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- ‘Praying for a miracle’: the desperate search for 159 missing in condo collapse
- Hong Kong needs law to tackle ‘hostility against the police’, says force’s new chief
- Matt Hancock resigns after questions over relationship with aide
- Wales v Denmark: Euro 2020 last 16 – live!
- Hundreds of thousands of EU citizens ‘scrabbling’ to attain post-Brexit status before deadline
- Donald Trump returns to campaign trail with rally targeting Ohio Republican
- Green groups’ fury at loophole in new North Sea oil test
- 12 arrested in raids on Extinction Rebellion sites in London
- New Mexico: four people dead after hot air balloon crash in Albuquerque
- Helicopter carrying Colombian president and senior officials hit by gunfire
- Coronavirus live news: UK records 18,270 new cases; Bangladesh announces fresh lockdown
- NSW Covid outbreaks: Gladys Berejiklian locks down Sydney, Central Coast, Blue Mountains and Wollongong
- ‘I don’t have a choice’: Russians scramble to get Covid vaccine amid new restrictions
- Why pick a holiday in Gibraltar? ‘We couldn’t go anywhere else’
- ‘People aren’t looking for just a model’: meet the amazing Ryan Zaman
- Photographer Donavon Smallwood: ‘What’s it like to be a black person in nature?’
- Call of the coast: an Australian stylist’s California dream home
- Raves from the grave: lost 90s subculture is back in the spotlight
- Being Mr Westwood: Vivienne is ‘eccentric, serious and genuine’
- Rumaan Alam: ‘Our cultural response to a crisis was to go shopping’
- Can the British countryside cope this summer?
- Man captures moment tornado hits his house in Czech Republic – video
- Iran’s supreme leader gets first dose of homegrown vaccine as Covid plans falter
- Car bomb injures 13 UN peacekeepers in Mali
- Kamala Harris takes heat from both sides in daunting border visit
- Commonwealth declares Sydney a hotspot to trigger disaster support – as it happened
- Trudeau says Canadians ‘horrified and ashamed’ of forced assimilation
- Three aid workers found dead in Tigray, says Médecins Sans Frontières
- Beijing using its financial muscle to target Uyghurs living abroad – report
- Brazil’s inquiry into Covid disaster suggests Bolsonaro committed ‘crimes against life’
- ‘We were never a priority’: Zimbabwe Covid ‘hotspots’ face strict lockdown
- How Mitch McConnell has unified Republicans as a red wall against Biden’s agenda
- Why the Pentagon UFO report is deeply troubling for US security experts
- How do we stop the plunder of the Pacific? A panel of experts give their solutions
- Digested week: I’ll miss face masks. They give me freedom to mouth obscenities | Lucy Mangan
- 'Without fear': Senegalese immigrant saves stranger from drowning in Spanish river – video
- Aerial footage shows destruction after Miami building collapse – video
- George Floyd's family speak of their trauma at Chauvin sentencing – video
- Video shows collapse of Miami-area condo building
- Derek Chauvin sentenced to 22 and a half years for murder of George Floyd – video
- Justice department sues state of Georgia over laws that 'deny the right to vote' – video
- 'I'm not losing hope': loved ones await news of people missing in Miami building collapse – video
| ‘Praying for a miracle’: the desperate search for 159 missing in condo collapse Posted: 26 Jun 2021 08:04 AM PDT Rescue crews digging into unstable rubble have been hampered by storms and fires in the mound of debris Death came swiftly to residents of Champlain Towers South. Grandparents, parents and children were sleeping in their beds when their 12-storey condominium building collapsed into a heap of smouldering rubble. Survivors described a sound like thunder, followed by complete destruction of dozens of apartments in the oceanside south Florida block. The collapse took barely 10 seconds but was captured on grim security camera footage from a neighboring building that quickly began streaming on news websites across the world. Continue reading... |
| Hong Kong needs law to tackle ‘hostility against the police’, says force’s new chief Posted: 26 Jun 2021 09:41 AM PDT Raymond Siu blames protests on 'fake news' – but critics fear the label will be used to muzzle dissent Hong Kong's new police chief has called for a "fake news" law to tackle "hostility against the police", in what analysts see as an indication of the next phase of the crackdown on free speech in the former British overseas territory. "I understand that there are residents who are still hostile against us," Raymond Siu, 55, said at his first media briefing since taking office on Friday. "In this regard, I told my colleagues that many of these torn relationships and hostility against the police are due to fake news." Continue reading... |
| Matt Hancock resigns after questions over relationship with aide Posted: 26 Jun 2021 10:23 AM PDT Footage emerged of health secretary in clinch with colleague when Covid rules advised against hugging Matt Hancock has resigned as health secretary, in a letter to Boris Johnson. It comes after embarrassing footage emerged of him in a clinch with a colleague on 6 May, when the public were still being advised not to hug people outside their household. Continue reading... |
| Wales v Denmark: Euro 2020 last 16 – live! Posted: 26 Jun 2021 10:30 AM PDT
72 min: Denmark are playing keep-ball, the "oles" ringing out around the stands as they pass the ball from side to side halfway inside their own half.
