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- Elections 2021: Conservatives win Hartlepool byelection, dealing blow to Labour – live
- Noel Clarke accused of sexual harassment on Doctor Who set
- Japan extends Covid emergency in Tokyo as Olympics loom
- Texas lawmakers race against the clock to push through new voting restrictions
- US military has ‘no plan’ to shoot down debris from falling Chinese rocket
- US deploys extra warplanes to protect its troops withdrawing from Afghanistan
- EU court upholds ban on insecticides linked to harming bees
- ‘Moment of truth’: talks on salvaging Iran nuclear deal to resume
- Sixth-grade girl shoots three at Idaho middle school
- Colombia enters second week of violent unrest as police crack down on protests
- Catherine de’ Medici 1561 portrait to return to London mansion
- Nepal facing ‘human catastrophe’ similar to India’s amid Covid surge
- North Korea says propaganda leaflets sent from South could carry coronavirus
- Coronavirus live news: WHO warns of risk of new wave in Africa; UK no-quarantine travel list to be announced
- Australians approved for international travel to jump vaccine rollout queue
- What we got wrong: the Guardian’s worst errors of judgment over 200 years
- Olivia Rodrigo: ‘I’m a teenage girl. I feel heartbreak and longing really intensely’
- The young people taking their countries to court over climate inaction
- Competition: guess the date of the Guardian article – week one
- 10 of the best summer anthems, picked by Metronomy
- How did the Guardian survive 200 years?
- From the archive, 7 May 1975: hunt for Lord Lucan goes on – just
- Mozambique insurgency: 20,000 still trapped near gas plant six weeks after attack
- How US companies could use patients’ data from Covid vaccine drive
- Cuba during the pandemic – photo essay
- More than 170 unaccompanied children among Australians stranded in India
- UK cuts grants for small aid charities to save ‘less than cost of No 10 press room’
- Where is New Zealand’s ‘values-based’ foreign policy when it comes to the Uyghurs? | Guled Mire
- 'On their own': Dfat confirms 173 unaccompanied Australian children stranded in India – video
- Three injured after sixth-grade girl shoots three at Idaho middle school – video
- At least 25 killed in Rio de Janeiro's deadliest favela raid – video
| Elections 2021: Conservatives win Hartlepool byelection, dealing blow to Labour – live Posted: 07 May 2021 02:38 AM PDT Reactions and all the latest results after Thursday's elections in Scotland, England and Wales
In an interview with BBC News John McDonnell, the former shadow chancellor, said some of the policies advocated by Labour at the last election, like moving Treasury civil servants out of London and investing in infrastructure, were being implemented by the Tories. He said he developed these ideas from visits to places like Hartlepool, although he also said he thought the Conservatives were not fully committed to this agenda. He said Labour now needed policies that were even more radical. Now we need to be more radical than we were in December 2019 because the problems that people face are so much more severe. Shadow cabinet members can't make a statement without the approval of the leader's office. They can't go on the media without the approval of the leader's office. So to actually then blame the shadow cabinet and do a reshuffle for the failure of this campaign I think would be unfair, and I think it would be a real mistake as well.
Here is my colleague Marina Hyde on the Hartlepool result. It won't make for happy reading in Labour HQ. Here is an extract. Increasingly, Labour's stated mission to rekindle its lost heartlands feels a bit maudlin and entitled. It's got the flavour of one of those stories where a man sets up a piano beneath his ex-girlfriend's window and vows to play it until she gets back with him. Journalists who don't really get it cover the story with headlines like "The last romantic". All normal women who read it are just thinking: I know exactly what kind of guy he is. I hope she and her new boyfriend will eventually be able to relax in witness protection. Related: After humiliation in Hartlepool, where now for smalltown detective DI Starmer? | Marina Hyde Continue reading... |
| Noel Clarke accused of sexual harassment on Doctor Who set Posted: 07 May 2021 02:00 AM PDT Exclusive: BBC faces questions as further allegations made about Clarke – and co-star John Barrowman is accused of exposing himself The Noel Clarke sexual harassment controversy threatens to embroil the BBC after several sources came forward to allege they were sexually harassed or inappropriately touched by the actor on a flagship show, Doctor Who. Another Doctor Who actor, John Barrowman, has also been accused of repeatedly exposing himself to coworkers on two BBC productions, prompting questions about whether the corporation allowed a lax culture on its sets during the mid-2000s. Continue reading... |
| Japan extends Covid emergency in Tokyo as Olympics loom Posted: 07 May 2021 02:14 AM PDT Government admits restrictions that had been due to end on 11 May have failed to stop rising infections Japan has extended a coronavirus state of emergency in Tokyo and three other areas until at least the end of the month in an attempt to arrest a surge in cases less than 80 days before the start of the Olympics. The prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, said the measures would remain in place in the capital, Osaka prefecture, and the neighbouring prefectures of Hyogo and Kyoto, the Kyodo news agency reported. Similar measures will be introduced in Fukuoka and Aichi prefectures, it added. Continue reading... |
