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- G7 live: Raab suggests it was ‘offensive’ for Macron to imply Northern Ireland not full part of UK
- Coronavirus live: G7 calls for expert-led study on origins of Covid; England considers delaying lifting restrictions
- Christian Eriksen sends greetings to Denmark teammates from hospital
- How did a £120 painting become a £320m Leonardo … then vanish?
- Ex-pupils who compiled sexual abuse dossier accused of blocking inquiry
- Moria fire: Greek court jails four Afghan asylum seekers for 10 years
- Children’s access to online porn fuels sexual harassment, says commissioner
- Azerbaijan swaps 15 Armenian PoWs for map of landmines
- Onlookers extinguish flames after man set alight outside Perth church
- Introducing ‘their worship’, the world’s first non-binary mayor
- Factory workers making goods for the west bear brunt of virus surge in south-east Asia
- Why are women more prone to long Covid?
- At least 130,000 households in England made homeless in pandemic
- Edinburgh fringe performers feel ‘jilted’ as Covid closes venues again
- Sir Ian McKellen: ‘What does old mean? Quite honestly I feel about 12’
- ‘I’ve decided to stop apologising’: Lisa Taddeo on women and rage
- The quest to solve the mysterious ‘eerie’ hum of the Golden Gate Bridge
- The male beauty myth: the growing acceptance of feeling comfortable looking good
- Frida Kahlo and me: how the artist shaped my life as an amputee
- How the ‘Hanging Woman’ revealed truth of Bosnia’s mass killer
- Shelf-stacking more useful in pandemic than master’s degree – survey
- L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped: Christo’s dream being realised
- The Observer view on Iran’s rigged presidential election | Observer editorial
- Drop Covid vaccine patent rules to save lives in poorest countries, UK and Germany told
- Obstacles mount in Central America as Biden seeks cooperation over corruption
- Though it is newly respectable, the Wuhan lab theory remains fanciful | David Robert Grimes
- Peta Credlin appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in Queen’s birthday honours
- New Zealand’s campaign finance laws are broken. That can have enormous consequences | Pete McKenzie
- Covid lockdown: should England open up on 21 June?
- 'America is back': Biden gets thumbs up from Macron at G7 – video
- G7 summit protests – in pictures
- Thousands march in support of Muslim family killed in Canada truck attack – video
| G7 live: Raab suggests it was ‘offensive’ for Macron to imply Northern Ireland not full part of UK Posted: 13 Jun 2021 05:20 AM PDT Latest updates: UK foreign secretary critical of French president over Brexit as final day of G7 sees attention turn to climate crisis
This is from Die Welt's Stefanie Bolzen. @welt just asked German Chancellor Angela Merkel about her favourite #G7 entertainment. 'It was a great honour 3 generations of the Royal Family met with us, and especially Her Majesty the Queen. That was a unique moment for all of us.' pic.twitter.com/j7SQFRq1Pm
Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, has said that with Joe Biden US president instead of Donald Trump, the world can address its problems "with a new zest", Bloomberg reports. "Look, the election of Joe Biden as U.S. president doesn't mean that the world has no longer problems. |
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Three people were detained in Paris after officers used tear gas to disperse hundreds of youths gathered for a street party in defiance of Covid social distancing limits and an 11:00 pm curfew, AFP reports.
