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- G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than green energy
- US secretary of state warns Pacific leaders about ‘coercion’ in veiled swipe at China
- ‘Courageous’: Japanese athletes and sponsors voice support for Naomi Osaka
- Escaped elephants leave 500km trail of destruction in China
- Joe Biden calls for US to confront its past on 100th anniversary of Tulsa massacre
- Officers accused of sexual abuse must face investigation, says police chief
- ‘Hundreds’ of photos exist of Australian soldiers drinking from dead Afghan’s prosthetic leg, court told
- Hundreds of fishing fleets that go ‘dark’ suspected of illegal hunting, study finds
- Israeli opposition parties face midnight deadline to form government
- Kate Winslet says she refused offer to edit sex scene showing ‘bulgy belly’
- ‘Our society is totally nuts’: Fauci emails lift lid on life in eye of the Covid storm
- Coronavirus live news: WHO approves Sinovac vaccine; Vietnam reverses international travel ban
- ‘Zero’: how the UK papers covered a day without a single reported Covid death
- ‘Waiting to happen’: the California region where masks are taboo - and cases are rising
- ‘I felt nauseous in Topshop’: why a fashion editor gave up buying new clothes
- Microwave weapons that could cause Havana Syndrome exist, experts say
- Christina Hendricks: ‘We were critically acclaimed – and everyone wanted to ask me about my bra’
- ‘That was the day I knew I had died … ’ José Mauro, the reborn genius of bossa nova
- ‘An architectural fashion show’: Greenwich peninsula’s Design District
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart – PlayStation 5’s summer blockbuster
- German election poll tracker: who will be the next chancellor?
- Ethiopia’s human rights chief as war rages in Tigray: ‘we get accused by all ethnic groups’
- Victoria makes Covid check-in mandatory at shops after transmissions from ‘fleeting’ visits
- ‘Fear everywhere’: hundreds of thousands flee DRC volcano’s river of death – in pictures
- UK Covid dashboard showing ‘zero deaths’ but also flashing warning signals
- ‘This was a massacre’: Biden honours Tulsa race massacre survivors 100 years on – video
- Hong Kong’s 4 June Tiananmen vigil over the years – in pictures
- Ugandan minister speaks from hospital bed after assassination attempt – video
| G7 nations committing billions more to fossil fuel than green energy Posted: 01 Jun 2021 10:00 PM PDT In spite of green rhetoric, money has piled into aviation and car industries since start of pandemic, report finds The nations that make up the G7 have pumped billions of dollars more into fossil fuels than they have into clean energy since the Covid-19 pandemic, despite their promises of a green recovery. As the UK prepares to host the G7 summit, new analysis reveals that the countries attending committed $189bn to support oil, coal and gas between January 2020 and March 2021. In comparison, the same countries – the UK, US, Canada, Italy, France, Germany and Japan – spent $147bn on clean forms of energy. Continue reading... |
| US secretary of state warns Pacific leaders about ‘coercion’ in veiled swipe at China Posted: 01 Jun 2021 08:10 PM PDT Antony Blinken takes a shot at Beijing's growing influence with rallying call for 'international rules-based order' The US secretary of state has warned leaders of Pacific countries about "threats to the rules-based international order" and "economic coercion", in what appears to be a veiled swipe at China's growing influence in the region. Antony Blinken was addressing leaders and their delegates from 11 Pacific countries and territories including Fiji, Solomon Islands, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, French Polynesia, Palau and Marshall Islands as part of the Pacific Islands Conference of Leaders, which is held in Hawaii. Continue reading... |
| ‘Courageous’: Japanese athletes and sponsors voice support for Naomi Osaka Posted: 01 Jun 2021 09:20 PM PDT Messages flood in after tennis player withdraws from French Open saying press conferences worsen her anxiety and depression Athletes and sponsors in Naomi Osaka's native Japan have joined much of the tennis world in rallying behind the player after she withdrew from the French Open, citing struggles with anxiety and depression. The Japanese world No 2 left the grand slam tournament on Monday, days after she had been fined and threatened with expulsion for refusing to attend press conferences, saying she needed to protect her mental wellbeing. Continue reading... |
| Escaped elephants leave 500km trail of destruction in China Posted: 01 Jun 2021 10:30 PM PDT Wild herd has wrecked barns and munched its way through fields of crops after absconding from nature reserve in April A herd of 15 elephants have caused destruction in south-western China, including eating whole fields of corn and smashing up barns, after escaping from a nature reserve in April. Measures taken to keep migrating #elephants away from residential zones in #Yunnan. |
