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- Hong Kong vigil leader arrested as 7,000 police enforce ban on Tiananmen anniversary protests
- European finance ministers say deal to stop global tax abuse is ‘within reach’
- Mike Pence says he and Trump ‘may never see eye-to-eye’ on Capitol attack
- Opposition decries ‘hostage’ video as Belarus airs more footage of detained journalist
- South Yorkshire police agree payouts for Hillsborough ‘cover-up’
- Macron says French pension changes will not go ahead as planned
- Ancient tsunami could have wiped out Scottish cities today, study finds
- School trips to UK from EU could halve as Brexit hits cultural exchanges
- George Pell: news organisations fined more than $1m over reporting of sexual abuse verdict
- Facebook will end special treatment for politicians after Trump ban - report
- Coronavirus live news: Japan gives Taiwan 1.2m vaccine doses, Fauci calls for Wuhan lab worker records
- Hand-painted hearts or Captain Tom in bronze? Memorialising the fallen of Covid-19
- Delta variant 30-100% more transmissible, says UK Covid expert
- Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible 7 production temporarily shut down due to coronavirus case
- Why I started streaming video games on Twitch at the age of 43
- ‘Africa has so much talent – we can’t even grasp it’: Angélique Kidjo on pop, politics and power
- Palestinians welcome end of Netanyahu era – but fear more of the same
- 10 of the best songs from Small Axe, chosen by Steve McQueen
- After Love director Aleem Khan: ‘I walked around Mecca and prayed not to be gay’
- ‘Unchain your wife’: the Orthodox women shining a light on ‘get’ refusal
- Toppled Edward Colston statue goes on display in Bristol
- ‘Running dry’: Zimbabweans turned away for vaccinations after shortages
- The criminalization of Covid exposure: how US prosecutors went after a home health aide
- Experience: I was an imam at Guantánamo Bay
- New Zealand supreme court opens door for murder suspect’s extradition to China
- Covid Australia live updates: Vaccine likely to be mandatory for aged care workers; returning Australians from India arrive in Adelaide
- Trouble in paradise: Indian islands face ‘brazen’ new laws and Covid crisis
- ‘A hammer blow’: how UK overseas aid cuts affect the world’s most vulnerable
- China’s ‘splinternet’ will create a state-controlled alternative cyberspace
- Covid variants: how much protection do the different vaccines offer?
- ‘Care bots’ are on the rise and replacing human caregivers | Alexandra Mateescu and Virginia Eubanks
- George Floyd Square: Minneapolis removes barricades for road reopening – video
- 'Safety first': Grant Shapps on Portugal's removal from travel 'green list' – video
- Albuquerque mayoral candidate interrupted by drone carrying sex toy – video
| Hong Kong vigil leader arrested as 7,000 police enforce ban on Tiananmen anniversary protests Posted: 03 Jun 2021 04:46 PM PDT Officers mobilised to break up the once-traditional events to mark the brutal crackdown against dissent in China 32 years ago Hong Kong police have arrested a prominent barrister for allegedly promoting an unauthorised assembly on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, as thousands of officers were deployed to enforce a ban on protests and gatherings across the city. On Friday, Hong Kong barrister and activist Chow Hang Tung, vice-chairwoman of the group which organises annual vigils for the victims of China's 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, was arrested, two group members said. Continue reading... |
| European finance ministers say deal to stop global tax abuse is ‘within reach’ Posted: 03 Jun 2021 10:00 PM PDT France, Germany, Italy and Spain increase pressure for an end to loopholes that enable multinationals to pay minimal tax The EU's four biggest economies have raised the pressure for a landmark agreement to curb tax abuse by multinational companies to be reached at G7 meetings in London on Friday. Sending a united message in a letter in the Guardian, the finance ministers of France, Germany, Italy and Spain said a critical moment had been reached to strike a blow against tax avoidance as governments around the world attempt to rebuild from the Covid-19 pandemic. Continue reading... |
| Mike Pence says he and Trump ‘may never see eye-to-eye’ on Capitol attack Posted: 03 Jun 2021 06:31 PM PDT The former vice-president was speaking at a New Hampshire Republican dinner as he considers his own 2024 White House run Mike Pence has said he isn't sure that he and Donald Trump will ever see "eye to eye" over what happened on 6 January, when a mob of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol in an effort to overturn the election. Pence, speaking at a Republican dinner in the early voting state of New Hampshire, gave his most extensive comments to date on the deadly events, when rioters broke into the Capitol building, some chanting "Hang Mike Pence!" after the vice-president said he did not have the power to overturn Joe Biden's victory. Continue reading... |
