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- SNP election win: Johnson sets up summit as Sturgeon pledges second referendum
- Scores injured in fresh night of Jerusalem clashes
- Revealed: devastation that awaits Syrians facing expulsion by Denmark
- Chinese rocket debris crashes back to Earth, plunging into Indian Ocean – state media
- Prince Michael of Kent accused of selling access to Kremlin
- Democrats renew effort to get Donald Trump’s financial records
- Myanmar junta labels opposition government of ousted MPs a ‘terrorist’ group
- From the Normandy coast, the Jersey whelk wars look like sabotage
- Manchester United lose £200m training kit deal over fans’ anti-Glazers campaign
- Elon Musk says he is ‘first person with Asperger’s’ to host Saturday Night Live
- ‘Big bark but no bite’: Obamas mourn former first dog Bo
- Covid live news: Modi faces increased pressure for national lockdown in India
- Pope adds voice to call for pharma giants to waive vaccine patents
- Why the Covid vaccination program in the Torres Strait islands depends on trust
- Barry Jenkins: ‘Maybe America has never been great’
- Mission menopause: ‘My hormones went off a cliff – and I’m not going to be ashamed’
- Bill and Melinda Gates divorce: why the over-60s are ‘silver splitters’
- Toby Jones: ‘Nobody is just one thing’
- My partner says she still loves her ‘very good-looking’ ex | Dear Mariella
- How private is your Gmail, and should you switch?
- It’s a win-win if UK loses war with France
- Scores injured in fresh night of clashes in Jerusalem – video
- Cries of the victims of mass rape go unheard in Ethiopia’s mountain war | Simon Tisdall
- Speak, Okinawa review – a struggle to unearth a denied self
- Volleyball on Bondi and Tamarama beaches under review after complaints of risk to beachgoers
- Everyone deserves a decent, secure life. It’s time New Zealand talked about rent controls | Chloe Swarbrick
- As the global family shrinks, migrants and the planet benefit
- Israeli police clash with Palestinians at al-Aqsa mosque – video
| SNP election win: Johnson sets up summit as Sturgeon pledges second referendum Posted: 08 May 2021 12:51 PM PDT First minister says there is 'no democratic justification' for No 10 denying second vote Nicola Sturgeon has pledged to press ahead with plans for a second independence referendum after the Scottish National party won its fourth consecutive Holyrood election, triggering a constitutional battle with Boris Johnson. In a letter issued before the final results were declared, Johnson attempted to blunt Sturgeon's attack by urging the first minister and her opposite numbers in Wales and Northern Ireland to join a UK-wide Covid recovery summit involving all four governments. Continue reading... |
| Scores injured in fresh night of Jerusalem clashes Posted: 08 May 2021 06:00 PM PDT Palestine Red Crescent says 80 people were hurt during clashes with Israeli police outside Jerusalem's Old City Fresh clashes have erupted between Palestinians and Israeli police outside the Old City of Jerusalem, extending some of the city's worst unrest in years. At least 80 people were injured, including a one-year-old, and 14 were taken to hospital, the Palestine Red Crescent said. Israeli police said at least one officer was hurt. Continue reading... |
| Revealed: devastation that awaits Syrians facing expulsion by Denmark Posted: 08 May 2021 10:15 PM PDT Copenhagen will not renew residency rights – and families fear being sent back to homes that no longer exist Danish authorities say Mesbah Mshleem must take three of his children, the youngest a Danish-born five-year-old, and return to Damascus, to a home that no longer stands, in a neighbourhood destroyed by the war and often shut off to former residents. There is little hope of compensation for those losses. "I do not know what is left to go back to. How can I protect my children there?" says Mshleem, one of more than 100 Syrians living in Denmark who have effectively lost their refugee status. His lawyer had to challenge an order for his five-year-old to leave the country immediately and alone. Continue reading... |
| Chinese rocket debris crashes back to Earth, plunging into Indian Ocean – state media Posted: 08 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT Officials said most of the Long March 5B burned up in the atmosphere, but Nasa was critical of China's lack of transparency over the re-entry The remnants of China's largest rocket have plummeted back to Earth, plunging into the Indian ocean near the Maldives, according to Chinese state media, ending days of speculation over where the debris would hit. Most of the debris burned up in the atmosphere, it reported, citing the Chinese Manned Space Engineering office. Continue reading... |
| Prince Michael of Kent accused of selling access to Kremlin Posted: 09 May 2021 01:20 AM PDT Queen's cousin allegedly told undercover reporters he could be hired for £10,000 a day to approach Putin's team The Queen's cousin has been accused of being willing to use his royal status to sell privileged access to Vladimir Putin's regime following an undercover investigation. Prince Michael of Kent, the Queen's cousin, allegedly told undercover reporters posing as investors from South Korea that he could be hired for £10,000 a day to make "confidential" representations to the Russian president's team. Continue reading... |