| Texas lawmakers race against the clock to push through new voting restrictions Posted: 06 May 2021 09:53 PM PDT Legislators began debating a bill Thursday night that would restrict voting in what is already the hardest state to vote in nationwide Texas lawmakers are locked in a fight over legislation that would further restrict voting access, as Republicans lean on procedural moves to avoid public testimony and keep eleventh-hour negotiations behind closed doors. "No rules are going to contain them. No norms are going to protect us. They're gonna do whatever they want to, and whatever they can, to get these bills through," said Emily Eby, staff attorney at the Texas Civil Rights Project. Continue reading... |
| US military has ‘no plan’ to shoot down debris from falling Chinese rocket Posted: 07 May 2021 02:25 AM PDT Defense secretary is hopeful the rocket will crash in the ocean; Aerospace Corp said it expects the debris to hit the Pacific near the equator The US military has no plan to shoot down the remnants of a large Chinese rocket expected to plunge back through the atmosphere this weekend, the defense secretary said on Thursday. Speaking with reporters, the US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, said the hope was the rocket would land in the ocean and that the latest estimate was that it would come down between Saturday and Sunday. Continue reading... |
| US deploys extra warplanes to protect its troops withdrawing from Afghanistan Posted: 06 May 2021 10:22 PM PDT F-18 attack planes and B-52 bombers can be called on to protect departing forces, amid expected increase in Taliban activity The United States has deployed a dozen additional warplanes to bolster protection of American and coalition troops making a final withdrawal from the country as Taliban insurgents step up pressure on Afghan government forces, top Pentagon officials have said. General Mark Milley, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said F-18 attack planes had been added to a previously announced package of air and sea power – including the USS Dwight D Eisenhower aircraft carrier in the North Arabian Sea and six air force B-52 bombers based in Qatar – that can be called upon as protection for withdrawing troops. Also part of that previously announced package are several hundred Army Rangers. Continue reading... |
| EU court upholds ban on insecticides linked to harming bees Posted: 07 May 2021 02:39 AM PDT European Union's top court dismisses appeal by Bayer against partial ban on use of substances on certain crops The European Union's top court has upheld the EU's partial ban on three insecticides linked to harming bees, preventing their use on certain crops. The European court of justice on Thursday dismissed an appeal by Bayer to overturn a lower EU court's 2018 decision to uphold the ban. Continue reading... |
| ‘Moment of truth’: talks on salvaging Iran nuclear deal to resume Posted: 07 May 2021 01:53 AM PDT Latest discussions between the west and Tehran could have profound implications for Middle East High-stakes talks to salvage the Iran nuclear deal with potentially profound implications for the Middle East will resume on Friday, in what the French foreign minister has called a "moment of truth" for relations between the west and Tehran. The fourth round of talks have the capacity not just to reduce the risk of nuclear proliferation in Iran, but propel Saudi Arabia and Iran towards softening a rivalry that has darkened and destabilised the region's politics for a decade. Continue reading... |
| Sixth-grade girl shoots three at Idaho middle school Posted: 06 May 2021 04:55 PM PDT Victims expected to survive attack, which ended when teacher disarmed student, authorities say A sixth-grade girl shot two students and a custodian at an Idaho middle school on Thursday before being disarmed by a teacher, authorities said. The Jefferson county sheriff, Steve Anderson, said the girl had fired multiple rounds inside and outside Rigby middle school in the small city of Rigby, about 95 miles south-west of Yellowstone national park. Continue reading... |
| Colombia enters second week of violent unrest as police crack down on protests Posted: 06 May 2021 10:43 AM PDT As many as 37 people have died and at least 89 reported missing since protests began on 28 April Colombia has entered its second week of violent unrest as riot police continued a brutal crackdown on nationwide protests against poverty and inequality exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. Related: 'No food and no fuel': Colombia torn by protests and violent crackdown Continue reading... |
