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- Rise of armed civilian groups in Myanmar fuels fears of full-scale civil war
- Calls to find all Canada’s Indigenous mass graves after grim residential school discovery
- Iran nuclear program: UN watchdog unable to access data since February
- China jails blogger who 'slandered' dead in India border clash
- Mark Rylance: arts should tell ‘love stories’ about nature to tackle climate crisis
- Assassination attempt on Ugandan minister kills daughter and driver
- World’s only alpine parrot may have moved to the mountains to avoid people
- Refugee women and children ‘at risk of being abandoned’ in Home Office policy shift
- Coronavirus live news: Peru death toll more than doubles after review; Heathrow opens separate ‘red list’ terminal
- Covid-19 variants to be given Greek alphabet names to avoid stigma
- MPs tell Johnson: you have a duty to help vaccinate the world
- Why every single statue should come down | Gary Younge
- Disaster patriarchy: how the pandemic has unleashed a war on women
- ‘My hairline threatened my identity so much the ground felt shaky’: why hair transplants are booming
- Tulsa race massacre a century later: wounds still open and weeping
- Travellers on UK border controls: ‘I’ve noticed a change of attitude’
- How Prescot’s Shakespeare theatre plays into Merseyside regeneration
- Migrant guards in Qatar ‘still paid under £1 an hour’ ahead of World Cup
- Striking coalminers in Alabama energize support across the south
- Peru has world’s worst per capita Covid toll after death data revised
- My story proves Rwanda’s lack of respect for good governance and human rights
- ‘When will you know?’: Richard Colbeck can't say how many aged care workers are vaccinated – video
- ‘When will you know?’: Richard Colbeck can't say how many aged care workers are vaccinated – video
| Rise of armed civilian groups in Myanmar fuels fears of full-scale civil war Posted: 31 May 2021 05:00 PM PDT Dozens of grassroots people's defence forces have emerged to take on brutal military Myanmar is on the verge of a new civil war, a spokesperson for the country's parallel government has warned, as communities increasingly take up arms to protect themselves from a relentless campaign of military violence. Conflict has raged for decades in Myanmar's borderlands, where myriad ethnic armed groups are fighting with the military for greater autonomy. Since February's coup, however, dozens of new, grassroots people's defence forces have emerged to oppose the junta, with battles occurring in areas of the country that were previously peaceful. Continue reading... |
| Calls to find all Canada’s Indigenous mass graves after grim residential school discovery Posted: 31 May 2021 06:34 PM PDT First Nations groups say giving children a proper burial will help families find closure following discovery of 215 bodies at Kamloops school Indigenous groups in Canada are calling for a nationwide search for mass graves at residential school sites after the discovery of the remains of more than 200 children at one former school last week shocked the country. Prime minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday that searching for more mass graves was "an important part of discovering the truth" but did not make specific commitments. Continue reading... |
| Iran nuclear program: UN watchdog unable to access data since February Posted: 31 May 2021 05:07 PM PDT International Atomic Energy Agency says it can provide only an estimate of Iran's stockpile The United Nations' atomic watchdog hasn't been able to access data important to monitoring Iran's nuclear program since late February when the Islamic Republic started restricting international inspections of its facilities, the agency has said. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported on Monday in a confidential document distributed to member countries and seen by the Associated Press that it has "not had access to the data from its online enrichment monitors and electronic seals, or had access to the measurement recordings registered by its installed measurement devices" since 23 February. Continue reading... |