71 min: Less than 20 minutes to go and Wales are looking a little out of ideas, short of slinging crosses into the box towards Kieffer Moore. In the heart of Denmark's defence, Kjaer and Vestergaard don't seem unduly concerned by that particular approach. Continue reading... |
| Hundreds of thousands of EU citizens ‘scrabbling’ to attain post-Brexit status before deadline Posted: 26 Jun 2021 08:39 AM PDT Pressure grows for UK to extend Wednesday's settlement-scheme cut-off date as backlog of applications grows and helplines crash EU citizens are struggling to apply for post-Brexit settled status as the Home Office reaches "breaking point" coping with a last-minute surge in applications. With three days before the deadline of the EU settlement scheme this Wednesday, campaigners say late applicants are being stuck in online queues as others find it impossible to access advice on the government helpline. Continue reading... |
| Donald Trump returns to campaign trail with rally targeting Ohio Republican Posted: 26 Jun 2021 10:12 AM PDT As New York legal troubles mount, ex-president hints at 2024 run and targets those who voted for impeachment Donald Trump will return to the campaign trail with a rally in Ohio on Saturday, campaigning against a Republican who voted for his impeachment and trailing his own candidacy for president in 2024. Related: Trump Organization could face criminal charges in New York next week Continue reading... |
| Green groups’ fury at loophole in new North Sea oil test Posted: 26 Jun 2021 08:00 AM PDT Projects that could produce more than 1.7bn barrels will not have to go through the government's 'checkpoint', data reveals Prospective oil projects in the North Sea with the capacity to produce more than a billion barrels will avoid a new test designed to assess their impact on the climate crisis, the Observer has learned. In a development that has angered environmental campaigners, it has emerged that proposed new developments representing some 1.7bn barrels of oil will not have to undergo the forthcoming "climate compatibility checkpoint", designed to determine whether they are consistent with the government's climate commitments. Continue reading... |
| 12 arrested in raids on Extinction Rebellion sites in London Posted: 26 Jun 2021 04:41 AM PDT Police seize equipment from three premises before what officers expect will be busy weekend of protests Police in London have raided a warehouse used by Extinction Rebellion, as well as an arts centre that was exhibiting some of the structures used in the demonstrations that blockaded newspaper printing plants last year. The Met is under increased scrutiny as the group plans further protests against the owners of the UK's press outlets this weekend, alongside supporters of the Black Lives Matter campaign against racial injustice. Continue reading... |
| New Mexico: four people dead after hot air balloon crash in Albuquerque Posted: 26 Jun 2021 10:09 AM PDT One person also injured after balloon was blown into power lines by the wind and caught fire Four people died and one person was in critical condition after a hot air balloon hit power lines in New Mexico's largest city, police said. The crash happened around 7am on Albuquerque's west side, police spokesman Gilbert Gallegos said. No identities were immediately released but fire officials said two males, including the pilot, and two females died. Continue reading... |
| Helicopter carrying Colombian president and senior officials hit by gunfire Posted: 26 Jun 2021 03:53 AM PDT Iván Duque says 'cowardly' attack will not stop him tackling drug trafficking, terrorism and organised crime Colombia's president, Iván Duque, said a helicopter carrying him and several senior officials came under fire in the southern Catatumbo region bordering Venezuela, in a rare instance of a direct attack on a presidential aircraft. Duque said everyone on board the helicopter was safe, including the defense minister, Diego Molano; the interior minister, Daniel Palacios and the governor of Norte de Santander state, Silvano Serrano. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus live news: UK records 18,270 new cases; Bangladesh announces fresh lockdown Posted: 26 Jun 2021 10:27 AM PDT UK records highest daily rise in Covid cases since February; Bangladesh will impose tough lockdown from Monday to tackle surge in Delta variant
UK health secretary Matt Hancock has resigned in a letter to Boris Johnson where he said the government "owe it to people who have sacrificed so much in this pandemic to be honest when we have let them down". Here's his resignation video: Related: Matt Hancock resigns after questions over relationship with aide