| Catherine de’ Medici 1561 portrait to return to London mansion Posted: 07 May 2021 12:00 AM PDT Painting has been acquired for nation and will be reinstalled at Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham A monumental portrait of Catherine de' Medici, one of the most powerful women in 16th-century Europe, will return to Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham after it was acquired for the nation in lieu of tax. The picture was originally installed in the gothic revival mansion built by Horace Walpole, who acquired it 247 years ago, and was part of an important collection amassed by the son of Sir Robert Walpole, Britain's first prime minister and a pivotal figure in 18th-century society and the arts. Continue reading... |
| Nepal facing ‘human catastrophe’ similar to India’s amid Covid surge Posted: 06 May 2021 04:21 AM PDT Country appeals for international help, with vaccines in short supply and a reported 47% positivity rate Nepal is struggling to contain an explosion in Covid-19 cases, as fears grow that the situation in the Himalayan country may be as bad, if not worse, than in neighbouring India, with which it shares a long and porous border. Following warnings by health officials earlier this week that the country was on the brink of losing control of its outbreak, Nepal has appealed for urgent international help. Continue reading... |
| North Korea says propaganda leaflets sent from South could carry coronavirus Posted: 06 May 2021 07:33 PM PDT State-run media in North warn people about a 'strange object flying in the wind' as South Korean police raid office of leaflet distributor North Korea has warned its citizens against reading propaganda leaflets sent via balloon over the border with the South, saying they could be carrying coronavirus. The state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper urged people to stay away from the leaflets, according to news agency Yonhap, saying: "Even when we come across a strange object flying in the wind, we must consider them as a possible route of transmission of the malicious virus rather than a natural phenomenon." It advised people to "think and move" according to Covid-19 guidelines. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 07 May 2021 02:44 AM PDT Delayed vaccines and variants risk spike in Africa; Portugal, Iceland, Malta expected to be on UK green list; India cases rise by world record 414,188
Tunisia has imposed a lockdown for a week from Sunday in an attempt to slow the increase in coronavirus cases, the prime minister has said.
The Saudi Arabian government has said that all public and private sector workers wishing to attend a workplace in the country will be required to have taken a Covid-19 vaccination, but without specifying when this would be implemented. Reuters reports: "Receiving a coronavirus vaccine will be a mandatory condition for male and female workers to attend workplaces in all sectors (public, private, non-profit)," the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development said on Twitter. It urged workplaces to start preparations to ensure all employees receive a vaccination. Continue reading... |
| Australians approved for international travel to jump vaccine rollout queue Posted: 07 May 2021 01:31 AM PDT Morrison government has also bowed to pressure from Mark McGowan to crack down on departure exemptions Australians who are approved to travel overseas will be granted priority access to Covid vaccinations under a plan agreed to by the prime minister with state and territory leaders. The proposal, which would reduce the vulnerability of Australians heading overseas during the pandemic, may prove controversial given the vaccine rollout is not yet completed even for the highest priority groups including disability care residents. Continue reading... |
| What we got wrong: the Guardian’s worst errors of judgment over 200 years Posted: 06 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT Fiercely critical of Abraham Lincoln and at times racist, this newspaper's leader columns did not always get it right A daily newspaper cannot publish for 200 years without getting some things wrong. This one has made its share of mistakes. There will always be errors of news judgment given the nature of the work. Tight deadlines meant the sinking of the Titanic was relegated to a small spot on page 9 in 1912; errors of scientific understanding resulted in a 1927 article that promoted the virtues of asbestos, and others in the late 1970s that warned of a looming ice age. Continue reading... |
| Olivia Rodrigo: ‘I’m a teenage girl. I feel heartbreak and longing really intensely’ Posted: 06 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT The Drivers License singer reflects on turning her first big breakup into the year's biggest hit – and how songwriting saved her from the anxieties of being a Disney star Do you remember your first heartbreak? If not, 18-year-old Olivia Rodrigo's debut single, Drivers License, may awaken some dusty memories. The story of passing her test and driving past the house of the ex she had planned to celebrate with, it filters Adele-scale devastation through Taylor Swift's wit and Lorde's mysticism, balancing hangdog self-pity ("I've never felt this way for no one!") with stinging indignation: "Guess you didn't mean what you wrote in that song about me!" she belts at its climax. Perhaps being called out as a phoney songwriter is even worse than being a cad. Released in January, Drivers License sprang (almost) out of nowhere like a heaved sob. Four days later, it broke Spotify records for the most single-day streams (Christmas songs exempted). The next day, it broke that record again. After 10 weeks at No 1 in the US and nine in the UK, it has been streamed 1.9bn times. Next Tuesday, the California-born songwriter makes her live debut at the Brits; the following weekend, she does Saturday Night Live; a week later she releases her debut album, Sour, a grippingly well written – all by her – collection of balladry, pop-punk, bitter diatribes and euphoric taunts that dwells on this romantic treachery. Even in an era when virality powers pop, Rodrigo's is a fast rise. Continue reading... |
