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- Online sex crimes crisis in South Korea affecting all women, report finds
- Biden to meet Putin at highly anticipated summit in Geneva
- Cristiano Ronaldo snub wipes billions off Coca-Cola’s market value
- Hundreds of thousands of EU citizens in UK risk uncertain status from 1 July
- Jared Kushner agrees book deal for ‘definitive’ account of Trump presidency
- Peru election: socialist Pedro Castillo claims victory ahead of official result
- Wealth secret of the super rich revealed: be born into a rich family
- Bear kills man in Slovakia forest in what could be first fatal attack
- Bridge made of string: Peruvians weave 500-year-old Incan crossing back into place
- Coronavirus live news: row as India doubles gap between vaccine doses; North Korea warns of food shortages
- High in the Himalayas, villagers hit by Covid are left to fend for themselves
- Covid outbreaks in Chinese ports could cause global goods shortages
- New drug cuts deaths among patients with no Covid antibodies
- Eddie Munster and me: the secret lives of spooky, sinister screen children
- From packed streets to silence: documenting the fall of Hong Kong
- Subwoofers at the ready! The jungle and drum’n’bass revival is upon us
- ‘Where should we go?’: thousands left homeless as Karachi clears waterways
- Madrid’s Reina Sofía examines Latin America’s artistic boom
- Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 review: Windows 10 as it is meant to be
- Man charged after BBC journalist harangued by lockdown protesters
- Iran’s next president will ride a wave of voter apathy into power | Holly Dagres
- Nigerian rapper Olamide: ‘People have a very limited understanding of the ghetto’
- ‘It’s not easy’: seven working parents around the world – photo essay
- Michael McCormack says mouse plague from regional Australia should be ‘rehomed into inner city’
- UN put Rohingya ‘at risk’ by sharing data without consent, says rights group
- Protests over police violence spread through Tunisian capital
- The Covid Delta variant: how effective are the vaccines?
- Why is Israel lifting Covid restrictions as England extends them?
- Ascot resumes after lockdown – in pictures
- Israel mounts Gaza Strip airstrike in response to incendiary balloons – video
- Peruvians re-weave Incan hanging bridge spanning river – video
- Putin refuses to give guarantee Navalny will survive prison – video
| Online sex crimes crisis in South Korea affecting all women, report finds Posted: 15 Jun 2021 10:03 PM PDT Human Rights Watch found sex crime prosecutions involving illegal filming rose 11-fold between 2008 and 2017 South Korea's epidemic of online sexual abuse has left survivors traumatised for life, and is adversely affecting all women and girls in the country, according to a new report. Molka – the use of hidden cameras to film or share explicit images of women without their consent – is forcing victims to contemplate suicide or to consider quitting their jobs or leaving the country, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in the report, My Life is Not Your Porn: Digital Sex Crimes in South Korea. Continue reading... |
| Biden to meet Putin at highly anticipated summit in Geneva Posted: 16 Jun 2021 12:10 AM PDT Talks amid US-Russia tensions expected to focus on regional conflicts, climate, Covid and cybersecurity The US president, Joe Biden, is due to meet Russia's Vladimir Putin in Geneva in a highly anticipated summit meant to prevent the two countries' rivalry from descending into open conflict. Biden has said he is seeking "stable, predictable" relations with Russia despite claims that Putin has interfered in American elections, provoked wars with his neighbours, and sought to crush dissent by jailing opposition leaders. Continue reading... |
| Cristiano Ronaldo snub wipes billions off Coca-Cola’s market value Posted: 15 Jun 2021 07:05 PM PDT
Cristiano Ronaldo's removal of two Coca-Cola bottles during a press conference at the Euros has coincided with a $4bn fall in the share price of the drinks giant. Related: Cristiano Ronaldo still relentlessly pursuing Ali Daei and second Euros | Andy Brassell Continue reading... |
| Hundreds of thousands of EU citizens in UK risk uncertain status from 1 July Posted: 15 Jun 2021 10:00 PM PDT Deadline to apply for settled status two weeks away, as academics warn that vulnerable groups face loss of rights Academics are sounding the alarm about the hundreds of thousands of EU citizens in the UK who face falling into legal limbo on 1 July with their right to rent a home, work or continue in retirement at risk. With just 13 days to go before the government's deadline for EU and EEA nationals and their children to apply for settled or pre-settled status, a report from UK in a Changing Europe warns of the dangers ahead for those who do not apply by 30 June. Continue reading... |
