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- Elections 2021: Johnson set for independence referendum clash with Sturgeon as counting continues in Scotland – live
- More than 205 Palestinians wounded in Jerusalem al-Aqsa clashes
- ‘A dirty business’: how one drug is turning Syria into a narco-state
- ‘They can’t take it any more’: pandemic and poverty brew violent storm in Colombia
- ‘Christchurch Call’: Biden backs New Zealand stand against online extremism
- French military pilot tied up on firing range during bombing as hazing prank
- UK aid cuts will put tens of thousands of children at risk of famine, says charity
- China tries to scupper UN talk on plight of Uyghurs
- Zulu queen’s will designates Prince Misuzulu as heir
- Montana governor signs bill banning transgender students from sports teams
- New York boy stuns family with $2,618 Amazon order for SpongeBob popsicles
- Picture of two pandemics: Covid cases fall in rich west as poorer nations suffer
- Coronavirus live news: two more Indian states go into lockdown; UK ‘could be protected from Covid by August’
- Revealed: 46m displaced people excluded from Covid jab programmes
- England puts 12 destinations on Covid ‘green list’ for trips from 17 May
- Can virtual meeting spaces save us all from Zoom fatigue?
- ‘I hope you know this was never about football’: coaching my daughter’s team
- Marxists, feminists – and Olympians: the most dazzling Guardian writers over 200 years
- Bobby Gillespie: ‘I am a lead singer, I love myself’
- Yotam Ottolenghi’s barbecue recipes for outdoors or in
- Blind date: ‘Would we have kissed? Good question’
- ‘I don’t want to go out on my own’: Kent villagers on Julia James killing
- Refugees and the Armenian genocide: human rights this fortnight in pictures
- How rugby star Maro Itoje found his voice: ‘For black people, the road is often trickier’
- The sleazy, sordid Matt Gaetz scandal: are the walls now closing in on him?
- Eric Abetz dumped from top spot on Liberal party’s Tasmanian Senate ticket
- Mexican president accuses US of interference over funding for NGOs
- ‘A scene out of the middle ages’: Dead refugee found surrounded by rats at Greek camp
- Cat carried away from Scottish polling station – video
- Covid travel rules: 'green list' of destinations announced for England – video
- 'We still have a long way to go,' says Joe Biden after disappointing jobs numbers – video
| Posted: 08 May 2021 02:30 AM PDT All the latest news and results after Thursday's elections in Scotland, England and Wales
English council election results have started coming in again this morning, after counting stopped overnight. Within the last few minutes we have had confirmation that the Conservatives have held Rushmoor and Reigate & Banstead. You can follow the results on our tracker here. Related: 2021 election: latest results from Scottish, Welsh and local votes Continue reading... |
| More than 205 Palestinians wounded in Jerusalem al-Aqsa clashes Posted: 08 May 2021 01:44 AM PDT Confrontations at holy site leave 17 Israeli police officers wounded, with international calls for calm More than 205 Palestinians and 17 Israeli police officers were wounded during a night of intense clashes at a sacred Jerusalem site that holds the Dome of the Rock, medics and police said, a serious escalation in a weeks-long rise in violence. Tensions in Jerusalem have soared recently, with Palestinians complaining of oppressive restrictions during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. An upcoming Israeli court ruling on whether authorities can evict dozens of Palestinians – and give their homes to Jewish settlers – has further inflamed the situation. Continue reading... |
| ‘A dirty business’: how one drug is turning Syria into a narco-state Posted: 07 May 2021 02:54 AM PDT Manufacture of Captagon is a growth industry so big it is starting to rival GDP of flatlining economy In the summer of 2015 a businessman in the Syrian province of Latakia was approached by a powerful security chief, seeking a favour. The official wanted the merchant, an importer of medical supplies, to source large amounts of a drug called fenethylline from abroad. The regime, he said, would readily buy the lot. After an internet search, the merchant made a decision. He left his home that same week, first sending his wife and children to exile, then following after, scrounging what he could from his businesses for a new start. "I know what they were asking me to do," he said from his new home in Paris. "They wanted the main ingredient for Captagon. And that drug is a dirty business." Continue reading... |
| ‘They can’t take it any more’: pandemic and poverty brew violent storm in Colombia Posted: 07 May 2021 08:17 AM PDT Demonstrations that began with a general strike on 28 April quickly descended into violence, with as many as 37 protesters killed across the country Yina Reyes, a 39-year-old nurse from the downtrodden neighbourhood of Siloé in the Colombian city of Cali, knows only too well what Covid-19 can do to a person – and to a community. Her mother was hospitalized with the disease, and came close to death. As a home care nurse, she has seen patients get sick and neighbours die. In the early days of the pandemic, her husband lost his job as a chauffeur, leaving her to provide for their daughter and his parents, who share their home. Continue reading... |
| ‘Christchurch Call’: Biden backs New Zealand stand against online extremism Posted: 07 May 2021 06:51 PM PDT US joins call to action two years after Trump administration declined due to free speech concerns The United States will join an international bid to stamp out violent extremism online, the White House has said, two years after the Trump administration declined to do so. The Biden administration spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Washington "will join the Christchurch Call to Action" in "a global pledge by member governments and technology partners to work together to address terrorist and violent extremist content online". Continue reading... |