| The young people taking their countries to court over climate inaction Posted: 07 May 2021 01:21 AM PDT Children and young adults around the world are demanding action from governments on global heating and the ecological crisis Sofia Oliveira is one of six young Portuguese people who have filed a lawsuit against 33 countries with the European court of human rights, demanding that governments do more to reduce emissions and safeguard their future physical and mental wellbeing. Last October the Strasbourg-based court granted the case priority status. Continue reading... |
| Competition: guess the date of the Guardian article – week one Posted: 07 May 2021 02:00 AM PDT Pinpoint the date the story first appeared in the Guardian to be in with a chance of winning prizes including a ticket to a Masterclass of your choice To mark the Guardian's bicentenary, we are running a competition for readers. We have selected six stories that have appeared over the past 200 years. There is a link between them, but just to make it a little spicier we will not be telling you what that link is. Each of these six stories will be published on the Guardian website on successive Fridays, with the next four following on 14, 21 and 28 May, and on 4 June. On 11 June, we will publish the final piece along with the other five, alongside a form for entries. You must guess the date that each of the stories appeared. The first 10 randomly chosen readers who correctly identify the dates (or got closest to them) will receive prizes, including a ticket to a Guardian Masterclass of your choice, a ticket to a Guardian Live event of your choice, and merchandise packs of commemorative gifts to mark the 200th anniversary. All entries will need to be received by 2 July. The results and a list of winners will appear on 16 July. If more than 10 people get all six right, the winning names will be drawn from a hat (possibly metaphorical). Continue reading... |
| 10 of the best summer anthems, picked by Metronomy Posted: 07 May 2021 01:00 AM PDT Chris Rea to Len, Stereolab to Finley Quaye – to celebrate a decade of their classic summer album The English Riviera, Metronomy founder Joe Mount shares a sun-soaked playlist As fans celebrate a decade since the release of Metronomy's swaying-palm-trees-and-hazy-beach-party soundtrack The English Riviera, we can think of no one more qualified than the band's founder Joe Mount to select 10 great summer bops. Here are his favourite seasonal bangers … Continue reading... |
| How did the Guardian survive 200 years? Posted: 06 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT The Guardian is older than Germany, the New York Times, most FTSE 100 companies and fish 'n' chips. How did a tiny Manchester start-up from the steam age last so long? On the day the Guardian was born in Manchester on 5 May 1821, the big story was taking place 4,800 miles away on an island in the south Atlantic. Continue reading... |
| From the archive, 7 May 1975: hunt for Lord Lucan goes on – just Posted: 06 May 2021 09:30 PM PDT 7 May 1975: All sightings have been in error. One elderly lady was convinced he had joined the Metropolitan Police and was on point duty in Whitehall It would be unfair on Scotland Yard to say that the police had given up the search for Lord Lucan but it would also be a gross distortion of the facts to pretend that a massive investigation is still being mounted to find him. Related: Who was Lord Lucan? Continue reading... |
| Mozambique insurgency: 20,000 still trapped near gas plant six weeks after attack Posted: 06 May 2021 11:15 PM PDT People fleeing militant violence near Total's Afungi project in Cabo Delgado have been blocked by government forces More than 20,000 Mozambicans have been trapped near a huge natural gas project in the country's Cabo Delgado province, more than a month since it was abandoned after a militant attack. People camped at the gates of French energy company Total's Afungi site have had been unable to escape, despite fears of imminent violence, and have limited food because the Mozambican government has blocked humanitarian access. Continue reading... |
| How US companies could use patients’ data from Covid vaccine drive Posted: 07 May 2021 02:00 AM PDT Privacy advocates warn retail pharmacies in particular are blurring the line between public health and commerce Data rights organizations have warned that patients lack a clear understanding of how information about their health, employment, contact or location details may be used if it is collected by private entities during the Covid-19 vaccine drive. Some advocates have already expressed concerns that the information could be used for marketing, targeted advertising or de-identified and sold into the multibillion-dollar health data industry. Continue reading... |