| Opposition decries ‘hostage’ video as Belarus airs more footage of detained journalist Posted: 03 Jun 2021 09:04 PM PDT Supporters say Raman Pratasevich's apparent confession, in which the blogger broke down in tears, was the result of 'abuse, torture and threats' Detained journalist Raman Pratasevich appeared on Belarusian state television on Thursday, tearfully confessing to his role in anti-government protests in an interview which the opposition said was made under duress. In his third appearance since his Ryanair plane was forced to land in Belarus by the authorities on 23 May, Pratasevich admitted to plotting to topple President Alexander Lukashenko by organising "riots" and recanted earlier criticism of the veteran leader. Continue reading... |
| South Yorkshire police agree payouts for Hillsborough ‘cover-up’ Posted: 04 Jun 2021 02:07 AM PDT More than 600 people to be compensated over false police campaign that sought to blame victims for disaster South Yorkshire police has agreed a settlement with more than 600 people to compensate them for the false police campaign that sought to avoid responsibility for the 1989 Hillsborough disaster and blame the victims instead, which bereaved families have always said was a cover-up. The force will pay compensation to bereaved families whose relatives were among the 96 men, women and children unlawfully killed at Hillsborough, and to survivors of the disaster, for additional trauma and psychiatric damage caused by the police campaign. Continue reading... |
| Macron says French pension changes will not go ahead as planned Posted: 04 Jun 2021 01:47 AM PDT President rules out overhaul amid Covid crisis and again refuses to say if he will stand for re-election Emmanuel Macron has said his controversial pension changes, the biggest single revamp of the French system since 1945, will not go ahead as planned as he again refused to say whether he would run for another five-year presidential term. "I do not think the reform as it was originally envisaged can go ahead as such" in the wake of the Covid crisis, the French president told reporters following him on a nationwide tour on Thursday in the run-up to regional elections this month. Continue reading... |
| Ancient tsunami could have wiped out Scottish cities today, study finds Posted: 03 Jun 2021 10:00 PM PDT Research maps the extent of the catastrophic Storegga tsunami 8,200 years ago for the first time Towns and cities across Scotland would be devastated if the country's coastline was hit by a tsunami of the kind that happened 8,200 years ago, according to an academics' study. While about 370 miles of Scotland's northern and eastern coastline were affected when the Storegga tsunami struck, the study suggests a modern-day disaster of the same magnitude would have worse consequences. Continue reading... |
| School trips to UK from EU could halve as Brexit hits cultural exchanges Posted: 04 Jun 2021 01:00 AM PDT Exclusive: loss of young Europeans on pupil visits will cause major reputational damage to UK, warn tour organisers French and German educational trip organisers bringing as many as 750,000 school pupils to the UK every year have warned that tougher post-Brexit entry requirements are likely to cut the number of young Europeans visiting Britain by half. "We've already seen a big fall-off in interest," said Edward Hisbergues, the sales manager of a leading French operator, PG Trips. "My business was 90% UK, 10% Ireland; now it's all about Ireland. Schools are inquiring about visits to the Netherlands or Malta." Continue reading... |
| George Pell: news organisations fined more than $1m over reporting of sexual abuse verdict Posted: 03 Jun 2021 06:25 PM PDT Victoria's supreme court fines the Age $450,000 and News Corp more than $400,000 for contempt of court over coverage of cardinal's initial conviction A dozen of Australia's largest media organisations have been fined more than $1m for contempt of court over their coverage of Cardinal George Pell's sexual abuse conviction. On Friday the Victorian supreme court justice John Dixon ruled the 12 organisations had "usurped" the role of the court by breaching a suppression order on Pell's now-quashed conviction for child sexual abuse. Continue reading... |
