a jury convicted Finnegan Lee Elder, 21, and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, 20, of murdering Cerciello Rega, who had only just returned to duty after his honeymoon when he was stabbed to death, aged 35, on a street in central Rome in July 2019. Continue reading... |
| FBI raid exposes Giuliani and signals widening criminal search, experts say Posted: 05 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT High-profile nature of search highlights inquiry's seriousness and suggests officials may have new Ukraine-related leads to follow The extraordinary FBI raid on Rudy Giuliani's New York apartment and office has sparked debate about what criminal charges Giuliani may face, and signals a widening criminal investigation into his Ukraine drive to help Trump in 2020 by sullying Joe Biden, former prosecutors say. The high-profile nature of the raid meant it required senior Department of Justice signoff, and underscored the investigation's seriousness and progress. It also obtained several of Giuliani's electronic devices and thus may have harvested a rich trove of new evidence and leads for investigators to follow. Continue reading... |
| SpaceX finally launches and successfully lands its futuristic Starship Posted: 05 May 2021 06:20 PM PDT Previous test flights of the rocketship, which Elon Musk plans to use for future missions to the moon and mars, ended in explosions SpaceX launched and successfully landed its futuristic Starship on Wednesday, finally nailing a test flight of the rocketship that Elon Musk intends to use to land astronauts on the moon and send people to Mars. The previous four test flights ended in fiery explosions before, during or soon after touchdown at the south-eastern tip of Texas, near Brownsville. Continue reading... |
| New Zealand to spend millions weaning holiday towns off international tourism Posted: 05 May 2021 06:33 PM PDT Tourism minister says overcrowded sites such as Milford Sound-Piopiotahi 'cannot return to its pre-Covid state' The days of allowing tourist hordes to some of New Zealand's best-known natural attractions are over, the government has signalled, as it unveiled new plans to protect the environment and reconsider the role of tourism in its economy. The tourism minister, Stuart Nash, outlined on Tuesday plans to "reset" tourism for a post-Covid world – planning for fewer international visitors and attempting to diversify the economies of tourism-dependent towns. Continue reading... |
| Global shortfall of nearly 1m midwives due to failure to value role, study finds Posted: 05 May 2021 11:15 PM PDT Investing in midwifery could prevent two-thirds of maternal and newborn deaths, but investment and training are urgently needed The world is facing a shortage of 900,000 midwives, with more than half the shortfall in Africa, where nearly two-thirds of maternal deaths occur, according to a new survey. Insufficient resources and a failure to recognise the importance of the role mean there has been little progress since the last study in 2014, according to the State of the World's Midwifery report, which looked at 194 countries. Continue reading... |
| Liechtenstein prince accused of shooting Romania’s largest bear Posted: 05 May 2021 12:13 PM PDT Environmental groups say Prince Emanuel von und zu Liechtenstein shot bear, named Arthur, in a protected area Environmental groups have accused a prince from Liechtenstein's royal family of shooting and killing the largest bear in Romania, in contravention of a ban on the trophy hunting of large carnivores. The Romanian NGO Agent Green and the Austrian NGO VGT alleged in a statement that the bear, who was called Arthur, was shot in March in a protected area of the Carpathian Mountains by Prince Emanuel von und zu Liechtenstein. Continue reading... |
| More than 45,000 vie for one of 12 spots to help thin Grand Canyon bison herd Posted: 05 May 2021 04:19 PM PDT Skilled shooters are needed to kill the 2,000-pound animals that have been trampling archaeological and other resources More than 45,000 people are vying for one of a dozen spots to help thin a herd of bison at Grand Canyon national park. The odds aren't as good as drawing a state tag to hunt the massive animals beyond the boundaries of the Grand Canyon, but they're far better than getting struck by lightning or winning the Powerball. Continue reading... |
| Covid vaccines: what is patent waiving and will it solve the global shortage? Posted: 06 May 2021 01:57 AM PDT Analysis: US now supports waivers, but experts say on its own it will not have a decisive impact on vaccine inequality For those advocating for greater access to vaccines, it is a case of two cheers for Joe Biden. His administration's decision to support a push at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to waive patents on Covid-19 vaccines may be a huge step towards ending vaccine inequity, campaigners say, but on its own it will not have a decisive effect on the health crisis. Continue reading... |
