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- Obama backs Manchin’s voting rights compromise before crucial Senate vote
- Hong Kong leader refuses to say how media can avoid arrest in wake of Apple Daily raids
- ‘What if someone buried my son?’ Anguish of search for Armenia’s war dead
- Euro 2020: Uefa blocks rainbow light display at Germany v Hungary – live!
- Kim Jong-un’s sister dismisses hopes of US-North Korea nuclear talks
- Spanish government set to pardon nine Catalan independence leaders
- New bill aims to force Canada to tackle ‘systemic’ environmental racism
- China’s ambassador to the US to leave after eight years
- Raiders’ Carl Nassib becomes first active NFL player to come out as gay
- Great Barrier Reef should be listed as ‘in danger’, Unesco recommends
- ‘I am appalled’: Billie Eilish apologises for mouthing apparent racist slur in resurfaced five-year-old clip
- Coronavirus live news: Italy to lift outdoor mask wearing rules from 28 June; North Korea tells WHO it has no cases
- ‘Everything is collapsing’: Colombia battles third Covid wave amid unrest
- Indonesia tightens restrictions as it confirms record new coronavirus infections
- Philippines president Duterte: ‘You choose, Covid vaccine or I will have you jailed’
- Mischa Barton on success, paparazzi and survival: ‘I’m not broken’
- Joni Mitchell’s Blue: my favourite song – by James Taylor, Carole King, Graham Nash, David Crosby and more
- Unknown treasures: the forgotten women of Manchester’s Factory Records
- The real urban jungle: how ancient societies reimagined what cities could be
- ‘On the edge’: Are New Zealand’s tough immigration rules harming the economy?
- Deadly traffic: the fuel drivers caught up in Pakistan-Iran border tensions
- Tube to get full mobile network by end of 2024, says London mayor
- Hungary’s classrooms have become the new battleground for the war on ‘LGBT ideology’ | Mark Gevisser
- Man with Alzheimer’s proposes to his wife after forgetting they were married. She said yes
- ‘Significant corruption risks’ in Victoria’s prison system amid surging inmate numbers, Ibac finds
- UK aid cut behind $284m fall in global humanitarian spending
- ‘Latin America will never be the same’: Venezuela exodus reaches record levels
- Les Hijabeuses: the female footballers tackling France’s on-pitch hijab ban
- Boris Johnson: travel abroad will remain difficult in 2021 – video
- Elephant breaks into kitchen in Thailand looking for snacks – video
| Obama backs Manchin’s voting rights compromise before crucial Senate vote Posted: 21 Jun 2021 03:49 PM PDT Former president calls Democrats' proposal a 'product of compromise' and says the future of the country is at stake Barack Obama has backed conservative West Virginia Democratic senator Joe Manchin's voting rights proposal, calling it a "product of compromise" as the landmark legislation struggles towards a crucial vote in the US Senate on Tuesday. The former US president weighed in, as did his wife and former first lady, Michelle Obama, decrying Republican efforts in many statehouses across the country to bring in new laws that restrict voting, and urging Congress to pass federal legislation "before it's too late". Continue reading... |
| Hong Kong leader refuses to say how media can avoid arrest in wake of Apple Daily raids Posted: 21 Jun 2021 10:27 PM PDT Carrie Lam denies arrest of senior editorial figures at pro-democracy paper and seizure of its assets was an attack on press freedom Hong Kong's leader, Carrie Lam, has refused to clarify how journalists can avoid breaking the vaguely defined national security law following the raid and prosecution of journalists at a pro-democracy newspaper. At a regular press conference on Tuesday the city's chief executive, Carrie Lam, defended the arrest of senior Apple Daily executives under the national security law (NSL) – two of whom have been charged with conspiracy to commit collusion with a foreign country – as well as the raid of its newsroom and freezing of assets. Continue reading... |
| ‘What if someone buried my son?’ Anguish of search for Armenia’s war dead Posted: 21 Jun 2021 09:00 PM PDT Overwhelmed labs struggle to process DNA tests after Nagorno-Karabakh war leaves 5,000 dead Eight months after the end of the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh that left more than 5,000 people dead, many soldiers are still missing. In Armenia, families are desperately looking for news about their loved ones. There is a growing lack of trust around DNA tests and a lack of information, leading to mounting pressure on the government. Larissa Dureyan has been looking for her 20-year-old son Mxitar since October. He began his mandatory military service in July 2019 and was serving in Fizuli when war broke out in September last year. Continue reading... |
| Euro 2020: Uefa blocks rainbow light display at Germany v Hungary – live! Posted: 22 Jun 2021 03:03 AM PDT
"You're obviously busy with weightier issues," writes Peter Van, naively, "but let me just tell you how very excited I am about tonight's Scotland-Croatia. I hope the Scots win, but I especially enjoy the situation – both teams absolutely must win within 90 minutes, no playing for a draw, no hanging on for penalties. If Scotland play with the intensity and intelligence they showed at Wembley, they can win, against a Croatia side that have looked stuck in second gear so far, but the goalscoring thing's a worry.