Related: Lifting Covid rules could mean repeat of winter wave of cases, says Sage adviser Continue reading... |
| Christian Eriksen sends greetings to Denmark teammates from hospital Posted: 13 Jun 2021 02:29 AM PDT
The Danish FA has provided an update on Christian Eriksen's condition, saying that he is in a stable condition and will stay in hospital for further examinations. The midfielder collapsed on the pitch towards the end of the first half of Denmark's opening Euro 2020 game against Finland. Eriksen was quickly attended to by medical staff and was given CPR while his teammates created a circular shield to prevent fans and TV cameras from looking in. Continue reading... |
| How did a £120 painting become a £320m Leonardo … then vanish? Posted: 12 Jun 2021 10:15 PM PDT A film about the disputed Salvator Mundi blames the National Gallery for its role in giving credibility to the claim that it was the artist's lost work The National Gallery is facing controversy over its role in the tangled story of how the world's most expensive painting emerged from obscurity before being sold for a staggering £320m, only to vanish again from the public eye. The gallery exhibited the Salvator Mundi in its Leonardo da Vinci exhibition a decade ago when it was an unknown work with doubts about its attribution, restoration and ownership. Continue reading... |
| Ex-pupils who compiled sexual abuse dossier accused of blocking inquiry Posted: 13 Jun 2021 04:35 AM PDT Former students of Eltham college receive letter from school's lawyers accusing them of obstructing investigation Former pupils at a private school in south-east London who compiled a dossier of sexual harassment and misconduct allegations were shocked to receive a letter from the school's lawyers accusing them of obstructing investigations into the incidents. The students, who went to Eltham College in Bromley, said they expected to receive a compassionate response after they collected testimonies from pupils past and present alleging sexism, sexual harassment, abuse and assault, and forwarded them to the school, inspired by the Everyone's Invited anti-rape movement. Continue reading... |
| Moria fire: Greek court jails four Afghan asylum seekers for 10 years Posted: 12 Jun 2021 08:11 PM PDT Men were charged with arson over blaze that destroyed what was Europe's largest migrant camp Four Afghan asylum seekers have been sentenced to 10 years in prison in Greece for their part in a fire that destroyed the Moria migrant camp in 2020. The men, charged with arson with risk to human life over the fire on the island of Lesbos last September, were found guilty after a court rejected a request by lawyers for three of them to be tried by a juvenile court because they were under 18 at the time. Continue reading... |
| Children’s access to online porn fuels sexual harassment, says commissioner Posted: 13 Jun 2021 02:45 AM PDT Rachel de Souza warns use of websites partly to blame for normalising abuse in schools in England Curbs on children's access to online pornography need to be brought in urgently to stop the spread of an activity that is partly to blame for normalising sexual harassment in schools, according to the new children's commissioner for England. Dame Rachel de Souza is urging governments and tech companies to introduce age verification checks. She warned that access to hardcore pornography was shaping children's expectations of relationships and was partly to blame for thousands of testimonies of sexual harassment by schoolchildren published on the Everyone's Invited website over the last few months. Continue reading... |
| Azerbaijan swaps 15 Armenian PoWs for map of landmines Posted: 12 Jun 2021 07:12 PM PDT 2020 war over Nagorno-Karabakh region left minefields that have continued to inflict casualties, including three recent deaths Azerbaijan says it has handed over 15 Armenian prisoners in exchange for a map detailing the location of landmines in Agdam, a region relinquished by ethnic Armenian forces as a part of a deal to end their short war of 2020. Prisoners of war are a key issue for Armenia, while landmines continue to inflict casualties in Azerbaijan. Two journalists and a local official were killed on 4 June when a landmine exploded in Azerbaijan's Kalbajar district on territory that was vacated by ethnic Armenian forces in November. Continue reading... |
| Onlookers extinguish flames after man set alight outside Perth church Posted: 12 Jun 2021 09:59 PM PDT The 68-year-old was taken to hospital where he was treated for burns to his face, upper body and hands Perth detectives are investigating reports a man was set alight outside an inner city church. Police say the 68-year-old suffered significant burns after he was approached by another man on Beaufort Street in Highgate around 5pm on Saturday. Continue reading... |