| French military pilot tied up on firing range during bombing as hazing prank Posted: 07 May 2021 11:24 PM PDT Lawyer gives details of airman's complaint over Corsica incident where he was tied to target while bombs and bullets hailed around A French pilot has filed a legal complaint after being subjected to a hazing ritual in which he was tied to a target and had fighter jets open fire around him, his lawyer has said. The young man had just been posted to an airbase in the south of the island of Corsica in March 2019 when he was grabbed by colleagues and tied up with adhesive tape, his lawyer said, confirming details first published in La Provence newspaper. Continue reading... |
| UK aid cuts will put tens of thousands of children at risk of famine, says charity Posted: 07 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT Save the Children's analysis finds Britain will spend 80% less on nutrition abroad this year, as hunger levels rise around the world Britain is set to spend 80% less on helping feed children in poorer nations than before the pandemic, according to a charity's analysis. Save the Children said the British government will spend less than £26m this year on vital nutrition services in developing countries, a drop of more than three-quarters from 2019. The estimate of aid cuts to nutrition comes after UN agencies called for urgent action to avert famine in 20 countries including Yemen, South Sudan and northern Nigeria. Continue reading... |
| China tries to scupper UN talk on plight of Uyghurs Posted: 07 May 2021 09:41 PM PDT Beijing's mission asks other members not to attend, with Human Rights Watch saying it continues pattern of 'trying to bully governments into silence' China is trying to convince UN member states to boycott an event planned next week by Germany, the US and Britain on the repression of Uyghur Muslims and other minorities in Xinjiang, according to a note seen by Reuters on Friday. China charged that the organisers, who include several other European states along with Australia and Canada, use "human rights issues as a political tool to interfere in China's internal affairs like Xinjiang, to create division and turbulence and disrupt China's development". Continue reading... |
| Zulu queen’s will designates Prince Misuzulu as heir Posted: 07 May 2021 07:12 PM PDT Succession battle in South Africa takes latest turn after king and queen both died within less than two months Prince Misuzulu Zulu – the eldest son of South Africa's late Zulu king Goodwill Zwelithini and his more recently deceased regent queen – has been designated heir to the monarchy amid a turbulent succession battle. Misuzulu Zulu, 46, whose name means "strengthening the Zulus", was named heir in the last will of his deceased mother and queen, Shiyiwe Mantfombi Dlamini Zulu. The will was read out on television on Friday. Continue reading... |
| Montana governor signs bill banning transgender students from sports teams Posted: 07 May 2021 05:07 PM PDT This year more than 80 laws targeting trans people have been proposed by conservative lawmakers nationwide Montana's governor has signed a bill that bans transgender athletes from competing on school and university sports teams that correspond with their gender. Greg Gianforte's signing on Friday makes Montana the latest Republican-controlled state to approve such legislation. Continue reading... |
| New York boy stuns family with $2,618 Amazon order for SpongeBob popsicles Posted: 07 May 2021 02:22 PM PDT Noah Bryant, four, who is on the autism spectrum, sent a 51-case order of SpongeBob treats to his aunt's house A four-year-old New York boy has left his family with a huge bill after he secretly ordered a staggering $2,618 worth of SpongeBob popsicles from online retailer Amazon. Noah Bryant, from Brooklyn, ordered 51 cases containing a total of 918 popsicles to be shipped to his aunt's house, the local TV station ABC7 reported. Continue reading... |
| Picture of two pandemics: Covid cases fall in rich west as poorer nations suffer Posted: 07 May 2021 09:00 PM PDT India's tragedy could be followed by Africa's, campaigners warn, as wealthy nations fail to extend vaccines – and decide who will live or die The past seven days has been a picture of two pandemics. Among the world's richest nations, lockdowns and well-resourced vaccine campaigns, which have monopolised the early global supply of doses, have brought down infections and deaths. Economies have slowly opened. Restrictions have been lifted. Life has crept closer to normal, giving the false impression of an end in sight to the global pandemic. In reality, as the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom, pointed out, more cases have been reported in the past two weeks than in the entire first six months of the pandemic, with south Asia bearing the brunt. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 08 May 2021 02:33 AM PDT Karnatka and Tamil Nadu impose lockdowns after record new cases; outgoing chief of UK taskforce says population should be protected before winter
The pope has backed the call by Joe Biden to waive intellectual property rights for Covid-19 vaccines, several agencies are reporting. Pope Francis's move to join the call to open the books on how the vaccines are made puts him at odds with several European countries, including Germany and the UK. I'll bring you more on this as it comes.