| Cuba during the pandemic – photo essay Posted: 06 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT Photographer Leysis Quesada Vera describes life during the pandemic in Havana's Los Sitios neighbourhood. Her work is supported and produced by the Magnum Foundation, with a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. Magnum Foundation is a nonprofit organisation that expands creativity and diversity in documentary photography. Through grant making and mentorship, Magnum Foundation supports a global network of social justice and human rights-focused photographers and experiments with new models for storytelling Los Sitios lies to the south of Centro, the careworn barrio that gives Havana its coarse voice and whose northern limit is the Malecon, the famous corniche set against the Florida Straits. The photographer Leysis Quesada Vera describes Los Sitios – her neighbourhood – as home to "people who work with tourists but not in the hotels. They sell cigars, probably illegally, clean the houses where tourists stay, sell souvenirs." Continue reading... |
| More than 170 unaccompanied children among Australians stranded in India Posted: 07 May 2021 02:03 AM PDT Repatriation flights will resume once the travel ban lifts on 15 May, but the government has not set a deadline for rescuing vulnerable Australians More than 170 unaccompanied children are among the Australians seeking to return from India as it struggles to contain a deadly second wave of Covid-19, officials in Canberra have revealed. With the Senate's Covid-19 committee turning its attention to the government's controversial temporary ban on travellers from India, officials reported there were now about 9,500 Australians who wished to return home from the country – including 950 classed as vulnerable. Continue reading... |
| UK cuts grants for small aid charities to save ‘less than cost of No 10 press room’ Posted: 06 May 2021 04:30 AM PDT Hospital in Zanzibar and support for child workers in Bangladesh among approved projects to miss out as £2.1m of funding cancelled The UK has scrapped three rounds of grants to small international development charities, prompting fury that it has wiped out funding for 42 projects around the world to save "less than the [£2.6m] cost of the Downing Street press room". The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) told charities last week that rounds six, seven and eight of the Small Charities Challenge Fund (SCCF) would not go ahead because of aid cuts, cancelling in total about £2.1m of funds earmarked for new and future programmes, including many that had been approved. Continue reading... |
| Where is New Zealand’s ‘values-based’ foreign policy when it comes to the Uyghurs? | Guled Mire Posted: 06 May 2021 01:00 PM PDT Other small nations also feel vulnerable to Chinese aggression but it hasn't stopped them speaking out over the Uyghur genocide After the Christchurch terror attacks, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern donned a hijab as she comforted the relatives of the 51 Muslims who were killed simply for practising their faith. The image spread across the world and she was lavished with international praise. Yet her apparent turning away from the active erasure of China's Uyghur Muslim minority population may undo that reputation. On Wednesday, New Zealand's parliament backed away from calling what is happening in Xinjiang a "genocide," opting instead for the watered-down language of "human rights breaches". Continue reading... |
| 'On their own': Dfat confirms 173 unaccompanied Australian children stranded in India – video Posted: 06 May 2021 11:51 PM PDT The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has told a Senate hearing on Covid-19 there are 173 unaccompanied children in India who are trying to return to Australia. More than 9,500 Australians are stranded in the country, 950 of them classed as vulnerable, following a flight ban from India that will end on 15 May. Australian airline Qantas doesn't take unaccompanied minors, potentially limiting options to come home through Air India or special repatriation flights Continue reading... |
| Three injured after sixth-grade girl shoots three at Idaho middle school – video Posted: 06 May 2021 10:55 PM PDT A sixth-grade girl shot two students and a custodian at a middle school in Rigby, Idaho, on Thursday before being disarmed by a teacher, local authorities said. The Jefferson county sheriff, Steve Anderson, said the girl had fired multiple rounds inside and outside the school. The three victims were shot in their extremities and are expected to survive Continue reading... |
| At least 25 killed in Rio de Janeiro's deadliest favela raid – video Posted: 06 May 2021 10:24 PM PDT At least 25 people have been killed after heavily armed police stormed Jacarezinho, one of Rio de Janeiro's largest favelas, in pursuit of drug traffickers in what was the deadliest raid in the city's history. About 200 members of Rio's civil police launched the raid into Jacarezinho in the early hours despite a 2020 supreme court order outlawing such incursions during the coronavirus pandemic. While police hailed the raid a success, critics said it was a 'massacre' Continue reading... |
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