| China jails blogger who 'slandered' dead in India border clash Posted: 01 Jun 2021 01:01 AM PDT Qiu Ziming imprisoned under 2018 law outlawing defamation of 'heroes and martyrs' A Chinese court has jailed a popular blogger over posts suggesting the death toll among Chinese soldiers in a China-Indian border clash last year was higher than claimed. Qiu Ziming was among at least six people arrested in February for online posts about the Galwan Valley clash between Chinese and Indian troops in a disputed border area. A tense standoff that began in May escalated to shouting matches, stone-throwing and fistfights, before culminating on 15 June into a violent bout of hand-to-hand combat with clubs and stones, leaving dozens dead. Continue reading... |
| Mark Rylance: arts should tell ‘love stories’ about nature to tackle climate crisis Posted: 31 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT Exclusive: actor says individuals rather than government should lead way as he launches wetlands drama Sir Mark Rylance has called on the arts to help solve the climate crisis by telling stories that persuade people to "fall in love with nature again" and prompt government to back green policies. The Oscar-winning actor is starring with Sophie Okonedo in an innovative BBC Radio 4 drama set in a nature reserve that charts the challenges conservationists face in a time of rapid environmental change. Continue reading... |
| Assassination attempt on Ugandan minister kills daughter and driver Posted: 01 Jun 2021 02:11 AM PDT Gunmen opened fire on car carrying Katumba Wamala in Kampala Gunmen fired bullets at a car carrying a Ugandan government minister in an attempted assassination on Tuesday, wounding the former army commander and killing his daughter and driver, an army spokesperson and local media reports said. Four attackers on motorcycles opened fire on a vehicle carrying Gen Katumba Wamala, the minister of works and transport, in the Kampala suburb of Kiasasi, local television station NBS reported. Continue reading... |
| World’s only alpine parrot may have moved to the mountains to avoid people Posted: 31 May 2021 08:29 PM PDT Intelligent and mischievous, New Zealand's kea were once present in other parts of the country, research has found, and adaptability could help them survive habitat loss New Zealand's rare, highly endangered alpine parrots may have headed for the mountains to avoid people – and researchers say their adaptability could help them survive the climate crisis. The kea is considered the only alpine parrot in the world. But scientists analysing DNA sequencing and fossil records have found kea were once present in other parts of the country. Continue reading... |
| Refugee women and children ‘at risk of being abandoned’ in Home Office policy shift Posted: 31 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT Two-thirds who have been accepted as refugees would have been turned away under proposed changes, data shows Thousands of women and child refugees will be abandoned if the government's New Plan for Immigration goes ahead, according to research. If agreed by parliament, the rules would mean that most people who would currently be accepted as refugees – meaning those confirmed to have fled war or persecution following rigorous official checks – would no longer have their rights recognised in the UK due to their method of arrival. Half of those would be women and children. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 01 Jun 2021 02:21 AM PDT Peru's death toll soars to 180,000 after excess deaths added; Heathrow airport begins processing arrivals from 'red list' countries in separate terminal; the WHO introduces new names for Covid variants
The proposed Copa América this summer is in some disarray, with reports that Brazil will replace hosts Argentina, just 13 days before it is due to start. "The Copa América 2021 will be played in Brazil," an official Conmebol statement said. "Tournament start and end dates are confirmed. The venues and the fixtures will be announced by Conmebol in the next few hours." The tournament, featuring 10 South American nations, had been due to be held in Argentina and Colombia with joint hosts for the first time in its 105-year history. Colombia was removed as a co-host on 20 May after a wave of protests demanding social and economic change spread across the country, and Argentina has followed.