| Joe Biden calls for US to confront its past on 100th anniversary of Tulsa massacre Posted: 01 Jun 2021 04:34 PM PDT President drew a through-line from racist violence in 1921 to recent displays of white supremacy in Charlottesville and the US Capitol Joe Biden has used the centenary of the Tulsa race massacre as a rallying cry for America to be honest about its history, insisting that great nations "come to terms with their dark sides". On Tuesday Biden became the first sitting US president to visit the site where, on 31 May and 1 June 1921, a white mob murdered up to 300 African Americans and burned and looted homes and businesses, razing a prosperous community known as "Black Wall Street". Continue reading... |
| Officers accused of sexual abuse must face investigation, says police chief Posted: 01 Jun 2021 11:00 PM PDT Call comes after nearly 150 women made abuse claims against former partners in police force All serving police officers accused of domestic or sexual abuse should face misconduct hearings as well as criminal investigations, according to the most senior police officer for domestic abuse in England and Wales. Last month it emerged that nearly 150 women have come forward with claims of rape, sexual assault and domestic abuse by ex-partners in the police force. Louisa Rolfe, the National Police Chiefs' Council's lead on domestic abuse, said she was "horrified" by the allegations and "doubly horrified" at reports they had not been properly investigated. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 02 Jun 2021 01:07 AM PDT Ben Roberts-Smith's lawyers in his defamation action say they have been overwhelmed by new tranche of documents including the images There are "hundreds" of photos of Australian soldiers drinking from a prosthetic leg – allegedly taken from a slain Afghan – at an unauthorised bar at Australia's military base in Afghanistan, a court has heard. The existence of some photographs was previously known, and a handful had been widely broadcast and published. But the full extent of the photos from the Australian soldiers' underground bar, the Fat Ladies' Arms, was revealed before the federal court on Wednesday. Continue reading... |
| Hundreds of fishing fleets that go ‘dark’ suspected of illegal hunting, study finds Posted: 02 Jun 2021 02:00 AM PDT Vessels primarily from China switch off their tracking beacons to evade detection while they engage in possible illegal fishing Giant distant-water fishing fleets, primarily from China, are switching off their tracking beacons to evade detection while they engage in a possibly illegal hunt for squid and other lucrative species on the very edge of Argentina's extensive fishing grounds, according to a new study by Oceana, an international NGO dedicated to ocean conservation. Related: Cat and mouse on the high seas: on the trail of China's vast squid fleet Continue reading... |
| Israeli opposition parties face midnight deadline to form government Posted: 01 Jun 2021 07:00 PM PDT Yair Lapid's 28-day mandate to forge majority and end Netanyahu's time as PM ends on Wednesday Israeli opposition politicians have until midnight on Wednesday to hash out final negotiations to build a coalition government that would end Benjamin Netanyahu's 12-year run as prime minister. Under the country's election laws, opposition leader Yair Lapid's 28-day mandate to forge a majority by allying with rival parties ends on Wednesday. By this time, he should have informed the president he has succeeded. Continue reading... |
| Kate Winslet says she refused offer to edit sex scene showing ‘bulgy belly’ Posted: 01 Jun 2021 03:30 PM PDT Craig Zobel, director of Mare of Easttown, offered to show actor in a more flattering light but Winslet said: 'Don't you dare' Kate Winslet has said she refused a director's offer to edit a sex scene in which she showed a "bulgy bit of belly" for her latest television series. The actor claimed Craig Zobel, the director of her new HBO series Mare of Easttown, had offered to show her body in a more flattering light. Continue reading... |
| ‘Our society is totally nuts’: Fauci emails lift lid on life in eye of the Covid storm Posted: 01 Jun 2021 01:30 PM PDT Communications from America's top infectious diseases expert shed light on panic and confusion in early stages of pandemic As Anthony Fauci, the US's leading infectious diseases official, grappled with the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic last spring, he was pulled in many directions. Donald Trump's White House, which was downplaying the dangers, was demanding he portray the outbreak on their terms; the media was hungry for answers; and Fauci's email inbox was constantly full with officials, the public and celebrities offering advice and seeking information about the world's deadliest health crisis for a century. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus live news: WHO approves Sinovac vaccine; Vietnam reverses international travel ban Posted: 02 Jun 2021 02:50 AM PDT WHO says two-dose vaccine is 'safe, effective, and quality-assured'; temporary flight suspension in Vietnam lifted; Malaysia begins tough nationwide lockdown; Melbourne restrictions extended