Looking ahead again to tonight, this is the first meeting between England and the Czech Republic at a tournament finals since the break-up of Czechoslovakia (there was the deeply forgettable goalless draw with Slovakia at this stage of Euro 2016 of course), which stirs memories of the 1982 World Cup in Spain, when England beat Czechoslovakia in their second of three wins in the group stage, before running out of steam and inspiration in the next phase: Continue reading... |
| Kim Jong-un’s sister dismisses hopes of US-North Korea nuclear talks Posted: 22 Jun 2021 02:00 AM PDT Kim Yo-jong's intervention appears to have thwarted any prospects for early resumption of negotiations Kim Jong-un's influential sister appears to have dismissed hopes for a breakthrough on nuclear talks with the US, warning Washington that it faced "disappointment" if it believed engagement with North Korea was a possibility. Kim Yo-jong, a senior figure in the ruling party who is considered one of the North Korean leader's closest confidantes, said any US expectations for a resumption of talks were "wrong", according to the state-run KCNA news agency. Continue reading... |
| Spanish government set to pardon nine Catalan independence leaders Posted: 21 Jun 2021 09:00 PM PDT Prime minister says controversial decision opposed by many Spaniards will 'open path to reconciliation' Spain's socialist-led government will on Tuesday approve the deeply controversial pardons of the nine Catalan independence leaders who were jailed over their roles in the illegal, failed attempt to secede from the rest of the country in October 2017. The prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has acknowledged that the decision will anger many Spaniards, but insists the act of clemency is the best way to bring the country back together and to help find a political solution to the enduring territorial crisis. Continue reading... |
| New bill aims to force Canada to tackle ‘systemic’ environmental racism Posted: 22 Jun 2021 03:00 AM PDT C-230 would require government to study effect of pollution and industry on marginalized people but conservatives could sink plan For generations, marginalized communities in Canada have feared that heavy industry is slowly poisoning their air, land and water. Related: America's dirty divide: how environmental racism leaves the vulnerable behind Continue reading... |
| China’s ambassador to the US to leave after eight years Posted: 21 Jun 2021 11:50 PM PDT Longest-serving envoy Cui Tiankai says relations between the countries 'at a crossroads' China's ambassador to the US, Cui Tiankai, has announced he will leave Washington after eight years, saying US-China relations are at a "crossroads" as the US recalibrates its engagement policies. Cui, whose departure has been the subject of speculation for months, wrote a farewell statement calling on Chinese people in the US to defend their right to be there, and to "shoulder a great responsibility and mission" in furthering the bilateral relationship. Continue reading... |
| Raiders’ Carl Nassib becomes first active NFL player to come out as gay Posted: 21 Jun 2021 05:03 PM PDT Defensive end makes announcement in Instagram video: 'I finally feel comfortable enough to get it off my chest' Carl Nassib has become the first active NFL player to come out as gay, making the announcement in a video posted to Instagram on Monday. "I'm at my house here in West Chester, Pennsylvania," said Nassib, a defensive end for the Las Vegas Raiders. "I just wanted to take a quick moment to say that I'm gay. I've been meaning to do this for a while now but finally feel comfortable enough to get it off my chest. I really have the best life, I've got the best family, friends and job a guy can ask for." Continue reading... |
| Great Barrier Reef should be listed as ‘in danger’, Unesco recommends Posted: 21 Jun 2021 08:57 PM PDT Australian government 'stunned' by recommendation and will strongly oppose draft decision, environment minister Sussan Ley says
The Great Barrier Reef should be placed on to a list of world heritage sites that are "in danger", according to a recommendation from UN officials that urges Australia to take "accelerated action at all possible levels" on climate change. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization says the world's biggest coral reef system should be placed on the list at the world heritage committee meeting next month. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 21 Jun 2021 10:53 PM PDT Singer says she was unaware of the meaning of the offensive word at the time, did not mean to cause offence, and the prospect of causing people hurt 'absolutely breaks my heart' Billie Eilish has apologised after a video surfaced appearing to show her mouthing a racist slur. The Grammy-winning pop star, 19, shared a lengthy statement to Instagram Stories, writing that she was "appalled and embarrassed" by the clip. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 22 Jun 2021 03:00 AM PDT UK health secretary hints at easing of restrictions for people with two doses of vaccines; North Korea claims zero cases from 30,000 tests
European Union governments have supported a plan to extend a mechanism to monitor and potentially limit the export of Covid vaccines from the EU, a European Commission spokesperson has told Reuters. The decision paves the way for the Commission to formally extend in the coming days the extraordinary mechanism until the end of September, an EU official said. The mechanism would otherwise expire at the end of June.