An investigation is underway in Mallorca following a coronavirus outbreak involving over 600 students visiting from the Spanish mainland, reports Reuters. At least 1,000 students have had to go into isolation, the Balearic Islands' health authorities said. The students had travelled from different parts of the country to celebrate the end of university exams. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 25 Jun 2021 10:23 PM PDT New South Wales premier says lockdown will last two weeks and new restrictions will be in place for rest of state
All of greater Sydney, the Central Coast, the Blue Mountains and Wollongong regions will enter a two-week coronavirus lockdown until 9 July and new restrictions will be in place for the remainder of New South Wales. The NSW premier, Gladys Berejiklian, announced the expanded lockdown – the first lockdown of greater Sydney since last year – would commence at 6pm Saturday, following crisis talks due to the growing number of exposure sites associated with the Sydney outbreak of the Delta Covid-19 variant. Continue reading... |
| ‘I don’t have a choice’: Russians scramble to get Covid vaccine amid new restrictions Posted: 25 Jun 2021 09:00 PM PDT With infections at highest since January, country is introducing curbs for non-vaccinated Russia has finally admitted it has a vaccination problem – but with an "explosion" of new cases driving the country's daily toll to its highest since January, the question is whether that public realisation has come too late. Just 11% of Russia's 146 million population is fully vaccinated – whether due to vaccine skepticism, doubts about Sputnik or other Russian-made vaccines, or "nihilism", as a Kremlin spokesperson has suggested. Continue reading... |
| Why pick a holiday in Gibraltar? ‘We couldn’t go anywhere else’ Posted: 26 Jun 2021 06:00 AM PDT Prized green-list status attracts younger British tourists to the Rock for the first time as vacation choices remain slim If the residents of Apes' Den are pleased to see a larger than usual number of Britons snapping them, cooing over them or, indeed, edging gingerly away from them, they give little indication of it. It is not much of a stretch to suggest that the social, political and economic ramifications of the current pandemic have been wholly lost on the crag-haunting, tourist-attracting Barbary macaques as they lounge around their lair high above the busy streets and marinas of Gibraltar. Continue reading... |
| ‘People aren’t looking for just a model’: meet the amazing Ryan Zaman Posted: 26 Jun 2021 07:00 AM PDT When he caught the eye of the fashion world, he couldn't believe his luck. Now Ryan Zaman is modelling alongside Kate Moss – and promoting the rights of disabled people When he was five years old, Ryan Zaman walked in a fashion show at his primary school. The catwalk was made from gym mats laid out in a T, and the front row was populated not by Wintours and Kardashians but by rapt parents on tiny chairs. Zaman's mum shot a video and it should be issued with an "extreme cuteness" advisory. At the end, a teacher with a microphone buttonholes Zaman and asks, "Are you famous?" "Yeah," he replies. Continue reading... |
| Photographer Donavon Smallwood: ‘What’s it like to be a black person in nature?’ Posted: 26 Jun 2021 09:00 AM PDT The self-taught 27-year-old discusses Languor, a prize-winning series of portraits shot in Central Park over the past year Since he was seven years old, Donavon Smallwood had lived in the same apartment in Harlem close to the northern tip of Central Park. As a teenager, he hung out there with his friends and, later, as he became interested in photography, he would often wander through the park with his camera looking for hidden places where the clamour of the city seemed a world away. "So many urban communities don't have any nature spaces," he says, "so I was lucky to have one close by." In 2019, he had "a vague idea for a project about walking and looking", a flaneur's take on the park as a place in which to lose oneself. Throughout the spring and summer of 2020, while New York was in lockdown, he photographed in and around the wooded north-western corner of the park, where ravines, glades and manmade waterfalls give the impression of a natural wilderness. Often, on his way there and back, he encountered the same people, locals mainly, for whom the park was a place to escape the constrictions of the Covid pandemic. Continue reading... |