The Victorian government in Australia will now require people to check in at retail stores and supermarkets regardless of the length of time they spend in the store, as new data reveals a huge increase in check-ins to the Service Victoria app once the state forced businesses to begin using it. As part of the extension of the lockdown in Melbourne, the acting premier, James Merlino, announced on Wednesday that supermarkets and retailers would be required to make everyone check in when they entered into the store. Previously it was only a recommendation. Related: Victoria makes Covid check-in mandatory at shops after transmissions from 'fleeting' visits
Drugmaker AstraZeneca has said it would soon provide Thailand with 1.8m doses of locally manufactured Covid-19 vaccine, the first of multiple batches this month, just days out from the launch of its mass vaccination drive. The announcement in a joint statement by AstraZeneca and Siam Bioscience, a firm owned by Thailand's king, comes amid public anxiety about vaccine supplies, as the country suffers its most severe outbreak so far. |
| ‘Zero’: how the UK papers covered a day without a single reported Covid death Posted: 01 Jun 2021 08:00 PM PDT All eyes now turn to whether this makes an easing of England's Covid measures on 21 June more likely Good news is broadcast across Wednesday's front pages, as editors seize a rare opportunity to report on hope in the battle against the coronavirus. Many papers suggest that the first day without a single Covid death for 10 months means the complete easing of lockdown restrictions will go ahead in England as planned on 21 June. Continue reading... |
| ‘Waiting to happen’: the California region where masks are taboo - and cases are rising Posted: 02 Jun 2021 03:00 AM PDT Rural northern California has been forceful in its pushback against masks, business restrictions and vaccine mandates Rural northern California is seeing a troubling rise in Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations, an alarming trend that comes as residents and businesses continue to protest against safety measures and vaccinations – with one Mendocino cafe threatening to charge customers $5 for wearing a mask. While the region makes up a small proportion of the state's population, the growth in its caseload has been considerable, and comes at a time when the state overall is enjoying some of the lowest rates of Covid in the country. After largely avoiding the worst of the pandemic, a block of far northern California counties now leads the state with nearly 40 cases per 100,000 residents over the past week, according to statistics maintained by the Los Angeles Times. Tehama county ranked the highest in the LA Times case ratings with 139 cases per 100,000 residents. Meanwhile 10 of the 21 total Covid deaths in nearby Siskiyou county have occurred since the beginning of May. Continue reading... |
| ‘I felt nauseous in Topshop’: why a fashion editor gave up buying new clothes Posted: 02 Jun 2021 02:00 AM PDT The truth about mass-produced dresses - that everything is commodified and nothing is sustainable – did for me. I decided that if I really wanted a new dress, it had to be old It was April 2019. I was seven months pregnant and in Topshop, looking for something large in which to rehome my body. I was wearing a maternity dress that, if you had seen me pregnant, you would have recognised – a cheap, pleated wraparound in a red floral print that expanded as I expanded. I imagined Issey Miyake, but increasingly looked more like an armchair. It had served me well, but I was determined to buy something, anything, to see me through the next few months. Continue reading... |
| Microwave weapons that could cause Havana Syndrome exist, experts say Posted: 02 Jun 2021 01:30 AM PDT Russia and possibly China have developed technology capable of injuring brain and a US company made a prototype in 2004 Portable microwave weapons capable of causing the mysterious spate of "Havana Syndrome" brain injuries in US diplomats and spies have been developed by several countries in recent years, according to leading American experts in the field. A US company also made the prototype of such a weapon for the marine corps in 2004. The weapon, codenamed Medusa, was intended to be small enough to fit in a car, and cause a "temporarily incapacitating effect" but "with a low probability of fatality or permanent injury". Continue reading... |