A quick Reuters snap here that Germany's Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious disease is to reduce the coronavirus risk level for the country to "high" from "very high" as the situation improves, health minister Jens Spahn said on Tuesday. "We have grounds for optimism," said Spahn at a news conference with the head of the RKI, Lothar Wieler, who said developments were improving but the pandemic was not yet over. Continue reading... |
| Covid-19 variants to be given Greek alphabet names to avoid stigma Posted: 31 May 2021 04:03 PM PDT WHO unveils new names for variants of concern to replace ones linked to where they were discovered Coronavirus variants are to be named after letters of the Greek alphabet instead of their place of first discovery, the World Health Organization has announced, in a move to avoid stigma. The WHO has named four variants of concern, known to the public as the UK/Kent (B.1.1.7), South Africa (B.1.351), Brazil (P.1) and India (B.1.617.2) variants. They will now be given the letters Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta respectively, to reflect their order of detection, with any new variants following the pattern down the Greek alphabet. Continue reading... |
| MPs tell Johnson: you have a duty to help vaccinate the world Posted: 31 May 2021 02:00 PM PDT Exclusive: group urges prime minister to tackle 'desperate shortage' in developing nations Boris Johnson has a "moral duty" to immediately start matching each vaccine administered at home with a donated dose to poorer countries across the world, a cross-party group of MPs and peers has said. Several Tory backbenchers joined the call, which puts further pressure on the prime minister to boost supplies given to developing nations facing a "desperate shortage" of jabs. Continue reading... |
| Why every single statue should come down | Gary Younge Posted: 31 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT Statues of historical figures are lazy, ugly and distort history. From Cecil Rhodes to Rosa Parks, let's get rid of them all Having been a black leftwing Guardian columnist for more than two decades, I understood that I would be regarded as fair game for the kind of moral panics that might make headlines in rightwing tabloids. It's not like I hadn't given them the raw material. In the course of my career I'd written pieces with headlines such as "Riots are a class act", "Let's have an open and honest conversation about white people" and "End all immigration controls". I might as well have drawn a target on my back. But the only time I was ever caught in the tabloids' crosshairs was not because of my denunciations of capitalism or racism, but because of a statue – or to be more precise, the absence of one. The story starts in the mid-19th century, when the designers of Trafalgar Square decided that there would be one huge column for Horatio Nelson and four smaller plinths for statues surrounding it. They managed to put statues on three of the plinths before running out of money, leaving the fourth one bare. A government advisory group, convened in 1999, decided that this fourth plinth should be a site for a rotating exhibition of contemporary sculpture. Responsibility for the site went to the new mayor of London, Ken Livingstone. Continue reading... |
| Disaster patriarchy: how the pandemic has unleashed a war on women Posted: 31 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT As Covid-19 has swept the world there has been an explosion of violence against women, and a full-blown assault on their rights. It's time to fight back against a system that allows women to be sacrificed, erased and violated Covid has unleashed the most severe setback to women's liberation in my lifetime. While watching this happen, I have started to think we are witnessing an outbreak of disaster patriarchy. Naomi Klein was the first to identify "disaster capitalism", when capitalists use a disaster to impose measures they couldn't possibly get away with in normal times, generating more profit for themselves. Disaster patriarchy is a parallel and complementary process, where men exploit a crisis to reassert control and dominance, and rapidly erase hard-earned women's rights. All over the world, patriarchy has taken full advantage of the virus to reclaim power – on the one hand, escalating the danger and violence to women, and on the other, stepping in as their supposed controller and protector. Continue reading... |
| ‘My hairline threatened my identity so much the ground felt shaky’: why hair transplants are booming Posted: 01 Jun 2021 02:00 AM PDT Celebrity endorsements, new techniques and lockdown have led to rising demand for follicular transplants. But with patchy regulation, are men being exploited when they are vulnerable? Hamish says he's not at all vain. He wouldn't consider getting his teeth whitened. He has an average life, with a happy marriage and two children. But when he caught sight of the top of his head in a family photo about eight years ago, something consumed him. "I just saw this massive receding hairline and it triggered intense emotions," he says from his home in Edinburgh, where he works in marketing. "I can feel my heart rate has increased just talking about it. It somehow threatens my identity so much that the ground feels shaky." Continue reading... |