| Introducing ‘their worship’, the world’s first non-binary mayor Posted: 13 Jun 2021 01:00 AM PDT Student Owen Hurcum is 'humbled' to serve the oldest city in Wales, and aims to put Bangor's peacocks on the map When Owen Hurcum, a part-time archaeology master's student at Bangor University, climbed to the stage to accept their position as the newly appointed mayor of Bangor, they felt "hugely humbled" to represent their community. What is even more unique about Hurcum, 23, is who they are: non-binary, queer and agender. They made history in this year's local and mayoral election by becoming the first openly non-binary mayor of any city in the world. Continue reading... |
| Factory workers making goods for the west bear brunt of virus surge in south-east Asia Posted: 12 Jun 2021 09:00 PM PDT Migrant labourers tell of being forced to isolate in brutal conditions as Covid wave grips region It was around mid-May when workers at the Cal-Comp factory in Phetchaburi, central Thailand, heard a small group of their colleagues had tested positive for Covid-19. It soon became clear the virus had ripped through the production lines. A cluster associated with the electronics factory has since been linked to thousands of infections. Hwan Htet Paing*, a worker from the factory, said he was not told the results of his Covid test, carried out on 19 May. Despite this, he was instructed to quarantine inside a vast hall at his workplace. The floor was covered with tarpaulin sheets and lined with rows of mosquito nets for each worker. Everyone was given a bucket and a cup, and bedsheets to lay across the floor. Fans were handed out to help ease the heat – until the vast numbers of people testing positive meant there were none left. Continue reading... |
| Why are women more prone to long Covid? Posted: 12 Jun 2021 10:00 PM PDT While men over 50 tend to suffer the most acute symptoms of coronavirus, women who get long Covid outnumber men by as much as four to one In June 2020, as the first reports of long Covid began to filter through the medical community, doctors attempting to grapple with this mysterious malaise began to notice an unusual trend. While acute cases of Covid-19 – particularly those hospitalised with the disease – tended to be mostly male and over 50, long Covid sufferers were, by contrast, both relatively young and overwhelmingly female. Early reports of long Covid at a Paris hospital between May and July 2020 suggested that the average age was around 40, and women afflicted by the longer-term effects of Covid-19 outnumbered men by four to one. Continue reading... |
| At least 130,000 households in England made homeless in pandemic Posted: 12 Jun 2021 09:30 PM PDT While ban on evictions protected some people, domestic abuse and loss of temporary accommodation were common triggers for homelessness At least 130,000 households in England were made homeless during the first year of the pandemic, despite the government's ban on evictions, according to data sourced by the Observer. With the ban now over, fears are rising that a surge of evictions may be imminent. But the Observer's figures show that even while the ban was in place, households were being forced from their homes. "The ban didn't stop tens of thousands from facing homelessness," said Polly Neate, chief executive of Shelter. "During the pandemic, the most common triggers for homelessness were no longer being able to stay with friends or family, losing a private tenancy, and domestic abuse." Continue reading... |
| Edinburgh fringe performers feel ‘jilted’ as Covid closes venues again Posted: 13 Jun 2021 01:15 AM PDT Only a handful of events will be staged this year as producers complain about 'dithering' by council and Scottish government Audiences and performers from around the world will once again have no anarchic festival home in the Scottish capital to head for this August. The vast Edinburgh festival fringe – the largest annual concentration of live comedy, drama, cabaret, music and dance – is to be restricted to just a few events and an array of online offerings in 2021. "I feel a little like a jilted lover: many of us do," Guy Masterson – a fringe stalwart and producer and director of some of its most successful plays for more than two decades – told the Observer. "There has been so much dithering from the city council and the Scottish government and no real recognition of what the fringe means to the Edinburgh economy." Continue reading... |