A UK doctors union leader has warned that NHS workers are facing "unacceptable levels of exhaustion", after a survey found that nearly six in 10 had worked extra shifts during the pandemic – a quarter of them unpaid. According to the poll of British Medical Association (BMA) members, more than half of doctors (58%) surveyed in the UK had worked extra shifts as part of the Covid-19 response, of which 28% were unpaid. The BMA's Covid-19 tracker survey in April also revealed 44% of doctors felt pressured by their employer to work additional hours. To learn that an already depleted and now exhausted workforce feels forced into doing more and more hours, with many reporting higher levels of fatigue than ever, is extremely worrying. It is putting them at risk and their patients. Continue reading... |
| Revealed: 46m displaced people excluded from Covid jab programmes Posted: 07 May 2021 05:00 AM PDT WHO review finds many national vaccination plans exclude asylum seekers, refugees, migrants and IDPs Tens of millions of asylum seekers, migrants, refugees and internally displaced people around the world have been excluded from national Covid-19 vaccination programmes, according to World Health Organization research seen by the Guardian. The gaps mean that a scattered group numbering at least 46 million people, about the size of the population of Spain, may struggle to get vaccinated even if a global shortage of doses eases. Continue reading... |
| England puts 12 destinations on Covid ‘green list’ for trips from 17 May Posted: 07 May 2021 10:49 AM PDT Destinations on green list include Australia, New Zealand, Portugal, Singapore, Brunei and Israel
Portugal and Israel are among a dozen countries which have been placed on England's first ever "green list", allowing people to go abroad from 17 May and return home without the need to quarantine. Announcing the first easing of tight restrictions on foreign travel in months, the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, said people would soon be able to book foreign holidays and make trips to see friends or relatives living overseas. He also announced plans to make digital vaccine passports available. Continue reading... |
| Can virtual meeting spaces save us all from Zoom fatigue? Posted: 07 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT Few of us will be back in the office full time – but does that have to mean endless video calls? Meet the weird and wonderful newcomers hoping to take a piece of the action I'm playing online Pictionary while chatting with five people I've never met. This is not at all how I usually spend my Thursdays. We've all dropped into a virtual meeting space on a site called gather.town, which provides free customisable spaces for anyone who wants to organise a get-together without using Zoom. Gather is a virtual world and you choose an avatar before entering it: imagine a mid-80s Super Mario game in which, instead of jumping over his enemies, Mario has to go to the office. There are pixelated potted palms dotted about my screen, a couple of banks of desks and a sofa area, all rendered in that very specific 2D map style common to early computer games. I'm represented by a tiny, blocky avatar: a collection of dots arranged to look a bit like a person. As I move it around with keyboard keys, I can enter and leave conversations – when I do so, a small live video of whoever I'm talking to appears above the main screen. It might all sound mad, but Gather is 18 months old, has 4 million users, and recently raised $26m in investment. Universities use it to create virtual campuses; individuals use it to host games nights; groups of friends throw parties on it – and workers are collaborating on it. It is trying, like hundreds of other new platforms, sites and apps, to provide us all with a solution to a very 2021 problem: despite being ubiquitous since early 2020, video calls aren't necessarily helping us work or stay connected effectively. Continue reading... |