| Call of the coast: an Australian stylist’s California dream home Posted: 26 Jun 2021 08:00 AM PDT After years in New York, a move to Laguna Beach for a nature-lover was like coming home Marcus Hay still clearly recalls the moment he decided to move to Laguna Beach in California. He was having lunch with his partner in a restaurant overlooking the ocean. "Everybody looked so happy and the sun was shining," he says. "We were in our black clothes from New York and stood out like sore thumbs. But we said to ourselves: 'This could be our future.' After being in Manhattan for 13 years, I was ready for a sea change." For the Australian stylist, whose clients include American homeware brands such as CB2, West Elm and Williams Sonoma, it was also something of a throwback to his childhood. "When I grew up in Sydney, I lived right on the beach," he says. "I used to spend a lot of my childhood fascinated with rock pools." Continue reading... |
| Raves from the grave: lost 90s subculture is back in the spotlight Posted: 26 Jun 2021 10:00 AM PDT Driven by a 'groundswell' of young devotees and fortysomething nostalgia, a series of events is celebrating the youth movement It is perhaps one of the most ignored subcultures in modern British history, but rave music and the free party movement of the early 90s is coming back into focus. Over the next few months, a series of films, exhibitions, memoirs and podcasts will reappraise free parties and the crackdown on them by John Major's government, as well as their modern echoes. Continue reading... |
| Being Mr Westwood: Vivienne is ‘eccentric, serious and genuine’ Posted: 26 Jun 2021 08:05 AM PDT Thought 25 years apart in age, their ideas are locked in sync. Andreas Kronthaler, husband of the couture queen, reveals his plans for the maverick fashion house On 21 March 2020, days before Britain's initial lockdown, Vivienne Westwood shared her first isolation address to the nation. Royalty, of sorts, she delivered it in her trademark fashion: she spoke of saving the planet and her new manifesto, while donning couture – and surrounded by curiosities – in her south London home. These impassioned speeches became a year-long weekly occurrence. Westwood offered anti-racism, anti-capitalism, and a stern rebuke of the arms trade; in wig, blue dress and floral-print platforms, she spoke of the need to rescue the oceans, while standing in her tiled bathtub. Continue reading... |
| Rumaan Alam: ‘Our cultural response to a crisis was to go shopping’ Posted: 26 Jun 2021 10:00 AM PDT The author of the apocalyptic novel Leave the World Behind reflects on its parallels with the Covid pandemic, the genius of Lorrie Moore and why he is looking forward to letting his kids run feral outside Rumaan Alam was born in 1977 and raised in Washington DC. He is the author of three novels, the latest of which, Leave the World Behind, got rave reviews when it came out in hardback last year. The story of two families, one white, one black, thrust together in a Long Island holiday home amid apocalyptic events, it was described by the Observer as "simply breathtaking… as terrifying and prescient as Cormac McCarthy's The Road". Now out in paperback, it is being turned into a film by Sam Esmail (Mr Robot) starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington. Alam lives in Brooklyn with his husband, David Land, a photographer, and their two adopted sons. A lot of reviewers called your book "prescient", given that you wrote it before the pandemic. What's your take on that? |
| Can the British countryside cope this summer? Posted: 26 Jun 2021 04:30 AM PDT During the first lockdown, farmer James Rebanks was astonished by a visitor-free Lake District. Ahead of a super-season of domestic tourism, he wonders if there's a better way Last March, I stood in the middle of the A66 between Penrith and Keswick and gawped at what had become a ghost road. It is one of the main routes in and out of the Lake District, where I've lived all my life, and usually roars with traffic. But there wasn't a vehicle for miles. I just stared, stunned by the silence. The sun was shining in a deep-blue sky, the birds were singing, but it felt apocalyptic, as if I were the only person left in the world. In those first weeks of lockdown, the whole landscape came to seem radically different. The shores of the lakes were abandoned, even on sunny days; the car parks were empty; the footpaths and fells silent. It felt wrong to enjoy this time that was terrible for so many people, but, in truth, many of us did. The 19 million visitors a year to the Lakes are an accepted fact of our day-to-day lives, and I never imagined they would not be here. Now I could see what it might be like to live without them all around us, something perhaps a lot of rural people had long wanted. Continue reading... |