| Sir Ian McKellen: ‘What does old mean? Quite honestly I feel about 12’ Posted: 13 Jun 2021 12:00 AM PDT It's half a century since Sir Ian McKellen first played Hamlet. Now he's starring as the Dane again – at 82. He talks about his extraordinary life, why he'll never write his memoir – and his one lasting regret Oh, birthdays," Sir Ian McKellen growls, on the occasion of his 82nd. "At my age I don't do birthdays." The wider world has not yet been informed, however, and cheerful cards have come in stacks to McKellen's London townhouse. Messages chime in on his computer and two landline phones ring on his desk, one after the other. "But, darling," McKellen says, answering a call and interrupting a well-wisher mid flow, "I'm trying to avoid it all this year." Guilt, he explains to me, later. He leads us through to a sitting room. "Actors don't need this special attention, I've realised. We get cards and presents on first nights. Everyone makes a fuss of us. Birthdays are wonderful things for people who don't get treated as special all year round." McKellen throws himself down in a winged armchair and croaks out an epic smoker's laugh, one of those laughs that begins in silence (mimed really) and soon becomes an extended hum in the back of the throat, then a wheezy bark. Devoted to his cigs, he will step out on to his riverside balcony whenever he needs one, staring out over the Thames while he puffs, pulling on a tweedy overcoat if it's cold. Between times he sucks on Polo mints. One goes into McKellen's cheek, now. The rest of the packet he leaves perched on his tummy in reach. "Where were we?" he asks. "Birthdays?" Continue reading... |
| ‘I’ve decided to stop apologising’: Lisa Taddeo on women and rage Posted: 13 Jun 2021 03:58 AM PDT When a man acts in anger, we step aside, but a woman gets labelled 'crazy bitch'. In a personal, ferocious treatise, the author says we need to change the script My mother once told me – no that's not true – my mother many times warned me: "If you ever sell any of my jewellery after I'm dead, I'll come back from the grave and bite your toes." I don't know if she meant she would nibble on my toes, or fully eat them, but I was petrified of her doing the things she threatened. My mother, after all, was a crazy bitch. Continue reading... |
| The quest to solve the mysterious ‘eerie’ hum of the Golden Gate Bridge Posted: 13 Jun 2021 03:00 AM PDT Engineers are working on a plan to quiet the 'unbearable' sound, which occurs when strong winds hit the bridge Somewhere in a wind tunnel on the south-western side of Ontario, a group of the world's leading bridge aerodynamics and acoustics experts are puzzling over a full-scale model of the railing of the Golden Gate Bridge. The experts have been contracted to solve the mysterious problem of a strange humming sound that has been emanating from San Francisco's famous bridge for the past year, driving some nearby residents to a state of madness. Continue reading... |
| The male beauty myth: the growing acceptance of feeling comfortable looking good Posted: 13 Jun 2021 04:00 AM PDT Men who want to look good used to be disparaged and labelled vain. But times are finally changing… Until recently, male motivation for looking good or strong was often born from an inherent desire for us to feel and appear more successful, competitive, virile and powerful – what some now refer to as toxic masculinity. Of course, there have always been men who've enjoyed discussing clothes, watches, even grooming regimes but, for many, this open appreciation of what they wore was often merely a game of one-upmanship disguised as an appreciation of the finer things in life. Think of the 1980s and its bullish Wall Street status stamps, such as pinstripe suits and red braces (Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko); the scene in American Psycho where rival stockbrokers battle over business cards, like a game of Top Trumps. Or in the 1990s, when showing off got even easier and even off-duty symbols such as underwear, jeans and luggage were plastered with a riot of logos. Continue reading... |
| Frida Kahlo and me: how the artist shaped my life as an amputee Posted: 13 Jun 2021 03:00 AM PDT Writer Emily Rapp Black lost her leg aged four. In her new memoir, Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg, she explains how the work of the Mexican artist, also an amputee, helped her develop a better relationship with her body
Desnudo de Frida Kahlo by Diego Rivera hangs in a small museum in Guanajuato, Mexico. In this portrait, Frida's torso is taut and slim; the sides of her waist curve inward, creating perfect hollows for each of your hands. Her breasts are slightly lifted, because her arms are clasped behind her head; her elbows are the pointed tips of wings. Her shoulders look solid, strong, able. This is a body that is loved, admired, desired. This lithograph was made in 1930, after polio disfigured her right foot in 1913 when she was six years old; after the 1925 streetcar accident that broke her spinal column, her collarbone, her ribs, her pelvis, created 11 fractures in her already weakened leg, crushed her foot and left her shoulder permanently out of joint. During the 29 years between her accident and her death in 1954, Frida had 32 operations; was required to wear a corset every day from 1944 onward; and had her leg amputated because of gangrene in 1953. It was this final operation that likely led to the complications that eventually killed her. Speculation of suicide remains. Continue reading... |