| Democrats renew effort to get Donald Trump’s financial records Posted: 08 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT House committee is arguing to federal judge that with Trump out of office, he no longer has a viable claim to withhold materials A powerful Democrat-led House committee is pushing a federal judge to order Donald Trump to comply with a subpoena for his financial records, arguing he no longer has a viable claim to withhold materials now that he is out of office, according to a source familiar with the matter. The move from the House oversight committee, led by the chair Carolyn Maloney, marks the latest salvo from Democrats in their years-long pursuit to secure Trump's tax records and related documents, in a case testing the scope and limits of Congress's oversight authority. Continue reading... |
| Myanmar junta labels opposition government of ousted MPs a ‘terrorist’ group Posted: 08 May 2021 07:00 PM PDT Coup leaders ban opposition national unity government, and contact with them, as they seek to quell ongoing protests Myanmar's military rulers have branded a national unity government formed by MPs forced to flee in the wake of the coup a terrorist group and blamed it for bombings, arson and killings as part of a propaganda campaign in state-controlled media on Saturday. Myanmar's army overthrew the elected government on 1 February and detained elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, sparking months of protests during which hundreds of people have been killed by security forces. In response, local militias have been formed to confront the army while anti-junta protests have continued across the south-east Asian country and strikes have paralysed the economy. Continue reading... |
| From the Normandy coast, the Jersey whelk wars look like sabotage Posted: 09 May 2021 01:15 AM PDT Locals in the port of Granville think the row between France and the UK over fishing makes no sense If you look out to sea from the Christian Dior museum on the cliffs above Granville, you see the grey outline of what appears to be another part of the Norman coast. It is. But it isn't. Continue reading... |
| Manchester United lose £200m training kit deal over fans’ anti-Glazers campaign Posted: 08 May 2021 01:48 PM PDT
Manchester United have missed out on a proposed new training kit deal worth £200m over 10 years after the Manchester-based company The Hut Group had concerns about the supporters' campaign to boycott the club's commercial partners in protest at the Glazers' ownership, the Observer understands. Richard Arnold, United's group managing director, was told on Friday that THG had pulled out of a contract which was due to start on 1 July. Continue reading... |
| Elon Musk says he is ‘first person with Asperger’s’ to host Saturday Night Live Posted: 08 May 2021 10:39 PM PDT The billionaire made the comment during opening monologue in much-anticipated debut hosting the comedy show Elon Musk has told viewers of Saturday Night Live that he "is the first person with Asperger's" to host the US sketch show, before joking about his son's name and smoking cannabis on a podcast for the first global livestream of the programme. During the opening, the billionaire entrepreneur spoke of how he sometimes posted strange comments on his social media, saying: "To anyone I've offended, I just want to say 'I reinvented electric cars and I'm sending people to Mars in a rocket ship, did you also think I was going to be a chill, normal dude?"' Continue reading... |
| ‘Big bark but no bite’: Obamas mourn former first dog Bo Posted: 09 May 2021 02:21 AM PDT Barack and Michelle Obama express sorrow at passing of 'true friend and companion' Former President Barack Obama's dog Bo died on Saturday from cancer, the Obamas said on social media. News of Bo's passing was shared by Obama and his wife, Michelle, on Instagram, where both expressed sorrow at the passing of a dog the former president described as a "true friend and loyal companion." Continue reading... |
| Covid live news: Modi faces increased pressure for national lockdown in India Posted: 09 May 2021 02:02 AM PDT Latest updates: India's Covid-19 deaths rose by more than 4,000 for a second consecutive day; New South Wales to extend Covid restrictions for another week
There are signs that Tokyo might experience an explosive resurgence of the virus, as the capital's fever consultation hotline was deluged with inquiries from people, after a nationwide holiday period came to an end on Sunday. The Japan Times reports: The situation is eerily reminiscent of early January, when Tokyo was hit by the biggest wave of cases yet, driving its medical system to the breaking point and leaving many patients without proper care as they waited to be hospitalised. With the conclusion of the Golden Week holiday period, metropolitan government officials are bracing for a worst-case scenario that they fear may be in the cards.