| Boost vaccine production or Covid won’t go until 2024 - French minister Posted: 05 May 2021 09:00 PM PDT Jean-Yves Le Drian says pandemic will haunt world for years without action by rich countries The Covid-19 pandemic will haunt the world until 2024 unless the G7 focuses on increasing vaccine production, in part by facilitating it in Africa, the French foreign minister has said. Jean-Yves Le Drian added there was a debate to be had about loosening restrictions on pharmaceutical companies' patents – a measure supported by the Biden administration on Wednesday – but the number one priority was increasing production. Continue reading... |
| Fiji seals off major hospital and quarantines hundreds after Covid death Posted: 05 May 2021 09:57 PM PDT Hospital closure comes as the Pacific country tries to contain a second wave of the virus with lockdowns Fiji has closed its second largest hospital amid fears that a patient who died of Covid-19 may have infected multiple staff members. The 53-year-old man was only the Pacific country's third Covid-related death since the pandemic began. More than 400 patients, doctors, nurses and other medical staff were being quarantined at Lautoka hospital as of Wednesday, after a doctor who had treated the man also tested positive for the coronavirus. Continue reading... |
| Blackfeet tribe gives surplus vaccines to First Nations relatives in Canada Posted: 05 May 2021 11:35 AM PDT Effort by illustrates the disparity with which the US and its northern neighbors are distributing doses The Blackfeet tribe in northern Montana has provided about 1,000 surplus vaccines to its First Nations relatives and others in Canada, in an illustration of the disparity in speed at which the US and its northern neighbor are distributing doses. While more than 30% of adults in the US are fully vaccinated, in Canada that figure is about 3%. Among those who received the vaccine at the Piegan-Carway border crossing were Sherry Cross Child and Shane Little Bear, of Stand Off, about 30 miles (50km ) north of the border. Continue reading... |
| ‘I seek a kind person’: the Guardian ad that saved my Jewish father from the Nazis Posted: 05 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT In 1938, there was a surge of classified ads in this newspaper as parents – including my grandparents – scrambled to get their children out of the Reich. What became of the families? On Wednesday 3 August 1938, a short advertisement appeared on the second page of the Manchester Guardian, under the title "Tuition". "I seek a kind person who will educate my intelligent Boy, aged 11, Viennese of good family," the advert said, under the name Borger, giving the address of an apartment on Hintzerstrasse, in Vienna's third district. Continue reading... |
| Ruby Bridges: the six-year-old who defied a mob and desegregated her school Posted: 06 May 2021 02:00 AM PDT In 1960, she walked past hateful protesters to become the first Black child at a Louisiana school – and was then taught alone for a year. She discusses fear, forbearance and her fight for a better future This year, Ruby Bridges saw some newly discovered video footage of her six-year-old self and was terrified for her. The footage was from 14 November 1960, a day that shaped the course of Bridges' life and – it is no exaggeration to say – American history. Not that she was aware of it at the time. On that day she became the first Black child to attend an all-white primary school in Louisiana. Looking at images of Bridges' first day at William Frantz elementary school in New Orleans, she is a study in vulnerability: a tiny girl in her smart new uniform, with white socks and white ribbons in her hair, flanked by four huge federal agents in suits. Awaiting her at the school gates was a phalanx of rabidly hostile protesters, mostly white parents and children, plus photographers and reporters. They yelled names and racial slurs, chanted, and waved placards. One sign read: "All I want for Christmas is a clean white school." One woman held up a miniature coffin with a black doll in it. It has become one of the defining images of the civil rights movement, popularised even further by Norman Rockwell's recreation of it in his 1964 painting The Problem We All Live With. Continue reading... |
| Wetter the better: Gothenburg’s bold plan to be world’s best rainy city Posted: 06 May 2021 02:00 AM PDT It rains nearly 40% of the time in the Swedish city – so why not try to make the most of it? When they wake up on a Saturday morning to find rain coursing down the windows of their Gothenburg apartment, four-year-old Enja Bäckström and her six-year-old brother Charlie often still want to go out to play. That's because their local playground has been designed to be particularly fun when it's wet. There are dips in the ground to make the puddles deeper and more satisfyingly splashy, and water gushes down channels from lilypad-shaped rain shelters into a sandpit where children can make pools, rivers and dams. "The kids love to go on their bicycles through the puddles, and my son likes to dig the sands, so some parts of the playground are really nice when it rains," says their mother, Jessica Bäckström. Continue reading... |