| ‘I hope you know this was never about football’: coaching my daughter’s team Posted: 08 May 2021 02:00 AM PDT When we started training, I thought it was for her sake. So why do I dread the day my daughter hangs up her boots? One day you'll understand that this was never about football. It could have been anything. I just wanted to be where you were, as much as possible, for as long as you let me. When you were five we had an argument in the car on the way to a training session. I don't know exactly what it was about. As I mentioned, you were five, so it could have been anything: how I'd packed the wrong sort of corn crackers, or how after you'd bitten into one of them it had corners on it and you hated corners, or how I didn't understand how much you hated corners because I obviously never cared about your feelings because I probably wouldn't even care if you like died! If I really loved you, I would have bought the right corn crackers, the corner-less kind. It was one of those arguments. It ended as we stopped at a red light and you said something and I said something back, and you said something kind of mean and I lost my temper and said: "If you're going to fight this much with me every time we go to train, I really don't have to put this much time into being the coach!" Continue reading... |
| Marxists, feminists – and Olympians: the most dazzling Guardian writers over 200 years Posted: 08 May 2021 12:00 AM PDT The Guardian has attracted all manner of eccentrics, characters and social pioneers, from suffragettes to literary giants What is the golden thread that links today's Guardian journalists with those of the 1820s? It takes imagination to summon up the atmosphere of the paper's beginnings, a small-scale but bold enterprise upon which "Tory journalists looked with contempt", as a contemporary onlooker recalled. John Edward Taylor was the paper's proprietor, founder, leader writer and reporter. He would typeset his own articles directly from his shorthand notes, recalled his partner, the reporter Jeremiah Garnett. Then he'd help with the manual labour of the press, and lend a hand with distribution. Continue reading... |
| Bobby Gillespie: ‘I am a lead singer, I love myself’ Posted: 08 May 2021 01:30 AM PDT The musician on his Raquel Welch wallpaper, crying when Maradona died and breaking his back in four places Born in Glasgow, Bobby Gillespie, 58, founded Primal Scream in 1982. The band's third album, Screamadelica, won the 1992 Mercury music prize. Utopian Ashes, Gillespie's album with Jehnny Beth, is released on 2 July; their single, Remember We Were Lovers, is out now. He lives in London with his wife, fashion stylist Katy England, and two sons. When were you happiest? |
| Yotam Ottolenghi’s barbecue recipes for outdoors or in Posted: 08 May 2021 01:30 AM PDT An alfresco duo that you can cook outdoors or in: baked potato with onion and harissa butter, and peas in the pod with wasabi dressing One game I'm definitely playing in the next year or so is Spot the Park/Common/Outdoor Scene in every film or TV series I watch, because I've seen so many film crews at work outside over the past year. And, just as I predict a spate of outdoor film and TV action, I also predict that, this summer, there will be a whole lot of recipes for outdoor cooking and eating. So long as the weather allows, and our freedoms continue, such delicious predictability is a very nice problem to have, so, tongs at the ready, here are two from me. Continue reading... |
| Blind date: ‘Would we have kissed? Good question’ Posted: 07 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT Nicole, 26, ecological consultant, meets Luke, 26, physiotherapist What were you hoping for? |
| ‘I don’t want to go out on my own’: Kent villagers on Julia James killing Posted: 08 May 2021 02:09 AM PDT As police continue murder inquiry, locals in Aylesham describe fear and worry as they wait for case breakthrough Two weeks ago, Kira and Sam Mandon-Jones walked their rescue dog, Mocha, through fields to Akholt Wood near their home in the Kent village of Aylesham. "And we said: 'This is such a lovely route. We'll do it every week.' But not now," said Kira, 29. Two days after their Sunday stroll, the body of Julia James, 53, was found with "significant head injuries" at 4pm on Tuesday 27 April on the edge of that same wood. The police community support officer was walking her jack russell, Toby, a few hundred yards from her home in the hamlet of Snowdown. Continue reading... |
| Refugees and the Armenian genocide: human rights this fortnight in pictures Posted: 07 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT A roundup of the coverage on struggles for human rights and freedoms, from Colombia to China Continue reading... |