| Facebook will end special treatment for politicians after Trump ban - report Posted: 03 Jun 2021 03:23 PM PDT Reported change comes after the Facebook oversight board said that the same rules should apply to all users Facebook is reportedly planning to end a policy that effectively exempts politicians from content moderation rules. The Verge reported on Thursday that the social media company is expected to announce its new policy on Friday. The change comes as Facebook faces increased criticism, from journalists, lawmakers and its own employees, for allowing world leaders and politicians to use its platform to spread misinformation, quash criticism and harass opponents. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 04 Jun 2021 02:07 AM PDT US infectious disease expert urges China to release medical records of Wuhan lab workers; Japan to donate 1.24m vaccine doses to Tawian; Australia detects highly infectious Delta variant in Melbourne
Prosecutors in Camden, New Jersey, sought criminal charges against a home health aide accused of inadvertently exposing an elderly patient to Covid-19 early in the pandemic in what appears to be the only case of its kind. The patient, an 80-year-old woman, died of the illness in May last year. The attempt to hold an essential worker criminally liable for the spread of Covid-19 resulted in the worker, 51-year-old Josefina Brito-Fernandez, permanently losing her license to work and entering a probation program for fear she would be deported. Related: The criminalization of Covid exposure: how US prosecutors went after a home health aide
South Korea has said it expects to meet its vaccination target for the first half of the year ahead of schedule as 81% of people aged between 60 and 74 years old have signed up for inoculations. The government will begin offering jabs for this age group in June, as it widens its vaccination programme after it first prioritised frontline workers, medical staff and nursing home patients. |
| Hand-painted hearts or Captain Tom in bronze? Memorialising the fallen of Covid-19 Posted: 04 Jun 2021 01:08 AM PDT As heroic statues fall out of vogue, communities have turned to experimental structures – from flourishing gardens to abstract sculptures – as monuments to loss on a vast scale Maya Lin was a 21-year-old architecture student at Yale University when, in 1981, lacking professional experience, she submitted a class project to a design competition for a memorial for Vietnam war veterans on the National Mall in Washington DC. Her winning design, influenced by the minimalist sculpture and earth art of the New York art scene of the 1960s and 1970s, marked a transformation in how communities acknowledge loss and remember the dead. Two large curved surfaces of gleaming, polished black granite emerge from the ground, like a wound in the earth, and meet at a point. The names of all 57,000 missing or killed veterans are engraved on the stone. Yet although memorials around the world continue to pay their respects to Lin's work, the backlash was immediate and a battle emerged between conservatives and modernists. Politicians deemed the work nihilistic, a "black gash of shame". As a compromise, the traditionalist sculptor Frederick Hart was commissioned to create a bronze statue of three soldiers, placed to one side of Lin's memorial. Continue reading... |
| Delta variant 30-100% more transmissible, says UK Covid expert Posted: 04 Jun 2021 01:19 AM PDT Prof Neil Ferguson sounds warning as remaining lockdown restrictions are due to be lifted 21 June The Delta variant of coronavirus, first discovered in India, is anywhere between 30% to 100% more transmissible than the previously dominant Alpha (or Kent) variant, according to Prof Neil Ferguson, whose Covid modelling was key to the UK's first lockdown. Ferguson is a leading epidemiologist at Imperial College London who advised the government at the beginning of the pandemic. |
| Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible 7 production temporarily shut down due to coronavirus case Posted: 03 Jun 2021 06:47 PM PDT Paramount Pictures pauses filming after a routine test confirms positive Covid case on set Paramount Pictures has temporarily shut down production on the British set of Tom Cruise's seventh Mission: Impossible film after someone tested positive for coronavirus. "We have temporarily halted production on Mission: Impossible 7 until June 14th, due to positive coronavirus test results during routine testing," a Paramount spokesperson said on Thursday. "We are following all safety protocols and will continue to monitor the situation." Continue reading... |