| Jared Kushner agrees book deal for ‘definitive’ account of Trump presidency Posted: 15 Jun 2021 08:45 PM PDT The untitled memoir by the president's son-in-law will be published in 2022 Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of former president Donald Trump and a senior adviser in his administration, has secured a book deal to recount Trump's presidency. Broadside Books, a conservative imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced that Kushner's book will come out in early 2022. Kushner has begun working on the memoir, currently untitled, and is expected to write about everything from the Middle East to criminal justice reform to the pandemic. Financial terms were not disclosed. Continue reading... |
| Peru election: socialist Pedro Castillo claims victory ahead of official result Posted: 15 Jun 2021 05:51 PM PDT The son of peasant farmers says 'a new time has begun' as vote count gives him narrow lead against rightwing rival Keiko Fujimori Peru's socialist candidate Pedro Castillo has claimed victory in the presidential election after clinging on to a narrow lead as the lengthy vote count ended, although his rightwing rival has pledged to fight the result and has yet to concede. Castillo ended the count 44,058 votes ahead of Keiko Fujimori, who has made allegations of fraud with little proof and has tried to get some votes annulled. The result of the ballot held on 6 June has not been formally announced by electoral authorities, but Castillo hailed the win on Twitter. Continue reading... |
| Wealth secret of the super rich revealed: be born into a rich family Posted: 15 Jun 2021 09:01 PM PDT The 10 richest dynasties, such as those behind Walmart and Mars, grew their net worth by $136bn during the pandemic, report finds Self-made billionaires including Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk made huge profits during the Covid-19 pandemic but a new report shows there's no beating family money when it comes to getting – and staying – really, really rich. Ten of the US's richest families, including the Walmart family and the dynasties behind industries including candy and cosmetics, also saw their assets balloon over the pandemic, with a shared increase in their combined net worth of over $136bn in 14 months, according to a report by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) published on Wednesday. Continue reading... |
| Bear kills man in Slovakia forest in what could be first fatal attack Posted: 15 Jun 2021 05:46 PM PDT The 57-year old man was killed by a brown bear whose population has tripled in 20 years, sparking calls for legal hunting A 57-year-old man has been killed by a brown bear in central Slovakia, in what the state forestry company said could be the first confirmed deadly attack by a wild bear, whose population has tripled in 20 years. "An autopsy confirmed today that the man from Liptovska Luzna died from injuries caused by this predator," the forestry company, Lesy Slovenske Republiky, said on Facebook. Continue reading... |
| Bridge made of string: Peruvians weave 500-year-old Incan crossing back into place Posted: 15 Jun 2021 05:04 PM PDT Q'eswachaka bridge connected communities divided by Apurimac river before falling into disrepair because of pandemic Peruvians from the Huinchiri community in Cusco region are rebuilding a 500-year-old Incan hanging bridge, made using traditional weaving techniques to string a crossing together spanning the Apurimac river far below. The Q'eswachaka bridge has been used for over 500 years to connect communities divided by the river. But during the Covid pandemic it fell into disrepair and collapsed in March. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 16 Jun 2021 02:28 AM PDT Indian government extends gap between doses to 16 weeks; experts doubt North Korea's zero case claim; Japan to discuss Olympic fan limit of 10,000
A couple of quick bits from Russia. The official tally of Covid cases has risen again by 13,397. That includes 5,782 new cases in Moscow. Regular readers will know that there are always some question marks around these numbers. The government coronavirus task force said 396 people had died of coronavirus-linked causes in the past 24 hours, pushing the national death toll to 127,576. However, the federal statistics agency has kept a separate count and puts the total number of deaths in Russia at over 270,000.