| Man captures moment tornado hits his house in Czech Republic – video Posted: 26 Jun 2021 08:42 AM PDT An eyewitness video captured the moment a tornado hit a house in the southern Czech city of Hodonín on Thursday evening. The footage shows trees being bent and broken by winds that knock through a wall and send debris flying through the air before the tornado hits the man's house, blowing a window in. At least five people were killed and hundreds injured after the tornado ripped through towns and villages around Hodonín, near the Czech Republic's borders with Austria and Slovakia. The man who filmed this footage was not injured Continue reading... |
| Iran’s supreme leader gets first dose of homegrown vaccine as Covid plans falter Posted: 25 Jun 2021 09:37 AM PDT Queues for any jab grow with only 2% of Iranians vaccinated and fifth wave breaking Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Friday received the first dose of a domestically produced coronavirus vaccine, as many other elderly Iranians queued at 5am in the hope of receiving any jab. Khamenei, wearing a surgical mask and a black turban and sitting under a picture of the Islamic Republic's founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, received a dose of a domestically produced vaccine licensed on 14 June. He was given a single dose of the COVIran Barekat jab, developed by the state-owned foundation Setad. Khamenei said he had been determined to wait for a homegrown vaccine. Continue reading... |
| Car bomb injures 13 UN peacekeepers in Mali Posted: 25 Jun 2021 06:31 PM PDT Attack occurs in Gao region where insurgents linked to al-Qaida and Islamic State are active Thirteen UN peacekeepers have been wounded in northern Mali by a car bomb, the UN mission said, while Mali's army said six of its soldiers were killed in a separate attack in the centre of the country. The attack on Friday in the north targeted a temporary base set up by the peacekeepers near the village of Ichagara in the Gao region, where Islamist insurgents linked to al-Qaida and Islamic State are active. Continue reading... |
| Kamala Harris takes heat from both sides in daunting border visit Posted: 26 Jun 2021 04:12 AM PDT Vice-president faced with colossal task as migrants live with brutal reality of arduous journey and border restrictions The sun beat down on the 30ft border fence that separates El Paso, Texas from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, as temperatures headed towards 100F on the southern border that stands as a symbol for so much in American politics. Related: Kamala Harris says US-Mexico border situation is 'tough' but claims progress Continue reading... |
| Commonwealth declares Sydney a hotspot to trigger disaster support – as it happened Posted: 26 Jun 2021 02:02 AM PDT Gladys Berejiklian flags help and says 'nobody should feel stressed about their financial situation'. This blog is now closed
We'll leave it there for today. Before I go, here are the main developments of the day:
Three people have been arrested at a karaoke bar in Coober Pedy after they allegedly flew into South Australia from New South Wales on a private plane. Read more here: Related: Three people arrested after allegedly flying private plane from NSW to South Australia Continue reading... |
| Trudeau says Canadians ‘horrified and ashamed’ of forced assimilation Posted: 25 Jun 2021 12:14 PM PDT • PM responds to discovery of graves at Indigenous schools • Trudeau stops short of ordering national investigation Justin Trudeau has said that Canadians are "horrified and ashamed" by their government's longtime policy of forcing Indigenous children to attend boarding schools where nearly 1,000 unmarked graves have now been discovered – but stopped short of launching a national investigation. An estimated 751 unmarked graves were recently discovered on the grounds of the former Marieval Indian residential school in Saskatchewan which operated from 1899 to 1997. Last month, 215 remains were reported at a similar school in British Columbia. Continue reading... |
| Three aid workers found dead in Tigray, says Médecins Sans Frontières Posted: 25 Jun 2021 11:09 AM PDT MSF says it condemns attack on colleagues 'in strongest possible terms' after bodies found near car Three aid workers who had been working in Ethiopia's Tigray region have bee found dead, their organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières, announced on Friday. MSF said it had lost contact with the workers while they were traveling on Thursday afternoon. Their bodies were found near their empty car this morning. Continue reading... |