| Why I started streaming video games on Twitch at the age of 43 Posted: 04 Jun 2021 01:30 AM PDT Over lockdown, comedian, mother of two and former games journalist Ellie Gibson took up livestreaming, loved the community – and learned to love playing again Like so many things in my life, it began as a daft experiment. I love learning new stuff, and over the course of my 43 years I've tried all sorts. Some things have stuck, like comedy, running, and having kids. Some haven't, like kung fu, olives and holidays in Germany. To be honest, I thought that livestreaming games on Twitch would fall into the latter category. For those who aren't familiar (I wasn't until this year), Twitch involves playing video games live on the internet while providing a running commentary. People watch you, and chat to you via a message window, and sometimes give you money. It's sort of like exotic dancing, but with fewer breasts. Continue reading... |
| ‘Africa has so much talent – we can’t even grasp it’: Angélique Kidjo on pop, politics and power Posted: 03 Jun 2021 10:00 PM PDT She's played with everyone from Tony Allen to David Byrne. Now the Grammy winner is singing with a new generation of African stars, celebrating their continent while confronting its failings On a video call from Paris, Angélique Kidjo, 60, shifts and leaps in her seat with the restive energy of a teenager. "I'm always changing and innovating and this album is no different," she says. "Change brings life to things; it keeps me going. In life, you never know what to expect." Over a career that spans five decades, the Beninese artist has crossed paths with everyone from Gilberto Gil and Tony Allen to Talking Heads, Bono and Vampire Weekend. She has four Grammy wins in "world music" categories – second only to Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Continue reading... |
| Palestinians welcome end of Netanyahu era – but fear more of the same Posted: 03 Jun 2021 10:00 PM PDT Relief in the occupied territories is mixed with sense that 'nothing will change' "It is the end of Netanyahu's dark era," says Kareem Hassanian, 44, a Palestinian psychologist who lives in the Gaza Strip, a place still counting the cost of the latest devastating war between Israel and Hamas. He adds quickly: "And it's the beginning of a new dark era. The new coalition won't be different from the previous one. Israel still occupies Palestine. We will not see the end of the occupation in the coming years." Continue reading... |
| 10 of the best songs from Small Axe, chosen by Steve McQueen Posted: 04 Jun 2021 01:00 AM PDT From the Wailers to Al Green to Small Faces, the Oscar-winning director selects his favourite tunes from the world of his acclaimed series of films Continue reading... |
| After Love director Aleem Khan: ‘I walked around Mecca and prayed not to be gay’ Posted: 04 Jun 2021 12:00 AM PDT The director's debut feature draws on his experiences of loss and identity confusion, with a memorable role for Joanna Scanlon as a fictionalised version of his white English Muslim-convert mother Mary, the central character of Aleem Khan's debut film After Love, is a white English woman who met her Pakistani husband as a teenager on the London housing estate where they both lived. After they got married, they moved to the Kent coast. Mary converted to Islam, started to wear traditional dress, learned how to cook curries from scratch and to speak Punjabi. It does not take an enormous amount of detective work to understand from where Khan drew inspiration: his mother is a white English woman who met her Pakistani husband as a teenager on the London housing estate where they both lived. After they got married, they moved to the Kent coast; she converted to Islam, started to wear traditional dress, learnt how to cook curries from scratch and to speak Punjabi. Continue reading... |
| ‘Unchain your wife’: the Orthodox women shining a light on ‘get’ refusal Posted: 04 Jun 2021 12:00 AM PDT Orthodox Jewish men give their wives a 'get' as the couple is divorcing, which seals the divorce according to religious law On Route 59 in Monsey, New York, an Orthodox Jewish enclave in upstate New York, there is a large billboard that says in big block letters: "Dovid Wasserman. Give your wife a get!" A "get" is a document Orthodox Jewish men give their wives as the couple is divorcing; it seals the divorce according to religious law, meaning that the husband decides if and when the divorce is final. Without it, the woman cannot move on with her life. Continue reading... |
| Toppled Edward Colston statue goes on display in Bristol Posted: 04 Jun 2021 12:32 AM PDT Sculpture of slave trader that was defaced in BLM protests last year forms part of exhibition A statue of the slave trader Edward Colston that was toppled during a Black Lives Matter protest is to go on public display. The bronze memorial to the 17th-century merchant had stood in the city since 1895, but was pulled from its plinth during the demonstration on 7 June last year. Continue reading... |