| Tulsa race massacre a century later: wounds still open and weeping Posted: 31 May 2021 11:00 PM PDT Over 24 hours on 31 May 1921, Tulsa witnessed what is thought to be the worst single event of white supremacist violence against African Americans in the nation's history The full-page advert in a special Black History edition of USA Today presents a technicolor vision of modern-day Tulsa, with sparkling images of public parks and brightly-painted murals celebrating the local Black community under the banner headline: "Tulsa Triumphs". "Tulsa is leading America's journey to racial healing," the text says, inviting visitors from across the US to sample the delights of Oklahoma's second-largest city. The enticements include "an emotional opportunity for learning and reflection" and a "space for reconciliation… Tulsa triumphs, and you can be a part of this pilgrimage." Continue reading... |
| Travellers on UK border controls: ‘I’ve noticed a change of attitude’ Posted: 31 May 2021 10:00 PM PDT Readers share their views on how things are different since the end of freedom of movement with the EU Detained, fingerprinted, treated with hostility and suspicion: are EU citizens right to be concerned about entry to the UK? Many have written to us to share their views and experiences of the border. Continue reading... |
| How Prescot’s Shakespeare theatre plays into Merseyside regeneration Posted: 31 May 2021 10:30 PM PDT Town on edge of Knowsley – and Liverpool city region's mayor – use cultural pull to help rebuild area's economy Levelling up Britain's unbalanced economy comes in many guises and in Prescot, a town on the edge of Knowsley on Merseyside, it comes in the form of a replica cockpit-in-court theatre. Shakespeare is reported to have connections with Prescot when he was a travelling player in the late 16th century and the idea is to make the new theatre, scheduled to be opened by Prince Charles next summer, the third side of a cultural triangle along with London and Stratford-upon-Avon. Continue reading... |
| Migrant guards in Qatar ‘still paid under £1 an hour’ ahead of World Cup Posted: 31 May 2021 11:29 PM PDT Promises of better working conditions ring hollow for tens of thousands of security guards, who say they still work long hours for low pay Every day at 5pm, Samuel boards the company bus that takes him to his night shift as a guard at a luxury high-rise tower near Qatar's capital, Doha. When his shift ends 12 hours later, he says he will have earned £9, just 75p an hour. Samuel, who is from Uganda, says he almost never has a day off. "You have to tell lies, like 'you are sick, you're not feeling good', so that you get a day off," he says. Continue reading... |
| Striking coalminers in Alabama energize support across the south Posted: 01 Jun 2021 12:00 AM PDT United Mine Workers of America members are fighting for better wages and benefits and have filed unfair labor practice charges against Warrior Met Coal About 1,100 coalminers represented by the United Mine Workers of America in Brookwood, Alabama, have been on strike since the start of April against Warrior Met Coal amid new union contract negotiations. As the strike heads into its third month, workers are fighting for improvements to wages and benefits after they say several concessions were made by workers under the previous contract in 2016 when Warrior Met Coal took control of the mines in the wake of a bankruptcy filing by Walter Energy. Continue reading... |
| Peru has world’s worst per capita Covid toll after death data revised Posted: 31 May 2021 11:46 PM PDT Updated figures give country a per capita death toll of 500 per 100,000 people – double that of Brazil Peru has almost tripled its official Covid-19 death toll to 180,764, after a government review, making it the country with the highest death rate per capita, according to Johns Hopkins University data. Peru has been among the hardest hit Latin American countries during the pandemic, with its hospitals overcrowded and demand for oxygen outstripping availability. Continue reading... |
| My story proves Rwanda’s lack of respect for good governance and human rights Posted: 01 Jun 2021 01:11 AM PDT Responsibility for defending what the Commonwealth stands for must not pass to the country without reforms If Rwanda had hosted the Commonwealth heads of government meeting, which has been cancelled for the second time due to Covid-19, the UK was due to hand the country the Commonwealth chair. Rwanda would have held the responsibility for defending what the Commonwealth stands for – despite violating those same values for decades. When Rwanda was admitted as a member in 2009, I had hoped our government would apply Commonwealth values in its governance. But this did not happen. Continue reading... |
| ‘When will you know?’: Richard Colbeck can't say how many aged care workers are vaccinated – video Posted: 31 May 2021 11:25 PM PDT The aged care minister Richard Colbeck has not been able to tell Senate estimates how many workers in the aged care sector have been vaccinated.
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| ‘When will you know?’: Richard Colbeck can't say how many aged care workers are vaccinated – video Posted: 31 May 2021 10:46 PM PDT The aged care minister Richard Colbeck has not been able to tell Senate estimates how many workers in the aged care sector have been vaccinated.
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