| Christina Hendricks: ‘We were critically acclaimed – and everyone wanted to ask me about my bra’ Posted: 01 Jun 2021 10:00 PM PDT The star of Good Girls discusses Mad Men, sexual harassment and squaring her glamorous reputation with her 'weird, goofy' personality Christina Hendricks appears on our video call with the most dramatic backdrop. Art deco gold peacocks bedeck a black wall, making her look, as she has so often in her career, a bit too good to be human. Perfectly poised, perfectly framed, perfectly lit, she is more like a dreamy vision of what humans look like. "I, erm, like your wall," I say, pointlessly. She flashes a smile, as if to say: "Obviously." We are here primarily to discuss the comedy-drama series Good Girls, the fourth season of which will resume in the US this month after a midseason break. The elevator pitch would be Breaking Bad for girls: three suburban women, each hovering on the edge of bankruptcy, unite to embark on a life of cack-handed crime, only to discover they are good at it. The ensemble – Hendricks, Mae Whitman, who plays her sister, and Retta, their friend – works strikingly well, their pacey comic rapport instilling a sense of perpetual motion. You just can't imagine Good Girls ending. Every time a plot line seems to be reaching its climax, something worse – and funnier – happens. Continue reading... |
| ‘That was the day I knew I had died … ’ José Mauro, the reborn genius of bossa nova Posted: 02 Jun 2021 02:45 AM PDT The melancholic singer was a gem in Brazil's musical history, but many thought he had been killed in a motorcycle accident. At 72, he is releasing his lost recordings and finally reclaiming his legacy It was the summer of 1995 when José Mauro discovered he was dead. The Brazilian musician, then 46 years old, was living on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, teaching guitar, when a friend called from London saying he'd spotted a CD of Mauro's long-deleted 1970 LP, Obnoxius, on sale in a London record shop. "He called and explained about this CD, and about how it said I'd been killed in a motorcycle accident," says Mauro today, now 72. "That was the day I knew I had died." Continue reading... |
| ‘An architectural fashion show’: Greenwich peninsula’s Design District Posted: 01 Jun 2021 10:00 PM PDT From a rooftop basketball court to a caterpillar-shaped food hall, the souk-like London development is architecture at its trendiest. Can its eye-popping buildings lure young creatives – and bring the buzz? A mirror-polished silver box stands proudly on a corner of the Greenwich Peninsula, reflecting a curious new world of architectural experiments. To one side wriggles a transparent caterpillar of a building, with clear plastic stretched around a bright yellow frame, forming a space-age chrysalis. Next door stands a veiled stack of raw concrete floors, the bare bones of a building draped with a ghostly shroud of steel netting, giving it the look of a multistorey aviary. Nearby there is a sturdy, low-slung box covered in rusty panels of Cor-ten steel, and a little tower-like block wrapped in a corduroy cloak of slender white tubes. Elsewhere in the menagerie we find a pair of triangular wedges dressed in harlequin costumes of pink and green terrazzo diamonds, and several other creatures whose exotic plumage has yet to emerge from behind the scaffolding. Continue reading... |
| Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart – PlayStation 5’s summer blockbuster Posted: 02 Jun 2021 01:30 AM PDT After a pandemic-hit slowdown on new content, the PS5 finally has a family game to match its capabilities It's been six months since the PlayStation 5 launched, and they still fly out of stock minutes after appearing in stores. But anyone still waiting to pick one up can be comforted by the knowledge that as yet, there haven't been many games to show off what it can do. The only one that has felt strikingly next-generation is the superb horror-sci-fi-shooter Returnal, which is like Groundhog Day on an alien planet where everything is trying to kill you. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, out 11 June, is also science-fiction, but unlike Returnal, it is more cuddly and approachable. Part of a long-running series about a furry big-eared alien and his unflappable robot companion having adventures in space with a wacky arsenal of weapons, it's made by Insomniac Games in California, the developer behind PS5 launch game Spider-Man: Miles Morales. And like Miles Morales, it is a bit of a technical showcase. Continue reading... |
| German election poll tracker: who will be the next chancellor? Posted: 02 Jun 2021 01:08 AM PDT Find out who is leading the polling to succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor of Germany Germans will vote on Sunday 26 September to elect a new Bundestag, or federal parliament. The result – after coalition negotiations likely to involve two or three parties – will decide who will succeed Angela Merkel, who is standing down after 16 years as chancellor. Some recent polls have put Germany's Green party in the lead, as Merkel's successor at the conservative CDU, Armin Laschet, struggles to inherit her appeal. German federal elections are proportional, so the share of vote given by polling companies should be read as translating fairly directly into share of seats in the resulting parliament. Only parties with less than 5% of the national vote, or less than three directly elected constituency seats, are not awarded proportional parliamentary seats. Continue reading... |