| ‘Running dry’: Zimbabweans turned away for vaccinations after shortages Posted: 03 Jun 2021 11:15 PM PDT As staff sit idle in treatment centres, anger focuses on government failures to secure supplies as fears of a third wave increase Hundreds of people are being turned away from vaccination centres in Zimbabwe as the country's supplies of China's Sinovac vaccine appear to have run out, triggering panic that the government is failing to acquire new stocks. While the government said that it had taken delivery of more medicines in recent weeks, centres in Harare have not had any stocks for nearly a week and there is growing anger at the failure to communicate acute vaccine shortages, which are being reported around the country. Continue reading... |
| The criminalization of Covid exposure: how US prosecutors went after a home health aide Posted: 04 Jun 2021 02:00 AM PDT Attempt to hold a worker criminally liable for the spread of Covid resulted in Josefina Brito-Fernandez losing her license to work, fearing deportation Prosecutors in Camden, New Jersey, sought criminal charges against a home health aide accused of inadvertently exposing an elderly patient to Covid-19 early in the pandemic in what appears to be the only case of its kind. The patient, an 80-year-old woman, died of the illness in May last year. The attempt to hold an essential worker criminally liable for the spread of Covid-19 resulted in the worker, 51-year-old Josefina Brito-Fernandez, permanently losing her license to work and entering a probation program for fear she would be deported. Continue reading... |
| Experience: I was an imam at Guantánamo Bay Posted: 04 Jun 2021 02:00 AM PDT The official military line was that torture did not happen. As an insider, I knew this was a lie I was one of the first Muslim imams in the United States military. Clergy defend the right of US military personnel to practise their religion. This means providing religious support, taking services and advising the commander in religion, ethics and morale. I grew up in New Jersey as a Lutheran and was still a Christian when I graduated from the military academy at West Point, but I met someone who opened my eyes to Islam and its similarity to the other Abrahamic faiths. I converted in 1991. Continue reading... |
| New Zealand supreme court opens door for murder suspect’s extradition to China Posted: 03 Jun 2021 09:39 PM PDT Case of Kyung Yup Kim is the first time China has requested New Zealand expedite a resident to face trial, and comes amid diplomatic tensions New Zealand's supreme court has reopened the door for a murder suspect's potential extradition to China, in a landmark new ruling released on Friday. If it goes ahead, the extradition would be the first time New Zealand has sent a resident to China to face trial. The case comes in a period of intense scrutiny of the New Zealand-China relationship, and after New Zealand has issued several statements raising "grave concerns" over potential human rights breaches by China, including abuses of the Uyghur minority in Xinjiang and the crackdown on pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 04 Jun 2021 02:02 AM PDT Federal and Victoria governments agree to fund and build a new purpose-built quarantine facility as state records four cases. Follow live
And with that, another week comes to an end. Here's everything that went down today:
NSW Health has released an update on their investigation into a cyber-attack that affected them earlier this year, saying medical records in public hospitals were not affected and that there is no evidence of any information being misused. NSW Police and Cyber Security NSW have set up Strike Force Martine to investigate the impacts of the attacks, that happened in December/January, and affected around 100 organisations around the world. Continue reading... |
| Trouble in paradise: Indian islands face ‘brazen’ new laws and Covid crisis Posted: 03 Jun 2021 10:00 PM PDT 'Authoritarian' rules upset sleepy Lakshadweep's Muslim majority while Covid cases soar from zero to 10% of population According to local people, the problems for Lakshadweep, an archipelago of paradise islands in southern India, began the day the new government-appointed administrator, Praful Khoda Patel, landed on a charter flight. The Lakshadweep islands, an Indian union territory off the coast of Kerala, have a population of just 64,000 and are renowned for their crystal-blue waters, white sands and relatively untouched way of life. They had, up to that point, also remained completely unaffected by the pandemic, due to strict controls on movement and enforced quarantine. Continue reading... |