After weeks and weeks of the official case numbers making it look like Russia had their Covid situation completely under control, there's been a sharp rise in the numbers and a change of tone out of the Kremlin. Reuters note that Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters this morning that people who were not vaccinated or who did not have immunity would be unable to work in all workplaces in Russia, and that those people could be discriminated against. Continue reading... |
| ‘Everything is collapsing’: Colombia battles third Covid wave amid unrest Posted: 22 Jun 2021 02:00 AM PDT Protest leaders have agreed to pause mass marches as hospital ICUs struggle to cope with surging coronavirus cases Related: 'This is a revolution': the faces of Colombia's protests Marisol Bejarano, an intensive care unit doctor at El Tunal hospital in the Colombian capital, Bogotá, has watched people die – slowly and far from family – since the pandemic began. Continue reading... |
| Indonesia tightens restrictions as it confirms record new coronavirus infections Posted: 21 Jun 2021 08:15 PM PDT The country's infections, the worst in south-east Asia, have passed two million Indonesian health authorities are battling a new surge in coronavirus infections, as the National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB) reported the highest one-day total, with 14,535 cases confirmed in the 24 hours to Monday. Daily case totals are reaching levels last seen in January, the peak of Indonesia's fight against the virus. Continue reading... |
| Philippines president Duterte: ‘You choose, Covid vaccine or I will have you jailed’ Posted: 21 Jun 2021 08:31 PM PDT President says he is 'exasperated' by reports of vaccine hesitancy in the capital amid slow rollout President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to jail people who refuse to be vaccinated against the coronavirus as the Philippines battles one of Asia's worst outbreaks, with a cumulative total of more than 1.3 million cases and 23,000 deaths. "You choose, vaccine or I will have you jailed," Duterte said in a televised address on Monday following reports of low turnouts at several vaccination sites in the capital Manila. Continue reading... |
| Mischa Barton on success, paparazzi and survival: ‘I’m not broken’ Posted: 22 Jun 2021 02:00 AM PDT As party girl Marissa in The OC, Barton found fame at a time when young female stars were being hounded by the press. She talks about strength, resilience and her battle against revenge porn For some actors, the roles they have played stick to them like shadows, long after they should have been left behind. Just ask Mischa Barton. It is 15 years since she starred as Marissa Cooper in the teen drama The OC, and yet still she can't shake her off. When Barton appeared in the reality show The Hills in 2019 – inspired by The OC's privileged young Californians but featuring real-life people – she was supposed to be herself, but the producers expected Cooper. "It is the constant mistake," she says wryly. "They were even calling me by my character name. Seriously? Like, this far down the line they can't get my name right?" The parallels, though, are irresistible. Marissa was a troubled party girl with a love of fashion who met a tragic end. Mischa (even their names are similar) was also a troubled party girl with a love of fashion, whose life at times seemed out of control. There was the extreme fame, the breakdown, the reported threats of suicide, estrangement from her parents and a "revenge porn" court case. Barton has weathered it all with a sense of humour and now, at 35, a bit of perspective. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 21 Jun 2021 10:00 PM PDT As the legendary album turns 50, the musicians it inspired – and those who inspired it – tell us which track means the most to them and why Continue reading... |
| Unknown treasures: the forgotten women of Manchester’s Factory Records Posted: 22 Jun 2021 01:00 AM PDT A new exhibition shines a light on the female creatives and managers who helped turn the home of Joy Division and New Order into a three decade-long powerhouse From its figurehead Tony Wilson through to the male-dominated bands that found fame on the label, Factory Records is sometimes seen as the epitome of a muso lad fest. But a new exhibition at Manchester's Science and Industry Museum is having a go at changing all that, casting welcome light on the women who were integral not only to Factory's birth but its three decade-long survival. Related: The Guide: Staying In – sign up for our home entertainment tips Continue reading... |