| Hillary Clinton: ‘There has to be a global reckoning with disinformation’ Posted: 05 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT The former secretary of state warns of the danger to democracy of lies flourishing online – and says big tech's wings must be clipped Her bid for the White House was engulfed by a tidal wave of fabricated news and false conspiracy theories. Now Hillary Clinton is calling for a "global reckoning" with disinformation that includes reining in the power of big tech. The former secretary of state and first lady warns that the breakdown of a shared truth, and the divisiveness that surely follows, poses a danger to democracy at a moment when China is selling the conceit that autocracy works. Continue reading... |
| ‘MI5 were tapping our phones’: UB40 on starting out, falling out and losing millions Posted: 05 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT The Brummie reggae stars are back, but in two rival groups. They talk about clocking up 39 hits, partying hard and the bitter split UB40 are remembering the days when they were dangerous. "MI5 were tapping our phones, watching our houses, all sorts," says drummer Jimmy Brown. "We thought, 'Haven't they got criminals to catch?' We were just a bunch of potheads, smoking weed and playing music. We weren't planning the revolution, but if the revolution happened, we knew what side we were going to be on." The band are back this year – in duplicate. In contrast to the longstanding and bitter rift that divides the two factions, more of which later, the Brummie eight-piece once presented a united, staunchly uncompromising front. For those who remember UB40 primarily for lilting lite-reggae covers of Red Red Wine and (I Can't Help) Falling in Love With You, the fact that they were considered a grave threat to national security might seem absurd. Look closer at the origins story of the band, however, and the concerns of the spooks – later confirmed by MI5 whistleblower David Shayler – make a certain kind of sense. Continue reading... |
| Between two worlds: a Chinese American story Posted: 05 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT I've long nursed vague plans of moving back to China for a few years, to solidify my place there. But with each year that passes in the US, such a move gets harder and harder to make My grandfather died on 25 August 2020, Chinese Valentine's Day. I believe it was peaceful. He had been in hospital in a vegetative state for several months, and had been declining from dementia for three years. He was 95; he had always said he would live to be 100. Fifth-three days before he died, my grandmother died. She was eating a sweet rice ball at the dinner table and her heart suddenly stopped. Mid-bite, she simply stopped moving. Froze, like a buffering video clip. By the time they got her to the hospital it was too late. She had been in good health. No one had been expecting that she would pass away. Continue reading... |
| Jersey row: fishing leader says French threats ‘close to act of war’ Posted: 06 May 2021 12:44 AM PDT Don Thompson says response from France is 'like something you would see from Iran or Russia' France's response to post-Brexit fishing restrictions around the island of Jersey has been described as "pretty close to an act of war" by fishing community leaders in St Helier. They say they have been told 100 boats are being lined up in France for a 6am blockade at the main Channel Island port on Thursday, threatening food and energy supplies. "It was inevitable that the French would kick off," said the head of the Jersey Fishermen's Association, Don Thompson. "But the reaction we're seeing from France is almost like something you would see from Iran or Russia. They're not just saying they can cut off the electricity supply, French fishermen are saying that they're coming tomorrow [Thursday] to blockade the harbour in time to stop the ferries from coming in so there'll be no food supply and no fuel coming into the island either. So it comes pretty close to an act of war, this." Continue reading... |
| Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid tasked with forming a government Posted: 05 May 2021 10:42 AM PDT President Reuven Rivlin chooses another candidate to build a government after Benjamin Netanyahu fails to meet deadline Israel's president has tasked the head of the opposition, Yair Lapid, with forming a government after Benjamin Netanyahu failed to do so, leaving the country's longest-serving leader facing a fresh challenge to his historic hold on power. Netanyahu's rightwing Likud party won the most seats in a March election and was given 28 days to build a majority coalition government. But that deadline passed on Tuesday, allowing Reuven Rivlin to choose another candidate. Continue reading... |
| Dianne Morales: ‘I don’t think New York City is as progressive as we’d like to think’ Posted: 06 May 2021 02:00 AM PDT The former non-profit executive, who would be the city's first female mayor, goes the furthest of her competitors in wanting to defund the police It's a blustery day in the New York city neighborhood of Astoria, Queens, where the mayoral candidate Dianne Morales is due to speak to the crowd. By the time she arrives, the pitching of Morales' tent, branded in her colors of purple, pink and orange, has already been abandoned due to the wind, and volunteers have been sent sprinting across Astoria park to retrieve hundreds of white campaign pamphlets sent flying across the grass. Continue reading... |