People who have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 in Germany are exempt from many restrictions from Sunday, after the government passed new legislation to restore some freedoms. AFP reports: Curfews and limits on social contacts no longer apply to those fully vaccinated – more than 7 million people – or recovered from a Covid infection under the new rules. They will also no longer have to present a negative test result to access certain services such as hairdressers and "click and meet" shopping appointments. Continue reading... |
| Pope adds voice to call for pharma giants to waive vaccine patents Posted: 09 May 2021 12:15 AM PDT Francis condemns 'virus of individualism' that is hampering global vaccination efforts in message to Vax Live concert Pope Francis has given his backing to the campaign calling for the suspension of coronavirus vaccine patents to boost supplies to poorer countries. In a video message to the Vax Live event, Francis backed "universal access to the vaccine and the temporary suspension of intellectual property rights". And he added his condemnation of the "virus of individualism" that "makes us indifferent to the suffering of others". Continue reading... |
| Why the Covid vaccination program in the Torres Strait islands depends on trust Posted: 08 May 2021 01:00 PM PDT A perceived lack of cultural awareness has raised concerns about how the rollout will be received, but islanders are working to overcome the barriers Disruptions are not uncommon on Badu Island, one of the largest islands in the Torres Strait. When the Covid-19 pandemic hit in 2020, the Torres Strait went into lockdown in line with the rest of the country, and locals were encouraged not to travel between islands. Charlotte Nona, the director of Queensland Regional Health in the Torres Strait and Northern Peninsula, says there is only one frontline health worker for the entire population on Badu. Continue reading... |
| Barry Jenkins: ‘Maybe America has never been great’ Posted: 09 May 2021 02:00 AM PDT The Moonlight director on how making his epic TV adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer prize-winning The Underground Railroad compelled him to fully confront the history of slavery, as well as his own damaged childhood Barry Jenkins first heard the history of the Underground Railroad from a teacher when he was six or seven years old. The school lesson described the loose network of safe houses and abolitionists that helped enslaved people in the American south escape to free states in the north in the 19th century. Jenkins as a wide-eyed kid imagined an actual railroad, though, secret steam trains thundering under America, built by black superheroes in the dead of night. It was an image, he recalls, that made "anything feel possible". "My grandfather was a longshoreman," he says. "He came home every day, in his hard hat and his tool belt, and his thick boots. And I thought, 'Oh, yes, people like my granddad, they built this underground railroad!'" That childhood image returned to Jenkins, now 41, when he read an advance copy of Colson Whitehead's novel about that history, which builds on that same seductive idea. That was in 2016. Both Jenkins and Whitehead were on the edge of career-defining breakthroughs: Jenkins's film Moonlight was about to be released (and would go on to win the Oscar for best picture) and Whitehead's book The Underground Railroad was about to be published (going on to receive the National Book Award and the Pulitzer prize). All this was to come, though, when the pair met. "I was familiar with Colson as an author," Jenkins told me last week on a screen from his home in Los Angeles. "And once I read his book, I knew for sure I absolutely want this. And I'm not that guy. Usually I'll read something and I go, well, that might make a great film, and then I'll just leave it. But this one, it's all hands on deck, we have to get this." Continue reading... |
| Mission menopause: ‘My hormones went off a cliff – and I’m not going to be ashamed’ Posted: 09 May 2021 12:00 AM PDT An estimated 13 million women in the UK are living with the menopause. So why are so many enduring the turmoil of its symptoms without help and support? It's about time that changed. Portrait by Suki Dhanda. Illustration by Anna Kiosse We are witnessing a tipping point: the rise of Menopause Power: a growing activist movement which will change the Change in the same way that Period Power fought period poverty and stigma. On social media, on podcasts and in newspapers, there's a huge menopause conversation, as confrontational as it is celebratory. I've just produced a Channel 4 documentary, Davina McCall: Sex, Myths and the Menopause, and there's nowhere we don't go: losing jobs to hot flushes, vaginal dryness, memory loss, orgasms after menopause, and the shocking misinformation we've been fed on hormone replacement therapy. But above all, we give the menopausal taboo the kicking it has long deserved. As Davina McCall, who's presented everything from Big Brother to Long Lost Family and had her first hot flush at 44, says: "I was advised not to talk about it, that it was ageing and a bit unsavoury, but clearly that didn't work out very well, because I'm sitting here talking to you… I'm not going to be ashamed about a transition that half the population goes through." Continue reading... |