| The real urban jungle: how ancient societies reimagined what cities could be Posted: 21 Jun 2021 10:00 PM PDT They may be vine-smothered ruins today, but the lost cities of the ancient tropics still have a lot to teach us about how to live alongside nature Visions of "lost cities" in the jungle have consumed western imaginations since Europeans first visited the tropics of Asia, Africa and the Americas. From the Lost City of Z to El Dorado, a thirst for finding ancient civilisations and their treasures in perilous tropical forest settings has driven innumerable ill-fated expeditions. This obsession has seeped into western societies' popular ideas of tropical forest cities, with overgrown ruins acting as the backdrop for fear, discovery and life-threatening challenges in countless films, novels and video games. Throughout these depictions runs the idea that all ancient cities and states in tropical forests were doomed to fail. That the most resilient occupants of tropical forests are small villages of poison dart-blowing hunter-gatherers. And that vicious vines and towering trees – or, in the case of The Jungle Book, a boisterous army of monkeys – will inevitably claw any significant human achievement back into the suffocating green whence it came. This idea has been boosted by books and films that focus on the collapse of particularly enigmatic societies such as the Classic Maya. The decaying stone walls, the empty grand structures and the deserted streets of these tropical urban leftovers act as a tragic warning that our own way of life is not as secure as we would like to assume. Continue reading... |
| ‘On the edge’: Are New Zealand’s tough immigration rules harming the economy? Posted: 21 Jun 2021 09:34 PM PDT Critics say failing to allow family members to join skilled workers will undermine post-pandemic recovery In February 2020, Craig Hurn, 53, temporarily left his wife and daughter in Cape Town to scope out the job market in New Zealand. After beating six other candidates for one job, he secured an essential skills visa and began preparing to move his family over. "We saw Craig's CV and we thought, 'Oh my God, he can walk into the job,'" says his employer, who struggled to find any workers with the highly specialised qualifications to fill the position. Continue reading... |
| Deadly traffic: the fuel drivers caught up in Pakistan-Iran border tensions Posted: 22 Jun 2021 12:34 AM PDT As the two countries crack down on smuggling, those forced to cross the border 'for survival' face a perilous journey Karim Jan* spent the festival of Eid al-Fitr sitting in the scorching May sun as he had spent the previous five days, waiting in a long queue of traffic to get into Iran. Like hundreds of other drivers, Jan came to this desolate town of Mand, on the Pakistan border with Iran, from across Balochistan. As they waited, some drivers slept in their Iranian pickup trucks , known as Zamyads, while others slept out under the open sky. Continue reading... |
| Tube to get full mobile network by end of 2024, says London mayor Posted: 21 Jun 2021 11:28 PM PDT Sadiq Khan says work will begin soon on connecting busiest underground stations for end of next year Passengers on the London underground will have mobile coverage throughout the network by the end of 2024, the mayor of London has said. Transport for London (TfL) said work on preparing some of the capital's busiest stations, including Oxford Circus, Tottenham Court Road and Bank, would begin soon, and they would be among the first fully connected stations by the end of next year. Continue reading... |
| Hungary’s classrooms have become the new battleground for the war on ‘LGBT ideology’ | Mark Gevisser Posted: 22 Jun 2021 02:12 AM PDT Viktor Orban has used a new law to equate gay people with paedophiles. He's not the first to use this tactic Last week, the Hungarian parliament banned any portrayal of homosexuality or transgenderism to minors, in educational material or on television. Appending this to a law protecting children from child abuse, the country's president, Viktor Orbán, drew an explicit connection between homosexuality and paedophilia. In so doing, he resorted to a canard that much of the world has long dispensed with, but that is enjoying a troubling new emergence in the global battles against "gender ideology": the danger posed by homosexuals and trans people to children. "The logic of the government is to find an enemy and pretend that they are saving the country from this enemy," said the Hungarian LGBTQ+ leader Tamás Dombos in a presentation to the United States Congress last week. Dombos described the new law as "a conscious and diabolic political strategy" by the government to divert public attention from its messy response to the Covid crisis. The law is also a salvo in a tough upcoming election, and an effective way of staking what I term a "pink line": a nativist boundary protecting, in this case, Hungarian "values" against the immoral imperialism of George Soros and Brussels. Continue reading... |