| How rugby star Maro Itoje found his voice: ‘For black people, the road is often trickier’ Posted: 08 May 2021 12:00 AM PDT From highlighting black history to tackling everyday racism, the powerful athlete is determined to use his platform for change Just under a year ago, Maro Itoje popped into his local branch of Waitrose to do some shopping. Despite being one of this country's finest and most recognisable rugby union players – a 6ft 5in second-row forward who has played in a World Cup final and won virtually every major prize in the club game with his team, Saracens – he still enjoys the luxury of being able to walk the streets of his quiet London neighbourhood largely undisturbed. This, however, would not be one of those occasions. "So basically, a member of staff mistook me for one of the workers," he remembers. "This is not the first time this has happened. Normally it's a member of the public asking me where they can find the milk. This was an actual member of staff; she asked me what time I was starting my shift. Which is ludicrous." He speaks quietly and evenly. "But it highlights some of the biases people have. And I think this is an experience that's shared by many people of colour. It shows you how deep-rooted some of these things are." Continue reading... |
| The sleazy, sordid Matt Gaetz scandal: are the walls now closing in on him? Posted: 08 May 2021 02:00 AM PDT Investigation into Florida congressman is reported to have grown beyond sex trafficking allegations There could have been no more fitting venue for the bellicose US congressman Matt Gaetz to launch his nationwide "America first" speaking tour than The Villages. Where better to perpetuate the fantasy that all is going well for a politician seen as the "ultimate Maga bro" than Florida's ultra-conservative "Disney World for retirees"? Related: Florida governor signs new restrictive bill in 'blatant attack on right to vote' Continue reading... |
| Eric Abetz dumped from top spot on Liberal party’s Tasmanian Senate ticket Posted: 08 May 2021 01:41 AM PDT Preselection vote leaves the long-serving powerbroker in hard-to-win third place at the next federal election The influential Tasmanian conservative powerbroker Eric Abetz has been demoted to third place on the Liberal party's Tasmanian Senate ticket in a shock preselection vote. It could signal the end of Abetz's almost three-decade Senate career, given that third place on the ticket is difficult to win. Continue reading... |
| Mexican president accuses US of interference over funding for NGOs Posted: 07 May 2021 10:02 AM PDT
Mexico's populist president has accused the United States of undue interference in the country's internal affairs just before a virtual meeting with the US vice-president, Kamala Harris, which was expected to focus on slowing Central American migration. Related: Amlo calls decision to disqualify candidates 'a blow to democracy' Continue reading... |
| ‘A scene out of the middle ages’: Dead refugee found surrounded by rats at Greek camp Posted: 07 May 2021 04:12 AM PDT Chios case highlights deplorable conditions on islands despite EU allocating millions of euros to improve facilities, aid workers say At a desolate refugee camp on the Greek island of Chios earlier this week, a young man died alone in a tent. By the time the guards arrived on the scene, about 12 hours after the Somali refugee's death, the body was surrounded by rodents. Asylum seekers who had initially alerted staff spoke in horror at seeing rats and mice swarming about. Continue reading... |
| Cat carried away from Scottish polling station – video Posted: 07 May 2021 01:44 PM PDT A cat was carried away from a polling station in Kirkwall, Orkney as people voted in crucial Scottish elections. The SNP won five of the first six seats to be declared, although there was an increase in support in some areas for opposition pro-union parties, indicating the final outcome of the election could be very close |
| Covid travel rules: 'green list' of destinations announced for England – video Posted: 07 May 2021 10:59 AM PDT Turkey, Maldives and Nepal are expected to be added to a red list while Israel will be among the green list countries, the UK transport secretary, Grant Shapps, announced. Popular travel destinations France and Spain were not included in the green list announced on Friday, but Shapps assured there would be a review every three weeks. Continue reading... |
| 'We still have a long way to go,' says Joe Biden after disappointing jobs numbers – video Posted: 07 May 2021 10:09 AM PDT Joe Biden did not appear downhearted by a disappointing jobs report: he said it would not be a sprint, but 'a marathon' after April's report severely missed economists' expectations. The president noted his $1.9tn coronavirus relief package, which he signed into law in March, was meant to aid the US economy over the course of a year and insisted the country is 'moving in the right direction' as businesses begin to reopen Continue reading... |
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