| How the ‘Hanging Woman’ revealed truth of Bosnia’s mass killer Posted: 13 Jun 2021 01:30 AM PDT In 1996, our writer identified the suicide victim whose death symbolised the cruelty of Ratko Mladic. As his life sentence is upheld, she recalls a meeting with Ferida Osmanovic's children In July 1995, a photograph made newspaper front pages around the world. It showed a woman in a white skirt and red cardigan hanging from a tree in a wood outside Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia. The caption read: "The Hanging Woman". They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and this one said everything about the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Continue reading... |
| Shelf-stacking more useful in pandemic than master’s degree – survey Posted: 13 Jun 2021 01:45 AM PDT Graduates with work or volunteering experience more employable than those who continued education Graduates who spent last year stacking shelves, working as an Amazon driver or volunteering are far more employable than those who "waited out" the pandemic by continuing their education, a study has found. The Early Careers Survey 2021 found that one in four university students spent an average of £8,666 on a master's qualification last year, many in the hope that the extra qualification would give them an edge on the job market. Continue reading... |
| L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped: Christo’s dream being realised Posted: 13 Jun 2021 05:21 AM PDT Work begins next month to swathe monument in blue fabric a year after Bulgarian-born artist's death The Arc de Triomphe in Paris will be swathed in silvery blue fabric and red rope as a posthumous project planned by the artist Christo since the early 1960s finally becomes reality. Work will begin next month on L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, a €14m installation at one of the world's most recognised monuments. The arch will be swathed in 25,000 sq/m of recyclable polypropylene fabric, fixed with 3,000 m of red rope, also recyclable. Continue reading... |
| The Observer view on Iran’s rigged presidential election | Observer editorial Posted: 12 Jun 2021 10:30 PM PDT It is not only Iranians who will suffer if a hardliner wins, it could have profound consequences for world peace Iran's beleaguered voters do not have much of a choice in this Friday's presidential election. The regime, dominated by the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a fiercely anti-western conservative, has cynically manipulated the contest to ensure that a like-minded hardliner, most probably Ebrahim Raisi, head of the judiciary, wins. While the result is hardly a cliff-hanger, its impact may nonetheless be far-reaching – in Iran and internationally. The possibly negative consequences for talks on curbing Iran's nuclear programme, for peaceful relations with Israel, Saudi Arabia and the west, for the wars in Syria and Yemen, for the geopolitical balance and for Iran's own citizens are alarming. Continue reading... |
| Drop Covid vaccine patent rules to save lives in poorest countries, UK and Germany told Posted: 12 Jun 2021 09:02 AM PDT G7 summit hears move would slash the cost of jabs and accelerate rollout of programmes across the developing world Britain and Germany were under intense pressure on Saturday to drop their resistance to proposals that would slash the cost of Covid-19 vaccines, following accusations that an agreement at the G7 summit to fund a billon doses will give the world's poorest countries "crumbs from the table". Aid agencies said rules that protect drug patents from being illegally copied must be waived during the pandemic to accelerate the rollout of vaccines and save lives across the developing world. Continue reading... |
| Obstacles mount in Central America as Biden seeks cooperation over corruption Posted: 13 Jun 2021 03:00 AM PDT The post-Trump landscape, geopolitical concerns and an economic paradox pose threat to White House hopes Standing behind a podium next to the president of Guatemala during her first trip abroad this week, Vice-President Kamala Harris emphasized the renewed commitment of the United States to fighting corruption as part of efforts to confront the root causes driving migration from Central America. But for many, the man standing beside her, Alejandro Giammattei, embodies the challenge in a region where past and current presidents have been accused of misdeeds ranging from embezzlement and bribery to authoritarianism and drug trafficking. Continue reading... |