A man who lives in Sydney's eastern suburbs in Australia, and who works as a driver for international flight crews has tested positive to Covid-19 – and anyone who shared a cinema with him on Sunday has been ordered to isolate for 14 days. The new case was reported by NSW Health on Wednesday afternoon, after the man in his 60s tested positive on a saliva test on Tuesday. The positive result was confirmed by a PCR test. Related: New Sydney Covid case visited Bondi venues while potentially contagious Continue reading... |
| High in the Himalayas, villagers hit by Covid are left to fend for themselves Posted: 15 Jun 2021 09:45 PM PDT In India's remote peaks, the pandemic's toll is worsened by lack of medical facilities, roads and information Phalguni Devi has spent a fortnight living in a cattle shed. Looking out on a rainy afternoon in early June, she worries that if the rain does not let up, her fever-like symptoms will worsen. Devi, 51, shares the shed with a cow and two cats, and this has taken its toll. Herbal concoctions have not worked and the visit to a pharmacist in the nearest town, in the Nijmola valley in the Himalayas, which took an entire day, did not help. Continue reading... |
| Covid outbreaks in Chinese ports could cause global goods shortages Posted: 15 Jun 2021 10:53 PM PDT Combination of rise in demand for products as some countries reopen and lockdowns in some port cities mean prices could climb An outbreak of Covid-19 in southern China has combined with the rapid reopening of the world economy and a shortage of shipping containers to cause a surge in transport costs that could fuel inflation and cause shortages of goods across the globe. China reported 21 new coronavirus cases in the mainland on Wednesday with 15 of them in the vital industrial province of Guangdong where restrictions have been in place for several weeks to contain an outbreak linked to the Delta variant first detected in India. Continue reading... |
| New drug cuts deaths among patients with no Covid antibodies Posted: 15 Jun 2021 10:00 PM PDT Oxford University trial reports cocktail of manmade antibodies reduces fatalities by a fifth A new drug has been found to cut Covid deaths by a fifth among the sickest patients in hospital and may change official practice so that every patient with coronavirus will have an antibody test before they are admitted. The Recovery trial based at Oxford University has found a third drug that can help Covid patients recover in hospital – but this one is the first to tackle the virus itself, rather than the inflammation that develops in the later stages of the disease. Continue reading... |
| Eddie Munster and me: the secret lives of spooky, sinister screen children Posted: 15 Jun 2021 10:00 PM PDT Eerie kids have been a staple of horror films for decades. But what is it like to be forever known for playing a tiny werewolf, misfit or murderer? When you have been a spooky child on film or TV, where do you go? For the former child star Butch Patrick, best known for playing the baby-faced werewolf Eddie Munster in the 60s sitcom The Munsters, it is cross-country. Patrick has converted a trailer into a Munsters-themed escape room. Inside, it is rigged up to look like the inside of the family's home, as well as Grandpa Munster's laboratory. Pay $13 for entry and audio recordings of Grandpa and Herman (the family's Frankenstein's monster patriarch) will guide you through the experience. "I've found an interesting niche!" exclaims Patrick, 67, defanged and, to my great disappointment, no longer wearing a purple Little Lord Fauntleroy-style suit. One of Patrick's costumes sold for $1,880 (£1,300) in 2001, thus demonstrating the enduring appeal of the show. When we speak, Patrick is driving to collect the trailer, which he affectionately calls the Munster Coach, before taking it to a meet-and-greet in St Clair Shores, Michigan. This is how Patrick makes a living: hawking autographs and gamely answering questions from the show's army of ageing fans. "They always ask me where Woof Woof is," says Patrick. "I can't believe how well that little werewolf teddy bear is remembered! I say he's at home and well, but doesn't like to travel, so I don't bring him along." Continue reading... |
| From packed streets to silence: documenting the fall of Hong Kong Posted: 15 Jun 2021 09:20 PM PDT Two years ago photojournalist Laurel Chor covered mass protests against the extradition bill. She looks back at how the city has changed in their wake I had never seen so many people before in my life. On 9 June 2019, hundreds of thousands of people dressed in white marched slowly but steadily across Hong Kong island. The heat and humidity were almost unbearable, but protesters from all walks of life came prepared with neck towels, folding fans, and umbrellas to shield the sun. It's never easy to capture the scale of a crowd, but the intense, palpable energy emanating from the masses of people who had united for common values isn't something a photograph could ever convey. Continue reading... |
| Subwoofers at the ready! The jungle and drum’n’bass revival is upon us Posted: 16 Jun 2021 01:00 AM PDT With turbocharged tracks storming the charts, both genres are having a boom – but did they ever really go away? Jungle and drum'n'bass are back, back, BACK! High Contrast's Notes from the Underground album – its elegiac 90s rave moods created with vintage 90s tech – was a dance chart success at the end of 2020. Chase & Status's RTRN II FABRIC mix, which turbocharged jungle classics, was huge last year, too. Harmony by Origin8a and Propa ft Benny Page is everywhere lately and it's far from the only euphoric 174bpm tune you'll hear on daytime Radio 1. Related: The Guide: Staying In – sign up for our home entertainment tips Continue reading... |