| Citizen Penn review – Hollywood star’s vanity project lifts Haiti Posted: 06 May 2021 01:00 AM PDT This documentary about Sean Penn's response to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti may be self-congratulatory, but the actor has had an undeniable impact Actor, director, screenwriter and now novelist Sean Penn has had some mixed notices for his non-showbiz activities and his dramatic interventions in various international situations – including his defiant declaration of faith in the late Hugo Chávez and his successor as Venezuelan president, the now-notorious Nicolás Maduro. And the naysayers and the eye-rollers may not be entirely mollified by this documentary about Sean Penn's charity work in Haiti, which does come across in some ways as a 93-minute self-administered high-five. It begins with a carefully curated montage of TV news footage tacitly admitting what a paparazzo-punching brat he once was – but there is no clip of his puppet appearance in Trey Parker and Matt Stone's comedy Team America: World Police as an archetypal whiny liberal. Well, Sean Penn is entitled to praise. In 2010, he responded to the news about the Haiti earthquake by mobilising contacts already amassed during his experience helping out during Hurricane Katrina, and he got on to Chávez, and asked him to supply hundreds of thousands of vials of Venezuelan morphine for Haiti's field hospitals. (Penn had been out to Venezuela to meet Chávez the year before in the sceptical company of Christopher Hitchens, who had called him an "oil-rich clown".) Continue reading... |
| New Zealand suspends quarantine-free travel from NSW over two Sydney Covid cases Posted: 06 May 2021 12:59 AM PDT NZ government carves NSW out of trans-Tasman bubble for 48 hours from midnight Thursday NZ time New Zealand will pause quarantine-free travel from New South Wales from midnight Thursday (NZST), after two community Covid cases were detected in Sydney. The NZ Covid response minister, Chris Hipkins, told reporters the suspension would initially last 48 hours, while the source of infection in the two Sydney cases was investigated. Continue reading... |
| Christian Porter moves to strike out major sections of ABC’s defamation defence Posted: 06 May 2021 02:04 AM PDT The former attorney general is suing the public broadcaster and is trying to stop parts of its defence being made public Christian Porter has moved to strike out major sections of the ABC's defence of his defamation claim, and prevent them from becoming public, accusing the public broadcaster of abusing the court process. The ABC filed its defence on Tuesday, prompting an interlocutory application from Porter for an order to make confidential and strike out sections of the document on the basis they contain material material that is either scandalous, frivolous, vexatious, evasive or ambiguous or "are otherwise an abuse of the process of the court". Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| ‘No food and no fuel’: Colombia torn by protests and violent crackdown Posted: 05 May 2021 06:29 PM PDT 23 protesters and one police officer killed after general strike over unpopular tax reform met with heavy-handed response Mass protests were held across Colombia on Wednesday after a night of unrest in the capital city, as street violence continued after more than a week of angry anti-government demonstrations. Twenty-three protesters and one police officer have been killed in the unrest that began with with a general strike over an unpopular tax reform but has grown into an outburst of rage over poverty exacerbated by the pandemic, human rights abuses and the authorities' heavy-handed response to protests. Continue reading... |
| Nepal reports 19 positive Covid tests at Dhaulagiri base camp Posted: 05 May 2021 06:37 AM PDT Decision to allow expeditions to go ahead dealt blow after outbreak on world's seventh highest mountain Nepal's decision to allow people to continue to climb its Himalayan peaks as a vicious Covid-19 wave sweeps the country was dealt a further blow after 19 more climbers tested positive for the virus. Last month it was reported that the pandemic had reached Everest base camp and though officials later denied it, climbers have reported a wave of infections that were being covered up. Continue reading... |
| Uganda passes bill criminalising same-sex relationships and sex work Posted: 05 May 2021 03:52 AM PDT The conservative African country insists it is 'not yet ready' for gay rights as campaigners say the flawed legislation sanctions rape The Ugandan parliament has passed a controversial sexual offences bill which further criminalises same-sex relationships and sex work. The laws were passed by MPs this week, reiterating sections of legislation first enforced in the country by British colonial rule. They condemn same-sex couples who perform acts deemed against the "order of nature" to 10 years' imprisonment. Continue reading... |