| Bill and Melinda Gates divorce: why the over-60s are ‘silver splitters’ Posted: 08 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT Divorce rates may be falling but there is only one demographic that bucks this trend … older couples If the announcement last week that Bill and Melinda Gates are getting divorced took observers by surprise, it nonetheless conforms to a growing trend of later-life separation. Bill Gates is 65, and his soon to be ex-wife is 56. In the UK the over-65s buck the trend of falling divorce rates. They've even earned their own demographic designation: silver splitters. A grey social revolution is under way with people in their late 50s and 60s increasingly leaving marriages just when they're expected to be most settled. A number of factors are at play but two in particular stand out. One is children going off to college or leaving home. While the empty-nest syndrome may prompt melancholy, it can also end the obligation to "stay together for the children". It's probably no coincidence that the Gateses' youngest child is 18. Continue reading... |
| Toby Jones: ‘Nobody is just one thing’ Posted: 09 May 2021 01:00 AM PDT From Chekhov to Capote to Harry Potter, Toby Jones is one of our most brilliantly versatile actors. So why do people keep trying to tell him who he is? I approach the café from the station side, and there's Toby Jones under the awning. With anxious charm, he doffs his hat. It's a week since London reopened for outdoor socialising after another lockdown and we are not yet quite OK: there is graffiti by the gates about a totalitarian regime; an abandoned face mask flies from a tree. Despite doomy weather we have decided to meet in Jones's local park – it's a novelty still, the thrill of communicating in person. A pleasure. But, do I get this, too, he asks, as we sit down with our coffees? "Do you now sort of freak out when you have appointments? Do you find yourself becoming neurotic about them – in a way that is not useful?" He has spoken before about his bafflement at the idea that actors must be interviewed, at the idea that he should be able to package his life and work into a neat and digestible timeline, so interviewing him I am prepared for resistance. What he offers instead, though, is a gentle analysis of how a person becomes themself. Continue reading... |
| My partner says she still loves her ‘very good-looking’ ex | Dear Mariella Posted: 08 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT It sounds like she is the one with self-worth issues, says Mariella Frostrup. Tell her how this makes you feel and establish boundaries and ground rules The dilemma My partner of two years told me that she had been single for 12 years before I asked her out, but then, six months into our relationship, she told me her last partner was the love of her life and, after they broke up, they continued to regularly have sex for 10 years. She also recently told me she still loves him, but is no longer in love and that he is incredibly good-looking. She maintains she was single for 12 years because they "just" had sex together regularly. I don't understand how this could happen. You are with someone or you're not. I am scared she will be unable to resist him and never really be able to love me. It is haunting. She has never said I am good-looking. She once said our sex is OK, but hopes it will get better and that, based on her own experience, sex gets better the longer the relationship. Should I be worried? Continue reading... |
| How private is your Gmail, and should you switch? Posted: 09 May 2021 01:00 AM PDT You might be surprised how much Google's email service – and others – know about you. Here's how to set some boundaries Most people are aware of the cookies that track them across the web, and the privacy-invading practices of Google search, but did you know Google's email service, Gmail, collects large amounts of data too? This was recently put into stark focus for iPhone users when Gmail published its app "privacy label" – a self-declared breakdown of the data it collects and shares with advertisers as part of a new stipulation on the Apple App Store. Continue reading... |
| It’s a win-win if UK loses war with France Posted: 09 May 2021 01:30 AM PDT If victory eludes us in the row over fishing rights around Jersey, the prospect of Macron at No 10 has much to recommend it If this week has demonstrated anything, it's that war with France is one of few policies to still enjoy true cross-party support. Brexiters are happy because they crave armed conflict with the uppity frogs above all else. Remainers are happy because they always said Brexiters craved armed conflict with the uppity frogs, and they crave being proved right in a losing cause. Other than being paid by the government not to work, it's hard to think of another idea in recent years that everyone has rallied around with such enthusiasm. In fraught times, we ought to be grateful for these fleeting bursts of unity. Continue reading... |
| Scores injured in fresh night of clashes in Jerusalem – video Posted: 08 May 2021 11:02 PM PDT Israeli police and Palestinian protesters clashed around al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem during the final nights of Ramadan Israel's supreme court will hold a hearing on the long-running eviction legal case in Sheikh Jarrah on Monday, as nightly clashes have continued during Ramadan Continue reading... |