| ‘Where should we go?’: thousands left homeless as Karachi clears waterways Posted: 16 Jun 2021 02:12 AM PDT As Pakistan's supreme court backs bulldozing of homes blamed for floods, critics say government has no proper plans for residents Maqsooda Bibi, 62, did not know the house she had lived in all her life would be demolished, forcing her whole family to become homeless. But on Monday, Pakistan's supreme court backed the Sindh government in bulldozing her home and hundreds of others, legalising the eviction of thousands who live along narrow waterways – nullahs – that crisscross Karachi. The verdict came as Bibi and hundreds of others held a protest outside the court. "We hoped that the court would ask the government not to make us homeless, but it did the opposite. Our children also protested on Sunday and urged the supreme court to stop demolition. It seems no one here cares for the future of the poor." Continue reading... |
| Madrid’s Reina Sofía examines Latin America’s artistic boom Posted: 15 Jun 2021 09:00 PM PDT Dangling artist, dead dog and lovingly tangled mattress help convey volatile past in new show The black and white photograph of a dead dog, taken in Lima in 1989, that now hangs on the immaculate walls of the Reina Sofía in Madrid seems to have little in common with the Caetano Veloso album covers also on display or, come to that, with the image of a young Chilean artist suspended by his feet alongside a map of his homeland. But they – and the 100 or so other works that make up the museum's latest exhibition – are all bound together by the volatile and often violent times in which they were created. Continue reading... |
| Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 review: Windows 10 as it is meant to be Posted: 15 Jun 2021 11:00 PM PDT Premium PC with new choice of faster chips, eight-hour battery, great keyboard and face recognition Microsoft's sleek and stylish Surface Laptop is back for its fourth generation with faster performance and a greater variety of chips. The Surface Laptop 4 is available with either a 13.5in or a 15in screen and starts at £999 in the UK, $999 in the US or $1,599 in Australia sitting above the Surface Laptop Go as Microsoft's mainstream premium notebook, competing with the similarly priced Dell XPS 13 and Apple MacBook Air, among others. Continue reading... |
| Man charged after BBC journalist harangued by lockdown protesters Posted: 16 Jun 2021 01:13 AM PDT Martin Hockridge charged after Newsnight political editor Nick Watt harassed in Whitehall A man has been charged with a public order offence, Scotland Yard has said, after footage online showed a journalist being confronted and chased by a group of protesters in Whitehall. Martin Hockridge, 57, was charged with an offence under section 4A of the Public Order Act; namely using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour towards another person with the intention to cause them harassment, alarm or distress. Continue reading... |
| Iran’s next president will ride a wave of voter apathy into power | Holly Dagres Posted: 16 Jun 2021 12:00 AM PDT After years of government corruption, repression and violence, many Iranians are expected to boycott Friday's elections Rap and K-pop aren't music genres you'd expect an Iranian presidential hopeful to be familiar with. And yet, during the second televised debate ahead of the countrywide poll on 18 June, one of the candidates displayed an impressive knowledge of the contemporary musical landscape. "They play rap on their own programmes, but they have banned rap. Our teens have moved on to K-pop or Korean pop. Our own rap [music] is still underground," said centrist Abdolnaser Hemmati, the former governor of the Central Bank of Iran. Continue reading... |
| Nigerian rapper Olamide: ‘People have a very limited understanding of the ghetto’ Posted: 16 Jun 2021 12:30 AM PDT From a Lagos slum, Olamide became one of Africa's biggest music stars. A new, global deal is taking his vivid pop to the wider world Bariga, a sprawling northern suburb of Lagos, Nigeria that is home to more than 700,000 people, is infamous for its impoverished housing and gang culture – and for pushing a raw, jarring sound into the Nigerian mainstream. Olamide, long one of Africa's biggest music stars, was one of the kids responsible for that shift: 13 years ago, he was walking the streets of Bariga, plotting his way out. "Surviving was hard," says Olamide, now sitting in a comfortable Lagos home on a sunny Friday afternoon. "Bariga was not far from the other slums you see across the world, from Mumbai to New York and London – life in the ghetto is almost always the same everywhere. There were days when being able to afford three square meals was a big deal for my family. All of that motivated me to hustle hard – I wanted to see the whole world and experience different cultures from what I grew up seeing." Continue reading... |
| ‘It’s not easy’: seven working parents around the world – photo essay Posted: 16 Jun 2021 12:00 AM PDT Photographers Linda Bournane Engelberth and Valentina Sinis document the lives of working parents from Botswana to the UK for Unicef If investing in family-friendly policies is good for business, then many companies are missing a trick. Giving parents and families adequate time, resources and services to care for children, while staying in their jobs and improving their skills and productivity, pays off according to employers. But for many, in all parts of the world, paid parental leave and childcare are not a reality. And that can compromise the first critical years of life – a time when the combination of the right nourishment, environment and love can strengthen a developing brain and give a baby the best start. Evidence suggests family-friendly policies pay off in healthier, better-educated children and greater gender equality, and are linked to better productivity and the ability to attract and retain workers. Momentum for change is growing with an increasing number of businesses beginning to see the value. Continue reading... |