| ‘A hammer blow’: how UK overseas aid cuts affect the world’s most vulnerable Posted: 03 Jun 2021 10:11 AM PDT Axe falls on projects for Yemen, Syria, Rohingya refugees and people affected by famine in Africa The government claimed Britain would be a "force for good" in the world when it defended merging the Department for International Development and the Foreign Office last year, but it soon announced £4bn in cuts to aid. Charities instead warned that the world's most vulnerable people would be hit by the "deadly force" of Britain's new policies. Continue reading... |
| China’s ‘splinternet’ will create a state-controlled alternative cyberspace Posted: 03 Jun 2021 04:14 AM PDT Beijing is using blockchain to build a new internet and many developing countries are likely to sign up – but at what cost? Cyberspace is one huge, unregulated mess. A virtual wild west where sophisticated criminal gangs ply their trade alongside multinational companies, spy agencies, activists, celebrity influencers – and nation states. The question of who governs it is one of the biggest of our time. Britain needs to be, if not quite ruling the waves, at least a global force for good in the expanding virtual world. The issue has never been so pressing. Six years ago, I acted for a coder in the biggest cyberfraud phishing case in the UK. The malware my client and others created was so sophisticated that the police could not decode it but were able to show it was used for fraud. The financial data harvested was stored on two servers, one in France and one in the US, and the lack of international cooperation meant law enforcement never got their hands on it. Continue reading... |
| Covid variants: how much protection do the different vaccines offer? Posted: 03 Jun 2021 07:50 AM PDT While restrictions in England could lift soon, impact of Delta variant on vaccination programme is uncertain On Wednesday Boris Johnson said he saw nothing in the current data to stop the planned lifting of Covid restrictions in England on 21 June. But he said questions remained over how much protection the current vaccines offered against the Delta variant, B.1.617.2. Continue reading... |
| ‘Care bots’ are on the rise and replacing human caregivers | Alexandra Mateescu and Virginia Eubanks Posted: 03 Jun 2021 03:00 AM PDT The care bots look less like robot butlers and nurses and more like pieces of code and algorithms – and they're everywhere If you Google "care bots", you'll see an army of robot butlers and nurses, taking vital signs in hospitals, handing red roses to patients, serving juice to the elderly. For the most part these are just sci-fi fantasies. The care bots that already exist come in a different guise. These care bots look less like robots and more like invisible pieces of code, webcams and algorithms. They can control who gets what test at the doctor's office or how many care hours are received by a person on Medicaid. And they're everywhere. Increasingly, human caregivers work through and alongside automated systems that set forth recommendations, manage and surveil their labor, and allocate resources. Continue reading... |
| George Floyd Square: Minneapolis removes barricades for road reopening – video Posted: 03 Jun 2021 03:21 PM PDT Workers began removing artwork and barricades from George Floyd Square, the memorial space constructed at the south Minneapolis intersection where George Floyd was murdered by a white police officer. Barricades were being taken down to allow the intersection to be reopened to traffic, the city confirmed, but there were small demonstrations by community activists and local residents that opposed the reopening of the intersection at Chicago Avenue and 38th Street. The space, which became a de facto autonomous zone, features memorials, community art, sculptures and often hosts performances and protests Continue reading... |
| 'Safety first': Grant Shapps on Portugal's removal from travel 'green list' – video Posted: 03 Jun 2021 10:10 AM PDT Portugal has been removed from the government's 'green list' of destinations from which people can return to England without having to quarantine, and no extra countries have been added. The transport secretary, Grant Shapps, raised concerns about a new coronavirus mutation and rising cases in Portugal, adding that the UK had to put 'safety first' ahead of the national reopening on 21 June |
| Albuquerque mayoral candidate interrupted by drone carrying sex toy – video Posted: 03 Jun 2021 05:49 AM PDT Manuel Gonzales, a New Mexico sheriff who is running for mayor of Albuquerque, was interrupted at a campaign event by a flying drone with a sex toy attached to it. A man tried to grab the item, swinging his fist and calling Gonzeles a tyrant. The campaign group for Gonzales said the Democrat was unharmed and 'will not be intimidated' Continue reading... |
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