| Cries of the victims of mass rape go unheard in Ethiopia’s mountain war | Simon Tisdall Posted: 09 May 2021 12:00 AM PDT Prime minister Abiy Ahmed opened the way for victimisation of women with disastrous decision to attack Tigray The use of rape as a weapon of war is as old as warfare itself. In Bosnia in the 1990s, thousands of Muslim women were brutalised by Bosnian Serb forces, who set up "rape camps" as part of a policy of "ethnic cleansing". In 2001, the UN's Yugoslav war crimes tribunal redefined mass rape as a crime against humanity. Yet there have been many similar atrocities since then, including in South Sudan, Syria, Iraq, and Myanmar. Now the world looks on – or rather, looks away – as it happens again. Today, in Tigray, in northern Ethiopia, large numbers of women and girls are again being subjected to "unimaginable" terror and suffering as a result of pervasive sexual violence. The word "unimaginable" is taken from a disturbing new report on Tigray by Parliament's international development committee – a report largely ignored by the British government and media. Continue reading... |
| Speak, Okinawa review – a struggle to unearth a denied self Posted: 09 May 2021 02:00 AM PDT Elizabeth Miki Brina's memoir about coming to terms with her Japanese-American heritage is warm and affecting Most memoirs are about resolving an identity crisis of some kind. And this is an extreme one. Born to a mother from Okinawa and a father who was a US soldier, Elizabeth Miki Brina grows up in New Jersey and Fairport, New York, faintly aware of her history but unable to really assimilate it for years. As a child, she clings to her father, to Beverly Hills 90210, to Chuck E Cheese dinners, to Aerosmith cassette tapes; she cuts up her mother's kimonos and, as soon as she is old enough, dyes her hair blond. She wants blue contact lenses but her parents draw the line at that. Even at the age of 18, when she starts to say the words "half-Japanese" out loud, she is not able to explain "what Okinawa is", the place where her mother was born and raised. As the author explains, the words "internalised racism" were not in anyone's vocabulary at that time – and they certainly weren't familiar to her parents, two people who were young and naive when they fell in love and spend the rest of their marriage just trying to do their best, with the kind of quietly disastrous consequences that secretly make up many ordinary family lives. With the benefit of hindsight and the beady eye of a ruthless biographer, Miki Brina's life story becomes an extraordinarily compelling and involving account of what it means to grow up denying a part of yourself. Continue reading... |
| Volleyball on Bondi and Tamarama beaches under review after complaints of risk to beachgoers Posted: 08 May 2021 08:59 PM PDT Waverley Council reconsidering popular practice, which could lead to new restrictions, a reduction in nets or a ban on the sport Australia's most famous beaches may restrict volleyball following complaints the sport poses a risk to other beachgoers. Informal games of beach volleyball are a regular sight at Sydney's Bondi and Tamarama beaches, which allow three and four nets respectively. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 08 May 2021 01:00 PM PDT Under the government's current plans it will be half a century before house prices return to affordability One-third of New Zealanders rent. In my electorate and home, Auckland Central, the centre of the largest city in the country, it's even more: 54%. For a really long time, the conversation around housing was one of avocados and flat whites. Renters, we were told, were in a temporary moment of their life. They were, the story went, on a path to homeownership, if only they could reign in their spending on fancy cafe food. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| As the global family shrinks, migrants and the planet benefit Posted: 08 May 2021 10:03 AM PDT Figures from the US and Japan reveal sharp declines in birthrates, and even China may have peaked, but there are upsides Read more: Italy's birthrate is falling. Can the storks help? Census data from the US released last week showed the number of babies born in the country in 2020 dropped to the lowest level in more than four decades. The same day, Japan marked Children's Day by announcing that the number of under-14s in the country had fallen for the 40th consecutive year to a record low. It is not just in the rich world that the appetite for having children is falling. Also in 2020, China may have recorded its first overall population decline since a catastrophic famine in the late 1950s, the Financial Times has reported, citing unpublished census data. Continue reading... |
| Israeli police clash with Palestinians at al-Aqsa mosque – video Posted: 08 May 2021 03:51 AM PDT Israeli police broke into the prayer room at the mosque in East Jerusalem as several hundred Palestinians stayed on after Friday prayers to protest against potential evictions of Palestinians from homes on land claimed by Jewish settlers. At least 178 Palestinians and six officers were injured in the night-time clashes at Islam's third-holiest site and around East Jerusalem. Israel's supreme court will hold a hearing on the long-running eviction legal case in Sheikh Jarrah on Monday, as nightly clashes have continued during Ramadan Continue reading... |
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