| Ethiopia’s human rights chief as war rages in Tigray: ‘we get accused by all ethnic groups’ Posted: 01 Jun 2021 11:30 PM PDT Former political prisoner Daniel Bekele has made the commission more autonomous but critics claim he is biased on current conflict There was a time when a report by Ethiopia's human rights commission was a staid affair, its findings offering window-dressing for hand-wringing donors and legal cover to the government. Between 2013 and 2017 the commission systematically "whitewashed human rights violations through compromised methodologies, dismissing credible allegations", according to a 2019 Amnesty International study that accused it of "brazen bias against victims". Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Victoria makes Covid check-in mandatory at shops after transmissions from ‘fleeting’ visits Posted: 02 Jun 2021 02:41 AM PDT Chief medical officer says new rule introduced to ensure potential exposure sites have complete records for contact tracing
The Victorian government will now require people to check in at retail stores and supermarkets regardless of the length of time they spend in the store, as new data reveals a huge increase in check-ins to the Service Victoria app once the state forced businesses to begin using it. As part of the extension of the lockdown in Melbourne, the acting premier, James Merlino, announced on Wednesday that supermarkets and retailers would be required to make everyone check in when they entered into the store. Previously it was only a recommendation. Continue reading... |
| ‘Fear everywhere’: hundreds of thousands flee DRC volcano’s river of death – in pictures Posted: 01 Jun 2021 11:00 PM PDT Devastation hampers relief efforts around city of Goma as people speak of losing everything after eruption on Mount Nyiragongo Continue reading... |
| UK Covid dashboard showing ‘zero deaths’ but also flashing warning signals Posted: 01 Jun 2021 12:42 PM PDT Analysis: vaccine programme could sever link between infections and deaths but there are reasons to be seriously doubtful For those who are urging the government to push ahead with easing of lockdown restrictions later this month, Tuesday's announcement of 'zero deaths' in the UK will be cited as further proof of the necessity to end the delay. Certainly, the country has come a long way since the new year Covid surge, when the daily number of infections reached a peak of more than 68,000, and the number of people in hospital would later rise to almost 40,000. Daily death tolls of more than 1,000 were common during the bleakest weeks of winter. Continue reading... |
| ‘This was a massacre’: Biden honours Tulsa race massacre survivors 100 years on – video Posted: 02 Jun 2021 02:41 AM PDT Joe Biden on Tuesday became the first sitting US president to visit the site in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where hundreds of Black Americans were massacred by a white mob in 1921, as he marked the country's legacy of racial violence. Biden oversaw a moment of silence for the victims after meeting with three people who lived in the district during the massacre: Viola Fletcher, Hughes Van Ellis and Lessie Benningfield Randle. Now between the ages of 101 and 107, the survivors who met Biden asked Congress for 'justice' this year and are parties to a lawsuit against state and local officials seeking several remedies for the massacre, including a victim compensation fund
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| Hong Kong’s 4 June Tiananmen vigil over the years – in pictures Posted: 02 Jun 2021 12:49 AM PDT For years, Hong Kong has been one of just two cities in China allowed to mark anniversaries of the deadly crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989. This year, however, Hong Kong authorities banned the vigil for the second consecutive year, citing the coronavirus pandemic. Critics say the authorities are using the pandemic as an excuse to silence pro-democracy voices. Last year thousands of people gathered in Victoria Park despite the ban, and weeks later police arrested more than 20 activists who had taken part in the vigil. Organisers have urged people to mark the anniversary in private this year by lighting a candle at home Continue reading... |
| Ugandan minister speaks from hospital bed after assassination attempt – video Posted: 01 Jun 2021 05:44 AM PDT Gunmen fired bullets at a car carrying Katumba Wamala in an attempted assassination on Tuesday, wounding the former army commander and killing his daughter and driver. Speaking from his hospital bed, the government minister said: 'I have survived … the bad guys have done it, but God has given me a second chance. I will pull through.' There have been several unsolved assassinations and mysterious deaths of high-profile officials in the east African country in recent years that have fuelled speculation about perpetrators and their motivations |
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