| Though it is newly respectable, the Wuhan lab theory remains fanciful | David Robert Grimes Posted: 13 Jun 2021 01:30 AM PDT Conspiracy theories on origins distract from tackling the pandemic and boost tawdry blame games In the storm of disinformation since the emergence of Covid-19, the assertion that the virus is human-created has lingered on the fringes. This outlandish conjecture, once confined to conspiracy theorists, has undergone a renaissance after Joe Biden's insistence that scientists should investigate the possible lab origins of Covid. From Vanity Fair to the Washington Post, the theory has been given a veneer of respectability. But there is an essential caveat that has been overlooked – that two different hypotheses are possible does not make them equally likely. Occam's razor is a general rule of thumb, an injunction to "keep it simple"; when confronted with competing explanations for events, it is usually sensible to adopt the interpretation that pivots on the smallest number of supplementary assertions and assumptions. Continue reading... |
| Peta Credlin appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in Queen’s birthday honours Posted: 13 Jun 2021 05:00 AM PDT Sky News host gets second-highest rank in honours system, the latest in a series of controversial recipients Peta Credlin, Tony Abbott's former chief of staff and current Sky News host, has been appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in the Queen's birthday honours. The controversial broadcaster, columnist and veteran Liberal staffer was appointed to the second-highest rank under the honours system for her contribution to Australian politics. Continue reading... |
| New Zealand’s campaign finance laws are broken. That can have enormous consequences | Pete McKenzie Posted: 12 Jun 2021 01:00 PM PDT An increased appetite for political donations strengthens the political influence of the wealthiest New Zealanders The spokesperson for Aotearoa New Zealand's Green party was genuinely surprised. She had called after I informed them that a major donor to their 2020 election campaign had subsequently pleaded guilty to animal neglect. The spokesperson said the Greens had not known about the neglect when they took her money. They nevertheless refused to donate it onwards. They argued the Incorporated Societies Act required them to hold on to it. As I later found out, that's not quite true: returning the donation, or donating it to an organisation like the SPCA, seems to be possible according to their party's charter. Continue reading... |
| Covid lockdown: should England open up on 21 June? Posted: 12 Jun 2021 08:15 AM PDT The prime minister has a host of problems to weigh up before deciding to remove all legal restrictions on social contact The key issue is the extent to which infections of the Delta variant first detected in India will lead to hospitalisations and deaths. The problem is that it's too early to say. Because of the lag between cases and admissions to hospital, many experts say a short delay could be a major benefit to understanding that relationship. "With the current knowledge about Delta, we can't really predict the size of that wave," said Anne Cori of Imperial College London's modelling group. "Delaying the easing allows time to accumulate more evidence about the characteristics of Delta. And I hope in a few weeks, we would be in a better position to predict what the epidemic may look like in the next few weeks or months." Continue reading... |
| 'America is back': Biden gets thumbs up from Macron at G7 – video Posted: 12 Jun 2021 09:12 AM PDT French President Emmanuel Macron has said that Joe Biden has convinced allies that the US is back, as the two leaders met at the G7 summit on Saturday. Biden, asked by a reporter if America was back, turned to Macron and gestured with his sunglasses towards the French president that he should answer that question. 'Yes, definitely,' Macron said. 'It's great to have a US president who's part of the club and very willing to cooperate' Continue reading... |
| G7 summit protests – in pictures Posted: 12 Jun 2021 08:29 AM PDT Protesters turn out in support of a range of causes as the leaders of Group of Seven nations meet for the forum's 47th summit in Cornwall
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| Thousands march in support of Muslim family killed in Canada truck attack – video Posted: 12 Jun 2021 07:49 AM PDT Thousands of people have marched in Canada in support of a Muslim family run over and killed by a man driving a pickup truck. Police have described the incident last Sunday as a premeditated attack motivated by Islamophobia. Crowds in London, Ontario, marched five miles on Friday from the spot where the family was killed to a nearby mosque, the site close to where police arrested the attacker. Candlelight vigils were also held to honour the victims and protest against hatred Continue reading... |
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