| Beijing using its financial muscle to target Uyghurs living abroad – report Posted: 25 Jun 2021 08:50 AM PDT Cases of transnational repression found in 28 countries are 'just the tip of the iceberg', say rights researchers China is using its unprecedented economic clout across vast swathes of Asia and the Middle East to target Uyghur Muslims living beyond its borders through a sprawling system of transnational repression, a new report says. Beijing's crackdown on Xinjiang province, where more than 1 million people are thought to have been detained in a network of internment camps in recent years, has coincided with a rise in efforts to control Uyghurs living overseas, the report found. Continue reading... |
| Brazil’s inquiry into Covid disaster suggests Bolsonaro committed ‘crimes against life’ Posted: 25 Jun 2021 02:00 AM PDT Televised congressional investigation looks at political decisions that led to crisis that has killed half a million A congressional inquiry into Brazil's disastrous response to the coronavirus pandemic has found mounting evidence that Jair Bolsonaro's administration committed "crimes against life", according to the senior politician leading the investigation. Launched in April to scrutinize the government's handling of a crisis that has killed half a million citizens, the nationally televised investigation is digging into the political decisions that led up to one of the cruelest moments in the country's history. Continue reading... |
| ‘We were never a priority’: Zimbabwe Covid ‘hotspots’ face strict lockdown Posted: 24 Jun 2021 11:01 PM PDT Tighter restrictions in 12 mostly rural areas come as health service struggles to cope with third wave of infections Zimbabwe's government has designated 11 rural areas across three provinces Covid-19 hotspots this week after a sharp rise in cases. The measures come as the country battles to contain a third wave of coronavirus. Mashonaland West, Masvingo and Bulawayo provinces have been put into strict localised lockdowns to contain the spread of the virus. The government had already declared hotspots in three other regions, the first in May and two others in early June. Continue reading... |
| How Mitch McConnell has unified Republicans as a red wall against Biden’s agenda Posted: 25 Jun 2021 11:00 PM PDT The Senate minority leader has filibustered voting rights legislation, halted a pay gap measure and threatened to block a supreme court nominee It was a glimpse of Washington past. Beneath the vaulted ceiling and stained glass windows of the national cathedral, Joe Biden greeted Mitch McConnell and other senators in the pews, then offered a hymn to bipartisanship. "Empathy is the fuel of democracy," the US president told mourners on Wednesday at the funeral of John Warner, a Republican senator he praised for working across the aisle. "The willingness to see each other as opponents, not as enemies. Above all, to see each other as fellow Americans even when we disagree." Continue reading... |
| Why the Pentagon UFO report is deeply troubling for US security experts Posted: 25 Jun 2021 02:04 PM PDT 'If something's out there, let's seek it out, and it is probably a foreign power,' says chair of Senate foreign relations committee If the idea that we are being visited by aliens seems too much to contemplate, the thesis that the extraordinary-looking craft are the work of terrestrial adversaries seems only slightly less far-fetched – and at the same time, deeply troubling for US security experts. In pressing for the Pentagon's UFO report to be published, congressional leaders briefed on the intelligence have pointed to the urgent security threat implied by the "unexplained aerial phenomena". Continue reading... |
| How do we stop the plunder of the Pacific? A panel of experts give their solutions Posted: 25 Jun 2021 01:00 PM PDT From education to legal reform, at the close of the Guardian's Pacific Plunder series, leading Pacific thinkers offer solutions Over the last month, the Guardian has run a major investigative series examining the extractives industries – mining, logging, fishing and the nascent industry of deep-sea mining – in the Pacific. Among the stories of environmental devastation and social harm are also stories of Pacific communities taking control of their resources and succeeding in resisting unwanted extractive projects. As the series comes to a close, four Pacific leaders and thinkers, from across the region, offer solutions to the problem of Pacific plunder. Continue reading... |