| Son of the soil Pedro Castillo promises a presidency for Peru Posted: 05 May 2021 03:30 AM PDT Next month's runoff election pits the 51-year-old teacher against the far-right daughter of the country's 90s autocrat By law, any president of Peru must be born on Peruvian soil. But few of the country's past leaders know that soil like the frontrunning candidate in the current electoral race – the son of Andean peasant farmers, who grew up in poverty. On a recent morning, Pedro Castillo wore a woollen poncho, sandals made from old car tyres and a traditional wide-brimmed straw hat as he tended to his cows on his farm in Chugur, a tiny hamlet seven hours' drive from the city of Cajamarca. Continue reading... |
| Judith Collins’ comments on Māori health policy are a diversion | Claire Robinson Posted: 05 May 2021 05:34 PM PDT National leader's warning about greater Māori self-governance are designed to deflect from her unpopularity In October I wrote in praise of the Māori party's Mana Motuhake policy, a 25-year plan to improve Māori outcomes based on Māori asserting their right to exercise tino rangatiratanga – roughly translated as self-management, self-determination and self-governance – over all their domains. I predicted that whether the Māori party made it back into parliament in 2020 or not (it did), this call was only going to get louder. After a speech last Saturday by the National party opposition leader, Judith Collins, this issue has been catapulted to the middle of the political agenda. Collins' speech drew attention to a report named He Puapua, written by an expert working group charged by the Labour-led coalition cabinet in 2019 to develop a plan and engagement process to realise the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (DRIP), which the John Key-led National coalition government signed up to in 2010. Continue reading... |
| My father works for the company that sells weapons used in my partner’s homeland | Izzy Brown Posted: 05 May 2021 02:00 PM PDT I had never imagined how horribly the company my father works for was entangled with the story of my West Papuan partner They make great trucks. That's what my father says whenever I ask him: "What do they make? Who do they sell them to?" "Only to the good guys," is his standard answer, and the topic changes quickly. But what he calls "trucks", most people call "tanks". And I am always led to wonder, "What kind of 'good guy' drives a tank?" My father works for Thales, one of the richest weapons corporations in the world. Before heading up security for Thales he worked for Asio, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation. Continue reading... |
| Facebook fudge potentially lets Trump live to lie another day Posted: 05 May 2021 08:39 AM PDT Analysis: Trump will try to have it both ways over the verdict – decrying censorship but also eyeing an eventual return It was not so much "Release the Kraken!" as "please tell the Kraken to pace around the room a few more times while we think about it". Facebook's oversight board ruled that Donald Trump should remain banned from the platform for incendiary posts on the day of the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol. But it also told the company that its "vague, standardless penalty" should be reviewed within six months. Continue reading... |
| Joe Biden: Republicans are in the midst of a 'mini-revolution' – video Posted: 05 May 2021 12:55 PM PDT The president said he has never seen internal party conflict like the one Republicans are experiencing at the moment and was in a 'mini-revolution'. Earlier on Wednesday Biden said: 'I don't understand the Republicans' in regards to House Republicans' efforts to oust Liz Cheney from her leadership role over her criticism of Donald Trump Continue reading... |
| Colombia protests: what is driving the deadly unrest? – video report Posted: 05 May 2021 08:14 AM PDT The UN has condemned the violent repression of protests in Colombia after clashes between police and demonstrators left at least 18 dead and 87 people missing. The demonstrations began with a general strike last Wednesday over an unpopular tax change but quickly escalated when protesters were met by riot police armed with teargas, bean-bag rounds and billy clubs. The now-axed policy would have hiked taxes on individuals and business during a coronavirus pandemic that continues to ravage public health and the economy Continue reading... |
| France threatens to cut Jersey's electricity over post-Brexit fishing rights – video Posted: 05 May 2021 04:09 AM PDT The French maritime minister, Annick Girardin, warned on Tuesday that France could cut off electricity to the British island of Jersey in a dispute over fishing rights. The warning followed claims from Paris that Jersey was stalling in issuing licences to French boats under the terms of the UK's post-Brexit trade deal with the EU. 'The agreement provides for retaliatory measures and these measures of retaliation we are ready to use,' Girardin told French lawmakers.
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