| Man with Alzheimer’s proposes to his wife after forgetting they were married. She said yes Posted: 22 Jun 2021 03:00 AM PDT 'He doesn't know that I'm his wife,' Lisa Marshall said. So when Peter proposed again, she decided to go for it A married couple from Connecticut hosted a second, especially touching wedding ceremony when the groom, battling a type of dementia, proposed to his wife again after forgetting they were already married. Despite struggling to remember his marriage due to early-onset Alzheimer's disease, Peter Marshall, 56, has never forgotten the love he has for Lisa, 54, his wife of 12 years, whom he has recently mostly regarded as his favorite caregiver given his deteriorating memory. Continue reading... |
| ‘Significant corruption risks’ in Victoria’s prison system amid surging inmate numbers, Ibac finds Posted: 22 Jun 2021 02:21 AM PDT Special report details instances of excessive force, inappropriate strip-searches, smuggled contraband and guards accepting bribes The rapid growth of the Victorian prison population and poor workplace culture in prisons has led to "significant corruption risks", a damning report into Victoria's corrective services has found. A special report released by the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (Ibac) on Tuesday detailed accounts of excessive use of force by prison guards, inappropriate strip-searching, relationships between prison officers and inmates, smuggling of contraband, and prison guards accepting thousands of dollars in bribes. Continue reading... |
| UK aid cut behind $284m fall in global humanitarian spending Posted: 21 Jun 2021 04:00 PM PDT Estimated UK cut of $900m offsets increases by other nations, according to annual Global Humanitarian Assistance Report International humanitarian spending by public donors dropped by $284m (£204m) between 2019 and 2020, and the UK government cut its humanitarian funding by the most of any major western country, a new report from the independent organisation Development Initiatives has found. Its annual Global Humanitarian Assistance Report is regarded as one of the best sources for objective statistics on aid trends and humanitarian needs, and the report highlights the extraordinary pressure now being placed on UN-coordinated humanitarian appeals. Continue reading... |
| ‘Latin America will never be the same’: Venezuela exodus reaches record levels Posted: 21 Jun 2021 05:16 AM PDT Country at a 'tipping point' that could affect wider region, experts warn, as 'donor fatigue' causes aid shortfall The continuing exodus of millions of Venezuelans is reaching "a tipping point" as the response to the crisis remains critically underfunded. More than 5.6 million have left the country since 2015, when it had a population of 30 million, escaping political, economic and social hardships. It has become the largest external displacement crisis in the region's history, and the most underfunded. Continue reading... |
| Les Hijabeuses: the female footballers tackling France’s on-pitch hijab ban Posted: 21 Jun 2021 04:00 AM PDT Young players excluded from matches because of their religious dress find a way to play on and encourage other hijab-wearing women into the sport Founé Diawara was 15 years old when she was first told she could not wear her hijab in a football match. It was an important game. She had recently got into the team of a club in Meaux, the town north-east of Paris where she grew up, and they were playing a local rival. Diawara had been wearing her hijab during training, but as she was about to walk on to the pitch, the referee said she must remove it if she wanted to play. Continue reading... |
| Boris Johnson: travel abroad will remain difficult in 2021 – video Posted: 21 Jun 2021 05:59 AM PDT Boris Johnson has said he believes 19 July will be the 'terminus point' from which coronavirus restrictions in England will be lifted. The prime minister also played down the prospects of any significant easing of travel restrictions for people wanting a foreign holiday any time soon. 'I want to stress that this is going to be, whatever happens, a difficult year for travel. There will be hassle, there will be delays, I'm afraid. Because the priority has got to be to keep the country safe and stop the virus coming back in,' he said Continue reading... |
| Elephant breaks into kitchen in Thailand looking for snacks – video Posted: 21 Jun 2021 04:55 AM PDT A hungry elephant crashed through a kitchen wall looking for something to eat in the early hours of Saturday morning in southern Thailand. Ratchadawan Puengprasoppon was awoken by crashing and banging. When she went to find out what had happened, she discovered the male elephant, named Boonchuay, rummaging through her kitchen Continue reading... |
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