| Digested week: I’ll miss face masks. They give me freedom to mouth obscenities | Lucy Mangan Posted: 25 Jun 2021 02:58 AM PDT I'm as wearied by the pandemic as the next person, but anti-maskers don't know what they're missing Now that he has left the tender embrace of the select committee, Dominic Cummings has taken to – is the word explaining? – himself to paying subscribers via Substack. In the unlikely event that you are not prepared to part with cash to hear what the hobgoblin of chaos is currently divulging, here is the gist: Continue reading... |
| 'Without fear': Senegalese immigrant saves stranger from drowning in Spanish river – video Posted: 26 Jun 2021 07:32 AM PDT When a 72-year-old man fell unconscious into the Nervión River in the northern Spanish city of Bilbao, Senegalese migrant Mouhammad Diouf did not hesitate. Diouf jumped into the river and for 15 minutes kept the man afloat. The 27-year-old arrived in Spain four years ago after a 20-month journey. After the video of the rescue went viral, a request was opened on Change.org to reward his courageous act with legal permission to stay in Spain Continue reading... |
| Aerial footage shows destruction after Miami building collapse – video Posted: 26 Jun 2021 04:21 AM PDT Aerial footage of the Surfside community near Miami, Florida, shows the extent of damage after a 12-storey oceanfront residential building partly collapsed in the early hours of Thursday. Officials announced on Friday that the death toll had reached four, and said it was likely to climb far higher as rescuers continued to sift through the debris Continue reading... |
| George Floyd's family speak of their trauma at Chauvin sentencing – video Posted: 25 Jun 2021 03:14 PM PDT George Floyd's family members asked for the maximum sentence for Derek Chavin, the white former Minneapolis police officer who was later sentenced to 22 years and six months in prison. Two months ago, Chauvin was convicted of second-degree murder for pressing his knee against Floyd's neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds before Floyd died. 'The sudden murder of George has forever traumatized us. You may see us cry, but the full extent of our pain and trauma will never be seen with the naked eye,' said Brandon Williams, Floyd's nephew, to the court Continue reading... |
| Video shows collapse of Miami-area condo building Posted: 25 Jun 2021 02:23 PM PDT A film shows the moment an apartment block in Miami-Dade in Florida suddenly caved in. Hundreds of people remain unaccounted for after the partial collapse of the beachside building, and four people have already been confirmed dead. Miami-Dade's mayor, Daniella Levine Cava, noted on Friday that rescue officials were still searching for survivors more than 24 hours after the building collapsed early on Thursday Continue reading... |
| Derek Chauvin sentenced to 22 and a half years for murder of George Floyd – video Posted: 25 Jun 2021 01:27 PM PDT Judge Peter Cahill has sentenced Derek Chauvin, the white former police officer who knelt on George Floyd's neck until he died, to 22 and half years in prison. The judge acknowledged 'the deep and tremendous pain' felt by the Floyd family and others, but he said the sentence was not based on public opinion Continue reading... |
| Justice department sues state of Georgia over laws that 'deny the right to vote' – video Posted: 25 Jun 2021 11:43 AM PDT The justice department is suing the state of Georgia over the new voting laws it says violate the Voting Rights Act and suppress Black Americans' right to vote. Attorney General Merrick Garland made the announcement after the justice department scrutinized a wave of new laws in Republican-controlled states that tighten voting rules. Under the bill, the legislature gave itself power to remove local election officials deemed to be underperforming and added a voter ID requirement for mail ballots. It will result in fewer ballot drop boxes in metro Atlanta Continue reading... |
| 'I'm not losing hope': loved ones await news of people missing in Miami building collapse – video Posted: 25 Jun 2021 09:48 AM PDT Family and friends of the more than 100 people still missing after a building collapsed in Miami said they were not 'losing hope' of hearing from their loved ones who remained unaccounted for. Four people are known to have been killed and 11 injuries were reported following the collapse of much of the 12-storey Champlain Towers South building in Miami, on the south Florida coast. The residential structure pancaked into a pile of concrete and metal more than 30ft high for reasons still unknown
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