| Michael McCormack says mouse plague from regional Australia should be ‘rehomed into inner city’ Posted: 16 Jun 2021 02:26 AM PDT Mouse plague should be diverted to cities to scratch the children of animal rights activists at night, acting prime minister says Mice from regional Australia should be "rehomed" to inner-city suburbs to nibble the feet of animal rights activists and "scratch their children at night", the country's acting prime minister, Michael McCormack, has told parliament. McCormack on Wednesday responded to an opposition Labor question about the federal government's lack of a national plan to combat the mouse plague in regional areas of eastern Australia. Continue reading... |
| UN put Rohingya ‘at risk’ by sharing data without consent, says rights group Posted: 15 Jun 2021 04:41 AM PDT Refugees tell Human Rights Watch they fear forced repatriation and persecution after personal details passed on to Myanmar The UN may have put hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees at risk of persecution or involuntary repatriation back to Myanmar after improperly collecting and sharing refugees' personal information with Bangladesh, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW), which is urging an investigation. Over the past three years, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has registered more than 800,000 Rohingya refugees living in Bangladeshi camps in order to provide them with identity cards needed to access essential aid and services. Continue reading... |
| Protests over police violence spread through Tunisian capital Posted: 15 Jun 2021 03:41 AM PDT Demonstrators angry over footage showing officers stripping and beating man and death of another in custody Tunisia's capital has been rocked by a week of protests against police violence that began after the death of a man in police custody and footage that went viral of officers stripping and beating another man. Six nights of demonstrations that began in the working-class districts of Sidi Hassine and Séjoumi in Tunis spread to other neighbourhoods on Monday night. Continue reading... |
| The Covid Delta variant: how effective are the vaccines? Posted: 15 Jun 2021 07:38 AM PDT Analysis: what protection do they offer against infection, hospital admission and death? As lockdown easing in England is delayed from 21 June to a possible date of 19 July amid concerns of a substantial wave of hospitalisations due to the Delta variant of coronavirus, we take a look at the latest data on the protection offered by vaccines. Continue reading... |
| Why is Israel lifting Covid restrictions as England extends them? Posted: 15 Jun 2021 06:37 AM PDT Analysis: both are viewed as running successful vaccine campaigns, but case numbers are very different Israel and the UK were viewed as world leaders in their coronavirus vaccine campaigns but whereas the former is lifting almost all pandemic limitations, the latter is now glumly extending its restrictions in England amid a sharp rise in infections. Despite starting its mass inoculation programme after the UK in December, Israel has sped ahead and it reached a key milestone on Tuesday, scrapping a requirement to wear face masks indoors, one of the final Covid limitations. Continue reading... |
| Ascot resumes after lockdown – in pictures Posted: 15 Jun 2021 11:00 PM PDT Racegoers have returned to Royal Ascot for the first time since the pandemic began. Punters dressed in outlandish hats, summer dresses, smart suits and masks will cheer on the jockeys over the next four days at the Berkshire race course |
| Israel mounts Gaza Strip airstrike in response to incendiary balloons – video Posted: 15 Jun 2021 10:09 PM PDT Israel has launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, the first since a truce ended 11 days of cross-border fighting in May. The airstrike comes in response to incendiary balloons launched from the Palestinian territory. The flare-up in violence followed a march in East Jerusalem on Tuesday by Jewish nationalists that had drawn threats of action by Hamas, the ruling militant group in Gaza and counter-protests. Israel's military said its aircraft attacked Hamas armed compounds in Gaza City and the southern town of Khan Younis in the early hours of Wednesday. The strikes come after the Israeli fire brigade reported 20 blazes in open fields in communities near the Gaza border were caused by the release of the incendiary balloons. |
| Peruvians re-weave Incan hanging bridge spanning river – video Posted: 15 Jun 2021 07:15 PM PDT Peruvians from the Huinchiri community in Cusco region are rebuilding a 500-year-old Incan hanging bridge using traditional weaving techniques. The Q'eswachaka bridge crosses the Apurimac river, connecting communities, but fell into disrepair during the Covid pandemic and collapsed in March. Now, the bridge is being rebuilt by teams of workers across both sides of the ravine who carefully balance on main ropes while weaving Continue reading... |
| Putin refuses to give guarantee Navalny will survive prison – video Posted: 15 Jun 2021 03:06 AM PDT Vladimir Putin has refused to give any guarantee that the opposition leader Alexei Navalny will get out of prison alive, saying nobody imprisoned in Russia should be given exclusive treatment. In an extended and testy interview with NBC News before his Geneva summit with Joe Biden, the Russian president refused to use Navalny's name, leaving journalist Keir Simmons to say 'his name is Alexei Navalny'. Continue reading... |
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